i'm belva davis. program. i'm belva davis. good night. captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund i thought it was over here... ♪ [car horn honks] our outback always gets us there... ... sometimes it just takes us a little longer to get back. ♪

i'm scott shafer sitting in for belva davis. good night.

. >> belva: good evening. i'm belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me on our panel tonight are rachel gordon, city hall reporter with the "san francisco chronicle." tom vacar, consumer editor with ktvu news. and thomas peele, investigative reporter for bay area news group on the chauncey bailey project. and carla marinucci, "san francisco chronicle," senior political editor. we're going to get to redistricting. which why is you're invited tonight. first we've got to talk about the budget. there have been talks going on all week. the deadline is right now. >> that's right. >> belva: what's happening? >> next wednesday. this has been going on for months. june 15th, the constitutional deadline. if these legislators don't get it together, they're going to be losing -- no budget no, pay is what the voters said when they passed prop 25. they'll be losing $402 a day. that's going to add up, we think, it may add a little fire to their passion to get the budget done this weekend, we hope. still, nothing really new there. jerry brown still wanting to e

. >>> good evening, everyone, i'm scott shafer sitting in tonight for belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me on our news panel tonight is rachel gordon, city hall reporter for "the san francisco chronicle." ana tintocalis, education reporter from the "california report" on kqed public radio and wyatt buchanan. sacramento bureau reporter for "the san francisco chronicle." wyatt, let's begin with you. it's been a few days since state legislators found out they're not going to get paid until they passed a balanced budget. how do they like working for free? >> they don't. nobody is happy about this decision, but the reactions came in different ways from different folks. mostly democrats came out and criticized it. republicans stayed either quiet or said, you know, okay, this is -- we're okay with this decision. we need a budget. there were a few democrats who said that, too, but there were some really fiery language from some democrats. >> now, of course, the state controller is a democrat, and just as they were unhappy with jerry brown's