also at seven thirty p m you can get a free pod cast on the internet through i tunes or other podcast sites soon will also be on truckee public access auburn public access this year callie shell fifteen we're on at five o'clock on the  have any newsworthy items please e mail them to us at news at g v t v dot org and today's local news crews trained in handling hazardous materials had already covered the former red dirt pile was a synthetic blanket to keep rain water from leaching poisons into surrounding areas and on wednesday they continued the project by pushing clean filled dirt atop the blanket and for it to contain arsenic and lead left behind after a century of gold mining and what is now empire mindstate park to clean up project at the seven acre site is one of the many targeted for reducing heavy metals at the park the project costing upwards of one million dollars is expected to be completed in october we are looking at out the red dirt pile elevated levels of metals that are poisonous to people still appear in the red saw twenty years after workers removed fifty thousand tons of mine tailings from the mound in a previous cleanup attempt california state parks in new will pour asphalt for a parking lot on the rest of the site earlier in the year sections of the trails of the osborne hill area were closed after traces of arsenic were detected during soil sampling the trails remain closed but testing of the proposed substitute routes is underway months and said if the park gets approval from the state department of toxic substance control officials will hold public meetings in the spring to gather public input about closing segments of old trails and building substitute routes the majority of the parks trail system remains open and those segments are widely used by hikers mountain white bicyclists and question riders the park is also testing so at the sinai plant and admit project sites the admin project is an underground tunnel the park wants to open for public tours in the future so from the mainline yard main parking lot and stamp mill area also are being inspected the park plans to pave the dirt parking lot surveys show no concern is necessary regarding public exposure to those sites saw profiles plant surveys and marshland delian the action will occur and dam the park is preparing its for testing and treatment of water from the gentle drain which strange water filled with iron arsenic in magnes from employer mine into ditches near the tennis court in memorial park along a popular trail that leads from the grass valley park to the empire mine area state park personnel want to develop surface water monitoring stations to site some little wolf creek wanted to south fork of the with creek and want to love sand dam historic survey of the two dozen smaller mines within the state park are also in the works so all testing continues there were around eight residential cabins were state park employees live several areas of elevated lead levels have been detected but they are not high enough to cause anyone to move we still need and in another story nevada city is a den of fide as one of the most beautiful towns in california in a new two hundred eight page full color coffee table book titled the most beautiful villages and towns of california the book is written by noted travel writer joan tapper and photog photographed by wheeler it is published by james and hudson of new york and carries a retail price forty dollars a six page color spread on nevada city includes eleven of the books three hundred twenty three color illustrations the a company in texas focuses on the town's vibrant cultural atmosphere in a rich historic setting behind a historic for saud's are a host of contemporary establishments that range from art galleries and clothing boutique to bookstores in chic restaurants tapper writes the book covers thirty towns and villages across california and kids listing of places to stay in the nevada city chamber of commerce is listed in the acknowledgements chamber executive manager case cathy ritz will say says the chamber responds to media queries provides information and photos and insists writers and authors whenever possible is very special to be featured in a book like this little c said when nevada city is listed right there with some of the california's most beautiful downs it gives us a heightened sense of pride in our hometown it also has a very positive impact on our economy we are included in many of the leading travel books in gods this is very important way that we can help keep nevada cities name and image in the public eye the new book is available at harmony books in nevada city and bookseller in grass valley and it is beautiful city so it's grass valley by the way and the mountains above the hose eastern shore  flumes pipelines in the logging during the nevada mining boom in the late nineteenth century to comstock lode gold and silver boom beginning in eight hundred sixty in virginia city in gold they all demand for timber and water exploded turning the focus of entrepreneurs to the carson range to the west area lake hobart reservoir spinner lake we've created out a damned dam to supply a network of fluid and pipelines known as the four thousand foot tunnel that included into the east side of the carson range joining the keep our plane of the comstock which brought ten million gallons of water per day to virginia city as a concept declined livestock gra replaced temper harvests in the early twentieth century and for slowly returned but the lakes remained as a new public resource in the here it comes that's right time for the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter not from the actual events but use for visual aid only in grass valley police department on tuesday at twelve fifty two p m call from mill street reported her ex husband had taken her car from a downtown parking lot at two thirty three p m call from the cell phone in town said someone kept calling him from southern california but would not say anything when he answered ten twenty three p m caller from three hundred block of west mainstreet reported tr were in blue jeans and a baseball cap was in her kitchen responding officers could not find a subject park refusing to stop responding officers told the drummer to keep it down and on wednesday seven a m call from business on the four hundred block of commercial street ported a burglary m call from the fifteen thousand five hundred block of auburn road reported an overweight person wearing khakis in front of her residence appeared very intoxicated was walking in his things and lain in the ditch and on wednesday at eight o three a m a caller from the seventeen thousand two hundred block of the patch of court reported deceptive items by her by his ex wife now for some world news the new york times are put in a long negotiated deal over the new iraqi oil law has apparently collapsed the breakdown reportedly centers around a disagreement between the cabinet members in baghdad and kurdish government officials in the north iraqi kurds have already reached a series of deals with foreign oil companies in their oil rich province the parent collapse comes a mist a new white house effort to convince lawmakers who has goals in iraq are being achieved pushing through a new oil has been high on the list and in other iraqi news two of the seven soldiers who coauthored an article last month criticizing the u s occupation have been killed in omar mora died monday in a car accident in baghdad and their plate piece for the new york times a soldier said four years into our occupation we have failed on every promise well we have substituted that party tyranny was a tyranny of militias and criminal violence and a sudanese journalist jailed for more than five years in guantanamo bay is reportedly close to taking use own life sam al haj is two hundred fifty days into a hunger strike protesting his imprisonment without charges or trial doctors who have examined him say it appears he's giving up his fight to live was working as a new camera man for the arabic t v network al jazeera when he was detained in pakistan down on the border of afghanistan in december two thousand and one he was transferred to u s custody in florida bag graham airbase six months later he was flown to guantanamo bay he has been imprisoned there without charges ever since the bush administration has announced its plans to make a new push for u n security council sanctions over iran's nuclear activities the white house says it will gather the five permanent security council members iran has no need for a nuclear bomb we do not need a bomb we are a good spawn's actually there are many reasons that we are against it in our belief we are against bombs from political point of view it is not useful think and in democratic republic of congo at least one hundred sixty six people have died in an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus the world health organization spokesman gregory hart sa who we have received reports of three hundred seventy two cases of illness and a hundred sixty six deaths coming from the west because they province and the democratic republic of the congo five of these cases have been confirmed as ebola obviously th extremely important that it is ebola but there are also other things that we think are going on there such as should we have had a confirmed case and might have typhoid we just don't know what has known cure or the death rate can be as high as ninety percent of the world conversely conservation union has added nearly two hundred species to the list of those facing extinction in its annual report the group says more than sixteen thousand three hundred species are now in danger of dying out the world conservation union specifies species christopher vi said the main threat is the destruction of their habitat for example a forest been destroyed coral reef safe species over exploitation such as fishing for our disappearing from our oceans because we overfished them to this you have to add climate change factors which will have more insidious consequences and the report can as prominent british think tank is warning global warming could have a akin to nuclear war in a new studies in international institute for strategic studies says global warming could be on pace to hit crop yields and water availability everywhere causing great human suffering and leading to regional strife and in japan prime minister shinzo abe has announced he's stepping down it had suggested he would resign if you failed to win support for extending japan's contingent in the u s led force in afghanistan japanese opposition leader  said from the beginning to the end mr has been indifferent to the general public lives and the way he announced his resignation showed just that he didn't fully explain why he was resigning i have to say it's very irresponsible of him to leave his job halfway through like this and it imported immigrant rights activists and her eight year old son parallel realities for immigrant rights wednesday in washington in tijuana elvira  immigrants or illegal aliens of our virus our law no said the call that i made to be in washington d c on september twelfth was important i was deported and this was where i was deported hundreds of families are separated enforcement of roughly handling more than twelve thousand workers of the meat packing company swift the united food and commercial workers international union says workers not accused of any crime were handcuffed for hours  counsel bathrooms and their families a suit six financial damages and an end to the raids and the bush administration is facing major opposition to two potential nominees  senate intelligence committee members have asked the white house to withdraw its choice of john rizzo for cia general counsel concerns have been raised over results stance on the torture of prisoners told a senate hearing in june he supported  in famous two thousand and two justice department memo that said torture could not occur unless the president experiences pain serious enough to cause organ failure or death this week a coalition of human rights groups called for rejecting reason his nomination a joint statement human rights watch physicians for human rights and three other groups rights when mr result failed to object to legal arguments that defended torture he failed to protect his clients the president his cia colleagues and the american confirmation hearings also represented boyce in a legal battle over the two thousand presidential election that's the one where he lost richardson texas david hanson eyes that can track people and a face that captivates with a range of expressions at seventeen inches tall and six pounds artificial so you know is the culmination of five years of work by hands in a small group of engineers designers and programmers at his company hanson robotics they believe there is an emerging business in the design and sale of life like we're body companions or social robber robots and they'll be showing off their role but boy to students in grades three to twelve wired net fast technology conference thursday in los angeles unlike clearly artificial wrote body toys hansen says he envisions you know as an interactive learning companion it's synthetic pal who can engage conversation and convey human emotion through a phase made of a spin like patented material has been calls for is a representation of robotics as a character animation medium one that is intelligent it sees you and recognizes your face it learns your name and can build a relationship with you it's no coincidence if the whole concept sounds like a science fiction movie has a said he was inspired by and is aiming for the same sort of rules and found in the book super toys last all summer long by brian aldiss all this is a story of troubled boy david and his quest for love of his flesh and blood parents was the source material for steven spielberg's film artificial intelligence available to consumers within the next three years for two hundred to three hundred dollars and sell them a handsome thirty seven makes a living selling and renting pricey lifelike robotic heads his company offers models that look like albert einstein and a pirate and iraq are complete was spied hair and some glasses they cost tens of thousands of dollars and can be customized to look like anyone hansen said the company which has yet to break even but is also boyd by one point five million dollars grant from the texas emergent technical fund last october the fund was created by gov rick perry in two thousand and five been proven research at texas university and helped startup positive psychological reaction to robots that look somewhat like humans but the robots made a look very realistic and up seeming good test instead of comforting nobody complains that burning is sculptures are too darned real right or that norman rockwell's paintings are too creepy the world wide skin seem real and we love to we're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics so just how does hanssen end up with  it all goes back to when his wife and mom they gave birth to their first child and you know the robot was already in the works to rattle off several names of their baby boy but it wasn't until they whispered xeno that this looks like a piece fell over his face it was like susie into his ears hands recalled there was no way we could give him an the other name he chose you know as his name that was just fine with amanda i thought that it was very enduring very sweet the similarities go beyond the name those you know the robot was built to resemble the animated japanese t v show character astro boy his prostate care and saucer shaped  although it's almost coincidence said hansen whose previous job included working as a character sculpture for the walt disney company we didn't consciously sculpt this robot to look like him it's the way things filter through the hands of the artist has academy award winning code that enabled the fantastical battles among humans orcs and elves in the lord of the rings movies like some modern version of capello's workshop hansen's office is crammed with rows of shelves stacked with books about robots next to tort robots and plastic skulls which ranging from mathematical formulas to design sketches cover several whiteboards like high tech graffiti there are scattered bits of hansen's previous aides from the association for the advancement of artificial intelligence in two thousand and five and best design award at the smithsonian cooper he went national design training last year but anson is most proud of the reals you know a rambunctious taller who flies was free rein among priceless electronics but the robots become popular i suppose that will pose an indemnity crisis for my son but i think the amount of love that he received will make him feel like an org if you'd like to underwrite t v news just e mail us or give us a call five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine thanks a lot for watching and we will see you tomorrow