television broadcasts 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 email them to us at news at g v t v dot org and today's local knows when asked for a scene the intended victim of his ex wife who admitted to hiring a hit man said he is tired of attending court hearings and awaiting sentencing from a judge who was seen said seems reluctant to send her to prison i'm just frustrated at the amount of time it taken to do this received said tuesday it seems out just to me that i can't get any closer because the judge doesn't have the footage to to sentence her there is a bit racine forty two years old has been incarcerated that when brown correctional facility for more than sixteen months as an about a county spirit court explores alternative sentencing options judge robert tammy eddie has said she should receive medical treatment at a secure mental health facility for at least a year there is a better received suffers from acute bipolar disorder according to civil court files her husband said she has his story of erratic behavior including kidnapping her own children in january two thousand and six keeping them two thousand and six keeping them at a hotel then using them to barter with him for twenty dollars on a car she may now be receiving medication for her disorder as been said but was seen herself wrote in july two thousand and six she was not getting medicine at the time or crime or history of violence financial problems lack of six square mental health facilities in nevada county and her immigration status she has a hunger and citizen have created a tangle that is preventing her from getting adequate medical help for her mental illness but her ex husband and victim advocates question whether there's a bit but it seems medical attention should be more important than protecting the public  was arrested march two thousand and six such as she tried to hire an undercover informant for five thousand dollars to kill dennis for scene of grass valley she pleaded no contest three months later to a felony charge of soulless attention to commit murder some criminals have mental health problems can get help through mental health court but the district attorney's office will not agree to allowing or is a bit racine in the out court because of the violent nature of her climb deputy district attorney said she could pay to enter a lockdown facility if she entered voluntarily but she cannot afford treatment center attorney monica lynch after the incident dennis racine divorced her and she received a little more than fourteen thousand dollars she received little more than fourteen thousand dollars in settlement the court also has approved the option of a prison sentence with a cap of six years according to court files but she is sentenced the office of homeland security most likely would deport her fr it's just not possible lynch said at the most recent sentencing hearing on july twenty seventh at that hearing once proposed that her client be put on probation in committed to odyssey house in nevada city his small residential mental health facility that traditionally allows  to take the bus journey a day but it sure if they return by five p m for dinner and that it can a victim's witness advocate brenda collins said assistant district attorney anna ferguson called for a halt to the court's search for alternative people of this county deserve some finality here especially with such a serious charge ferguson added it's a solicitation for murder the charge this isn't a drug issue or a type of case it's likely to be probation successful dentistry scene has appeared at every court hearing was hopes of resolution the judge seems to be hung on an alternative sentence that doesn't exist dennis or seen said i don't understand they're bending over backwards for her she's  treated better than i am he insists his wife is getting special from the court because she is a woman i think she's playing on the sympathies of the court tennis racine added she comes out with those puppy dog eyes but i know deep down she is not that person in court when she makes eye contact with me it's pure evil she's playing the court and she's doing quite well at it it's working multiple continuations can take an emotional toll on victims of crime victim advocate collins said they start to feel invisible waiting for a result you can't have peace of mind and tell you get to a certain point where there is some resolution is this fair treatment for the victims then it's christine said he hopes to me id will sentences ex wife to prison his kids go to counseling regularly and are used to being without their mother the biggest fear is she hearing is scheduled for nine a m august twenty fourth in nevada can the supreme court event a county could turn all mail ballots elections in the near future because of concerns for cost and security we named county clerk recorder gregory dia said tuesday he has observed that fifty two percent of the county's registered voters already use permanent absentee ballots we're looking at that as a statement said tuesday i'm a proponent of nevada county mail ballot elections just told the board of supervisors the state legislature first would have to approve all male elections for the counties for counties he said if all mail elections are approved he also would open about five point places on election day for disabled voters to meet federal law that's far cry from seventy five spots now used in pain for election officials could save significant money said oh mail ballots legislation has been supported by the california association of clerks and election officials and dia's is a member is growing although legislation is not expected by fall said washington state and oregon pretty much vote by mail and the cost savings is staggering if people keep signing up for permanent absentee status here i'll look at cost analysis to see if it makes sense we can pretty much ensure on an all paper ballot election would eliminate security questions questions that cropped up in the past national elections from electronic voting machines despite state concerns one of them the hart system chosen by nevada county should be recertified by november did was told the supervisors were in a much better shape than jurisdictions that brought other systems to has told the board because hard security software is more secure the county has not spent any money on the hart system yet and will not make any payments until the machine is recertify diaz added the system is needed to meet federal guidelines for disabled voters and i can tell you that i've met as he's a very intelligent man and i agree with him we should do mail ballots well it could out of concern residents gathered to watch firefighters quickly extinguished a one acre of wild fire in the middle of subdivision and all to sarah t afternoon the blaze reported at four forty two p m i rose between carney drive and any drive near brewer road in all to sierra estates fire officials initially worried about structures in the area but none burned california department of forestry and fire protection public information officer gina chamberlain said firefighters from cal fire and that accounted consolidated fire district in grass valley fire department contain the blaze at five thirty p m no injuries were reported and no residents were evacuated from their homes twelve engines were dispatched to the scene along with three fire crews two water tenders both those are three helicopters and one air tanker firefighters encountered difficult terrain with large timber and grass chamberlain said all to see there is an area of concern for firefighters due to heavy fuel found in the neighborhood fire officials have also said the cause of the fire is undetermined at this that's right it's time for the police blotter and the pictures in a blotter not from actual vance but are used for visual aid only in grass valley police department on monday at nine forty four am a caller from the business on the seven hundred block of east main reported a woman to give a fake credit card number last week and took merchandise police checked the woman's criminal history and found two warrants for her arrest police went to follow up at ten fifty eight p m call from the seven hundred block of freeman langridge put it a man was sleeping behind a building police contacted a thirty two year old man advised him of city ordinance he would move along at five fifty six p m call from west mcknight way reported a man carrying a duffel bag and a sign asking for help was yelling at drivers who  street to report his girlfriend wouldn't keep her hands off him and he was going to leave because he knew the police would show up the man was gone when the police arrived the woman appeared to have been drinking heavily no arrests were made parking lot two days ago stashed and allegedly stolen shotgun somewhere in the bushes after the accident the gun was reportedly wrapped in a pair of pants deputies would follow up and at eight thirty two pm a call explosions believe someone was setting off dynamite deputies were unable to locate the responsible party city police department on monday and all of your children please look away this is a horrible picture you don't want to see it as six forty seven pm a caller from florida block a long street reported a squirrel had been shot but they were still alive and suffering police were unable to locate some poor squirrel we found him well that's it for the blotter now for some around the world news more than two hundred people are dead and three hundred injured after four suicide bombing struck in a kurdish community in northern iraq it was one of the deadliest attacks in four years since the u s led invasion sect has seen escalating tensions with militant islamic groups t casualty toll is expected to rise as rescue workers dig through the rubble meanwhile the pentagon announced the death of nine u s troops five died and a helicopter crash the other day the violence comes as s forces have launched new crackdowns across iraq more than sixteen thousand u s and iraqi troops are to comport an operation lightning ammar around the river in baghdad and at least two people were killed in a u s led ra on the shiite neighborhood of sattar city the victims were ported to be a father and his three year old daughter asleep in the summer heat on the roof of their home nine others were arrested including the three sons of local resident  i used to bake bread and sell it to feed them and when they grew they started to work to help me that we could relieve when we relieved when saddam fell we did expect that he was replaced with the worst only god can beat them he was referring to be americans in other iraq developments new figures show the number of prisoners inside iraq continues to rise according to the pentagon there are now more than twenty three thousand people in u s run jail inside iraq has five thousand more over four months ago an all time high since u s led invasion of march two thousand and three and the bush administration has announced it will add iran's revolutionary guard to its list of foreign terrorist groups the move will mark the first time a wing of a foreign government forces would be added to the list  mahmoud policy is clear as we have already announced we strongly support political process in afghanistan the security in afghanistan as a primary impact on iran because we have the largest joint border a strong stable afghanistan is best for iran we want our best friend to be powerful developed and stable and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in beirut to see to mark the one year anniversary of the end of israel's attack on lebanon and a videotape israel against another war and praised what he called his brother's military victory over the invading troops so you said the resistance revived the arab nation and renewed hope trust and enthusiasm for the people of the muslim and  arab world because the resistance offered a real alternative to liberate in my hands and in stead of humility humiliating negotiations where americans israel's impose their conditions that is why we want to isolate and pressure it more than one thousand lebanese mostly civilians died in the thirty day thirty four day conflict forty three israeli civilians were killed in as well this rocket attacks on israeli towns and federal treatment of detained undocumented workers is now under new scrutiny followed three dozen u s immigration jails over the past month twenty three year old victoria arellano died after aids treatment left out of california immigration jail fellow prisoners cared for her before she was moved to a hospital she died sha ed to her bed another victim edmar hours are raul died after immigration officials ignored his relatives pleas to provide medicine for his epilepsy the third victim rosa contreras amigas died in el paso immigration seven weeks pregnant and a new study shows have to americans eligible for food stamps have actually received them on a regular basis according to the national priorities project more than forty nine percent seventeen million people of the eligible poor have not gotten their entitled food stamps and the former head of the american psychological association has been revealed to be an already partner in a private firm linked to the c hired for classified interrogation consulting work with the cia the disclosure of guns ahead of the a p a national conference this weekend dissident members are leading cause to reverse the a p s policy of condoning member involvement in the interrogation of u s prisoners and in media news to radio talk show host don imus has reached an undisclosed settlement over his firing from c b s was forced out earlier this year after referring to the rutgers women's basketball team as happy whole nappy headed hos he missed had threatened to more than one hundred twenty million dollars from breach of contract it's been rumored to actually receive twenty million dollars some observers say the settlement could mark a step towards amos's return to the airwaves he said to be in talks with radio station w a b c about resuming his daily broadcasts and news of the settlement came as rutgers women's basketball team member vonn filed suit against the miss for slander and libel vaughn says he misses sexist and racist comments damage her reputation and new documents point to more bush administration censorship on global warming the government accountability project has made public memo was showing the administration's routinely interfered with the world bank's limited efforts to address environmental issues and one  world bank president paul wolfowitz personally intervened to remove the words climate change from the title of the bank report before it's also ordered staffers to shift the focus of the text away from global warming and and northern illinois law school professor mark falcoff helped compile the book mark falcoff stated the book is meant to humanize the man and it's meant to i really really provoke discussion in the u s about guantanamo what it is what it's become what it means for us as a country to keep this lawless zone acting the book is eighty four pages military censors barred thousands of miles of poultry from being released and another story out of south lake tahoe up near truckee look for continued dry breezy afternoons in very warm temperatures there may be a few clouds around today much like tuesday but the threat of showers or thunderstorms will remain ury areas and wind will pick up an afternoon from the southwest ten to twenty miles per hour range a few of you who were all this smoke has been coming from especially from california and when it might clear there are three fires that are contributing to the smoky conditions that i'm aware of one northeast of hedge near yosemite national park another in coastal range south of san jose but west of modesto and a third down near santa barbara the zakah far which continues to flare up and burn very hot thus producing lots of smoke as for when the smoke may clear tuesday was not too bad but depending on how sheriff's most wanted these people could be considered dangerous the org we would like to thank the union net goodman democracy now valley wire and associated press for other news information we'd like to be an underwriter for n z t v broadcasts or advertise on our news fee have a nice day and we will see you tomorrow and you might check out the nevada county great place