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respiratory symptoms. and jofficials are advising you to put your masks back on to protect you from the smoke. and derek van dam is joining us from the cnn weather whycenter. yesterday the fire alarms went off at school because of the smoke. how will it be today? you ve heard the term you wait a couple minutes and the weather changes. this was literally a 15 minute time lapse and you can see the smoke that inundated new york city, the skyscrapers just becoming a martian landscape. social media was lighting up. it was incredible to see but also very dangerous. and yet another day of the smoke and haze across many of the many populated areas of the east coast. and in new york we still have haze and smoke present, but it is not as bad as it was last night. majority of the thickest has drifted further south. so washington, philadelphia, baltimore, those areas will wake up to almost choking-like air and hazardous air really as this smoke continues to settle in. that stretc ....
many surprised by the heavy sneak but people are figuring out how to cope. athena joneses has more. reporter: from new york never experienced anything like this before. never to this degree. it does shock me. reporter: and to cleveland, ohio and even as far south as raleigh, north carolina, unhealthy air blanketing a large swathe of the united states. from over 400 active wildfires burning in canada, more than half of them determined to be out of control according to the canadian inner agency forest fire center. last year and this year, the worst wildfire season we ve ever had right across the country. reporter:canada s wildfire season got off in may and picking up this month largely in quebec. more than 9 million acres have ....