But Small Businesses are feeling especially powerless and what pg e said a few hours ago. Santa clara county gets the news its been waiting for but some parents are saying enough already. Its just not cutting it, its not working. Taking a live look outside, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area. The fog has rolled in with a vengeance tonight. There was so much smoke out there you couldnt even see the sunset tonight from San Francisco. Paul heggen is here, and the marine layer is coming in now, finally, is it doing any good at all . It does improve the air quality where it makes its way inland. But of course that will not be the entire bay area. You can see making its way across the bay but still that air trapped in place in the tri valley and Santa Clara Valley as well. This will be the challenge we face over the next several days, getting the atmosphere to mix around enough to disperse all the smoke in the air. Its pretty deep in the atmosphere right now. Air quality tomorrow, trouble spots will be the north bay and inland in the east bay, the tri valley, valleys in the north bay and Solano County will have the worst air quality on wednesday. We still have a red flag warning in effect until wednesday morning. The winds are starting to die down a little but still gusting and still very dry. We will talk about why the wind direction may nowork in our favor, even with an onshore breeze, in a few minutes. In santa rosa a smoky day has given way to a very dark night. And some Small Businesses are feeling especially powerless tonight. Reporter this is one of many intersections affected by the Public Safety power shut offs. Weve seen some of the lights come on in the last hour but there are still a lot of flashing red lights and stop signs placed at the crosswalks. Most customers in this area lost power overnight and for some, the lights have yet to come back on. I think it was about 3 00 this morning. And then that was it, no more power you. Nikki murphy and her family have been withouwefo ly4 ho one mycell phone and no power. It was a day of work virtually lost. Most schools in the area are also closed with many students unable to zoom. Here at the pet store off sonoma highway, it definitely was not business as usual. Trying to be open customers. The manager estimates that business was down 80 . I had maybe 10 customers all day because nobody thinks we are open because the power is off. Its in every year situation. This smoky air covers any areas in the bay area tonight, and for those living in eastern santa rosa, they have now gotten used to this yearly ritual, but 2020 has tested their patients. Its horrible. We are just waiting for the locusts. So has pg e told people when their lights and the air conditioners and refrigerators and all the power they desperately need may come on . Tysanta rosa the Fire Department is expecting heavier winds overnight so the red flag warning and the threat of fire danger does exist until tomorrow morning. Then pg e has to come in, look at the lines, so for some customers they may not get their power back on until sometime tomorrow night. Not as simple as just flipping a switch. Well look at how orange the sky was in ukiah today. Lots of you have been sending in photos of the super smoky skies where you live. And a lot can change overnight. We will have the latest on the air quality starting tomorrow morning at 4 30. This is why there is so much smoke in the air right now. Some fires have flared up, and meanwhile in Mendocino County the oak fire has grown to more than 860 acres. It is only 10 contained. And the creek fire in the Sierra National forest also picked up overnight under pretty extreme conditions. The National Guard had to go in with helicopters to rescue dozens of hikers and residents who got trapped in the creek fire. At least 46 people, and four dogs were taken to the fresno airport to be reunited with family. Dois happier, the dog or Mary Breckinridge who was at the airport waiting for her son and his dog to arrive. The creek fire is forcing evacuations near communities of chevrolet, big creek and huntington lake, also threatening thousands of homes in Madera County near bass lake Yosemite National park. Smoke from all the wildfires can be seen from space. Nasa released these images showing almost the entire Pacific Coast covered in smoke. And crews are nearing 100 containment on the lightning fires in the bay area. Tonight hellfire said it expects the scu complex east of san jose to be fully contained by saturday. Not to the states fight against the coronavirus. California confirmed nearly 2700 new cases yesterday. But the average Positivity Rate has dropped below 4 and hospitalizations are down 24 . More open signs are lit up in the south bay tonight after Santa Clara County officially moved up a notch on the states colorcoded covid map. But some businesses included in the red tier still are not getting the green light. Reporter tonight indoor personal care services, gyms and Fitness Studios got the okay from Santa Clara County leaders to reopen that with modifications. But for some, the reopening isnt happening fast enough. It is just not cutting it. Armed with signs and a loudspeaker on this busy intersection in mountain view, a group made up of parents, students and even teachers took part in a statewide rally. She cant go to school, she can see her friends or meet her teacher. To reopen schools amid all suffering. We want the schools to open. Santa clara county Just Announced theyve made it into the red tier which means schools can reopen if the county stays in that year for 14 days. Under the red tier a number of sectors can open under the state order. That includes james and Fitness Studios at 10 capacity. You be able to survive on 10 capacity . Thats an interesting question. A yoga studio coowner says the studio wouldnt make it. Its still unclear, 10 of the square footage, so thats anywhere from 1. 7 students to 3. 4 students per class. They will continue with personal training and outdoor classes in order to pay the bills. For many, it is a waiting game with time running out. It is a date today roller coaster, and we are just trying to put our hands in the air and enjoy the ride. There is nothing else we can do. They also permitted the opening of museums, zoos and will be theaters. Santa cruz also moved into the red tier today. And the Tiburon Police chief Just Announced he is leaving. Chief Michael Cronin is retiring after 12 years, the news comes after this confrontation between a Police Officer and black business owner. The officer questioned the man inside his own store and demanded indeed on the store. The town manager said the chief had been discussing the timing of his retirement for some time and his last day is on sunday. Tomorrow marks a dark day in bay area history. 10 years since a pg e natural gas pipeline suddenly exploded under a neighborhood. It killed eight people and level iii dozen homes. Hard to believe that was a decade ago. Reporter take a look at the garage area, a completely lapsed rate on top of the car, it is stregnle asa ly melted off. Three streets were hit the hardest, you can see from this map just where they were. Everything is gone. There is nothing left, but thats irrelevant, your home survived, who do you think . God. This is god, god helped me. The city of san bruno has this message up on its website tonight listing the names of the victims and pledging to up, will bay area businesses survive the pandemic . We will show you why the answer could come down to one single block. Plus a california county looking to ban traditional trickortreating this year. And wife the they are struggling now, but will they area businesses survive the pandemic or stay closed for good . Orme aces the answer could come down to one city block. Opened up San Francisco, please. Reporter randy says he is trying to hang in there but his san ir son since march. Im not sure how much longer i can open up. Across the county line its a different story, this is the 600 block of mission street, on this side of the line daily city and san mateo county, you can get your hair done indoors. On the other side of the line, San Francisco, the only county in the bay area where you cannot get your hair done indoors. And thats exactly what i found a few days ago as they began to open up on the daily city side of the line barbers were hard at work but on the San Francisco side the shops were closed. Its ridiculous. If i have on the side, its alexandra owns a salon studio on this side. San francisco officials did not want to talk about it on camera but they are proceeding much more slowly with reopening than the state is allowing. The statsaysyored county like s napa and santa clara and santa cruz counties. But in San Francisco only Outdoor Dining is allowed. The state says you can get your hair done indoors, even in purple counties like san mateo. Still, San Francisco does not plan to allow hair salons to open indoors until the end of september. The department of Public Health says the main reason they are being so careful is because the city is more densely populated than its neighbors. San francisco is a tense, urban city, we must meet more vigilant. As long as they continue toke p 19, we can get businesses back on their feet. Halloween will look very different this year. In los angeles the Health Department just released its guidelines. Trickortreating will not be permitted normal gathering with people outside of homes. And no carnivals are Haunted House attractions. But some locals say they just l dressing up, i love costumes, i love seeing what other people choose. Just because people have kind of been stir crazy, pent up at home. It would be a big release of fun for everybody. The county did give some suggestions for a safe way to celebrate including a car parade, online movie at home or at drivein. Y speaking of movies, theaters are back open in placer county, the movie grill in rockland reopened at 25 capacity today. Staffers are sanitizing all the seats and trays between showings and encouraging guests to order tickets and meals online. Onto campaign 2020, just two months away from election day. President trump rallied supporters in North Carolina tonight, his third trip there in three weeks. He didnt wear a mask during his speech even though there is a state order and the republican chairman of the local county Commission Even ked him to. We are producing a vaccine in record time. This is a vaccine we will have very, very soon, by the end of the year but much sooner than that wraps. Meanwhile joe bidens campaign released a new campaign a video, the phone conversation between Kamala Harris and barack obama. Tomorrow biden will deliver remarks in michigan. The main thing to know about joe is that joe has never lost his sense of why we do this. Back on fire watch tonight, and as if that the wind and heat are not enough to worry about, a highspeed chase that happened may have actually started a brush fire in la today. You can see, there is a er sp i trailer around. That man is accused of hitting several parked cars and driving off as police try to stop him. Crews were quickly able to gain control of the flames. Oregon is dealing with fires of its own right now in the Southern Region of the state. A wildfire forced evacuations, this video is from the city of ashland. You can see the orange glow and that we are all too familiar with. This one spread to the highways which needed to be shut down. It just feels like weve been dealing with this for months, i know it hasnt been that long but its felt that way. I can speak for a lot of parents saying now it was first trainee, now we can go outside, when is this going to end . We dont want to ask whats next because we dont want this particular year to answer that question. The smoke is been a big issue today from the bay area, and its not from the local fires, smoke is blowing down from the north. I wish i knew the wind direction, smoke was largely blowing down from the august complex. You can see that wind direction as the winds picked up last night , but it doesnt really matter what the wind direction is at this point because if it was more northeast he would push the smoke from the north complex toward us. From the east, e from the creek fire would be blowing toward the bay area, you say okay, well weve got the pacific, lets get that onshore breeze. No, because the fires in oregon, that smoke is being pushed out dsat woul get pushed toward us. The point is, its going to take a while before we see any good air quality forecasts on this map. Tomorrow, some improvements for some of the bay area, but inland and the east bay, still bad air trapped. The marine layer is helping us out for now, but eventually it will not have as much of an effect. 60 degrees downtown, 56 in santa rosa, temperatures loosely dropping off into the 60s by early rng. With some 50s sprinkled in as well. Along the coast, mid 60s for highs tomorrow, mostly in the upper 80s in the Santa Clara Valley, upper 80s and low 90s and that trivalley, mid to upper 60s around the bay with low to mid 80s for the h bay. So temperatures continue to drop closer to what is normal for this time of the year. Still above average, but no recordsetting heat in store as we head into the upcoming weekend. Dan is here now with sports. Playanthas take Houston Astros . And the mariners have a six you know, the giants havent had a winning record in september since 2016, until tonight. Logan web was in a haul against goes into the bleachers. And check it out, dutual though ball. Still seventh inning, solo shot for the lead, his fourth career pinch hit home run. Teddy watson finished off the four shut inning, giants are 22 21, they would be in the playoffs if the season ended today. How about the le and a long day for chris davis who hasnt played since august 26. He had 130 homeruns in three years, today, marks his first long ball in a month, his second of the season. Zack greinke adding an insurance run, as when the opener 42. And in the third, matt olson, dream maker down 10, a three run and its 40 as, but with the new starting pitcher, he couldnthe hit carl allowed four runs in the inning, the astros creep by five minutes for and split the doubleheader. The nba playoff, game three, houston never saw Anthony Davis coming. The rim certainly knows that feeling when lebron is in attack mode. King james had a gamehigh 36 points. I havent seen rejections like this since my junior and senior ball, four blocks in the game for lebron, the lakers win 112 102, series lead. Milwaukee trying to stay alive without their injured star yannis, he watched Andre Iguodala throwdown against tyler. They had the best record in the league but are leaving the tonight that california woman who first popularized those gender revealed parties says that a new brush fire is just the latest reason she regrets starting that trend. Investigators say an expectant couple sparked san bernardinos el dorado fire with a device meant to send up a cloud of pink or blue smoke. Its just the latest in a string of serious mishaps. The first one that caused a forest fire was in 2018, and i saw that and i cried my tears and felt my guilt in maybe i had a hand in putting this type of party out in the world. 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