they're calling them porch pirates.hey've hit nearly one in five homeowners and the video of thieves in action and some advice on how you can protect your packages. >> reporter: across the country, more and more porch pirates are striking when they think no one is watching. two young women driving a golf cart to pilfer packages. in new york, david altman got lucky, he caught the suspect on camera. >> reporter: according to the neighborhood social network nextdoor, package theft complaints are up 500% this year. median price for a stolen package, $250. now law enforcement is cracking down. boston authorities recovering dozen of stolen amazon packages this week and one ohio prosecutor posting on facebook said it placed bait packages. the theft happened right here. >> right behind us. >> reporter: in burbank, california, they arrested a porch pirate just last week. >> it's a growing problem. we need devote resources to this problem and hopefully see a decline in package thefts. >> reporter: to protect your deliver yis. rer

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>> reporter: video of this nanny who spotted a porch pirate on a ring door belle and chased her downt viral. tacoma entrepreneur jaireme barrow took it one step further. [explosion] he invented and is now selling booby-trapped boxes containing blank shotgun shells designed to scare the noel out of holiday crooks. [gunshot] to combat porch pirate, amazon introduced a program in which delivery people unlock your door and place packages inside. and some stores like whole foods offer the use of delivery lockers, but carriers say the safest bet is to schedule deliveries when someone is home. >> glor: good advice, don. thank you very much. up next, tell this to your boss,ing why your commute is getting longer: arcc1: to get our best offer of the year: zero percent financing for seventy-two months, plus an extra one-thousand cash back across a full lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. so hurry and save big on america's best-selling brand. it's the final days of the ford year end sales event with zero percent financing for seventy-two months plus an extra one-thousand cash back! see your fo

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postal service fighting back against the porch pirates, the folk wos steal the holiday presents from the front porch? richard reeve is live to explain what the postal service is doing. rich? >> a take on the bait and switch. you know where the packages are going but the bad guys won't and hopefully they will arrive safely. >> with 15 billion pieces of holiday mail out there, the porch pirates are scoping your neighborhood. >> steal boxes and the gifts from people. yeah. this guy hitting 13 street northeast. look at this woman. dressed in a u.s. postal service shirt. >> it's kind of sad. >> awful. >> irma ellis stewart who lives on nearby 13 place has the surveillance cameras that point everywhere. including the front porch. she bought them house was robbed. no porch pirate worries now. >> some of them have dependencies so they take what belong to others. >> the police branch, the postal service tracking the mail thieves and taking advantage of the holidays. >> they keep us busy. we are investigating them. >> the postal service has new delivery tips including the intercept program whe

we love the pirates, there's a movie on piratings. wow, i'm way off track.enough of the pirates, back to the story, right? the one chapter i wrestled with more than anything else, i needed the most help for was the history of new orleans. man, my -- it's mind-numbing between the french, the cajuns, the french words, i'm confused. [laughter] then doing the book on tape, reading it out outside, it's worse. you're writing it but you're not reading it. and all of a sudden you go, how the hell do you say that? [laughter] that took a little bit longer. but i made a conscious effort to talk slower. so, hopefully, i'll get less hate mail of, thanks, but can you slow down? i was out of breath listening. i didn't want that this time. [laughter] yes. >> given the involvement of france and spain and other countries in new orleans and the fact that the war of 1812 had been going for a while and that this army came out of nowhere, did those other countries have any involvement with army, or did they in any way take sides in what happened at new orleans? >> great question.

including frozen and the pirates of the caribbean. and star wars. now, bringing in edgier tv empire including fx and popular comic book franchises. >> they come under one umbrella and the customers can have access to the premium content. left off the deal was fox news channel and fox sports network. the chairman was on gma this morning promising a big benefit to the consumer. >> they get better content and high quality content and in ways they demand. innovative ways. >> disney has a stake in hulu adding shows like the simpsons and shows like the sound of music and the mastermind of the deal making it a move to complete with netflix. >> it beefs up what disney can or offer when they go live in 2018. and disney acquired prop lar creators like marvel and ushering in a new era for disney. and like all acquisitions this deal will be suggest to regulatory approval. channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> from our delaware newsroom now three men shot another man during a robby in newcastle and happened on freedom trail last night. three masked men were

well, in some communities, these porch pirates are getting a big surprise.ports. >> reporter: they come in the dead of night and in broad daylight, grinches stealing your holiday cheer, and sometimes thousands of dollars of gifts. in campbell, california, homeowner terry bowlen's security cameras caught stealing from his porch. >> you should feel safe and comfortable. not only in your home, but in your neighborhood. >> reporter: online shopping and thus home deliveries are up 17% over last year. ups and fed ex expect to deliver more than one billion packages combined. 11 million packages were stolen last year. 74% while the homeowner was away. making porches prime targets for pillagers. detectives in washington county, oregon, using a baited package, traced a porch pirate two blocks from where he snatched a box. >> our gps tracker is in our package. so we can essentially watch from a distance as our package takes a route around the city or back to the person's home who stole it or wherever it goes. we can watch it. >> reporter: homeowners have taken advantag

striking back against porch pirates. this package thief got a box full..f kitty litter. >>> new video after homeowner striking pack against porch pirates. this thief got a box full of kitty litter. according to the woman she has been putting cat litter inside amazon boxes which she then leaves on her doorstep. so far 6 boxes have been stolen. >> should be used kit kitty litter. >>> many people have cameras to catch people in the act. but capturing the crime doesn't always help. >> in less than 20 seconds this thief stole not one, not 2, but 3 packages. >> i was a little bit shaky just watching the video. >> she watched the entire crime unfold on her phone while at work. >> you feel helpless. >> you don't think it can happen to you and when it does you feel like that's a violation of your privacy. >> they are far from alone. online shopping is up 17% from last year. 11million packages were stolen in 2016 while the homeowner was away. >> we are seeing video after video of thieves not caring. >> package thefts are on the rise in the city with 51 stolen this y

everybody wants to be a pirate wench.d to our sea-faring heritage. and maritime heritage. >> you were telling me some people you know, bartenders who lived on boats, their homes sank, some people lost their homes, but overall, how would you rate this? you've been living here a down time. >> my husband and i sailed into town about 30 years ago on a schooner and started a bar on the schooner. but i would say, overall, key west is really doing well. key west was really lucky compared to maybe 20, 30 miles north of us. and we were blessed. minimal damage. mainly the financial impact. but word is getting out there. everybody's finding out. key west is here! come on down and have fun with us. >> happy new year to you, pirate wench. happy better, healthier 2018. yeah, when it comes to how bad it could be, ana, when you think about what's happening in puerto rico tonight, even object gulf coast, places like rockport, tourist towns there where most of their attractions were wiped out, it could be so much worse. it's nice to aptly

it reminds me of the film, pirates of the caribbean where somebody says the pirates code is very importantsomeone else says the code is just guidelines. route is supposed to have signed up to this, article 46 of the agreement made last friday, saying that commitments and principles are made and must be upheld in all, irrespective of the nature of any further future agreement. that says no matter what, brittany leviathan is apparently said yesterday that there may be room. and people in ireland are rather worried. it says in that text that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed so you can play around with that. there is an element of fudge about this agreement and there needed to be in orderfor it to agreement and there needed to be in order for it to be agreed to by all sides. but like all suites, fudge rots your teeth in the end. and there is such cynicism in the headline is well. hard to reconcile the idea of a single market and no hardboard. the briefing that have onto the summit is that it is very ha rd to onto the summit is that it is very hard to reconcile, as you say, the uk d

a pirates.hristmas and an addiction to drugs. what happens when the suspect works for the company making the delivery? >> it makes me mad every time i watch it. >> reporter: david said he installed a camera on his front door because he had a package stolen two years ago. >> i was stunned. it seemed like a grinch who is stealing christmas scenario. >> reporter: to guard against package theft at your house, consumer experts recommend doing a few things. redirect a package to a locker or in-store pickup. use smart gadgets. a doorbell that keeps an eye on your porch. try a smart garage door opener to allow a delivery person to drop off your stuff inside. and now, there's sensors, these divisions that sound an alarm if someone takes a parcel off a motion-detecting plate. there's lots you can do. but the in-store pickup seems economical. >> and what about sending an iphone to nobody home? asking for a friend. >> not a good idea. >>> let's head over to the orange room. dylan is in for carson. >> coming

this holiday season, a growing number are being stole bin so-called porch pirates. >> i'ming about tok to a man had has figured out how to fight back with a bang. >>> plus did you ever talk about something on your phone and suddenly start seeing ads for it? is it a coincidence? or are our smartphones spying on us? >>> and a look back at some memorable moments on both sides from 2017, including everybody's favorite blooper by yours truly. george pappadopolous. >> i'm a dope, i'm a dope. >>> but first, we're almost one year into a trump administration. and the end of any year is a time for assessing especially this one. mike allen had an interesting observation this week in his axios newsletter. he pointed out how little president trump and perceptions of him have changed in the last year. roughly the same number of people support him today as did at the beginning of his administration. the russia probe has remained constant. the elected republicans remain compliant. the elected democrats still don't like him. the war with the media has never subsided and neither have his twitter finger

in the system, but if an animal is shot --h a lead to let, the lead a lead bullet, they could be pirates before. one angry mom in oregon is fighting back. you know that was for somebody special. this woman gets angry, then she gets even by leaving a smelly surprise. ace: package -- a stolen package was for her four-month-old son, so she left a note on a box filled with his dirty diapers and she was happy to see the porch pirate struck again. of a was a little bit relief, and it was fun to come home and see it was gone. we had a good laugh, thinking about someone opening the box of dirty diapers. thinking they would get something good, and it is not. jonathan: it was a weeks worth of dirty diapers. she said her baby was sick. there you go. the lesson, don't steal. your packages sent to a safer place, perhaps your place of business. michelle: now to the weather. bill kelly is live at -- kelly is live at the zoo. you have so many new friends behind you. bill: we do. pretty much what we did is, we want around the zoo and we said if you are a kid, you need to be here. this is what we got. ho

tom: after the theft, a photographer spotted with the porch pirate through into the woods and called arlington county police. >> that's ridiculous. tom: neighbors say he did this in broad daylight. >> the neighborhood seemed very safe and now there have been a couple incidents. tom: the police recommending requiring a signature or have somebody that you trust accepti ng for you. >> you have to check all the time and be vigilant to make sure that you are not leaving anything on your doorstep. tom: along the lines of what michelle said, arlington county your packages on amazon. that way hopefully you will know as soon as they are at your front door to try to get it off your porch as soon as possible. live in the barcroft neighborhood, tom roussey, abc 7 news. larry: new details about the foiled terror plot planned in san francisco. the fbi says that a former marine everett jamison had several guns in his home and was charged with trying to give material support to isis. he also posted radical messages online. reporter say that he talked about the plot with an undercover agent. his plan

i'm anita oh the plan one couple came up with to catch a porch pirate. >>> rain moving in tonight, wetng across the area but then it turns cold and we have a couple chances to see snow, where you can see some snowflakes. >>> also, ready, for patrol, k-9 officers for departments across the area ready to hit the streets. we will show you training involved for these four legged crime fighters, plus this. >>> students at a west philadelphia high school have a unique side dish, i'm greg argos with exactly what they are creating and why they are so very filling. >>> breaking news right now at 6:00 o'clock a car plunge necessary to the schuylkill river, chopper three is live over the scene near martin luther king junior drive. police say car left the roadway, about a half an hour ago at 5:30. sixty-one year-old driver is out of the water, no word on her condition or how this all happen. we will stay on top of this breaking store i. >>> also tonight. >> we didn't think he would have the guts to come back and it seems like it might be his every day route. i'm not that surprised. >> caught red-h

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seen porch pirate videos. one angry mother in oregon didn't get angry, she got even, by leaving a smelly surprise. >> how many dirty diapers are in their? >> diapers. [laughter] >> how dirty? >> he has been sick the last week. >> oh! >> too much information. [laughter] that's still package was for her four-month-old son. she taped up that box filled with dirty diapers along with a note and the next day it was gone. >> a little bit of a relief. it was fun to come home and see that it was gone. we had quite a good laugh thinking of someone opening the box of dirty diapers thinking they would get something good and its not. >> he wonder if that will deter them next time. [laughter] >> this time of year it is best to make sure your packages are sent to work or another safe location so they are not stolen. in at brownips are university beginning nextea replaced undergraduate student loans with scholarships and financial aid packages. brown says it raised the $30 million to make the change but needs another $90 mill

postal service helping you fight back against porch pirates this holiday season. they have introduced a service called a package intercept, allowing them to reroute your package to a new location while in transit. officials say lesson is no matter where they are delivered, don't let packages sit there all day. >> pick up your mail as soon as possible. you do not want your package is sitting out because it makes them more vulnerable. nancy: usps says if you fall victim, call the postal inspectors directly instead of the police. there is a link to do so on your shipping receipt. jonathan: an important reminder about the metro red line. there will be no trains between silver spring and fort totten this weekend as crews fix signal problems linked with a 40-year-old communications cable. if all goes as planned, normal service will resume sometime monday morning, hopefully before the commute. this is aptly a can happen, a man and a tractor-trailer collided, called on the police camera. police officer aims for the snowbank instead of the truck. fortunately in all of this

. ♪ >> some homeowners are using new technologies to catch porch pirates, pilfering your packages. >>hy do you have to steal? >> i dent want a lot for christmas ♪ it took 23 years but a popular holiday tune has finally become a hit. ♪ ♪ >> kids were being mean and picking on him. i said, we have got something. and my husband, made a plea on facebook. >>> in mexico, prosecutors want to question the driver of a tour bus that crashed in the yucatan pa anyone la. eight -- peninsula. eight americans were killed. others were hurt. manuel bojorquez was there. >> reporter: mexican prosecutors say skid marks on the narrow highway may indicate the tour bus was speeding causing a crash so violent it flipped the bus on its side. passengers tossed across the road into a grassy shoulder. red cross responder says it is the were he has ever seen. >> they were in shock. you couldn't speak their language. you saw that they were clearly in shock. >> they were in a screaming because of the pain. and their injuries. and seeing their relatives who died. the passengers were from two royal caribbean cruise s

now for the porch pirates, this one in washington. have the postman walks up, delivers the packages. here comes this fella casing the joint. >> blackbeard coming up to the porch. >> he comes with his own package to make it look like he's a package delivery guy. >> he's trying to figure out what's what. walks up to the step, looks at the packages, looks right into the camera. good job, bud, and within the hour comes back in the staple clothing with a hoodie on top of his head. >> the magical stealth hoodie. >> he still has the delivery package. >> it's all part of it, gayle. >> the owner of the home and the packages is unamused. that's not the only thing he stole. the reports are the neighbor noticed the fella and later called the police and come to find out that car was abandoned because it was also stolen. >> this guy is on a tear. ♪ >>> i started mention the company saab, most people probably picture a car. if you're an aviation nerd you might picture the saab griffin or griffin as pronounce it in english a single engine multirole f

. >>> it is that time of year when porch pirates target your home. in many cases, cameras catch them in action. we are in campbell as to why they say it does not always help. >> reporter: in less than 20 seconds, this thief stole not one, not two but three packages. >> i was shaky watching the video.>> reporter: megan watch the entire crime unfold on her front porch from her phone while at work. >> you feel helpless. >> you don't think it will happen you and when it does you feel like it is a violation of your privacy. >> reporter: they are far from alone, online shopping and home deliveries is up 17%. 11 million packages were stolen in 2016. 74% of them, while the homeowner was away. >> we are seeing videos of thieves not caring. >> reporter: the captain says package theft is on the rise in the city. 51 stolen this year, compare that to 35 last year. 33 the year before. >> i think there is a common misconception that if you have a camera system installed you are less likely to be a victim of package theft. unfortunately, that is not the reality. >>

real street style fashion and the front of rough is a textile designer who calls herself a pirate printer she transfers patterns from manhole covers on to t. shirts and totes. pirate printing refers to copying something as good that i got for me it's more about the fact that these images are often overlooked and that we need to rediscover them somehow. noire and day these depict famous berlin landmarks the city's waterworks company had five hundred such manhole covers laid in two thousand and six the markets one hundred fiftieth birthday she has permission to use the. the waterworks company just saw them as manhole covers and possibly overlooked their potential and the fact that you can do so much more with them so yeah they're happy about it. hank is biodegradable and it's machine washable ruff makes around thirty prints of date and each one is a little different. here you can see the structure from the roller then the t. shirt also makes an impression because it's always applied differently not by machine but by hand also get creases and little white spots. and. t. shirts start at forty

. >> police have a lookout for the sport pirate. meanwhile, denise tells us she will not let this ruin her christmas. >>> there are ways to defeat this porch pirate when you aren't at home. consider these. you can have shipping companies send you a text or email when your package arrives. you could ask a trusted neighbor to keep an eye out for you in taking your packages. were scheduled deliveries to where you work or a neighborhood business when they know you. >>> those tax bills working their way through congress, what will they mean for people who take medical deductions? a cancer patient asked hour verify team and we've got an answer. >>> plus, a popular app is making those massive california wildfires even more dangerous. we'll have those stories for you, an >>> the news at 11:00 continues with a look at the world war ii memorial on the national mall. that's were veterans and family members placed read this at the wall, take a moment to honor the americans who died in world war ii including the more than 2400 who di76 today. du

you know about porch pirates, you've seen the videos. now seven's on your side to help you make sure they don't end up with your gifts. consumer reporter john matarese has some simple ways to keep the porch pirates away, so you don't waste your money. this plea for viral. most eight-year-olds have a list for santa - but this new jersey boy wanted toys - not for himself - but for children in puerto rico, who lost so much during hurricane maria. he got so many donations - his basement looks more like santa's workshop. an incredible message from an 8-year-old. and don't forget - you can help make the holidays bright for a child in need. more days to donate to our toys for tots toy drive. just go to wjla dot com slash toys to order and we'll do the rest. we're accepting donations through wednesday. time now for weather - watch for icy spots this morning - dry & cool start to the week - turning blustery tomorrow - arctic blast wednesday (feels single digits & teens) - few snow showers late week; staying cold! today: partly cloudy. cold. highs

bandits known as porch pirates, jacking packages from ou >> nearly 26 million packages were reportedly stolen last year. that is up from 23 and a half million in 2015. but, oh, this holiday season a knoxville family enlisted their dog odom to help them with a decoy box. >> we decided to take the dog poop and put it in the empty amazon box and put it on the front porch and leave a gift that they will never forget. >> bam. >> he said poop. he said it. if stuffing a package with dog poop is not your thing, have your goods shipped to a amazon locker. >> did anyone take the box with the poo in it? >> it is a decoy that they have put on the news. now everyone knows there's a box on that guy's porch with poop in it. >> and you have a great idea. >> if it gets stolen after that, that is something getting a flu shot. this year's version may only be 10% effective. why there is not a better vaccine available. >>> is it better to work from home or at the office. a new study reveals where employees are most productive. >>> a 22-year-old rapper flew across the country to meet an 81-year-old woman. s

a new survey show how many people are hit by porch pirates. houses or townhouses have been victimized. more than half of the surveyed say they know someone who has been hit by a porch pirate and with the record cyber monday sales 71% of to have as many or more packages delivered to the homes this year compared to last year. michelle: the final weeks before christmas, every store and shipping service has a different deadline. this can be consumer but there are really only two shipping deadlines to know so you don't waste your money. >> more people in the d.c. area are shopping online than in stores this 2017 holiday season. for the first time ever. that means the million of packages still have to get to home in coming days and it's why you pay close attention to the shipping deadlines. we have been spoiled by amazon and grown accustomed place an order get free shipping and watch amazon's magical warehouse get the order to us in two days. that is about to end. you should ideally place all the holiday orders by this coming friday, december 15. wh

to market itself as a paradise island with its lush and pristine flora some of the scenes from the pirates of the caribbean were shot here at precisely because of the breathtaking views but now it's forest is more akin to mirkwood from the hobbit movies and the overnight change from eden to how is what the global warming in based part of the world is like fast ferocious unfortunately not fictional. well we're back in just over half an hour with the latest news but for the meantime . closer. when you don't. see the gallic try to get a court to get. what they need most through only ted's best. left alone. said. claiming to know. that to. alex you speak french. let's send. them to. be everybody i'm stephen baldwin. hollywood guy you'll suspect every proud american first of all i'm just struck in r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. though no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road to have fun meet every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. is one of

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has made his career creating unforgettable soundtracks for hollywood blockbusters from pirates of the caribbean to batman he's the master of movie melody. but how did he get started. i don't know when do musicians start as soon as they hear music in their heads it began when i was six maybe and my mother said you're going to have a piano teacher and i misunderstood i thought a piano teacher would be somebody who taught you to get the music from your head into your fingers but. for the figure. playing notes from a sheet of paper wasn't his thing the piano lessons only lasted two weeks since then he's taught himself to mom went to an english boarding school got it and sent the sizers and landed a gig playing in one of the most famous music videos ever. but his great passion was filmed in london he was fortunate to team up with the stablished film composer stanley meyer's. what interests me most is telling a story with music that's why film and me fit very well i didn't want to write a symphony i didn't want to do any pop by the love film. composing the music for rain man established in

powerful walls and well fortified citadels to protect themselves from infidels and conquerors and pirates. history doesn't record the fate of that governor of havana who set out to look for the source of eternal youth was he just too gullible or did he fall under the spell of another woman at any rate his wife went blind and spent the rest of her life waiting patiently for his return a woman remembered still as the perfect example of steadfastness strength of will and devotion. later a new fortress the citadel was built on the other side of the harbor entrance directly opposite its old counterpart at night a chain was stretched between the two castles so that no ship could enter unnoticed from then on the city was practically unassailable. than his coat of arms symbolizes the two main sources of the city's pride its position as the key to the new world and its determination to defend this position daughterly. was. the the. plaza view the old square with its hotchpotch of architectural styles and the dilapidated state of its facades and plaster work the square exudes an air of melancholy a