Tonight at 5. 30, more help is on the way to try to crack down on that problem of retail theft, which is totally out of control. A statewide task forces now getting millions of dollars in additional funding. Better retail expert tells our kron fours haaziq modyoon that shoplifters wont stop until the law is changed. It is a video of a mob of shoplifters inside a Los Angeles Nordstrom that has been seen around the world. A flash mob of individuals ransacked a department store. Took more than 300,000 of merchandise. Now the california Highway Patrol is wrapping up its effort to disrupt retail statewide with the help of additional funding for their organized Retail Task Force. Also, please announce that the governor has expanded anita, the local Law Enforcement agencies werent astounding. 85 million dollars. To help the local agencies investigate and deter and disrupt retail theft crimes from occurring scenes like these may call into question whether or not the Retail Task Force is making a difference. Officials at the california Highway Patrol provided the stats showing the recovery of over 300,000 assets and over 1200 arrest. I was actually thrilled to see whats going on with the you know, cri california retailers. We introduced the original bell. To establish the organized Retail Crime Task force is back in 2018. The president of the california retailers association, Rachel Michelin applaud governor gavin newsom and state legislators for getting behind the Retail Task Force. She says the next step for lawmakers is to adjust the felony threshold for serial shoplifters. And the fact that in california we still dont have the ability to go after repeat offenders and we were not allowed to aggregate up to that 950 mark. And so part of i think what were seeing as well is people who took advantage of that and they just continue to push the envelope, you know, to retailers is important that our employees are safe. Customers are safe. Has it made kron . 4 news . 111 people including children, are now confirmed dead in maui after last weeks catastrophic wildfires. Its now the deadliest u. S. Fire over a century. And experts on the ground say that the search for victims is far from over. Many people there now say theyre frustrated with the Emergency Response that occurred once the fire started that fateful night. As you can see, not not much left of flow. Hina hawaii says store capital during the 1st half of the 19th century and people there say they were not warned about the encroaching danger as the areas robust warning system. The sirens state silent as the flames spread. And a man we spoke with says Emergency Response teams. Were not given the proper resources to then fight the fire. There was no warning, no sirens, no emergency Civil Defense are. It was just. Luckily i flagged down a cop because they saw as lights in the neighborhood and whats going on and you back evacuated us. He told us weve got to later that night when were here at movie, each we saw fire hydrant. And this is the only fire it. And thats when hang up this guy, is the only fire hydrant that my fire and the water tanker trucks could fill up from because theres no water. But interesting with that. If you guys is look, 100 yards north of us theres the whole hotel Kaanapali Hotel resort area. And as of right now at all the clock today midday, you guys to see their sprinkler systems are working in the stillwater in the golfers. Theyre still feeling of the polls, assault of line. A lot vocal. The waters still up there. So whenever the governors telling us that the water is an issue because of local activists carl farmers. Its not though the county supplied hydrant. Something went wrong. And nobody wants to take accountability from the county side. So. Youve got to give the First Responders the proper tools to 2 do their job. And if not, then you guys feel economy. The man we just heard from says that he and his family lost everything in the fires. He says getting help can a lot harder than you think. Some buddies. Condos that were going to not with open arms. Kind i had one lady that actually told me you dont belong here and i dont care that your house burn down. So. But inhumanity and that and that persons heart. Wow, thats horrible. Kron fours parent company, by the way, Nexstar Media Group is partnering with the red cross to try to help people like him affected by these fires. You can donate to help victims recover. We have a link on our website to do so. Thats kron 4 dot com. Final preps are targeting people involved in former President Trumps various legal cases. Online posts from Trump Supporters are causing concern about safety. And in one case even prompting an arrest. Our washington, d. C. , correspondent Hannah Brandt has details. As the for trump indictments move forward, the backlash from the former president and his supporters has been intense and now its having consequences. It is pretty significant cause for concern. John lewis is a researcher with George Washingtons program on extremism. Hes watched his former President Trump and other conservative voices take aim at political opponents. Youve seen this rightwing media ecosystem kind of turned their attention to a specific individual, a specific group thats always going to have this triple fact. Just this week a texas woman was arrested and charged with threatening judge Tanya Chutkan whos overseeing trumps federal election interference case. Lewis says this is an surprising in the current heated political environment, individuals who are feeling increasingly emboldened to again, not just, you know, put a post online, but begin to send targeted french to, you know, swat to dax, too commit, you know, potential acts of violence. And when the former president was indicted in georgia, the names of the grand jurors were made public. They now face threatening and violent post on rightwing social media sites. Lewis says much of the anger will remain online, but it has the potential to become dangerous among the few to see the message from the influencer before president and who think, you know, this is my call to arms my chance to actually make a difference as the cases against the former president move forward. Luis doesnt expect these threats to go away is nothing write is that been here before and that we will unfortunately likely be here again. And the former president has very publicly attacked officials involved in all 4 of the cases against him, both on his social media and at his Campaign Events in washington. Im Hannah Brandt. How safe is the water from your britta water filter . A new Class Action Lawsuit alleges the companys been misleading customers. But first, potential home buyers want to hold off signing those mortgage papers. We have details on the latest increase in Mortgage Rates increase in Mortgage Rates after the break. visit your local volvo retailer, to experience a volvo fully electric vehicle during the summer safely savings event. Eveverery y bubusisines dedeseservrveses a a g gre. To experience a volvo ththatatss w whyhy c comoms isis l lauauncnching the mobile made free event. With our business internet, new and existing customers can get one year of unlimited mobile for free. Its our best internet. Powered by the next generation 10g network and with 99. 9 reliability. Plus one line of free mobile for an entire year. Its the mobile made free eventhappening now. Get started for just 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get one free line of unlimited mobile. Comcast business, powering possibilities. For your money, Mortgage Rates continue to climb. The average Mortgage Rate jump this week to its highest level in 20 years. Mortgage buyer freddie mac said this morning that the average rate on a 30 year loan is now 7. 0 9 . Thats the highest since april of 2002 experts say higher rates are contributing to the lack of available homes inventory because people who own homes now are reluctant to sell them. And then have to jump back into the market deal with these higher rates. Just a year ago, the average Mortgage Rate was right around 5 and 2 years ago, it was less than 3 Water Filtration company britta is being hit with a lawsuit claiming that the company deceived users about its products ability to remove socalled for ever chemicals. The proposed Class Action Lawsuit alleges that well, britta claims its filters would remove a number of chemicals. It misled consumers by not including high risk or prevalent contaminants. Those include things like arsenic nitrates and those forever chemicals known as p f as. In a statement, britta says that its filtration options are transparent and that there are options to remove more serious chemicals. The company says its reviewing the complaint and looks forward to defending itself in court. Lawmakers here at the State Capitol have launched an effort to make it easier for you. The voters to approve local tax measures and capitol correspondent ey that your tax dollars. Several democratic lawmakers at the State Capitol have launched an effort to try to make it easier for voters to approve certain local taxes and bonds. But not everybody is on board. Our capitol correspondent Eytan Wallace spoke with supporters and opponents and joins us with a look at the proposal. Well, as it stands today, many proposed local tax measures in bonds need at least twothirds approval from voters to pass. But some democrats here at the capitol say that threshold is just too high. Get this done. Thank you. Thank you. Get this done. Thats exactly what these lawmakers and public safety, housing and labor advocates say they want to do with a ca one proposed state constitutional amendment to lower the voter threshold needed to approve general obligation, bonds and local special taxes for infrastructure and Affordable Housing projects. As it stands today, such bonds and special tax proposals need approval from at least twothirds or 66 of voters to go into effect. Ca one would reduce that approval threshold to 55 move. The supporters say will make it easier for local governments to fund much needed Affordable Housing and infrastructure in their communities. Aca, one is so important. Assembly speaker pro tem cecilia dr currie authored the proposal. This will empower local communities to take action at the local level. To improve their economies, their neighborhoods and their residents quality of life. Those here say the twothirds threshold first established from voters passed prop 13 in 1978. Its just too high. Lets stop with his anti democratic nonsense. Where 65 of residents could be in favor of something and that somehow not good enough. This is a modest proposal to bring it down to a 55 threshold. This makes common sense. It allows our local voters who want to be a part of the solution to activate their own democratic participation to do that. But on the republican side. Enough is enough. Senator janet nguyen and several of her gop colleagues in the senate and assembly say aca one is an excuse for politicians to raise taxes on californians. Were so overt acts in california. Its all about give me more money. Give me more money and then would figure it out. State has felt weve given them more money every time theyve asked, what do they do with it . Besides whatever they want to do with it, they dont actually fix the problem. They promised us. And because this is a proposed state constitutional need at least twothirds approval from the legislature to qualify for the 2024 ballot. It makes it that far. Do the voters will have the final say reporting from the State Capitol. A tom wallace kron. 4 news. School boards decision over lgbtq issues at the center of a controversy in the east bay. You have dozens of people who have been speaking out at the San Ramon ValleyUnified School District board of education meeting this week. The board did approve resolutions in support of the lgbtq community. One resolution flying the pride flag during the month of june. The other is recognizing the national day of silence today meant to bring awareness to anti lgbtq bullying. Some adults at the meeting question the School Districts role in discussing sexuality engender. But in the end, the board did pass the resolutions unanimously superintendent john malloy says he believes the school board made a necessary decision that will benefit all students. And no matter what our opinion might be as adults in this room. Some of our students have sure that they dont feel safe. Thats just a reality in order to support our students, we really need to do everything possible. I believe to unite our community. The board made it clear that no students are required to participate in any of the lgbtq related activities. They will just be made aware of them and canned choose if theyd like to be involved. New restrictions could soon be imposed on a popular abortion pill. A federal Appeals Court has upheld parts of the decision that limits access to the widely used drug mifepristone. The ruling means tele medicine, prescriptions and shipments of the drug by mail would be banned and patients would be required to go to a doctor in person. It would also only be approved for use in the first 7 weeks of pregnancy. Instead of 10 at this time, the pills availability stays the same. But the change could come over the next few months. Researchers believe they have found a way to make the morning after pill more effective. According to a new study, taking plan b along with anti inflammatory medication rocks account increases the contraceptives effectiveness should nearly 95 . That is up from the 63 of pregnancies. The morning after pill prevented alone. This according to this new study, the studys findings still need to be evaluated by International Health bodies like the w h o. Forest officials are warning hikers safter black bears have been spotted near the summit at yosemite way up. High experts say despite their size, the bears are good. Climbers. And can handle have tomes steep angles. Park rangers say hikers should keep food or anything with a strong scent inside a bear locker or bear canister. And while bear attacks are not common, officials warn folks, the danger does exist. All right. Taking a live look outside right now from our mount tam cam. My pretty mild day out there today can stay warm for a while inland. Meteorologist dale is with us now to breakdown today in the future go. Hello, grant, vicki. Hello, everyone. What . We had a much cooling. We had a cooling trend today. So you can see its cloudy out here are our coit tower here. So cloudy day in san francisco, but it was a hot one in land. So we did still reach 90s. And here, current temperatures right now. So were about 83 in livermore. 83 in concord, where in the low 90s this time yesterday. So heres the temperature change. 14 degrees cooler in livermore and 11 in concord. So thats a drastic change. Thats thanks to this trough that has been strengthening and heading our current wind speeds. It is breezy out there 60 Miles Per Hour in san francisco, 18 in oakland. 22 in fairfield with that delta breeze kicking up. Here is what were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm hillary will now its a category 3 and its expected to strengthen as it makes its way towards california. So theres already watches and warnings in cabo san lucas. So what it means for california, we can get measurable rain in southern california. Places like san diego, los angeles, bakersfield and fresno. And even up to las vegas. So almost 3 inches of rain la and almost 2 in las vegas. So that is quite significant, especially when these areas typically dont get a lot of rain in the month of august. What it means for us in the bay area. Were keeping an eye on that because you can expect some unsettled weather from the system. Maybe some another muggy a week, maybe some light showers or maybe some sprinkles, but definitely some clouds. So as look ahead right now, youll notice were going to stay comfortable tomorrow through the weekend and the low 90s. But then monday and tuesday, so starting at night monday night, thats when we may feel the impacts from hillary with some rain. Maybe. But other than that, well be keeping an eye on that. But other than that, very nice temperatures for the week. Back to you. Our kaile up next to next slice of pizza could come with some Unexpected Health benefits. How the food favorite could help the symptoms of one particular medical condition. Listen up. You got to get to florida. But teachers looking for yeah, a little crews to get away. Well, they can now book for 2 people for under 50 bucks. Yeah. The cruise line margarita ville at sea is offering a discounted 3 day 2 night trip too grand bahama island for 49. Educators, can book a spot on the margarita ville at sea paradise. Thats a 10 story vessel which sales from the port of palm beach, florida. Its all part of the cruise lines heroes program, School Employees and support staff are also eligible for the discount get this others who qualify for the offer include military service members, both active duty and veterans as well as police fire, ems personnel and Government Health care workers right . You know, eating pizza could possibly help people who have arthritis. Brown university followed the eating habits of italians who have rheumatoid. Arthritis. They followed him for some 3 months. Of course, the country was chosen because italians are known for using only fresh pizza ingredients. So the group who ate the most pizza reported less joint pain in a daily questionnaire. Researchers say that the fresh ingredients like mozzarella cheese and olive oil currently have antiinflammatory properties and were antioxidants so more. Pete can do. Icing get that a lot around here. The study said so, yeah. That wraps up kron 4 news at 5, but we do have a lot more ahead on kron. 4 news at 6. Catherine and ken are here. I they were. They would say olive oil. Going into maybe a little garlic in there to all that that makes alright. Anyway, coming up at 6 oclock, a bombshell. Federal indictment and arrest today of Police Officers in antioch pittsburgh. How the fbi is sending a message that no one is above the law. South american tao is responding tonight. Accusations said shes partly to blame for a spike in crime. There. How much longer she expects to search for next police chief in open. How long that will take. Im ken wayne. Im catherine hee babackck i in n ththe e , snsneaeakeker r drdropopst getting online to wait in line. Now with Xfinity Mobile. We get the Fastest Mobile Service and can get the freshest kicks asap. I got this. 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