in favor of the program say he could benefit local law enforcement by making it easier to document who has a doctor's recommendation you could also set some patients minds at ease to carry a validating card in their wallet  transporting the medicine by vehicle i think for people it feels more official said jeff brown director of nevada county's health and human services agency others including a grass valley doctors say such a id card is discriminatory and chips away at a patient's privacy rights is something we've really worked hard to protect said dr shawn devlin if its mission from highland springs wellness center in grass valley  host of professionals from teachers to judges who regularly seek a recommendation for medical marijuana at the office would be exposed to yet i think it's just another step towards control in two thousand and three before twenty was enacted requiring the california department of public health to operate a state medical marijuana program medical use of marijuana became legal in one thousand nine hundred six when california voters passed proposition two fift the id program allows qualified patients to apply for and receive again if occasion card through their public health department information about the patient is sent to that and stored at the state data bank even though the program is volunt fears it is the first step to establishing mandatory cards for all medicinal cannabis users my concern is a cascade effect evelyn said he questions establishing the system for one group of patien while others who use opiate based drugs go without any type of scrutiny of all the doctor recommended medicines the only one being focused on is medicinal cannabis because it's a hot button issue so far the cards have been unpopular statewide brown added in orange county with a population three million people only one hundred cards were issued last year so your county has issued zero cards even though the program has been in place for a year now only two people have shown interest in cards in  we have tested paid it demand for less than twenty cards each year brown said in his staff report to the board of supervisors slowed by pending legal challenges nevada county postponed adopted docked in the program until late settlement has been reid late last fall today forty eight to fifty eight california counties have implemented the program if approved by supervisors at their meeting this week the program could begin as soon as next month the fee for the card would be best city for more information contact a county public health department at two six five one four five zero in the story out of sacramento you keeping with california republican party's theme of rallying against taxes and those who support them convention delegates on sunday approved a symbolic measure reprimanded sixty o p lawmakers who voted for the largest tax increase in state history the measure which denies the six party funding for the twenty ten election has approved was approved swiftly and without the paid debate sunday as the party's twice annual convention wrapped up in sacramento in early versions of the measure contains stronger language calling for center three lawmakers each from the senate and assembly broke ranks last week to give democrats and governor arnold schwarzenegger the necessary votes for passing a can promise budget solution to the state's forty two billion dollars shortfall supporters said sunday's resolution sends a strong message to politicians that there will be consequences for breaking their no tax pledge if you take a no tax pledge and you vote for taxes then you are being devices divisive because you know exactly what the consequences are going to be said john fletcher many a party  chairman from southern california who introduced the major but not all republicans felt the party needed to take a general tolerance approach that could further push the party can do an ideology idea  it's meanspirited said helen nature you know delegate from los angeles area i think it's time to move forward at the end of the day we had six legislators that didn't have a lot of options as your who wore a sticker supporting former e p a chief executive make whitman for governor in two thousand and ten said an open primary process would enable more moderates to get elected and our next story seems to be lot of knives in our stories lately don't know why in a story by li keller out of the union nineteen year old man was in nevada county jail thursday on suspicion of attempted murder was allegedly stabbing his older brother in north san juan the older brother got up and turned on the heater and noticed his front door was open  better county sheriff keith royal when he went to the door he was jumped by his brother defined as david paul bledsoe who began stabbing him with a knife despite multiple st to manage to force his brother back out the door and close it against him he then was able to stem the bleeding by pressing betty to his wound and he walked to a nearby neighbor's house for help the neighbor drove him to sierra nevada boreal hospital where he was treated for two stab wounds to the chest one step on to the abdomen and slashes to each throat he also reportedly sustained punctures t lungs the victim underwent surgery thursday morning sierra nevada memorial hospital in grass valley and was in stable condition by the afternoon thursday reporting a man who proved to be under the influence had jumped in front of a car on may do ridge road the woman who called nine one one reported he then came to her house and started knocking on her door  later found bledsoe walking in tyler foot road area near sage road and determined that he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs or bolz well alcohol is your chording to hospital emergency room after investigating officers arrested david blood to want suspicion of attempted murder he was being held without bail and there you have it today for our taken two days before the ten forty nine a m a call from northbound highway forty nine at south auburn reporting an elderly man wearing a cowboy hat walking on the side of the highway one forty one p m call from iron horse place reported a man possibly a transient who was seen near a dumpster possibly going through it point contact it was limited to man was a former tenant and had committed no crime one forty six p m caller from two want to block a fairmont drive towards she was followed home and harassed by three young girls who threw snow where contact was made with the juveniles who were admonished three forty seven p m called for marshall street party young juvenile who was riding on a scooter in the street with to her three year old child four ten p m woman called from a bus stop a pleasant street report her seven year old daughter had been harassed and at four fifty one m caller from the eight hundred block of old tunnel road what if your neighbor pushed her and took a cigarette the parties were advised to stay away from each other six fifty one p m caller from southbound highway forty nine reported a reckless driver and at nine fifty three p m a caller from brunswick road reported someone driving with a baby in their lap eleven thirty five p m caller from south sovereign street reported subjects who are prowling around cars look familiar and saturday to a five am he caller from chapel and brighton street reported a large male with a shaved head wearing shorts the vehicle while it was moving twelve thirty seven p m he called from three hundred block of pleasant street reported a domestic dispute the caller reported hearing a woman scream things being broken and doors slamming and at two twenty p m a juvenile from the two hundred block a certain way reported her mother refused to give her any food and at two forty nine pm a call from two hundred block of certain way reported her daughter had a lot of years and was not listening to her mother and at three thirty seven pm a call from the one hundred block of west empires through ported receiving death threats from an ex boyfriend by text message and at six fifteen p m t am a woman from two hundred block a church street reported a man was inside her home breaking things and would not leave and sunday two eleven am hit caller from a local fast food restaurant reported a disturbance of the and snow to twelve p m woman from sixteen eighteen thousand block of wildflower drive reported her ex boyfriend had made harassing phone calls and trespassed at her residence and at three fifty four p m the c about elder abuse and at five forty six p m a woman a man from seventeen dollars block of johns ridge road reported a neighbor who regularly peeled out in front of his house and flipped him off color informed law enforcement he believed his neighbor had listened lug nuts on reported she had just returned home to find previous tenant had broken out the window and saturday at one nineteen a m the caller from the hill street report multiple vehicles parked on the road damaged with spray paint and it two thirty five am a nine one one transfer call from california i would patrol for a man that was on a fourteen thousand block a rough and ready highway who requested a ride home because feared he was going to get messed up phone calls and at nine twenty one a m a caller from the ten thousand block of carrots road reported a tenant who refused to leave after being effected and at nine fifty a m a parent from eleven thousand block of magnolia road reported two juveniles were threatening to bring a gun to school and shoot the callers daughter ten forty five a m it woman from the thirteen thousand block of farm hill drive reported her daughter's husband had broken her job the night before hollow road reported a t v writers who were shooting firearms on private property two twenty five pm call from twelve thousand block of moody flat road reported corner of his property was cutting down trees and selling them without permission and at three fifty two pm a caller from the sixty thousand block of indian springs road reported he still got a gun and at four fifty pm a caller from rex reservoir reported juveniles shouting and possibly drinking alcohol and at five forty six a call from sixteen thousand block a rough and ready how were reported a possible physical fight between a man and a woman with a child in the residence and at six fifteen pm he called from the ten thousand block of colby road reported alcohol stolen from a business and it ate forty seven pm a caller from perimeter work reported fireworks in the area and nine forty six pm a traffic accident was reported at the corner probably forty nine sweet band road and i'd love and sixteen pm caller from seventeen thousand block pretty court reporting a fight and sunday twelve fifty three a m the caller from that fifteen thousand block of shannon where reported her residence had been heavily room threatening to break into the room and kill someone and at four fifty nine am he called from like wildwood drive reported a car parked in the middle of the road was an individual who was passed out inside and at seven forty two the caller from the ten thousand block a boulder street reported he suspected the caretaker who lives in his garage was stealing from him and the valley city police department on friday nine forty nine saturday two twenty four p m a call from commercial and york street forty two subjects were passed out looks like three to me and there you have it today for our blo and u s military secret work with pakistan troops in a secret no longer e p a to rule on carbon dioxide emissions and amnesty calls for arms embargo on israel and hamas and eleven but runty troops killed in somalia suicide blast in two days first story citigroup and federal officials are in talks that could result in the u s government substantially expanding their ownership of one of the world's largest financial institutions the wall street journal reports the government could wind up holding as much as forty percent of citigroup's common stop potential move of citigroup would give the government its biggest ownership of financial services companies census attempt or bailout of insured a i g which left taxpayers with an eighty percent stake last week citigroup's share price fell below two dollars to an eighteen year low in other economic news president obama has pledged to cut federal deficit in half by the end of the first term despite the fiscal stimulus package during his weekly radio address bamma said the nation can't generate a sustained growth without getting the nation's deficit under control he also said no single piece of the broad economic recovery can by itself meet the demands that have been placed on us we can't help people find work or pay their bills unless we lock credit for families  businesses we can't solve our housing crisis unless we help people find work so that they can make payments on their homes we can produce shared prosperity without firm rules of the road and we can't generate sustained growth without getting our deficits under control in short we cannot successfully address any of our problems without addressing them all and that is exactly what the strategy we are pursuing is designed to do the obama administration has embraced another key argument of former president bush's counterterrorism policy in a court filing on friday the justice department told a friend or judge the prisoners held at the u s air force base at baghran in afghanistan have no legal rights to challenge their imprison human rights groups say they are becoming increasingly concerned to to use up the extra judicial methods in afghanistan could be extended under a new u s administration baghran air base is about to undergo a sixty million dollar expansion to provide enough space to house five times as many prisoners as remain at guantanamo and attorney general eric holder is heading to guantanamo for the first time since he took office holder told reporters he wants to talk to officials there about detention and interrogation techniques this comes as the pentagon is claiming in a new report to prison complies with the geneva conventions position disputed by many human rights groups meanwhile tunnel his military lawyer lieutenant colonel you want to bradley said that what mohammad endured at guantanamo makes waterboarding look like child's play the new york times reports more than seventy u military advisors and technical specialists are secretly working in pakistan well it's a secret no longer to help its own forces battling al qaeda and taliban the americans are mostly on an army special forces soldiers who are training pakistani army and parrot military troops providing them with intelligence and devising them of combat tactics the cia is also providing intelligence to the pakistani commando unit that has been used to kill and capture of wanted minister benazir bhutto the wall street journal reports environmental protection agency will soon determine the carbon dioxide emissions represent a danger to the public and proposed new rules to regulate emissions up the greenhouse gas for a range of industries carol browner a special advisor to the president on climate change and energy told the paper that the e p a is looking at two thousand and seven supreme court ruling that requires agencies to determine whether carbon dioxide in danger is public health  or welfare amnesty international is urging the u n security council to impose an immediate arms embargo on israel hamas and other palestinian on groups and honestly said it's found evidence that israel and h had committed war crimes and used weapons supplied from overseas but to carry out attacks on civilians during israel's three week attack in gaza meanwhile kevin a top humanitarian official at the u n says he is shocked by the current condition inside gaza following the israeli attack and in somalia eleven peacekeeping troops from burundi died on sunday in a suicide bombing attack in mogadishu the