hinc hinchs. hi there, i'm kristen sze. there's one topic on the minds of just about everybody in the bay area right now. and that is the orange sky casting over our region. let's just show you a picture that i took at the ballpark about 90 minutes ago. look at this. no filter. and of course, normally, we giants fans love orange, right? but not this kind. we'd love the pictures as well wherever you are, share them with us on facebook live right now. bring in weather anchor, professor christian. >> right. >> to explain what is going on out there today. >> this is one of the eeriest things i've ever seen. i woke up this morning and

thought i was on mars. it looked orange outside. let me give you a quick explanation for why it appears orange in the sky. the smoke particles scatter blue light, which leaves us seeing what appears to be yellow and orange. any particulate matter in the atmosphere affect the way we see light, the way our eyes and brains translate light. water droplets can do that and smoke particles can do it. all kinds of pollutants can do it. you look at a satellite image to show you how thick the combination of smoke and coastal fog we have. let me move along from the satellite image now and give you another view of the conditions outside. this is going to give you a look at conditions above 1,000 feet, where most of the smoke saand aw 1,000 feet and the marine layer that brought us some cooling and brought fog and some lower

spots. the layer cape effect at the surface but we've got a smoke deck or smoke layer above where the winds are a bit lighter s. it's just collecting up there, the marine layer is pushing low clouds into the area at the surface and the combination has given us a dark dreary weird looking day. the air quality, believe it or not, is not terribly bad here at the surface, because we do have that marine influence. give you a look, see all the yellow dots here indicating moderate air qualities. it could be better but not terrible, as we look over the baskerville and then ukiah showing poor air quality at the moment. all the yellow dots. san francisco, fremont, and that's all moderate. good air quality over the santa cruz mountains and boulder creek. nonetheless, as i mentioned, we don't have great air quality and right now, we have a spare the

air, there's been extended now through friday. so we have two more consecutive days of poor air quality coming our way, a total of 25 consecutive days of poor air quality and spare the air alerts and even though at the moment, the forecast is for saturday to have moderate air quality everywhere, i wouldn't count on that, unless we get a shift in not only the wind flow here at the surface but the upper level winds to blow some of the smoke out of here so the particulate matter, so the ash is dropping to the ground, we may continue to have poor air quality through the weekend. >> spencer, you know, we're going to just keep up these pictures. rotate and cycle through the bay area live camera, so you can see you're not alone, folks. you're not the only one who feels like you're living on mars right now. thank you for that explanation in terms of the physics, right? it takes me back to when i was a kid and asked the question, why is the sky blue, right?

which light, which filter, wavelength do you get to see here, right now, it's the orange and yellow that dominates. lilly wants to know, how long is this going to last? we'll have poor or moderate air quality for days but i think she means the look, this orange haze. >> it's hard to say this orange haze is going to look this way for the next two days, but we don't see enough of a significant change in our wind patterns that we'll have a dramatic change in the way the sky looks until, perhaps, friday maybe saturday. >> spencer, it looks like it

will be awful for us to spend time outside today but is it? >> yes, it must be. because even though we see air quality snot terrible, we're seeing ash collect on the sidewalks and. if you like working outdoors or taking brisk walks and this air quality is not good for us, but it could be worse the transamerica building. it is just unreal, folks, this is not, one time with the big sur fire and there was this effect as well. another time was when there was

an implosion, but we don't go into that story, but spencer, david wants to know, how is this affecting the earth's natural heating and cooling cycle? wow, that is kind of a question. >> it's where the smoke is collecting. what we're experiencing right now. with weather conditions, it may not be a factor at all. but globally, we know that the planet is warming and that causes climate change that's been happening for a long, long time and some of the extreme and unusual and protracted weather events we're seeing right now and have been seeing for the last several years including things like wildfires are exactly the symptoms or the result of global warming and climate change, that climbtologiclim

climatologists were predicting, as the planet gets warmer, we can expect to see these kinds of events, rather, more frequently. they will be more extreme and long longer duration with heat waves and with drought. >> sadly, we can get more such days in our future. spencer, i have a question for you. i'm wondering, what kind of effect could this dark haze have on our bodies, right? and our natural rhythm, if you will. it really messes with light and of course, we are governed by light when we think we should wake up and go to sleep. >> there's no doubt that this kind of unusual look can affect, how weather conditions can affect our mood and how changes in barometric pressure, and more people feel depressed, kind of skies.tes to feel more upbeat.

something like this could not only affect our moods but as you pointed out, throw off our body rhythms, people are waking up to darkness when they normally would wake up to light. and that sends signals that the brain sends out signals to the body that we don't even comprehend, but we just know something feels different. we feel a little off today. some would argue, i feel off every day. it got darker and darker and darker. >> it didn't make sense. i was like, is it time for lunch? it doesn't look like lunchtime. it was so confusinconfusing. i see viewers say they experience the same thing. deb having the question. if all the fallen ash in the bay area recently, how is that affecting other vegetation? >> that's a really good question. i don't think i have the answer

to that. puts out oxygen on a cyclical fashion. but not knowledgeable enough to tell you exactly how. >> spencer, what will it take to change this as in, we kind of want to escape this orange haze, expect this to be gone? upper level wind patterns to take the smoke away from us and pretty good wind flow here at the surface and then all the fires burning, under 2,000 feet. right now, 1200contact auto the. have 'em on the lookout for these stolen car parts. already done.

(police radio chatter, indistinct conversations) was there money on the body? not on the body, not in the cab. and then a cooldown, of course, and if we could get some rain, not likely. we should really expect any significant rainfall this time of the year. >> you mentioned it is a little cooler and one part i'm thankful for, spencer, it looks like it should be really hot and miserable. it is just miserable but not hot. and wants to know, what is our and wants to know, what is our long-term forecast.right, let'st where he was driving look at seasonal outlooks, but they send along a little caveat, a little cautionary note, seasonal outlooks aren't precise so we shouldn't expect to work out the way the whole season ahead but i can tell you the next seven days, cooler than average pattern, like high temperatures inland, which were

up into 110, 112, a few days up into 110, 112, a few days ago, more than 88 to 92 range. it helps cabbies map out the best place to troll for fares, stuff like that. (cell phone beeps) anyway, after amir shut off his meter, he drove up to washington heights. the next wednesday or thursday. >> spencer, thank you so much. a viewer saying, oh, no. we're fine for just a few days, how can it mess with your body, but shared her chickens were off as well today, stayed in the coop most of the day. that's not how they normally behave. so yeah, we're right there with you, chickens. we know what you cation, >> cockadoodle do. >> thank you. >> thank you. the conversation continuessevene

"c" is the initial of the person to whom it belongs. i already tried that. with all the new york area codes? yeah. intriguing. maybe-- (beckett) castle. coming. (beckett) mrs. alhabi, we understand that amir called you at 10:00. what did the two of you talk about? just that he'd be late. the plays were getting out on broadway, and he wanted to pick up more fares. actually, he didn't do that. he turned his meter off and he went up to washington heights. that part of town is known for drug dealing and prostitution. no, he would never do such things.

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we're back at 7:44. russell brand is breaking his silence on his 14th-month all right, we've been talking a lot about the census. you know, it's been going on for a few months now and we're quickly coming up on the deadline. so given how important it is, we want to get a little personal right now and talk about why right now and talk about why it's important. see that? this is all bayberry, thank you for both coming on the show today. santa clara county making a big push, public awareness campaign and supporting the census effort, and you are a part of that. and i know you only have until tend of this month. how is the county doing in terms of completing it and by the end, where we at?

>> so far, we've been doing pretty good. we've surpassed our 2010 response rate, but that means that there's still a lot of people left, and we've been doing great. we know that the hardest hurdle is the last 50% to get counted and that's why we're focusing on areas with low self-response rate to make sure everybody in the community gets counted and we receive those vital resources. >> 80% or something like that. >> pretty close. >> you mentioned that it is vital people get counted because there is money involved. and the money that goes to communities and services, i want to bring in ann to talk about where that goes and why it's important for people to actually be counted, and for the region to get their count. >> yeah, it's so important that we fill out the census form because the census data is used

by the federal government to allocate funding to state and local government, to household and businesses. there's some research that shows that we look at 1 point over a trillion dollars of funding that goes out based on census data. and looks at about 360 federal programs, so if we think about, you know, one person filling out that form, that could be upwards of $2,000 a year for every year for the next ten years. so this impacts funding for a decade. it's so important to have people fill out the census form. >> can you talk to me about why it's difficult to convince some to take part, especially undocumented immigrants, your own background and story, you use it to do outreach and talk to people, but you do relate to the worries, right? >> there's a lot of fear in the

undocumented community, it was seen earlier this year with the citizenship question, a lot of people, this was a huge red flag for people to try to fill out the census with that citizenship question on it. but it was taken out, it's no longer there. we've also seen that in the federal level, the president has put forward some executive orders on not capping people who aren't citizens, and so this fear is the information that will be used against them but all information in the census bureau is protected by law by article 13 and no identifying person can be shared within the 72 years. >> okay. what's your own personal story? >> undocumented with the protection program and we use that to relate to the community

and to be able to let them know that there is this fear that it's more important that people get counted. >> can you talk a little bit about how much time there is to finish and if people do want to get counted, what are the different ways? i know mailings went out, but can people just pick up the phone and call and say, i'm ready to talk to you, what are the ways that the public can reach out and support this effort and be counted? >> absolutely. it's super easy to get counted online is one option, and it take less than ten minutes to complete online. you can also call the u.s. census bureau and they will also help you through and they have different languages as well. and they can walk you through it and do it by phone and also do it by mail.

>> safer too. from the community foundation immigration program and also, miguel santiago from the santa clara county census office, thank you both for joining us today. good luck. >> thank you so much. >> we'll take a short break on the air. but abc7 is helping spread the word about taking the census. we have a phone bank that's open to answer your questions, just call 1-844-432-9832.

we are back and we want to continue our conversation about the u.s. census bureau.

thank you for joining us. >> in 1790, determined the number of seats that they receive in the u.s. house of representatives. the whole entire u.s. as of april 1st. >> who should take part? >> everybody living inside the u.s. as of april 1st. >> doesn't matter your citizenship, whether you document or not. doesn't matter your age, right? everybody. >> everyone. it doesn't matter what your immigration status is or where you come from, if you are living in the united states, we are asking you this information.

>> do you have a snapshot? we talked to someone from the santa clara county office, but a snapshot of how santa clara county, contra costa, alameda. we're above 70%. high 70s for self-response, for enumeration, at 91.5% of enumerated in the state of california. so we're doing amazing in the bay area. >> okay, but you don't have much time left, right? the deadline was moved up by about a month or so. can you talk why that happened? >> i'm not allowed to talk about that but what i can talk to, getting everybody to respond now is where we are. we want everyone to respond in the bay area and throughout the

whole entire united states. >> okay. and the deadline is september 30th at this point? >> that's being litigated right now. i can't speak to that, but what i can speak to is getting everyone to respond. >> okay. can you clear up some of the biggest misconceptions that people might have that might hold back? >> yes. so some misconceptions are that the information isn't secure. all information stays within the census bureau. we're not allowed to give that out to anyone under title 13. so it is very safe and very secure. we don't ask any pertinent information, we're not going to ask you for your social, credit card number, anything like that. we're just asking basic information from you. >> got it. with only about 3 weeks left, what are you doing in terms of, you know, going out, the outreach to the last people who the 30% of people who still haven't responded and what are the different ways by which you're trying to get them?

>> so what we're doing is knocking on doors to the census takers and we have partnerships that work with different organizations to get the word out to their constituents and serve in the community.. areas where people say the grocery store, out there with grocery store, out there with the ipad.e. with you right now, here to help you. >> are you calling people? >> we're doing that as well. >> you're going about it through multiple means. are you still hiring census workers? a few months ago, we talked about how you're hiring and there were jobs available. is that still happening in this final stretch? >>. >>. >> so right now,

to troll for fares, stuff like that. (cell phone beeps) anyway, after amir shut off his meter, he drove up to washington heights. he parked in the 1600 block of st. nicholas avenue web site to send them to to get more? >> arjacked and forced to drive to that warehouse. all right, have unis canvass the area. see if anyone remembers seeing him. what about his last phone call? 10:01 to his wife-- nazihah alhabi. best of luck from the u.s. sen rus bureau. best of luck from the u.s. sen and he, uh, wrote down this. uh, "c4121652," and it was written down just about an hour before he died. these phone lines are open until 7:00 tonight. 7:00 tonight. if you have york area codes? yeah. intriguing. maybe-- (beckett) castle. coming.

(beckett) mrs. alhabi, we understand that amir called you at 10:00. what did the two of you talk about? just that he'd be late. the plays were getting out on broadway, and he wanted to pick up more fares. actually, he didn't do that. he turned his meter off and he went up to washington heights. that part of town is known for drug dealing and prostitution. no, he would never do such things.

thank you so much for joining us on this interactive show, "getting answers." before we go though, we have to take you live outside, explaining why we're still seeing this, what's happening with the smoke. >> the particulate matter, smoke in the air, we're only seeing yellow and orange and various shades of those colors. what it's doing, the low clouds at the surface and smoke in the upper level layer to make it look dark and dreary and ominous. >> how long do you expect to look like this? >> possible again tomorrow, but should be bigger and better by the end of the week. >> hopefully, and in the meantime, get out your cameras, this is not something we see every day or year or every

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