Corps Budget News Today

Military to preventing juvenile salmon from being killed by turbines. president obamas 2012 budget proposes cutting the corps budget 18% compared to 2010. >> were doing fewer new projects, using a larger proportion of our money to operate and maintain the infrastructure that were responsible for, just like these levees that are holding back the mississippi river. >> reporter: the corps says it will probably need to ask congress for more money to pay for the work its doing now along the mississip...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. youre in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, im fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisianas biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. thats what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 1...

Budget 18%. compared to 2010. >> we are doing fewer new projects, we are using a larger proportion of our money to operate and maintain the infrastructure we are responsible for. just like these levees that are holding back the mississippi river. >> reporter: the corps says it will probably need to ask congress for more money to pay for the work it is doing now along the mississippi. it is used to doing that. in fact, critics say its projects are often too politicized, too dependent on earmarks....