Individual donors, and thats dramatically down. Nonprofits wonder if people dont have more to give after donate to go Natural Disaster like hurricanes, and the fires in california. We also dont know if the new tax law is causing people to pause and rethink their strategies at the end of the year. Reporter its possible the new tax law is prompting people to prepay their property taxes, due in april, and now theyre cashstrapped. In 2018, the standard deduction married couples filing jointly can take is increasing from just under 13,000 to 24,000. Theyre going to get a free deduction of 24,000. So they may not need that charitable deduction to get them up to that level anymore. Reporter Second Harvest food bank hopes people will still want to give. Their depending on it. There are certainly a lot of changes as a result of tax reform, including property tax and mortgage deductions. You can read all about it and hear what local accountants recommend at our website, abc7news. Com. Starting o
Drop in donations. It could get worse in the new year. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im dan ashley. The big change for 2018, the tax reform law, will take effect. It doubles the standard deduction, which means less incentive to itemize your taxes. That could lead to fewer people donating. Already the Second Harvest food bank is in danger of not reaching its goal for next year. Reporter a free meal means so much to those struggling to survive in the bay area. The ceo of Second Harvest food bank worries how much the nonprofit will be able to provide in 2018. The food bank set out to raise 16. 5 million this year. Theyre still 8 million short. We have many new pantry openings planned. We have many new partners we want to bring on board. And we will have to look at whether or not well be able to open those programs. Reporter Second Harvest says in the last ten years, the number of clients it clara and counties has nearly doubled. Corporate funding is strong, but half
Song. It is 9 00 and we are kicking it hanging out for the next hour so this year kind of just flew by. We are just a few hours from 2018. There is some science to the song thing. People who suffer from alzheimers and other memory loss, you are supposed to play music for them which will trigger their cognitive abilities. One place you hear music is disneyland. We have gone a few times but yesterday the reaction to disneyland is surprising. Let me tell this story will quickly. The power outage affected toon town and fantasyland. People were stuck on some rights by 30 minutes. They are doing a casebycase refund. I think they just need to give everyone a oneday pass back. It is a lot of money because that is a busy week but really that would go a long way because you probably save your life savings to go on this trip. We took our kids to disneyland for the first time one month ago. You build up to it and the kids are excited. Casebycase do i have to prove . Think about how much time it wi
Rainfall. We didnt have any washout rainy days. A couple spotty showers throughout the month but not much. The highs will go from the lower 50s to the lower 60s. A few high clouds adding texture to the sky for your thursday morning. We will look at the current numbers. Freezing in fairfield at 32. San francisco in the upper 40s. You can see oakland in the upper 30s, close to 40 degrees. That confirms daves report walking outside. Im going to show you visibility reports. Near 0 visibility up towards novato. Santa rosa, three quarters of a mile. The numbers have changed quite a bit. We showed you patchy fog around the central portion of the bay as well. Lets look at the camera looking out towards the San Francisco and the bay bridge lights. Nice to start off the day like this. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s. In the afternoon hours, a nice recovery. Upper 50s all the way to the lower and mid60s under mostly sunny skies. Lets check in with allie rasmus. Any problems out there . No major p
Self defense, there were no charges filed and the suspect was released. Reporter police said the incident had noog to do with the school but neighbors said the street can become quite congested and tempers can flare. Around the time of 7 30 to 8 30, it gets hectic, its hard to find parking here. If you are trying to get to work or you are dropping off kids, there is though organization, you park or you keep rolling around, its difficult. Reporter authorities said its not worth getting into arguments over crashes. You never know if someone is armed. Did she say why she had a scalpel . Reporter she said it was a gift given to her by her mother. But the police said, never turn violent in this situation, give them a call when things escalate. In the south bay, closing arguments are set to begin in the trial of Antolin Garcia torres, accused of killing sierra lamar. We are live at the courtroom today. Reporter it was emotional. In the last half hour, court adjourned and the prosecution did