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Time now for the "news nation" gut check. financially strapped cities and towns across the country have been installing cameras at red lights to ticket drivers who fail to stop. but it turns out those cameras are not producing the intended revenue. nbcs carey sanders joins us from cambridge, massachusetts. you have people who have always been aposed e ed to this law. >> reporter: its a philosophical thing because they expect a police officer to be right there and witness it, not a camera just ta...

The city has dismissed your case. >> reporter: in broward county every person who has challenged their ticket has won. >> they didnt anticipate that people like myself would be coming to court fighting the cases and winning and now theyre realizing that the budget is going to be potentially a big shortfall. >> reporter: in victoryville, california, tea party activists say the cameras are what they call yet another overreach by the government. >> get rid of it, period. get rid of all the cameras....

Chain saw. >> thank you. as for the republicans race for the white house, jon huntsman wont discuss a possible run. he said he wont make a decision until he comes back to the u.s. in two weeks telling a reporter, quote, when in china, we serve the country, we dont do politics. and former senator rick santorum says hes forming a committee that will allow him to start raising money for a campaign. he says its a way to see if money is there for a run. and donald trump is bringing the race for...

Sentinel. with a picture and then a computer match of the license tag, out goes a several hundred dollar ticket. drivers hate it. >> its no the a police officer. its like im being called out by a machine or a robot. >> reporter: nationwide local officials who thought the red light tickets would be a huge new source of municipal revenue are discovering just the opposite. in the pembroke pines, florida, a recent report revealed red light cameras at four intersections cost more than $83,000 but the...

Seen? >> reporter: they are, tamron. its a five-mile square radius theyre looking. they are right now organizing another search party. they had a call for another head count for people to go out and search those woods. this has been going on all morning. its a estimated 300 to 400 people outside right now in the heat trying to search for holly. as you mentioned at the top, she was last seen wednesday morning being dragged away from her home, almost ambushed if you want to call it that, by a man ...

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Just to show where people are and it lays the groundwork for the bigger fight still to come. >> and, kelly, give me some more insight on nancy pelosis comments saying she doesnt feel any responsibility to this budget deal. theres some concern i guess in her opinion that members of congress were not spoken with enough on this deal. >> reporter: well, its kind of a shoe on the other foot. when she was in charge of the house she would have been right in the thick of things crafting legislation legi...