reduce deaths in the corner three of the areas seven fatal crashes in two thousand and seven occurred in our way one seventy four in area from cedar ridge to pier peritoneal cording to c h p officer lieutenant commander charles widmore of the grass valley regional office going to work a little more and i was one seventy four now with more said tuesday after a presentation to the nevada county board of supervisors people are trying to avoid tickets and i weigh forty nine and that's increasing the traffic it's a dangerous road but more many local call colfax always too tight first strike force took it right in practice where a large group of officers were going to link to road to combat speeding the tactic has been used and i will be forty nine to reduce wrecks and looking for safe locations to stop violators and all we want seventy four with more of a team approach probably using just a few vehicles with more added to fatal wrecks happened on county roads last year and only two occurred on our way forty nine in two thousand and six what moore said one was december tenth that pretty green road just outside grass valley and the other near dani field grass valley district includes part of sierra county we went over a year without affiliates fadal on highway forty nine between auburn and grass cause to decrease the greater presence of c h p officers also has been a strong deterrent to speeders two years ago i had fourteen officers on the road were told supervisors do the retirements and state budgets currently have nineteen and i'm looking towards twenty four within two years getting our way forty nine designated as a safety corridor cut fatalities because it helped bring new stripey rumble strips and extra patrols when the highway forty nine safety program started in february two thousand and six officers wrote of one hundred tickets in four hours one day just south of grass valley and mcknight road some water as have complained about excessive enforcement on the stretch of roadway during two thousand and seven says be officers wrote fewer tickets and always forty nine as year progressed other than a spike during good weather in the third quarter when travel increases they're paying attention more added i'm glad tickets are down i want them to obey the law the local c h p leader has applied for grant money to pay more overtime for officers to patrol i way forty nine more also want to place some unmarked cars in the north san juan area of highway forty nine to stop repeated reports of speeders there highway twenty five mile per hour stretch at least for now we have aggressives be enforcement out there we work it with an airplane and it's not unusual to have a one hundred mile per hour speeders out there another local story young victim of an alleged kidnapping told the nevada county jury said tuesday how cheap skate from a man who pointed a gun at her bound her with zip ties and hand goes and told her he would pummel her if she looked at it tuesday it was the first day of testimony in the trial of charles sullivan it's sixty one year old polo point man charged with kidnapping with a firearm kidnapping with intent to commit forcible rape with a firearm and criminal threat with a fire intention of raping her he donned a woman's wrist an ankle she said and she was scared for her life i was totally scared and shocked the woman testified i couldn't believe i had been so stupid but deputy public defender  good ro told the jury it was the woman who brought did zip ties in the handcuffs and she wanted to have sex with solomon the alleged victim blue eyed and slender dressed in a black turtleneck and pants with long dark hair so up and piled on the crown of her head told the jury of seven men and five women that she was worried sullivan would get some sick pleasure from shooting her as she tried to escape so then sat in a brown sport coat next to good role whispering in his in her ear occasionally the woman testified sullivan picked up her so on september fifteenth one supersede checking on highway twenty and interstate eighty interchange her car had broken down weeks before and she had tried several times previously and was never scared for her life she had  on the day of the alleged crime she was thumbing her way from her aunt's funeral in utah to her sister's house in yuba city where she was hoping to buy a used truck so of and had been driving the opposite direction from where the woman was headed in turned his van around when he saw her he told her he wanted to get some coffee before heading out so they went to the shell gas station in new york and she said she said ferguson played surveillance video in the court joining the woman inside the gas station shop in the morning of the alleged crime as the two headed east on interstate eighty the woman said she struck up a conversation with sell it i was really open with him about my life she said she asked him about himself and he told her he was mining turquoise in a remote area near bowman lake he told her he could get seventy five dollars a pound of for a pound of the stone and you could show her where it was she agreed to go with him because she said she stopped the idea was cooling and he said they wouldn't be going far the two got out and sold his truck off bowman road as  walk she said she thought it was our it's all of one letter to a densely wooded area she bent down to tire boot lace and felt his left hand on her shoulder she turned around to see a semi automatic handgun in his right hand pointing at her face as the woman talked about that recollection she began to cry as sullivan forced her to lie on her stomach she said she begged him not to hurt her i kept saying i thought you were a good man why are you doing this so eleven was aggressive but collected and calm she said he tied her hands behind her back with zip ties then moved her to a more remote area nearby he sat her on her back and but ox then she heard the sound of clanking metal i was scared he had shackles she said i told him you don't have to do this you don't have to tie me i was trying to get an opportunity to get away ferguson asked the woman if she wanted to be there and if she wanted to be and the woman let out a short nervous laugh and said no all that time i was talking and he told me to stop looking at him and that if i kept looking at him he would have to hurt me he said he would pummel me or not me out after that she said she didn't look at sullivan he tied her ankles was  want of a teacher she said he said he didn't want her to remember his face he then asked her why she did couldn't look at his face and she had to repeat his reason back to him so haven't said he was going to keep her out there for a few days and he would have sex with hers she said he said they were going to have some fun she told the jury the woman said she got her chance to explode if we so of and went back to the van for an unknown reason he said he would be right back she waited until his footsteps faded away i got up on to my knees and i thought what am i going to do to save myself she asked herself she said she remembered her pocket knife in the pocket of her cargo pants and fished it out she saw it through the zip ties connected to her ankles and opened so levin's fanny pack she said he had left a fanny pack for her to use as a pillow which she thought was strange she looked for a key to their gods and found and she grabbed a bottle of water and talked for a split second about putting on her booze which sovan had removed she said that wouldn't take too long she said so she would that would take too long so she ran and continued running for about an hour as she looked for the main road ferguson presented to the jury is a woman's dirty socks and homemade legwarmers she had been wearing the day of the alleged attack as the normally composed woman began handling her dirty legwarmers she put her head down and began to sob ferguson requested a ten minute break the woman testified she waved down two men on an a larry newman and charles wolf one of the men owned a cabin in the area when she told them what had happened to her she said they wanted to get her to phone and wave to safety as soon as possible but she insisted they get the license plate number of sullivan's family as they drove with the woman in between them their dog on their lap on our lap they came up upon nevada irrigation district worker jerry green she said green cut through her packages with book car and drove by the van to get the license plate number one and wolf drove her to the cabin to call nine one one from the land line testimony from sheriff's investigators and the woman's rescuers is expected to resume this b yesterday nine a m nevada county superior court sullivan is also scheduled to testify after the prosecution witness good role adding and that's it for today's local news will keep you abreast of this story unfold pentagon won't probe k b r rape charges and us last in avoiding desk by preventable diseases but before these stories t v news would like to thank our under welcome back in defiance of polls and political pundits hillary clinton early beat barack obama do when the new hampshire primary last night the former first lady won thirty nine percent of the vote placed second with thirty seven percent and republican race senator john mccain be massachusetts governor mitt romney by a five percent margin political analysts say that three hundred eight days until november election the two thousand and eight race is shaping up to be the most open presidential race in eighty years for the past year senator clinton has been the clear front runner in new hampshire but after senator obama's surprise victory in iowa general opinion polls indicated the illinois senator had jumped to a double digit lead polls are wrong and in an end clinton pulled out a victory she said i felt like we all spoke from our hearts and i am so grateful that you responded now together let's give americans a kind of come back to new hampshire has good just giving me the race between clinton and obama was so close that it took the networks until about ten thirty last night  in two and a half hours after the polls closed to call the race for clinton minutes later senator barack obama addresses porters he said we will remember that there is something happening in america that we are not as divided as our politics suggest and we are one people who are one nation and to gether we will begin the next chapter in american history for three words that will ring from coast to coast from sea sea shining sea yes we can in john waters  stated i want to be absolutely clear to all of you who have been devoted to this cause i want to be clear to the ninety nine percent of americans who have not yet had the chance to have their voices heard that i am in this race through the conviction that i intend to be the nominee of my party a new mexico governor bill richardson placed a fourth with five percent ohio congressman dennis kucinich who was excluded from saturday's debate in new hampshire placed fifth with one percent of the  on the republican front john mccain took new hampshire with thirty seven percent of the vote the victory came six months after mccain's campaign appeared to be over when he nearly ran out of money and was forced to lay off staff ok managed to beat mitt romney in new hampshire even though  had served as governor in neighboring massachusetts and had outspent mccain on television ads by a two to one margin john mccain said i am grateful beyond expression at the prospect that i might serve america a little while longer the gratitude imposes on me the responsibility to do nothing in this campaign that would make our country's problems harder to solve or that would cause americans to despair that a candidate for their highest office in the land would think so little of honor that he would put second and i was now setting his eyes on michigan the state where he was born where his father once serves as governor republicans in michigan hold their primary on the fifteenth of january and romney said i will strengthen america as your president and that when i come back here next distant sixth gave ron paul a little more platform maybe he'd be a little before the rip there u s tensions with iran are on the rise after naval incident sunday in the streets  it as propagated fact it is a dangerous situation it should not have done it clear and simple i don't know what i think what they were there thinking was but i'm just telling you what i think it was i think it was a prop meanwhile president bush arrives in israel today where he begins his week long middle east tour it's bush's first visit to israel not by territories during his time in the white house bush says he comes he's come to the region to help revive peace talks ed says the talks will include the status of jerusalem and jewish only settlements in the west bank bush's trip comes in as news the israeli government is trying to block the publication of key report detailing its expanded settlement activity in the west bank according to the israeli group peace now confidence a two thousand and six report provides israeli's government's most comprehensive analysis to date of settlement activities beyond its internationally recognized borders the report is said to detail widespread expansion in dozens of settlements which israel vowed to stop under the u s backed road map and in bolivia president evo morales and regional governors have agreed to work towards a national unity deal that comes weeks after the war regional governors declared autonomy in protest of a draft constitution that would increase the powers of bolivi indigenous majority the four lowland provinces contain much of bolivia's natural resource wealth and most of its large natural gas deposits and the pig pentagon's top watchdog allegations made by a former employee of the war contractor halliburton and its subsidiary k b r the alleged victim jamie lead jones says she was gang raped by coworkers in iraq jones has accused k b r and u s government of covering up the crime on tuesday pentagon inspector general claude kick lighter said he won't look into the charges because the justice department still considers it an open case democratic lawmakers in jones's difference team both criticized the decision criminal probe has already lasted more than two and a half years with no charges filed in health news a new medical study shows the u s ranks last among industrialized nations you know the desk by preventable diseases researchers are at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine but a preventable disease death rate of one hundred  connection to the rising numbers of medically uninsured in america so go out there and watch sicko michael that's a wrap for today's world news business arresting her she did not have a restraining order she said she would have taken one tuesday and five forty one p m a call from threat of block a certain way reported a fight police contacted a thirty six year old man and arrested him on suspicion and grab a gated assault and battery six twenty four p m police arrested a twenty two year old man and one hundred block of south street on suspicion of violation of probation six forty four p m a woman  ten twenty seven p m caller from parking lot a certain way reported the man appeared to have broken into a vehicle with a hammer police contacted a forty one year old man with a hammer and determined he had locked himself out of his car on tuesday twelve fifty a woman called from three hundred block of north ridge street to report twenty six year old man had just assaulted her the man left in a dark gray two thousand five toyota camry and he had been drinking the man called from a pay telephone to report to fight with his roommate police arrested sheriff's office on monday ten thirty two a m a caller from thirteen thousand block of rattlesnake road reported to disabled daughter had been harassed in discriminated against by a school bus driver for the last seven months at one eighteen a man called from business on the thirteenth doesn't block a grass valley avenue report he was threatened by an employee he just fired the man said watch his back because he would be there and to force a deputy determined there was no crime and advise a car tuesday a woman called from the fourteen doesn't block a highway forty nine hundred forty two suspicious looking men were in front of her house deputies were unable to locate the man a drunken man would not leave police arrested a man on suspicion of public drunkenness and violation of probation and that's it for a blotter today and now for our lovely weather report also cloudy with a chance of ra late today into thursday highs remain a low fifty's next few days light winds friday into the weekends holds dry weather now our special report jamie's jammies 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