public defender nancy daniels says she sees cases like this everyday. >> everyday, first appearance, you see the people who have been arrested for this. now, they are entitled to a bond. but of course, because they are so poor, they can't pay the bond. so they sit in jail and we too. >> reporter: we met will norman making a payment at the clerk's office. >> i have to pay them now. >> how much extra did it cost you? >> uh ... about $1,500. >> reporter: more than 800,000 floridians had their licenses suspended last year for not paying a fine. another 600,000 lost their driving privileges for other offenses like underaged smoking or drinking, theft, defacing a building. senator jeff brandis wants to stop suspending so many of them. >> we suspend 1.5 licenses every year. any one of those are because of the inability to pay fines or fees. >> reporter: without a hammer of suspension, there is no incentive to pay a fine they say. >> if you take that tool away, what does a court order mean? it becomes voluntary as to whether you pay or not. them to work on payment plans that don't exceed 2%

into, guys. >> nancy: danielle, thank you. man accused of a hospital hack will be brought back to boston to face charges. 31-year-old martin gottesfeld and his wife were in a sailboat trying to escape the cuba when they hit trouble. they called for help and a disney cruise ship picked them up. gottesfeld is wanted for taking part in a computer hack on boston children's hospital back in 2014. the passenger says at first she >> we were all like, okay, now that is something we weren't alarmed about, and suddenly this was much bigger than we thought it was. >> nancy: the f.b.i. says that cyber attack cost the hospital $300,000 and forced it to shut down its servers and web sites. gottesfeld will be brought back to boston to face a conspiracy charge. >> sarah: a 61-year-old man is in the hospital this morning after several people race to the rescue when his pick-up truck crashed into the water in fairhaven. the accident happened wednesday afternoon. officers found the truck upside down with a driver trapped inside. first responders

public defender nancy daniels sees cases like these everyday. >> you see the people who have been arrested for this. now, they are entitled to a bond, but of course, because they are so poor, they can't pay the bond even so they sit in jail and we wrack up jail costs for this too. >> reporter: senator jeff brandis wants to stop suspending so many licenses. >> we suspend 1.4 million licenses in the state of florida any given year and most of those are because of inability to pay fines or fees. >> reporter: reporting from the state capital, i'm mike vasilinda. >>> guess what? we are looking at beautiful weather over the next couple of days. the first at 4 weather is coming up next. munching away at a tree. we didn't even know manatees could do this. we will find out how he got up there coming up. >> and also ahead, the lightning lose a key defense man. we will get reaction from the coach in first at 4 sports. you are watching newschannel8 lowe's presents: how to plan for the future. happy valentine's day. happy birthday. sorry i forgot our anniversary. happy mother's day. now get this 1.5-pi

and the eagles will honor their co-founder, glen frey who died last month. daniel nottingham, cbs, los angeles. >> and cohost, nancy owe oddle. and music's biggest night from los angeles and live at 11:00, probably at 11:30. everybody, will try to watch and tweet. >> that's exciting for you. >> we're back at 5:30. local 12 news live at 5:00. >> what firefighters say made a deadly fire in a mobile home particularly difficult to fight. >> people pour to see for themselves after fire destroyed a historic business. the plans to save the iconic number of drivers. >> serious spike in the safety this is local 12 news, live at 5:00. >> erica is keeping an an eye on rain or more. >> the temperatures will apply a big role on what happens. >> rain will mix with snow. and that's why the national weather service has issued a winter weather advisory. i know we're all familiar to that from 7:00 in the evening to 10:00 tomorrow morning. and that includes areas for highland, brown, adams and robertson and mason as well as bracken county, which is we're looking at rain right now. later, we will start to see the

nancy: thank you for joining us, everybody. 7 news continues at 4:00. >> brady: i know it's--i kno it's crazy--it's crazy, but here's the crazier part, i almost feel like daniel is telling me to go there to answer some question. >> nicole: uh, yes to the airport. my flight to l.a. leaves in

nancy tolson, henri baskins and musician kelvin armstrong. the national hate won't win movement was started last year by the granddaughter of daniel simmons, who was one of the nine people killed in the emanuel ame church shooting. "it was a student-led initiative. they decided to do it. they talked about it, researched it, signed the pledge, took the pledge, encouraged others, and just started doing great things for others they didn't even know. students can make major changes own community." hate won't win literary magazine--with some of the profits going to mother emanuel church. people were also able to take the hate won't win pledge. up next on sunrise this morning-- we'll take a look at more of today's top headlines including more on some breaking news out of berkeley county where a deputy was shot overnight. we're following this developing story and will have more after if you're just joining us this right now there are two active scenes of searches. one in goose creek where the shooting happened. another in north charleston where investigators say a suspect vehicle matching a description given to police was spotted. the deputy is in th

danielle. the new hampshire primary just four days away. the candidates are campaigning hard in the granite state. >> christa: last night the candidates faced off. this was a fiery debate. nancy chen is live in manchester. nancy there ises a an endorsement from the bay state for one governor candidate. >> nancy: absolutely. big names on the campaign trail as the attacks are getting more aggressive and this race continues to tighten. as you mentioned, governor charlie baker is going to be expected to endorse new jersey governor chris christie's bid nomination. today christie stumped for baker during his run for governor back in 2014, and now baker will join christie at a rally in new hampshire tomorrow. he will also appear in television ads for him. and democratic presidential candidates bernie sanders will reportedly pick up a big endorsement today. according to cnn, ben jealous, the former head of the naacp, will endorse the vermont senator at an event in new hampshire. that endorsement, by the way, is a potential boost to sanders, who has struggled to connect with african american voters in the race against. meantime, sanders went head to head with clinton yesterday. for th

daniel: welfare is meant to help people get back on their feet. but some are abusing your tax dollars. fox 25 crystal haynes discovered one case involving a business nancy kerrigan getting assistance while he lived in a $900,000 house. >> reporter: this newton center home has been valued at nearly $1 million and its owner mark leaderman owns or was a partner in five businesses. so why was he receiving fad or food stamp businesses for more than a year. the answer? investigators say he was scamming the state. a woman at leaderman's home would not answer my questions, but state auditor susan bump did. a recent review of the massachusetts welfare system by her office uncovered almost $14 million in medicare and snap benefit fraud. leaderman's case mentioned in >> there is a good deal of fraud that's occurring in the programs that folks are relying on as part of our social safety net. >> reporter: investigators found leaderman had received more than $14,000 in benefits from 2008 to 2009 after reporting an income of just $400 a week. according to the sworn affidavit i obtained, leaderman had income from several companies he owns or is a partner of at that tim