welcome to g v t v news i'm randy hanson in today's local headlines crisis looms for baby boomers rebates and tax credits available for solar power in nevada city woman her and her   as millions of baby boomers begin reaching age sixty five and twenty eleven they will face health care workforce that is too small and willfully unprepared to meet their need to code into the report released monday by the arm of the national academy of sciences got a county one of the state's oldest counties by residents age faces the same challenges as elsewhere some of the problems cited in the report already have surfaced here it doctors shortage remains in place home health care workers are hard to find and some local senior centers are closing cross the nation the number of older adults will doubled between two thousand and five and two thousand and thirty a by two thousand and thirty one american in five will be more than sixty five compared with only about twelve percent now there port we face an impending crisis as a growing number of older patients who are living longer with more complex health needs increasingly outpaces the number of health care providers with the knowledge and skills to care for them capably said john ro professor of health policy at columbia university and co author of the report that your number of older patients in the coming years will require try new models for delivering health care and the commitment of greater financial resources only one doctor specializes in just geriatrics for every twenty five hundred americans according to the report turnover among nurses aides averages seventy one percent annually and about ninety percent of the home health aides leave their jobs within the first two years devoted county suffers from shortages of cardiologist and orthopedic surgeons doctors who often help older people if someone fractures a hip or if an orthopedic surgeon is not on call that day we have to send a patient to sacramento said gold ip gill doctor of internal medicine who sees patients it's here in nevada memorial hospital though the hospital has four orthopedic surgeons it has just one cardiologist gill adding the hospital is in the process of recruiting additional cardiologist said craig wilcox the hospital's director of business development the problem extends to the health care professionals the nursing shortage is real and will definitely increase in severity said cheryl manteca director of nursing for the never at a county public health department we don't have enough nursing facilities documenting to prepare it workforce for the future california averages five hundred eighty registered nurses per one hundred thousand people compared with eight hundred twenty five for the national average according to montana sirrah college expects to expand its nursing programs at its nevada county campus once an expansion program is completed albi dean of the local campus graduates of the assistant and you're seen programs often are offered low salaries out he said in many cases home health aides make minimum wage though adults are living longer and their need are increasing the average seventy five year old american has three chronic conditions such as diabetes hypertension and uses four or more prescription medications the committee found their group set a goal of twenty thirty for some changes to take place the report cited the need for more workers to specialize in geriatrics it also recommended that more training be required for health care workers more training is required for da groomers and manicures then direct care workers in many parts of the country the report said higher salaries and financial incentives also are needed for geriatric specialist geriatrician earned  hundred sixty three thousand on average in two thousand and five despite the extra years of training that is required dermatologists however can earn more than three hundred thousand a year reports that medicare's low reimbursement were partly blamed for the lower salaries of geriatricians the nation needs to move quickly and efficiently to make certain that the health care workforce increases in size and has proper education and training to handle the needs of a new generation of older americans the report  and in another local story solar power can reduce homeowners energy bills but stack savings that makes a costly investment more attractive could expire at the end of this year local solar panel installers said monday in addition those home owners who use the power and have the highest bills stand to reap the largest benefit from investment according to calculations by planet solar is solar panel installation company based in valley people with the highest build get the best returns on a solar purchase whether it's cash or finance and robert rush in charge of sales designed for planet solar the internal revenue service allows taxpayers to deduct two thousand dollars from their tax liabilities for a solar installation that is inspected by december thirty first of this year according to the i r s documents and unused credit can be carried over into two thousand and nine the tax credit is due to expire at the end of this year california u s senator barbara boxer and dianne feinstein are co sponsor in a bill that would extend the credit for another two years in addition californians can apply for rebates that vary depending on the size of the system but the rebate is expected to drop in late summer or early fall depending on the amount of money left in the state fund that subsidizes the systems this rebate has dwindled each years since its inception in one nine hundred ninety nine rush that it expect it's expected to keep petering out he added it's a shame in both cases it remains unclear whether the incentives will continue to be available into the future or for how long to do incentives together with california's system of multiple tears for the cost of residential like just me and the expectation that a lector go rates would continue to rise for the foreseeable future have made for a rising interest in solar power in western nevada county builder gary dental have one hundred sixty four panels installed on the work roof of the new one hundred union square building in nevada city the cost of the system will amortize at six cents per kilowatt it generates but it is directed to save the building eleven tenants including those about a county district attorney's office eight cents per kilowatt for net savings of two cents per kilowatt residential rate payers can expect a significant savings over time with the biggest electric tricity users landing the greatest savings that's because california utilities are  law since the one nine hundred eighty s to charge more for residential interest you know and people use when people use more a measure designed to encourage conservation and if you look at your pacific gas and electric company bill under the electric electrical portion you'll be see a listing for baseline quantity and baseline usage that tir one with the lowest rate of a little more than eleven point five cents per kilowatt hour the baseline allotment varies with the time of year and location but is designed to give the lowest price for the lowest consumption of electricity about three quarter corners of the resent residential electricity consume falls into the category given a price break for those who consume less but if your usage rises beyond the baseline amount a cost per kilowatt per hour rises to thirteen cents into your tune up to more than thirty six cents or to or five people as large as arms and heat and cool and and people appliances with their manatees that use lots of electricity such as big screen televisions water features heated pools saunas and hot tubs large tropical and queer him or who keep appliances on for much of the day can easily run into tearfund our clients have an average electrical bill of seventy five to six hundred dollars a month the m mansions those places have electrical bills in front of eight hundred to nine hundred per month the biggest one month bill we've seen is twenty four hundred dollars that's why people come to us to bring down their electrical bills a residential solar power system has infected replacing electricity in most of the expensive tear first company owner martin webb said but even a small system offer savings a small system using twelve solar panels to produce about thirty three hundred kilowatt hours per year could replace about one third of the consumption of small consumers with bills averaging over the year one hundred twenty five per month according to planet solar calculations such a system would cost about twenty thousand four hundred dollars and would qualify for as much as fifty six hundred fifty dollars in rebate and tax credits the company estimates larger systems can save more the federal tax credit remains the same but the state rebate rises with the size of the system the rate of return on a solar panel system varies depending on how much is used prior to the installation how many panels are installed and whether the system is paid for with cash or through financing their return also is affected by the efficiency of the system which varies depending on the oil in taishan of the palace and how cleanly they are maintained a good mopping once or twice a year prevents dust pollen insert from build up on they can reduce generation capacity by about five percent each year solar panels generally come with a twenty five year warranty but the life of solar panels is not known because the industry is so new so savings could extend beyond the warranty period however the inverter and the box of electrical components that translate the power from the panels to the meter is known to last about fifteen to twenty years and generally needs to be replaced at the end of that time and our last local story to the twenty eight year old nevada city woman is expected to recover from serious injuries she suffered when her horse fell on top of her the fire official and the woman's neighbors and monday the woman was walking a horse near her residence on the twelve thousand block of pine wood road at about seven twenty three p m sunday when the horse begin to kick her then fell on top of her and tractors vanda city fire department engineer kevin carr's dafne or who responded to the accident she had some serious head injuries he said carr's death near declined to release the woman's name because she was the victim of a medical emergency the woman was transported by helicopter to set a roseville medical center for treatment she might come home today from the hospital the woman's neighbor jim penrose said monday from what i hear there was no spinal injury and no concussion the woman described by peno bedrolls as a beautiful girl like a barbie doll did suffer a deep gash on her forehead and may have to go undergo plastic surgery no one witnessed the accident penrose said a man who had been walking down the road banged on penrose's door to report the in then left before anyone could get his name the woman's fiance managed to get the horse to stand up and he put it on and in a nearby corral the horse did not appear to be hurt pandarus it just in today's world news headlines ban ki moon global food crisis reaches emergency proportions and food protest start in bangladesh and south africa and u s food inflation at highest level in seventeen years u  as a boy and delta and northwest airlines to merge and israel blocks jimmy carter from entering the gaza strip and berlusconi wins italian election and pope benedict n secretary general ban ki moon has warned of to growing global food crisis has reached emergency proportions ban ki moon said that the international community needs to take urgent action in order to avert a larger political and global security crisis on monday president bush ordered the release of two hundred million dollars in emergency food aid to help alleviate food shortages in developing countries the world bank estimates world food prices have risen eighty percent over the past three years and that at least thirty three countries face social unrest as a result in bangladesh at least fifteen thousand garment factory workers went on strike earlier today to call for higher wages to cover the soaring price of food in south africa the country's main union has kicked off a series of protests over here in the united states food inflation has reached its highest level in seventeen years alice expected to get worse and news from iraq the u s military has announced his plan to release the pulitzer prize winning so ship press photographer allow hussein on wednesday after holding him without charge for two years last week an iraqi judicial committee called for hussein's release us military claim to saying had linked to iraqi insurgents but charged charges were never filed against the iraqi born photographer though his incarceration hussein maintained he is innocent last month a p president tom curley said we believe blouse in detention was part of a sweep of  the military and was intended to prevent coverage of part of the war that was not going well meanwhile iraqi troops have rescued a british journalist working for the c b s news who had been kidnapped two months ago in southern iraq richard butler was working as a producer for sixty minutes when he and a translator were taken by gunmen in basra in february tenth c b s had refrained from at least in a man's identity as are details round in their disappearance pending their safe release the translator was released last month and on the campaign trail senator hillary clinton and john mccain are continuing to attack senator barack obama over his comments that voters in rural america that's us had become bigger and that they cling to guns and religion as a way to explain their frustrations on monday senator hillary clinton spoke at the alliance for american manufacturing form in pittsburgh she said he was explaining to a small group of his donors that people who live in small towns right here in pennsylvania are like are like and why some of you aren't voting for him but instead of looking at himself he blamed them he said that they cling to religion and guns and dislike people who are different from them well i don't believe that i  to religion they value their faith you don't cling to guns you enjoy hunting and collecting sport shooting i don't think he really gets it people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you senator mccain described senator obama's remarks as the leaders and said they show a fundamental misunderstanding of the american people senator obama countered the criticism by questioning whether clinton or mccain are actually in touch with voters in the pennsylvania he said you know there's been a lot of talk in this campaign lately over the last few days of who's in touch with the workers in pennsylvania senator clinton and senator mccain seem to be singing from the same hymn book saying i'm out of touch i'm an elitist because i said a lot of folks are bitter about their economic circumstances now it may be that i chose my words badly it's not the first time and won't be the last but when i hear my opponents both of whom spent decades in washington seen on out of touch it's time to cut through the rhetoric and  reality and that's what he said in other campaign knew the republican congressman is coming under criticism for calling obama a boy during a campaign fundraiser congressman jeff davis of kentucky questioned obama's fitness to be president and said that boys finger does not need to be on the button he spokes person for dave's claim to to remark was not meant to be racist in business news delta and northwest have agreed to merge to create the world's largest airline and to move it if approved by regulators could trigger a wave of industry consolidation fare increases and reductions in services great democratic congressman oberstar has vowed to try to block the merger labor unions have also criticized the deal the merger comes amid one of the airlines industry's most tellingly list periods three airlines recently collapsed and american airlines has forced to cancel of flights last week due to safety concerns and former president jimmy carter has announced plans to go ahead with his plans to meet top leader of hamas terrorists to lead mashallah in damascus despite protests from israel's government carter says he wants to get hamas to agree to a peaceful resolution of differences both israelis and the rival palestinian faction fatah carter is meeting with palestinian officials today in the west bank but israel is refusing to allow them to enter via gaza jimmy carter said well i have haven't been able to get permission to go into gaza i would like to i have asked for permission but i was turned down but maybe we can find a way to circumvent that i've inserted today yesterday and i don't approve of rockets being fired you know and that might be very well hit civilians and i don't approve of killing innocent people in gaza either by israeli bombs and missiles so that's why you know the carter center is our major purchases to bring peace to people who are in conflict israel is shin bet security services has also refused to offer security prime minister of italy again after a sweeping victory in national elections berlusconi was voted out of office in two thousand and six part because is support for the u s led invasion and occupation of iraq and pope benedict the sixteenth thrives in washington today for the five day visit of the united states his first since he was elected pope in two thousand and five president bush and the first lady are scheduled to greet the pope at andrews air force base this afternoon well this is yesterday benedict is expected to address the issue of the priest sexual abuse scandal he also said so i mean there is no safety for children in the catholic church and tell the pope holds bishops accountable and the pope not only will not hold them accountable today the pope when he was cardinal joseph r had the chance to do it for two decades and didn't he contributed to the cover up the pope is part of the problem meanwhile more than twelve hundred priests nuns and lay members of the catholic church have sent the pope a letter urging him not to visit president bush at the white house as a sign of protest over the iraq war letter reads in part there are many both within the church and outside of it who long for your voice to speak for those innocent dead and face to face with those whose policies deny all respect to their lives demand that the killing stop signatories including bishop thomas gumbleton father daniel berrigan and kathy kelly and four american documentary filmmakers and a nigerian citizen have been arrested by the nigerian military in the niger delta the seattle based crew as been detained since saturday the film crew was finishing work on a documentary sweet crude arrested were director sandy of kill three and crew members tammy sams cliff warship and sean porter as well as joel de siena founder of the niger delta professionals for development sanity appeared on democracy now in two thousand and six to discuss the situation in the niger delta and the role one played in protesting multinational well corporations she said and those women were demanding fairly base basic things like jobs and some run premier remediation is of the environment water electrical health care basic infrastructure that you would expect that if you had thirty eight billion annually of revenue going to your government that you would have and they have none of those things in fact they have quite the opposite they have their livelihood taken away from the committee of protect journalist has called for nigeria to immediately release sandy kill three and a four other members of her crew and to end what is described as a pattern of censorship of the conflict over oil in the region and that is a wrap for our world news today that's right time for the police blotter new pictures in the blotter not from d's actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday at seven forty a m a caller from the restaurant on the seven hundred block of taylorsville road reported a man was harassing customers and making inappropriate comments to the hostesses the caller said the man was high police contacted the man and he said he would go back to his hotel room for the day and at twelve thirty seven p m a man called from the four how to block a mine at maryland drive to report one of his windows appeared to be shot out by a b b gun police to report for vandalism five awake p m a call reported four foot by four foot piece of glass in allison ranch road and the court road the c h p would respond i monday at five forty six a m a man called from three hundred block of pleasant street true port he noticed extensive damage to his vehicle after arriving at a gym on a one hundred block of south aubrun street this morning police took a report for felony vandalism train parts were stolen from a narrow gauge train an officer took a report to grant dept one forty three pm call report of possible drug dealers and pioneer park near the barbecue pit and on monday one thirty pm police assisted a woman broad street who had locked her keys in her white high on day after accident police were able to unlock the car and that's it for the blonde of the day weather today