reporter: when asked about these cuts today, the army said, quote, the army s drawdown plan is a balanced approach that maintains readiness while trying to minimize turbulence within the officer corps. this isn t the end of the cuts. there are more layoff review boards to come, for soldiers overseas and for those here at home. those let go face daunting statistics, an unemployment rate, a full percentage above their peers, and as one observer told me, now is not exactly the time one wants to be counting on the v.a. for anything. in washington, leland vittard, fox news. coming up on this saturday afternoon, have you heard about this? the center for disease control shutting down two of its labs after an anthrax scare. and it turns out there were other problems. coming up, we ll have the details. plus, two federal judges ordering the irs to explain how it possibly could have lost years worth of e-mails connected to the tea party scandaling that targeting scandaling we ve been rep