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Their teams, some of whom are going to be shuffling their own lives, whether it's the cia or in afghanistan, all of you have done outstanding work, and i'm grateful for your service to our nation. and once again, let me thank the families of the individuals here, all of them make extraordinary sacrifices. michelle can attest to that. we know that none of us could be successful where it not for your extraordinary support. so thank you very much. >> there you have it, the president used the word shuffling. we'll call it shuffling among national security folk. president obama made several signifi...

Quickly, move fast. the president had a conference call with top officials like craig fugate, the fema director, to make sure that this administration is on top of the situation. in fact, we're told by aides that before the president starts talking about national security at this convenient in a few moments he'll address the storms and talk about the victims as well before he gets into the important national security changes as well, brooke. >> let's talk about the changes. barbara, weigh in first here. i understand when it comes to leon panetta, who has been the chief at the cia, heading over...

Petraeus in charge of the job in afghanistan is the president's choice to replace panetta over at the cia. i want to bring in two of my colleagues, ed henry, waiting for the president at the white house, and barbara starr at the pentagon. ed, before we talk about the changes in national security, we have to talk about the horrific storms, we've learned that the president i believe along with craig fugate, fema director, will be going to alabama tomorrow. what more do you know about his schedule? >> reporter: that's right, the president will, in fact, brooke, be going down alabama tomorrow. he ...

Confirmed and we're also looking at the retirement of general petraeus. >> you know, panetta would take over at the pentagon for retiring secretary bob gates on july 1st. now, general petraeus is going to hang around there in afghanistan for that transition until at least september. so there will be a little more leeway there and there will be some kind of temporary interim director appointed at the cia to take panetta's place. both of these appointments are getting very marks, will be easily confirmed on capitol hill. not that there won't be some difficulties in some adjustme s adjustments. t...

Of the office of budget and management, the om brb, the off of management and budget, over the next year or so will be instituting some very strict budget cuts here. also who's going to take panetta's place at the cia? president obama is expected to announce that he will nominate general david petraeus, the man currently leading the fight in afghanistan will now be nominated to take over the intelligence side. that's key because general petraeus has been working with a lot of those cia station agents, in iraq, in afghanistan, so he has some very real experience with those folks already on the ...