local and world news broadcast from nevada county california i'm randy hanson and in today's news a helicopter flew over highway forty nine unmarked government cars crowded the road at a bridge over the south fork the were river and men in camouflage headed into the brush early wednesday in a raid on the second marijuana plant in taishan in the area the part was found growing in an area across the river from another plantation the police raided on friday  independence trail nevada county sheriff's lieutenant bill evans said the raid began at first light but agents began their briefing for the raid at three a m sheriff's captain ron smith sheriff's investigators teamed up with their special and forstmann team from the grass valley police department agents from the united states bureau of land management which owns the property the u s citizenship and immigration services and camp the california department of justice campaign against marijuana planting the plantation of three thousand in which your bush's was smaller than the more than nineteen thousand maturing plants found during last week's raid of a mexican drug cartel operation we believe there is a connection evans said investigators found no one guarding the smaller plantation on wednesday though they brought along search dogs to track anyone who may have tried to explain during  raid three mexican citizens who had been guarding a plantation were arrested they remain in custody at wayne brown correctional facility it is remain unclear whether federal or local prosecutors would handle the case against them half the plants found wednesday had been freshly watered there's a very elaborate water system that uses a natural spring that up there they built a dam is cistern and a water holding pond that was covered so leaves can't get in its engineering in such a way that it provides pressure for the water for the individual plants but then it smith added it looks like they had been growing at there for many seasons agents went into the bush wednesday prepared for a fight during the friday raid investigators had found a bunker with advantage and plenty of cover  fire arms they speculating that when the teams went to the second garden the occupants split because they didn't see anyone in the garden the plantation raided wednesday also showed no signs of people living there unlike last week's site for more than a year local authorities have been concerned about mexican drug cartels moving marijuana operations into nevada county cartels increasingly have been planning marijuana in remote areas of california guarded by mexican nationals who sometimes have been forced into the work at gun point traffickers then traffickers then use profits from the pot sales to finance large methamphetamine labs in mexico in the united states many of them in southern california and another story a grass valley woman was treated for injuries after a two car crash on highway forty nine near all to sierra was taken by ambulance to sierra nash nevada memorial hospital with pain where she was treated and released according to hospital spokesman brett lee there were no passengers in either vehicle the three lanes of highway forty nine had t were taken down to one lane as a california highway patrol handled the accident according to an eyewitness and another story the u s bureau of land management for sees a continuing rise in a number and  involving crimes against persons fueled by firearms drugs and alcohol at mass off road gatherings during the holiday weekends according to the agency's documents released today by public employees for environmental responsibility russell known as peer as reckless off road vehicles use rises land management agencies are losing their ability to safeguard visitors or prevent injuries let alone protect the landscapes from being scarred burned and trashed it two thousand and seven preparedness of its little recreational area obtained by pier under the freedom of information act finds that the high number of personal injury accidents last persons littering burning of flammable materials on the mountains and various safety violations caused by irresponsible off roads were fanning visitors fears and producing a nearly all reactive law enforcement operation with little opportunity to deer and reduce unlawful behavior this official forecast however did little to prepare the agency for the two thousand and seven easter weekend when gathering of an estimated one thousand off road vehicle enthusiasts a little sierra degenerated into a near riot conditions put into the b l m incident report over that weekend thirty seven injuries including a state highway patrol officer and some three hundred arrests and citations were tallied more than fifty officers from the state federal local agencies called to the scene tried unsuccessfully to cope with numerous sexual assaults and other  organizations has assembled a coalition to retire rangers and land managers from federal and state agencies called rangers for responsible recreation to devise a new approach to address mounting law enforcement safety environmental costs of irresponsible each year off roading problems are getting worse but our land management agencies still lack a coherent game plan despite the desperate need for a law enforcement presence and little sierra so there would be a field manager assigned as incident commander ordered one ranger to stay at the visitor center to oversee faecal action should there be an accident or law enforcement emergency you will not respond by leaving the v c visitor center there would be no law enforcement presence which i believe would lead be employed sitting targets for other potential occurrences here is asking the inspector general for the interior department bill and parent agency to revere the agency's response at little sara this easter events as well as the agency's overall preparedness to cope with going off road induced problems but it's sad situation when federal land managers feel torn between protecting the safety of their own employees versus the well being of visiting public chatted family should not have to be afraid to spend their holidays on public lands and now for the police blotter everybody's favorite part all the pictures in the blotter are not from actual events but are for visual aids only in grass valley police department on tuesday at a level twenty five am it caller from the east empire mine at minors trail at two fifty four p m a call from grunt work way a certain way reported the traffic lights were not working properly and traffic was backing up police monitored the intersection to three cycles on the lights seem to be working fine public works was notified of the report from neighbors about it there were no debt there was no damage done in fact a man who are still windows and clean the bathroom called requested extra patrols at three fifty four pm a woman called from business on a one thousand block  eighteen year old man and suspicion of public drunkenness and seven or three pm a woman called from three hundred block of man a driving report of her purse was stolen out of a vehicle last night police took a report block of bennett street police arrested a man on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia been under the influence of a controlled substance and while a show probation on wednesday at two twelve a m a caller from hears road and rock would drive reported a dirty balding man was lining the road when he got up and started walking then he got up and started walking police arrested a fifty seven year old man suspicion of public drunkenness the sheriff's office on tuesday at one fifty nine pm a woman called from twelve thousand block of mayflower drive in reported she purchased a magazine from people and now she thinks they want to steal her identity at two forty p m caller from the twelve thousand block of real canyon road reported a man in a chair away pick up was parked on his property liberties arrested the man of suspicion of trespassing at three forty seven statements police deputies arrested a man on suspicion of public drunkenness at eighteen pm a caller from the kentucky flats road reported heard screaming and shots being fired deputies determined two people were chasing runaway around the world news senate republicans have thwarted the democratic measure that would have began a partial withdrawal of u s troops from iraq on wednesday democrats felt it fought shy of sixty needed to avoid a republican filibuster senator majority leader harry reid had tried to break the deadlock by keeping the senate in session around the clock on tuesday night when that failed reid announced he would withdraw the entire defense authorization bill to press republican lawmakers senate majority leader harry reid said regrettably republicans chose to block this amendment chose to block it bipartisan amendment mr president to deny the american people and up or down vote they chose to continue to protect their president and that of our troops in matter the cost of our to our country the move is likely to grant president bush's plea for that senate to keep iraq off the table and general david petraeus issues a progress report in september to support shows seven out of ten americans favor from iraq six out of ten say congress should only fund the war on condition a timetable for withdrawal is set news from iraq several thousand people took part in demonstrations wednesday demanding better basic services most of iraq sees only limited electricity in the midst of the summer heat when iraqis are also without water or food the our connie as stated as for our demands they are for the demands of all people would represent the people in our demands are for the provisions of services security and stability and then end of unemployment and the provisions of electricity and water and all the things that ensure a decent life and other iraq knows directly government is accusing turkey of bombing northern areas officials say turkish troops fired more than two hundred shells on the iraqi side of the border turkey has threatened to invade iraq northern area were kurdish groups are based and another story two u s soldiers have been charged with murder in iraqi civilian incurred last month a lieutenant colonel has been relieved of command in connection with the case no further details were released meanwhile a u s marine has been convicted for the kidnapping and murder of an iraqi civilian in the town of and any  other service members have pleaded guilty in the case president bush has renewed his threat to veto a bill that would extend health insurance to more than three million low income children last week senators  add thirty five billion dollars to the children's health insurance program over the next five years by increasing federal taxes on cigarettes senators say the extra funding would help cover some of the nation's eight million uninsured children as well as some children with incomes too high to qualify for medicaid but not high enough to afford private insurance president bush wants congress to limit to increase to just five billion dollars which stated i believe government gov can't provide affordable health care on wednesday he repeated the threat to veto the bill an ideological grounds president bush also stated i believe government cannot provide affordable health care i believe it would cause it would cause the quality of care to diminish i believe that there would be lines of rationing over time if congress continues to insist upon expanding health care through the chip program which by the way would entail a huge tax increase for the american people alvey go to bill when you consider renewal of the state children's health insurance program the most important health legislation taken up by congress this year too bad there might not get other international partners who supported him will be able to hold in your life since as long as hamas rejects it and another story in iran two or three of the other of the three imprisoned iranian americans have appeared on national television in a state  documentary highly diri director of the middle east program at the washington based woodrow wilson center for scholars and urban planning consultant to have been jailed since may they both charged with spying and endanger national security on wednesday the state documentary showed the two admin involvement and u s funded political efforts in iran but stopping short of making it confession another story united nations inspectors say they verified north korea's shutdown of its five nuclear facilities their national atomic energy agency director well i'd say yes we are now verified that all the five nuclear facilities have been shut down in the appropriate measures put in place including still leave some of these facilities we expect that in the next few weeks we will continue to apply for necessary monitoring and verification measures so the facilities all the five facilities are shut down we have verified  the launch of an international group of veteran world leaders to tackle global issues nelson mandela stated it was in their collective experience their moral courage and their ability to rise above the parochial concerns of nation race and creed  help to make our planet a more peaceful healthy and equitable place to live the group includes former president jimmy carter jimmy carter stated with no adverse political consequences and the prospect of criticism from const constitute irish president mary robinson and former un secretary general kofi ana back in the states jose padilla's defense team begins presenting evidence today in p d s terror trial in miami producer was initially accused  in extreme isolation without almost any human contact for contact for thirteen hundred days and denied an attorney for nearly two years his attorneys say he was tortured to the point where it's now incapable of cysteine in his own defense an other story florida has resumed capital punishment after seven months reprieve then governor jeb bush ordered a moratorium after a death row prisoner took thirty four minutes to die from lethal injection here in new york state officials have filed a lawsuit against the oil giant exxon mobil over its alleged fairly to clean up the noise gallons of spilled oil over the last century in a statement new york attorney general andrew cuomo called the spill in the green point section of brooklyn one of the worst spill in alaska and washington state a judge has dismissed charges against thirteen of the twenty three peace activists who tried to prevent the military from shipping three hundred stryker armored vehicles to iraq earlier this year and another study anti gang efforts having reverse effect a new study says police crackdowns legislation target gangs are feeling so badly that they're actually making us cities more dangerous and a new report the justice policy  justice policy institute says efforts should be geared towards an intervention based approach meanwhile the prisoner rights group sensing project has released a report showing continuing racial disparities in prison sentences african americans are jailed at five times the rate of white prisoners but ten years in jail to double the rate and another story the new york poet sicko's diet so diet has i couldn't pronounce my last guy's name very well but i'm sure some people there will know what he was see tomorrow