Transcripts For KTVU 20100716 : vimarsana.com

is in the politics of california. reporter: for months now, executives with the nurses union which have endorsed jerry brown have said that whitman s announced plan to lay off 40,000 state workers and streamline business and labor regulations such as overtime and meal breaks will end up hurting nurses and their patients. this is a mean spirited woman. nurses take care of the most vulnerable. what she s doing is going after the most vulnerable. reporter: whitman wasn t home today she was campaigning in southern california. reporter: you support meg whitman. from the beginning. i think it s very unfair to target meg whitman and say because she said 40,000 jobs will be lost that that means the whole state. she s not paying nurse, and our state needs to cut back spending. reporter: lately meg whitman has started fighting back. analysts say it appears whitman is trying to turn union members against their leaders. political editor, randy shandobil. democratic senator barbara boxer appears to have a significant campaign fund lead. the most current figures for boxer show that back in may she reported having more than $11 million in cash on hand. a lot of boxer s money has come from fundraisers features president obama and vice president joe biden. boxer says she expects to spend more than $40,000 to retain her senate seat. coalition of health care advocates and patients in oakland today called on the governor to stop cutting vital services for the sick and disabled. the protesters rallied today outside the california state building. michelle rousy who suffers from arthritis, asthma and bone disease attended the protest in her wheelchair. she says the elderly and disabled are in danger of losing valuable services such as inhome care. inhome support services, they are talking about cutting it 50% or eliminating it at one time this year. if any one of them is cut, it will put me in a position of having to go to a nursing home. the demonstrators argued that california should levy a new extraction fee on oil companies to help pay for the measure. a federal judge in phoenix today put off any decision on whether to block arizona tough any immigration law. salgado is suing because he says he is not trained to enforce it. the law is set to take effect july 29. it is possible she will not rule until after the law has taken effect in two weeks. all right, well finally it s my kind of weather out there. really nice. pretty warm out there. let s check in with our chief meteorologist bill martin. bill, it was indeed warm out there. definitely warm, actually hot inland. temperatures near 100 degrees to 99 degrees in livermore preliminary reports. high temperatures today were warmer than yesterday by a solid five to 10 degrees in some neighborhoods. in some areas, fog a player. the cell looks a little ripped up right now. it s not picking up everything, but we do have a little bit of clearing out here near lands end. we have some clearing at the golden gate bridge. temperatures in downtown san francisco in the mid-70s right now. you head out to the outer regions out to livermore 99, 97 in concord. 77 at oakland, i m going to stick you in the buoys here and you might say, why do you do that. why do you want to put the buoys in, maybe you didn t say that. but i want to show you that the cooling winds at 70 miles per hour. the cool air is going to try to make a venture in tonight. northwest wind is going basically this way, okay. so that cool air coming off the ocean is going to try to infiltrate tonight. will it get there? no. temperatures tomorrow going to be warmer, that wind will blow, it ll cool us off along the bay tonight but temperatures tomorrow are going to be very hot inland. the coast is going to stay cool, very dense fog at times, you saw it this morning. more fog tonight comes back in, and then it stays right at the coast as it did this morning. if you are inland out at livermore, your overnight low tonight may be in the 60s. around the coast it ll be in the mid- to upper 50s in pacifica and in san francisco. i ll have the details for your forecast, it s going to be hot inland for the next couple of days. i ll have the details, i ll see you back here in a few minutes. a new turn tonight in the investigation of two football players arrested. the american people will no longer be asked to flip the bill for wall street s mistakes. a new bill is in place for wall street s crack down. so what does it mean for you. and a giant step in one country in the battle for same- sex marriage. and putting a face to the violence, we ve obtained pictures of the people police say are responsible for last week s violent riots. plus, find out how you can tell if your seafood is contaminated. a northern california university is showing us how they are testing and protecting the nation s seafood, tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. ñ