However, in San Francisco, there was a much darker event as one CNN news reader was robbed during a television broadcast. There is a degree of irony about this story, with Kyung Lah of CNN actually reporting on the rising level of street crime in San Francisco at the time. "This is ridiculous, San Francisco is a beautiful city and this is our third day here and I've loved my time. In 2023, there have been a total of 525 reported robberies in San Francisco, and there are little signs of this epidemic slowing down as we move into the summer months. In a report published by the San Francisco Chronicle, more than half of the city's residents in a poll said that they had been victims of theft.

Source: CNN March 18, 2023 12:02 UTC