and consumer investigator chris kimora tracks them in a massive database database. >> and chris concluded that 2017 was a great year for the consumer team which means it was a great year for our viewers. >> we recap one week at a time on friday, but today, let's look at the whole year of success that we had fiting for the little guy. in 2017 we logged a grand total of 4,479 calls for help. that averages out to just about 18 complaints per work day. we got the most calls in january, and the least in december, and still 239 of them in the month of december, and now, next we wondered which area is going to be calling us most often, so we plotted a all 4,000 calls on the bay area map. the bigger the circle, the more calls from there. and the big pockets in the south bay, but look around, people everywhere are asking for our help, and often we deliver. in 2017, we returned $782,180 to vi viewers like you, and this is bringing the grand total since the launch middle of 2016, $1.2 million saved and we are committed to saving you more in 2018 and we have had a strong start. we have saved shelby,

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