this is professor ed overton from louisiana state university like many of the science departments of state universities in the gulf coast after the deepwater horizon disaster his department quickly received a large grant from b.p. there's always going away it's such an incredible to believe the bacteria that are out there the billions and billions of these hydro and utilizing bacteria looking for somebody they're rapidly degrading the residual all it's out there orbit that seventy five percent is gone right now it's gets rapidly go and if we're going to talk about it over ten when you talk about how he was talking one way right when the oil disaster happens this is not louisiana sweet crude to very dark crude it's going to be harder to clean up and have other other ramifications and then all the sudden the department he works under for ls you gets a ten million dollar research grant from b p. now all of a sudden it turns into the nicest louisiana sweet crude ever now all the sudden the microbes are just going to eat it all up joining me as well as you environmental scientist as over

. >>> san jose state university has a big student housing crunch. 400 students are on a waiting list for dorms. classes begin in three weeks. students are rushing trying to find places to live so they can settle in before school starts. san jose sit has about 37 -- san jose state has about 3700 beds. some of the students on the waiting list include transfer students and nearby off campus housing has been really hard to come by as well. >> the city attorney of walnut creek has resigned. brian winter says he felt pressure from the city council members to shut down the investigation into workers at the center. winter has been investigating whether workers hat the center acted appropriately to report suspicions that o coworker was sexually abusing teenage girls. >>> back over to sal for a look at traffic this morning. sal. >> all right, pam. good morning to you. the traffic is going to be busy in some of the these areas. especially in the south bay. let's take a look at northbound 280 getting up to highway 17. that traffic is moving along pretty well. also the morning commute on the suno

vincent smith is a professor of agriculture economics at montana state university. in a nutshell, sir, what's going on? - well, in 1930 we had almost half of all congressional districts with a lot of farm votes. today there are less than 40 districts where the farm vote is a significant percent of the total vote. technological improvements, growth in the size of farms, growth in the economies of other sectors, and tremendous improvement in farm productivity have all driven down the number of farms. and though we have 2.2 million farms around in the country, according to the usda, most of the output is produced by less than 200,000 of those farms, and less than 100,000 of those farms are places where the owner- operator has a full-time occupation in the farm. - very interesting. it also suggests, then, that more people are moving to the city, so suburban and urban clout in congress naturally is respondingly changing. - redistricting favors the urban centers, and the rural economy has changed, too. a lot of people who don't work on the farm now live in rural or semi-

police are looking for the person accused of an assault on campus at san jose state university. ktvu's janine de la vega is there now live to let us know how students are reacting to this news. good morning, janine. >> reporter: good morning, tori. well, news of this assault is not sitting well with the students i spoke with this morning. they received an e-mail alert from the university detailing what happened here on the grass next to the science building. university police say a 22-year- old man was beaten last night at 8:30. he was walking with a group of male and females when an argument began. police say the suspect struggled with the victim on the grass between the martin luther king library and the science building. and started to slam the victim's head against the sidewalk. the victim was washed to the hospital with multiple injuries to his face, non-life- threatening. the suspect ran towards east san carlos. >> when i was a student here, didn't really see that much crime around, you know, petty crimes here and there. but you can definitely feel the police presence. it'

chicago state university, we are stepping up and we've stepped up for the last year now, and we have established what is called an interdisciplinary institute for urban solutions. and i now challenge universities throughout america to reprioritize your human resources, to take your tens of thousands of students and faculty that are in the different disciplines, from social work the health management, and have those students and those faculties go into the contiguous communities, work with the community organizations and activists, identify the problems, users human resources, our curricula, our research capacity, come up with actionable strategies and start solving the problems in our communities the way universities did at the turn of the 20th century. [applause] >> at chicago state, as some of my professors say, we acknowledge physical violence as a challenge. but as professor harris and her african-american studies program, he talks about abstract violence, and he talks about that the detriment and the pain that we feel as a result of abstract violence far exceeds anything that one

tipper who is 26 is a graduate from morguean state university where-- morgan state university where he earned a degree as a electrical engineer. >>> a 10-year-old boy hit by an amtrak train is recovering. amtrak engineer told police he struck a child along the tracks in middle river sunday morning. but it was weird because the police never found the victim or a body. they did find a shirt and fishing gear caught under the train. on the other side of the tracks, they found a tattered tackle box and maryland license. police found the father of the boy at johns hopkins where his son is recovering this morning. the case is in the hands of amtrak. >>> and new details about the deadly ocean city plane crash. the ntsb's report shows the plane was intact when it hit the ocean last month. officials believe the plane fractured upon impact and investigators hope to recomfort video from the camera in the rear cockpit to determine what went wrong. a second ntsb report will be released once the investigation is complete. >>> 4:37. harford county executive david craig is rung for governor and is sek-

this is professor ed overton from louisiana state university like many of the science departments of state universities in the gulf coast after the deepwater horizon disaster his department quickly received a large grant from b.p. this oil is going away it's such an incredible to believe the bacteria that are out there the billions and billions of these. hydro of new lies in bacteria looking for somebody there rapidly degrading the residual all it's out there orbit that seventy five percent is gone right now it's gets rapidly go and if we're going to talk about it over ten when you talk about how he was talking one way right when the oil disaster happens this is not louisiana sweet crudes a very dark crude it's going to be harder to clean up and have other other ramifications and then all the sudden the department he works under for ls you gets a ten million dollar research grant from b.p. now all of a sudden it turns into the nicest louisiana sweet crude ever now all the sudden the microbes are just going to eat it all up joining me is alice you environmental scientist has over to o

he reportedly was assaulted on the san jose state university campus.school says the attacker slammed the 22-year-old victim's face into the sidewalk last night right near the science building. there has been an alert gone out to students and staff. >>> congressional hearing is scheduled this morning on tsa misconduct at airports. the report found tsa officers were cited for more than 9600 cases of misconduct between 2010 and 2012. those cases included officers asleep on the job. allowing passengers to bypass security and officers who were actually stealing from passengers. >>> happening today the sentencing hearing for private first class bradley manning begins today. that comes after he was found not guilty of aiding the enemy. manning is accused of leaking more than 700,000 government documents to the website wikileaks. yesterday's verdict spared him the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. however, he was found guilty of 20 other charges. 12 of those carry maximum sentences of ten years behind bars. manny supporters say his

social researcher marks the voter from moscow state university says the foreign press rarely mentions mr nepalis hardline nationalist past. i think that russia are actually paying attention to some of the particulars of the case and they are familiar with and of all me is a political figure in quite a different way than he has conceived of in the west and the west and of all the is is presented as a poster boy for a liberal opposition. and he's commonly referred to as the most popular leader of the liberal opposition and a potential threat to president for the facts on the ground really don't lay this out russians really aren't that interested in in the hype the brand of politics that he's selling them and that's because what is often on presented in the west is not only holds what could be considered in the west as quite extreme ethnic nationalist racist xeno phobic views of what is could be considered an extreme rights including gun rights advocacy and the like. meanwhile political analyst eric mcdowell believes that it is important for mr nepali to do whatever it takes to continue

. >> and my name is (inaudible) corey and i am going to be a sophomore at san francisco state university. >> good for you. >> so, like she said, we are interns for the project poll. and we both work at the sfpuc up on the 12th floor in communications, do you want to tell them what was our job? what do we do? >> i first want to ask you, is she a good person to work with? >> yes. >> all right. >> okay. >> at the sfpuc, we work on the 12th floor under the community benefits and communication. and what we do as interns working on the 12th floor we give the tours on the second floor to the people coming to the sfpuc to come and find out about what we do at the sfpuc and what does it mean to work with water, power and sewer. >> like she said, we give tours to other youth working in the youth works and project poll and sfip and all of the programs that you saw before. and probably we have most likely give to everyone back there and we tell them how green the building is. >> how many people are with you from this program? >> in our little group? >> here today? >> we have all of our tour people a

." >>> welcome to the campus of san jose state university. and this edition of "equal time." i'm your host journalism school director bob rucker. do college students cheat more in online courses? what are college faculty doing about it? technology vendors have developed techniques to minimize cheating and address the issues surrounding cheating in online courses and in the classroom. calvin carr has our story. >> reporter: in our digital age, college students have greater access to information thanks to the internet and their mobile devices. however, they also have more methods of cheating electronically. college students changing perception of what is ethical and what's original have professors searching for new ways of dealing with academic dishonesty. english professor swenson teaches in origin county at -- orange county at saddleback college. >> you see almost 50% of the students imagine rising and downloading -- plagiarizing and downloading full papers. >> reporter: for 16 years she has taught online and in in the classroom and they are unaware of what constitutes academ

you know discuss this further or where as a mark sobota who is a senior researcher at moscow state university mark thank you so much for joining us here on our t. so what do you make of the sentence i mean some people were predicting suspended sounds here do you think the actual jail time is a harsh punishment. thank you for having me the question of whether five years is a harsh punishment. the sentence that the prosecution was calling for was six six years and a fine of approximately thirty thousand dollars and the sentence was for five years so this falls within the required guidelines of the legislation. whether it's too severe or not is really beyond my cognizance to say other than it it falls within the restricted guidelines one of on his lawyers are saying that they will appeal the verdict how much of a chance do you think they have. none. that the case is pretty solid i don't think that anyone actually questions the particulars of the case is over seven thousand five hundred pages and numerous west witnesses have involved in the deal of testified against of all. the questions that are

. >> san jose state university. you are watching equal time. exploring new issues each week, giving equal time to competing points of view. >> hello. from the campus of san jose state university. welcome to this edition of equal time. i'm your host, bob ruckers. jason becker was one of the world's greatest guitarista is the 17, however physical challenges would later test his determination. anthony brings us a story of a rock star that becomes even greater despite physical challenges ♪ [ music ] >> jason was a 19-year-old rock star. he was already regarded as a prodigy at age 15 and he was just getting started >> if you don't know who he is, he played great with david lee roth, tell me about him. >> he is a miracle. he was a kid who at age 15 was playing perfectly on the electric guitar >> 1077 the phone disc jockey steven sea weed recalls one of becker's performances. >> he would be playing with his left hand and playing with a yoyo with his right at the same time ♪ [ music ] >> . >> ozzie osborn lead guitarist said playing for becker was bene

include our unified school district superintendent, our presidents of the universities here in san francisco, our chancellors, sf state, uc san francisco, university of san francisco, and golden state university. to seek their professional advice and request their help to support the students at city college ~. superintendent caranza will reach out to san francisco unified school district students of which 60% attend city college, to inform them of the status and reassure them that their credits count. additionally, president wong from san francisco state has met with his own trustees to see if classes can be increased to accommodate any city college students that are ready to come over to san francisco state. he is also setting up a hotline to ease the concern of students. but we need to deal with the problems that are in front of us. rather than let city college fail, chancellor harris has commitved to a rescue effort to save city college through a state intervention to save the college, and i agree to work closely with him to see this through. yesterday the california community college board of governors voted unan

the other was from a recent graduate of north carolina state university who said in a free what he said about the liberal arts is true. i finished before your program and i won't mention the college, he asked me not to, very well-known liberal arts program and he said that i realized when i was done i have learned absolutely nothing. he did not say that it was worthless, but he said that they have changed so dramatically. after finishing four years of the liberal arts college, he said that i then rolled as a freshman at north carolina state university in nuclear engineering and he graduated 25 years old he said he for your mistake, but i had a good time. and i said that i know that. that much i know about liberal arts colleges here. we had a good time. other reactions include campus forms on this, roundtables, other things, maybe the funniest one is heather wilson, who is a former congressman from new mexico and she wrote me from the south south dakota school of mines for which we have great praise in the book. she said please come to the winter commencement in rapid city. she said it's

future members i want to say we need more funning i'm a student and i'm attending san francisco state university. i'm going to graduate next seminar. semester. i'm counting my pennies before i become a homeless person. i'm asking for your support in the city. good morning. i'm a san francisco native and also a parents with parents voices. i'm higher to ask you to invest in your children's centers. schools are being closed and jails and prisons are being built. i ask you to help fund this for the children's of today and the future. >> good afternoon. i'm a grandmother of two kids. my daughter she's stays home right now with them. and she needs childcare to get her education. she's a high school graduate so she needs to go to college and without childcare she can't do that so i urge you to support more funding for childcare. thank you (clapping) >> i ask you to horn the 2 had the $7 million asset especially for the child

[laughter] the other was from a recent graduate of north carolina state university who said i'm afraid what you said about liberal arts is true i finished a four year program will not mention the college very well-known i realized i was gonna lead absolutely nothing he didn't say i could not get a job that part of humanity and social sciences that they have changed so dramatically which is what they're not worth as much after finishing four years he said i'd been enrolled as a freshman at north carolina state university was nuclear engineering and graduate at 25 rummy at 27 he said that was for your mistakes but i had a good time. [laughter] i said that much i know about the liberal arts colleges. you had a good time so now we're getting a lot of invitations to go to campus forums, a stanford may be the funniest one from the university is heather wilson former congresswoman from mexico and wrote me and she said please come to the winter commenced in rapid city in on december 21st device said maybe not. [laughter] she said recognizer don't have a budget to pay you because they don't pay

sure if anyone from san francisco went to the conference it was last weekend at the chicago state university. i want to put out a call to the churches and the synagogues and the item he lives and the mosques. august 8th of this next month to gather our people to listen to the announcements and talk to the young in the black communities. we want to start with that day as being non-violent. recently we've had a rash of violence. it's going back to before i had taken my job and it's at a critical point. i know that supervisor breed and cowen understand how that is that. we figure if we can have no killing for one day. have a nice vacation and i'll pray for you you're traveling grace. take care of >> are there any other members of the community. seeing none, general public comment is closed. madam clerk read our adoption calendar >> a single role will enact those matters and a matter can be severed. colleagues i'd like to sever item 67 arrest let's take a roll call on the balance of the calendar >> adoption calendar. >> (calling names) >> those recessess are adopted and motions approved. >> item

>> reporter: tori, for an armed robbery to occur here on san jose state university's campus is very rare. this latest attack happened last night here on the lawn in front of the tommy smith and john carlos statue. this man, who was victimized, was taken by surprise. the university police say the male victim, who is not a student, was sitting on the lawn, using his laptop when approached by three females. officers say he was pistol- whipped and it caused lacerations to the back of his head and face. the suspects stole the victim's laptop and ran in a southwestern direction through campus. police have been unable to locate them. officers sent out a message about the alert, detailing the robbery and telling people to be careful. those who frequent the campus say this news is unsettling. >> i'm very surprised. it seems like a very secure and safe campus. i've never seen any problems here. i've seen a lot of campus police patrolling whenever i'm -- well, usually a few times a week when i'm running. >> reporter: all three suspects are described as black females, two were wearing red red sweats

connie graduated from kent state university with a debt of only $1,200. that was 30-some years ago. that so starkl stark illustratee difference between today and then. she had little privilege, hill money, parents that couldn't really put much mo money out, but with lower tuition, pell grants, little-few scholarships and stafford loans, she will -- and working, sheefsz able to get through school with little debt. the stories we hear today are so different from that. and i'm -- i plead with my colleagues that we freeze interest rates at 3.4%. that won't solve anything close to all the problems of higher college tuition and costs of room and board, but it will help. we need to do much more than that. i convene every year the 50 or 60 college presidents from ohio, two-year, four-year, schools, colleges, state universities, all of them to come an discuss these things. we've done it for six years in a row. it is helpful to try to find ways to keep college -- keep higher education costs in check. but again not nearly enough. but i'm hopeful that in the next 24 hours or so, we can freeze i

while attending san francisco state university as an accountinging major, anthony's friend jokingly suggested to make ends make. with no formal culinary training he opened his own bakery and is now the no. 1 producer of gourmet cookies in the biarea and thank you for joining us on quick bites. how do you feel? >> i feel great. >> so i want to get to the bottom of some very burning questions. why cookies? >> it was a recommendation from a friend. hard to believe that's how it all started. >> why not pies and cakes? what do you have against pies and cakes, anthony. >> i have nothing against pies and cakes. however, that was the recommendation. >> you were on the road to be an account apblt. >> actually, an engineer. >> even better. and it led to making cookies. >> in delicious ways. >> delicious ways. >> this is where the magic goes down and we're going to be getting to the truth behind cookies and cream. >> this is what is behind cookies and cream. >> where were you when the idea came to your mind. >> i was in my apartment eating ice cream, cookies and cream ice cream. how much fun, cookies an

the fourth scholarship goes to deja moore who has been accepted and attending san francisco state university. (applause) >> okay, juan has to be here. juan jones who has been accepted and attending city college. [cheering and applauding] >> the other checks will be mailed. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> congratulations. and now we will hear from mr. justin davis who is the program manager of the college bound brotherhood [speaker not understood] for social impact. (applause) >> congratulations, lauren. wow. so, this announcement is really for you and some of your other fellow african-american graduates. [speaker not understood] formerlyedth mission k-4 foundation. we are based in oakland, california. we just moved there from san francisco. i actually make the community -- not really. but nonetheless, in san francisco, i'm glad to be here to make the announcement. june 19th we're going to recognize african-american young men who have graduated high school and are going to college. this is an annual event that we host. we are very proud to be putting it together and recognizing young

he graduating congratulate in 2001 and continued his education at san jose state university. he x he would is calculus and math. he worked with his father in real estate development and volunteered tutoring adults. he became front yard in learning his family heritage and planned to go to trace his listen angle. he was a hero and mentor to those and was preparing for fatherhood he will live in our hearts. this is a co- sponsor with supervisor cowen. mime next item is a hearing on staff support on progress around protecting city excellently. we all know colleagues that it's an institution that's vitality to san francisco. we support city college and believe the threshold was reached and in my district i've heard from people across the spectrum from people who support the university and it stays with accreditation. we have now a process where the board of trustees where the college has been suspend. i believe the board of supervisors are requesting a hearing to get the process around accreditation so make sure that the city officials and perhaps even other public officials like

police are investigating an armed robbery at san jose state university. janine de la vega is there at the school and janine you are learning some things about what happened. >> reporter: yeah i just got offth phone with campus police. they are very concerned this happened. for an armed robbery to occur on campus it's very rare. the latest one happened right bethe male victim who was not a student was sitting on the lawn using a laptop when he was approach bid three females. he was pistol whipped and caused lacerations to the back of his head an face. they stole the victim's lab top and ran in a south westerly direction through campus. officers did send out a message through i all -- two wearing red shirt -- now the female that was holding the gun was described as being 5'2" and she also had a lip piercing and holding a small brass revolver. they said it happened at dusk last night. they are still encouraging students if you are walking alone at night even at dusk, don't walk alone. walk with somebody you can always call janine de la vega bunch the ski wil

still as arizona governor she stressed the need to make the state university accessible to the diverse population. >> when you see me in september if you will see a new president who is to quote clark, fired with enthusiasim. >>reporter: in the past 4 years janet nopolitano has had one boss. president obama. now she will have 26. uc regents. >> her base salary will be 57 570,000 dollars. that's 37 370,000 dollars more than what she was making as secretary of home lapped security. in san francisco lee ann, abc 7 news. >> more education news. san jose state university is suspending 5 of its on line courses after more than half the students failed the final exam. school teamed up with palo alto base audacity set up the math class. some students would have done better on the ninls they had more time. something that is now being evaluated while the courses are on hold. >>> well more financial problems for the bottle rock music if he is v. company behind the napa festival now accused of handing out bad checks. the check were rip to rock land security company and food vendor. promoter facing

>> i think he is looking for what he wanted in the state university system. he really wanted that kind of skills in the state university system because after all, he provides more money for that system. >> what does a former governor and attorney general bring? >> that governor and attorney general brings the ability to run a huge institution. attention to detail. but above all else, access to research money and resources that the university can't otherwise get. >> mark udoff, her predecessor not a popular guy so i asked a student if it could have been worse. they said they were most upset about the process. they said it was a very seek ralliestive selection process. the university says they considered hundreds of people. >> right, okay, here's the catch 22 on that. it was a very select group that did it. in part, because the people they were interviewing for these jobs already had jobs. very high profile jobs. >> there are so many angry student that's have been fired up for years. we have seen these protests get very heated. they didn't want them to know who

penn state university, the jerry sandusky trial, and now it's time for more trials. the former president of the pennsylvania state university, the former vice-president, and the then-athletic director, all will stand trial. state prosecutors allege these men knew but failed to tell police about sexual abuse allegations involving jerry sandusky, and then tried to cover up what they knew about it. the men say they're independent and were -- innocent and were not aware of the allegations against jerry sandusky. they believe they were engaged in horseplay in a locker room shower. repeat, horseplay when a child and a supervising adult in a shower. jerry sandusky was convicted of 49 counts of child sex abuse. now the other three will stand trial. it's just been ruled and is the breaking news at 3:30, in happen valley. -- happy valley. >> i'm shepard smith, this is "studio b." it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. >> the saga of carlos danger is getting even stranger. he has now lost the confidence of client number nine. i know because i was watching ha

still as arizona governor she stress aid need to make state universities arc sesible to the population. >> when you see me in september you'll see a new president who is to quote, fired with enthusiasm. >> janet napolitano had one boss, president obama. now, she will have 26. the uc regents.d>,uÑ napolitanoy been $570,000 more than what she was making or makes as secretary of homeland security. it's less than what the president before was making. regents wanted to make it clear they offered same salary as udoff but she refused and the entire package is about 10% less. >> oakland police arrested three men in connection with violence at trayvon martin's protests. the two are charged with felony vandalism. a third man charged with misdemeanor battery on a police officer and assault. police say all three were involved in violent protests over the weekend. more protests are scheduled for this weekend as oakland and in san francisco. >> one california lawmaker plans to call for a boycott in florida after george zimmerman was acquitted of murder in the death of trayvon martin. he's calling fo

. >>> san jose state university suspending some online classes because too many students were failing. university debuted a number of cheap online courses back in january. but early results show pass rates as low as 20 percent in remedial math and college level algebra. san jose state and partner agreed to pull five courses to make adjustments. >>> also tonight the uc system has a brand new president. former homeland security secretary janette becomes the first woman to hold that position. she gets a base salary of 570,000-dollars a year. her first job will be in late september. >>> and the palatano's nomination did not come without confrontation. students rushed the tables at their meeting upset about his roll in supporting illegal immigrants. four students were arrested. later she said she supports the dream act and comprehensive immigration reform. >>> a tree dispute in san francisco is growing out of control. a homeowner was slapped with a big bill for doing what the city told her to do. >> the tree had a full canopy. >> reporter: she admits she won't win any prizes for tree trimm

terry bilhartz is 61 and professor of history at sam houston state university in huntsville, texas.r. bilhartz's discovery of low testosterone took place 11 years ago. >> it was, of course, the blood work that identified the low testosterone. i knew i wasn't in optimal health at age 50. i knew i was slightly overweight. i knew that my cholesterol levels were too high. i knew that my blood pressure was slightly higher than it should be. but nevertheless, grading myself on the curve, i felt that i was healthy. >> mcfarland: unlike many hypgonadism patients, dr. bilhartz experienced no noticeable symptoms of this condition. >> very interestingly, not all patients become symptomatic, and that's an area of research. we do not know why. >> well, the basic question is, what can i do about it? and the answers i've received, i think, was a very wise answer, that there are really three steps to improvement. one is improved diet, and two is exercise, and then three is actually the hormone therapy itself. >> the treatment right now that's been approved by the fda is replacing testosterone, in d

>> item number 4 is a resolution granting a revocable permission to san francisco state university to occupy portions of the public right-of-way to construct and maintain a pedestrian tunnel below winston drive to provide a safe and accessible connection from the main campus of sfsu to the site of a new recreation wellness center, and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan and the priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. ~ winston drive >> mr. kwong. >> thank you, john kwong [speaker not understood]. tunnel under winston drive to connect two portions of the campus. if you can give me the overhead, please. please note that the location -- this is lake merced boulevard, this is winston drive. san francisco state has -- campus is divided by -- >> one moment, mr. kwong. can we please close that door back there? thank you. >> as you can see -- >> why don't we just wait for people exiting. okay, go ahead. >> thank you. as noted, this is lake merced boulevard. this is winston drive, san francisco state has portions of this campus divided by

. >>> san jose state university is suspending online courses. a spokeswoman said it is putting on hold 5 courses so they can retool the syllabus. the 5 courses that are on hold is statistics, college algebra, math, introduction to programming and introduction to psychology. no word on when they will resume. >>> improving economy in california could be bad news for those without jobs. california's unemployment rate fell to 8.5% in june. to qualify for benefit extensions from the government the rate must average 9% or higher over three months. >>> the issue of cell phone thefts was a top concern today in san francisco where the district attorney met with apple and samsung. ktvu's david stevenson is live with why new technology could spawn different type of crime. david? >> reporter: that's right. even as they showed off new security features some say it may not be enough to stop cell phone thefts. >> i keep it close to my body. tighter grip. >> reporter: it is not always enough according to police who say 50% or more of the robberies involve cell