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Joe Hernandez

A haze is blanketing major swaths of the East Coast because of the Canadian wildfires

A man stands before the smoky New York City skyline and East River in Brooklyn on Tuesday. (Ed Jones/AFP Via Getty Images)

Millions of people along the East Coast and further inland woke up to a cloud of hazy air Wednesday morning, after smoke from rampant wildfires in Canada floated south across the border and blanketed large swaths of the U.S.

Some of the worst air quality was recorded in the Great Lakes region and in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and the Washington, D.C., metro area.

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