highway eighty gets its first snow crunch but first t v t v news would like to thank our underwriters it's cheap span is here can in see t v before we are starting nineteenth nevada county residents will be able to watch local government meetings around the clock an exclusive government channel aired by nevada county television and c t v in addition to partnership was and participate in the government process said lose its or director of n c t v the new channel will include not only planning commission meetings but also board meetings and fire district and the  channel will bring citizens closer to knowing the local government doesn't by implication make them more informed voters said bill cosby carquest engineer an operations manager at n c t v the new channel existing channels for more educational programs that are said we are hoping to develop programs based on what is happening in the schools for instance if a school is presenting a history project or panel discussion a dance or a music recital it can be recorded and broadcast for the public v also offers classes and internships for school gurus really interested in television broadcasting the addition of the new channel could increase of vailable work at the studio by fifty percent consequently more work opportunities could open up for in terms on our own mass a ninth grader at bear river high school has been an intern at n c t v for a year you operates a camera and works in the control room all man said he has was overjoyed to learn n expansion it will give me more equipment to use and learn from he said right after shooting session thursday will probably be having more live shows more frequently the new government channel has been added per an agreement that gone by federal law when a cable company is a granted a franchise they agreed to provide a certain number of channels for public use qwest added comcast authorized one channel right off the bat as part of the agreement as time goes on and subscribers increase they will add more channels the name for the new channel hasn't been finalized as yet sister said but it probably will be called  traffic an hour away forty nine including a possible interchange at crest view drive and smith road needs to be reviewed before city official was consider allowing the construction of one hundred twenty one residence says on a tuesday's meeting agenda the developer as c e o planning and engineering of grass valley wants to start phase construction of the property in two thousand and nine about seven years earlier than the city planned to annex the property and deal with the project construction instead the city needs to consider an interchange and other possible impacts of other developments proposed for the area such as north star and south hill village johnson said his special council meeting could be set for february the city council meetings are seven pm at city hall one twenty five east main street a breaking story is that there is been an accident on our way forty nine one grass valley woman has been killed but we don't know more about it at this point gill masters the new selected man to take over the reins of the e r c said the area offers a quality of life many california business leaders are hungry for we have a great banquet in the world for directing the business i think that you are seeing needs to capitalize on recreational outlets quality schools and low crime rates can drop business owners tired of city life traffic and drug infested schools matthews addie intercepting businesses who are considering relocating to another state to avoid stiff regulations will also keep nevada county viable matthew who turned sixty six on saturday first came to nevada county from southern california more than twenty years ago he started a garage company benchmark thermal in one thousand nine hundred five with one partner the company that manufactures industrial heating elements for medical instruments and aircraft galleries had blossomed into a three point five million international export business by the time he sold it in two thousand and six earlier this year the  featured benchmark thermal on its economic tour as a model of export manufacturing mass whose experience doing business in a bad economy in his four years on the e r c board includes his stint as chairman two thousand and six gives him the edge of leadership needed to bring a fledgling enterprise i was the proverbial guy in a gripe to build a sixty person company have been there matthew said attracting digital and data based businesses that rely on telecommunicating will best suit the county in the coming years such as engineering research and development and graphic arts can all be done from a computer station at home as long as the broadband infrastructure is in place matthew created bus tour of nevada cities that are highlighted prolific and sometimes obscure high tech industry that thrives here i love doing those kinds of things as you biggest challenge is keeping interstate eighty hoping jane controls were lifted on interstate eighty and most area highways by late afternoon only one major accident was reported a collision between a big rig and a passenger vehicle on the interstate was lanes east of her stale road resulted in minor injuries we've got extra officers on today he said we're mostly working was a lot of soul vehicles stuck and shoulder a long  from what more to the state line between eight and ten minor accidents occurred mostly a donner summit county and spokesman shelley sure nicky said friday afternoon caltrans prepared for the weather conditions by increasing staff from the typical forty workers to three hundred fifty personnel and by using all equipment such as plows sanders and chain control checks our biggest challenge is the volume of traffic because we have to keep eight open for motorists but we also have to do  hundred one hundred mile stretch of us three ninety five from bridgeport california north to reno city limits snow began falling thursday afternoon and continued for the next twenty four hours the winter storm warning expired at eleven m for the lake tahoe region as you nicky adams said the highway department expects high volumes of traffic throughout last weekend from the skiers and snowboarders eager to hit the slopes the snowy conditions caused by also cause all schools in the truckee tall unified school district to start classes two hours later on friday additionally glen shari elementary school and daughter trail school closed for the day due to power outages but both search were scheduled to resume on m there you have it for our local news today senators among many others have now declared illegal seems as if the cia was engaged in destruction of evidence of a crime scene and that's very concerning c b s evening news is reporting that a well informed source informed the network that cia destroyed interrogation videos to avoid criminal prosecution new questions are now being raised about the role of senior lawmakers and back to you ledge tortured says washington post reports a ca has regularly brief senior members of the house and the senate intelligence committee on a secret overseas prisons and the interrogation techniques used the roberts according to the washington post none of the lawmakers raised objections and at least two of them asked a syria to push harder syria future say the controversial practice of waterboarding was among the techniques on on display former vice president al gore and un's intergovernmental panel on climate change reseated two thousand and seven nobel peace prize in australia today for their work to help combat global warming at a press conference ahead of their ward ceremony gore said are the threat of the future of civilization everywhere while al gore and the i p c c received nobel peace prize in australia negotiators continue to meet in bali at the un climate talks the guardian newspaper reports in negotiations hit a potential problem today totally under realistic and unhelpful in the twenty four to forty percent figure is based on the work of the un's intergovernmental planner panel on climate change harlan watson the senior climate negotiator for the us said the i p c c calculations was based on many uncertain meanwhile a new report by the climate research group german watch has ranked the united states second worst industrial nation in the world when it comes to combating climate change of the fifty six nations ranked the united states came in second to last  of only so here rabia sweden ranked first on the list ranking is based on energy and use of carbon dioxide emission data and evaluation of the climate change policies in place in each country congratulations  wrote if the federal government is truly serious about doing something about the aids virus we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague huckabee also wrote at the time i feel homosexuality is not burnt unnatural and sinful style lifestyle and we know it can pose a dangerous public health which is in other campaign news talk show host oprah winfrey campaign it was senator barack obama in iowa new hampshire and south carolina this week on sunday nearly thirty thousand people gathered to hear winfrey and obama speak in columbia south carolina and what the obama campaign describes as the largest came to an event in the two thousand and eight race he day earlier eighteen thousand people gathered in iowa want to see  room for she said obama has fought for the disability pay for the veterans he worked to boost the nonproliferation of deadly weapons he advocated the use of alternative fuels to cure our nation's addiction to oil yes spoken out against our government's indifference to the poor and to not political incompetence in the aftermath of hurricane katrina and he has rallied against genocide in dar for and long before it was a popular thing to do he stood his clarity and conviction against this war in iraq the united states was accused this weekend of being hypocritical for supporting israel's right to have nuclear weapons while trying to force iran to stop uranium enrichment during a conference in the gulf nation of a ran to be ran the labor minister my she did we question defense secretary robert gates about israel he said secretary defense thank you very much for the excellent speech i was wondering whether you think the israeli nuclear weapon is a threat to the regional security or not and robert gates replied no i do not the statement by gates was greeted by laughter from the room filled with government officials from middle eastern countries gates said there was a significant difference in terms of both the history and the behavior of the iranian and the israeli governments he said i think that israel is not training terrorists to subvert its neighbors it has not shipped weapons into places like iraq to kill thousands of innocent civilians convert it has not threaten to destroy any of its neighbors it is not trying to destabilize the government of lebanon in news from iraq the police chief of the province of babel was killed on sunday in a roadside bomb that tech occurred just hours after u s commanders praised quezon al the mauri for his commitment to bringing stability to are being horrifically murdered and then dumped in a garbage with notes saying they were killed for un islamic behavior he said the women are regularly arrested for not wanting to just address and head scarves isn't that nice city of chicago as agreed to pay nearly twenty million to four former death row prisoners who gave false confessions for being tortured by chicago police four men were all african american they sued former chicago police commander john b and more than twenty officers who worked with him alleging that they were coursed into falsely confessing to murder in two thousand and six pressure prosecutor released a long awaited report stating that was proved beyond reasonable doubt that burke and four other former officers abus from chicago the investigative reporter who was most responsible for uncovering the police torture story has been laid off john conroy was one of the four reporters at the chicago reader dismissed last week and it cost saving measure by the paper's parent company creative l that's a wrap for today's world news of legal drugs without a prescription bail was set at twenty five thousand dollars saturday at six thirty nine a m a caller from the eighteen thousand six hundred block of kentucky raveena road called to report a fight with a man who had gone into the garage where he had broken the grass valley police department and it for nineteen p m a caller said a male in a union high school parking lot on this eleven thousand six hundred block i want to seventy four six trimly intoxicated stumbling around and you're  in the caller said the man was driving a ford pickup truck seven forty four p m a call from business on the one twelve thousand eight hundred block a woman we could drive reported coworker could not get out of the building because of a vicious dog outside that would not let her employees eventually got her to agree to a forty one am a call from eleven thousand block at torrey pines drive said his neighbor's door was open the lights were on and the vehicles were in the driveway but there was no one home one forty seven a m a caller from the thirteen thousand one hundred block of mayflower said she saw suspicious objects in her backyard responding deputies were unable to locate anyone divest city police department on saturday at eight  way reported a man was throwing things at store and its customers at eight thirty seven a m a caller from the wanted to block a mystery reported someone had stolen four hundred dollars the caller had hidden a burglar read poor report was taken by responding officers ten fifty three a m a store in mill street found a backpack with drug items in it levon zero seven a m a caller from the four hundred block of south auburn street reported that the back window of his or her vehicle had been smashed out theft and released ten twenty three p m a call from the four hundred block of lamarck court heard someone called said they were going to get it saturday at twelve twenty two a m a call from business on the twelve thousand block a certain way reported that a man with dreadlocks had just done some beef jerky twelve thirty six a m a woman slumped over in a vehicle and to want to block a south our history was arrested on suspicion of public drunkenness and probation that's right it's time for the police blotter to pictures in the blotter not from these actual things but use for visual aid only