Smoke so thick the sunlight could barely shine through. Across the bay area people woke up confused as they looked like night. Ktvu was flooded with photos from our viewers who pulled out the cameras to capture the eerie orange glow that lasted for much of the day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama joins us with more on how it all unfolded. Reporter this really was a first for many people here. This darkness during the day and the orange glow, for many businesses this was yet another setback. Almost like a dream, the entire bay area woke up to this. It felt like we were living on mars. Weed couldnt figure out what time it was, even if the afternoon was so dark and orange and red. It was apocalyptic. By 10 00 it was darker than it was at 7 00 a. M. Reporter the darkness and orange tent stretched from the bank and east contra costa county, like a nuclear fallout. Ash flying from the sky covered cards and straits. In San Francisco my friend said she had a hose down her car twice before it got all off. Its absolutely surreal. Reporter owner of fitness gym you balance training clients. It for him, and many business owners, its not the smoke that stings. Is a real skies are yet another pernicious and unrelenting assault on their livelihoods and fight to survive. Wednesday was the first day San Francisco officials relaxed pandemic restrictions and let gym owners conduct business outdoors. Out elect city officials to conduct their own business outside and see how they like it. Reporter gillers latin fusion restaurant in San Francisco had just finished building their parklike. We needed to do something in order to stay afloat and retain our business. Reporter wednesday was supposed to be the grand opening. Hard work and now more heartbreak. This morning i woke up and its so dark. Its just crazy. Its just crazy. I dont understand. What else we can do. Reporter gilberts, like many other businesses, has had to turn to go find me fundraisers online to try and survive. They say basically that another day like this, they just dont know how many more they can. As if oh posted a of what it looks like i may taking off from the smoky orange sky. We checked with operations and they say flights were not effective. But they took the opportunity to say, now is a good time to show a commitment to our planning and sustainability. The unexpected darkness had bullies around the bay area reminding drivers to turn on their headlights. Ss piedy says their patrol saw a number of cars without their lights on. The concern was that despite reduced visibility plenty of people were out and about doing daily activities. San Francisco Mayor london breed urged everyone to be careful. When youre out, take extra precautions to walk safely and drive safely, including turning on your headlights due to the reduced visibility. Mayor reed is encouraging everyone to stay informed and sign up for the city text alerts through alert sf. Four people are but that a permanent home today after a residential fire. It broke up at about 5 00 on the roof of walrus street in the ashbury neighborhood. No one was hurt, the cause is under investigation. The power is back on tonight for most of in california. Pg e says it has restored service after cutting off electricity on monday to more than 100,000 homes and businesses check this was the first planned power shut off of the year. This is bijans way of trying to prevent its equipment from starting fires . Reporter yes, and to come to the timetable that it laid out. 90 of the customers were back on by 6 00 tonight. But they were left wondering when it will happen again. We just opened a year and a half ago. In our first year, at one point and felt like we were closed more than open. Reporter they are serving santa rosa customers again. The restaurant, among the 85 of pg e customers with electricity restored by 6 00 p. M. But it takes a day for the pizza oven to fire up hot enough and the owner admits he has over these plans shutoffs. I do hope it helps people save homes the. If thats the case, but im happy. That if we are just doing it, we have to reassess our situation. Reporter locals draft by, glad their homes are on too. On your talking about you make the announcements and run the generator engvall records and fire things that. An i signals came back to life and courts comfortably, pg e discovered 27 instances of wind damage. Each one of those cases presents an opportunity for an arc flash event, a spark event. They could cause an ignition, and ignition that could be very difficult to control. I want my electricity. I dont want to keep going through this. Reporter residents of this Mobile Home Park in rankin valley are less likely to have generators. All the anderson outages are about fire prevention, many want more of the burden on villalon. I kind of get it, but it is going to be bold, really bold. And needs to be fixed. Reporter its pretty scary being elderly and being disabled. Reporter utility said it will be at least a week before there is another planned outage somewhere. I know, and there is no place to run [ laughter ]. Not here in california and anywhere else. Reporter pg e expects to find more wind damage as a looks around. At system did not store any of the new fires now burning. Noon tomorrow was in the remaining few thousand households without power should have it back. Three people have died in a wildfire in butte county. The bear fire as part of the north complex fire. It started last month and has been burning in parts of butte, plumas and yuma countys. Strong winds cause the bear fire to explode overnight in the devastated town of paradise. The sheriff says one person was found dead in a car trying to escape the flames in two more people were found dead in another location. The fire leveled the foothills town of berry creek and some 20,000 people are under evacuation warnings and orders. When we talk about evacuations, every single fire crew, bulldozer and fire engine become the premium resource. We need to use those premium resources where they are most effective. We cannot be using premium resources to assist in rescues for people who refuse to evacuate. The fire complex was started by lightning. So far it has burned a quarter of 1 million acres with containment only a 30 . Evacuations were ordered in yuba county after a fire broke out there. The willow fire started before 1 00 a. M. In the community of loma rica northeast of yuba city. The fire has burned more than 1300 acres and there is no containment. At least 14 homes have been destroyed. Evacuation center has been set at the yuba center fairgrounds. Northeast of fresno the creek fire is burning out of control. The fire in the Sierra National forest started last friday and devastated the town of bay creek. At least 60 homes have been destroyed there. The fire has now spread across 163,000 acres with zero containment. Governor newsom says 14,000 firefighters are now on the fire lines in california idling 28 major fires, but with more favorable conditions ahead. We are encouraged hat he wind activity appears to be dying down. The rest of the week looks little more favorable from a wind perspective and it weather perspective. That will aid our efforts on these 28 major fires in the state. Paid sick leave statewide, the New California law as the coronavirus pandemic wears on. Up first, a 17yearold girl critically hurt in a car crash. Have a Good Samaritan came to help her while talking to her mom. He said she was alive, but she was not doing well. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. A 17yearold girl is in the hospital tonight fighting for her life after she was critically injured in a crash on an east bay freeway. It happened friday night on interstate 80 near mcdonald avenue in richmond. Ktvus henry lee spoke to a Good Samaritan who stopped to help in the family calls arrow. Reporter 17yearold Alyssa Torres just finished her shift at target in albany friday night. It shouldve been a quick drive home. At about 10 15 i got worried. Reporter brandi florez called her daughter cell phone. She didnt pick up. Sure everyth okay. Reporter willie never lee just got off work at san quentin prison and came across the cost. Answered the phone and told her mother alyssa had been hurt in a car crash. He said she was alive but not doing well. I could hear her gasping for air. He was saying alyssa is hearing. Hang on alyssa. Reporter is florez and her husband rushed to the scene the Good Samaritan kept her airway open. Flares says hes a hero enter angel on earth. Words will never express what he did to save her. Here is the reason she is here fighting for her life. Reporter he says he isnt a hero. I just like i stepped in to help, that was it. Reporter alyssa suffered severe head trauma. She is on a ventilator in the icu, not responding to commands. Reporter a promising life now on hold. Ellis is the oldest of four children said to gradually from hercules high in january. She was taking classes at Contra Costa College in hopes of becoming a child psychologist. Florez is a pediatric nurse at kaiser. For medical background, at times, makes things challenging. Part of it is helping, part of it is entering. As a nurse you know what happened. Reporter these are pictures of alyssas honda civic chp says traffic on the freeway slowed because of another crash in the opposite direction. The other driver stayed on scene, but chp is asking for any other witnesses to come forward. Im hoping for a full recovery and hoping to meet her under better conditions. Reporter the san quentin sergeant tells me his gps gave him a different route to avoid congestion. But he chose the usual route, with the help of divine intervention. New tonight, Governor Newsom signed a bill into law extending sickly for californias workforce. The legislation gives up to 80 hours of paid sick time to employees who have tested positive, or been exposed to the coronavirus. The law applies for the rest of the year and includes full and parttime employees. San francisco can finally start spending money raised by attacks that was approved in 2018 to provide funding for the homeless and Mental Health services. The state Supreme Court declined to review a Lower Court Ruling that found opposition she is in fact legal. The measure imposed a half syntax, a half percent tax on city businesses with revenue over 50 million. The tax was expected to raise between 250 and 300 million a year for homeless programs. But it has been caught up in the courts ever since it was approved. Rideshare drivers how they protest today to call attention to ubers antiracism billboard to which they call hypocritical and offensive. The drivers gathered under an uber billboard on broadway in oakland. The billboard says if you tolerate racism, delete a. The protesters say cooper is a critical because of its support for prop 22. The ballot measure would make rideshare and delivering companies exempt from californias big worker law. According to the protesters uber drivers who they say are overwhelmingly people of color would be harmed if the proposition passes. Major Companies Like cooper and lift mack are claiming support for a protest movement that has galvanized america in a pandemic that is disproportionately claimed black and brown lives in our livelihoods. However, the track record is filled with inhumane misdeeds. Uber has not commented on the protest and many drivers say they prefer being freelance. The company rolled out the Billboard Campaign two weeks ago and pledged 10 million to support blackowned businesses. Starting next week bart plans to have more trains during the morning and evening commutes. Part cut service one ridership draft at the beginning of the pandemic. Ridership is still down about 80 compared to normal. Bard is open to bring writers back by increasing service. The plan is to have trains run more frequently and earlier in the morning. A spare the air alert extended again. The bay areas long streak of dirty air and what doctors say about it. And weve got the dirty air to talk about, but the big cooldown as well. I will have the details with the five day after the break. Right now, we could all use some comforting words, so here it goes melty, melty, tasty, grilly, juicy, sizzle. Mmm, that should feel better. The sourdough patty melt is back. Make it a combo meal for just 5. 99. Melty, melty. And packed with my toasted sourdough bread. Freshly grilled onions, 100 beef. And two slices of melted cheese. All that with fries and a drink for only 5. 99 . Woah, is there an echo in here . Get my sourdough patty melt combo, back on my menu for 5. 99. A live look outside tonight with a faint orange glow over the oakland estuary. Only morning will tell if the skies will be in the clear. You cant even see San Francisco in the distance there. Wildfire smoke has been polluting the air in the bay area for three weeks now, but never to the point of turning day in tonight, like it did today. We talked with some experts about what was different this time around. Reporter no, this is not an orange tinted center that in berkeley. This video was taken early wednesday afternoon. The bay area is shrouded in eerie darkness. It feels like its midnight right now because were seeing a lot of smoke concentration over the bay area from fires across our state. Reporter Bay Area National Weather Service meteorologist frank garcia broke down for us whats going on as the satellite map of Northern California shows smoke from the fires in mendocino and butte counties have been blowing in by winds traveling from north to south instead of east to west, which had been the case this week. And he says that smoke is high in the atmosphere, which is why he we havent smelled it. On top of that a marine layer is sitting between the smoke in the ground. The sun is trying to get through them and the sun is being absorbed by all of this gray material, all of this dark material. What were left with this kind of this orange glow outside. Its like a perpetual sunset. Today and that being the right side up in the right spot for the bay area to experience this intense depth of smoke in the upper atmosphere. Reporter wednesday marks of record 23rd consecutive spare the air day the previous drink was 14 days set two years ago to the camp fire. We are not expecting the cfo im not the episode today. Reporter dr. Ron terrell, director of emergency in oakland says breathing the ashman ear finding on their cars and backyards could be more of a problem in the dark this, along with the sheer number of days of unhealthy air. Now that weve had a 23 straight days, there is a persistent inflammation and challenge the people systems. Thats a problem. Reporter the National Weather service expects much of the darkness to disappear thursday, but the smokiness center main. Theres a lot of smokiness out there now, as you can see. This is from earlier today. Most of the smoke was coming from Northern California. And was riding in on the north wind. Red flag warning we had last night is essentially north wind. You can see it as the corner of california has notched out. The winds are going the other way now. We have a deal where we have the winds working their way into the upper elevations in the right direction and at the lower elevations in the right direction. Whats the right direction, a westerly wind or a wind blowing from west to essentially east. Right now were looking up a little bit at southwest winds. Thats enough. Just at the surface, but all the way up to 10 to 15,000 feet. Last night we had the winds blowing from the north towards us about 5000 feet. Hello 5000 feet we had the fog coming on shore. Is much better pattern. The ones are doing the right thing. It should get better, but thats off smoke. Is the most smoke ive ever seen. It will take a while to clear it out. And warnings it is usually at its worst and tomorrow morning will probably be no different. I dont imagine it can be as bad as today. I didnt think it could get as bad as today. We did cool off, 20 in fairfield from where it was last may at this time. 40 degrees in the last eight hours, easily some have dropped 30 to 40 degrees in the last 24 hours. Overnight lows cool, the weather is coming around, the pattern is much more conducive to getting the smoke out of here , its much more conducive to containing the fire is completely, even in butte county weather bear fire is ranging. And thats the plan. We have a lot of fog tomorrow morning, forecast highs on the mild side. Less smoke and hopefully it looks like a nicer, milder weekend coming up. That sounds very nice, thank you. 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Weird red skies put a spotlight on another victory that comes courtesy of right off the bat in the third inning with two on. This guy is justris. He has eight homeruns with two strikes on him so much trouble they had earlier in the season. Remember the defense, one of the worst all of baseball . Mauricio dupont playing a nice centerfield and Tyler Anderson will get the win with six innings of shutout ball. In the clutch hits continue to roll, even in a lopsided game. It doesnt hurt to have the two out basesloaded single off the bat of evan longoria, who has really started to play like he did in the prime of his career with tampa bay. Looking good 101 final and the giants have a couple games of her 500. There in the class, we will see how the last couple of weeks playoff in september. Oakland as, they got a certain thing they do so well, night nobody else. That is the ability to walk it off and they do it again against dusty bakers houston astros. In fact, take three out of four. Scary skies in oakland and put a damper on matt chapman and matt olson like in their golden gloves. Astros up in the seventh. Tommy slicer to left. The is down a couple of runs, kyle tucker turns that with a terrible play to left field and do a two run double to tie things up 22. The as are loving it as it stays the same way to the bottom of the ninth inning. Two out, ramon lorianna just hammers one in for the gap and leftcenter field off ryan presley and the astros. Fifth walkoff win of the season for the as , 32. They take three out of four and have a five out of five and asking leave over the houston astros. Nba basketball, boston gave it a go to try and eliminate toronto tonight in the eastern semi finals. They lose in double overtime. It will be a game seven there. Clippers and control over denver, up three games to one, client 30 points tonight. Led us check this out and show you what was definitely the play of the night defensively in the major leagues. This is the mets michael for tevin centerfield robbing the orioles. Keeping their the bases were loaded at the time. He actually saves three runs from the mets, who wind up winning it only 76. Obviously a very important play. I love this. Frank, this is the Philadelphia Flyers austin ron bloome uniting after his team was eliminated in the nhl hockey mobile. Is little dog didnt forget him. The first time the two had met since his team was limited. You think the document is master . He knows who his buddy is right there. Thats a good little scene right there. What a great way to end the show, thank you. Okay. Screwdriver . clattering oh, no. Backup screwdriver. I come from a long line of handy men. My dad used to fix everything lawnmowers, cars, our cat. So it made sense that i tackled the Clothes Dryer after the repair guy tried to rip me off. Im not paying 350 for a moisture sensor that costs 28. Ill fix it myself. russian accent its a complicated job. 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