welcome to g v t v news i'm randy hanson this daily news broadcast it's vailable on t v t v dot org and brought to you by grass valley television he did a local do this assault victims brothers serves in iraq dad hearkens oldest son the one who didn't join the marines and should have been safe is clinging to life in a hospital bed while two of his younger sons are risking their lives in iraq what's wrong with this picture dan harkin said tuesday his younger son chose to do what they did because they love their country and they want us to be able to raise children in a safe place this shows them right now that it's not safe here it's a sad thing when our own streets aren't safe anymore harkins oldest son josh  harkin's twenty five was assaulted friday at khan and park skate park in grass valley as he tried to stop a group of young men from year in eighty nine and another young man who was lying on the ground during the fight witnesses said patrick cronin twenty attacked harkins from behind and hit him in the side of they had trucks of his skate board just hearkens has been in critical condition since friday with partial shattered skull hospital officials and family said he has awakened a few times his family said been become startled tugs in his breath tube and causes additional bleeding in his brain doctors induced a medical coma to allow him to heal down our can said some day harkness may need cosmetic surgery on his ear the top of which is nearly sliced off by the blow to head josh harkin's fourteen year old brother and thirteen year old sister witness deal salt and harken is considering getting them counseling for the trauma his other sons are thomas twenty one who has been serving since april and eric twenty has been in iraq since february well being of the sons they have serving in iraq yet look at what has happened in our own backyard while conks said cohen has was convicted last month of burglary he was responsible for breaking into grass valley restaurants minor mo's pizza and subway sandwiches and salads in early march said grass valley police captain david remnick nevada county judge julie mcmanus sentenced current on may twenty fourth to three days in jail and three years of probation he also is required to pay restitution to his victims to previously was arrested in grass valley police in july two thousand and six for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana the charges was dismissed dunn said there were twenty fifth two thousand and six after friday's a saw police arrested cohen at his job in downtown  was booked in the wayne brown correction facility in lieu of ten thousand dollars bail after reviewing the case the district attorney's office has raised that bail to seventy five dollars and cronin is charged with assault with a weapon and battery was seriously bodily injury he had appeared in front of jute a judge monday first scheduled arraignment but he declined services of a public defender and said he wanted to seek his own counsel who went on who remained in custody late tuesday is scheduled for another court hearing at eight thirty a m thursday in nevada county supreme court donations collected parkas dan harkin said he will not let his outrage get the best of him and he has told his son's friends to refrain from acts of vengeance we're trying to let the law take its course harkin said we have to set a precedent we just want justice to be served harkin said he is confident the state's victims compensation program will pay for and majority of his son's medical expenses just hearkens friends and coworkers at citizen restaurant in nevada city have distributed donation bins at businesses throughout the county these donations will be used for medical expenses to help compensate for arkansas lost wages in the pay for care of his dog friends also there are plenty of fundraiser and we'll announce the date later donations can be sent to the harkins family want to live in bank street nine five nine four five we're all praying for him dan arkansas and another story budget on docket for council in nevada city the city's budget for the next year is increasing by nearly one million dollars to six point five million a proposal that the city manager called the status quo despite the big jump increase for city transportation projects an added what raced water treatment plant improvement cost it ministration expense increases and public safety cost rises lead to the larger budget city manager mark miller said tuesday the city council members plan to discuss miller's proposed budget at tonight's regular meeting in the first set of reviewing of two thousand and seven two thousand and eight miller projects about four hundred fifty thousand in added funds for transportation projects voters passed a half cent sales tax for more than eighty percent approval last november the sales tax revenue goes to transportation projects only city leaders plan to balance the six point five million expenditure plan with about one hundred thousand in added revenue they anticipate for the next year miller said i've been very conservative on expenditures miller said officials delay purchases or pay for items installments whenever possible he said in his budget proposal miller makes no specific recommendation about what to do with the added money but options including setting aside money for a reserve conference towards debt relief some of the budget changes proposed include money for a consultant to update city laws passed since one nine hundred ninety salary increase for city employees helping the city compete with comparable cities for workers city web official improvements site improvements and establishment of an information kiosk at city hall and other business council members again plan to talk about our ongoing short term and long term goals is subcommittee of marriage steve carrell and councilwoman sheila stein suggested objectives for council member goals which they had previously agreed upon including updating fee schedules signed improvements energy self reliance and potentially adding a new water plant the haven't been prioritized council members could decide on their next steps at tonight's meeting the council's meeting at seven pm today at nevada city hall three seventeen broad street another story now on health a priority was the byline for an article written by marilyn miller in the union newspaper she stated i appreciate the recent article that brought to light the suicide statistics in our county obviously even one person lost to suicide is one too many i know what i speak having lost my twenty four year old son john to suicide nine years ago i also lost a dear friend to death by suicide in the last few months i know how it feels to consider suicide as a way out of intense pain and overwhelming darkness of depression having dealt with my own depression for many years i truly believe that no one chooses suicide suicide seems to be the only way out of the intense pain he or she is feeling the only choice in the darkest time depression is like any other illness that causes pain it can be unrelenting and overwhelming we as a community need to be sure depressed people know they have other options i have called the local mental health department to be told they have no funds to help people like me people who have health insurance will try co pays and who are barely getting by month by month i am so glad that there is a group of people wanting to deal with this issue and making some changes t v t v news also hopes that thoughts of marilyn miller are listened to and acted on by the powers t in our county and another story and here comes the police blotter your favorite part grass valley police to on monday at eight o nine a at two fifty five p m i woman from the two hundred block of dorsey drive reported around large was taking pictures of her and her friends and she wanted files charges an officer attempted to contact them with but there was no answer the officer would try again later at twelve fifty eight a m a woman from the two hundred block of church street reported hearing someone yelling and running down the street knocking down trash and breaking glass police checked the area but were unable to find the person or persons who knocked over the recycling bin at five forty four a m a man reported his vehicle on the street was ransacked and he found a backpack in it in that backpack he found a cell a telephone please check the president of the phone owner and determine the apartment had been vacated the vatican sheriff's office monday at nine thirty two a m a caller from the fifteen thousand block of orchard springs road reported theft of tools from a locked building at ten nineteen caller from the eleven thousand block of pleasant valley road reported a commercial burglary checkbooks were taken in deputy took a report for burglary at eleven twenty seven a m a caller from the twelve thousand block of burma road reported eighty dollars in a  been a misunderstanding at seven thirty five p m in man from the ten thousand block of the lane reported his son's ex girlfriend just broke out the windows on a vehicle the father did not want to press charges and he would pay for all the wanted her husband out of the house tuesday at twelve forty nine a m a caller from brunswick road had longer we could drive reported a dead mountain lion was in a traffic lane the california highway patrol was notified at three forty two a m a caller reported to seventeen year old girl ran away from her home on the ten thousand block of east empire street she was possibly on her way to los angeles in a white honda c r v with a bumper sticker that reads tree hugging dirt worshipper at nine thirty first study of gun shows fine california laws reduce illegal gun purchases the potential for gun shows to serve as places where criminals obtain foreigners can be curbed through increased regulation without adversely affecting attendance or business according to a pioneer study published this week in injury prevention and international peer reviewed journal for health professionals the study based on field observations made by karen j went mute director of u c davis violence prevention research program also found that undocumented gun sales between private parties and the legal straw purchases in which a person with a clean record buys a weapon for someone with a criminal record were much more common at gun shows in states with little regulations the take home message of the study which compared gun shows in california where they are tightly regulated with gun shows in states with little government oversight is that regulation works me upset when fifty five year old professor of emergency medicine at u c davis school of medicine is a leading researcher in the field of injury epidemiology and prevention of firearm violence selected in one thousand nine hundred seven at time magazine as one of the fifteen international hero of medicine when it is an author of over fifty published scientific articles on gun violence and prevention stephen preterit director of the center for law and public health at john hopkins university in baltimore said gun show study was enormously important because it marked the first time anyone had systematically recorded both questionable and blatantly illegal transactions of gun shows the gun shows commonly held at convention centers or county fairgrounds have long been suspected as a venue where criminals can obtain firearms before there is no one to my knowledge has actually gone to the shows and observed guns were being sold into or checked whether laws were been adhered to said tear it  in addressing gun violence as a public health problem it's a real shoe leather epidemiology added carrot who has co opted papers with the on the public health impacts of gun violence now for the first time the public policy discussion on gun shows can be based on data rather than speculation the study titled gun shows across a multi state american gun market observational evidence of dignity effective or regulatory policies was funded by the shark karpal based joyce foundation and a broad foundation of los angeles and was approved by the u c davis institutional review board it was based on observations whitman made while visiting twenty eight gun shows eight each in california nevada six in arizona four in texas and two in florida between april two thousand and five and march two thousand and six california was chosen because it was tightly regulated gun shows required for example the gun show promoters be licensed where other four states didn't regulate gun shows that all the four states were chosen because they were a leading  in crimes in california whitney its first challenge was to find some way to eavesdrop on gun transactions without attracting notice it first he tried recording his observations by speaking into a hidden tape recorder that he carried with him but the quality of the recordings were poor  staff he made visually recordings of gun shows by taking pictures with a hidden camera with me it's expected to find reduced attendance and commercial activity in gun shows in california due to the more restrictive regulatory climate instead whil shows in other states were larger the number of attendees put gun vendor was higher in california when we wrote in a report gun shows can be regulated so as to diminish their importance of source of crime guns while greatly diminished in intensive commercial activity the reports in another surprise was that straw purchases when we thought they would be uncommon no matter the location of the gun show because federal law bans straw purchases nationwide instead of reported seen twenty four definite and three probable straw purchases in the for comparison states and one straw purchase and one probable straw purchase in california some were fairly blatant on three occasions all you california he observed straw buyers purchasing in multiple guns in a single transaction even saw a license retailer at a gun show in florida processing multiple straw purchases similar to mislead also in florida went mute saw a woman in her twenty's buying a rifle with a bayonet and thirty round magazine from a license reach all the while her male partner who had selected the farm stood fifteen feet away while she completed the paperwork as a background check was being run on her the man talked with the retailer about the rifle and then bought ammunition for it once a background check had been completed straw purchases particularly in comparison states were out in the open with no evidence that the buyer or seller felt a need to hire to hide their conduct when it moves said so i infer that there are no substantial effort to enforce the federal law banning straw purchases at gun shows as he anticipated the sale of assault weapons and undocumented private party gun transactions were far less common at gun shows in california than a gun shows in the other states private party sales that do not require the buyer to undergo a background check have long been suspected as ways for criminals to get guns in a comparison of states such as to say olds are not regulated in california private party sales can take place but they must be processed by the licensed retailer the buyer must submit to the background check and the transaction is documented witnessed no party private party gun sales between attendees at shows in california just to involving a parent unlicensed gun vendors in contrast a number of private party sales  shows in the four other states appeared about equal in the number of sales involved licensed retailers private party sales at least the ones observed by whitney it tended to be brief don't ask don't tell transactions unlicensed vendor some of the private party sales what we saw appeared to involve farms likely to end up in criminal hands at a gun show in phoenix in september two thousand and five for example he witnessed four young men buying eight handguns over a course of a day including pistols from an unlicensed vendor who did not request any identification or a very frightened state resident status as a young man left the show when we overheard a gang unit from phoenix police department who was present at a gun show content they'll just take them out on the street  to conduct parallel studies in other regions of the country to compare gun shows in more regulated states to gun shows in less regulated states eventually he hopes to train others to become observers again chosen possibly to go one step further than he did and notify local police when they witness an illegal transaction i did not make a phone call to law enforcement because this was a research project with me and added if enough people were to start doing that then a bad guys at gun shows might start worrying in another story you tube is testing a fingerprint tool the popular use user generated video sharing site you tube will begin testing for recognition technology video recognition technology conjunction with partners time warner inc and the walt disney company the test will begin next month with hopes that the software designated in recognizing cooperate come videos will be ready to roll out later this year the company said the site's owner google  c also attract viewers protecting those relationships is key and online video sites the importance of those relationships was highlighted in march when viacom inc sued you tube and google for more than one billion in a federal complaint alleging h the major record labels who have licensed the content to the site the company was searching for a similar video fingerprinting technology when it was brought by google but by google in october for one point sixty five billion what we found was that no one had anything we felt was accurate enough to scalable enough to our need to partner developer director chris max that's he said tuesday had to be engineers discovered to google had been developing such video technology the technology is built for maximum flexibility he said it can be used to remove content once it is a den a fight or used to license gone down where we pay a revenue share to our partners video recognition is more complicated than audio fingerprinting maxie said it involves intensive indexing of images from videos in collecting the images in a database it also involves compiling the rules associated with each piece of content as set by the copyright holder for instance a t v network could tell you tube to pay a royalty whenever one clip is up embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt more than a century ago imbedded depth deep into its blubber was a three and a half inch barrel shaped projectile that was given researchers insight into the whale's age estimating between one hundred  amino acid in the islands it's rare to find that one that has lived more than a century but experts say the oldest was close to two hundred years old the bomb lance fragment lodged in the bond between the whale's neck and shoulder blade was likely manufactured in new bedford on the southeast coast of massachusetts a major whaling center at that time it was probably shot at the well from a heavily shoulder gone around eighteen nineteen small smell cylinder was filled with explosives fit field so it would explode seconds after it was shot into the well the bomb lance was meant to kill the well immediately and prevented from x k p the device exploded probably injured the well it probably hurt the whale or annoyed him but it hit him on a nonlethal was sworn in as president when federal reconstruction troops withdrew from the south and when thomas edison unveiled his newest invention the phonograph the forty nine year old whale died when it was shot with similar project last month and the old was found buried beneath the blubber as hundreds carved it with a chainsaw for harvesting it's unusual to find old things like that in wales and i knew immediately that it was quite old by its shape said craig george a wildlife biologist for the n slope borough department of wildlife management who was called down to the site soon after it was found the revelation led george to return to a similar piece found in a well i did near st lawrence island in one thousand nine hundred eighty where he sent two b to compare we didn't make anything at the time and no one had an idea about their lifespan or speculated that a boat head could be that old box said he was impressed by not just carved into the head of the arrow used in  a traditional way for the alaskan owners to indicate ownership of a whale the whaling has always been prominent source of food for alaskans and is monitored by the international whaling commission a honey quarter for the alaskan eskimo whaling commission today thanks alot for watching and i'll see you tomorrow