Area. Both towers of the Golden Gate Bridge are visible today as we move it to moderate air quality. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the smoke from the wildfires have choked our skies and theyve now reached the other side of the country in this picture. You can see how the smoke has been distributed across the United States. The National Weather service says the smoke was caught in a jet stream and was carried across the u. S. And into the east coast want to check in on condition this hour with our meteorologist dave spahr dave is this a better air that were seeing or is it going to be changing again as weve seen in the last few days, whats got a little better you pointed out and it will continue that trend it looks like as we get later on during the week with the promise front. How about this live shot to this but looking good all of this afternoon out of Half Moon Bay doesnt look very inviting shadows been a little darker more stark going on for today. Now we do have
Now at 3 President Trump visits california today amid the states deadly and historic wildfires, several fires have burned more than 3 million acres. So far this year at least 20 people have died in the devastating fires up and down the state. Thank you for joining us at 3 today im Sanaz Tahernia on the campaign trail President Trump made a pit stop in california for a briefing on the states historic wildfire season. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains how the briefing went up between the president and the governor actually. Its not yet. This was a very quick trip here to sacramento for the president he was only here for about 2 hours and the primary reason for his visit was to get a briefing from state Emergency Management officials on this wildfire situation here now the president approved 14 federal firefighting grant an emergency disaster declaration along with that so far this season. Trump told reporters just before the briefing he has serious concerns about californias
The pandemic it is really crippling San Franciscos Tourism Industry theres a new forecast from the San Francisco travel association. They expect to see a loss of nearly 11 billion dollars over the next 2 years. Kron fours Maureen Kelly has the story. San franciscos legendary palace hotel established in 1875. Now has its entrance blocked off by planters and plywood temporarily closed because of coronavirus along with 52 other hotels in the city. So San Franciscos most popular tourist destinations like chinatown nearly deserted with shops and restaurants dated shot. This is going to be a year unlike any that weve experienced a pretty much in the history of tourism in San Francisco of last year was our 10th year in a row a record breaking numbers and this year, its just all collapsed the president and ceo of San Francisco travel has the grim Economic Outlook in 2019 the city saw more than 26 million visitors this year its projected we will get less than 13 million est 53 drop and thats go
But Half Moon Bay noticeably cooler about 10 degrees cooler than downtown San Francisco at 63 degrees on account of a cool sea breeze, but overall still tracking double digit warming out there right now for your thursday night very hot and dry conditions heading our way in fact getting a sneak peek of this heat wave that doesnt officially start until friday morning were going to be under a heat advisory for most coastal areas away from the San Francisco peninsula coastline and widespread excessive heat warnings in effect for inland areas tracking triple digit heat with temperatures as high as a 108 degrees but even along the coast and along the bay 80s and 90s so not really going to get some relief there. And im also keeping an eye on a spare the air alert going into effect on friday with the peak of the heat wave the key on friday, but still going to remain warm all weekend long back to you alright recent out of the north bay where firefighters are on alert over high heat to happening
Economic downturn. Abuse claims affecting two Major College sports teams. Colorado state suspended football activities. Texas tech firing its Womens Basketball coach. What the universities are saying this morning. Crash investigation. Mangled wreckage littering the runway after an air india plane overshoots its landing. The plane splitting in two. Survivors telling their stories. Hold onto that kid and dramatic rescues. Strangers banding together to help a family trapped by rising floodwaters. Stay there. Come over slowly. How they got them to safety. One of the heros describing those harrowing moments this morning. Go mning, america. Were going to start with the latest on the pandemic. As the world nears 20 million coronavirus cases, deaths here in the u. S. Are increasing in 28 states and the puerto rico. Hospitalizations are up in 27 states, d. C. And puerto rico. With the race on to develop a vaccine, a gallop poll finds 65 of americans would get the vaccine if it were fda approved