news if you have an interest in supporting the only visual local news for nevada county then please underwriters and get mentioned every day to over thirty thousand possible households in your county plus the internet just outdoor activities should be avoided today because the heavy smoke from fires around in nevada county going to the northern sierra air quality management district grass valley air district is recommending to all out their activities be cancelled immediately under intel conditions improve considerably the district could now state nine fifteen a m as a general rule of thumb consider this if you see smoke and smell smoke you're most likely breathing on healthy levels up particularly the districts and the more smoke you see and smell the higher the unhealthy levels of particularly this is the worst we've ever seen for a particular level since the district started measuring air quality fifteen years ago said employee joe fish we've never seen the numbers this high is almost four hundred micrograms per cubic meter and a hazardous level is to sixty ozone levels have also been risen into the unhealthy for sensitive individual range in the evening hours passed tonight and into overall bad air quality those individuals include children and elderly athletes pregnant women as medics and those with existing lung or heart conditions smoky conditions can cause chest pains shortness of breath headaches and throat irritations or make existing conditions worse like bronchitis asthma have emphysema and heart disease the district said in jim markus will resign as fire chief for grass valley july twenty fifth and said his move will open the door to reevaluate the future for the city's fire protection service and management markets said monday he will take a job as a battalion chief with the sierra fire protection district in watch you count just outside of reno he would not give details saying it was for personal and professional goals meanwhile marcus said he and city administrator dan holler have been working on a transition plan for the department's hierarchy the chief said his move will provide opportunities for the fire department and for services in western nevada county it's a great opportunity for him and he'll be missed on a city wide basis hauler said it's a lot on our end but it gives us an opportunity to look at how we'll provide fire services a half time person will be hired for six months to one year in a transition from marcus to whatever the position becomes haulers an intern chief will be better able to make decisions about possible options for running the fire department marcus said he declined to say what the options are painting their review by the city council with declining revenue growth growth and higher expenses the city has pared more than one million from its upcoming budget to balance it cuts have included one layoff of the city park ranger and voluntary work for loews will be disgusted tuesday night city council meeting marcus came highly recommended from the governor's office emerge y services to grass valley in two thousand and five he beat out more than ten people for the job and served prior stands at fire departments and incline village and carson city the outgoing chief has chosen to remain live  his story and second rounders involved in the conviction of fred engle were not clearly instructed on legal knew and nuances of the case attorney donald horgan argued at a hearing on monday appealing and goes conviction in his high profile profile murder attempt on a nevada city on this significant legal difference between knowing an act is wrong and understanding it's wrong is not explained to the jury members according to hoard the prosecutor argued that knowing and understanding the word the same things during it goes trial at the nevada county superior court deputy attorney general robert natural representing the people's angle was sentenced to life in prison in october thousand two thousand and six was stabbing susan wallace  slashing his throat killing her dogs and burning down her victorian home in nevada city in may two thousand thought the oral argument monday took place at the third district california court of appeal in sacramento hort who's representing engels said engle didn't understand his actions were wrong he believed they were necessary horgan attributed angle's behavior to schizophrenia i'd rather have people forget about  concentrate on what they can do to make the community a better place by helping homeless animals and offering foster homes for dogs wallace said monday it's likely they'll be no subsequent hearings and the court of appeals will  written decision in the upcoming weeks or months who are going to have a gift a decision is not in angle's favor his attorney would ask for a rehearing at the court of appeal request the california supreme court to review the case or do a new grass valley growth initiative which sticks closely to the city's existing general plan is planned for the november ballot and endorsed by mark mark john mayor mark johnson and civic leader peggy le vine among others a copy of the initiative which is expected to be filed at city hall by this morning was obtained by the union late monday the implementation of the latest initiative will protect and improve the quality of life for the city's citizens by limiting growth beyond and urban asked to vote on two growth related measures in the november third election setting up a potentially contentious debate on growth besides the dueling girls initial the third in an initiative calling for a small sales tax increase for roadway repair and construction in grass valley also is expected to wind up on the ballot ballot initiatives are on the rise in california and throughout the nation though most don't pass according to the initiative and referendum institute in los angeles the highlights of the latest growth initiative include a so called urban growth boundary to testify natural soundness of the development and limits on new residential unit growth beyond what is again a fight in the twenty twenty g nation of closely follows the city's existing general plan if approved by voters it expires january thirty first twenty twenty now the growth initiative called the managed growth plan would effectively lock in the land use element of the city's general plan for eighteen years beyond the plans projection without a vote of the people to manage growth initiative backers include seriousness concerned against traffic and rural quality coalition and it has a run into stiff opposition at grass valley city hall and among some business leaders the latest ballot measure has a long title it is called the city of grass valley urban growth boundary fiscal assurance and residential development limitation initiative according to the three page document beside johnson and love vine the initiative also is signed by dennis casella a long time county worker member of the grass valley personal commission the initiative also is supported by ranch developer phil carville the nevada county contractor's association has not decided whether takes a position said quiana allen the past president of the group laid on the urban growth boundary in the initiative refers to boundaries described in the existing general plan the limit on residential growth means a grass valley shall not issue building permits for residential draw in your needs that exceed the projected total number of new housing units provided for in the land use element of the city's twenty twenty general plan in addition any development exceeding one hundred residential units must demonstrate the projected revenue to the cities generated by the development of the proposed polls will exceed the projected expenses incurred by the city to provide city services to the development with recent flat growth grass valley is not matching the population numbers in the general plan according to city community development director joe haeckel grass vall population now stands at thirteen thousand and that's it for our local news today roseville  n secretary general ban ki moon urged them bobwhite president robert mugabe to postpone friday's runoff vote ban ki moon also said conditions do not exist for free and fair elections right now in zimbabwe there have been too much violence for democratic change and hauled away scores of people and nassau its top climate scientist james hansen mycenae warned monday that the world has long passed the dangerous levels for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and that the earth is nearing a tipping point hands and said we're toast if we don't get on a very different path this is the last chance he also called for the government to block to construct of new coal fired plants during an interview in n p r hansen called for the chief executives of oil companies to be tried for their role in spreading disinformation on climate change he also said the c e o s of these large energy companies are guilty of crimes against humanity if they continue does view what is understood scientifically and to find  contrarian's and if they push us past the tipping point to end up destroying many species on the planet and have a huge impact on humanity itself was twenty years ago this week when james hansen first appeared before congress to warn the global warming had already started t magazine that another terrorist attack on the us all would benefit mccain's candidacy charles black told fortune magazine certainly it would be a big advantage to him during the same interview black said the assassination of former pakistani prime minister be mccain and the new york times reports major the major t v networks have drastically cut back on the coverage of the war in iraq and afghanistan during their weekend newsca so far this year the three evening network newscasts if you didn't watch isn't half so many total one hundred eighty one week day minutes of iraq coverage that's about two minutes of iraq coverage for network per week just forty six minutes have been spent on three networks covering the war in afghanistan meanwhile in news from iraq a local iraqi council member from the town of salma part packed shot and killed two u s soldiers monday four others were injured shooting occurred outside  council meeting and a coalition of human rights groups has accused the us government oh withholding money intended to provide clean drinking water to haiti liberties to push for regime change in the country  american development bank approved fifty forty million dollars to help the haitian government revamp the country's water and sanitation systems ten years later water projects have yet to be started because u s government aggressively attempted to block the disbursement of the lo the los angeles actress and educator don white has died aged seventy one you was local director of the c i s p e s the committee in solidarity of the people of el salvador founder of the southern california fair trade network illegal observer with the national lawyers guild and a member of the local board of the pacifica station k p f k and a story out of all in texas thirty said inmate tried to flee a texas city jail crashed through ceiling into the police chief's empty temperatures that have strained air conditioners and power companies sunday's temperatures in much of the state were expected to be ten to fifteen degrees cooler than the day before the national weather service said their monitors had searched all over the state on saturday reaching ninety five degrees in san jose hundred five in san diego one o seven in burbank and want to seven at san was a busy long beach airport posted a record high of one hundred fresh round of power failures and sent repair crews back into the field saturday just to service was restored to most of the eight thousand customers blacked out the day before by late saturday about fifteen hundred customers still like power said terry schneider spokeswoman for the los angeles department of water power saturday's demand for electricity in a los angeles area was a record for a weekend day in june she said as the heat increased we were having more and more trouble maintaining the level of customer demand she neither had wildfires also have  erupted in the hot dry weather with the governor's office and saturday that lightning had sparked nearly four hundred fires in northern california and we're breaking down right now firefighters fear of additional blazes because of the tender dry conditions following the driest spring on record at least one death has been linked to the heat seventy seven year old woman apparently left her car near california arizona line south of lake campus's arizona on monday in search of her elderly husband and that's right stan for the police blotter in the pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on saturday twelve forty four p m a caller from the want to block a mcknight way reported a subject with seizures emergency medical personnel stolen in front of the firm overnight port was taken for petty theft and it three o eight p m a fire was reported in south arvin street near downtown business district that was quickly put out and it for assaulted by a man named tommy on the three hundred block of pleasant street and report was taken from battery and five forty four pm a call from twenty one hundred twelve thousand four hundred block of nevada city harbor reported his grandson was out of control again and the phone was way in a blue toyota pickup truck the information was sent to the california highway patrol said it was like tapping his feeders eight thirty eight p m a nissan truck was driven into a building on the one hundred block of south church street vehicle was to at nine thirty eight p m a traffic stop and penstock driving pelton way resulted in a woman being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and she was booked into the county jail eleven fifty two p m a caller from two hundred block a certain way reported a woman was yelling  window and causing a disturbance and on monday at seven o eight a m a caller from the one hundred block of dorsey drive reported someone threw concrete at their vehicle overnight her report was taken for up on the side of the highway called was turned over to the california highway patrol and at ten fifteen a m she called her from business ave put it imagine standing in his front yard and yelling responding officers found it was a man singing badly along with his i pod twelve thirty three p m a caller from ten thousand one hundred block of west hill road reported as never was on the caller side of the fence and allegation violation of court order and at one twelve p m i am a caller from the eighteen thousand seven hundred grade road reported he was assaulted by his girlfriend's father and at nine o two pm a call from the twenty seven thousand six hundred block of blue sea wade put his wife and fainted needing medical attention and nine fifty five twenty nine a m a call from eight hundred thousand nine hundred block of gopher lane reported items stolen from the house like the guardian now three forty eight am a caller from twelve thousand five hundred watching spain we will see you hopefully tomorrow