Today. It is closing several locations because of what it is calling safety concerns as well as theft. Thanks for joining us on kron. 4 news at 5. Im grant lotus and im vicki liviakis. 3 of the stores that are closing right here in the bay area. Kron fours amanda hari joins us now live from the pittsburgh location. Amanda. This target here behind me in pittsburgh is the largest location here in the bay area that is closing. You can see all of these cars in the parking lot behind me here soon. Come the end of october. All of these people have to go to antioch for their nearest target location. Target said in a statement they cannot keep operating these stores because of theft and organized retail crime. They say they feel both their team and the guests are at risk and its contributing to an unstable business. Target says they made attempts to stop the thieves, but they were unsuccessful. Target is closing their stores on folsom street in San Francisco, on broadway, in oakland and here i
Tonight on kron, 4 news at 11, im grant lotus. President biden is spending the night in San Francisco this evening. Hes in the bay area campaigning in attending some events for a couple days. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson has been on biden watch today. She brings us the latest details on his trip so far. Has there. Grant. Thats right. This is citizen video of president joe bidens motorcade driving through San Francisco tonight heading to the fairmont hotel. That is where he will stay before another long day of campaigning in the city tomorrow. President joe biden is in the bay area for his 3rd visit this year. The president landed at moffett airfield in Mountain View around 3. 15, in the afternoon. Among those greeting him a student who got to take a selfie with the president. When i spoke with him, i was like, hey, mister president , i skipped school just to come see it today. And he just kind of chuckled. Asked for a selfie. I didnt want to take much of his time. Because i know hes on a busy
Target says its closing up shop in several places to organized crime. Some of those stores right here in the bay area. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus. The company says these closures are because of safety concerns and theft. 3 stores in the bay area are affected going to be shutting down. Kron fours met harry joins us live. She is at the pittsburgh target and thats a popular target. Amanda. Its a popular target and it is the biggest target location in the bay area. That will be closing in this list of closures. And you can see behind me there are all of these cars here. All of these people come october will have to go all the way antioch to the nearest target location. Thats about 8 miles from here. Target said in a statement they cannot keep operating these storms because of theft and organized retail crime. They say they feel both their team and the guests are at risk. Its contributing to an unsustainable business. Target says they made
Oversees the Financial Assistance program says that this applies only to single adults between 18 and 65 years. Old. And that right now about 5200 people are receiving the Cash Payments anywhere between 10700 per month. But at this time, people qualify for that money by self declaring that they are suffering from Substance Abuse disorder. So the mayors plan would change a few things. It would require people to be screened to prove their addiction to drugs. That process has yet to be determined and they would have to get into treatment. Mayor breed says that part too many people are refusing available help and are dying from drug overdoses. So its time for new approach. People are not accepting help. And so now its time to make sure. That were cutting off resources that continue to allow this behavior to occur with out the economy, liddy, without someone involved in a Treatment Program that could lead to a better life. So i reached out to all board supervisors to gauge their stance. Let
Thieves used a car to break into in steal from the store in San Franciscos marina district. We have the latest on the investigation. And why San Francisco mayor london breed wants people in the city to have Substance Abuse, screening and treatment before they can collect government assistance. News station. 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news of 2, im justine waltman and we will begin with yet another big company blaming theft and organized retail crime for its departure target announcing today it is closing several stores over safety concerns. Some of those stores are here in the bay area. Kron fours to joins us now live to breakdown this big announcements which stores are closing. There are 3 stores here in the bay area. Justine, you may recall this viral video from earlier this year. It was taken inside the target on folsom street in San Francisco showing aisles and aisles of product locked up. Behind security glass at the time. A Company Spokesperson told us the glass