visual local news for nevada county then please underwriters and get mentioned every day over thirty thousand possible households in your county plus the internet just give us a call or e mail us at five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine or news and g v t v guide if you have newsworthy items just email when the engine in the cessna one fifty point failed at seven hundred feet late friday morning by rick harmon of grass valley said the only place he could land was eastbound lanes of the during the ten forty five a m landing just west of dorsey drive overpass while the spectacle backed up traffic for about an hour an attractive hundreds of curious onlookers officers from the california highway patrol grass valley police department a county sheriff's office were at the scene to take reports and direct traffic while firefighters from the nevada county consolidated fire district and the grass valley fire department guided the plane from the side of the road onto a fl warned one woman holding a camera bought to cross all four lanes of the highway to get to the plane she would be arrested if she didn't get out of the sheriff's deputy happy kenna luna comm olson was working at golden green rentals in the hills flood area when she and her fellow employees heard the plan was and is an employee jeff jacobson kids looked up to see the plane disappear behind some trees it was so low he didn't know if it was crashing or what one of the crowd on the overpass watching the drama was crisp arrives who lived in nearby park said she saw a similar incident at the same location years ago when another private plane california when his engine died at seven hundred feet he had still been climbing and was too low to turn the plane around and return to the airport when he decided to land on the freeway he called in and made a cell paramedics and fire trucks could be alerted to head to the highway i did everything i needed to do he said i used my training it was beautiful father and son pilots alan gaines and jeff gaines of nevada city were flying over grass valley with a friend when they heard harmon report his emergency and asked for a clear runway at the airport the other pilots in the flight pattern said where is he where is he allan said finally someone said he's landed on the freeway and is thirty nine years of flying which included a student for delta airlines alan has never seen a plane on a road i've seen a lot of aircraft go down in strange areas but i've never seen one land on a freeway said son jeff who flies attack helicopters for the u s army and just got back from iraq the plane was towed back to grass valley airport at eleven forty five a m where a mechanic would later examine it to determine the cause of eight contacted online media after landing to learn more about the incident he said adding that he would not be cited or reprimanded for the accident because no one was injured and there was no person no property christiansen served in the u s army's one hundred first airborne division and was part of the two thousand and three invasion of iraq he was sent started attending a college in southern california that's where he began their political u irvine veterans student you lot of things are being done for the vets by people who don't understand who we are and what we stand for christians and said everybody in the military has a story to tell but we don't want to be written off or used as political p two thousand and one you better unionized go to graduate in about thirty other better and make up the group which is lobbying for a new version of the g i bill passed us congress when they're not talking to groups of people who volunteer at veterans administration hospitals our mission is to get out as much information out there as possible christianson said members include liberals conservatives and independents like yourself we tell people our stories and we try to stay away from the political side of things christians said everybody's opinion about the war is just as right as the others and coulter and michael moore say it's black and white but it's not should we be they're christians and th at's a complicated answer because it's an onion of issues to pick just one is a little wrong because you just said no matter what position you take you'll be right and you'll be wrong the other major thrust for the group is to get california law changed for veterans who want to learn scholarships to college currently veteran to earn scholarships and use the g i bill to pay for school see their military benefits stripped off the scholarship dollars for present i want you to military because they needed the money for school christians and said we do a good job in the service and then we can come out and get burned we're trying to get better benefits for veterans advocate advocate suffers from back and leg enter she's injuries caused by a home and hundreds of tunnels around the desert concrete streets he also had post traumatic stress disorder when i return and decided to turn it into an educational and doing much better but every day a struggle christians is that i do research at u c irvine on post traumatic stress with data supplied by fort lewis washington active duty soldiers have greater amounts of anger depression than the general populace because of the war and military stressors regions are part of that i found was due to relationship problems that create psychological problems the retired soldier will be a senior next year majoring in social psychology and criminal justice he wants to go to law school and after that maybe get involved in the political process the soldier turns students father john christiansen is serving the u s in the u s army reserves in sacramento that's been difficult for eric's mother donna christensen although her husband gets to come home on weekends that isn't half as bad as two thousand and three when both men were in the service at the same time do it was very difficult but we survived people are resilient say go on for crumble apparently her son was heated as he did your lies one positive story round june third primary will eliminate one of the contenders leaving the other to face the democratic nominee in november the candidates have turned an already hot campaign into a boxing match returned locale grabbed five acres of their eminent domain while he was a member of the three rivers levee improvement store supervisor down low and his cronies stole our land he wouldn't listen he just voted to steal our farm peaches nectarines family spent sixty thousand dollars on lawyers in the battle to save their life but it's not money i just wanted to keep one he understood the land was taken  collage a group of children of gay couples welcomed she said children with l g b this mean gay or bisexual and transgender parents deserve our families to be respected validated and protected legally and cultural the supreme court ought to be applauded for that decision today the decision came out of a challenge two hundred gay marriages performed in san francisco in two thousand and four california supreme court had intervened to stop the wedding and later invalidated the documents on thursday san francisco mayor gavin newsom said the court's new decision could have national implications california joins massachusetts as the only state extending marriage rights to gays and lesbians and on capitol hill the house has approved a measure calling for an immediate withdrawal of u s troops in iraq to be completed by december two thousand and nine resolution passed by a two twenty seven to one ninety six vote for a short of the two thirds majority needed to overcome a white house bill white house also approved measures to concluding an extension to unemployment benefits blocking the bush administration restrictions on medicaid and funding  veteran education through half a percentage point tax on wealthy americans making over five hundred thousand dollars the resolution came about after the house failed to pass a one hundred ninety six billion dollars war funding bill dozens of republicans with some of their support in opposition to democrats handling of the major and on the campaign trail john mccain is predicting it will take at least five years for the u s to chief what he calls victory in iraq again spoke thursday in columbus ohio he said by january twenty third teen american america has welcomed most home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that america might be secure in their freedom iraq war has been one iraq is a function anniversary celebration speaking before the israeli parliament bush took a swipe at democratic presidential candidate brock bamma at least that's what he's saying comparing his call to negotiate with iran to appeasement of hitler before the second world war president bush said some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals as if some ingenious argument has persuade them they have all been wrong all along we have heard this foolish delusion before as now to tanks crossed into poland one hundred thirty nine american senator declared lord if only i could have talked to him or all of this might have been avoided we have an obligation to call this what it is a false comfort of appeasement which has been repeatedly discredited in history condemn bush's support for israeli settlement expansion and rejection of the cease fire he gaza palestinians are mark dean their sixtieth anniversary of what they call the law or catastrophe when hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes during the war around israel's creation nineteen forty eight and in pakistan where they harbored a lot of al qaida local residents say eighty people have been killed in the u s attack and as your region the dead around twenty five hundred below the age of eighteen as illegal combatants in iraq afghanistan and going to get now since two thousand and two and a filing with the united nations committee on the rights of child the bush administration says most of the us were i prisoned in iraq five hundred juveniles remain in u s prisons there ten juvenile prisoners are still being held in background based in afghanistan a juvenile is your been brought to get two of them remain a market they are now twenty one years several former italian intelligence officials omar was seized on the streets of milan in two thousand three and taken to u s air bases in italy and germany before being sent to egypt there he said he was tortured during a four year imprisonment omar's wife galli not be open to trial stephen grover was found to have used his daughter's online alias to make false and defamatory comments about the coalition for the most where is the coalition has waged a campaign to lobby burger king to come to light after next expos by the southwest border express and the bush administration is trying to use global food crisis to push the controversial use of genetically modified crops sounds yummy in food starved countries the white house food package proposes one hundred fifty million dollars for development farming which would include g m o crops and in dallas texas and hiv positive homeless man has been sentenced to thirty five years in prison for knots and eyes of a dallas police officer the man willie campbell was found guilty of harassing a public servant with a deadly weapon his life none of the three officers contracted a job in the center for disease control and prevention says there is not  one known case of contact with saliva steers or sweat to transmitted h i v campbell will not be eligible for parole until serving at least seventeen years behind bars and in washington state reno an a antiquities expert has died in federal jail sixty two year old roxana brown was the director of southeast asians remix museum at bangkok university in thailand brown had been arrested in connection with the probe into the illegal art trafficking she w and that is a wrap for today's world of color guard