grass valley television broadcast 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 e mail them to us at the news at j v t v dot org and in today's local now there's several fire engines caretakers and two water dropping helicopters doused the sixty acre moony file fire thursday afternoon which threatened two structures and then valley the fire broke out around two thirty steep terrain off the flat road near joe miller ravine road a little more than a mile west of lake wildwood said spokesman rick jenkins of the california department of forestry and fire protection the fire appeared to be under control at about three forty five p m nearby residents told the union fire officials reported it was contained at four forty five p m no injuries were reported and no one was evacuated while the fire threatened two structures were burned cal fire public information officer gina chamberlain said even so the fargo uncomfortably close to homes west of lake wildwood individual roggio subdivision resident said helicopters dip their band  buckets into lake wildwood to scoop up water or residents stepped outside their homes to get a better look at the billowing smoke pen valley resident thomas nor said it was approaching home so i kept an eye on it no are said at about three fifteen p m with western nevada county drier than usual the destruction of the nearby and dora fire fresh in people's memories will homeowners throughout the area are nervous cal fire dedicated numerous fire engines and air sixty five appeared thursday morning in nevada county superior court to hear charges against him in a crossbow murder of his brother prosser a slight man with his legs changed at the end goals shuffled to the prisoner's gallery and responded yes several times to judge julian mcmanus inquiries that he understands his rights to be to a preliminary hearing and a speedy trial he did not enter a plea not of process family members appeared to be present public defender d lone agreed to take process case an inquest of the arraignment be continued until he has read all the police reports connected to the case mcmanus ruled prosser will continue to be held without bail paul said was arrested tuesday arthur prosser allegedly had blood spattered on his clothes when he arrived when brown correctional facility for questioning he did not give any statement to the police investigator said they had told investigators the brothers had been quar festival prefer to dress up in costumes the more outrageous the better they want shiny they want white jeans spent said jane own sisters consignment boutique in grass valley where locals have been turning out in droves to buy people like to add lingerie to their costumes to give them a character out he said burning man organizers expect more than forty thousand people from all over the world to inhabit a temporary village called black rock city from september twenty seventh to august third ritual the festival moved to the nevada desert in one thousand nine hundred one and that's grown from eight hundred to forty thousand participants during the event people build their own camps create art installations and live in a cashless community burning man organizers and force a leave no trace policy meaning that the owners are expected to carry out everything they bring in including waste water burners as first of all in ten days are called have to be prepared for extreme weather person up is part of the fun of the festival as well as a creative outlet according to the veteran burners people's costumes definitely become a part of the art at burning man blood inside out on the player temperature can range from daytime highs of one hundred degrees to freezing cold at night dust storms gusting winds and darkness add their own challenges to berners wardrobe anything you can do to illuminate yourself including wearing reflective clothing makes you more visible at night smith said pointing out various pieces of glittery and free clothing on a rack in front of a store dedicated to burning man regalia burner jean anderson who has organized a theme camp called a hog says she's going to wear mostly white clothing during the festival but as important as it is to look good she reminds a virgin burner that clothes aren't the only essential oils who also will include a spray bottle with the fan dust mask goggles and lots of water and potassium grass valley blues also has an array of clothing to fit the kitchen as they have been dealing in the eclectic style clothing for over ten years as most people noticed this bizarre assortment of new and used clothing with lots of other things like rock n roll memorabilia and records and tapes and c d s they can really help in a long drive to the desert for burning man thousands of options for music from ron's real records and share their space with grass valley blues right next door to the holbrook hotel and smokers planning to light up nevada city parks needs to go elsewhere since city leaders approved smoke banning callen and park and pioneer parks and borough robinson plaza with a three two vote late wednesday council members narrowly approved a resolution strictly banning smoking in callahan park and borough robinson plaza while allowing smoking in yet to be designated areas of pioneer park council  steve said he didn't support the resolution because it's against his more libertarian nature and it's an enforceable councilwoman barbara kaufman joint control voting against a resolution because she wanted it does designated smoking area for park i think these two small parks are just too small to allow smoking said sally harris referring to cowen and beryl robinson lack in enforcement standards harris said the resolution still have a successful history people tend to self in force harris said pointing to other cities smokefree parks including grass valley hopefully it's fuzzy and kind said jack ward a community service officer at an he's already developed a good relationship with many callen and regulars however if people aren't cooperative he would recommend an ordinance for punishment for violators he added county public health officials and at a county tobacco coalition members supported the m business owners and residents surveyed this summer revealed strong support for the ban according to county officials please smoking people smoking around my building in the plaza area fill my shop said helen j corner of lotus mountain j said she is allergic to smoke and welcome the ban it's also bad for your health it's time for the police blotter in the pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only police department on wednesday at twelve o four p m call from highway forty nine at in a blue el camino the driver had a mullet haircut and officer was advised at two o nine p m a woman called to report her uncle's car was found crashed in empire mine road and she was concerned that he may have been involved in a crash  man on the scooter at one hundred block of south church street battery ran out police plugged to scooter into an electrical outlet and called an ambulance because a man had not taken his medication at nine forty seven pm from the hospital reported a forty six year mentally ill man was scary hare involved in an earlier traffic accident had left the hospital he was off his medication was actively here in force and you said he was not believed to be danger to the public the man's niece and local law enforcement were advi at nine forty nine p m call from west main street reported hearing at least three gun shots from a low caliber gun coming from an area of a church police checked area and were unable to locate anything suspicious and on thursday at three thirty four a m police arrested a forty one year old man in south church street near st suspicion a false representation of identity to a police officer and a warrant at eight fifty nine a m call from two hundred block of sutton where here ya yelling and threats coming from an apartment police took a report for battery then half an hour later arrested a thirty six year old man on suspicion of battery and nevada county sheriff's office on wednesday at twelve with her neighbor the woman said the cable blocking access to the he's meant was cut the neighbors would be in court soon to address the dispute and a restraining order at eight forty three p m call from the convenience store on a twenty nine thousand block of highway forty nine to put it in assault the caller said he was not injured but he did not and he was injured but did not need an ambulance deputy took over the point from the assault  forty nine pm a call from green horn creek area three juveniles were firing their weapons into a river bank and on thursday at eight forty seven a m a man called from the ten thousand block a bit springs road report he was being harassed by a person  that's it for the blotter and now for some around the world news los angeles times reports general peter pace the chair of the joint chiefs of staff is expected to advise president bush to reduce the u s forces in iraq next year by almost half administration and military officials say pace is likely to convey concerns to keeping well in excess of one hundred thousand troops in iraq through two thousand and eight will severely strained the military key republican senators senator urges bush to begin withdrawing troops this comes as a top senate republican is urging president bush to begin withdrawing troops from iraq john warner of virginia said on thursday at least five thousand troops should be brought home by christmas warner said the president needs to send a sharp and clear message to the middle east and voters at home senator john warner stated i think no clearer form of that than if the president were to announce on the fifteenth that in consultation with our senior military commanders he started to initiate the first step and it was draw all of our forces while senator warner urges bush to begin withdrawing troops he argues that it is not the role of congress to mandated meanwhile a new national intelligence assessment on iraq indicates president bush's so called surge has done little to bridge sectarian divides in iraq and that the level of overall violence will remain high over the next six to twelve months the report concludes that the iraqi government will become more precarious during the next year and its security forces still cannot operate independently report also suggests that the bush administration might be undercutting the central government by forming alliances with former sunni insurgents meanwhile the new york times reports the number of iraqis fleeing their homes due to certain sectarian violence has soared since the so called surge began in february the un's international organization for migration found that in recent months the rate of displacement in baghdad had increased by as much as a factor of twenty in other iraq knows a u s military officer is recommending that all charges should be dropped against a marine accused of murdering iraqi civilians including children in the town of lance corporal stephen tatum has been charged with premeditated murder of two girls in it and he collects negligent homicide on suspicion that he awfully killed to kill two men are woman and a boy on thursday investigating officer lieutenant colonel paul where it meditate and had shot and killed civilians but he said the evidence was too weak for a court martial and the bush administration  acknowledged for the first time that telecommunication companies collaborated with government warrantless domestic surveillance program the director of national intelligence mike mcconnell did mission in an interview with the el paso times the washington post reports mcdonald's statement could help plaintiffs in lawsuits against eighteen t the rise in m c i and other telecoms until now the government has argued that the cases should be thrown out on the grounds that the subject matter is a state secret during the same the interview mcconnell urged congress to retroactively provide immunity to telecom companies that participated in the surveillance program the christian science monitor is reporting padilla is suing former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and fifty nine other u s officials for psychologically abusing him while he was held as an enemy combatant from two thousand and two to two thousand and six the lawsuit was filed earlier this year but his lawyers did taken at an airport in west therefore purportedly of sudanese military aircraft and russian made attack helicopters amnesty said continued influx of arms into the region has led to increased attacks and in canada police in quebec have admitted they used undercover police officers to sky's demonstrators during the recent protests against the north american leader summit in montebello call that police were forced to make the mission after the video posted on you tube showed three masked men apparently trying to provoke the crowd and instigate violence one of the mass man was carrying iraq the masked men were caught on tape near a line of riot police during a nonviolent protest led by union workers shortly after one of the union leaders officers on tuesday union leader david coles first accused a masked man of being undercover police officers david cole said he stopped as i looked at him and his eyes and said you're a cop aren't you and his eyes just glaze dried up and i tried to take off his we took it off we got pictures there profiteers the police in quebec defended their actions saying undercover officers were not acting as instigators and did not commit any criminal acts and it has been revealed that the white house published a manual in two thousand and two to detail until now to deter protests at president bush's public appearances to manno urges rally organizers to take a number of the following steps tightly control who gets with protesters from the event the manual also directs the white house advance staff to ask local police to designate a so called protest area where demonstrators can be placed before a bully not in view of the event site or motorcade route the manual was released under subpoena as part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of jeffrey and nicole rank who were arrested in two thousand and four for refusing to cover their anti bush teachers at a fourth of july speech at the west virginia state capitol last week federal government settled the first amendment case for eighty thousand dollars but with no admission of wrongdoing pakistan's supreme court has ruled former prime minister nawaz sharif can return to the country ten years after he was disposed in a military coup led by general pervez musharraf pakistan's current president sure said he intends to return to pakistan in the coming days and contest elections to try to i wished we sheriff from office in news from gaza hamas leader is small how do ya has slammed the bush administration for blacklisting a major gaza charity earlier this month the bank accounts is connected to the siege imposed on our palestinian people on our elected government on one point five million palestinians in the gaza strip this siege is being imposed by local regional and international parties the al salam association is one of the largest islamic charities and the gaza strip and other news from the region a lebanese mine clearing expert was killed in lebanon on thursday by an israeli cluster bomb dropped during last year's war and in news from iran travel ban remained in place on iranian american scholar how long has funday area prevented her from returning to the united states f and area was freed on bail earlier this week after spending three months in an iranian prison but the iranian government was not told has not told her whether it will lift the travel ban or whether it will new passport will be issued along her to return to the united states and the acclaimed american poet short northern ireland and northern ireland man bit his girlfriend's pet snake and a half during a fight remarked that it tasted lovely lawyers testified friday she cooked thirty three year old bricklayer was arraigned in belfast high court on charges of assaultin several hours before the attack and take some training cards and picturing a disgraced n f l superstar absent dog slobber and teeth marks what do you get the most valuable michael vick card so far  as of thursday evening the highest bid on a lot of twenty two cards had risen to four hundred fifty five dollars more than two thousand people have viewed the posting seventy seven people already have bid on the auction which ends sunday the next most expensive cards preserved specimens from his rookie year were going for less than half the price of the nod once if i would have some of his super duper ones they would have been right in the next to stephan said thursday she plans to donate the winning bid money to the mentor society of the bidders choice since very indicted on federal dogfighting charges last month the owner fans have donated jerseys to dog shelters while others have cashed tried to cash in by selling vick's t shirts and chew dog toys i'm not angry towards him my anger is towards anyone who would do this to animals said stephanie a college student an artist who wrote a note accompany her auction to explain its artistic expression i mean no harm to anyone involved with this arch and she wrote think said through a lawyer this week he will plead guilty to federal charge of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of i'm awful activities and conspire and conspiracy to sponsor a dog in an animal fight venture stephens card joined a collection of newly released items for sale tissues are being sold online slogans that say ignore breeds ignorance ignorance breeds ignorance i'm sorry rooter mike vick and con jerseys often accompanied by financial contributions and letters of outrage over the charges those former friends have suggested the vick's jerseys become animal bedding or rags to help scrub up the mess of the dogs leave behind other branches of the humane society have said go take donated vick items to resell on e bay stephan said she hopes to bring more attention to the abuse of animals involved in dog fighting activities the money is donated to local shelters to make this whole idea of selling a car is worthwhile she said by the way the weather is hot today