Cleanest days moving forward. Heres a look at the north bay. Look at this. We have napa and ukiah and sensitive groups and everybody else, okay. Until you get to san rafael, oakland and then look at livermore and go down to redwood city, fremont, san jose. Just keeps getting worse as you head south. All the way down to the monterey bay. Heres a look at sfo this morning. Fog in the north bay and smog for the rest of us. Temperatures going to be a little bit warmer as the upper levels like they did yesterday continue to get brighter as less smoke is up there. Ill let you know where less smoke is down where we breathe, coming up. This is day 29 of our spare the air and a doctor told one of our reporters its like smoking eight cigarettes, even if youre a nonsmoker. That is the kind of stuff youre putting your lungs through every day. Amy hollyfield with how people are continuing to cope with this bad air. Amy . Reggie, another day to keep your mask wardrobe you have your pandemic mask and you also need your smoke mask because it is another spare the air day. Heres a look at what we saw yesterday and what we can expect for today. Smoke covering the area. Terrible for us to breathe. In fact, medical Centers Across the bay area are saying they are seeing more and more patients in this last week. Many of them with smokerelated issues and complaining of chest pain, of coughing. We did see a lot of people or some people out and about yesterday. Some of them just saying they had to get out and they had cabin fever. You try to keep moving the best you can. Try to get as much fresh air, you know, as you can. It has been heartbreaking. I hope that it clears up really soon and we get blue skies and we can start breathing again. Health officials advise that you dont exercise outdoors during these conditions. Stay in as much as you can. You know, i heard a lot of y pod to be oong g arhis day and its still supposed to be unhealthy air today. So, stay inside, if you can. Reporting live in walnut creek, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. I believe nothing any more, amy. Thank you. Of course, all the smoke is having an effect on our health. Doctors say people who have preexisting conditions are urged to stay inside. Smoke can cause decreased lung function and doctors say it can even cause strokes in older people. Scientists at stanford are researching the longterm effects. They say early findings show polluted air creates changes in our immune system. Paced on the air quality today thats like smoking eight cigarettes a day, if youre just outdoors without a mask just breathing normally. See, theres that stat i was talking to you about. Youll never forget that after you hear it. Researchers say it will take most people from a few days to wee weeks for their lungs to heal. You can track that air quality where you live any time. Just head to abc7news. Com and youll find the map on the top right of our homepage. Today at noon California Health and Human Services will pro provide an update and mayor london breed will have a separate update on the citys response. Well stream both on the abc7 news app. In the east bay the Berkeley City Council is likely to approve a 100 fine Effective Immediately if people dont wear a mask or properly social distance. The mayor has heard of instances where people are willingly breaking the law. That includes just off the uc Berkeley Campus where fraternities and sororities have had large gatherings with few masks in sight. Right now the penalties is a misdemeanor. We dont want people to be criminalized. But we want compliance. This is a last resort. This is not, were not just going to go around and start finding people. Our goal is to try to encourage our community to really be good neighbors. Other bay area counties have all passed similar mandates. Marin county issued 14 fines for not wearing a mask and Contra Costa County issued one fine. A pittsburg bar owner is facing charges for serving alcohol indoors. The skorz sports bar on railroad avenue. Charged the owner with two counts including violating a health order. Currently bars are not allowed to be open to the public because of the pandemic. President trump is back on the campaign trail today following his visit to california. Yesterday he met with the governor and got into a Climate Change clash with the state oficial. It will start getting cooler. You just watch. I wish science agreed you. I dont think science knows, actually. The president was in sacramento for a wildfire briefing yesterday. He blamed our wildfires on the lack of Forest Management. The president also disagreed with californias secretary for Natural Resources about Climate Change. This doesnt have to be a partisan issue. Science, again, tells us that this Climate Change is driving this catastrophic fire experience that were having this summer. And the governor said the meeting was an opportunity to remind the president that more than half of our forest land in this state is under federal jurisdiction. Governor newsom got a chance to tour an Animal Rescue in butte county. This was yesterday afternoon. He said the state has to focus on prevention, Forest Management and Climate Change in its effort to prevent massive wildfires. Abc7 news spoke with two climate experts who have different approaches to Forest Management. Some are in favor of prescribed burns and other believe fire preventive Safety Measures are key. One thing they agree on. Homeowners can take actionable steps to fireproof their homes. With screens over vents to prevent embers from coming in. We could replace every roof in Rural America with a metal roof that sheds the embers. That alone would protect that home over 90 probability of surviving a fire. People can also clear vegetation near their home to protect it from wildfire. If you want to keep track of all the fires burning in the state right now, you can use abcp exclusive wildfire tracker right on abc7news. Com and on the a abc7 news app. A live desk update. At the live desk, Hurricane Sally has strengthened to a category 2 storm and expected to make landfall tonight near the mississippi alabama border. Heres a live look right now. Checking out pensacola. You can see the beach there in florida. Doesnt look too bad yet. Hopefully were really pulling for the best here. The moving storme gulfng win of100 miles per hour. Officials fear that the hurricane will stall once it makes landfall dropping more than 20 inches of rain with lifethreatening storm surge. That is concerning. The longer it stays out in the gulf of mexico, the more and higher the likelihood is that it continues to grow. There are currently five tropical cyclones churning in the atlantic. The National Hurricane center has just one storm name left, wilfred. This is something really incredible yesterday. After that storm forms, well have to use the greek alphabet to name the storms here because weve essentially run out. The National Hurricane center does not use x, y and z names because there arent enough names starting with those letters. Mike, when you told us this yesterday, i was reall r r r away. People are worried down there about what sally might bring. They also dont use q and u. We have 21 names every year that are a blend of french, spanish and english names and they alternate male or emafemale. An amazing amount of rain. Yesterday we were talking about how slow it was moving. Now down to 2 miles per hour. It hasnt made landfall yet but it is going to eventually and you can see the warnings and watches out there. Gusts to 110 miles per hour. 10foot coastal surge and then the risk, high risk of damage and loss of life. Look at some of these rain totals the next 48 hours. Pensacola nearly 12 inches and 11 1 2 in mobile. New orleans. We were so worried about new orleans and it is going to receive a lot lesser amounts as the westward push of this storm looks like to be lessening. Atlanta seven inches. Quite a bit more. Lets talk about what is going on back home. A whole lot of smoke and fog. Livermore at 58 and low 60s to our inland east bay neighborhoods and you can see the fog thicker across the north bay and 64 in oakland and hayward. 61 in san jose and 60 in los gatos and pacifica some of our warmer spots. Rnat inland eastay toy. Poisibility on the roads this morning because of the smoke and fog. Heres a look at your smoke forecast and you can see the north bay that is the cleanest as we head throughout today and into to and then most of us will be pretty clean wednesday. Thursday is looking a little iffy as is friday right now. At times, but they could be some of our cleaner days as you see saturday is not looking quite as good. So, well talk more about that coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Thank you, mike. We are going to be looking at traffic this morning. And we have two slow spots that im following. I want to first bring in our oakland 880 at the coliseum camera there. You can start to make out the brake lights as people pass the coliseum. Just a heads up that we have Road Construction between 29 and 23rd avenue. If you take 880 regularly, you know about the Road Construction. Walnut creek 680 because we have road work until 6 00 there and, wow, you can see the backup there between main and gary and that is also picked up at 6 00 a. M. Expect delays. New this morning, i want to bring in video because we had an awful situation happen in san jose overnight. A deadly crash that was initially reported shortly after 1 00 a. M. A sedan ran into the back of a big rig and we did learn from the chp overnight that that person in the sedan died. They had the roadway cleared by about 3 00 this morning. Awful situation unfolding overnight in san jose, reggie. Thank you, jobina. Happening today, apple is expected to unveil a new watch and ipad. It will be completely virtual because of the pandemic. Sent out an invite with the caption time flies. Certainly sounds like its about the new watch. The ipad air is also expected to get a major redesign could reveal a subscription bundle that would Bundle Services like apple tv plus, aparcade and i cloud storage. Notice i didnt say anythig about a phone because we dont expect that top ha happen today. We think that is delayed because of the pandemic. Virtual learning struggles. A psychologist is asking the question, hose doarents the poli gflroposa tt could lead to real change right here in california. Major changes for the ski season. Dont plan on just showing up whenever you want at lake tahoe. What you need to do in advance. Also, a programming note for you made notice that abc7 mornings now begins at 5 00 a. M. America this morning will air until 5 00 and then were here for you every week day from 5 00 a. M. To 7 00 a. M. A reminder, you can get news whenever you start your day at. For disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. Nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 whove lost their homes to fire. And seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. Prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. Yes on 19. It keeps all your devicess running smoothly fast. With built in security that protects your kids, protects your info, and gives you 24 7 peace of mind. That if its connected, its protected. Even that pet camera thingy. Can your internet do that . Xfinity xfi can. Because its simple, easy, awesome. Get started with xfinity internet for 24. 99 a month for 12 months and get advanced security free with the xfi gateway. Switch today. Now your accuweather weather with mike nicco. 5 15 on this tuesday. Remember august 18th when all of this started. If not, i made a calendar for you to show you exactly how many days were talking about. Today is the 15th and i went ahead and put tomorrows on there. You can see 30 consecutive days of spare the air alerts. Now, we do get a break, i think, for thursday and friday. But this weekend is looking a little dicy and ill show you that coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Liz . Thank you, mike. Tonight the Walnut Creek City Council will address the steps of training and improved Police Response after the deadly involved shooting of a mentally ill man. Police body camera recorded this june 2019 shooting of 23yearold miles hall. His mother and grandmother called for help after they claimed he threatened him. Officers shot hall who was armed with a metal bar. Walnut creek has since made it a goal to expand training so that officers are better equipped to handle Mental Health emergencies. This week as we work to build a better bay area, were focusing on race and social justice. A huge part of that is policing and Police Reform. The Police Killing of george floyd sparked many people to ask what can be done so this doesnt happen again. Now, california lawmakers are discussing some policies that could lead to change. Since the Police Killing of george floyd, several states across the country have passed or introduced bills that relate to Police Reform and regulating use of force. In california, more than a dozen bills related to policing were introduced this summer. Only a handful passed the legislature, including one that bans the chokehold. The California Department of justice will investigate Police Killings and enshrines reporters rights in covering protests. One bill that failed to come up for a vote was sb 731. A bill that would have made it possible to strip officers of badges conducted of certain crimes or misconduct. Its known as desertification and california is only one of t in order to see real change. We can ban chokeholds and define the grounds of what police can and cannot do at protests but what needs to happen in the state of california and were behind the times is we need to get all of these dirty officers off of the streets. James birch with the antipolice terror project supported the bill. Brian marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of california was against it. But not entirely. He says it is in favor of a decertification but who gets to monitor the licensing. One of the things that were really looking for in the Police Licensing piece is something that is fair and provides due process rights, which i think anybody who has a professional license would want the exact same thing. Reporter the hope is to find Common Ground and there is another policy that could do that. Ab 2054. A bill that provides a Crisis Response without the use of law enforcement. Reporter both birch and marvel agree finding alternatives to police is one good solution. When somebody calls 911 there is that expectation that a Police Officer will come and fix the problem and that may not necessarily be the case in all circumstances. We have been advocating that there needs to be changes for many years. Good to see some Common Ground there. Abc7 will have more stories like this one all week focused on race and social justice as we work to build a better bay area. This afternoon were covering latino heritage month and how its changing under covid19. Other stories will range from the struggles of minority Business Owners to our perceptions of each other. Youll have to plan a little want to ski at squall valley or Alpine Meadows this season. The lake tahoe resorts are warning you will have to purchase tickets in advance to reduce crowds because of the pandemic. Working from home looks a lot different in tokyo than it does here. A giant robot named model t is helping Convenience Store workers keep their social distance and get the job done. Workers control the robots as you can see here with a Virtual Reality set up. Its seven feet tall and has Three Fingers on each hand along with cameras, microphones and sensors. The japanese startup developed model t. You cannot buy one. Instead the start up rents out the robot for a fee. But why is it so creepy looking . Right. Why does it have Three Fingers . Is that preferable to five fingers . I dont know. I thought you needed an opposable thumb. Right, wheres the thumb. Yeah. I dont know. Looks like something out of the creepy cartoons my son watches. The villain. All right. Lets talk about what is going on weather wise. You know how we feel about robots on this show. Kgo roof camera back there at the studio looking south towards the embarcadero towards the Ferry Building and bay bridge, which we can see thankfully. Spare the air through thursday and our afternoons brighter and warmer as the upper level winds are clearing out that smoke and still sitting right where we breathe and then we have drizzle possible and cooler temperatures thursday and friday. And that should translate into some of our cleaner afternoons. Heres the area of low pressure bringing much needed and unfortunate very light showers to just select cities along the Pacific Northwest and not really doing much of a dent for their fires and is bringing hopefully slightly cleaner air because they had worst air qualthy than we had the last couple days. The low to the south is one im watching for us the next couple days. Until then mid 70s to 80 down in the south bay and los gatos and gilroy. And we head up the peninsula 77 in redwood city and mid 60s a