in today's local news of a new thirty foot waterway setback could put it rankle in future development plans for people who own creekside property in grass valley those affected say mark user who owns property next to w at forest three idaho marlin road said wednesday he's concerned the city's new standard would limit his properties development potential yeah i think there's a thirty foot setback was in excess hauser stated but some people have argued for a deeper setback saying as much as one hundred feet is needed to protect city waterways late tuesday city council members championed the thirty foot setback as a complete almost between protecting wolf creek and the rights of property owners wanting to develop their property they approved it at a five to zero vote saying it's a good place to start in protecting the area creeks the new ordinance requires that all new construction including parking lots be at least thirty feet but he said the twenty foot required setback from the road on top of the new creek set back together created a potential problem is sam filtration system for water runoff should allow development closer to the creek than the new standard hauser said the ordinance driving force is a concern that development close to the creek or other waterways is polluting them with contaminants such as oil and herbicides it's not going to be an easy task to protect wolf creek said mary mark johnson but with the first ever set back standards it's more important than ever for people interested in protecting the creek and those interested in developing property near the crate to work together earlier this year city council members rejected a water ways setback standard up to one hundred feet saying it would be too much of a burden on future development they sent is you back to the city subcommittee for further review and they came back with a standard that a city hire consultant originally recommended it's just common sense to have a wider setback said residents virginia morrison who favored a fifty foot setback this all as like a natural splines it would absorb potential pollutants before getting into waterways he added under the city's new standard resident rebuilding or adding on straw a structure falling within the minimum setback would need to for fall for a variance from the city including players to handle water runoff and protect creek habitat many who wanted a larger set back sounded like they were we're encouraged by the city's first step this is definitely an improvement resident pat wind said the ordinance would take effect in december thirty days after passing its required second reading at the november thirteenth council meeting and in another story you can paint the town red whenever you want but when it comes to honoring women and the battle against breast cancer it's time to paint the town pink last night the pink paint the town pink is dr again as it was held at the main building another bad as county fairgrounds from five to eight thirty in featured facility said brett bentley the hospital's marketing and communications director decided to be part of this new event october is national breast cancer awareness month according to the american cancer society an estimated one hundred seventy eight thousand five hundred women in the united states will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year forty thousand five hundred women will die from the disease this year alone right now an estimated two million women in the united states have been treated for breast cancer event is one of the many being held throughout the country people will be given a pink and black bag that they can use to take home free goodies from the day's nonprofit women's group  clubs clothing and accessories stores and other area businesses the silent auction was held for gift certificates and baskets greeting cards one glasses candles and jewelry among other items fashion perform a traditional hawaiian hula and d j bobby g played hit music all night it's great to see how willing people are to get involved in this because it's such a good cause said tara walters of the union and the paint town coordinator idea was created was to create an event where people would truly enjoy themselves while supporting a great cause and to help stop the spread of staph infection hospitals including sierra nevada memorial are gearing up to adopt stricter closing procedures for visitors in patients he added precautions in addition to policies that have been in place for years come after well probably publicized outbreaks of community acquired staph infections called super bugs that are resistant to most drugs a recent american medical association report also outlined the dangers of superbugs this is getting to be a bigger issue all the time said david story manager at s and m h sierra nevada hospitals preparing catholic health care west plains to combat staff for stricter cleansing procedures and check all intensive care unit patients for st bacteria he called it a smart forward thinking kind of move because it's not going to get any better staff bacteria usually are harmless and about one third of all americans carry it in their nose and skin according to the mayo clinic but staff can cause skin infections in healthy people who can also spread it even if they don't get sick experts also are worried because the community acquired staff will cause more problems with people most vulnerable to it including the young who don't have fully developed immune systems and people whose immunity is damage such as patients these people and others who have wounds or all are in health care can develop serious infections or pneumonia which sometimes can be fatal staph infections often start out looking like small red bumps that can appear to be pimples spider bites or boils according to the mayo clinic but they can burrow into the body and cause infections in the bones ones lungs in the heart valves joints in the bloodstream concerns are also being expressed about long term care facilities in hospitals harboring a community acquired strain passage you know within and outside the hospitals but ninety four thousand americans the spread of hospital acquired and community acquired staph infections according to alan finlay the hospital's infection control practitioner when staff does show up it's most often the community acquired type finley added the finding coupled with the nation national concern about the community acquired strain is prompting catholic health care west to revamp its staff policy starting november first to pilot program will begin we're all i c u patients will be checked for hospital acquired and community acquired staff will probably do it through out the hospital eventually this is a complex program and we want to protect our eyes patients first because they're most at risk patient is found to have staff they will be put in strict isolation the policy also already is in place now however people in contact with them will be issued sanitary gloves and  the room so we don't carry the staff to the next person the hospital will also do a more thorough job of cleaning clumsier rooms that staff infected patients have occupied routine checks will be performed after cleanings to see if they meet muster again the hospital cleans the rooms thoroughly now but a link to a checklist will be introduced so that we're more disciplined and do not miss anything the last part of the new plan is the easiest and perhaps the most important  stringent and cleaning programs throughout the hospital we've been doing that for years with doctors and staff finlay added soon the hospital will include patients and visitors in the hand washing program because they could have community acquired staff created a weak link in the preventions change the program will include compliance measurement so we'll have the data and the statistics to work from for improvement you see these alcohol wipes and hand sanitizers all over now just like in the hospital people should of failed themselves in order to protect each other from staph infections and many other bugs that's it today for our local news welcome back to world news today easing winds are boosting hopes that others will be able to contain the southern california wildfires santa ana winds fueling the flames have begun to die out but far farther still face major difficulties with no forecast of rain three major fires in los angeles county have been contained but the six fars burning throughout san diego county are no more than fifteen percent contained california governor arnold have been destroyed in california out of this approximately fourteen hundred thirty six homes have been destroyed there's over twenty five thousand structures that are threatened right now property damage in san diego has reached an estimated one billion dollars president bush is expected to through the region later today will be history when he sees the iraqi government has reported canceled a u s imposed law granting immunity to private security contractors operating inside iraq contractors have been immune from prosecution since bush administration proconsul paul bremmer headed down the law shortly before leaving iraq in june of two thousand for the iraqi cabinet decision follows last month's killing of seventeen iraqi civilians by blackwater guards in baghdad the news comes as the new york times has revealed that the leader of the blackwater squad carried out the shootings in two or three days or three sub warden and guards involved in the now back in the united states anonymous blackwater employees there's a squad leader supposedly left iraq to have shrapnel removed from his leg the other guards are said to have left iraq because their contract expired but their departure will likely fuel speculation that blackwater is trying to avoid scrutiny and punishment blackwater is already embroiled in a controversy for ferrying a guard accused of shooting and killing a bodyguard to iraq's vice president last christmas eve the guard was allegedly intoxicated at the time of the shooting he now lives in seattle meanwhile the new york times also reports a growing feeling within the black compound in iraq to killings were unjustified four current and two former blackwater employees a guard widely expect to see criminal charges meanwhile the washington post is reporting the u s embassy in iraq has begun to offer as much as twelve thousand five hundred dollars in financial compensation to families of the blackwater victims several families say they turned down the offer because they view it as too small or don't want to preclude future legal action meanwhile the state department's top security official has been forced to step down assistant secretary of state for the borough of diplomatic security richard griffin is the first senior official to lose his job and a growing crowd to first see over the blackwater sanctions against iraq the white house has already announced its plan to designate iran's revolutionary guard as a pro lifer the air of weapons of mass destruction and its elite couldn't force as a supporter of terrorism credit to call a series of parallels to the lead up of the u s invasion of iran the washington post regards reports the sanctions package marks the first time the us has tried to isolate punishment to another country's military broadcast broadest set of punitive measures against iran since the nine hundred seventy nine takeover the american embassy testifying wednesday on capitol hill secretary of state congolese rice said iran represents the greatest security challenge to u s interests in the middle east she stated we are continuing to designate an eight iranian into g s when we find that they are trying to use the financial system of their ill gotten gains and it is why we are trying to strengthen the defense can't possibly of our traditional allies in the gulf because working together with them we can help be a barrier to further iranian aggression in the region rice was speaking before the house foreign affairs committee later in her appearance rice was question by the rendition victim arar arar is about him arar is a canadian citizen sees new stop over flights to the us and sent to syria where he was jailed and tortured rice said bush administration had mishandled the rars case but stopped short of  apology before rise testified she was confronted by protesters with the peace group code pink protesters called rice a war criminal whose hands are stained with the blood of millions of iraqis the protesters hands were painted red to symbolize blood and in burma a leading student activist against the ruling military junta was reportedly been imprisoned aung naing is said to have been taken into custody early wednesday morning the news came as burmese marked the twelfth anniversary of the detention of opposition leader aung san suu kyi quiet has been imprisoned or kept under house arrest for twelve of the last eighteen years protests were held in twelve cities around the world to mark to date including london paris washington toronto new york brasilia in cape town adam cooper of the peace for the burma coalition has one of dozens to turn out in bangkok thailand he said today's march to twelve years that aung sang suu kyi has been in detention were calling for her release and that all political prisoners were doing it outside the chinese embassy because we believe the chinese government has the influence to bring about the change in burma they diplomatic support in the un they've got an enormous amount of investment economic and military aid they are in the organization that can bring about change there earlier today a burmese officer said sue quiet had been allowed to leave her  for a brief meeting with the official appointed by the hotel to deal with the opposition and president bush has vowed to maintain the u s embargo on cuba through the end of his presidency in a speech at the state partner wednesday bush called cuba a tropical gulag that would be isolated isolated intel it removes its government he said america will have no part in giving oxygen to a criminal regime victimizing its own people we will not support the old way with the new faces the old system held together by new change operative word in our future dealings with cuba is not stability operative word is freedom bush went on to announce a so called freedom fund that would provide aid to cuba if it changed the leadership of cuban foreign minister felipe pereira's rogue called bush's speech and invocation to violence cubans foreign ministers said cuba understands these words as an irresponsible act which gives an idea of the level of frustration of desperation and of personal hatred of president bush against cuba an invocation to violence a call to use of violence to defeat the cuban revolution and on capitol hill the senate has rejected a measure that would have granted permanent citizenship to undocumented workers children provided they complete two years of college trade school or military service the measure was defeated by a vote of fifty two to forty four democratic senator dianne feinstein and ben nelson voted with republicans and in other news from the washington post democrats are expected to introduce a new version today of their thirty five billion dollar expansion to this state children's health insurance program known as chip president bush vetoed the first major earlier this month in a nod when to win republican support the democratic bill will be in emphasized the children  undocumented workers will not have access to the expanded healthcare program and in north carolina environmental activists have a trip to fifty foot banner denouncing bank of america's toys to the coal industry right across from its downtown charlotte headquarters the banner reads bank of america funding coal killing communities the rain forest action network is calling on bank of america to stop funding construction of new coal field power plants and destructive mountaintop co addressing democratic hopeful john edwards claim that the war on terror has been a bumper sticker for the bush administration he said just look at what osama the rock a bomb was some of the rock obama said just yesterday called on the radicals and all the different types to come together in iraq that is the battlefield that's the central place in response of bombs campaign said parents say mitt romney can switch names just as casually as he switches positions there you have it for today's world  selling candy and when he was asked to leave he became verbally abusive i don't see three times to a four p m woman reported a construction worker made her in another employee uncomfortable by approaching them and yelling at them while they were in their vehicle police contacted the construction worker and advised him to mind his own business and its six eleven pm call from the road on the street at mill street reported the motorcycle was down please contact the man involved in an accident and ambulance transported him to the hospital the motorcycle was towed at six thirty three p m police arrested a twenty two year old man on mill street in front of a bar has especially the possession of drug paraphernalia and violating probation ten fifty two p m a caller from many park on many street reported people were in the park people fled on foot when people police arrived an open bottle of alcohol was located police checked the area and did not locate any of the people in better county sheriff's office on tuesday at twelve thirty two pm it woman called from the ten thousand block of mercury drive to report she felt threatened by a neighbor because he was yelling at her while holding a large metal caller from ten thousand block of kings were reported a neighbor flipped her off when she was driving by deputies contacted a neighbor who was involved in the property line dispute it thirty nine pm a woman called from thirteen thousand block a rough and ready highway to report her pickle repossession called from the ten thousand block of cement road to report he was being assaulted by a person who owned the vehicle he was taking dorner was inside the vehicle and had already been hooked up to a tow truck deputy contacted everyone involved and reposition and got his vehicle no