Cart imagine loading it up and just walking out of a store thats what a growing number of people are doing, some of them part of organized crime rings. And home depot now says that shrink, which includes theft, is hurting its profit the company gave us exclusive access to how it fights a never ending battle. Courtney ragan has our investigation, grab and go reporter youre watching brazen retail theft. The suspects are so sure they wont get caught that some even get aggressive when stopped as this surveillance from home depot shows. Most likely these people arent shoplifters or people who steal items for their own use. Instead, its a bigger problem known as organized retail crime with criminals working together to steal for profit. Home depots jamie borne investigates the theft it all starts with boosters. A booster is somebody that is basically professional shop lifter theyre doing it for profit, not just for personal use. Reporter are they just guessing what items are in demand do the
It is not but we are thrilled to have you here lets take a look at where the u. S. Equities are. Dow up by about 72 points. With these gains, the dow would actually erase the loss for the week at these levels s p up about eight points. S p up around 7. 5. Youll see the 10year note is yielding 1. 716 Global Markets continue to follow the headlines learning trade talks between u. S. And china are set to resume october 10 sources say Vice President premier lu will represent the delegation weve had lower level things happen but this is the next big event. Its the back drop amazing. Trump keeps plugging away. There is so many Business News headlines i think Portfolio Managers are losing sight we are coming up on the quarter. The dollar rally but most of the conversations im having right now, it centers on the Fourth Quarter of last year everyone is reflecting upon it and thinking to themselves basically, you go into the Fourth Quarter of a Football Game with a 207 lead and end up losing 272
At San Francisco, some high clouds moving in from the pacific, and another camera looking at the golden gate bridge. Today is the last hot day of the series, then we cool down significantly heading toward thursday, friday and into the weekend. The heat advisory is in place for most of the bay area, lots of 90s, up to 102 degrees. The north bay and east bay hills had their heat advisories expire. Several others are in place until 7 00 this evening. Could be approaching several records as well, especially san josi, tying a record set back inare the 12 00 observations, 90 showing up in Half Moon Bay. San josi 88, low 90s no concord and livermore right now. Well talk about the big cooling trend that moves in tomorrow, all coming up in a little bit. The power is out for more than a thousand pg e customers today, joining tens of thousands of others after pg e cut service to reduce the risk of wildfires. The utility says the power will remain off until 2 00 this afternoon and after that resto
Residents to stop vaping immediately. 16 people in the state hospitalized with severe lung disease and now the new report this morning, how juul is trying to stop underage vaping. Deadly boat crash. Shark tank star kevin oleary on a boat that crashed into another killing two people. What he says happened. Candid camera. Ring doorbell cameras helping hundreds of Police Departments form a new neighborhood watch. Now, the new privacy questions. And eruption in italy. The major volcano sending lava and rocks flying. Tourists fleeing and a massive cloud of smoke more than a mile into the sky. Good morning, america. Thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. And we want to get right to Hurricane Dorian. Now a category 1 storm and gaining strength on the path toward the u. S. Mainland. Yeah, overnight the storm traveling through the caribbean. Heres what it looked like in st. Thomas. Puerto rico thankfully avoiding that direct hit, but the island is still dealing with heavy rains and
20 people plunging into the water when the boards beneath them cave in. Now we got bad blood bad blood boiling. Taylor swifts allout attack on one of the biggest names in music after the rights of her biggest songs are sold to Justin Biebers manager, Scooter Braun, a man shes accused of incessant bullying. I love it and world cup excitement reaching a fever pitch. Team usa gearing up for that big showdown with england. Now two of the teams biggest stars, Megan Rapinoe and kelley ohara are joining us only on gma this morning. Were already talking where were going to watch the match tomorrow. Great to have you with us. Whit and cecilia with us as well. Excited to be here. Excited to hear your interview coming up with Megan Rapinoe and kelley ohara. This, of course, ahead of that big world cup match. Cannot wait. Megan scored so many crucial goals for team usa including both of the goals in their last game against france. Can she do it again . We will see and talk about that later. First,