late wednesday and more probable today the smoke alert was issued wednesday is that will extend through today by joe fish at the northern ca the management district in grass valley residents are being urged to avoid strenuous outdoor activities of smoking conditions persist children and the elderly should consider staying indoors and anyone with respiratory disease should definitely stay inside fish said the smoke to partially lifted out of the area wednesday afternoon as temperatures rose could move back into the sierra foothills today as wind patterns change the school sports activities were postponed wednesday but people parents could check to see whether they are today if whether they are today if smoky conditions continue afternoon the moonlight fire south east and west wood was a fifteen thousand acre late wednesday and five percent contained with more than one thousand firefighters attacking answered cheryl mulder its national forest a large plume of smoke from the fire had risen over the ridge near force headquarters in quincy and headed south towards nevada county mulder said i would say there's a real good chance of more smoke for today similar conditions created  smoky situation that caused coughing in the sun to turn red over nevada county wednesday morning prior made a run south tuesday night when the storm came from the north and that's where you got all the smoke the wind shifted said michelle holds of the piano early wednesday the firefighters an air tankers are on the way to join the battle as they become available from other california fires about fifteen to twenty remote homes near greenville have been evacuated the fire is burning and heavy timber and slash on land that is eighty percent slopes according to plan after website update winds are causing extreme fire behavior that is causing the blaze to run across the crowns of the trees no one has been injured in the fire which was caused by people and started on private land how the far actually started under investigate details of the fire can be found accused of killing his wife puts a nail gun will not be held in nevada county judge robert he said court wednesday the venue of the richard williams murder trial will be moved to another county most likely napa according to information released at wednesday's pre attorney stephen monk said outside court wednesday and the judge may not honor to meet his pretrial which are not binding on the court administrators tend to prefer that their own staff including judges handle any case that are courthouses the historic courthouse and the criminal courthouse munk out and deputy district attorney katherine francis agreed nap is a good option citing potentially bad winter weather in eldorado county and a high caseload in s county and a court hearing earlier last month he said local media coverage of the case contaminated to jury pool in western nevada county and he granted the defense motion for a change of venue he wanted potential jurors to carpool or to be bussed from truckee to the nevada city courthouse to hear the trial later on in a written ruling aug twentieth expressed his doubts about move jurors transporting a truckie panel to and from nevada city for the trial would pose a great inconvenience on the truckie jurors for a trial of this link's the trial is expected to at least last an estimated fifteen days was roughly three days for jury selection p fifteen to sixteen individual jurors and the alternates to make the fifty five mile drive each day for three days a week for five weeks is simply too great a burden on non citizens to marry also denied one cause request to exclude pretrial motions from the for williams to dismiss monk and have a new lawyer appointed has asked the court to exclude testimony from both men during a conference call in court how carter said he would meet was williams at the wayne brown correctional facility reaction to withdraw from an antidepressant drug paxil which rendered him unconscious of his x ten yet he said he was not familiar with any attorneys using the paxil defense and he needs to research and subject before he rules on on illegal ride on a freight train in misdemeanor offense according to police lieutenant randy finn we don't know where they got on the lieutenant said union pacific personnel contacted y then described as extremely intoxicated was riding on top of the green car truck a fire contra tributed personal and a ladder to assist police in taking a man into custody then said officials told him the man could easily have died right in and stop the car through one of the trains tunnels and donner pass the summer vagabonds were booked into truckee jail for trespassing on a railroad a misdemeanor charge that can carry up to one year in jail and one thousand d according to family of the five one man twenty three one woman twenty three were from kansas city missouri one man nineteen was from lee's summit missouri one woman twenty four was from hysteria michigan and one man twenty two was from napa california according to sergeant ray alexander of the nevada county sheriff's office in truckee stowaways were released the next day on a promise to appear future court dates such releases are the suspect has a permanent address which all five have alexander said they were very nice young people and polite at the time of the arrest to use full freight train hitchhikers were prepared to camp on the trail carrying backpacks that's right it is time for the police blotter in the pictures in the blotter not from the actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on tuesday at nine thirty a m a woman called from the one hundred block of west mcknight way to port to two men one in his forty's and one in his fifty's saw her walking behind a red truck and they tried to run her over when she told the men they almost hit her they said they knew and used a racial slur against her police took a report at ten fifty five a m a c alcohol in the park at seven twenty seven p m caller from richardson street reported small black toyota tacoma truck was involved in a hit and run police responded and took measurements they left the car for the c the caller the woman was wearing a straw hat and a fanny pack police contacted a thirty three year old man arrested on suspicion of disturbing the peace and having too many tattoos the police also arrested thirty eight year old woman on suspicion of assault at ten thirty two pm call from the two thousand block and a better city i would reported a newer black audi was doing donuts in the parking lot and drove towards grass valley at ten thirty nine pm police stopped the black audi s three and a rest of the driver it thirty three old man on suspicion of drunken driving and on wednesday at eight twenty seven a m a caller from the six hundred block of south street reported someone tried to tamper with his car someone grabbed briareus around the s of his car and may have taken the rug out of the trunk call request an extra patrol during evening hours and in a bad it can the sheriff's office on tuesday at ten forty nine a woman called from the thirteen thousand block of willow valley road to report she was assaulted yesterday a deputy left a message on her answering machine at twelve twenty three p m the sheriff's narcotics task force served a spousal abuse deputy took a report seven ten p m deputies responded to a fight a mobile home park fourteen thousand block a rough and ready deputies mediated the situation at seven thirty one p m a caller reported a suspicious looking man was in the caller's daughter's home to ten thousand block of pleasant valley road and he had been drinking the man allegedly said let the cops show up and shoot me and contacted the man and took a report and then he was assimilated in wednesday six fifty nine a m a woman called from the eleven thousand block of reagan way to porch she and her dog hadn't eaten in a week she had been saying strange things to the fire department dispatchers the fire department bad as city police department on tuesday and eleven thirty eight a m a woman called from the three hundred block of street to report her husband violated a restraining order dropped on hiroshima but the fifty two took off from air force base in north dakota and landed in barksdale air force base in louisiana it took the military hours to realize the nuclear weapons were  reported in the navy times pentagon spokesman geoff morrell said well i think as you all know it's a longstanding policy of this department not to talk about nuclear weapons so i can't confirm or to barksdale air force base aboard b fifty two the strata for years fortress republican edward markey democrat from massachusetts said this it was absolutely inex nothing like this is ever been reported before and we have to been assured for decades that this was impossible since the one nine hundred sixty s u s military has transferred nuclear weapons aboard cargo planes not on the wings of bombers and in baghdad a u s air force filtration by sectarian militias the generals also report iraqi security forces will be unable to fulfill their essential security responsibilities independently for at least another twelve to eighteen months and on capitol hill the anti war group code pink marched on the u s capitol wednesday if you ask congress to stop funding the war called pink's the deal benjamin said we're here to say that the people of this country are absolutely disgusted with this congress that has just lain down and given bush all the money he's asked for for this war we're being asked for another two hundred billion dollars now and we're here to say the people say no and we're going to whip you into shape and tell you start listening to us no more money for this war and in campaign news former actor and republican senator fred thompson appeared on the tonight show with jay leno wednesday to finally announce he will run for president  chose to appear on the leno show instead of taking part in a republican debate in new hampshire and out of sydney australia there is a lockdown as asian pacific leaders including president bush gather for major summit a four mile nine foot high steel and concrete france has been erected around the site of the gathering place have been given special powers to detain anyone on the streets police are also conducting id and bag searches and preventing tourists from taking photographs of sensitive sites on saturday over twenty thousand people are expected to take part in a march against president bush strongly and protesters sandra sue said my concerns are about this week in particular about the lockdown in sydney which i think has been totally unjustified i think for global warming we do need more action and we need it now not next week not the week after i mean credibly concerned about the free trade agreement between the us and austria australia because i think if they come in here and want to play around with our health system we could be do a new poll finds fifty two percent of australians believe george w bush is the worst us president ever and germany police have arrested three men for the ledge plotting to carry out massive bomb attacks possible targets reportedly included the u s military base at ramstein and the frankfurt airport two of the men were german born citizens the third was born in turkey police allege the men had attended a training camp in pakistan by a militant islamic group from a biscuit stan stand i'm sorry about that scientists and others and now it's the arctic ice cap has collapsed and unprecedented rate to summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand it record lows the guardian newspaper reports experts are stunned by the loss of eyes an area almost twice the size and biggest england disappeared into the last week alone in the increased rate of melting continues the summertime arctic could be totally free of ice by two thousand and thirty so much ice has melted to summ the northwest passage across the top of canada is now fully navigable and observers say the north east passage along versus arctic coast could open later this month and environmental to us are criticizing the c for canceling a t v special on climate change called planet relief executives of the b b c said they scraped scrapped plans for this show because it was not the role of the b b c to lead opinion on global warming  newsnight editor peter barron recently said it is absolutely not the b b c s job to save the planet and human rights watch has issued a new report on last year's israel lebanon war the group determined to indiscriminate air strikes by the israeli military caused most of the over nine hundred civilian deaths in lebanon human rights watch said israeli air warplanes repeatedly targeted moving targets that turned out to be carrying only civilians trying to flee the conflict k to put forward that claim you can read about it in the jerusalem post this morning you say you know it's all because hizbollah was hiding behind civilians he's making that up there is no that is in no sense the major reason why civilians died cannot throw also criticized as bugs tactics during the war and united nations secretary general ban ki moon says he is shocked by the level of poverty  hardship in refugee camps in daraa for a region of sudan ban ki moon asked for international help to alleviate the suffering of the sudanese he told journalists he had made good progress in organizing a date and venue for long promised peace talks expected to take place in october meanwhile from our irish president mary robinson has launched a campaign to raise awareness about the suffering of women in the african nation of she spoke yesterday about her recent trip to chad mary robinson stated we believe that somebody must focus on gender based violence and the extent of the grape and currently on the lack of security in the camps and this or surrounds and that's one thing that the european union force can do a great deal to address but it also needs it what are political solution both in chad and guard for in academic you know this professor norman finkelstein has resigned from the paul university after the two sides agreed on a private settlement the deal was announced wednesday just before a scheduled protest against the school's decision to deny finkelstein tenure and to cancel classes this semester because new spoke before a crowd of about one hundred twenty five supporters were in teachers that read we are all professional professor finkelstein norman finkelstein said i have been recognised as a public intellectual at many of the leading universities in ny states and in europe and have become an internationally recognized scholar in my academic specialties based on this record i should have received tenure it is now time for me to move on and hopefully find new ways to fulfill my mission in life of making the world a slightly e has resulted in political opposition to his speaking out about the israeli palestine conflict for years finkelstein has been one of the most prominent critics of the israeli government and american  getting had performed cosmetic surgery in her home and earned at least five hundred dollars a day while also receiving welfare mccaskey is suspected of being new guineans accomplice authorities said he transported patients to the house and help clean woman's leg and it was never been licensed in california as a physician according to the medical board in two thousand and three the board investigated her for performing a genital surgery but the woman who made the complain moved away and the case was not pursued according to the and that's it for around the world news now for our weather report more smoke is expected today until the winds shift this afternoon highs will be in the low ninety's southwest winds this afternoon at and others for stories and we will see you tomorrow