hi my name is alex and welcome to the nevada county we're bringing the community to you and a revolutionary way to save you time money and gas before we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the a union story by dave moller police and the f b i are looking for a lone man who robbed a downtown auburn bank around noon monday and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash the suspect appears to be the same involved in  a bank robbery in sacramento on december thirtieth according to auburn police detective sergeant victor pick pick over r o he is not associated with the bank of america robbery which occurred on high street in auburn december twenty third the man did not display a weapon monday at the wells fargo bank on elm avenue but demanded money from the teller at the downtown branch according to auburn police witnesses said the man left on foot with the money in a small suspect is a clean shaven white adult man but eight inches five ten inches tall one hundred seventy pounds with short dark hair he was wearing a yellow baseball cap with the word loco embroidered  letters on the front of the bill photos show the man was wearing large square framed sunglasses a blue or black and white hawaiian shirt and a letterman style denim jacket with brown leather sleeves authorities also said a witness reported the suspect may have an injury to his right palm described as a gash with stitches anyone with inform who and anyone with information on the crimes or who thinks they recognize a suspect should call auburn  police eight two three four two three seven extension two six three and another story in the written by david roddy tom mcclintock heads to the u s capitol today to be sworn in as the fourth congressional district representative after  bruising contests he said he says wasn't even his toughest the republican who has served in the state senate and assembly istead democratic democrat an air force veteran charlie brown of roseville in two thousand and two he lost by less than one half of a percentage point to democrat steve westly for state controller from that standpoint this was a runaway victory mcclintock chuckled regarding his latest campaign i have to give credit charlie brown for running a very good race as a freshman representative in the minority party for at least the next two years mcclintock may be facing his biggest battle yet i've learned that in legislatures the minority does not get together and but the minority has an equal opportunity to prove on what majority is doing that's how people are assured a better way of doing things this was mcclintock second run at a congressional seat having lost a bid to represent california's twenty fourth district in one thousand nine hundred two though he's never served in washington the fifty two year old native of white plains new york said he's learned plenty from the politics of sacramento that he can take to the mala in d c the issues at hand involve the survival for our nation when bad when bad policy affects california you can always move to a different state mcclintock does not live in the district of the suburbs forest lynsey or peaks in the valley farmland he represents he goes to washington after representing a state senate and destroy in southern california's san fernando valley he plans to look for a home for his family to lease in the southern pl eldorado county's mcclintock said house he owns an elk grove is being rented out there can the congressman elect said he plans to come to town hall meetings over the next three months in his new district  gauge the concerns of citizens and set priorities he will seek to see on the houses and natural resources committee and transportation and the infrastructure committee which he said  particular importance to the district's constituents basis quality of life concerns the natural resources committee deals extensively with logging mining and water issues while the transportation and infrastructure committee is the house for federal road and highway improvements and construction committees give me the opportunity to provide the best advocacy on issues vital to people in the fourth district he said mcclintock would like to relax longstanding restrictions on logging i'd like to see the logs carried out of the forest rather than burned out he said once in washington mcclintock megan revived a thirty year old debate to construct a dam on the american river for  hydroelectric power though the california water resources control board in december revoked permits for the dam the congressman elect said timing will dictate whether he would push for the project which has halted after one nine hundred seventy by earthquake when we have the most water rich area in the state and it's subject to water rationing i think we may see a dramatic shift in favor of it he said the area cannot prosper without it mcclintock said th dam can produce enough hydroelectric power for nearly one million homes though the demanding of the river has been roundly criticized by opponents as being unsafe and reckless from the environmental standpoint mcclintock also said he will continue the put to push for limited government and blasted the bush administration's seven hundred billion financial bailout he said he will also push for a reduction in corporate taxes  use tax productivity you get all less of it the areas with the highest unemployment would benefit from from a reduction of such taxes he says adding that such adding that such a reduction could help curb an about a county seven percent unemployment rate mcclintock and nouns to his staff in a memo to the media monday and will move into the cannon house office building where freshmen legislators often are assigned when told that a large constituency is counting on him to deliver mcclintock paused i am keenly aware of that he said i feel far better prepared to be a freshman in congress than i ever was when i was a freshman in the state a man interviewed vehicle on their property it was not known whether he took anything from the vehicle and monday twelve fifty eight a m call from a business on the one hundred block of south arbor street reported a woman possibly driving while away reported a fight over ownership of a dog he reportedly reached into a vehicle that had to dog inside was dragged by the vehicle he said that the vehicle then stopped in the person punched him in the face he blocked a vehicle was his work truck when sheriff's deputies arrived no one wanted to press charges and it won twenty eight am it woman from the one nine hundred thousand block of hose a lot dr ocelot tried putting someone had broken into her home and was standing in the kitchen the person turned out to officers searched for the vehicle but could not make it up chalk hill road due to the snow for search and rescue volunteers on snowmobiles resent to look for the jeep which they found about one mile east of highway twenty at about six a m the people in a jeep declined medical attention and at one fifty three p m it woman from the twelve thousand block of the casket court reported vandalism to her vehicle and its three p m a call from western gateway park in penn valley reported someone shooting off bottle rockets and it's three twelve pm a woman from the ten thousand block of law court reported vandalism to vehicles that were parked at her home for a party embassy in iraq and bush to create world's largest marine protection area and jet blue and t s a officials pay reid gerar two hundred forty thousand dollars settlement and if you go shows police shoot largest city in northern gaza witnesses report wave after wave of bomb striking accompanied by gunfire from helicopters in anti tillery from land and sea on monday israel rejected your korean calls for cease fire more than forty palestinians were killed in gaza yesterday almost half of them children five civilians were killed early today want to shell fired by an israeli ship it their house united nations says three palestinians died last night when in and read israeli bomb hit a un school where hundreds of gazans had the palestinian civilians are being particularly hard hit he also said the statistics are clear among the two twenty four hundred twenty five hundred injured forty five percent of one in children then there are also all those civilian men so the large majority are injured the victims are women and children civilians among the killed twenty five percent of the killed are children and women and among the children today it was this morning it was eight hundred one children either killed or injured  hundred one children had been killed dr gilbert has criticised israel for claiming there is no humanitarian crisis he also said i ask where is the international community who has this big organization to come to disasters we two doctors from the west where are the others they are not letting because israelis say there is no disaster now how can they know they never came here they never saw they don't care so this is the worst manmade disaster for the time i can  earlier the other day the international committee of the red cross said gaza was now in a full blown humanitarian crisis over the past eleven days at least five hundred seventy three palestinians have been killed with more than twenty five hundred wounded four israeli soldiers also killed on monday bringing the israeli death toll to eight israeli military says the four soldiers died in two separate friendly fire incidents militants with hamas continue to fire rockets into israel one struck an empty kindergarten in ash dod on monday president bush refused to call for a cease fire in gaza he said and finally all of us of course would like to see you know violence stop but not at the expense of an agreement that does not prevent the crisis from happening again i know people are saying let's have a cease fire and those are noble ambitions but any cease fire must have a condition in it so that hamas does not use gaza as a place from which to launch rock the new public opinion poll has shown that americans are closely divided over israel's action there in the souse ras musing reporters poll found forty four percent american say israel should have taken military action against palestinians but forty one percent say they have tried to find a diplomat they should have tried to find a diplomatic solution democrat voters overwhelmingly opposed israeli attacks by twenty four point margin public in support israel's action by thirty five point margin the poll also found that more than half the americans the situation in gaza ten days after israeli stack began bombing said they would he would not interfere in delicate negotiations by the outgoing bush administration president elect barack obama said obviously international affairs are of deep concern with the situation in gaza i've been getting briefed every day i've had consistent conversations with members of the current administration about what's taking place that will continue i will continue to insist that when it comes to foreign affairs it is particularly important to adhere to the principle of one president at a time because there's are delicate negotiations taking place right now and we can't have two voices coming out of the united states when you have so much at stake in riyadh alma licky said pointedly president elect obama refuses to comment on the situation in gaza despite the fact that he commented on the situation on the bombing of mumbai in india and we expected him really to open and be open and respon matters democratic senator dianne feinstein the new chair of the senate intelligence committee criticized obama's pick feinstein said my position on it has consistently been that i believe the agency is best served by having an intelligent professional in charge at this time leon panetta has been a vocal critic of bush is that ministrations torture policy he wrote last year those who support torture may believe that we can abuse captives in certain select circumstances and still be true to our values but that is a false can promise we either believe in the dignity of the individual the rule of law and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment or we don't there is no middle ground we cannot and must not use torture under any circumstances meanwhile president elect obama has picked another outspoken critic of the bush administration's interrogations policy to head the office of legal counsel a top position in the justice department don johnson is a law professor at indiana university last year she said she was appalled by the justice department's memos that allowed for the torture of prisoners obama also announced that harvard law school dean elena kagan will become solicitor gen on monday president elect obama also called on congress to approve a massive stimulus package to help revive the economy president elect barack obama said we are in very different a very difficult spot the economy is bad the situation is getting worse last week we learned the manufacturing had hit a twenty year low on friday we're going to get a final jobs report from this year and every indication is that we will have lost in two thousand and eight more jobs than in any time since world war two it's clear that we have to act and we have to act now to address this crisis and break the momentum of the recession or the next few years could be dramatically worse in minnesota state canvassing board has unanimously certified democrat al franken two hundred twenty five vote lead over republican incumbent senator norm coleman the coleman campaign plans to file a lawsuit today in order to prevent go governor tim pawlenty and secretary of state mar rich from certifying the election how frank and briefly spoke to reporters on monday in iraq the u s has opened its massive new embassy in baghdad the seven hundred million dollar building is the most expensive and largest embassy in the world the one hundred four acre compound includes twenty one built into commission commissary cinema retail and shopping areas restaurants schools a fire station a power water treatment plants as well as telecommunications where waste water treatment facilities compound is six times larger than the united nations in new york president bush is set to announce the creation of the world's largest marine protection area under the plan one hundred ninety five thousand square miles of pacific ocean will be preserved as marine national one monuments the areas include marine trench and the northern marina islands the rosa told in american samoa and a chain of islands in the central pacific under the plan bush will sharpen restrict oil and gas exploration and commercial fishing in the protected areas and jet blue airways into transportation security is the  paid out two hundred forty thousand dollars an iraqi born blogger ryad jar who sued after he was stopped from boarding a jet blue flight and j f k airport because he was wearing a t shirt that said we will not be silent and both arabic and settlement should send a clear message to all t s a officials and airlines that they cannot discriminate against passengers based on the races or the ethnic content of their speech settlement was announced just days after the airline air tran removed a muslim family of nine heading to orlando air tran refused to let a family fly an airline after even after they were questioned and cleared by the f b i and in oakland california videotape has emerged showing a bart police officer fatally shooting  unarmed african american man on a train platform on new year's day the video which may be disturbing to some pew it shows an officer pulling out a gun and shooting twenty two year old oscar grant in the back at the time of the shooting grant was lying face down on the ground the video was shot by a passenger on a train stopped at the oakland's fruitvale station in san francisco chronicle reports that there is a possibility the officer had intended to fire his taser stun gun instead of his handgun and attorney for the