we'll begin with our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. it was so ominous looking outside, i was waiting for zombies to come out some where. it just looked creepy. >> yes. >> very bizarre. disoriented on some level and so strange. i want to go deeper into why we are seeing such a sharp orange color in the sky. you can see this is a view of the orange sky from earlier today. what i want to go ahead and show you is the way that light travels that has a big impact on why we are seeing this color. let's go ahead and get a look. you can see the shorter wavelength color like green, blue, indigo and violet, they don't travel that far. they all bounce backup wards. when longer wavelength colors like red, orange and yellow, they travel much further. they pass through the smoke and through our eyes, we see that orange and true red color everywhere. it has to do with the way the light travels. four major fires outside of the bay area, that's why we are getting choked with all of this smoke. the air quality right now for most of us is moderate to slig

we begin with our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. jeff. >> and guys like many people today i have not stepped foot outside because of how unhealthy that air is. it should be said this is a minute by minute hour by hour situation. that's why we are not giving you a five-day-forecast on this. i am seeing changes down the road that could help out the smoke. we are so stocked in with all of the smoke from the fires burning across the state. a live air quality monitoring right now. a close up view here of the bay area. you can see the key spots here, napa and nevada, all in the unhealthy range. you head to san francisco, oakland and fremont and san jose, we are very unhealthy. what's the problem with this smoke? why can't we get it to clear out? a couple of things we are looking at here. the main thing is the wind. the surface wind is taking the smoke. continually smoke from the north to the south that past several days. the winds are relatively light. let's take it one step further. i think this is really going to explain this for us. it

let's bring in jeff ranieri. we are trying to stay positive. what do you have for us? >>> when we look at things overall from this weekend to now it's all relative, right? we have seen some subtle changes. i know it's not down to the good category yet but signs of things beginning to improve. for much of the weekend everyone was in that very unhealthy category, that purple color. now we're down into the unhealthy from the north bay to the south bay. yes, it's still bad. we have the haze out here, but we're seeing signs of changes. let me get to that and to give you this reference point. i have to give you a wider look at the satellite and the three large fires producing the most smoke, you can see the plumes on the satellite view showing the smoke now lifting to the north and east so that's moving away from the bay area. and we're starting to see these changes from the system that is developing right on track just offshore. that's going to help to change our air quality. we'll have more details on that in our developing la nina and what that could mean coming up in 18

happening, jeff ranieri is back with us here. this could be the situation for a couple of days, possibly, right, jeff? >> it's very hour by hour, day by day, with the way the smoke is, because we have to get some higher containment numbers on these fires. we could see some changes by this weekend and early next week to get the air circulating and moving around. but right now, that's right, we're stuck with it. a look at our map, and you can see all of that gray over the land. that is the smoke that is coming from four different fires that basically surround the greater bay area. that's why we've had such a problem. in case you missed it i don't really, i wanted to show you why the sky had that sharp orange color for most of us. this is a picture from tiburon, looking towards what is usually san francisco. it has to do with the color spectrum and how the different wavelengths of those colors travel. colors like green, blue, indigo, violet, they don't travel as far. so these colors reflect off the smoke particles and bounce back up

jeff ranieri, you were explaining to us it's tricky near marin county because the wind comes off the coast to fuel the flames. >> excellent point. two-sided coin. like the fog and cooling weather, increased humidity. but every night the fog kicks up at woodward fire, seeing the winds gust up as well. 15 to 35 miles per hour. as they get handle on it, foggy breeze is back, good in some parts but coastal wind as well. firefighters doing a tremendous effort out here. weather is helping but firefighters, we thank you so much. look at microclimate forecast. you can see in san francisco, foggy breeze back, cool 51. south bay, smoke, haze and foggy wind wdropping to 70. northerly wind, smoke and fog. satellite data mapped on here. with northerly wind, lot of us continue to see haze and smoke from the fires in north bay and surrounding locations. where do we go from here? as we move through tomorrow, smoke forecast model. 5:30 trouble spots over the santa cruz mountains for smoke. red to orange. also the south bay and east bay and north bay. as we progress through the afternoon, once we hit

jeff ranieri, our teammate jeff ranieri, he's very good at these home improvement projects. >> i think jeff and i are going to have to come over and help you, because i dyi all the time. >> i'll supervise. >>> housing construction booming. at the same time the bay area housing market has hit new highs and new lows in the same week. it's less expensive to rent here, but more expensive to buy. so how do you make sense of this? we sent scott budman to find that out for us. >> reporter: for the first time in six years, the average one bedroom apartment in san francisco can be yours for less than $3,000 a month. >> they offered me a very good, 30% discount. >> reporter: dominic's land lord was desperate enough to offer a deep discount. but it wasn't enough. dominic moved to las vegas any way. he says he can do business anywhere. >> we can simply have people working remotely and have those benefits of being in san francisco without being there. and you get the benefits of having more reasonable living costs. >> if there was ever a time that the san francisco rental industry would be a renter

jeff ranieri is with us. jeff, we're crossing our fingers, hoping that smoke doesn't come back to the bay area. what are you seeing? >> it looks like smoke for us would be coming from the north as we head through this weekend. down in yosemite, you know, a really astonishing sight we're seeing right now. the same wind that's clearing us out in the bay area and at the coastline is pushing all of this smoke right up against the higher elevations and really kind of just damming it in and just trapping it all there throughout yosemite. so as we get a closer look right now, we are still reading hazardous right through yosemite national park. those are cameras from earlier today, and you can see how poor the visibility was. we had reads ranging from 600 to 906 at the peak of that poor air quality. some of the worst readings ever, 999 in new delhi. so we weren't far away from that today. here's the interesting thing. we have some tropical moisture off to the south and some showers that are trying to develop in the y

a busy night of course with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. and, jeff, we saw all that haze, but at the same time you couldn't really smell the smoke, so it was very confusing. >> it really was today, and we still think as we head through tomorrow, we're going to have some unhealthy air at times and also some moderate air. it's going to really kind of go back and forth as we have so many large fires burning outside of the bay area that have really erupted over the past 72 hours. let's start off with a look at the red flag fire warning. this is for the north, east, and the south bay hills at 1,000 feet and above. we could have isolates gusts overnight coming out of the northeast. what about the fires? again, three large fires outside of the immediate bay area. one of the ones that has seen some of the most explosive growth is the creek fire to the south of us. 143,000 acres and these are contributing to the smoke we have been seeing in so air quality right now is good to moderate, and a few spots unhealthy like concord and livermore. we'll expl

. >>> i am chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, tracking the train, i will tell you when it could pick up again with a brand new fire weather watch and a look right along the fire line in just a few minutes. >> and san francisco finally allowing dining in-doors. that's not the only covid safety rules being relaxed in bay area today. >>> new details tonight of an investigation, an officer was charged with unlawful assault and battery. this is after a video surfaced showing a woman kicked and dragged during a traffic stop. >> this video was posted on social media platform and it went viral. it shows the woman laying handcuffed outside a silver car at a mcdonald's parking lot in downtown san jose back in july. at one point the officer appeared to kick her on the side and handcuffed her and dragged her several feet across the ground. that officer matthew rodriguez faces one year in jail if convicted. >>> orange means green, a green light to move forward in san francisco and contra costa county. the first bay area moving from the red tier to the orange tier. contra costa county moving to red.

our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, what are you seeing so far? this really looks like a widespread event that's going to be impacting the entire state. we could be getting up to the 106 and 107 category. based on new information we are seeing today. let me tell you why we are getting the heat here. it is all about that area of hot, high pressure where that hot air travels will bring the hottest and driest air. the circulation around this is going to bring this hot air through the entire state. it is going to be little places to escape but all of northern california in the excessive heat warning. a few things to watch out for here, in land valleys in the 100s. san francisco, 70 to 80. maybe some more power outage and on top of all that, next tuesday i am watching for some potential dry, hot wind. i will go over that in 15 minutes. >>> firefighters have had as few busy weeks battling multiple fires across the bay area. the lnu complex in the north bay and the scu in the east bay and parts of santa clara and the czu fire in san mateo. >> reporter: t

let's bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. i know it's hard to forecast this with the smoke, but what are you seeing in the next 48 hours? >> we're seeing that unhealthy to very unhealthy air is going to remain with us based on all the information i have right now. there are some changes ahead that can help circulate the air, but just be ready for this to continue as you move through tomorrow. let me show you those live monitoring sites right now that we have, and you'll see across the north bay we remain unhealthy. we really start to get into the very unhealthy range in san francisco, oakland, also redwood city and fremont. you can see the purple color here. also in san jose looking at unhealthy air. there's two things that continue to keep us from being able to get this smoke to clear out. let me show you the first one. it's all about the way the wind is moving. the upper level wind 20,000 to 30,000 feet up, and also the surface wind. beth of these are working against us. it's taking the smoke from the two large fire tuesday

let's bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri, really hazy over the weekend and still today. >> yes, these fires are burning through california. you get a little change in the wind and we are seeing smoke coming from different area and of course our fires are still continuing to burn even though we have that higher containment. i want to start off the overall picture of what the weather patterns going to be looking like the next couple of days. you can see we are dealing with this area of high pressure and keeping the storm tracked well off to the north. no hope for any kind of unusual rainstorm moving our way. this circulation around this continues to push that smoke as we talked about. we have southerly push of hotter air the next couple of days. the same time some fog coming at the coastline. a complex pattern of what we are dealing with, multi-layers. a look at the fires, we talked about containment earlier in the show. if you missed it, we are making some good head way here of containment of 39% to 63%. tomorrow is 70s in the santa cruz mountains and 80s in the south bay a

. >>> chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, i have some good news and hotter temperatures sneaking back in, we'll be telling you that in about ten minutes. >> when we welcome our west coast viewers, the cdc is so in confuse as it backtracks on covid-19 guidelines again. what to believe? we'll have that and more when we see you tonight on "nightly news." i'm looking at your mri. your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. i'm sorry baby... i don't want you to play with that... (singing) twinkle, twinkle little star. how i wonder what you are... how are you doing? schedule a video visit with your doctor. kaiser permanente. thrive. >>> well, she's back only this time in broiled controversies. you may have watched her. ellen degeneres kicked off her 18th season of her talk show and addressed head on criticisms directed at her over the summer. raj is joining us now with the back story of this controversy. this has been growing this whole time through this pandemic, raj. >> reporter: it has, you mentioned 18 years of ellen. she's now 62 years old, a staple of daytime tv. today not too many jokes.

just like our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri has been saying. all the wildfires smoke is out of the bay area. here is a live look at the air quality map today. almost the entire bay area is in green which means the air quality is good. a couple of patches of yellow which is the moderate yellow. jeff will join us a little bit to talk about how long this clean air will stick around. our air is good and other part s of the states are downright terrible. yosemite national park shuts down because of whhazardous air. park raengers closed the park a 5:00 p.m. and it will remain closed through the weekend. that's off the chart at 2:00 p.m. minutes ago it is higher now. this is moestly because of the creek fire in fresno county. >>> yosemite certainly looks terrible. bad air is blanketing a lot of the rest of the west. here ises the map now. san francisco right here you can see it. it is pretty good air. it got that nice, clean pocket of air. if you go down southern california, you can see yellow and red on the map and some purple which is really bad. ta

look at jeff ranieri live shot. blue in the background. i love it, jeff, take it away. >> reporter: it is so magnetic out here today. that blue skies you want to look off towards a distance. i got this unusual camera pointing up. look at all of that blue sky back here behind us right now. some of the best visibilities we have seen in 30 days. i had to get outside for this shot and as we have been talking about the air quality is now good for much of the bay area. we kind of fluctuated in the moderate here for the east and the south bay. my weather dashboard here, you can see all of the sky camera shows that blue sky and off towards the right hand side, there is the live monitoring site what are continuing to read good which is excellent news of course. as we bring you further in the the forecast which you are going notice here, we are expecting moderate to good air quality as we continue tomorrow. this is all based on current fire activity, i don't see a huge change as we move into the forecast the next 24 hours. but look at the pattern se

. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. tracking some great air quality now, but we've got major heat on the way, even a fire weather watch. details on this in about eight minutes. >>> when we welcome our west coast viewers, covid numbers beginning to tick up in over a dozen states, prompting worries of a fall surge in cases. also the new guidelines that could bring some of your favorite tv shows back soon. when we see you back here tonight. >>> your favorite holidays are coming up and the cdc has issued new guidelines on how to celebrate them safely during this pandemic. the agency recommends avoid traditional halloween activities like trick or treating and indoor haunted houses. instead it's encouraging lower-risk activities like pumpkin carving or a virtual costume contest. also, watching halloween movies with people who live in your household. >>> for thanksgiving, instead of a big dinner gathering, the cdc rems a small group limited to people in your immediate household. if you still want to have a larger event, they s

. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. i'll have the change in the air quality we could see tomorrow, and some dangerous heat on the way. that's in about seven minutes. >>> a texas firefighter helping battle the california wildfires has died. diana jobs was also an emt with the crescent volunteer fire department near fort worth. jones and her son, a fire captain, were helping crews fight the august complex fire in mendocino county. >> she loved helping other people. and she didn't do it for pats on the back. she just did it because she felt that was the thing to do. i'm going to miss her. we're going to miss her bald. >> jones tragically was overrun by flames while try interesting reposition her truck during a fire fight. another firefighter was hurt and treated for burns to the arms and hands. >>> as for the fight against the august complex fire in mendocino county, the fire has burned more than 242,000 acres. it stands at 20% containment. >>> big progress tonight in containing the scu fire burning in the east bay and sou

let's bring in our meteorologist, jeff ranieri.jeff, you usually get a separation between hurricanes like this. but this is coming right on tail. >> yeah. they have been so busy. check this out, ladies. i have a lemon and a lime. it's not because i'm thirsty right now, but i wanted to explain about what's happening tomorrow. which is the fall equinox. think of it like this. the lemon is the sun. the lime is earth. earth is always on the 23.5 degree tilt. during summer, earth is pointed more directly at the sun. that's why temperatures tend to get a lot hotter. then, as earth rotates around the sun, we get equal amounts of daylight coming from the sun starting tomorrow on fall equinox. the sun rays are pointed on the equator. as earth continues to rotate around the sun, once we hit winter, you can see the lime is pointed more away from the sun. that's why we tend to get colder. it's a simple process that has to do with the 23.5 degree tilt of earth. again, tomorrow, fall officially begins. let he is get a look at the time of when it

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. >>> so let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we heard terry specifically talk about marin, but what about the best of the bay area when it comes to air quality? >> i still think at this point we'll be in the unhealthy range for tomorrow. it's all in the way the wind direction is blowing this smoke. there's so many fires across northern california that we've had a northerly wind and that's really helping to take this smoke off to the north and move it down across the bay area with winds of 10 to 20 miles per hour. so bottom line, i don't see a huge improvement tomorrow with everybody rating unhealthy. it's not nearly as suffocating as when the fires originally started but you still have to watch it if you'reeading out. the last thing we want right now is more fire danger, and we're going to be talking about some big-time heat. triple digit temperatures. we'll get you squared away on that so you can be ready for it coming up in about 15 minutes. >>> here is some good news. all those firefighters making significant progress. you ac

let's bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. we just heard terry mcsweeney there in calistoga saying it was much cooler and not much wind at all, which is great news. >> some good headlines definitely to share right now. the red flag fire warning has expired. we're also seeing the wind calm down and the wind is also beginning to switch directions. so we'll look right now at the current wind speed. it's calm to only 6 miles per hour, and that is a huge relief to the firefighters. then you'll see on this next map the fog is rolling in, which is cooling temperatures four to nine degrees as compared to this time yesterday. so most of the bay area now in the 60s to 70s. you can see the fog right there in our camera in san francisco. then this camera here, this is fire activity south of calistoga. it's a black and white camera, but it's so bright, the fire activity, that it's overexposing the lens. that's why you've got that bright spot there. so even though we have these koo cooler changes and less wind, the fire activity is still ma

let's get right to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. what are you seeing, jeff? >> we are seeing some improvements here as we head through the next 24 and 48-hour timeline, but it's going to be a little bit slow going. we are still in the unhealthy range here for much of the bay area with that smoke and that haze staying pretty constant. but we have started to notice a key change as of the past several hours, and that's a look at these smoke plumes. you can see how the smoke plumes today were moving more off to the north and the east from the fire near fresno and also those two large fires to the away, an this storm system developing off the coastline. this is a real slow mover. it's going to take its time getting here, but as that surface cold front and the upper level low pressure system moves across, it will begin to change our air quality. tomorrow morning we are still forecasting some unhealthy air, but in the coming days, there will be some moderate air quality returning. i'll pinpoint the timeline of this. i'll see you back here in about 18 minutes. >> eve

let's bring in jeff ranieri. out in your neck of the woods, a lot of people were gting outsid. >> it really was so nice to just be able to go out there and not feel like you're going to get sick after 30 to 40 minutes outside. so a little bit of a stress reliever here with everything else that's been going on across the world lately. and it's all been due to this storm system. we've been telling you about it for over a week now, and this thing was exactly on time and working right in the same fashion that we hoped it would, helping to clear out this smoke. it's all about this upper level of area of low pressure, and it's pretty nd meander as we head through tomorrow, thursday, and friday. that's why it will help to continue to keep some of the most harmful smoke and push it off towards the north and the east. so over the next 12 hours, which brings us into the morning, we likely will hold on to some good air for the north bay, the bay, and also the coast with some moderate levels at times for the east bay and the

chief meteorologist jeff ranieri has been tracking all that smoke for you. jeff, tomorrow day 16 of the spare the air alert. we talked about it earlier. people have headaches. i've had a headache for four days and a scratchy throat. you can feel it. >> yeah, you really can, and it's just kind of debilitating. it's hard to even go outside. you've got all this stuff to do, and it really gets in the way. we know that seems a little superficial compared to, of course, the evacuations, the lives lost, and the structures destroyed. but, again, let's get you the latest on the smoke. you can see today we had all of that smoke across the bay area. we also had the fog mixing in. so just really gray sky out there. but as we fade this next map on, what you're going to see is the wind for tomorrow. i want to highlight this because the wind direction is going too start to change. we'll see a little bit more of a westerly wind in san francisco, also in concord and a southwesterly wind in santa rosa. that will help to push some of the smoke away from those locations. unfort

. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. look off towards the distance. it looks very unhealthy with the smoke, but i'll show you why it's not rated very unhealthy at the current moment. i'll see you back here with that in about six minutes. >>> when we welcome our west coast viewers, i'll have my exclusive interview with president trump's former lawyer. why michael cohen calls him a cut leader and what he says about the president barack obama and race. >>> also, how effective is uv light as a coronavirus fighter? what you should know on "nbc nightly news." prop 19 helps california's most vulnerable. it provides property tax fairness for disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 who've lost their homes to fire. and seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. yes on 19. >>> back to school. back in class. more than a dozen schools in marin county got the green light to open for in-p

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let's get right to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. jeff, the impact of the smoke is really startling. >> it is on so many levels. we're now starting to go into the very unhealthy range, which we haven't seen for the past week, at least this widespread as those smoke particles are now down to the surface. as we take a look at my maps here, i really wanted to underscore the point that we've had this onslaught of smoke because of those two large fires off to the north of us. the way the surface wind is blowing and the upper level jet stream, it's coming from the north, moving to the south, and it's this conveyor belt of smoke across the bay area. also notice the wind. very light, only 6 to 9 miles per hour from the south bay to san francisco. so there's really nothing stirring up the air right now. that air quality, look at our live monitoring sites. you can see that purple color. that is very unhealthy from santa rosa down to redwood city and fremont. you're in the unhealthy range for san jose, rivermore, and concord. this is the time o

and coming up, we'll have more details from court and plus why bla claire block mrk man brockman s ranieri. >>> and up ahead, a new study shows -- . >>> now at 5:30, new video showing the fast moving glass fire overnight. amy hollyfield is live in the north bay where this massive firefight continues right now. >>> gentlemen, i think that we've ended this -- >> so unpresidential. >> presidential debate derailed, chaotic clash and the question when climate change that prompted talk about our wildfires. >>> and school reopening plans approved, the bay area district that wants teachers and students back on campus in just a few weeks. >>> good morning and welcome to wednesday, september 30. watch any good tv last night? >> you know, there were some good things on. very entertaining. >> i must have missed the good things. the group nd mike was on that g chat. good morning, mike. >> and i had to go to bed. i just had to go to bed. i couldn't deal with what i was watching. after the as lost and then that and i'm like in the fire weather watch that was issued and th heat advisory, it was like i'm d

we'll explain. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. the air is improving now, but i'll show you what's different tomorrow. i'll see you back here in about eight minutes. jackie, i'm looking at your mri. your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. well, dr. farrell, it feels really good... that's good. and... i'm sorry. baby, don't touch that... i don't want you to play with that... (singing) twinkle, twinkle little star. how i wonder what you are... (still singing) up above the world so high... like a diamond in the sky. i'm so glad that your shoulder is feeling better. but, how are you doing? i'm hanging in there... schedule a video visit with your doctor. and get quality care with no copay. kaiser permanente. thrive. >>> a potential landmark case could test california's tough new law on use of force. today jason fletcher was arraigned on manslaughter charges for the shooting death of a man insight a walmart. taylor who was holding a bat did not pose a serious threat to anyone at the time he was shot. the defense said the officer fired

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. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. i'll have a look at the air quality and a preview of the heat coming your way in about six minutes. jackie, i'm looking at your mri. your shoulder seems to be healing nicely. well, dr. farrell, it feels really good... that's good. and... i'm sorry. baby, don't touch that... i don't want you to play with that... (singing) twinkle, twinkle little star. how i wonder what you are... (still singing) up above the world so high... like a diamond in the sky. i'm so glad that your shoulder is feeling better. but, how are you doing? i'm hanging in there... schedule a video visit with your doctor. and get quality care with no copay. kaiser permanente. thrive. >>> uc berkeley is looking at temporarily closing the campus to the public. the university says it doesn't intend to enforce the closure that strictly. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez spent the day at cal, where the proposed policy isn't going over well. >> reporter: uc berkeley could soon have signs posted at all its entrances, letting peopl

jeff ranieri is skrojoining us. are we going to see some relief soon? >> i think so. we are expecting to make changes on wednesday and thursday's forecast. it should be a gradual and slow change but everything is on track and we continue to see improvements. you will be able to see in san francisco not nearly smoky as it was this weekend. you can see a little bit of blue skies. currently at 64 degrees. a split here over towards li livermore. blue skies in san francisco is currently raided as unhealthy. santa rosa and napa and san jose, all rated unhealthy. this is a slight improvement for the weekend when everybody was under unhealthy. slow and gradual changes. when do things start to be more impactful for us? look at this next map. the set up i am looking at in the atmosphere. this is what i have been tracking for days. i am pleased to see everything is on track right now. upper level area of low pressure. this is the catalyst to spur all of these changes and it is closer, winds are going to kick up the upper apparatus fear. so, here is the deal. tomorrow morning i a

. >> jeff ranieri will be -- he gets school on the weather any day of the week. >> for sure. >> you gothat right. i had some a students at home. i know how much you guys love that weather. what a beautiful day today. firefighters getting higher containment on the fire that we actually had. nice air quality down in the south bay for the first time in a long time. looking at my sky camera network here. you can see in san jose, we can look across the valley from this view we have. really not much smoke in site. 80s degrees in san francisco. fairly clear skies. as i have been warning you everything changes for tomorrow. right now this very second, the hot air high pressure that's bringing the heat is continuing to inch closer and closer and everything is on track for this to be a four-day heat wave event for us. high pressure, this is what i look towards to see where the heat is located and it is going to center itself right across the west. circulation around this is the reason why we are dpoigoing to the heat moving into southern california and right up the entire state. i showed this ear

details next. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri.he air quality, the wind and why these northerly winds are so dangerous for us coming up in about six minutes. give you my world ♪ ♪ how can i, when you won't take it from me ♪ ♪ you can go your own way ♪ ♪ go your own way your wireless. your rules. only with xfinity mobile. >>> as demonstrations continue over the bee reonna taylor case sean was killed by police officers earlier this year and his family put up a billboard near the police department. here is jodi hernandez. >> reporter: this is the billboard that just went up. it located around the corner from the vallejo police department. sean monterrosa's family want officers to see the young man's face every day. >> we'd always come here withr:y think about their brother all the time. his spot on billy goat hill is where the three would hang out since they were children. >> he's always with us. the light shining on my face and i feel like he's with us. >> reporter: his sisters want vallejo police to think of him daily. he was shot a

. >> i am chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, i am tracking the rain and the dangerous heat ahead for labor day weekend. the new treatment it is helping to fund of the ice bucket challenge. that and more on "nbc nightly news." >>> we just told you about the governor today talking about covid-19 hospitalization cases. raj mathai is here with some of the guidelines for the bay area and the warnings from doctors. >> reporter: we have been going through this for several months now. this is a tough one now. as we head into the weekend, the number don't lie. memorial weekend, the number spiked around the bay area and the country in terms of covid-19 cases. the goal and hope is this won't happen weeks to come. we know the weather is heating up and the beach is a go-to place for many people. we have plenty of people for a wednesday. pacifica and monterey all closing their beaches and parking lots beginning sun rise on saturday until sun rise on tuesday. we should note half-moon bay beaches will be opened this weekend. the concern is this, flocks of people like we saw at santana row. we spoke with o

let's go to jeff ranieri. great backdrop, blue sky in all of his photographs in that story. it was nice to see blue sky today. >> it really was. so refreshing out there, just a nice little stress reliever. every day it seems like there's a new turn we have to get through. mother nature pulling for us the last two days. we have a complicated weather pattern set up. i want to make sure you see all different facets of what's happening, and we have this cooler system to the north now starting to get a little motion back behind it. it's going to bring drizzle and morning fog for us. also drop our temperatures tomorrow. then to the south we have some tropical moisture left over from tropical depression karina that could bring in some rain, humidity and maybe even lightning. a lot of stuff happening here. we'll take you down to that rainfall. we haven't had anything touch the ground yet, but showers in the midd and upper levels developing. any of this to help clear out the extremely hazardous air over yosemite. you can see how a lot of these monitor sites were reading hazardous. th

jeff ranieri is joining us to ex plane all this.nge but the air quality is actually worse today. >> yes, still many different components of what's happening in the lower atmosphere. we had the smoke particles yesterday but a lot of it was suspended just above the surface. that is what gave us the brilliant sharp orange color that made it so disoriented and strange. now with the fog moving in, it starts to mix in the air a li little bit. you see that really lines up with the current air quality and our live monitoring station right now. you can see the red dot showing some unhealthy hair right here. down in santa rosa and down to san jose, moderate air. we still have these four fires burning to the north and south which continues to -- no big wind tomorrow. temperatures stay down and that should help firefighters out. the nerxt 12 hours, we'll continue to fluctuate between healthy and moderate air quality. if you go outside, don't do any exercising or stay out for extended time. if you have respiratory problem, you may need to shelte

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let's bring in jeff ranieri. we're breathing easier, but what now as the week progresses?i think we're doing really good as we head through tonight, also into wednesday, thursday, and friday. we have

right now we'll go right to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri to explain what's going on out there, jeff. >> yeah, it's everything you all described. real unsettling,

let's cross our fingers and hope all of that smoke does not return, jeff ranieri, joins us now with the latest smoke forecast. jeff. >> yes, a lot of blue skies out here across the east bay today. raj and janelle and there is a key reason why. we'll take a look at our live monitoring sites. most of them

let's bring in jeff ranieri. we are trying to stay positive. what do you have for us? >>> when we look at things overall from this

i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. that's up in my forecast in about eight minutes. >>> the air quality's getting better here, but up north in seattle, it's still very unhealthy, and that's prompted major league baseball to postpone tonight's giants game. the giants were supposed to play in seattle. instead, the team flew back to san francisco and will play two games at oracle park tomorrow. this is what it looks like at the ballpark there in seattle and downtown today. in the state of washington, the air quality over 240. you might recall, the a's were actually in seattle yesterday and played two games in that thick haze. a's players complained about having to play in the dangerous conditions. >>> the legacy of another bay area icon is being called into question tonight and could lead to a name change at the highest peak in the berkeley hills. august wolmer was berkeley's first police chief. many people credit him with innovations including hiring african-americans and women. but some now accuse him of supporting euge

. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, i'll have the change coming our way for tomorrow morning, also the fire watch and heat wave ahead. details in about 8 minutes. >>> rbg, justice ginsburg lying in repose tonight, a ste rest. this is atop the steps of the supreme court. now, throughout the day mourners paying their respect to the late justice. ginsburg died of cancer last friday at the age of 87. people are remembering her as a pioneer for equal rights. earlier today ginsburg's former clerks carried her casket up to the steps of the court she helped shape for 27 years. her family and fellow justices remembered her in a private ceremony inside the high court, a place that chief justice roberts called her home. >> it has been said that ruth wanted to be an opera virtoso but became a rock star instead. also thoughtful, careful, compassionate, honest. >> those justices are like family members to each other. president trump is expected to pay his respects tomorrow before announcing his pick to replace her on saturday. >>> well, the country's top public health officials are respondi

let's bring in jeff ranieri with the timeline for us. jeff. >> and i really think tomorrow we're still in that good to moderate air quality range. it's this weekend when that wind would switch more to the north and the east that we could see some of that smoke getting pushed down into the bay area. we're getting this area of hot high pressure that will develop over the west, and what i'm looking at is the circulation around this. that's what could bring down some smoke. the august complex i just checked is only 38% contained, and that's why we could be dealing with some smoke. i don't think it's going to be the worst we have seen so far, but definitely expect some haze this weekend and we get that heat building in from the south. so what about the wind? i think you really have to go 1,000 feet and above to get those higher wind gusts of 15 to 40 miles per hour. for most of us, we'll be in that 5 to 20-mile-per-hour sustained wind range. so for many of us, we're not going to be feeling a ton of wind this weekend. you really have to go up

. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. as fall arrives tomorrow, some great weather but it's not going to last. record heat back on tap with some 100s. i'll give you the full timeline in about ten minutes. give you my world ♪ ♪ how can i, when you won't take it from me ♪ ♪ you can go your own way ♪ ♪ go your own way your wireless. your rules. only with xfinity mobile. >>> new evacuations under way tonight in southern california. it is night 16 of the bobcat fire. it's been burning near the angeles national forest. it is one of the largest in l.a. county history, burning more than 106,000 acres. 1,500 firefighters are working to get it under control, including some crews from bay area fire departments. >>> now to the north, a bay area search and rescue team is on the front lines of the north complex fire. that's the fire burning in butte, plumas, and yuba counties. an 80-person team from menlo park left this morning, but they're not there to battle flames. in fact, they're going into burned out homes trying to find anyone r

let's join jeff ranieri. jeff, the winds seem a bit calmer today and not as hot as yesterday, but still pretty warm out there. >> yeah, it's very, very warm, and also low humidity. so even though we did have the winds calm down and turn to more of a west-southwesterly demonstration, we are still finding plenty of flare-ups happening on the fire. you can see right now in our current wind map, we're only seeing winds anywhere from 6 to about 11 miles per hour. with the wind coming out of the west-southwest, look at this cal fire camera here. this is looking southeast towards angwin and you can see some of these higher cloud tops here or smoke tops, rather, from some flare-ups that are happening right now. even though, again, we've seen the calmer winds, it's just really not enough to give a major leg up to firefighters. right now, 76 degrees, so we have started to see a drop there near santa rosa. tomorrow we're up to 90 degrees and most of the hot spots have been in the north and also the southern side. next c

let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri.eff, we're talking about over 100 degrees in some spots. >> you are exactly right. 110 degrees could even occur here for some of the interior valleys, so we are looking at a heat wave. right now i'm thinking at this point that would last for four days. so what we're tracking right now in this area of hot high pressure. this really kicks into high gear as we hit saturday's forecast, and it's not only going to bring the heat for us but the entire state of california. look at this close-up view here. all of those areas in that pink color, that's under the excessive heat warning as we head through labor day weekend. the only part that's not included in that is some of the coastline and the sierra. so what does this mean for us? well, you can see we're looking at maximum heat inland that could reach 110 degrees. san francisco and the coast, 70s to 80s. it will bring back more fire danger, low humidity, maybe even more of those power outages not only from the grid and the stress on the power

. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri tracking a brand-new fire weather watch. we'll talk about the wind ahead, the air quality, and when we'll cool down in just about six minutes. >>> also ahead, the woman accused of kidnapping joe montana's grandchild. new video of the suspect in court today, plus did she and the nfl legend know each other? her attorney explains. >>> and san francisco about to take a big step forward. the covid rules changing tomorrow and the restaurants relieved to hear about it. this election, all californians will be able to vote safely from home. every active, registered voter will receive a vote-by-mail ballot with a unique barcode. you can track it using where's my ballot? and you'll receive automatic notifications by text, email or voice call to let you know the status of your ballot once you mail it, drop it off at your polling place or at a drop box. vote by mail ballots. simple, safe, secure. counted. learn more at vote.ca.gov >>> new details tonight about the woman accused of trying to kidnap the grandchild of 49ers legend joe monta

let's get right to our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. jeff, we know this is challenging because it's tough to forecast. it's not that traditional elements that you're used to. what are you seeing, though, for this weekend? >> you're exactly right. it's minute by minute, hour by hour on this forecast, and it really looks like at this point we'll stay in that unhealthy range as we head through the weekend. right now a live look here in the left-hand side of my weather map, and you can see our live camera in san jose. very hazy off toward the distance as all our monitoring sites are in red, which is unhealthy air from the north bay to the south bay. it's also mixing in with some fog. the big, big problem we've had is the upper level winds. 20,000 feet to 30,000 feet up in the jet stream. they've been acting like a conveyor belt along with the surface winds coming from the north to the south, and it's been pushing the smoke all the way down here across the bay area repeatedly, again, like a conveyor belt. on top of this we've had something c