valley television broadcasts the first in or visual t v and brings you t v news with local and world news from nevada county california if you have news worthy items please email us at  v dot org i'm randy anson and in today's news turn in july you know how wayne the bookseller's harry potter's release party shut down mill street in grass valley about four hundred  fifty costume fans eagerly anticipating buying a copy of j k rowling's seventh and final volume in the series harry potter and the deathly hollows transforming the bookseller into the department of mysteries staff and volunteers were in character keeping the crowd at bay and tell exactly twelve zero one a m saturday deficient a release date part of fans had been waiting since ten p m friday to enter the store when we ordered the book we had to sign a twenty page document before we even received it said the bookseller owner hatter patton who was also the daily profit journalist for the event when the delivery man brought it no one from the bookstore could even touch it until we had signed for all the copies no one employees could take a book out of the store or look at its pages and tell after twelve or one am today anticipating his sell out of six hundred ordered books had on and  employees purchased another one hundred to be delivered on sunday and seven had to be delivered today i don't think we're going to sell out this weekend said children's manager angie kelsey dressed as headmistress professor mcgonagall we're always trying to keep the books in people's hands we've been decorating all week said twenty seven year old sonny in a prime prim british accent all tonight friday we've been scurrying around since five p m we did charge the sign and the entrance is now and now to the veil we also changed the children's grotto to magical cave in the sixth book featuring pumpkin pasties cookies face painting sorting hat would sort of be sad if harry died and waldemar is so powerful i don't think he can die others gathered in hopes of obtaining a sense of closure i kind of resisted it for a while because i thought it was a old hale said all of a sudden i wanted to find out about it i'm hoping that this last book will answer some of my questions and then another local story about one hundred thirty thousand square feet of nevada county office space remains very good because some business owners are choosing to set up shop at home downsize to smaller spaces compounding the problem is the construction of new business complexes at a time when all their office spaces remain empty said ricky hack owner of and broker of caldwell banker commercial the one hundred thirty thousand square feet of vacant office space was determined by a third quarter report released this month by caldwell banker commercial the office vacancy rate is eight percent compared to thirteen point four percent in sacramento the report said despite the vacancies building companies have another forty thousand to fifty thousand square feet on the drawing board the office spaces be built now will increase the vacancy rate the demand for office space has decreased over the last few years back added while the demand for a small space by locally owned companies has gone up we believe it's the downturn in the economy has said she blamed stagnant job growth in recent years some offices have been vacant for more than a year and could have been rented if prices were more affordable fordable said scott mackey of the maquis real estate it makes you wonder why people are holding out for higher dollar figures in the last sixty days not in small offices were at least averaging seven hundred fifty to one thousand square feet the growing demand for space is smaller than a thousand square feet is linked to advancing computers that make companies more efficient many small businesses such as consultants and mortgage brokers discover they can save money by working from home the internet has shifted a lot of business to home offices even big companies are getting smaller the telephone company has signed a lease for three one thousand square foot units rather than one large office to make it easier to downsize in the future the lease up time to time takes elise an office has gone from ninety days to four to six months owners of large outdated office spaces will have to think more competitively and provide incentives to attract tenants they will need to be patient because the lease up time will be longer heck added and on july twenty third  twenty six august thirteenth dates and september people in all of california congressional districts will be picking up their phone during two zero two two two four three one two one and asking their congressional representatives to end the war in iraq and bring all the troops home the statewide collinses been organized through a coordinated effort of dozens of peace organizations across the entire state many in northern california california is calling was initiated in the united for peace and august at the office or at the fair just add your comment sign a letter and fax and leave it with them or mail it to pay center's telephone will also be available to make direct calls to congressmen do little and senator boxer and feinstein cell phones will be available for use at the peace enters the county fair it's high time we used voice as citizens all together to end an immoral i'm just an illegal war national weather service has cancelled a far weather watch scattered thunderstorms are expected to cross the tall basin south to model county this afternoon however all storms will be wet with potential to produce some heavy rain and a dry lightning strikes outside just dawn chorus will be limited today therefore the fire weather watch has been canceled the areas involved greater lake tahoe area eldorado nevada sierra and alpine and now the police blotter the pictures in the water are not from actual events but used visual aid only nearby parking lot noise that sounded like hammering coming from inside a neighbor's house contact was made with the resident who was advised to seduce construction at eleven forty nine pm a caller at french avenue and mill street reported a vehicle accident with a bicycle on sunday at twelve thirty nine am calling from the night way and the bar metals road reported a suspicious vehicle parked in the lot with the dome light on an area check found nobody in the vehicle at five forty five a call from heathrow to put a woman at a gas station payphone yelling for help at six or six am a caller from the five hundred block of light road called to report someone had come into our resident last night and taken her check the woman called back to say she had thousand reported a crazy lady was out to get him to man didn't know the address where he was and when he called and said he knocked on the door of a random house and when no one came to the door he let himself in and called for help the man was crying on the  her by yelling and putting signs stating her son is a child molester at five thirty one p m a caller from indian flat road reported suspicious vehicle had been parked in area for a couple of days it appeared people were living in the vehicle the caller said five thirty three p m a person from the fifty thousand block of north bloomfield road called because it was believed campers were shooting on the property as seven or six pm a caller from the fifteen thousand block of washington road put it two females floating down the river who were possibly shot at for trespassing at eleven eleven pm a caller from the eleven thousand block of france struck reported two men fist fighting in the middle of the color spinner women were also involved said he was at the pool right now for a swim meet and the man walked up to the main part of the campus now for the fire blotter these are more serious in nature and the police blotter the grass valley fire department responded to fifty six cause of service from july eleventh through july seventeenth including these responded to as part of a joint operational relationship with nevada count consolidated fire district fire department the following is a small sample of those calls in more detail at seven fifty four p m july twelfth patient was airlifted to roseville trauma center at three fourteen p m july thirteenth f p u responded to nevada you know a school for a football related injury firefighters found football player unconscious after a head on collision with another player emergency personnel immediately requested an air ambulance and secured a back board the patient was transported to a roseville trauma center at eight forty six a nearby vegetation the smoke was caused by extremely hot transmission which fire crews at twelve fifty p m july fourteenth he f f g s have responded to reported commercial structure  found a fast moving grass fire with several structures threatened fire units quickly deployed attack winds on the flanks of the fire while fire air tankers drop retardant at the head of the fire and in front of the threatened structure the fire was held to two acres and no structures were lost or damage because of the fire is under investigation by cal fire and other story out of two weeks very angry and bring the two workers rescued hundreds of people monday as waters wallowed swa central england in the worst flooding to hit the country in sixty years officials said some rivers were still rising with the western section of the rain swollen river thames on the verge of burstein its banks roads and parking lots were submerged trains suspended buses canceled hundreds of thousands of people without electricity or drinking water to farmers saw their summer cry destroyed drenching rains have plagued britain over the past month nearly five inches f on the outskirts of oxford sixty miles west of london about fifty elderly people were evacuated to stadium after retirement community overlooked a small and river walk people looked at me and say i look fine but inside i'm all turned up said sophia williams a sixty nine year old widow among the evacuees the stadium was stocked with blankets food and bedding for up to fifteen hundred people in case the games burst into banks its banks flood defenses in the center of town on the reno on eight hundred year old university were holding so far but the water levels are not expected to peak until midnight the worst hit areas monday were farthest west and the cars were rescued more than one hundred twenty people from the rising floodwaters including eighty seven people trapped in a trailer park in globe chester county central england among the hardest hit areas was medieval market town of barrie one hundred ten miles northwest of london where the cathedral and a few blocks of nearby houses stood like a toll on a vast stretch of muddy water that's to five feet deep in places environmental agency deaths or serious injuries have been reported in the current flooding some burnt trent water companies said at least three hundred and fifty thousand homes in god chester in western england were without water after flooding shut down a water treatment plant the ministry of defense said water was being cleared after flooding out of nucular weapons manufacturing side and burke field about forty miles west of london official said there was no risk of a radiation leak london itself was not affected the city is protected from flooding in the east by the barrier of the world's largest movable flood defenses which closes part of the upper  from the sea to the west london is protected by several flood defense measures including the river is seven mile long diversion channel the western section of the games that officials worry about lies eighty miles from the capital during a tour of go chester region minister gordon brown announced increased funding for flooding caused differences across the country but it's pretty clear that some of the nineteenth century structures  infrastructures and where they are sited is something that will have to review said brown who succeeded tony blair less than a month ago much of britain's infrastructure to the victorian times insurance company said the damage from flooding in june in july could reach hundreds of millions of dollars the british weather was consistent with conditions caused by the weather system which is caused by cooling ocean waters and to extreme weather meteorology office said however if scientists said there is no clear explanation for the unusually long spell of wet weather the situation is looking critical at the moment unfortunately the misery situation match predictions of how global warming warming would affect britain britain had one of the hottest and dr summers on record last year but we think as an extreme event will occur more often than in the past an experience will get even