in the union story written by a loose color a seventeen year old girl was taken to sierra nevada more in hospital tuesday afternoon after overdosing on heroin and her twenty year old boyfriend ended up in jail a medical aid was a call was made from the home nevada county sheriff's deputies he had provided her with heroin and share key through a o l said cherokee through a o l syringe and other drug paraphernalia were found inside the home the girl is believed to be stable but no furthe information was available due to her age baggett was arrested on suspicion of providing their current narcotics to a minor and is being held on a fifty thousand dollars bail at the county jail in another union story written by dave a lawsuit a lawsuit was promised for the city of grass valley tuesday night if leaders vote to reopen the idaho mail in mind concerns about pollution and the fact and wells were among the familiar objections raised about the proposal before the city planning commission which held a public hearing before a packed house with people spilling into the foyer behind the council chamber is supporters of the project pointed project pointed to the local jobs it would bring in  city's roots in the mining industry the commissioners eventually will vote on whether the project stress environmental impact report adequately covers the possible consequence of reopening the his story gold mine and explores ways to soften the impacts that atmosphere during the hearing was tense although people felt strong emotion about the proposal they generally followed introduction to speak civilly and faith refrain from applause financial consultant and former local wachovia securities branch manager bob clark who lives near the mine site he told the planning commission he would sue if they ok the director the i r and pass pass it on to the city's council for final approval absolute confidence there will be legal action if the reopening of the mine causes his property value to go down affects his well or makes him feel his quality of life is diminished the financial manager said he also questioned i hope my own mining corps financial ability by corps financial ability to operate the mine in november clark said he feared the mine would be reopened only to be sold to an overseas firm with more capital than idaho marilyn's parent company and gold of canada but there was no question to karl bolton's mind that the historic gold mine that close the one nine hundred fifty six the should be reopened if everybody thinks the county is in great financial shape they had better look around said bolton who was born and raised in grass valley people need to make a living in the town of grass valley is drying up we need jobs this t boulder added or bolton added alisa parker of the nevada city said times have changed the community was revitalized after mining left parker said arts and music new economic base she referred to bolton and other old timers as sentimental it's who should think twice about bringing back the mine based on history the area was also formed on the prostitution that chinese slavery and chinese slave or chinese slavery parker said do we want to bring them back to mine or robert shoemaker said no known sicknesses have been caused by the chemicals formerly used at the mine wondered what the watering the old brunswick site might do to the wells in the mountain on the mountain no one really knows the impacts called meyer said nevada irrigation district water has been offered by mining officials to soften the impact of those near the mine who might lose their wells of water now if water now in the old mine shafts were drain to resume gold extraction jamaat of the lives near the proposed mine and said the process to get that water to affected  residents might be lengthy and could console and could result with many residents having temporary water supplies for years but wilder grass valley and president of the sierra nevada mining industry coun said he had gathered one hundred seventy signatures in favor of the mine all of them local and hoped the city would approve the project as supply jobs another public hearing will be held on the mine and its environments report on january twentieth at city hall that is also when the written comments on the poor are due commission chairman ray johnson rescued himself from the mine discussion because he owns property near the proposed project city as your new rout earlier had ruled johnson cannot participate in the mine matters new commission members patty ingram and daniel sorts in gruber said they had thoroughly studied the situation and would be voting on the mining matters along with returning members harrison and jason foyer in our last story from the union written by david morality police are looking for the owner of a loaded handgun that was found in a restroom sierra nevada memorial hospital the house a hospital patron found again saturday afternoon and notify hospital personnel who were contacted the who then contacted the private security firms that patrols the hospital police captain dave said ruler did not say what type of gun it was only that it was loaded and the person who found the gun did not handle it the bathroom located near the emergency room and the hospital cafeteria was promptly security guards secure the area we don't know who the gun belongs to this is the first time anything like this ever happened hospital spokeswoman brett bentley said the hospital is not equipped with any kind of metal detector she added the investigation is continuing and everyone with information should call deputy call in nelson at the grass valley police department at four seven seven four six zero threatening her on her my space account for a one p m a man at the business of one hundred block of street was advised not to buy tobacco or alcohol for minors and at five or seven p m a call from a business  south auburn street reported a man looked like he was trying to get money out of a towel machine and a five thirty four p m a woman from the one hundred block of carpenter street reported horizon forced his way into our house in violation of a court order he was arrested on suspicion of violating a domestic reached straining order five fifty nine pm a caller from doing a block of june drive reported the man was drunk and had a family house where he was not wanted he was given a ride but a caller from two hundred block of south church street reported the man passed out at ten eighteen p m he was cited for being drunk in public and transported to the emergency room and friday at eleven am multiple businesses on south auburn and no street reported a woman who was incoherent and trying to steal items it business in south auburn street reported the woman stole a barricade from in front of the business she was arrest suspicion of petty theft the same woman it called the nevada county sheriff's office at seven p m thursday to report she had left her vehicle at someone's house and the person had threatened her she called grass valley police at eight forty p m to report being assaulted and then called again at three forty three am from a business in a one hundred block a bank street to report she was looking for someone who had not checked in nevada county sheriff's office on thursday at eight forty five a m a man from gnomes crossing and hidden valley road reported people were shooting farms almost every night at nine pm to ten p m and at ten fifty nine a m the caller from eleven thousand block of slate creek road reported someone stole eighty pounds cement flamenco from the front yard left thirty four am a man from eighteen thousand block a good deal you road put a neighbor was using his tractor on the caller's property he said he was pushing no y to ten feet onto an easement and damaging trees and at one fifty one pm call from eighteen thousand block of jones ridge road reported neighbors were dumping trash on the caller's property they also were using a chainsaw and cutting wood and might have a vicious dog one fifty eight pm a caller from eleven thousand block of torrey pines drive reported to woman just popped a window at the residence the house was secured and there was no b at three thirty four pm a woman from the eighty thousand block of cooper road reported she was drunk but didn't want any drama the woman left with a sober friend three forty eight pm a call from twenty four thousand block  arrestee wway reported for farms had been stolen a month before and the four twenty seven pm a man from the last lake road reported hearing gunfire for several hours and at four forty eight pm a woman from eleven thousand block auburn road reported her drunken brother in law was knocking on her door and wouldn't leave her alone it's called back to us later to say he was in the house he was arrested on an out of county warrant and  house the child's parents picked up the child six fifty four pm caller from the fourteen thousand block of moss wood lane reported hearing gunshots and explosions but no smoke or flames caller said there was a history of lots of traffic in the area and at six fifty four pm a call from the sixteen thousand block of bloomfield court putting the assault victim was at the emergency room the victim had been hit in the john had possibly cracked a book on nine o vandalism they had been doing donuts on the carnival green a juvenile was cited and released on charges of reckless driving and vandalism and at nine twenty one pm a caller from chicago park school reported a white jeep was on a baseball field there was no visible damage and friday at twelve o five a m a woman from the ten thousand block of smith road reported people were shining a green light into her bedroom and it for all three a m a man from the representation services firm reported someone pointed a firearm at him and if i were a teen a hammock over from thirteen thousand block of wheeler acre road reported a neighbor was yelling over the fence and throwing pine cones a to house call reported seven thirty eight am the same neighbor was burning main and smoking them out they had it for the blotter today cease fire proposal and un general assembly is to meet on a gaza attack palestinian israeli protesters condemn attacks on gaza injuries canadian women occupied toronto israeli town of rafah as israel intensifies its assault on the gaza strip palestinians reported dozens of israel air strikes overnight with attacks here in homes mosques and tunnels earlier today the u n said the israeli forces fired on one of its convoys trying to pick up supplies reports at least one palestinian was killed two others injured twenty nine palestinians were killed in israeli attacks wednesday couldn't a family of four traveling in a car to bear the arabic news channel al jazeera reports a palestinian death toll stands at more than seven hundred overall including two hundred nine hundred children more than three thousand palestinians a possible wounded tens israelis have died over the same thirteen day period clued in seven soldiers for them during so called friendly fire another four palestinians died wednesday from interest in spain and israeli bombing of the un school shelter in gaza civilians injured while bringing the death toll to forty six another fifty four fifty five  said i've been authorized to say the israeli army in private briefings with diplomats is admitting that the firing had come out of the bol yesterday militant far was not from within the u n or a school compound it was from outside the u n are there be a school compound this is a crucial distinction because serious allegations have been made against u n are debbie aid that the militants were firing from what in fact those allegations are baseless it is as far as we're concerned illustrates the need for full and independent investigations it's been shown that these allegations against us are completely baseless the u n is calling for an independent investigation into the school bombing for possible war crimes the international committee of the red cross meanwhile has issued a rare condemnation of the israeli government for blocking it from the site of the deadly bombing palestinian civilians red cross says israel barred aid workers from four days from reaching victims in a neighborhood of the town israeli soldiers reportedly tried to stage the rescue workers away when they finally arrived two workers from fifteen bodies along with several children still barely alive children are lying next to the dead mothers in a statement the red cross said they'd zero the military has f obligation under international humanitarian law to care for any factory to want to call an episode unacceptable other sources have reported a higher death toll in the attack daily telegraph of london reports the bombing could have killed between sixty and seventy members of the same family meanwhile militants in southern lebanon have opened fire in israel with three rockets hitting the northern town of now harleigh knowledge i don't know what it is now how early today israel responded with mortar fire into lebanon no one has claimed responsibility for firing from lebanon aid workers were given a three hour halt to the fighting wednesday to try to deliver desperately needed supplies but european commission official simon horner said the brief low doesn't even meet the bare requirements for delivering aid he also said yes three hours is a bit of a help but it's really not even the bare minimum it's just a slight assistance that allows inhabitants of gaza to get out to reach supplies where they're available inside this trip but an awful lot more needs to be done and ultimately of course what we want is sustained cease fire following up hopefully by political solution in order to ensure that the humanitarian needs are addressed as quickly as possible the u n says more than one million gazans are without electricity and or running water israel has continued the gaza assault despite claiming it's a fundamental agreement with the egyptian and the french cease fire proposal the plans call for an end to the fighting followed by talks on lifting the economic blockade of gaza and securing its borders israeli officials are expected to travel to egypt union policy chief javier our looks a lot said the initial initiative of president mubarak we welcome it and we supported we are working with him last night and have been well received by prime minister olmert by leaders of the region and i hope very much that will be the stone upon which we can construct a ceasefire and i hope it will be coming very soon meanwhile the united nations general assembly will begin a two day emergency session today over the gaza attack general assembly president and former nicaraguan foreign minister miguel de as scotto brockman called the session to response to his report opposition to the u refusal to also raise its security council backed cease fire protests continue against the gaza attack on wednesday more than one thousand palestinians gathered west bank city of hebron and in israel hundreds of israeli demonstrated in tel aviv one israeli protester said i came to protest against what my government is doing in gaza killing civilians children women that are stranded in their houses with nowhere to go with no fuel no electricity no water this is absolute violation of human rights meanwhile in canada a group of eight jewish women were arrested thursday after staging a sit in at the israeli consulate and toronto two wom were handcuffed arrested and detained in a police wagon before they were released the group included a canadian journalist and activist judy reddick the spokesperson said israel purports to represent all jews worldwide and these atrocities are not being committed in our name and on capitol hill democratic leaders appear to have reversed their opposition to allowing roland burris to claim president elect obama's vacated senate seat b was appointed by the scandal plagued governor rod blagojevich who has been indicted on corruption charges democratic lawmakers met burris wednesday one day after blocking his sworn in on the senate floor said he expects to take office he also said so i'm very pleased this afternoon i'm happy my whole interest in this experience has been to be prepared roland to represent my great state and that is my love that is my desire and very shortly i will have the opportunity to do that as a junior senator from the fifth largest state in this great country of ours burris's former illinois attorney general if he is allowed to serve he would be the only african american in the senate meanwhile at the white house president bush hosted president elect barack hussein obama and three other living u s presidents for a rare meeting standing next to bush his father president george h w bush president bill clinton and president jimmy carter a bomber thank bush for the gathering obama also said i want to thank you the president for hosting us this is an extraordinary gathering all the gentleman here understand both the pressures and possibilities of this office and for me to have the opportunity to get advice good counsel and fellowship with these individuals is extraordinary and i'm very grateful to all of them the five then held a private white house lunch but no two tales were revealed on their discussion president jimmy carter has been a vocal critic of the bush administration calling president bush the worst president in history on foreign policy and that's it for today's news and give you t v news would like to thank the union amy goodman and the associated press for the sourcing of our news don't forget to watch our g v t v news weekend updates that run thursday friday and saturday find out what's going on around about accounting if you want to underwrite the news or get a mention on our show just give us a call five three zero 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