Are expecting some big changes. We still have a spare the air alert that is lingered day after day due to the hazy conditions. The north winds still not totally shut off. So were looking at some of that smoke from the north still being brought into the bay area. But look at that. Weve got a cold front that is going to clean everything out, bring fire ending rain to extreme Northern California. So some really good news there. Heres a look at live doppler seven moderate air quality right now. That means were in the yellow and well look for these hazy conditions. This is a 24 hour loop that shows the blue indicating, yeah, were going to have some of that high elevation smoke. But by the time we get to the second half of our weekend skies will be much clearer. So poor air quality, mainly north bay, the coast and central bay. Then everyone gets into the good air quality. Tomorrow it is 59 in oakland, 57 in fremont. And as we look at our northerly winds, theyre light, but they still will be
Gear and rolled in the masters film program at sf state and started taking Video Production jobs, including one in oakland two weeks ago. So ive just been driving through downtown and i was like, isnt oakland beautiful . Like, i love oakland. Justin thought he had done enough to hide the gear in the trunk of his rented tesla while he had lunch on broadway. Just across from the ymca. But when he came out to find this window, shattered his camera lenses and drone gone in. Justin had just bought the gear and hadnt had time to insure it. I like literally felt like the pit of my stomach drop. I knew that the equipment wasnt insured and so to have it gone so soon after, like buying it just was devastating. Usually in these cases, its smash grab and gone. You have little chance of retrieving your property. But justin had hidden tracking devices inside his gear. Cases and on a phone app. He watched the criminals travel from oakland into San Francisco. You know, it was on post street, right . A
Yeah, that homecoming parade just ended about 30 minutes ago. The School District says its monitoring air quality. Theres still a bit of haze in the Higher Elevations but no smell of smoke, which is a big change from just a few days ago. San ramon Valley High School parade through downtown danville is an annual homecoming tradition. We always have the big rally and the big parade downtown where, you know, the floats go through and the various town dignitaries. So its a lot of fun, proud parents and excited players didnt seem to be too concerned with the weather. The School District says theyre monitoring air quality and cleared the teams to play well. Theres nice any concern with the smoke that we had . No, weve weve been okay all week and all signs seem to point towards the same direction right now despite the excitement on the ground, theres still some lingering haze around mt. Diablo and the valley below. When youve got a complex of fires burning as we do right now in Northern Calif
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Closure of a major south bay freeway. Well talk about how long the closure lasts, how long your reroute might be. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. That sparetheair alert now extending into tomorrow, which will mark the fourth straight day that lingering smoke from the wildfires burning up north once again making for a poor air quality condition. Nbc bay areas Ginger Conejero saab is live in San Francisco tracking the conditions at the city by the bay as we head into the weekend. Well check with her in just a few moments. First, kari, this morning we thought we were pretty much in the clear going into the weekend. But the alert extended. This is happening gradually, and were seeing it clearing out a little more slowly than wed like for our weekend plans. Lets go look at our hourbyhour smoke model forecast showing that surface smoke. Youre not seeing it as bad as it was, but still that light blue hue there indicates the air quality