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Military to preventing juvenile salmon from being killed by turbines. president obama's 2012 budget proposes cutting the corps budget 18% compared to 2010. >> we're doing fewer new projects, using a larger proportion of our money to operate and maintain the infrastructure that we're 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's doing now along the mississippi. it's used to doing that. in fact, critics say its projects are too dependent on earmark spen...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. you're in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, i'm fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisiana's biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. that's 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 15 feet. the morganza spillway hasn't been opened in nearly 40 years. but for the u.s. army corps...

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. spending requests by individual lawmakers. >> when the congress had projects for the most part they...