this show and tell next monday as the station is closed for the holiday and our first story written by dave muller a large crowd protesting the possibility of outsourcing nevada county library management tuesday morning in a festive yet you term it way but one hundred protesters assembled in front of the route center then packed the board of supervisors made with signs that read local control local accountability and carnegie is crying among others this is a foundation of democracy protester mark your words said two of the libraries it's not for sale or rent the board listened for about twenty minutes of comments on the matter but could not comment by state law because the topic was not on the agenda board chairman hank weston said the board will now have two committees look over the single proposal from library system of germantown maryland to run all six libraries the board will probably not deal with the matter again until december yet it supervisor maybe isn't who was absent said earlier this were kid expects the board may not get to the matter until january the committees will also look at a second proposal from the friends of nevada county libraries to run the doors foley historical library in nevada city two days per week library system c e o frank pens a neat told the union this morning that his proposal would increase library hours fourteen percent and cut the library budget by seven percent penza ninety also said his proposal calls for hiring all current library system employees back at their existing salaries in a story written by liz keller the empire mind state park which initially looked as if it would remain relatively unscathed by state budget cuts will be closed two weeks two days a week beginning december first operate under reduced hours the other five days when park service reductions were announced a month ago due to state budget cuts the hope was that the help of the empire mind association there would be no significant reductions at the historic mine site in grass valley but a financial reality check forced the district office to take it to another look at the park and sierra district superintendent pam arm us for a time it was as though empire mine would only be open two or three days a week said park association president  burr but after a series of meetings the association board voted to provide funding to keep the park open five days a week during the slower when three months because it's had been cooking for a long time deer burgers sadly good news is that we've come up with a way to deal with them as of december first a park will be closed tuesdays and wednesdays through fair where the park will be open ten a m to three p m thursday sort of mondays guided tours will still be offered of the mine yard at noon and in carthage at one p m on saturdays and sundays i'm glad we could step it up and help on its short term basis said association board member larry skinner we're very much appreciate the association their generous help arma said after looking after budget and looking at the season as well we wanted to save what precious resources we do have for when visitation is higher in the summer both deer burger and skinner expressed concern about the spring when school field trips begin to ramp  the park remains closed two days a week it would severely impact the scheduling of such trips as well as weddings at the site you can't get three hundred to four hundred fifth graders in the park at the same time deborah said they have to be spread out while deer burger was optimistic about restoring full service in the spring it was less then sure about the long term funding issue in the short term it's a win situation for the people of nevada county he said we do have the funding and we have chosen to support the park we hope that going into the spring things will continue to be accessible for next year i really don't know so as nation has some major financial com i meant meant and we can't continue to fund the d p r forever all we can do is look at the current fiscal year quote parks in nevada county that were affected by the fourteen point two million one time billion budget cuts our empire mine malakoff duigan south yuba river and donna memorial south you have a range of patrols have been reduced campground is cause for the season so there will be no significant reductions there in the donner camp ground is closed for the season in any case although when it reopens in may the park might keep one loop closed reductions in service will remain in effect through june thirtieth two thousand and ten californians for state parks and wildlife conservation is currently exploring the possibility of statewide ballot measures that would create a stable reliable an adequate source of funding to protect state parks and conserve california wildlife trust  would be created funded by an eighteen dollar annual state park access pass surcharge on all california vehicles vehicles subject to the surcharge would receive free your ride admission to all state parks throughout the year part visitors currently  pay two hundred twenty five dollars for an annual pass for ten dollars to fifteen dollars per day at most parks out of state because we continue to pay for entrance fees at parks if enough qualified signatures are gathered the measure would be on the november tw statewide ballot and another story written by dave muller possible hike in the vatican on his hotel taxes being considered to fund a tourism borough invision to boost visitors to the area idea for raising the ten percent transient occupancy tax to eleven percent came from nick hay hurst of the gold miners in a holiday inn express and grass valley one percent increase would go directly to fund the county right bridge bureau committee of the board of supervisors unanimously agreed monday to offer the plan to the full board hoping to place it on the december eighth agenda the plan calls for creation of a nonprofit that would work with the area's chambers of commerce on country countywide tourism promotion said committee member might call who were presenting the plan and the tax hike idea targets people forty to fifty five years old particularly young professionals with families who are looking for their next home or to start a business in another area not talking about killing existing programs that work calls that nobody in the county already is good at attracting seniors county also needs to attract people with money to spend on the rise the beer also should see six small conferences rather than major conventions because the area does not have a building to house large events small conferences in the middle of the week is exactly what we want call center county events should be linked with others or shared between two towns to create longer tourist stays the committee was formed earlier this year after supervisor said they wanted better results from one hundred fifteen thousand for tourism promotion they had originally given for years to the counties chamber of commerce supervisor and committee member ted owens a trekkie said the money should be used on a county wide basis to promote both western and eastern a better county owen said monday he used he lied cause vision of using ninety thousand of county money already set aside to start the borough with the idea that the county would give it another given nothing after three years always also like carl's plan for a five member board for the barrow to be made up of county business leaders a nonprofit leader any committee member he said called suggestion of putting a supervisor on the board could unnecessarily politicize boyd apportioned one hundred fifteen thousand an october to very various groups and included the chamber in the mix once again the committee then surfaced with a conference in the visitor barrow concept and three earlier proposals of rows they included  cassie's joint chamber of commerce which proposed a bureau with a centralized web site run in conjunction with the nevada county economic research council and the chambers another proposal came from the grass valley in nevada city conventions and visitor bureau the independent suggested the county use their already established model which has brought in two conferences it's a good proposal came from john moore of the vatican city firm k and m marketing group morris plan would link counties events for longer tourist days it would also be operated like a private firm that would be open to all weekend to travelers committee members did not speak to the proposals monday and that's it for local news today and then another thanks to one of our nine twenty eight a m a woman from one thousand dozen block pleasant valley road reported a stray pit bull had injured her cats and eleven thirteen am a caller from ten thousand block of spence the road reported juveniles were jumping from building to building on the roof eleven fourteen a m a man from seventeen thousand block of lawrence way reported an arrow stuck on the side of an upper bedroom window it might have been someone trying to shoot deer eleven thirty three pm a man from twelve thousand block of highway forty nine hundred forty two is impounded car had been badly damaged and was not drivable twelve thirty pm very scattered man called from eleven thousand block of fairy ring mushroom court no wonder he was requesting extra patrols one zero six pm a man animals on her property two fifty eight pm a caller from twelve thousand block a school quick road reported a squatter in a vacant home three fifty two pm caller from eleven thousand block of good ridgeway reported multiple gunshots three fifty six man from thirteen thousand block rattlesnake road according to received a phone call from someone saying that they had a son and wanted fifteen thousand dollars for his return he believed they might be drug dealers his son told him that he owed them money and would be killed if years father didn't pay them money tonight  injured in the left turn lane the bear was dispatched by c h p officers to vettel city police department on sunday one twenty five a m a man from the one hundred block of sacramento street reported his daughter's wallet with credit card and id had was taken during a wedding last night six thirty seven pm call from five on a block sacramento street forty disturbance with people yelling it was a chimney fire which was contained and that's it today british launch iraq war inquiry in d c to pay nearly fourteen million in record settlement to i m f protesters and obama addresses unemployment crisis and two point one million cribs recalled and f b i releases new hate crime data you california man jailed for illegally housing the homeless in a train station glass shattered as an officer shoves passenger into the window place to southern provinces under emergency rule after gunmen abducted and killed forty six people on monday the gunmen attacked a group of people that were traveling to file nomination papers for a candidate to contest the governorship in elections next may according to reporters without borders at least twelve journalists were among those killed the group said never in the history of journalism has a news media separate such a heavy loss of life in one day and on monday night president barack obama met with his national security team to finalize plans to escalate the war in afghanistan obama is expected to announce his decision next tuesday but democrats the newspaper is reporting the president has already decided to send thirty four thousand additional u s troops over the next year to afghanistan and president obama is facing increasing criticism for senior congressional democrats over the war's cost david obey chair of the house appropriations committee has introduced a bill to impose a war surtax congressman obey the proposed tax on a b c news and he said on the merits i think it is a mistake to deepen our involvement but if we are going to do that then at least we ought to pay for it because if we don't if we don't pay for it then the cost of the  war will wipe out every other initiative that we have to rebuild our economy that's what happened with the vietnam war which wiped out the great society that's what happened with the korean war wiped out harry truman square deal that's what happened to the progressive movement back in the twenty's when we went into world war one in each case cost of those wars shut off the ability to afford anything else and israel and hamas appear to reach be reaching a goal to exchange five to life sentence and he is seen as possible heir to the current palestinian president mahmoud abbas in climate change news a team of researchers are predicting the rising temperatures in africa will lead to more civil wars over the next twenty years research or study is said to provide the first quantitative evidence linking climate change and the risk of civil conflict david labelle assistant professor of the woods institute at stanford said that what we found was surprisingly is that there is not only a clear effect but a very strong effect in incidents of civil war in the state of the climate system looking forward from what we can say for the degree increase which is something we expect over the next few decades you could expect a roughly fifty percent increase in accordance of civil war in africa a sort of rough calculation is about four hundred thousand people additionally would die because of the climate change increase in civil war conflict the study was published monday in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences and in other climate news over one hundred thirty australians were arrested monday and the sit in outside australia's parliament protesters called for this drone government to commit to forty percent emission reduction in two thousand levels by twenty twenty and an official inquiry into british years britain's involvement in the iraq war has begun the five member inquiry team is expected to spend the next eighteen months examining your reasons for britain's involvement in the two thousand and three us led invasion and the subsequent occupation of iraq john two caught chair of the iraq war inquiry said we are completely determined to write the full story and frankly on the basis of all the evidence we can get and it's worth emphasizing that we have complete access to the entirety of the government records from top to bottom throughout the nine years we have have already seen more than enough to know nothing is being held back because it can't be if there was a gap we'd know it and we'd find it to disagree colombia has agreed to pay nearly fourteen million dollars to settle a class action suit brought by protesters arrested during a protest out so i had the i m f world bank meeting in two thousand partnership for civil justice said the settlement marks the largest amount ever paid in the u s to compensate protesters who were wrongfully arrested a class action suit was brought on behalf of nearly seven hundred people arrested at the protest for hayden hillier of the partner for civil justice and it sends a message to every city and every law enforcement officer that there is going to be a steep price to pay for violating protesters first amendment rights and in economic news president barack obama said monday that his top priority was to tackle the nation's unemployment rate which recently top ten percent the president spoke after holding a cabinet meeting and he said our economy is growing again for the first time in more than a year and we know that the economic growth is a prerequisite for job growth but having said that what i emphasized today is that we cannot sit back and be satisfied given the extraordinary high  employment levels that we've seen we have only to take the first step in curing our economy and making sure that it it is on the right track and i will not rest until businesses are investing again and businesses are hiring again and people have work the consumer product safety commission has recalled more than two point one million cribs following four months of infant suffocations agency also said that there have been one hundred ten incidents of drop sides detaching from the cribs some of the cribs recalled have been on  market for sixteen years earlier today one of the consumer products safety commission conceded is not been acting as quickly as it should on script safety problems cribs were made by stork craft manufacture and were sold major retailers including bridges wholesale club sears and wal mart stores and online through target and costco new f b i statistics show the number of hate crimes against african americans jumped sharply in two thousand and eight admits president obama's presidential campaign number of  blacks increased eight percent last year to nearly twenty nine hundred hate crimes based on religion increased nine percent two thirds of the attacks were against jews meanwhile the number of victims of bias motivated crimes based on sexual orientation increased by eleven percent and in california is sixty six year old man was jailed on monday after being accused of illegally housing homeless people on his ranch in san luis obispo for the past eight years dan deval has run a sober living  about thirty homeless people on the seventy two acre ranch in september a jury convicted him of two misdemeanor violations of building and safety codes at his ranch the ball was offered probation but he refused to terms of all said quote i'm proud to go to jail for housing the homeless quite a bart transit officer has been captured on videotape point a drunk man off a train and then slamming his head into a large window shattering the glass after his head was slammed into the window michael joseph gibson was charged with resisting arrest assaulting a post officer and public intoxication an attorney for gibson said he plans to sue the bar transom agency over the incident according to his family gibson has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder earlier this year a bart police officer was caught on videotape fatally shooting an unarmed african american man named oscar grant on a train platform on new year's day and former c n n anchor lou dobbs has acknowledged he's considering a run for the white house in two thousand and twelve dobbs addressed the issue to radio interview with fred thompson's show fred thompson asking lou one way to have a voice you've already had a big one but another way is to have a voice is in public service have you ever given thought to perhaps running for president and dobbs replied i'm talking yes is the answer and i'm going to be talking some more with some folks who want me to listen to them in the next few weeks you know i i just don't even well i don't know how he said it but i'm leaning because right now i'm fortunate to have a number of wonderful options i do this i'm going to have to have the best advice i may want make a terrible decision but i'm going to have great advice lou dobbs resigned from c n n earlier this month he coalition latino groups recently a campaign for his removal from c n n over his alleged anti latino bias in covering immigration reform and the leaders of the group women of zimbabwe arise have won this year's robert f kennedy human rights  at the white house ceremony last night president obama praised the group's defiance of zimbabwean president robert roberta robert m dongle said we deserve to have a roof over our heads we deserve to have food in our stomachs our children in schools and nation working we deserve to live in dignity and free from fear and it is our right to have our voices heard and respected that is why i joined it was a simply for the reasons because mugabe boasts of having a degree of violence i have a seventy five thousand strong was a members who stand beside me have degrees in nonviolence our aim is to uphold university university ality and non