Vote is underway. If confirmed, the former nebraska senator chuck hagel will succeed leon panetta and republicans posed the nomination and suggesting he was too willing to compromise with iran and looks like he has the votes needed. Over to you. Countdown of 85 billion is on. They have been scheduled now for about a year and congress and the white house are not able to work out a compromise. They talking but not to each other. Reporter against the backdrop in virginiava, president obama repeated warnings that across the board, arbitrary spending cuts scheduled to begin this friday will cost jobs and undermine national defense. The problem is when you cutting 85 billion in seven months, which represents over a 10 cut in the Defense Budget and the white house said 90,000 virginiabased employees could be furloughed if cuts are not avoided. And over to the Norfolk National station, they forced the navy to cancel or delay the repair of certain aircraft carriers. Reporter republicans slam th
President can fix sequestration in the shipyard in virginia. If he can, i wish he would have been there a year ago so we wouldnt have to have this unstable situation. Reporter the virginiava congressmen are both members of the House Armed Services committee and both warn the axe will haunt virginias economy and the nations defense. It affects our readiness. The military chiefs dont have the ability to place the cuts thoughtfully and methodically across the defense budget. They have to go through and cut across the board. Reporter the damage could be significant. A White House Briefing paper warns 90,000 civilian Defense Department jobs will be furloughed, which removes 648 million in paychecks from virginias economy. The Army Base Operations will take a 146 million cut. Air force operations by 8 million the navy will cancel the maintenance on 11 ships. This was set up to be the stupidest option possible. If we dont act, were going walk into that stupid this week. And ond this, mark war
We begin with the growing concerns about isis in iraq and syria. And isis militants are threatening to overrun ann bar, a key province west of the capital. Iraqi forces are up against the wall, and some units are in danger of being cut off. The Islamic Terror Group already controls a number of cities in ann bar. Anbar province is in trouble. We are helping the Iraqi Security forces. As i have said, the president has said, all of our senior officials have said, this is a difficult effort. It is going to take time. It wont be easy. And, of course, what about the threat to baghdad itself . Joining us now live from the iraqi capital is cnns ben wedem wedeman. Doesnt sound good in anbar. Whats the situation . Doesnt sound good, but it hasnt been very good for several weeks, what with the fall of a town last week to isis. But we are getting messages from iraqi officials that the situation is increasingly urgent. We heard for instance from an official in anbar that the provincial council aske
Here’s the full list of schools that will make their case next week to drop down in classification in the South Carolina High School League’s proposed realignment.