army secretary francis harvey. let's watch this.lip] secretary gates: i have two announcements to make. first, earlier today, the secretary of the army offered his resignation. i have accepted the resignation. under secretary of the army, we we will have a new acting secretary until another one is appointed. i thank dr. harvey for his service to the nation. second, the army will name a new commander for the army medical center. this flagship institution must have its new leadership in place as quickly as possible. i am disappointed that some in the army have not adequately appreciated the seriousness of the situation pertaining to outpatient care at walter reed. muchhave shown too defensiveness and not enough focus and digging into and addressing it the problems. brian lamb: as you have ignored, some people think you are cold. explain your process of firing? secretary gates: in improving organizations, i am willing to hold people accountable, and i think that particularly, and even when i was a young cia officer, whenever there was

francis is due to arrive in mexico friday night and he'll be in the country for five days. >> now your storm team 5 forecast with chief meteorologist harvey leonard. >> there has been a lot of snow in the air. not too much on the ground east of worcester but worcester west a few spots got three inches. most of that was in the first 2/3 of the day. leftover snow showers starting to slid off the coast. also in northern middlesex county between 128 and 495 and up around orange but i'm starting to see the aerial coverage shrink as well as the intensity tending to wane. i expect that trend will continue. we'll slide the snow showers offshore from marshfield and it will eventually bring an end to the snow showers up around this area. visibility is not reduced that much. three miles in boston. where it was low it's actually come up a little bit. so there you go. dissipating snow showers through the evening and then the rest of be quiet. we have another one disturbances in the higher levels of the atmosphere so it will probably cause another little round of snow showers to develop. possibly a few around hartford. early tomorrow but you can expect