deputy chief john murphy, enforcement and security at the mta. commander sandra tong of the airport bureau. commander james dudley of the airport operations bureau. commander daniel mahoney, chief of the operations staff. commander daniel lazard, chief of investigations. this is a time when we stop and offer special members of the police department. these are members who have distinguished themselves through their bravery and dangerous situations. it is important to note one of the criteria for the medal of honor this one failed to -- failure to take such action would lead to center. these are actions above and beyond call of duty. at this time, i would like to invite the chief of police, cheif gascon, to come up here and speak. >> thank you, everyone, for being here. this is a special moment in policing movie get to celebrate the incredible acts of bravery by the men and women in our department. before i say a few words about these incredible men and women sitting in the front, i want to thank their families. your support, day in and day out, or

mark-ups in the senate finance and the house ways and means committee, and i'll stop there and ask john murphy to elaborate at kind of the polar opposite outcome and give us some insight as to his read as to what that may mean and where we might be end up going forward. john? >> thank you, bruce. you know, as you look at the situation today whether you're a entrepreneur or whether you're an elected official, um, in today's global economy when you stand still, you fall behind. and that's the panorama that our elected leaders are wrestling with today. ten days ago the european union entered into a free trade agreement with korea, and on august 15th canada will enter into one with colombia. in fact, there are a total of more than 297 of these bilateral free trade agreements around the world today, and the united states is a party to just is 1 of them -- to 11 of them covering just 17 countries. the american people, um, see this through, um, a lens that they see trade as often being unfair. and as a matter of fact, they're right. when the united states falls behind in trade and when we don't have

having said that, let me start with john murphy. from a congressional perspective, the other hot issues or issue, if you will, surrounding the debt negotiations and occupying some attention and time in congress are the pending free-trade agreements from south korea to columbia, and panama. they have been stalled for several years and we were anxious to see them enacted. the president recently announced he would be sending them to congress. two weeks after that, the president then said first, however, he was putting congress on notice that they had to enact the expired it provisions on trade adjustment assistance and two days later asked for an extension and expansion of unemployment. following that, the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, stated that procedurally he wanted to take the trade adjustment assistance issue backward initiated several decades ago in the context of trade promotion authority which expired about 1.5 years ago and the current president does not have it. mitch mcconnell was very interested in reauthorize a

john colin murphy who drew "prince valiant" was my godfather.own who drew "hagar the horrible" performed my wedding ceremony. >> do comic strips get a bad rap? are they considered the poor relation of the art world? >> definitely. i don't think cartoons, comic strips, are the same as fine art. but i think that that's what books like mine are about. helping people learn to appreciate comics is something more than just sort of a passing fancy. these are some of the most beautifully illustrated story adventure strips ever done, i think. rick kirby. alex raymond in the early years of this strip experimented with a lot of different techniques and alternating back and forth between very sort of delicate pen lines and very bold kind of brushstrokes. >> what are the most important strips of the last, say, 20 years? >> there are three strips that came up in the 1980s. it was "calvin and hobbes" by bill waterson, which in my mind is probably one of the b strips ever. there's another panel called "the far side" which some of you might remember by gary lars

i'd like to thank mary mcdonagh murphy, who joined us from new york via skype, and john -- john is actually a descendant of the first chief justice of the u.s. supreme court. paulette frankl, "lust for justice," tony serra, and sheldon siegal. so before we take a break, i do have a surprise. a few years ago, i guess six or seven years ago, i met an amazing artist. i was visiting his home. and he had created this wonderful sculpture. i immediately recognized it as being clarence. it turned out that he had created a number of just amazing sculptures of trial lawyers. and he went on to do one of clara fults, the first woman attorney in california and became the leader of the public defender movement. and just by happenstance, he called me and had this idea of encapsulating one of the greatest trial attorneys of our times. so, bill? is he here? this is not a magistrate. [laughing] -- not a magic trick. >> i've never met tony serra, so i have to make use of the internet to get a sense of who he was and the imagery. what clearly came over was his passion for justice. and in some cases almost a ra

commissioner murphy: this ordinance, since it started, this one department has done a pretty good job, spearheaded by john.

commissioner murphy: this ordinance, since it started, this one department has done a pretty good job, spearheaded by john. looking at this, you did a great job. sure, there might be a few kinks that need to be worked out, but you are certainly on the right track. commissioner lee: with the department like to answer back on how the public can report these vacant buildings? >>

commissioner murphy: this ordinance, since it started, this one department has done a pretty good job, spearheaded by john. looking at this, you did a great job. sure, there might be a few kinks that need to be worked out, but you are certainly on the right track. commissioner lee: with the department like to answer back on how the public can report these vacant buildings? >> first of all, starting this week, you can go online. i do not believe you will get a number. how it happens -- you can go on line and make a complaint starting this week. the process prior to this was either by mail, phone, or coming to the front counter. it is a vacant building, it would be taken and put into a box. there is a senior building inspector that is assigned to that box and he prioritizes it. a complaint like that would go to the sixth floor. it would need to be transported up there. but by the end of the close of business or within a few hours, there is a number given. once the number is given, it is then routed to the district building inspector. if it has permits on it. if it has no permits, it is issued to a specific

murphy is expected to turn herself in tomorrow and appear in court. she's charged with felony murder and felony child neglect. >>> big shake-up tonight in prince georges county politics. leslie johns season stepping down from her county council seat. she handed in her resignation letter today. it comes just five days after she pleaded guilty of destroying evidence in a federal corruption probe. chris gord season live in upper marlboro with more on the fallout today. chris? >> the prince georges county council unanimously is calling on leslie to resign effectively, not as of the end of the month. as the council session began, leslie johnson said just three words, good morning, present. then mrs. johnson left, issuing a statement through her lawyer, saying after careful thought and consideration, i tendered my resignation this morning as a member of the prince georges county council for district six, effective july 31st, 2011, the last day before august recess. i apologize for my mistake. last thursday, leslie johnson pleaded guilty to charges of witness and evidence tampering. she admitted to conspireing with her husband, former prince gornls county executive jack johnson, to flush

john boehner over the weekend. >> a northern virginia mother charged with killing her son is expected to surrender to officials later today. a prince william county grand jury indicted karen murphylice she she left her son, ryan in the family minivan for seven hours last month. this is not the first time she had forgotten the boy. in january, she left him in the van for 20 minutes. records show that she wasn't aware of the mistake until the child's day care called her to say he was absent. d.c. police have made a second arrest in a deadly shooting from last month's caribbean parade. deonte jay bryant is charged in the case. officers picked him up yesterday. jimenez also charged. he was arrested days after the june 25th shooting which killed innocent bystander 43-year-old robert foster jr. three others were also shot in that but they survived. >> the lights, coffeemaker and air conditioning are finally back on for people in arlington, virginia this morning. surae chinn is live in arlington where dominion crews worked through the night. we hear the hum of -- is it an air conditioning unit? >> reporter: they are working this morning. you know the two people i've seen coming out of

murphy. once again, eisenhower's out of commission for weeks. for the middle east, the timing could not have been worse. by the time ike returned to the white house on july 15th, 1956, john foster dulles decided to withdraw the american offer of 80 to the aswan project largely because congress was opposed to it. on july 19th, 1956, an important date, dulles in a 12 minute meeting, 12 minutes, obtained eisenhower's jacinta the decision to withdraw the offer of aid to aswan. ike was not on top of the issue. his recovery had been difficult. he had been plagued with doubts of depression. that afternoon, dulles informed of the egyptian investors the decision and the next day he proudly told some friends that the united states had made, quote, a big chess move and that nasser was now, quote, in a hell of a spot. a week later in retaliation, he nationalized the suez canal company saying he would use its profits to build the aswan. the british and french had controlled the company for decades. two-thirds of the wheel for western europe came through the canal, and now it was a united states and its allies that were in a hell of a spot. immediately the british and french prepared