and school closures possible layoffs ahead in the battle city 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 on the news three times a day six days away to give us a call for more information we also strain the internet and post school year radical changes are being pounded for the future of the system as well according to go country stage transit services manager susan healy harman officials made their announcement wednesday to a solemn nevada county transit commission an expect the sales tax back to ensure core services survive for now and into the next fiscal year that commission is looking at consolidating routes changing bus frequencies from every half hour to one hour reducing the amount of daily runs on routes and cutting hours for teleca runs can't come until public hearings are held first scheduled next meetings commission is on wednesday march seventeenth service changes could come as early as june or july into yearly harmony beyond that commission members and usually harman said they are looking at a mobility management philosophy that would change how go country does business in future years taxi vouchers are a possibility one hundred said other long range changes could include gala rides and merging public ride it would telecare clients to streamline the system and cut costs yet another story by dave muller looking to and what they call voter fraud nevada county republicans and political candidates sam amistad and barry pruitt back to statewide measure tuesday designed to occurred runner said he knew of one case in a recent beverly hills election where the series of people who were dead voted runner staff member christopher nagin cited several federal infractions including some in the state found several counties reporting people casting ballots under the names of other registered voters they did not cite any examples in nevada county but safe now would seek to curb voter fraud fraud by requiring voters to produce a photo identification card at the polls people must show photo id to rent videos and instead said in a statement for the press conference it's not asking too much of voters show photo id to vote the initiative also would give fifteen extra days to count ballots coming from military personnel overseas which often are lost or arrive late a third part of the initiative would check mail ballot runners voters i'm sorry runner said voters would include last four digits of their source security number on a mail or their that might constitute a poll tax on the needy he said which is unconstitutional similar initiative in indiana which up panel does constitutional improve was in law school there in recent years candidate for nevada county office said it was natural for him to back the vote safe now initiative as a person who could one day run the county's election office that's what this position should be doing whether it's me or mr gregory dns who wins pruitt said d s is appointed incumbent clerk recorder county nation live is not a way to intimidate spanish speakers from voting runner said it's not against any group other than those who are not supposed to vote he added the ethnic groups around the state have supported the voting with an i card concept runner said he will have to get four hundred forty thousand signatures by the end of may to qualify for going to them for a valid if that doesn't happen initiative backers hope to put it on the june two thousand and twelve ballot to read the vote safe now initiative visit the union dot com and click on their story of this story and a story about michelle rebels that a city's school leaders are preparing to lay off as many as sixteen teachers while they also look for other ways to slice one million from their nine million dollars budget closing one of the nevada city school districts two k two schools increasing class size in those grades asking employees to take five furlough days and eliminate in specialty positions such a school psychologist were among the top cost saving options discussed on tuesday night board of trustees meeting with a march fifteenth deadline looming did notify teachers and other certified staff of impending my office the district's five trustees all voted late tuesday to approve a plan to lay off sixteen of those employees classified staff such as secretaries your core forty five day notice put you know our a deadline for layoff decision for those employees board president trichet girvin described a layoff plan as a worst case scenario in the meantime they will meet soon with representatives from faculty association that represent teachers in the bargaining process to negotiate shipping for days off the calendar and saving device one hundred seventy thousand dollars gatos of the cuts the district officials expect to cut the the equivalent of three full time positions due to declining enrollment school closures parents are concerned about the school close your back to me which had to be moved from the district office to the nearby seven hills middle school library to accommodate a crowd board members read through a list of eighty ideas offered by the community to accomplish one million dollars with a current list include saving to two hundred ninety thousand to close nevada city elementary school and two hundred seventeen thousand  enroll my declining for fifteen years closing in school and reconfiguring the remaining campuses do accommodate students has been on the horizon for some time trustees another cost saving option suggested but barely discussed was across the board pay cuts in various forms which like furlough days would have to be negotiated with a certified classified employee as you can see it's late for john after more than an hour of reading through options and substantial public comment from them trustee you paula campbell open the board discussion with a close your gold run school option offers a possible income from the future runners for energies have expressed interest in taking over the campus girvin and superintendent roxanne kilpatrick s would not reveal who the they were are because discussions were in early stages parents of students at a kindergarten through some second grade school in the seventh seal district pushed back are going to go run is newer and less costly to run than bad a city elementary which is smaller campus with less convenient access near downtown trustees ended the discussion by asking staff to provide more details about the operational cost of each campus and that is it today for our local news that's right as i am it's time for the police blotter new pictures in a blotter not from these activities but used for visual aid only grass family police department on monday eight thirteen a m he called from three hundred block of empire court reported someone broke out a window of a vehicle nine thirty nine a m a call from two hundred block a certain way reported misuse of a credit card petty theft report was taken and at ten thirty one am a caller from one hundred block of springfield drive reported misuse of a credit card ten fifty nine a m a caller from bridge she could not be located and a two twenty nine p m caller from nevada city highway reported a man in a vehicle beating a ten year old boy and at three forty four p m in color from two hundred block pleasant street reported several people had fled an apartment after a man overdosed on heroin the man was arrested on suspicion of violating parole and was being held in the county jail five twenty five p m call from annecy school soccer field reported a fight involving twenty people officer found two people sparring reported a woman had come to our apartment claiming the caller's poor friend was the father of the other woman's baby and was refusing to leave and tuesday twelve forty nine am afraid it was found on a business off the road and one forty two pm a man for seventeen thousand block jones bar road reported neighbor was driving his tractor on his property he took the keys the situation was mediating and i three or five pm a call from ten thousand block county road reported the man wanted  suspicion wanted on suspicion of spousal abuse was walking around he was contacted by phone and said he wanted to clear everything up he was told to wait he was gone when deputies ravi returned about six twenty five p m and was arrested three forty five man from eleven thousand block of crystal wells road reported being in verbal dispute with his wife he had locked her outside and she said she was going to game five fifty eight p m i women from fifteen thousand blocks anyhow drive reported he she captured her neighbor on camera looking around and taking pictures of her when she was out with her chickens nine twenty p m call from a courtney and wolf mountain road reported a man standing outside a truck waving his arms he was asking for directions ten thirty one pm my man from ten thousand block pheasant lane reported his tenant threaten to cut his throat and i love him fifty one p m i very drunken woman from fifteen thousand block was in a road reported she couldn't get her front door open and she had an elderly roommate with one leg her son was slamming the door earlier during a heated argument and made it stick she called back at twelve o nine a m to report he was back yelling and screaming the situation was mediated and the dallas city police department on monday at eight forty a m a caller from seven hundred block of zion rocket attack there killed twelve people at the same home ten of the victims were from the same family the u s military initially claims rockets mr target but also the home was intentionally attacked because taliban fighters were inside bodies of the victims were handed out over for burial on tuesday meanwhile in pakistan at least three people have been killed and in a suspected u s drone attack report struck reportedly destroyed a home in the village of north wars in pakistan meanwhile has confirmed reports taliban top military commander has been captured by the pakistan and u s forces abdul ghani baradar is in pakistani custody but is also being interrogated by u s officials he is considered to be the most significant taliban figure detained in over eight years the eight year afghan war president obama has unveiled a plan to help build the nation's first nuclear reactors in nearly three decades on tuesday obama said the government will put up eight point three billion to help but not a based southern company built two more nuclear reactors county georgia the loan guarantees will cover up to eighty percent of the company's current and to me our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change will need to increase our supply of nuclear power he also say it's that simple this one plant for example will cut carbon pollution by sixty million tons each year which is paired to similar coal plant that's like taking three point five million cars off the road the energy policy act of two thousand and five authorized up to eighteen point five billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear plants and other energy projects president obama wants to triple the loan guarantees to fifty four billion in haiti and new dirties says damage from last month's earthquake is worse than after the two thousand and four asian tsunami and interior american development bank says the damage could cost anywhere between seven point two billion and thirteen point two billion compared to the net your estimates of around five billion study co author andrew powell said the earthquake could be the most destructive natural disaster in modern history said in relation to haiti's size its population or its economic income it's really a terrible tragedy one of the worst events that the country has seen for a country proportioned to the country's size and so it's really a devastating impact that the earthquake has had might as well be talking taking of anything up to thirteen to fourteen billion of damage and of course reconstruction needs is somewhat different damages tensions between u s and iran have testified in the latest war of words over iran's nuclear program on tuesday secretary of state hillary clinton told the audience and saudi arabia the iranian government is the world's largest supporter of terrorism she said iran has threatened other countries including the kingdom iran has funded terrorists that have launched attacked within other countries including the kingdom iran is the largest supporter of terrorism in the world today clinton was speaking before a woman's college in the town of jeddah when asked by a student why the u s has not insisted israel abandon  nuclear weapons clinton did not respond iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad meanwhile said iran remains open to a nuclear fuel swap under the long discussed plan iran would send enrich uranium abroad in return for nuclear fuel to power reactor for medical use iran appeared to have rejected the proposal last year but on tuesday i'm going to judge said we are still ready for the exchange even with america how much did a judge also warned against imposing new sanctions against his government saying our response will not be like before meanwhile in washington white house press secretary robert gibbs said the bomber administration continues to leave the option of military action on the table and said and on iran you said that there will be consequences white house press secretary robert gibbs and he said yes journalist asked do you rule out military consequences and gibbs said i wouldn't rule out anything our focus has been on the process of engagement iranians have at virtually every turn either ignored or disregarded that engagement demonstrating to the world that its nuclear program is not of the means in type that they're trying to convince others that it's for that as a result of that not living up to their responsibilities that ambassador following two thousand and five killing of the former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri ford nominations will now face senate approval a u s district court has dismissed a case against former defen secretary donald rumsfeld and u s military officials over the distance to guantanamo bay prisoners military is going to prisoners yasser how zorra ronnie and saul are so lami and another prisoner committed suicide and but on tuesday district judge ellen whoville said their case is barred by the military commissions act of two thousand and six the committee to protect journalists see two thousand and nine was the deadliest year for journalists on record a to z group said that seventy one journalists were killed across the globe last year fifty one of the deaths were murders twenty nine deaths came from massacre a filipino journalist last november the deadliest ever incident for journalists to date and the justice department has announced it he was twenty three years old civil rights investigation began after the three of the officers were acquitted in two thousand and eight trial meanwhile in louisianans so than poverty law center was has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family  a seventy three year old african american man killed by police in the town of homer one year ago bernard munro was shot seven times in his front yard by a white police officer who claimed monroe was carrying a gun several witnesses say a man wrongly had a water bottle on a tuesday officer placing  gun next to his body when rowe had been left after suffering from throat cancer earlier this month a jury acquitted the officer of monroe's murder and that's the world news and world counties television would like to thank amy goodman that's right it's time for the police blotter the pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but use a visual aid only