29/01/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer


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Time now for a look at the news as seen across the United States a

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couple of hours ago, in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer.

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Tonight, from the nation's capital. It is a frozen nation. Much of the

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country facing a once in a generation storm. The National Guard

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called the duty in the deep south, and already more than 200 accidents

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in one city alone. State of the union, and President Obama put more

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money in the pockets of middle-class Americans? News about the way the

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virus spread on that crew ship, and what the company told passengers

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that now has an even more upset. And, farther speed cameras getting

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it wrong? Look at this car, stopped at the light, but the camera says he

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was speeding. Tonight, drivers fight back.

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Good evening on this Tuesday night, we are here in Washington, DC for

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the President's State of the Union address. One thing is certain, the

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union is in the grip of a deep freeze. More than 140 million

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Americans with a big chill and a scramble for help. Tonight, we take

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you down south where the palm trees are frozen, and the fountains are

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icicles. First a blizzard, and now brutal

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cold for parts of the midwest, with wind chills as far as 40 degrees

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below. The governor sending in the National Guard to deal with a rare

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snow and ice storm. As soon as the first snowflakes fell school

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officials started counselling classes. -- cancelling. The roads

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here are no place for a school bus. Six teenagers were on the bus ride

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home when they flicked on the ice, and one of them had to be

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hospitalised. He was coming around the corner, and just slid off in the

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ditch. Children in Alabama stuck in school, with roads too dangerous for

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parents to come and get them. If you trust your teacher to take care of

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your child during the day, they will be taken care of tonight. This was a

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freeway in Austin, Texas, with police reporting more than 214

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accidents and counting. I passed about ten crashes on the way here.

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They are calling this their worst winter storm in at least ten years.

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Storms of this nature are very unpredictable and are to be

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respected. Around Atlanta, the highways were a mess. Families who

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emptied grocery stores spent hours trying to get home on the icy roads.

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If you don't have to be out, stay at home. This is the first measurable

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snow in years for many communities, and some areas could see between six

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and ten inches. North Carolina is inspecting snow all night, and they

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only have three snowploughs. The city of New York has hundreds of

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snowploughs, and you have how many? Three. We do hurricanes, we don't do

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snow. Yesterday, it was 65 degrees here. He read these three

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snowploughs, waiting for the snow. It is starting to sleet already.

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Governors across the South declaring state of emergency is, trying to get

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resources like these to the places where they are most needed. Stock

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will it is once in a generation. Is there any relief in sight?

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That is the question everyone is asking. We can see ice chunks

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floating on the Hudson River. The answer is, yes. Relief is in sight.

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That low pressure system slides across the south-east, and it will

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eventually pulled away tomorrow morning. You can see coastal

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Carolina is getting some of the mix. Then the wind chill will set in.

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That is going to be the headline. Two thirds of the nation gets the

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brunt of the cold. Places like Atlanta, which will struggle to make

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it to freezing as we going to Wednesday, will be 60 degrees by the

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weekend. Thank you. We are here on a cold Washington, DC tonight for the

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state of the union address. EC president fed up with Congress? Will

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he go at alone? -- is the president. From speech prep, President Obama

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got a taste of the frigid Washington weather. It is not just the weather

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that is cold. Obama has the lowest average approval rating of any

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president after five years in office. The White House sees tonight

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as a chance to get things back on track. The President has spent the

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last week refining this speech and practising his delivery. I think the

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framework is right. One of the big themes, the President to is right.

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One of the big themes, the President does not need Congress to get things

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done. It is better when you have the bipartisan solutions, but he has

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tremendous authority and he will use it. Case in point, a push to connect

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15,000 public schools to broadband Internet using both private funds

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and money Congress has appropriated. The President will

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promise executive action to require higher fuel standards for trucks and

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to raise the minimum wage for those working on future federal contracts.

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A warning from Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner who told

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reporters today that if the President tries to ignore Congress

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he will run into a brick wall. The President also hopes to inspire

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tonight. He and the first Lady have inspired some genuine American

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heroes. A Boston bombing victim and the person who tried to help save

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his life. And the bookkeeper who prevented a potential elementary

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school massacre by talking a would-be shooter into surrendering.

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The White House has just released a few experts from the President's

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speech. In the CCA note of determination and defiance. It says

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that America does not stand still and neither were live.

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-- will I. That is a message right to

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Republicans who have successfully blocked almost everything he has

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wanted in the last three years. We will be watching what happens

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tonight. George, what is the big picture? The President has come into

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this speech with the best economy of his presidency. Congress is still

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against what he is doing. The country has given up on all of them.

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They are fed up with everyone in Washington. He has to do one thing

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tonight, convince the country he can get something done. That is why he

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is showing determination. We had been looking at the pictures over

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the years. All the years he has been giving state of the union speeches.

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As you look at him and think about him, when he think he is tonight?

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More grave. He has always been a measured, tempered guy. There is

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more of that than ever before. He has a clear sense of what he has

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done, what he can do, and what he cannot do. A sense of the limits of

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the presidency. With the Super Bowl days away, a startling discovery. A

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lot of counterfeit tickets are being sold. Is there any way to catch

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them? We now have the secret any warning.

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Fans, fireworks, and with the Super Bowl just days away, fake seekers

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ceased overnight. They look so real that investigators believe they

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could have gotten somebody into the stadium. Some of the most

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counterfeiting techniques I have ever seen. This is a real tickets,

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side by side with the fake one. They have the same artwork, the same

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logo: even an identical watermark. How do you tell the difference?

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There is a graphic that is printed with a special ink. When you apply

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heat, it will disappear. When it cools off it will disappear. Every

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year, as many as 200 fans scammed with fake tickets. They are sold

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online and in person industries before games. This man bought a

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phoney ticket two years ago for $1900. The pressure to get the

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tickets. You go to the deal. Is the counterfeit is get more

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sophisticated, so does the NFL. We are hoping to stay ahead of them as

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much as we can. This is tickets have about 50 secret high-tech markings.

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-- 15. There are still real tickets up for sale tonight.

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Someone got a royal reality check today. The Queen of England and her

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family, a scolding you report warning them to start tightening the

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belt. They have apparently run through a fortune.

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Think of the British Royal family and opulence and grandeur and

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magnificent events. You would never believe they are nearly broke. While

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they are, not them personally but the royal household. The department

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that runs runs their palaces and properties, 360 buildings, thousands

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of employees. A scathing report to Parliament found that the Queen's

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public accounts are less than a couple of million dollars.

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Privately, she is still fabulously rich. A public finances and her

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Pallas RMS. Buckingham Palace looks great on the outside, behind the

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scenes it is in desperate of repair. Chunks of stone falling off the

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building. The report demanded that the Queen and her family tighten

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their belts and find ways to make more money, like by bringing more

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paying tourists into Buckingham Palace. It is only open 78 days per

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year. The White House is open all year round. The Queens defenders say

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that the royals make Britain billions every year in tourism. And

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that Elisabeth is a frugal housekeeper. At night, if there are

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lights on, she goes and switches them off. She could always sell the

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jewellery. But next, caught on camera, drivers

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fighting back against speed cameras. Do they sometimes say you are

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driving too fast even when your car is not moving? See it when we are

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back. Last that we told you about the

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mystery on board a cruise ship. Hundreds of people sickened by a

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virus. Tonight, new clues on how its bread and what the company has

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offered those passengers. -- how it spread.

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On board the Royal Caribbean explorer of the Seas, anger is

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spreading as fast as illness. One woman on board centres this picture.

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We did not go to half our ports. There is almost nothing to do on the

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ship. Royal Caribbean has apologised that they are unable to deliver the

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vacations. They are offering a 50% refund for this cruise and 50% of

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the cost of a future cruise. We had to two good days out of ten that we

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were promised. They want their money back. Experts say it is unlikely. Is

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it rare for people to receive full compensation? The cruise lines do

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not have to compensate you at all. When they decide to compensate

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passengers it is out of their goodness. The stomach bug is highly

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contagious. Each infected person generally passes it along to as many

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as three other people. It leases many as 100 cases by the third day

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of an outbreak. The first case was reported last Tuesday. By Sunday the

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number of people infected had reached 303. 24 hours later the

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number had more than doubled. Today, that number shot up to his 607 the

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two people. For the thousands on that ship, it is a vacation that

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Connacht and soon enough. -- cannot and.

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Today a new government report says the over the counter drug Aleve may

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be the safest pain reliever for anybody with hard issues. The key

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ingredient may provide a lower level of heart attack and stroke than

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other products. Next tonight, caught in the act. Almost two dozen states

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use traffic cameras to catch drivers speeding and running red lights. The

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tickets, big fines. Surprising new questions about how often they are

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wrong. One city has lodged an investigation because of so many

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mistakes. It is the flash out of nowhere, when

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you do not expect it, sometimes when you do not deserve it. An

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intersection, this driver has clearly stopped. The speed camera

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sites the car, brake lights on and traffic in front of it, forgoing 38

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mph in 825 mother hour zone. A costly mistake. -- for going. Some

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individual cameras up by as much as 50%. The City Council is

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investigating. Nationwide, about half states use the cameras.

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Class-action suit in Ohio and New York have attacked their

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reliability. Los Angeles stopped issuing the tickets altogether. This

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driver videotaped his speed. He was ticketed for being ten miles over

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the limit. This school teacher got five tickets. I was clocked at 51

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mph. It was physically impossible from each of having going that fast.

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Her car could not reach that speed in a short distance. In all, 22

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teachers were ticketed. If you give companies an incentive to ticket

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more, they will ticket more. California has banned the fees.

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Advocates say that the cameras slow people down. Some cities are using

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them in new and different ways. This one monitors stop science. If you

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roll through the stop, it will click. It costs you cash in a flash,

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even when the picture does not tell the story.

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We thank you for watching tonight. We will see you again tomorrow

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