The worst air quality in the entire world believe it or not experts say it is actually worse today than yesterday look at this video this is what it looked like just hours ago pure hasan gray skies, according to purple air dot com. The particulate matter in the air around the San Francisco bay reach the 200 to 300 parts per million range which is considered very unhealthy. Heres a look at purple airs air quality map of bay area, including San Francisco, the east bay, the peninsula and the north bay are in that purple range that is the worst its considered unhealthy for everyone. But especially dangerous for people with prior Health Conditions as he had a little farther east and south the air quality gets a little bit better, but you have to really get outside of the immediate bay area out there in santa cruz mountains, its bad but not quite as bad even in the central valley. Lots of red and purple is out there. As we know the wildfires and weather conditions are combining to create thi
Over her on Climate Change just come to the state of california. Observe it with your own eyes. Governor gavin newsom not mincing words governor says california is in a Climate Crisis the terrible toll of the states wildfires becoming more evident. Block after block of destruction and now at least 19 people dead in what has become a historic year for California Wildfires than 2 dozen fires burning along the west coast pushing mass amounts of smoke into the bay area the skies still as we are seeing some of the worst air quality on earth. Thank you for joining us tonight at 6 im pam moore and im ken wayne lets get straight to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow morris theres a lot of very unhealthy air still out there yeah we just cant makes it outlawed the smoke. Actually made his way back in the bay area couple of days ago now has mixed all the way down to the surface what we need is some way to kick it further out of the area, but right now not see much in the way of wind at all in fa
A somber ceremony marking the 19th anniversary. Of the september 11th terror attacks but this years rememberance has a different look because of the pandemic good evening. Everyone, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us tonight at 8 our top story this evening. Still smoke from those wildfires raging across california and oregon leaving the bay area with some of the worst air quality in the world tonight. And that smoke is expected to linger through the weekend. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with the details on what we should expect lawrence we need that out of here. Yeah we certainly do and to get that out of here we need really a push for some good gusty winds right now were not getting that we just got a light breeze so there you go youve got sites like this all around the bay area that smoke. Just sitting right down on the ground and its unhealthy all around the bay area in fact right now youre looking at some very unhealthy smoke sitting acros
Bay area. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think its going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. Stay. I think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. Little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the Golden Gate Bridge weve got some fog rolling on shore thats good. Unfortunately. It just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and theyre just so small so much smoke around right now back weve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all across the bay into
Visits to the respiratory urgent care center. Now at 10 wildfires continue to rage up and down the west coast leading to some of the worst air quality on the planet. Right now right here in the bay area, thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis a thick blanket of smoke has been hovering over the bay area for days now making it. Hard to breathe unhealthy to be outside. This is what many people experienced today. And unfortunately that smoke is expected to linger right on through the weekend chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us live as we went from orange on wednesday to gray worse today and the air quality really deteriorated as the week progressed, yeah, you know all that smoke from up above all the orange skies. That all makes down to the surface down thats where we sit we dont have a real way to get out of town unless were to get a storm. Good wind event to start to mix that out were not even seeing the heating that we normally see