smartphone. reporter: many robberies take place at transit hubs like muni and bart stations. cell phone robberies on muni are at an all-time high. reporter: some criminals get into the city to look for easy targets on bart. good people take bart and it allows criminals easy access in a speedy way. i ll be more careful and i m going to, like, be more aware of my surroundings. reporter: san francisco police are hoping education and prevention will help them in cutting down in this type of crime. live in san francisco, i m da lin, kpix 5. despite the rise in other crimes, both san francisco and oakland are seeing a drop in homicides compared to last year. new at 6:00, just in time for the holidays, most state lawmakers will have more money to buy their christmas gifts. they are getting pay raises of more than 5% beginning sunday. so are statewide elected officials including governor brown. his salary will increase to $174,000. the state approved those increases b
although we ve been waiting for about an hour. maybe a half hour ago, some of the people involved in the talks walked down the street. not sure if they re on a dinner break or done for the night. but unfortunately, that sign behind me sums it up. day 153. that means no deal has been done yet. at stake, as you mentioned, a messy monday morning commute and beyond, if the strike plays out. bart tallies about 400,000 rides a day. you can imagine what that would do to joks and the local economy if it shuts down. today, each group has been here all day. but at last check, they haven t met face to face, staying in different rooms, going over their own strategy. the three unions did get a few things they ve been asking for. most pormly, grace crunican has been involved in these talks in person. this is what both sides said to the cameras earlier today. we re not clear what time we ll all be at the same table yet. it will definitely happen today. we do know that. the bigger issue
reporter: two officers pulled over a bmw for speeding. the driver stopped but once the officers got out of their car, investigators say the bmw sped away. less than a mile away the driver of the bmw broadsided a black lincoln on 98th avenue. the impact killed the passenger in the sedan a woman in her early 20s. four other people inside suffered minor to serious injuries. witnesses say they could hear it from blocks away. big noise, bang. reporter: the chp says after the crash, the bmw s driver and his passenger ran off but officers captured the driver nearby 34-year-old moore facing two charges of evading police and vehicular manslaughter. did not appear to be very much under the influence. he was able to exit his vehicle and flee the scene. so that would show that he is coherent. reporter: surveillance footage from a gas station shows the passenger sprinting across a gas station to get away from police. and tonight, they are still looking for him. da lin, cbs 5.
coverage on february 1. february 15th for march 1st start and march 15th for april 1. but the worrisome deadline is march 31. march 31, 2014, is going to be the end date, the final date where you can get coverage for 2014. and if you end up without coverage for 2014, you could be subject to a penalty from the federal government. reporter: unless of course you get your own private insurance somewhere else without using covered california. live in the newsroom, i m don knapp, kpix 5. thank you. covered california says it plans to do more work on the website over the weekend. new at 6:00, the family of a brain-dead girl who has been kept on life support may be close to moving her to a new care facility. 13-year-old jahi mcmath suffered severe complications after a tonsil surgery at children s hospital oakland earlier this month. a judge ruled doctors can take her off life support on monday. but a lawyer for her family says a bay area nursing home is willing to keep
suspected burglars busted the loot they lifted before christmas now recovered by the police. brian webb describes how cops found the men who hit several homes before the holidays. reporter: back home after a holiday party with friends and family but it didn t take joe kudo long to see something wasn t right. it is sad. i thought how could they do this on christmas eve. reporter: police believe a gang of grinches hit three newark homes on christmas eve stealing thousands of dollars of presents. they even stole christmas from a little boy at a different home by taking his bike. i started crying a little bit. that s all i wanted for chris mar. reporter: but two days later, a break in the case. somebody was trying to sell an engraved bracelet that seemed stolen t. name on it? joe kudo. police recovered two tables worth of stolen stuff after searching three homesful all of it belongs to joe except for the two guns found with the bad guys. we feel happy about it. we fel