welcome back to coalition for drug free nevada county is partnering with u c l a to provide free regional trainings on screening briefing to venture and referral to drug alcohol treatment for emergency department primary care personnel and others training will be from nine am to four pm monday nov ninth at sierra nevada memorial hospital in second floor conference with outpatient center registration will begin at eight am was free morning refreshments and lunch served those attending are asked by our as v p by friday october thirtieth by logging but he also speaks with their forty nine years of lusty hopes for precious metal geologists say eighty percent of this mine hasn't been exploited miller said at prices today every miner is the latest battered by ups and downs profits and link to illegal batter battle after an accident killed a miner nearly a decade ago miller is clinging to hope the new technology will lead him straight or to the mother lode at a near record one thousand and fifty nine dollars for at market close thursday for every sparkling  ounce forty nine or miller's pet project is raising a quarter of a million dollars to do research and development in the mine his crews unearth some of the greatest gold nuggets when they first started metal detecting in one thousand nine hundred three but it's been ten years since his company has s serious cash into the high tech trappings of the mater mining since then mind mapping software has improved and scientists are using radar and radio wave imaging to locate gold as he has in the past miller also wants to invite scientists to use the min as a beta site to test new gold tech detection technologies in ninety three ninety four we had every coach who can a world come in miller said but it's really developed into a much more sophisticated feel the mind's best asset miller said is that it's still operating and well maintained the sixteen to one is north america's oldest continuously operating mine gold was first discovered in the tiny town of allegheny and eight hundred ninety six in the company was incorporated in one thousand and eleven it's famous for contained one hundred forty three ounces of gold then there are the buried years two thousand and seven the minute it fifty ounces of gold since then original sixty one has been in maintenance mode investors said he hoped they would see potential in the mine pulled out when the financial crisis hit last year there's a great aversion to risk right now to keep the operations going i mean chickie financial times company is slowly selling this valuable inventory of gold nuggets the whopper is on sale for eight hundred fifty thousand and this summer miller put another mine brown bear mine in trinity county for sale before the financial crisis descended the mine faced a different tragic setbacks that lingered for years and over six two thousand minor mark fossil was driving a locomotive in a mine shaft and had his head on a per tooting or chute he died in the money company became embroiled in a tangled legal battle that went on for years miller and the mine manager were absolved of guilt in the miners death case he called an illegal legal battle the california district attorney's association for twenty four million and lost opportunity to develop capital charging the cd aided lawyers who prosecuted damn in a wrongful death case were contracted illegally he lost in two thousand and seven the financial effects of the suit still linger including among investors people said call me back when you get this settled miller said it's hard to say whether that leg legacy still foll thousand subscribers and runs a website called silver stock reports so far is great but gold is on this market watchers mind we're at the beginning of a very long ball marketing gold said homo who predicts gold could reach four thousand dollars an ou within the next decade one reason is that china has expressed interest in diversifying its foreign holdings by buying four thousand metric tons of gold each year the sheer volume of such a purchase would rest pressed regulations from the international monetary fund which occasionally moderate price increases by threatening to release four hundred metric tons of gold onto the market plus the bond market is suffering and investors are seeking the security of gold the long term gold price explosion will definitely turn this into a gold mining community again miller agreed gold prices are headed higher but was more moderate in his expectations he remains confident that the sixteen to once prospect the mine is in production mode not merely exploratory teaching mode but the telephone has been ringing much these days miller's first priority is raising two hundred fifty thousand dollars he needs to troll them on with new technology there's a three point five million dollar cost to sink shaft they've been talking about it since two thousand and three but so far the money hasn't come through in a puffy red vest jeans and rubber boots miller expertly guided the historical society members through the muddy mine cart tracks mind may appear to be struggling or even face closure but this is various asset rich small company miller said people are dedicated to not letting that happen well i hope he finds the gold it's books woman miriam route put the value of the stolen items at about nine hundred dollars the items had been left out in plain sight on the benches she said the primary interest is a locker room was locked during the game but there are several entrances it's possible someone had the key and entered routes and it's all speculation she said you have a college police are in charge of the locker room security but were busy with the other events on campus besides the football game a campus officer went onto the shasta bus and took a theft report a list of stolen items including one cellphone i pods and cash she said shasta college has received an apology routes to college is located in reading so a lot of college an opponent at an upcoming home game has been contacted and told security had been has been increased she said the forty nine ers host contra costa this saturday was needed to bail out her nephew out of jail the scammer left her a phone number and said to ask for sam howard when a deputy called the montreal police department to report the incident they hung up but they were the ones who called it thirty nine am a call highway about one quarter mile from all to see a dr responding deputies could not locate the child six fifty one pm call from fifteen thousand two hundred block a rough and ready highway said he had information on a large marijuana growth but was unwilling to provide details over the phone reported a person was stabbed while breaking up a fight in an area victim refused to cooperate with arriving deputies one of whom left him a card in case he changed his mind and thursday twelve forty two am a caller reported hearing a strange parent strange sounds coming from ready springs school campus three thirty six am a call from ten thousand nine hundred block cabot lane report of waking up to bumping noises outside that it was during or her daughter coming and grass valley police department on wednesday nine fifty four am a caller mcknight way n freeman lang reported for being followed by a strange white pickup truck nine fifteen am call from one hundred block of fifty five g o p are supposed to public are covered by medicare two point three drug lobbyists for every bomb maker and senate votes to expand definition of hate crimes and unemployment ri in today's first story in pakistan at least twenty one people are dead following a series of attacks earlier this week on friday at least seventeen people were killed when a bomb struck a bus traveling to a wedding in pakistan's tribal belt turks come a spec standing offensive against taliban militants entered its seventh day tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes since pakistan launched the operation last week the los angeles times is reporting the u s is aiding the offensive in its most extensive involvement in pakistan military campaign to date the u s military is sharing intelligence and surveillance video for predator drones it's believed to be the first time pakistan is using intelligence from drone flights from a major military operation pakistan rejected the use of drone intelligence during his previous offensive against the taliban last may in sri lanka some four thousand ethnic tamils have been released from government run prison camps and cleared to return home the pretty civilians are among some two hundred seventy thousand tamils forced to endure camps after the sri lankan civil war ended with a bloody clashes earlier this year their release comes the state department has called on the sri lankan government to investigate what it calls credible allegations of war crimes during the civil war final months between seven thousand and twenty thousand tamil civilians are believed to have died between january and may of this year as the us challenges sri lanka the head of the un inquiry into the us back to salt in gaza is challenging they  administration to explain why it's work to minimize the inquiry's findings that israel committed multiple war crimes in an interview with al jazeera judge richard goldstone said the white house had raised concerns about the report but hasn't explain he also said it seems to be still developing it's been ambivalent i think the obama administration joined our recommendation calling for for good faith investigations both in israel and in gaza but said that the report was fl but i have yet to hear from obama administration what the flaws in a report that they've identified are i mean i'd be happy to respond to them if and when i know what they are last week to us voted against the un human rights council resolution endorsing reports recommendation that business doesn't seem to do much good does it the u s meanwhile has launched a joint air force drone what the israeli military drill has been described in israel as a preparation for an attack on iran u s navy rear admiral john richardson said the exercise would insights that we gain from this exercise will certainly relate to developing that capability is the opiate is appealing for one hundred seventy five million and emergency food aid it missed the worst drought to hit eastern africa in ten years is the opposite of six point two million fam the richer nations would allow africa to become more self sufficient in producing food said when an emergency appeal like this comes out the donors must respond and people do need food but we also think that longer term funding is needed to now that there's a way which you can do a certain amount of both more money for emergency food aid was invested inside the region then we would be recycling the economy far more we would be promoting local agricultural investment far more than buying grain from somewhere else in the other side of the world on capitol hill the house financial services committee has approved a measure that would create the u s consumer financial protection agency the white house back to agency would monitor the products that banks and other institutions sell to consumers including subprime loans to finance industry has spent tens of millions of dollars on lobbying and advertisements trying to derail the proposal the vote came as a federal reserve unveiled new measures to crack down on excessive wall street pay although the new fed regulations would increase government oversight they do not impose pay caps or bar multi million dollar compensation packages and they take it to keep all the money anyway so first measure coincided with president obama's announcement the treasury department would cut executive compensation at seven bailed out wall street firms president obama said it does offend our values when executives of big financial firms firms that are struggling pay themselves huge bonuses even as they continue to lie on taxpayer assistance to stay afloat yet those same kind of ironic to me disposed to celebrated pay cuts three key executives of the notorious bailed out from a i g were allowed to keep their bonuses white house pay bailout yeah right i got a bridge to do in manhattan and other news from washington concern is growing that the democratic leaders have will lack decision votes to include the public option as part of the health care reform bill senate majority determined she currently lacks the necessary votes just dad was a robust public option the news website politico reports the vote count will likely lead to a weaker trigger proposal in which a formal public option would only be established if the insurance industry fails to meet certain coverage goals meanwhile a new study has found that many house members opposed to health care reform represent districts where the rate of uninsured exceed the national average of fifty percent according to the national journal forty seven percent of house republicans and forty three percent  are currently covered by the government funded health program medicare the list includes fifty five republicans who winners said have steadfastly opposed the public option he said they apparently think the public option is ok for them but not for everyone else well they're probably right time magazine is reporting the pharmaceutical industry spent one hundred ten million on lobbying congress in the first half of two thousand and nine figure amounts to six hundred nine thousand dollars per day time reports a two point three drug industry lobbyist for every member of congress well we've gotten i want to give me for the high let me people the senate meanwhile has followed the house in voting to expand the definition hate crimes to cover those targeted because of their sexual obama for signature new figures show unemployment rose in twenty three states last month according to the labor department forty three states reporting overall job losses while only seven states gain jobs maybe those are the states we just play a lot of madonna stuff and west virginia eight people have been arrested in a protest against mountaintop removal near the town of korea activists chain themselves to a call truck and lay across the road the protests are staged by a group climate ground