Good morning Crusaders welcome to Tuesday December 11th 2018 Im stacey Cohen reporting from the Crusade channel news desk at the cohen Ranch in Gilbert Arizona. This report is brought to you by... McClure Tables - using Michigan hardwoods - in Michigan to make the best, Made in the USA shuffleboards on the market. Shuffle on over to mccluretables dot com that's M-C-C-L-U-R-E tables dot com! Heres what to listen for this hour laws might be changing to let newclear waste stay where it is..A colorado mom pleads for her daughters return.Escalating legal troubles for President Trump ... A proposal on the table from the U-S Department of Energy...would declassify the danger level of certain areas of nuclear waste around the country...and make it legal to keep it where it is. Environmentalists say....the problem is that the waste...isn't...less dangerous than its current classification...and the administration is breaking the governing law in order to redirect the two billion dollars a year it spends on decontamination. Tom Carpenter...Executive Director of the Hanford Challenge...a group that watches over the cleanup of the most contaminated nuclear site in the country...explains ....the letter of the law: VERBATIM: The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982...set forth what they're supposed to do with this waste...which is...remove it, treat it, and bury it.(TAG: Hanford says environmentalists will fight to keep nuclear cleanup efforts in place.) A Colorado mom is missing since thanksgiving...29-year-old Kelsey Berreth...is a flight instructor and mother of a 1-year-old daughter. her two vehicles are still at her home, as are the cinnamon buns she had finished baking...but she's nowhere

to be found. Her mother, Cheryl Berreth, says this is completely out of character for Kelsey...and she's committed to bringing her daughter back home:VERBATIM: Kelsey, we just want you home. Call us if you can, and we won't quit looking.Yes, she is a flight instructor down in Pueblo. All airplanes are accounted for and there is no indication that she has taken off in an airplane and gone somewhere at this point. Quote of the dayConsult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”–Pope John XXIII Coming up our saint of the day Was a writer who liked to write epigrams in verse: short sayings that capture the essence of what needed to be said. You're listening to CRUSADE Channel news ST of the day St Damascus All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible.

Damasus was a sixty-year-old deacon when he was elected bishop of Rome in 366. His reign was marked by violence from the start when another group decided to elect a different pope. Both sides tried to enforce their selections through violence. Though the physical fighting stopped, Damasus had to struggle with these opponents throughout his years as pope. Damasus may not have won this battle directly, but he won the war by initiating works that outlasted all his opponents. Not only did he commission the Vulgate translation but he also changed the liturgical language of the Church from Greek to Latin. He worked hard to preserve and restore the catacombs, the graves of the martyrs, and relics. Damasus was a writer -- but he didn't author many-volumed treatises as other Christian writers did. Damasus liked to write epigrams in verse: short sayings that capture the essence of what needed to be said. He wrote many epigrams on martyrs and saints. And he wrote one about himself that shows his humility and the respect he had for the martyrs. In a Roman cemetery is the papal crypt he built. All that is left of him there, however, is this: " I, Damasus, wished to be buried here,