they were joined by defense department comptroller, robert hale. this is just under two hours. >> good morning. the subcommittee meets this morning. i am pleased to welcome the secretary of defense and our form or colleague, the honorable chuck hagel. chairman of joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, and the comptroller of the department of defense. we will speak today about budgets and more importantly about people. all of the services secretary said chiefs have appeared before the subcommittee this year and have expressed great concern over the sequestration

they were joined by defense department comptroller, robert hale. this is just under two hours. >> good morning. the subcommittee meets this morning. i am pleased to welcome the secretary of defense and our form or colleague, the honorable chuck hagel. chairman of joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, and the comptroller of the department of defense. we will speak today about budgets and more importantly about people. all of the services secretary said chiefs have appeared before the subcommittee this year and have expressed great concern ratethe sequestration particularly how has the potential to hurt the nation's defense. the cost of fuel, overseas contingency accounts have reduced the department operation bait bentz by $26 billion in this fiscal year. the reason on the best running the subcommittee is reviewing dollarsfset 7.3 billion of the shortfall, but the army would still have a $3.5 billion bill for the war in afghanistan with limited flexibility in paying it. i would like to know the options being considered to fill this gap as well as m

. >> during the trial, medical examiner robert stivers told the jury there have been very few strangulations of black haleales in the years before these murders began, and none at all with bodies left in rivers or by the roadside since that night wayne williams was stopped leaving this bridge. sfroo they were convinced that the crimes have stopped because wayne had been arrested. >> i think what happened is people stopped looking and stopped counting. >> reporter: murders have continued in atlanta. shootings of black men, stabbings of black women, and strangulations -- not black youths dumped far from where they were killed. detective welcome harris would stay on the police force another 25 years. we asked him how many more children were killed the way they were in the 1980s? >> none that i can recall. none that i can recall. >> wayne williams' appeals would drag for years. he almost won the first one. there was a ruling that would have reversed the verdict. >> he would find the evidence that would support a conviction. that's what he did find. originally. >> but the five other justices resisted. >> when