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his first television interview since the announcement in iowa last hour. sandra: polling has him at a distant third, and he will have to walk a fine line between his white house experience and distancing himself from his former boss turned rival. how will he stand out? john: one top issue, the push for parental rights, republicans are campaigning on. they need to stop asking little children what they sexually identify as. six years old to decide about sexual things they don t even know. john: a brawl breaking out in southern california where parents pulled kids from classrooms over the push for lgbtq materials in the curriculum. assistant principal instructed staff to teach kids that every child by default is queer and socialist. a busy one, sandra. sandra: second house. a hazy orange new york at the moment, start with the dangerous wildfire smoke smothering not just new york but the entire eastern united states, john. wild pictures coming in. john: take a ....
And smoke from canadian wildfires continue to spread, much of new york state is expected to experience unhealthy air quality today. please take steps to stay safe, stay indoors if possible, and limit strenuous activities. doc, when the air quality is as it is in new york city, and let me just bring it up and see exactly what the particulate matter is, according to it s very unhealthy, 235 is the air quality index. how long should somebody stay outside in that? 235 is off the charts. and you don t want to walk across town in air like that. again, it depends on who you are, how young you are, what your underlying lung capacity is, but i would limit that to a matter of minutes with that type of situation. and by the way, it s worth mentioning that l.a. and san francisco have dealt with this again and again, and i have talked to emergency room physicians there throughout ....
Particulate matter. but the surgical masks are not going to do anything, and we are talking about smoke, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, the biggest problem is par t tis particulate matter. and heart problems, a big study said people with heart problems have increased risk of rhythm abnormalities and heart failure from exposure. i m concerned about that, and some build-up in emergency rooms, people with asthma, allergies, eyes and lungs burning. john: doc, we did not see the mask because apparently we are having a technical difficulty with the video, we hear you just fine. but i think folks know what the white n-95 mask looks like from the days of covid. i want to jump to call four number three, you mentioned ....
john: doc siegel is still with us. and doc, we talk about the immediate effect of going outside. when we take a look at this smoke tracker, it s going to be with us another two, maybe three days, what does that say about prolonged exposure? i m concerned about that, john. great point. i think there is an issue of prolonged exposure and underlying health issues. i mean, if somebody has underlying lung problems and you add the smoke to this with the particulate matter and hydro carbons, it can further deteriorate your underlying lung problems and if you have a cardiac event, that could be induced by this. so, i say the less exposure the better for people with chronic health conditions. sandra: obviously that was me, talking about nate foy there on the ground. you can only imagine what people are saying, new yorkers, tourists as they are trying to navigate through this, dr. siegel. a lot of the schools are sending out updates about their filters ....