CNN: NYC’s Air Among the World’s Worst Due to Canada Fires

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TAPPER: “As much of the eastern United States is being choked right now by a dangerous haze of smoke caused by more than 400 raging wildfires in Canada. Air quality alerts are out for more than 55 million people across the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. The air is so unhealthy in New York City right now that an actor stopped a Broadway matinee performance this afternoon because she had difficulty breathing. Throughout the Eastern Coast, people’s eyes, sinuses, throats irritated from the exposure, schools cancelling outdoor activities. Health experts urging those in affected parts of the country to wear masks if people have to be outside. If you’ve been checking your phone’s weather app, you’ve been getting the alerts and seeing the unhealthy and in some cases hazardous, hazardous air quality numbers impacting cities from New England to North Carolina. The blanket of orange smoke swallowing up major cities such as New York City, making high rises disappear in the haze. It looks like a Star Wars movie there. Officials say yesterday’s air quality in New York City was the worst since the 1960s before the EPA was created. Right now, it’s currently among the worst in the world.”