Indoor indoors during air quality. Its making it difficult to breathe. This is beyond bad. The vehicles are just disappearing into the smog. It looks like a winter day, that was this morning. By this afternoon, the situation in san jose are just add murky. Heres another look at our air quality from the gold ing gate bridge to the san mateo bridge, thick smokey fog. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. The air was bad today, it probably wont be better tomorrow or the day after that. Abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel begins our coverage. One second here. I guess the computer has just shut down. Give me a second, ill come back to you. Hopefully we can talk about the air quality. I have no idea whats happening here. Sending it back to you. Thank you, sandhya, dan . Well get back to sandhya in a moment. You can see how smoke and pollution enter our lungs and into our blood stream. It can cause coughing and itchy eyes and increase the risk for people with heart problems as wel
Ill be back with the details. Some bay area work hers no choice but to be out breathing this air today. They had jobs to do despite the risks. Chris has that part of our coverage now from san jose. Reporter with poor air quality across the region, many are trying to avoid spending time outside. Others say they have no choice but to be in the smoke. Were out here. Weve got to make money, give food to everybody. Reporter at the count san jose farmers market, merchant whos were struggling are being hit hard by the dirty fe. This is what i do. This is how we put food on the table, how we pay the bills and im happy doing it. Im just going to ride it out. Reporter Health Experts say should you avoid overexerting yourself. The deeper you inhale, the easier it is for those particles to go all the way to the base of your lungs into the blood stream. Reporter cal osha responsible for end forcing states laws pertaining to safety and health says employers are required to provide an n95 mask if it
Stronger onshore flows. Theres fog out there. In fact, theres a dense fog advisory along the shoreline this morning, and as a result very, veriy foggy so do be careful. It is 59 oakland, 56 fremont. With the fog you cant see anything at all. Half moon bay, petaluma, 2 mile visibility sfo, of a mile oakland. Poor air quality but as we get into the later part of the day, the overnight hours were going to see a stronger onshore push. The lighter colors indicate better air quality by tomorrow evening. The spare the air alert takes us through monday. Very unhealthy air for us again today, unfortunately, but we will be looking at a more diffuse smoke layer meaning we will warm up a little bit more into some 80s today. A further look at the rest of the weekend coming up. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. Sports are highly in question this weekend for both the San Francisco giants and 49ers. Theyre threatened by problems only 2020 could provide. We start with the giants whose game today is pos
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We certainly have the smoke, haze and some stratus out there. A dense fog advisory along the shoreline. You can see the fog lined up there, and unfortunately no good news in terms of our air quality today. The winds are going to be light and the sun has to bust through that smoke layer to get that sea breeze going. As we look at visibility right now it is just reduced everywhere from a quarter of a mile in santa rosa, nothing petaluma to half moon bay. If you have to get out good idea to get out later. Three quarters of a mile sfo, just 2 miles hayward, a little better than that in concord, and the current air quality indexest there as that haze mixes with the fog. So were not looking at big changes today. Maybe a little sun working through that marine layer later on today. But as a result the air quality will be bad today. Its going to get better as we get into the second half of your weekend and should be even better into next week. Warm and hazy out there, and well look at the tempe