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quick getaway. reporter: people use these items, often unaware of who s around. how careful are you when you use your phone? reporter: police tell us, robberies have jumped up 30% from this time last year. it kind of brings the place station out to the community. reporter: a visual deterrent, but more. pretty amazing tool right there. reporter: police gave us an exclusive behind the scenes look at how they re trying to catch criminals in the act. using cameras mounted on the trailer. officer jim gordon tells me, the technology inside the command unit allows police to hone in on criminal activities. 360degrees in a four block radius. this tool is part of the plan to divide the city into five districts. each with a focus on problems specific to the area. i think it s great, hopefully, it s not robbing peter to pay paul. reporter: one woman tells me there have been 12 incidents during the past month. people getting their phones taken while their walking ....
area tracking a single digit wins so not as breezy as what we ve experienced for the past couple of days. closer look at temperatures, cooler and the north bay, 56 and oakland, low 50s in downtown san francisco. temperatures will continue to drop. we are not in our morning lows just yet. that will occur closer to sunrise. into the afternoon, more eighties and we saw yesterday. low 70 s at east bay shoreline. downtown s san francisco today i think we will add a degree as 66 degrees. satellite and radar shows what weather to be well to our north. the extreme pacific northwest, but high pressure continues to build over in our area which means a gradual warmer weather. we will attack a degree each and every day lasting through saturday where we expect mainly sunny skies. temperatures and mid to upper 80s and lent the mid- 70s around the bay and 60s around the coast. sunday, much cooler weather. temperatures can drop as much as 10 degrees. it looks like dry weather and afternoon ....
the program tomorrow. they take the iphone, our the wallet, and make their quick getaway. reporter: people use these items, often unaware of who s around. how careful are you when you use your phone? reporter: police tell us, robberies have jumped up 30% from this time last year. it kind of brings the place station out to the community. reporter: a visual deterrent, but more. pretty amazing tool right there. reporter: police gave us an exclusive behind the scenes look at how they re trying to catch criminals in the act. using cameras mounted on the trailer. officer jim gordon tells me, the technology inside the command unit allows police to hone in on criminal activities. 360degrees in a four block radius. this tool is part of the plan to divide the city into five districts. each with a focus on problems specific to the area. i think it s great, hopefully, it s not robbing peter to pay paul. reporter: one woman tells me there have been 12 incidents d ....
officers with these new body cameras in an effort to provide more transparency to the public catherine: chief rainey say the assessment of the progress of the police audit recommendations in oakland haaziq madyun kron4ews catherine: after earning top marks at the sundance film festival earlier this year, the film fruitvale station, which depicts the last day of oscar grant iii s life before he was fatally shot by a bart police officer, will be screened for the first time in the bay area on thursday. the film, directed by bay area native ryan coogler and featuring actors octavia spencer and michael b. jordan, will be shown in a private screening at oakland s grand lake theater=. coming up on kron 4 news at 6. the deadline is looming to re-sign bart s union contracts. kron 4 s j-r stone talks to bart workers who tell us if we should expect a strike! that s coming up at 6. reporter:wildfires are taxing crews in colorado and california. new evacuations near denver r ....
with 12. almost 30 in the last week. what does that tell you? the problem is continuing to grow. reporter: san francisco district attorney san francisco district attorney george gascsn has been working to come up with a way to disable cell phones when they are stolen. apple announced new rity there but it is a step in the right direction. samsung will do something by july 1. reporter: today the association representing cell phone carriers told tus is taking steps to im told us it is taking steps to improve safety but consumers must remote lock, wipe and track their devices. eric rasmussen, ktvu channel 2 news. we have new information tonight about a brothel bust on the peninsula. there is another location in fremont. one suspect made his first court appearance as the search goes on for his wife. ktvu s alex savage was in court and learned the case may be the tip of the ice burg. reporter: investigators tell me the women were moved around the world and mor ....