in today's local news about a county judge pirro court judge robert he was disqualified from hearing the nail gun murder trial after another judge ruled monday that to me eddie may not be impartial because of his personal ties to the victim's family  girlfriend knew the victim professionally and his girlfriend's twenty year old son has had has a social relationship with the victim's daughter but the defense attorney plans to call to the witness stand according to court documents after review of all  issues this court believes a person aware of the facts might reasonably entertain a doubt that the judge would be impartial san joaquin superior court judge bernard garber wrote in his decision received by nevada county superior court on monday by california's superior court chief justice ron george to rule on defense attorney steven motion to disqualify him yet he filed earlier this month the order to disqualify tammy as the latest twist in the murder case of richard delays including monk helped request to change the trial venue because of pretrial publicity he granted the change of venue motion in september calling some media reports incendiary the judge was going to bus was going to bus the jury to nevada county courthouse from truckee then he decided to move the trial to napa county superior court a trial date had been set for october twenty ninth in august and in august pretrial hearing tammy eddie disclosed his remand to relationship with the woman who worked in the same circles with hendrika williams williams worked for the grass valley school district as a special education aide to meet his girlfriend work for the nevada county superintendent of schools running an infant program for children with developmental challenges the documents have said the name of the judge's girlfriend was not mentioned in the court documents my girlfriend and i do not discuss the issues or people involved in the case to me out he wrote in his response to monk elds latest version for  qualification but on september twentieth to me he disclosed that the son of his girlfriend is the social friend of brianna williams and richard williams is youngest daughter i further disclose that i have not met brianna williams that he wrote adding that he and his girlfriend asked her son not to bring the young woman to the house of tammy eddie's girlfriend when he was there it's all beginning to sound a little close isn't it helped said on monday  said in napa county superior court judge to hear the case or send another judge from nevada county to napa to hear the case because that the latest ruling has put a snag in the county's plans the attorneys involved had planned to begin jury selection and nap on monday but the disqualification means that pretrial motions including the change of venue motion can be reconsidered by the new judge we're ready to go monday or the trial may be district attorney cliff newell said we'll see what happens but i'd be surprised any judge would want to dive into jury slick monday putting up attorneys investigators court staff and a judge to napa county for the three week trial won't be cheap for the taxpayers county department heads said on monday a trial in napa would cost the county and state several thousands of dollars more than a local held trial the county's district attorney's superior court executive officer to receive a special government rate for the two of the three weeks of the trial if i had to take a guess i would estimate that for travel rooms meals and security twenty thousand dollars to twenty five thousand dollars mark metro suspect it would cost the county considerably more than that the county is responsible for the rooms gas and meals for district attorney katherine francis a paralegal to assist francis court appointed indigent defense attorney held a district attorney investigator to the sheriff's detectives testifying in a trial and all other witnesses called newell said on monday with his government just tell rooms but look for the trial cost eighty nine dollars one hundred forty nine dollars he said the court and travel costs for his agency could reach about five thousand dollars the county and state department heads have not requested special funding to pay for travel costs so the trial is going to roll from their regular budgets for the travel entertainment for the day of giving starts as starts at noon and will peak when jazz pop artist jane revard offers a concert from seven to eight p m concert tickets are ten dollars and twenty dollars and proceeds will go to the nonprofit of your choice the telethon will raise money for local organizations whose representatives will explain during the telethon what they do and who they help for more information or to volunteer to help out the telephone call denise dunlap at  four eight one one one or loose it's are at four seven eight six four zero zero extension number two forty nine nevada city's city council could decide tomorrow night whether to approve proposed changes in fees for the downtown business association were handling a long simmering dispute among regions the fees are expected to generate almost thirty two thousand dollars to improve the downtown district projects have included new benches as sidewalk sale cleaning of sidewalks and holiday placement of flags some down business owners are upset about the proposed fee structure contending they were sued and adequate notice leader of the nevada city downtown association counters that adequate notice was provided including a letter and a public meeting during the summer the contentious issue has divided some merchants some residents and city officials wish the merchants would cast aside their differences and try to work together getting given an economic slowdown and a pending buy locally campaign out of the busy holiday shopping season none of the opposition was there when this was discussed said jim mccann a chairman of the association the opposition is from merchants have opposed the group from the start it's just what he feels they are to be charged chuck schumer you referring to mcconaughey and the right structure she owns the parsonage on broad street not on a fair playing field added gary still the rate owner of told call books or north st next year is a proposed fee schedule is similar to one used by the grass valley downtown association which places businesses depending on where the business is located fees are also on a excuse me fees also are based on the number of workers in the business most businesses on brought in pine streets could pay between one hundred dollars and three hundred forty three dollars per year based on a large number of businesses with just one or two workers mcconaughey added most businesses within the rest of the district included spring and commercial streets they could pay between one hundred fifty four and two hundred eighty six dollars before most retail shops required to pay three hundred sixty dollars per year with the new structure mcconaughey expects many businesses will pay less than they had in previous years and they say she will get less associated projects nearly thirty two thousand dollars in revenue for the next year after clip nearly forty five thousand dollars this year and that is it for local news today and now for world news wildfires continue to rage in southern california more than five hundred thousand people in san diego county have been ordered to evacuate or nine hundred homes have already been destroyed the fires extend from the mexican border to santa barbara  devastating fires were in san diego county governor arnold schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency governor arnold schwarzenegger says and we have to do everything we can to help these people to get back on their feet as quickly as possible that's why we all are here today so that we can work together and really provide as much help as possible but first we have to just pray that the wind slows down because the wind is our number one enemy right now and the dry weather so we hope that these conditions weather conditions change as quickly as possible unquote at least one person has died in the fires another thirty seven people have been reported injured getting seventeen firefighters at least five thousand people have been evacuated to the football stadium where the san diego chargers play one of the evacuees darnley morgans of the fires had spread through out entire neighborhoods many experts have linked the growing intensity of these wildfires to drought and global warming while much of southern california is ablaze more than eight inches of rain fell in new orleans on flooding parts of the city mayor ray nagin excuse me shut city hall early and schools across the city closed more rain is in the forecast for today remains high on the turkish iraqi border following the killing of seventeen turkish troops by kurdish militants over the weekend turkey has been threatening to invade northern iraq for days and on monday turkish troops shelled eleven towns across the iraqi border the guardian newspaper reports dozens of to military vehicles loaded with soldiers and heavy weapons are heading toward the iraqi border kurdish fighters with the p k k offered a cease fire if turkey abandons plans to launch cross border raids but turkey has refused to negotiate inside turkey earlier today turkey and iraq agreed to work together to deal with the kurdish rebels in northern iraq president bush has officially asked congress to approve an additional one hundred ninety six billion dollars billion dollars for the war in iraq and afghanistan bush's request increased the amount of the proposed spending by forty six billion dollars over the hundred fifty billion dollars dollars already requested this year if congress approves the spending it would bring the total war appropriations since about eleven attacks to more than eight hundred billion dollars the washington post reports that at the current rate war appropriations could reach one trillion dollars by the time president bush leaves office a total that by some measures would exceed the cost of the korean and vietnam wars combined president bush also asked congress to approve a one point four billion dollars aid package over the next three years to fight the so called drug war in mexico the question marks a ten fold increase in the assistance now provided to mexico well president bush is seeking nearly two hundred dollars two hundred billion dollars to fight war overseas not enough money is available at home for a program to help low income households pay their heating  reports about thirty million low and american households will be left in the cold because of a lack of funding for the government's low income home energy assistance program the program only has enough funding to cover sixteen percent of the thirty eight million poor household eligible for the program despite higher energy costs the bush administration has proposed cutting the program's budget but most administrations suffered a major setback after a jury in dallas failed to convict former officials from what was once the country's largest islamic charity the holy land foundation for relief and development on monday the jury revealed that it had failed to convict the five defendants of any of the two hundred combined counts against them district judge joe fish declared a mistrial after three jurors said the verdict did not represent their views and two thousand and one president bush ordered the holy land foundation closed and seized the charity's assets claiming that the organization had ties to the palestinian group hamas as georgetown law professor david cole described the developments as a huge defeat for the government cole said they spent almost fifteen years investigating this group since all their records and had extensive wiretapping and yet could not obtain a single conviction on charges of supporting a terrorist organization the bush administration said it plans to retry the case and news from one on a high ranking leader leader of the hezbollah has warned the united states not to set up any military bases inside l n said it would consider such a move a hostile act lebanese newspaper also fear recently wrote the u s wants to expand its ties to the lebanese military by building a string of u s military bases days after the report was published eric edelman the u s undersecretary of defense for policy appeared on lebanese t v and admitted the u s wants to develop what he called a strategic partnership with the lebanese army the us has increased its military million more than five times the amount provided a year ago meanwhile a dispute continues over a u s military base in ecuador dorrian president rafael correa has refused to renew washington's lease on the man a air brace and interview with routers korea said he would renew the lease on one condition nine states allow ecuador to build a military base in miami korea said if there's no problem having foreign soldiers on a country so look so oil surely they'll let us have an ecuadorian base in the united states it's estimated that the united states has over seven hundred seven hundred military bases in foreign countries and other military news nine south african soldiers died on friday when a robotic anti aircraft cannon malfunctioned a south african military spokesperson said the computerized gun apparently jammed and it opened fire uncontrollably spraying hundreds of high explosive cannon shells thirteen soldiers were also injured and washington about sixty climate change activists were arrested monday during the series of no war no warming actions to protest the war in iraq and the bush administration's handling of global warming several of their arrests occurred on capitol hill after a ts blocked the doors to the cannon house office building and campaign news former senator mike gravel is protesting a decision by n b c news to bear to bar him from the next tuesday's debate at drexel university in philadelphia and d c said that he made the decision and part because gravel had raised over one million dollars gravel said the fact that and the sea is owned by general electric one of the world's leading military contractors is frightening and certainly smacks of censorship censorship directed at the most outspoken critic of influence the military industrial complex holds of his great nation unquote and political news republican excuse me republican senator mel martinez of florida has resigned as chair of the republican national committee the cuban born martinez is the republicans hard twinking latino official his resignation came shortly after he had expressed frustration over the tenor of the immigration debate within his party robert president of the republican leaning latino coalition to the los angeles times that martinez's departure is especially disheartening because it follows the resignation of another high profile latino and the g o p former attorney general alberto gonzales deposit has said the message that it sends is latinos are not welcome radical conservative base has a temporary victory right now that's right it's time for the police blotter and the pictures in the water are not from these actual events but use for visual aid only police department on sunday at one fifteen p m caller from a business on about a city highway reported a man was being uncooperative police contacted the twenty year old man and arrested him on an outstanding morning at one forty six p m a caller from the hundred block of sly's dale court reported a man was passed out in front of the business police contacted a fifty two year o man who works at the building and have been drinking at two forty one pm a woman called from the three hundred block of mill street to report a gray ford expedition ran off the road into her father's threats and then it took off police responded and a man got out of the vehicle and started running police caught up with the thirty six year old man on dalton street and arrested him on suspicion of violating probation resisting arrest driving with a suspended license and a hit and run at four o five p m a caller from alcohol last seen five minutes for the context of the thirty year old man and started him on suspicion of shoplifting and violating probation on monday i had to call in your business on the thousand block of its main street reported all the restaurants lights were on and the door was standing right open but no one was inside and something was blocking the drive through police contacted an employee and no arrests were made about a  sheriff's office on sunday at ten o four a m a deputy saturday a juvenile at a school on the twenty four thousand block of highway forty nine on suspicion of assault and vandalism at eighteen at four eighteen a caller from the sixteen deputies contacted a driver who was given a seventy two hour notice of camping on borough of land management and got a city police department on sunday at twelve pm a call from the nine hundred block of helen way reported a man was screaming and fighting everyone police responded and the man was moving along at twelve fifty seven pm a call from a business on the two hundred block of broad street reported bed linens and tiles had a lot of blood on them police determined there was no indication of foul play at two fifty nine pm a call from a business on commercial street reported a man with a was yelling at police told the man to leave the downtown area at three fourteen p hundred block of sacramento street reported a woman had a gash on her head was asking about shelters police arrested the woman on a sacramento county warrant she was released from jail after jail staff advised her of her court date and sacramento county and that's it for the police blotter and now time for the weather