hi my name is alex and welcome to the nevada county mall we're bringing the community to you and a revolutionary way to save money and before we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the in a union story written by dave mahler with two little girls at home and i'm not so bright christmas on the horizon aaron need bones family was rescued for the holidays thursday by annual woman of worth family adoption program the young about accounting woman's clan was one of about one hundred fifty families surviving financial need or abuse and trying to get back on their feet who are chosen by the nonprofit to receive gifts after a thorough screening process this means a lot of people and said my youngest just had surgery and without this we wouldn't have had a lot this year times are really tough for everybody volunteer kerry miss lee knows all about it she used to be a client of women of worth and tell she left an abusive relationship i do this to heal and to give back said with some added words for those who might be going through domestic violence if you're being abused tell someone or if you have a loved one who is being abused say something ms lee said it could be that little spark that helps them times are tight for dina sands and her four children who will celebrate christmas with more prosperity than she had expected thanks to the group's giveaway i didn't have at a county fair grounds this means the kids get a good christmas santa added those words warmed women of worth founder sandy schmidt who was overseeing the whole hope program for the seventh year there's a great need in the community especially with the economy said smith who started the program group after escaping abuse herself this year the program tripled the number of people it reached a lot of families have lost their homes and jobs and there are good people living in shelters motels and apartments schmidt said we want to show them someone cares the families selection process is thorough t screen out those who would take advantage of the programs for me were all volunteers schmidt said are secret angels adoptive families and would give them information on what little johnny and susie like and what their favorite colors are besides the whole hope program while also gives out gift baskets for valentine's day backpacks and school supplies for students every fall stuffed animals for children in crisis and clothes year round while is supported entirely by gifts and does not receive any government funding services include shelter furniture and household items transportation education and career a mentoring and referrals for counseling and legal another story from the union written by liz keller the man accused of killing his brother with a crossbow was found not competent to stand trial on thursday the latest in a series of aaron since he was committed to napa state hospital in february another hearing will occur this morning on or well this was the other morning i think it's thursday hundred late edition said nevada county assistant district attorney and for casey he's still incompetent to stand trial but the court had some concerns on unrelated issues she said it does not impact his custody all status or incompetent status arthur m processor sixty five has pled not guilty by reason of insanity of murder of his brother gerald found august twenty first two thousand and seven at their raker court home arrow through his neck brother in law of the two men had described arthur prosser as a loof and a loner and said he had moved in with his older brother who was a retired from the go government job other family members he was committed to state mental hospital to serve not more than three years he faces a maximum term of twenty five years to life and another story by liz keller the two men at the center of the alleged drug deal gone awry unf february will be sentenced january twenty third after both pleaded no contest on reduced charges i shore andy i'm mark os twenty seven and cameron craig sheppard twenty two boats of modesto were arrested february first grass valley after they allegedly didn't get the marijuana they wanted and took a san jose man hostage americas was arrested after police allegedly found the victim cell phone and a handgun in a trunk of his car and a motel a nine hundred block a certain way police allegedly found shepard was a sought o twelve gauge shotgun pointed at the victim the victim's hands were bound with duct tape and he was face down on the floor americans and shepherd regard with robbery with a firearm assault with a firearm false imprisonment with a firearm and making terrorist threats to the charge of assault with a firearm in the mid to personal use of a firearm the other three charges however can be considered during his sentencing and our last story from the union written by dave muller tow truck drivers are bracing for longer hours as an additional one to two inches of snow and strong warnings are expected today in western nevada county according to the national weather service in sacramento skies are expected to clear tonight the morning and night temperatures in your twenty's will ensure more motors will be skidding all over the county it's very crazy very hectic said julie garton thursday at kilroy's towing service in grass valley were it's been full going full bore since the began to fall last weekend a lot of people are going in the ditch and a lot make it inclines and then slide back gardens said there's black ice too so last year valley  valley has been busy as well according to worker sandy bigley a lot of them are trying to get in their driveways and end up in their yards bickley said they're sliding never where there's not a lot of wrecks but there's a lot of spinouts travel in this year included across donner pass is expected to be treacherous with heavy snow and gusting winds up to fifty miles per hour this morning after skies cleared this afternoon people traveling in the mountains this time of year should check the california road information line at one eight hundred forty seven seven six two three that's one eight hundred four two seven seven six two three to see if our ways have snow chain restrictions or are clear for travel there have been some reports of frozen pipes and right now the ground city where calls when it starts thawing in the links show up so on is likely seen as warm set of storms are expected to begin on sunday which could bring prairie out of grain into western nevada county through new year's day now temperatures are expected to stay below freezing through tuesday night in the foothills conditions will remain frigid in the higher elevations and a steady pattern of snow is expected in donner pass area next wednesday the national weather service said price here is temperatures are not expected to rise above the mid thirty's into the middle of next week so at night you should just let a little trickle of water come through make your pipes don't freeze that's it today for our local news that's right it's time for the police blotter pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but used for a visual aid only thirty five a m a traffic accident was reported on south auburn street north of where the street there were no injuries one fourteen residents said she was grabbed inappropriately by another resident and at two forty four pm a use on was cited for throwing snowballs at a squad car at all to end linden street three twenty p traffic accident was reported on certain way and at three thirty nine pm a caller from allison ranch road near courtney road reported a toyota truck had overturned and a woman was pinned in the vehicle and it six forty one pm a broken water main was reported to the one hundred block of wilson street and at seven twenty three pm a call from business eight hundred block of sutton where reporters someone tried to leave with a shopping cart full of groceries and at ten o two pm a man from the six hundred block of south s office on wednesday ten thirty four a m he ran from the sixteen thousand block of patricia way reported his wife assaults him when she drinks and eleven fourteen a m a caller from  sixteen thousand block of penn valley drive reporting an employee had embezzled and at two twenty three p m a man from all to see or drive reported to son was assaulted by another juvenile after getting off the school bus and had a black eye and at four zero four pm a caller from thirteen thousand block of wildwood heights drive reported water was stolen from a storage tank and at six thirty six p m a man from twelve thousand block a black berry trail reported he was assaulted by a man who was very drunk a man was arrested on suspicion of battery am like at the point security officers reported the two burglar suspects they caught they had to be called back to say they were in pursuit of a white chevrolet toggle but lost contact with the vehicle he used was cited on suspicion of grand theft and released to his parents to life in prison and genocide trial and u s opposes un declaration affirming gay rights and a professor says don't expect a change in mid east policy under obama and castro offers to release dissidents for freedom of cuban five and coleman leads falls to five votes in minnesota recount and new school districts students win demands and protest and cheney declares right to withhold records and chicago activist journalist beauty turner guys at the age of fifty one and mark felt deep throat of watergate scandal died at age ninety five in our first story the u s military has been accused of another deadly attack on innocent civilians in afghanistan have going to fish will say three men family members were killed and another two wounded when u s troops raided their home in the village of condie near afghanistan's border with pakistan the soldiers fatally shot the family's father and mother and a male relative the four year old boy was bitten by a u s military attack dog and president elect barack obama is expected to announce his final cabinet picks today this was a friday aides say bombing would selected former dallas mayor ron kirk as u s trade representative in congress member hilda solis of california as labor secretary dennis blair for the nation's top intelligence job as national director of national intelligence blair would oversee the u s government's sixteen intelligence agencies blair selection has come under controversy manly over his role in backing the indonesian occupation of east timor during the one nine hundred ninety s blair provided key support to the indonesian military while commanding u s military forces in the pacific in a letter that is to east timor and indonesia action network said blair sought the quickest possible restore ition of military assistance despite indonesia's highly destructive exit and failure which continues this to this day to prosecute the senior officials who oversaw the violence this lack of concern for human rights shows that he is unlikely to be a champion of reform and another try news of bombers also settled on two scientific advisors known for backing vigorous research and curb emissions of greenhouse gases harvard physicist john holdren holdren will be appointed obama's science advisor has said he prefers the term global disruption over global warming while oregon state university professor jane lynch seen a chink gold will head the national oceanic and atmospheric administration bottom meanwhile addresses reporters in chicago thursday on  obama said his inauguration would herald a new round of financial regulations president elect obama has said we have been asleep at the switch not just some of the regulatory agencies but some of the congressional committees that might have been taking a look at the stuff we have not been as aggressive and we have had a white house that has started with the premise that deregulation is always good and so with that i said during the campaign i meant we were going to have a greatly strengthened our regulatory apparatus and update it w anticipated order to shut down guantanamo prison after a bombing takes office next month pitchers have began drawing up contingency plans should obama with uphold the campaign promise to close the prison anthony romero of the american civil liberties union said the important first step towards turning a page eight years of shame for a policy that would allow torture and violations of the mexican international law the un and court has sentenced an alleged mastermind of rwandan genocide to life in prison tribunals judge read the verdict against rozell on thursday and then if i do i judge the chamber sentences you to twenty years imprisonment in relation to the conviction of genocide and keep your head all of twenty years imprisonment in relation to the conviction for genocide for your appeals and at the united nations general assembly has approved a historic measure supporting gay rights worldwide on thursday it's sixty six countries voted to approve a declaration calling for decriminalization of homosexuality in guaranteeing equal rights for gays and lesbians  people most of support came from europe and latin america the bush administration refused to support the major joining russia china and the vatican and several arab states maxime very hagen of the netherlands ministry of foreign affairs criticiz said what we say is that universal declaration of human rights means that they have also to be applied for homosexuals bisexual and transgender people we are not saying that people should behave like certain people behave we don't say that we should apply a certain lifestyle what we say is that you don't use this as an excuse to discriminate against them to violate their human rights or to penalize them so i hope that also the u s will be the next time next time one of the countries who will support the statement bush administration says it opposes a major because it could have been interpreted to override state bans on gay marriage that question is the first on gay rights too reach reed in the general assembly and  palestinian american professor who became the focus and i'll bomb attacks during the presidential campaign as warning against expecting major changes from the obama white house columbia university professor rashid khalidi his personal ties to a bar were cited by the mccain campaign and widely ridiculed campaign ploy speaking in egypt to lead he said he doesn't think obama will reverse u s policy in the middle east he also said the lethal combination of the fear of appearance soft on terrorism which was sort of replaced the fear of being on communism and american public discourse together with the un parallel clout of the american military industrial complex may unfortunately have helped to prolong the agony brought on by the current heavy american footprint in the middle east whatever cuban dissidents in return for five cubans jailed in united states the cuban five are serving prison terms up to twenty five years for allegedly spying for cuban government cuban government maintains they want to find in the u s but trying to monitor right wing exile have organized violent attacks on cuba speaking in brazil castro also renewed his calls for the talks with the incoming obama white race in minnesota the latest tally in the recount of deadlocked senate race with the incumbent norm coleman ahead of five votes over challenger al franken election officials say they're unlikely to finish counting before the end of the year the state supreme court has ruled in favor of franken said effort to count more than one thousand absentee votes here in new york student sit while they're in new york since i'm not really their student sit in at the noose school university is winding down after school officials agreed to several demands that students have been occupying the school dining hall since wednesday calling for the resignation of new school president bob  and a greater voice on and a greater voice on campus the student protest website says school officials have agreed to press not to press charges implement a social responsible investing committee and increase the role of the students forces in the school decisions student david scoot says shuki said it is by far one of the most vicious corporate campaigns to turn what has been progressive an outstanding academic institution into a money making machine as a result not only do we have not have a library we don't have any student space in a common space to study it's finals week the only space we have is a cafe and a cafeteria and in his infinite wisdom after a fire the fifth time in eight years the provost this chief academic officer in the new school bob  cheney to ensure his records become public so one hundred seventy eight presidents your records act requires a president and vice president to transfer their records upon leaving office in a court filing janet's lawyers say he will choose which of his records are personal and which pertain to his vice presidential duties and then chicago to community activist and journalist beauty turner has died she was fifty one years old turner was a leading advocate for chicago public housing residents and campaigner against police brutality and mark felt the secret source known as deep throat and watergate scandal the toppled president richard nixon has died aged ninety five as the number two man in the f b i felt helped reporter bob woodward and carl bernstein uncover a series of revelations that