tom mccarthy. i'm a member of the carpenter's union. i have lived in the northeastern part of the city for 50 years. i have seen what has happened to that part of the city. it has been lost to low-income people. we have now the chance to build a new community which will embrace low-income people and i look forward to being able to see that from the part of the city that i live in now. there is no better time for the city to commit itself to a project such as this. the needs of the people of this city are -- you all know, are very great. and if we can proceed on this, you have seen from so many different groups, agencies, well-being of the cities as a whole, it is unmanageable to me that we cannot see to it that we continue to bring our interest to bear as this project unfolds including environmental concerns. there will be environmental concerns from here on out. we have the people here in the city that are more than capable of bringing the political and policy pressures to bear to make good on those concerns. i strongly encourage you t

tom and the dc police officer. the way is clear, shoves him into the car. third shot is high, 4th hits mccarthy, and the sixth cracks across the driveway. no one knows where the sixth shot went. it went through the door we learned later. he had an effective range of 20-30 feet at stationary target. if he doesn't make the car to go to the hospital, we later learn how dire the situation would have been. you know, getting that out of him was a lot of interviews. [laughter] >> by the way -- [applause] by the way, at when it happened, it wasn't clear there was just one shooter because it sounded like someone got off a lot of shots. i was one of the reporters wondering if there was more than one shooter. confirm for us how much difference did it make that jerry parr turned the car to the hospital? >> the critical decision of the day. he insisted on walking into gw. he got just passed the front door and collapsed. even a young healthy person that's pretty serious, you can last that a few minutes before you have irreversible changes, and the president is 70 years old, a healthy 70-year-old. just think