advice, richard, about keeping calm, and you know, taking a few deep breaths and allowing things to play out as they will. it applies not only to air travel and so many things in life. thank you so much for the time. appreciate you. my pleasure. so an outbreak of in san francisco it s prompting the pharmacy giant to shut down five locations in the city. this is wild, the san francisco police department reports nearly 22,000 larceny theft cases since the beginning of the year. cnn correspondent dan simon has more. reporter: boxes and boxes of over-the-counter drugs. it looks like a warehouse distribution center for medicine. in reality, it s a warehouse full of stolen goods. what you re looking at is not petty shoplifting. what you re looking at is an organized criminal ring. reporter: law enforcement making this bust last year in
medicine. in reality, it s a warehouse full of stolen goods. what you are looking at is not petty shoplifting. what you are looking at is an organized criminal ring. reporter: law enforcement making this bust last year in san mateo, california, just outside san francisco. these videos offering a glimpse inside the sophistication of organized shoplifting rings. san franciscan epicenter. so much so walgreens said it will soon close five of its stores here. that, in addition to the 17 stores the retailer had previously shuttered in the past few years. this is a real blow to san francisco. it s a blow to the merchants, to our reputation as a city. reporter: it begins with something like this. a thief hurriedly grabbing items off store shelves. this viral video captured at a san francisco walgreens in plain view of a security guard. you have street level thieves selling to boosters, who are selling to larger syndicates,
full of stolen goods. this is not petty shoplifting. what you re looking at is an organized criminal ring. reporter: law enforcement making this bust last year in san mateo, california, just outside of san francisco. these videos offering a glimpse inside the sophistication of organized shoplifting rigs, san francisco an epicenter, so much so that walgreens says it will soon be closing five of its stoerps here, that in addition to the 17 stores the retailer had previously shuttered in the past few years. this is a real blow to san francisco, a blow to the merchants, a blow to our reputation as a city. reporter: it begins with something like this. a thief grabbing items off store shelves. this viral video captured in june at a san francisco walgreens in plain view of a security guard. the store among those being shut down. you have street-levels thieves who are selling to boosters who are then selling to larger syndicates, who are building million-dollar businesses selling sto