today's first world news story the bombing ministration argued monday that the white house should have revealed authority to target an assessment american citizens anywhere in the world if they pose a threat to the united states argument was made in federal court in response to a lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties union and the center for constitutional rights group are representing now lookee who brought a lawsuit you connect with the government's decision to authorize the targeted killing of his son and city and news from capitol hill momentum appears to be growing for congress to put off the repeal of don't ask don't tell policy bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the armed forces democrat carl levin cha center armed force committee and republican senator john mccain have begun discussing a possible plan to strip the provision from the annual defense authorization bill gay rights groups say the next few weeks are critical because republicans will gain control of the house in january earlier this week defense six law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing marriages of same sex the white house oil spill commission said on monday it had found no evidence to support accusations the largest offshore oil spill in u s history happened because b p and its partners cut corners to save money commission outlined a number of human errors and oversight that may have led t fred bartlit the commission counsel said cost cutting by b p was not to blame he said people have said people traded safety for dollars we've studied the hell out of this we welcome anybody that gives us something we' missed we don't see a person or three people sitting here at the table considering safety in cost and giving of safety for cost we have not seen that and you have to be sure you understand that the oil spill commission's findings have been new orleans on monday before the jewish federation general assembly his address was repeatedly interrupted by young jewish activists from the young leadership institute a jewish voice of for peace when not until now so i'm going to talk about latest plan calls for more than one thousand homes in east jerusalem eight hundred homes in west bank settlement ariel benjamin not you know who has also used his u s trip to push the obama administration to consider carrying out a military strike against iran and he said i the only time that iran says they ended its nuclear program was for a brief period during two thousand and three when the regime believed it faced credible threat of military action against it and simple paradox is this if the internet committee led by the united states hopes to stop iran's nuclear program without resorting to military action will have to convince iran that it is prepared to take such action meanwhile defense secretary robert gates has rejected israel's claim that the military force is the only way to deter iran he said that said we are convinced that nonmilitary actions including most significantly the most recent u n security council resolutions in individual countries approval of even more rigorous sanctions including and i say australia is bringing pressure to bear on iranian government that is getting their attention we know that they are concerned about the impact of the sanctions sanctions are biting more deeply one day their date anticipated and we are working very hard in these from africa bomb administration is offering to drop collaborating with the rebel group m r t germany saw another day of mass civil disobedience and monday and anti nuclear activists attempted to block rails shipment of nuclear waste thousands actors sat down on the train tracks on chain themselves to the  themselves from the bridges on ropes after the worst was transferred to the group of trucks greenpeace activists used a vehicle concealed there's a beer truck to block the semi trucks from delivering their nucular carver to its final destination and then banded salt mine when a nuclear wa it's nation of project was ninety two hours behind schedule due to the protest to bias retail greenpeace activists a degree of peace activists are demonstrating against the irresponsible nuclear policy of chancellor angle of mark extension of the lifespan of nuclear plants will mean almost five thousand tons of nuclear waste for us forwards there is absolutely no solution ephedra court in philadelphia scheduled to hold a hearing on sentence imposed on me  paying job martin a fine manager of smith barney allegedly ran over a cyclist with his mercedes and then fled the scene cycle suffered spinal cord injuries and bleeding from his brain to the shock of the cycling advocate prosecutor mark hurlbert decided charges charge is and are only with misdemeanors hurlburt said felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in mr as enters profession and that indeed and its first major interview since leaving office former president george bush has defended direct invasion and made it to you approved waterboarding of prisoners bush book and b c is part of the promotional campaign around his memoir decision points which hits bookstores lawyer but you got to trust the judgment of people around you and i do you say it's legal in the lawyer told me and bush is yeah first of all we used this technique on three people captured a lot of people and used to down three we gained valuable information to protect the country and it was the right thing to do as far as i'm concerned are said so if it's legal president bush then if an american is taken into custody and foreign country not necessarily uniform american and then bush said look i'm not here to debate the issue and  says i'm just asking you to be ok for a foreign country to waterboard america to its inverse said it's all i ask that people read the book and they can reach the same conclusions if they have to make the same decision i made or not lower than said you'd make the same decision again today and located one of six pm a man from two hundred block he's main street porter vehicle had been on deck last night and broke at sport and six eleven pm a woman from five hundred block a packer drive reported someone tried to use two of her bank cards and they have since been cancelled six thirty four pm a call from richards in a washington street reported a man grabbed a woman by the neck he was gone when officers arrived ten thirty five pm a woman from washington was lost somewhere between car lake and kenner lake he said he was polite it had plenty of food and water but he was noted it was snowing heavily it was set up in a tent provided g p s coordinates for fifty six he reported he was still ok and was blowing a whistle a seven p m a call from twelve thousand block a wander road report fraud six twenty nine pm or woman from fifteen thousand block washington street poor person was threatening to get her in trouble and ostracized her she said she didn't know what she wanted to do  law enforcement to do at twelve seventeen a m an extremely drunk woman called from the same address and made an intelligible noises six fifty six p m call from twelve thousand block sleep it all away reported neighbors were shooting off fireworks s david paul mall in fifteen clay aedile a few they were in a pickup truck that was stopped after leaving the mall both allegedly were found to be under the influence of a controlled substance while i was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance position of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia and transported in a controlled substance he was booked and released on a twenty seven thousand dollars bail but it was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia he was booked and vehicle was stopped at a gas station near the ball telling a passenger allegedly was found to have a pipe or two small plastic bags containing about one gram of crystal meth geoffrey thomas bodie twenty six was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance possession of a controlled substance and drug affair paraphernalia and transporting a controlled substance he was booked and released on a twenty seven thousand dollars bail driver of the toyota kevin bomb thirty three was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance back at the motel officers weren't at least one more hand in hand drug transaction ross said the occupant of the room jason carroll nice and thirty two was found to be subject to search terms ross said he was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of controlled substance possession of a drug paraphernalia keeping a place for sale of controlled substances possession of a dangerous weapon and committing a felony while his sentencing monday afternoon in the vatican is fair court i'll spend the rest of my days coming to terms of that i plan to spend every day honoring god in class with everything i do in some way somehow few years ago i learned  what the definition of a man is i think even before i became one anderson continued a true man except your responsibility anderson had pleaded no contest to vehicle manslaughter driving under the influence with bodily injury and child endangerment w and hands on or great bodily injury plea was conditional on receiving a sentence of two years in jail with possibility of work for a low five years of probation and stringent conditions barring him from drinking alcohol that's what he received as wheel anderson thirty a good time with his son in the vehicle headed out onto winding highway forty nine at poor road in southern radek county he swerved onto the rights shoulder overcorrected and then crossed into the oncoming lane seaver was in that lane he had no chance to avoid the collision was killed instantly anderson's then twelve year old son also was injured in the crash repentant rehabilitated redeemed dan bagger a twenty five year old friend  executer of his estate urged to impose a stiffer sentence that would have included a prison term sievert was killed just as he probably was in her new most insightful and productive time as an artist pachter added we have people out there who put their drunk on and they come for comfort you he said before turning to the audience i'm speaking for all of you are they going to come for you about a kerry deputy district attorney catherine me she had not joined in the plea agreement saying this is not an accident this was not an inevitability this is a prison level offense to me or to disagreed with francis reminding her that she had been the prosecutor on more g case of vehicle manslaughter while intoxicated against lisa schaeffer sheaffer was sentenced to just one year in jail five years probation in a plea agreement march second two thousand and nine that was very different cases eligible he must take a drunken driving class and child abuse or class and going to have no alcohol in his possession he also cannot drive during the five year probation term in a vehicle that does not have device anderson surrendered date is set december third prayer every day justice was done said carrie kline anderson's public defender a good man and he's made a change in his life we want to make sure that this whole thing is not about us but the memory of class seaver anderson's wife heidi wrote in an e mail after the sentencing we know this that no sentence is sufficient enough for the loved ones of klaas it is all such a terrible tragedy and our entire family have already  given future to get anyone who drinks and drives to realize they are not invincible they will end up catching up to them whether they get in trouble in the law hurt them selves or others or worse kill themselves or others i know personally how internally with adopted his accident killed someone he will forever have to live with that and continue it's with the grace of god that he can move forward but he knows he still has a lot to face it head again so now we go through the next part of the week in a memo from nevada county c e o rick cafe's didn't that the third straight year of counties eighteen top appointed executives are past passing on a scheduled four percent raise next year after a link to discussion a group of department h concluded to sacrifices appropriate action to take ongoing effort to preserve our communities expected levels of service during anticipated challenges during the next fiscal year joy stewart represents the department heads and is the county's planning director it's really due to the projections that have been made in the next year that will be bad or worse than budget we just had to put together for twenty ten eleven stewart said in the two thousand and nine ten to current fiscal year the group turned down raises of three percent i would like to union and you especially for watching and we'll talk to you tomorrow