some live pictures right now. this is walnut creek creek creek it is another spare the air day. here is a look at i-80. you can see there are haze i have smoke containing unhealthy levels. let's get to mike for the latest on the quality here in the bay area. a slight improvement we wereor. afrnoon. it is continuing to be very bad.

as you can see over my shoulder the visibility is one mile in livermore and hayward.let me gi what's going on it has been a persistent area of high pressure. drier than average. it is easily steering all of that smoke from the campfire into our neighborhoods. now it is capping the atmosphere. it looks even worse. we are concentrating more smoke from about 10,000 feet and lower. it is the way it looks right now. all of our reporting stations are red. it did clear a little bit. it is moderate right now. it will be a slow transition back to cleaner air. >>oue l tk more about that bay re. s aiittpantsnd teachers.

of. >> hi. the conditions are very unhealthy. schools remain open in the haze. rain or shine or smoke barbara is helping everyone may experience more serious health effects. >> i'm coughing. it is tight. but i'm okay. i'm as good as anybody else around here. >> they have been dealing with the bad air since last friday black tops are empty. being outside is not an option. parents can keep their kids at home if it makes them feel better. >> it is an

it won't count against their attendance. >> some decided it didn't matter if their kid are were indoors at home or school. they might as well be >> hopefully it will keep it nice and safe. >> until the blue skies return school officials say they will take a look at the air quality reports to determine whether or not students will be allowed outdoors. >> thank you so much. many bay area universities are closed because of this unhealthy air. they just announced their campus is shut down

organizers say you can still go to the expo at sports basement. the sales will be donated. the north face endurance also answcancelled. an easy way to check the air quality where you live is by going to abc7news.com. we have this link it the air where you live. it our news app is free to download. the campfire burning in butte county. here are the latest numbers. it burned 140,000 acres and is 40% contained. 130 people are still reported missing. there is a town hall meeting at the auditorium.

there will be updates on recovery information removal. take a look at this incredible perspective from a national guard black hawk. you can see the flames and the smoke. at one point you can even see thegudsnco up water to help in the fire fight. we show you more of the devastation. still more than 100 people 10,0 plus structures were gutted by this you get to this other side and everything inside is completely gone. that's kind of what you see as you drive around that reminder of what used to be here that's not here anymore.

50,000 plus people have been evacuated out of this area. they have not been allowed to come back in. it is simply not safe. investigators have a lot of work to do. they are having to sift through all of this rubble to make sure fl none of the missing people found their way into these structures and even if no one in your family is missing the structure itself play have been a safe place for someone who was running away from the flames. no time line on when people will be i believe to get back into this area they say they still want to see it with their own eyes. they are ready to start the rebuilding process now to latest

fire it is burning in l.a. and ventura counties. it is 57% contained. it is being blamed for two deaths. it is threatening 57,000 structures we have more now wit. >> w her in weather. more will be able to return home today even in hard hit places. unfortunately what many of them are returning home to are scenes like this onet's home after homes that have been turned into rubble. >> after a week of fierce plams there's now hope in the south. the massive fire that ripped through l.a. and ventura counties is now more than 50%

contained. firefighters remain on high alert as another blaze erupted overnight. in northern california it has ripped through the heart of places like paradise and more than 100 are still missing. national guard troops search through 60 acre of rubble for more remains. the people there sharing their darkers moments. she had just given birth when fire threatened the hospital. >> sheer terror. like me, i'm in the middle of surgery. do we go -- they stitched me up really quickly. >> her husband took the dhield and she rushed to an ambulance. moments later she was surrounded in flames. >> i realize i'm not going to make it. i told him on the phone that i was really sorry and that i loved him and i wasn't going to be there with our kids. >> paramedics and nurses battled the flames with anything they could find savinglife.

>> there were a lot of times i thought the minute i saw her would be the only time i ever saw her. >> giving her family and the community new hope. we are getting a git bit of that here too. while it is pretty dry here we are told that tomorrow we will get a sea breeze that will bring much needed moisture to the air. abc 7 news. >> thank you. if you would like to help the fire victims we have resources you can turn to on abc7news.com. you can also make a $10 donation by texting red cross to 90999. abc 7 news committed to building a better bay area. we are spending more time examining issues that effect our quality of life here. there is renewed focus on creation of a second crossing to increase capacity and alleviate

the freeways. we are live in oakland. >> reporter: hi. a new rail connection that was discussed today would allow already existing trains to use this proposed connection so that you can take one train from say a place like san francisco to sacramento. it is moving a lot slower than this train but it's >> we are taking the beginning steps of making it a priority. >> a long talked about plan thursday. they are calling it the second crossing and tweeted out this photo sparking some excitement. >> i think it's exciting and easy and good for kplcommuters. >> you can take one train to your destination doubling bart's bay crossing capacity and provide major relief to stakes

across the valley. the catch is it would be somewhere around ten years before construction will start. dowe get enoug stake holders t ac h? nk wilsed. to w to sure we are doing it there a way that doesn't impact low income people and to make it better for them. >> the study should result in a short list of two to four options for the crossing. >> they demand it will outpace capacity by 2040. there is also talk today about a

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over the last 24 hours 20 of those has been spent in very unhealthy air. it will hit you harder than even for the sensitive groups. it pulled back to healthy. it is definitely. we have healthy air. the difference is minute. you'll feel it. here you can see the graphics showing that everybody in the orange and the red means that everybody is sensitive to it. it will keep getting worse on this 7th consecutive day. i think we'll have reds tomorrow. by saturday and sunday we'll have poor air quality for the most sensitive. it may linger next week. we won't go completely green until we get to thanksgiving. looking at this can't even see the other side of the san mateo bridge. we have delays.

so the shifting winds will start and so will the slight up tick in the air quality and get to t it will be nice to be outside. we have mid-50s to low 60s. it is over the coast and we have upper 60s to low 70s inland. that's about a half mile from where we are looking at down 680. so hazy and unhealthy air all the way through midnight. let's take a look at what's going on. you can see it coming in thursday night and it rolls through. friday we'll have scattered showers. saturday will be dry and saturday night into sunday we'll have another wave of wet weather. again, that's what's going to completely clear us up. we'll say good-bye to the 70s. that's bringing the cooler air in. wednesday into thursday it won't be sensitive for anybody. doe tsve wkendandex week.

it means it is for the sensitive groups. >> the cumulative effect too, right? >> right. i feel awful for them. >> all right. thanks. this is a high end heist that playsut like a big screen block buster. one former fbi agent giving props to the villain. we have this incredible story you'll see only on 7. >> it was like a heist from a movie, a movie like oceans 11, a plot that makes even at the thieves creativity. >> you have to give them some credit for an ingenious >> they received report that high-end merchandise destined for a union square retailer had

been stolen. >> a source tells how it went down. the shipping company is ups. the ups center received a call from someone who shid said he was from louis vuitton store. they asked them to stop deliveries because basement was flooded and somebody would come by and pick up shipments. for three days a driver made the pickups h ups and then disappeared with hundreds of thousands of dollars of expensive louisthe store asked deliveries had stopped. the store knew nothing about the pickups. smith says ups must have protocols that were not

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>> >> try it and maybe get one. >> his generosity. >> he is a good person. >> he is a great yes. >> thanks for joining us. who wants to be a millionaire is next. who wants good air? not getting it today, mike. >> no. stay inside if you can the next couple of days. this time next week we'll be tracking rain. >> thanksgiving, right? >> yes. >> have a goodday, bye bye.

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