Reporter that meeting between the president and county and state emergency officials in california wrapped up just minutes ago. Emergency officials spoke and informed the president of the 20 night significant active wildfires that are currently bring across our state. As we know, those fires have claimed lives, destroyed thousands of homes and have left much of Northern California and really a lot of the metro areas across the west coast in a constant cloud of smoke and unhealthy air. It was against this backdrop that the present touchdown in in Northern California on air force one. He was at mcclellan park, a former air brace airbase where they landed. He wrapped up that briefing with state and county emergency official. Gov. Gavin newsom set to the right of the present and the tone between the two leaders was professional and crowded, the reasons be hind the fires are a political flashpoint between the president and some democratic governors and west pick drought like conditions and dry strikes have fueled the conditions for some of the largest wildfires in recorded history. Democratic governors including gov. Newsom say the fires are a consequence of Climate Change and the president said poor forced management by the state is to blame. When trees fall down, after a short period of time about it too much, they become very dry. They become like a match stick. And there is no more water pouring through and become very they just explode. Decided that we could just a malarkey. Reporter in his remarks, so far Northern California, President Trump said he had a lot of praise for gov. Newsom and praised their cooperative relationship so far. We have a very Good Relationship pick we work well and as i said, as soon as the start, we spoke right at the beginning. And i gave an Emergency Declaration. He will tell you that. He thanked me. Mr. Trump, because of that good communication, said he approved an Emergency Declaration for a loving california counties. Quote, right away. That briefing between the president and state officials just wrapped up outside sacramento. From there, the president will be giving a presentation and a meeting with members of californias International Card and presenting Seven Members with medals of honor for their service. Lets get a live look at the open estuary. Its very greatlooking and not quite as it has dark as it has been. The 27 consecutive dave spare the air alert in the bear. Wildfires continue to cause unhealthy air conditions for all of us in the bay area. How the air is impacting us today. I know it has been a rough weekend and we were talking about how maybe later this week maybe tomorrow, we will start to see a difference. Yes. I even see a hint of blue outside my window into the sky. Ab steps toward the air improvement. Were looking at an air quality index a little bit better than where we were yesterday. Most of us between 150 and 170. Even though we are better, i still want to say that we are still unhealthy across the region. Looking at the north bay into the central bank. And down to the south bay. Slight improvement today. A little bit more tomorrow. And mike, as you mentioned, a few days down the road we are hopefully going to be in the moderate category which would be a big improvement after what we have experienced over the last few days. I look at what to expect for the afternoon today and what it will bring us. Coming up in a bit. San francisco is into its next phase of the reopening process in the city along some businesses to offer up indoor services. We have a closer look at the changes. Reporter it has been a Long Time Coming but some businesses in San Francisco are finally able to welcome back customers as of today. The last six months have been challenging. Its been a rough time for our members and staff as well. Reporter but things finally feel somewhat normal in San Francisco today. Super excited to be back. Reporter restrictions are being loosened in San Francisco. Gyms and Fitness Centers can operate indoors at 10 capacity so fitness sf started a new reservation system. Every hour we will allow 40 members into the gym. At the hour, the members will be escorted at the door so the next group of members can come in. Make its not just gyms that can reopen but also Outdoor Entertainment businesses and indoor hair salons and personal Care Services at limited capacity. Like power beauty lunch. It has been so long. Everyone is waiting for. Reporter San Francisco county is in the substantial or second most restrictive tear on the states or dictator reopening system. Ring at that level allows the county to move faster than expected reopening which is exciting news for eager beauty clients. My nails and my hands look like i do dishes for a living. And i havent missed a beat. Their horrible. Im looking forward to it. Reporter for struggling business owners, this they couldnt come soon enough. I need to make a lot of money for to pay the rent. After six months i didnt pay my rent. So i need to recover from it. The effort to safely reopen the economy in the south bay is gaining momentum. Business, faith and Civic Leaders held a virtual News Conference this morning pick their calling on Santa Clara County leaders to proactively find solutions to safely reopen the economy. They say due to the pandemic, nearly 30 of Small Businesses in the south bay have permanently closed or are on the verge of closing. We are calling on Santa Clara County to take a proactive leadership role to demonstrate pathways to safely reopening our economy. Nd ways mitigate risk and safely live a live with the virus so that the Small Businesses and the working poor have a fighting chance to survive. This group also says more than 45,000 families have been driven into poverty in Santa Clara County due to the closures and another 14risk. The vallejo family is grieving after man was shot and killed at a gas station. Police were at the gas station at 9 45 pm last night and tried to treat a man who was shot multiple times. He died at the scene. The victims family said the 30 yearold was shot inside the gas station. He was inside the store from what im hearing. At the atm machine when a guy came up and, i guess, shot him. From what im hearing, it was in his head. He was a beautiful person, inside and out. And he didnt have a bad bone in his body. Truck his family said he was a loving father and leaves behind a girlfriend and four young children. So far police have not released any information on the shooter. A 100,000 reward is being offered for investigation to lead investigators to a gunman who shot two l. A. County Sheriff Deputies in their patrol cars and may not. Security video of the incident shows a person showing the deputies outside of a metro station. The deputies are 24yearold man and a 31yearold woman who is a mother of a sixyearold boy. Both are in critical condition. This was an unprovoked, cowardly act. The individual will be caught. And justice will prevail. Truck at least fort 14 deputies and crime scene investigators are working this case. The governor described the shooting as a cowardly horrific act. He said the perpetrator must be quickly brought to justice. Joe biden continues to hit the Campaign Trip took what he had to say today about wildfires and Climate Change. Reporter a danger storm is on the move and hurricane warnings are in effect. I am in new orleans and will have the latest on sally, coming up. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden is talking about all the one fires burning here on the west coast. And also the danger extreme weather events pose across the country. During a News Conference, biden said the buyers score an urgent need to address client change. He said that the science is clear science pose an imminent threat to our way of life. And also the government needs to take accident to prevent wildfires and Climate Change. If you give a climate arsonist or more years in the white house, why would we have america ablaze. A climate denier. Former years. Why would anyone be surprised when more of america is underwater. Biden released a 2 trillion plan in july to boost investment in clean energy and stop all climate damaging emissions from u. S. Power plants by the year 2035. Kamala harris is heading back to fresno tomorrow where she will visit a fire station and meet with cal fire officials about the Current Situation regarding the fires. Two new tropical storms formed in the in life today. Teddy and vicki bring the number of currently name storms to five. Hurricane sally is inching closer to the coast. It could be a stronger hurricane by the time it makes landfall. More from new orleans now. Reporter louisianas governor declared a state of emergency and says the storm is a very serious threat. Theres already a mandatory evacuation in place for People Living outside of the levee protection system. Less than three weeks after hurricane laura made landfall, People Living in the gulf coast are once again facing the threat of a danger storm. We are very concerned about high high the water will be. They are saying 711 feet. Reporter state and city leaders are from the latest forecast trying to track which areas will be impacted. For the city of new orleans and surrounding parishes, sally will be a critical test for its levee system and surge barriers. Both help prevent serious flooding. I plan on staying. I live on the second floor i dont plan on getting flooded out, hopefully. Hopefully it will be good and im prepared for. Reporter other gulf states are making critical decisions. The governor of mississippi said sally could bring up to 20 inches of rain and high water rescue teams are in standby to help. This will be a coordinated effort pick a coordinated response. All of these challenging storms such as this have to be state manager, federally supported. Reporter louisianas governors woke with President Trump about the storm and requested a federal Emergency Declaration. Fox 2 news. For the first time in a long time, i look outside and i can see the tree tops. A slight wind which is something i have not seen in a number of days. Its like we cannot wait for it to come. Very gradual. To date better than yesterday and tomorrow better than today. Outside right now, we still have smoke and haze and the air quality is still unhealthy. But the air quality index is improving. We are looking at the central bay today, 151 on the index. Once it falls below 150, we are creeping into better territory. In the inner east bay, we will still be 169 which is relatively high. Again, i will say, better than yesterday. Heres a look at the visibility now. Anywhere from a mile and a quarter in Half Moon Bay and for miles over fairfield. Some of this is fog and most of it inland is haze and smoke. The winds are generally light with fairfield reporting 8 mph breeze coming from the west. That is good news there. And you can see the flow is pretty much from the northwest over areas of the north bay areas over santa cruz picking up unable to bit of a southwest of the Santa Cruz Mountains at this time. We have a system off the coastline that will eventually bring rain to areas Like Washington and oregon. If you look close, you may see some green on the screen. Northern california make it a little bit. Not likely in the way of rain but we are looking for the onshore breeze to continue to bring us that clean pacific air or cleaner than what we have right now. Heres a look at future cast. Over the next 24 hours, notice how the arrows continue to push the smoke away from the bay area. Keeping in mind some analysts are saying that we still have plenty of smoke over the pacific that we need to get through because it was all pushed out by the northeast winds. Lets talk about Hurricane Sally pickett though an r 90 mph moving westnorthwest at 7 mph. You can see it was strengthened to a category 2 and now it looks like it will move in on the board of louisiana and mississippi with winds at 100 mph. We will watch that over the next 2440 hours. Back at home, temperatures are in the low 60s in San Francisco. Upper 60s in napa. A relatively mild day. This afternoon will be nice. 60s at the coast. 80s inland. And look at the extended forecast and improved air quality that will continue for the days ahead, coming up. Still to come at noon, a rescue turns dangerous for bay area officers near the Golden Gate Bridge. Next, the exposure that landed seven people including four chp officers, in the hospital. Four chp officers are among several people were recovering after possible switcher to fentanyl. This happened during a risk at the scene, crashed the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday. Allison harrington reports. Reporter what started as a call for suspected dui turned into a hazmat situation and crime scene on the Golden Gate Bridge. A possible fentanyl exposure second seven people including members of law enforcement. Is a chemical that is extremely deadly pickett takes only a very small dose to kill an adult human. This is something we have to take very seriously. Reporter this happened after 11 45 am. The chp received a call about a possible intoxicated driver in the northbound lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge by the time the first officer arrived, the driver crashed and was unresponsive. The officer reached into the vehicle to help expect the first officer began feeling extremely ill and despite symptoms of a possible federal exposure, very soon after that, he went down. Essentially he became unresponsive. Additionally, the second chp officer as well as the tow truck driver began spying symptoms of exposure as well. Reporter the driver, a total of four chp officers, the Golden Gate BridgePatrol Officer and the tow truck driver while exposed while responding to the call and displayed a range of symptoms brick they were given narcan and rushed to the hospital. If you get a really strong dose of that no, it is extremely important to have narcan as soon as possible as it can actually help reverse the effects of the drug. Reporter the alexander on and off ramps were closed during the investigation and to keep the public safe. Investigators okayed it a white powdery substance inside the vehicle. All four chp officers have since been released from the hospital but will continue to be monitored at home. Across the bay, police and heyward are investigating a homicide that happened over the weekend pick it happened at tempe last night in the area of santa clara across the bay, police and heyward are investigating a homicide that happened over the weekend pick it happened at tempe a Traffic Accident and they arrived and found a man who had been shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Anyone with information is asked to call heyward police. The former ceo of a failed Biotech Company will seek a mental disease defense in her upcoming criminal fraud trial. Elizabeth holmes is the founder of theranos, a company that was once valued at 9 billion pick shes accused of misleading investors and Healthcare Professionals about the effectiveness of her former companies blood Testing Technology picker lawyers are expected to argue mental problems played a major role in her actions. Lets go to Northern California to the mcclellan airbase as we listen into President Trump making comments on the california wildfire season. We will listen in together. You are all very proud of these gentlemen, i think. Right. I think. Is anybody not proud of their husband . No, good. We will proceed. Welcome to chief warrant officer joseph rosemont. Vin he brady levine. G john and sgt. George esquivel and cameron powell. Thank you very much. I would say its such a honor to be in your presence. You will hear stories shortly that was very inspiring to me and everybody else. That is why these are very important metals and its great to be with you. Joining us are also warriors but warriors of a different type. They are called great congressman. They are from your area. Very much. Tom mcclintock. Doing a great job. And greg walden. We will miss you, greg. I cannot believe you wont be there. He is retiring. Undefeated. Nobody could defeat him. Its a great honor. It has been fantastic working with greg. We worked on something in particular. Right to try. We got it done after 44 years, we got it done. Thank you very much. Just over one week ago these brave pilots and crew members of the California ArmyNational Guard embarked on a harrowing mission. As the sunset on september 5, they boarded two helicopters that are behind me and then they flew into blazing flames, raging wind and it was raging. And blinding smoke to rescue families who were trapped at the massive creek fire at the mammoth pool campground. While they were on their way to the campground, the crew received word from stat