television broadcasts the first internet visual t v and brings you g v t v news with local and world news from nevada county california seventy newsworthy items please e mail them to us at news at which first aired in the summer of two thousand and five he actually hit is one so that he could stay with the rest of the guys said patrick o'donnell author of the book we were one and one of the documentary writers that's an immediate evacuation from the field of platoon leaders discovered when they discovered the wounds stopes twenty four died monday from wounds suffered while conducting combat operations in our province according to the united states department of defense press release stokes two thousand one graduate of their river high school was on his third tour of duty in iraq sean was our hero so sean stepmother sue stokes in the statement was courageous dedicated passionate about what he was doing deeply for his fellow marines and volunteered to deploy on the last tour to watch out his for his brothers in arms so the stove sent sean out a huge heart and was well respected by everyone who knew him we hope and pray for the safety city stokes was unable to escape as enemy fighters spread machine gun fire at him donald told the union a grenade detonated next to him sending him flying and given him a concussion but he was able to recover then he ran out of ammunition stokes team leader had to knock down the side door and get him out of the house the story stories are even more amazing now donald said the sad thing is probably anybody knows anything about him this week governor arnold schwarzenegger ordered capital flags flown at half staff for the fallen marine this can his life to protect fellow citizens was a duty corporal shawn stokes undertook with pride and honor schwarzenegger said in a statement and another story to unrelated bridge collapses this week may have some drivers leery about the safety of local spans nearly thirteen percent of the nation's bridges are classified as structurally deficient as of two thousand and four as a report issued by the federal highway administration and posted on the web site consumer affairs dot com thursday that a county's bridge generals really are safe but need work local officials said thursday overall they're in decent shape i think they are certainly safer what they are designed for said john ramsey senior civil engineer for the county to county public works department is in the process of putting together a capital improvement program that will identify roads bridges and other projects that need work in the next five years the plan will go before the county board of supervisors in two to three months this year and came a day after a bridge collapsed during rush hour in minneapolis killing at least four people and we've been at least thirty missing according to the social pressed story and on tuesday a delivery truck driver and a construction worker were injured when a highway overpass under construction collapsed in orville the california department of transportation inspects twenty four thousand bridges in state every one or two years and we change twelve thousand along state highways and interstates caltrans spokesman sure nicky said california is rated seventh in the nation for quality of its bridges which have an average age of forty years shouldn't he added our bridge department and personnel are the best in a country we have a bridge a bridge maintenance crews they're out there day to day if they see a problem we react very quickly if that a county is responsible for seventy one bridges and half of those are more than fifty years old estimated there are a number of bridges that need some type of work after a period of time materials get tired and need to be replaced in the past year planks were placed replaced on the bridge at purdue crossing which also is slated for repainting soon of bridges been retired across score creek near rough and ready highway and will be replaced by a box called vert old river crossing with trust support structures like those that edwards crossing and put in a crossing have posted load restrictions of three tons one passenger vehicle weighs about three times traffic volume is low on the bridges last september county supervisor john spencer questioned money spent to paint to put on crossing the bridge because he thought it was time to consider replacing the bridge to allow the safe passage of heavy equipment such as fire engines fire could happen at any time spencer added the cost to replace the bridge bridges is high especially if you engineers try to capture the only one card across in a time it was getting dangerous environmental constraints along as sales for uber river delays the replacement of all bridges federal money used to finance building new bridges usually requires widening roadways a difficult feat for winding narrow roads like north bluefield and like very drive replacing historic bridges with stronger modern engineering is inevitable and can be done while preserving the original look at the architecture corny added everything wears out over time nothing is forever he said and in another story a chicago park man who has been jailed locally seventeen times in the last five years was obtained a warrant and searched the home of kenneth shawn sanders twenty years twenty two years old and lower court facts avenue at about five thirty a m about a county sheriff's bill evans said pl search saggers has a long history of contact with local law enforcement and he was involved in a commercial burglary a few years ago in which several dirt bikes were stolen from a grass valley business jail staff it wayne brown correctional online jail records that's right it's time for the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter are not from the actual events but used for visual aid only in grass valley police department on wednesday at one forty six p m caller from the six hundred block of morgan r drive reported finding credit cards in a hay bale to fourteen p m police cited two juveniles on a one hundred block of east main street on suspicion of shoplifting juveniles who were released to their parents at two fifty three action involving a pedestrian a minor injury was reported at eight twenty eight pm the man called from the two hundred block of ray street he was hosed down by his neighbor while he was washing his dog he wanted an officer to contact him an officer called the man and left a message for him at nine forty eight pm caller from three hundred block of clark street reported dog had been barking since the sun went down police responded and the hip surgery had been kicked out of his sober living house the then was breathing he was transported to the hospital by an ambulance on thursday at twelve fifty eight a m police arrested a man on bank street at ten lloyd street on suspicion of public drunkenness i want twenty five a m police arrested a twenty five year old woman at a bar on your street on suspicion of public drunkenness and on local warrants and at a county sheriff's office on wednesday to eighteen p m a woman called from the eleven thousand block of bonanza way to request a deputy remove old whiskey bottles from a stump on her property at three fifty five pm a call reported a woman with mental health issues in a problem with alcohol was possibly being held against her will on a ten thousand walk a pen all claimed a deputy took a report had eleven fifty five p m a woman from shady creek drive reported she could hear someone screaming and yelling down sound deputies checked deputies responded but the person was no longer an emergency room they vanished at seven twelve a m caller from seven hundred block a hoover lane reported broken window deputy took a report for vandalism at seven thirty six a m a caller from eleven thousand block of altavista avenue reported stuffed of items from her vehicle the deputy took a report of grand theft and better city police department on wednesday at five thirty five p requested contact from a police officer regarding a human could saturday at the commercial street parking lot to call or did not know who bit him and now for some more around the world news up to thirty people are missing following wednesday's collapse of the minnesota busiest bridge rescue workers separate covered for bodies but more are feared trapped inside cars  into the mississippi river seventy nine people are injured when a sort of fire chief jim clack stated we're concerned about the structural stability of the bridge still the pieces that remain off the ground so we're going to be very careful to use experts to make sure our rescue workers are safe this is not a rescue operation any longer it's a recovery operation so this means we move more slowly and more deliberately the developments come u s officials admitted alarm bells were first raised about the bridge seventeen years ago the department of transportation reviewed the bridge is structurally deficient and began yearly repairs two years ago inspectors gave the same rating and said the bridge would possibly need replacement more than seventy bridges across the country have been raided structurally deficient in another story there are new developments in a debate over the bush administration's warrantless spying program the washington post is reporting a federal intelligence court judge ruling earlier this year that's a key part to the wiretapping to a key part of the wiretap effort the judge ruled administration had violated its authority and trying to monitor oversee communications routed through the united states the bush administration has argued that all parts of the program  legal the washington post reports the ruling was provided an undeclared motivation for this week's congressional push to expand president bush's spying powers lawmakers are considering a democratic proposal that would expand the wiretapping for another six months but keep them under the jurisdiction of secret intelligence court democratic leaders say they want to pass a bill before the august recess democratic senator russ feingold of wisconsin is leading cause to stall a vote until privacy concerns can be addressed and the senate has passed a bipartisan bill that would expand health insurance to millions of low income american children sixty eight to thirty one vote follows the house approval one day before the margin would be enough to override a presidential veto from the white house president bush says he's against the bill because it would give it way because it would increase the government's role in the health care the senate version would boost spending on the state children's health insurance program s c h i p arrests chip by thirty five billion over the five years cigarette tax would be raised by one dollar a pack to senate funding falls short of the fifty billion approved by the house senators rejected an  amendment that would match the house increase by raising taxes on americans making more than one million a year in other news from washington the senate has approved a new ethics bill that would ban lobbyist paid gives wheels in travel and impose rules on how lawmakers capitalize on political connections once leaving office lobbyists and lawmakers would be forced to disclose large contributions over short time periods but some critics say the restrictions are too lax lawmakers would be allowed to waive requirement says they must denounce earmarks at least forty eight hours before a vote and in oakland a veteran veteran journalist and editor was has been killed in what police sa y was a targeted shooting fifty eight year old chauncey bailey had recently been promoted editor of the oakland post who was shot multiple times in downtown oakland thursday morning his power struggle with hamas the two signed a deal to release the first ten million or eighty million in frozen u s aid the agreement came days after the u s announced a twenty five percent increase in military aid to israel to three billion rice said the bush administration supports democracy in the middle east but defended its decision to boycott palestinians for electing hamas said we believe strongly in the right people to express themselves and their desires in elections but suffering credibility mahmoud abbas and also credit bill belly of the israeli government this is an attempt to give the impression that something might happen for the palestinian people from these visits the money that is allocated used  methods have all been against the palestinian well being and has harmed whoever took it we say the palestinian people have waited for a long time from their leadership and in return did not even get the minimum  and jury deliberation began today for the military trial of u s soldier accused in the rape and murder of a fourteen year old iraqi teenager beer qassim homs on and the killing of her parents and younger sister in the town of mahmoudiya last year the soldier private first class jesse spielman is accused of conspiring conspiracy to commit rape and murder three service members have been already been convicted in a case the alleged ringleader former soldier steven green awaits trial as a civilian in federal court support is growing for the u s for iraqi oil workers striking against a u s backed the oil law under debate in iraq the main union representing american oil workers is calling on congress to stop pressuring iraq to pass a law and to shift support to  workers demands in a letter to the house and senate leaders united steelworkers president leo gerard says the old private law and now under consideration by iraqi government is designed to benefit the multinational oil companies not the iraqi people and out of britain and britain an independent police oversight board has ruled the britain's top counterterrorism officer misled the public about the deadly shooting of jean charles de min was unarmed led the london police chief i am blair to falsely announce demesne and as i have refused to obey police instructions on thursday blair apologized for the victim's family i and blair stated i want to say again i'm very so information released to the public was wrong and include the grief the ministers family i hope all over the shortcomings which occurred will be seen in the light of both extraordinary challenges that we face and the significant steps we have since taken to improve prosecutors say they won't charge any of the officers involved in the shooting speaking in london men as cousin patricia armando does silva said their family had been denied justice and in government spokesman largo's weber stated i can guarantee you the criminal has been arrested and he will have to carry out the sentence handed down by the chilean courts and the district of columbia has agreed to pay one million to more than one hundred demonstrators rounded up and detained during an anti war protest in september of two thousand and two the settlement is washington's largest to date for the police crackdown on the protests against the previously agreed to pay more than six hundred forty thousand dollars to fourteen other demonstrators a large larger class action suit covering more than four hundred people i went to trial and now for a whether it's going to be another warm day highs will be in the mid ninety's to one hundred degrees in the valley temperatures will cool over the weekend as the delta breeze kicks up again highs will be in the upper eighty's in the lower ninety's and our last story for the day fire bomb suspect days after the bombing arrest before his sentencing will also attend a state conference on four felony counts stemming from the explosion july twenty fifth of a balloon filled of gas it's an opportunity for all participants the defense the district attorney and the judge to discuss the case to see if there's a way to settle the case without a hearing said john ward he told host city attorney who represents in an interview thursday ward will have to read the prosecution's contention that the fire bomb which was set off by a trail of flammable liquid could have started a wildfire cornell is prosecuting kalgan on both the domestic abuse and the bomb cases a building contractor was arrest the night of july twenty fifth after going shark residence reported a lot of explosion please stop galligan in his truck not too far from the scene meanwhile kalgan is also involved in a custody battle with his former girlfriend