accident occurred during the lunch hour on highway twenty goods and bads city pingree said there were no details of the pingree said there an air ambulance was dispatched to the scene although the c h p website has was showing no activity in nevada road proved treacherous to many drivers on tuesday during the height of the snowstorm and another incident to see it be reported a vehicle was blocking one in pine woods road in nevada city it is county schools were closed due to the icy conditions meanwhile two more storms are expected to bring rain to the western nevada county foothills thursday through sunday and snow above three thousand feet winter storm watch has been issued for turkey area and higher elevation series for thursday and thursday night the national weather service said gusty winds and blowing snow could lower visibility in eastern of a county making driving treacherous the second storm is expected hit sometime saturday or saturday night and linger through sunday the storm is predicted to be a bit weaker than thursday's with less precipitation expected there could be some sunny weather in western nevada county at the beginning of next week if current national weather service predictions don't change hope so socialist press as just learned to turn white house candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at one p m eastern standard time in new orleans and had been billed as a speech on poverty according to two ways the decision came after edwards lost the four states to hold nominating contest so far two rivals who stole the spotlight from beginning hillary rodham clinton and barack obama the former north carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two person race for the democratic nomination said wanted visor who spoke on condition of on an amenity in advance of the announcement clinton said wednesday that edwards called her to inform her  a statement from his campaign obama said edwards spent a lifetime fighting to give voice to the voiceless and hope to the struggling even one it wasn't popular to do so or covered in the news well is going beyond me and today because of their lives endures for all of us who still believe that we can achieve that dream of want to america the statement said four in ten edwards supporters said their second choice in the race is clinton and while quarter prefer  funded rivals even as he dealt with this down the wall of his wife's recurring cancer diagnosis in a dramatic news conference last march a couple announced that breast cancer that she thought had been beaten had returned but they would continue t campaign their decision sparked a debate about family duty and public service but elizabeth edwards remained a forceful advocate for her husband and she was often surrounded a campaign event by well wishers and emotional survivors cheering  edwards plan to announce his campaign was ending and his wife and three children at his with his wife and three children at the side then he planned to work for habitat two for a manatee and volunteer field rebuilding project musician for the war and he led the charge that lobbyist up too much power in washington and needed to be reined in the i did we're all bold and new for bridge personally i had while making him a different candidate in a moderate southerner who ran in two thousand and four while still in his first senate term but the themes were eventually adopted by the other democratic presidential candidates and even a republican mitt romney echoed the call for an end to special interest politics in washington i do his rise in prominence in politics came amid just one term representing north carolina in the senate after a career as a trial attorney the made him millions he was on al gore's short list for vice president in two thousand after serving just two years in office he ran for president in two thousand and four and after he lost to john kerry the nominee picked him as a running mate was but that was first discovered a lump in her breast in the final days of the losing campaign her battle against disease caused her husband to open up a vital another tragedy in their lives the death of their teenage son wade in the one nine hundred ninety six car accident candidate barely spoke of way during his two thousand and four campaign but he offered his son's death to answer questions about how he could bridges persevere when his wife could die edwards made poverty the signature issue of both his resume presidential campaigns and he led four day tour to highlight the issue in july tour was the first to focus on the plight of the poor since robert f kennedy's trip forty years earlier but even as obama and clinton collected astonishing amounts of money there were his fundraising efforts edwards maintained a loyal following in the first voting state of iowa that made him a serious contender he came in second to obama in iowa an impressive feat for relegating clinton to third place before coming in third in the following three contests lost in south carolina was especially hard because it was where he was born and he had won the state in two thousand and four i did which headquarters in the chapel hill north carolina two staffers debating and how best to answer the phone saying john edwards for president no longer seemed another local story for vintage watercraft have been lost to claims be county chief spike newbie of nevada county consolidated fire district said tuesday firefighters were called to what had been reported as a small garage fire on green wood circle off a ridge road between gra did not spread to the home inside the garage were what newbie described as four intake chris craft boats the chief caught a glimpse of one of the boats that had partially survived but the other boards did not fire caused a significant loss but he could not put a dollar value on the loss firefighters from grass valley and nevada city fire departments responded crews remained at the scene till about three a tuesday fire personnel have been busy responding to snow related emergencies and would investigate the cause of the fire in coming days and that's it for a local news today last year by twenty six percent the steepest drop since records began in one nine hundred sixty three meanwhile a new report released today shows the number of foreclosures last year jumped by seventy five percent due to the part of the subprime mortgage crisis over four hundred thousand households lost their homes bush called on congress to make a tax cut permanent and approved a one hundred fifty billion dollars economic stimulus to reach last week with the house democrats but he also urge lawmakers to approve a new surveillance bill that would grant immunity to telecom companies that aided warrant was spying on the u s citizens president bush said this means that if you do not act by friday our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger the congress must ensure the flow of vital intelligence is not disrupted congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in efforts to defend america we will have had a time for debate the time to act is now on one of these senate democrats temporarily defeated an effort by republicans to pass the bill that also expands the government authority to conduct warrantless spying powers the matter will come before the senate again today is yesterday by january hours before president bush spoke the pentagon announced the bush administration will soon ask congress for an additional seven seventy billion dollars in funds to fund the wars in iraq and thousands washington's the massachusetts senator compared a bomber to his late brother john f kennedy senator kennedy said my friends i ask you to join in this historical journey to have the courage to choose change it's time again for a new generation it's time for brock obama obama thank kennedy for backing his campaign senator hussein but i'm sorry barack hussein obama i know what your support means i know what cheri cherished places can be family holds and parts of american people senator obama also picked up an endorsement monday from the nobel prize winner author toni morrison meanwhile in chicago a federal judge has ordered the jail fundraisers norman suv was arrested for one line investors who had raised some eight hundred thousand for the clinton campaign during a time when he was a fugitive from justice senator clinton said i was fighting against those ideas when you were slum lord and i wondered if you wanted to respond to senator obama said i'm happy to respond here's what happened i was in a so associate at a law firm that represented a church group that had partnered with this in vigil with to do a project and i did not get about five hours of work on the joint project that's what she's referring to the israeli military has prevented an aid convoy organized by israeli human rights organizations peace activists and former military personnel from entering gaza to distribute the five ton food to to needy palestinians according to the israeli newspaper ha'aretz the act if it is act activists have been trying to enter gaza since saturday the group has been calling on israel gaza in the past ten days israel had tightened a seven month blockade of the gaza strip by halting supply of food medical equipment and fuel and news from pakistan general pervez musharraf has returned home after four nation trip to europe and to bolster support for his government following the assassination of benazir bhutto in london musharraf met the british prime minister gordon brown and said elections would proceed next month he also said on the democratic transition i did inform the prime minister are strong is the desire to go forward with the election and to ensure that the election will be free fair and transparent and that is what our resolve is and we will have an election on the eighteenth of february critics  rallied outside ten downing street speakers included pakistan opposition figure and former cricket star imraan khan imraan khan said i am here to show the contradiction of british so called new labor ethics ethical foreign policy where they are backing a military dictator in pakistan who has destroyed democracy in pakistan we sat sixty percent of our judiciary who put our supreme court chief justice under house arrest and there is a prime minister is supposed to be promoting democracy and freedom all over the world they have killed hundreds of thousands of people in iraq in the name of freedom and democracy and they are entertaining a military dictatorship another scandal appears to be brewing over the mistreatment of veterans inside veteran affairs hospital the new federal report have found the substandard care of veteran hospitals in marion illinois have contributed to deaths of nine hundred veterans over the past two years picture is not of that hospital but another similar residence and brattleboro vermont will decide on an up coming down meeting whether president george bush or vice president dick cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes perjury and  obstruction of justice supporters of initiative to give to arrest bush and cheney gathered enough signatures to put the item on a town meeting agenda if passed police in brattleboro would be instructed to arrest and detain bush and cheney if they ever stepped foot in brattle connecticut students at the prestigious boarding school rosemary hall have successfully for school officials to cancel plans for karl rove to deliver schools commencement address this brings students had threatened to walk out of their own graduation and set up an alternative commencement ceremony of rolf's ball instead role for speak at a campus event next month and eleven human rights activists have been sentenced to federal prison for protesting at fort benning in georgia the side of the western hemisphere institute of security cooperation formally the school of america's eleven activists were convicted of trespassing during a protest last november with twenty five thousand protesters going for the training center to be shut down u s military uses a school to train latin american soldiers in combat counter insurgency and counter narcotics frequently dubbed the school of the assassins critics say the school graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in latin america th sentences ranging from thirty to ninety days in federal prison and that's a wrap for today's world news welfare check for a welfare check on a person sleeping under several blankets in front of a business on the one hundred block and the street police admonished the person who would move on five fifty five p m am a caller from rockwood drive reported a large tree in a road that was not blocking all the names the tree is not a city maintained or roadway but police were attempting to contact the facility manager at nine o four a m a caller reported a person sleeping on the deck of the love building  canoga condon park police from the person was not sleeping but was trying to stay warm now and twenty six a m a caller from business owner got a c d r we reported a man wearing a poncho blue jeans and carrying a blue bag traveling with the dog was on a street corner making gestures to people police made contact with the man it's german he was not drunk three fifty four p m a call from church street near st porting the assault occurred but an hour earlier and asked for cont officer tempted to contact the caller but was unable to do so for fifty eight p m a call from brightest reported loud and obscene music the man told police he would keep the volume down six fifty six pm a call reported to van hit a mattress near west down highway twenty west of empire street to seize people was advised seven fifty eight pm a call reported a vehicle spun out in i c section of nevada city highway the area from the siding and releasing a thirty eight year old man for driving on a suspended license plate dressed with a good tuesday for thirty four am and officer investigated possible vandalism of a nine hundred sixty nine dodge truck on butler street donna what appeared to be silly string about a county sheriff's office on monday eight thirty nine a m a man called and sixteen thousand black american our way to report garbage including prescription bottles letters and pictures have been dumped on his property ten twenty eight twenty three a m a woman from thirteen thousand block a lake wildwood drive reported the illegal use of her credit card over one piano man from the fifteen to see how we reported twenty three year old grandson was out of control and possibly under the influence and the young woman had fled the residence that a city police department on monday at eleven fifty one a m  three hundred block a bra street reported an individual dance you know like a robot in a parking lot police were on able to look at the dancers and that's it for the blog and now for our lovely weather report mostly cloudy with a