Overtime and rely on retirements. There is, however, one catch. I believe that it is not legal. Reporter republican senator Susan Collins of maine was one of many lawmakers who warned today the Postal Service needs congressional approval to cut service. The problem is that every time the Postal Service cuts back on its service, it loses customers if it loses customers, it loses revenue. Is this legal . laughter yes, it is. Reporter the postmaster general insists the move will save 2 billion a year. The Postal Service has threatened to do this so many times in the past 150 years. How do we know that youre serious this time . We are very serious because as you take a look at the finances, we have to make some change. Reporter the Postal Service lost 16 billion last year, 41 billion since 2006, partly because of a drop in demand, partly because of enormous pension obligations, and partly because of promised postal reform bills that never came which House Speaker john boehner acknowledged today. The congress, in its wisdom has tied their hands every which way in order for them to actually run the post office in a revenueneutral way. So Congress Needs to act. Reporter taxpayers dont fund the Postal Service, but they will be left holding the bag if it goes under and cant repay the u. S. Treasury all the money its had to borrow to make up for those recent losses scott. Pelley nancy, thank you. So, what do americans think of this . Well, when we asked about ending saturday delivery in a cbs News New York times poll last june, 71 said they favored it; 24 were opposed. And this surprised us today turns out there are more post offices in america than wal marts, starbucks and mcdonalds combined. There is a much bigger washington fiscal crisis coming in three weeks. That is when automatic across theboard budget cuts go into effect unless Congress Finds another way. In washington lingo, those budget cuts are called sequestration, and david martin has discovered that sequestration is already cutting into national defense. Reporter late this afternoon, the 5,000 crew members of the Aircraft Carrier truman got the word they will not be leaving their home port of norfolk, virginia, for the persian gulf this friday as planned. Their deployment is being postponed due to the looming budget crisis. Vice admiral mark fox says that means the u. S. Will have only one instead of the normal two Aircraft Carriers in the persian gulf. What does that mean, operationally . What it does change is the opportunity to have additional capability immediately. There will be additional time distance associated with bringing another vessel over if thats required. Reporter do you know how much youre saving by doing this . In the hundreds of millions of dollars. Reporter the postponement of the trumans deployment, along with that of a guided missile cruiser, is the most visible of automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, compounded by the absence of a new budget of fiscal year 2013. A double whammy which has a normally affable defense secretary panetta hot under the collar. This is not a game this is reality. Reporter if sequestration takes effect at the beginning of march, panetta says the department of defense will have to cut 46 billion in the remaining seven months of the fiscal year. We will furlough as many as 800,000 d. O. D. Civilians around the country for up to 22 days. They could face a 20 cut in their salary. You dont think thats going to impact on our economy . Reporter the cuts will not affect combat operations in afghanistan, but troops in the field would take a hit in the pocket; a planned pay raise would be cut nearly in half. Pelley david, thank you. You just saw outgoing secretary of defense leon panetta in his Farewell Speech at georgetown university. Well, he also warned today that a hostile country could attack america by computer, a 21st century pearl harbor. We are literally the targets of thousands of Cyber Attacks everyday. Everyday. Thousands of Cyber Attacks that are striking at the private sector, strike at silicon valley, strike at other institutions within our society, strike at government, strike at the Defense Department and our intelligence agencies. And cyber is now at a point where the technology is there to cripple a country, to take down our power grid system, to take down our government systems, take down our Financial Systems and literally paralyze the country. Pelley now, the pentagon set up a Cyber Command to practice both offense and defense on the computer battlefield. Now Cyber Command is expanding fivefold, and we asked bob orr to look into whos behind the computer threat. Reporter despite its imposing facade, the u. S. Federal reserve could not stop the latest attack. On sunday, hackers broke into a fed Computer System then stole and published the private phone numbers of 4,000 u. S. Bankers. That breach followed recent revelations that cyber spies had also infiltrated Computer Networks at three american newspapers the washington post, wall street journal, and new york times. Investigators traced those attacks on the papers to governmentbacked hackers in china looking to monitor coverage of chinese politics. Everyday, statesponsored spies the majority from china are infiltrating key government and business Computer Networks inside the united states. U. S. Cyber command estimates American Companies are losing 250 billion a year in intellectual property. How often are they coming after us . Its more than daily. Reporter retired general michael hayden, who headed the c. I. A. And the National Security agency, says cyber enemies can do much greater harm. Most of the stuff out there now is espionage, but in a peculiar way if i can get on your network and steal your stuff i already have the ability to break your stuff. Reporter hayden and other security analysts warn Critical Systems could be knocked out in an attack launched by computer. While no u. S. Infrastructure has yet been successfully targeted power grids, Transportation Systems and Financial Networks are all potentially vulnerable. Until he retired last year, sean henry ran the f. B. I. s cyber unit. Is a serious cyber attack against some critical system in the u. S. Inevitable . I think that it is very, very likely. Reporter near term . I think that it is near term. Im quite frankly surprised it hasnt happened yet. Reporter officials have described the potential attacks in the most dire terms, warning of another 9 11. Scott, one official said decades ago terrorists came after us with planes, the next weapon could be keyboards. Pelley bob, thank you. There is more troubling Political Violence in north africa. In tunisia, where the arab spring began more than two years ago, a top opposition politician was assassinated today. Chokri belaid was 48 and was gunned down today as he left his house in tunis. That sparked violent street protests and a promise from tunisias Prime Minister to hold elections as soon as possible. We are about to get a reminder that winter can be harsh in the northeast. A major snowstorm is on the way and David Bernard is our cbs news weather consultant. David, three questions what . When . How much . Were going to answer all of those tonight, scott, and the answers probably arent what people are going to want to hear. Lets give you an idea of how big of an area this is going to cover. All of new england, the state of new york, northern new jersey, northeastern pennsylvania under a winter storm watch. This green area running the corridor between boston and providence, thats a blizzard watch thats in effect for friday and saturday. Now, this is the weather map the forecast map for friday evening, and we think a major low will be just off of the jersey shore. Its going to be strengthening all day with very heavy snows developing all over southern new england and even into the new york city area. And watch, this is going to track northeast friday, friday night into the day saturday. And by this point, we think a fullblown blizzard is likely along the maine coastline, including portions of southeastern massachusetts and all of rhode island, maybe even eastern connecticut. Blizzard conditions are going to be possible there. How much snow . Where you see this pink in southeast new england where that blizzard watch is, we think up to two feet of snow might occur. What about back toward new york . We think somewhere maybe six to teninch range. But ive got to say, the devils in the details. Its a little bit early. The storm is really going to crank as we go friday into friday night. Well be able to refine those totals, scott, and just where the worst of it may be overnight tonight and during the day tomorrow, so stay tuned. Pelley get out the snow shovels. David, thank you very much. Cbs news has learned that Lance Armstrong is going to be sued tomorrow. S. C. A. Promotions paid the former cycling champion more than 12 million in bonuses for his Tour De France victories. Now that armstrong has admitted he used performanceenhancing drugs, s. C. A. Wants its money back. 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On monday, she and other gay rights activists were at boy scouts headquarters in irving, texas, hand delivering more than a million signatures urging the scouts to reverse its exclusion of gay members. Until they adopt a policy of nondiscrimination across the board, i still have work to do. Reporter tyrrell was the den mother for her eightyearold sons troop in bridgeport, ohio. Last april, she was asked to step down because shes gay. Having to tell my son that we werent good enough was the hardest thing ive ever done. Im sorry. I wont quit until another mother doesnt have to do it. Reporter on the opposite side is kelly shackelford. Hes president of the Liberty Institute which focuses on preserving religious freedom. His Group Petitioned the scouts to continue the ban. Whats great about america is people can join the groups that they believe with, and they have that freedom to form their own group if theres not a group that believes like they do. Reporter faithbased organizations sponsor more than one million scouts, about 70 of the membership. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that boy scouts can prohibit gay members. If the scouts lift the ban, that would lead local Church Groups without legal protection. All these troops will be in danger and will be open to litigation. So i think if they have more time, if they look at this, if they listen to what the troops themselves and the sponsoring religious organizations, the churches, believe on the issue i think thats a good thing. Reporter there are groups that say dont rescind the ban because whats going to happen is its going to open us up to lawsuits. I would like to say to them shame on you for worrying more about a lawsuit than the welfare of a child. Reporter there are very strong opinions on both sides, which is why the boy scouts leadership wants to add the time for more deliberate review. And, scott, they vote in may. Pelley michelle, thank you. 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The people the agents are looking for are convicted felons or mentally unstable, and they have guns. The state has a list of about 20,000 such people with 40,000 guns, but because of budget restrictions there are only 33 agents to find them. Youve got a backlog. A huge backlog right now. Reporter because it takes so much manpower to do this safely. Yes. This type of enforcement is very labor intensive. When youre going after armed, prohibited people, it heightens the level of potential violence. Police department. Reporter in the six years agents have been seizing guns, theyve prevented shootouts by showing up unexpectedly in force, as many as ten agents. When youre going to take their guns, theyre not happy. Definitely the folks on this list are people who should not be in possession of a gun. Reporter California Attorney general kamala harris. They are those people who have been proven to violate the law and present a threat to public safety, and im going after them. Reporter last year, harris agents seized 2,033 guns. On the night we were out, it took five and a half hours to seize five guns. Have a good night. Reporter bringing in five guns tonight, theres still 40,000 out there. Does it seem like youll never catch up . Sometimes it feels like were treading water. Reporter the agents could be close to going underwater. 3,000 new names are added to the list every year. John blackstone, cbs news, stockton. Pelley well, the earth can look like a much more harmonious place when you look at it from 200 miles up. Have a look at some of the photos taken in just the last few days by canadian astronaut chris hadfield, whos on the International Space station. Hadfield takes as many pictures as he can and posts them on the internet. Heres the Mississippi River as it enters the gulf of mexico. A volcano high in the Andes Mountains of south america. The bright lights of london at nighttime. Hadfield said this view of clouds over africa took his breath away. 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He is one of the keepers of a trove of priceless arabic manuscripts. The extremists arrival, he told us, triggered his emergency plan. I bought every tin box i could find, the kind we store Household Goods in, he said, and my staff and i filled them with manuscripts until the library was empty. Manuscripts including a 12th century astrology chart and an ancient arab genealogy. Haidara quietly distributed the full boxes to local families to hide inside their humble homes. You sort of scattered them all over town. Then haidara fled from timbuktu, where the extremists were imposing strict islamic law. They staged public floggings and destroyed ancient tombs, so there was every reason to fear for manuscripts painstakingly restored and so precious that since 2004, the library of congress had been making digital copies for safety. When pictures emerged last week of timbuktus manuscripts burned, probably by retreating extremists, the world was horrified. But less than 1 of that collection belonging to the government was lost, says haidara. And as for his 30,000 documents hidden away in the boxes, theyre all safe. Does that make you a hero . Well, he says, i think of myself more as a rescuer. First and foremost, though, he is a guardian and savior of one of the worlds great historical legacies. Elizabeth palmer, cbs news, bamako. And thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner linda marie macdonald. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. Im allen martin. New details in a triple homicide in Sonoma County. Tonight we know the names of all the victims and the likely motive for the murders. They were found shot to death in forestville. Kpix 5 reporter Ann Notarangelo tells us the killer is still on the loose. Reporter the three men who were killed police say were trying to buy marijuana. This is a drug deal gone bad. Eerie. We kept the doors locked. And i stayed up late. Just listening to the news. Reporter neighbors say its been two decades since anything like this happened on ross station road. More than 24 hours into the investigation, the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department believes it has a good idea what happened inside the cab bon at noon yesterday in forestville. Based on interviews and evidence collected at the scene. We now believe that this was a marijuana drug deal that resulted in the death of the three victims. Reporter 26yearold Raleigh Butler who is originally from petaluma, but living near truckee was shot to death in the cabin his mom had rented for several years. Also killed, 46yearold Richard Lewin from new york, and 42yearold todd klrakowsski from colorado. His mother was away when it occurred. Investigators say they believe the three were trying to buy marijuana. And while authorities wont speculate the amount of drugs involved, they say it was significant. Trent hart didnt know raleigh well but says he was a talented snowboarder. He said he heard this was a big drug deal. What i hear i guess like 100 pounds, 200,000 deal and some fool just took their life. Reporter marijuana is pretty common around these parts. Theres definitely a lot of a lot of marijuana farmers in this area. Thats for sure. Reporter in fact, its a huge problem for authorities. Most of our Violent Crime is related to marijuana, the theft of marijuana, the growing of marijuana. Reporter even so, authorizes again reassured rest authorities again reassured residents they are not in danger and most people in the area seemed to take that to heart. Its not disturbing to me because i feel its an inside deal. Reporter investigators wont say how many suspects they are looking for but they say th
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