open seven days a week customers home brittany springs and rough and ready and pleasant valley road lost power at about four fifty p m when winds knocked a tree down and pee genie spokesperson said brian swanson said crews restored power to most of the homes about six ten p m though about forty area residents are still in the dark power should be restored to those homes around ten thirty a m well actually it's yesterday let's hope they got their lights back on that a county elections office is sent out more than three hundred ballots military and overseas residents for the june eighth primary election those not on the county's list can still get them to voters or military family of military merchant marines on active duty and citizens residing outside the united states election office will process requests for military and overseas ballots until may twenty sixth election office will send the ballot federal state and local ballot information and return post postage paid envelope to the voters also included is an oath of voter the form is used to allow the ballots to be faxed to the election office if a military or overseas voter has not received a ballot close to election day the person can still vote by using a backup federal write in absentee ballot the ballots are hundred sixty five military and overseas voters of those ballots two hundred ninety seven were submitted for accounting and different twenty eight absentee ballots were submitted to combine and three hundred twenty five ballots seven were rejected for either not having it signature on the envelope or oath document or the person was not enough at a county registered voter credit card it currently has three hundred thirty six military and overseas voters their ballots for the june eighth primary were sent on april ninth so far seven have been returned to the elections office the woman who wrote the screenplay for two thousand and six home art channel movie christmas card filmed in nevada city will make her first trip to the town next week if the city will issue a proclamation on wednesday city's council meeting decline in may nineteenth joanie kane the massachusetts residents will attend a special banquet in her honor at the national hotel on broad street social hour six p m to seven and dinners at seven p m tickets are twenty five dollars including tax and tip the menu is a choice of prime hearing on pascola limitation of saturday's mail delivery service the hear in a set for nine a m wednesday of sacramento city hall council chambers nine one five ice treat on the first floor continuing losses including a net loss of one point nine billion for the first six months of the fiscal year forcing the u s postal service to reconsider its current six day per week delivery schedule and it just do cutting delivery days u s p s is considering restructuring retiree health benefits to save money with e mail and internet americans are sending less mail u s p s saw eighty eight point one billion fewer pieces of mail sent in the first six months of the fiscal year when our last little blurb today it's all about us hoping that some day we can have peace in the world the peace center is having an event this sunday in grass valley for peace and to honor one of their our dearest friends who passed away recently a pot luck event with music  philips those who knew bruce knew how much he cared for people with his songs and lyrics and great storytelling he never tired of standing up for the little guy it would really show him our precision if as many people as possible attended this event honoring him and those like him who seek peace in the world and to help all of humanity no matter who or where we all live on this planet should at least give some type of effort to heal all the wounds that we keep making on it it starts with some and a movement like this will grow in a small community like this and soon it will join others and someday humanity might start growing up and taking responsibility for the world and the universe around if not there were only be one outcome and that's the way of the dinosaurs anyway that's just some thoughts from your anchor here and that's it today for local news now bring you more information on this piece and i think tom and monday two fifty one a m a caller from colfax avenue reported a vehicle speeding in a parking lot and spinning its tires with the occupants yelling it was gone when officers arrived and the vatican downy sheriff's office on sunday made barriers in the road the night before she minute juvenile's worlds ten thirty four am a woman from eleven thousand block upper circle drive reported broken egg shells were thrown at the front of the house and dirt was placed in a birdbat stuck going to france it was freed and it was unharmed five thirty three p m a caller from ten thousand block of backfill road reported him missing nine year old the child was located and had been taken a nap eight thirty p m a man from thirty thousand b neighbor's granddaughter was yelling and throwing out of the outside the parties were separated ten fifty nine p m a woman from eleven thousand block of newtown road reported her son was pointing a knife in his jessie then threw a knife on the floor and left then came back and apologized he was in his room where he a collection of knife a machete several b b guns parties agreed to separate for the night left thirty two pm a woman from twenty three thousand block of pleasant valley road reported her juvenile brother ordered i am so using her amazon vendor city police department on sunday twelve fourteen p m call from commercial street to drunken men yelling and cursing through thirty two p m a caller from one hundred block boulders reported a man who seemed very drunk was resumes using chemical dispersants in gulf tests show high high levels of airborne chemicals in area and how did nineteen die as bomb hits ten iraqi cities and red cross says u s is running israeli settlements jeopardize peace talks and iran issues visas to mothers of detained u s hikers and egypt to extend state of emergency and bolivian workers begin the strike and hip hop widely regarded as one of the nation's foremost legal minds she is mclean political scholar with the rich understanding of constitutional law she is a former white house aide was a lifelong commitment to public service and a firm grasp of the nexus and boundaries between our three branches of government she's a trailblazing leader the first woman to serve as a dean of harvard law school and one of the most successful beloved deans in its history and she has a set purpose solicitor general our nation's chief lawyer representing the american people's interest before the supreme court during a brief ceremony at white house on monday only kagan expressed her love for law she said i'm proud of what all of us accomplished here and though through most of my professional life i've had the simple joy of teaching of trying to communicate to students why i so love the law not just because it's challenging and the story interesting although it certainly is that but because while matters because it keeps us safe because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms and because it is the foundation of our democracy unquote the senate judiciary committee can for from ation here and probably will start late june or early july on monday senate judiciary chairman patrick leahy of vermont voiced support for the selection of kagan he said i'm glad to see somebody from outside you just saw a monastery again in our history it's only in recent decades that justices were all from the federal courts we had some of our most dynamic courts have been those where they came from different backgrounds i worry that when you're in a judicial monastery you don't have the kind of real world experience you might have otherwise clinic kagan's nomination has divided many progressive democrats in part because so little is known a group of law professors have openly questioned kagan's diversity record at harvard during her time as a dean kagan made thirty two tenured and tenure track academic hires of these thirty two only one was in minority only seven were women find on the beach and said the big story here is the finally oil from the deepwater horizon blowout forty miles off shore has reached the southern tip of the mississippi delta it's here on land it's coming up in small close so far it's going to continue and i think it's sad state of what we're in store for down here in the next several months oil spill will be center stage capitol hill yesterday as oil industry officials faced questioning from senate energy and environmental committees on monday b p has restarted operations to stream dispersants directly into the main gulf of mexico oil leak despite fears the chemicals could themselves be harmful to the environment the chemical make up by the dispersant is kept secret environmental protection agency has acknowledged the effects of the chemicals are still widely unknown farm animals shrimpers and fishers worried that the dispersants will kill fish and other organisms in the seafood chain well that's including us probably because we eat those things sometimes their tests conducted in louisiana environmental action networks reveals that the level of airborne chemicals in that region are exceeding the state limits hydrogen sulfide has been detected on concentrations more than one hundred times greater than the level known to cause physical reactions to people and another development related to the oil spill the sunday times of london reports the owner of the oil rig that exploded trans ocean has made a two hundred seventy million dollars profit from insurance payouts for the disaster in iraq at least one hundred one thousand people died in a series of bomb blasts on monday making it iraq's deadliest day so far this year bombs hit at least ten cities and towns including baghdad basra iraq fishel said in iraq carried out deadly attacks in response to killings and arrest of some of their group senior a secret site many former prisoners referred to this a great general as the black jail prisoners reported being subjected to sleep deprivation freezing temperatures and other abuses the u s has denied the existence of the secret prison afghan president hamid karzai has arrived in washington for talks with president obama secretary of state hillary clinton karzai is traveling with twelve cabinet ministers and several other high ranking officials the trip comes just weeks after cars are threatened to join the taliban if foreign interference in his government continues one item up for discussion is karzai is planned to hold a peace later this month to reach out to the low and mid level members of the taliban to join his government on monday u s ambassador afghan general karl  as we have with afghanistan they experience ups and downs but what measures true partnership is the ability when the stakes are as hard as they are for afghanistan and the united states of america to be able to work our way through difficulties and come back together and still find ourselves well aligned in news from pakistan at least fourteen people have died in a u s drone attacks in northern waters as dean region it is the third drone strike since u s officials accused the pakistani taliban of being behind the failed bombings in new york times square may first in russia at least forty seven people have died after an explosion saturday at a coal mine in siberia another forty three miners are still stuck inside the mine they had a palestinian negotiators say that any of the new israeli settlements building in our great territories would be considered a serious provocation that would threaten newly begun peace talks palestinian negotiator saeb erekat said that israel's policies israeli's policy threatened to do  u s efforts to reach a peace agreement so that israel has the choice today peace or settlements these are two parallels that will not meet they have to make the choice to decide to continue building settlements dictation incursions assassinations checkpoints road blocks and this will undermine the whole essence of what the americans are trying to do in this proximity talk which is to make peace on monday israeli group peace now revealed that israeli prime israel plans to turn it does use police station in east jerusalem into apartments for jewish settlers  well you know iranian government has issued visas for mothers of three u s hikers that have been held for more than nine months the mothers are expected to travel center around to visit their children for the first time since their arrest shane bauer sarah the opposition groups and human rights organizations emergency law has been in effect since one thousand nine hundred one it has given the police and security officials broad authority to break up public demonstrations detain people without charges or evidence and conduct searches without judicial approval hill has canceled a concert scheduled for next week in tucson to protest arizona's controversial new am on anti immigration law in a statement a group said that they're backing a book out of arizona and a show of resistance to the criminalize ation of immigrant communities in opposition to b ten seventy and democrat robert menendez of new jersey has become the first u s senator to urge major league baseball players to boycott the two thousand and eleven all star game which is scheduled to take place in phoenix the arizona law is offensive to hispanics and all americans because it codifies racial profiling into law by requiring police to question anyone who appears to be in the country illegally and that's it today for our local news and good t v news would like to thank the union associated press democrat