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Entire military. 527 $billion is how much the pentagon wants to spend next year. $496 billion is the spending level congress approved but only $475 billion can actually be spent after imagineder to budget cuts. the bottom line, in the next two months, $21 billion in military spending must be slashed. that's $21 billion across the board. no flexibility in where the cuts are made. all the services warn of impending doom. >> we need to be mindful. as many as 100,000 professional jobs are at risk. >> reporter: the army chief of staff general ray odierno said he may not have enough troops to fight ...

Positive in the second quarter. it's a good time to be king. "the new york times" says the average pay for the u.s. ceos rose 16% last year to $15 million. larry ellison tops the list. his pay jumped to $96 billion. there could be consolidation in the cable industry. liberty media is eyeing time warner cable, and may try to buy the company. a combined company would have 50 million subscribers. back to you. >> thank you. we are going to tell you what is leading the news, coming up. plus, the best sports highlights with betty nguyen. these are sandra's "homemade" yummy, scrumptious bars. h...

Now it's time to start shaming obese as they cost us billions in medical care. where is this headed? government pays for the healthcare, they can decide who lives or dies based on what behavior they dislike. if you can't be penalized to lose weight, to quote the piece why not just let the health sinners die? annual healthcare cost are roughly $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for the obese, the government says. that is the big point. the government says. when everyone else pays for your care withholding care is their call. your death improves the bottom line. one way time to prove the c...

But it's a bailout none the less. >> eric: and very dangerous. what you reference is the unfunded liability, right? >> yep. >> eric: give us a sense of illinois, $96 billion? >> 96 billion. >> eric: nationally? >> 300% in illinois since the late 1990s. nationally, the unfunded pension liability for state workers only is well over a trillion and mounting constantly. >> steve: we were speaking earlier in the break about how that bell, california fiasco where so many people were getting such rich payouts, now a lot of municipalities have really reined it in. not illinois. >> no. what really needs...

Us. morning, adam. >> we are at the amazon.com facility, the fulfillment center here in phoenix, their largest out of 40 in the united states, 80 world side. 1.2million square feet. take a look, you can see the activity of the pickers, they are called. these people are unpackaging the items you've already ordered, they put them into bins that go into the other section of the fact free where other pickers put them into another bin where they get sorted into the box. i'll show you. frank, come with me. watch out for for that cable down there. the key to cyber monday you mentioned the 1.5 billion...