Ukiah Daily Journal, The (Newspaper) - November 22, 2004, Ukiah, California 2 2004 Editor 4683526 DAILY DIGEST BIKE VERSUS CAR kj Amy Journal A bicyclist ran into the back of a car pulled over to the side of the road on North State Street near the entrance of North Valley Mobile Home Park Sunday at around The car was pulled over to let a passenger out when the bicyclist crashed Into the trunk and shattered the back Ukiah Valley Ukiah Fire and Ukiah Ambulance responded to the Southern California storm dumps snow in even desert regions LOS ANGELES AP An unusual storm socked Southern California moun tains with up to two feet of snow stranding dozens of motorists on impassable highways while turning even some desert com into winter wonder Heavy snow forced the clo sure of Interstate through the Cajon Pass for about five hours in the but no major acci dents or serious injuries were authorities The weather which developed in British Columbia and swept into California via is called an inside slider for its rare approach into Southern from the northeast instead of the typical route through the Pacific This happens about once every 10 and when it its said Ivory chief science officer for the National Weather Service in San You get about every type of These systems are tricky to Temperatures plunged across the region and the weather service warned farm ers that frost was likely As much as two feet of snow fell in the San Bernardino The mountains got clob NWS meteorologist Steven Vanderberg It packed a pretty good This system just brought in a lot of cold air with Snow fell even at low ele in Riverside including three inches in Lake Elsinore and Murrieta and one inch in Local chil dren tossed snowballs and hauled sleds onto golf courses to play in the Nancy Ashley videotaped the snow falling in the back yard of her Murrieta I grabbed the camera just so I can prove to Ashley told I had it Up to a foot of snow fell in the desert areas of northern San Bernardino while six inches fell in communities such as Yucca Valley and Twentynine A heavy snow warning was issued for parts of Joshua Tree National The part of an low pressure sys tem headed into southern dumped about three inches of snow in the moun tains of San Diego Vanderberg As much as threequarters of an inch of rain fell in the countys valley Local law enforcement and emergency agencies said there had been no major mudslides in mountain areas that burned in last years In San Bernardino snow and ice closed sections of several including Highway 18 from San Bernardino to Crestline and Highway 330 from Highland to Running said California Highway Patrol dispatch supervisor Doug We have a lot more peo ple stranded because of snow and than we have acci he The moun tains are just Bush seeks to mend ties with Latin America amid security flaps in Chile Chile AP President trying to mend relations with Latin pledged Sunday to make a fresh push for stalled immigration reforms and defended the invasion of saying that history will prove it While the Iraq war is wide ly opposed in Latin Bush The United States of America will stay the course and we will complete the Immigration is a sensitive issue throughout the region and Bush said that his pro posed immigration initiative would strengthen border secu rity and help the We would much rather have security guards chasing down terrorists or drug run ners or drug smugglers than people coming to Bush said at a brief news confer And I think a guest worker program is Powell starts new Mideast peace mission JERUSALEM AP Secretary of State Colin Powell embarked Sunday on a mission to revive the Middle East peace process after Yasser saying he will ask Israel to help with the upcoming Palestinian election to pick a Israel said it would consid er pulling back troops from disputed areas in the West On his way to the Middle Powell told reporters on his plane that cooperation in setting up the elections will encourage a degree of cooperation that can spread into 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with Israeli Lawmakers hold out hope for intelligence WASHINGTON AP Unwilling to concede congressional leaders expressed hope Sunday that lawmakers could return next month to resolve a turf battle that has blocked passage of an overhaul of the nations intel Much depends on whether President Bush is more active in bring ing his own troops in they For us to do the in early December it will take significant involvement by the president and the vice presi said Senate Majority Leader It will take real focus on their During a chaotic Saturday that was intended as the final meeting of the 108th negotiators announced a compromise on the intelligence Hours opposition from the Republican chairmen of two committees stymied the legis which would create a national intelligence Reflecting Pentagon con cerns about the California Duncan Hunter of the House Armed Services warned that the could interfere with the mili tary chain of command and endanger troops in the Wisconsin James Sensenbrenner of the House Judiciary Committee demand ed that the deal with ille gal Iraq sets date for new election as violence sweeps through Sunni Muslim regions Iraq AP Iraqi authorities set 30 as the date for the nations first election since the collapse of Saddam dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a Farid spokesman of the Independent Electoral Commission of said voting would push ahead even in areas still wracked by violence including Mosul and other parts of the volatile Sunni The vote for the 275member National Assembly is seen as a major step toward building democracy after years of But the which has escalated this month with the offensive against has raised fears voting will be nearly impossible in regions or that Sunni angry at the will reject the Paris Club of 19 nations agrees to write off 80 percent of debt PARIS AP Major eco nomic powers agreed Sunday to write off more than billion in debt for 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