video local and world news broadcast from nevada county california i'm ready and in today's news frank zupan of grass valley convicted in march for the shooting murder of his wife  testify for the prosecution in a trial of grass valley murder suspect richard williams accused of killing his wife with a nail gun tobar twenty second two thousand and five to two murder suspect shared of jail cell in wayne brown correctional facility before superman's conviction said about a county deputy district attorney kathryn francis lupin is one of the twenty five witnesses francis plans to call in williams trial scheduled to begin august twenty eighth assistant district attorney ron wolfson argued the killing was for financial gain and then nevada county jury convicted superman of that special circumstances as well a special second stances of line in w hetty williams once in a chest and twice now head with a high powered nail gun october twenty second two thousand and five a death in strange couple had one shared and ten thousand block of alter street and then turned a gun on himself heading williams was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting while richard williams healed from his a abdominal wall and during a month long stay at sutter roseville medical center richard williams is charged with murder and special circumstances of the mine and wait if it is found guilty of the murder in the special circumstances our legation he faces the same sentence as zouk than life in prison without the possibility of parole the d a s office will not pursue the death penalty in the case former assistant district attorney ron wolfson said in august of two thousand and six reeves attorney stephen monk has requested a change of venue for the draft due to the media coverage of the case according to the court records hearing to address  monk changes of venue motion is scheduled for august third about a county superior court williams trial is scheduled to begin nine a m august twenty eighth in nevada county superior court and another story firefighters from the california department of forestry and fire protection and depend valley fire protection district responded monday afternoon to a one and half a half acre fire behind a residence of indian springs road near long valley road according to cal fire personnel an area resident to cal fire fire engines and hand crew cal fire air attack plane it cal fire air tanker and a united states forest service helicopter responded to the blaze dropping fire retardant the cause of the fire is unknown cal fire personnel said in another story a federal judge has recommended the bush administration decision to remove endangered species protection for oregon coast oh i was salmon will be declared illegal the court recommended to call was legal threatened status be reviewed and the new listing decision be finalized within sixty days  would prohibit actions that harm the species and require the government to prepare recovery plans does cision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by fishermen and the conservative conservation groups last year and the case was assigned to u s magistrate judge janice stewart the government will have an opportunity to object to her recommendations before they are approved by a district court judge the decision to drop in danger of species protection from the c pretty predicated on a novel scientific theory adopted by the federal agencies the theory held coho are inherently resilient low populations and they will always bounce back to court cited expensive scientific critiques of that theory from government scientists who said that it was unreliable and failed to pass the red face test the court ruled that the theory did not represent the best available science as required  this is a victory for good science and for oregon's future said justice to attorney patty goldman who argued to case for the group's restoring protection for these salmon today means a greener and economically vibrant oregon tomorrow oregon coast are still on life support and recovery depends on protecting and restoring the rivers and streams these fish depend on said dr chris friends or foes of former oregon state university salmon biology biologist and senior staff signed with pacific rivers council this decision restores federal habitat protection so that the call can begin moving towards recovery once the state staple of oregon salmon fishing fleet but now off limits to commercial fishermen coastal call runs have sharply declined from their historical abundance fisherman look forward to the rebuilt coast docks which with constituted substantial part of their income they know this means rebuilding the stream side spawning habitat needed by the fish for the sake of our fishing families and communities now is not the time to slack off on habitat protections for coho salmon said glen spain with the pacific coast federation of fishermen's association eliminating these protection shifted to conservation the burden onto the backs of fishermen without protecting the rivers and streams the cold depend on federal habitat protection for restored coho have a chance to recover and one day corny and fishing restrictions can be lifted historically more than two million koalas salmon spawn in oregon's coastal rivers two decades of aggressive logging and poorly managed fishing those numbers collapsed runs bottomed out at about fourteen thousand in one nine hundred ninety seven it climbed of more than ninety nine percent of historic levels their runs are listed under endangered species act the following year coast co returns showed some improvements in early two thousand and five have generally declined since then and still remain at a small fraction of historical levels the slight rebound between two thousand and one in two thousand and three prompted this state of oregon to prematurely declare coast close sufficiently recovered to be stripped off federal protection the federal agencies charged with did ministry no fishery national marine fisheries service overruled his own scientist who raised the grave doubts about oregon's novel population analysis as well as the state of the species to remove federal endangered species protections in two thousand and six the plaintiffs included pacific coast federation a fisherman's association for fishery resources pacific rivers coun trout unlimited the oregon wild native fish society and watershed they are represented by attorneys patty goldman and jan postle month of justice in seattle and now the police blotter the pictures are not from actual events but used for visual enhancement in grass valley police department on monday at eleven zero one am it call from brunswick road reported in an injury car accident police contacted the people involved and they exchanged information before at two pm a caller from the hospital reported treating a seventy one year old man for a broken finger after he was assaulted by a woman at a restaurant on a two hundred block of asked them to leave she has found drug paraphernalia in area and requested extra police patrols at five twenty seven pm a caller reported a vehicle was stolen from the air after three p m today from the one thousand block of these main street car was unlocked police took a report and notified local law enforcement to be on the lookout for the car at five fifty nine pm a man called from the one hundred block of king court to report his girlfriend had been drinking and was half naked and was becoming violent with him police arrested the forty five year old woman doesn't look at the on suspicion of violation of probation on tuesday one fifty seven a m police stopped a vehicle on eleven thousand block of school creek road and arrested a twenty nine year old woman on suspicion of drunk driving police also cited a thirty two year old man on suspicion of violating probation at two fifty six a m a c the bus stop in downtown grass valley reported a person was sleeping in a motorized wheelchair at the bus stop and that a county sheriff's office on monday at nine o seven a a car from nevada county reported her son and three other boys ran away last night from their boarding school in spring field utah a deputy took a report for a runaway juvenile as eleven forty five a m a caller from the nineteen thousand block of jayhawk drive reported a possible scam involving people selling magazines in the area i want twenty seven p m a woman called to report her wallet was stolen out of her boat rowland's lake  a missing person and a lot of law enforcement to be on the lookout for that person one fifty two p m a caller from sixteen thousand block of alexandria would put in an elderly man was trying to get into vehicles the man got into a white m a caller from the nine hundred thousand block i swallow way to put it a woman was selling magazines door to door the caller wanted a deputy to call back at seven fifty nine p m a call from the business of twenty three thousand block of dark horse drive reported the front door alarm was triggered by someone opening deputies contacted a caller they did not take a report on tuesday at six forty eight a m a caller from the eleven thousand block of highway one seventy four reported bus were vandalized someone had spray painted names on the buses the deputy took a report at seven fifty four a m a man called from the one thousand doesn't normally way to report a possible scam involving magazine salesman to call i gave someone a check for fifty dollars he said he would cancel the check at ten ten a m a caller from the twelve thousand block or highway one seventy four reported a vehicle was vandalized with spraypaint vehicles back hundred block of long street to report her grand nephew may have been trying to get into her house to get alcohol for her daughter from her daughter for a car full of juveniles to college daughter was hiding in the closet deputies ocate the source of any gunshots and there you have it for the police blotter and now from around the world the senate is continuing a marathon debate on democratic measure that would begin a withdrawal from iraq but still leave thousands of troops behind democrats forced to chamber into a rare all night session that began tuesday morning the legislation would start he pull out within four months and set a deadline for april of next year tend thousands of troops could remain behind for so called anti terrorism operations protest operations protect u s assets and train iraqi security forces late tuesday bill co sponsor senator carl levin of michigan addressed a vigil of peace demonstrators outside the capitol building senator carl levin said last november the american people did something which was so dramatic it was like a typhoon hit this country and they told republican congress that they had had enough they want to end the war in iraq and it is time to change the course and the reason that we the democrats are in control of congress is because the american people  want to change the course in iraq republican leaders have vowed a filibuster democrats are expected to fall short of the sixty votes needed to break senate deadlock several republicans who have criticized the white house on iraq say they won't support the measure speaking on the senate floor former democrat and current independent senator joe lieberman said he'll vote with the republicans senator joe lieberman the war in iraq if it is to be lost will be lost as a result of  loss of political will here at home earlier tuesday president bush also denounced the democratic legislation and said he would issue a veto if it passed president bush said he would have been a heck of a lot stronger today had we not stayed on the off chance and it is in the interest of the united states to defeat them overseas so we don't have to face them here but they also spread an ideology that will defeat their ideology every time and that this is their ideology led to the torture in the mistreatment of prisoners the latest collective assessment from the nation's spy agencies say the u s is no safer from the threat of attack than they were around nine eleven the national intelligence assessment says al qaeda has forgot much of it operation from havens in pakistan and has attracted new recruits and support because of the war in iraq the released report tuesday homeland security adviser frances townsend said the u s faces a heightened threat involvement intensify its efforts to put operating here in the homeland as a result of these factors and i conclude that we are currently in a heightened threat environment i hasten to add that we have no credible information pointed to specific imminent attack or timing or execution of such an attack and another story after six year legal battle over the white house secrecy records of vice president cheney's task force on drafting a new energy policy family been revealed the washington post reports that by the time  environmental groups were finally invited to the white house cheney and his staffers had already held at least forty meetings with energy industry representatives completed most of an initial draft and even briefed president bush on their plans cheney h fears to release records of the meetings a former white house official leaked them to the washington post cheney's visitors included executives from exxon mobil energy but it's petroleum and lobbyists from several industry groups many of the visitors had major republican donors including former enron had candidates and another story the bush administration has been accused of enlisting the national dr congressmen and members facing reelection national drug control officials appeared out of vents and sometimes announced new grants in the lawmakers districts federal law prohibits drug agency officials from political activities even on their own dime and in brazil nearly two hundred people are feared dead after a plane skidded off the runway and crashed into a gas station or one hundred seventy six people aboard are feared dead with at least fifteen others killed on the ground in pakistan at least thirteen people were killed in a suicide attack on a lawyer as rally in is won by the protest had been called in support of pakistan's chief justice suspended by president mu earlier this year a witness described the attack it was quite dark so we could not see clearly there was smoke everywhere when we reached the spot we saw pieces of dead bodies we saw dead bodies of charred child and a woman who could not see any crater in the ground nor any cracks like you normally see in a planted bomb and another story meanwhile violence continues in pakistan northern border with afghanistan at least sixteen pakistani faces several corruption and human rights charges including the killing of a political opponent illegal phone tapping and bribery on tuesday close to a thousand people gathered outside the chilean embassy in lima protest leader mario homeland said this march is a rebuke to repudiate the ruin judge alvarez an absolute supreme court to extradite fujimori and in another story a new british parliamentary study says the u s led nato force is failing to achieve its goals in afghanistan the detailed report says the taliban led insurgency has strength in a poppy cultivation is on the rise support many afghans civilian population is at new lows amid increasing casualties from u s led air strikes more afghan civil have been killed in nato bombings than in taliban attacks this year and the roman catholic archdiocese los angeles has finalized its six hundred sixty million dollars settlement to five hundred victims of clergy sexual abuse the settlement is the largest of any roman catholic plaintiffs have voiced a mixed reaction to the deal which will avoid court testimony for top church officials on how they had devious one of the victims there and brady you said thirteen years ago i went to the cardinal roger mahoney and ask him for two things one to pay for therapy and two to remove put perpetrator from ministry fourteen years later he has paid for my therapy but he has not removed the man from ministry he moved him to napa california where he sits today with full access to children and now the weather mostly cloudy skies this morning with slight chance of passing shower clearing skies this afternoon the highs are near the south wind at ten to fifteen mph and tomorrow will be mostly sunny thanks a lot for watching and we'll see you