Pam, i talked with former bart chief gary gee and former fbi special agent rick smith. Together they have around 60 years of experience. Bart mob attack last saturday in oakland. Safeway mob burglary grab last month in San Francisco. Carnival mob attack last month in oakland. Former fbi special agent rick smith says we are seeing a change. Rick smithsot i dont think its a good sign of the times i think a lot of this stuff happens because i think there is no consequence. It needs to be a multifaceted approach to a real problem and that is an increase in low level crime. If it is allowed to happen more serious things are going to happen. In the bart mob attack on saturday 6 out of the 9 train cars had working cameras. There were also multiple working cameras at the coliseum station. Bart says state law doesnt allow them to release the video because the suspects appear to be juveniles. Former bart police chief gary gee says the fact that they arent or are unable to release video or pictures is certainly out of the ordinary. Gary geesot i know you dont release photos of minors of who you have identified and are in custody but if you have a crime in progressand you see this all the time where gangs of juveniles will attack a store in the mall and gang up on innocent customers and all thatthose videos become public and no faces are hidden there so i was surprised that bart would be hesitant to release those videos because minors might be involved. Gee says the bart mob attack is the first of its kind on a Public Transit system on the west coast. Smith, who is now a private investigator after his fbi days, believes there is a sense of lawlessness out there and believes these crimes will continue to happen until prop 47 is thrown out and low level crime offenders are punished. As for the criminals involved in the mob attacks. Rick smithsot punks, they are just punks. I mean look what type of courage does it take to be one of 60 kids to rob somebody of their phone . That takes courage . I dont think so. Former chief gee says while more officers would help its just not feasible to have one officer in every train car. Smith doesnt believe the number of officers is the problem. He says these theives know that even if they are caught theyll only get a slap on the wrist. Live in San Francisco, j. R. Stone kron 4 news. pam kron 4 asked barts leadership team. About last weekends attack. steve among the issues a Transit Police force thats not even close to fully staffed. And concerns about where officers that are working. Are positioned. Grant lodes is here with that part of the story. grant for instance there were two bart officers on the coliseum station grounds. But they were far away from the crimes. Off patrolling the parking lot. So strategically positioning officers in prominent places. To deter criminals and also comfort riders. Is something at least one bart board member is talking about tonight. Because if you take bart. You want to feel like there is a Police Presence. Joel keller bartthe thing thats disappointment to me is we dont have enough officers to be on the trains , be in the stations and be in the parking lots. Rebecca saltzman bart board president they can be off in a corner of a parking lot and you never see them even though they are there the same time as you so i think we need to better communicate with riders that they are there. grant bart says there are currently 38 vacancies on the force, which is about 20percent of the department. Bart Board Director joel keller says its time to make filling those positions a priority. steve today kron4s Haaziq Madyun traveled the bart system to see just what kind of Police Presence there is on bart. And we talked to riders about just how safe they feel. Bart is a Transit Agency that has its own Police Department with 187sworn officers and 47 Community Service officers who patrol bart parking lots. In light of the recent incident involving bart passengers being attacked by a mob teenagers at the coliseum station. I had 40 kids board my train and beat up someone. I decided to take a look to see how visable bart officers are at few stations. The first bart Police Officer i saw today was here in the parking lot of petes coffee in jack london square. From there i moved onto the lake merritt station, which also houses bart police headquarters. I saw a bart patrol car parked on the street. Inside the station there was no sign of any Police Officers at the faregate or on the platform the next bart officer i saw was here in the parking lot of the coliseum stationhere in orinda there was no sign of bart officers in the parking lot, faregate or on the platformno officers at the gates or on the platforms here in concord or North Concord martinez stations. A bart spokesperson told me that officers are not stationary outside of their 46stations. That explains why passengers dont see them at the fare gates but should officers be stationed at the gates . Some bart passengers i spoke to said yesgood idea to have officers at the gate huh . Shawn penniall bart passenger yeah i think it would be a good idea, um, people going in out and out of there without paying their farein fact while i was recording video for this story a fareevader walked right through this emegency gate. That mob of teenagers did the same thing but an officer at the gate may have deterred themshawn penniall bart passenger stuff happens at bart so it would be a good ideaon bart in the east bay Haaziq Madyun kron4news pam breaking news out of the east bay. Hayward police are investigating a double shooting. This is happening on meekland avenue and medford avenue. Police say, calls came in around 730 tonight. Of shots fired. No word on the condition of the two victims. So far, police have not made any arrests. And no word on the motive for the shooting. pam a man was injured in a shooting near the eastridge Shopping Mall in east san jose. Police say, the shooting happened just before 4 this afternoon on quimby road. When officers got there, they found a man with a gunshot wound. This is a photograph from the scene. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover. Officers say, no suspects have yet been identified. steve one of two Student Groups behind ann coulters uc berkeley speech for thursday is now backing out. The Young Americas Foundation says they are not participating amid safety concerns. The group says the university has not ensured protection from violent protesters. The Berkeley College republicans invited coulter. But the university wanted to move the speech to may 2nd. To what it called a secure location. The Student Group responded by filing a lawsuit yesterday to try to keep the thursday date. All this comes several violent demonstrations in berkeley. One happening when former breitbart editor Milo Yiannapolous was set to speak on campus. Ann coulter has been adamant she would show up anyway. Reportedly saying, she would speak outdoors at sproul plaza. But tonight she seems to be backing off just a little tweeting in response to a Washington Post article correction i havent spoken to any Berkeley Students about when and where i will speak because im still waiting for berkeley to tell me. She added she still expects berkeley to provide a room. pam a federal judge handed the trump adminstration its latest court defeat. Right here in the bay area today. The historic ruling affects all 600 sanctuary cities in the nation. steve the city of San Francisco and Santa Clara County lead the fight. Pushing back in court against president donalds trump executive order to cut off federal dollars to sanctuary cities. Those are places that limit their cooperation with the feds to help people who are in the country illegally avoid deportation. Kron 4s Justine Waldman tells us the winning side called this a satisfying and gratifying day. Nat sot this is a joyful day clapping. A huge win for those defending sanctuary cities Santa Clara County along with the city of San Francisco received a preliminary injunction in their case against president Donald Trumps executive order threatening to cut federal funding from sanctuary cities and counties. Santa clara had 1. 7 billion dollars at stake. San francisco about 2 billion dollars. Dave cortese president Santa Clara County board supervisorssot this is a day we are going to celebrate today, but it does not mean the fight is overin his 49 page ruling, judge William Orrick determined the president has no authority to attach new conditions on federal spending. Writing the constitution vests the spending powers in congress, not the president. City attorney Dennis Herrera sot this is why we have courts to halt the over reach of a president and attorney general who either dont understand the constitution or chose to ignore itthe decision stretches far beyond the bay area and impacts every sanctuary city in the nation. Sot this should dispense the cloud of coercive rhetoric that has been spewing from the white house all this bluster of using federal funding as a weapon against our local communitiesfor the immigrant community, this ruling helps some fears fade away. Priya murthy siren sot knowing that local policies can stay intact is of great comfort to the immigrant communityjustine tag the injunction stays in place while the lawsuits work through the courts. The legal team here also said today they are ready for the response from the White Houseand are confident they would win this case even if appealed. In Santa Clara CountyJustine Waldman kron 4 news steve if the case is appealed, it will go before the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco. The same court that upheld a nationwide block on President Trumps first controversial travel ban. Seasonably Cool Temperatures will persist into wednesday as a weak system passes inland to the north. This will result in a slight chance of light precipitation, mainly from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward into wednesday. A warming and drying trend will then get underway beginning thursday and likely continuing into the upcoming weekend as High Pressure builds over the eastern pacific. Breezy northerly winds are also possible from thursday into friday, especially in the hills. steve coming up first it was derogatory posts. Then nazi gestures. What an East Bay High School is doing to address racial tension on campus. pam then the deadly nationwide opiod epidemic hits the bay area. Hard. Find out where five people have died from heroin overdoses in the last ten days. steve and next new at ten. A car torched and vandalized. Where police are investigating a possible hate crime tonight. pam new at ten. Police are investigating what could be ruled a hate crime. They responded to a car fire near downtown vacaville. Officers say, prior to the fire, someone spray painted kkk on the side of the car. The owner of the car does not know why the car was targeted. Police are working to determine whether this is a hate crime. steve after a series of racist, sexist, and anti semitic events at albany high school, the Albany Unified School board held a special meeting tonight to talk about the next steps going forward. pam the focus tonight improving communication. The meeting went over the recent problems at albany high school. Including students using nazi saulutes and an Instagram Account targetting black and minority students with racist images. Since the instagram incident, the district has already implemented a new protocol for getting any incidents reported up the chain of command. To the superintendents office. Apparently it took two weeks last time. Plus they will teach what slurs mean, what hate speech is. And include cultural histories in social studies. These incidents would be less likeley to occur a task force was created to gather ideas and suggestions, and bring them to district staff. And officials put out a call for volunteers four days ago. 40 people are already interested. The district says. It wants to help students feel like they can come forward to report these types of incidents. steve new at ten we have the mug shot of a man accused of trying to kidnap a woman in San Francisco. Police say it happened saturday night just before nine. The suspect darrin bravo is accused of trying to grab a woman and get her into his car on steiner street. Wintesses intervened and the suspect got away. He was caught the next day in Sonoma County. Where Police Spotted the suspect driving. They say he tried to take off and hit a car in petaluma. The suspect was taken into custody and faces attempted kidnapping charges. steve two men accused of attacking a sikh resident in richmond were ordered to stand trial after a preliminary hearing that finished up this morning. Chase little and Colton Leblanc face hate crime charges. The september attack against 41year old Maan Singh Khalsa left him with lasting injuries. During the attack, the men allegedly forced khalsas head down, knocked off his turban and cut his hair. Khalsa lost a pinky finger in the attack. The District Attorney determined. His race or religion was a factor in the vicious assault. pam in San Francisco. City officials now probing pg ande on emergency preparedness. Following fridays massive power outage. pam officials sent a letter to the company. Asking for more information about the condition of its aging infrastructure. The letter also included. Questions on whether pgande plans to repair and upgrade its larkin street substation. And a review of backup recovery plans. The substation caught fire on friday. Effecting 88 thousand people. The outage caused a mess in the city. Three hundred traffic lights and the montgomery bart station were shutdown. People were stuck in traffic for hours. A number of businesses and schools also shut down. pam the head of californias water agency says, the emergency spillway at the oroville dam worked. Despite the extreme erosion. Today water resource officials met with state legislators. To talk about the february emergency. Which led to the evacuation of 200 thousand people. Water flowed over the emergency spillway for the first time. After damage to the main spillway forced it to be shutdown. At least one assemblyman says, the unexpected erosion revealed a design flaw. There is a 275 Million Dollar contract aimed at fixing the erosion damage. steve a live look outside on this tuesday night. pam brittney has the forecast. That includes some showers seasonably Cool Temperatures will persist into wednesday as a weak system passes inland to the north. This will result in a slight chance of light precipitation, mainly from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward into wednesday. A warming and drying trend will then get underway beginning thursday and likely continuing into the upcoming weekend as High Pressure builds over the eastern pacific. Breezy northerly winds are also possible from thursday into friday, especially in the hills. steve coming up how a fitbit ended up becoming a crucial piece of evidence in a murder case. You might be stunned at just how much data the device collects. pam and next another Bay Area Apple store hit by thieves. Just how easily the criminals are pulling off these high value crimes. Stay out front with tempurpedic. Our proprietary material automatically adjusts to your weight, shape and temperature. So you sleep deeply, and wake up feeling powerful. Find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic. Com weve been telling you about recent mob thefts. Police are on the hunt for a group of thieves, who they say, rushed into an apple store in marin county. And made off with an estimated 24 thousand dollars in electronics. Investigators say, five men, described as being in their teens, came in just before closing time. They got away with 17 iphones. Two laptop computers. And three ipads. Surveillance cameras are installed in the mall. But investigators are not yet sure if these suspects were caught on video. Customers we talked to say, they are surprised to hear about this crime happening in this usually quiet commmunity. customer surprising actually. Especially here in marin. We typically dont have anything like that going on here. And i was just at the apple store. terisa did you see any security . customer no. No security. No broken windows. Nothing different. I didnt see any merchandise gone. It was surprising actually. pam this is not the first time a Bay Area Apple store has been hit like this. Back in november, the apple store in San Francisco on chesnut street was robbed twice. And earlier this month. The apple store in walnut creek was hit by thieves. steve five men were wounded in three u