in today's local news murder and firearm charges against the better union high school graduates william and nicole porter have been dropped to union confirmed wednesday afternoon extensive three month investigation in the san diego district attorney's office could show there was enough evidence to bring a case to trial officials there said our investigation led us to the conclusion that we could not prove charges beyond a reasonable doubt deputy district attorney elizabeth new clutch she said cole porter's father larry nicholson nevada city and his secretary for the porter's lawyer in san diego confirmed the dismissal wednesday afternoon to tourney said this was a perfect case of self defense nicholson said that's why we tried to tell them that's what we tried to tell them all along for the porters to night there is over we're so relieved right now it's finally resolved we knew we were in the right said nicole or nicky porter nicholson said of his daughter and son in law it's a large burden off our shoulders throughout the ordeal the support from the vatican county in the form of letters and church prayers was overwhelming nicky porter said it's really been great to have the support of our hometown she added william will porter was charged with second degree murder and his wife nicky porter was charged with assault with a semi automatic car on after aug third shooting deaths of larry king forty seven years old at their san diego apartment complex the porters both twenty two were in their apartment when king banged on their door during a domestic argument a neighbor woman he was arguing with said found shelter in the porter's nearby apartments apartment according to the san diego police porter's pursuit king outside was handguns will party allegedly shot killing several times and nikki porter allegedly shot and it came from a balcony nobody expects this kind of stuff to happen everything happened so quickly nikki porter's to produce friends and family members said the couple were simply defending themselves from potentially violent attack susan porter wells mother said wednesday that now that the ordeal was over we were happy the kids could go on with their lives will porter's served three tours of duty in iraq with the marines and left the services of sergeant wednesday by placer county coroner as paul warm worn kicked fifty years old of grass valley calls of markets death however won't be known for at least several more weeks investigators said police officers found more kids at the corner of road road avenue in idaho maryland road at twelve thirty a m on november first walking aimlessly with severe head injuries he was taken to sierra nevada memorial hospital then transferred to sorta roseville medical center where he died at four p m on friday markets relatives said wednesday they believe he was attacked and beaten by an unknown person or group of people how we night can carlie markets ex wife had gone to dinner with him that night he had been drinking heavily and he had gotten out of his car after she pulled over she said gotten out of the car i saw him get out and she said the last time i saw him he and his brain was damaged on all sides he had a black eye this was a brutal beating carly said her ex husband had no enemies and he was a kind kind soul he was the kindest so on the planet we're all still waiting for the coroner's report grass valley police captain rex marsh said we could speculate on the cause of death that does point but that doesn't get you the real answer wendy ball the assistant to the placer county chief deputy coroner daughter three brothers and two ex wives according to his  executive director fire city council there are so many areas of the county that need treatment members of the council far consultants and local fire officials from various agencies will be on hand at a public meeting from six to eight p m today in the grass valley city council chambers officials began collecting data for the community wildlife protection plan five months ago in response to a federal request to all counties to prioritize fire safety projects to counties that come up with the plan and will get federal money to pay for the work dream and say that account is planned is expected to be complete by january those who attend the meeting will get an overview of what kind of data agencies have collected so far of particular hazards such as fire history in certain areas and ignition sources in the past projects were driven by neighborhood complaints rather than scientific data and hundreds of applications from a single county would be filed annually for federal assistance everyone has a fire problem and they were all applying for the same pot of money drumming said the council has hired a consultant from rancho cordova to work with group became incorporated in one nine hundred ninety eight and is funded by a variety of sources including the county the barrel of land management the california department of forestry and fire protection air quality boards and temper groups t council's plan is separate from the nevada county fire plan but there will be included in the county document as an appendix it's nice to have those things two things folded together drummond added and there you have it for today's in the world news headlines today over seven hundred supporters of beautiful detained in pakistan taliban launches of their own in west pakistan president bush defends world war three comments about  shot dead three gardener raqi news outlet in february f b i monitored sales of middle eastern grocery stores former child soldier heads to military commissions at guantanamo and now for our world news in pakistan more than seven hundred members of the former prime minister benazir bhutto's party were reportedly detained overnight to rest came hours after b to announce plans to hold a huge rally against general  decision to declare martial law she said today we're going to head with a protest a peaceful protest and we're going to head with another protest on the nights but if the government wants a political solution we asked the government then we asked general mushar to come on television and announce that he is reviving the constitution he will keep his commitment to his chief of army staff and that elections will be held as scheduled in committed to us on or before november fifteenth to be completed by january fifteen us officials have been in close contact with pakistani government for days admiral william fallon commander of the u s central command met with new sharp just before martial law was declared on capitol hill wednesday john n urged congress not to cut off aid to pakistan which he described as indispensable ally in the war on terrorism earlier today the state television in pakistan quoted general musharraf as saying that pakistan will hold elections before february fift meanwhile a few times reported taliban has launched a coup of their own in pakistan area of pashtoon the taliban to seize control of several villages and towns in the swat valley which are only four hours drive from is known by the taliban was able to seize down without a single bullet being fired for four pakistani security forces simply surrendered their weapons president bush is defending his recent cannot comment suggests you know iran's nuclear ambitions might trigger a world war given in an interview on german t v if he was serious or bodies were three remarks and he said absolutely serious i said if you want to avoid world war three i didn't say on for world war three three and i said that is because this is a country that has defied their eyes in other words didn't disclose all their programs have said they want to destroy israel if you want to see world war three you know a way to do that is to attack israel what's a nuclear weapon and so i said now is the time to move on wednesday president bush discussed the iran situation with french president nicolas sarkozy at the white house after the meetings there ghazi held a joint news conference with president bush and said  repeated all he praised bush's ministration and vowed to take a hard line stance on iran and he also said it is unacceptable acceptable that iran should have in any point a nuclear weapon but iran is entitled to energy of the future w telecom companies immunity from lawsuits over their role in the government's domestic spying operations last year klein leaked internal eighteen thousand documents that reveal they set up a secret room in san francisco office to give the national security agency access to his barber optic internet cables he also said they were copying everything flowing across the internet cables in the major internet links between eighteen t s network and companies networks and its struck me at the time that this is massively unconstitutional illegal operation that affects not only eight hundred customers but everybody because these leaks went to places like sprint west a whole bunch of other companies and so they basically tapped into the entire internet a nice and other news from capitol hill backers of the bill to impeach vice president cheney say the effort is still alive on tuesday congressman and presidential contender dennis kucinich newly forced the poor house to vote on impeachment nature but the committee including the chair congressman john conyers initially be did was kissin h on the impeachment bill meanwhile the house has approved a bill to ban employment discrimination against gay man lesbians and bisexuals supporters of the employment nondiscrimination act praised the bill as the most important civil rights legislation since the americans with disabilities act of one thousand nine hundred ninety the bill was passed by a two hundred thirty five to one eighty four vote senator edward kennedy said he would introduce a similar nature in the senate no questions are being raised about the actions of the private military company blackwater in iraq the words you posted reported blackwater forces shot bits regards working for the state funded iraqi media network last heard more forces from blackwater opened fire from the roof of an iraqi justice ministry and iraqi police report described the shooting as an act of terrorism the police concluded the blackwater opened fire without any provocation but the u s government concluded that the actions of the blackwater guards fell within approved rules governing the use of force iraqi media network sought to sue blackwater in the iraqi court but an iraqi judge rejected the petition said in a two thousand and four law signed by l of middle eastern foods could lead to iranian secret agents died there was that a spike in say falafel sales combined with other data would lead to iranian agents in the region the program was the brainchild of the topic  canadian citizen who has been held at guantanamo since there was fifteen years old will appear before a military commission hearing today omar could are is the first prisoner in guantanamo to be arraigned since the military appeals court found that they have the right to assign a label unlawful on the floor kill you as today's reported number of hate crimes prosecuted by the justice department has plummeted in recent years last year the department charged twenty two people with hate crimes that's down seventy one percent from seventy six hundred seventy on saturday protesters march in charleston west virginia to criticize the justice department for not finally finding hate crimes charges in the cases of megan williams the african american woman who was tortured and held hostage for by six white suspects earlier this year in campaign news christian broadcaster pat robertson has backed former news york mayor rudolph giuliani to beat president robertson's indorsement surprizes some analysts days after the nine one one adage that we had a lot of time coming back from israel to talk about our understanding of how important israel is to the united states how important they are to the whole effort that we're involved in in the terrorists against  campaign is that the new york times is reporting federal prosecutors will ask a grand jury today to indict one of giuliani's close friends and business partners former new york police commissioner bernard kerik charges include tax fr corruption conspiracy counts the united nations has issued a grave warning about the humanitarian situation in somalia over ten months after the u s backed these european invasion urkel roche un humanitarian coordinator said the humanitarian crisis is very bad it is the very the worst humanitarian crisis we have had in the last fifteen years reminds us of beginning of the nile you so it's not very good news we had a few months ago four hundred fifty thousand people that were displaced because of the conflict and the natural disasters today we have eight hundred and fifty thousand people so we have more than doubled the number of displaced people we have in somalia nearly ninety thousand people have fled the capital mogadishu since violence increased last week he's hoping troops continue to pour into the country to combat islamic militants in business news the highly popular awkward toys have been pulled from the u s an australian was notified three eleven pm an officer contacted a woman in a possible stolen car in a three hundred block of east main street police arrested thirty eight year old woman on suspicion of course at three fifteen p m a call from dorsey drive reported to signal  blotter today and now for our weather some morning fog then mostly sunny today