. >> massive charges, lawoffs, falling sales, currency head winds everything is happening at hewlett-packard. the 76-year-old tech pioneer in a critical phase as it prepares to split into two. they say it will now hit $2 billion over several years and it doesn't include the cost of layoffs. and yes there will be more layoffs. job cuts will hit 55,000 by the end of the fiscal year. but cfo is hinting about even more cuts during that spinoff process. meanwhile, meg wittman insists that the turn around track even though sales fell for the 13th of 14 quarters. i spoke with jason nolen. >> the biggest surprise to me was the free cash flow. $3 billion. and some of that was currency translation some was foreign tax. but a big component was the cost of separation. legal fees, consulting fees there's a lot of work that has to be done that separates these two companies. i think it's the right move long term but that was a big surprise to me. i didn't expect a billion-3. >> let's talk about this. it's very different than earnings. it's the money that the company collects. there's a lot of sort of back