valley city hall thursday night showing anger and uncertainty about financial investments lawyer thomas hastert and his company alone since the midi came as investigators widen the state and local agencies began an investigation eight months ago and says documents from his office in september twenty first while accounts are frozen hastert still has access to mortgage payments mailed the income flow to many retirees from their investments from the company many showed frustrations over what seems is them like slow investigation process hasn't he been arrested why isn't he in records if they agreed to make direct payments outside of past years office when authorities first started investigating reports of real estate thriving eight months ago examined the use of straw we looked very closely at the possibility there was a strong is someone whose name appears on loan document to draw more investors but has not contributed any funds several there is no criminal investigation into those people but they are part of the investigation we are investigating all possible avenues with regards to business transactions and loan detective coleman nelson said the straw allows a long broker to attract other investors because the loan appears fully funded when it really isn't over time alone broker uses straws straws hopes to bring in other investors to occupy the empty positions without them knowing that the loans are not fully funded there is no apparent benefit to the person who has a strong because they cannot sell their percentage of the lawn neighbors heard progress thursday on some longstanding problems at a meeting of the solid in hazardous waste commission the neighbors learned county officials are dealing with noise litter traffic and pollution issues the dump is officially known as the monk courtney road transfer station and is located about five miles outside of grass valley it's out past the fairgrounds a direction the place needs a lot of cleanup said commission member and supervisor hank weston it's not a nice place but we should give extra effort to get the thing commissioner said terror in a cover over and old hansen brothers construction manager larry peterson told the union after the meeting the firm is certified and can legally handle hazardous waste noise levels recently came down after  station prior to its daily start that pleased the neighbors in the audience who said loud operations often started to five thirty am three or four days a week before the lock change leader is picked up along it don't fence line every day according to steve porter the county's solid waste manager but the facility was not put in the right place to come back wins and workers can't track down all the the new ordinance demands all dump loads be covered after december thirty first stop a lot of the current litter problems along courtney road commissioners say they also sent letters to sheriff's office and the california highway patrol asking for more load cover and speeding enforcement along the courtney road commissioners also agreed to do a better job communicating with the neighbors about upcoming meetings and dump decisions that will be done with postcards to fifteen hundred residents in a two mile radius of the dump a hotline for complaints and information and the cold front rolled in thursday is expected to last through tonight but the possibilities of rain showers diminishing as the day progresses the national weather service in sacramento said the front could leave one to three inches of snow at higher levels high temperatures today will be in the mid to upper fifty's now very warm as lows in the mid thirty's tonight that's pretty cold sunny skies are expected to return saturday and last you monday let's hope so high is our forecast in the mid to upper sixty's with lows in the thirty's and the lows forty's partly cloudy conditions are  develop monday night and last through wednesday highs tuesday and wednesday will be in the upper sixty's lows in the mid forty's so i guess our fall is here and  peace memory more comes our world news disclose your the justice department secretly issued memos granting expansive approval for harsh interrogation techniques democrats want the white house to turn over classified memos that reportedly authorized methods including head slapping simulated drowning and frigid temperatures the existence of the memo was disclosed by the new york times the senate intelligence committee chair john rockefeller than by the justice department white house press secretary dana perino confirmed the memos were issued but refused to discuss to contact us white house press secretary dana am not going to comment on any specific alleged techniques it is not appropriate for me to do so and to do so would provide the enemy with more information for how to train against these techniques so i am going to decline to comment on dollars but i will reiterate to you once again that we do not torture we want to make sure that we keep this country safe i'm capitol hill the house says overwhelmingly approved a measure that would subject private military contractors in iraq to prosecution in u s courts the move comes on the heels of last month's killing of up to presidential veto meanwhile evidence continues to emerge the blackwater shooting was unprovoked a newly disclosed pentagon report from the tax says blackwater guards were the first to fire and used excessive force the report followed evidence showing the blackwater guards opened fire in another attack just minutes after the first shooting iraqi witnesses say blackwater operatives fired into a group of cars just one hundred fifty yards away from the first shooting at this source square at least one person was killed and injured and in news made a decision despite a quarter fizzle to let him withdraw his guilty plea even though he already said he was going to quit he's decided to stay and there you hear mexico senator pete domenici has announced he won't seek reelection next year to seventy five year old republican has been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease so the whole newspaper is reporting republican congress member heather wilson well run twenty years on thursday is the gentle admitted to arrest in more than two thousand in the government people in the government crackdown on the protests but dissident groups and foreign diplomats say it's some six thousand people are behind bars hundreds believe protests in support of the burmese uprising continue worldwide on thursday dozens rallied in tokyo outside the burma  embassy exile sway said though people in marin amman cannot watch as protesting as internet connection there has been cut officers working in the embassies around the world dollars in public funds in foreign banks the chilean president michelle bachelet said nobody in chile can believe that justice cannot be met or that they are immune to the system so i believe that we should be calm and wait for the outcome but i think that it's valid that there is justice and that it has a role to play arrest warrants have been issued for another seventeen people including retired military generals and former company and a group of veteran diplomats and activists known as the elders have wrapped up a visit to sudan and darfur the group including former president jimmy carter human rights refugee camps she said every single person we have spoke to the first thing they told us is that they need security to give us examples of what happens to them even graphically to show how women are being president jimmy carter assailed sudan for what he called it crimes against humanity but he warned against labeling the conflict in dark fur as he genocide jimmy carter said is not genocide and to call it falsely genocide just to exaggerate a horrible situation i don't think it helps i am not clear there are a great team or minimizing the problem at all but you know genocide is do experience real anti semitism as a child i'm deeply disturbed that a man like tutu could be labeled anti semitic and silence like this i deeply resent israel lobby trying to silence an another discussed in story the world bank has been accused of backing the destruction of the world's second largest forest and independent auditors world bank officials have encouraged foreign companies to excessively  some forty million people depend on the congress force for medicine shelter and food doesn't even count of animals and another story the family of an openly gay national guard member found dead in afghanistan is raising questions over whether she was murdered family members say sierra told them last month fear of retribution she had raised on one specific specified activity at the baghran airfield they're going to be said to have warned her family members to call for an investigation in case anything happened to her she was found shot the head last week and the olympic gold medalist track star marion jones has admitted to me using steroids for years jones has denied allegations she's used performance enhancing drugs jones is expected to plead guilty to active summer olympics in sydney australia tell her they would pick up items she donated when she in fact did not commit to donating anything to people said they would go to the home between nine am and eleven a m thursday seven thirty eight police contacted the twenty seven year old woman and arrested her on suspicion of battery headache twenty four pm i woman called to report her daughter was dog sitting for friends to dog died  daughter was watching it and the dog's owner was very upset the woman wanted a log entry on thursday at twelve twenty p m police arrested a twenty two year old man  nevada county sheriff's office on wednesday at eleven o two a m a woman called from lodestar driving hapless jack try to report hearing shots coming from an adjacent property she was afraid to go outside and see what exactly the shots were report a couple of guys in a silver dodge dakota pickup a crow over into her property near her barn when she asked what they needed they said they were looking for a place to board horses they acted strange then turned around and left