And restaurants say their compostin bills jumped 100 after they switched to Waste Management. Amber lee has the details after a special meeting to address the issues. Reporter we just moved from Jack London Square to city hall. The Restaurant Owners tell us its just not fair. City officials tell us they want to do something about it. They didnt take action today and the question is when. Reporter for three years, chefs carefully prepped food. They made sure any organic waste went to the compost bin. Not anymore. After the contract with Waste Management kicked in his first bill arrived. The first bill came in where we were paying 500. The bill was for like 1,500. Reporter his other restaurant chop bar had a similar increase. I was prepared for a rate increase. But a three time increase was shocking. Reporter it was hurting his bottom line, so he stopped composting. They are higher than trash rates. It goes against the intention of the contract. Certainly we knew rates were going to go u
We begin with an issue thats been a real drain on our states resources, water or lack thereof. You see, california farmers had had to cut back, and the impact is huge. More than half of the countrys fruits vegetables, and nuts are grown right here. With fierce competition over a finite resource fingers are being pointed. Enter the one crop thats taken the brunt of the blame the california almond. Sam for california farmers, you can say that life has been well, kind of nuts these days. Plants in fields are thirsty without much water to go around. So it makes sense for critics to start searching for a scapegoat. But is americas numberone snack nut shown here in video provided by the almond board of california really as bad as its cracked up to be . Lets look at a recent report from the bay areabased Pacific Institute that draws on years of numbers from the department of water resources. It shows almonds and pistachios are actually tied for fourth in water intensity, the best gauge of wat
Finally donald trump theyre bringing drugs theyre bringing crime. Sam a tragic shooting in San Francisco and the arrest of an undocumented immigrant. A unique event, or really a link between immigration and crime . We uncover the truth in this edition of reality check. Sam and good evening, and welcome to reality check. Im sam brock. For the next 30 minutes, well take a closer look at topics making headlines, and claims coming from highprofile leaders, to separate the truth from the bunk. We begin with an issue thats been a real drain on our states resources, water or lack thereof. You see, california farmers had had to cut back, and the impact is huge. More than half of the countrys fruits vegetables, and nuts are grown right here. With fierce competition over a finite resource fingers are being pointed. Enter the one crop thats taken the brunt of the blame the california almond. Sam for california farmers, you can say that life has been well, kind of nuts these days. Plants in fields
Good morning, bob kelly. Good morning shall everybody. Get a check on the roads in just a minute. It is down right cold. Chilly morning. Right. Big difference, especially, from earlier this week, when we had the mild temperatures, now the chilly weather pattern is really settling n so we will gave you a eight out of ten today. We will have few extra clouds, and we will have those chilly temperatures to deal with. Thats why we put some gloves on bus stop buddy, because just to signify it is one of the chilliest morning weve seen in a while. Most of our temperatures are in the 40s, 50s, on this National Pumpkin day. Now i dont see any frost on the pumpkin this morning, but we do have 38 degrees in mount pocono. Fortyone in lancaster. Fifty in wildwood. And 48 here in the city. Our sunrise time is 7 23, a hiccup, and see some clouds, like i said, mixed in with the sunshine today. Slight chance of stray shower, right around lunchtime perhaps. High temperature of 58 degrees. So thats a litt
Live, where you live. This is abc 7 news. To be with us here as we learn to deal with this in the days to come. 26 people dead. Why this church . Why people i grew up with . You cant explain it. Try to help as many people as i could. Tonight, we stand with a grieving small texas community. Lets not be people of anger. Lets not be people of fear. It is the worst mass shooting at a church in american history. Good evening, everybody. Here are the latest developments at this hour. 26 people were killed in the attack. About 20 others wounded. It happened at the First Baptist church in sutherland springs, texas. The gunman was found dead after leading bystanders on a short chase. Tonight, a local sheriff says, there was likely no way for parishioners to escape once the shooting began. We get the latest from courtney fisher, who is in suterlands springs, texas. Reporter investigators will work through the night at the First Baptist church. Residents here in this small texas dotown are coming