the same to declare a climate emergency. here we are. we don t know why the white house stopped short of making this emergency declaration on climate today with of course president biden standing in front of a once-fired coal powered plant being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. there s speculation a tough time to roll out that announcement amid high gas prices and recession fears and since can it be used as a legal basis to drop oil and gas drills. congressional republicans say pain at the pump is the point. i think the administration does want us to suffer. the secretary of transportation said yesterday you don t like the cost of gasoline, buy an electric vehicle. so some announcements did come from the president s remarks plan to propose wind mills in the gulf of mexico and a record of amount of fema funding for infrastructure, neil. jackie, thanks for that. let s go to jeff block right now. he s in philadelphia. witnesses this for himself. the
Off over the weekend, some say is just not enough nearly enough. that criticism coming from some grocery store operators that say grocery stores are more and more the target of brazen thefts by organized crime rings that are stealing meats and ice creams, the high ticket items and reselling them on the black market. crime across the city has also risen. you can see here that petite larceny, theft under $1,000 is up 42% this year. store operators, they blame soft on crime policies that fail to prosecute misdemeanor thefts. i feel bad for the police. they still come to the store, but then they have to release. i really think they re doing their job, but if you don t stop it and put somebody in the jail
the jury came back today in the hill city fossil hunter federal criminal trial. the jury said over and over again either not guilty or no unanimous verdict could be reached. of over 150 charges, the jury agreed to convict only 13 times, and five of those convictions are for misdemeanor crimes. so here is how the convictions break down. pete larson, co-owner and founder of the institute, is convicted on two counts of misdemeanor thefts and two felony counts of illegally transporting money in and out of a country. brother neal larson found guilty of one misdemeanor theft. the jury either acquitted neal or couldn t agree on a verdict for the others. bob farrar, a third co-owner of the institute, convicted of
Two felonies, making false statements to customs officials. and the black hills institute as a corporation is convicted of two misdemeanor thefts, a felony theft and twice making false statements to customs officials. they also found them guilty of bringing goods into the states by making a false statement. defendants eddie cole and terry wentz were not convicted on any charges. as the verdict was announced, it was almost impossible to believe that the defense hadn t scored a great victory. however, there were some fairly significant felony convictions. the expression, you could have knocked me over with a feather, you could have knocked me over with a feather. i talked to some jurors after the trial. some of them were near tears when i interviewed them about how they had hoped they could acquit on every single charge. i believe they had to have something to take this to trial, and i spent the whole trial waiting for that something. without a doubt, the majority of the jurors w
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