okay. thank you very much for being here. thank you. we re live from the dirksen office building, the generals from the southern and northern commands are on capitol hill testifying before the senate armed services committee about the 2013 budget requests. they are responsible for security operations throughout the hemisphere and includes all of south central and north america. president obama s budget request amounts to $25.4 billion, it s a 1% decrease over 2012. it includes $88 billion in war spending $26.8 billion less than 2012. senator carl levin is the chair and senator john mccain is the armed services ranking member. good morning, everybody, the committee meets this morning to hear from two distinguished military leaders to discuss security in our hem miss fear, general doug fraser and charles jaco kobcoby jr. this is general jacoby s first appearance before the committee as commander and we look forward to working with you. general, in your new information. ge