Room, making clear what he thinks of the sequester. We shouldnt be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on, like education and research and infrastructure and defense. Woodruff the president was also adamant on where the blame lies with those who balked at erasing tax loopholes for the wealthy and other revenue raisers. None of this is necessary. Its happening because. A choice that republicans in congress have made. Theyve allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit. Woodruff but republicans were having none of it. Shortly before the president emerged, House Speaker john boehner again rejected the demand for more taxes. The president got his tax hikes on january 1. This discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. Its about taking on the spending problem here in washington. Woodruff the president now has until just before midnight to issue an order that makes the cuts official. It will be weeks before many of the effects are felt. But within days, federal agencies will start sending out notices that hiring freezes and furloughs are coming. In addition, the Associated Press reported 2,000 Illegal Immigrants in detention were released in recent weeks to save money on jail costs. The administration had said the number was a few hundred. And newly installed defense secretary chuck hagel said today the military is implementing the largest cuts in nearly 30 years. Let me make it clear that this uncertainty puts at risk our ability to effectively fulfill all of our missions. Woodruff the army has curtailed training for nearly 80 of combat brigades. And in norfolk, virginia, home to the navys atlantic fleet, the Aircraft Carrier harry truman sits idle. It was to have sailed for the persian gulf last month. The president voiced frustration back at the white house today, the president voiced frustration at suggestions he should have done more to prevent all this. Most people agree im presenting a fair deal. The fact that they dont take it means that i should somehow, you know, do a jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do whats right. Woodruff one thing both sides did seem to agree on the need for a stopgap bill to keep the government running past march 27, when it runs out of funds. Im hopeful that we wont have to deal with the threat of a Government Shutdown while were dealing with the sequester at the same time. Woodruff house members and senators are due to return to washington monday. Brown coming up how the budget cuts could affect people and communities around the country. And also ahead a state of emergency in detroit; egypt nearing economic collapse; hunger in america; plus, shields and brooks. But first, the other news of the day. Heres hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan president obama today spoke out against californias ban on gay marriage. His statement came one day after the administration asked the u. S. Supreme court to strike down the ban as unconstitutional. The president once opposed gay marriage, but changed his stance during his reelection campaign. He said today he and the country have evolved. When the Supreme Court essentially called the question by taking this case about californias law, i didnt feel like that was something that this administration could avoid. I felt it was important for us to articulate what i believe and what this Administration Stands for. Sreenivasan 200 Congressional Democrats also filed a brief today urging the court to overturn the california ban. They join more than 100 prominent republicans who voiced their support earlier in the week. The justices will hear oral arguments in late march. A federal judge in california has cut a 1 billion damage award in the applesamsung fight by nearly half. Samsung will now have to pay apple just under 600 million for infringing on smart phone and tablet computer patents. The judge also ordered a new trial on some of apples allegations in the case. Wall street ended the week with small gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average added 35 points to close at 14,089. The nasdaq rose nine points to close at 3,169. For the week, both the dow and the nasdaq gained a fraction of a percent. February was a good month for most major auto makers in the u. S. Ford reported today its sales rose 9 last month, while General Motors climbed 7 , its best showing since february of 2008. Sales for both chrysler and toyota were up 4 . The Prime Minister of turkey drew widespread criticism today over comments about zionism. At a u. N. Conference this week, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said prejudice against muslims is a crime against humanity, in his words, just as with zionism, antisemitism and fascism. In ankara, turkey, today, the visiting u. S. Secretary of state, john kerry, sharply criticized the statement. Obviously we not only disagree with it, we found it objectionable. It is essential that both turkey and israel find a way to take steps in order to bring about or to rekindle their historic cooperation. I think thats possible. But obviously we have to get beyond the kind of the kind of rhetoric that weve just seen. Sreenivasan israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu also condemned erdogans comment, calling it a dark and mendacious statement. Those are some of the days major stories. Now, back to jeff. Woodruff we return to our look at the impact of the sequestration cuts. For a sense of what will happen at the federal level, were joined by ed okeefe. Hes Congressional Correspondent for the Washington Post and has spent years covering federal agencies. And for some local consequences, were joined by two journalists from our public Media Partners karen kasler is bureau chief for ohio Public Television; megan verlee is State Government reporter for colorado public radio. I want to start with you, ed, with an overview here in washington. Where are we seeing or likely to see the most immediate impacts . Well, we have already gotten some indication from a few agencies this week that their furloughs will begin essentially within a month. We really wont see most of the effects until later in march. And so people should wake up tomorrow morning thinking oh my gosh, the National Parks are closed, and the lines at the airports will grow long. We heard this week, for example, the justice department, people who work for u. S. Attorneys face furloughs of about 14 days but not until late april. Folks at the National LaborRelations Board could face furloughs up to 22 days. At the pentagon they said there are hundreds of thousands of civilian employees across the country could face furlough, also 22 days. You might wonder why 22 days. Its because after 22 days you have to lay someone off and its actually more expensive to lay someone off than make them stay home for a few days. Brown and is it your sense that all of these agencies an departments have a plan in place. They do. Brown they do. In fact, they have had plans in place for really almost 2 years. You recall in the spring of 2011 interests there was a possibility of a Government Shutdown. The plans were being drawn up then and have been adapted ever since. A few months ago the White House Budget Office asked these agencies to start putting together plans based on what the cuts would be. They didnt take them too seriously and only in the last few weeks have they really started to get down to the nittygritty of who might lose their job for how long. And what services would be cut. Brown karen kaslar what are you seeing in ohio . How much is the state exposed . What particular areas . Well, ohio is interesting in that were not going to be as heavily impacted as some states like virginia and maryland. Because of federal spending as a percentage of state gdp is pretty low, only about 3 , actually less than 3 . And so were talking about 26,000 civilians who work for military contractors. Most of them based at our Largest Military installlation which is write Patterson Air force base near dayton and then we have other state agencies that might see some impact, for example, the department of education is reporting about 25 Million Dollars. The white house is actually saying this. About 25 Million Dollars could be cut to education. About 22 Million Dollars could be cut to education for children with disabilities. And those could be hundreds of teachers jobs. And also some head start positions, about 2500, according to the white house. Though our costs here are lower for head start so head start in ohio is saying about 3,000 kids. So those are the kind of impacts that were looking at. Its a lot less than in some other states. Brown and megan verlee, what about in colorado. You have a lot going on there with federal spending, right. I think by definition we are some other states in comparison so ohio. Colorado has a greater exposure to these federal cuts on average than most states in the country, according to numbers from the pew center on the states because we have a bunch of military bases, a lot of federal spending with a lot of Research Labs and a big Federal Center out here. And then federal grants to our budget are a larger than average percentage. So in colorado were looking at about 85 to 90 Million Dollars over the coming year, i believe theyre estimating. And then there are concerns about the Multiplier Effect as a lot of those federal workers become furloughed and arent spending as much money in the state economy. So i know there are ongoing concerns at the state level for what this will mean for revenue and for state programs down the line. Brown and megan, do you see this or is it being seen as rolling out over time the way ed okeeffe was talking about . It is, although there is a certain amount of urgency. If our State Government decides it wants to backfill any of the lost federal money to save education programs, or to temporary aid to needy families, that has to go through a vote of our full state, they are in session until midmay but i think there is going to be urgency on the part of lawmakers to make some decisions pretty quickly about how they are going to react to this. So its interesting. Its not felt evenly, right, and its not felt spread out across every program. No, its not at all. They mentioned maryland and virginia, certainly here on the outskirts of washington will be adversely affected. Federal workers. Absolutely. And youll see a lot of different programs exempt, for example the entire department of Veterans Affairs is exempt from this. Social security checks will continue to go out. The irs wont furlough its workers until tax returns have been processed in midapril. So it is spread out in ways that originally it was meant to be that these were so draconian that they would never happen. But now theyre going to hit the military, low income women and children, disabled children and Big Education programs. Brown and in that, does this also affect the politics . I mean in terms of who speaks out from various states because as we are saying, some are hit, some are not hit. I think we will begin to see lawmakers from states who are adversely affected speaking out a lot more. For example theres a bipartisan plan put forth today to avert all this from the democratic senator from colorado and susan colin, the republican from maine. Both of those states with large military operations, a lot of dependence on federal money and employment. So i think next week as we approach ot continuing resolution, the need to renew the current federal spending plan, that you had will see some, try to step in and soften the blow. So karen kaslar, you are 59 a state where you have a republican governor. What is the reaction been there . How much attention are they paying to it . How vocal are they about it . Our republican Governor John Kasich often touts himself as a budget expert, chair of the House Budget Committee back in the 90s. So we hear a lot about federal budgets from our governor. And interestingly he has been say and his office has been saying that they dont expect to see significant affects on state programs from the sequester. And when i talked to state agencies such as the department of education and job and Family Services which will be dealing with job training money, that might be cut. The attitude is very lets wait and see, lets see what happens here. We have time to adjust. And these are School Funding money, education money wouldnt even be affected until next school year t starts in august. So there is a feeling here in ohio, a state run by republicans, that there is plenty of time to absorb the sequester. While it might not be i deal theres time to recover. Brown and karen, do you think that also applies to the again population as well, a sense of sort of watching from outside a bit . I think it depends on where are you in the state. Certainly weve got the two congressmen to deal with wrightPatterson Air force base. Congressman nike el turner then also Speaker John Boehner who are obviously very involved in whats happening here with the sequester am but in other parts of the state you hear a little less chatter. We do have Tea Party Groups urging it to go forward, other groups are very concerned about it. So once you get out of the main area here in the state capital, it depends on where you are, what are you hearing. And megan, you were saying, well, you have a democrat as a governor. You were talking about how the state is trying to make some decisions here about how to deal with this. Tell us a little bit more. How big a deal is it . What are you hearing . I think its a pretty big deal, certainly within the halls of the capitol. We spoke with our governor yesterday and he said that he val weighing whether to back specifically programs that will would affect the last and least. One he sided was families, low income families that might lose child care vouchers. And then hence might not be able to continue working. And doesnt make sense for the state to step in there. But like most states, colorado has gone through years and years of budget cuts and i think it will be a hard political sell both within the capitol and then out to the people saying hey, we want to put this money into state programs. Now were actually using it to make out federal funding that weve lost. I think on the ground level, like in ohio, it really depends on where you are. I know the universities are very concerned. Theres a lot of Research Grant money that goes into our big Research Institutions and theyre looking at cuts, and trying to figure out where that is going to hit in the labs and what that will look like for their work going forward. The average person, its funny, i saw a tweet this afternoon, someone saying oh, no, the affects of the sequester. And they had a picture of screen shot of the wait time at dia, our airport, 10 minutes. So i think theres a little some sensation that there might be some crying wolf because people expect an immediate chop to funding and life looks like it will go on tomorrow. Brown and ed, just in a word here, we sure didnt look like much was happening. Is there any did your reporting show any behind the screens action. Nancy pelosi is in san francisco, the majority leader will be in they will ma for a civil rights march, harry reid is in washington. No work is expected. Brown that tells us. Ed okeeffe, megan verlee and karen kaslar, thank you all three. Thank you. Thank you. And you can find out how the cuts will affect two more communities hampton roads, virginia, and st. Louis, missouri. Weve compiled reporting from our public Media Partners there. Woodruff local governments are facing their own budget woes. One in especially big trouble is detroit. The city faces a budget deficit of more than 300 million, and has lost a quarter million residents in the past decade. Today, michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced plans to appoint an emergency manager to oversee the citys finances and operations. That would make it the largest u. S. City under state control. Snyder spoke at a Community Forum today. Its time to say we should stop going downhill. It is time to say we need to start moving upward with the city of detroit. There have been many good people that have had many plan, many attempts to turn this around. They havent worked. The way i view it, today is a day to call all hands on deck. To say theres been too much fighting, too much blame, not inform resources, not enough people working together to say lets resolve these issues. Woodruff detroit mayor dave bing said in a statement that he remains opposed to the move, but would look at all options. Christy macdonald has been covering the story for Detroit Public Television and was at todays forum. Welcome to the newshour, Christy Macdonald, my first question is how did things get to this state in the city, to this condition in the city of detroit . Well, judey, it didnt happen overnight. This las been years in the m