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
Kelly as the cspan bus continues our 2020 battleground states tour. As always, we take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host here are some of the latest headlines coming from that back and forth between the National Basketball association and china. The senators call on the nba to cancel games in china amid controversy. Spat thatchina nba underscores how far negotiations have deteriorated and this from a roll call, republicans accusing the nba of cowardice in the flareup with china. In our first hour, we want to get your thoughts on this backandforth between the National Basketball association and china about that tweet concerning hong kong. Did the nba kowtow to china . You can let us know your thoughts in this hour. 2027488000 if you live in the eastern and central time zones. And if you live in the mountain then pacific time zones, it is 2027488001. Ou can text us at 2027488003 att on our twitter feed cspanwj.
The New York Times bought trucks on its reporting of the script poisoning case in the u. K. For almost 2 months the paper failed to correct an article about disturbing pictures shown to President Trump supposedly capturing the aftermath of the nerve agent a time. Suddenly being one minute after 8 pm here in moscow a very warm welcome to our news hour on r. T. International oneill. Arties video agency ripley has obtained exclusive footage of whistleblower Julian Assange in Londons Belmarsh prison the video shows the wiki leaks founder chatting with fellow inmates in the high security facility where hes serving a 50 week sentence for skipping bail it is the 1st time images of a sons have appeared since his arrest on removal from the Ecuadorian Embassy in london almost 2 months ago concerns have been munting over his health and recent weeks after he failed to appear before court at the end of may video link for a hearing on possible extradition to the us the un special rapporteur on tortu
Cinthia pimentel has a quick look at our microclimate forecast. It was really windy for my sons big t ball grand finale game yesterday. How will today be . It will be windy in the afternoon, but for now our bay to breakers sunday. It seems like a little bit of a holiday, right . We are all off to a gorgeous start, mainly in the 50s. As you can notice, the cameras behind me, but still in some chilly 40s up into the north bay san rafael. Clear skies though over the North Gate Mall as we go on and plan our day in San Francisco. Whether youre running or just going out to cheer everybody on, we know it starts off chilly, but then getting into all of that celebration will be under mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s. If you decide to hang out around the city. Gorgeous view of the city skyline right there. Were going to get clear and sunny skies for everybody. Sunday plans. There is so much going on. Were going to feel like summer as we go on into monday. Tuesday with a bit of a co
The weekend closure is having on businesses, and we are less than 24 hours away from bay to breakers, making a return to San Francisco. Look at the last minute preparations underway before thousands of runners hit the city streets. And we are going to get to those stories in just a moment. But first, were following breaking news. This is on Yerba Buena Island. Crews are battling a fire there. You see the video right there. It started just after 3 00. Firefighters say crews are facing heavy smoke and steep terrain. Now. Two fire boats are also helping put water on the flames from the bay. There they go. This is new video from the firefighting efforts. Its not clear how this fire started as you can imagine, this is impacting traffic on the bay bridge for a period of time. All eastbound lanes. They were shut down in the last 30 minutes. Two lanes. They reopened. Now heres a live look at our traffic map. And you can see that big backup right there stretching for miles. At this point, its a