mean my goodness you're watching the t v news thanks amy and today's local headlines man found on donner summit and local postal workers blast federal plan to halt and community braces for fallout from school layoffs but before these stories t v t v news would like to thank one of our underwriters and if you would like to be mentioned three times a day six days a week on this news to be streamed through the internet and also on t in our first story written by dave miller a bevy of search and rescue personnel found kevin b davis twenty eight years old from thomas sitting thursday near donner summit after he disappeared from friends tuesday afternoon davis condition was unclear immediately following the rescue and we should out more by the remodel davis and three other individuals were snowshoeing cross country skiing monday and spent the night at peter gravel hut near castle peak on donor summit according to the nevada county sheriff's office to groups members were returning to their vehicles tuesday when they lost davis around two forty five p m the nevada county search and rescue team launched a quick search to the scene and found davis tracks only to have been obscured by falling snow other searchers include members of the top how nordic national ski patrol and the truckee police meghan and i did a drop saturday postal service is too harsh reactions from leaders of a union representing postal workers in western nevada county i think it's the most ridiculous idea they've ever had so john how junior president of the national association of letter carriers branch number one thirty three for the sacramento region i see it as a short term fix to a long term problem said how who represents twenty one hundred members including postal workers in nevada county have to pull service acts as a day carriers such as fed ex and u p s will step up to pick up that slack house said those other companies will do the job and make the profit off of it how said we cannot allow that we may save more and deliver cost but will lose more than that and revenue the letter carriers union is stepping up to air their grievances with members of congress how said the idea could cost some carriers their jobs as reported in wednesday's edition of the union the federal service could face come come o i can't talk today loss of two hundred thirty eight billion ten years postmaster general john potter said in releasing a series of consultant reports an agency operations in its outlook senator tom carper to democrat of delaware chairman of the senate subcommittee oversight authority over the postal service called on congress to give post office the flexibility to deal with future needs any changes in the u s p s schedule would need to be passed as an act of congress in a story written by michelle rand dells it's not just teachers who will be hurting from looming layoffs nevada county businesses are bracing for a domino effect of job loss in one of the county's largest employers t combined public schools rank among the top three employers of the county through the exact number of employees who are unavailable this week nevada county is the number one employer with the schools in sierra nevada men want to hospital vying for second place all three entities employ around eight hundred nine hundred people according to the nevada county economic resource c bad but state budget cuts and declining enrollment are forcing most districts to cut millions off their combined budget for two thousand and ten eleven school years so as far school administrators that for districts are planning to issue layoff notices to at least fifty eight full time equivalent positions which totals full time and part time jobs fishel from two more districts a county supervisor superintendent of schools office and the county special education programs that they consider layoffs but don't have a final number even the lowest paid full time teacher in the high school district earn more than forty two thousand last pull those dollars out of local circulation does have a huge red full effect said e r c manager gail mathew last teacher income means less money circulating in our local economy massey explained the multiplier effect a smaller paycheck means less money spent at a restaurant which reduces the waitress income so she doesn't buy new clothes for example you'll see that in retail sales which is reflected in sales tax the sales tax fills city county coffers to employ yet more people the full extent of the school office still unclear the high school district is on cuts of twenty two point one full time equivalent jobs and city school district is looking at sixteen point nine pleasant rate plans to drop seventeen point five others are waiting on board decisions next week for it to count painful reductions in personnel are one aspect of reducing gapping budget shortfall the high school district two point one million in the red nevada city schools must cut one million pleasant ridge must cut nearly nine hundred thousand together area public and charter schools face at least five point six million and overall deficits many are in the middle of negotiations in a ploy to unions and concessions including for low days would reduce the number of layoffs districts are legally required to notify certified employees such as teachers and counselors of potential they also by march fifteenth after sending out pink slips district administrators can't pull back on the number of actual layoffs if they make the budget reductions elsewhere before the next school year since most households are d income people cut back sharply on discretionary spending after a job loss or one day expect one they haven't gone to zero they've gone to half so that what that what they do is they don't take vacations to europe they don't buy a new car mat said in a vat of city where less retail spending led to thirty nine point four percent drop in third quarter sales tax revenue compared to a year earlier fallout from school louse would add insult to injury they're just concerned about everyday business as it is said nevada city kember of commerce executive manager kathy quickly they're concerned about everybody situation acutely aware of down effect grass valley business owners are getting behind grassroots efforts to support local schools some are attending saturday's fundraiser for union high school organized by tell a stream c e o began castle's according to grass valley nevada county chamber of commerce president mary ann miller if the schools are being hit businesses are affected miller added the effect of layoffs the real estate market are usually less dramatic families are unlikely to immediately sell their homes and to leave the area because home values are so low now pink slips are becoming a springtime tradition for california schools more than twenty six thousand teachers state wide received notices by mid march last year though many of those jobs were salvaged by federal stimulus money according to the california department of education this year the story is similarly grim los angeles unified school district board of trustees voted to see to mail out fifty two hundred layoff notices necessity of press reporting the consequence of layoffs are clear but alternatives are repairing financial problems especially at the state level are scarce we've expanded government beyond its ability to pay matthew said now the pipers asking for the wages and you have to do something well i don't know i need a job you buddy has a job for me give us a call grass valley television and that's it for sammy oh it's time for the police blotter in the pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but useful visual aid only grass valley police department on tuesday six o five a m a caller from certain way reported finding three hypodermic needles in a planter box they were disposed  two a seven p m call from three hundred block of sierra college drive reported a man threw a clipboard at the caller and was acting in a poseur manner three thirty one p m a woman from seven hundred block old tunnel road reported she gave her credit card number to a person posing as somebody from publisher clearing house she called her bank to cancel the charges for thirty three p m call for molly twenty in whiting street reported a taxi was driving ninety miles an hour ran a red light was swerving in traffic seventy five p m calls from bennett into nothing had been taken and at four fifteen p m a man from eighteen thousand block of rural plum way reported someone with been using his social security number five eleven pm woman from twelve thousand block are to close report a person was calling her son and threatening to take him to small claims court asking for two hundred dollars because her son cracked the plastic on a cellphone she was concerned because a person's reaction to the alleged incident was inappropriate nine twenty eight pm woman from ten thousand block s ponderous where put your husband was going going to make her sleep outside in the rain the situation was mediated maybe in out in the snow wednesday twelve fifty six a m a woman from eleven thousand block a caledonia way reported a man was trying to get through door with a knife the allegations were unfounded she was refused medical attention at three thirteen am a caller requested an ambulance for a heart attack and a person was transported to gospel three forty six am a caller from due concerned non killing road reported a girl your general says war is hampered training of u s troops in today's first story president obama has officially endorsed calls for approved health care reform legislation through the legislative process known as budget reconciliation this would enable senate democrats to pass health care bear with fifty one votes rather than the sixty votes that would need to overcome the republican filibuster on once the obama rejected republican calls to start over on health care reform and said but given the honest and substantial differences between the parties about the need to regulate insurance industry and the need to help millions of middle class families get insurance i don't see how another year of negotiations would help more over the insurance companies i'm starting over there continuing to raise premiums and denying coverage offering scores of amendments and challenging provisions over their facts on the federal budget where medical aid just keep getting richer we get more in iraq at least nine people have been killed in separate suicide bombing attacks earlier deadline will for withdrawing combat troops and i went steve vice president joe biden said the u s would continue military operations after the deadline saying the majority of the ranee troops will still be guys who can shoot straight and go get the bad guys were not leaving behind cooks and quartermasters in other iraq news b b c news is reporting the town of fallujah is experiencing unusually high number of birth defects among its newborn children one hospital doctor reported seeing two three cases of birth defects each that you translate to over thousands per year doctors and parents are said to widely blame us weaponry used in two major taxing flus in two thousand and four this all killed hundreds of flus your residence and displaced thousands more in iran government forces appeared to be intensifying a crackdown on opposition members on wednesday at least six human rights advocates were reported arrested human rights groups have voiced concern over the fate of a twenty year old university student that was believed to have been sentenced to death on charges of throwing rocks at a rally yeah sure clinton's visit to brazil came as part of her first visit to latin america as secretary of state comes one week after latin america and caribbean nations agreed to form a new regional body excluding the united states and canada as an alternative to the organization of american states at a news conference clinton criticized events when government secretary of state hillary clinton said we are deeply concerned about the behavior of the venezuelan government which we think is unproductive with respect to its relations with certain neighbors which we believe is limiting slowly but surely the freedom to was invented well and therefore adversely impacting the venezuelan people and we would hope that there could be a new start in a part of the venezuelan leadership to restore full democracy to restore freedom of the press to restore private property and return to the free market economy we wish fans will were looking more to its south and looking at brazil and looking at chile the arab league has endorsed calls to revive in direct talks between israel and palestinian been suspended missed palestinian opposition on two ongoing israeli settlement construction and home demolition in the occupied west bank and once the palestinian negotiator saeb erakat urged the obama administration to become more involved in peace talks and said i have no illusions that upon an israeli practices arab saw it very very clear that this israeli government is undermining efforts but nevertheless a chance that was given we hope that the american administration will seize the opportunity to force coming months to in order to introduce its pledging or proposals of the two states in one nine hundred sixty seven borders and in honduras human rights watch is warning ongoing attacks against opponents of the coup that overthrew the then president mandela's alayo last year on wednesday human rights watch said at least three people have been killed now there are eight jailed what appeared to be politically motivated attacks over the past month the majority of the victims were members of the national popular resistance front which opposed the coup and boycotted the vote that elected honduran president po bulbul the washington post is reporting the bombing ministration is considering lifting a twelve year old ban on training in an elite indonesian military unit linked to the scores of abuses under the proposal of the us military would test a training program for younger members of the posse four top members of the composites are currently in washington to discuss the plan the proposal comes ahead of president obama's scheduled visit to indonesia later  i'm capitol hill democratic congress member charles rangel of new york has announced he's taken a leave of absence from his post as chair of the house of the ways and means committee the move comes days after the house ethics committee faulted ringle for accepting corporate sponsored trips to the caribbean on wednesday rango said he was temporarily stepping aside to avoid becoming a liability admits the health care reform push and ahead of the november midterm elections and he said in order to avoid my colleagues having to defend me during their elections i have this morning sent a letter to speaker pelosi asking her to grant me a leave of absence and tell such time as the ethics committee completes its work and the top general in charge of training the u s army is warning the wars in iraq and afghanistan are hampering efforts to train u s troops in a memo last month general martin dempsey the commander of the us army training and doctrine command said the army's training ability is increasingly at risk dempsey says the wars have forced the military to rely on outside