claudia cowan live in san francisco with a look at that. >> reporter: jon, stockton led the way last month after officials could not reach a deal with the city's creditors, then the ski town of mammoth lakes came crashing down on the fourth of july after it failed to make good on a $43 million judgment. and last night at an emergency city council meeting, san bernardino became the latest to vote for bankruptcy protection. the southern california city of 200,000 faces a $46 million budget gap. it's already stopped paying some vendors and may not be able to make payroll through the summer. it was a tense city council meeting. one council member who abstained from the vote said, quote: the taxpayers of this city have been duped, hoodwinked and misguided for the past several years. people seemed resigned to the city's fate. >> another city in california is going down. a reorganization, whatever you say, is bankruptcy. credit rating going down, contracts are wide open, everything's open now.