Housing project secretary ser oha housing battle. Ten yelater alook bac at one of the darkest days in bay area history. It was a decade ago today the sky over the peninsula turned bright orange and then turned dark with thick black smoke. A pg e Gas Transmission line ruptured engulfing homings and taking the lives of eight people. Reporter set of 9, 2010, the roar of a ruptured High Pressure gas line sounded like a jet engine, some barely made it out alive. I went to the back door and i saw my hot tub and everything on fire, the backyard flames were shooting and i opened if a said im in trouble. Are it was shortly after 6 00 p. M. That the ground shook. Some believed add plane had crashed and others thought it was an earthquake. While homes burned and people ran for their lives, it took pg e more than an hour to shut off the gas supply that was feeding the flames. Firefighters were stunned. Ive been in the service for 31 years and never seen anything like it. Reporter the fires burned for hours and crews from more than 20 Fire Departments responded. The investigation into what happened and why was turned over to the federal government. Well cooperate fully as they investigate that aspect of the accident. Reporter in the end, eight people lost their lives, 35 houses were leveled and many more damaged. For greg, as injured as he was, he knew he was one of the lucky ones. It was a massive, massive flame and it wouldnt stop. Everything is gone. Everything we own is gone. There is nothing left. Thats irrelevant because people died. Reporter pg e was convicted of felys and fines more than 1. 5 billion and paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle claims. The city has listed the names of the victims and pledging to never forget them. The day turning into darkness around the bay pretty much all day. Add to that ash, raining down from the wildfires around the state. It covered these cars in daly city this morning. Speaking of the orange view, this is what the it looked like this morning. Fast forward and the sky is getting more orange around lunch time, two hours later at 11 00. This was the scene two hours ago, the sky looking a little bit lighter. This is what the toll plaza looks like right now. San Francisco Mayor spoke about the air quality conditions. The best thing we can all do is stay calm and stay informed. When youre out take extra precautions to walk safely and drive safely including turning the on your headlights. Despite the poor air quality, outdoor gyms and Fitness Centers are allowed to open today in San Francisco. Fitness sf opened today and are taking reservationings online and through apps. Indoor gyms restricted to one on one personal training sessions or individual gym sessions are expected to reopen by the end of the month. Plans to build on a prime piece of real estate are moving forward. The city of richmond approve add large scale residential development. John ramos is here with the controversy and why the fight is not over yet. Reporter cast in todays strange orange flow, point melodian richmond is a story itself. Last night the mayor made his feelings clear. I do not pant to see this place fenced off for another ten years. I do not want to see the Historic Buildings and wine haven continue to deteriorate. Reporter a lawsuit settlement stemming from an attempt to build a tribal casino is trying to develop as a housing project. Last night they cast a pivotal vote to allow sun cal to move ahead with the project. For climb the walls over the housing. They do not want housing out there. That is really what its about. Are one local Attorney Says its about a lot of things. He and others say the entire settlement deal was done in an underhanded way to build on land that, in wealthier communities, would be preserved as parkland. Because its here in richmond its something to be developed. That shouldnt be developed. It should be saved as a park and open space resource. Reporter he believes the cost to replace all underground will exceed the city and the a mount theyll make. The people on the Council Approved a project thats going to bankrupt the city. Reporter mayor butt disagrees and says in 1995 fist vote as a Council Member was about point melodi. Here we are 25 years later and nothing has happened there. The mayor says the next step in the process is for the city to officially sale the land to the topper, but there are other lawsuits brewing and no one believes anything is going to happen quickly. Still ahead, new information on the potential safety issue that halt add global Coronavirus Vaccine trial. The questions scientists are asking and what happens next. Well take you to the firefight in butte county where weedpatchs are spreading the wildfire, the search for missing people after a frantic night of evacuations. Coming up new at , what tourists are saying about arriving for the orange apocalypse. People living, working and playing in the bay area still have to do business. Never seen anything li some good news on the States Coronavirus fight, california reporting its lowest single day increase in cases since may. There are 1,616 new cases and 83 new deaths. Seven day Positivity Rate 3. 6 . The global trials of the leading vaccine candidate were put on hold. Tonight more details of what happened to whom, what the experts dont know and why this is good news. According to stat news it was a woman in the United Kingdom who triggered the global shut down of the astrazeneca vaccine trial. This particular candidate had a serious adverse event. Reporter sometimes after she was injected with the actual vaccine, she experienced symptoms with transverse myelitis. Its a rare but serious inflammation of the spinal cord. The director of the national its substitute of health says what happens next. Is it because of going to g anyway. You put a clinical hold and investigate carefully to make sure if anybody else might have had a similar finding oh of a spinal cord problem. Are epidemiologists both agreed that pausing an advance vaccine trial is not unexpected. I would say what this shows is that these trials are being done perhapserly with the proper safeguards. I think what people need to know is that were tryingto the safely as possible. Are nine drug manufacturers took a step and signed a pledge they would not seek fda approval before the advanced trials show the vaccines are safe. How it will be i speak for colleagues in the government and certainly for the Scientific Community that is the only basis on which is decision is made, otherwise is public is not expected to trust us. The u. S. Currently has three covid19 candidates in advanced or phase 3 clinical trials. The woman was reportedly discharged from the hospital today. Still ahead, are your we saw the cloud of smoke and my heart fell. I knew wed lose our home. And we did. Over 24,000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the past few years. Wildfire victims need help so im voting yes on 19. It limits property taxes on wildfire victims so families can move to a replacement home without a tax penalty. You never know what youll be faced with. Please, vote yes on 19. Continuing with the fire watch, 50mile per hour gusts overnight have strengthened the bear fire thats been burning since mid august. The town after paradise was devastated by the camp fire two years ago. Marissa is in butte county on the destruction and search for the missing. You may get trapped in there. Reporter a warning to First Responders late tuesday. You may get stuck. Crews searching for missing people after overnight evacuations. I just want to know where the rest of my family is. Reporter brenda evacuated with her granddaughter but have not heard for her sons. They spent the neat in a walmart parking lot. Brenda says shes reliving this once again, her home destroyed by the camp fire in paradise two years ago. Mary ann dropped off by fire crews this morning. She has no hope for her home in father falls. There is so much dead wood up there. I dont see them saving it. Reporter the fire whipping across highway 162 overnight, heat so intense trees torched when theyre far away from the fire. Many say theyve never seen the fire get so close. The most intense one. Theres reti ones that this is the fieriest one. Within the past 45 minutes all National Forests in the state were temporarily closed because of the fire conditions. That including mendocino, Tahoe National forest and eldorado. The Sheriffs Office lifted all evacuation [ inaudible ] the National Seashore remains closed to the public. A lot of people are trying to document this. If youre having trouble captureing the haze on your phone youre not alone. The orange haze actually, it was much darker to the naked eye. Iphones have such good cameras and technology theyre actually correcting the lighting for you. Your iphone or Android Phone is automatically correcting the correct view, what it thinks is a correct view. Once again, technology taking over and thinking it knows best. Smarter than all of us. Trying to make it look normal when its anything but. The smoke is going to be a factor for a few days. The smoke is going to be here overnight and likely tomorrow. Its mixed with fog and thats spreading inland the rest of the night. The poor air quality is going to continue. Were going to have record setting 24 Straight Days of the spare the air alert tomorrow. Temperatures will remain below normal and the smoke is blocking the suns energy. Lets take a look at the details of the smoky skies. Its the entire orange shaded area with the thick smoke overhead there. Is stale few hot spots but its the august complex, north complex, fires in the sierra and up in oregon sending the smoke down towards us. The ash particles are a little bit heavier than the soot that is suspended in the upper levels of the atmosphere. You get the layer of particulate matter that covers anything left outside. Most notice it on the cars and windshields. This is going to be a factor for the next few days. Some hope the air quality will improve towards the weekend. It was poor air quality for almost the entire bay area. It will weedpatch is going to transport that farther to the south. Its the north bay, inland east bay and the Santa Clara Valley that is going to have the worst air quality over the next couple of days. San jose more of a gray look. Temperatures reached 66degrees in san jose. We missed the High Temperature forecast today by a lot. Probably the most ive missed by in to years just because the smoke was so thick that it locked down the temperatures is. We started off this morning and thats where we stayed. Its 62 degrees at sfo, 59 degrees downtown. 707 in livermore, the warm spot there. Is the fog and low cloud cover spreading inland. As we go through the day, the computer models dont take the smoke into account. It shows the marine stratus backing up towards the coast. Its going to remain jumbled together most of the day tomorrow. This is one of the case where is the computer models are not helping. Temperatures start off in the 50s to around 60 degrees, not much of a drop every night. I any the temperatures may warm up just a bit tomorrow as the smoke tries to thin out. At least the smoke has cracked the heatwave. It is a high price to pay. Upper 60s around the bay, low to mid60s around the coast. If you missed it at 5 00, well talk about the science of why it looks orange instead of purple or green or some other funky color. Thank you, paul. New at 6 00, the smoke can affect your body just as badly as it looks outside. Research with the effects on your lungs. Its the ten Year Anniversary of the san bruno explosion, the ongoing toll it continues to take and positive changes that have happened in the decades since. One very memorable way to fly boo the bay area, observations and pictures from people that made the flight in today. Still ahead here at 5 00, how our jefferson Award Winners he coordinates the distribution up to 20,000tons of food in san tran each week. This is this weeks bay area jefferson award winner. Reporter thats right allen. [ inaudible ] Operations Manager in less than two years. He loves to serve people. Les picks up boxes of donations from trader joes. He works for food runners, the nonprofit that picks up excess food from stores and restaurants and delivers them to neighborhood food programs. Its his day off as Operations Manager, but hes been bringing free food to someone hundred seniors sheltering in place in their apartment building. Margaret was worried that the elderly would go hungry during pandemic so she contacted les. He brings a lot of food that we could not live without. Reporter patrick is grateful he doesnt need to walk to the Grocery Store four blocks away for eggs and produce. To bring it back it is heavy. I barely can walk. I like the fact that i was helping people everyday. Reporter during pandemic, les is doing much more. Thank you guys so much for coming. Reporter many high tech businesses stopnd meeting on sites. Company cafeteria donations have dropped so the food runners began filling the meals with more. There are 2500 meals six day as week and hell come to the rescue if he hears anyone is in need. We have food going to places regularly, but there is always extra. If i hear people are starving or need help, we want to respond quickly and get them food. Reporter so for going above and beyond to meet the needs of San Franciscos hungry, this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to les. When he heard there were Senior Citizens a the a San Francisco hotel begging for food at the start of the pandemic, he went out to serve them and continues to check on them every week. Sharon, thanks. You can nominate your local hero online at kpix. Com hero. Thats it for the news at 5 00. News at 6 00 begins right now. It is almost 11 00 a. M. , i kid you not, still super dark outside. Now at 6 00, a birds eye view over an apocalyptic San Francisco and how people are processing the haze and darkness. Were traceing the source of the smoke that has transformed bay area skies and why it looks worse than years past. When they inhale the small particles that can lodge deep in the lung like the smoke particles, that can cause more airway inflammation. And dealing with the new health risings of a long wildfire season. Thats what we have. Good evening, im ken. And im elizabeth cook. Our top story, the mars like day. A live look at the san rafael bridge. This is like a scene from a doomsday movie, but its very real a. Drone shot overlooking downtown San Francisco where the skyline turned to a creepy orange color midday. Videos and photos flooding social media as they capture an unusually smoke filled day and some wondering whats next for 2020. We have Team Coverage today on why this phenomenon is happening. We begin with kit. Reporter yes, were coming to you live from grizzly peak boulevard in the berkeley hills. On any other normal day youd be able to see into the bay, alcatraz, bay bridge, golden gate, but this is not a normal day. Even though it was a strange day, those of us who live here have to go on about our day. Reporter mars eat your heart out. It looks like hell. Reporter smoke high up in the atmosphere altered the sunlight and st much ina life instagram filter. It stretched far south as palo alto. This is one of the strangest years ever by any measure. Hopefully this Time Next Year lo