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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. nbc's carey sanders joins us from cambridge, massachusetts. you have people who have always been aposed e ed to this law. >> reporter: it's a philosophical thing because they expect a police officer to be right there and witness it, not a camera just taking the picture. when it comes to a financial question a lot of cities when we look at this, it l...

The city has dismissed your case. >> reporter: in broward county every person who has challenged their ticket has won. >> they didn't anticipate that people like myself would be coming to court fighting the cases and winning and now they're 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. >> reporter: but even with the protest just this week in florida, police say the cameras improved...

Chain saw. >> thank you. as for the republicans' race for the white house, jon huntsman won't discuss a possible run. he said he won't 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 don't do politics. and former senator rick santorum says he's forming a committee that will allow him to start raising money for a campaign. he says it's a way to see if money is there for a run. and donald trump is bringing the race for the white house possibly to ality tv. his people now say that he may make an announcement dur...

Sentinel. with a picture and then a computer match of the license tag, out goes a several hundred dollar ticket. drivers hate it. >> it's no the a police officer. it's like i'm 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 cameras only earned slightly more than $76,000 and it only gets worse when you factor in the con...

Seen? >> reporter: they are, tamron. it's a five-mile square radius they're 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. it's 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 camouflaged and basically going up near her house as she was approaching her car. she was on her ...