a new group is exploring adult daycare options for western nevada county residents in response to the upcoming closing of the let's enter into that city coda or the community organization for dependent adults will meet on six m friday at grass valley in the morea veteran solace to five five south street just hours after the let stores close its a median of concerned citizens to discuss alternatives and future plans for a new facility for developing developmentally disabled adults in our community said charlene hogan who is hosting the event the host is married to dr richard hogan a retired area physician who has been  years mrs hogan was more than surprised in early november when she found out to lessen it was closing and has been scrambling for alternative care for her husband ever since the health for all adult daycare in auburn was offered to assume most of blood center's average daily attendance of about twenty people but many lets client families have said they don't want loved ones riding the bus that far or simply want them closer to home when they are at daycare the size of our buses also we're dealing with higher fuel prices and that should continue so next year we're hoping to have another major outreach program to attract even more writers with gas prices talking three hundred sixty dollars three dollars per reason three dollars and sixty cents per gallon  western part of the county people are starting to look at public transit their agency operates on four point six million dollars budget most of it comes from state sales tax collected in the county sales taxes on fuel purchased in a county and federal aid for transported programs in rural areas dan land and head of the nevada county transportation commission six new buses cost more than one hundred nine hundred thousand each are being custom built for gold country for a spring delivery when the twenty nine foot clean diesel vehicles arrive the fleet will be up to sixteen busses grants are in the works to replace and current buses in the fleet that are beginning to show where in march the transit agency and the county transportation commission planned to hire a consultant to study how to improve the transit system and increase ridership over the next five years with ridership compared to a budget given a per ride cost of nearly fifteen dollars event a county transfers cars are similar to those of other road mountainous areas he said until you have one thousand people per square mile you don't get the efficiencies to make a real good cost benefit to your activity making role areas difficult and expensive to serve switching to smaller and less costly vehicles doesn't typically make a rural transit system more efficient because payroll and fuel costs increase with more vehicles but the number of riders typically doesn't rise enough to outpace the higher costs goal country charges one dollar for most trips and fifty cents for seniors and disabled riders routes include lines that run between grass valley in nevada city en route to colfax in auburn an amtrak station in auburn for more information on go demands it but rather than let em ask in her life she chooses to run her disability a trait she has learned through the years from her disabled clients the fifty three year old as a new executive director of the nevada sierra regional in home supportive services public authority the sorties sends caregivers out to homes in nevada sierra and plumes county to help disabled and adult elderly people live on their own although new to her current position guerard has a lot of experience helping those in need she worked with fried center for independent living in grass valley for the last twenty years and became its executive director in two thousand and one it was in one thousand nine hundred four that she was diagnosed with them as i was a the best possible place to be to have a disability carafe said there were people there who could help me through it if i hadn't been working for at fried i don't know if i'd still be working before having her four children was a teacher aide and bus driver for special education students and learn what helping the disabled was all about after learning about freed's independent living philosophy the ra began volunteering there in one nine hundred eighty seven it was clear about access and that's about civil rights and not appealed to me greatly for the first time people with disabilities were in control of their lives she had the mentor for garage the new found career was former freed leader and county supervisor sam darted learned  philosophy of freed from another wiltshire we use or at roberts who was known as the father of independent living robert started the movement in berkeley in the early one nine hundred sixty s and was eventually named director of the state's vocational rehabilitation agency sam is an amazing human being and was very generous to me through our said we train people about their rights and how to exercise their rights as free as executive director she kept it was really hard to leave fried but it was in good shape and action was on the staff and was a great leader who could step into the position action acton did just that in recent weeks i put in my application to last minute and this was and was thrilled to land the job rice said about her new position now she is the director of an agency that has fifty caregivers helping two hundred thirty regional residents to live in their homes instead of with family members or convalescent center it mostly hoping people live safely in their home so they can live be independent dr said with the public authority of men all levels get control over who they have to care for them and it's great it's already caregivers are paid eight dollars and fifty six cents an us to accept it as part of life and you have to do so you all i guess even is getting a phone call and you have to so you can get on with like a state employee from sierra ville was awarded the governor's medal of valor on tuesday for saving a man's life during a major mudslide on interstate eighty near iceland great he's to truck chris paul the california department of transportation seasonal heavy equipment operator was trying to open a traffic lane on a freeway during a rainstorm december thirty first two thousand and five one mountain slide started coming down caltrans spokesman rochelle jenkins said he doesn't vehicles were trapped as four separate slides sent mud and rock sliding across the roadway fast moving debris uprooted the center median in one spot pushing a concrete barrier across the roadway and creating a small lake that shows you just how much force was in the mudslide has drivers and passengers scramble to out of the driver's side window the bags contained important papers which may have been paychecks jenkins said both men were able to climb over the barrier to safety no one was hurt during the mudslide jenkins said and caltrans repaired the roadway within a few days of the incident on tuesday governor arnold schwarzenegger presented ball was a medal of valor during a ceremony at sacramento's crest there honoring state employees who have demonstrated extraordinary acts of barry bravery and heroism to save the life of another the medal of valor is the highest honor that california awards to its public servants in addition to the medal of valor ball was also awarded just state safety you award earlier this year for his actions ball is a grown neat guy said jenkins whose husband works with ball she said ball was working his first season caltrans when the must like occurred and the agency is grateful he has returned to work every winter sense and that's it today for our local news water's mass killing columbia hostage relatives urged chavez volman praises venezuela referendum bush urges colombia trade deal s these stories t v t v news would like to thank our underwriters once again welcome back president bush continues to insist iran threatens the united states despite a new national intelligence just testament refuting most of his key claims this week's consensus report from all sixteen u s intelligence agencies concludes iran shut down its nuclear weapons program more than forty years ago in his first public comments president bush said his position is unchanged he said i believed before the end i e that iran was dangerous and i believe after the end i e that iran is dangerous and i believe now it's time for the world to do the hard work necessary to convince the iranians there is a better way forward president bush was also asked if you was aware of the assessment when he warned of a bold war three less than two months ago bush admitted he was first inform information in august but says he didn't find out the specifics until last week democrat senator joseph biden responded if that's true he has the most incompetent staff in modern american history meanwhile in iran president mahmoud ahmadinejad went on state television today to hail that he called a national victory iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad's said yesterday's report was apparently for solving the problems of america's government and for dealing with the deadline it was confronted with but in fact it was an announcement of a victory for the armenian nation in the nuclear issue against all international powers the bush administration is also insisting the intelligence estimate will not change its determination to build a missile system in europe the white house claims the missile shield would serve as a defense against iran but it's widely seen as a first strike option the supreme court he estimated three hundred five presidents were seized abroad is certain time the supreme court will consider a challenge to guantanamo death detention since two thousand and four newly revealed documents show the u s held a german prisoner at guantanamo bay despite privately acknowledging his innocence just months after his capture murat curd not pronounce was kidnapped and handed over the u s forces in pakistan in december two thousand and one four weeks later he became one  first prisoners to arrive at guantanamo where he would spend the next four years declassified document show us in german intelligence officials concluded he had no links to terrorism as early as september two thousand and two nearly four military tribunal finally took up his case in two thousand  but the panel ignored to intelligent assessments and twice ordered his ongoing prison and during this time pronounced says he suffered severe torture he says he was beaten given electric shocks submerged in water starved and chained to a ceiling for days now says he governing the activities of blackwater another private military firms according to the new york times agreement focuses on boosting security coordination with military command in providing further guidelines on when private guards can open fire but the agreement takes no steps to address whether private military contractors can be held accountable for their actions government officials remain mute on whether blackwater other met private military contractors can be prosecuted for shootings such as the september killing of seventeen iraqi civilians in baghdad contractors are currently immune from the iraqi courts under the u s imposed law meanwhile after initially indicating it would allow blackwater's contract to expire in may state department officials are now raise the likelihood of a renewal the acting head of the us to diplomatic security gregory starr was reportedly told blackwater it was will be judged on its actions from here on out that would be preclude the september mass killings from consideration when state department makes its decision relatives of colombian hostages are in venezuela today to seek the ongoing involvement of president hugo chavez in securing their release the former presidential candidate ingrid betancourt and more than a dozen others have been held by the revolutionary armed it's not the first time he has clocked everything up meanwhile chavez is dealing with the aftermath of his slim defeat in sunday's constitutional referendum voters narrowly rejected a series of proposals including to end to presidential term limits and then increase in executive authority others included reducing the work day to six hours creating a new pension fund for informal workers and empowering community councils in bolivia president evo morales praised chavez vote to respect the voters choice evo morales said i respect and value chavez very much he's democratic if he was an authoritarian he would impose what he seems to govern but he's desirous to consider the venza way on people and the venezuelan people make democratic decisions that must be respected and and here we don't have to be afraid of a referendum people can decide the fate of the country meanwhile in washington president bush hailed the referendum results and said it should encourage congress to pass a trade deal with colombia president bush said the venezuelan people rejected one man rule they voted for democracy and the united states can make a difference in south america in terms of the it's well an influence and here's how the congress can pass a free trade agreement with the trade deal has been held up at miss concerned of colombia's record on human rights but bush scored a victory is due in the senate overwhelmingly approved a new trade deal with perot the final vote was seventy seven to eighty publican senator kit bond of missouri said the pact would help counter the influence of leaders like hugo chavez the house okayed its version of the peru deal last month amazon watch says the agreement will grant new right rights for oil companies to drill in the peruvian amazon benefiting u s corporations including hunt or oil conoco phillips occidental petroleum and newmont min secretary of state condoleezza rice continues a foreign trip with the stop an easy opiated a rice visits come as ethiopia's u s backed military intervention in somalia draws growing scrutiny the u n estimates two hundred fifteen thousand people have fled their homes in fighting over the past six weeks on tuesday u n emergency relief coordinator john holmes appealed for increased international aid the u n emergency relief coordinator john holmes said well the situation is obviously serious any place where you have got tens of thousands of people living in very very makeshift tides and in the open is obviously a very serious situation one is very worrying and one wonders how long they have to be there because the violence in mogadishu  still continuing and israel has announced plans to build more than three hundred homes in the jewish only settlement in east jerusalem the new homes will be built in horror homa a settlement of more than two hundred thousand in annapolis but on two serious israeli officials said the road map does not apply to jerusalem but only the west bank in a letter of protest palestinian negotiator so even eric that called the settlement a single greatest threat to a f meanwhile a new study shows israeli government has carried out just three percent of its pledges to demolish unauthorized buildings in the west bank settlements over the last decade the israeli group peace now says that israeli military conducted one hundred seven of more than three hundred thirty four hundred demolition orders by contrast israeli committee against taz demolitions says israel has destroyed well over five thousand palestinian homes since the outbreak of the second in the product seven years ago israeli courts have deemed the outpost illegal while the world court has ruled the entire settlements are legal themselves illegal themselves in south africa nearly a quarter million miners took up the streets in johannesburg to see in a one day strike calling for better safety conditions and fair wages mine workers union president sends xeni zuck want to said the mining industry has failed its employees he also said we believe that the mines have not done enough to save the lives of mine workers we believe that if employers would make sure that workers participate in deciding what support is used underground workers are given more power to employers respect their members and treat them like human beings this situation can change an average of one hundred miners have died in south africa mines over the past three years and in pakistan two american peace activists have been arrested and apparently deported media benjamin and tied barry of the anti war group code pink were detained as they headed to a student rally against the ongoing emergency rule back in the united states republican presidential hopeful rudy giuliani has resigned as head of his  consulting firm giuliani's partners for months giuliani has resisted calls to disclose his role in the firm and the clients he represented in but he's gone now and that's a wrap for world news today that's right it's time for the police blotter pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday at ten o one am a caller from the main entrance of morgan ranch portier geishas system peered to have been tampered with public works to street reported a couple was going door to door asking if there were any hispanic families in the neighborhood the caller felt this was suspicious three twenty three p m a man called from parking lot in a one hundred block of limpia park road to report someone put a nail in his wife's car's tire police determin for fifty three p m causing a gas station on his road reported a possible drunken driver in a blue toyota truck almost drove into an oncoming traffic police contacted you driving determine a person and not been drinking police can cause of the person driving skills the six hundred block of freeman lee to report she was locked inside a business she was doing their laundry and tried to leave but the doors were locked police assisted living in a situation was resolved canyon lane reported people were shooting through the trees a green or creek shooting stopped in the person would call again if the shooting resume two forty nine p m a caller from campion road reported a man on the roadway was saying that rocks were actually dead people get really rest of the man on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia five thirty three and that's it for the blotter today thanks a lot for watching that's right it's time for the police blotter to pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but use a visual aid only