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Andrea Parker speaks at :04)....They're still upstairs arguing witnesses and who's going to be allowed to testify..... Andrea Parker speaks at :15)....cross examination of Special Agent Joel Willis (FBI). Marchese (defense lawyer) got up there and put out that Eric (defendant Eric Parker) doesn't have his "III Percent of Idaho" tattoo at the time of the Bundy Ranch...... (WARNING: SOME PROFANITY GETS INTO THIS VIDEO AS ANDREA PARKER BECOMES INCREDULOUS AT 10 MINUTES INTO THE VIDEO WHEN FBI GUY WILLIS SAYS HE DIDN'T USE GPS TO HELP COORDINATE HIS VISUAL EVIDENCE AGAINST THE DEFENDANTS BECAUSE IT WASN'T AVAILABLE TO HIM)

Anthem just announced it will back out of Nevada's Obamacare exchange for 2018. A major insurance provider just announced it will back out of Nevada's Obamacare exchange for 2018. Anthem said in a statement Monday it was leaving Nevada's exchange because "planning and pricing for ACA-compliant health plans has become increasingly difficult due to a shrinking and deteriorating individual market, as well as continual changes and uncertainty in federal operations, rules and guidance, including cost sharing reduction subsidies and the restoration of taxes on fully insured coverage." The company had previously backed out of 14 rural counties in the Silver...

Perennial candidate Danny Tarkanian will challenge Sen. Dean Heller in Nevada's 2018 GOP primary, in the hopes of capitalizing on the incumbent's public clashes with President Trump. Tarkanian issued a statement Tuesday aligning himself with Trump and promising to stick with the president if he is elected next year. "I am a conservative Republican who supports the policies of President Trump to repeal Obamacare and end illegal immigration. I will continue to support President Trump's policies that have led to a 20 percent increase in the stock market in just six months. I will join Senator Lee, Senator Cruz, and...

Andrea Parker (at :18):..... today we had agent, Special Agent Willis (FBI) back on the stand. He is the case agent in charge. He enters all of his mini photos of videos, photos of video they haven't even seen yet. Photos from 8 News Now (KLAS-TV), Las Vegas Review-Journal, from Citizens Action Network, all of these different places. Many of the same photo in different angles. Lots of photos of Eric (defendant Eric Parker) prone on the bridge, photos of Drexler (defendant Scott Drexler) prone on the bridge, Facebook posts from Todd Engel (convicted in 1st trial), Facebook video from...

A female employee at Fremont Middle School in Las Vegas died of tuberculosis in mid-July after potentially exposing more than 100 people to the highly contagious disease, school and public health officials said Monday. Ann Schiller, the school’s principal, sent a phone message to parents on July 11 saying that “an individual at our school” had recently been diagnosed with an active case of tuberculosis. It said that public health officials would contact families “within the next few days” if their kids needed to be tested. Lynn Row, the chief nurse for the Clark County School District, said she could...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) - Nevada Insurance Commissioner Barbara Richardson issued the following statement in response to a request by Anthem under Nevada Revised Statute 679B.190(5)(b) regarding Anthem’s announcement that it will be withdrawing plans from Nevada’s Exchange in 2018: “On July 28, 2017, Anthem submitted a Notice of Intent to withdraw from the Silver State Exchange for Plan Year 2018. As such, Anthem will no longer have a presence in Nevada’s individual health market with the exception of catastrophic plans which can only be purchased off the Exchange throughout the state. These plans restrict availability to consumers under 30...

Andrea Parker speaks at :20).......Leaventhal (defense lawyer) motion for a mistrial at the end of the day yesterday. Andrea Parker speaks at :30)...The government clearly itended, intends to put the mindset of the defendants on trial here for the 12th (April 12, 2014 standoff). That's what they doing going back to all these Facebook posts......

John Lamb speaks at :20)....a few interesting things that happened right at the end of the day. We pretty much all day today, all we did was look at Facebook posts of a ton of people. A lot of these Facebook posts had nothing to do with the four defendants up here. We talked about Sugar Pine Mine today, we talked about the Big Sky Operation in Montana and the mine there. There was so much brought up today towards the end and lot of things that we so biased that should not have been brought up that was objected...

Andrea Parker speaks at :42)....jury question, question for Special Agent Willis, once again this is the special agent in charge of the whole case. He sits in the courtroom and then goes up to testify. He's been there the entire time..... Andrea Parker at 1:02)...Did the gap given with the flyover have an effect on your timeline? Once again this gentleman is taking pictures off the internet, pictures off of media sources and giving them a time based on other pictures, media, metadata and the flyover. He says 'No' it only affected when the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) was...

(John Lamb speaks at :26)....Things that have happened today have just been jaw dropping. Hard to comprehend all this stuff. Being here is the only way that you can actually get all this in and just understand this tyranny and this crookedness going on in this court. (John Lamb speaks at 2:18) ...One of the jurors brought to the judges attention in a note that she had received a text message today from a friend. And this text message she had received....says 'you have two hours more to pass a death sentence on these defendants'.....Juror Number One, she received a...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visited Bunkerville, Nevada over the weekend and spoke with reporters of his support for the national monuments. In April, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary to review all monuments since 1996 that included more than 100,000 acres. Zinke visited the Gold Butte and Basin and Range National Monuments as part of his review. Zinke told reporters that he is an advocate for monuments. “I am an advocate for public access,” he said. Zinke also said that he is in favor of the traditional uses, specifically citing ‘ranching’ as a part of the culture...

Andrea Parker speaking at :15)......Its amazing the support we are having......We had a rancher from New Mexico come down. She said how important it was for her to be down here and for ranchers to support other ranchers. We had another gentlemen from San Francisco come down here with his children.....Seeing and meeting all these people who have come from all over the country to stand with us has been inspiring to me...... Andrea Parker speaking at 1:17) Ranger Alexandra Burke was here as well as Swanson. They were the "victims" (Bunkerville 2014) in the courtroom. Alexandra Burke had a...

Andrea Parker speaking at :14)...Went to Greg Burleson's sentencing hearing. This is...he was convicted of Count Five, assault on a federal officer, Count Six is a 924C....

<p>CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A Nevada judge has denied a request from a group of alcohol distributors to stop the recently approved emergency regulations that allow the state to license some retailers to transport pot from growers to storefronts.</p>

Andrea Parker (at :12)...He is a Park Service employee that was driving from Las Vegas. He was on a vacation...He was driving on the road when this happened. He stopped. He took pictures of people on the bridge. Andrea Parker (at 1:00)...we find out in the courtroom that it does not have to be a law enforcement to see and perceive a threat for it to be a crime so they're using this gentleman as a person who sees Eric Parker pointing his weapon and saying that he is the one that perceives this crime and him perceiving that crime...

Andrea Parker (at :09)...we were supposed to go into cross examination of Alex Ellis. He apparently checked into the urgent care.....it looks like we'll be waiting until Monday to get the cross examination... (at :33)...Terry Petry, he's an attorney with the DNR. He handles environmental litigation....really boring day, jurors falling asleep.... (at :49)....They bring up all the court orders.... (at 1:00)... Some jury questions. Why was there such a large gap in time between court orders?.... (at 1:30) Did Bundy continue filing from 99 to 2012? The answer was yes. Were the legal proceedings between Cliven and the government? Yes....

Andrea Parker at 8 seconds-..." day three of the retrial of the four men....Eric Parker, Steven Stewart, Scott Drexler and Ricky Lovelien...." Andrea Parker at 48 seconds-...." what we're seeing inside the only way these guys are going to get out is with a presidential pardon or a dismissal of the case. What we're seeing inside is there's another possible hung jury, but we're not allowed to enter our evidence and we're really constricted as to what we can talk about.....

Andrea Parker speaks at 25 seconds-...I was talking about the vet that's in the wheelchair that they are making get out of the wheelchair and making him walk unassisted through the metal detector upstairs...I watched him after lunch going though the metal detector and he you know he reached out to hold himself up on the side of it and the guy was kind of yelling at him like 'try to do it without touching the sides'. The guy can't make it through......

A break-in happened Saturday morning at the Las Vegas office of Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller, Las Vegas’ CBS News affiliate reported. A threatening note against Heller was also left behind, a source claims. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed it is investigating the incident at Heller’s office on W. Sunset and told reporters there was no evidence of damage. Heller’s office would not comment on the break-in, saying, “We can’t comment on/discuss ongoing investigations.” Metro police spokesman confirms a break in at campaign office of Sen. Dean Heller. Some sort of threat was made as well. — George...

I never get used to it even though it happens every year – raging wildfires across towns, counties and states. City people cannot fully appreciate the horror of such fires, but those of us who live in areas where wild nature is part of the daily landscape know how devastating and dangerous such conflagrations are. I know it firsthand. While covering a fire as a reporter in the Malibu hills with a news camera crew, we were on a hilltop with the firefighters when suddenly the fire turned and jumped the canyon, right over us. We were surrounded, isolated and...