internet through i tunes or other quad cow sites if you have newsworthy items please e mail them to us at news at g v t v dot a work in today's local news people who don't venture far from retail businesses in the heart of grass valley or nevada city might not realize the number of manufacturing businesses nestled in the forest beyond them with that in mind about a county economic research council for tools shuttled nearly one hundred curious residents do several area businesses thursday i'm enjoying just one i mean about the businesses said paul agrees an attorney who recently moved to the area it's refreshing to see businesses created in this county it's kind of like going to something out of silicone valley added jason you with united independence title insurance company for your recent others interested residents toured assemble designs to wire benchmark their mom mare manufacturing inc and  county airport and sample designs as part of the area's niche of broadcast television technology companies the company has two million dollars payroll with its thirty five employees making special electronics equipment said david wood the company's president and founder and sambal makes equipment converting standard definition signals to high definition signals most of our clients are white males between forty and sixty said marketing director cindy  its local office in nevada city tech center office xyrem street this summer we wanted to create cohesively planned business community said robert upton the center's principal condominiums under construction within the tech center could house attorneys financial consultants and insurance companies benchmark thermal makes heating elements for a variety of items such as surveillance cameras pipes and water heaters a lot of times we don't know the specific application said mike dyer senior engineer from benchmark thermal the nevada county airport started in one nine hundred thirty two as an operation designed to transport gold mining gold mined locally nevada county has own the airport which has an annual budget of between one point two million and one point five nine cents nine hundred fifty six said greg marshall the airport's manager airport is home to california department of forestry and fire protection of grass valley air attack base  cow farts battalion chief describe how involved his job is when he's coordinating air water drops i'm listening to six radios at once you said and it's a big just game up there residents also toured merritt manufacturing it business that makes plastic motorcycle and a t v accessories such as vendors windshields and windscreens the business is owned by george martin and charlie merrill three brothers and we also have grass valley which is a big group at the height of the harvest season and it appears nevada county farmers can make a lot more money from marijuana than anything else and the amount of pot seized just by king this year driven in part by stepped up enforcement illegally growing marijuana seized in nevada counties through august this year appears conservative floyd to be worth between one hundred twenty three million and two hundred five million based on federal estimates of crop value and local figures on plants confiscate that figure is based on state and national law enforcement wholesale cost per pound assuming a yield of one pound per plant that dwarfs the value of legal crops growing here in two thousand and six the latest figures available when farmers larders and livestock producers produce goods valued at sixteen point two nine those figures appeared in the annual crop report submitted by nevada county's agricultural commissioner jeffrey palma in august the forty one thousand marijuana plants seized here this year far exceeds the forty eight hundred sixty three found during two thousand and six which would have brought roughly fourteen point six million to the low end and twenty four point three million at the high that compares more closely to the county's sixteen point two million value in legal crops in two thousand and six but it does not count legal pot crops and illegal plants nazis last year narcotics investigators seized two point eight million marijuana plants value that eleven point seven billion in two thousand and five the total value of marijuana production was estimated at seven point six billion that's more than the state's biggest legal ag commodity in two thousand and five states farmers and ranchers are thirty one point seven billion four hundred  charge of sheriff's investigation and our products division i've personally taken three and a half pounds of cola's for buds off one point i haven't said but you know varies vastly depending on the growing conditions in the variety of the marijuana plant the rule of thumb for one pound per plant for statistical purposes would be considered conservative one pound of high grade pot buds in a well known northern california growing area sells from anywhere from three thousand to five thousand dollars a pound or so according to evans and the u s drug enforcement administration in washington d c at the low end that means pot seized here so far this year would be worth between one hundred twenty three million to two hundred five million those figures do not count what has been cut and sold beyond law enforcement's knowledge street value figures for drugs have often been criticized by readers of the union and others who contend that there are inflated to make law enforcement look good but steve robertson of the d d a in san francisco said law enforcement takes the value seriously our intelligence goes out every quarter and talks to informants and policemen to get current street prices roberts said we also get them from underground sales people tell our agents what the prices of the drugs they're buy based on that an ounce of high grade pot is currently going from three hundred and sixty dollars to four hundred dollars an ounce in the streets in northern california the quarterly review has also produced a three thousand to five thousand per pound wholesale value like many commodities in the united states the price per unit increases as most a month or so drops that means one ounce f could double one part is sold by the joint or in smaller quantity the larger increase you see is marijuana plants this year can be partially traced back to the very large farms planted by mexican criminal organizations from and south for cuba was getting a reputation as the emerald triangle the airiest climate lends itself to good production the increase is also the result of new district attorney cliff no stricter guidelines on only six plans  so if you want tasty blues put saturday on your calendar and then performs at the center of the arts at three fourteen west main street downtown grass valley at eight p advised four fifty two pm a caller from the store in the seven hundred block of sutton way reported the man left without paying for groceries the clerk asked to see his receipt he declined and he left an old grey oldsmobile police contacted the caller and took a report for shoplifting at five twenty seven pm a caller from want to block a south church street reported juveniles were loitering behind a church police advised the use of loitering organising cited one juvenile  suspicion of possession of less than an ounce of marijuana at seven o eight pm a caller from the four hundred block of maryland drive reported hearing a man yell i'm going to shoot you in the face the man left on foot towards a cemetery police responded and determine the man's identity to part with verbal only police were unable to locate the man and again is still not really fifty one p m a caller from the stored two thousand block in nevada city highway reported a man in his twenty's with a mustache stole something police took report for commercial burglary of something thursday night seven fifty eight am a caller from kether ave reported two people were sleeping on an old railroad property behind a rock while police contacted two man and advise them of the city camping ordinance made them move and take their horses with them about a county sheriff's office from seven hundred block west main street reported a girl ran away she has ran away before she was entering into law enforcement database of missing people at six forty two p m a call from the restaurant on t now in world marriage in jenna louisiana the seventeen year old mychal bell one of the jenna six has been released on bail after ten months in prison allen five other african american high school students were arrested last year for beating a white student during a schoolyard fight t fight occurred after white students on three nooses in a tree in the schoolyard an all white jury convicted bell of a gravitated second degree battery but earlier this month a louisiana appeals court ruled that he could not have been tried as an adult on thursday bell walked out of prison on a forty five thousand dollars bail bond his release came hours after district attorney reed walters announced he would not challenge the ruling order ordering bill's release reed walters stated there is a victim in this case his name is justin barker i want everyone to know that the decision i am about to announce is based upon what i believe is best for him i have decided not to appeal the decision of the third circuit court of appeals that overturned the conviction of mychal bell in adult court and sent the case back to juvenile court this means case against michael bell will now go forward in juvenile court mychal bell's release comes out one week to the day after tens of thousands of people gathered from across the nation to support the general sex in his press conference walter hear his thoughts on the historic march he said i firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the lord jesus christ last thursday if you sassed you would have happened you can quote me on that ok we did a violent crackdown on popular uprising in burma is intensifying at least nine people were killed thursday police opened fire on thousands of demonstrators in the city of reglan there are fears the death toll could be several times more japanese without photojournalist maggie was among the dead video footage shows him shot point blank as soldiers charged the crowd agenda is also trying to stem the flow of information cutting cell phones and completely blocking public internet use british ambassador mark cannon describes thursday's developments he said there was a much more visible troop presence on the streets there were some prison vans on the streets there were some water cannon and there were troops stationed in a lot of strategic areas the main pagodas were wired off sure dagen in the school where the protesters have been gathering but the protesters still came out and confronted the troops and the police there had been four mission that saw four of its guards killed and led to a major escalation of the iraq war the house oversight committees say blackwater sent the guards into the insurgent stronghold of collusion unprepared and lacking proper security guards were killed two of then impeded congressional efforts to investigate the families of the four slain guards of launched a civil suit against blackwater for alleged new negligence in their deaths donna zovko lost her son jerry zovko in the pollution incident she said congress can't change anything for my son well let's see what they can do for the others out there because someone needs to care for these contractors blackwater cares about nothing but the mighty dollar meanwhile more details emerged on other killings linked to blackwater's forces inside from last week's mass shootings in baghdad mcclatchy newspapers reports the victims included fo media workers killed over the past year in february blackwater guards shot and killed out a tie a television reporter who had shakir as she was driving to work five hours later three iraqi security guards were killed at the offices of the state funded iraqi media network also known as iraqi glass the three were picked on by blackwater snipers on opposite street an interior ministry official says the guards were killed as if they were target practice the senate has approved the measure critics say promotes the participating partition of iraq the non binding resolution supports dividing iraq into federal regions for iraqi shiites sunnis and kurds iraqi prime minister al maliki condemned the senate's vote saying that partition would lead to catastrophe meanwhile the senate has also approved a measure critics say could help open the door to military action against iran what a surprise the resolution calls on the state department to designate the iranian revolutionary guard corps as a terrorist organization senators approving a memo from senator joe lieberman  connecticut and john connally of a arizona threatening to come back and contain and stock iran via military instruments senator jim webb of virginia called the vote cheney's fondest pipe dream and said it could read as a back door method of gaining congressional validation for military action the final vote was seventy six twenty two democratic presidential candidate senator hillary clinton voted in favor of the major role hopefuls senator b did not vote at all the senate has replied a veto threat from president bush to approve an expansion of the child health insurance program or s chip the sixty seven to twenty nine ball would be enough to override a presidential veto but a showdown looms since the house failed to attract a two thirds majority in passing its version of the measure the bill would spend thirty five billion dollars to expand health insurance to more than four million children the a group of american businesses says the bush administration has make false claims and defending its plan for a missile system in eastern europe the white house has reassured russia by vowing that its system would not be able to catch russian missiles but six leading scientists including theodore postol of mit says the proposed site in poland and the czech republic would be able to negate russia's nuclear deterrent majorities in both poland and czech republic are opposed to hosting the military system the plan is would seen as in a word threat to iran and in washington d c dozens of protesters gathered outside bush administration sponsored meeting of world leaders on climate change the meeting comes just days after president bush s something greenpeace executive director john prost k'naan the knowledge which is stance he said instead of denying global warming anymore he wants to put together this lie that he's doing something about global warming he's called it voluntary he says there is not going to be any mandatory reduction in global warming pollutants but somehow that will solve it it's not a lie it's a pride and the american people need to know george bush doesn't speak for we americans the u s sponsored climate meeting continues today the washington post is reporting the bush administration will allow fourteen guantanamo bay prisoners the right to request lawyers for the first time since their capture the move would grant the suspects their first outside contact aside from representatives of the red cross the fourteen they are all considered high value detainees transferred from overseas cia prisons last year group includes the alleged nine one one mastermind khalid sheikh muhammad and in campaign news for leading republican candidates are coming under criticism for skipping the first presidential debate geared towards african american voters mitt romney fred thompson rudy giuliani and senator john mccain were all absent last night's debate at baltimore morgan state university they were each attending fund raising events t debate was hoisted hosted by broadcaster tavis smiley another election news g q magazine has reportedly canceled a story critical of hillary clinton after her staffers threatened to cut off access to former president bill clinton she too was apparently told the former president would no longer be available if the magazine went ahead with an article detailing infighting with hillary's campaign and iraq war duty in two thousand fords and two thousand lives again says he'll send the medal to former defense secretary donald rumsfeld because he holds rumsfeld responsible for sending him to iraq and then another story a newly leaked transcript one month before the s invasion of iraq shows president bush was aware that saddam hussein offered to go into exile if you was allowed to bring one billion dollars in information on met weapons of mass destruction the disclosure is contained in a record of a meeting between president president bush hoping the u n security council would support the war in part because it would save us fifty billion dollars the fifty billion dollars figure was the initial estimate of what the invasion would cost boyce also made clear he expected  because there indifferent to saddam's atrocities he said maybe it's because he's dark skinned far away and muslim a lot of europeans think he's ok and that that's it for the world weather  and again we've thanks a lot would like to thank you a lot for watching and we will see you