arbitration pleats to misdemeanor and patch pirate case but before these stories t v t v news would like to thank one of our underwriters and if you would like to be mentioned three times a day six days a week on this newscast your only visual news show in  today's first story written by liz keller nevada county got ready for its close up saturday morning nearly two hundred people assembled near the del oro theater outside of it in grass valley cheering and waving as a photographer from the american profile magazine shot them from his perch atop a twelve foot latter photo editor david mudd was on hand the profiles community as part of national article about community weight loss programs  county was chosen because of the two thousand and four meltdown organized by carol carson which saw bob one thousand people work together to lose four tons of flab it was a festive scene with a lineup of brightly colored vintage vehicles courtesy of the roman angels tracksuit sported a gold sequined visor was interviewing people on the street for a video project we pioneered the idea of the community weight loss program carson said we were one of the first who would she ever organize another meltdown well let me get through today she said after a moment's hesitation laughing perhaps the most eye catching member of the audience was ragnor who was wearing a cardboard school bus heino was has organized a group of parents to help walk students to school in nevada city area currently the group picks up kids and walks from nevada city elementary to deer creek doesn't take an longer than driving needs it hopes to start recruiting more parents once the weather gets better and hopes to be able to post the different routes and schedules on the safe routes to schools website when i was daughter and you know cooper high now said she prefers walking to school i don't like the bus so much she said it's too loud walking is fun because you can talk to each other and you bring your friends the article and photograph plan for the american profile will take carson's program and nevada county into homes of twelve million people across the country to pay the peg to this story is going to be nevada county said adding that the  was planned for the cover mud was heading to fossil oregon next and then to minnesota article was planned around new year's resolution game and the publication date has been scheduled for january first of next year in another story written by liz keller a civil suit filed by publisher of the union against a man he alleged ledges attacked him in his office has been referred to judicial arbitration the suit filed in nevada county superior court claims that jim knight a valley resident and golf pro at lake wildwood struck editor publisher jeff ackerman on october twentieth two thousand and nine injuring him and causing him to fall to the ground the suit which was filed in november two thousand and nine alleges medical expenses of earnings pain and suffering and emotional distress demanding that at least one point five million in compensation the district attorney's office has not filed criminal charges in the case knight allegedly was angry about a column written by ackerman which discussed has said he was attacked in his office two witnesses both employees of the union said knight shoved ackerman before the publisher came back at night night then grabbed ackerman and pushed him to the ground but died to tourney bradley thomas has alleged that ackerman attacked knight first and any assault on knight's part was self defense spirit court judge patricia hamilton referred the case to arbitration during a case management conference april fifth but gave the parties the option to try private mediation instead if ackerman and knight chose choose to go to mediation it must be completed by july nineteenth they have until april fifteenth to decide if they choose not to try mediation they will proceed to arbitration typically they refer cases to alternative dispute resolution said ackerman's attorney craig dimond i haven't spoken to mr thomas about whether he or his client are interested in mediation thomas was unavailable for comment friday afternoon diamond had requested a jury trial but indicated ackerman was willing to go to mediation and settlement conference has been scheduled for september twentieth if arbitration or mediation fail to trial date has been set for october nineteenth gunpoint has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charge of reckless driving on thursday nevada county superior court judge sean dowling deferred sentencing because teach out is scheduled to be sentenced may eleventh on separate charges of possessing marijuana for sale the when she had to balance that concern with the particulars of the case while mr teachout situation is sympathetic as he was a victim of a violent crime he endangered numerous people on the road that day many people had strong opinions about the case you had it they all felt he should not have been prosecuted at all certainly i've taken the community's feedback into account terry allen mccloy michael leo day fifty one of sacramento and timothy daniel fitzpatrick forty three of grope allegedly robbed teachout and three other north san juan residence at gunpoint january second taking marijuana cash and personal property then driving off in a pickup because and fitzpatrick allegedly were dressed in police raid gear with badges to impersonate narcotics detectives teacher and allegedly chased the robbers in a pickup and rammed their vehicle woman cloud was firing at him fitzpatrick who was driving died after he crashed his pickup during the chase many ridge residents commended teachout for his actions teach us attorney greg klein so he urged teachout to take the misdemeanor plea out of the utmost caution fitzpatrick's widow has hired a lawyer is planning to file a wrongful death suit against teachout  said calling the lawyer an ambulance chaser if teach out had proceeded to trial it would have been at the felony level klein said a loss would have been used to causation for the civil suit a no contest misdemeanor plea cannot be used against you in a civil case i told him take the plea and go back to your life teachout wasn't yet at the point of expressing relief i've been sitting on pins and needles teachout said emotionally i just want to move on meanwhile mccloy fifty one remains in nevada county jail with a bail set at one million dollars has been on charge of murder robbery and concert concert residential burglary and false and person nation of an armed with and harming enhancement he also was court thursday afternoon but the hearing was continued to one p m april twenty second and that's it today for a local news and now another thanks from one of our underwriters you could be one of christopher caller from three hundred block of manor drive reported vandalism to a rental house and eleven eighteen a m a woman from colfax avenue reported thirty caps from her vehicle she had read to them but said there was a group of people loitering who might be drinking to forty nine pm call from westbury hill drive reported physical fight with four people using sticks they left before officers arrived at five twenty six pm a man two hundred block of south school boards someone came to a residence and said they were going to report some stuff and at five thirty nine pm a man from three hundred block kidder avenue reported someone pulled up a flower that had been planted outside i called nine one one to n twenty nine pm called from twenty four hundred block of ridge road reported a block mustang received it could not be located and at ten twenty five pm a man from one hundred block west bank that way reported a woman had written inappropriate things on a girlfriend's car his girlfriend's car with the soap bar couldn't find her neighbor's chickens were in her yard it chicken was returned to its home called nine one one two twelve thirty five pm a woman from two hundred block of south school street reported the neighbor said he was going to record her conversations draw forty eight pm or a woman from four hundred block east main street boarded her family was selling her things that are yard sale and at six forty three pm a call from the bridge and slight critic reported it black mustang racing up and down the street nine seventeen p m elderly woman from two hundred block substance and possession of a needle and drug paraphernalia sunday one twenty a m call from alton richardson street boarded a van with a broken window and glass all over the street it was not clear whether anything had been taken ten thirty five am a caller from twelve thousand block of nineteen ham lane reported a juvenile ran away after be beating up his little brother the boy was admonished ten thirty six a m a woman from eleven thousand block oak canyon drive reported friday on charges on a credit card and it twenty ten forty three a m a call from ten thousand block of grinding rock driver boarded a possible scam ten forty five a m a call from fourteen thousand block of cheese drive reported the need for an exterminat twelve thirty three p m a woman from thirteen thousand block off the road reported verbal dispute with a neighbor who shot off several rounds in the air who had threatened to shoot her dogs and children in the past and for twenty seven p m a call from ten thousand block of call me road reported theft of a purse from a business was found log entry was made some twenty four p m call from thirteen thousand block of ridge road reported two women in a physical fight they were gone when deputies arrived in the eight forty eight p m it woman from ten thousand reported to be an emergency room with injuries caused by spousal abuse nine thirty two p m a man from fifteen thousand block of burnett place reported his girlfriend stole his medication he was highly medicated and i'm cooperative and she denied anyth ten ten pm several callers from ten thousand block of goldhill drive reported hearing a gunshot and screaming it was found to have been a firework ten fifteen p m several callers from cascade driving past cali road reported hearing five to seven gunshots driver and a pastor told the new york times and the u s car open fire just as the bus began pulling over to the side of the road to allow another military convoy to pass the bus was said to be full of civilian passengers when the u s troops opened fire all the windows on one side of the bus were shot out some of the wounded were left in critical condition and the death toll could rise president obama is hosting scores of world leaders in washington for a summit focusing on unsecured nucular materials on sunday obama began a series of meetings with visiting delegations from forty six countries and at the summit secretary of state heller quite said the aim is to keep nuclear weapons away from terrorist groups and said the risk of nuclear attacks has actually increased and the potential consequences of mishandling this challenge are deadly we are trying to make t beginning of a sustained international effort to lock down the world's vulnerable nucular materials within four years and reduce the possibility that these materials will find their way into the hands of terrorists as the bomb administrating pledged nuclear cooperation around the summit it also took to reassert the predominance of the u s nuclear arsenal in an interview with a b c news clinton said the u s is spending five billion this year to modernize its nuclear weapons and said we intend to maintain a robust nuclear deterrent that no one be mistaken the united states will defend ourselves and defend our partners and allies we intended sustain that nuclear deterrent by modernizing the existing stockpile in fact we have five billion in this year's budget going into that very purpose and with this interest is on our nuclear stockpile in the stewardess ship program that we will engage being gauged in and will be you know stronger than anybody in the world as we always had have been with more nuclear weapons than are needed many times over and so we do not see this as in any way  diminishment of what we are able to do president obama is vowing a speedy appointment to replace the retiring supreme court justice john paul stevens the eighty nine year old stevens announced friday he'll step down at the end of the court's regular session in june at the white house stevens thirty five years on the bench and said he has worn a judicial robe was honored humility he has applied this constitution and laws of the family land with fidelity and restraint he will soon turned ninety this month but he leaves his position the top of his game his leadership will be sorely missed now as justice stephen expressed to me and i letter announcing is your current it is in the best interest of the supreme court to have a successor appointed and confirmed before the next term begins and so i will move quickly to name a nominee as i did with just stevens has long been regarded as a leader of the liberal wing of the supreme court in a statement american civil liberties union said the civil liberties legacy of justice stevens is deep and broad he has promoted racial equality supported gay rights and defended a woman's right to choose without withdrawn herself from consideration after more than a year of republican led opposition to her nomination the nominee don johnson is a law professor at indiana university republicans had criticized her for opposition to bush policies as well as her work for an abortion rights group two decades ago she was left off a list of fifteen recess appointments by president obama last month and the bombing ministration is now defended the u s military indiscriminate killing of twelve iraqis after refusing to back calls for footage could damage the u s image of pride and he said there in a combat situation the video doesn't show the broader picture of the fire and what was going on at american troops it's obviously a hard thing to see it's painful to see especially when you learn after the fact what was going on but you talk about the fog of war these people are operating in a split second situations and you know we're investigating it very thoroughly well our troops do the best  to end it west virginia's upper big branch mine after discovery of bodies of four miners who remain missing after last week's explosion their death brought the death toll to twenty nine in the worst u s money disaster nearly four years west virginia governor joe manchin held news conference saturday shortly after the bodies were found and said we did not receive the miracle we prayed for we have accounted for four miners that have been unaccounted for we have a total of twenty nine brave miners who were we are recovering at this time none of the chambers ha been deployed and none of our miners suffered so this journey has ended and now the healing will start in a statement president obama called the probe into the mine blast saying the tragedy acquires accountability the owner and operator of the mine massey energy has been cited for dozens of safety violations in recent years with fifty seven citations just last month and poland has declared a week of national mourning following saturday's plane crash that killed its president and dozens of top political military leaders in russia president let's he has headed a delegation to russia to commemorate the nine hundred forty massacre of over twenty thousand poles by the soviet union secret police someone who had been seen as a sign of growing reconciliation between poland and russia at least ninety six people died in a crash  the embassy in washington polish ambassador robert pictured i think americans for their condolences and said i would like to extend my words of thanks and gratitude to president barack obama and the american people many people who contacted the embassy who contacted me personally sharing their words of sympathy and condolences thank you very much for your attention in addition to top government officials the victims included former polish trade unionist ana while until now which to now await whose foreign in one nine hundred eighty led to the founding of the polish trade union solidarity in thailand public are being held today for protesters killed in clashes on saturday in bangkok least seventeen civilians were killed and hundreds more wounded when police fired live ammunition in there the crowds of thousands of so called red shirt protesters in bangkok quarter four police officers were also killed in syria unrest it was tom's worst political violence in nearly two decades the red shirts have led the series of protests calling for t parliament to be dissolved the israeli military is an act in a new order this week that could lead to the expulsion of imprisonment of tens of thousands of palestinians on the occupied west bank under the order any palestinian or foreigner in the west bank without israeli issued i could be deported or jailed for up to seven years palestinians from gaza or foreign born spouses of palestinians are expected to be among the first targets of the order is in force in a statement a coalition of ten israeli human rights groups including  and rabbis for human rights called for the policy to be revoked saying their orders are words so broadly such as they were adequately allowing the military to empty the west bank and almost all its palestinian habitations and cows and stands has granted the u permission to conduct over flights to move troops and equipment to afghanistan the u s says to fly to allow a quicker deployment of u s troops into the afghan war zone and that's it today for the world news do you t v news would like to thank the unit in such a depressing