Tonight our investigation reveals how your money is being spent. Good evening, everyone, im carolyn johnson. Im dan ashley. A man is fuming over the fines he had to pay to clear a Traffic Violation he didnt know he committed until a notice arrived in the mail. And derrick neil is not alone. As our media partner discovered fees for traffic infractions jumped for california drivers as state and local governments scramble for revenue. Laura anthony slif tonight with the story. Laura . Hi, dan, well this is one of several interseks here where they have a full battery of traffic cameras. They record every drivers move for one man this, is where a simple moving violation led to a fine that gave him a serious case of sticker shock. This fee was outrageous. He didnt know hed run a red light months earlier until a notice came with a link to a short video it showed my car braking with the taillight on, i came to the stop. I was doing about a mile or two an hour but there was not a car around. I
Emergency air transportation, court operations. Convictions assessments, 1ss today help pay for night court plus 59 for traffic school. The total, 549. We dont get a breakdown of that at the time of the ticket. Ellen menldelson defends bay area drivers in red light cases and thinks the fees amount to an unfair tax. It is a unfair way to try to generate income for anything. I mean, it falls just disproportionately on people who may not be able to afford it. Most of the money doesnt stay in the local area. How much does the city get . 100 that you saw is our portion. Neil went to Traffic Court to ask for the fine to be reduced. But the judge didnt want to hear it. Is there wiggle room . Zero. Nobody in the room got a reduction. Neil paid the ticket. Money he had to pull out of his savings. Laura anthony, abc 7 news. Despite the moderate fall, temperatures were experiencing were about to enter a yofd high fire danger in the bay area. Spencer christian is here with live doppler 7 hd ask a
Its the middle of the week. Good morning, im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Look what the wind blew in. We do have sunny day but it will be cooler and breezy and partly cloudy skies. Maybe some scattered showers up in the sierra nevada. A couple of 40s. I have seen a few. I know napa downtown is close to 50. A lot of 50s. It will be a cool day. If it wasnt for any breeze, it would be a little cooler on these lows. 50 to start. For a high in santa rosa today. San francisco though it will be sunny but we are only going 67 degrees. The wind is definitely picking up. We are seeing 1622 miles an hour in San Francisco and around the bay. Sunshine. Breezy to windy. Some of the Higher Elevations are showing gusts to 50 miles an hour. A lot of this will just be drier air coming in. But its also very cool air. Cooler, breezy, today but lots of sunshine. And temperatures mainly 60s and 70s arkoses the board here. Here is sal. Steve, good morning. We are look pretty good so far. Its h
Kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo with the stray bullet that injured a 10yearold girl and the search for the shooter. Ryan. Reporter hi, michelle. Police called those suspects cowards for opening fire overnight. You can see there are still detectives right here who are combing the scene. Investigators are trying to find out why the family called hours after gunfire. Were still trying to locate the suspects. We know these cowards came out in the middle of the night and fired aimlessly. Reporter there are traces of the overnight trouble on 27,000 block of tampa. The house has holes and the cars back window is barely holding on. A 10yearold girl was shot in the buttocks with one round. Multiple rounds were shot. Reporter the 10yearold was sleeping when the gunfire started. Around 1 00 in the morning 4 to 5 gunshots. Reporter it was loud enough to wake up neighbors but the family cannot call police until 7 30. Investigators want to know why. Were they aware that there was a the shooting occurred
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