"chasing news" >> we have a team coverage of what is on the horizon for thursday as everyone knows on monday night they do jersey a legislature with governor christie past the lot to raise the taxes $0.22 a gallon for your gasoline but it is easier to put a camel through the eye of the neil them pass a consumer tax under our nose.

so this affects everybody but the fishing and boating industry we have special guest tonight but as talk about the truckers will have to pay for the goods that we take for granted now the cost will go up. >> at the heart of this gas tax is where the eric rubber meets the road. ♪ ♪ ♪ independent truckers are tripping not at the thought to pay an extra $0.23 per gallon. >> when you charged $0.23 more that takes that of our pockets so food repaid at

to? the government? >> it looks like the government i talked to george more independent truck driver he was writing a load of potato chips and he is one he takes on 51 gallons with the new $0.23 gas tax that is $3,700 to 7025 that will come out of his pocket. >> i have to eat that costs and bad is take away from the in come from my family so that will take a bite out of our budget. >> and his family is paycheck to paycheck as it

is. >> he says he has no control over what his clients pay so he will pay the difference. >> i have to make a living. >> now i did reach out to the american trucking association there were on capitol hill calling for a federal gas tax to be raised for better highway maintenance it hasn't gone up in about 20 years so capitol hill is a long way from where the rubber meets the road. ♪ >> truckers are radical.

>> there is a commercial fishing industry there are charter boats but they will be hit hard. >> with the governor's help these gas prices that commercial fishermen say they are already cathcart by government regulation but now it is a nail in the coffin and i met with local fishermen who tell me their tail and that one too was fishing since he was seven years old. >> my father knew catching fish was bad he never would have brought this out here. i never knew it was such a crime to catch fish now he made it a crime.

>> i asked how the gas tax would affect their way of life. >> is like stabbing we in the heart. >> there is no extra income they can create to compensate for the gas tax hike and the pinch in their wallets it dead diesel used is tax-free and ashley fisherman from the york, to new jersey but that doesn't cover that transportation from the dock to the fish market. >> we finished all of that into the new york market the we probably use 100 gallons a day to go back and forth and i go to the new york market once a week to buy the fish. >> everything is connected. is so is everything else that you buy a bigger issue

store. and now you pay more when you get to wherever you are going. >> then they get bigger and bigger they are the ones that need to do some white. >> to a state senator welcome to "chasing news" thursday is a big day. the senate will vote potentially that was passed in the middle of the night. after midnight said nobody had seen it or read it and there was some pressure if you see a lot of support either the republican nor the democratic side. >> we have been hearing from

people to the average commuters they don't want this they don't trust the government. >> you cannot raise the tax and sable cut taxes. we heard this before when the new jersey state income-tax was instituted. been the better not we didn't have an income tax before 76 and now they think it will solve the high property taxes. how did that workout? and as they get their eyes on their revenue. >> going back how do we get what we need your maintain infrastructure? >> new jersey is 12 times the national average. and that is or there will be spent for road construction for times of plenty york

state spends so before we ask people of new jersey to spend 1 penny more we have an obligation to find out why we're spending so much on road construction. this bill does nothing of the sort. >> it was already written up and ready to go in by friday contracts were signed. >> absolutely. all they want to do is get the new money. in bills have already been introduced all you have to do is ride of light rail's nobody writes it. and he said most of the people don't even pay. widow needed a more boondoggle.

asking people to spend $0.23 more by the way they say it is $0.23 but as the price of gas goes up the tax could go up as well it could be more than $0.23 a gallon. >> then one years later they repaved to bill again it is a real issue with corruption there is no reason to is because we cannot get wrapped together. >> i absolutely agree we will have problems finding the transportation in trust fund and they want to create a crisis. en the reason is they want to continue this corruption and wasting money on the road construction projects but i think as republicans we have a real opportunity if we stick together to listen to what the reason foundation is saying. >> thanks for your time.

>> here at the state house i am "chasing" governor christie to help the late afternoon press conference to talk about the transportation trust fund but from the beginning he said he wants to make it more affordable saying it is a tax cut but it is not it is a tax hike and governor christie holds will be passed by the senate on thursday. so i asked why the rush? those that would be negatively impacted. >> if i had public hearings and what about the gas tax hike and how that affects the residents in drivers.

>> excuse me i am answering your question. it is for a hundred dollars of savings. so if they don't want to pay that gas tax that is why i'm giving them the sales tax cut at the same time. >> of the ones to which she is me of having an agenda to make sure residents of new jersey are treated fairly by legislatures and then that was a compliment. thank you. this is not over. and then to be voting on that gas tax hike followed me on twitter and the show with "chasing news". >> law-enforcement let us down.

he stabbed his wife to death then killed himself. is a p.

>> is it possible your father killed your mother then killed himself? >> you don't believe it? >> of third-party killed?

>> how does that make you feel? >> horrified that law-enforcement let us down. >> for months i stared up to the windows trying to feel my way into the crime scene. prosecutors say he stabbed his wife to death then killed himself i had my doubts of the findings finally he gave me the opportunity that i wanted to go inside the house to analyze the crime scene in the retired homicide detective and along with his brother is suing the state changing the cause of death from suicide. >> why day think this is not a double homicide?

>> the first citizen determined as all the evidence suggested is third-party identified out who killed my parents and then i entered the home where blood's still stays the floor so some potential key evidence what could this drop bleeds -- be? some say it is from the firefighters dragging him out of the home. >> if the blood was pumping that is from the arterial of course, it would smear. >> a totally different characteristic whose blood could that be?

and then they stop to readjust. spee vicki had wounded his abdomen he is about my height and then putting a knife into my side to puull it out it follows the droplets but they never bothered to test the blood to find out who it came from. and then to continue on to the bedroom based on the pain killers being in the cabinet and her pills were over here it is rare in the bathroom laid out. you can see blood on the threshold. and another key piece of evidence if you walk through here there is a second

camera that deeds downstairs to allow someone to gain access access to virtually every other home and they said it is so easy to go from yard to yard. he noticed that is one of the key things that he saw the pool is heaviest your decos on this side of the bed then tapers off where john slipped over here it is much lighter. >>. >> where there? >> is if that was without a reasonable amount of certainty he tried to cover it up.

if john sheridan set the fire only he knows exactly why. >> the major magic mistakes but handling between 20 and 40 investigations. >> to seal off the entire property then they attacked everything. >> that reminds me of visiting my own grandparents all the boys in their high-school football uniforms stepped in the corner of the years covering the asat one dash the smoke you get an idea of who they were not willing there with me. >> they were together always it is and just be my brothers are involved in the

effort. >> with your brother be proud of you? >> yes. >> she would like the fact you were standing up no backing down. >> three years ago video captured of the intruder feeding the mother in front of her two children. >> that is the best message you can send for somebody who does something like this. >> with a gas tax rising $0.23 idle the most people even know how that will affect them so we're going to gas stations around new jersey to ask yes or no? >> $0.23 per gallon more on friday how much do think that will affect me? period there's nothing you can do about.

>> i complained when it was $4 a gallon and then everything at the grocer's gore went up. >> you think it will affect your business? >> are you penstock about the gas tax? >> very. >> finally somebody said it. no gas tax. >> and don't understand how it takes all these years to get this through annette took five days. >> you know, about the gas tax passing on friday? >> $0.23 a gallon. >> oh my gosh. >> people are not in favor of a gas tax they know that they will be feeling that hit on friday. gas tax or no gas tax?

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>> i am standing in front of the essex county courthouse and it has come to an end three years ago intruder comes in to loot a whole and beating the mother in front of the children now today that man was sentenced to life in prison. there was a collective gasp when the judge gave out his sentence. the victims was shaking now prior to the decision the victim addressed her attacker to see all the things she had been through the past three years not only the physical pain to overcome but the stress and anxiety to even save our return the doorbell rings

she feels like she has to call the police the judge explained his decision to say it was needed to deter other criminals. >> he is deserving of a very lengthy prison sentence i have a responsibility to reach out to a fair and just sentenced to protect the public have the community from this extremely dangerous and violent predator and then said no doubt whatsoever if given the chance he would commit another crime. afterwards i asked if the victim was surprised and if she felt safer. >> she was very gratified and does feel safer. >> why + 5 years? >> no less than 68. >> as he was acquitted of the most serious charges so

he still is being put behind bars. >> so they had to say there was intent. >> is the sentencing him with a maximum allowed under the guidelines is trying to send a message? and exactly he said this is to deter other criminals. >> demonstrate life in prison he broke into the home beecher it is on the camera and the kids were at home. that is a message to send for anybody breaking into the home. >> the only ones talking about it "chasing" the politicians. >> skis me i'm answering your question

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