A front row seat to democracy. Next, a discussion on the navys priorities and budget for the upcoming fiscal year with Navy Secretary for Financial Management. From the American Enterprise institute, this is an hour. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I am honored to have here today for our discussion the assistant secretary of the navy, assistant secretary of the navy for Financial Management and comptroller, otherwise known as navy comptroller. Weve been friends and colleagues for many years. He most recently came into the department of the navy from the Aerospace Corporation and previously worked at another think tank here in d. C. He actually began his career as a u. S. Infantry officer. Maybe i will ask you a few things about the army budget and how much money it is a pleasure to have you here for this discussion. We will also be taking questions from the audience, both in the room and online. You can go ahead and start emailing and questions, i think there is a link on the s
This is the cbs weekend news. We left a lot more time to travel because we thought it would take a long time to get here and were told to get here earlier than normal. Reporter nationwide more than 60 flights were cancelled and over 1900 delayed. Many of them in snowy chicago according to flight aware, and those numbers were expected to increase. And without a doubt the travel for the yearend holiday has a lot to do with airfares being lower and airfares about 20 lower compared to last year. Robert sinclair is a spokesperson for triple a which estimates that Holiday Travel will set a record for the 9th consecutive year. We think that its totally linked to the economy. Folks have more money in their pockets and taking advantage and spending it by taking a trip. The greatest number of travelers, more than 97 million of them are expected to take to the roads. Where a band of Winter Weather has already created dangerous conditions from nebraska all the way to maine. About 70 of the United
This is the cbs weekend news. Morgan good evening, im Demarco Morgan. Slow going this Christmas Eve. Its tough driving across much of the u. S. Not only because millions of americans hit the roads but they are being hammered by bad weather. And at the nations airports long lines because air travel is expected to increase this year by about 4 percent to 6. 4 million flyers. Tony dokoupil has more. Reporter americas roads and runways runnette over this weekend and not in a good way as millions of Holiday Travelers gave each other gridlock for christmas. Yesterday traffic at Los Angeles International airport was bumper to bumper. Today things were moving a little better. Across the coast at newark International Airport in new jersey, there was a controlled chaos. I figured everybody would be in for the holidays but i guess this is a huge travel day. We left a lot more time to travel because we thought it would take a long time to get here and were told to get here earlier than normal. Rep
Now to the miss america email scandal more former page enlt contestants are speaking out. Resignation of the top three executives is a start. A lot more needs to be done. Your miss america 2012 is beyond the miss america celebration, seen every year on tv. , a scandal is rattling the organization. The shakeup began after the Huffington Post published parts of leaked emails thursday aperg to show a handful of miss america officials ridiculing past winners appearance intelligence and sex lives. In this one, ceo sam haskell laughed when the pageant lead writer referred to former crown holders using a crude term for womens genitalia. But after dozens of former miss americas published this open letter, calling on the Miss America Organization leadership to step down, haskell was suspended and resigned along with the organizations president , and chairwoman. Still have a lot of work to do. We would love your sta part and your encouragement. Former miss americas like mallory hagan, who haskel
Mr. Kutcher it is an honor to be here. As a young man brought up in the Public School system, i pledged my allegiance to that flag every single day, and the honor, maybe one of the greatest honors of my life today, is to be here and leverage the work that i have done as testimony that may in some way benefit this nation that i love. I would like to start by saying thank you to chairman corker for your leadership in this endeavor and to senator cardin. Your leadership has been extraordinary. I would like to say thank you to the rest of the committee that has supported this effort. This is a bipartisan effort, and in a country that is riddled with bipartisan separation on so many things, slavery seems to come up as one of these issues that we can all agree upon. I applaud you for your agreement, and i believe in you and your leadership and your ability to take us out of it. I am here today to defend the right to pursue happiness. It is a simple notion. The right to pursue happiness is be