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smoke which is why we remain under a microclimate weather alert. take look at healds burg. 60s in san jose. one of the things the temp welcome back. models have been struggling are we mentioned that the giants game was postponed last night, with the smoke and air quality. the spare the air alert is in and today. for covid reasons. a player testing positive. place through monday. we're still awaiting word about we are now going on 26 days and counting. north bay, all the way down to tomorrow's games. to the a's now, they're in the coast, still dealing with texas taking on the rangers. numbers above 150. the green and gold went through in that unhealthy range. yesterday we saw colors above their own case of covid-19 as we 200, which is in the purple told you two weekends ago. last night the a's got off to a range. and this could change. now, today we are expecting great start. first inning, bases loaded to relatively calm winds and cooler weather so we'll talk more about matt olson, not anymore. that and what to expect coming bases cleared with that grand up in my full forecast. slam. the a's go on to beat the kira? >> vianey, thanks so much and we'll see you in 15. rangers 10-6, top seed in the we'll get back to poor air american league now. quality. 7:41, coming up on "today in a three-alarm fire in the the bay" as we wear our masks in

middle of san francisco has dozens of people out on the public every day to protect the spread of covid-19, have you streets this morning. it ignited around 1:30 at a ever thought about how often you warehouse with a woodworking should be cleaning them? we'll tell you what experts recommend, next. shop inside. this happened on shipley street hopefully you're doing it in san francisco's soma often. now we are seeing that poor air neighborhood between fourth and quality throughout the bay area. fifth street a block from and you know what, unfortunately folsom. the warehouse shares walls with we're going to continue to see condos and apartments. that this weekend. we'll talk about the dozens of units were evacuated. temperatures, what to expect heading into the workweek, full forecast coming up, stay with by 2:30 an hour after it ignited us. hard working fire crews were able to contain the fire and keep it from spreading. no injuries have been reported. the arson task force is investigating the cause. as vianey was talking about the air quality, we'll go back to that now. it's the worst it's been in weeks. and that's saying something because it's been unhealthy for nearly one month. the air quality index, the aqi map, show red and that means unhealthy air. there is a staggering amount of smoke and ash covering the west coast. this satellite image was taken

yesterday afternoon. san francisco's most iconic landmark shrouded in a thick haze through the smoke, ash, fog. that's supposed to be alcatraz. many local, state and national parks are closed this weekend to discourage people from going out and breathing in all this unhealthy air. despite all the air quality and covid dangers and concerns, some people still wanted to get out for their friday night. here's "today in the bay's" sergio quintana. >> reporter: for the third night in a row smoke is making for a groommy situation. street life is pretty sparse. most people i talked to are visiting. these men planned on visiting alcatraz. >> it got cancelled at 9:30 this morning right when we landed. >> the parable parks service cleared out tourists to keep people out of smoke. ♪ i got it all from you this district is usually buzzing

with people but ♪ i'm always pushing through night in a row, the streets stayed open fornt into a bustli ♪ i know we'll make it to the finish line ♪ ♪ i know you're waiting on the other side ♪ ♪ i'm like you pedestrian mall. on-demand glucose monitoring. >> for the past two months it's because they're always on. blocked off completely from 5:00 until 10:00 at night. this place is very busy usually. another life-changing technology from abbott. not today. >> reporter: in north beach the smoke didn't stop a few men from so you don't wait for life. you live it. tossing a football around in washington square. and several restaurants seemed to have a decent dinner crowd. these men drove in from petaluma. >> we're all tired of sitting at home watching television. you're all having a lovely start some of us are willing to risk to your day, despite all of that breathing the smoke to get out fog and smoke that we're seeing and do something different. outside right now. >> reporter: it doesn't just look bad. we are still under a spare the the air quality is also air alert and the reason for potentially hazardous and it that is of course that poor air looks like we're going to have to deal with it through the quality. i wanted to show you this sort weekend. in san francisco, sergio of view of the upper atmosphere because not only is it impacting quintana, abc bay areas news. us now at ground level, it still this is something to behold. remains a little bit higher up it's been an eye opening few in the smoke pollution. you can visibly see it here. days. these images say it all. this is the carbon particulate

these are not adjusted by us. it's a look through our san pollution visible throughout the entire bay area. it's not just affecting us here bruno mountain camera, orange skies on wednesday on the left, in california. as a matter of fact i just had a turning yellow thursday and gray and smoky yesterday. viewer from my old station in el and in san jose, this was paso, texas send me a photo of the 280-17 freeway interchange, how their sunrise and sunset has been looking a little bit red same progression of colors, because of the smoke down near orange to yellow to gray. el paso. this is a week we won't soon this gives you an idea of just forget. how far that smoke has managed well, the 49ers are set to to reach. not just here locally but really return to the grid iron tomorrow taking on the arizona cardinals here at levi stadium. throughout the u.s. and down throughout l.a. seeing poor air quality as well. but if the air quality index, the aqi, is above 200, the nfl we'll continue to monitor the situation. because keep in mind that air could postpone or move the game. quality is going to change every hour. there's a number of factors that yesterday the team practiced in go into it. even though you might see a set santa clara with the aqi around of numbers now, that will probably change by the next hour and the following hour. so current tops in the 50s right 194. doctors say an index above 200 is, quote, very unhealthy and now. that combination of smoke and conditions would be deemed fog is sort of keeping our temperatures on the cooler side. unsafe. the 49ers say they are and here's a current look optimistic the game will go on as scheduled but note that throughout. so santa cruz right now is at 51 ultimately it is a league degrees. there is limited visibility decision. >> people with preexisting around the coastline, of course conditions today, they couldn't at the salinas airport down to

practice with it being just past 150. if it happens sunday, my about less than half a mile when understanding is if it gets to it comes to visibility. 200 that's when the nfl will we've seen reports of pretty dense fog through this. we're going to keep these start really discussing what to conditions all day long, that do with the game. >> kyle shanahan ultimately marine layer is going to be really slow to clear and take a saying he's glad it's not his look at where we stand when it comes to the numbers. decision to make. the nfl policy generally states these have changed since i first came on with the first couple of cut-ins at about 6:00 a.m., it will be reprepared to move those short weather forecasts before the show. the game if the aqi is above 200 they were about 150 in most areas. they've gone up to 179, just to give you an idea of how this is for a significant period of time including the day of the game. changing. north bay, 179. the game could be moved to the bay 178. monday when the aqi is expected notice how they're all unhealthy. we're in the red. to drop. a decision will be made sometime yesterday we were in the purple, today. right now, 29 major wildfires are burning across which is numbers above 200, california. since the beginning of this making it very unhealthy. year, fires have ravaged more we saw than 3 million acres across our is why we felt it at low ground state and destroyedstructures. level and why we're seeing a 19 people have been killed. gray hue versus the orange glow we saw earlier this week. one of the state's biggest and today's microclimate highs will deadliest fires continues to be near seasonable but our burn to our northeast. the north complex fire near temperatures will remain in the 70s. the models are having a tough oroville outside of chico has time forecasting the

temperatures because of all of that smoke. killed ten people. it doesn't that into account, fire has scorched more than which is why it's sort of struggling. let's talk about the change in the weather pattern because we 250,000 acres, already destroying 2,000 structures. do have the possibility of mandatory evacuation orders and seeing better air quality, not just heading into this afternoon advisories are still in place in butte, plumas and yuba counties, but also in through tuesday as we see a system approaching just off of the pacific. making its approach we're going it is 23% contained. to see the possibility, i know a >> bad air, smoky conditions are lot of people are looking at this and thinking rain, no more drawing new attention to the role of climate change in all of as it gets closer. this. these images are real. that would definitely help us with the wildfires. wildfires across the west are not looking like much rain but it could help us clear out and spreading. scientists say climate change is mix out some of that air that we're seeing in the air quality, making it worse and it's not going away anytime soon. hopefully improve next six or seven days. yesterday governor gavin newsom 60s for san francisco and we're toured a forest in oroville going to remain at 70s and 80s destroyed by fire. for the inland areas. he says climate change is not on its way here, it is here. kira? >> vianey, thanks so much. 7:47, still ahead on "today >> california folks, it's in the bay," many of us are wearing the same protective america fast forward. masks each and every day. what we're experiencing right how often should we be washing here is coming to a community them? we'll have the answer next. all across the united states of america unless we get our act together on climate change.

>> president trump has been silent on the issue lately. in the past he has criticized governor newsom for failing to clean up the forest floors, blaming the governor's leadership for wildfire devastation but not noting that it is mostly federal land. 7:08, coming up the giants game suddenly postponed and not because of the bad air. what we're learning about a positive covid test and how it could impact the whole weekend for the team. plus the new warning from dr. anthony fauci, how long he thinks it will be before we can return to some type of normalcy.

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that runs through monday, just how dirty can they get? meaning 28 days in a row. we're enlisting the help of our this is unprecedented for us to "today" family, i brought brown have this type of poor air paper bags for everyone, i'll quality for this long. hand them to you all and put vianey arana has your full your masks inside the bag with forecast in about five minutes. your name on it and then let's swab them and see what's on the outside, what's on the inside. the giants, against the padres, our colleagues at nbc >> cooties, okay. sports bay area are reporting it is a giant player who tested positive for coronavirus. >> savannah? >> i don't want to do this. so last night's game in san diego was abruptly postponed after that positive test. the players and coaches found >> mine is filthy. out just minutes before the >> i do disposable. first pitch. how dirty can mine possibly be. today's game also postponed. >> we've seen your purse. no word yet about tomorrow. >> i vote savannah's is the major league baseball says grossest, that's my guess. the games have been postponed >> dylan and sheinelle hand over out of an abundance of caution their face masks too. and to allow for additional i also add mine into the mi testing and contact tracing to be conducted. i get to work with special the giants are the sixth team to have a positive test during this sterile swabs. shortened season. the a's, as you might recall, they won't detect if coronavirus is present on a mask but they postponed four games after a will pick up any bacteria. player tested positive two savannah's mask. weavirus cases i start with savannah's, cute continue to fall, though, so do mask. first i get the inside of each

mask, the part that touches your nose and mouth. got you, hoda. hospitalized i change gloves in between each patients with covid in santa mask. and i use a different swab on clara county over the past month. on august 13th 176 patients were the outside. outside of dylan's mask here, in the hospital. since then those numbers have this is sheinelle's. steadily declined. outside of her pretty pristine this past tuesday, 113 patients brand new looking mask. remember the outside of the mask were hospitalized. is the part we likely touch the that's the lowest number for the most with our hands. county in the last few weeks. stylish mask, craig, that looks in alameda county like a coffee stain. hospitalizations peaked back on i label each swab and then they're off to the lab. august 21st at 207. those numbers then dipped, went back up at the end of august, we enlist the help of columbia and since then have been university microbiologist dr. declining. the county now has 154 patients susan whittier. hospitalized. well, now to another case of she transfers whatever's on the mixed messages. swab to a petri dish. dr. anthony fauci is once again publicly disagreeing with the results are in. president trump about covid-19. this is the moment we've been waiting for. at a rally thursday night in michigan the president insisted these are the swabs we cultured. >> whose masks had nothing on we are rounding the turn on the them. >> dd was negative. coronavirus and the numbers are plunging, he says. >> dylan dryer, no bacteria on the outside or inside of her but yesterday dr. fauci called the current numbers disturbing. mask. >> no.

>> wow. >> but what about the rest of us? 40,000 cases per day in the u.s. >> savannah, hoda, shanl and i and 1,000 deaths. had skin bacteria growing on the he tells nbc's andrea mitchell inside of our masks. he's even more worried about >> that does make sense. a large majority of the mask is on your chin or above your nose. this fall. >> they can't make you sick? >> when people will be spending >> it's our normal skin bacteria more time indoors and that's not that we would find on 100% of good for a respiratory born virus you don't want to start people. off already with a baseline >> outside the masks -- craig had a little skin bacteria. that's so high. >> dr. fauci continues to oppose but savannah and hoda. the president's large campaign rallies, saying there's no >> a lot of growth, it was quite protection without a mask. surprising, oh, my gosh. at 7:13 we have much more >> and you're a scientist. >> yes, exactly. >> take a look, the swabs from ahead on "today in the bay" coming up, they are flying off savannah and hoda's masks picked store shelves. so what can you do if you can't up the most bacteria, each had a get your hands on an air pu different strain of a bacteria found in tap te purifier. we'll show you how you can make indication of somebody touching your own. the outside of their mask with and we remain under a microclimate weather alert. da dirty mask i'm tracking, of course, the smoky air quality. probably won't get you sick but and what we can expect heading into today and this weekend. it can cause skin irritation and details coming up in my full even outbreaks. forecast. stay with us. >> what is mask me, is it real?

>> it's real because i suffer from it myself. >> dr. monagohara is a clinical profession of dermatology. >> it comes from friction and rubbing, it's also coming from the fact that there's moistness and humidity under the masks. >> she says some mask materials are better for your skin than others. >> the masks that are better at preventing acne are cotton masks and disposable masks, they're lighter and more breathable. the masks that can promote maskne are made of polyester and rayon. >> you can p washing your mask often. dermatologists suggest if you have sensitive skin use the same cleanser to wash your mask that you use on your face. tips to keep you and your skin healthy during the pandemic. >> hopefully you're not eating right now. we'll have more news after the break. stay with us. give you my world ♪

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♪ go your own way welcome back, just shy of your wireless. your rules. 7:16 on your saturday morning. only with xfinity mobile. cloudy, smoky, hazy ashy skies over fremont. we remain under a microclimate weather alert. a spare the alert prohibits wood burning today, tomorrow and monday. vianey arana has your forecast in about two minutes. something powerful to see and it takes us back 19 years. this is a look at yesterday's tribute in lights shining over new york city. this memorial to the victims of the terror attacks on september 11th, 2001. joe biden and vice president mike pence were at ground zero for the somber tribute and annual tradition. the reading of the names by family members. the most moving part of the ground zero ceremony, arguably, was pre-recorded this year, a change mandated by coronavirus social distancing. >> this is where we need to be

now to some good news as divisive as things are these today. i must be where where i lost my days the world of music is son. i must be where my son died. joining forces, classical and >> when you realize that you're not alone in it it's a comfort. hip-hop. >> president trump spoke in ♪ shanksville, pennsylvania joining family members of those who died on united flight 93 for a private memorial service. >> oakland hip-hop meets san flight 93 was headed to ffo, but francisco's symphony, part of the symphony's current series the high jackers attempted to titled "from scratch," it crash it into the capital explores the intersection of classical music and other building in washington, d.c. here at home san francisco firefighters read the names of music the first responders who died in musical genres. the attacks. filmed in various locations, the and because of the poor air quality yesterday's memorial was streets of oakland. it is a way for musicians to moved inside the fire house. collaborate on music and which limited those who could activism. attend due to social distancing. love that. all right, if you watch every week you know now it's finding clean air to breathe time for our clear the shelters segment featuring our friends surely has become difficult over from pets in needs. the last almost month. we want to introduce you to air purifiers are becoming serenity, about 's petite. increasingly hard to find. this is at cole hardware in despite her name they say north beach in san francisco. they tell us they only had one in stock yesterday morning and serenity is energetic, loves to

their supplier is nearly sold out. play with toys, her favorite an employee tells us you can part of the day at pets in need make your own. is going outdoors for >> if you have a box fan at socialization time with home, they're relatively volunteers. pets in need says serenity would inexpensive. you can buy a filter, a 20 by 20 be the perfect companion for an active household. filtrete filter and it will fit people who like going on long right onto the front. you can use duct tape to tape it walks, or hikes, she is affectionate. on. >> that won't be as efficient as some dogs take time to warm up the real thing, of course, but but she does not. it works in a pinch. we do want to add, though, that good to know. she'll need to go to a home with 7:18 right now, let's check in no other pets. to find out more about serenity with vianey arana with a look at our microclimate forecast. go to pets in need.org or give >> good morning, you know, i them a call. at 7:58 vianey and i want to just bought an air purifier, i started noticing sort of that thank you so much for making us a part of your morning. smoky scent, even inside with the windows closed, not to we'll have more local news at 4:30, 8:00 and 11:00 and all day mention whenever i cook, i'm not on nbcbayarea.com. we will see you right back here tomorrow morning. the best cook, i can pop a we hope you have a great saturday. . window open when i make smoke in the kitchen. it's helped a lot. definitely a great investment at this time. let's get to it, seeing a combination of smoke and fog.

tle, and really notice it. you can see the view, live look over san francisco, 55 degrees, and those smoky conditions are going to remain through the weekend. let's look at san jose right now. look at that. i mean, at this point we'll get lucky if we even see the sunshine poking through during our newscast. 60 degrees right now in san jose and let's talk about that air quality because this is sort of an important mention, especially with what we've been seeing the past 24 hours. so the spare the air alert remains, notice in the north bay down to the coast numbers remain above 150. just below the 200 mark at unhealthy. yesterday, though, we did manage to go above the 200 range, which is in that purple zone for the bay area. the reason for that is because we've been noticing calmer winds and also we had a strong version which is why it was more noticeable at ground level. if you want to know more about that, check out my segment on instagram. i did a short clip explaining what's been happening air quality past couple days.

another important thing to mention, i changed these numbers within the hour because that hour by hour situation really does make a difference. so these numbers could possibly be different within an hour. it all really depends on not narrator: when you see this symbol you know you're watching television that is educational and informational. just the wind but also the amount of fires burning nearby, the level of containment, where the more you know on nbc. the smoke is blowing, all these different factors contribute to whether or not we'll see an dylan: welcome to "earth odyssey". improvement in those numbers the i'm dylan dreyer. good thing, though, is that get ready to travel around the world. we're seeing much calmer winds which will help in this fight on today's show, we head to south america's biggest against these fires for at least wetland, the pantanal. the next couple of hours and into tomorrow as well. we'll meet giant river otters whose size never today's forecast a little bit more seasonable. gets in the way of their ability to get out of a however, the models are still tight squeeze. struggling to forecast the temperatures because they don't and later, jaguars and monkeys don't make the take into account all of that smoke. and what happens is, is with all hunting team, but there are two species that help of this smoke it sort of doesn't each other from the water to the sky. help provide some of that solar insulation, which means we keep all this and more coming up on "earth odyssey". our temperatures a little bit cooler in the bay compared to let's say what a typical [music] forecast would be, which our temperatures would probably be a

little bit higher but because of all that smoke it's keeping our temperatures in the 70s for the south bay, 78 degrees for palo alto, 65 in san francisco. so we've got a change in the weather pattern, again, we're going to see a little bit of relief when it comes to the heat and calmer winds but when's our next chance of seeing the air quality clear out? right now we're monitoring the possibility of a low pressure system, making its arrival and inching closer, heading into tuesday. now, notice just off in the pacific you can see what looks like potential for some rain. of course rain would be very much a welcome sight but right now it looks like that could at least help clear out some of this poor air quality heading into tuesday and then our temperatures are going to remain relatively seasonal for the next several days here in the bay area. kira? >> nice to see even a cooldown, if we won't see the sun at least we're getting something good out of all this. vianey, thanks so much. 7:21, still ahead on "today in the bay," covid-19 as contributed to a need for blood

donations. as high as ever. but because of this new unhealthy air quality unfortunately our annual bay area proud blood drive has been postponed. we have an update next. give you my world ♪ ♪ how can i, when you won't take it from me ♪ ♪ you can go your own way ♪

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gone. many of bart's problems are still here. violent crime. fare evasion. homelessness. drug use. >> you see everything, you see people using meth on the train. you see people masturbating. >> as soon as i sat down i felt the rich, it just shot me up. as soon as i shot up, i saw it fly out. that's when i knew what it was. it was a used needle. >> it was a used needle. >> he says that syringe was wedged into the side of his seat which is why he couldn't see it at first. >> it went through my pants and into the back of my right thigh. i was worried what diseases are in that needle. >> as a precaution doctors put him on an anti-hiv medication. >> bart is also struggling with serious and systemic mental health issues. >> your hair is on fire. >> this woman set her hair on fire. passengers tell us just before she was talking to herself. and it's bart police that's called to respond to the wide

range of issues on and off the train. >> let me out. >> cops pulled this woman off bart for not paying. and refusing to wear a mask. >> i will shoot you. she then threatened to kill an officer. >> and when another bart cop tried to give this man a free mask, he gave the officer the finger. >> reporter: and that is just a small glimpse of what we found while riding and recording on bart during this pandemic. we hope you check out our entire series. you can binge watch it right now. >> as bigad said derailed season two, our digital series about bart is out right now. as he said we invite you to binge watch our new episodes and get caught up on our last season. find it on our youtube channel, apple tv and nbcbayarea.com/derailed. back to the bay area's bad air quality. it is postponing our annual blood drive sponsored by nbc bay

area. over the past four years garvin thomas's bay area proud blood drive has collected hundreds of pints. it was supposed to be held today but of course because of this very unhealthy air this event is postponed. we hope to reschedule sometime in the spring. we will keep you posted on that. at 7:27 we have much more ahead for you on "today in the bay." coming up an overnight warehouse fire kept fire crews busy in san francisco. we'll show you which heavily packed part of the city woke up to this. plus, social distancing to stay safe from covid-19. and now staying indoors because of the unhealthy air quality. it's impacting all of us but how does it impact our kids? we speak to a child psychologist next.

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as we take a live look outside. all of our traffic cameras showing gray, smoky, hazy, cloudy, foggy, ashy skies. as we are now on our 26th spare the air alert in a row, 28 days expected as the spare the air alert goes through monday. thank you so much for joining us. i'm kira klapper. vianey arana joins us from home this morning with your microclimate forecast and of course we're under the spare the air alert, vianey, because of the unhealthy air quality because of these fires. so much going on but it feels so repetitive after nearly a month of these fires now. >> and i can completely understand that. you know, the thing with the air quality is, is that there's a number of factors that go into the ever changing hour unpredic. we could have a new fire start that will create more smoke. we can have a little bit of wind

maybe shift the smoke in our direction and right now we're seeing calm winds which is why we're starting to see that smoke at a lower level, especially yesterday. we had, you know, the range above 200 in the air quality index, which is in the purple color. that's probably one of the worst air quality days that we've seen so far when it comes to the spare the air alert streak. current temperatures right now pretty cool at 56 degrees in san francisco. 50 degrees in san jose. 55 in palo alto. what's happening is, is all of this smoke is sort of stopping that solar insulation from heating us up. as far as our current temperatures, we're going to be in the 50s and 60s. ill talk more about that air quality and what to expect coming up in my full forecast at 7:45. >> we look forward to seeing you then. vianey, thanks so much. new this morning, a fire is under investigation in the heart of downtown san francisco. it ignited around 1:30 this morning at a warehouse with a wood working shop inside.

this is video from the citizen app. it happened on shipley street in san francisco's soma neighborhood between fourth and fifth. the warehouse shares walls with condoso contain the fire and keep it from spreading. it only took them about an hour. no injuries have been reported. all right, back to what vianey was talking about, our poor air quality. it is the worst it's been in weeks and that's saying something because it's been unhealthy for nearly one month. the aqi map shows red, meaning unhealthy air. there's a staggering amount of smoke covering the entire west coast, california, oregon, washington. this satellite image, you can see the smoke was taken yesterday afternoon. here locally san francisco's most iconic landmarks shrouded in thick haze. through the smoke is supposed to be alcatraz. you can barely make it out there. many local, state, national

parks are closed to discourage people from going out and breathing in this unhealthy air. and despite all the challenges, all the concerns with covid-19 and now the poor air quality some people just wanted to get out for a friday night. here's "today in the bay's" sergio quintana. >> reporter: for the third night in a row smoke is making for a gloomy situation so it's no surprise street life is pretty sparse. most of the people i talked with are visiting the city. kyle bresnahan and ryle are here from the central coast, they planned on touring alcatraz. >> it got cancelled at like 9:30 this morning, right when we landed. >> reporter: the national parks service closed down tourists to keep people out of the smoke. in the mission district it's usually buzzing with people but for the second night in a row, no closure to turn it into a bustling pedestrian mall. >> for the past two months it's blocked off, completely.

from 5:00 until 10:00 at night. this place is very busy usually. not today. >> reporter: in north beach the smoke didn't stop a few men from tossing a football around in washington square. and several restaurants seemed to have a decent dinner crowd. peter and don drove in from petaluma. >> we're all tired of sitting at home and watching television. some of us are willing to risk a little bit of breathing the smoke to get out and do something different. >> reporter: it doesn't just look bad. the air quality is also potentially hazardous and it looks like we're going to have to deal with it through the weekend. in san francisco, sergio quintana, abc bay area news. it has been an eye opening few days. these images say it all. these are not doctored. this is a look from our san bruno mountain camera left to right, wednesday orange skies, thursday yellow skies, friday gray skies. and in san jose the 280/17

interchange is kind of the came progression of colors, not as intense, orange to yellow to gray, this is a week we might not soon forget. the 49ers are set to return to the gridiron tomorrow taking on the arizona cardinals at levi stadium, but if the aqi is above 200, the nfl could postpone or move the game. yesterday the team practiced in santa clara with the aqi around 194. by the way, this is a live look this morning and wow, it did not look good out there. doctors say an index above 200 is very unhealthy. conditions are unsafe for plafrplafrs players. the 49ers say they are optimistic the games will go on as scheduled but note that ultimately it's the nfl's decision. >> they couldn't practice with it being past 150. if it happens sunday, my understanding is if it gets to 2 hurngz that's when the nfl will start to discuss what to do with

the game. >> the fefl policy generally states that it, quote, will be prepared to relocate a game if there is above 200. so the game could be held tomorrow. it could also be moved to monday when the aqi is expected to drop. a decision will be made sometime today. right now, 29 major wildfires burning across california. since the beginning of 2020 fires have scorched more than 3 million acres in our state alone. and destroyed nearly 4,000 structures. 19 people have been killed. one of the state's biggest and deadliest fires continues to rage to our northeast. this is the north complex fire near oroville outside of chico. it has already killed ten people. the fire has burned more than 250,000 acres. it has destroyed 2,000 structures. mandatory evacuation orders are still in place for butte, plumas

and yuba counties. the fire has 23% containment. it seems like every week for months now we have a new problem, a new challenge, first we had the pandemic, then the economy, social unrest. fires, now air quality. it is all taking a psychological toll on us. and also our kids. a bay area child and family psychologist talked to us yesterday and says that we should talk to our kids. we should explain what's going on, show them the smoky skies, explain that this, too, eventually will pass. but that's why we're all staying indoors right now. being cooped up may affect both you and your kids. that's normal, they say. dr. sarah levoy shared tips with our own janelle wang on what to look out for and how to reset. >> you probably will see a lot of hyperactivity, maybe jumping on the furniture, running around. you're definitely going to see

some sibling rivalry, completely normal. you know, you may even see an increase in tantrums. definitely some insomnia because they're not getting as much movement or exercise so they're not sleeping as well. you know, and just be honest with your kids. you know, we're all feeling cooped up, we're all feeling stressed, hey, let's go, you know, have a dance party. we're all going to take a quiet time, 15 minutes, let's meet back. you know, trying to come up with ways to just do lots of little resets through the day so that you can just keep going. and definitely, you know, be patient and kind with yourself as a parent. >> that is really good advice. a big question dr. levoy gets is how much screen time kids already are on their computers a lot for school. their eye pads. dr. levoy says technology is fine. just use it differently. instead of just plopping your kids in front of the tv or ipad, things like touring museums and

national parks, even taking a cooking class together. i need to work on that. we've had a little too much youtube on in my household. still to come on "today in the bay," the giants might be forced off the field for three games. we'll show you what happened in san diego last night in the midst of the playoff race. sports is next. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back?