i'm ready hansen and today's local news sean stokes a u s marine corporal from lake of the pines was killed and recent action in iraq the friends of the nevada county military confirmed monday two thousand and one graduate of bear river high school was on his third tour in iraq he is the fourth nevada county resident who has died in the war in iraq shawn was just a fun loving boy who enjoyed life said alexander cro teacher at magnolia intermediate school he was a nice kid who loved every project we did and just had a hunger for life other teachers also remembered stokes with fondness shawn was a real straightforward honest kind of guy said carl cory if the rich are of his a bear river high school he was very serious and always wanted to do the right thing he was quiet and retrospective i respected him for his honesty and the way he took responsibility ron's responsibility for himself sean was very serious about being a marine i'm sure he felt he was doing the right thing corina added corn was english teacher in his sophomore year he was also st counselor and his senior year stokes was the first soldier to friends walking home at the airport when they first started the program said fred bueller of friends of nevada county military community is saddened to hear about shawn's death biller added family members declined to comment on stokes death but his teachers remembered with fondness and we hear it g v t v news also remember him despite the best intentions of fire safety officials from residents wonder if the proposed nevada county fire plan will generate more bureaucracy and harm wildlife habitat as read as residents such as ron sturgill and christina room wade through the long awaited draft of the plan released july twentieth some concerns are answered but others crop up the new draft calls for one hundred feet of clearance around the rural home match and state law on defensible space it replaces an earlier provision that called for clearing fifty percent of the bush brush on parcels of ten acres or less to change pleased sturgill who wondered how elderly residents could afford such an ambitious clearing plan other parts of the plan concern him however it still recommends a fire marshal what is his job what's he going to do will it be a do nothing job some residents worry that county and city governments are growing their expenses too fast in the wake of the economic slowdown as for fire officials the county already has deputy foreign marshal from the state department of forestry and fire protection paid for by state funding from prop forty kathleen edwards holds the position and works with county fire officials edwards said she makes about fifty thousand dollars per year but the prop forty funding for her position is set to expire in two thousand and nine she could not estimate what a county fire marshal earn but said it might be staffed by more than one person it says establish the office with the appropriate staffing edward said of the draft some will call it brock recy but will need to serve the public if the plan includes a f sure the board of supervisors it would have to be both approved inthe funded position according to county supervisor chairman john spencer roman worries that one hundred foot defensible space area around homes and other chlorine contents could drive off area wildlife we don't need to clear everything out to be fire safe we need to take a commonsense approach see what's actually dangerous and clear that judgment thinks it's possible to preserve wildlife and create fire safe space at the same time so the deer can get through and the quail have a place we call them zero six said lease so your home executive director of nevada county resource conservation district which comes up with plans for homeowners some i think all brush is bad but we have to distinguish between the one hundred feet and the rest of the land because brush is needed for habitat you also don't want things to take over such as blackberries and manzanita the draft of the plan will come under public scrutiny again at nine a m august sixth at the rude center and another story the center for constitutional rights human rights watch move on dot org and others are joining together to launch a campaign to help citizens defend democracy the american freedom campaign see which will be launched with a teleconference call on tuesday july thirty first in an outline and offline effort to build grassroots support to restore checks and balances and reverse abusive uses of power by the executive branch the a urge presidential candidates to sign the american freedom place though sue which all a f c s supporters will promise to fight to protect and defend the constitution the pledge begins we are americans and in our america we do not torture we do not imprison people without charge or legal remedy we do not tap people's phones and e mails without a court order and above all we do not give any president unchecked power the goal of the american freedom campaign is to preserve the vision of the nation's founders that no president shall be above the law the american freedom campaigns ten point agenda is included in the bottom of this advisory the american freedom campaign was founded by move on dot org co founder of west point scientist and social entrepreneur william heysel teen fenton communications c e o david fenton and i only wolf author of forthcoming book the end of america a critical moment in our history americans have called upon protect called upon to protect our cost of liberty and justice who face such a moment today the american freedom campaign is a nonpartisan citizens alliance formed to reverse the use of executive power and restore our system of checks and balances with these ten goals fully restore the rights and challenge the legality of one detention or a b s corpus and the right to detain suspects to be charged and brought to trial prohibit torture and all cruel inhuman and degrading 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do so without fear of prosecution american freedom campaign website debbie debbie w american freedom campaign dot org will be active as of monday july thirtieth that's right it's time for the please lotter and the pictures in the blotter are not from these actual events but used only for visual aid in grass valley police department on sunday five forty five m call from the one hundred block of west mcknight way reported that tools were stolen from a vehicle police took a report at seven forty three pm a caller from the one hundred block of mill street reported that a german shepherd attacked her and her dog as she was going by there was no injuries to her our dogs a german shepherd was on a leash but no one was holding it no charges were filed on monday at three fifty seven  on saturday he's found her this morning sleeping in a car in a parking lot she wanted police to cite her daughter yvette a county sheriff's office on sunday at nine fourteen man was arrested in grass valley on suspicion of being drunk in public at two forty two pm a call from the fourteen thousand block of south ponderosa way reported that there were six people with multiple weapons shooting them in the air for forty seven p m a call from the ten thousand block of alpine lane requested advice for what she should do when her neighbor is being mean to her at seven fifty six pm a call from the twelve thousand block  along their home had been burglarized the house was in shambles but the only thing missing was a bomb at ten fifty seven pm a call from red dog reported two people sleeping at the cemetery officers were avenue reported that there was vandalism on school property and ten speed bike was founded to school officers took a report and that's it today for the police blotter now the newest  our things is in nevada county sheriff's most watched and if you see any of these people please do not oppose just some of them may be considered dangerous contact your local law enforcement  and there you have it and now it's time for around the world news secretary of state congolese rice and defense secretary robert gates of arrived in egypt as part of their middle east trip aimed at united arab allies against iran one monday the us official only announced plans to give military aid worth more than forty three billion dollars to saudi arabia israel egypt and other gulf states in an effort to boost its middle east allies against iran iran responded to the arms deal by kissing the united states of trying to further destabilize the middle east iranian foreign ministry spokesperson ali hole seanie stated america has always considered one policy in this region and that is creating fear and concerns in the countries of the region in trying to harm the good relations between these countries and making an effort to create a chance to sell its arms and impose the export of these arms to countries in that region congolese rights dismissed iranians critic she added there is no doubt that iran constitutes the single most important single country strategic challenge in united states and to the kind of the middle east we want to see another story britain's prime minister gordon brown met with president george bush in monday at camp david brown appeared to fully defend the so called u s war on terror gordon brown said we know we are in a common struggle and we know that we have to work together and we know we've got to use all means to deal with it so we are at one in fighting the battle against terrorism and the struggle is one that we will fight with determination and with resilience and right across the world president bush praised gordon brown's vision president bush added the notion of america and britain sharing values is very important and that we have an obligation it seems to me to work for freedom and justice around the world and i found a person who shares a vision and who understands the call after all we're writing the initial chapters of what i believe is a great ideological struggle between those of us who do believe in freedom and justice and human rights and human dignity and cold blooded killers who will kill innocent people to achieve their objectives during a press briefing british prime minister gordon brown also discussed iran and  for gordon brown on iran we are in agreement that sections are working and the next stage we are ready to move towards is that the sanctions with further un resolution  the greatest humanitarian disaster the world faces today and i've agreed with the president that we step up our pressure to end the violence and that has displaced two million people made four million hungry and reliant on food aid and murdered two hundred thousand people and on capitol hill the move to impeached attorney general alberto gonzales is gaining steam republican jay ensley is expected to introduce a resolution today directing the house judiciary committee to investigate whether to impeach gonzales both democrats and lawmakers including senator stephen son state senate president ben stevens and a three current and former state lawmakers who were arrested on bribery charges three days later veco c e o bill allen and the company's vice president pleaded guilty to extortion bribery and conspiracy to impede internal revenue service allen had been one of the senator stevens closest political allies contractors have told a federal grand jury that in two thousand veco executives including alan oversaw a lavish remodeling of stevens home since then veco has received more than thirty million dollars in federal contacts contracts the wall street journal reported last week that alaska sole congressm republican don young has been investigated as part of that goes criminal inquiry also and chief justice john roberts has been hospitalized after suffering a seizure at his vacation home in maine the fifty two year old roberts fell on a boat dock union has issued a warning about little noticed executive order recently signed by president bush executive order the treasury department to freeze and confiscate the assets of anyone connected to iraq insurgency but the a c l u says there were contained sweeping provisions that pose risks for residents of the united states and for humanitarian workers in iraq the order allows the treasury department to freeze the forms of anyone who directly threatens the peace or stability of iraq or who under my eyes efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform jamiel jeff error of the a c l u says this executive order reaches far beyond criminal activity to activity that may be entirely innocent person a finding herself inadvertently in violation of this order and there is no provision for judicial review a recent washington post article on each should begin with this sentence called be careful what you say and whom you help especially when it comes to the iraq war in iraq racking government if you see news is reporting the f b i is recruiting thousands of undercover informants to help the agency's spy inside the united states according to the recent unclassified report to congress wants to build a network of more than fifteen thousand informants a b c reports the aggressive push for more secret informants appears to be part of an effort to grow its intelligence and counterterrorism agreed to cooperate with the united states on an airline security program that has been widely agreement airlines flying from europe to the u s will be required to hand over detailed personal information on passengers depending on the circumstances the information could include racial or ethnic origin political opinions religious philosopher call police data about individuals health traveling partners sexual orientation and whether the person is a member of the labor alliance will not be required to collect this information about passengers but any such information exists in the reservation system will be shared homeland security secretary michael chertoff praised the pact as an essential screening tool shirt off said such a system would have helped uncover many of the nine eleven hijackers dempsey of the center of democracy and technology said this is part of a broader trend of government building database on ordinary lawful activities of ordinary law abiding citizens in australia and indian born doctor has been released from prison after being held for twenty five days dr mohamed haneef was detained after officials alleged that he had provided material support to men who carried out car bomb attacks in london and glasgow last month then he has not been implicated by british authorities in the attacks after he was released from immigration detention his work was revoked forcing him to return to india australian prime minister john howard has refused to apologize over his government telling of the case dr haneef spoke to reporters in india on monday dr nick said i would like to mention the fact in spite of the australian authorities have been mentioning that they are not going to apologize for me i do not want to accept any apology from the australian authorities or the australian government but i would definitely appreciate if they apologize for my peace loving country and citizens here dr n d s lawyer peter russo criticised how his client was treated p russo added to australian federal police and every item of the person belongs out of his unit he did not have anywhere to go back and live after the be heavier if that doesn't make a person a victim of some sort i don't know what would then another story out of the washington post is reporting the first application to build a new u s nuclear power plant in three decades has been filed with the nuclear regulatory commission the constellation energy group of baltimore filed a partial application to build a third nuclear reactor at calvert cliffs be the site is about fifty miles from the nation's capital this marks the first new application to build a power plant in the united states since before the partial meltdown at three mile island in hundred seventy nine the nuclear regulatory commission expects to wave a new nuclear power plant applications in the near future meanwhile the new york times reported that a one sentence provision buried in the senate's recently passed energy bill could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government long guarantees the sentence was inserted without be paid at the urging of the nuclear power industry  in belgium the story of an eleven year old girl from ecuador is making headlines today less than twenty four hours after she was released from an immigration jail the girl angelica market has been detained since late june and she was scheduled to be deported to ecuador along with her mother because they were undocumented immigrants but after public outcry in both ecuador and belgian the belgian court ordered the deportation stopped the family's lawyer had told the court to detention was in human and traumatiz angelica said i'm very really happy because i am with my dad now with all my family and my brother it was very bad it was bad bad and when they took us to the airport  we'd be out of business they'd repossess your car if you didn't make payments brady congress seventeen and two friends died when a car smashed into a sports utility vehicle involved a year ago and thursday while art said bill sent to one address returned in the business couldn't reach brady's mother who apparently had agreed last year to pay the balance the end result was that there was absolutely no one who i could talk of to about this owner mike anderson said brady's classmates raised money to pay the bill and the headstone will be the lord ninety stats for today thanks a lot for watching and we will see you tomorrow