the best use of the property concedes grass valley is so shit planner daniel chance to properties on i likely will submit a demolition application in the next week or two if approved the city's planning commission the demolition could move forward demolition demolishing to property is risky if the property owner doesn't receive eventual approval of walgreen's project after the proposed demolition the developer could receive approval for the fourteen thousand five hundred square foot one story store in august or city's community development director the city needs more information about possible traffic impacts from the plant development official said and environmental review of the projects related stated traffic concerns could be gated with better traffic look like coordination at brunswick road corridor or he said the city is double checking the traffic impact with a traffic consulting firm the greens would include a drive through pharmacy and sixty five parking spaces in the meantime grass valley fire chief jim marcus said that he would check out the possible fire hazard despite no formal complaints if it's just a proper ways then it's not a threat market has stated if you've got a few a ladder or flammable girls climbing on the side of the building that's a problem we try to resolve these things cooperatively marcus has generally we don't run into too much resistance and in another local story convicted child molester lewis ponce stopped in court monday as he begged the nevada county superior court judge to shield leniency in sentencing because he's been reading the bible and wants to be a productive member of society mercy doesn't have much to do with what we're here to do today judge ursule edwards said i don't believe you'll ever leave prison if you want to contribute to society you'll have to contribute from prison edward sentence points to sixty three years to life in spate prison the comm girls between the ages of one and three pounds videotaped the footage himself those are images i will take to my grave edward said monday deputy district attorney charles o'rourke said ponce taping of his actions he did in his own prosecution you can't argue with videotape punches biological son with his first marriage read a statement written by his mother jane kinda ponson kingdom and had two children together after their divorce parts married nurse katherine corey ponson corey adopted six children c mentioned the volunteer work he had done so he wanted to attend counseling for sexual addiction ponce was arrested on january twenty sixth two thousand and six after police searched his work and home finding a mountain of evidence against him including several computer disks and videotapes the disk contained child pornography and the videotapes contained ponces footage investigators with the nevada county sheriff's office were tipped off when conscious coworkers at the berkeley fire department reported finding some of the descent pon workstation ponce committed to his job as a paramedic from his home on rattlesnake well edwards road monday the ponce will also be required to pay three thousand and sixty dollars to nevada county's victim witness for services provided to his family plus four thousand three hundred sixty seven dollars in fines and court fees he is not allowed to contact any of his children this is been difficult time for everyone brought and soley by your conduct and would send what you have done to your dignity you have done to yourself and now in another story the national weather service in reno has issued a red flag warning which is in effect from noon today to eight p m this evening some storms may produce heavy rainfall and hail heavy rainfall on recent burn areas including the angora fire larsen fire and the highway fire may cause flash flooding low pressure near the california coast  strong and instability over the sierras today isolated thunderstorms expected to develop in the sierra model county this morning and and then expand as they spread northward into the title basin this afternoon thunderstorms are expected to produce a significant amount of lightning and strong erratic outflow winds between forty and sixty miles per hour strong outflow winds may extend well site of the rain corps a red flag warning means critical fire weather conditions will crews and officials should heighten their awareness to the rapid change in weather conditions today sept tropical moisture will include just as short wave moves north to california on tuesday this will bring an increased threat of showers and thunderstorms to all the interior northern california this afternoon and tonight scattered thunderstorms with dr strikes and initially will quickly moist and today the concern is that lightning strikes outside the main rain shaft along with the dry fuels  spark some fires as the flow turns easterly this evening thunderstorms may be staring steered into the northern foothills little or no precipitation is expected initially which may produce dry lightning then the storms are expected to become wet erratic and gusty winds up to fifty miles per hour are possible with thunderstorms where thunderstorms are expected over the mountains again on wednesday and fire weather watch in effect this evening the national weather service in sacramento has issued fire weather watch which is in effect this evening this watch includes portions of the foothills of the shasta trinity and units scattering thunderstorms are expected to develop over the mountains in interior northern california later today this evening the flow will turn easterly over the area and could steer thunderstorm activities over the mountains into the foothills and actually a little to no precipitation maker which could lead to dry lightning but as moisture increases over the lower elevations overnight the storms are likely become when the concern is lightning strikes outside the main shafts and i can just tell you that with this type of weather we have to be very careful for fires affected counties and the pictures used are not to an actual events but for visual aid purposes grass valley police departments some thirty one p m a call from colfax avenue it over straight reported a manhole cover was missing the cover was nowhere near the hole public works were notified at seven twenty p m a woman called from the one  block of celeste to drive to report a man was smoking pot in a room he was running from the caller police contacted the man advise him not to smoke at eight thirty two p m police stopped a white chevrolet on new street without plates police cited a thirty four year old man on suspicion of violation of a court order to prevent harassment disturbing the peace and threats or acts of violence at nine fifty eight pm a caller from the two hundred block of dorsey drive reported a man with a skateboard approaching the caller's mother in a strange way they ran off when another person appeared police responded would follow up with the suspect on monday at seven forty nine am a caller from bennett street reported a non injury vehicle versus motorcycle accident police responded and information was exchanged nevada county sheriff's office on sunday at one forty three pm a comment from the eleven thousand block of rough and ready road reported a motorhome was broken into and five handguns were st deputy took a report at seven pm a woman called from the one hundred thousand block o tyler road to report a woman was on her property walking around and yelling at herself there she is at eighteen a person on suspicion of trespassing and nevada city police department on sunday at twelve thirty eight p m a caller from the one hundred block of boulder street reported a person trying to set fire to a picket fence somewhere over the week sometime over the weekend the woman wanted an officer to contact her at one fifty three p m police issued five parking citations in the commercial street parking lot and now another story out of washington the boost in troop levels in iraq has increased the cost of war there and in afghanistan to twelve billion a month and the total of iraq alone is nearly a half a trillion dollars congressional i'm allison to say all told congress has appropriated six hundred ten billion and war related money since september eleventh two thousand and one terrorist cells roughly the same as the war in vietnam iraq alone has cost four hundred fifty billion the figures come from the nonpartisan congressional research s which provides research and analysis to lawmakers from the two thousand and seven budget c r s says one hundred sixty six billion appropriated to the pentagon represents a forty percent increase over two thousand and six the viet nam war after accounting for inflation cost six hundred fifty billion according to separate c r s estimates the twelve billion a month burn rate who could ten billion for iraq and almost two billion for afghanistan plus minor costs that's higher than pentagon estimated earlier this year  both operations two years ago the average monthly cost was about eight billion among the reasons for the higher cost as a cost of repair and replacing them and worn out you know harsh conditions or destroyed in combat but the estimate calls into question the pentagon's estimate to increase in troop strength and intensifying pace of operations in baghdad and anbar province could cost five point six billion through the end of september if congress approves president bush's spending request for another hundred forty seven billion for their budget year starting october first the total bill in the war on terror since september eleventh would reach more than three fourths of a trillion dollars with the preparations for iraq reaching five hundred sixty seven billion also if that includes the war temple continues beyond september the pentagon's request indiana have called for a shift in strategy in iraq and battle and hopes that when the democrats and work congress to begin on a funding bill for the war congress approved ninety nine billion in war funding in may after a protracted battle with bush earlier measure over democrats attempted to set a timeline for withdrawal withdrawing u s combat troops from iraq to report faults the pentagon for using their iraq war as a pretext for boosting the pentagon's non war budget by costs such as prepare an increase in the size of military replacement aircraft as war related items the new estimate comes as white house and the democrats are fighting over spending bills for next year the battle is over about twenty two billion dollars almost a cost to months of fighting in iraq think about what ten billion a month would mean to protecting americans from terrorism improving security at our ports and airports and increasing border security said house speaker nancy pelosi democrat from california and now out of binary strings kansas nearly forty eight hundred fluorescent yellow golf balls are missing from the suburban kansas city golf course after someone raided the facilities driving range sunflower hills golf course had professional jeff johnson said it would take hat have taken some one hour sunday to pick up the balls from the range where they were scattered after being hit earlier than the and he has no idea whether the theft was an expensive prank with an estimated cost of twenty seven hundred dollars the crime is considered a felony or if the comfort's intended to sell the balls with their big strapping about half of the dr pepper logos on him that is bad or they are some really bad guy operators who need some range balls to practice a lot he discovered the theft monday morning when he went to set up the driving range and noticed it were no balls in landing area it appeared that someone had driven a vehicle into the range the balls jumped and said would have built a pickup truck bed it is far he's by far is not the weirdest thing i have seen it is definitely off the it is not common occurrence and now the weather heavy rainfall and thunderstorms expected this afternoon could cause major nash problems within and gora fires and areas blowing and ultimately lake tahoe the flash flood watch from the lake tahoe basin in particular in the south lake tahoe has been issued by the national weather service for today forecasters anticipate isolated thunderstorms through much of the evening was low relatively little window associated with and that would assure them out expedia slee said weather service meteorologist jessica killed horn rain is also expected on wednesday the biggest concern would be in the burn area and south lake tahoe the steep terrain within the teams of researchers from the u s forest service the desert research institute and u c davis surveyed the fire area this weekend and on monday there are three working scenarios of what could happen today and wednesday if the fire every expense is a heavy amount of rain said john ritter associate director of the inclined village based u c davis ta environmental research center anywhere between a third and three quarters inch of rain in downpours fashion could do three things could cause mud and ash to flow up to the upper truckee river which flows directly to the lake or debris flow could instead head into the third scenario is the debris could build up and dislodge large rocks and dam itself and gore creek and when heavier amounts of precipitation hit dislodged onto upper truckee which of these three things could happen we will see a router say oh i hope you enjoyed j v t v news attempt to cool you off today that's it for today thanks a lot for watching and we'll