city treasurer john atkinson. john atkinson/ light rail opposition c0003 00"04:46 "im supporting the no light rail position." 00:04:48 has his reasons john atkinson/ light rail opposition c0003 00:04:13 "the lack of the support, the lack of need and the light rail opposition c0003 00:04:57 "we currently have over 17,000 signatures on petitions. i want 34,000 so we're are as far as im concerned halfway to the point that i want to be." 00:05:08 its a rush to spring for light rail or a vote. matt gregory matt gregory reporting. the city manager's office says it will continue briefing city council on the impact of light rail. atkinson says he's looking forward to the virginia primary for a boost in signatures. the f-a-a has grounded plans for a new runway at norfolk international. airport officials are disappointed with that decision. they say it would have helped prevent delays-- and improve safety. right now there are two runways -- a long one and a short one. the airport rarely uses the short one, and wanted a new

treasurer john atkinson who is championing this cause is he's gathered seventeen thousand signatures so far he's confident he's going to get a twenty seven thousand that need to bring this referendum with the three dollars and cents issue we do not need a loser and that's all you can call light rail is a loser virginia beach city treasurer john atkinson says he only needs ten thousand more signatures to let voters answer this question should city councils and local funds to build light rail if that question make it to the ballot in november. secretary of transportation aubrey layne says the city may move a hundred and fifty five million dollars in state funding he told delegate ron villa nueva in a letter that he simply cannot allocate funds to a project that's contingent on the boats come march for the presidential primary on super tuesday we're going to have man every expect to get another ten thousand signatures light rail supporters like martha mclean says the region is in desperate need of a multi modal transportation system that knitting patterns that are all over the place and

the bat on the ballot in no in november and let the voters decide whether or not they treasurer john atkinson who is championing this cause is he's gathered seventeen thousand signatures so far he's confident he's going to get a twenty seven thousand that need to bring this referendum with the three dollars and cents issue we do not need a loser and that's all you can call light rail is a loser virginia beach city treasurer john atkinson says he only needs ten thousand more signatures to let voters answer this question should city councils and local funds to build light rail if that question make it to the ballot in november. secretary of transportation aubrey layne says the city may move a hundred and fifty five million dollars in state funding he told delegate ron villa nueva in a letter that he simply cannot allocate funds to a project that's contingent on the boats come march for the presidential primary on super tuesday we're going to have man every

c 1 29:51 john atkinson virginia beach treasurer -- it's not a large sum of money but obviously in an environment such as ours, anything helps. we examine a tool that your city can use to collect money from people who break the law, and ease the burden a bit on chris horne 10 on your side be sure to watch our 10 on your side investigation "failing to fine" tonight at 6 with coverage beginning at 4 pm. ("jeremy ad libs wx headlines") today: mostly cloudy. spotty showers. highs will be in the low 50s. winds ne 10-15mph. tonight: mostly cloudy. scattered showers. lows will be in the low 40s. winds ne 10-15mph. tuesday: cloudy. rain likely. highs will be in the low 50s. winds ne 10-15mph. a cold front is moving through the region today. we will have cooler northeasterly winds. highs will be in the low 50s with some spotty showers possible. tomorrow warm/moist air will overrun the cooler air at the surface. this will create near washout conditions with rain expected for the bulk of the day. highs will be in the low 50s. then a warm front will move through the area on wednesday. we'll be wa

get some money again i do question if we can get a hundred tickets are going to city treasurer john atkinson is leading the effort to put the issue on the ballot he believes the referendum would jeopardize several city council seats when they're up for reelection in november city council does not is not bound by referendum. all i hold referendums of the junior advisory this can be very difficult for anyone in city council to be pro white rail and get elected when the pro light rail referendum is turned down the lane is not convinced that virginia beach is fully committed. he says he will come up with a resolution and bring it before the transportation board tomorrow now says and says that if the state comes back tomorrow with a memorandum of understanding he looks forward to reviewing it with the city manager and city council to see if the terms of the agreement are acceptable. reporting live in virginia beach on jimmy police are investigating dozens of cars broken into and the public to raj beach police say someone targeted that parking garage in town center twenty eight cars were damaged b

be fiscally irresponsible twenty one hundred and eighty three dollars for each city treasurer john atkinson crunching the numbers in his office and often right now the taxpayers are paying thirteen dollars and twenty six cents per round trip. he says extending the light rail to virginia beach is just too to go to referendum. but if that happens the city could lose a hundred and fifty five million dollars in state funding. secretary of transportation aubrey layne told delegate ron villa nueva in the latter but the money would go back into the state's high priority projects program because the state can only fund projects to completion so far atkinson has gathered seventeen thousand of the twenty seven thousand signatures he needs to put it on the ballet was first in the presidential primary on super tuesday we're going to have man every precinct weekend and i fully expect to get another ten thousand signatures. my stomach leases the executive director of virginia beach vision she says the region needs a multimillion transportation system in order to grow if we got to be gridlock and we're no

light rail opponents like city treasurer john atkinson say that if council members take a position on this now their seats could be in jeopardy when they're up for reelection in november councilman bobby dyer told thirteen news now that it would be irresponsible for the city to sign this agreement without hearing from the public next month he says he will put forth a resolution to put light rail on the power is cheaper than driving lot of people depend on public transportation myself included take the bus everyday just on the surface so it's a it's something the city filed its essence as started crunching the numbers to see exactly how much these light rail cars will cost and if it will fit into the city's budget he said he hopes to meet with him in the next few days to discuss it for now reporting live in virginia beach i'm jumping the thirteen years now and then tonight a murder suspect has toward themselves and we just learn to break one shorts is in custody accused of killing a seventeen year old in portsmouth. well the bad news here three of his alleged accomplices are still in t

let's get more information before we make any decisions to forgo an option and the city treasurer john atkinson has been circulating petitions to get lights were on the ballot in november. his group will be at the polls tomorrow getting signatures. he's confident that by the end of super tuesday to have enough to push through the voter referendum. eric came thirteen years now developing right now the man accused of killing a rookie police officer in northern virginia faced a judge today. he's also accused of opening fire on his own family the suspect is charged with killing his wife and then a rookie officer just one day after she was sworn in abc's elizabeth her has the latest from new york ronald hamilton two murder charges remains in jail held without bond i clear the officer involved shooting the three officers that have been shot according to authorities the three officers shot while responding to a nine one one call reporting domestic abuse in prince william county virginia officer ashley greene d did not survive the killed in the line of duty out on her first street patrol saturday could

city treasurer john atkinson is leading one effort to bring it to referendum and several city council member saying that they want to see this on the ballot as well. secretary lane believes the referendum written commitment from virginia beach. the state cannot fund the projects right now the city has acted in last year's budget the money was put in there to bring light rail to trails and lanes coming up with a resolution tomorrow he will ask the transportation board for guidance in making a decision now says and says that if the state comes back tomorrow with a memorandum of understanding that he looks forward to reviewing it with the city manager and city council members to see if the terms of agreement or acceptable for now reporting live in virginia beach on jimmy thirteen years now well light rail has its critics of course the group say no to light rail needs twenty seven thousand signatures to get the light rail issue on the november ballot the group's organizer tells thirty news now he has seventeen thousand signatures and he believes he will get the rest is actually aiming for

c 1 29:51 john atkinson virginia beach treasurer -- it's not a large sum of money but obviously in an environment such as ours, anything helps. in hampton, we sampled more than 300 d-u-i convictions and the city imposed the fee just twice. norfolk does not pursue from the commonwealth's of our dui cases. still, we're aware of (the applicable city and state laws) and discuss them from time to time." that surprised norfolk commissioner of the revenue evans poston. c 19 29:55 evans poston taxing the citizens is probably worth looking at poston says if the city could collect, say, 25 thousand a year, that could go toward a salary for a police officer, firefighter, or teacher. c 19 30:55 evans poston norfolk revenue commissioner -- they could probably do some neighborhood improvements with some of that money. virginia process -- creating a direct line from the arresting officer to the monitors the offense, puts the information into my computer system, and we in turn take over from there. maybe other cities could use atkinson's system. that would make the guy with the award-winning idea a l

light rail extension are trying to get this issue on the ballot in virginia beach city treasurer john atkinson is leading this cause he says he's gathered seventeen thousand signatures so far and he's confident he'll get the twenty seven thousand he needs for the referendum on the presidential primary on super tuesday we're going to have man every precinct we can and i fully expect to get another ten thousand signatures. it'll be next to impossible for the city to come up for the region to come up with that kind of dollars necessary to do it independent we spoke with mayor will systems on the phone today he says he's writing a letter to opryland to get more clarification on that state funding. crazy out there the difference between southside in the peninsula fairly soon now everybody out right now basically seeing rain free conditions although again we have the fog little bit more the north as i mentioned that case you just tuning in the pub the broadcast that talked about how we've gone from forty one to fifty four and two hours on the south side with a south southeast wind right now it's six

c 1 29:51 john atkinson virginia beach treasurer -- it's not a large sum examine a tool that your city can use to collect money from people who break the law, and ease the burden a bit on taxpayers. chris horne 10 on your side be sure to watch our 10 on your side investigation "failing to fine" tonight at 6 with coverage beginning at 4 pm. ("jeremy ad libs wx headlines") today: mostly cloudy. spotty showers. highs will be in the low 50s. winds ne 10-15mph. tonight: mostly cloudy. scattered showers. lows will be in the low 40s. winds ne 10-15mph. tuesday: cloudy. rain likely. highs will be in the low 50s. winds ne 10-15mph. a cold front is moving through the region today. we will have cooler northeasterly winds. highs will be in the low 50s with some spotty showers possible. tomorrow warm/moist air air at the surface. this will create near washout conditions with rain expected for the bulk of the day. highs will be in the low 50s. then a warm front will move through the area on wednesday. we'll be warmer with a chance for rain and thunderstorms by wednesday afternoon. a second cold fron

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c 1 29:51 john atkinson virginia beach treasurer -- it's not a large sum of money but obviously in an environment such as ours, anything helps. we examine a tool that your city can use to collect money from people who break the law, and ease the burden a bit on taxpayers. chris horne 10 on your side be sure to watch our 10 investigation "failing to fine" tonight at 6 with coverage beginning pack your appetites because virginia beach restaurant week starts today. nearly one hundred restaurants around the resorty city are offering up lunch and dinner specials. lunch ranges starts around 12-dollars, and you can get three course dinners for about 22-dollars. this is the 11th year for the event. more more information and a look at the menus, go to h-r-scene-dot-com. still ahead on midday- passengers lose a lot of their items in a bus fire. but, they say they are thankful for the bus driver. we'll tell you why. plus - a finish for the ages. a look at the end of the daytona 500. plus - we're on your side with another look at the super doppler 10 forecast something is just fundamentally broke

and to connect the two largest cities in the commonwealth just makes a lot of sense." 00:30:35 john atkinson/ light rail opposition c0003 00:04:57 "we currently have over 17,000 signatures on petitions. i want 34,000 so we're are as far as im concerned halfway to the point that i want to be." 00:05:08 coming up at 6, an approaching milestone for the city makes these presentation crucial. i'll explain on wavy new 10 at 6 in virginia beach matt gregory 10 on your side. we are still following breaking traffic news in chesapeake you're looking live on the wavy jam cams - at an accident that shut down westbound lanes of i-64 near greatbridge bouldevard. this accident happened around two forty five this afternoon. the virginia state police invovled. we're told a van sideswiped a tractor trailer that was stopped on the shoulder. that caused the van to hit another its load - as you can see driver of the van was assisting with vdot in detouring traffic. we will continue to follow this story and give you updates on air and on wavy dot com an explosion put a big hole in a commercial jet right in the mi

understanding and it's in its application to purchase these cars now as we know city treasurer john atkinson has been leading an effort to put this issue on the ballot and several city council members have also expressed that they want to see this on the ballot as well but again if the city signed this agreement by april thirty s they're getting that one hundred and fifty five million dollars no matter what referendum or no referendum no secretary wayne also wanted to reiterate that the city to commit to funding the construction of the project just wants to know that it is on the right timeline on schedule with buying just the light rail cars. now i spoke to me are well set since today he said he was on the phone all day with secretaries lane yesterday and this morning to see if they can figure out a way to make this working here he said he is just so happy to see that the referendum is not going to jeopardize this funding. so now the city has just over two months to figure out how much these light rail cars will cost us and said the city manager is already crunching the numbers he's going t

a tremendous bet everybody will have to pay for the ridership is miserably low city treasurer john atkinson is leading an effort to put light rail on the november ballot. atkinson agrees with the resolution moss will put manager to stop spending money on the project before city council signs off on an agreement with the state for the hundred and fifty five million dollar grants the city has already spent more than half a million dollars to lease office space near town center for the implementation team they're spending money on it they haven't voted to build it is just a bad deal for the citizens of virginia be martha mclean is president of the pro light rail group virginia beach vision says the city manager is just following through with council's actions to examine what it would take to extend the tide three miles all of the provisions that mr moss sites in his resignation they have already been approved by city council when they went through their adoption of the budget last may. mclean also points out the city is studying what the final cost will be and still has the opportunity to back

c 1 29:51 john atkinson virginia beach treasurer -- it's not a large sum of money but obviously in an environment such as ours, anything helps. we examine a tool that your city can use to collect money from people who break the law, and ease the burden a bit on taxpayers. chris horne 10 on your investigation "failing to fine" tonight at 6 with coverage beginning at 4 pm. good morning, hampton ("jeremy ad libs wx headlines") today: mostly cloudy. spotty showers. highs will be in the low 50s. winds ne 10-15mph. tonight: mostly cloudy. scattered showers. lows will be in the low 40s. winds ne 10-15mph. tuesday: cloudy. rain likely. highs will be in the low 50s. winds ne 10-15mph. a cold front is moving through the region today. we will have cooler northeasterly winds. highs will be in the low 50s with some showers possible. tomorrow warm/moist air will overrun the cooler air at the surface. this conditions with rain expected for the bulk of the day. highs will be in the low 50s. then a warm front will move through the area on wednesday. we'll be warmer with a thunderstorms by wednesday af

john kasich's 98th town hall in new hampshire. he will have two more today. he will get to 100 today. atkinson country club. different from john kasich. everybody else on the republican side is around the country saying it's on the collapse, it's on the verge of armageddon. the country is okay t. fundamental apples in this country are okay. he was asked by voters concerned about unrest and basically threats from abroad. he rejected the tinderbox in the northeast and north africa. i remember the cold war. it's all in perspective. i think the word moderate is a difficult world at this point. but he's preventing a moderate view in terms of where the country is. the same things are okay at this point in the campaign from all the other republican candidates sometimes from the democrat's side. >> we really did have to brave the weather to get to that john kasich event today. i'm so glad i went and i got to see it. i kept wondering about what it was that kept working for him in new hampshire. he does seem to be doing a lot of the same things, talking the same way, presenting himself, as a lot of the other candidat

. >> reporter: governor john rolling through the new hampshire snow after hitting his 100th town hall meeting kasich held two more in atkinson and hollis. we found barbara bush getting off a bus for a campaign stop at a diner in derry. and we're hearing more today about the cruz campaign's attempt to get iowa caucus goers to abandon ben carson and calling us for ted cruz. cnn verified the authenticity of a recorded phone message first played by bright bar news that let's you hear what the cruz campaign was telling its staffer staffers. . >> reporter: nor cruz and marco rubio also have town hall events at this hour just like chris christie and donald trump says he is going to get back to said he will have events in the granite state every day right through the primary on tuesday. live at salem, new hampshire. dan hausle, 7 news . >> anchor: and the democrats back on the campaign trail today night. hillary clinton and bernie sand sanders making their final push state. for more on the sanders clinton races let's go to kimberly book bookman live in manchester. >>> we are live outside of the verizon arena. you can see all of the

john kasich on the campaign trail tonight holding an event in alton. tomorrow governor kasich will hold his nail town hall in the granite state in atkinson. >>> and marco rubio working late into the evening. the florida senator holding a town hall in salem. and then strat numb and then manchester. >>> and a close call for ted cruz, the iowa caucus winner speaking when one of his signs tipped over behind him. the senator joked there's so much an overwhelming force behind his campaign that it pushed the sign over. and finally donald trump holding an event in portsmith tonight where he took a different approach. >> kathryn, trump says he'll get to pennsylvania avenue one way or another. >> that's right, sharman. what a difference a couple of days made as you mentioned. from earlier in the week when there were the trumper tantrums on twitter to this morning with a fresh new tv ad airing in new hampshire, it certainly seemed like a change donald tonight. . >> reporter: perhaps tonight donald trump was forging a new path to the white house. instead of reading his poll numbers, a push to be send voters to the polls. >> not just one. >> and you have to vote fo

john mccain. he has something called america's most wasted. let us watch a clip of his interview with cheryl atkinson. [video clip] >> the national guard is a hundred million dollars in debt but spends money on bubble balls. >> a harebrained idea someone had. one of the other aspects of the national guard is that professional sports teams charge the taxpayers for honoring the veterans, the men and women that serve. you would think that this is a great thing that -- that the new york jets on her our veterans but they are being paid for. brian: in his america's most -- in july 2012, the army research and development engineering command awarded a $50,000 grant to researchers at the adventures with elephants in south africa. hopefully, you would find the bombs before the elephants would. another example of why the pentagon needs to be audited. they need to be audited. brian: the cannon house office building built in 1908 is due for a refurbishing. is almost as much as they spend on the congressional visitors center. thomas: maybe things need to get done. i don't know how they did it -- bid it out. the ca

the ground shifts in new hampshire, john kasich criss-crossed state trying to pick up votes one by one. i joined him on board the campaign buzz as he went from atkinson to hollis on friday. new hampshire a key state for kasich as a republican race continues to narrow. >> we are not think being it. i'm thinking about when i get home between south carolina and nevada. >> nancy: >> nancy: he is focusing on the great state, holding his 100th new hampshire town hall meeting on try. despite a remarkably race, kasich says the important thing to him is to stay above the fray, focusing on the issues instead of attacks. >> the animosity between ted cruz and donald trump and uglyness on the trail right now, does that benefits you in in way that they have that with each thing? >> you know i don't really know what is going on because i don't turn on television. i'm in the really aware, i know it is negative out there. you have a campaign plan and you have campaign it. that is, i'm the not looking around at anybody else. with two days to go until new hampshire heads to the voting booth they are looking for a task coach. no panicking and none of that, do our job. a