It is meal time in the monkey house. Welcome to cbs this morning. In a last minute surprise president obama will order the biggest cuts to the militarys budget since the reagan era. The president is about to sit down with the congressional leaders. Bill plante is at the white house. Bill, good morning. Good morning and good morning out west. Russian leaders are here getting ready to meet with the president shortly to talk about no budget cuts, but there is no sign of a lastminute deal. Things were never supposed to get to this point. The very idea was supposed to force an agreement. It didnt and now its finger pointing in another direction. We are serving the men and women of this country a great disservice. The 85 billion cut slashed across most departments takes effect later today. On thursday senators from both parties led a lastminute effort to avoid the cuts each Party Presenting its own alternative. As expected those bills were voted down. Members of congress then began heading home for the weekend. But not before trying to pin the blame on each other. We might as well get a pink slip from the office of the speaker and the republican conference. The republicans are blaming the president. After an attempt to abort the sequester, the president is ready to make a bite as hard as possible. The administration warned repeatedly about the negative effects it would have on safety and travel. But many are skeptical. I would suggest that the majority leader, the president of his cabinet put down beltway koolaid because they are predicting a disaster will not occur. On face the nation sunday educators were already getting pink slips in anticipation of cuts. They later backtracked saying he wasnt sure. On thursday the white house distanced itself from the claim. What i can tell you is that im saying i dont have any contact with the school district. The president was trying to find a way out of the latest crisis, but the republicans already had the answer. My answer tomorrow will be the same as what im telling you today. Its time to pass a bill. But cuts dont go into effect until obama issues the order required by the law. That could be as late as 11 59 tonight. It will take days or weeks. Vice President Biden says hell take the train home to delaware instead of flying. Thanks. The army chief of staff was blunt about the fallout from these cuts. He told Congress Without the resources to train and equip his troops, our soldiers our young men and women are the ones who will pay the price, potentially with their lives. What do you mean, theyll pay with their lives because of these cuts . Whats happening is we have several things happening this year. Right now the army has an 1818 18 million shortfall with cooperation in training, which helps us pay for civilian personnel. Were not going to be trained for the rest of this year except those in afghanistan or those getting ready to go to afghanistan. What im worried about is next year we might have to delay deploying people who are not trained properly, or if were asked to do a contingency somewhere around the world we might not be trained properly. When they do these cuts because they are not prepared. Who determines the cuts that you have to make . Obama will determine them. Cant you find these cuts somewhere else . It has to do with certain accounts. Right now im short 18 billion in military cuts because we have a continuing resolution. I do not have the authority to move money around in the budget. So its not only the sequester, its the fact we had a continued revolution. Ive been a chief Staff Sergeant for 18 months. Weve always had a continued revolution in what we can do to move money around. So its like a double problem. We need predictability in the budget and we need to make sure the cuts we get are managed appropriately so we can put a plan together so we can protect our soldiers and they can do the job theyre supposed to do. Ive known you a long time. I feel like i can ask you some tough questions. You have called it the greatest threat to our National Security. Really . Greater than al qaeda . Greater than cyber warfare . The bottom line is if we continue to not be able to have a plan were supposed to build a fiveyear plan. I cant do that right now because we keep going through continuing resolutions. We have no idea what the money is going to be. We become more ineffective with the dollars. I think people watch this and wonder, what are we doing . We have heard Duncan Connor accusing them of adding drama to this whole thing. Ive got a briefing right now, and i cant come up with the money. I cant find it yet. And i havent found it at all yet. Right now 251,000 civilians, i cant train 80 of my units and i still havent paid the bills in 13. An entire Defense Budget . Its a huge budget. Im telling you, the money is fenced and it does not allow us to move money around. And sequester, by the way, we have no say in where those cuts come in fiscal year 13. They are directed. They are every line item. Will it pay different under chuck hagel . I meet with mr. Hagel this afternoon. He had a chance to talk to us earlier in the week and hes very excited about being in the job, and i look forward to working with him. All right good to see you. Thank you again for your service. The Obama Administration yesterday urged the Supreme Court to overturn californias ban on samesex marriage. A brief filed by the Justice Department also said laws based on Sexual Orientation should be more closely scrutinized. Jan, what i found interesting about this is the administration did not have to get involved here, right . Reporter thats right, it did not. It could have stayed on the sidelines. It didnt need to step in and thats what i think makes this so significant politically. Of course, it was under enormous pressure to step into this case. The lawyers who argued against californias ban urging the white house to get involved gay rights across the country urging the white house to step in here. Of course, this case will have an enormous nationwide indication. California is one of 30 states banning amendments banning gay marriage. The Obama Administration calls all those constitutional amendments into question. Legally its different just because the Obama Administration is saying one thing and the Supreme Court doesnt have to do it. Politically and symbolically, this is much more important for gay rights and it also represents a remarkable change in the president s position. Just over the last eight or nine years, remember back in 2004 he was pushing marriage between a man and a woman, and in last Years Campaign he personally supported samesex marriage, but now we have a them attacking samesex marriage. This case will come from the lawyers, from california. But this brief has the generals name on it. Thank you so much. The pope already in rome after yesterdays emotional goodbye. Pope benedict the cardinals attention now turns to monday. Thats the date they vote to start. Mark phillip is in Castel Gandolfo. Mark, good morning. Good morning charlie, nora. This morning the pope is here in his papal residence, the pope emeritus emeritus. Benedicts journey here was remarkable and unprecedented in so many steps. His last step as pope of the vatican and his last steps in the papal residency, just one more thing benedict xvi was giving up. It was a well orchestrated departure, saying farewell to officials and applause for the men make man making history by retiring in office instead of dying there. He plans to live out his days in the monsterastery being refurbished for him. The Vatican Benedict leaves behind is wallowing in the scandal and an administrative mess waiting for the new pope whenever he is chosen. The flight was a spectacular study in contrast. The frail retiring leader of the institution flying over the eternal city in a military aircraft. The vatican doesnt have its own air force, although it claims access to the heavens in other ways. Door to door air service is another perk benedict no longer has. Once at the Castel Gandolfo where hes due to stay for the next few months benedict appeared at the window overlooking the square. Then at 8 00 local time the ceremonial swiss guard Protection Unit left for the other parts of office. He gave up the red papal cape and from now on will only wear white. The pope has asked to not be seen or heard. Mark, thank you. And one of the 1cardinals who will pick the pope. Cardinal good morning. Good to see you smiling. Who could not smile in beautiful rome with this behind me. Were glad to see you. Thank you for joining us. We know the other cardinals have a busy week ahead in the congregation as youre set to pray and discuss about a new pope. Give us the scoop. What kind of pope is needed for the church . In fact just before i left where the cardinals are staying, we got the official letter from the dean of the college telling us that were to report right behind st. Peters at 9 30 monday morning to begin congregations. Well have about four or five hours of meetings every day. There will be prayer, there will be apostolic meeting, and i assume the first item on the agenda will be when will we begin the conclave the actual election of a pope. God willing well have that on monday. What date do you think they will choose based on conversations youve heard so far . You know what charlie, you hear kind of that we need a balance. Everybody is eager to have a new pope, all right . We dont like the chair at st. Peters to be empty. I dont know if you can see behind me on this side the windows are closed. Thats sad. Were not used to that. We want a pope fast. On the other hand, we know that takes a little time and prayer and reflection and discussion so somewhere in the balance, i would say those congregations have to go at least a week. I want to be home and i think all us cardinals have fulltime jobs. We want to get home certainly before holy week so please god, lets have a pope before that. The white house confirms with the vatican official that there have been scandals within the church. Is that in the air there and is that part of the conversation that might lead to the selection of this next pope . Oh theres no denying that charlie. Its a sense of realism that we had. You know youre talking to the church. Theres always been a scandal in the church because the members of the church who even work here the cardinals. Theres always going to be flaws and imperfections. They seem to be given more scrutiny right now because this is a time when everybody looks to the church. Is it in the air . It is, and i think thats something the cardinals are going to talk about. We look forward to seeing you in rome. Keep in touch, okay . I look forward to seeing you back in new york. A fastmoving brush fire is forcing people out of their homes in Riverside County california east of los angeles. The fire has already burned enough land to cover 150 football fields. It blew up last night with strong winds, pushing the plains through heavy smoke. Some homeowners hosed down their roofs. Nearly 2,000 people were left in the dark after power lines burned. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder plans to announce today whether detroit will be getting a new financial manager. Thats according to detroits mayor. They face a 17 million deficit. Snyder says hes reluctant to allow detroit to enter a chapter 9 bankruptcy. It would be the largest city to do so. The headlines around the globe. The Washington Post says private first class Bradley Manning pled guilty thursday to ten counts in the wikileaks case. He said the u. S. Became obsessed with killing human targets. Manning faces up to 20 years in prison. The wall street journal says american households are borrowing more than they have since the Great Recession of 2008. Household debt including mortgages, credit cards and loans went up 3 and a quarter percent since last year. The gas mileage for hybrids is in the probe alone. The molgd isdel is short of the epa estimates. And bruce miller was the mastermind of the great train robbery of 1963. It was the most spectacular heist. 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[ laughter ] lets go towards the bay bridge. It is really thick all across the bay area. Theres a dense fog advisory for the bay bridge, the carquinez bridge and the dumbarton bridge now this morning. It is backed up towards the maze. Be extra careful on the roads this morning. Heres the golden gate bridge, which its actually moving okay right now coming into san francisco. That is traffic. For your very foggy forecast, heres lawrence. Thing fog showing up around the bay area this morning at least in some spots. So if you have a nice view up above that fog, its only a thin layer. Heres our mount vaca cam at 3,000 feet. Plenty of sunshine and that is going to burn away that fog quickly this morning. Still, be careful its thick early on. Some visibilities less than a quarter mile. Sunshine this afternoon and clear to the coastline couple of patches of fog there. But mid70s today cooler over the weekend slight chance of showers saturday night into sunday. sir canalot good day, ma lady. 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