rob martin is now on a quest to find the birth family he never knew. >> for my daughter's sake. i wanted to give her a foothold in something. i never had any of that. no anchor in anything. >> reporter: he could be running out of time. >> my body's fighting hard. >> reporter: he's battling leukemia. >> i've had fevers on and off for five days. >> reporter: and may need a bone marrow transplant. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> reporter: rob's search for his bloodline could prove to be a lifeline. tonight we go on a five-month journey to find the birth mother he's spent a lifetime searching for. >> she was a ghost. you know, there was no one for me. >> a ghost. i've heard a lot of descriptions of parents, of mothers, but never a ghost. >> well, she's someone who's in my head that i couldn't touch. >> reporter: it all started in may 2017, when investigative genealogist pam slaton bedding a pleading e-mail from a friend of the martins. >> i'm writing to you because they're currently overwhelmed with aggressive cancer treatment. when someone's desperately ill you immediately make th

executives from ibm, fedex and lockheed martin expected to attend today's event. robamerica's best athletes come together for former professional race car driver danica patrick hosting that event in los angeles and taking a few political jabs. >> the national anthem controversy. i have not seen a russian displeased with washington since, well, two days ago. jillian: and more touching moments, three coaches killed in the parkland school shooting honored for saving lives with the best coach award. >> jim kelly was fighting cancer giving an emotional speech while accepting the jimmy v award for perseverance. >> doesn't have to be cancer. the smile you have on your face could be different the next day. remember that. always never give up. jillian: our friend jake would, a marine receiving the pat tillman award for service. the nonprofit deployed veterans to help with natural disaster relief. rob: you might remember janice dean after hurricane harvey. 11 minutes after the hour, bright future for the american worker but not if you ask the democrats. what does it take to ack

rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. >> -- >>> let's bring in david martin to talk about the weather, it is certainly hot out there, but is it bad for fires? >> right now it is little bit, because it is hot, we have been hot for the last few days, and we will stay in the low 90s inland, for the next few days, we have had this extended run of dry heat, not atypical at all for this time of year. but we have not seen a lot of it that's year, no red flag warnings, nothing out of the ordinary got we have not seen a run of he like this in a long time.of the season, we've had a couple of hot days, and then a couple of cool days. >>> outside, the blue skies, not a lot of fog along the coast, the weather system to the north of us up in here, this guy, kind of keeping things from getting really hot, the high pressure down here, what is happening is interesting, you are seeing the monsoon moisture, coming up from the gulf of california, gulf of mexico, and just working his way up into the sierra nevada, thunderstorms south of yosemite, towards the bishop area, that is going to be the story the next few days, the north american mo

robbed. look at russian fighter, looks exactly like a lockheed martin f-35.on't do something now, when we will do it? trish: my certain, john, if you allow this to continue with completely unchecked, you will not have the kind of economy that we have right now. you will lose that position to china. >> that's exactly right. the market believes that if it begins to sell off, deeply, in response to troubling news on the trade front that would tell the trump administration to go more slowly, perhaps reconsider some much its positions. but as it stands right now the u.s. economy is doing great. china is not doing that well. europe is not doing that well. trish: does that give us more ammunition, so to speak, dealing with them in this trade war? don't forget we're their biggest customer. the world's biggest customer. >> i think the president is getting results. lastly last week german automakers, told to the constituents, go to the politicians, cut a deal, make a deal. some people are talking about no tariffs. that was teased by the president back at g7 in canada n

rob: all right, jillian, thanks, state university is work to go diversify their campus by deliberately slashing the number of white students. here to weigh in a student at cal and roberta martinor coming on this morning, we appreciate your time. this is classic reverse discrimination. >> thanks for having me. rob: you're welcome, what do you think being a student there in. >> well, saying that their goal is to limit the number of white students to 40% to have campus population, they're essentially saying the most important aspect of our campus community is whether you're white or nonwhite and that's creating division where there doesn't need to be division and there hasn't been division previously. one of the greatest thing about cal poly that's a fair merit-based admission system and that's something that we can be proud and rally around, we can all view each other that way because we are admitted in same academic standards and bring race into it and make that such an important qualification really divides us unnecessarily and it creates divisions where there weren't any before. rob: clearly now is no longer going to be a merit-based university if they're moving towards a ra

rob malcolm is following the three firefighters injured fighting the five. and chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the hot conditions there but let's start with tom vacar on the ground. >> reporter: i got to tell you something, the number is not as big as we saw in santa rosa and wine country. but going into those neighborhoods is eerily familiar to the coffey park situation. 2,000 firefighters are battling stubborn cares fire that lays down when it's not windy only to waken with a destructive vengeance when it is. more than 100 homes are loss, more losses are likely, and new evacuations were ordered about an hour ago as the dragons use new fire. all of this made much worse by afternoon winds and night winds. >> there was 35 miles per hour plus winds creating havoc. >> reporter: the sacco family was lucky because their house was not incinerated. but the winds were so fierce and so strong, they literally blew the roof off of this house. >> got out. as we pulled out right here, the flames were just --not even a block down here swirling and noise, wind blowing, i mean, it was just nothing

rob malcolm is following the three firefighters injured fighting the five. and chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the