homes destroyed. thousands evacuated and fire isn't the only danger. >it was really, really dark it smelled bad. nobody was outside. there's a greater concentration of toxic chemicals in wildfire smoke. now new evidence. it could raise the risk of dementia >is likely contributing to worsening cognitive impacts. the warnings about wildfire smoke and how you can protect yourself >liz>wildfire smoke can be oppressive. traveling hundreds of miles, filling the skies with toxic chemicals. now we're

learning more about its dangerous and potentially deadly impacts. today we're asking a doctor how it can get into our bloodstreams and potentially our brains. we'll have that conversation in just a few minutes. but first, a look at your news headlines. oakland city leaders have agreed on on the terms to sell the city's share of the coliseum. it's being bought by the african american sports and entertainment group. mayor xiang tao says the sale will consist of five payments to the city, totaling $105 million. the city says the deal staves off $63 million in budget cuts. five people are displaced after an oakland bookstore was engulfed in flames. the fire started around 530 this morning in the rockridge neighborhood. no injuries reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation fire crews say high winds are helping the park fire continue to spread. it is now the fifth largest wildfire in state history. the flames have burned nearly 600mib2.

that's nearly eight times the size of oakland. the fire also destroyed nearly 200 structures. it is only 14% contained. tesla is recalling nearly 2 million cars. the problem a software glitch could fail to detect if the hood isn't latched. the recall impacts a 2021 to 2024 model. three x, s, x, and y. tesla released a software update to fix the issue. heavy equipment invaded ocean beach today. front end loaders and backhoes made their way down the great highway to scoop sand away from the road. the goal is to prevent sand from building up along the highway when the wind picks up all right, on to first alert weather. now let's take a live look outside at the south bay. meteorologist zoe mintz is in our virtual view studio now. zoe, how long is this wind going to stick around? and will the wildfire smoke eventually come to our area? >zoe>well luckily, the wind is actually keeping the wildfire smoke away from the bay area.

but taking a closer look at those current conditions at the park fire. yes it is not necessarily the greatest. however our winds are not going to get any worse. they're coming in from the south. so again, bay area communities not going to be looking at anything too crazy. the winds though, that is going to be slightly an issue. and that's the reason that those, beach sand picker uppers, i can't think of the word the bulldozers, yes, are picking up the sand, but again, for us, we are going to be seeing that smoke moving up. in a way, this is surface smoke. so look at how clear it is in the bay area. there really should be no issues when it comes to having to alert anyone for advisories. when the air quality issues across northern california not the greatest. look those colors in dark purple and red. very happy and i'm very grateful that because of the winds, we're not having to deal with any of that bad air quality that comes along with the wildfire smoke. so be grateful. be happy. even though you might be dealing with some windier conditions, some foggier conditions to kick off our morning, you can see that fog continuing to just make its way over our view at sutro

east. it's beautiful. it's kind of blocking the camera every little while. it's not super thick, and it's allowing us to see a good amount of sunshine across our inland communities. today that's some good news. as we step out over the next couple of hours. but again, as it comes this time of year we play that dance with the fog. it rolls out throughout our afternoon hours. it's going to go right back in by later tonight. you notice a little bit of green popping up along our coastal communities that might be a little bit of mist, a little bit of drizzle along the coast that is going to pop up overnight tonight and continuing into very early tomorrow morning. it's going to be a welcome sight because it means we don't have to deal with any excessive heat, and we don't have to deal with the wildfire smoke. so yes, it might be foggy and it might be a little cooler, but let's enjoy it while we can right now though. again, plenty of sunshine here in san francisco. our temperatures right now warming up into the mid to upper 60s. it's our inland locations that are sitting in the mid 80s. yes it's hot, but i'm very happy to say it's pretty seasonable for this time of year. if you want to head out tonight, head on over to the a's versus giants game should be a great evening to do

so. he just might have to deal with a little bit of those winds and definitely grab a jacket as temperatures drop from the mid 60s to the upper 50s overnight into tomorrow temperatures will warm up just a bit more than today remember, our highs today were in the 80s. tomorrow they're going to be in the 90s further inland and they will be a few degrees warmer even along our coastal communities. as an area of high pressure will be arriving. but look at how much warmer it is compared to average. really nothing to incredible a couple of degrees above average. it isn't going to be anything crazy early this week, and even through the midweek again it is going to be seasonable. but an area of high pressure arriving later this workweek is going to allow our high temperatures to warm up just a bit more, and it is going to be abnormally warm over the next 6 to 10 days as well. all something to keep our eyes on as we head out over the next seven days. our forecast is going to feel a lot warmer, but it's kind of going to fluctuate. it's not going to be any one day that you see a significant heat up low 90s tomorrow, mid to low 90s thursday. back down a degree by friday back up a couple degrees by saturday. it's kind of that wave that we will be following into the weekend ahead of us.

you might notice a little bit more sunshine this weekend across our inland communities as well, but if you do live closer to the bay, closer to the coast, we'll be seeing that fog continuing to again. play that dance, our temperatures hovering in the mid to lower 70s each and every day this week, and even into the weekend, we'll be seeing that cloud coverage sticking around our bay area communities along the coast. you'll be likely seeing that coastal marine layer holding tight for the rest of the week. it's not a bad thing, though, because it means we are beating the heat and means we're not having to deal with the wildfire smoke. so be grateful that we do live in the bay area. elizabeth back to >liz>you. all right, zoe, thanks so much. well, we're getting a better idea of just how dangerous and even deadly wildfire smoke can be researchers from ucla concluded that between 2008 and 2018, inhaling smoke and debris from wildfires led to more than 52,000 premature deaths. in our state. our kevin co went to santa clara county, which saw the second most deaths out of any bay area county

it's pretty nice today. it's a little hot morgan is born and raised in san jose. i try to come every day and bring her outside and get her active. her love for her dog, dior means she's checking air quality metrics during the summer. if it's it's really, really dank outside, like muggy and humid, i'll check. that's why dior stayed inside last september when smoke drifted down from wildfires in northern california and oregon. it came all the way down to the bay area. it was so bad outside where it was orange. outside it was really, really dark. it smelled bad nobody was outside. this is going to keep happening and we really need to prepare for this as a society. and as we see climate change affect us one of the things that that is being affected is more and more wildfires. and what we've also seen is that even if you are not in an area immediately adjacent to the fires that the

smoke can travel hundreds of miles and if not further, doctor thomas daly works in pulmonary and critical care medicine at kaiser permanente santa clara medical center. he says no one should get too hung up on the different categories used to group air quality metrics. if unhealthy air is like smoking one pack of cigarettes, a day, well, then unhealthy for sensitive groups is like smoking three quarters of a pack and moderate air pollution is like smoking half a pack of cigarettes, a day. there is no such thing as healthy air pollution as multiple wildfires continue burning, sending smoke into the sky, a new study shows the grave impacts of air pollution researchers at ucla estimate more than 4500 people died prematurely in sonoma and santa clara county in 2008 to 2018. from wildfire smoke contra

costa and alameda county had the third and fourth most estimated deaths in the bay area. statewide, there were more than 50,000 estimated deaths. can you imagine someone dying from that? but at the same time, it makes sense there is a lot of fires. david tellez was out for his daily jog hearing about pm 2.5 for the first time. pm 2.5 is there like another term for it particulate matter 2.5 is 2.5 micrometer particles. these are very, very tiny particles. the problem with a particle that is that small, you can fit 40 of them across the human hair, that they not only embed in the lung and cause irritation of the lung and trigger breathing problems in patients with asthma, patients with emphysema, copd and young children with lungs that are still forming. but they can actually be in, inhaled and absorbed into the bloodstream

doctor daly says kaiser's emergency department sees an increase in heart attacks and strokes on poor air quality days he urges everyone to get an n95 mask, which protects against 95% of particulate matter it's an important thing to realize that's not 100%. this is not designed for somebody to say, oh, the air quality is poor. i'm going to go put on my n95 mask and go jogging today, right? you're still exposing yourself to 5% of these, particulate matter. doctor daly also says a regular mask won't protect against particulate matters, something morgan already knows. the regular covid mask, the blue and white ones, they weren't going to work. you would need something more like a respirator with wildfire season underway, morgan is enjoying the air outside today. while it hopefully lasts >liz>well now there's a new warning about how wildfire smoke can affect our memory.

next, a stanford doctor explains the potential link between wildfire smoke and dementia plus, the smoke isn't as dangerous for people. how bay area firefighters use

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brain. the study, released at the alzheimer's conference in philadelphia, looked at more than a million californians over a decade it found the odds of a new dementia diagnosis increased 21% every time the smoke particles in the air increased by just one millionth of a gram. i spoke with doctor anthony sindhoor with stanford health care and i asked her what made wildfire smoke so dangerous. >that is such a great question. part of it may be that wildfire smoke, it's not just cars and vehicles, but really it is burning rubber and buildings and factories and chemicals. there's so many things that are contributing to wildfire smoke when we breathe in the pm 2.5 particles and that all of that once it's you know, inside your body and you know, causes inflammation is likely contributing to worsening cognitive impacts.

yeah. because you think of dementia as being a brain issue and then breathing in wildfire smoke is being a respiratory issue. right right, right. so the wildfire particulate matter or pm 2.5 is about 3% the diameter of a human hair. so these are tiny, tiny particles that when you breathe it in it is going deep into your lungs, into the alveoli where the blood and the air exchanges. so that's where this these toxic materials are actually being exposed to your blood vessels. and it's being spread all over. and we suspect it's causing inflammation not just in your blood vessels, but where that blood is coming into contact with different parts of your body. and that likely is contributing to the inflammation in the brain, leading to worsening cognitive decline and dementia. now, this is all coming out at a time when millions are under an air quality advisory, because the wildfires are happening all across our state, especially here in northern

california. so what are people supposed to do to protect themselves? oh my gosh, so a lot of what we do with immunology and allergy is prevention, prevention, prevention. so as much as, you know, all these efforts are underway to, you know to control fires as they happen. but what we can do is humans, once we have been exposed to the wildfire is try our best to reduce our exposure to the air. so this can be through wearing a 95 mask, staying indoors whenever possible limiting outdoor exposure, especially vigorous exercise or anything that will increase your respiratory rate, which is not always feasible. you know someone who works outdoors. it's really hard to say, don't go outside, but really just knowledge of you know, how to minimize the exposures can really go a long way. also, it's a reminder to reduce activities inside our homes that may be worsening air

pollution within our homes. so burning candles gas stoves, all of these things have an additive effect. so wherever we can control for it, we can try. you know, i'm thinking of all the kids also who have camp outdoors this time of year. i mean, should we be concerned about our kids and their potential risk of dementia later on in life? oh that's a great question, i hadn't thought about that element of it because most of these studies looking at dementia have been done in adults over 50 years of age. but in children, what we worry about is more respiratory. contributions of wildfire smoke and of course just long term inflammation. and what kind of impact they may have. and because children are smaller, they have they actually breathe in more of the polluted air per per their body surface area and their ratio, so it is that much more important to reduce their exposure. this news is so alarming to so many of us because if you live in california, chances are you are

exposed to some kind of wildfire smoke. whether or not you live near a wildfire prone area or if you're just in the direct vicinity of it with changing wind patterns, etc. but is there a silver lining to this in that doctors are getting better at determining what actually causes dementia? i mean, is there a silver lining to this news and that the advancements are being made? so i would say whenever we we can identify some of the triggers behind some of these chronic conditions, that we don't have a cure for, i think that's where we can look at mechanisms of how we can address it, maybe how we can impact it early on and take on prevention strategies so that we reduce these down the line so absolutely, wherever we have more and more information on what may be triggering different chronic conditions it just gives us more opportunities to help support patients and their families earlier on. all right. doctor synder thank

you so much for being with us today thank you so much. thank you. >liz>well, our conversation continues after the break with a warning for pet owners veterinarians say if you can smell smoke so can your pets. firefighters demonstrate how oxygen masks can help save their lives. good decisions

>liz>well, we know smoke can be dangerous for humans, but what about our pets? well, today, the san francisco spca teamed up with the fire department to show off oxygen masks for our four legged friends. and makovec joins us now with more on this. and >live>yeah, so this is for pets that have inhaled smoke mainly

in like a fire setting in an actual building because just like for humans, that smoke can be dangerous or even deadly for animals. so the san francisco fire department, they've been using these masks at the scene of fires. if an animal has inhaled smoke and now they have even more of them, the fire department just got a big donation of 95 extra >oxygen >>masks to ensure that these things are in every responding engine, and today firefighters showed us how they work. >we want to make sure that we have a seal around their snout so that we can make sure that the pet is getting as much oxygen as needed. we commonly get asked on a fire, what if the human is injured? humans come first, pets come second. these masks are available not to the public. these are available for our ems professionals to utilize just as we would utilize any other piece of emergency medical products

>live>again, they come in a variety of sizes for cats, dogs and rabbits who have come into contact with a lot of smoke. so 58 of these kits came from a big donation from a member of the spca board and the other 37 of them were paid for through a social media fundraiser. liz, >liz>we love our dogs and cats and rabbits too, so it's great that they >live>have. yeah. >liz>all right. ann, thanks so much. we'll be right back this is pix plus more of what you want more often. more local news in the morning and the prime time edition. the only eight and 9 p.m. news with devin feeley. elizabeth cook, juliette

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coming up on the cbs evening news, an important consumer alert amazon accused of distributing hundreds of thousands of hazardous goods. what we know about the crackdown on the retail giant, plus the major recalls that in more headlines tonight on the cbs evening news. >liz>well, wildfire risk is already making it hard for some people to get homeowners insurance coming up tonight at five. the story of a woman who says she was dropped by her insurance after they flew a drone over her home. we'll tell you what they saw and what a consumer advocate says to do. if it happens to you, we'll have that story and much more. with ryan yamamoto and myself coming up tonight at five. the oversize rainbow flag that flies over harvey milk plaza in san francisco's castro district. it's on its way to landmark status a board of supervisors committee unanimously approved a resolution to grant the

designation the full board will hear the ordinance today with a final vote in september well, thank you so much for joining us for today's conversation about the hazards of wildfire smoke and how to protect people. and, of course, your pets. the cbs evening news is next local news continues on our streaming service cbs news, bay area, and i'll see you at five. >> norah: tonight, israel retaliates, targeting the top hezbollah commander it says is responsible for an attack the left 12 children dead. >> there is a scene of real chaos here, but