Into the moderate and yellow color for parts of the east and also the south bay. You can see our live monitoring sites right now. Look on my left dashboard, you will see all the different sky cameras continuing the show the blue skies. What has been the key driver getting the smoke out of here. It has been all of the storm system offshore. Down at the surface, what we have happening right now is the storm front is stationary so this is acting like a big block of buffer and helping they continually push the smoke to the north and the east. I can show you a better view of that right now. The three large fires been the largest culprit of the smoke. You will see the plumes from the satellite moving off to the north and east. This is what we have wanted to see. The forecast as we move to the next 12 hours, no big changes here, well stay to that good to moderate rain. The one thing i want to caution everybody on is well have a change in the wind this weekend. A little bit out of the north, that could bring back some snow. More about that this hour and some thunderstorms that could develop close to the bay area. Well give you all the particulars coming up over the next hour. Lets talk about today, all this fresh air meant it was so nice to be outside today. People taking walks and enjoying the sunshine. Kids riding their bikes. The air quality drastically improved for the entire bay area. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live. Whoa, shes riding a bike. This is impressive while doing a live shot. Take it away marianne. Reporter after four weeks of bad air, we finally have some good air and we should be out exercises. Air quality specialists say you need to do it fast because we could look at more spare the air day this weekend. Reporter after weeks of unhealthy air, smoky and hazy and even orange skies, today people welcome the return of blue skies. And even better color, green reflecting good air quality across the bray. That meant after a week stuck at home, the twoyearold could head to the park for a play date with her friend, alex. She wanted to go out and shes so frustrated not able to go out and not even into the garden. Thats hard for the little one. Reporter debra moore is out today walking her dogs for the first time for a week. It is wonderful, i am out walking and exercising. Reporter some questioned it is still spare the air day when the quality index indicates our air is good. In the gilroy area, there may be localized air quality of orange unhealthy category as the day goes on. It looks like things are clear. Well ride out the air today. We know we are taking it all for tomorrow. Reporter you should enjoy getting outside now because there is a chance winds will shift from the north, sending smoke from the august complex fire over the north bay, possibly prompting another spare the air day this weekend. Reporter it is important during this small window of good air that you open your windows and doors and air out your home. Also, get outside and exercise which is what i am going to do right now because i missed being on my bike. See you later. Very nice, we want to be out there and enjoy and a pink bike as well. Reporte the big 10 conference announced theyll have football season and kickoff next month. The pac12 may follow soon. Stanford and cal may be back in action. Larry scott says he got the green light to resume games and practices in california. Comes after Governor Newsom said today his guidelines were not trying to block or hinder College Football. It is a multiMillion Dollar loss and revenues for businesses and palo alto and berkeley without a season. Our guidelines the state put out denies these games from occurs. Oregon governor gave the commissioner the green light. The pac12 needs to work with county leaders and city leaders to make sure their practices and games follow the local guidelines. Well, College Football is back on despite the rise in College Covid cases. Here are some of the schools seeing modest to large outbreaks. Right now uc berkeley has 202 cas cases, san jose state with 677. You can see the numbers much higher as you move east. University of iowa reporting more than 1600 cases. University of georgia with 3,000 and alabama with about 2200 and South Carolina with 1900 cases. So janelle, the question is what do you do as a parent if your college kid tests positive. Do you keep them down at school or bring them home and risk your own safety of getting infected. These are decisions being made by thousands of parents including one of our own, jessicaing Jessica Aguirre is back with us. Do you go down to san diego with isabel or do you keep her down here . Reporter that was a bad call to get when she called and said she was positive. I was trying to stay positive and not to be scared. It was a lot of information. I read all the literature to figure out how atrisk she was. I talked to our own covid expert about the likelihood of her getting sick. He reassured me college kid seems to be able to do it okay. And for isabel, there was some rough days where she was really sick, really exhausted and vomiting. There were some roff days for her and all of her roommates got it. Shes on demand and i talked to her about how she felt that she ended weathering a deadly virus by herself. No, god, it was annoying. I love you, no offense. I just felt i had a bad cold and you are calling me every hour and i could not sleep like it just seemed like i thought it was the end of the world. I had the worst symptoms of all my roommates and i knew i was going to be fine. You were blowing up and sending me these dramatic texts. You are going to get through this, you are so strong. I am fine. I dont know no, if you were here, you would have smothered me. Moms are supposed to smother you. I am proud of the way she handled herself. I had the luxury to talk to dr. Peter chinhong about what are you supposed todd do if your kids are sick, should parents go get them . Thats the wrong answer unless your child is really, really sick because you are putting yourself as an older person, i count myself like you. I risk it. The older you get at the age of 50 or even 40, it increases our risk of not just getting it but being bad when you get it. What do you do when your child gets sick and requires hospitalization . Thats a hard choice for parents to make. It is a tough choice. It is what you have been doing which is continuing education for your kid. If you think the arc is going in the wrong direction, as a parent you have little thresholds for getting down there. If you think things are stable, you know, sit tight and send a care package and make some browni brownies. Okay, i didnt send brownies because i am a terrible baker. I did send a care package. I did ask her how she felt going back to classes given her experience. He said while she loves to have inperson classes because Remote Learning is very hard. She says until there is a vaccine and better treatment, she realized it is not a good decision because she does not want other people to be put at risk for having this and not fairing as well as she did. I am happy to say she did great and shes on the meds and she feels tired and exhausted but all five of her and her roommates are recovering. Thats good news. Theyre all doing well and i am happy that now i can take a breath and not feel as worried about her shes a tough cookie. Go isabella. Dont text her so much. Yeah. Shes doing great. I know, right . You are a great mom. Thank you. The pandemic is enticing thousands of people to ditch expensive cities and work from home. Thats setting up a new trend for silicon valley. Nbc bay areas Anousha Rasta has the details for us. Reporter if you want to move that home to a less expensive place, you may be paying for it. They look to adjust salary downward if their employees choosing to relocate at lower cost market. Reporter jessica van is a ceo in san francisco, the company specializes placing support staff at Bay Area Companies including staff. They are willing to take a small pay cut for the job opportunity. We also stee on the flip sid, employers constantly are choosing to hire outside of this market. Companies like facebook and stripe are cutting employees salaries if the person relocate outside of expensive cities like san francisco, new york or seattle. The company is always opened to employees working remotely. Now theyre offering employees 20,000 to help them with the move to another city if they decide to go. Theyll also cut pay by 10 . A recent survey of more than 2,000 tech workers by job search marketplaces reveals 53 says working from home would make them move to a city of lower cost of living. 56 of tech workers said they would not take a pay cut to do it. Some bay area workers we asked said may be worth it moving out of california. I would take it because i have been renting and i have been saving up a good amount of money. Reporter Anousha Rasta. Nbc bay area. The message dr. Sarah cody wants you to hear when it comes to coronavirus testing. The flames are mostly out but so are the water. The problems wildfire vak wieva are dealing with. Some of the best air qualities we have seen in 30 days. Finally some fblue skies returning. Well talk about the air quality tomorrow and some thunderstorms moving close. I will have it for you in about six minutes. 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Reporter an order that focuses on providers like sutter, hca and stanford and kaiser. So many people dont know they can have the right to be tested through their providers. My patients have not been able to get tested with kaiser. I had to get tested. My daughter and i had to get tested from the county. Reporter we reached out to kaiser and they said theyre working to provide more tests to people who want them. Both sides stressing the need for more testing and quicker. The only way we can keep ourselves safe is get back to work is by getting testing done and that means now and not later. Reporter the county says if providers dont make tests available quickly, they could be fined thousands of dollars. In san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. The czu lightning fire devastated neighborhoods and Santa Cruz County and San Mateo County disrupted water supply. Nbc bay areas robert handa is joining us where crews are trying to repair those pipes with dangerous burnt trees looming over head. Reporter there is a lot of cleaning up to do in the santa cruz mountains. Some of that clean upbringing down damaged trees of 100 to 200 feet high. Reporter this 180 foot tree had to come down today hovering the water district. All the pipes leading to the tank burned up. 4 million gallon of water was loss as well as 700 miles for water supplies. Theyre providing water for residents, we can grab two cases of water per household per day. I brush my teeth and everything with my water. Reporter to replace pipes, travis tree professionals had to clear the way. We have to make it safe for all the people working around water tanks up here at bold you are cre boulder creek. San lorenzo had 18,000 customers. Still, several hundred homes were warned by the state water board not to drink or boil the water right now. I dont see any evidence that the water is actually bad. Theyre testing the system one by one. Reporter that kind of assessment will make a lot of people up here feel better at least those who could return home. Boulder creek, nbc bay area news, robert handa. Never ending for so many families. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist. The bright side is it was bright outside. We saw a lot of blue skies. It really was. I was outside earlier. The sun is setting, chasing that sun outside. I will try to get outside one more time here in the show. I didnt want to get right to that air quality. We all know, we are rejoicing and the fact that we finally have blue skies after 30 days across the bay area. You can see over the east bay, we have good air quality in l e livermore. Redwood city and fremont, green. San jose right now moderate and you can see in san jose even though it is moderate, we have some really good visibility off towards a distance. As we move through thursday and friday, i dont see a big change is moderate and good throughout the bay area. We should be able to get outside based on the fire activity. I want to move into smoke and two other things we are tracking. Thats fall and the rainfall. Tomorrow morning, you can see fog and some drizzles near the coastline. Thatll clear back by the afternoon. Notice this cloud kofcover bubbg up from the south. Thats tropical moisture from karina. It is going to pump up this chance of some storms near yosemite on thursday and friday. It is so close to us that i definitely want to make a mention of that. You can see this rain accumulation over the next three days while we have rain from the storm to the north, you can see how it is close to the bay area. Well talk more of these rain chances and what our possibility would be getting any storms coming about 25 minutes and a change in the win this weekend that may bring back some smoke. We have got a lot to talk about eventhough the smoke is clear. The rain is good for our wildfires both their yosemite and the northwest. Thank you, jeff. Yeah. You got it. He needed warrantee work but the shop was closed due to covid19. I am chris chmura, nbc bay area responds. Next. Prop 19 helps californias most vulnerable. It provides property tax fairness 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. The south bay driver had trouble Getting Service on his car because of covid19. He asked chris chmura for help. Reporter good evening. He bought this car from carmax right before the pandemic started. The sunroof would get stuck. The car came with a 90day warranty good until may. Carmax provided 60day extension and that took his warranty until july. He said carmax did not respond for repairs. The company says his concerns are important to us and we are extending his warranty. They did repair work and swapped all tires. Lewis paid zero. One Important Note about buying a used car. The federal trade commission requires car dealers to play a buyers guide like this one. It makes clear whether you get a warranty and how long and whats covered or not. If the sales man want you to buy a car without that notice, it is time to find another dealer. We have more car advise on our website like how to get an inspection after you had body work done. Go to nbcbayarea. Com responds then look under the consumer resources section. Back to you. Thank you, chris. Up next at 6 30. No longer a hurricane but still packing a punch. We are tracking Tropical Storm sally as it makes its way through the south. Plus, who should you listen to . President trump or the ahead of the cdc. A major different of opinions tonight of the timing of the coronavirus vaccine. Right now at 6 30. Tropical storm sally is turning and making its way through alabama, florida and georgia. It is bringing torrential rain. Officials are warning thousands of people to evacuate and get to higher ground. Sally made landfall this morning near mobile, alabama, packing winds up to 155 miles per hour. Tonight of record rain total. A live look in destin, florida, thats east of pensacola. 9 30 at night there. The National WeatherService Warning of catastrophic flooding. Some areas may be getting 35 inches of rain. Can you imagine that creeks and rivers already pushed their limits. It is expected to continue taking on water for several days. Well get a boat out there to pick you up. We anticipate the evacuations could literally be in the thousands. Power outages are also a a major problem. Close to half a Million People are in the dark as sally moves through. President trump and the cdc director were different in viewpoints today. The president says a vaccine is available for everyone within a matter of weeks. Robert redfield told the Judiciary Committee today does not think a vaccine will not be offered until 2021. The president says redfield is confused. Joe biden seized the opportunity after receiving a Coronavirus Briefing and he had this to say. I trust vaccine as and scientists but i dont trust donald trump. Well, this week we have been watching and sharing clips for our new season of derailed, our Digital Series all about bart. We questioned bart manager about protecting riders from coronavirus. We have tonights clip from chapter 1. Bart is foggy. Every single cart in the fleet and every single night. Here is what he means by fogging. Cleaning crews are using a special tool called an electric static fogger. These spray guns shooting out tiny droplets. Before that mist is released, it is charged with electricity. That static electricity means the cleaning solution is attracted to near by objects. The spray is able to coat and cling to surfaces at 75 times the force of gravity. That car has been disinfected. Reporter what about the ventilation system on trains. You may be able to breathe in the virus even if an infected person is not around. Is the air safe . We are looking at that right now. We are looking at revising our filter that really well clarify the air as it is coming through the system. Reporter bart is testing those filters on a few trains but dont inside whether to install the system until at least next year. Without them, bart says its standard filte