Be fast, be secure. Bounce forward. With comcast business. Get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. Gyms like this one, salons and tattoo parlors finally will be opening up in San Francisco. I will tell you when. A beloved summer camp that helped many bay areas through cancer has burned in one of the wildfires. Coming up, how you can help. Thick smoke. I will let you know how the air quality looks going into the weekend. South bay residents demanding answers and action. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. The ominous orange skies on wednesday morphed into a concrete gray layer of smoke and ash and conditions went from bad to dangerous across the bay area. More than 100 monitoring stations reporting very unhealthy air. Look at this. This is incredible. No matter where you are, the air is bad. You can blame it all on the smoke from the dozens of wildfires
Francisco skyline encased in gray and the freeway almost invisible through the haze. This is sfo. You can see the smoke blanketing the state in this satellite image. Children and people with respiratory issues are told to avoid all physical activities outdoors and doctors say inhaling wildfire throat can cause smoke and throat irritation, coughing and more. Longterm exposure increases your risk of cardiac disease, stroke, and also it actually reduces your life except aens, so you have increased mortality. The bad air forced San Franciscos nine9 11 ceremony t move indoors. This is the 25th save the air alert in a row. These comparisons show the transformation from the pumpkin orange that was so eerie to the smokey gray skies we got today. Because the smoke was trapped above the fog and now is reaching ground level some residents can say they feel the change. It is bothering my eyes and making it harder to breathe. I find myself wearing my mask inside and out. The picture on the left is
Have been downgraded to warnings and while calm conditions helped firefighters make some progress overnight a red flag warning is in effect, bay area wide through tomorrow afternoon. We want to get to darren peck. The thunderstorm complex sitting off the coast right now, take a look at the High Definition doppler, its a complicated picture. You see a big mass of a thunderstorm of the coast of san mateo county, that is not actually there. The Weather Service has set this radar to its most sensitive so we can pick up the leading edge of the storms. That is clutter, not rain. But here is a Lightning Strike and it is moving, all of this stuff is stationary. The stuff that is moving is the wave of scattered thunderstorms that will get here later tonight. Over the next few hours, look down here. We have a few more coming up the coast so unfortunately we are still on schedule, the forecast is not changed a whole lot. Tonight through tomorrow morning is our highest concern, a 40 chance for iso
No at 11 00, the calm before the storm. It more dangerous lighting on the horizon. We tell you what it might move through our area. I never get to hug her. I did not get to see her. A family searching for answers after their loved one goes missing while escape being the lnu lightning complex. New fire evacuations, forcing hundreds in the southeast to pack up and leave their homes behind tonight. If we get out of here we will be safe and hopefully our house does not burn down. Across the bay area, combined, more than 766 thousand acres have burned in three separate fires. That is almost 4 times the size of new york city. Concerns over dangerous weather that could spark more fires. Good evening. We have a team of reporters that has you covered on the new evacuations from the growing wildfires and pending storms. Lets begin with our chief meteorologist. How soon will lightning will move to the bay area . We are seeing lightning outside the bay area already. Youre in the central valley, an
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look west this morning. Good morning everyone. It is thursday, august 13th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. Good morning. Grad to have you with us this morning. Lets get a check of weather now with mary lee. Good morning, mary. Good morning to you len and michelle. And we are looking at temperatures on the rise even warmer compared to yesterday. Really going to heat up by the end of the week. Heres a live look with our Salesforce Tower camera. As we look north across the golden gate bridge. And many of us waking up to clear skies as we kick off a new day here. Now lets show you our daytime highs. So we are going to warm up as we head through our day. So looking at those temperatures that are going to be above average for this time of year. Five to ten degrees above average. 72 in San Francisco. 79 in oakland and 89 in san jose. And upper 90s for concord. So four to 11