world news broadcast from nevada county california i'm randi hanson and in today's news the number of defaulted properties in nevada county has doubled in the past year according to figures from the county recorder office since january lenders have issued two hundred fifty three notices of in the county that's up from last year when lenders issued one hundred twenty four notices during the same time period according to records documents documents in the county two hundred eighty two homes are in some phase of foreclosure bank ownership or sale according to realty trac an online marketplace tracked dot com for foreclosure properties despite that increase local mortgage officer said monday rates have not reached a worse worrisome level in about a county conventional wisdom is that we won't have as many foreclosures here as in other places in the state because of the dynamics of who in the grand scheme of things the current level is not an alarming rate said john tabor a commercial and residential loan officer with delta homeowners he said nevada county is very better than other counties in the state county has three thousand and eighty six homes in some phase of foreclosure think ownership for sale in yuba county has five hundred sixty seven such listings according to realty trac nationwide lenders filed one hundred sixty four thousand six hundred  forty four foreclosures in june up eighty seven percent over june two thousand and six the troubled property owners are not exclusively first time buyers or young families in some cases owners of upscale homes got in over their heads and had to foreclose in their properties put into realtor shero the link to foreclosures is almost always a job last post and added california has the nation's second highest foreclosure rate among states with one for of course your feeling filing for every three hundred fifteen households foreclosure notices in the union classified have gone by four times eight hundred twenty notices a month are not uncommon this summer compared to five notices last year most of the foreclosure properties come after two or three year ownership the high rate of repossessed homes stemmed from the combination of buyer's frenzy several years ago when buyers were willing to do anything to get into a home before prices rose beyond their reach and loans with creative financing adjustable teachers rates that jump higher as early as six months after the home purchase said phil rubel president of olympic mortgage and grass valley those two things together and you have with poor credit and no down payment qualified for a long stretch them to the limits of their income some expected to sell when prices rose even higher then interest rates which three years ago were at their lowest rate since the one nine hundred sixty s started raising the real estate market started slowing down some adjustable loans with rates that started as low as one point twenty five percent climbed past ten percent by the time the home went into default it just kills you ruble said you can't make payments prices falling in some markets some homeowners now more than three houses is worth so they just walk away the demand for interest only loans has not diminished they still serve a purpose for responsible buyers qualifications such as higher credit scores have tightened access to such loans taber added interest only loans are tools to get some buyers into a home and have been used effectively by a number of people those who neglected to do their homework before they invested are the ones hurting now if you take a chain saw out and don't know how to use it will be without a hand now another story locally national lines for the mentally ill had a picnic today in pioneer park lots of turnout as many of our local officials attend this wonderful barbecue judge tom anderson stopped in doug carver from juvenile probation we have me holds this picnic every summer and it's always an event many look forward to attending and all health board members also should go along with many other people and behavior  such as dr crisp this pink is really for all the people that need help and a lot of people attending also are involved with spirit house if you want to be involved or contact me or spirit house for more information now another story out our area insecurity in northern province in the east a democratic republic of congo has led to the displacement of an estimated six hundred fifty thousand civilians the largest number of people fled their homes because of conflict in the region in the past three years a spokesman for the united nations refugee agency the u n h c r said the problems it has witnessed the worst families sought shelter in schools and other public buildings violence between armed groups and national armies and clashes between rival militia in northern can view has exasperated humanitarian crisis in the war torn region in recent years civilians were often targeted by armed groups fighting each other and indeed the largest numbers were displaced in two thousand and six freedom fighters loyal to the dissident general laurent nkunda the displaced people had become a burden to host communities who were finding it difficult to support themselves in an increasingly volatile area according to has met he said un are had sent can't management teams to the area in a bid to improve conditions we are not sure if some of the i d p s who have  share of area where the situation is deteriorating quickly according it with an all in you see the un peacekeeping mission troops in order to deploy mobile teams in areas where i d p s need physical protection has been added our had urged armed groups in the region to refrain from attacking civilians and subjecting them to arson looting and now here comes the police blotter the pictures in the blotter are not from actual events but used for visual aids only grass valley police department on sunday at twelve thirty p m caller from a grocery store on a one hundred block of neal street reported shoplifting juvenile male with a shaved head took a bottle of jack daniels and was last seen heading down the street police would follow up at three thirteen p m a caller from the six hundred block of brighton street reported a hit and run a man driving a white ford c thirty six pm a call from the one hundred block of church street reported a woman and two men were attempting to pry open a window at a residence police contacted the alleged burglars and determine the woman living lived at the residence and had locked her clues inside police arrested a woman called from the ten thousand block of littlejohn lane to report she was in her driveway and two dogs would not let her out of her vehicle at two thirty six p m a woman called from the ten thousand block of little john lane to import the gates were opened her dogs were let loose and the front door was locked she didn't believe in anything was missing and she requested extra patrol it's seventeen pm caller from the fifteen thousand on monday at three forty six am calling from the eighteen thousand block of gopher lane reported his sister assaulted him and he wanted an officer to contact him and i was there attempted to contact the man but he was not at work yet the officer were dragged back later hundred gallons of radioactive water to spill into the sea japanese officials are also investigating whether a second radioactive leak occurred at the plant one hundred barrels of detained you can always tipped over in the earthquake government officials said the six point eight leak each reminds us yet again of the serious threats posed by nucular plants and another story in georgia the execution of troy davis has been put off for at least ninety days they were scheduled to be was never found there's no d n a evidence and other physical evidence seven of the nine non police witnesses said they were coerced by pleas and have since recanted their testimony and are not in media news murdoch's news corp has reached a tentative agreement to purchase dow jones and company and the wall street journal on monday negotiators from news corp and dow jones agreed to a five billion dollars but it might still be approved by the full dow jones board and the company's controlling shareholders the bancroft family and in another story in the news from iraq the u s military has acknowledged is considering sending more troops to fight in the war green general peter pace said that the joint chiefs of staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in iraq including an even bigger troop buildup the u s currently has about one hundred sixty thousand troops in iraq another one hundred eighty thousand civilian contractors who work in iraq for the united states on capitol hill senate majority leader harry reid is certain to keep the senate in session around the clock today in response to republican efforts to block iraq withdrawal legislation reid said if we publicans to not allow a vote eleven read today or tomorrow will work straight through the night on tuesday the american people deserve an open and honest debate on this war and they deserve an up and down vote on this amendment to end it and the debate in the c news on monday that iraqi security forces have more work to do and henri malakai said i hope this year will be the end of the building of our forces so that they are prepared to take over security this needs the cooperation of everyone involved both us and the coalition forces general peter pace recently said that the number of iraqi battalions who can operate wholly independently of the us forces has fallen in the past year from ten to only six iraqis former prime minister i why are we warned on monday but violence in iraq may get even worse although i said the current situation is very bad the country is slipping into more chaos of sectarian military leaders editor in chief david schlesinger said our preliminary investigation raises real question about whether there was fighting at the time the two men were killed and then another story out of iraq in their iraqi port city  oil industry workers demonstrated on monday to protest a draft oil law that would open up iraq's oil reserves to foreign companies protest organizers accused the united states of trying to control iraq's wealth they issued a statement that read if this is indorsed by the parliament it would abolish sovereignty and hand over the wealth of this generation and the generation to come as a gift to the occupier in another story president bush announced monday the u s will give the palestinian authority hundred ninety million dollars in new aid and he outlined plans for an international summit on the israeli palestine conflict president bush said so i will call together an international m representatives from nations that support a two state solution reject violence recognize israelis right to exist and to commit to all previous agreements between the parties to keep participants in this meeting will be the israelis the palestinians and their neighbors in the region police president bush appears set on excluding hamas from the meeting even though hamas won the most recent elections in the palestinian territory it's the president's speech came hours after this meeting is not the first nor is it the last to give the illusion that there is progress in the peace process in the us an israeli side has nothing to give the palestinians it is merely an attempt to sway palestinian public opinion which says there is no good in holding talks with these people they will fool the arab and islamic world by releasing two hundred fifty palestinians prisoners and then a news from africa that's the o p s high court has sentenced thirty five opposition leaders journalists and human rights activists to life imprisonment for their involvement in protests following disputed two thousand and five elections international human rights groups criticize the trial as an attempt to silence critics of prime minister less than a week and in the mexican city of at least fifty people have been injured and sixty detained after police violently blocked a march led by local teachers and the members of the a p p o the popular assembly of the people they are there are reports that one processor died the mexican league for the defense of human rights accuse police of brutally beating the demonstrators and roughing up several journalists and new government statistics shows  number of immigrants detained in the united states has nearly tripled since two thousand and one last year's immigration and customs enforcement detainees two hundred eighty three thousand people or about seven hundred seventy five a day when while in wisconsin members of the immigrant rights group atmosphere in the town hours later police say john sanderson and jerry bufkin ran over a sign at the church the man had been charged with criminal damage to property the church pastor called the actions of hate crime and in washington republican senator david vitter of louisiana has announced he will not resign even though he admitted making telephone calls to an l a prostitution ring in washington that are said the incident was a very serious sin in my past for which i am resigned after an adulterous scandal at the time vitter praised livingston's decision and he called on president bill clinton to do the same because of one of the lewinsky scandal when you said i think livingston stepping down makes a very powerful argument that clinton eighty's today under mostly sunny skies tomorrow mostly cloudy skies and a slight chance of passing shower highs near eighty warmer and sunny the rest of the week through the weekend with highs in the upper eighty's and lower ninety's by saturday and sunday thanks a lot for watching for today and we will see you tomorrow and anybody from the pictish watching us thanks for watching the news