local and world news broadcast from nevada county california i'm randy hanson and in today's news assistant district attorney anna ferguson said thursday she will seek life in prison without possibility of would not seek the death penalty a young woman broke into tears and had to leave the courtroom before the proceedings began spezza family was also present for the hearing was scheduled to enter his plea thursday to the murder charge but his attorney public defender don loan asked that the plea entry be continued until he receives more reports photographs and videotape evidence from the grass valley police and the district attorney investigators spats daughter and other family members talk with nevada county victim witness advocates and purpose and after the court hearing trying to navigate the sometimes confusing legal process sprout was found strangled to death may fourth in her develop probable cause to get a warrant to search medland penn valley home july fifth where they allegedly found sprach purse the owners of nevada city health food restaurant food and jews he is relieved a suspect is in custody it's good to know this person's off the street richard said good news after months of wondering who could have been responsible for her murder would help her friends a grieving process the rest kind of let has drawn conclusions significantly different from those of the u s forest service about how and why a fire burned so intensely tombo nickerson emeritus professor of forest science at texas a and m university and visiting scholar for the forest foundation a logging industry group toured the burned area recently fire was a crown fire they killed all the trees that were forty to sixty inches in diameter anybody can see that all you have to do is look at it of property damage rex norman spokesman for the forest service has repeatedly said causes burns when wind carried embers which landed on the structures in ignited many of the homes that were totally destroyed or surrounded by standing trees that are not destroyed but were scorched not burned norman and a forest service statement received by the taco daily to be an indication showed that the troops did not carry the fire across most of the effected areas but that wind driven embers did so much of the area and ignited flammable components of structures even so fuels reduction efforts where the southeastern boundary of the burned area were largely affected in the dropping the fire from the tops of the trees to the ground limiting the destruction potential for the fire reaching the tops of the trees a large number of homes were saved wendy's completed treatment areas on national forest land slowed and moderated the fire approach norman  of statement out of two thousand seven hundred thirty six acres of national forest land that burned six hundred fifty six acres undergone modern fuels reduction treatment by the start of fire on june twenty fourth an additional  responsibility of our agency is to protect our forests and they're not doing it for another story health leaders interest study the leading provider of managed care market intelligence reports that a new rate setting that's all thought logie sure to help california medicaid managed plans that have struggled and in some cases lost money in the past few years according to the latest california health plan analysis proposed two thousand and seven two thousand and eight state budget a lot two hundred fourteen million in rate increases for managed care plans and the medicare program the nation's largest medicaid program by enrollment medical plans have been feeling the pain since two thousand and five when the governor moved to enact the budget as proposed medicaid plans can look forward to more accurate payment based on their individual experience but only time will tell as a planned do not yet know how much of the increase some of them will get medical plans many of which operate as nonprofit public entities and the counties they serve have been subject to a rate setting system that began with base data from only four of the state's medical plans the state's  's have not had a general cost of living increase in five years with some exceptions such as a fiscal year two thousand and six two thousand and seven which included seventy eight million great dollar it rate increases for six plans  financial distress the state was devised a new state setting formula based on each plans cost of providing care and including extra money for administration and appropriate rate of return one of the medical plans that has lost money in recent years as fast growing alina health care which was has seen its net income per member per month from four dollars nine cents in two thousand and three to a negative four dollars and twenty three cents in two thousand and six the league officials blame platen capitation rates haven't kept up with the cost of its negotiated contracts with providers health plans analysis identified key health plan trends in health care businesses to create comprehensive strategic plans and a sales strategy at state and local levels our study is authoritative source for managed care data and analysis for more information visit w w w dot health leaders center study dot com and another world knew its story in iraq at least eight people have died in apparent suicide bombings in the northern city of kirkuk another one thirty six people were wounded in a massive blast one of the bombs started in office and the patriotic union of kurdis reporting that nearly half of all foreign militants targeted u s troops in iraq have come from saudi arabia one of the washington's closest allies in the middle east of the nineteen thousand prisoners being held by the u s in iraq only one hundred thirty five are foreign born fighters and half of them are saudi officials have so far refused to publicly criticize saudi arabia's for a role in iraq meanwhile in washington a democratic led senate has unanimously passed a resolution sponsored by independent senator joe lieberman to censor not saudi arabia but iran for complicity in the killing of u s soldiers in iraq lieberman said the senate has a choice between turning a blind eye to the murder of our troops and confronting those who are murdering them two more media workers have been killed in iraq and iraqi report the porter working for the new york times named to lead his son was shot dead on friday he was twenty three years old gunman also killed bombing raids that have killed innocent civilians the sun also criticized us for arming former sunni insurgent groups in an attempt to fight al qaida in iraq this comes as u s continues to intensify its air war in iraq associated press reports the air force and navy aircraft dropped five times as many bombs in the first six months and this year as they did in the same period in two thousand and six the air force has also been expanding its air bases in iraq and adding entire squadrons of attack planes to its fleet in iraq meanwhile the air force is preparing to start using its new robotic fighter jet in iraq known as the reaper they produce scribed a reaper as a hunter killer drone that can be operated by remote day says the reactor had been shut down we verified the shutdown of the reactor we are going through verifying the shutdown of other facilities and by tomorrow or after tomorrow we will be able to report hopefully that all the five facilities have been north korea closed the reactor as part of an oil for disarmament deal in pakistan more than seventy people died over the weekend as pro taliban militants carried out series of soon attacks in the north western front the killings marked an end to the ten month truce between tribal leaders and general musharraf government russian suspends cold war arms control treaty russia has suspended a key called arms control treaty and part of a protest plans to build a missile defense system and poor and the czech republic one thousand nine hundred ninety conventional forces of europe treaty limits the number of heavy weapons deployed between the allana coalition and the urals mountains paul his deputy foreign minister told resides koski the c f e is one of the foundations of the situation which has created the end of the cold war and we of course would like to keep it this treaty of course  minimum amendments and some modifications which were discussed and was implemented some years ago but of course we wouldn't like to pull out from the treaty we wouldn't like russia to pull out from this treaty russia's decision comes five years after the bush administration through the anti ballistic missile treaty egypt blocks international delegation from brotherhood trial in egypt and international human rights organization ramsey clark said it is pitiful to see a great people like egypt and people with a government so afraid so afraid of its own position of power that it continuously persecute the muslim brotherhood it is highly political and obvious here in this country the roman catholic archdiocese of los angeles has agreed to pay at least six hundred sixty million dollars to five hundred victims of sex will be standing back as far as nine hundred forty s the settlement is the largest of the roman catholic  attorney boettcher said the final payout could be even larger boettcher this time we're still working on trying to get the case is resolved if we are able to get them resolved it will be the six hundred million dollars figure that has been talked about is not as an accurate number it should be significantly above that number if we're able to complete the settlement over all the catholic church in the united states so far paid more than two billion dollars in settlements and legal judgments in victims of sexual abuses and their families cardinal mahoney of the los angeles archdiocese issued an apology on sunday cardinal  the only the one thing i wish i could give the victims i cannot which is restore asian of where they were originally and now news from washington president bush threatening to veto a bill that w extend health insurance to an additional three point three million low income children that's rick senators reached a bipartisan agreement to add thirty five billion dollars to the children's health insurance program over the next five years by increasing federal taxes on cigarettes senators said the extra funding would help cover some of the nation's eight million uninsured children but on sunday saturday the white house said president bush vetoed the bill and economic news  national community reinvestment coalition recently found that african americans were twice as likely as white applicants to receive loans with expenses above market rates and another story independent magazine publishers including the nation and the national review are protesting a new hike in postal rates that they say could bankrupt many of the small publications rates went into effect on sunday they were based on proposal by the nation's largest publisher time warner according to the media advocacy group free press the new rules burden of smaller publishers are posted raged unfairly locking in the best rates for the largest media company for some small publications the cost of postage and another story and out of malaysia in malaysia a prominent political blogger has been detained for possibly violating the nation's official secrets act the twenty seven year old nathaniel tam has been held since friday bloggers in malaysia helped organize a vigil on sunday and are circulating an online online petition calling for his release and on a sad note the western nations spiritual leader corbin harney has been buried today he died last week at the age of eighty seven he campaigned against nuclear weapons opposed nuclear testing on indigenous land and fought the federal government's attempt to place nuclear waste inside yucca mountain he was counterattack it was brazil's eighth copa america title and denied their arch rivals a record fifteenth crowned brazil coach came to rescue the steam of the brazilian worker who wakes up in the morning and returns home late at night those satisfaction in life is seen brazil win a football match libya high council digital council is now has to meet to decide the fate of six foreign medics sentenced to death over the infection o children with hiv and finally here is the weather sunny and seasonable today with highs in the low ninety's southwest wind five to ten mph tomorrow will be slightly cooler with highs in the upper for today thanks a lot for watching and we'll see you tomorrow