the good thing you're watching t v and say me and today's local headlines body found in american river and monster pot grows on public lands tied to drug gangs and record turnout for red light all free frozen yogurt at new penn valley business but before these stories t v t v news would like to thank one of our  autopsy and dental record comparison late yesterday and the man's identity should be released by tuesday pending notification of next of kin now over the sequoia national forest a story not far from yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of california's redwood forest mexican drug gangs are quietly common commandeering u s public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggling immigrants to cultivate them pot has been grown on public lands for decades but mexican traffickers have taken it to a whole new level using armed guards and trip wires to safeguard sprawling plots that in some cases contain tens of thousands of plants offering potential yield of more than thirty tons of pot in year just like the mecca of mexicans took over the methamphetamine trade they've gone to make a monster garden said brentwood a supervisor for the california department of justice barrow of narcotics and foresman he said mexican traffickers have super sized the marijuana trade interviews conducted by the search at a press with law enforcement officials across the country show that mexican gangs are a lot of play responsible for a spike in large scale marijuana farms over the last several years local and state and federal agents found about a million more pot plants each year between two thousand and four and two thousand and eight studies say an estimated seventy five percent of ninety percent of the new marijuana farms can be linked to mexican gangs two thousand and eight alone according to drug enforcement administration police across the country confiscated or destroyed six points seven point six million plants from about twenty thousand outdoor plots growing marijuana in the u s saves traffickers the risk and expense of smuggling the product across the border allow banks to produce crops closer to local markets distribute it also becomes less west risky once marijuana is harvested and drive on the hidden farms drug gangs can drive it to major cities where it's just riveted to street dealers so long with pot that was grown in mexico but the only risk to mexican growers experts say is that it's very hard a car or hunter could stumble onto a hidden field there and all plots are nestled under the cover of sick forest canopy in places such as sequoia national park or hidden high in a rugged yet fertile sierra nevada mountains others are secretly planted in remote stretches of texas ranch land all of the sights are too far from the eyes of law enforcement where growers can take the time needed to go far more potent marijuana farmers in these fields use illegal fertilizers to help the plants along and use clone female plants to reduce the amount of seeds in the blood that has dried in eventually sold mexican gang plots can often be distinguished from those and domestic based growers who use cultivate much smaller fields with perhaps one hundred plants and no security measures some of the fields tied to the drug gangs have as many as seventy five thousand plants each which can yield at least a pound of pot annually according to federal data review by the associated press sequoia national forest in central california is covered in patchwork of pot fields of most of which are hidden along mountain creeks and streams far from hiking trails it's the same situation in nearby yosemite sequoia and redwood national parks even if they had the manpower to police the vast wilderness authorities say terrain and weather conditions often keep them from finding the farms except accidentally many of the plots are encircled was crude explosives and our patrolled by guards on with a k forty to slap them on their plants but many of them now have campsites up to a mile away equipped with separate living and cooking areas it's amazing how they have changed the way they do business wood said it's their domain drug gangs have also imported marijuana experts  unskilled labor to help find the best landing and build irrigation systems morrisey mesa barat hot had just arrived in eastern washington state from the mexican state of mo chocked and when he was approached to work in a he was taken almost immediately to a massive crop didn't know where that's the national forest where he manages the watering of the plants he was arrested in two thousand and eight in a raid and sentenced to more than six years in federal prison several other men wearing camouflage fled before police could stop them i thought it would be easy he told it so she'd press in a jailhouse interview i didn't think it would be a big crime stewart said recruiters look for people who still have families in mexico so they can use them as leverage to keep the farmers working and to keep them quiet if the san jose from the hometown and jose rips them off they're going to go after jose's family stewart said it's big money when the harvest is complete investigators say pot farm workers haul the product in garbage bags to drop off points that are usually the same places where they get resupplied with food and fuel agents routinely find the discarded remnants of the camp live when they discover marijuana fields it's not uncommon to discover pots and pans playing cards and books half eaten bags of food and empty beer cans and liquor bottles but the growers leave more than looters who worry about they often use animal poisons that can pollute mountain streams groundwater is meant for legitimate farmers and ranchers because the tree can often take aim at law enforcement before agents ever see them they know the terrain better than we do said lieutenant rick co a drug investigator with the sheriff's office in fresno california before we even see them they can shoot us and wisconsin the number of countless gated plants group six fold between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight to more than thirty two thousand found in two thousand and eight wisconsin agents used to find a few dozen marijuana plants and national forest lands now they discover hundreds or even thousands if we are getting forty to fifty percent of field so i think we're doing well said miss you can state police first lieutenant dave hall toma i don't really think we are close to fifty percent we don't have the resources vast amounts of pot are still some are going into the u s and mexico federal officials reported nearly daily hauls of several hundred to several thousand pounds seized along the border but drug agents say the boom in domestic growing is a sign of diverse of their specific job when asked who hired them mehsud reportedly told the associated reporter i can't tell you washington state patrol to tenet which are wily so hard and either do not know who the boss is who are too frightened to give details they're fearful  happen to them if they snitch on these coyote people while they told the recruiters and smugglers who bring the marijuana farmers end of the us that's organized crime and in a different fashion there's nothing to gain from talking but there's a lot to lose and daughter team she really grizzle and crystal march and then i hope i pronounced it right are handing out free frozen yogurt at to celebrate the opening of their new business crazy for yogurt isn't gateway shopping center in pleasant valley road in penn valley across the chevron station the lake wildwood residents will be giving away for a while this was four to seven yesterday if you happen to go by there and get some we just turned we just turned on opens on a few minutes ago said mom g and sad and a few minutes after two p m they're already wondered what their if they were going to run out a good problem to have a daughter march next said a good problem to have their hours will be eleven a m to eight p m monday through tuesday eleven a m to nine p m friday saturday twelve to six p m sunday there at one zero one three six commercial avenue as you had north of pleasant valley road from highway twenty commercial is the first right the shopping center is on the left the team is planning to grand opening march thirteenth and that's it today for our asking for aspirin or money to buy aspirin five forty seven p m a man called from the gas station on main street to report an elderly man in the store with to get gas and was dressed in his pajamas he told the tenant is planning to drive himself to los angeles six twenty nine p woman from five hundred block of penstock drive to report sewage from her neighbor's house was running onto our lawn and saturday twelve twenty two a m a man entered a police station lobby asking to turn himself in his friend said the man had been drinking and would men called through in a block a certain way to report a group of four juvenile boys were missing with his car banging on doors and then running away and running amok in the neighborhood and sunday twelve twenty three am a woman from brunswick road off ramp on highway forty nine pm a man called him twelve thousand block of cork regrow to report a dog was chasing his lifestyle and i won forty nine pm a man from you bet road reported a woman and her child were living in a tent in the area and for a while pm a woman from ten thousand block of shooting for the day ten thirty five pm a gas station attendant ten thousand block of pleasant valley road reported called to report given i was trying to pass off an expired arizona driver's license while trying to buy alcohol eleven thirty nine p m a man called  seventeen thousand block green road report his girlfriend hit him in the face with a toaster saturday two forty four p m a man called from sixteen thousand block of trails in road to report a man was sitting in the driveway of a vacant house drinking and two forty six p m a woman from ten thousand block of logue lane called to reports she saw three men trying to steal tires from the property as she confronted the trio with a knife and forced them to put the tires back eight thirty eight p m woman called from report man had broken into his home the resin hit the man with a baseball bat causing him to leave about a city police department on friday six fifty six p m a man called him to want to block a commercial street when a man was asked to leave a business on the street return to the front window and was in today's first headline news story over seven hundred killed in the eight point eight magnitude earthquake in chile u s begins planning for assault on kandahar and obama signs extension of the patriot act and documents reveal pentagon spied on pla hundred and is expected to rise as many as two million people have been left homeless eight point eight magnitude quake is one of the strongest in recorded history more than five hundred thousand homes were destroyed and heavily or heavily damaged rescue workers are searching for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings but it's a series of strong aftershocks have hampered the rescue efforts quick cost widespread damage to hospitals schools roads and other infrastructure fishel said adobe homes have been the most affected and that indigenous populations are most at risk a tsunami triggered by the earthquake caused additional damage and some salt southern areas of chile the earthquake kit less than two weeks before chilean president made shell that's what leaves office on sunday she announced a series of emergency majors chilean president shall said we are facing a massive catastrophe which has caused damages it will require an enormous effort by both the public and private sectors one of the largest efforts in the history of the country this effort will be required both for now and for a period into the future where face an emergency obama has signed a one year extension of several provisions in the patriot act after the senate abandoned efforts to reform the controversial law privacy groups had urged the senate to rewrite section two fifteen of the bill which allows the government to secretly access a wide range of private business records without warrant but senate democrats failed to muster enough votes to rewrite the law another contested provision that remains in the law allows the government to secretly wiretap persons without any connection to terrorist or spies under the so called lone wolf pro released pentagon documents reveal the u s military monitored planned parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government's security preparations for the two thousand and two olympics in utah the documents also reveal the military intelligence spied on the anti war group alaskans for peace and justice in two thousand and five other documents close military illegally intercepted civilian cell phone conversations april two thousand and seven during an exercise in fort polk in louisiana the documents were obtained by the electronic frontier foundation and senate banking committee chair christopher dodd has a band in efforts to create an independent consumer financial protection agency president obama has proposed created an agency to protect consumers against abuses in mortgages credit cards and other forms of lending in its place  expected to propose the creation of a borough of finance protection inside the treasury department does a proposed burwell have far less power and would not be allowed to enforce rules on banks was less than ten billion in holdings or enforce rules against non bank financial operations such as pay day lenders god's decision is seen as a victory for republicans and many business groups who have campaigned against forming a new agency to protect consumers unemployment benefits ended on sunday for hundreds of thousands of americans with sen republicans prevented a vote last week to fund extended benefits for people who have exhausted the basic twenty six weeks of coverage senate vote was blocked by filibuster by kentucky republican jim bunning meanwhile in the house the democratic leadership is struggling to get enough votes to pass a fifteen billion dollars jobs bill many progressive democrats have criticized the legislation for focusing too much on tax breaks that will do little to create jobs congresswoman lynn woosley a co chair of the house progressive caucus said that it's not a job but for us to call it that and then think we're accomplishing something is a mistake and in new york governor david paterson withdrew from the state governor's race on friday after being battered by questions of impropriety for his role in domestic abuse involving one of his top aides he said today i'm announcing that i'm ending my campaign for the governor of the state of new york it has become crystal clear to me in the last few days that i cannot run for an office and try to manage the state's business at the same time and right now new york needs a leader who can devote full time to his services to near townsville last week to governor paterson spoke with a woman who had accused the governor's top aide of assault after speaking with the governor the woman failed to appear in court and her case was dismissed a hotel room to buy as police chief said he is ninety nine percent certain israelis will saad intelligence agency is behind the killing united states general assembly approved a resolution friday calling for israel and palestine to urban areas palestinian authority permanently observed server to the united nations right had months or criticized israel and called the action acting above the law israel's inflicted untold suffering and devastation on the palestinian people that has oppressed for over four decades and occupied palestinian territory including east jerusalem has its course gravely undermined the applicability and credibility of international law is hard time to end it reverse this discretion obscene pattern of behavior by israel and begin with ensuring accountability for punishing those responsible for perpetrating the war crimes against innocent civilians and ensuring justice for the many victims of those crimes and that's it for the world news today if you t v news would like to thank the union amy goodman associated press and reuters for the source number news and you for watching it that's right it's time for the police blotter the pictures in the blotter not from these actual