information in the case the girlfriend's father was the first victim in this crime and we hope that the jury finds a way to show justice in the ending of this case all four of us was a friend of mine for twenty five years almost like a second father was a great guy can't even express the feelings i have against these women but what his daughter has been going through i would just like to say that this is a little small glimpse of the horrible crime and the greed and as a news person i must say alleged crimes but before these stories if you t v news would like to think these two elderly woman charged with the murder for profits stared at block pictures of the mangled bodies of the two homeless men in court thursday as a prosecutor told jurors the defendant should be found guilty of the killings even if they were not  the crimes if they conspired it doesn't matter who actually ran over the victims they are guilty said deputy district attorney truck she said ogle rhetorician at seventy five and helen goal a seventy seven invested heavily  insurance policies on the lives of paul wattles and kenneth david who were run over by cars in deserted alleys more than five years apart they picked up complete strangers men they did not love or care for destitute man and made them worth millions if dead dozy the prosecutor said the women brought it total of twenty one insurance policies with four point five million and collected two point eight million after paying premiums on term insurance policies which would have elapsed in ten years if the man did not die testimony showed the women were continuing to try to collect more than they were when they were arrested in the case of bottles who was in the seventies she said the only kind of policy available was one that would pay in case of accidental death or dismemberment when he was struck by a car nine hundred ninety nine they collected eight hundred twenty nine thousand five hundred dollars on his insurance this is not insurance fraud or a gamble that someone might die of natural causes she said it was murder in a case a mcdavid though said the women supported him for two years paying premiums of sixty four thousand dollars and seventeen insurance policies on men they did a man they did not know they owned his life for financial gain david fifty died on june twenty first two thousand and five in votto seventy three on november eighth one thousand nine hundred ninety prosecution is not seeking the death penalty defense attorneys were to present their closing arguments last friday afternoon superior court judge david west we said the case would probably go to a jury on monday go as lawyer roger jon diamond has suggested a goalie's daughter was the driver of the car that ran over  that the mother knew nothing about it though entered that argument in advancing to dinner date the driver doesn't matter because the woman on trial bought a car as a murder weapon and to kill me can desire and or guilt is whether whether or and pointed out injuries she said were not typical in hit and run accident both woman stared at the photos without any reactions in a courtroom audience daughters of the dead man wept self this was an intentional run over and we will show one more video of the black widows to show their real attitude right after being arrested in two thousand  so short glimpse into this case that needs justice we will keep you updated as to the verdict it should be this week the last two weeks spending six days in l a made it difficult to do the daily news but we're back on schedule  point in today's world headlines bush pauses iraq troop withdrawals ten killed in u s attacks inside or city and a p photographer remains in prison despite iraqis release and secret service agents spied on environmentalist and cia kidnap torture victim take the case to american commission on human rights and bomb kills several in southern iran thursday bush said betray us would have all the time he needs he also said after detailed discussions with my national security team including the secretary of defense secretary of state joint chiefs of staff have excepted these recommendations recommendations likely to receive the most attention is on troop levels bush also said he will decrease the length of deployment in iraq back down to twelve months from the fifteen months term he imposed last year the change will only apply to deployments beginning in august also thursday defense secretary robert gates said he's abandoned hopes in reducing the u s military occupation to less than one hundred thousand troops by the end of this year at a capitol hill news conference senator majority leader harry re criticized bush's announcement he said this is not a so called troop withdrawal pause was today's announcement the president signaled to the american people that he has no intention of bringing home any more troops instead he's leaving all the tough decisions to the only person that is going to have to make those tough decisions the next president of the united states the president as a timeline january twentieth of next year our troops also need a timeline house speaker nancy pelosi also criticized president bush pelosi said the white house is entrenched trenching the iraq occupation beyond bush's presidency she said the president has taken us into a failed war he's taken  deeply into debt and that debt is taking us into recession and we need some answers for at present meanwhile in iraq at least ten civilians were killed thursday in the latest u s attack on site or city area of of the dead were reportedly young boys cedar city residents said he blamed iraq's government he also said what did these families do why did all those people have to be killed this way the reason is our new government it is our fault to support and like such a government it is our fault what did these families do what did these those martyrs do to be killed in this way you know there are rock news the pentagon has announced it will continue to hold imprisoned associated press photographer blair hussein despite an iraqi order for his release this week before judge panel ruled hussein falls under the amnesty law and should be freed without delay the same has been held for nearly two years without charge the pentagon says it needs more time to study hussein's case before responding to the order to former senior intelligence officials have come forward to confirm reports top bush administration officials personally and approved how top al qaeda suspects would be interpreted by the cia this week a b c news revealed that principals committee on the national security council agreed on controversial interrogation techniques including physical assault sleep deprivation and waterboarding deficiency included vice president cheney former national security advisor condoleezza rice defense secretary donald rumsfeld and secretary of state colin powell as well as cia director george tenet an attorney general john ashcroft in an interview with the associated press a former senior u s intelligence official said the group met in the white house situation room and deliberately insulated president bush from their discussions the meeting were said to include live demonstrations from cia officials of the interrogation methods in practice including waterboarding the american civil liberties union is calling for a congressional investigation is c l u legislative director caroline frederickso said with each new revelation it is beginning to look like the torture operation was managed and directed out of the white house this is what we suspected all along and the world bank has joined calls war in of the global crisis over the rising cost of food on thursday wild world bank head robert zoellick urged wealthy nations to commit at least five hundred million to his world food programme short so exit prices of rise has risen seventy five percent over the last two years hitting poor people in the hardest world bank president zoellick also said this is about recognizing a growing emergency acting and seizing opportunity to the world can do this we can do this we can have a new deal on global food policy first for radiate crisis the international community must feel that at least five hundred million dollars food gap identified by the un world food programme to meet regency needs and in israel the occupier an occupied territories israeli tanks are in or the gaza strip in a new flare up of violence there for palestinians into israelis have been killed in cross border attacks this week israel has once again cut off all fuel shipments to the gaza strip  plant has enough fuel to last about a week and mother jones magazine has revealed a private security firm staffed by former secret service agents spied on several environmental groups beginning in the late one nine hundred ninety s the firm becket brown international later s t afghanistan where he was held in the secret prison and tortured attorneys say his kidnapping and torture has left him a psychological wreck last year on the salary lost a final supreme court appeal to his case heard in the u s co the bush administration had invoked the so called state secrets privilege to deny as mayor in missouri a trial this week american civil liberty union said they would petition in the american commission on human rights to demand an apology from the white house and in another story out of tehran iran a bomb explosion in a more mosque in southern iran saturday killed several people state television reports television reports that several people have been killed in an unspecified number wanted in the bombing of the city of sh about four hundred fifty nine miles south of the capital tehran the center official fars news agency said eight people were killed and more than sixty six injured far said the death toll was expected to rise because some of the injured were in critical condition the official i are in a news agency said several people were injured but added that no official reports were yet available on deaths there was no immediate explanation for the discrepancies in the reports no one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosions local officials mohamad riza dog told state t v and the cause of the blast was under investigation for said the force of the explosion shook houses for more than a half mile from the site of the bombing and ambulances and fire fighters were rushing to the mosque although bomb attacks are rare in iran the predominantly shiite muslim country has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies that have carried out sporadic sometimes deadly attacks in recent years none have a serious threat to the government in february two thousand and seven a car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of the iran's revolutionary guard killing eleven of them and wounding more than thirty in southeastern iran a sunni militant group that has been blamed for past attacks on a reigning troops claimed responsibility some believe the group known as john dollar is linked to al qaeda dollar or guards brigade has been waging a low level insurgency in southeastern iran besides the violence in the southeast ethnic arab sunni militants have been blamed for bombings in the western city of azaz avaaz near the border of iraq including blast in two thousand and six that killed nine people and that's a wrap for today's world a car accident involving her son the man said that if you didn't receive the money he was going to be a person one fifty three p m a man called to report a man wanted for parole violations was at the hospital getting his hand sewn up the man said he wanted the man picked up by police and out of his daughter's life police went to the hospital emergency room and arrested a forty six year old man for wanted to non suspicion of violation of parole and resisting arrest five seventeen pm call it reported  sinkhole on brighton street at chapel street public works was advised seven forty five pm a caller from business on freeman lane porter the woman was yelling and using foul language thursday nine forty nine a twenty six hundred block of highway forty nine reported a man was threatening to shoot him the caller said the man brandished to nine millimeter gun out of his window no rest for me and i ten fifty eight a m a caller from the eleven thousand block of newtown road reported a diabetes foundation the man was headed towards the river deputies were honorable to locate the man at two fifty four p m caller from twenty three thousand block a hidden ranch road reported four days worth of mail w costa county operator santa drunk and he was also threatening to shoot himself and never had a city police department on wednesday at twelve thirty p m police stopped a vehicle on sacramento street off and holly forty nine and arrested a person on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance twelve fifty one p m i want to call from nevada street report her daughter had not been seen in three d thursday ten thirteen am animal control reported receiving numerous calls about a dog with a homeless person callahan park many people concerned about the dog animal control determines a dog is old and has cancer pods sunglasses personal papers and other items from unlocked cars parked in driveways and open garages a nevada county sheriff's captain said he also said victims are waking up to find things joined on the ground and to add insult to injury their car doors were left open and they don't lights have been on all night so their batteries are dead when perry way residents said he went outside of five a m with their team discovered three pairs of sunglasses worth two hundred seventy five dollars in a roll of quarters were missing his neighbor he said found two of the parents or some glasses on the side of the street besta gators believe juveniles are responsible for these burglaries we think it's kids going out at night probing people's houses and pulling on door handles no one has been arrested in connection with burglaries yet the officer recommended residence lock the car doors at night and close their grudge doors don't leave valuables