county expects hears first case to come soon the first human case of west nile virus is in the state this year because the california department of health services to issue a warning on thursday about a county has not report any cases so the virus in birds animals or humans yet this year according to the state and county health departments but it is expected later this summer we usually get our cases in july in august and i figure it will happen again this year s an environmental health specialist for the county just this week there's been an increase in dead birds across california the first human state case was a twenty one year old kern county woman who tested positive for the disease after having classic symptoms that include fever headache and body eight to one was not hospitalized most people become sick with west nile virus do not need hospital care about one in one hundred fifty people infected get extremely ill with migra disorientation disorientation and sometimes coma and death according to the u s centers for disease control and prevention about twenty percent get a harsh flu like illness for several weeks and most show no symptoms at all but the possibility of serious illness has the state asking residents to take caution by dumping out standing water on your property to prevent mosquito breeding using insect repellent with deet in it particularly at dawn and dusk making sure all your windows and door screens are tightly repaired if holes exist so far this year sixty cases have been reporting in the state in fifty seven birds two horses and the aforementioned human case according to the state health department forces are particularly vulnerable to the disease but veterinarians have a vaccine for it if you find a dead bird or a squirrel on your property do not pick it up with your bare hands instead call the nevada county community health service department had two six five one four five zero for instructions also asked a call be made to a tell to apartment at eight seven seven nine sixty two four seven three you can also visit the states west to seventeen point three percent an increase of local doctors this week blamed partly on central valley air pollution to jump and rate means one out of six county kids has asthma dr jeff cain said town hall meeting hosted in grass valley wednesday by the alliance for the post petroleum local economy he cited as ms figures collected in a telephone survey by first five nevada county children squirmed on their mother's laps every seat was filled and more people stood not always as they listened to the discussion of the county's health and air quality cane began researching asthma rates in the county after he became disabled with two years summers ago he said he and other doctors and parents formed save the air in nevada county sta and see six months ago out of frustration regarding high ozone levels caused primarily by vehicle emissions from the sacramento valley blown into the area by winds from the south west proposals for new housing developments such as the fifty one hundred residents you've got highlands project and others and we will put a greater strain on the nevada counties breathing in coming years king said things like ozone cross boundaries the nonprofit group has collected two thousand dollars half the funding needed to buy a portable ozone monitor that would be useful in pinpointing cluster areas of asthma linked to high ozone hotspots said john garvey one of the founding members of s t a n and c it would be take taken to places such as the school's yuba river and other places where people really recreate he said the monitor on the little building and grass valley in another  truckee supplies the ozone readings for the northern syria air quality management district no one is taking a leadership on this garvey said we believe that we have an obligation to take the lead role on this group will take a clean air resolution to grass valley city council july thirty first garvey said members plan to take a similar resolution to nevada city and the county board of supervisors later this summer and members also have contacted senator sam and instead republican in grass valley who hired a lawyer to look into the bringing suit against hunter valley in bay area polluters brothers a barbecue and a bistro fundraiser a goal country community center are you hearing for time before cell phones and annette freeways an era when medicine man came to town to bring fantastic stories and songs that brought tears and laughter to its adoring audiences can make your reservations now for this month's summertime bistro on june twenty second featuring northern california its very own richard gill enjoy a scrumptious barbecue chicken dinner complete with homemade style country potatoes and fresh strawberry cheesecake nationally reno and performer richard gill performs his magical song and dance medicine man show during a dinner that is sure to bring a smile and a tear and a gut busting laugh to his audience now rick from his worldwide tour scheduling american classic many characters captures the imagination of his audience by taking them back in time when our ancestors search for fame and feature born in golden dreams will combines the wisdom and humor of will rogers with the romantic vision of the music man his character and another story vietnamese delegation in the u s to sue chemical companies for ongoing effects of agent orange u s warplanes dumped about eighteen million gallons of agent orange during the vietnam war the vietnam vietnamese government says this has left more than three million people disabled we speak with two vietnamese agent orange victims and their lawyers about how the toxin has affected their lives and why they're suing over three dozen u s chemical companies for manufacturing the and president bush's meeting with vietnamese president now young men to it in washington today is the first visit by vietnamese president to the white house since the vietnam war so far president trips trip has focus largely on trade and human rights but he has expect he is expected to bring an issue today the still lingers from the war the american military's use of agent orange u s warplanes dumped about eighteen million gallons of the poisonous dioxin during the vietnam war the vietnamese government says that this has left more than three million people disabled earlier this week a delegation of vietnamese victims of agent orange traveled to new york where they were suing over three dozen chemical cirrhosis gallstones and bladder stones limbs limb skin ulcer weak legs and limited range of movement again mew wasn't born until after the war ended but he also has been infected by agent orange his father was a farmer who s chemical companies roll ratner coal coordinator of the vietnam agent orange relief and responsibility campaign jonathan moore attorney for the plaintiff an agent or a lawsuit and now here comes the police blotter for june twenty second grass valley police department on wednesday at two twelve p m officers arrested a twenty six year old man on a one thousand block of main street on suspicion of early twenty's one with blonde hair and the other with dark hair in a black hat setting fire to a field officers arrested a twenty five year old man who was on parole on suspicion of false and person nation and a twenty six year old man on suspicion of being drunk in public just so you know most teens picture there's are not of the actual events and that a county sheriff's office wednesday at two forty three a m officers took to twenty five year old man in the wayne brown correctional facility on suspicion of driving under the influence with a blood level higher than point zero eight percent at six twelve a m officers took the forty nine year old trekkie woman into county jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm with the use  great bodily injury or force at ten forty p m a caller from dead man's flat appeared to have been drinking ask for a deputy to patrol the area due to a large number of motorcycles driving at high speed to a no spark arrestors t caller was concerned about possible fire danger at four forty eight pm a caller from flume street who appeared to have been drinking reported several more cycles speeding up and down roadways at fifty miles to sixty miles an hour a roadway at six thirty three p m officers but the thirty seven year old man into the county jail suspicion of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place on thursday at twelve fifty six a m a caller from the rector road reported hearing three gunshots in the area his second caller on cement hill road reported to our more shots fired officers were unable to locate the source of the shots in on the cave where he was believed to have been killed sixty two years ago officials said friday a lead from a private citizen prompted to search for the remains of sergeant william h nost who was killed nine days after filming the flag raising a top it would be in mount suribachi the seven member team the first on the japanese island in six years is also searching for other americans killed in the battle one of the fiercest most symbolic of world war two the team is finding caves that have been cleaned out and some have collapsed said lieutenant colonel mark brown his spokesman for the joint p o w and my accounting office or j p a c the preliminary search team is looking for the remains of many americans as it can find brown told the associated press he said the two hundred fifty of u s service members from the are among the eighty eight thousand missing from world war two would you know was officially taken in march twenty hundred five after thirty one day battle that pitted some one hundred thousand u s troops against twenty one thousand two hundred japanese he turning point in a war with japan some six thousand eight hundred twenty one americans were killed and nearly twenty two thousand injured only one thousand and thirty three japanese survivor motto is intel they are home ground said no man left behind is a promise made to every individual who raises his hand brown said a full team would be sent in if it looks like  photographed the moment want to pose surprise and came to symbolize the pacific war and the struggles a marine to capture the tiny island johnny webb a civilian official with j p s he said could not died nine days later when he was hit by a machine gun fire as he cave he was thirty eight abalos of scranton pennsylvania businessman who provided the lead in a search said he became intrigued with going on just after reading a parade magazine story about him two years ago spending thousands of the military distorts a new for the missing marine how do we leave an american he said in a telephone in a very interview how do we ignore him and leave him in a cable along with other military personnel who are m i a on the island also he gave us a confident we'll be found put everything in place now we have to have him tell us where he is j p a c said search was the first and he would humans since nine hundred forty eight when american grays registration service recovered most u s service members killed during a campaign many of the missing marines were last seen in the chances of recovery recovering there are meant remains are slim but many also were killed in caves or buried by explosions and brown said officials optimistic about finding the remains and other servicemen were looking at several caves we are also looking at a number of service members for other service members including going to cost we have maps dating back to world war two and even g p s location to use his movie camera light to eliminate their way he volunteered to shine the light in a cave and when he did he was killed by enemy fire the cave was cleared after a gunfight and its intrinsic sealed we decided that the only way to determine if his remains were there was to work on the ground webb said we believe his remains may be in there all along with the remains of the japanese separately japan and on monday returned to use in another california story state moves against a troubled l a hospital los angeles state health regulators said thursday they were moving to revoke the license of the hospital where a patient recently died on the emergency room floor w for treatment the california department of health services said in a letter to the los angeles county officials that it was beginning the process to terminate the license for martin luther king jr harbor hospital rather public hospital could not operate without a license the process would take many months in the subject to appeal the move was part of a growing chorus of government agencies targeting the facility which has a long history of providing substandard care in inner city patients sanders shruti director of the state health agency said the goal is to improve the quality of king harbor care not close the facility she said the agency move comes as a response to the gary incident that have come to light in the last six weeks we hope this will be the final rallying cry where the hospital in the county will make that push to improve patient care last month the woman died after rising untreated for forty five minutes the county's health agency stressed that king arbor would continue to operate but this does not mean is that the state is pulling the licensing mutely in the hospital closed off said the federal government has threatened to pull medicare and medicaid funding and an upcoming inspection should you decide decide that matter the county board of supervisors has also sharply criticized health officials about conditions at the hospital and ordered them to come up with a contingency plan should it be closed king harbor has built several years was built several years after nine hundred sixty five watts right to bring the health care to poor minorities in communities in south los angeles today romney calls for a new strategy on terror out of washington republican presidential hopeful mitt romney called for a new course in the fight against terrorists on thursday and in a swipe at democrat john edwards said the war on terror is not a bumper sticker speaking to a conservative group romney argued that there is a real war being waged by violent jihad is the former massachusetts massachusetts governor did not mention edwards by name but there are mark was clearly directed at the democratic presidential candidate who has contended that the war on terror is little more than a bumper sticker slogan romney's speech to the american enterprise institute world forum in beaver creek colorado was closed to the public but his campaign released his prepared remarks he argued that to defeat the global jihad as threat the united states a worldwide strategy in which it works more closely with allies brings more tools of our national powers to bear and tell as different strategies to specific countries potential terrorism hotspots we need more than a change in direction we need a new course all together romney said the integration sustainability and breadth of this war against violent jihad must now take on a new dimension we must move from tactics to strategy he said the country must venture beyond its current phase in the war on terrorism where he argued continued to be reaction to the september eleventh two thousand and one terrorist attacks this time to execute a global strategy for  he said romney also called for the united states to establish the special partnership force made up of army special forces and intelligence personnel to work with foreign governments to root out terrorism from their population their goal is to build national institutions of stability and freedom and to promote the rule of law and human rights he said he proposed to hold proposed holding a summit of nations with the goal of a new type of marshall plan which he dug partnership for prosperity and progress the objective ensuring a threatened islamic states had public schools not wahabi my doctor as micro credit and bank