As it has been theres a look at the current particulate matter levels they particulate matter levels in the air much of the bay now in the yellow and orange which is much better than the dark purple and reds weve been seeing this past week and heres a look at the current air quality in the bay area as you can see. Much better tonight than the past few days the whole country theres feeling some sort of the bay area obviously. Producing a lot of it california producing a lot of it oregon washington, the whole west coast really for the most part. An incredible change from yesterdays air quality and that is good good news. No doubt about it. All right want to check in with our chief meteorologist right now. Lawrence karnow please tell me this trend will continue yeah going to get better to was certainly nice to see the skies begin to turn a little blue outside of weve been looking at this shot over the past few days we have been able to see the Golden Gate Bridge. How about that the Golden
Officials say moraine county has been moved up from the states purple tier. To the red tear, the bottom line that means that more businesses and schools will be allowed to reopen. Thanks for joining us tonight, im Catherine Heenan and im grant lotus marine was able to move to that red tier because it reported fewer than 7 daily cases per 100,000 residents. The test positivity was also under 8 for 14 straight days. Every tuesday counties are a side to it here and must remain in a tier for 21 days before moving on and as covid19 numbers continue to fall in california more counties are moving to reopen some indoor businesses kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has the latest covid19 update from state officials. Statewide covid19 numbers continue to fall with the Positivity Rate at 3. 6 over the last 2 weeks and an average case rate of 7. 7 per 100,000 People California tuesday was officially removed from the new york, new jersey connecticut, mandatory 14 day quarantine list f
Tonight, the air quality in the bay area night yet great but dramatically better than the past few days. You can see just how much clearer was in sausalito today we have been living in some of the most unhealthy air on earth over the past week but people are slowly getting back outside as we start to see and to smell a difference in the air. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with details yeah guys finally getting those winds to start to clear things out still got some haze in the atmosphere and you can boy needs shot from the Berkeley Hills here lot going on to get some haze out there from some of the smoke some high clouds all some patchy fog. Begin to move in along the coastline. But certainly the air quality much better around the bay area today looking out toward the Golden Gate Bridge you can see it again we have some thick fog moving a little early on but that will be back again pushing into the bay and certainly overnight tonight kind of filling in around the bay a
Unhealthy. First it was tacky talked to several Restaurant Operators in the city and taylor today some fresh air fried some hope. It can finally move we moved into better air quality tonight and you can definitely see the change in the streets of San Francisco a lot more people out today and while we were in that moderate level for a majority of the day Restaurant Owners say that it was a breath of fresh air as i mentioned it was nice to see people back out and sitting outside of the restaurants, they say its something that was a much needed after hitting 80 yet again another hurdle throughout this pandemic. Obviously with the fires. Back to kind of having to close for 2 days people not going outside again. So its kind of a bummer to have like a whole nother the thing this year that 6 people inside and not sitting at my table Jacob Roberts owns in the country and polk street. Thats one of the many restaurants in San Francisco, the close its outdoor seating because of smoky conditions o
Now offer that same improvement in air quality to all of us across the bay. There are going to be some visibility issues this morning as we do see fog pushing it past the day most of it sitting right above us so bridges should be better that our upper elevations like our east bay hills will be although the golden gate is pretty socked in this morning from that dense fog as for air quality look at this improvement if youre not seeing a shade of yellow orange or red on the map its because youre good or very close to good which is something that you will want to step outside and enjoy of moderate conditions do remain in just a couple of pockets in yellow, but even that a huge step up from where we have been a good day to get outside and enjoy a nice brisk morning walk with steady winds from the coast you will want to put a light jacket on as you venture out there 50s and 60s for your current temperatures. Robin. Thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge as traffic is recovering fr