. >> joining me now for a look at what's coming up on kqed news is scott schaeffer.governor jerry brown reach add deal this week with the gop to put a rainy day proposal on the ballot. he's going to put up the may revised. what's the connection there? >> the connection is this is budget season. we got a report this week from the state comptroller who said we have 2 billion in extra heavy knew. so the rainy day fund is almost a good will thing, the governor and republicans and democrats coming together talking about fiscal responsibility. just sets a tone for the budget negotiations that will begin in earnest. >> and also this really gives the republicans something good too. they can come in and say, hey, this is one of our achievements as well. >> absolutely. this is one thing they've been talking about. there's another report that came out this week that said that california has $340 billion in liabilities for retiree pension and health benefits. so the rainy day deal is part of that agreement to deal with that. yeah, it's something in it for everybody. >> also look

our story narrated by scott schaeffer was produced by pbs station kqed in san francisco. >> when i grewp, my life was not incredibly easy. my mother work all the time. i really had to learn on my own how to hold myself up. photographer is one of those things i used as a vehicle for self-expression because i felt in my heart i was an artist. >> working out of a make shift dark room using highly reactive chemicals, large plates and a camera, artist ed drew is putting his own spin on a 19th century art form. >> i like it because it's not just something simple. you have to set it up and you have to be really physical with it. you can't just click. you're basically making a photo on a piece of metal, you're exposing it, developing it and fixing it all right then and there. >> tin type portraits reached the height of their popularity during the american civil war. inexpensive, durable and relatively simple to make, tin types were the first available to the masses including hundreds of soldiers headed off to battle. >> these images of soldiers, sometimes these are the last images that their fr