and dear to your heart, install some kind of kill switch and some other gps tracker or products like lojack or onstar. those are good products that help us find the vehicles. >> balber says this should be a wake-up call to manufacturers as well. >> we can tell individual consumers, oh, there's a flaw with your car. these are ways to try and protect your car from being stolen, but what we need is action higher up at the manufacturer level to make sure that it isn't so easy to clone those fobs to begin with. >> it's not just the big cities in california that are keeping an eye out on this. the city of rohnert park recently warned the community there to be aware of this issue. >> last year oakland had a record number of car thefts, almost 15,000. that amounts to about 40 stolen cars a day. so far cars are being stolen at a slower rate this year, 2,400 at this point, not as many as the same time in 2023. in san francisco there have been about 1,100 car thefts to date, about the same as last year. >>> still ahead tonight at 11:00, the bracket is set for this year's ncaa men's basketball tourname