. >>> today, america's top military commander, admiral mike mullin, told congress that gays should be allowed to openly serve in the u.s. military. but as you are about to learn in tonight's signature story, not every government fellow embraces homosexuals. take the caribbean island of jamaica. there, attacks and even the killing of gays is said to be commonplace but rather than trying to put an end to the attacks, some believe members of the government are actually encouraging the violence. our correspondent recently traveled to jamaica. here is her report. >> reporter: friday afternoon, four men dressed as females narrowly escaped a mobbing in downtown kingston. just last week, a man was beaten because he was dressed as a female. >> the issue against gay men, especially mob violence is definitely a rarity. >> reporter: stacy ann jarrett is the executive director of jamaica aid supports for life where she works closely with jamaica's embattled gay community. >> an individual, you he verbal attacks, now you have physical attacks, where it was one-on-one. it is a group most definitely

this is a little less than an hour -- admiral mike mullins.t, let me say this statement will be available a little less than an hour after the briefing. the statements are kind of long, so to put your mind at ease, we will have about 25 minutes for questions after the statements, and i would ask you confine your statements to the budget, and as we get to the end of the 25 minutes, i would be happy to take one or two questions on other subjects. today this department is submitting a defense budget request along with two important documents. after my opening statement and the chairman's and the questions, you will hear from the under secretary of defense for policy, who will discuss this in more depth and then robert hale will provide more detail on the budget request. the three things our budget request for $548 billion. this overseas contingency it requests which will fund military operations in iraq and afghanistan next year. the fy10 supplemental request of $33 billion, which covers the new strategy for afghanistan. to make sure we have the

mike mullin's appeal to congress comes a week after president obama called on lawmakers to repeal theon't tell policy regarding homosexuality in the military. and the pentagon is figures out how to make that happy. tracie potts has our report. >> reporter: defense secretary robert gates tells congress he's preparing to end don't ask don't tell. >> we've received our orders from the commander in chief and we are moving out accordingly. >> reporter: he's ordered a year-long look at how to keep courses strong if congress repeals the law and allows gays to serve openly. more than 13,000 gay members have left the military. >> this is my life. this is my job that they're talking about. they're going to fire me just because i stayed true to the west point honor code. >> reporter: gay rights advocates claim attitudes have changed. >> the young service members between 18 and 32 have no problem with serving with gays whatsoever. so it's very much a generational thing. >> reporter: the joint chiefs chairman says he served with gays since the '60s. >> we have in place a policy whichorces young me