meg whittman or barbie? >> barbie. >> reporter: already half the supply is gone after eight minutes of the gates being open. it's too close to call. is it too much of a stretch to think that meg may beat jerry? >> if i had to choose, i like this bobble head more. >> reporter: even the players support her, and it's a swing and a miss for jerry. turning out meg whittman is the hit. the first bobble head bragging rights in 20 minutes. one person was the lucky winner of a free meg whittman bobble head and said she knew what she would do, post it on e bay. it's there. the highest bid, 6.37. mike delaminro. >>> furlough fridays are back in california. many in the bay area apparently missed the member row. today a number of people showed up at the dmv but they didn't know the office would be slowed. they said they checked online and even with employees yesterday. they never sawover heard anything about the friday closure. >> there are things that we came yesterday to ask them if they were open tomorrow. >> reporter:

jerry brown came, meg whittman wasn't. >> i would like to see what somebody like meg whittman had to say. >> . >> i'm disappointed in a lot of them that they aren't here and not particularly meg for whatever reason. >> reporter: the whittman campaign cited a scheduling conflict but refused to be more specific. >> didn't work in the overall schedule. >> reporter: the forum wouldn't have put brown and whittman face to face but brown didn't pass the chance to make hay of her absence. >> i would like to know what role religion has played in her life. >> reporter: after accepting two other debates the whittman campaign has been critical of brown for not accepting an october 2nd debate in fresno. brown said that was designed to fit whittman's strategy. >> she operates on what meg wants meg gets. she has a debate in fresno at 5:00 o'clock on saturday afternoon in spanish. that is her idea. >> reporter: three debates scheduled to take place weeks before the november investigation. a poll shows brown with a 37- 34% lead. that despite lopsided spending with brown still waiting to spend his cam

. >> and meg whittman writes a huge check for her campaign. how much of her own money she spent so far in her race for governor. . >> mostly sunny skies across most of the bay area. outside right now look across the bay. there it is once again the fog bank. we have warmer temperatures in the five-day, another round of cooler temperatures. i will have the break down. . >>> on its way to space. the atlas 5 launched this morning from florida. the event satellite has ten times more ability and moves data six times more efficiently than the one currently being used. over the next decade six more are set to go into orbit at a cost of $12 billion. in news of the world the only survivor of a deadly attack last week on ten aid workers in northern afghanistan is speaking out. he said he was spared after he recited verses the koran. he said one of the attacker was a pedestrian they picked up earlier this day. they demanded their phones before shooting them, two women were killed when a grenade was thrown into the vehicle where they were hiding. six ameri

it kicked off friday and had speeches from meg whittman and others. they didn't endorse the arizona immigration law. members of the california republican assembly had drafted a resolution supporting but it died in committee before lawmakers could vote. the convention drew more than one thousand people this weekend. >> a key republican leader weighed in this morning on some major issues coming up as the fall midterm election approaches. he spoke on meet the press and touched on tax cuts from high ranking democrats say they will add to the deficit. he disagrees. >> look the problem is the spending problem. if we grind down the spending we will start to get a handle on this mounting debt. if you push the economy further backward we will get less revenue for the government not more. >> he said tea party candidates have had a positive impact on the republican party. >> hundreds rallied today near ground zero to protest the proposed mosque blocks away the debate over the nearness to the site of the terrorist attacks. we spoke to protesters on both sides and