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Extreme smoke just really trapped at the surface here in the bay area. So we have very unhealthy air to hazardous air quality this morning. You can see those purple, red dots indicating this unhealthy to hazardous air quality from redwood city to the trivalley and up through concord as well. Walnut creek. Around the oakland area. Into San Francisco. Very unhealthy to hazardous air quality up through lark spur and san rafael and the north bay. And into petaluma. San rafael and for santa rosa. Not only dealing with those smoky skies, we have the fog. So Poor Visibility this morning near zero for petaluma. Down to three quarters of a mile at halfmoon bay. And a mile and a quarter at sfo. Looking ata mile a lf kland hayward as e. Rmora densfo and in safr ea unti 0a. M. What you can expect for the weekend coming up. But gianna, we are dealing with that extreme smoke and those fogg ....
And its still showing a lot of Forest Management to creating smoke for the bay area. Innovative policy to battle those red and purple colors Climate Change. Its 35 35 right now. Indicating all of that smoke even up in the higher lets get a check on traffic elevations and thats the reason why we saw those orange colors in the sky yesterday. With gianna. As we head through the day, hey there. Hey, good morning. Taking a look at the roadways. It is an early start to the because of that smoke, kind of backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Inhibiting the heat, so our temperatures will be below this is the work on the upper deck and you are looking live average once again. Here and metering lights are mid 60s in San Francisco and turned an this morning and ll t upper 60s in oakland and mid 70s for san jose and upper 70s 880 o ....
Yellow. Each category will take into account only two things, the number of daily new case and the positivity rate. Those two things wills determine when and how businesses and schools can reopen. Reporter until today the state took into account several factors to determine if and how a business can reopen in a county. Such as the hospitalization rates. The number of available beds, the number of people in the icu and etc. But now the number of cases and test positivity will serve as more crucial metrics. Here is what we are looking at. Where he looking at these four tiers, color coded. For folks, purple, red, orange and yellow. Reporter if your county is most nonessential business can red means more in door businesses like museums and movie theaters can reopen with restrictions. Orange means places like wineries and bowling alleys can open. The yellow level, all indoor businesses can reopen with modifications. Reporter by modifications, the state means physical distancing is still req ....
Im lauren martinez, abc 7 news. And pacifica is also trying to deter people from gathering at the beach by closing beach parking lots there. But visitors unfortunately were not deterred. They parked in the residential areas near the pier and near rockaway beach. A and. A new state of emergency has been issueded in five counties across california because of raging wildfires. The creek fire outside of fresno has now exploded to more than 73,000 acres. And this morning there is still no containment. Here is faith a would you bay. Reporter a new state of emergency in Southern California after a wildfire exploded. Ou ba. Reporter agetherfornteldre. And a terrifying glimpse revealing smoke so thick it blocked the midday sun, ash so thick it now blankets the area like snow. The creek fire consuming entire neighborhoods, the streets unrec 23450 noisable. Over the weekend, hundreds of people surrounded by flames while trying to escape ....
And livermore and san jose and it will be a hot day around the bay, 90 in San Francisco, 94 in oakland and the low 80s along the coast. There are excessive heat warnings that can be for the rest of the bay area and another spare the air alert, a record 21 days in a row. And a red flag warning that starts from 10 00 tonight until 8 00 wednesday for the Higher Elevations, wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour as we go through tonight and wednesday. We will talk all about this coming up in just a few minutes. As we look at the roadways, if you are getting ready to go outside , or laboring on a labor day, youre good to go. We started with a serious crash along 80 and midway. That has been cleared and the commute is pretty easy towards the bay bridge. You can see our short, once you get to the bay bridge, there are no delays into Sa ....