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grasshoppers thrive in the hot dry weather so county agricultural commissioner geoff they don't discriminate yellowjackets which are attracted to me and other kinds of food i've seen a mate be carried off a piece of potato salad yellowjackets have retractable stingers which allowed them to become less of a problem or people can also purchase chemicals and traps at local hardware stores to get rid of underground hives on our property sometimes tuna juice also works well inside traps but  residents need to be careful when setting traps bees respond right away when they detect any trace of meat refraining from outdoor picnics and barbecue this can also cut down on the unfortunate counters with the b s and the campaign for community wellness steering committee holds its monthly meeting friday september twenty eighth nine am to three p at the kirby government it could be way in roseville an expert from the california institute of mental health will speak about best practice approaches to doesn't design in mental health prevention programs the community needs the meeting will also review a variety of community needs that recent reports and data are pointing out the public is walking consumers of mental health services and their family members are strongly encouraged to attend for between the hospital bills and fire district assessments some north shore residents are concerned the money they pay to the special districts might not be accounted for but officials at the north hold fire protection hist commitment on the part of the district is that the elected board will eventually appoint a citizen financial oversight committee said north fire chief doing white hit property owners pass this is it can't be taken away from the state or any other agency and it must be spent from the intended purposes the proposed assessment is an effort to better service in the area of fire protection such as fuels reductions defensible space inspections and radio communications some residents are apprehensive about the fire district so need for another just two years after voters passed a seventy eight dollars tax for property owners but officials say there is a major distinction between the two taxes this time of year has art chapman green his hands has a new ski resort owner plows money into the home wood and alpine meadows mountains the upcoming winter temperatures and pacific storms that can make or break his business remains a mystery one of the things we have asked everyone in our organization to do when they get on their knees at night is to ask for snow and ask for early snow chapman said chapman closely follows the climate predictions both official weather outlooks and the unofficial long running line from the farmer's almanac but in the end the uncertainty remains there's not much we can do but brings official winter prognostic decatur's have little to go on the climate prediction center relies heavily on the fact that the pacific ocean temperatures are cooling making for the nina weather pattern typically pushed the jet stream to the north shuttling wonder storms over the pacific northwest and leaving a southwestern united states dry said the douglas le conte the chief drought forecaster for the climate predicti center which released its latest winter forecast on thursday for lake tahoe and truckee caught in a chill graphic known between the pacific northwest and the southwest the forecasting becomes even more difficult it could easily go either way well compensated the weather models show a strong start to the rainy season for tall january february and march have equal chances of wet and dry weather according to the models and this spring could be dry as the region of dryness caused by the lung pattern expands northward late in the season and although the climate prediction center prides itself on higher than normal accuracy during el nino nina winter forecasts the predictions are subject to the mysterious variabilities of the weather we had an el nino year last year and despite we had very that's right time for the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on thursday at ten o seven a m woman went to the police station to report she was angry with the local newspaper over something that was in the police blotter no names are used in the blotter item but she said allegations were unfounded police contacted the woman because a person was folly false reports against her police advised the woman of  restraining order process two thirteen p m would called to report that while she was in the parking lot of the business on church street a man with a goatee beat on her windshield and broke off her vehicles and ten police checked the area extensively were unable to locate demand police took a report for vandalism at two fifty five p m a man went to the police station to turn in marijuana he said he found near dorsey drive in certain way police took a report f report his flower bulbs were pulled from his garden and thrown into the street within the last hour the man wanted after police patrol ten pm call reported hearing a powerful sounding gunfire once he there on richardson street or maiden lane please check the area extensively more honorable to find anything suspicious ten thirty nine pm a man called from richmond street to report a man was trying to break into a dark colored honda civic the car also said the guy owes me money police responded in determined there was no burglary they assisted the man who was locked out of his car and eleven zero one pm police arrested a thirty eight year old man in downtown grass valley on suspicion of violation of probation and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and on friday at twelve twenty eight am call from the eleven thousand block in nevada city highway reported a man and a woman were involved in a arrived the car would remain where it was a deputy warned a woman she would be arrested for trespassing if she returned to that property and at two fifty four p m a man called to report a woman good his mailbox shot  the thirteen thousand block of card away the man was calling from his hospital room and it was felt three thirty one p m a deputy was investigating a possible stolen vehicle on a two hundred block of lower grass valley road to san francisco police and then the data city police department on thursday at ten forty three pm a caller reported an alarm company advised all the windows and doors were open on a business on the three hundred block of spring street police took a report for burglary on a more serious note  calls on thursday eleven forty eight am a call from the seventeen thousand block of norling way reported a transformer blew and trees were on fire the fire department responded and deputies closed off the appearance in the past three years tensions with iran escalate in the united states and kim says the country of trying to develop nuclear weapons and armed insurgents in iraq with powerful roadside bombs that killed u s troops if you find an unpredictable speech that lasted more than four hours arafat came to this general assembly in one nine hundred seventy four and delivered a fiery orientation while wearing an empty holster trying to legitimize the palestinian struggle have come bearing and all of branch in our freedom fighters director vice chairman of the conference of presidents of major american jewish organizations he has missiles he has an army which has purchased huge amounts of weapons spite being roundly denounced from the white house to the mayor's office will be treated like royalty chauffeured around the city by the secret service which in tandem with and why p t will protect him until he leaves early wednesday his appearance in the us and colombia which rescinded an invitation to did dad last year after are expected to draw a large crowds of protesters to cost to taxpayers bruce a secret service agent said she did not know how much your agency will spend mayor michael bloomberg said he has no idea what it will ramadan would have no time to go to restaurants some have used this phrase visit to draw attention to this count countries tradition of protecting free speech this is a country where people can come and speak their minds it's something that we're proud of living people whose would find abhorrent if not dangerous white house spokesman tony fratto said it would be wonderful if some of the countries that take advantage of that here allowed it in their own for their own citizens there so maybe our president should go and talk and i ran into california to minn police broke into a building to still copper wire and got more than they bargained for the room full of police officers police said twenty six year old james errors  frederick i mean the thirty eight broke into a forty thousand square foot building at about six p m tuesday but they hadn't planned for is the antioch police canine unit was holding a training session there time of the break in an officer was hiding inside the building in a training exercise shortly thereafter a canine officer nonstate a dog was about to be released and anyone inside should give themselves up or risk being bitten errors surrendered immediately police said and the canine off outside the heavily fortified green zone after they were suspended tuesday because of the weeks and incident in that city rice said she had directed the state department to examine how we are providing security to our diplomats the review will include all aspects of protection including the rules of engagement for security guards and under what jurisdiction they should be covered department spokesman sean mccormack said while on the plane returning from the middle east to washington rice ordered the review on thursday in a phone call to the veteran diplomat who will lead patrick kennedy a senior management official according to mccormick he said the review would be conducted as quickly as possible and might bring in outside experts u s diplomatic travel had been halted following sunday's incident which could guards employed by blackwater a private security firm opened fire in response to an alleged attack on a convoy at least investigators are complete before taking any permanent steps we take very seriously what happened said nothing she had called iraqi noted she had called iraqi prime minister  government officials in iraq we have needed and received protection of blackwater for a number of years now and they have lost their own people in protecting our people in extremely dangerous circumstances the united states and iraq have agreed to form a joint commission to look into sunday's incident and make recommendations to clarify confusing rules and regulations that govern the conduct of private security contractors in iraq his senior official now staff said the iraqi government realizes that it may not be able to push through a ban on blackwater usa because americans rely so heavily on the security firms the officials broke on condition of anonymity because the issue is politically charged iraqi and u s witnesses have offered widely divergent accounts of what happened here rocky say the blackwater guards opened fire without provocation an american say the security detail was responding to an attack blackwater has not made any comments about the incident since releasing a statement on monday that said is employe acted properly in responding to an attack mccormack said the blackwater guards who fired weapons in sunday's incident a virus third of the fifteen to twenty strong team protecting their convoy are standing down from their jobs at least temporarily he did not say whether they would return to duty said some of the blackwater guards believed to have been involved in the shooting were iraqis he could face prosecution from iraqi courts blackwater had conducted about eight hundred security details for diplomatic visits outside the green zone since january and there have been very few incidents in which weapons were discharged the joint u s iraqi commission is charged with going over separate u s and iraqi investigations of sunday defense ministry said respected too soon conveying for the first time according to state department officials who say it will likely propose changes to the existing roles in the date from the u s led occupation government and give private study including new sets of regulations and rules and gates and for security convoys but the united states relies heavily on blackwater and the two security companies donna corps and triple cannot canopy to protect american officials since nine hundred sixty thousand strong american military forces are already stretched then trying to subdue the sunni and shiite extremists want to protect u s diplomats in baghdad while dinah corp works with the northern kurdish areas of iraq and triple canopy operates in the predominantly shia south according to mccormick today's weather keep them brothers for two days showers are likely for the first half of this weekend let's hope for some sunshine thanks a lot for watching and we will see you tomorrow