Air quality index
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Sep 11, 2026
Micki ColsonGUEST
Absolutely.
Scotty KummerHOST
Uh, what about, um, do you have a policy for the AQI?
Micki ColsonGUEST
We haven't ever run into that here-
Scotty KummerHOST
Okay
Tammy TrujilloCORRESPONDENT
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Anthony LuceroCORRESPONDENT
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is responding to newly released documents showing air quality in lower Manhattan in the months following 9-11 was not safe.
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Firefighter union heads Mayor Zoran Mamdani criticized past mayor administrations for not disclosing air quality data around Ground Zero.
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Giuliani's administration was in charge at the time of the attacks.
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Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, says the EPA declared the air safe but then later apologized, saying it did the best it could with the knowledge available at the time.
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Anthony LuceroCORRESPONDENT
Union heads representing New York City firefighters say lives may have been saved and more precautions would have been taken.
John SummersCORRESPONDENT
And city officials revealed results of toxic air quality tests soon after the 9-11 terror attacks.
Zach DavisHOST
It took me a long time to even, like, connect the dots on that too, but, uh, yeah, I think that's smart.
Zach DavisHOST
I think that's a drum that we have to continually beat because th- I'm sure there are so many people out there that are so determined to complete their thru-hiking goal that they'll look past the AQI, and, uh, at least want you to consider the alternative.
Katie JacksonHOST
Yeah.
Katie JacksonHOST
And even outside of the health risk of it, I just hate when I go on a hike, and I go up to the viewpoint, and it's super smoky.
HHOST
Do not book the ticket between late November and February.
HHOST
But if you are already booked, the mitigation strategy is to obsessively monitor the AQI apps, bulk buy genuine N95 masks before you fly, and pivot your entire itinerary to indoor spas or out-of-town day trips above the inversion layer.
PhilHOST
Trap number two, the freelance airport taxi trap.
HHOST
The mechanism here relies entirely on traveler fatigue and social pressure.
Kushal MehraHOST
Okay.
Tushar GuptaGUEST
No, but that's more to do with geography also, right? AQI is also subject to job.
Kushal MehraHOST
AQI.
Kushal MehraHOST
See, if you want, you can do good things also in Mumbai.
Kushal MehraHOST
The third thing I believe, which has been, again, these are all civic sense related and municipal related issues.
John CatsimatidisHOST
Of course, he was chair of the Homeland Security Committee.
John CatsimatidisHOST
And Peter, before we get on to other things, I want to make sure we talk with you about this new release of these 9-11 documents about air quality following the attacks because so many people obviously had so many health problems post 9-11.
Peter KingGUEST
Listen, obviously not everything went perfect in the beginning, but you have to realize what was happening at that time, the state of confusion, and it was important to try and get as many survivors as we can, find as many bodies as you can.
Peter KingGUEST
There was no evil intent here, and that was the fog of war, and the fact is that it was important for the United States to make a quick comeback, get things done, and obviously if it happened again, we would do it differently.
Abhinandan SekhriHOST
Okay, so if you actually have... genuine information of what is a serial killer as defined.
Abhinandan SekhriHOST
Of course, we can also ask, what's it called? AQI? No, EMI.
Abhinandan SekhriHOST
I don't talk to chat GPT.
Abhinandan SekhriHOST
Chat GPT.
GandhiPANELIST
All right.
GandhiPANELIST
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is responding to newly released documents showing air quality in lower Manhattan in the months after 9-11 was not safe.
GandhiPANELIST
Giuliani's administration was in charge at that time and firefighter union heads and firefighter union heads in New York City Mayor Mamdani's administration found this information and criticized past mayoral administrations for not disclosing air quality data.
GandhiPANELIST
A spokesperson for Giuliani says the EPA declared the air safe, but then later apologized, saying it did the best it could with the knowledge available at the time.
GandhiPANELIST
Federal investigators have been conducting interviews with witnesses to the Alex Petty shooting in Minneapolis earlier this year.
AlexHOST
Okay.
MoahHOST
And what they found was the PM2.5, the fine particle pollution rose by 20 AQI equivalent.
AlexHOST
For reference, like where we live around San Francisco, the normal is about 40 AQI.
MoahHOST
Right.
MoahHOST
So going from green 40 to 60, orange, right? We're not talking about this red and purple over 100 AQI.
AlexHOST
Not the orange sky.
AlexHOST
Okay, it's a little hazy today.
MoahHOST
Just hazy day.
Kevin MussoCORRESPONDENT
Right now air quality within the last few minutes has gone from being moderate to unhealthy for sensitive individuals in Fresno.
Kevin MussoCORRESPONDENT
We know that because that color changed over to orange, indicating that the air quality status there went up to over 100 with the Air Quality Index.
Kevin MussoCORRESPONDENT
When that happens, we look for that status to change.
Kevin MussoCORRESPONDENT
It'll hold true for Fresno and Tulare County being unhealthy for sensitive individuals for tomorrow.
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