NEWS EIGHT AT 11 STARTS NOW. WILDFIRES, SMOKE DRIFTING FROM CANADA TO THE CAROLINAS, FOULS THE AIR FOR TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, INCLUDING DANGEROUS LEVELS OF POLLUTION HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. GOOD EVENING. I’M JANELLE STELSON AND I’M JERE GISH. ALL THAT SMOKY AIR IS IMPACTING ACTIVITIES HERE. NEWS 8 AMBER GERARD IS LIVE ON CITY ISLAND WHERE THE HARRISBURG SENATORS CALLED OFF THEIR GAME TONIGHT. AMBER. THEY DID INDEED. THEY WERE SCHEDULED TO PLAY THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FISHER CATS. BUT OF COURSE, UNFORTUNATELY THAT WAS CANCELED DUE TO THAT AIR QUALITY AND THEY WEREN’T THE ONLY OUTDOOR EVENT THAT WAS THAT WAS CANCELED. THERE WAS ONE MORE ON THE OUTSIDE. LOOKS SO NICE OUT HERE. IT WAS A NICE DAY IN THE 70S AND THE SUN WAS OUT, BUT IT WASN’T NECESSARILY EASY TO SEE THROUGH THE SMOKY AIR. THE PLAYERS WERE IN AGREEMENT. THE COACHES, EVERYBODY, SENATORS, PRESIDENT KEVIN KOLB SAID AFTER MONITORING THE INDEXES AND TRENDS THROUGHOUT THE DAY, IT WAS PRETTY APPARENT THAT THE SKIES WEREN’T GOING TO TURN BLUE BY GAME TIME. THE AIR QUALITY WAS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE AS THE EVENING WENT ON, AND IT’S JUST NOT WORTH PUTTING THE GUYS OUT THERE RUNNING AROUND AND AS HARD AS IT WAS TO MAKE THE DECISION WAS MADE TO CANCEL THE GAME. WE WERE ALL IN AGREEMENT THAT IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BEST FOR THE FANS, HE SAID, AND BEST FOR THE BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO, AS IT TURNS OUT, WEREN’T THE ONLY ATHLETES AFFECTED. ITS GLOBAL RUNNING DAY. AND TO CELEBRATE IT, RUNNERS LIKE SHELLY ANSELMO, HER DAUGHTERS AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS WERE SET TO COMPETE IN THE BIG RUN FIVE K THIS EVENING. THEY HAD BEEN TRAINING FOR IT FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS, SO THERE WAS A LOT OF RUNNERS THAT THIS WAS MAYBE THEIR FIRST RACE. SO IT WAS A BIG DEAL. BUT ALTHOUGH DISAPPOINTED, A RUNNER IS A RUNNER, SHE SAYS THEY DON’T LET ANYTHING STOP THEM FROM DOING IT. NOT EVEN A CANCELLATION, NOT EVEN SMOKEY GRAY SKIES. I THINK PEOPLE LOVE IT TOO MUCH. SO TONIGHT’S GAME, OF COURSE, HAS BE