right now at 4:30, wildfires raging across the state. more than a million acres burned in california and we're learning the cause of a fire that left nothing but rubble at a mobile home park north of the bay area. >> we've issued a microclimate weather alert. the bad air sticking around the bay this morning, but things may be changing soon. the updated timeline and when the smoke will move out of the way. >> hopefully making waves for our weekend. we're on the cusp this friday morning. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm kris sanchez. we have team coverage for you this morning starting with

vianey arana tracking these unhealthy conditions and as laura said, we're hoping we'll get some bit of the weekend. >> we had an air quality advisory yesterday that got upgraded because of the spare the aair alert because of the drifting smoke. let's get started with our surface smoke model because this gives you an idea of where that smoke might settle in through the afternoon. notice this is around 11:00 and you can see some of those orange and yellow hues starting to settle in scotts valley, the south bay san jose area. what's going to help us out this weekend we'll get an increase in an onshore flow. notice we see some of that orange start to get pushed further inland, more of the blue in the picture, and that's going to help push out some of that smoke hopefully providing some much needed relief into saturday night. full forecast in a few minutes. >> we're waking up to the thick blanket of haze lingering over

the bay area. the air quality remains a concern. >> cheryl hurd is in walnut creek one of the big trouble spots in terms of air quality. >> reporter: the orange moon is an eerie reminder that -- >> air quality is pretty bad. >> reporter: and that's coming from someone visiting from arizona. >> and my eyes have been so scratchy and just really irritated and i couldn't figure out why until i looked out and the sky is all gloomy and -- >> reporter: smoke has been pouring in from wildfires in the north, triggering a spare the air alert for the rest of the week across the bay area. >> i live in california because i'm here for the weather, the weather. i'm willing to pay the price for the weather. not the smog. >> reporter: or the smoke. >> the number one way to stay safe is to stay indoors. >> reporter: kaiser

pulmonologist tom daily says the smoke we are all breathing in is not good for us at all. >> if you are outdoors, you must wear an n-95 mask, a cloth mask, a paper mask, and we have all been using to protect ourselves from covid will not protect you from these tiny particulate matter from the wood smoke. >> reporter: outside activities should be limited. on wednesday, football practice at liberty union high school in brentwood was taken indoors. >> when i was at school, it was like hard for me to breathe a little bit with the smoke. >> we did walk through for the game tomorrow. we're ready for san ramon valley. >> players were allowed to practice outside. >> kids messaging me it's smoky outside. we're going to listen to the district, follow the policies. >> reporter: when the bay area quality index topped 200, schools are instructed to cancel, move or reschedule all outdoor activities.

air quality in the bay area has been in the unhealthy level and people are tired of it. >> i'm hoping this doesn't last any longer. >> reporter: cheryl hurd, "today in the bay." well, we've been watching the fires to see if it's going to last any longer. developing, new milestone to tell you about in the dixie wildfire burning in plumas and lassen counties. the flames have burned 700,000 acres. firefighters are making some progress on containment compared to this time yesterday. it's now 35% contained. more than 1200 homes and buildings however have been destroyed. a federal judge has ordered the pg&e worker who found damaged power equipment near the start of the fire to appear in court next month for questioning. take a look here, more than a dozen fires we've been talking about, look at that, burning across our region and most of them right where we are in northern california. east of sacramento, firefighters still working to get a kind of containment on the caldor fire

burning in el dorado county. it's burned 70,000 acres since it started six days ago. at least 100 homes and buildings destroyed. thousand additional ones remained threatened. for the fire burning closest to the bay area, the cause of this week's cache fire in lake county. flames tore through one neighborhood near clearlake on wednesday destroying more than three dozen mobile homes and burning about 75 acres. the fire chief now says that fire started as an oven fire. some evacuation orders are still in place. it is now 40% contained. stay with us with the latest on those fires and all of the smoke to track the air quality where you live, go to nbcbayarea.com, click on the link in the trending bar at the top and enter your address on the map to check conditions where you live. a live look in san francisco this morning where if you are looking to go out in the city make sure you bring your proof of vaccination. that new vaccine mandate begins today. either you need your card as we have been reporting, photo of

it, maybe the state's qr code to get into restaurants, bars, even gyms this time around. some feel safer inside knowing that everyone is vaccinated. >> others criticizing the mandate saying it will be harder. health leaders hope the new rule will keep the workforce and customers healthy as well. cierra johnson will be reporting live from san francisco in less than half an hour on all of that. marin county is holding a special covid vaccine clinic tomorrow. third doses will be offered to anyone who is immunocompromised. this is happening at the marin center exhibit hall in san raphael. appointments are not necessary but encouraged. cal osha standards board, according to the chronicle the changes would happen in december at the earliest. this week they're meeting to talk about revisions. rules allow fully vaccinated people to not wear masks in the workplace. not so for the unvaccinated.

workers who say they're vaccinated do not have to show proof. there are no distancing or capacity restrictions in place. cal osha rules are separate than those required by state or local health departments. so the red hot housing market perhaps losing some of its sizzle for home buyers hoping to make it in the bay. that's what the numbers show from the association of realtors. the median home price is $1.3 million. it dropped slightly from june down a little bit more than 3%. still, year over year the median is up 24%. also, cooling down if we can call it that, the number of sales which were down slightly compared to the same time one year ago. in an effort to boost air travel during the pandemic, american airlines bringing back its nonstop flights from san jose to chicago. the airlines will offer four flights a week from min net to o'hare from tuesday to friday and leave san jose about 1:00 in

the afternoon. passengers must follow covid protocols on the plane. there's your chance if you want to get away. i'm craving a deep dish pizza. >> on the plane? >> anywhere. >> how you have to get there first. >> that's right. >> you might want to leave town, although where do you go to escape the smoke. >> i thought about going to tahoe but the way the winds are shifting. >> maybe south. >> i'm going to l.a. south. >> follow vianey. >> yeah. >> we're all going. >> that's where my parents are, my sisters, all that. let's talk about that air quality because we are still dealing with the hazy conditions and as you know, the spare the air alert. this is the air quality right now. this is what the sensors are picking up. we have a couple spots in the yellow, in through san francisco down through san jose, which depicts moderate. as you know whenever we see the winds come down, what tends to happen is we can get some of the smoke mixing down at a lower surface level so it creates the pockets of unhealthy air that

might not show up on that sensor until it's already happening. so that's why your biggest, you know -- my biggest piece of advice, follow your eyes and listen to your nose. if you smell or see the smoke, definitely head inside. temperatures will be in the 80s for the interior valleys. a check of the roads with mike. >> vianey, we're looking at the typical overnight construction that we've been talking about for 242 all week. northbound as that closure up to concord, counter commute through that portion of contra costa county. early starts out of antioch with no major issues. farther west we have the altamont pass where that's moving smoothly as well. east shore freeway, the crews clearing to and across the golden gate bridge with your overnight road work. one lane blocked there. the south bay no restrictions. a new crash did pop up in hayward. more detail and bring that to you. back to you. >> thanks so much. 4:39 right now. coming up next on "today in the bay," delaying the return to office. another tech giant postponing the big comeback amid a surge in

delta cases. how long employees can expect to stay home. >> the cars, the solar panels, tesla's endeavor revealed and why elon musk says it's going to change your life forever. >> the bay bridge toll plaza this morning, count the cars. pick up as we move along this friday morning. we'll help you get there. 4:40 right now.

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4:42 under a microclimate weather alert because of the poor air quality in the bay area. here's a closer look at your oakland commute. we're going to be in the 50s and 60s to start. we'll get some sunshine but tear that up with hazy conditions and talk about when we could see bettering air quality coming up in a few minutes. >> over here the san mateo bridge, the drive looks fine right now approaching the san mateo bridge. trying to gather details on what chp has going on near the 880 interchange. we'll track that. let's check in with christina. >> good morning. i'm christina from cnbc. wall street is set to open lower after a choppy session that saw the s&p 500 and nasdaq eek out some small gains, but the dow fell for a third straight day. all three are on track to close the week in the red. the dow and the s&p 500 are on pace for their worst weekly performance since june while the nasdaq is set for its worst week since may. there could be some carryover from the overnight session in

asia where markets slumped after china passed a data privacy law and part of it is part of this ongoing crackdown on tech companies. apple is reportedly delaying its return to office plans until at least january due to the surge in covid cases. in an internal memo the company will give employees a month's notice before they have to come back. in june ceo tim cook said apple will test a hybrid model with people working in the office three days a week in september but that date was moved to october and now the new year. elon musk showcased tesla's artificial intelligence technology at the a.i. day yesterday giving a preview of the tesla bot, 5'8" robot with a screen for a face weighing about 125 pounds and moving about five miles per hour. musk says a proto keep is expected next year and building a humanoids robot is the next logical step since tesla is a

robotic company with cars being robots. he says the bot could be used for household chores, but it's intended for unsafe, repetitive and boring tasks or work people would least likely want to do. >> like household chores. >> i feel like we could find many reasons to use that. but i'm -- i don't know. i imagine we all have robots in our house in the next five to ten years. >> it's called -- >> thank you so much. >> oh. >> all right. coming up, on "today in the bay," we are off to a smoky start for the whole weekend, in fact. vianey is tracking how long it's going to stick around. >> unfortunately, we're going to be seeing the spare the air alert for the remainder of your friday but saturday we could see smoke push inland that could help us out. i'll talk about that. the air quality or the visibility i should say looks just fine here at the golden gate bridge. you do actually even see the

cones. we still have the overnight roadwork. there you go, the crew getting ready to clear it out from the northbound side. we'll see what's still on the reports for chp coming up. >> if you're feeling the pressure, governor newsom explaining why he should stay in office as his opponents take to the debate stage. hear from the candidates on why they should be the ones to leave california. i'm morgan, and there's more to me than hiv. more love, more adventure, more community. but with my hiv treatment, there's not more medicines in my pill. i talked to my doctor and switched to fewer medicines with dovato.

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it's nice and clearish in this picture. you can see it. we've had all that smoke that's been lingering and hovering over so much of the bay area. the shift in the winds will be where it's going to go. >> here's to hoping. >> the moon. >> really orange. >> reminiscent of last year and september. >> we haven't seen it that long and hopefully we won't see it for that long. >> what i like to tell people just to sort of give them an idea of how this is still constantly changing this can change depending on how the fire acts. >> right. >> the winds as you mentioned or if a new fire starts. even if the winds begin to die down because there's so much dry brush out there, we've seen how quickly fires can start and spread. you know, we're hoping for this push from the onshore flow to help clear out some of the smoke and i'm going to go through this for you in a second. live look right now in san francisco, now the cameras are dark right now because the sun is not up, but we are expecting another hazy day in walnut creek right now, i was using the camera yesterday because you can

see that orange glow. early on in the morning. let's get to your forecast. what can we expect in terms of that air quality. well this is the air quality right now. you can see the sensors are picking up for the most part moderate air quality, this is some of the fog that's moving in to the north bay and portions through the inland east bay as well. the near surface smoke notice the time stamp, 11:30, the pockets of orange and yellow, those are the unhealthy zones, right. even the hazy conditions in through blue and green, and then look what happens early saturday morning. so we start to see the blue roll in and what this is from is from the wind. so that's going to start to push in further the smoke in to the inland areas away from our region here and just a perspective, this is where that dixie fire is and look at this. look at how far this smoke is traveling. what's going to happen, as the onshore winds push in the smoke it will travel through salt lake city, see up through here las

vegas might get the impact of some of that smoke as well. it will push out of our region but going to begin to impact some other areas as well. as far as the air quality north bay to the east bay remains unhealthy. coast, bay and east bay moderate at times. use your eyes and nose. if you see the smoke if it looks hazy close the windows, smell the lingering smoke as well take your time and head indoors. san jose, livermore, concord, morgan hill are going to be in the low to mid 80s. oakland 70s and san francisco in through the upper 60s for this afternoon. near seasonable. what's going to happen the rest of the week. well, as we get the system that passes to our north, we get that sea breeze coming in, it's going to help cool us off by a couple degrees into saturday and sunday and again, hopefully those winds push out majority of that smoke, but as we head in towards next week we're going to see high pressure begin to rebuild heading into tuesday and wednesday and that's going to bump us right back up into the upper 90s in some spots.

mike? >> we're looking at the road quality or quality of your drive. it is what it is thanks to caltrans. south bay, peninsula, altamont pass crash on the shoulder around grant line road no delays for vasco, no problems. great start. blip shows up here north of 580. i'll check on it and make sure there's nothing major going on, nothing major for your commute. we have 242 with your overnight closures. back to you. >> thanks, mike. trying to woo voters in the recall push, three seeking to replace governor newsom took to the debate stage last night that aired on kron. assemblyman kevin kiley, san diego businessman john cox and former san diego mayor kevin faulconer were the only three of the more than 20 republican candidates on hand and all of their shots at newsom's handling of the pandemic. >> it would be hard to imagine a greater recipe for distruss than the one that governor newsom has followed. >> the problem with a lot of

people not wanting to be vaccinated is their lack of trust in government. governor newsom exemplifies that. >> what we have seen from the governor is a one-size-fits-all policy. >> the replacement candidate leading in the polls is radio talk show host larry elder who did not attend nor did governor. newsom did tell us one-on-one before the debate he offers a stark contrast to those replacement candidates. >> we've turned the page, $80 billion surplus, fastest growing economy of all western democracies, highest level of reserves and we have the fastest growing job creation in america. >> don't forget the deadline for mailing in your ballot is september 14th which is also election day. so what if you didn't get your ballot or maybe you want to vote in person instead of mailing it in. we can tell you how to find your polling place, all of that in a guide we've put together. head to nbcbayarea.com/recall. coming up on "today in the bay," remember this song.

♪ it's raining men ♪ >> wow. >> we're going to introduce you to the exclusive new remake very inclusive on this one. hey, are you ready for the showdown. the latest edition of the bay bridge series starts tonight. the giants will be in oakland. you can only watch a game here on nbcbayarea.com at 6:30. >> they're going to keep the shirts on though. >> first happening now, california regulators are boosting protections for homeowners affected by the major wildfires that burned last year. the "sacramento bee" reports the commissioner is issuing a one-year moratorium on insurance nonrenewals for those affected by the lava and beckworth complex fires that includes 20,000 policy holders in plumas, lassen and butte counties, the third straight year on the one-year ban on nonrenewals that was extended.

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modernized version. >> very cool. >> yeah. i like it. >> catchy. >> it's good. stuck in our heads all day. >> and the dancing too. >> we'll do that in the commercial break. all right. coming up on "today in the bay," the wildfires they continue to blow that smoke here into the bay area and we're going to track how long it's going to linger. >> the pandemic first, the california school district becoming the first to mandate vaccines for eligible students. could other school districts follow their lead?

might be hard to breathe outside. unhealthy air lingering in the bay area. we have a look at your forecast next. and restricting the unvaccinated. new rules going into effect in san francisco today. we are live this morning breaking down what you can and what you may not be able to do. >> afghanistan in crisis, the push to get troops out as chaos continues at the airport. when president biden is expected to address the humanitarian disaster. this is "today in the bay." >> this is also friday morning. thanks so much for starting your day with us. 5:00 right now. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm kris sanchez. marcus is off today. it is a busy morning because we want to get to the smoky skies that you might be even smelling where you live this morning. still a bit dark but that haze is blanketing the bay area. vianey is tracking these unhealthy conditions. >> u