giving you the stories behind the headlines mark simone on w o r all right i'm taking a look at the

numbers air quality is improving still unhealthy still unhealthy uh right now we're at 199

which is down from like two.15 an hour ago.

And we may get as low as 170 today.

That's still unhealthy.

Tomorrow we may get down to 120.

It depends what happens.

You cannot forecast this air quality stuff because the wind could shift a little, bring

some of the smoke back

it could shift this way and take some more out uh if it rains there's a chance of a couple little showers

today that can help things so um believe it or not it got so bad yesterday they canceled the yankee

game they canceled broadway shows not all of them but many of them were canceled hamilton a couple others were canceled hey one of the reasons is those broadway theaters all of them, but many of them were canceled. Hamilton, a couple others were canceled. Hey, one of the reasons is those Broadway theaters, most of them are very, very, very, very old buildings. In the older the building, the more the outside air comes in. If you're one of these brand new glass skyscrapers, they're sealed pretty tight and it keeps the air out.

But the old Broadway theaters, they say at Hamilton backstage in the dressing rooms,

the air was cloudy and yellow, right in the dressing room.

So that's the reason they canceled them.

The Yankee game was canceled and reschedule as a double header today.

I don't know if we've heard if that's on.

They'll check the air quality.

Flights were canceled yesterday because at JFK, it was just so thick on the runway.

The Belmont Stakes is Saturday.

They think it should be fine on Saturday.

It'll be better tomorrow.

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