i'm randi hanson and in today's news the grass valley police are looking for a few good men and women to both cleared it volunteer force a group that has proven invaluable to the agency according to police officials the department has ten volunteers but it needs at least six more to adequately put trolling services jurisdiction grass valley police chief john foster said our goal is to have one volunteer for every c e o p p block officers are assigned to community oriented policing program or cop areas in which officers officers patrol on foot and connect with residents to address public safety issues the city  broken into sixteen separate p p blocks volunteers assist officers with issuing warnings for abandoned cars servicing subpoenas directing traffic crowd control at special events running paperwork to other law enforcement agencies foot patrol and speed surveys said program coordinator sergeant doug grant the work is for someone who really wants to be there said to your volunteers on your hutchison fifty three years old who received the department's volunteer of the year award last may i like being able to be give back to the community so it's nice to be able to help the officers out and relieve them of some of the disease they can go out and prevent crimes it feels good hutchison and her husband scott fifty eight began  was a social worker she said so she was predisposed to volunteer work she was already bright and bubbly and outgoing foster added hutchison is retired from a series of careers which include work in the bay area software industry and some time as a flight attendant for america west airlines she now runs a household consisting of two stepsons nephews and a nice scot hutchison who works for the government at beale air force base investigating people in high security positions also seems to be a good fit for volunteer police work we're very fortunate to have a husband and wife team foster said it's most volunteers are retired professionals and bring a wide variety of experience to the work r added a background check is performed on all applicants please interested in volunteering for the grass valley police department can contact coordinators sergeant doug ran at four seven seven four six zero zero  four seven seven five four six one and in another local story we only as tall as the former jim kyle chevrolet building could be removed as early as this week besides developer said the shutter dealership could be clear tuesday in the building could be torn down in thirty days said brian swati if official from interim vision development l l c in the sacramento area still the weeds and deteriorating structure could prompt an investigation for violating the city public nuisance ordinance valley fire department chief jim marcus said with the developers stated timetables city officials soon expect the demolition plan to make way for a proposed walgreens pharmacy hopefully they'll tear it down and clean it up soon said dan chance city's associate planner who is doing with the project city officials said they have received no complaints from the public about the properties appearance i don't believe we have been neglected the building said brian kissling an official of intervention who put up a safety barrier around the building and would go by it periodically to make sure it's not a hazard others from the company have visited the property more frequently despite the unsightly appearance the building isn't a fire hazard marcus added these they're certainly a visual hazard but they're not a fire danger because they are green answer vision has proposed building a fourteen thousand five hundred square foot building for a walgreens company on nearly a ninety nine thousand two hundred square foot site if the planning commission approves the walgreen's proposal subsequent construction could take six to seven last seen alive at about seven p m friday night when he was camping with a friend the friends left at that time we want to talk to anybody that was in the area having an autopsy is scheduled for today s forest service they told base in management you know will host a public meeting in kings beach wednesday to gather input for a ten year plan to reduce fuels and prevent wild land fires in the top whole basin the meeting will be held from six to eight m at the north conference center in kings beach the purpose of the meeting is to present the plan planning effort and to solicit feedback on draft plan prior to final public release this plan for the toll basin covers approximately two hundred eight thousand eight hundred acres for additional information regarding the meeting called duncan at five four three two six six zero that's five four three two six six zero now this story out of south lake tahoe california governor arnold schwarzenegger in nevada governor jim gibbons denounced announced the members of the california nevada basin fire commission on friday over the next eight months the commission will comprehensively review laws concerning the vulnerability of basin to wildfire it is a crucial that we all work together to prevent something like the angora fire to happen again said schwarzenegger in a press statement that is why we are directing this commission to examine all federal state and regional rules and regulations to make sure people have the right fire protection tools to protect their property the lake tahoe basin and the forest resources must be managed by proven forestry practices based on sound science said gibbons in a press release i look forward to commissions review of the policies that currently govern forest management and the top whole basin commission will submit the report and recommendations to the governors by march twenty first two thousand and eight larger in their parked cars at ten fifteen a m a caller from the four hundred block of maryland drive reported a roommate was possibly inside destroying the house police counseled the two individuals at two twenty one residences at nine fifty six p m call a phone call fax avenue near henderson street reported a young woman appeared to be staggering all over the sidewalk and into the roadway police arrested twenty year old woman on suspicion of being drunk and the nevada county sheriff's office on friday at three forty four p m a caller from the ten thousand block of boulder street reported that someone had just broken the windshield on his vehicle at ten ten a caller from the twenty three thousand block a western court reporter that someone set off a pipe bomb behind her house impregnating the unknown neighbor's dog the caller said the woman he was profanities in appeared to be out of control on sunday one forty eight a m caller from the twenty nine thousand block of highway forty nine reported a large group of individuals in the middle of the roadway are rearranging orange traffic cones causing traffic hazards to individuals performed don't it when you first in the roadway and when a car drove by they kicked his vehicle of reported a burglary and on more serious note here is a fire calls some of these are more serious grass valley fire department responded to fifty calls for service from july eighteen twenty first g g v f t responded to a possible commercial truck sure fire in west main street at the scene firefighters reported now think joined and used in a thermal imaging camera from the buildings to investigate after searching with no person to be taken to sierra nevada memorial hospital well that's it for the blotter and now for around the world news the bush administration has proposed a major new arms deal with saudi arabia and greatly boosted military aid to israel as part of the effort to counter iran by arming its regional rivals president bush wants to sell twenty billion dollars worth of high tech weapons to saudi arabia and other gulf states the sale could lead help spur a new arms race in the middle east as the bush administration is proposing to give thirty billion in a way to israel and thirty bill thirteen billion to egypt under the plan u s aid to israel will increase by twenty five percent the deal is expected to be officially announced today after secretary of state condoleezza rice and defense secretary robert gates arrive in the middle east for joint meetings in saudi arabia and egypt opposition to decide the arms deal is already emerging on capitol hill representative anthony wiener democrat of new york and jerrold nadler democrat from new york said they plan to introduce a resolution to block the deal representative weiner said saudi arabia should not get an ounce of military angeles times revealed that nearly half of all foreign militants targeted u s troops in iraq have come from saudi arabia criticism of attorney general alberto gonzales's continues to increase on sunday the editors of the new york times president bush's warrantless wiretapping operation the new questions are being raised over the death of pat tillman the football star turned army ranger who died in afghanistan in two thousand and four this o c a the press has obtained new documents and said did tillman might have been deliberately shot by a fellow army ranger the document chilled tell mine was shot three times in the forehead the bullet holes were so close together that appears to one was cut down by sixteen fire from about ten yards away medical examiners were initially suspicious and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former n f l players and money to a crime pentagon initially told the public and the tillman family that he had been killed by enemy fire later the military corrected this and said ten one was killed by friendly fire if there is such a thing a new study of california alectryon it voting machine says raise new questions about the security of the system forty two san francisco chronicle a state sanctioned team of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of california's voting machines and change results or take control of some other systems electronic functions california secretary of state deborah bowen said the researchers were able to bypass physical and software security in every machine they tested the test included voting equipment made by diebold and and in another story brezec president bush is urging congress to rewrite the foreign intelligence surveillance act to make it easier for the government to secretly monitor overseas and some domestic communications on saturday in his weekly radio address those said that pfizer act needs to be modernized president bush stated it seeks to restore pfizer to its original focus on protecting the privacy interests of people inside the united states so we don't have to obtain court orders to effectively collect foreign intelligence about foreign the american civil liberties union criticized the bill in part because it would give immunity from criminal prosecution and civil liability for the telecommunication companies that participate in the n s a program aid group oxfam is warning that eight million iraqis nearly a third of the population need immediately emergency aid because of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war three point said fifteen percent of iraqis cannot regularly afford to eat seventy percent are without adequate water supplies and over a quarter of all children are malnourished jeremy hobson oxfam said basic services ruined by years of war and sanctions can not meet the needs of the iraqi people last week ryan crocker the u s ambassador to iraq admitted to baghdad residents can now only count on an hour or two of electricity a day that's the lowest low well since the u s invasion before the war baghdad residents receive sixteen to twenty four average hours of electricity each day that's what they used to despite the ongoing war and occupation celebrations are held across iraq on sunday after national soccer team stunned the sporting world by beating saudi arabia in the asian cup soon and in another story from the middle east pakistan military ruler general whoever mosharraf held secret talks on friday with opposition leader and former prime minister benazir bhutto the pair met for an friday in a suicide bombing near the red mosque and i was wrong about india police shot dead at least eight protesters during a demonstration calling for the state to give the government land to the poor protest occurred in south state of and estate ministers said police opened fire on a tent filled with people after some protesters threw stones at the officers the protest was part of a day long demonstration across the state planned by two communist parties spearheading in demand for free government the demonstrators only when they attacked the people's leaders their people tried to rescue them and in response to this kind of barbarity had happened protests continued today in new india in new delhi police used water cannons to break up a student protest over the shooting and a new scientific study has found it and the number of hurricanes in atlantic ocean has more than doubled over the past century largely in part due to global warming the scientists said there is a strong correlation between a spike in the storm activity and the rising sea surface temperatures which feed hurricanes and the washington post has revealed the bush administration blocked a u s surgeon general from releasing a report last year that called on a government to spend more than one in on global health issues a bush political appointee reportedly blocked the publication because it did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments and the report surgeon general richard car described a link between poverty and poor health and urged the u s government to help combat widespread disease as a key aim of its foreign policy through port also called on a corporation to help improve health conditions and warn about the use  pesticides carmona has served as surgeon general up until last year was also prevented from publishing a report on health care in the nation's prisons in new york city is proposing new rules to require many photographers and camera operators to obtain permits before taking photos or shooting video in the city under the proposal any group of two or more people using a hand held camera in one location for more than thirty minutes would be required to have a permit and one million dollars church policy if addition in addition small groups use in a single track road for more than ten minutes would be forced to obtain a permit and insurance on friday over four hundred people rallied in new square to protest polls rules so rights attorney norman siegel stated we are city and a country that values for expression and to say to people you who have cameras that they have to get permits if there are there for a certain period of time or if they have a tripod seems to be trampling on people's first amendment rights and we in new york need to speak up and speak up now otherwise we will wake up in our rights have been eroded over six thousand people including michael stipe and patt misrepresented facts about her run in with capital security and that someone telephoned bomb threats to her office from the journal constitution and not a sad note suis film director maher bergman has died at the who produce less than a ton of excrement a day we used to spend at least six thousand union about seven hundred seventy dollars to get rid of droppings the product will be made by a local handicraft company five hundred seventy two degrees fahrenheit he refused to give his name but he said the products will all be all colors because they will be dyed they don't smell too bad because seventy percent of the done is just remains of the bamboo that the pandas are unable to digest well no price has been said he said the most expensive souvenirs will contain a panda hair collected from the wild in each package the two thousand and eight olympic statues will feature as a lot of pandas perform in various olympic sports in march base officials said they're looking into a high quality paper from fiber rich panda excrete inspired by trip to thailand where they found paper made from elephant dung chiron mazie who in northern thailand already sells multi colored paper made from the waste products of its two resident pandas making the paper their involves a day long process of cleaning the feces boiling it and so dissolution bleaching it in chlorine and dry and it under the sun the pad is one of the world's rarest and the most beloved animals with about fifteen hundred ninety living in the wild in china mostly in c tune in the western province of charlotte see another one eighty have been bred in captivity and now for the weather sunny today with highs in the mid