. >>> coming up, the state budget, why it's late and more with john myers of kqed. stay with us. ,,,,,, as of tonight - that budget is >>> just as sure as the bay fog and the valley heat, summer brings california another budget fiasco. as of tonight, that budget is 29 days late. the governor has ordered 156,000 state workers to take three days off per month without pay. just as those same workers are receiving court ordered checks to cover the last round of furloughs. as usual, politicians in sacramento are digging in, with state workers none too happy with the results. >> the legislature after over seven weeks of failure has still not produced a budget. >> first time we did it, people were losing their houses, their cars. they said if we can't do the furloughs, 725, either way he is screwing us. >> you are not worth being a governor ever, period, anywhere. you shouldn't even make another movie in california as far as we're concerned. >> and so it goes. stay lawmakers are set to reconvene monday but agreement is likely to take weeks or even months. >>> well, for mor

and john myers is the statehouse bureau chief for kqed. john myers, i want to start with you because the numbers that jim and david chaian were talking about a few minutes ago are quite interesting. they're just as interesting in california where 53% say the nation is headed in the wrong direction but 54% have a positive view of president obama. how does that work out? >> i think it's an interesting split decision there, gwen. i agree with you. the president certainly still popular, as you said, here in california. we are a blue state, a plurality of democrats here in california. you know, it's hard to know exactly what is driving that pessimism on the wrong track figure. i have a feeling that a lot of it has to do with the economy here in california. we still have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. 12.4%. we have a state budget crisis yet again. we've had about $60 billion of deficits over the last three years. we have a $19 billion problem now which i think dragging down the sectors in a lot of parts of the state. ther