59 oppose them. Californians also think caltrans should be more efficient. Only 23 of californians think caltrans needs more money. 61 believe caltrans should make better use of the money it already has. And we asked Governor Brown about these poll results. His response . Trust me. This is the heavy lift. I know that. Im telling you, im the governor for 14 years, my father was governor for eight years, i know what im talking about. You have to pay for it with new money. Voters arent buying what Governor Brown is selling. Reporter the legislative director at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association really, its a question of priorities. General funds spending in california has increased by 36 billion over the last 6 years. And yet not one penny has gone towards transportation funding. Reporter now, we havent seen the final language of the proposal but theres probably a restriction that this new tax money would have to go to transportation projects although that could include public transit
Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Healthy and hard shelled. If the rest of the crowd season is anything like this opening day fishermen should be very happy for weeks to come. Good evening, everyone, im katie marzullo. Cornell barnard is live in San Francisco, cornell, please tell me you have crab tonight for dinner. I did, it was amazing, you know what, the boats arriving here at the pier for the first catch of the day. Amazing dungeness crab, heading to a supermarket near you probably right now. The first haul from the crab boat marine is back at pier 45. And look what they caught. Almost 4,000 pounds of plump, healthy crustaceons, they have been chasing them since thursday when many set the pod traps. But nobody is saying. I havent even told my mother. Reporter i think they look great, theyre hard shell. Seem to be full. Reporter max is so impressed with the haul he bought almost 40,000 pounds of crab for his distributor. Thank god we got started on time. Th
And practicing bowedist that wanted to be a probation officer but there are concerns about his Mental Health. And a former friend said he was violent. Injuring him with a taser this month. Witnesses said he was acting erratically. But its unclear if officers knew that at that time. It turbs out later he did have a history of mental illness. Just makes it more tragic. The supervisor, david campos says police have a special unit to deal with Mental Health issues. Its a new team that was created for that purpose. You know, one question is was that Team Involved in this incident . Did they call upon the team . Those questions and others will be asked at the Community Meeting tonight. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Tonight, San Francisco police have in custody two people believed to be the gunmen in sunday nights shooting in San Francisco. Eight people wounded by gunshots while standing at turk and taylor streets. Police took a 5yearold Curtis Warren and a 4yearold into custody yesterday. Bot
In vernal heights park. The family calls the shooting unjustified the chief refused to answer questions until today good evening u and right now, police chief is standing before some Outreach Community members in somewhat of a town hall meeting addressing why officers shot and killed this man, a 28yearold on friday. Abc7 news joins us live now where the meeting is just getting underway. Carolyn . We talked to the chief earlier today as he prepared for a hot seat here in the mission district. Questions that he is facing tonight include exactly what were the circumstances leading up to the shooting death of the man . How many shots were fired . Did he have a gun or a taser . Officers when responded were just responding to a man with a gun call in the dark. San Francisco Police chief says based on what he knows about the tragedy at the park hes not secondguessing his officers they shot and killed a 28yearold last friday night. Some witnesses told us as many as 14 rounds were fired. Office
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