we turn our attention to the transportation security administration and the new airline security screening measures that went into affect for flights coming into the u.s. we will talk to clark kent ervin, but first a news update. >> republican party chairman michael steele, in remarks earlier on "good morning america" defended his record and dismissed insider criticism. saying he was "very angry" about the to thousand dollars the party spent for a night at a sex-been a hollywood party. some leading congressional republicans have criticized his style, but stopped short of calling for his ouster. he attributes his problems to " and name to republicans who don't like me. come more violence today in pakistan. the u.s. consulate in the northwest city of peshawar was hit by two suicide car bombs. explosions killed at least three people, but no reports of u.s. casualties. meanwhile, police say the death toll from a separate suicide attack at a political party rallies elsewhere in the u.s. have risen to 41. in russia today a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police station, killing two officers

s transportation security administration. it is the airlines doing the screening and you have specific sensitive information going out to thousands of foreign airlines workers. >> we discovered this in the u.s., when we tried to give intelligence to law enforcement. you are giving it to thousands of local law enforcement agencies, and it leaks. and often pretty quickly. >> reporter: further complicating efforts the tsa is coordinating the system with the foreign counterparts without a permanent agency head and the president's second nominee for the position pulled out of the rungs last week. chris? >> chris: caroline, thanks for that. and another change will allow pilots on medication for depression to continue to fly. the faa says the idea behind the new policy is to get pilots who are now being treated secretly to disclose their condition. the agency says research indicates many of the drugs do not have serious side effects. and an american woman detained last month in ireland, for alleged delay plotting to kill a swedish c

operational entities that involved agents from the agencies at this table as well as the transportation security administration. they were up in west the southwest border and on the northern borders of the country. they worked cases involving corruption along the border, particularly in the southwest border involving drug trafficking. they also investigate what ever else might come along whether it is state, federal, local law enforcement individuals, members individualscvp or the like. we are trying to stay ahead of the curve as much as we can. all of the investigations that i oversee, these are among the best as forest cooperative efforts and sharing information and people working together along the border. we are looking to expand those to other points of entry around the united states. right now, we're focusing on the southwest. >> how often do they meet face to face? is this more of an e-mail or conference call think? ing? do they share information and spend time with each other and is the federal side helping the state side and the county is helping the federal and all that? >> without a doubt. it is vit

the transportation security administration says settles has been fired. >>> students and teachers from shaw middle school in the district went to manassas for a viewing for their principal. police believe he was murdered a week ago tonight at his house in silver spring. there's still considerable pain for those who saw him every day. jackie bensen has our report. >> reporter: they arrived at the funeral home by the busload. hundreds from montgomery district and the county. the characteristic liveliness of young teens was replaced by a grace and gravity beyond their years, a tribute to the man they came here to say good-bye to. >> we're extremely proud of our kids. we always have been. brian's vision was build relationsh relationships, believe in kids, set high expectations and they'll meet those expectations. they demonstrated that today. >> reporter: much too young to have suffered such a loss, students at shaw middle school bravely endured the emotionally overwhelming experience, to show their principal's grieving family how much he was loved and respected. >> they definitely showed

course, the agency operates just fine but just fine is not an acceptable standard for transportation security administration. the kind of bold moves that need to take place as far as policy deployment, for example. there are a number initiatives, like 100% screening of air cargo. these measures can only be undertaken by somebody appointed by the president and -- united states senate. it is incredibly troubling, nearly two years into the administration would don't have it confirmed tsa head. host: back to the issues of people flying into the united states but let us talk about the no-fly list and also profiling. a first of all, the no-fly list. does this new decision change that at all? guest: it does not. it really does not have anything to do with the no-fly list. it is the secondary list. those are people are automatically subjected to intensified screening. the no-fly list is a relatively small. 2000, to 4000 people, about loan there is in the kit -- information to indicate those people are a particular threat to aviation. at least in theory, it is possible someone not known of being suspected of being a

customs and border protection internal affairs and the transportation security administration this task insurers general guidance and oversight of border corruption programs on going across the country. through trend analysis, intelligence and information sharing and utilization of lessons learned and best practices we are uniquely positioned to address the very real threat of border corruption and the risk it poses to the national security. to that end, our national border corruption task force is coordinating with a free impacted divisions at fbi headquarters including fbi director of intelligence, counterintelligence division, counterterrorism division and weapons of mass destruction directive. by working together, sharing information becoming more creative and our approach, we are making great strides. i thank you for allowing me the opportunity to testify before you today and sharing the fpi's work in combating corruption and i will be able to answer any questions at the appropriate time. thank you, center. >> thank you. mr. frost? >> -- of inspector general. as assistant inspector

security secretary janet napolitano to whom the t.s.a. administrator reports told fox news, "t.s.a. senior career leadership team has decades of experience in transportation security, and is working every day to increase our nation's security." secretary napolitano, the statement continucontinued, "ha full confidence in acting as the administrator gale rossides and her dedicated team's ability to fulfill t.s.a.'s important mission." but others claim they suffer over clash in turf and resources and that they can't make forward-leaning move to meet today's threats. >> we had a terrible incident in moscow. there had been concern for some time that t.s.a. needs a broader initiative to secure america's subway systems. without a permanent leader, something large with far-reaching implications isn't going to be taken on. >> the obama administration has not yet named the third nominee, but many analysts believe to avoid another fiasco, it should come from within the ranks of the t.s.a. itself. in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> chris: president obama promised to be tougher on lobbyists here in washington. we'll see how that's working out. tough time for the

the transportation security administration said he had been with the agency less than a year. >>> investigators need your help find a pair of armed robbers caught on tape loading up the d.c. bar. the suspects robert nellie's sports bar on q street monday afternoon. the struggle between a manager antoine of the suspects. the manager was not hurt. the robbers escaped with cash. if anyone with information should call police. >> metro is working hard to make safety improvements these days. it was in the hot seat at a hearing on capitol hill yesterday. the federal transit administration told lawmakers that an audit of metro and the tristate oversight committee found major communication and management problems. the interim general manager richard sauls said the transit agency is working to implement the audit recommendations. this comes as metro is set to unveil a new budget that raises fares but makes fewer service cuts. the examiner reports that rail fares would go up significantly during peak hours. passengers traveling during the busy times a day would pay a 10 cent surcharge. bus fares and parki

the transportation security administration holds all of its employees to the highest professional standards. he goes on to say the tsa is fully cooperating with local authorities to investigate this matter, end quote. passengers we spoke to said they are concerned. >> they should do background checks on people. >> if it were me, trying to keep me safe, i think that anywhere you go, walk the lines, you will find people like that. >> reporter: in the court documents settles admitted to having an encounter with the alleged victim but denies rape her. if convicted, he could get life in prison. back to you. >> all right. john schriffen. thank you, john. >>> as of july 1, victims of violent crimes in virginia will be able to visit their attackers in prison even if the offender is on death row. the bill was passed last month. the bill excluded juveniles and death row inmates. the virginia governor bob mcdonnell change changed the bill to include death row inmates. lawmakers approved the change yesterday. prison meetings between victims and attackers are allowed in a lot of states. but were routine

more than half a billion from the transportation security administration for extra officers, cameras, k-9 teams and more. the best weapon may be intelligence. infiltrating groups to uncover plots as they take shape. >> maybe the biggest step the biggest tactic is very pro active aggressive investigation, developing of confidential informants in communities where these radicals, these terrorists may come from >> reporter: riders on the frontlines. authorities say if you see something, say something. in new york, rick leventhal, fox news. >> thank you rick. >> president obama turning to spiritual matters in his weekly address. the president speaks of a common bond we all share regardless of faith. >> sunday my family will join other christians all over the world marking the rerecollection shun of jesus christ. while we worship in different ways we remember the shared spirit of humanity je with w is s, christians, muslims and hindus believers and nonbelievers alike. >> briefly touching on jobs numbers and the value of work. >>> in jerusalem one of the holyiest churches in christianity li

quote, the transportation security administration holds all of its employees to the highest professional standards. goes on to say the tsa is fully cooperating with local authorities to investigate this matter. passengers we spoke to said they are concerned. >> i think that's horrific. so -- they should really do background checks on people. >> it would worry me if someone like that is trying to keep me safe. i think that anywhere you go, any walk of life, you are going to find people like that. >> reporter: john schriffen, news4. >> thank you, john. >>> in the court documents settles admitted to having an encounter with the alleged victim but denied ever raping her. if he is convicted of this first-degree ripe charge he could get life in prison. >>> printout this fewer motorcycle -- motorcyclists were killed last year. they are offering as a reason for that the fact that the economy has caused fewer people to buy motorcycles. also, the government's highway safety association says down 10%. fell from 5300 in 2008 to 4800 in '09. that decline comes after 11 straight years of increased mot

customs and border protection and transportation security administration or tsa. what the purchasing mobile radios for federal law enforcement officials working in the borr region, search and rescue helicopters for the coast guard or body scanners to discourage a mother would be donner from boarding a plane bound for the u.s., today's guest is vital to securing the nation from the threats we face the it terrorism or catastrophic suaturppes please welcome today's national press club guest the third secretary of the department of land securities janet napolitano [applause] >> thank you. good afternoon. it's a pleasure to be back at the national press club with a different job. some of the same issues but some additional one sells well. as was mentioned in the introduction. very briefly before i turn to the act will topic today, which is aviation security and the ever-changing threat environment and which we live, let me briefly describe our department. it is an amalgam of 22 agencies. it was formed in the week of 9/11 but there are aspects of the federal government

the plane was met by the fbi and transportation security administration. in some sense, if there's any good news to this story is the system this time worked as you would have expected it to work in response to the incident. i wish we had that -- >> how does that compare to the underwear incident and the richard reid incident? can you make comparisons, in terms of response time? >> it's a little bit hard. let's compare it to the christmas day incident. the initial information was better and more accurate from the beginning. the initial report on christmas day was that this was a firecracker, and it turned out to be much more serious. what we knew here, there was a disturbance, they would get to the bottom of it and they very quickly looked at it and able to make assessment it was not serious and got that accurate information disseminated across the federal and local governments and the public. that is an improvement over what we've sometimes seen in the past. the thing you can't really tell is the detection, the prevention piece of this, did that work? we

for example, the people at the transportation security administration. at's the agency that takes care of airport security. have been without a boss for 456 days. they aren't alone. out of 157 administration positions at the assistant secretary level or higher 38 remain unfilled. now, some of this is slow nominations but just before we came on the air senator mccaskill a democrat went to the floor saying some of these people not only have been nominated but endorsed by committee but held up. the senate rules allow a senator to place a quote/unquote hold on somebody. it's always an issue. you see pictures of there senator mccaskill on the floor. reading some of the names saying why can't we get the people approved by the committee in? this happens in both democratic and republican administrations. >> my cousin works for tsa and i'm sure he'd love a promotion. the system is completely broken and broken both administrations and gets worse. the senate needs to fix this because people need to get these jobs. the government needs to run. >> yeah. well, you know

you for "happening now" and when we do, a number of privacy groups are pushing the transportation security administration of the body scanners at airports, what do you think? how much privacy are you willing to give up, for airline safety, we'll debate it. also a harrowing ordeal at sea, three fishermen survive, the sudden sinking of a fishing b t boat, in ice cold waters, you will not believe the story, we will have it for you and happening now. bill: jon, thank you, and in the meantime, president obama en route to new york city, sets a call for strict federal regulations on wall street and critics call a jobs killer and one idea would offer a permanent bailout to wall street and one critic is with me, ohio republican john boehner. the house minority leader and welcome back, sir, here to "america's newsroom." nice to see you from washington. a jobs killer, how is it going to run jobs out of america the way it is structured at the moment? >> when you look at the new regulation, they are proposing on derivatives it will be a lot easier and cheaper for companies, that use these products to source them out

another issue we might want to talk about here on this show, which is the fact that the transportation security administration, the tsa, runs the checkpoints for airlines and they do a very good job of that. but their mandate is to make sure that the wrong things don't get on airplanes, not necessarily that the amount of things is checked. so the tsa doesn't check the number of bags going through or the size of bags. that's not their mandate. nor am i necessarily suggesting it should be. but the result of that is that customers can bring anything through the security point as long as it passes the screen and then we end up with it at the gate and that's when we end up with the no room on the airplane for it. if you go to europe, for example, the situation is a little different. the security regulators in europe also run by federal kind of officials, they are very rigid about the size that you can bring through the security point. so european airlines generally don't have this problem because it's taken care of at the security point. in the u.s., we don't do it that way. there's nothing wrong with that. the t.

customs and border protection and the transportation security administration board tsa whether purchasing mobile radios working in the border region in search and rescue helicopters or body scanners to discourage another would the bomber bound for the u.s., today's guest is vital to securing the nation from a threats we face from other nature. please welcome the third secretary of homeland security janet napolitano. [applause] >> thank-you and good afternoon it is a pleasure to be back at the national press club. with a different job. some of the same issues and additional ones as well was mentioned in the introduction. very briefly before i turned to the actual topic which is aviation security and the ever changing threat to environment in which we live, let me briefly describe our department and that is the amalgam of 22 agencies and formed in the wake of 9/11 and out of the realization there were aspects of the federal government that were squirreled away or piece together in different departments that really should be under one roof i am often asked how one could manage such a large a

customs and border protection and the transportation security administration or the tsa.eather purchasing mobile radios for federal law enforcement officials working in the border region, search and rescue hospitals for the u.s. coast guard or body scanners to discover another would-be bomber boarding a plane, today's guest is vital for securing the nation for many of the threats we face be it terrorism or a catastrophic surprise from mother nature. please welcome today's national press club guest, the third secretary of the department of homeland security, janet napolitano. [applause] >> well, thank you. and good afternoon. it's a pleasure to be back at the national press club with a different job. some of the same issues, but some additional ones as well. as was mentioned in the introduction. very briefly before i turn to the actual topic today, which is aviation security in the ever-changing threat environment in which we live. let me briefly describe our department. it is an amalgam of 22 agencies. it was formed in the wake of 9/11. out of the realization that there w

security posture, our tactics, techniques and procedures. that's something that our administration, security administration, is aware of. there are probes in all areas of the u.s. transportationust to see how things react without doing anything necessarily overt as far as a threat. it's something that we have to be concerned about and they are taking notes. the system responding worged well. >> in this case, he's a diplomat, so the only consequences may be getting kicked out of the united states. thank you. >> thank you. have a good day. >>> the so-called mean girls accused of tormenting the new girl at a massachusetts school so much that she committed suicide in january, they're in court today. lawyers for the girls entered not guilty pleas on their behalf. >> we've entered not guilty pleas, not deling winsy pleas. this is the first step in a long process. >> we're learn iing the suspect and their lawyers are getting bullied themselves. jeff rossen just got ahead hold of court documents detailing phoebe's final days. >> reporter: it's clear reading through these -- it is that this was according to prosecutors, mostly about jealousy. the 15-year-old girl who committed suicide