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regulating the operation and locations of the pot clubs. club owner david hodges says his club will live, or die by the laws. if the council prove what s they re talking about, it will be a ban. but what the club is doing on election day may be illegal. we asked the registrar about that. we looked at california elections code it doesn t seem to be in rile violation of that. looking at federal code, it does appear there may be a violation. it s against the law. but we have an industry operating in violation of federal law every minute of every day. a group today collected enough signatures to place their own referendum in november elections. 38,000 signatures to be exact. if there is a referendum, mayor chuck lee says he ll lead the campaign against it. abc7 news caught up with governor brown as he cast his ballot at fire station six. brown seeking an unprecedented fourth term in the governor s office. that is his wife, ann. 40 years ago he was elected gove ....
well, pot club owners were giving it away for election day. good evening. san jose grappled with what to do with medical marijuana for years, once again, no decision. vic lee is live tonight. vic, they cannot come to terms. you re right the council kicked this issue down the road again. now, they did have a quorum but deadlocked 5 to 5 now. next week, they hope the absent council member will be present. there was consensus on some, but not all. the council agreed on where to place the clubs, mostly industrial zones, not near schools, churches or residential neighborhoods but not where marijuana sold could be grown. we re not in agriculture business and don t want to be. we re forced to. it was a anticlimactic ending. i got 25% off. damion came to get a discount on her medicinal marijuana. all she had to do is prove she voted the club hopes it will encourage people who want the dispensaries to vote for candidates endorsed by the club the city council has been ....
the part of demonstrators to make sure violence doesn t mar their message. here at oakland s new amphitheater people caused. i ve been carrying a lot of pain this week and wanted to be surrounded by other people who wanted things to get better. reporter: first a noon moms rally at the federal building. plans for a march to join with the student march were set aside after police concerned about violent demonstrations asked for cooperation. oakland was caught off-guard and unprepared for the violence that erupted last weekend after the george zimmerman not guilty verdict. ready for any repeat but small business operators were still worried. i will cope my finger crossed that hopefully is not going to happen. reporter: at 3:00 in the afternoon another rally outside oakland city hall. it too was peaceful except for a shoving match between a critic and a supporter. around 6:00 a large group of bicyclists circled two motorcycle officers getting closer and closer and o ....
axelrod: good evening. i m jim axelrod with a special western edition of the broadcast. we begin tonight with the brutal heat that s gripped much of the eastern half of the nation last week. it s about to break. the heat and humidity has claimed at least 15 lives in the last six days, including five in milwaukee. in the northeast, the average temperature this week was ten degrees higher than the normal average temperature in july. at least 75 record highs were set at airports east of the mississippi. and yesterday, it felt as hot in lakehurst, new jersey 123 degrees as it did in death valley, california. but this blast of heat is about to run its course. i m joined now by meteorologist jeff berardelli of miami station wfor. jeff, millions of people waiting to hear about a break in the heat. are they going to get what they re looking for? they re going to be very happy, especially as we head into tomorrow. temperatures are going to drop by about 10 degrees, but the ....