. >>> police are handing out tickets, crack down on speeders. -- cracking down on speeders.peed limit is 25 miles per hour. but neighbors say many drivers go faster than that. one business owner in the area says he called the police several times to report speeding. >> probably 99% of people that drove over 45 miles per hour. it is dangerous. and i am glad that they are doing this today. catching all the speeders. >> police officers were setting up an operation near foothill boulevard and a street, they were watching drivers and enforcing the speed limit. >> reporter: minutes ago leaders called on san francisco police commissioners to fire police officers accused of sending racist and homophobic texts. >> we are here to make sure that this commission exercises the attitudes and practices out of this police department. >> the commissioners meeting started at 5:30 p.m. they are baiting what -- debating what type of discipline to hand out. >>> people have been waiting for snow all winter and it finally arrived but some say it is too late. more than a foot of snow in the past 24

if so state police will be catching speeders in work zones in places where they least expect them.s will be sitting in construction vehicles, with their radar guns, while other troopers wait down the highway. drivers caught going 11 miles per hour, over the speed limit, face fines of $200, and 15-day license suspension. >>> we have our lights ill loom name dollars, light out, still sometimes people come by. we are self over tolerance policy with here at the state police especially king of prussia station. we try to pull them over and let them know they're breaking the law. >> maintenance worker bill killed by truck while he was working on the turnpike in chester county. >> let's check on the traffic and weather together. on the 3's. >> good morning, that the tasha. we check in with the eyewitness weather watchers, too, reporting in for us, very, very much so this morning. >> we start things offer down in delaware, steady rain rolling through, gregg sent in for now though in marshall ton, 55 degrees, basically just got very damp and dreary conditions. chilly despite the fact tempera

a lot of late nights cruising the utah roads with one eye out for emergencies, for drunks or for speedersthis one. >> i saw this vehicle approaching me, you know. it looked like it was going really fast. so i turned my radar on and got it on radar at 95 miles an hour in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. i was thinking that this is going to be a drunk driver, somebody trying to get home, somebody just trying to have fun. >> deputy cox quickly turns around and starts to chase the speeder, practically burning up the highway. >> it was a dangerous pursuit. they were going so fast and by the time i got up to speed i could barely see them. >> they're racing toward the county line so cox calls weber county for backup. >> so i called to the next county ahead and had officers waiting for them. and then they hit a hill and i was able to catch up to them. >> finally, the pursued vehicle slows, stops. as deputy cox approaches the waiting car, he realizes someone in the car is either terrified or in horrible pain. >> i could hear yelling and screaming. as i walked up to the car i said, what's going on? >> dude,

look how busy the speeder is over the exploritorium. three look how calm the ferry ride was this morning. we have clouds. coming in tomorrow. we have a chance of showers rolling in for easter. if you do the easter egg hunt we hope there is a dry place to put them because our best chance of showers is a window from 8:00 in the morning to, say noon, or 6:49 sunrise services could also be a little bit wet especially in the north bay and along the coast. hopefully, the easter bunny will come in the afternoon and bring eggs because it will be dryer. look at the temperatures 50s and 60 cooler than today and another chance of rain in the seven-day forecast. christian and eric? >> thank you, mike, next, coming down in flames, fire rip through one of the biggest appliance makers. >> a dramatic rescue of a man stranded at sea for more >>> a raging fire halted production at the biggest appliance makers in the nation at the general electric france louisville kentucky collapsed this morning. the six-alarm fire broke out at the appliance park forcing

state police are going to unusual lengths to catch speeders in work zones.ew at 11:00 "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones shows us what police are doing and why. >> reporter: two turnpike workers recently killed and the goal here is to get drivers to slow down but drivers may not like the way state police are planning to go about it. >> starting next month these public service announcements will start airing on tv the fictional account mirror real life. in june a worker was killed by a truck while working on a turnpike in chester county. and in 212 another worker died as result of a chain reaction accident while he was picking up debris on the highway. >> motorists see just the construction vehicle they will not slow down. >> reporter: that thought is exactly why state police will now start sitting in construction vehicles with radar guns while another trooper waits down the highway. hiding in plane sight so to speak to catch drivers speeding through construction zones. >> we asked drivers what they thought. >> it's probably a good idea. >> if it's for

one of these days, joe speeder's gonna come tearing through here, and so

if so, state police will be catching speeders in work zones, in places where you least expect them. troopers will be sitting in construction vehicles, with their radar guns, while other troopers wait down the highway for you. drivers caught going 11 miles per hour over the speed limit, face fines of $200.15-day suspension of the license. >> a man falls on the septa tracks and a good samaritan jumps to his rescue. heroic scene all captured on tape. it happened during wednesday's rush hour at the 15th street station of the market frankford line. take a look, a man walks into the frame on the security camera falls on to the tracks and within seconds, a stranger jumps on to the tracks to try to help. others run to alert authority while another group works to pull the men off the tracks. septa police called the good samaritan a hero, but also want to remind riders of the safest way to help someone in danger. >> what we recommend is that if somebody sees an emergency in the track area, to immediately notify the cashier, or hit the emergency box, which goes directly to the transit police.

the sneaky way that police are catching speeders. >> justin? >> and philadelphia police are forced to open fire, man caring two weapons i'm justin finch with a live report coming up in frankford. >> and, pulled to safety, meet the humble hero who saved a stranger after his suv nearly drove off a cliff. it is a wet friday morning commute everyone, katie >>> city of philadelphia police open fire on plan shooting him in the leg. live with what the officers say led up to the shooting. >> soggy start to the weekend. rain is making the roads wet for the friday morning commute. >> that they are. let's check traffic and weather together. with katie and vittoria. katie, good morning. >> absolutely the case, ukee, that the tasha. good morning everyone and happy friday to you first and for most. feels like this is becoming running theme. friday's always seem like they bring in wet weather these days. usually it bodes well for the weekends, that's what's going to happen this time around. >> this time not talking about any threats of any severe werth, this

officers, including the one i'm riding with, wrote, check this out, 100 tickets in ten hours. 98 for speeders this drive was doing -- >> 42 in a 25 you -- up there. >> it's posted. do you have your license with you. >> reporter: officers are there seven days a week. >> people behave badly is this that you guys? >> the reason i'm pulling you over is you're going to 42 miles an hour in the 25 zone right there. >> yeah, you know, everybody screws up. >> reporter: this driver was doing 40 in a 25. >> 4023440 in a 25? >> come on man. i didn't know it was 25. >> the sign says 25. >> er but the winner of the award was this driver walking at 49 in the 25. one more digit over and he could have been arrested and the car impounded. >> seriously filming me? >> reporter: i hope he's enjoying the sandwich. a word of advice, slow down on fulton. give them a break. in san francisco, stanly roberts kron 4 news. >>> you have a story idea for stanly, e-mail us. >>> coming up the 8:30, a dog meant for human consumption, now the recipient of human kindness. >> plus what's the behind -- what's behind the short age

the city adopted them as a primary way to catch speeders and red light or stop sign violators. >> seems as if it's working, but according to aaa, there's been a problem with the new series of cameras, which were installed last fall. delia goncalves is live near mass avenue northwest with more on what these new problems are, delia. >> it's a big problem that has a pretty big price tag to go ahong with it. you know, we have been here all morning long. as the morning commute picked up on massachusetts avenue, we saw a lot of cars pretty much slow down when they came through this intersection and they saw that traffic cam. you know, a lot of drivers are just hit to a lot of these cameras. that could be one problem why there are no tickets being issued and no money being made, but, there's another problem. according to aaa, there are several technical glitches that have proved to be costly as well. the implementation of the new stop sign and pedestrian violation cameras was delayed and actually cost the city $40 million. that's a huge blow to the budget. it forced the city's budget czar to l

they would clock speeders in construction zones and mail citation. the idea is to protect workers like these. >> yeah i think they're in a precarious work, it's dangerous but it's necessary. so i think the city, the state needs to provide more protection to them. >> reporter: the house transportation committee plans to model the program after maryland's. numbers from aaa showed that state had a decline in speeding since the cameras rolled out in 2009. many people expect any possible introduction here to be controversial. >> i don't want to be getting tickets without proof of what i did. >> police say it should not be used as a revenue source and it's the owner of the car who gets the ticket who may not necessarily be the driver. >> they're putting their lives at risk, the workers are. if they could iron that out, i think it would be a good idea. >> this comes less than a year since the turnpike worker was killed on the job in chester county. police charged a truck driver in that case last month. in another move to protect workers, the turnpike commis

they don't catch every speeder on the highway.an indictment of the system because the practices are so common. but the defense turns on friendship, the trouble is that you and the rest of us get to choose who our friends are. senators don't. there's a legal definition about who a friend is, and it's not one that you meet at a fund-raiser. it has to be someone you met before being a senator. >> i'm told that there's also some kind of immunity that senators have surrounding their official acts, the speech and debate clause. >> that's a marvel menendez interpretation of that. it protects what you say on the senate floor. it doesn't protect what you say when you call up a department and say i need a visa for the girlfriend of my campaign contributor. we'll have to break this one here. michael, thank you very much for joining us. let's just all remember bill bradley and what a great job he did. let's end our new jersey segment thinking about bill bradley. thank you very much. we'll be back. secretary john kerry is negotiating right now

you can hear the loud speeders saying go home it's time to go home. you get the sense that the same thugs who were out last night are out again tonight. you have a number of whom seem to be ready and willing to fight with the police. and they will have one heck of a fight. we have also seen back in these lines police forces the cavalry is here. obviously, the helicopters above. i want to bring in a young man who we have talked to a lot. he's a college student. you live around here. when you see this on the street tell me what you're thinking. >> these are people's neighborhoods. they are trying to support. there's a lot of stress going on. there's a bunch of policemen? >> you think they are making it worse? >> i'm here with my friend. >> it's only like 30 people here. why do you need all these officers? >> if the 30 people weren't here, the officers could go home. >> this is their home right here. where are they going? you can go home they can't. >> i want to ask, he takes offense at the thugs, but how would e he describe the people that were looting

troopers will be sitting in construction vehicles with radar guns looking for speeders. next month here in the philadelphia area and then will spread to the rest of the state. >>> spring cleaning today in old city. thanks to some dedicated peco employees. more than 20 workers sprucing up the betsy ross house in franklin square earlier today all part of company's celebration of national volunteer week. group planting flowers picking up trash and giving the carousel in franklin square a good bath. two popular destinations in the city now ready for spring. >>> i'm ready for spring, too. >> i know. hopefully scott has a good spring forecast for us. >> guess what, even better. it's going feel like summer tomorrow. how about that? i temperatures will top out near 80 degrees for your saturday. then a little cooler for sunday but look at ultimate doppler this morning we were dealing with the clouds, occasional showers and then it really turned into a pretty nice afternoon and evening. a few lone cells bubbled up in sections of new castle county, salem as well as cumberland count

there are more repercussions for a chronic speeder than for a big bank being a chronic violators of s.e.c. rules. >> does that mean president obama has put in the wrong people in the s.e.c. in your view. >> yes i would say that. i think most people in watching what hasn't happened -- nonprofit a single executive faced any sort of prosecutions for the wrongdoing that went on and i think the s.e.c. has been feckless when if comes into reining in the behavior on wall street. >> and if your administration would try to pursue kapss that would put bankers in jail. >> yes. i would have the government do its job. our federal government has a job to do and we can't expect wall street to police itself. that is why we have a federal government. >> do you think the system is rigged? >> i think in many ways yes. sure. i mean look for 30 years we followed this trickle down theory of economies that said concentrate down and keep wages low so we can be competitive, whatever the hell that means. and for the first time since the second world war ifr i -- wages have declined rather than go up. >> and part o

it has a glimpse of a land speeder heading for a crashed destroyer and robotic hand touching r2-d2.yoff, return of hans solo and chewie, chewbacca. aka, harrison ford leans over to his hairy friend, chewie, and said, we're home. it added $2 billion in market cap to disney's stock which is pulling back today. >>> what happens when you need to reap more than you sow? menus are tweaking ingredients to cater to demand from healthy eaters. there is not enough organic food to go around. farmers are cashing in on organic food fad and trying to buy farms to keep up with the healthy eating trend. will cash incentives be enough to get farmers go through the hassle being certified as organic. jeff flock joins us from again necessary growers in st. ann, illinois. >> i'm a not so migrant farm worker, today, liz. on back of a transplanter with vicki from again necessary growers. it is booming. organic market is booming. usda released numbers. vicki, you were organic before organic was cool. >> i was indeed. >> became certified organic six years ago. or againic corn, three times the cost. soybeans

but it is a problem area as far as speeders go. >> it's raining lightly, but that doesn't slow down some officer james' parked car going well above the speed limit. >> the driver in this incident was going at 52 miles per hour as they passed me in this 35 zone. >> officer james hesitates for a couple seconds to give the driver a chance to decelerate. >> i thought maybe they would slow down once they saw me. >> but police radar shows the driver clocking nearly 20 miles above the speed limit at the bottom of the hill. officer james takes off in pursuit. >> by the time i got to the highway, they were almost out of sight. i was probably going 50 to 55 miles an hour, trying to catch up to the other driver. >> between the chase and the overcast skies, someone less observant might have missed the tiny moving objects on the road ahead, but not officer james. >> it was a mama duck and her two babies. little ducklings. it took me a second to realize they were even there. they kind of blended into the background of the pavement and the rain and whatnot. >> the duck family is in danger of being mowe

. >>> 98 were speeders. this driver was doing -- >> going 42. >> do you have your license with you? they were on seven days a week and enforcing a speed limit. >> oh my god. oh my god. people behave badly. this is shah you guy ?tion listen in. the reason i'm pulling you over is you're going 42 miles an hour. you have the senior citizen there. >> yeah. everybody speeds up. no different than anybody else. >> this driver was doing 40 in a 25. 40 in a 25? come on, man. >> i mean, you know, what i mean? where does it say that. >> the sign says 25. >> i didn't see the sign. >> this driver caught on 49 and 25. one more dij over and he could have arrest and the car embellis pounded. >> i hope he's enjoying that sandwich. the prize for double the speed limit, a word of advises. slow down. you may have a family member trying to cross the street. give them a break. in san francisco, stanley roberts, kron4 news. >>> and if you want to spend or send me an e-mail send him an e- mail. check them out on fashionbook page. we're back with more coming up after the break. >>> welcome back. cloudy skies

deeply about law enforcement, i would actually argue that you would be want to be at the tip of the speederlking about the work of law enforcement, if you aren't able to do things like recruit in the communities that you are actually working in if you're not able to do things like provide -- get human intelligence and get people to work and cooperate with you, it make a it is a very -- not only tense situation for police but also a very difficult environment for you to do your job. have we heard police voices who are out there in front talking about things like accountability talking about things that we need to review? what is happening and how do we do a better job of making sure these incidents didn't happen again? >> i know you know this community very well. you know this city very well. and i was and you can to go a veteran police officer yesterday who joined the force in the mid-90s. and he said to me back in the day, 20 years ago, making an arrest was the last resort. what we have seen in this city and many urban areas over the past 20 years, zero tolerance policing. we had in 2004 5