of dollars a year and just today, governor newsom joins san francisco police chief bill scott as he signed the bill into law targeting retail theft, ktvu christien kafton reports. by now, the videos are well known thieves bursting out of stores carrying armfuls of stolen merchandise. now governor newsom has signed assembly bill 3 31 into law aimed at cracking down on brazen retail thefts. you're seeing them all across the state of california, those organized efforts and they are organized disproportionately efforts and we want to go after those rings, the governor says the new legislation helps law enforcement throughout the state maintain various task forces targeting thieves through 2020. six since 2019 when the retail task force was established, the chp has made more than 250 arrests and recovered more than $16 million in stolen merchandise. the chp saying organized groups often use the money from retail thefts to fund other criminal endeavors. some of the other crimes that those monies are used for our vehicle theft, identity theft, human trafficking and narcotics trafficking. san fran

mayor you released the mid-year crime statistics along with police commissioner bill scott. numbers are down in several major categories. let's just talk about them rape, larceny and robbery but up in gun violence, car break- ins and burglaries. let's compare the mid-year numbers to burglaries. 2019 we had 2,360 2020, which was a weird 3300 something. 2021, mid-year, 3,717 so. that's up. auto thefts, you can see the numbers but basically an increase from 2019 to 2020 and a jump from last year to this year. do you reject headlines that say rising crime in san francisco. >> as you know, san is a major city. it's one of the densist cities in the country. what your' seeing on videos is making people look at san francisco in a way that doesn't accurately reflect what's going on but if you're the person who's victimized, yes, it's a big deal. we want to make sure people are not victimized. we want to make sure we prevent these crimes from happening in the first place. looking at the data has a lot to do with make sure these crimes are prevented. i think it's unfair to look at thes

. >> reporter: bill scott spoke about the message the video sent and addressing this. >> we have to not only dealing with the people and hold them accountable. we have to balance the message that we are doing something about it. that's why i am so happy with my partners here and the governor's leadership. >> reporter: their stat shows most crimes are actually down. the new legislation in part extends the chp task force that works with local officials to stop organized retail theft. >> at the state level for governor newsom to do this is a statewide problem. >> reporter: rodney fong is president and ceo of the san francisco chambers. >> the confidence and safety of employees going back to work and feeling comfortable is really important. >> reporter: christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> still ahead, they're looking for other options, who's entertaining a's management given after oakland city council voted to keep negotiations alive. it is the biggest sporting event in the world, japan has a message for some people. stay away or they're asking not to see the iconic caldron this year. >>

several areas around the city in the past year, san francisco mayor london breed and police chief bill scott will be on hand for that event. and as the demand for travel continues to grow aircraft maker. boeing says the friendly skies will need as many as 700,000 new pilots over the next 20 years just in order to keep up with demand. and that's why there's now a renewed effort to encourage kids to consider careers in aviation, especially at the oakland airport. >> kron four's can wait has the story. >> now that air travel is back and booming the need for workers in the aviation industry is growing and that need exists in one of the bay area's long suffering neighborhoods. >> open airport is right there. very, very, very close to lot of our kids that live in that neighborhood. you know, maybe just right across freeway. but they maybe have never thought i could work there. it's estimated that 85% of commercial airline pilots are white. just 2% black. >> and only about 9% are the aircraft owners and pilots association is trying to change that. it's offering stem classes to high schools across t

. >> and look san francisco police chief bill scott sending a message monday to anyone planning on committing crimes across the city. he joined mayor london breed to announce the city's latest efforts to combat crimes of opportunity against tourists. we know we're a big city. >> we know sadly that sometimes things will happen. and part of what we want to do is to put resources in the appropriate places to prevent as much of these things from happening as possible. >> according to the mayor's office, the city expects to see 15.3 million visitors by years end in an effort to stop crimes before they happen. the police department has deployed 26 officers on bike and foot patrols in 5 of the city's districts, the largest deployment is coming from the central police district 14 additional officers are now patrolling popular tourist spots like union square chinatown, pier, 39 and fisherman's wharf as well as the crooked portion of lombard street. meanwhile, the mission district richmond district and the haight ashbury commercial corridor are receiving 2 additional officers each and there are 6 addit

. >> san francisco police chief bill scott sending a message monday to anyone planning on committing crimes across the city. he joined mayor london breed to announce the city's latest efforts to combat crimes of opportunity against tourists. we know we're a big city. >> we know sadly that sometimes things will happen. and part of what we want to do is to put resources in the appropriate places to prevent as much of these things from happening as possible. >> according to the mayor's office, the city expects to see 15.3 million visitors by years end in an effort to stop crimes before they happen. the police department has deployed 26 officers on bike and foot patrols in 5 of the city's districts, the largest deployment is coming from the central police district 14 additional officers are now patrolling popular tourist spots like union square chinatown, pier, 39 and fisherman's wharf as well as the crooked portion of lombard street. meanwhile, the mission district richmond district and the haight ashbury commercial corridor are receiving 2 additional officers each and there are 6 addit

san francisco's mayor london breed and police chief bill scott held a news conference to show the latest crime stats. they say this information paints a very different picture of what the city looks like than what is reflected in maybe some viral videos. you seem suggest that crime is out of control while burglaries are up. thefts and robberies are actually on the decline car break-ins have started taking upwards from last year but are down from the 2017 high point in terms of violent crimes rates are down. homicides and aggravated assaults are taking upwards gun violence has more than doubled since last year. what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance. >> our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crime. there's no statistic for brazenness. >> you know what we see on some of these just brazen heinous crimes in. there's no statistic for what that does to. >> outlook on how we perceive what's happening in our city. >> the mayor says she's investing 65 million dollars of the budget to hel

. >> sfpd chief bill scott says the 26 extra officers is a good start, but it's a far cry from the additional 400 he'd like to see on the streets. >>> happening now, it looks like black friday in july outside the best buy store on harrison street in san francisco. people are lining up camping out to get their hands on a highly coveted piece of technology. the store's getting some graphics cards featuring the rtx-30 chip made by invidia. there's a global shortage. stores like best buy have made video cards available for in- store purchase only to cut down on scalpers. >> this is a very hot commodity. every gamer out there wants one of these and unfortunately to get one of these we all have to wait in line now just to get one. >> these cards aren't cheap. the retail price is around $1,200. i wish i really knew what i was talking about here. this chip that everybody is waiting in line for. >> i'm not a gamer either, $1,200, can you imagine? the line is crazy. >>> let's turn our attention to what looks like to be a pretty nice week ahead. >> yeah. let's get to sandhya patel for the latest. >> it'

. >> san francisco police chief bill scott sending a message monday to anyone planning on committing crimes across the city. he joined mayor london breed to announce the city's latest efforts to combat crimes of opportunity against tourists. we know we're a big city. >> we know sadly that sometimes things will happen. and part of what we want to do is to put resources in the appropriate places to prevent as much of these things from happening as possible. >> according to the mayor's office, the city expects to see 15.3 million visitors by years end in an effort to stop crimes before they happen. the police department has deployed 26 officers on bike and foot patrols in 5 of the city's districts, the largest deployment is coming from the central police district 14 additional officers are now patrolling popular tourist spots like union square chinatown, pier, 39 and fisherman's wharf as well as the crooked portion of lombard street. meanwhile, the mission district richmond district and the haight ashbury commercial corridor are receiving 2 additional officers each and there are 6 addit

mayor london breed in chief bill scott held a news conference today showing the latest crime stats that they say paints a different picture of the city than what's being reflected in viral videos that depict crime. out of control. our kron maureen kelly has the story. >> we've all seen the videos of shoplifters swarming high end stores and pharmacies car break-ins happening in broad daylight and asian americans being victimized stores have closed and target is shortening their hours over the last few weeks, the city has made headlines in the national news over concerns about crime what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance. >> our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crimes. the guy who we saw the viral video of him riding a bicycle into the walgreens in and stealing. he has been arrested. the elderly woman waiting at the bus stop. 2 people stabbed that perpetrator has been arrested. the chief and the mayor came together to show the latest crime stats for the first 6 months of the ye

. >> the governor along with police chiefs including san francisco's bill scott announces a new task thanks for joining us, you are watching abc 7 news at 4:00 live here on abc 7, who live and wherever you stream . >> recent viral videos have showed that set all types of businesses, these videos are all from san francisco locations, a small clothing store in pacific heights, a neiman marcus in union square and a walgreens. while the circumstances with all the suspects are different, the governor newsom -- a look at the governor's plan, leon? >> this bill addressing the problem of organized retail theft came back in governor haswith several amendm greater collaboration between chp and local police. the governor, along with 13 california mayors and a handful of assembly man, addressed the issue of crime and organized retail theft in their cities. some have witnessed it themselves. >> ran into the macy's and grab as much as they could, ran out of macy's, loaded into a car and took off . >> and prs on the ground . >> what you want to do is establish trust with

. >> sfpd chief bill scott says the 26 extra officers is a good start, but it's a far cry from the additional he'd like to see on the streets. >>> happening now, it looks like black friday in july outside the best buy store on harrison street in san francisco. people are lining up camping out to get their hands on a highly coveted piece of technology. the store's getting some graphics cards featuring the rtx-30 chip made by invidia. there's a global shortage. stores like best buy have made video cards available for in- store purchase only to cut down on scalpers. >> this is a very hot commodity. every gamer out there wants one of these and unfortunately to get one of these we all have to wait in line now just to get one. >> these cardaren't cheap. the retail price is around $1,200. i wish i really knew what i was talking about here. this chip that everybody is waiting in line for. >> i'm not a gamer either, $1,200, can you imagine? th is crazy. >>> let's turn our attention to what looks like to be a pretty nice week ahead. >> yeah. let's get to sandhya patel for the latest. >> it's going to b

and with that, to talk more about our tourism deployment plan will be our chief of police, bill scottlause] >> thank you, mayor. first of all, let me thank mayor breed for her leadership and her support. i can't stress how important it is to this police department and to the city. i'm going to get a little bit into the weeds in explaining what this plan is all about, but first of all, let me say that this is all about resilience. when you look behind me, and to my left and to my right, we have the leader of our city, london breed, and our supervisors present. we have our supervisor, ahsha safai, and we have our service leaders, which is our officers and our command staff, when you put it all together, you have our community coming together to be resilient. we reflect our saul values of safety with respect, and it's really not just all about the police officers. as i said, it's about police, civic leaders, community, elected officials. we all have to come together to make our city better and to make our city safer. so with mayor breed's leadership and support, we deployed a plan -- dev

several areas around the city in the past year, san francisco mayor london breed and police chief bill scott will be on hand for that announcement. >> let's talk about our 4 zone forecast right now as we take a live look outside here in san francisco fog in this picture for sure. but there is a red flag warning that is in effect right now. and there is fire weather concerns. >> for the rest of the week. kron 4 meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez here tonight with a look at the timing of when that. red flag warning will be at its highest impact. yeah, it's really an effect right now. but its highest impact. jonathan and justine. >> is it going to be monday morning. early monday afternoon because of it. the sun rising daytime heating going to make for a very unstable atmosphere and that is one we're going to be at our increased threat of possible pop-up thunderstorms producing dry lightning. so unfortunately not going to be much of a rainmaker. and fortunately not much of a wind maker as well. so let's take a look at the areas that are going to be impacted. it's going to be our highest peaks eleva

it's another miracle here in the mission in state senator scott wiener said. the billlso simplifies the application process for people who need help from the cal fresh food program, a couple walking in san francisco say they were harassed with the anti asian slurs by a man following them on the street, and it was all caught on video as ktvu crime reporter henry lee explains. the man only stopped after the couple called police, a man berating a gay couple while following them in downtown san francisco. country, so i'm not racist. i don't like you and your mother was in my country it happened on sunday afternoon.witnesses say the man of the hat and shorts began spewing racial insults against the two men near seventh and market streets. one of the victims is asian. at one point, the man threatens them be nice with that. you're know your mother was was because she didn't support your authority as i think we're better than this. karen mark stalcup caught the incident on video. things escalated pretty quickly and pretty surprised. no one got like physically hurt. but there a

. >> san francisco police chief bill scott sending a message monday to anyone planning on committingrimes across the city. he joined mayor london breed to announce the city's latest efforts to combat crimes of opportunity against tourists. we know we're a big city. >> we know sadly that sometimes things will happen. and part of what we want to do is to put resources in the appropriate places to prevent as much of these things from happening as possible. >> according to the mayor's office, the city expects to see 15.3 million visitors by years end in an effort to stop crimes before they happen. the police department has deployed 26 officers on bike and foot patrols in 5 of the city's districts, the largest deployment is coming from the central police district 14 additional officers are now patrolling popular tourist spots like union square chinatown, pier, 39 and fisherman's wharf as well as the crooked portion of lombard street. meanwhile, the mission district richmond district and the haight ashbury commercial corridor are receiving 2 additional officers each and there are 6 additio

several popular spots in the city in the past year, san francisco mayor london breed and police chief bill scott will be on hand for the event. >> 41 challengers will take on governor gavin newsom and his upcoming recall election the september, the secretary of state's office released the complete list late last night and it does include 21 republicans, 8 democrats. one libertarian 9 independents and 2 members of the green party. the list does remain a little bit unsettled, though conservative conservative talk radio host larry elder says he should be on the list and former san diego mayor kevin faulconer is in dispute over whether he can be listed as the city's retired mayor, there's a youtube creator who says he's going to sue to get his nickname included on the ballot. well, this week could be the final at bat for the city of oakland and the a's and its attempt to keep the a's from leaving the east bay on tuesday morning. the city council consider a vote on the a's proposed 12 billion dollar. howard terminal ballpark the a's have made it clear that in order to stay. they need the deal or they

several areas around the city in the past year, san francisco mayor london breed and police chief bill scott will be on hand for this announcement. live coverage for you tomorrow. a chaotic scene last night at knott's berry farm in southern california. listen to this. >> and somehow managed to scale a 325 foot tall right. and even refused to come down. it happened last night around 8 o'clock on the supreme scream. officials did not close the park, but instead they turned off most of the attractions and forced the guest to evacuate. one visitor, though, says it wasn't just the man climbing that should face consequences. >> i look up and i see a guy with the shirt off and he says, oh, they're dancing is the like tried this in case nose like movies that i don't even know how you got it there. but my team that did the securities to get fired is are, you and get up the. >> after about 90 minutes, the man gave up %nd he was arrested. authorities took him. the orange county fire. authorities took him into custody to get treated for mental issues. >> time now for our 4 zone forecast on this sunday.

san francisco's mayor london breed and police chief bill scott held a news conference today to show the latest crime statistics. they say this information paints a very different picture of the city. then what is reflected in the current viral videos which suggests that crime is out of control. burglaries are up thefts and robberies are actually on the decline car break. ins have started ticking up from last year. but are dramatically down from the 2017 high point in terms of violent crime rates are down homicides and aggravated assaults are beginning to tick up. but gun violence has more than doubled since last year. what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance. >> our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crime. there's no statistic for brazenness. >> you know what we see on some of these just brazen heinous crimes in. there's no statistic for what that does to. >> outlook on. >> how we perceive what's happening in our city. >> the mayor says she is investing unprecedented 65 million

. >> and look san francisco police chief bill scott sending a message monday to anyone planning on committingrimes across the city. he joined mayor london breed to announce the city's latest efforts to combat crimes of opportunity against tourists. we know we're a big city. >> we know sadly that sometimes things will happen. and part of what we want to do is to put resources in the appropriate places to prevent as much of these things from happening as possible. >> according to the mayor's office, the city expects to see 15.3 million visitors by years end in an effort to stop crimes before they happen. the police department has deployed 26 officers on bike and foot patrols in 5 of the city's districts, the largest deployment is coming from the central police district 14 additional officers are now patrolling popular tourist spots like union square chinatown, pier, 39 and fisherman's wharf as well as the crooked portion of lombard street. meanwhile, the mission district richmond district and the haight ashbury commercial corridor are receiving 2 additional officers each and there are 6 additio

. >> and look san francisco police chief bill scott sending a message monday to anyone planning on committing crimes across the city. he joined mayor london breed to announce the city's latest efforts to combat crimes of opportunity against tourists. we know we're a big city. >> we know sadly that sometimes things will happen. and part of what we want to do is to put resources in the appropriate places to prevent as much of these things from happening as possible. >> according to the mayor's office, the city expects to see 15.3 million visitors by years end in an effort to stop crimes before they happen. the police department has deployed 26 officers on bike and foot patrols in 5 of the city's districts, the largest deployment is coming from the central police district 14 additional officers are now patrolling popular tourist spots like union square chinatown, pier, 39 and fisherman's wharf as well as the crooked portion of lombard street. meanwhile, the mission district richmond district and the haight ashbury commercial corridor are receiving 2 additional officers each and there are 6 addit

san francisco police chief bill scott was at the signing, saying he's working with the city's prosecutors. thieves accountable. people fear crime when they see it the way we're seeing it go viral, so we have to not only deal with the actual people that are doing it and hold them to account, but we also have to balance the message that we are doing something about it. san francisco's mayor, also saying viral videos don't tell the whole story. what is not getting the attention is that in a lot of these cases are officers are making arrest. but we want to stop it from happening in the first place. the city announced that its redeploying about 30 uniformed police officers around tourist destinations around the city in an effort to crack down on retail theft, an auto break ins reporting live at union square in san francisco. christian captain ktvu fox two news. okay, good to see some focus on that. thank you. christian new numbers from the state show coronavirus. hospitalizations have more than doubled within a month as the delta varied takes hold. the state dashboard shows nearly 2700 people

we've seen that in the past year, san francisco mayor london breed and police chief bill scott are set to be there making that announcement today. we'll cover it for you. stay tuned. a crowd for from or what comes out of that. we'll be right back. is angel soft an ideal balance of softness and strength and more sheets? this mom thinks so. all done? yup. no more? -yup. good job! gotta go again. angel soft. an ideal balance of softness and strength. and more sheets. the time national news this week congress could vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill is both the house and the senate returned today. we have our washington correspondent reshad hudson now with the latest. good morning. senate democratic leader chuck schumer said he is going to call for a procedural vote. on that one 0.2 trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure plan on wednesday. but republicans say the bill isn't quite ready. >> the pressure is mounting for lawmakers to reach an agreement this week on a pair of massive domestic spending bills. one of them has a one 0.2 trillion dollar bill focused on repairing roads and

making international headlines over concerns about out of control crime today merely breed and chief bill scott play defense holding a. >> news conference showing the latest crime numbers which they say painted different picture the city than the one that's being reflected in viral videos. a brazen crimes. kron four's, maureen kelly has the story. >> we've all seen the videos of shoplifters swarming high end stores and pharmacies car break-ins happening in broad daylight and asian americans being victimized stores have closed and target is shortening their hours over the last few weeks, the city has made headlines in the national news over concerns about crime what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance. >> our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crimes. the guy who we saw the viral video of him riding a bicycle into the walgreens in and stealing he has been arrested. the elderly woman waiting at the bus stop. 2 people stabbed that perpetrator has been arrested. the chief and the mayor came

we've been tataising about this past year, san francisco's mayor london breed and the police chief, bill scott are going to be president for the big announcement on what the city is going to do about safety. it is 7.21 we'll be back with more in just a few minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ monitor, check and lock down you money with security from chase. control feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. >> welcome back. at 7.24 breaking news this morning. remember the victorian home that caught fire in oakland around 05:30am. you can see it blazing when it first broke out. well, it turns out not spread just to another one. but to a 3rd home. so 3 homes were damaged in the aftermath. you get a better look at the neighborhood. yeah, you can see there's that one. a frame house. there was roof damage that white house there in the center and then the 3rd houses. the frame house on the side. you can see all the firefighters there. >> fact of the fire department tweeted out that they had about 50 firefighter personnel on scene and obviously a lot of equipment to with there lines going every which way trying to

that's the message from san francisco police chief bill scott ski plans to prevent crimes of opportunity has more. tourists are descending on san francisco. and wildfires growing in northern california threatening hundreds of buildings and forcing evacuations today we're learning that pg e could be to blame for one of those fires. now from the bay local news station. >> this is kron 4 news at 3. here to have our community to please get back. >> please do not what your life in jeopardy. >> as covid cases continue to rise. a san jose city leaders are pleading with the community to get vaccinated before it's too late. thank you for joining us here on kron, 4 news at 3. i'm tahernia. well, some of the some parts of the bay area have 70 to 80% of vaccination rates. other communities continue to fall behind kron four's. rob fladeboe joins us now from san jose with the latest on the push vaccinate people in east san jose before they're hit by the delta variant probably understand there's a debate over reopening a vaccination site. yeah, that's right. soon as i'm here at mexican american heritag

. >> 33 is the time san francisco's mayor london breed and police chief bill scott held a news conference eo show the latest crime statistics and the new information they say paints a different picture of the city than what's often reflected in these viral videos that suggest crimes out of control while burglaries are up. yes, thefts and robberies are actually down and car break-ins have started to tick upwards from last year. but they are still down from their high point back in 2017 and in terms of violent crimes raped down homicides and aggravated assaults, though, are in fact taking upwards gun violence. in fact, has more than doubled since last year. but the mayor says that still means the city's in a better place. >> what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance, our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crime. there's no statistic for brazenness. >> you know what we see on some of these just brazen heinous crimes in. there's no statistic for what that does to. >> outlook on how we p

. >>> meanwhile today, san francisco mayor london breed and police chief bill scott will be presenting the latest public safety statistics. it's coming from the public police department report about the first half of 2021. that report summarizing stats from a program that informs public safety strategies and resources to deter and reduce crime. now that news conference will be live streamed on the department's facebook page. >>> carnival chaos. witnesses now sharing the moments of mayhem. the scary viral video gone wrong. >>> all star security scare. firearms found in a hotel room near tonight's home run derby. the fbi calming fears about a possible connection. >>> sunset spectacle. make sure you're looking up just after sundown tonight. you'll want to see this phenomenon that's out of had this world. >> make sure you're away from the coast. this is coming back quickly tonight. we have a west-northwest wind. 22 miles per hour. pushing, yep, free air- conditioning to all neighborhoods. unfortunately it'll get a little aggressive over parts of the bay. we do have a small craft advisory f

. >> and look san francisco police chief bill scott sending a message monday to anyone planning on committing crimes across the city. he joined mayor london breed to announce the city's latest efforts to combat crimes of opportunity against tourists. we know we're a big city. >> we know sadly that sometimes things will happen. and part of what we want to do is to put resources in the appropriate places to prevent as much of these things from happening as possible. >> according to the mayor's office, the city expects to see 15.3 million visitors by years end in an effort to stop crimes before they happen. the police department has deployed 26 officers on bike and foot patrols in 5 of the city's districts, the largest deployment is coming from the central police district 14 additional officers are now patrolling popular tourist spots like union square chinatown, pier, 39 and fisherman's wharf as well as the crooked portion of lombard street. meanwhile, the mission district richmond district and the haight ashbury commercial corridor are receiving 2 additional officers each and there are 6 addit

ray tonight 50's the time san francisco's mayor london breed and police chief bill scott held a newsference to show the latest crime stats. now the new information paints what they say is a different picture of the city than what we see reflected in some of these viral videos which can suggest that crime is out of control. now, while burglaries are up thefts and robberies are actually on the decline car break-ins have started ticking upwards from last year. but they're down from the 2017 high point. so they counter with that in terms of violent crimes raped her down. but homicides and aggravated assaults are ticking upwards as well. gun violence, in fact, has more than doubled since last year. but take a listen to the mayor. >> what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance, our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crime. there's no statistic for brazenness. >> you know what we see on some of these just brazen heinous crimes in. there's no statistic for what that does to. >> outlook o

. >> 7.40 is the time san francisco's mayor london breed and police chief bill scott held a news conferenceow the latest crime stats. the new information paints a different picture of the city than what's reflected in viral videos that we're seeing online which suggests crimes out of control. now, while burglaries are up. yes, thefts and robberies are actually down and car break-ins have started ticking upwards last year, but they're down still from where they were back in 20 2017 when they were at an all-time high in terms of violent crime rates are down. homicides and aggravated assaults, though, are ticking upward. so it kind of depends on how you want to look at the data gun violence. in fact, has more than doubled since last year. but take a listen. >> what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance, our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crime. there's no statistic for brazenness. >> you know what we see on some of these just brazen heinous crimes in. there's no statistic for what tha

we need to take care of business chief bill scott cities recently increased foot patrols in union squares to six following the high profile theft of designer handbags at neiman marcus. at the end of the day, you know, we see these things happening is unfortunate. they're going viral and what have you but we will continue to go after the people who are perpetrating these crimes in our city now. unfortunately, retail theft is. not a new phenomenon in san francisco. for years, the number of thefts has been around three times the state average. evan sernoffsky ktvu, fox two news. okay. temperatures today. pretty warm, especially inland. we had upper nineties and so spots again and back in 95 remember, we had some humidity today as well. and so that really made it feel hot. look at livermore at 97 9 o'clock, some of the spots and unofficial spots like 98 degrees 81 in redwood city and human today, cool on the coast. as you would expect. the fog has been hanging in tomorrow. not as humid. we have fog back at the coast and the humidities have dropped significantly in the last six hours or so. i

. >> san francisco's mayor london breed and police chief bill scott held a news conference to show thee statistics and the new information paints a very different picture of the city. then what is reflected in viral videos which surgests a crime is out of control and while burglaries are up thefts and robberies are actually on the decline car break-ins have started ticking upwards from last year. but they're down from where it was back in 2017 in terms of violent crime. rapes are down while homicides and aggravated assaults are ticking upwards gun violence has more than doubled, though, since last year. >> what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance, our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crime. there's no statistic for brazenness. >> you know what we see on some of these just brazen heinous crimes in. there's no statistic for what that does to. >> outlook on how we perceive what's happening in our city. >> and the mayor says that she is investing 65 million dollars of the budget t

the chief bill scott says the data provide a better look at the reality compared to what people see in those videos. there's no statistic for brazenness. >> you know what we see on some of these just brazen heinous crimes in. there's no statistic for what that does to. >> outlook on. >> how we perceive what's happening in our city. what's not going viral what's not being brought to the forefront is the fact that in almost every single instance. >> our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crime. >> in terms of violent crime. the numbers are a bit more troubling. however, while rapes are down homicides are creeping up are already at 26 so far this year. police to note 2019 saw the lowest number of homicides in 58 years. just 20 of them in the city. what's also concerning police say is that gun violence has doubled since last year and is the highest number of shootings we've seen now going back to 2016 which is why mayor breed says she's investing an extra 65 million dollars in the budget to try to help prevent these violent crimes from happening in the f

san francisco police chief bill scott supports the legislation when they see these things go viral.the perception of log insists the perception that anything goes really that has to be overcome 23 of the top 10 cities for organized retail theft in the united states are in california. ella's number one san francisco's number five and sacramento is number 10 henry lee ktvu fox two news, seven weeks before the gubernatorial recall election, a new poll from uc berkeley shows this is shaping up to be a tight race for governor reduce him to try to hold onto his seat. 47% of likely voters said they would recall him while 50% said they are opposed to a recall earlier today on the four we spoke to eric schickler, co director of uc berkeley's institute of governmental studies. about how voter turnout may play a huge role. i think there's probably some fatigue. i mean, we just had a very intense presidential election democrats. obviously we're a lot happier with the outcome. then we're republicans. and so i think a lot of democrats are kind of checked out for the moment from electoral politics

san francisco police chief bill scott was at the signing, saying he's working with the city's prosecutors to thieves accountable. people fear crime when they see it the way we're seeing it go viral, so we have to not only deal with the actual people that are doing it and hold them to account, but we also have to balance the message that we are doing something about it. san francisco's mayor, also saying viral videos don't tell the whole story. what is not getting the attention is that in a lot of these cases are officers are making arrest. but we want to stop it from happening in the first place. san francisco announced that it is redeploying about 30 uniformed police officers around tourist destinations around the city in an effort to crack down on retail thefts and auto break ins in san francisco. christian captain ktvu fox two news, san francisco district attorney chase a. boudin announced today a new investigation into possible fraudulent lawsuits targeting chinatown merchants. i want to be very clear. we will not tolerate fraud or abuse of legal process. we will stand with our small

we need to take care of business chief bill scott said.cently increased foot patrols in union square from two officers to six following the high profile theft of designer handbags at neiman marcus. at the end of the day, you know, we see these things happening is unfortunate. they're going viral and what have you but we will continue to go after the people who are perpetrating these crimes in our city now. unfortunately retail theft is not a new phenomenon in san francisco for years, the number of thefts has been around three times the state average. what's different is businesses like walgreens are increasingly being singled out as these fencing schemes become more sophisticated, live in the newsroom. evan sernoffsky ktvu fox two news. yeah, i know, evan, you said these items reportedly changed hands several times. can the flea market vendors themselves face any repercussions if they're selling items that say, like you said, have stickers on them. that's a sold in safeway only. well, that's julia. great question one, and that's difficult

san francisco police chief bill scott supports the legislation. when they see these things go viral, the perception of lol insists the perception that anything goes really that has to be overcome. 23 of the top 10 cities for organized retail theft in the united states are in california. ella's number one, san francisco's number five and sacramento is number 10 henry lee ktvu, fox two news. we are now less than two months from california's gubernatorial recall election and today, a new poll from u. c. berkeley shows that it is shaping up to be a tight race for governor newsom to hold onto his seat, 47% said they would recall him well, 50% of likely voters say they are opposed to recalling him. governor newsom has pulled two of his children from a summer camp that did not require kids to wear masks. a spokeswoman for the governor said the nuisance mr communication from the camp, saying it would not enforce mask wearing which is a violation of state policy requiring masks for everyone in the youth settings since children under the age of 12 can't be

. >> governor newsom and san francisco police chief bill scott are holding an event in down in southern announce an initiative designed to tackle organized retail theft and crime carry it for you live on kron-on. once that begins on here, that announcement and to get real-time updates on all your local and national headlines grab your phone scanned, the qr code. we'll take you straight. your phone's app store so you can download kron-on for free. back to you. all right. thank you very much. tonight. >> it is 9.55 barry baseball. quick update on the giants. they face the dodgers in l a here we are in the 5th. this is a 2 run homer by mike yastremski. that gave the giants a big lead. >> but somehow and how they did it. but the dodgers came back. okay. back and they won with this walk-off homer. final score. 8 to 6 game 3 of the series tonight. first pitch where we lost a 5 run lead is all they did still holding on though. they placing one-game lead. they are how the a's. well. >> they were hosting the angels 4th inning. let's get to that. we have matt olson. >> here at the plate and he cr

we need to take care of business chief bill scott cities recently increased foot patrols in union squarex following the high profile theft of designer handbags at neiman marcus. at the end of the day, you know, we see these things happening is unfortunate. they're going viral and what have you but we will continue to go after the people who are perpetrating these crimes in our city now. unfortunately, retail theft. not a new phenomenon in san francisco. for years, the number of thefts has been around three times the state average. evan sernoffsky ktvu, fox two news, all right now, let's check in with meteorologist rosemary oroczo looking behind us, rosemary a little bit of sun, but kind of gray too out there, i think heading inland, though it might be a different story. yes definitely a summer like pattern shaping up around the bay area for the afternoon. log in and frank hello to all of you. we have low clouds along the coastline just inside the bay as claudia mentioned there at jack london square, a little bit of sunshine and i look here at sfo a little bit of sunshine as well. a littl

san francisco police chief bill scott supports the legislation.they see these things go viral. the perception of log insists the perception that anything goes really. that has to be overcome 23 of the top 10 cities for organized retail theft in the united states are in california. ella's number one, san francisco's number five and sacramento is number 10 henry lee ktvu, fox two news. heart is now releasing new details as the agency plans to restore service four weeks earlier than initially planned. part is returning to what they're calling near regular service on monday the permanent changes to train schedules include increased frequency and extending station closing times to midnight mondays through saturdays. there will also be more direct trips out to san francisco international on weekdays, the bart trip planner will reflect the updated schedule win. writers plug in august 2nd or leader as the trip date still to come here at noon, google's slowing down his plans to reopen its campuses. what the company says needs to happen in order to safely t

cisco police chief bill scott supports the legislation. when they see these things go viral. the perception of lol insists the perception that anything goes really that has to be overcome, too, you now 33 of the top cities for organized retail step in the united states are in california. las number one, san francisco's number five and sacramento is number 10 reporting live at sfpd headquarters. henry lee ktvu fox studios. all right, henry. you, remnants of last year's fires being cleaned up, so they're not part of a potential fire this year. this work that has been performed. there is definitely a fuel break, not only from the utility perspective but a fuel break from just what's remaining on people's property coming up next here at five. the work pgd is taking on to clear hundreds of thousands of trees from thousands of properties up in the north bank. and right after the break. we'll look at the weather will take a look at the fire, the fire weather conditions and why that fire is slowly being put out. actually and power lines. ie story of so many of california's big fires

bill? >> senator scott: i think there is hope for the bill.ed on it yesterday, we will have it in the conversation today, we will be meeting tomorrow, i will be talking with law enforcement leaders tomorrow as well. the one thing you cannot do in police reform is leave the impression that somehow we are going to demonize police officers. that is debt stop not going to happen, can't happen. we can see today in baltimore over almost 400 officers vacant. in other words, they need 400 more officers, so much so that they are asking for 100 federal officers to come in and to fill the void. when you demonize police officers, when you defund the police and you start talking about this war on police and prosecution and not on crime, you're going to have a reduction of forces, and if you tell officers that their personal liability is on the line, it is a bad decision. that's one of the reasons why we've never been negotiating on qualified immunity for the individual officer. it's just that policy. i won't support it. things like the choke hold and 1033,

bills. the democrats used it last year to block tim scott's police reform bill.ut all of a sudden it is racist. the democrats are complete hypocrites. they teach your kids that america is racist. we are not racist. this is not a racist country. democrats are absolutely wrong. [applause] america is the greatest country in the history of the world. a country that has given more opportunities for people to live their individual dreams than any place on earth. [applause] in the past, republicans have been intimidated when democrats call us racist. we've got to stop being intimidated, we can't allow that. the democrats know that they lose on actual policy. we win on policy, so that's when they play the race card. we can't stand down or cower to the democrats calling us names. they're going to call us racists no matter what we do. that game has to be over. we've got to fight for what we believe in. fight for our conservative principles, for free elections, fight for a government in washington that doesn't just represent liberal specialist interests or woke corporations

and with that, to talk more about our tourism deployment plan will be our chief of police, bill scott> thank you, mayor. first of all, let me thank mayor breed for her leadership and her support. i can't stress how important it is to this police department and to the city. i'm going to get a little bit into the weeds in explaining what this plan is all about, but first of all, let me say that this is all about resilience. when you look behind me, and to my left and to my right, we have the leader of our city, london breed, and our supervisors present. we have our supervisor, ahsha safai, and we have our service leaders, which is our officers and our command staff, when you put it all together, you have our community coming together to be resilient. we reflect our saul values of safety with respect, and it's really not just all about the police officers. as i said, it's about police, civic leaders, community, elected officials. we all have to come together to make our city better and to make our city safer. so with mayor breed's leadership and support, we deployed a plan -- devised a p

bill with an 8 to 4 vote. research shows that psychedelics can have significant benefits in treating mental health and substance use disorders, state senator scott wiener is bill does not decriminalized the sale of psychedelics or allow for providing psychedelics to anyone under the age of 21. it now. heads to the assembly appropriations committee. marijuana is one step closer to being legalized at the federal level. three senators today introduced a plan called the cannabis administration and opportunity act, it would decriminalized cannabis nationwide and expunge federal records of non violent marijuana offenders. the legislation also includes a plan to tax cannabis and invest in social justice programs. right now. california 17 other states to us territories and washington, d. c. have all legalized marijuana for recreational use. the oakland police department is asking for the public's help tonight in searching for a missing man. 67 year old james tyler was last seen at his home on 89th avenue near international authorities say he was wearing a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants. tyler is considered at risk because he suffers from multiple health

past friday, i received a final response from the district attorney, chesa boudin and police chief bill scott. if you recall, in may, we had requested additional data from both the police department and the district attorney regarding organized retail crime and retail theft happening in san francisco. the data that we received was somewhat incomplete and did not provide answers to all the questions that we had. however, the most jarring finding that i received from my letter of inquiry was that the number of annual repeated shoplifters that were reoffending over and over in our city. we have over 200 repeat offenders in an annual basis in a normal year, excluding last year during covid, and these were constantly -- there was about 25% of those that were constantly multiple offenders over and over. so for us, we feel like there's considerable more work to be done. we've all seen the headlines from target, requesting -- not requesting, but reducing their hours. had a good conversation with a representative of target. they said very clearly it had everything to do with retail crime and the braze

past friday, i received a final response from the district attorney, chesa boudin and police chief bill scott. if you recall, in may, we had requested additional data from both the police department and the district attorney regarding organized retail crime and retail theft happening in san francisco. the data that we received was somewhat incomplete and did not provide answers to all the questions that we had. however, the most jarring finding that i received from my letter of inquiry was that the number of annual repeated shoplifters that were reoffending over and over in our city. we have over 200 repeat offenders in an annual basis in a normal year, excluding last year during covid, and these were constantly -- there was about 25% of those that were constantly multiple offenders over and over. so for us, we feel like there's considerable more work to be done. we've all seen the headlines from target, requesting -- not requesting, but reducing their hours. had a good conversation with a representative of target. they said very clearly it had everything to do with retail crime and the braze