television broadcast the first internet visual t v and brings you g v t v news with local and world news from nevada county california if you have newsworthy items please e mail them to us at news at g v t v dot org and in today's local news making an independent film takes time and money but what a budding filmmaker needs most is gumption and a compelling story you need to get hooked said king co director of the documentary girls rock which will be screened sunday afternoon during the nevada city's film festival present more than thirty local and international independent films over four days starting with an opening night at the nevada theater on thursday and wrapping up with awards ceremony at the national hotel at three p m on sunday king and co director johnson had wanted to make a film together since their grade school days in portland oregon but it wasn't until nearly three decades later when johnson learn finance the film king thirty nine mortgage his bay area home and jobs and thirty nine cashed out his retirement funds to two directors can afford to laugh about the risk now having signed a national distribution deal in the us but back when the film was just an idea the fell to stories importance outweighed their doubts about losing money the film has gone to a lot of attention since its premier this summer at the seattle independent film festival this weekend nevada county residents will get an opportunity to see it long before the film's nationwide release in march of two thousand and eight the film festival will also feature panel discussions on topics such as internet storytelling and independent filmmaking on saturday the creators of you tube sensation the only girl fifteen with talk about how artists can use the internet to find an audience for their work the talk will take place at the national hotel at five thirty p m fans of short films will have a choice of three different programs including works by local filmmakers and films about local subjects on for seven thirty p m vatican city native corey cracy will screen his pain to domestic life children are a gift during an hour long shorts program at the mom's foundry friday evening program at the foundry also includes placer quite catch by my posts and which takes to look at the vision and artist around the globe for more information about nevada city film festival go to nevada city film festival dot com or call two six five eight zero three four and once people get used to it the new layout of the ridge road zion street intersection will move traffic through more quickly so the leaders promise even as a confounded drivers came upon unexpected changes monday lanes an intersection temporary stop signs and flag m change at the heavily trends transmitted intersection in more than thirty years city manager mark miller said the biggest change creates two those shops along stops along both nevada city highway and zion street rather than one stop at the intersection drivers now must stop before the imaginarium and again part way through the intersection before entering zion street on zion street drivers now stop several yards before the previous stop line and again after passing national forest office expressed their doubts about the change has been an improvement i'm puzzled as to why they did this said nearby president john hazelwood why wasn't the public notified what have they solved john reagan of nevada city simply see s change as confusing it looks as though this interchange is going to be hopelessly complicated and dangerous reagan said in an e mail to the union he said both he and his wife were nearly hit by other confused drivers monday morning  bound to be confused initially the engineers said it will take a couple weeks for residents to get used to it well are said and validate union school students pose worries it might take the high school students a while to get used to it because they're inexperienced drivers that's why the intersection changes made was made before school starts wednesday but as people grow accustomed to the changes tr move through more quickly miller said once people get used to it there will be a fifty percent reduction in delayed time through the intersection there and a sleep aid transportation and consultant between eight thousand and nine thousand dollars for the striping and the transportation sales tax funds paid for the asphalt repaving he did not know the total cost of the project but said it was minimal compared to other city construction projects said miller and another story well to put gunshot wounds killed a san diego man who got into an alleged confrontation with a young couple who graduated from nevada union high school court in san  diego police were human called porter are now free on bail but they still face murder and weapons assault charges in the august third shooting of larry king forty seven years old according to san diego county superior court the couple's problems began august third when king was asleep on the couch of a woman who was a neighbor of the porters according to sergeant david johnson of the century ago police department's homicide division the woman argued with king and then ran upstairs to the porter apartment johnson said king banged on the porter's door and threatened to hurt someone at that point though porter armed himself and confronted king in the courtyard of the apartment complex porter shot characterized as industrious and care for others in recent messages to the union from their families some supporters said there had been an outpouring from the marines her son served during his three tours in iraq and system said monday both graduated from in you in two thousand and two according to the year's yearbook larry nicholson father of nicky nicholson porter said his daughter had never been in trouble before and just landed a job after graduating assault with a deadly weapon if semiautomatic firearm the court spokeswoman said reporters were both originally arrested for murder with no bail but nikki porter's charge and both changed in hearings last week the court spokesman e right it's the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter not from the actual event but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday at three twelve p m caller from the freeman line reported that a sidewalk the dog was specialized and they were asking a lot of money for it at six twenty four p m call from the six hundred block of kate hayes reported harassment from a neighbor alcohol on her porch and repeatedly knocks on her door for no reason windy at six o three a m caller from door she drive reported to suspicious black bag in the roadway just across the the bag was too rash it's six thirty one a m officers arrested a twenty one year old man on suspicion of driving under the influence yvette a county sheriff's office on sunday at two twenty p m caller from the seventeen thousand block of penn valley drive reported that a bicycle had been chained to a posted to real estate office for the past five days the property owner said he would keep the bike for thirty days to see if it was c resident the owners were notified and on monday at twelve o nine a m call from the thirteen thousand block of capital drive reported that people in a detox were acting strangely the people were extremely the eleven seven a m truck police arrested a nineteen year old man on suspicion of violating probation literally viciously apps as a child under fourteen years old possession of twenty eight point five or less grams of marijuana disorderly conduct and failure to appear on felony charges at all even twelve a m a caller from the one ten thousand block of bartlett drive reported that her neighbor was making threats against her dog and that's it for the blotter today now for some around the world news the senate judiciary committee has vowed to continue its investigation into karl rove even after he resigned as president bush's top adviser at the end of august rove has refused to comply with the judiciary committee subpoena to testify but his role in the poor politicize ation of the justice department and the firing of nine u s attorneys senator patrick leahy said mr rove apparent attempt to manipulate elections and push out prosecutors citing bogus claims of voter fraud shows corruption of federal law enforcement for partisan political purposes congressman john conyers said the house judiciary committee would also continue to investigate rove hours after rove's resignation was reported in the wall street journal president bush sanct world for his service president bush stated karl rove is moving on down the road i've been talking to coral for a while about his desire to spend more time with darby and andrew this is a family that's made enormous i says not only for our beloved state of texas but for a country we both love karl rove then praise president bush call rove stated i've seen a man farsighted courage put america on a war footing and protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century i've seen a leader respond to an economy weakened by recession corporate scandal and terrorist attacks by taking decisive action to strengthen the economy and create jobs i've seen a reformer who challenges the ministration the congress and the country to make bold changes to important institutions in great need of repaying the console of general of the u s government is warning that there is striking similarities between the current situation in united states an end of the roman empire and a new report david said the u s is now facing many of the same factors that brought down rome including declining moral values and political civil and at home and overconfidence an overextended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsib by the central government walker predicted to us is on a path towards an explosion of debt as comptroller general walker is in charge of nonpartisan government accountability office often described as the investigative arm of congress the los angeles times is reporting the justice department is putting the final touches on regulations that would allow attorney general alberto gonzalez to grant states the power to fast track the execution of death row prisoners under the rules gonzalez would allow prosecutors to shorten the time prisoners after pill convictions to federal courts advocates for death row prisoners and some legal experts say the rules could increase the chances of states executing innocent people catherine casts of the national assistance of criminal organization for the past twelve weeks the militant group has been engaged in bloody fight with the lebanese military out of palestinian refugee camp at least two hundred seventy eight people have died and forty thousand palestinian refugees have been displaced prior to the hour break shiite influence in the middle east and in media news a federal judge has ordered five reporters to testify about their sources in the deadly anthrax mailings case of nine eleven the order comes as part of a lawsuit f up camp outside he's well airport in britain to expose the link between aviation and global warming protesters are expected to take part in a camp for climate action for the next seven days british protesters well it's fast growing so greenhouse gases and the british government is spending intending to expand thirty one twenty one different airports around the country now if they do that it's equivalent to building a new heathrow every five years and basically in a fifty so we use up our whole quota just on aviation before you switch to single light or before we heat a single room a day of action at heathrow is planned for sunday the guardian newspaper reports on police plan to use anti terrorism laws to deal with the climate change protestors there was good police powers to stop and search people in vehicles for anything that could be used in connection with terrorism search people even if they do not have evidence or to suspect people for up to a month without charge and to search a while here in this country activists have been arrested in asheville north carolina during a direct action targeted bank of america protest came at the end of a south east convergence for climate action that activists urged bank of america to stop investing in companies in recent years bank of america facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to companies like the massey energy and arch coal that are involved in mountaintop removal call mining and in rhode island it twenty two year old woman has been hospitalized after police in providence broke up a protest organized by the industrial workers of the world photographs show the woman alexandra was tackled by police according to the providence journal she has had one surgery to repair the damaged me and may face another protest took place outside a chinese restaurant named jackie's galaxy i w w targeted that restaurant for its alleged ties to new york distributor of drag south african social scientist to enter the country adam how b was scheduled to speak at the annual meeting of the american social logical association in new york but the government has refused to give him a visa as executive director of the south africa based human science research council program on democracy and governance he's also a muslim of indian descent who has been a vocal critic of the war in iraq last october  detained when he arrived at the new york airport for his series of academic in the united states his visa was revoked without explanation and he was put on a flight back to south africa and a drive by shooting targeted pacifica radio station and houston early on monday morning in the boat a bullet passed through a plexiglas wonder when the station's studio at the time of the shooting mary thomas was hosting his identical program the bullet came within eighteen inches of our head no one was injured in the shooting station manager doing bradley said the shooting might have been political battles it is highly likely that at some point someone may have heard something that offended them and they decided to do something couple who rebelled and led to her arrest in her case eventually went to the u s supreme court two years later in a case morgan versus virginia the court sided with her and declared interstate bus segregation unconstitutional  station of the u s coast guard for three individuals were waving their arms for help officers pulled all three individuals into the coast guard boat and told to capsize vessel back to the shore martin who said they have already been seven deaths in the lake so far this year said the trio was fortunate it could have been a lot worse and only one wasn't wearing a life jacket said martin ninety nine percent of the time life jacket would have saved the people who have drowned in lake tahoe in an unrelated incident the coast guard working with the california highway patrol to arrest a man who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol sunday night martin said the coast guard officer watched a man run his motor boat aground on pleasant on friday was sunny skies and highs around the ninety's and now we would like to thank the union newspaper any good move here is sun so she pressed valley w