When you have the sun and you have the smoke moving through, different wavelengths of light are able to pass through. Red and orange is able to pass through that smoke while shorter wavelengths in the blue color are not. So it leaves us with this red to orange color. Now, check this out. Even though we have all that smoke i showed you, air quality is reading moderate to unhealthy, but the way it looks, youd think it would be reading very unhealthy. Ill explain why it looks very unhealthy but were not breathing in very unhealthy air. Pretty complicated but ill see you back here in about 18 minutes. That does sound complicated. Thank you, jeff. So how are we coping with 22 days of bad air . Live from San Francisco to continue our coverage. Pete, how bad is the air there . Reporter yeah, well, jessica, surprisingly the air quality isnt as bad here in San Francisco as weve seen recently, but as you guys mentioned, were in this long stretch of that 22 days straight of the spare the air aler
Tonight generators across the state are on full blast as at least half a Million People are without electricity due to the fire danger. Smoky skies and high fire danger. Ill let you know when you can expect a change coming up. A possible setback in the race for a vaccine. The astrazeneca trials are on hold after a volunteer became ill. What this means for the bay area trials which were about to begin. South bay Business Owners find ways to reopen indoors, but they know that opportunity could slam shut again. Abc 7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Tonight across the tales of harrowing escapes from ravaging wildfires. Skies darken. Thousands face another night without electricity. Power shut off to prevent park sparking any new fires. More than 167,000 pg e customers in fact in 21 counties are still without power. This map shows the current Public Safety power shutoffs. Theyre indicated by upside down purple triangles. An
Know. J. R. Stone is in calistoga where entire neighborhoods are still in the dark tonight. Reporter complete darkness along these neighborhood streets on the western id of calistoga, a city where 40 of the people are without electricity and that includes tv. Tough for youngsters. Its hard, really hard. Reporter taylor may only be 6 but this is not the first time her family has lost power due to fire dangers. Now, though, they have a small generator that powers only the most essential items. I can only watch stuff on my ipad if its charged. If its charged. Have you been charging it . No. Because our charger doesnt work. Reporter across the state at least half a Million People are in the same situation. Dealing with Public Safety power shutoffs over fears of power lines falling and sparking a fire. You realize how much you depend on electricity when this happens. Reporter in calistoga you can hear the hum of generateors in neighborhoods. Winds are expected to pick up. Calistoga mayor ch
Time to check on the brandnew air filter that i installed in our hvac system on august 19, exactly 21 days ago. In just three weeks this is the result. As a point of reference, this is a brandnew filter on the left. I also made one of those diy air filters using a fan, filter and some tape. Again, you can see the crud that filtered out and it turns out that much of the particulates were high up in the atmosphere. Before lunch san jose had a decent ache ui of 59 but by 2 pm it jumped to 152. But we still found people exercising outdoors despite the bad air. Stacy and gabriel said they had to find a way to get outside. Especially after being in quarantine this whole time, to me, being in the house all day every day is depressing. About those air filters, is there a specific type of filter people should get to remove smoke particles . So there is a specific tyco type of filter that takes out the smoke, you need the ones that take out smoke and it is spf 10 or 13. They are a little low, th
The businesses now able to reopen. Santa clara county gets updated on the states covid19 list. Today in the bay starts right now. And a very good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on the commute. First, meteorologist kari hall, what is it going to look like for us today . Well, weve had a lot of smoke around the bay area and it looks like that will continue today. The good news our temperatures are coming down so it will be slightly cooler today. Lets head to san jose as we look at our temperature trend for this morning with some low 60s to start and then as we go into late morning well see mid70s and only 80 degrees at noon. Now we will be also tracking those winds as the red flag warning continues until 8 00 this morning. Well talk more about that as well as the rest of the forecast coming up in a few minimum. Mike, how is it looking for the commute this morning . Kari, it looks kind of yellow here on the