Joining us on a wednesday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher weve got lots to cover for you this morning air quality still right there at the top of the list because thats whats impacting all of us once again today, although i have to tell you john yesterday did feel a little bit better outside yeah today even better yet guys if you liked yesterday today going to feel like a dream because its been a long time since weve seen air quality is good as were about to today walnut creek am well its a little bit foggy but its definitely not near as easy as it once was fog is pushed in across the bay and a very welcome sight because this fog is steered in some clean air from the pacific that has really done a number on the poor air quality. If youre not seeing a yellow or orange in your area on this map its because youre good or very close to normal. Those areas that are in yellow light conquered san jose in Mountain View Still Holding on to moderate conditions but a lot better than the ora
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
Measurable ways when they go to the doctor. Amy hollyfield is live for us in walnut creek without people there coping with more bad air. Amy . Hi, reggie. I just checked the air quality here in walnut creek and its hovering the aqi is hovering around that 150 point and thats right where it is unsafe for everybody not just for people in the vulnerable category. We will see another day like this one. Heres video of the air yesterday where that smoke and inhaling it is bad and this air is just terrible for us. And medical centers around the bay area say they are seeing an uptick in patients, many with smokerelated issues. Were definitely seeing over the last week the chest pains, the shortness of breath, asthma. We would call it bronco spasm and palpitations and certainly the headaches. We do see some people out and bout, of course. Many of them saying they just Health Officials say you should not exercise, though, outthese. Do that indoors. Its just too dangerous to be breathing that hea
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
Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Raging wildfires up and down the west coast. In fact its so bad that some of the worst air quality on the planet is right here in the bay area. I think blanket of smoke continues to hover over the bay area making it tough to breathe. And im healthy to stay outside. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news, set saturday September Marty gonzales unfortunately that smokes expected to linger throughout the weekend. It is yet another spare the air day for the bay area, the 26th in a row. We want to get more from days far on that and look at the forecast heidi a good morning marty good morning it looks like were getting a little bit of sleight thinning of the smoke at least happening a lot of air quality the service is going to be lousy all weekend still continuing. With some improvement as we get into early next week because of some other factors are going to help out with the sky conditions to again this g