next we will hear from admiral mark ferguson, vice chief of naval operations, united states navy. >> madam chairman, senator ayotte, and distinguished members of the committee, it's an honor to represent the men and women of the navy and review the readiness of the force with you today. as we prepared our fiscal year 2013 budget request, our decisions were driven by the new defense strategy and our sailing directions for the navy, emphasizing war fighting, operations forward, and readiness. we focused on funding the critical elements of readiness as we balanced our investments in future capability, operations and maintenance, personnel, training, and spares. our budget proposes reductions in force structure and delays in the procurement of some new platforms to ensure the wholeness of our remaining force. importantly, we invested in maintaining a sustainable deployment model to allow for the reset and stride of our forces between rotational deployments, as well as in selected ordnance and training for the fleet. we also focused on enhancing our forward presence to mitigate a reduced-

admiral mark ferguson, vice chief of operations. general philip breedlove, vice chief of staff of the air force, and general joseph dunford, associate commandant of the marine corps. gentlemen, i sincerely appreciate each of you adjusting your schedules at the last minute after we could not hold this hearing on the original date because we were voting. turning to the issue at hand, after more than a decade of combat operations in iraq and afghanistan, reported readiness levels of our armed forces have steadily declined. even as defense spending has grown dramatically. our nondeployed forces have experienced serious readiness shortfalls in terms of personnel, equipment, and training. even our deploying units have struggled with not enough time to train for full-spectrum missions. now we're entering an era of declining budgets, forced structure and new strategies. as a result, our military services face a new set of challenges as they seek to balance the draw-down of forces, vital reset of equipment and personnel, and continuing comba

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we are pleased to be joined by general lloyd austin bice chief of staff of the army, admiral mark ferguson vice chief of naval operations, general philip breedlove vice chief of staff of the air force and general joseph dunford associate commandant of the marine corps. gentleman i appreciate each of you adjusting their schedules at the last minute. we could not hold this hearing on the original day because we are voting. turning to the shorthand after more than a decade of combat operations in iraq and afghanistan reported readiness levels of our armed forces have steadily declined. even as defense spending has grown dramatically. arnon deployed forces have experienced serious readiness shortfalls in terms of personnel, equipment and training. even are deploying units have struggled with not enough time to train for full spectrum missions. now we are entering an era of declining budgets, force structure and new strategies. as a result their military services face a new set of challenges as they seek to balance the drawdown of forces, vital reset of equipment and personnel in continuing com

we are pleased to be joined by general lloyd often, vice chief of staff of the army, mark ferguson, a vice chief of naval operations, and general joseph dunford of the marine corps. i appreciate each of you adjusting your schedule at the last minute. we cannot hold the hearing on the original date because we were voting. after more than a decade of combat operations in iraq and afghanistan, reported readiness levels have steadily declined. even as defense spending has grown dramatically. our not deployed forces have experienced serious shortfalls in terms of personnel, equipment, and training. even deploying units that struggled with not enough time to train. now we are entering an era of declining budgets, forced structure, and new strategies. as a result, our military services base a new set of challenges as they seek to balance the drawdown of forces, michael reese set of equipment and personnel, and continuing combat operations in afghanistan. i am interested in hearing the extent of current projects current readiness funding back logged and the risk posed by the back lots. we hav

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mark ho, nhk world, singapore. >>> and that's going to con clutd our bulletin. >>> let's go to rachel ferguson now for the world weather forecast. >> well, as we head on into our wednesday, it is going to be beautiful across much of japan. up towards the north, though, still seeing hokkaido under the influence of the low pressure system bringing all the rain. we have the front still stalled out across the southern japanese islands and southern coast of china. much of the rest of china will be dry, which is certainly very good news for portions up to the northwest. however, there will be a few showers across the korean peninsula, and also for northeastern china, nothing too heavy here. some of the showers down to the south, though, could be a little bit on the heavy side, including in hong kong. and when we go a little bit further down towards the indochina peninsula, hef ri rain is targeting the eastern half, now it's shifted over to the west and thailand is going to be under the influence of a strengthening southwest monsoon. so heavy rain impacting the country. it's going to be 37 degrees in bangkok as well. we're se

mark bittman. three cold soups for a perfect, steamy day. good to see you. up next a live performance from british x factor sensation rebecca ferguson.yota concert series on today" brought to you by toyota. >> rebecca ferguson's voice has been described as a cross between amy winehouse and aretha franklin. the single mom of two from liverpool shot to fame on the seventh season of "the x factor uk." now she's out with her debut album. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> when you share this adulation comparing you to aretha franklin, and the new york daily news giving your new cd four stars, the "times" of london saying ferguson's voice is the real deal, what does it mean to you after dreaming this for so long as a single mother of two? >> it's really -- it's hard to take in, to take in. maybe i just can't believe how much my life's changed. and i'm just hoping that it lasts and lasts and continues to make music. >> a lot of people are believing that it will last a long time. before i ask you more about that, though, what happened to your foot here? >> i slipped on some water when i was out with me friends and broke me leg. >> so

mark zuckerberg took facebook public he made $18 billion. even mitt romney was like damn, damn money monk. that's how mitt romney talks. way from the cameras -- >> i didn't know mr. fergusonool. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> and i'm charlie rose. the rut zers student who used a spy cam to spy on his roommate will only go to jail for 30 days. >>> a new jersey judge gave ravi a light sentence but a pretty tough talk. i heard the jury say guilty 288 times and i haven't heard you say it once. >>> former rutgers student da roon ravi sat emotionless as the judge handed him a 30-day jail sentence he could have got ten years behind bars but the judge faced him on a lighter sentence that he was con voisktd bias crime, not causing clementi's death. >> you cannot expunge the conflict or pain you caused. >> reporter: in september 2010 he used a webcam to spy on clementi, his roommate of only three weeks, and another man having a sexual encounter. he invited friends to watch. days later clementi jumped off the george washington bridge and jumped to his death. >> even i had no idea the despair or torment. and i thought i knew him. >> reporter: cleme

mark halperin, especially for young people in spain, and you see what's happening in greece. the greeks just cannot pull themselves together to save their country. and you look at france. and as neal fergusoncted a champagne socialist. i'm not sure what that is. but promising lower hours of working, and a lower retirement age, and 75% taxes. europe is in trouble. >> prime minister merkel may play a bigger role in influencing the president's chances of re-election than dav david axelrod. the politics of the bain attack are so interesting. do they plan to sustain this argument? i think in some political observers they would say why do this now, in may, when you want to have this argument be fresh and relevant for the press and for the public in september and october? the other thing is, there's a two-minute version of this ad. that's not the one that's going on tv. they are doing sort of a full-court flood zone of conference calls and local events and different versions of this to try to get this in the conversation. to try to stop mitt romney now. but, again, they may be burning out the argument too soon. >> ezra, you say ohio, we're going to see this in ohio. i take it this is going to be