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forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city s history, yesterday. the smog, the smell. i feel i am getting a headache. feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. asthma. when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new york further south where it will smother even more states. all that smoke is affecting major league sports. the yankees and phillies postponed their games last night. wnba scrapped the liberty s indoor game because of poor air quality. the new york post cover with the old joke tod ....
soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. the washington post reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia s private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it s an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new york city that the air quality in ....
Science shows that 60% of this smoke pollution, people are breathing in the united states, is coming from a different state. that s far away from them. so you really can t escape it now. it s just the beginning of fire season up north. you can see this morning it s cleared out a little bit, a lot better than yesterday. i woke up, the air quality alert index was 191 this morning. yesterday it hit 484. this is a scale of z0 to 500. this is a reminder, this incident, phil, of the glories of the clean air act because in asia the big cities in asia, especially india, what we are seeing is an average day. in china, they had an air apocalypse in 2013 where the air quality alert index was over 700 and people were literally trapped inside their houses and china decided to clean up and now they have record clean air. india, burns a lot of coal, unchecked motor regulations, burn their fields for ....
Airport. ground stop just ended here. a ground stop still in effect at new york s laguardia airport and seeing delays at newark international here in new jersey. i want to show you how bad things got yesterday in new york. look at this. in the middle of the afternoon for a time it was so dark from all the smoke that we could not see the sun for about 30 minutes. people told us in central park they were experiencing physical symptoms as a result of the smoke. these conditions are expected to last for a couple more days. here is new york city mayor eric adams. at 5:00 p.m. the air quality index hit 484. hazardous condition we re facing. on the levels of health concern, this is the highest level index of our knowledge since the 60s. look at this where the smoke is going. you can see the pittsburgh area will be hit hard over the next day. ....
Several days. we have athena jones and bill weir standing by. athena, you have been outside obviously double-masked, n95. otherwise it d be almost impossible to swallow at this point. what are you seeing now? reporter: well, look, erin, it s better than it was before, but it s still not good. i m standing on the eastern edge of manhattan looking over the east river into queens. you can see some of the buildings, you can certainly make out the 59th street bridge. but there are a lot more buildings behind us that you can t see. mayor eric adams gave an update a few minutes ago. at 5:00 p.m., he said the air quality index in new york city hit 484. that is hazardous. wow. that is the highest, most hazardous level you can have. at this morning according to the tracker on my phone, it s now about 290. but that s still very unhealthy. it means there are risks of health effects for everyone, not just for people who are ....