. >>> and this morning, the president will nominate sylvia mathews burwell as his next budget chief. >>> queen elizabeth ii is in a london hospital after a stomach infection. him ma -- jim maceda is in london. >> reporter: the queen is here at london's king edward hospital, driven in by private car, and now receiving treatment for gastroenteritis. or more simply put a stomach bug. the monarch is in good spirits. those who know her best are feeling somewhat annoyed about all of the fuse. this is uncharted territory for the queen. despite turning 87 next month. she hasn't been admitted to a hospital for herself since she had surgery on her knees ten years ago. it's a measure of how important the queen is here that so many britains say they were stunned she had to cancel all her events over the next week while doctors figured out what bug she has. is it viral or back terrifyal. bacterial based gastro yntir rg can be serious in the very young and the very old. >>> she's a strong one. people know she will be back here soon. >> bill karins is here and track agnew winter storm. who will it

sylvia mathews burwell, who runs walmart's philanthropic foundation, would be director of the white house office of management and budget. the president wants ernest moniz, who's in charge of mit's energy initiative, to be the new energy secretary. and gina mccarthy, now a senior member of the epa, is his choice to lead the agency. if they're confirmed, the president has given them a sequester-be-damned mandate: "one of the things that i've instructed not just my white house, but every agency, is to make sure that regardless of some of the challenges that they may face because of sequestration, we're not going to stop working on behalf of the american people and make sure that we're doing everything we can to continue to grow this economy and improve people's prospects." the hess corporation is headed in a new direction. shares of the energy company hit their highest level in two years yesterday as hess announced plans to leave the gas station business. the company is changing gears to focus on oil exploration and production. the changes have followed pressure from hedge fund elliott mana

she's been in charge of the air pollution division over there, and the president has chosen sylvia mathews burwell, who heads the wal-mart foundation, to be his budget director. the story everyone's been talking about today is the 911 recording of a nurse refusing to give c.p.r. to an elderly woman in bakersfield, california. it happened last week, but the 911 tape came out over the weekend. a lot of us heard it and couldn't believe our ears. now the police are investigating and so is ben tracy. >> reporter: 87-year-old lorraine bayless was in the dining room of the glenwood gardens retirement home when she collapsed. the 911 operator spent most of the seven-minute call trying to convince a woman who identified herself as a nurse to perform c.p.r. >> reporter: the caller refused. she said glenwood gardens would not allow her to perform c.p.r. on residents. >> reporter: the executive director of the facility said in a statement that in the event of a health energy at this independent living community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the

just about an hour from now, the president will nominate sylvia mathews burwell, the president of the walmart foundation as his next budget chief. he's a veteran of the white house and comparative outsider. she'll have the unenviable task of squaring off with the house republicans. little was done to stop the sequester, and both parties seemed content to blame each other while waving the white flag and allowing a sequestration to continue. >> we have this sequester because the president demanded it. >> it's happening because a choice that republicans in congress have made. >> i think in many ways the president and the congressional leadership have moved beyond the sequester. >> a sequester somehowdown was avoided by doing nothing. some furlough notifications have already gone out, but the first cutbacks won't happen until april. in a sign of political exhaustion, both the president and speaker are also signaling they won't be battle over sequestration during the funding of the government fight that could have taken place to the end of this month, so it takes the prospect of a governme

and president obama will nominate walmart's sylvia mathews-burwell as his next budget direct rememberion that she runs. he'll make the announcement during a white house air many this morning. burwell served as omb's deputy director in the clinton administration. and also the chief of staff for robert reuben and she runs the walmart foundation, the retail giant's huge philanthropic wing. and let's check the futures, just barely down more than 20 points now. 21 points after some weakness at the end of last week but nothing that significant giving -- given that we did hit the sequester. chinese stocks falling to the lowest level in six weeks overnight. the drop coming after beijing hit property developers with harsher than expected tightening measures to contain housing costs. fascinating piece on 60 minutes last night. in fact, about the residential market in china. meantime, japanese shares hit a 4.5 year high on monetary easing hopes, at least for more monetary easing than we've seen hit the yen but help the stock market. in europe, we're seeing not a whole lot happening. mixed result

nominating two omb, sylvia mathews burwell.tion, then secretary treasure ruben, under clinton. i'm not sure anything, though, prepares you for running omb itself. >> no, and certainly not at this extraordinary time of standoffs that have been persisting for two years. the sequester process that nobody wanted to happen. it's now happening, and on your watch and you're responsible for it. as i mentioned before, she had a reputation as a very steady and competent hand in the clinton administration. so i think president obama is likely to be well served by his choice. i wouldn't expect to see any significant republican resistance to her appointment. >> anybody else that you expect him to address specifically today? >> well, he's going to announce the ernesto muniz for energy secretary. gina mccarthy for head of epa. i don't expect an announcement on commerce secretary, which is one we've been focused on. penny pritsger, the hotel executive, is one who has been talked about for that job. white house officials have been indicating it

in the meantime, i am confident that my nominee for omb director, sylvia mathews burwell, is the right person to continue jeff's great work. [applause] in the 1990's when she was 19 -- [laughter] sylvia served under jack lew and as the deputy director of omb part of the team that presided over three budget surpluses in a row. later she helped the gates foundation grow into a global force for good. and then she helped the wal-mart foundation expand its charitable work. so, sylvia knows her way arrau of the budget. but as the granddaughter of greek and address she understands it's not just to make the numbers add up, it's also to reignite the true engine of economic growth in this country and that is a strong and growing middle class. ladders of opportunity for anybody that is willing to claim them. sylvia's mom is here and sylvia loves to talk about her parents, growing up in west virginia and the values that they instilled in her as educators, and i think that reflects everything that sylvia now does. so i am absolutely confident that she's going to do great job at omb. those values ar