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from cbs news bay area, this is the afternoon edition. smoky, hazy and downright unhealthy. bad air across the bay area right now making this a first alert weather day. we are tracking when it will finally start to clear out. good afternoon. i'm elizabeth cook. you can still see the smoke and smell it the minute you step outside. let's take a live look across the region right now. all of that bad air hanging over us. it feels like it is stuck and it is making it hard for some of you to breathe outdoors. some of the smoke and haze is coming from wildfires in humbolt county. darren peck joins us now with a closer look at our air quality. when will it get better? >> i am glad you started with that. that is the good news. friday or saturday. >> a few more days. >> we can see when and how this will get better. that is a live picture of downtown san

francisco. it looks this way bay area wide. if we go to the map where we can plot the sensors, these are the purple air sensors that show was how the air quality is reading. we are looking unhealthy for sensitive groups for everybody but we are shading deeper into the red which is flat-out unhealthy for anybody and everybody and that is down in the south bay but that is squashed around a bit. we will keep doing this tomorrow. liz mentioned it. wildfires are coming way up here. for now, the flow in the atmosphere wants to keep whatever little that is drifting our way. the fires did not change at all over the last couple of days. here is the good news. take a look at the timestamp. that is friday. by the time we get to friday, the wind reverses and it starts blowing the other way. for tomorrow, another inundation coming. we will continue to call it unhealthy. it is probably no different

tomorrow than it is today but there is light at the end of the tunnel and an improvement coming our way. look at the green that shows up by the time we get there. totally unrelated story, by the way. locally, there is a red flag warning for fire weather concerns. this has to do with strong northerly winds that will kick in tomorrow and dry out the hills. the smoke we are experiencing now and the red flag warning have nothing to do with one another but this does give us concern for any local buyers. we have a chance of rain toward the end of the 7-day forecast. >> rain would feel really good with this bad air. some golfers in san jose noticed the bad air even this morning. >> this morning, we can't see any of the mountains that we normally would see. the smoke is definitely a bit greater than a normally is. certainly

the news with all of the wildfires is a consideration. >> when i came in today, one of the guys with the carts was wearing a mask. i did not think anything of it but once i started walking around outside, we could feel it and smell it. >> bay area school districts are limiting outdoor activity for kids today and keeping windows and doors closed to keep the batter out of classrooms. the oakland zoo closed to visitors today. if you had a reservation, check your email for information about the refund. the zoo says it's team is making sure all of the animals are safe on this poor air quality. if you are looking for the latest air-quality readings in your area, we have posted several links within this story on www.kpix.com. now to stories around the bay. a special school board meeting is happening this afternoon in the sunol glen school district. this comes days after they discussed a proposal to ban what some call

special-interest flags like the pride flag from school buildings. today's session is closed to the public. the pleasanton city council has decided not to increase water rates for now. the city had said rate increases are necessary to help with the water company's maintenance but now, the council plans to look at alternatives and revisit the issue in november. if there is an increase, rates could go up an average of $33 every two months to start and as much as $75 every two months by 2026. in oakland, the chair for the police chief is sitting empty and the local chapter of the naacp and the police commission are both calling for the former chief to get his job back. that is based on a new independent report that armstrong says cleared his name months after the mayor fired him. that 57 page report has not been made public but our katie nielsen got to see it before she sat down with the

former chief. >> why is this so deeply personal to you? >> for our community for finally -- to finally believe in the police department, that means something to me. i did not want to tarnish people's trust in me. i did not want to tarnish the trust people will have in the oakland police department and i believe that the truth needed to be told. >> would you take the job again if it was offered to you? >> everything is on the table at this point. i thought it was an important gesture that they appreciate the work that i did as the chief of police and that they felt like i would be a good selection to be cheap again. i will continue to serve oakland in any capacity that i feel like is important. i won't be going away, whether i am chief or not.

>> mayor thao fired armstrong in february following an independent investigation into a misconduct case he handled. she said she did not think he took it serious enough and loft consonants -- lost confidence in him. mayor thao's office declined the on camera interview so we emailed two questions. is the city open to meeting with the former chief and what is the mayor's response to the independent report. they simply reiterated that the mayor fired the chief based on his actions following that investigation, adding that she believes it is critically important opd leadership is held to the same standard of conduct as we expect from our officers. our top national stories. the federal reserve will keep interest rates the same this month but more hikes could be on the way. this is the second time in the past year and a half that rates have stayed the

same. the current benchmark short-term rate is at a 22 year high. the fed expects to raise rates one more time this year and for next year, they are not projecting as many cuts as they estimated in june. today marks 12 years since the military repealed its don't ask, don't tell policy for lgbtq+ service members. today, the pentagon took a significant step toward helping veterans who are still carrying less than honorable discharges because of their sexuality. anne makovec recently spoke with one bay area veteran who has been hoping to see this change for decades. >> they are part of a class-action lawsuit brought against the pentagon to try to force changes like this. today's announcement is a huge step in the direction of the quality. lily now identifies as nine binary. they join the military in 1998 and 19 years old and the next year, they were discharged after magazines

advertising gay clubs were found in their locker. the military papers identified them as homosexual, discharge dubbed other than honorable, which they have carried ever since. >> i had somebody from above me in the chain of command telling me that i am not worthy and that did not make any sense to me because i know i am. >> other than honorable discharge, it can deprive them of loans, tuition and housing. defense secretary lloyd austin bad today to make the review process more accessible and efficient for lgbtq veterans. that includes plans to conduct a review of veteran's records, hoping to streamline recommendations of discharge. >> we are doubling our outreach discharged under don't ask, don't tell to encourage anyone who might be eligible to apply for corrections to their military records including to their discharge paperwork. this outreach campaign will be online, by email, through mail,

and more. >> we reached out to the lawyers involved in the class-action lawsuit today and they say they welcome the news but that much work lies ahead. this is not automatic. until every veteran discharged under don't ask, don't tell and its predecessor policies receives the long-delayed justice they deserve, we remain committed to advocating for the rights and dignity of lgbtq veterans who have been affected by this historic injustice. it is estimated that 100,000 lgbtq+ service members were kicked out of the military from world war ii to the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. only 1300 of them have had their discharges upgraded. she is a northbay native who followed her dreams all the way into space. how this astronaut is breaking barriers and inspiring the next generation. a working farm in the heart of silicon valley. how this new

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san francisco plans to tackle climate change by planting trees, thousands of them. the city has been awarded a federal grant of $12 million to do just that. the city says it will create 100 jobs for people in underserved communities. the money comes from the inflation reduction act. san francisco received more grant money for this than any other california city.

to the south bay now. the largest urban community farm and affordable housing committee held its grand opening today. they provide housing for seniors and fresh produce with its on-site farm. it includes more than 100 units of housing and nearly 2 acres of urban farm, making it the largest project of its kind in the state. it also offers programs like farmers markets and gardening lessons. a northbay native is breaking barriers. she graduated from the us naval academy and stanford. she flies the fa 18 hornet and that is not all. her goals took her all the way into space and a mission that shattered a glass ceiling. nicole mann told our betty yu what she wants to do next and what she wants the next generation to know. >> here we have come through.

the first one through the hatch will be nicole mann, commander. now, the first native american woman. >> nicole returned to earth earlier this year after spending six months aboard the international space station. as the first native american woman in space, she told a crowd in her hometown of petaluma that she wants to inspire others to take the small steps that lead to giant leaps. >> there is a great responsibility that comes with that and then goes back to communicating with a younger generation, especially young indigenous women. maybe they live in an area where they don't realize that we have astronauts living in space continuously for over 23 years. >> so honor just to be a part of a. >> reporter: nicole conducted experiments and technology demonstrations alongside her crew. she entertained the

crowd with stories about everyday life. >> how young were you when you had this dream as a girl growing up in petaluma? >> for me, it was not until later on in life. i was interested in space as a kid. >> there were many young people in the audience who did get to meet an astronaut including 15-year-old sophomore emily been sick. >> it is really impressive that she was able to go up and do this. it gives me hope that maybe i can do something important as well. >> i am interested in engineering and space. >> reporter: nicole was able to overcome self-doubt were barriers along the way with the support of her family that lives in the petaluma area. nicole's father was in attendance. >> just being there and supporting her, it was not anything i did. >> did you think that this would be what your daughter

would become? >> it is funny. her mother told her when she was pretty young. she said, someday you will be famous. i don't know. >> reporter: nicole is in houston where she trains. she said she would love to return to the international space station in a few years or even the moon as part of nasa's artemis mission. if you are curious about what she missed the most while she was in space -- >> you can smell the ocean. you can smell the breeze. you can't smell your food. i missed smells and i missed the wind, feeling the wind on your face. >> october 5 will mark the one-year anniversary of nicole's historic launch. by the way, 2023 also marks 50 years of women flying in the navy. we are continuing our first alert weather day coverage with this new drone video from downtown danville showing how bad the air is out there. you can see it. when you can see the air, you know that it is not good. >> and you can smell it too .

we spent a lot of time in the last block of the newscast showing what the air quality is and how it will get better. it is unhealthy for sensitive groups. we have one more day like this and then by friday, the flow in the atmosphere will change. if you miss that, stick with us. we do go into a lot of detail on that. i will move on and talk about two items. there is a red flag warning in our mountains from tonight until tomorrow. these are northbay mountains primarily. this is unrelated to the smoke that is coming our way. this does not even start until 11:00 tonight and it goes through tomorrow at 5:00. here is why. watch the winds. there is a whole different kind of direction and intensity. look at mount st. helena. by the time we get to midnight, we are looking at 36 miles per hour wind gusts. those are the winds that dry out the landscape because they

are going over the mountains and subsiding. that is what primes it from a fire weather concern. it is not necessarily windy where we all live. this is an issue for the mountains. watch how it reverses when we get late night thursday into friday. that is the marine layer, the cooler air. look what it does to the marine layer tomorrow. there won't be any. offshore winds tend to clear out and dry out the air. we will have relatively clear skies but it will be just as smoky and just as unhealthy. look at the daytime highs. the numbers will be about the mid-80s. once we get past that, here is the next item. when we get to monday, there is a small chance of rain. keep your eye out here in the pacific. there goes one system. the next one behind it develops. look at this plume of moisture that comes out of the pacific and

starts looking impressive. this will have a mild component of an atmospheric river but it won't be one of those storms for us. you need much more than to have the moisture in the atmosphere aligned. you've got to have the timing with the low. interesting that we are already seeing signatures like that show up. here is what it looks like for us. the storm is going too far north. this brings us some rain to the far northwest coast from sunday into monday and some of that comes as far south as here. the timing on this is monday. if we coloring the map, santa rosa could get .500. we have a chance of rain on the forecast. there is the drop of rain showing up on monday. we will go to the northbay valleys. this is where we would be most likely to see rain you could

measure. san jose, i doubt you will get in on the action. maybe you will notice a few clouds. i don't think most of our inland valleys get much of this either but you might get a chance of rain. excitement by monday. back to you. the 49ers are gearing up for their home opener tomorrow. why they may be missing a key member of the offense.

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night game , kickoff levi's stadium just the right way. >> not everybody is ready for the giants thursday night. wide receiver brandon aiyuk is dealing with a shoulder injury. he will be a levi's stadium gametime decision. aiyuk was injured on the opening drive last sunday but did manage to finish the game. linebacker fred water was also a strong start on and off the field. bread and his wife sydney have started their own weekly podcast this season called the waterhouse. in this next clip, fred explained to cindy what it means to be voted a team captain. >> there are four stars underneath the seat. for every year that you are captain, you get a starfield in. >> this reminds me of when i was a girl scout and you get your patches and you are so proud of them. i sold the most cookies. i am this, i am that. the pride you feel, i can't imagine the pride you feel. >> for the red and gold report, i'm vern glenn. lifting people's spirits

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coming up tonight, meet two bay area women who are rescuing dogs from war-torn neighborhoods overseas. more about their efforts earning this week's jefferson award. that story and much more with ryan yamamoto and myself coming up at 5:00 tonight. world-renowned humanitarian and shep has released a new collection of stories and recipes. he stopped by cbs mornings to discuss his latest project, the world's central kitchen cookbook, beating humanity, feeding hope. he has earned two michelin stars and founded world central kitchen in 2010. it is a nonprofit food relief organization that has served more than 300 million meals and disaster and war zones around the world including ukraine. he gave the cbs mornings team a taste of one popular ukrainian dish. >> ukrainian people call them -- these dumplings, you will find them everywhere. that is home food for millions of

ukrainians on the frontline. for a few minutes, you are lifting up their spirit. >> all proceeds from the world central kitchen cookbook will be used to support the nonprofit's emergency response efforts . it is pretty remarkable. whenever there is an emergency or a world disaster, he is there helping to be victims of that disaster. >> a ♪ ♪ >> tonight to the crisis at the southern border as illegal crossings are on the rise. border towns are overwhelmed in cities like new york city and chicago are struggling to handle the influx of migrants. here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪ the unprecedented number of migrants climbing on board cargo trains forces a halt of the railway as one u.s. town issues and emergency declaration. >> we will explore what is behind the latest spike in