. >>> firefighters believe an electric ceiling fan caused the fire at john lucas ranch. the damage including the roof and some office furniture is estimated at $25,000. >>> the california legislature passed two bills today that extends the access for clean air vehicles. >> we want to continue to incentivize the vehicle makers. >> both bills now face one procedural vote before they head to the governor's desk. >>> a day today a lot like yesterday. tomorrow looks like today. except maybe a little warmer in a couple of places. here are the numbers for today. livermore at 87. a couple of degrees maybe down a degree. it's going to be very similar to what we saw today. then temperatures turn around as this low pressure center exits town. the cooler bay area holiday weekend. if it stays there this whole week will stay cool. and it's going to move off so that high pressure will replace it. when high pressure replaces it. it's going to start to sink. the fog is going to become minimized at the coast. and low 80s in the inland bay valleys, upper 90s as we head into the bay area we

although, frank lucas, the chairman of the house agriculture committee, says in the end on the food stamps, it's going to have to be an agreement between president obama, house speaker john boehner, and senate majority leader harry reid. they're going to have to decide on a number and that's what the rest of the congress will accept. host: overarching issues of the day such as the debt ceiling and everything else, could this affect negotiations between those three men? guest: well, it certainly -- it certainly could. because if they're looking for cuts, if they're looking for money to save, then it's possible that they -- that they would look to the farm bill for part of those cuts. but it's also possible that the farm bill could be attached to one of these pieces of legislation and that would make it easier to get it through congress. host: 40 -- i'm sorry, $74.6 billion when it comes to the snap program, as it's called, food stamps as it's commonly called, about 46.6 million people on it, about 22 million households. the average benefit per person, $133. per household, $278. jerry hagstrom, that figure today, how does it vary from years past in terms of the amount of m