Big money losses approaching a million dollars. This video captured one of the robberies. Police tracked them here to tor spin wireless a store tucked in this hey word strip mall that buys and sells and trades cell phone. We heard about this place and it was biggest in the bay area. Reporter what they found, tor spin worked the market. Driving Business Police say by circulating an edocument listing the goods they wanted and the top dollar price they were willing to pay. I never saw one customer just go in there and buy something that a normal store would sell. It was always people bringing in product and leaving with money. One of the alleged customers former Oakland Raiders Football Player Isaiah Langley and they say he and an accomplice walked in with a bag full of phones and walked out with stacks of cash and among many of those for tor spin. They were purchasing 100 to 15 phones on a daily bone. How much is that . About 25,000 a day to pay out people. Some guy could come in and mak
Rates. Mortgage rates post about 5 a year ago and that put a stop on the home buyers in the market place. Because when Mortgage Rates go up that means the monthly mortgage payment is taking that much of a bigger of a bite out of family income. Reporter holly bartells has seen prices sliding for more than a year now. The trend over the last two years it is definitely come down. Reporter in her market of willow glen she has less all cash buyers and see a home sit on the market for 25 days before a sale and a couple of years ago it would sell in less than ten days and get several hundred thousand dollars over asking price. If it is in a beautiful neighborhood all fixed up, highly desirable property you will get multiple offers. It may not be the numbers we saw two years ago. Probably wont go crazy overasking but get maybe two or three right around the asking price. Reporter in september this year core logic properties the median sale price for all homes in the bay area was about 778,000.
Going to evaluate the facts and the evidence that came out from the case. We are going to take into account discussions that any jurors might have had with our trial lawyers. We will evaluate that and go forward. Reporter the next Court Hearing is on october 4. That is when the prosecution has to come up with some kind of answer. Do they want to retry Derick Almena . We will get a better answer by next month but in the meantime he continues he remains locked up santa rita jail. As for his codefendant he wont be release from santa rita jail sometime this evening. He will be released. Now lets go to kristin eris. She has been getting reaction from family members of those victims. Reporter incredibly emotional day in court today. For those families. They came slowly out of the courtroom. Some had mixed feelings. Overall there was an overriding feeling of anger. These of course other family members of the 36 people who died in that fire. Many of them have been here in the court room every
Plus a speed upgrade to 400 megs, free for 2 years. And ask about even more savings with xfinity mobile. Click, call, or visit a store today. Right now on nbc bay area news, the verdict is in, and the reaction is now. One defendant not guilty, the other defendant a hung jury. So whats next in this high profile ghost ship warehouse trial. Goo good evening, thanks for being with us on this prime time edition of bay area news, im raj mathai. One man set free, the other went sent back to jail. Derek almena, and max harris, creative director, both charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. One for each person killed in the warehouse fire. A jury acquitted, three hours ago he walked out of the santa rita jail. The jury deadlocked on almena, ten of the 12 jurors thought he was guilty. You need a unanimous decision to convict. We have had multiple reporters on the story throughout the day. We start tonight with melissa colorado, you have been following this since the beginning. You we
Well look at whats ahead for the a deadly crash. I adeadly crash on the east shore freeway. Im showing you the bay bridge toll plaza because our camera sees the area around powell. We cant make out any problems. Were swinging our camera around the emeryville side east shore freeway, see what we can see. Im told all lanes of westbound 80 at powell are blocked, the same direction as yesterdays problem way up here in san pablo. San pablo is clear but powell coming through berkeley and emeryville, word is they just closed the lanes for a deadly crash on the east shore freeway approaching the bay bridge. Well track that. Traffic is light but a closure of that freeway will be a major problem again today. Well bring you more detail coming up. Backewsight now in the south bay where one woman has died in a mobile home fire. It started a little before midnight at a Mobile Home Park in san jose on el bosk drive south of highway 237 close to the al viso salt pond. Firefighters confirm one death. N