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
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immediately, and they worked through the night. one man s daughter is saved, but hundreds, if not thousands of other people are trapped in buildings that crumbled and the u.s. navy will dispatch the medical ship comfort to haiti where a major hospital has collapsed in the earthquake. good morning, everyone. i m tony harris. extensive coverage of the disaster in haiti in the cnn newsroom. bodies are being piled up right now in haiti. it has been almost 18 hours since a powerful earthquake struck near the capital, collapsing everything from humble shacks to the national palace. here is what we know. the red cross estimates three million people may be affected by the magnitude 7 quake. the associated press says it seems likely the death toll will run into the thousands. the chief of the u.n. mission there is unaccounted for. his headquarters in port-au-prince one of the many buildings that collapsed. the u.s. and other countries are preparing desperately needed aid and searc
it was 1995. it was mid november. there was a forum on globalization that was taking place here at riverside, and it was there that i heard the announcement that a ragone activist had been executed in nigeria. the right here environmentalists, who had dared to take on the nexus of corporate and military power, the military dictatorship of nigeria and shell corp., which had crisscrossed his land in the niger delta the, of ghani land, which gas pipelines and above the ground, burning off the gas and flares the size of apartment buildings. the children of the niger delta up never knowing a dark night and yet not profiting from the drilling and taking the power out of the earth and giving it to the most powerful on earth, disempowering the host communities from which it had come. i had met him in half in 1994 when a nigerian acted this brought him into the studio of wbai. we were doing wake-up call that morning and bernard white and i sat there as he, who was not one of the sched