Through was just yellow and orange hues thats all that we saw pretty much all day long yesterday for most of the bay area now the big question everyone is asking is will it look like that again today well heres a live look from your berkeley cam right here and you can obviously still see that we do have an orange glow to it out there whether that were in just as intense as yesterday remains to be seen. But what we will see is a lot of smoke out there so we are going to have an impact with at least hazy and darker skies than usual as of right now we are seeing poor air quality for much of the north bay in the east bay, still some moderate conditions holding on a little bit closer to the coast in fact are impact as yesterday as compared is pretty similar. We have a thin marine layer just as we did yesterday for parts of the bay. We also still have smoke sitting right above us so we do have similar conditions as to what yesterday brought us and obviously that brought us a lot of orange a lot of darkness to this smoke and that lack of sunlight is going to keep temperatures down today. Daytime highs for the most part only in the 60s and 70s right now were in the 50s and 60s for your current temperature so were off to a cool start to a day that will likely be a little cooler than average winds havent moved much since yesterday either so a lot of the smoke that sitting across the bay is now just trapped here with us across the bay and its likely to stay that way through the day that smoke had been transported to the north to the bay area. Were now it is just sitting in a lot of it is actually sitting offshore too. So any sort of fog thats moving inland is likely to have some smoke in bed in it as well, which is definitely not the ideal situation. Often times you see the fog is the relief, not necessarily going to be a guaranteed now that we also have smoke hundreds of miles offshore. Thats going to be settling down into the fog as for your temperatures today and mentioned how cool is going to be barely in the 80s for just a few inland cities. Most of us in the 60s to 70s thats your forecast, ive got more numbers still to come back to you robin all right, thank you john, im just happy that its cooler. All right, lets go outside and check in on driving conditions around the bay area starting off with the bay bridge. 80 west there. It is the commute rolling into San Francisco looking pretty good right now. I dont see any big trouble spots coming out to see some flashing lights way back there. And the distance see if we can find out whats going on there. But no reports of any big trouble spot. So far into San Francisco, lets check in on some more bridges, we have 92. This is your connection between the east bay and the peninsula so far so good a nice trip heading westbound we already have some folks out there heading into foster city and san mateo but no big problems that you have to worry about. And we have one more the golden gate. And it looks like we have another fog ahead and issue another fog advisory for the golden gate because its so dense out there so be careful make sure those headlights and wipers on well check more bridges coming up a little bit later. Well happening now will be seeing another day of hazy orange skies all across the bay area, the bay area air quality district says it will be like this through the weekend so be prepared and take a look at some of those spooky pictures look at this from the golden Gate Cemetery shot by a kron 4 viewer. We have the pier there along San Franciscos embarcadero of daraa with the Transamerica Pyramid in the distance and check this out construction workers hanging out with that orange bag drop in the cities of some great photos. We also have some shots the golden hues over the bay bridge. We have a picture that was taken around noon in San Francisco also one of sebastian theater and sonoma plaza. Yeah, great shots and thank you for sharing those with us the spare the air alert banning wood burning will be in effect through at least friday. So thats not what you want to be doing this as thick smoke from the wildfires continue to just develop the region creating the orange hazy skies that we all saw yesterday and today is now the 26th straight day of a spare the air alert were setting records every single day wow look at that. Hans in orange haze met san franciscans trying to get a workout outside but parts of the city have very unhealthy air quality on the first day the gyms are actually officially allowed to expand their Outdoor Services on the same day some gym owners learned that City Employees like us apd have been able to work out indoors since july first while the public has had to cope with wildfire smoke and you know coming soon chilly temperatures. It seems to be a double standard theyve unwittingly created what a great case study. That demonstrates that working out indoors is say theres been no have covid outbreaks that weve heard of. From this they should just move us back indoors. Well the San FranciscoCovid Command Center issued a statement saying in part that the department of Public Health does not support the use of stop these indoor gyms at this time due to provisions governing gyms and the health order. Well it was an unusual sunrise in Lorain County this is what a lot of folks saw in the Early Morning hours of course you have the skies just a blazing that peculiar shade of orange throughout the day and we acts doctor Joseph Bernardino hes a respiratory care manager at Marine HealthMedical Center to break down exactly what we need to know in order to stay safe in these conditions. We need to Pay Attention to the local air quality whether youre in the northeast south bay east bay something about everything thats being first great Building Materials vegetation. A lot of this can make anyone sick even at healthy person is law. Yeah limit your Outdoor Activity in addition to no outside exercise. He says that its just best you know not to dine outside or take your break outside in these sort of conditions limit your Outdoor Activity also if youre inside. He recommends closing your doors and windows and if you have an air purifier definitely use that i have to get one of those. Well the poor air quality isnt just causing respiratory problems. Its also causing skin issues for some as well while many could be caught off guard with smells its what you can see. Thats the biggest risk those tiny little particles that are out there in the air can actually get inside of your body and just cause a number of issues internally doctor deborah kerr ice cream wala is a berkeley dermatologists and sets up the current elements can definitely do a number on your skin. I cant goal making day really damage. The when now that you have this extra element of that air quality and pollution is affecting all of our organs in different ways just we just going to make everybody feel more on top to its going to come there to happen a lot quicker. With the air quality levels expected to be horrible until the weekend doctors warn people to stay out of the elements as much as possible. Has start restoring power to the 22 counties affected by the Public Safety power shutoff this includes napa and sonoma counties of people in Sonoma County. They have their power restored yesterday was a huge relief for a lot of folks power is expected to be restored by this afternoon for the rest of napa county as crews continue to perform those safety inspections and this is a look at the Current Power outages check it out on your map keep in mind that the little purple icon that you see there thats where the power has been shut off for Public Safety. Well to the north bay now orange skies for bennett pg inspectors from taking to the air to inspect its power lines to restore power for thousands in napa and sonoma counties inspectors on the ground they crisscross throughout the county and by lunchtime half of Sonoma County was back online. Definitely have done a lot of work over this past year to make these events not only smaller impact your customers but shorter get speed up the restoration time in the helicopters and an additional boots on the ground has definitely helped stock. Pg called this Public Safety power shutoff for various reasons among them. The forecasts of excessive winds. They say that faded clock wind gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour in parts of Sonoma County. Well now to our wildfire coverage, 3 people are dead and several others hurt in butte county after a wildfire there just quickly spread the bear fire thats part of the north complex fires that began back in august 17th and it has burned more than 250,000 acres, many homes near the very creek area were just completely destroyed. Thankfully wednesday nights hot spots no longer threaten many portions of the lake. Creek fire burning in Fresno County is now close to a 167,000 acres and as of this morning, its still 0 contained fire Officials Say that it has destroyed 360 structures so far. Well lets check out the latest containment numbers on the wildfires that are burning here in the bay area we have the l in new lightning complex thats in the north bay. Its currently 93 contained. More than 363,000 acres have burned there. The scu complex fires in the east and south bay is up to 96 containment this morning. But nearly 397,000 acres burned and we have the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties theyre up to 83 containment with more than 86,000 acres burned and the what fort fire thats the Point Reyes National seashore in durham county. The containment there of to 95 that fire has burned more than 4800 acres. California firefighters are asking nearly every state in the country too help contain wildfires that are just raging up and down the state cal all e has says that even a few weeks ago the state could not get. All of the out of state fire engine is that it actually requested through special federal programs. Now california is competing for resources as other west coast states also deal with massive fires and the fire season is still far from over. Its going to be more houses destroyed more people impacted. As we go into that fall fire season. We have great concerns. To be able meet the demand that we have here in california. All 4 now marshall says that crews from idaho, new mexico, texas and utah theyre all helping out. And state leaders are even asking for help as far as canada. Well coming up next on the kron 4 morning news, the smoky hazy skies cause some delays at the airport sfo and also a lot of confusion will hear from travelers coming up. I mean want to key in washington of the congressional stalemate over the next Coronavirus Relief bill has frustrated many lawmakers, including texas republican senator ted cruz who went ahead and introduced his own bill. Ill have that story coming up. And a bombshell recording reveals President Trump downplaying the seriousness of covid19 why he says. He did for the country. Welcome back everyone and thanks for staying with us i know after what happened yesterday a lot of folks are curious about whats going to happen today with this forecast so lets check in with john and get an update hey john there rob, and yeah a lot of questions after yesterday what on earth is going on what on mars is going what on mars. Look a lot like mars yesterday youre right what planet were like no one knows what its like the Twilight Zone it was a was an eerie day across the bay area and across the state to now it was an all of the state that saw the worst guys like we did parts of the Central Valley and Central Coast just got really great really smoky. And we do have the potential of certainly more orange spots out there today. But all that depends on just the right factors so we could just be really smoky in gray. Well we will be is definitely not good as far as their quality goes you can see this morning at walnut creek you can actually just make out the haze that we are seeing out there in the east bay east bay areas are seeing the worst of air quality this morning well little closer to the coast are Still Holding on to moderate conditions. So were actually in the midst of 2 areas of High Pressure the first is starting to move its way out of the region, this is the one that brought us those strong northerly winds that brought the smoke our direction. Now what were about to see is in a strong onshore flow. This is going to eventually result in an increase in their sort of fog thats pushing across the bay. This fog is likely to be laden with some smoke that has settled down into the pacific. So not going to offer much relief from the air quality unfortunately, and with High Pressure in place and very calm winds across the region. Not going to have a lot thats going to pushing the smoke anywhere else so what we have is still that blanket of smoke over head. And this is going to be sitting over head gradually gravity is going to take hold in that smoky later that sitting aloft is going to settle right back down into the bay so air quality is going to be an issue into the upcoming weekend. I would say definitely delay a lot of those weekend plans you may have had just take it easy inside and keep cool because temperatures well be cool enough that you dont necessarily need the windows open you dont need a fan running all the time and if you do have a seat just make sure to put it on recirculate 60s 70s for coastal and beside areas today saying carlos palo alto Mountain View each at 74. Well in the south bay looking at daytime highs falling dramatically from the triple digits that we are at just 3 days ago. Now were mid 70s and you can actually blame a lot of the smoke for that the smoke is blocking all a lot of the heat of the sun. And thats why were seeing temperatures so cool and why it almost feels like the middle of night during the day. Danville at 80 degrees today, one of our few spots that will actually make the 80 degree mark vacaville and fairfield among those areas along with antioch on the app and sonoma only mid 70s today. Low 70s in Santa Rosa Petaluma novato in sandra fell so today and tomorrow likely to have the biggest smoke Impact Likely to have some more issue depending on what part of the bay youre talking about other areas are just going to look a little bit more smoke in gray. Now we likely are to see gradually improving conditions through the weekend and into next week eventually we going to get her way back to normal. Its just going to take a while because air is still and that smoke is not really moving around a whole lot right now. Temperatures will remain in the 80s for inland areas, 70s by the bay and 60s by the coast. Robert all right. Thank you john. Lets check in on your morning commute we are doing a bridge check for you. I still havent found out why we have those flashing the connector ramp leading over to the bay bridge toll plaza i dont see anything listed by chp doesnt like is causing much of a backup, so it could just be some road work off to the side but if something comes across the wires all definitely let you know here at the pay gates, youre looking good right now problems into San Francisco little busy on 92. We can handle busy. It is not bad under 30 minutes from the nimitz across the span off to highway one o one so that commute to the peninsula is in fantastic shape will check more coming up a little bit later. The President Trump admits he downplayed the threat of covid19 earlier this year. According to a new book by journalist bob woodward, the president was alarmed by the virus back in february even as he was telling the country. The coronavirus is no worse than the flu and insisted that it was under control. An audio recording of that interview was also released the president told reporters that he did so to quote reduce panic. The fact is im a cheerleader for this country. I love our country and i dont want people to be frightened. I dont want to create panic as you say, and certainly im not going to that this country or the world into a frenzy. We want to Show Confidence we want to show strength we want to show strength as a nation. And thats what ive done. President trumps democratic opponent joe biden reacted on twitter he wrote quote if donald trump had acted just 2 weeks earlier 54,000 lives could have been spared in march and april alone instead he downplayed the threat of refused to take action costing lives and sending our economy into a tailspin its an unjustifiable dereliction of duty. Well happening today, Senate Republicans are expected to vote on their targeted coronavirus stimulus the which the democrats have rejected it as they make the congressional stalemate house frustrated many lawmakers, washington dc correspondent anna werner key reports. As republicans and democrats remain at a standstill over the next Coronavirus Relief bill, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is advancing a new bill he admits is dead upon arrival were not going Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader kill and bury Coronavirus Relief behind closed doors. Without putting every senator. On the record the republicans 300 billion dollars skinny bill is 3 trillion dollars less than what democrats want as the pain the economic pain. For millions of americans advance. Senate republicans are actually moving backward. I think washington democrats have decided they dont want anything to pass but the lack of progress has some lawmakers looking for a new way forward texas republican senator ted cruz says his recovery act will produce results, it cuts taxes, it cuts job killing regulations the bill would provide tax breaks for companies that rehire employees it would also help kids get back to School Safely and expand covid19 testing a lot of people have have have spent down their Retirement Savings during covid have been been trying to survive on and allows people to replenish those Retirement Savings cruz says americans are already struggling and cant wait any longer for congress to hash out a deal the number one priority economically that that congress should be focused on is getting the economy going again getting people back to work this senate is set to vote on the republicans 300 billion dollar bill on thursday. In washington, im anna warren, a key. Coming up next on the kron 4 morning news protest against Racial Injustice and Police Brutality continue across the u. S. Hear the cry from the cry for justice from families in sacramento after the break. Welcome back everyone protests against Racial Injustice and Police Brutality continue across parts of the country and our state families of those killed by Sacramento Police officers gather for their own rally lonnie wong has that story. We we want it. The demands were not new by more than half a dozen families who lost loved ones, but they are emboldened by the National Movement for police reform. Francis nevarez daughter gabby was killed by 6 ice police in 2014 as we fight in this new civil rights movements. We demand change and we demand it now while the grief here was real the circumstances in each Police Related death is often fuzzy Citrus Heights police say getting the virus stole a car and led them on a dangerous High Speed Pursuit before ramming several Police Vehicles black and brown has steadily getting murdered every day Christine Benz said Daryl Richards was shot by Sacramento Police after supposedly pointing a pellet gun its citizens and that swat officers pursuing him the Police Body Camera was accidentally turned off. And the family has filed a civil suit in the case sacramento. Police today said they cant comment on cases being litigated sacramento, black lives matter is also criticizing local officials like Sacramento CountyDistrict Attorney tony Anne Marie Schubert who labeled violent protesters domestic terrorists, which is a really inflammatory statement to make about people that are fighting for their right to to not be killed by Law Enforcement but ubers office said she was specifically referring to a planned attack on her office by members of sacramento. Antifa shes accusing them of trying to burn down her office after the jacob blake shooting in wisconsin but she did not make those accusations against Peaceful Protesters much earlier that evening nevertheless, black lives matter says confrontations by opposing groups are becoming more common put some of the families here are fed up others realize that change might be a longterm proposition and theyre determined to keep up the pressure in sacramento lonnie wong. On the kron 4 morning news with so many Health Concerns because of the smoky sky. Air purifiers are becoming a hot on my list to have more on the demand for air purifiers coming up after the break and before we head to break we are checking in on conditions outside your door not as orange as yesterday right. But still definitely smoky so once again limit your Outdoor Activity keep those windows and doors closed well be right back. Welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, everyone and good morning to you lets also say good morning to meteorologist john trouble whos always busy. But he was quite busy yesterday whats in store for today i think all of us were busy just looking at the skies in awe of what we saw its hard to say whether its going to be as orange today as it was yesterday, but its definitely still going to be smoky. And theres likely to be some more orange pockets out there at least a view from rada yesterday of one of the. Cloudy orange skies that all of us were looking at this one from up in marine county dog didnt look like he was enjoying it too much either. And then San Francisco was really orange in fact the closer to the coast, generally youve got the more orange, the skies did appear for many areas. Now this is your berkeley view this morning as you can see it already definitely has an orange us reddish tint to it which is looking like at least were going to be starting the morning with more of those similar looking skies now for parts of the bay area we are actually still under moderate air quality including the peninsula and lower elevations of the east bay. Definitely pour