kathleen brown just as jerry brown does now, had the early lead in the polls. on's campaign just as meg whitman now had more money to buy ads. >> he was early in april with ads on tv attacking kathleen. >> reporter: he told us he knew that pete wilson's ads were working and that if brown didn't fight back with ads right away she risked being knocked out early. so even though brown was low on money -- >> i decided, let's spend our money during the summer and we'll raise money later. >> but the new money never came in. >> reporter: truthfully, very few people know this, we really ran out of money after labor day. >> reporter: in a california governor's race? >> yeah. >> reporter: now jerry brown faces the same dilemma. spend now or wait until september and risk being too far in the polls to catch up. >> neither choice is a good choice, he has to raise money more. >> reporter: raising money creates its own set of problem, especially if he's getting money from friendly labor unions. the more union money there is backing brown the more susceptible he is to whitman's

kathleen brown just as jerry brown does now, had the early lead in the polls. but wilson's campaign just as meg whitman now had more money to buy ads. >> he was early in april with ads on tv attacking kathleen. >> reporter: he told us he knew that pete wilson's ads were working and that if brown didn't fight back with ads right away she risked being knocked out early. so even though brown was low on money -- >> i decided, let's spend our money during the summer and we'll raise money later. >> but the new money never came in. >> reporter: truthfully, very few people know this, we really ran out of money after labor day. >> reporter: in a california governor's race? >> yeah. >> reporter: now jerry brown faces the same dilemma. spend now or wait until september and risk being too far in the polls to catch up. >> neither choice is a good choice, he has to raise money more. >> reporter: raising money creates its own set of problem, especially if he's getting money from friendly labor unions. the more union money there is backing brown the more susceptible he is to wh

we really ran out of money after labor day. >> kathleen brown lost that election and many analysts sayrown now faces the same dilemma. they agree he is going to have to raise more money but raising money comes with its own set of problems, especially if it comes from labor unions -- [overlapping speakers] [ inaudible ] >> -- 6:27. the clock is ticking on this very gloomy friday morning for dozens of bay area -- [ inaudible ] ♪ [ music ] >> -- work in just a couple of hours. [ inaudible ] ♪ [ music ] >> -- update on that terrifying incident that happened just a couple of hours ago inside of a bay area hospital emergency room [ inaudible ] ♪ [ music ] >> [ female announcer get extra savings at the jcpenney appreciation sale. save an extra 15% on all regular, sale, and clearance items. everything, no exclusions! save on everything for her, for him, for kids, all jewelry, and home. go to jcp.com to see everything on sale! jcpenney. [ bell rings ] >> there you hear it, the opening bell ringing on wall street right now. we are expecting a lower open this morning. [ inaudible ] >> -- report,

truthfully, very few people know this, we really ran out of money after labor day. >> reporter: kathleen brown eventually lost that election and a lot of analysts are saying jerry brown is facing that same dilemma. they agree he's going to have to raise more money to compete with megawhitman but that raising money comes with its own set of problems especially if it is from labor problems. >>> there are reports disney has found a buyer for miromax film unit. they produced chicago, pulp fiction and my left foot. the "los angeles times" reports a private investment will pay $660 million for miromax. the investors putt down a $40 million nonrefundability deposit yesterday. >>> there's big news about "american idol" this morning and who is going to be sitting on the judge's panel. according to tmz, the show will be going back to a three-judge format with jennifer lopez, you see here there as one of the judges. tmz says aerosmith singer steven tyler will join the panel and randy jackson keeping his job as the third judge. that eulaminates kara dioguardi who has been apparently let go and ellen degen

. >> kathleen brown lost that election. many analysts say jerry brown faces the same dilemma.agree he will have to raise more money to compete with meg whitman put that money raising comes with its own set of problems. >> 5:27. we are following developing news from oakland. we will update you on that incident that took place hours ago inside a hospital emergency room. >> reporter: the judge's decision expected today may effect ac transit ridership. we will explain why when the morning news continues. >>> good morning to you, welcome back. this is the ktvu channel 2 morning news. you made it for friday, july 30th. i am dave clark. >> i am claudine wong, good morning, pam cook has the day off. time now is 530. let's check our weather and traffic, helu steve. >> hello claudine, mostly cloudy skies, more fog coast and bay, the low clouds inland will burn off fast, mid-80s to upper 80s there and drizzle and mist reported. 60s and 70s after that fog burns off. still cool, santa cruz 740 though so the nog will burn off there, not bad, upper 70s in the north bay in what is a cool week