>> it will start getting cooler. you just watch. >> i wish science agreed with you. >> president trump during his visit to california today, taking issue with the idea that climate change is behind this summer's massive wildfires. good afternoon. i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm larry beil. the president walked into a chorus of californians who are claiming california is getting hotter because of global warming. the president disagreed. laura anthony was in sacramento for the president's visit. >> reporter: as air force one touched down outside sacramento, a cut through the haze and smoke that has plagued california for weeks. it was clear, though, that this visit, at this time, by this president, was itself an illustration of a strange new normal. president trump arrived as california is in the midst of

unprecedented wildfires. not just in number, but also intensity. >> i have approved the emergency declaration, as you know. >> reporter: president trump met with the governor and cal fire officials to talk about wildfire response and also their differing opinions on cause. the president emphasizing forest management, with the governor pushing the discussion towards climate change. >> when trees fall down, after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry, they become really like a matchstick. >> the hots are getting hotter, the dries are getting dryer. the drought five plus years, losing 163 million trees to that drought, something has happened to the plumbing of the world. >> reporter: the governor the the president was asked about the state of his relationship with the governor. to that, president trump responded "it's very good."

>> we've had great coordination, great relationship. i know we come from different sides of the planet, but we have a good relationship. a good man. >> reporter: for now, it appears two men have found at least a little common ground. in sacramento, laura anthony, "abc7 news." >> during the president's meeting with state leaders, california's secretary for natural leaders challenged the president to work with thete >> we wan to work with you to really recognize the changing climate and what it means to our forests, and actually work together with that science. that science is going to be key, because if we ignore that science and sort of put our head in the sand, we're not going to succeed together protecting californians. >> okay. it will start getting cooler. you just watch. >> i wish science agreed with you. >> after the meeting, he tweeted this chart, with the state's average temperatures and the words, it's not getting cooler.

democratic presidential nominee joe biden expressed his support today for the victims of the wildfires and took aim squarely at president trump, accusing him of failing to address the effects of climate change. >> we know he has no interest in meeting this moment. we know he won't listen to the experts or treat this disaster with the urgency it demands. the west is literally on fire. and he blames the people whose homes and communities are burning. if you give a climate arsonist four more years in the white house, why would anyone be surprised if we have more america ablaze? >> mr. biden says as president, he would make america the world leader again in the fight against climate change. he also cast the crisis as an economic opportunity saying millions of good-paying jobs can be created by the effort to fight it. here are the major fires burning in california. the bay area complexes are

almost fully contained. the august complex to the north of the u.s. is the largest wildfire in state history and is only 30% contained. more than 755,000 acres have burned and several communities are threatened. the northcom plex is 26% contained. the creek fire in fresno is only 10% contained. hundreds of homes have burned. the bay area's air continues to be a murky soup of wildfire smoke and haze. this is a shot from our south beach camera at the bay bridge. gives you an idea of the visibility we have right now. i want to show you a website that has an enteringtive map with air quality numbers collected from low-cost air monitors. you can see there's not only a lot of bad air on the west coast, but that air is drifting across the country. cornell bernard shows us how people in the east bay are coping with the bad air and how some are suffering the effects.

>> reporter: the sun made another attempt to shine monday through a thick layer of smoke. the bay bridge barely visible, air quality reached unhealthy levels for most of the bay area. >> it's horrible. it's just uncomfortable. >> reporter: despite the bad air, mel had to get out of the house to meet her friend for breakfast in berkeley. >> you try to keep moving the best you can, try to get as much fresh air, you know, as you can. >> it has been heartbreaking. i hope that it clears up really soon. we get blue skies and we can start breathing again. >> some cafes posted signs they were closing early due to the poor gil cafe was open. ⌞> today is the first day we have slightly opened the windows a little bit to get some air. but yeah, we know bad. >> reporter: the e.r. here in oakland has been busy treating patients. >> in the last week, we have

begun to notice that many more coughs, chest pains, throat burning, shortness of breath. >> reporter: for now, he urges everyone to keep safe and stay indoors and avoid outdoor exercise. in arenda, the air wasn't any better. >> we're stuck in the house, especially coming from a pandemic, and then directly into the fire season. >> reporter: the good news, cleaner air could make a comeback later this week. and a quick reminder, this is what blue sky looks like, in case you forgot. kor fecornell bernard, "abc7 ne" of course, the question we want to know right now, is how sookg this youe probly opmiicr >>kristen. i'm not ready to say the skies are going to clear any time

soon, but you can see the reprenngoor air quality, except up in the north coast where the yellow zone, and everybody else is in the poor to very poor category. let's give you a look at surface wind right now. we have a bit of an on shore flo flow. we have a marine layer that will push slowly some of this horrible air quality out of our area. so the smoke forecast looks like this. instead of reds and yellows and purples, we'll see by tomorrow, midday into wednesday, air getting a little cleaner. some of that smoky air getting pushed to our east. notice another wave, another cloud of smoke just offshore, waiting to move in, as well. so it's hard to say when we're going to see clear skies. i'll give you a closer look in a few minutes. larry? on to coronavirus news.

in santa clara county, business and faith leaders called on the county to find more ways to safely reopen, as local health officials place more restrictions on certain sectors. >> reporter: in san jose, concerns over the coronavirus and its impact on the local economy continue to weigh on the minds of many. >> the health of our clients and our community have always been of the utmost importance. >> reporter: santa clara county is in the red tier for reopening, but health officials say restrictions on indoor typing and gatherings will remain. a decision that isn't sitting well with some. >> it a es going to come down to putting food on the table for the family, or filing bankruptcy and losing everything. >> reporter: leading a coalition of 15 chambers of commerce, as well as dozens of business and faith-based groups, the

organization says the county needs to provide more support and clearer evidence of evidence based guidelines for businesses. >> the state and the county have two different goal posts for safely reopening. and our small businesses are caught in the cross hairs, suffering as a result. >> reporter: county officials say the science will continue to guide their decisions, surrounding the reopening process. >> the recent studies have shown that it's much more dangerous to be indoors in gatherings and in restaurants than it is to be outdoors. >> reporter: the county has also been focused on outreach, going into high impacted areas to help educate others about how they can reduce the risk of transmission. >> continuing to increase testing, making sure people have access to testing and they have safe ways tosog quarantine is a big body of work we're focused on. >> reporter: chris nguyen, "abc7 news." >> if you want to double-check what's open in your county, find the latest on this map on our websi

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amazon is set to hire more workers, and we're talking about a lot of them. the seattle based company plans to hire another 100,000 people to keep up with the surge of online orders. the new hires will help pack, ship, or sort orders. working in full-time or part-time roles. wages starting at $15 hour. amazon reported record profits between april and june with more people turning to the online retailer during the pandemic to buy supplies and groceries. amazon had to hire 175,000 people just to keep one the rush of orders. oracle won the bidding war to partner with the popular app tiktok. it could prevent the app from being shut down this weekend. david louie has more on what the oracle deal is and isn't, and rorr:nts ce, dlorheopular tiktok app doesn't satisfy the president's order to sell to an american company. locals said it would be tiktok's

trusted technology provider. analysts say it doesn't address concerns that user data might be stored in china. >> if they're not able to access the code that tiktok is running because really it's just another customer of theirs on their cloud computing service, then it's not clear that sort of thing could be prevented. >> reporter: tiktok is on a tear as an app sensation, with 100 million u.s. users, 1500 employees in the u.s., and plans to hire 10,000 more employees in california and in other states. the demand for tiktok's chinese owners to tell to an american operation is part of the president's china policies. the chairman, has mosted a fund-raiser for president trump. a nonprofit watch dog group says tiktok has been diligent to improve safety and privacy on

the app. it doesn't allow direct messaging for users under 16. more and more apps are owned overseas. >> data is the new oil. it is the new wealth that's being created. so where that's being stored, who has access to it is a fundamental importance. >> reporter: the deal faces government review this week. david louie, "abc7 news." site that looks a lot like tiktok and will begin testing youtube shorts in india. the site will allow users to postvide.usic a string multiple video clips together. you may not be able to use credit card points towards your minimum balance. >> michael finney is here now with a look at today's consumer news.

some flexibility, michael. >> what goes around, comes around. that's what it feels like. you use your credit card to get points. now you can use those same points to pay your credit card bill, or at least a portion of it. let me explain what's going on here. in another change brought on by the pandemic, citibank is allowing customers to use points to pay their credit card minimums. card holders used to look forward to spending points on travel and gifts for themselves. but with the coronavirus, many people are having trouble making minimum payments. the points for minimum payments is temporary ending in early november. 54% of americans were able to ave money during theem that cash, until a vaccine comes out. that's what was learned from a survey put together by gallop and franklin templeton. it shows most americans are not investing the extra cash they have on hand instead of investing, they're choosing to hang on to it until the world

returns back to normal, or something like normal. walmart says it will soon be making deliveries by drone. it's teamed up with a company called zip line and plans to deliver packages near its arkansas headquarters by drone. first, the only products being delivered by drone will be health and wellness items, but plans to expand the service are in the works. this is kind of a space race between walmart and amazon. both of them say they're going to have drones delivering, i'm waiting, i'm not seeing it happen here in the bay area yet, but we'll see. >> we'll see when that happens. thanks, michael. you can't see the dronehero christian.st you can't. i know, it's only slowly going to improve, so we have brighter skies over the next couple of days, but i doubt we'll see blue skies.

here's a look at the current winds. i want to show you this because it's important to see that as we gethishorelo th tomorrow, this pattern will, some of the smoke will be pushed to the east, we expect moderately improved air quality by the middle of the week. here's the air quality forecast. it doesn't look great. very, very poor air quality tomorrow across the entire region. wednesday, poor air quality, so expect at least two more consecutive days of spare the air alerts, which would take us to 30 consecutive days and the streak that we don't want continues. right now, live view from our roof top camera looking across the embarcadero. low to mid 70s at loek, mountain view and san jose. look northward, other temperatures around the region,

80 degrees right now in santa rosa. novato 84. 89 in fairfield, that's our warm spot. 83 in concord. and 86 in livermore. and we give you this view, these are the forecast features. smoky air will linger into midweek with the increasing sea breeze, we expect improving air quality over the next couple of days and light rain is possible later this week. and i'll get to that in just a moment. but first, our overnight conditions showing you the forecast animation. fog moves up the coastline containing smoke. so it's not the best smog in the world, but we'll take it. it may produce some scattered or patchy drizzle along the coastline during the early morning hours, then pull back, but not completely during the day tomorrow. overnight low temperatures will be generally in the mid to upper 50s. so not unconfidemfortably mild

overnight. 70 in san francisco. mid 70s around the bay shoreline, and mid to upper 80s in the warmest inland spots. i mentioned the possibility of rain later in the week. there is a system out to sea bringing light rain to the pacific northwest, and may bring some light rain to the northern most part of california. so there's a possibility that in the north bay, tuesday through friday -- or wednesday through friday i should say, there's a possibility of some very, very light rainfall, that won't be enough to cleanse the air. but any way we get -- any rain at all will be helpful. here's the seven-day forecast. not much change, mid 70s around the bay. a little cooler as the clouds come in from that system i referred to. and slight chance of some showers in the north bay, early friday. then warmer saturday and sunday, going into the weekend. before another little cooldown

early next week. still monitoring the air. we expect, again, modest improvement the next couple of days. but another cloud of smoke could come in right behind that.ate improvement, right, larry? >> yeah. a few droplets, anything to clear the sky at this point. up next, the woman who was once the voice of the trump once the voice of the trump administcalifornia phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones, - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. call or visit

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"abc7 news" anchor spoke one on one with president trump's former white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, who just released a new memoir about her two years working in the trump administration. liz asked her about the president's silence on the issue of climate change. >> there is consensus among scientists what is happening in our state is driven by climate change. the president has been silent on this issue. he recently said, much like two years ago following the camp fire, that it's just about cleaning the forest. why has the president and this administration been so reluctant to embrace what's happening in california as a climate crisis. >> i think the president will get that briefing and information today. i don't want to get ahead of the president's visit. i'm not in the administration now, so i can't speak to their specific policy and where they are at this given point. i know the president thinks it's

important to take whatever step is necessary to prevent these fires from happening. i know that was one area he talked about was cleaning out the forest and making sure that we were doing those steps, as well. but i think that's why this briefing and his visit is very important for him to be there today. er the weekend, abc released ar. new polldipprove ohe president's handling of covid-19. in nevada, he held an indoor rally against state regulations, many not wearing masks. do you believe it's an appropriate event for the president to be having right now? >> i think the president wants to get his mess an out to the american people. i think it is important for americans to hear from both candidates before they make a decision in november. i know the campaign encouraged people to wear masks at the event. and i think at some point people have to take personal

responsibility, going to a political rally is not a requirement, that's a choice they make. you have to make a decision on whether or not you want to take that risk and put yourself into that room. at the same time, i think the standard that this president is being held to versus the far left, if other people are gathering in large gatherings for riots and protests, that's perfectly acceptable. but not for the president to get his agenda and mess an out to the american people ahead of the election. they should be held to the same standard and it's important people know where candidates stand. >> right. optically, i wonder if that's a smart decision, though. >> again, i think it's a smart decision for the president of the united states to speak directly to americans. one of the reasons president trump won in 2016, he's not a scripted, filtered robot. i think that people find that refreshing, that they know where he is on a matter of topics at

any given point because he's not afraid to take hard questions from the media. >> you know, in reading your book, you talk a lotdeke dessentancef specng thearget of norious for name calling and bullying. how do you square the president's rhetoric and behavior publicly with your own values and beliefs you talk about in your book? >> look, i think a lot of people may not like the style of this president, but it's hard to argue with the substance of what he's delivered over the last four years. prior to the coronavirus hitting one of the strongest economies we've ever had in history, rebuilding the military, historic peace deals. we've seen two in just the last month. historic trade deals between the united states, mexico, and canada. tough on china, but also at the same time, creating new trade

deals with china. this is a president who has always been a fighter. he's not going to back down. when he is responds and responds harder. i do think there is a level of discourse and respect we can offer to one another and we can do a lot more of that across the board on both sides. >> interesting perspectives there. coming up, it's been three months since police killed george floyd and a long summer of protests. in our effort it's made for this guy a veteran who honorably served and it's made for her she's serving now we made it for all branches and all ranks whether they served one tour or made a career of it. we also made usaa for military spouses and their kids

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the police killing of george floyd sparked once in a generation protests against police brutality and systemic racism. julian glover takes a deeper look at the frustration how black and brown people are often treated by the police versus how white people are treated. >> why is it that the police decide that some threats must be etinguished immediately, while other threats get the privilege of being defused? >> reporter: trevor noah zeroing in on a growing anger for many in the black community, the interactions black people have with police compared with white people. inequity on full display on the violence in kenosha, wisconsin. a white 17-year-old shoots and kills two peo fle.he seend ist owi a >> mom!

mom! >> reporter: just days earlier, jacob blake shot seven times in the back unarmed. officers found a knife in the vehicle after the shooting. >> it hurts to breathe, it hurts to sleep, it hurts to move from side to side, it hurts to eat. please, i'm telling you. change our lives out there. we can stick together. >> there's no point during this process in which you are able to just sort of be afforded the opportunity to be given the benefit of the doubt in any of these situations. and that not getting the benefit of the doubt can cost you your life. >> reporter: dr. morgan is a professor at santa clara university who shared with abc 7 her story of being racially profiled by campus security. her i.d. was enough to deescalate the situation, but in so many police killings of black and brown men and women,

evidence, however clear, is not enough to be convincing. >> there's still never you have evidence to absolve black people, that there's always a question of, well, what happened before the video started? what happened, you know, in the past in what happened prior to the moment that the filming started and how does this justify what took place? >> taser, taser, taser. raumatic for many americans. but the repetitious use of the phrase "unarmed black man" could be just as damaging. >> there's a lot of people in the black community experiencing what i like to call vicarious trauma. >> reporter: dr. boyd, former director of the university of new haven's center of advanced policing, with 14 years of law 'seceptive and hurtful. argues >> to add the term unarmed black men, implies most of the black men are armed. because they have to put the

qualifier in there to give the victim some level of victimhood opposed to just a black man or just a man or just a citizen shot and killed by the police. we have to add unarmed in order for certain people to decide that maybe we should kind of look at this a little ently.nk that's , my god. please don't tell me he's dead. >> reporter: the narrative that if the victim of a police shooting would have just complied faster, the outcome would be different. >> there is no level of respectability that can prevent these kinds of things from happening. and even people who aren't supposedly respectable, whatever that means, don't deserve this kind of treatment. >> reporter: for "abc7 news," i'm julian glover. >> we're going to dig in deeper with paul henderson, the executive director of the san

francisco department of police accountability. thanks for joining us. >> pleasure to be here. thanks for having me. tart witwh everhing stands rht black live protests all summer long. in your mind, has anything materially changed? >> i think a lot of things have changed in terms of where we are as a nation, and where we are as a country. i think folks now are informed in new ways as to what the demands are, in terms of the changes that they are asking for. we have moved beyond and people have specific demands for law enforcement agents in terms of what they want policing to look like for their own communities, and there are new and more voices at the table demanding action. i hearing so many of these conversations, and the ongoing civil unrest, that' the demands that are being made throughout the country about wh.

and they're pretty specific, in ways that i haven't seen before, and i would say that this is more than just a moment, and we are actually observing a movement that's evolving and solidifying and there are some common themes that are running through this country in terms of defining what reforms should look like and what communities are demanding that they should be. >> well, along the line of reforms, you hear a lot about the call to quote unquote defund the police and that means different things to different people. but what resonates with you in terms of the reform movement? because obviously you're not going to have the police with a budget of zero, but it's more of an effort to take the police out of situation where is you have mental health issues involved and they need to get experts in those fields to deal with those situations. >> yeah, that's correct. i would say, and i think there's a lot of misnomers associated with defund the police and it

runs the spectrum and it means different things to different people. but i think it's clear that there is a demand and a call ro this fm communities asking where their tax dollars are being spent. and to the degree that people are paying taxes or behaviors and/or policies that are not race neutral, i think that's a real problem. and it's exacerbated by the fact that we are all in a recession, it's exacerbated by the fact that we are, as a country, struggling with covid and at a local level, are really taking a hard look and approach at where our dollars are being spent from a municipal perspective, in terms of where those dollars are going. so in most cities, policing and law enforcement is their highest ticket item of cost. and so as we evaluate these budgets, i think people have a

right to have some input about where those tax dollars are going, and what they're paying for, and to demand -- and to be able to demand more race neutral outcomes, specifically for communities of color. the black and brown communities that have experienced disparities in law enforcement are some of the loudest voices. and not all. they're certainly joined by many allies in this country. but i think these are valid questions to ask, and they're valid conversations that need to be having that many communities need to be having about what defund the police means to them. and you are correct, that it doesn't presumptively mean that every police officer is terminated and that we don't need police or we won't have police, although some of the definitions do mean that. but i do think the more interesting conversations that have a lot of legs, not just here in the bay area but in

other cities as well, are the questions that challenge whether or not we have an expectation and a cost associated with having law enforcement agents show up for substance abuse, for mental health issues, for homelessness. you know, the bay area is not unique or alone in facing many of those challenges. and i would say that we are at the forefront of trying to address how we respond to some of these entrancegent problems that many cities have, and the right answer is not to have the police departments or deputies or whomever show up as our first responders for those issues. and certainly, evaluating the price tag associated with that response is up for debate, as well. i think the debate in the conversation is good. the more people we have at the table the better.

and to the degree that table is more inclusive than not with communities that have been overpoliced, with communities that have faced disparities in policing and law enforcement, i think that makes it better and it raises the potential for things to get better. >> all right. mr. henderson, i wish we had more time for this conversation, because we could go a long ways. but we do appreciate your time and thanks for being with us. >> no, thanks for having me. it's been a real pleasure. happy to share. >> all right. abc 7 will have more stories like this one this week focusing on race and social justice as we build a better area. tomorrow's topic is la teacho heritage month. tune in for stories to the trugles facing black businesses and how we view one another. if you want to watch our building a better bay area storie download our "abc7 news" app, available right now for roku, android tv and fire tv. the nfl is back.

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gruden, as well. the league issued a statement telling coaches face coverings must be worn as designed, securely across the nose and mouth. mmm, are they supposed to lead by example, dan? >> yeah, i thought this might happen when i tuned into some football yesterday. i was interested in some wearing masks, some not. i'm not surprised. lots of the players are not and they're running and working hard on the field. so it's not a surprise some of the coaches are not. but i think from a public per spep -- perception stand point, asking coaches to re s tes to l example is not a bad idea. >> there's just not a lot of uniformity how people approach mask wearing. >> there certainly is not. i had the same thought dan had watching tv yesterday, i thought if anyone is going to mention they should be wearing masks.

from the closeups i've seen from some coaches, they should have been wearing masks long before covid. >> the irony here is that coaches usually have their play sheets up like this because they don't want opponents to read their lips about the plays. so the facemasks could take care of that. so i think they just -- some feel it's just too constricting. one thing on behalf of the coaches, the nfl players and coaches are among the most heavily tested in the country. so everybody on the field is presumably negative to start with for covid-19. but still, in terms of the perception, i think the mask wearing would help. let's keep the nfl theme, the social justice initiatives unveiled by the nfl duringts opening weekend, do not impress colin kaepernick. in a tweet yesterday, he labeled the efforts as propaganda, accusing the league of activity black balling his former 49ers teammate eric reed, who knelt

alongside him four years ago. kaepernick says reed is one of the best defensive players in the league. both are featured in the league's video of "lift every voice and sing." which is being played before games. i was really surprised when i saw that eric reed was not playing for anybody. likely when injuries occurred, he will get picked up. he's coming off three really good seasons with carolina panthers. he had something like 130 tackles, so he was all over the field. he's a guy who should be playing. but it does make you question whether there's a lot of show and pomp and circumstance. but are we really making changes in terms of what we do with personnel and is everybody really buying in? and spencer, it's a little disappointing to be quite honest. >> well, it is. you're right about eric reed. this guy should be playing somewhere. i'm surprised, pleasantly

surprised at the extent to which the nfl has sort of moved forward on this issue. and yet at the same time, some of it is probably more show than substance. >> all right. well, like most large scale events over the last six months, the macy's thanksgiving parade is going virtual. this is the parade's 94th year. macy's said the parade will be recorded over two days with no live audiences and broadcast on thanksgiving day. the number of participants will be reduced by nearly75%, and everyone must wear face coverings. dan, you are big on traditions, i know. this is going to be a lot different. instead of hundreds of people holding big balloons, they'll have them on special rigged cars and trucks. still going to be great? >> another example of people a2k57 adti to these strange times. so i'm just glad they're not canceling it. however they choose to pull it

you have is terrific. >> yeah. everybody is making adjustments in 2020. spencer, this is for you. how about a little red with your cheesy gordida to your next visit to taco bell. they announced they're debuting its own custom wine. taco bell says the wine doesn't taste like jalapenos, but notes of strawberry and beat root. it's supposedly the perfect pairing with a cheesy chalupa, but only being sold in canada for $19 a bottle. that's a little steep, don't you think, spencer? >> it is a bit steep. however, they meat a great argument. it was a terrific list of d diskrip fors as to why they go well together. >> i wonder if you show up for your chalupa, will they charge

you a corkage fee? >> as long as it's not over $19, that's okay. >> wasn't their slogan, run for the border? now i know, it's the canadian border. >> there you go. spencer, we'll see you at taco bell tonight. in just a few months, we've learned a lot more about the covid-19 virus. it's real. and it's dangerous. so, on behalf of all of us working on the front lines, please take it seriously. and while we don't yet have a cure or a vaccine, we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. wear a mask. wash your hands. stay six feet apart. do your best to stay out of crowded spaces. and get a flu shot, it's even more important this year. we can do this. if we do it together. ♪

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little bi it's going to be with us with an on shore flow, so some improvement in the air quality over the next couple of days. lows in the mid to upper 50s. highs tomorrow as the on shore flow continue also range from mid 60s at the coast to mid 70s around the bay, mid and upper 80s inland. here's the seven-day forecast. still two more spare the air days tomorrow and wednesday, making a total of 30 consecutive spare the air days. but on wednesday, we are expecting slight improvement in the air quality. so let's hope that continues into the latter part of the week as cooler air will be pushing in, as well. >> that will be nice. thank you, spencer. >> yeth. p next, gyms and fitness centers get the green light to reopen, but is it still worth it at this point? you'll hear from a gym owner about the struggles she's facing. and dan has a look at "abc7 news" at 5:00. coming u new at 5:00, masks versus no masks. and education versus enforcement. the latest bay area city to

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next at 5:00, hard to see the bay when the air is so bad, and now the spare the air alert is extended again. abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel has the timeline. plus president trump comes to california and immediately fans the flames of the fight over climate change. also ahead, san franciscans work out inside a gym for the first time in six months. the day so many have been waiting for. why not everyone, though, is taking part. plus the latest bay area city to debate what to do about people who don't wear masks. >> announcer: building a better bay area for a safe and secur future. this is abc7 news. that will make it 30 straight days. the air was definitely gray at the port of oakland today. these workers, though, continued