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Couple of hours. Well go ahead and get a look at the air quality. You can see as weve headed through today, as you look off toward the distance, you can see that smoke. It is cloudy. The sky has that orange haze in it, but its not necessarily in the very unhealthy air range right here in the bay area. So as you look at these live air quality monitoring sites, the only spot now thats tipped into the unhealthy category is napa. Otherwise its good in San Francisco, moderate for most of the bay area, and a few spots that are unhealthy for sensitive groups right now. So i want to talk more about th...

Jose, we are very unhealthy. Whats the problem with this smoke . Why cant we get it to clear out . A couple of things we are looking at here. The main thing is the wind. The surface wind is taking the smoke. Continually smoke from the north to the south that past several days. The winds are relatively light. Lets take it one step further. I think this is really going to explain this for us. It is all about whats known as an in versiversion layer. It is warm air higher up in the atmosphere. Then on top of that you have some cooler air surfacing thats pushing the air right on down towards ground...

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Afternoon. Theyre in santa clara. Today the team did practice in the midst of the smoke. They say they can practice and be out there if the air quality is below 200. Right now as a point of reference its 199. The nfl says it will make a decision by tomorrow. Its been quite a week and likely going to be quite a weekend. Heres what it looked like today across the bay area. The smoke so thick it looks like really heavy fog but as we know its not. For comparison heres what it looked like yesterday on all these same cameras. A lot more yellow, a lot more orange before were seeing all that gray toda...

Res have already azed through the state. More than 3 million acres have burned in 2020. Surpassing the previous record, set in 2018. Nearly 15,000 firefighters are battling 28 major blazes e. Ross the st they have also claimed at least 12 lives. But amid the destpoction comes unity, guided by science, San Jose State University has just inaugurated a new Wildfire Research center. The largest one of its kind in the nation. The scientists span a range of disciplines from meteorology, to ecology to a social science. They are pioneering new niols and tees to better study, predict, and adapt to livi...