hello welcome to the t v news i'm really scared and today's news our highlights our grass valley police target high crash area a car thief on the loose law enforcement are looking for them local girl fights bone cancer community help leading to form a sixty two citations through september compared to one hundred thirty three in all of two thousand and six according to report this thirty police department released friday police believe more tickets have helped cut the accident levels of the first nine months of this year to three hundred nineteen compared with three hundred fifty seven wrecks from january through september of two thousand and six a more than ten percent drop we've noticed a big difference said sergeant jason perry we just did a target area around about a union high school and we've seen a big reduction in the speeding around there and quot now police have turned their attention to the areas inside city limits with the highest number of crashes perry said officers are driving through and sitting more often in these areas this auburn tickets accidents plummeted to sixty nine in two thousand since with three people killed rumble strips installed earlier this year which alert drifting drivers most likely have helped as well so far this year c h p officers remain aggressive  writing tickets pingree said since january forty nine cracked forty nine crashes have occurred on the stretch with no fatalities he added we were out there yesterday just south of mcknight and we wrote eighty take that tickets in an hour  hundred fifty seven total with forty one injury accidents deputies are looking for a car thief who broke into a grass valley auto repair shop through a ceiling vent stole ford mustang then left it in the mud with the keys inside minus the stereo tom stanton owner of toms car care on the thirteen hundred block of highway one seventy four arrived at work thursday to find his customers black two thousand two mustang missing and his roof damaged the burglar kicked out some sheet rock and came through the vent stand and said we're trying to figure out why he came here the shop contains other valuable items he said and he doesn't understand why the burglar after breaking into the shops office to steal the car keys took only the vehicle which was parked outside it's very very strange stanton said about seven hours after stanton reported the theft a resident called sheriff's dispatchers to report that mustang was parked in the mud after missing about twenty years ago we started seeing more cars stolen strictly for purpose of taking stereos and related items royals said these younger kids with expensive stereos where there is much as two thousand dollars i haven't seen as many reports of this happening in recent years but it still occurs the damage done to the vo cool vehicles when burglars were upstairs out of the dash is often more expensive than the stereo systems themselves deputies lifted fingerprints at the shop and on the vehicle and sent them to the california department of justice crime lab in sacramento poured into a chair where it will be several weeks until results return from the lab because the lab gives presidents presidents two cases in which connection to the burglary to help prevent burglaries he recommend business owners install alarm systems that bolts good locks on windows and extra reinforcement on roof and things systems all advice when it troy davis took his young daughter meghan to the doctor to examine a painful left knee earlier this year he never expected much much more than a look at sprain but an x ray revealed something stunning bone cancer the ten year old had a c school student had it last year oh sir coma and typical childhood form of bone cancer the cancer impacts children going through growth spurts troy davis this is such a shock to begin with troy davis said that from day one the doctors said they would cure it and not to worry about the mortality rate last month megan had her knee and eight to ten inches of her lower femur replaced with a titanium  plant at the university of california san francisco medical center they said she may need five more surgeries to adjust the implant as she grows but the cancer has been removed tonight davis and his wife tracy will host a benefit dinner from five p m to eight p m at the elks lodge to help cover megan's ongoing medical costs the girl who likes to draw watch cooking shows cook and swim has dealt with the cancer well troy davis said she's never tonight's benefit to spend if it is expected to include enough food for four hundred people and organizers already have sold three hundred fifty tickets the benefit features mexican food and cost twelve dollars benefit organizers also will raffle between eighty to one hundred donated prices staples said anybody an able to attend that wanting to contribute can mail a donation to bank of the west from macon davis for sixty brunswick road grass valley california design you don't want to build a scenic bikeway that does anything to disrupt the scenery wasco county spokesman bob hartman said the taco by project is a multi jurisdictional project for it paved bike path from crystal bay to of transportation about a state parks and about of state lands the first phase of the project is almost finished the first phase was a smaller project to get field reconnaissance done earlier this year while the attorneys worked on the agreement he said the second and third phases include data gathering public outreach for feasibility study and preliminary design those phases will cost about one point two million and take about a year he said the public outr how to move the country towards the billion users ship and towards there were stories of democracy towards national reconciliation and while there has been some small progress there's a lot more yet that needs to be done the second and final day of confirmation hearings for the attorney general nominee michael mckay's see where how thursday may casey drew criticism from senate judiciary committee members for testifying he believes president bush could ignore rules mandating special surveillance court approval all secret wiretaps casey also refused to say if he believes the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding amounts to leading democratic and republican current congress members are calling on the bush administration to apologize to maher arar for his wrongful imprisonment and torture arar's the canadian citizen seized by u s officials during a stopover fight flight in york in two thousand and two he was secretly sent to syria as a part of the bush admin ministrations extraordinary rendition program in syria rather was held for almost a year in a grave like cell and repeatedly tortured he was released without ever being charged with the crime on thursday arar testified to the house judiciary and foreign affairs committee by fia conference because he remains barred from entering the united states the bush administration maintains that arar poses a national security threat democratic congress member drawled nadler of new york said he reviewed arar's confidential file and found the government has no evidence against him nadler said this was a kidnapping there is nothing there to justify the continuation of this campaign if it looked occasion against you or to deny you entry into this country republican congress member dana  are joining in offering an apology and i wish our government could join me in doing this surely the house has failed to override president bush's veto of a health of a bill expanding health insurance to millions of children from low income supporters needed a two thirds majority to overcome the veto but not a single republican who initially voted against the measures which cites the bill would have expanded the state's children's health insurance program known as s chip by thirty five billion dollars over five years democratic leaders say they will reintroduce the measure with minor changes next month meanwhile democratic congress member pete stark has set off a furious republican reaction with his comments on the house floor star said you don't have money to fund the war or children but you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement start has refused and other news from washington a measure recognizing the genocide in greece headed for failure the house foreign affairs committee approved a resolution last week but dozens of lawmakers have withdrawn support following an outcry by the turkish government representative john murtha i says i must have had twenty five to thirty members democrats come to me yesterday very agitated about this coming to the floor right now they have gotten the message so i would say that if i were to return if i was to run today it wouldn't past the bush administration has lobbied against the bill saying it would harm relations with an important mideast ally in iraq three civilians have been wounded in a shooting from a british private security firm guards with international are said to have opened fire on a crowded taxi was the third known shooting of iraqi civilians by private company in the past month beginning with blackwater's killing of seventeen people in baghdad in burma the  warning an estimated five million people are lacking enough food burma's food crisis has worsened during the military's young crackdown on a pro democracy uprising the world food program regional director tony banbury so the shortfall in international funding is also to blame tony banbury says humanitarian assistance from the he and other aid organizations can only be a band aid a sad thing is for want to is for one of the many said things is right now the world's not even willing to pay for that band aid in argentina a landmark trial has opened into human rights abuses at the military detention dictatorships the main prison during the so called dirty war thousands of dissidents were tortured at the navy's school of mechanics known as e s m a for seven years beginning in one nine hundred seventy six victims will give closed door testimony against former navy officer hector feed fevers he was being tried for torture former prisoner  said the trial has raised mixed emotions and they're not even going to try him for kidnapping the people you tortured so it's a mix of saying well we've taken another step forward but we're really angry unquote is drawing criticism for claiming black people are less intelligent than whites dr james watson has said to deliver a speech at the london science museum in britain but the appearance was cancelled after watson's response to a question on africa's long term future was published in a british newspaper watson said all are social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all the testing says not really not good watson's research lab the cold spring harbor dollars from arms industry employees that's more than half the amount given to all democratic candidates in sixty percent of the total that has gone to  and the photographer ernest withers has died well there's was one of the most prominent photographers to come out of the civil rights era he photographed dr martin luther king at several marches and was the only photographer to cover the entire trial of those accused in the murder of the black teenager and that till last january someone interviewed ernest withers at his studio in memphis tennessee he talks about one of his most famous pictures a mass of striking sanitation workers holding signs reading i  man at what would turn out to be the last march led by dr king ernest withers says that's the last march of martin king they were lined up there outside of the temple church and they were there with all those i am man signs it was dramatic and historic but i didn't know it would end up to be as popular but it was the last march of martin king that was the late ernest withers he died this week at the age of eighty five and there you have it for world news time from the all right but all right that's right it's time for police blotter and the pictures in this spot or not from these actual events but used as a visual aid only and aggressively police department on wednesday at nine forty eight a m and man call from the break in st overpass saying unknown people thr rock at his windshield at nine forty nine a m a man from the thousand block of idaho marilyn rode cults report there was a lot of toilet paper in feces around a parked car with no front grill he said people may be cooking meth in the vehicle police contacted man who said he was homeless and living out of your gold police told them he could not camp within city limits at one thirty p m a woman in the police station lobby reported last person dispassion called the woman cell phone number and a man answered he said he saw the woman drop the person another man picked it up and started going through it the man said he took the purse from the other man and he still had it the man said he would give the purse to an officer but he would not give any more information please contact the man in the from one hundred block of restraint reported to residential that police took a report and on thursday at one fifty seven p m police stopped a vehicle on the mill street straight out highway twenty and arrested a forty eight year old man came to her house and she felt it was precious she was frantic and afraid for her life she said a bomb had been dropped off at her house the deputy transported the woman to a mental health facility and she went  at you if you five am a man in the sheriff's office lobby reported his daughter in los angeles was missing the man had spoken with his daughter and he did not want her to live in los angeles this did not meet the criteria for a missing person at three o nine