please underwriters and get mentioned every day to over thirty thousand possible households in your county plus the internet just give us a call or e mail us at five three zero four seven seventy three three zero nine or news at g b t v if you have newsworthy items just email us six members of a local disability nonprofit group needed to be carried or otherwise help from their second floor office after a power outage tuesday evening about five fifteen p m a five minute long outage in immediate area of east main street burned up an elevator motor at the commercial building at the nine hundred block of east main street elevator was repaired and service was restored but eight p m tuesday said david ra nevada county consolidated fire district that was well after free center for independent living members were removed from the non profits office roughly thirty minutes after that outage no one panicked or was hurt during the outage said anna act fried executive director nobody was in the elevator at the time of the outage we got everyone out safe and sound acted added ironically act and said she was on the phone with realtor discussing other office based options when the power went out we've discussed alternatives ever since moving in here a year and a half ago acton said the group was looking for an affordable and had it kept accessible place preferrable preferrable on the first floor grass valley fire department in nevada city fire department members also responded to see the building housing houses multiple offices but doesn't include housing ray said and another story local traffic impact fees for grass valley construction projects will increase dramatically beginning august first after a four to one vote by the city council on tuesday night vote raises traffic fees from nine hundred dollars to forty seven hundred twenty three dollars for single family house grocer products would see their fees increase to ninety not ninety eight hundred seventy one dollars per one thousand square foot of retail businesses in fifty three hundred sixty one dollars per one thousand square feet of offices city officials said traffic fees for commercial projects could be reduced after the nevada county transportation committee set its traffic impact fees later this year the trees are tough to swallow because their high city administrator dan holler said but the existing fees are hardly worth collecting of posting and jan arbuckle voted for the increase debt mellor opposed to i don't see where this will benefit anyone except the city in the long run miller said before the vote i don't have a good feeling about this at all barbara shell of the nevada county contractors association said the group supports the p r for new omes but opposes what she calls a steep increase in commercial fees that would discourage future projects that new projects bring jobs and generate sales tax for the city city administrator dan holler said the fees would have been too low in the passin are now calculated to meet the city's future infrastructure ne post and reaffirmed that concern at tuesday night's meeting no one likes fees he said but we're behind the eight ball on the collection of fees the city hopes to collect forty three million dollars over the next twenty two years or twenty thirty in traffic impact fees overall the city has seventy seven million in capital improvement projects on the board bachelor said earlier tuesday that traffic fees for commercial business will quickly climb into the tens of thousands of dollars for any substantial project under this proposal for example she said a proposed forty five thousand square foot office building would face two hundred forty one thousand two hundred forty two in traffic impact fees alone the council however did approve a payment plan to help commercial builders pay traffic impact fees the proposal allows the city to waves three percent administrative fee kind of them approve a five year plan a plan or allow some fees to be paid later public works director tim kaiser said during his presentation tuesday night johnson said the payment plan was a good way to help builders pay the traffic impact for years adding that we need to collect the money the council also received a summer report inside a power point presentation on a proposed land used initiative that would be on the november third ballot the measure would require a public vote on any change to the land use element of the city's twenty twenty general plan it would also extend the life of the land use elements to twenty thirty eight in a summary report city staff said the initiative would essentially make it impossible for the city to meet any goals in the night and other elements of the general plan and potentially cost the city millions of dollars in future revenue the council directed city step to do more detailed reports on the potential consequences of the major and despite the demise of the lot center and now the plant closure of the auburn facility that picked up some slack adult daycare is thriving again in about a county at a pen valley church the seventh day adventist years stepped in the breach in december to temporarily take disposed let's enter klein's at its helping hands caregiver resource to day care for the elderly and disabled is open three days a week with full funding for a year thanks to the church board and a number of donors the demand was so great we went back to the church board and got sixty thousand dollars to keep the center open through next april said colin bond the program director the people in this church are community mind at least two of the half of the half dozen or so people who transferred to the house for all day care in auburn will be coming to the penn valley facility after the placer county program closes june twenty seventh health for all is closing due to financial constraints said worker patty graf at tuesday on tuesday she referred all other questions to corporate office officer dean hakim otoh who could not be reached for comment to church facilities averaging sixteen to seventeen clients pre date on mondays and tuesdays from nine a m to three p m and again on fridays at nine a m to one p m the telecare bus service brings some of the clients and others arrive privately residents such as elaine tucker grass values the auburn facility and the penn valley daycare she figures she can go to the nevada county senior center in grass valley on wednesdays and fridays until the church facility expands on its dream to be open five days a week i like it here she said looking around the large bright from the penn valley lions club and the nevada city rotary have helped pay for the lunches at the center where turkey tell tara tara xeni was being served tuesday other donors have given up to five thousand dollars to keep the facility open the donation and the church is sixty thousand dollars commitment are paying for five staff members and expenses according to chris holland the only member of the daycare board who doesn't belong to the church we're awaiting our licensing own s for a social facility that will not include for medical care like a lot center and the soon to close auburn daycare bond said medical staff could be added in the future depending on need but they are not required once a license is a ten people who can afford to pay for will be charged on a sliding scale but ones who can't afford it will always be welcome to the program manager is working for free as is her ben st her father james gleason who is an elder in the church for more information call the church at four three two two four seven nine it's four three two two four seven nine point three zero area and there you have for our local news the official death toll on monday's earthquake in china has risen to fifteen thousand with many more feared dead numbers expected to rise as rescue workers battle rain in landslides to reach victims across this sichuan province tens of thousands of people remain missing the town of young zoo chinese officials say only twenty three hundred people have been found out of a population of ten thousand a massive earthquake latin school shops and homes across the region scores of survivors are trapped beneath rubble in collapsed buildings and roads in china's worst earthquake in three decades and in burma there are no warnings of another tropical storm just days after cycle nargis left tens of thousands dead united nations says it's tracking a storm off the coast of thailand that could become a significant tropical cyclone over the next day doherty's and burma have raised the cycling death toll to nearly thirty two thousand but aid groups said the final number will be much higher earlier today charity world vision says burma faces what is called an apocalyptic threat from water borne disease and tuesday the u n war in burma faces a catastrophe of monumental proportions unless relief efforts can match those even seen during the asian tsunami but the burma is military junta continues to come under intense criticism for it's a sponsor to the crisis relief workers are accused the idea of hoarding international aid and passing out spoiled food to survivors and in india up to sixty people have been killed in a bombing attack in the city of job  another eighty four were wounded seventy seven blasts exploded within moments of the other of each other in a crowded market area and no one has claimed responsibility and in iraq at least seven people have been killed overnight clashes between u s led forces and shi fighters in the south or city area of baghdad the fighting threatens a tenuous deal to end weeks of fighting meanwhile the civilian toll continues to rise local civilians say three victims defied by the u s as militants were in fact students asleep in their home baghdad resident said three young men were sleeping inside the house they were students in their graduation party should be today their execution was taking place here this is one man here is another and the last is on the roof of the house they are students they are not gunmen or members of militia they're not wanted men scores of civilians have been killed and series of intensified u s strikes relief efforts have also been hampered after u s missiles drug so other cities main hospital earlier this month and president bush has landed in israel to take part in celebrations marking the sixtieth anniversary of israel's founding in one nine hundred forty eight the trip has been criticized because bush has no plans to mark what palestinians call the not  catastrophe for the more than seven hundred thousand palestinians driven from their homes the same year as bush arrived at least five palestinians were killed in israeli attacks on the gaza strip dead included teenage boy reading news more bicycle and another civilian before his departure bush singled out iran calling it the biggest threat to peace in the middle east he also said the message to iran is that you know your desire to have a nuclear weapon coupled with your statements about the destruction of our close ally has made it abundantly clear to everybody that we have got to work together to stop you from having a nuclear weapon i mean it's me to me it's the single biggest threat to peace in the middle east is the iranian meanwhile president bush is claiming that he has given up golfing as a gesture to sacrifice to the sacrifice of u s troops and their families in an interview with a political bush said i don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf i feel i owed it to the families to be so lucky in solidarity as best as i can with them and i think playing golf during wars just sends the wrong signal presidential historian robert dallek said that's his idea of sacrifice to you give me a chance democrats come back to west virginia in a general election and we will win this state and we will win the white house obama meanwhile was in missouri where he continues to focus his remarks on republican candidate john said the bush cheney ticket won't be up for reelection but bush cheney policies will because john mccain has decided that he is running for george bush's third term in office that's what his campaign has been about to offer the american people four more years of the same approach that has failed the american people over the last eight years democrats have scored another upset victory and special congressional election on tuesday democratic candidate driver's child hers beat gray davis for the vacated seat in mississippi's first congressional district the district has gone republican since  hundred five it was the third straight democratic special election when this year the string of republican losses in conservative districts is seen as a sign of growing dissatisfaction with the bush administration that could heavily affect upcoming november elections and their colombian government has extradited fourteen paramilitary leaders to the united states for trial on drug charges the young president move comes as colombian president of arrow you read and the white house are seeking to one congressional approval of a controversial colombian trade deal democrats have held up the agreement partly over human rights concerns yuri but is also trying to diffuse allegations of his own ties to colombian paramilitaries to actually dishes are drawing criticism because they'll allow the fourteen leaders to avoid charges for murders and other human rights abuses they'll be tried in the united states on drug charges at a time when the bush administration has shown a willingness to reduce sentences in return for cooperation jose miguel th vanko of human rights watch said these men are not going to be held accountable for the human rights violations they committed victims in colombia will not be able to confront their tormentors and receive the reparations  in italy in germany before being sent to egypt where he says he was tortured during a four year imprisonment twenty six americans five times have been indicted in the case in egypt abu omar said berlusconi should be held responsible according to the employment iraq he berlusconi has direct responsibility for this matter on the basis that the head of intelligence is his direct subordinate berlusconi would become the first head of state to testify over cia's kidnapping and torture program and back in the united states the washington post is reporting the u s government has forcibly injected hundreds of foreign nationals with dangerous sekret dropping drugs during their deportation involuntary drugs are normally used to treat serious psychiatric disorders but they have been used on more than two hundred fifty deportees since two thousand and three immigration and customs enforcement agencies found that they have repeatedly violated its own rules allowing sedation only if the party suffer from mental illness or have become dangerously aggressive and that is a rapper for our world news today blocking his ministry police took a report for theft and i for one pm a woman went to the police station report her grief she received her fraudulent check the check was supposed to be prize winning when she went to cash a check to bank advice the check was not good an officer would destroy the check and talk to the woman about mail and internet fraud and at nine twenty one p m a caller from the one hundred block of south auburn street reported a man was dragging a screaming woman by her head several people at a convenience store were leaving to help the woman police arrested a twenty three year old man on suspicion of violating probation police also rest a twenty four year old woman on suspicion of violating probation and writing bad checks in connection to a previous incident a woman from ten thousand block a referee ready i would report a person had a knife on campus car had to have it with her give it to a report two thirty p m call from bowman road reported wilder was taken the deputy took a report six a vehicle parked in pioneer park parking lot by the tennis courts was vandalized the windows were broken and a car was scratched an officer took a report six thirty seven p m call from two hundred block a commercial street reported several men appeared to be beating up a woman in front of a bar police arrested a person looking for six p m call reported people were lighting but john's on are in commercial street parking lot police fires people not to let things on fire eleven fifty six p m call reported people were still lighting things on fire police stood by as people gathered their things and left the area and that's it for the police blotter to day know whether it's just hot but next we will let you know but a big advance notice for the mountain music block party is coming june first first with the roland clinic at rhythms cafe just down the street from two p m to three p m then black weed the band playing from three p m to four p m there's free drawings at the store with chances to win i've been as guitar fender amps trains teachers more so this is a sunday to remember mark this on your calendar news if you have an interest in supporting the only visual local news for nevada county then please underwriters and get mentioned every day to over thirty thousand possible households in your county plus the internet just give us a