in today's local news a forest fire about two miles north the town of washington was ten percent contained friday afternoon five brothers expected to have it fully contained by loving p m today national force spokesman and west wing said a second crew from washington ridge california staff discovered very head injuries that caused his transfer to the roseville trauma center he died about four p m friday the police had a little information as to what happened to him an autopsy will be performed placer county and we'll know more after that while we're not quite sure of it if it was a result or a result of his intoxication doherty's did not yet released the man's name out of respect to the family the man was listed as an organ donor and his driver's license in oregon organization that deals with or getting donations has become involved in the case another case steve medlin thirty four will face trial in a bad accounting spirit court on suspicion of murder in merriam spratt seventy five thursday they have a criminal case against don said her attorney gregory klein of nevada city late friday was excess or as you have to do something to further the crime in mere knowledge is not a crime the defense attorney said he didn't think the district attorney's office had a very good case against mr medlin either he has every reason to have his prints on sprats house klein said because the midlands were frequent social guests at her apartment on empire street grass valley that's where the neighbors found her on may third when they came into the house forward to taking the case to trial again steve medlin ferguson added we were disappointed by the judge's ruling as to dawn evelyn but we believe everything received she received a fair trials in the retired judge from salon it can or could not find fish and evidence to was a tragedy as old as time deputy district attorney catherine francis said the court friday it classic cases if you can't have her no one can frances begin opening statement friday in the murder trial of richard williams accused of killing his a strange wife with a nail gun then turned the frances said she never got a chance for that life francis picked up a large remington power driver nail gun identical to the one used in the killing slightly straining to raise the heavy tool he shot her reloaded into charge reloaded another nail gun for discharge jordan hughes who was renting the basement at the time of the he heard a woman mourning loudly for about ten minutes it was a monotonous monotone loud pitch tone he said i wasn't sure i was going what was going on but i had only williams brothers and his wife were also present but remained outside the court room for most of the day he had filed for legal separation from her husband three months before he killed her francis said adding that richard williams later filed divorce papers she was having a romantic relationship with stephen burns her boss at the grass valley school district and she was in love with him francis said in his opening williams defense attorney steven monk out said the worms relationship was a love story with a tragic ending williams was extremely distraught over his wife's relationship with burns which she attempted to keep secret mungo added williams found about that fair that did it struck down a call between his wife and her friend a month before the killing the stress of the  betrayed combined with the side effects from the trial of his anti depressant medication passed on drove him to kill one cultivated rather than a cold calculated angry player and his decision to stop taking paxil led to an incredible state of  consciousness margaret said he was trapped inside his own living nightmare francis displayed pictures of crime scenes where they both lay bleeding with medical personnel trying to revive them she read the suicide note written the morning of the killing in which williams plaintiffs wife friends and burns for them stringent and said goodbye to the couple's two children sarah and brianna painted a sympathetic picture of his client telling jurors williams had a paper route as a young child and he went to church every sunday in his youth sometimes twice the one instance former neighbor chris sure testified richard williams had a sinister side in terms of his wife after he found out about her affair richard williams saved some poison point into a room and spread it all over her sheets underpants and bras shirts at said added he was really tickled about that he was giggling he knew it was wrong but he thought it was great he was happy because she got poison oak shirty said richard williams called him several times as he recovered in hospital from the no gun wound wanting to sell his motorcycle for him wanted him to sell his when they bought a motorcycle after separation kept it shirts house to keep his wife from getting it in divorce proceedings cross examining him francis also played a part in the videotape of burns testifying about his relationship with hendrika williams he could not attend the trial in napa because it has terminal brain cancer he said and did amazing things for the blind girl she worked with trying to make school easier for her friends his plans to play the rest of the tape of burns testimony at nine a m monday in napa county superior court francis was about has about twenty people on her list of witnesses course thirty three local nonprofits the telephone is a t v program during which people can call in and donate money to support non profits that they're giving telethon will be showing a contest general eleven said louis city or director of n c t v in addition to the telephone and  all proceeds will be going to non profits participating in a telethon this is the fourth year of the telethon which reached seventy thousand last year according to sr we hope to surpass seventy percent wasn't good this year i was just watching it and by the way they're up to foundation fried community re cover resources neighborhood center of the arts literacy council of nevada city sierra family medical clinic do community asian theatre of sierra and spirit more to pledge money during the telephone it's a little late to give you the numbers now because by demi see this it's already over but thanks for watching out of washington a democratic senator on a saturday saturday kids president bush apollo in support of the u s troops returning from iraq and afghanistan and said the bush administration has not done enough to provide veterans with the care they need s a democrat from washington said the president can call on democrats to follow him in lock stock lock step ali wants but when it comes to caring about veterans we are not talking of starting to take advice from george bush bush told democrats on thursday for combining spending bills for defense and veterans programs was one for labor health and educational matters republicans consider the bill bloated the president also lamented that his emergency spending requests for the wars in iraq and afghanistan still languishes murray and delivered it democrats weekly radio address accuse bush of underfunded the veterans affairs department and said thousands of troops returning from iraq and afghanistan are stuck in a bureaucratic nightmare and  health care they need the senate said number of uninsured veterans has skyrocketed rocketed in recent years the administration also lost personal data of millions of veterans and failed to correct shoddy outpatient treatment and poor living conditions at wal army medical center in washington murray the fourth ranking democrat senator defended a democratic bill that pays for veterans programs and other priorities such as education and medical research the bill provides thousands of new cases workers to help reduce delays for treatment improves conditions at walter reed and other facilities and invest in new ways to treat ailments such as post traumatic stress disorder let's hope they can get some of this for our troops  egypt as number two figure harshly criticized libyan former leader moammar gadhafi in an audio tape saturday accusing him of being an enemy of islam in threatening to wave attacks against north african country because it improved relationships with the the swamp of the said in a recording that also featured old video footage of him walking with other masked gunmen after long years he got off he discovered suddenly that america is not an enemy and is turning libya into another crusader base  terrorist groups and for trying to undermine pro western governmental governments in africa watching them put the libyan on the list of state sponsors of terrorism and imposed sanctions that barred american companies from doing business with the oil rich country in one thousand nine hundred six u s warplanes carried out air sponsors the state department also as president abuse cooperation in helping the u s and search for al qaeda and other terror suspects in the middle east in north africa and out of richmond virginia a judge who ordered a woman to drop her pants and decided  was fairly that will fairly resolve the disputes brought before courts and treat all that against with dignity our courts will lose the public's respect to comment upon which our legal system depends just as barbara said wrote quoting to the judge the court yeah a black lacy thing it looked good didn't it chilled denied making the comment his attorney russell paul moore said did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment friday the justices could have merely censored but they noted that he had it appeared before the judiciary inquiry review commission in two thousand and four for allegedly calling a teenager a mama's boy and a was and advising a woman to marry her abusive boyfriend that complaint was dismissed with the ad money management  ure to chalk it up as learning experience how to win just broke arizona and authorities try to understand why a contract worker would bring a pipe bomb to nation's largest nuclear power plant one thing was made it clear the security worked guard stopped roger heard sixty one at the entrance of the new kid generating station or they spotted a bomb he was determined he was detained about a half mile from the containment domes where the nucular materials are stored officials pulled the security clearances and place to facility on lockdown guard was ten even alert took appropriate action when the fight something suspicious and victor drik safe spokesman for the u s nuclear regulatory commission which will review the incident dealt walters senior director of security for the nucular energy institute today industries trade group said paulo verities response was exactly as it should have been we have a checkpoint for this reason walters said and they were able to identify the speeches that i'm in a truck i don't know what they could have done differently the department of homeland security said there was no known terrorism link to the incident palo verde heard of goodyear arizona told investigators he did not know how the bomb got in the truck and was released friday afternoon doherty's described the device as a six inch capped explosive made of galvanized pipe to contain suspicious residue mangan a spokesman for the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms and explosives said it was likely homemade if this thing went off in the better the truck it certainly would have put a hole in it making said it was rather crude in construction but it could certainly interesting body captain paul should go all the with the maricopa county sheriff's office said the pipe was not hidden he said heard normally drove the motorcycle to work but was in a said he expects her to help with the investigation nobody answered the door and heard department and good your messages left by the associated press who covered the story and numbers of listed birds were not returned heard worked as a preclear i'm an engineer responsible for evaluating the equipment purchases for the plant palaver be officials stated he had access to protected areas but it was not any said area since august twenty first and randy in dingle  for emergencies in a plant can be clear said steve melfi of the u s nuclear regulatory commission there is no threat to the public and the station operated normally friday mcdonald wouldn't say which company employed heard like everyone who has access to the plant heard submitted to a background check workers also must pass through two security checkpoints to get inside one of the plants through containment domes which hope houses the radioactive nucular material one of the check points included in an automated system that sniffs workers for the presence of bomb making materials pella verde operator arizona public service company is this nation's largest nuclear power plant both in size and capacity located in the wonders burg about fifty miles west of downtown phoenix plant supplies electricity to about four million customers in arizona new mexico texas and california and a new special report out of washington the joke's on vice president dick cheney apparently around the white out there ok with that as he launched into a health care speech wednesday president bush warmed up his audience with a nod to halloween cheney's expense this morning i was it was the vice president bush told a gathering of grocery manufacturers i was asking you more what causing it was planned and he said well i'm already wiring it and he mumbled something about the dark side of the force yes the old darth vader line used to be the only cheney critics called him that now his boss or his wife or cheney himself most of you know me long before anyone me said the speech washington is due last week i've been asked if that nickname bothers me and then the answer is no after all die spader is one of the nicer things i've been called recently darth vader is a heavy breathing villain in the star wars movies a reference to cheney's tourist current manner and sometimes gloomy view of world affairs cheney's wife lynne went even farther in her appearance on the daily show earlier in october she showed up with the dogs feed her dog it's a special present for years she told the show's host jon stewart who had been known to skewer the vice president it's an old family heirloom that's three times this month but the white house has embraced the label so what's with this some jedi mind trick cheney spokesman lee ann mcbride said the vice president has always had a good sense of humor he's made his share of self depreciating references to his darth vader reputation over the years it just so happens that they seem to be piling up during th navy observatory his staff put both the cheney dogs and howling cars and on wednesday just for fun and family photos the yellow lab got to be superman the black lab darth vader and that's it for our world news today now for a weather it cold start today with morning lows in the thirty's this afternoon should be drawn into the upper seventy's to near eighty degrees expected any of sunshine today and tomorrow and that's it for today's news