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Up the speech and they do a lot of ship building for the navy and the president says tens of thousands of people in the newport area will end up being furloughed in the massive cuts keep going through and the president followed up on the homeland security secretary janet napolitano would be more vulnerable if the cuts go through and today he was talking about defense cuts and jobs, and john boehner responded promptly with some tough and colorful words about what the senate democrats would do. take a listen to the president. >> these cuts are wrong. they're not smart, they're not fair. they're ...

O'donnell wrote a letter to the president this week sounding the alarm about the potential devastation that looming cuts to defense due to sequestration will have to national security and on the economic well-being of the sits of the commonwealth. bad enough to apply political pressure to republicans ot home. next week, they're going after the defense cuts that are coming in republican districts. on monday, the president heads to virginia to visit newport news ship building, open to members of congress like republican scott richard. this is not a theoretical problem like up in washington. this...

Shepard? >> shepard: thanks very much. conor powell in jerusalem for us. the senate today voted the tighten the economic pressure on iran. 94 to 0 vote. lawmakers banned all business with iran's energy, port, shipping, and ship building sectors. it's part of the ongoing u.s. effort to push iran to abandon its nuclear efforts. haven't worked. today iran's ambassador to the international atomic energy agency warned that any attack on its nuclear facilities could spark iran to kick out the inspectors and withdraw from the nonproliferation treaty. meantime, a senior iranian cleric today claimed th...

For those building for the military, correct? >> that's right. angle's ship building in my home state of mississippi, for example. we can't possibly layoff ship builders and tell them to come back in two or three years and retrain. we have to keep that industry base. it is very, very important. layoff notices are going out as we speak. >> democrats are pointing at republicans saying this is all your fault. the majority of republicans signed on to the budget control act. and now they are immovable on this idea of raising revenues. you can't get a budget deal. representative adam smith was on ju...

wheel and left at least 3 of 13 crew members hurt. the coast guard has dropped supplies. a cutter has made its way to the yacht, and at least two of the injured have been moved to a smaller ship. i want to go now by telephone to coast guard petty officer kcale critchfield. were you able to get help out? >> yes, we were. the coast guard cutter is on scene and they deployed their small response boat to go out to the yacht, and we were able to recover two of the injured people and get them on board the small boat. >> okay. so they are on scene right now as you and i are speaking rescuin...