station and the local embezzlement is waiting on it for a court case but before these stories jimmy t v news would like to thank our underwriters once jimmy t v news  dragon with a cartoonish snout protects a casket of gold in a cave and now in a red helmets nets so it's not on a tree in the background different season sweep over a wide country landscape painted in lime green and pale blue making government buildings more humanistic to the public was the merrills mission according to gary graham a local muralist he was instructor of the class at the crisis center a lot of people come in with a lot of insight and stress according to graham to be confronted with a blank white wall is like a sterile hospital refrigerator kind of feeling we wanted to change that graham said about seventy five percent of the mural was completed between september and december the third wall still remains to be painted in spring by students of the mural art zero three one class at your cult we have children's mental health and child protective services in the building so we deal with a lot of emotions according to nicole life and the dragon protecting the casket shows that when you come to seek mental health services even if you come across some difficult feelings in the end you will s in other news one of the state's most aggressive drunken driving crackdowns of the year begins today with police setting up checkpoints and extra patrols and asking the public to report intoxicated drivers crackdown five local agencies department california highway patrol truckee police department nevada city police department and that of atic ownie sheriff's office are participating in the avoid the five campaign as part of a statewide holiday dui crackdown through new year's day unfortunate period do you are station patrol consists of officers on patrol on overtime solely looking for dui drivers tel said officers from all agencies will screen drivers at the checkpoint for alcohol impairment by officers who are trained to detect intoxicated or drugged driver watch out their california office of traffic safety which provides grant funding for the avoid the five program also was asking for the public's help in reporting suspected drunken drivers by calling them one i'll be sure to put my part in tell said we want motorists to exercise common sense and good judgment when calling nine one one to report a suspect drunken driver and no one under no circumstances should the public make an attempt to follow or stop the vehicle or interact with the driver please leave that to the trained professionals by calling them on the public can be key in catching dangerous drivers o t s director christopher murphy said that law enforcement can only do so much and knowing that other motorists are going to report drunken drivers is a significant deterrent and all of our efforts are aimed at preventing a drunken driver from getting behind the wheel in the first place one phone call can really save a life very true the state wide effort coincides with the national drunk driving over the limit under arrest law enforcement campaign taking part across the country according to the c h p and california department of motor vehicles two thousand and six m consecutive year in which alcohol related fatalities increased in california with a slight increase between two thousand and five and two thousand and six in two thousand and six over one thousand people were killed and thirty one thousand were injured now all related crashes in california compared to one thousand addition o t s has allocated four point eight million to don and thirty eight to you i avoid campaigns in forty one counties involving they see more than four hundred police and sheriff's departments and the battle to keep western nevada county from turning into anywhere usa nevada city scored a small victory against chevron corp the victory won't look like much and that's the whole point city leaders said late wednesday when they denied the giant update its top price sign with the slightly modified logo and brighter tones of blue and white chevron is expected to update the sign an early january city planner cindy said fred said the lighting and si the company's nationwide plan to update the look at its stations and image with fresh program secret explained as station representative did not cite improve security as a reason for the improved lighting but adding lights to the siding of the can't be that shelters the promise was too much corporate preference is really not a compelling reason to current but yes according to councilman steve resident thomas streicher said it seems like such a real invasion of another corporation lighting and signage have been battlefields in the fight between world wide corporations and small towns struggling to maintain  moved toward externally eliminating historically oriented signs for several years according to grass valley community development director joe about a city's general plan allows the city to regulate lighting which can be seen from highway twenty and forty nine the general plan states the general purpose will be to screen all development except at the center of town so that the appearance from the highway will be as though one were in the forest as it must have been in the early days of nevada city preserving our heritage and other news attorneys in the case of when the bulk accused of embezzling more than one hundred thousand dollars from the various city homeowners association are awaiting the receipt receipt of bank records before they proceed with the case according to district attorney the district attorney on thursday the court needs an official copy of records from citizens bank of grass valley the bank used by the woodbridge townhomes home negotiators have a major global climate summit in bali said they're close to reaching a compromise talks have stalled this week over the bush administration's rejection of several key provisions including a pledge to cut emissions levels up to forty percent by two thousand and twenty servers expect a weak compromise deal with white house objections stan final day of talks follows increasing criticism of the u s on thursday former vice president al gore drew a wide applause from the valley conference when he called the bush administration the main obstacle to an agreement al gore said i'm going to speak an inconvenient truth my own country the united states is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in bali we all know that and it really is up to you i don't know how to tell you month over the bush administration's stance on a loop gathering of industrialized nations is part of a process organized by the white house to sidestep the un portugal environmental minister who said the meeting would be pointless if the belly talks   portugal environmental minister him better to rosa said if we would have a failure in bali it would be meaningless to have a major economies meeting which has been agreed that is to look also at what happened to the bali road map so without the road map and without the dust a nation the commission said it would be senseless the bali meeting is a convening to reach a new deal to succeed the kyoto protocol the us is the only industrialized nation to reject kyoto which requires a modest five percent reduction below one thousand nine hundred levels by the year two thousand and twelve the bush administration has also rejected proposals that would provide financial support to poor countries most affected by climate change professor richard dean go of the nobel prize winning intergovernmental panel on climate change so the stance could have devastating effects for africa professor richard dean goes said if you look at the temperature projections nobody can stand a temperature increase of five degrees centigrade which we are projecting and when they arise the future will be so uncomfortable people will be running away from africa and the european powers for example they don't want africans to go to europe now to look for jobs but this will happen more and more will have environmental refugees as the bush administration continues to reject binding pollution cuts new figures show this year has been one of the warmest on record a british study says two thousand and seven was the second warmest ever in the northern hemisphere the eleven warmest years on record have all occurred within the last thirteen years on capitol hill the senate has approved a new energy bill without key provisions opposed by the bush administration and major corporations and republicans had threatened to presidential veto over measures including twenty one billion dollars in taxes on the oil and gas industry and require you to lety companies to draw fifteen percent of their power from renewable sources by the year two thousand and twenty and a major victory for those companies senate majority leader harry reid introduced a new version of the bill amending the corporate tax package and other news from washington the house has approved an intelligence bill committee has passed a contempt citation against white house chief of staff josh bolten and former white house aide karl rove rove and bolton have refused congressional subpoenas for testimony and documents and the firing of federal prosecutors the contempt vote will go before the full senate and somalia the ethiopian government is denying involvement in a deadly attack on civilians in the capital mogadishu at least seventeen people were killed on thursday when mortars tore  through the city's main shopping market another forty people were injured at the opiah and somalia government troops have been implicated in several bombing attacks on civilian areas over the past year the conflict in somalia is widely considered africa's worst trying to win russian backing this week for the bush administration's controversial plans for a missile system in eastern europe the u s wants to host the bases in poland and czech republic the white house continues to insist the system is needed as protection against iran despite last week's own conclusion from u s intelligence that iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program and budapest acting undersecretary of state john rood said iran's threat is going secretary of state john rood quote we have seen a large growth in the missile capabilities of countries like north korea and iran in recent years this is threat a threat that we think is real and growing and one that is prudent to take steps to deter and defend against through means like missile defense the bush administration has already launched talks aimed at a settlement with north korea critics of the missile system call it a first strike option for the united states the international committee of the red cross had issue has issued a rare policy statement criticizing israel's occupation of the west bank and gaza strip and a new report the red cross says the israeli government is denying millions of palestinians their human dignity the red cross cites israel's continued system of closures settlements checkpoints bulldozing zimmer terry attacks three palestinians were killed in an israeli air strike on gaza on thursday argentina's rejecting u s accusations of venezuelan plot to influence its elections four people were arrested in miami this week on charges of trying to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to the campaign argentine president cristina f this president may be a woman but she is not going to let herself be pressured i will continue firming our relations with all of the friendly nations of latin america and with the bolivian republic of venezuela argentina never need someone telling us who our friends are just as we never tell other countries who their friends be we have a strong conviction in the outer determination of nations cristina fernandez de kirchner began her term on monday the the bush administration has been handed another defeat in its efforts to prosecute suspects accused of plotting terror attacks in the united states and miami jury has acquitted one of the seven miami men accused of planning to blow up chicago's sears tower a mistrial was declared for six other six defendants after the jury deadlocked the case that appeared to rest entirely on one suspects conversation with an f b i informant posing as a representative of al qaeda the f b i later described the alleged plot as aspirational rather than operational and new jersey lawmakers have approved a measure to abolish executions and state democratic governor jon corzine has said he will approve the measure next week this will make new jersey the first state in the united states to abolish the death penalty in fo years the justice department has announced the f b i is investigating the top official overseeing corruption and abuse in the u s like reconstruction of iraq inspector general for iraq reconstruction stuart bowen is under suspicion for series of them properties including tampering with employee e mails bowen's investigations have indicted several american officials on corruption charges documented wasteful and inept work by a large contractors and found the pentagon did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons given to iraqi troops the bush administration tried to close down his office last year backed off following the congressional opposition and an iowa democratic presidential candidates held their final debate a the year on thursday just weeks before the first primary vote congress member dennis kucinich was excluded despite having the same polling numbers as three other candidates both nationally and locally in iowa also excluded was form leading down to sleep creek he said he had been calling public work since june and he wanted someone to respond public works would handle the problem at twelve twenty two p m a caller from the seven way reported unleashed dog attack business on the hundred block of south often street reported the theft of christmas decorations research report for petty theft at three twenty eight p m a call from a store in the hundred block these main street reported shoplifting police saturday to sixty nine year old woman suspicion of shoplifting and five thirteen p m a collar reported someone fell out of federal building on east main street police contacted a fifty eight year old man who had been transported by ambulance to the hospital and cited him on suspicion of public drunkenness a caller from the federal building on east main street reported a man was passed out in the building police contacted the fifty eight year old man and told him to move along he was not drunk eleven thirty six pm a caller from the hospital reported a drunk n man said he had been assaulted when he was advised hospital staff had to report these salt to police the man said he just hole police contacted the thirty seven year old man who would not admit an assault and said he had thursday on thursday four year old man on suspicion of public drunkenness and six forty seven a m a woman called from a business on the nine hundred block mccourty road to port there was a chicken with a broken leg outside the business animal control was notified  nevada county sheriff's office on wednesday at eight thirty a m a caller from the eleven thousand block of red dog road reported a neighbor's door was forced open and a window was broken the caller was house sitting for the neighbor a deputy took a report for issue three forty eight p m a caller reported seeing domestic violence occur between a man and a woman in a parking lot on about a city highway and the caller believed the couple might be headed home at four twenty one p m and woman from the seventeen thousand block of penn valley drive reported a man in a parking lot was trying to solicit her by services from a credit card machine company but didn't have a business card a second person called to report the man he may have had mental health issues he would finish his dinner and go home a delivery bay and i guess that's it for our blotter and now for our weather patchy frost and fog this morning and then mostly clear with highs in the mid fifty's light winds tomorrow will be underwrite with us as we reach most of the country and county and beyond please call us at five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine that's right it's time for the police blotter to pictures in the blotter not from these actual bins but useful visual aid only