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dramatic video shows a cargo ship split in two. authorities say the result is a disaster. and a texas pastor calls on married couples in his congregation to engage in a week of sex. seven straight days of sex. he and his wife are going to join me this hour to talk about the results of this sex-periment. we don't start with sex, we start with politics. that debate in new hampshire. you may have missed it while out for a late dinner last night or o while watching the nfl playoffs so we have got the highlights, the hits, the misses, the punches not thrown. here's cnn's political editor paul steinhauser. >> good morning, gary. round one of this doubleheader of debates this weekend up here in new hampshire is over. guess what? front-runner mitt romney is still the front-runner. the former massachusetts governor who's way ahead in polls here in new hampshire really remain unscathed as this

debate as a lot of the rivals didn't really attack him but rather went after each other. listen to this exchange between ron paul, the congressman from texas, and former senator rick santorum of pennsylvania who's really been surging in the polls. >> so he's a big government person, along with him being very associated with the lobbyists and taking a lot of funds, and also, where did he make his living afterwards? i mean he became a high-powered lobbyist in washington, d.c. >> it's a ridiculous charge. and you should know better than to cite george soros-like organizations to say that they're corrupt. so that's number one. ron, i'm a conservative. i'm not a libertarian. i believe in some government. >> reporter: former utah governor jon huntsman is placing all his chips right here in new hampshire. he didn't really campaign in iowa and he hopes for a strong finish here in tuesday's primary. huntsman was touting his experience as u.s. ambassador to china but mitt romney had an answer. >> it's nonsense to think you can slap a tariff on china the first day that you're in office

as governor romney would like to do. you've got to sit down and sort through the issues of trade like you do with north korea, like you do with iran, like with burma and pakistan and the south china sea. they're all interrelated. to have a president who actually understands how that relationship works would serve the interests of the people of. country. from an economic standpoint and from a security standpoint. >> i'm sorry, governor, you were the last two years implement being the policies of this administration in china. >> texas governor rick perry had a disappointing fifth place finish in iowa. he hopes for a strong comeback. he appeared to make a little bit of news at the debate. >> i would send troops back into iraq because i will tell you -- >> now? >> i think we start talking with the iraqi individuals there. the idea that we allow the iranians to come back in to iraq and take over that country with all of of the treasure both in blood and money that we have spent in iraq because this

president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base and move out those men and women. he could have renegotiated that time frame. i think it is a huge error for us -- >> those comments here generated a lot of buzz online and on social networks. they were a talking point in the spin room after the debate. this debate, only round one. a few hours from now, another showdown between these six candidates as we get closer and closer to tuesday's primary. gary? >> paul, thank you very much. joining me now from manchester, new hampshire, patricia murphy. the founder and editor of citizen jane politics. mitt romney, the clear front-runner in the new hampshire primary two days away from now. the clear front-runner in the south carolina primary polls, 13 days from now, a week from saturday, did his rivals miss the mark but not directly going after him last night? >> i personally think, yes, they did miss the mark. nobody has really gone after mitt romney in nearly any of these debates. if somebody doesn't do it soon, he is going to be the run-away

winner of this entire campaign. what you saw instead is what is happening here on the ground in new hampshire, really a fore-way battle for second and third place. these candidates know they need to come out of new hampshire with momentum going into south carolina and going into florida so we saw instead of all these guys going after mitt romney they started just having a dog fight against each other. there are a couple of clips you saw santorum going after ron paul, ron paul going after newt gingrich. they're also all exhausted to this point. you saw real flashes of anger between them as well. as much as it was strategic, i think there was a lot of fatigue and just genuine frustration against the other candidates for running negative ads against them. i think it was all wrapped up in what we saw last night. >> you talk about the interesting back-and-forths that we saw last night. we want to play one of them, mitt romney and jon huntsman arguing over china. >> if i'm president of the united states, i'm not going to continue to talk about how important china is and how we have to get along, and i believe those things. they're very important. and we do have to get along but

i'm also going to tell the chinese it's time to stop. you have to play by the rules. i will not let you kill american jobs any longer. >> i think it's important to note as they would say in china, mitt. [ speaking chinese ] he doesn't quite understand this situation. what he is calling for would lead to a trade war. it makes fors talk and a nice applause line but it is far different from the reality in the u.s.-china relationship. >> i'm guessing that's the first time that chinese has been uttered at a presidential debate in u.s. political history. either way as huntsman who knows chinese and was the ambassador in beijing, is he generating any buzz with two days to go before the primary? >> well first of all, i'm sure that must have been a real zinger in mandarin but nobody in the audience really knew what he was talking about so just a very strange moment. something huntsman is struggling with here, even though he's very good on the issues, he doesn't

have a lot of of charisma. he's just not catching fire. so they like what they see on paper but when they meet him in person, it's just a little bit of a wet rag reaction. i've been with him in a lot of rooms and people say, i really like him, but i don't know. sew starts to really connecting with people. i interviewed his wife yesterday. she's wonderful. his daughters are wonderful. so we know there is a lot of personality there, he just needs to sort of wake up and come alive to start attracting these voters. so i don't know if he's catching fire here. he's in the double digits. people who support him are strong supporters of his. but he needs to do very well in new hampshire. he's real lly bet his entire campaign on this. he did not campaign in iowa. he's been here for months. if he doesn't do first or second here, i don't know how much longer jon huntsman can really go on. >> rick santorum caught fire in the iowa caucuses. if he got nine for votes he would have won the iowa caucuses. is he catching fire, continuing momentum from his second place finish in iowa?

>> he has really had some huge crowds here in new hampshire. of all the candidates he really has the most packed schedule every day. he's doing up to eight events a day. yesterday before the debates most candidates had one, two, maybe three events, had he four town halls. his town halls are really drawing huge numbers of people. most of the people are just coming to find out more about him, learn baltimore about his policies and they are hearing maybe some attacks on him on new hampshire radio and television that they at least want answered. he's generating a lot more interest at least than before. whether they end up supporting him is the big question for him. he's definitely trying to build on his momentum and we'll know tuesday if he did. >> i want to share one more exchange from last night, newt gingrich facing criticism from ron paul over military service. now paul served in the active military. gingrich did not. >> i think people who don't serve when they could and they get three or four, even five deferments, aren't -- they have

no right to send our kids off to war and not be even against the wars that we have. i'm trying to stop the wars, but at least i went when they called me up. >> dr. paul has a long history of saying things that are inaccurate and false. the fact is, i never asked for deferment. i was married with a child. it was never a question. my father was in fact serving in vietnam in the delta at the time he's referring to. i think i have a pretty good idea what have it is like as a family to worry about your father getting killed and i personally resent the kind of comments and aspersions he routinely makes without accurate information and then just slurs people with. >> i need one quick follow-up. when i was drafting, i was married and i had two kids and i went. >> i wasn't eligible for the draft. i wasn't eligible for the draft. >> by the way, paul and perry are the only two of the candidates who didn't serve active military service.

meanwhi meanwhile, it was very important for gingrich to do well today in the debate that's coming up and last night. how did he do last night? >> i think he did well enough. i don't know if he really significantly improved his chances here in new hampshire but he certainly didn't hurt himself. what you saw there with ron paul, there is a very unusual divide right now between ron paul and almost everybody else in this race. ron paul on tv is going after these candidates and he's accused newt gingrich, for example, of serial hypocrisy. ron paul has also accused rick santorum of being a serial hypocrite as well. what you see on the stage is some of the latent anger that's going on between these candidates, hitting each other really, really hard. it is a huge pitched battle for second and third. gingrich is in the race for second and third and we'll see how he does on thursday. >> behind you, by the way, it looks like a norman rockwell

painting. such a great picture of you standing there. >> we're actually sitting in a u haul truck so what's behind me is the magic of television. >> thank you so much for your insight. it is really appreciated today. >> i appreciate it. much more on the debate with our candy crowley that's coming up a little later in the show. on her show, "state of the union," candy welcomes jon huntsman so stay around for that. don't forget, cnn's live team coverage of the new hampshire primary begins tuesday, 7:00 eastern time. nearly 100 soldiers are in lockdown at a seattle base. the soldiers are confined to the lewis mcchord army air force base after authorities received a report that sensitive equipment, including scopes and night lasers were missing. a spokesman for the base says they are trying to determine how long the equipment has been gone. soldiers returned from iraq in september 2010. a cargo ship that's been

stranded on a reef off the coast of new zealand since last year has split in two. bad weather is being blamed for the split which sent hundreds of containers and debris into the water. tons of oil spilled from the ship but ran aground last october. government officials say it is the country's most significant maritime environmental disaster. congresswoman gabby giffords is back in tucson, arizona today for a ceremony mark being the one-year anniversary of the shooting. she and her husband, mark kelly, visited a memorial for gabe zimmerman, an aide of giffords, who was killed in the attack. much more on this stare later in the program. warm, cold, snow, rain. it is hard to figure out what's going on. this january 8th. we're almost to the middle of january. i think the coldest weeks of the winter are the end of january. coming up to the coldest weeks of winter, so far, alexandra

steele, it's been pretty moderate in most of the united states. >> in new york and new jersey yesterday, 60-degree temperatures. more indicative of april than january. 50 tomorrow in denver, colorado. so where is the cold? we do have some weather. storms developing along the southern tier of the country and some snow and some cooling temperatures so i've got a full weather package coming up for you in just a few moments. an extreme vacation outing ends with a scare. this was the scene as an australian tourist -- this is unbelievable -- experienced the ultimate nightmare during a bungee jump. she survived. but the plunge into the river was just the beginning of her troubles. wow. but first, what do the words bailout, app and tweet have in common? all of them were previously chosen as word of the year. in a minute we'll review what word won for 2011. here's a hint -- think 99%. beth!

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the word is out. the linguists have spoken. remember all these -- how can we forget? the word of the year for 2011 is -- occupy. occupy won a run-off vote by a whopping majority. members from the american dialect society came out in record numbers to vote this year at their annual conference. that's one of the things they do at their conference. "occupy" joins previous year's winners app, tweet and bailout. now watch closely. frightening as it is to admit, anyone who thinks about bungee jumping has an image of this. it came true for a 22-year-old australian tourist. as she jumped her cord snapped. she plummeted 365 feet into the water. that's more than 100 yards. that's more than a football field into the water. she survived but then she faced another challenge, the bungee cord was wrapped around her legs and she had to swim through rapids to get out of there.

i'm really curious if she will ever jump again. if she jumps again, we will show you the video. hopefully be more successful. speaking of words of the day, my word of the day is playoffs. that's because it is wild card weekend in the nfl. hln sports ray d'alessio is here with me now to take us through the action from last night. houston texans. it is the first playoff game. they are an expansion team and they won the playoff. >> they are a huge story this year, mostly because their top two quarterbacks are on the injured list. enter third string quarterback t.j. yates. an undrafted rookie. he wasn't even invited to the rookie combine. the other big story, j.j. watt, also a rookie. look at the way he intercepts this pass, jumps up, texans get their first playoff win winning 31-10. they travel to the ravens next week. more on t.j. yates. i mentioned he was undrafted out

of north carolina. wasn't even invited to the combine last year as a prospect. he was invited there to throw to the receivers and one of the coaches for the texans saw him and said we may want to consider taking this guy. sure enough they drafted him and he's become basically an instant star for them. i certainly feel they've got two great quarterbacks but i certainly feel that if he continues the way that they're going, there could be a quarterback controversy in houston next year. would not surprise me. >> there are no quarterback controversies between the saints and lions. >> no quarterback controversies there. when you talk about the new orleans saints, of course you are talking about drew brees. i definitely think this guy cemented his place in the nfl hall of fame. the pro football hall of fame. what a performance by this guy last night. not one, not two, three touchdown passes against the lions. he threw for 466 yards. that is the most yards in a regulation playoff game. new orleans was down 14-10 at halftime. they exploded for 35 second half

points. they won this game 45-28. next week they travel to san francisco to take on the 49ers but again, drew brees, what can you say about this guy that hasn't been said already? he's just absolutely incredible. he is a great guy off the field. superb quarterback on the field. canton, ohio definitely has a place for him some day. >> real quick your predictions today about the giants. >> i definitely like the giants in that game. the falcons -- >> it is in new jersey. >> it is going to be in new jersey but i definitely like the giants. as far as the second game, that's a tossup. you got tim tebow going against ben roethlisberger and the steelers. steelers are banged up but of course the broncos are on a three-game losing streak. i got to go with the experience in this game, i got to go with the steelers. >> game's in denver. >> yes. >> steelers are a better team. >> yes, they are. we'll be watching football, news, debates -- there's a lot going on. it almost impacts every student and every teacher. one of the driving forces behind what's being taught in

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while many of us in the united states have been enjoying the warm weather this winter, things may soon be cooling off. i guess alexandra steele, that's not that much of a surprise. it is the middle of january. >> it can't always be 62 degrees in new york and new jersey like yesterday. record warmth once again but it is really in the south this morning seeing the most action on this sunday. we've got clouds, we've got slours and fog. dense fog advisories all the way from houston to new orleans. really all the way through the

southern georgia and alabama coasts, then all the way up into north georgia as well. dense fog out there until 10:00 this morning. certainly impacts your travel this morning. here's the radar. of course you can see where all the rain is. not a total washout but clouds and showers flying in or out of any of these places, the bull's-eye is the southeast -- atlanta, birmingham, charlotte. los angeles some fog early this morning and then improving conditions for the afternoon. the record heat was on. texas, galveston, 75 there yesterday. greenville-spartanburg in south carolina, 7 1 yesterday. more indicative of an april day than january day. cold front moving through the northeast dropping down these temperatures a little bit but still in the southeast, that's where the heat will be on. temperature departures even for tomorrow, still you can see in new york, 44. above average. but a little bit cooler than where we've been. look at the northern plains and upper midwest. twin cities.

22 degrees above average. almost 30 in minot? that's where it is glaring in terms of the heat and where we should be compared to normal. denver, 46. 50 degrees, close to it, tomorrow. then we'll get into some snow on wednesday so that air's cooling down there as well. today's forecast, there is a little cool front that moved through so maybe you are watching us from new hampshire, getting out. what we are seeing there really cooled the last few days, then we warmed up yesterday and now temperatures dropping down a little bit. kind of a vacillation in some temperatures but still above average. here in the southeast, it is warm, it is wet. the fog is around this morning. warm chinook winds in montana really warming things up there. some snow, maybe one to six inches, in the colorado rockies, southern colorado in toward areas farther south like new mexico. that's where we'll see the snow. a little bit of snow. the week ahead, pretty dry except here in the southeast. tuesday into wednesday, the rain stays in the south, makes its

way into the mid-atlantic. baltimore, washington, for wednesday. >> alexandra, it's been nice working with you this weekend. >> you, too, gary. are you ready to talk about sex while you are at church? one texas pastor called on married couples in his congregation to have sex every day for a week. the reaction was enthusiastic. >> 12:01. we've already started practicing. >> because the bible said so. >> it is a great reminder to kind of clear the clutter out and really focus on my wife and our relationship. >> pastor ed young and his wife lisa. you see them right there. they've written a book about this sexsperiment. they'll tell you what they and their couples in their church that learned from this. science teachers.d i gep it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars

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off the coast of new zealand has finally broken in two. big swells battered the helpless ship knocking a couple of hundred containers off the deck. the ship ran into a reef back in october. how often is sex the main topic of conversation at your church, synagogue or mosque? several years ago one texas preacher called on married couples in his congregation to have sex every day for a week. now that pastor ed young and his wife lisa are releasing a book based on the results of that challenge called "sex-periment." pastor young and his wife will joining me this morning from dallas. i know both of you, this is amusing to a lot of us but you're dead serious about this. when you first issued this challenge to your congregation, did some people faint in the congregation? what was the reaction?

>> yeah. i think some people fainted but basically the guys went nuts. they were so excited. they gave us a standing ovation. but then after the sexsperiment went on for three or four days we had incredible responses from the wives. it's been very well received. that's why we are excited about this book. we think this book will revolutionize marriages. >> i read the book. it is very interesting. one line -- >> thank you. >> tell me what this means. we've kick the bed out of church and got out of the bed. we need to bring bed back in the church and god back in the bed." is sounds -- it is funny but it sounds to some people sacrilegious. >> yeah. i would say that for far too long the church has been silent about talking about a subject that god was not silent about. he certainly wasn't -- is the author and creator of sex so why

would we not in the context of church speak about something that he was not bashful about? and we believe very strongly that the family unit is the number one place to talk about sex and the church is the second best place to talk about sex. but throughout church history we find that the church has just been silent and it's been a tab boo subject. we've heard a lot of don't, don't, don't, don't rather than how god says to do it and do it in the context of his guidelines and guard rails. >> basically god said that we're to make love within the beauty and covenant of marriage. >> when the subject turns to sex in many churches, it is usually in the context of sin. what is the role of sex in a christian marriage? >> i think the role of sex in a christian marriage is the super glue that holds it together. the only relationship on planet earth that's analogous to god's

relation to his people is marriage. we feel like what happens inside the bedroom affects what happens outside the bedroom and what happens outside the bedroom affects what happens inside the bedroom. when you have the freedom and joy in a mutually satisfying sexual relationship, when you see it from god's perspective, i think the lights come on and you discover your destiny as husband and wife. >> what are the biggest obstacles tau found that couples in your church are facing when they are trying to make sex a priority in their relationship and trying to have sex every day for seven days. are people having -- there's some confidentiality here obviously but have some of your members had some problems with this? >> yeah. some of our members have and lisa and i have as well. i think there are definitely barriers around the bed. for example, kids. i like to say kids means keeping intimacy at a distance successfully. >> don't get us wrong, we love our children. we have four beautiful children and they're in their teen years now and older. but kids can create a problem

with your scheduling and all the hectic pace of life. so for ed and i part of the negotiation for the seven-day sex challenge is definitely working with our schedules and our children. >> i think also speaking of schedules, just the nascar pace of life. that tends to lead to a sexless marriage. i think sickness, i think people just not being in the mood. >> even age. age can have the older we get, sometimes the libido goes down a bit. but in all seriousness, one of the things that many couples found challenging wag the fact that they had a lot of hurt and healing that needed to take place in their marriage. we're not asking people just to jump in the bed and start having sex. married couples to jump in the bed and have sex. we're saying that sex is bigger than most people ever imagined. it's more multi-faceted than people think of and most couples don't think deeply enough about sex. and so before you jump into the bed with your spouse, you might

need to walk into a counselor's office to get some dialogue going and get things out on the table so that there's real healing. but what we do know is that sex, being multi-faceted and being this spiritual side to it, it is not just a physical thing. it is a spiritual, emotional, physical, all those things make it the beautiful thing that god created it to be and couples should dentally enjoy it. >> one more quick question for you, just a quick answer to this. are you positive -- are you sure that people in your church are healthier in religious ways, emotional ways and mental ways because they participated in this sexsperiment? >> i definitely believe so. we're so into this. lisa and i are doing a bed-in. we're sleeping on top of our church for 24 hours starting on friday and we're doing a ginormous date night for couples to show everyone, it is time to put the bed back in church and god back in the bed because god is the one who thought sex up,

sex begins in heaven. >> when you put that bed on the church, you might want to put up a curtain while you're up there. >> no hankie p hanky-panky. >> an enlightening discussion. thank you for joining us. for more on issues related to faith, go to our belief blog at cnn d cnn.com/belief. you can also -- i'm even choked up.

>> i was all choked up during that last interview, but now no longer choked up, "state of the union" with candy crowley at the top of the hour, joining us live from last night's gop debate. it was great seeing you in person in iowa last week. now it is on to new hampshire and you're going to be talking to former new hampshire governor john sununu. >> who also comes with a slight bias. he is supporting governor romney in this bid. he feels pretty good about romney's chances here but i think almost anybody that looks at the polls would be able to agree with him that romney at this point having come out with that squeaker lead in iowa which was eight or so votes, stands a pretty good chance of winning by a heck of a lot more here in the new hampshire primary on tuesday. we also have on bob walker, a former congressman who's supporting newt gingrich. the two of them -- i don't know if it strikes you this way,

gary, or not -- meaning romney and gingrich -- there's something there that's at a higher level of friction than among the other candidates as far as i can see, though it didn't come out in that debate last night. >> that's an important point, candy. were you surprised during the debate last night that the other candidates did not go after romney? >> listen, i think it is a recognition that in the end only one of them is going to be able to go after romney with any power. because right now basically with the exception of ron paul and he does figure into it somewhat, but they are splitting the same vote, whether it's santorum to certain extent huntsman but not quite, but whether it is santorum or gingrich or perry, they're all going after that conservative vote and they can't all go after mitt romney with one-third of that vote. i think them going after each other makes a certain amount of sense because only one of them really has a shot at really taking on mitt romney. by the way, that window is

closing quickly. it may be in south carolina whether we find out whether anybody's going to be strong enough to stop romney who has quite a head of steam right now. >> south carolina's only a week from saturday. things are moving quickly. i understand you also have house speaker nancy pelosi on your program today. >> we did this before i left washington actually. she was getting ready to leave. it is worth the price of admission to listen to nancy pelosi talk about the republican field. i think people will either -- either it will make them really angry or they'll get a kick out of it. in either case, it will draw their attention to hear the majority leer, no lo-- minority. >> sounds like a very interesting program. i didn't know you were charging for admission, that this is pay cable, but either way it is worth the price of admission. >> we don't.

cable operators do. >> candy crowley, thank you. keep it here on cnn for crandca program, "state of the nunion." interesting new information about driving with a cold just ahead. ♪

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a cold? the common cold. our very own nadia bilchik has the answers for this morning's passport. >> in the united kingdom an insurance company and a university ha come together with a study that driving with a cold or flu could be just as dangerous as driving drunk. they say it the equivalent of having four double shots of whiskey! >> well, that's obviously dangerous when you have four double shots of whiskey to drive. but obviously if you have a minor cold it is not as severe as if you have a major cold and are hacking and wheezing and sneezings. >> all of these studies are not totally finite. but it is certainly making people aware that having a cold or flu can impair your judgment, mood and concentration and those are the things that they are looking at. they don't actually say in the study if they had taken some kind of flu medication. >> that would obviously -- i

know when i take heavy medications i'm nodding off. >> there is a term called sipping the scissor. have you heard that? >> i can't say i have. have you heard that before you investigated there? >> no. i heard the word dope for the first time which is a word for something dope. if something is wonderful, it is dope. sipping the scissor is having codeine. obviously in a flu or sold you might be slipping the scissor. but what they did was test your braking and your basic reflexes and how you went around a curve and they found people who had cold or a flu were literally as impaired as somebody who had been drinking. that's the study. again with all of these studies, are they evidence of it? but what we're saying, if you have a cold or flu, be careful, be mindful. you asked me a question earlier.

>> we hear a lot in many states you can't talk on the phone. like were you in georgia, you can but in other states you can't. you need to have an earpiece or speaker phone. you can't text in most states. it is against the law. then you also hear people say, are you going to make changing radio stations illegal, are you going to make wiping your nose illegal. driving drunk is worse than all these things. >> driving drunk we know definitively. the research on driving drunk is absolutely extensive and definitive. but a study like this that comes out and says let's all be careful. gary, let's hold you won't get a cold this season. zplif >> i've had my flu shot and i get a cold and i lose my voice. >> don't go sipping on the scissor. >> thank you for helping me learn some new terms today. that's very interesting. nadia bilchik, thank you.

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checking top stories, we're two days away from the nation's first primary. the six remaining gop candidates are getting ready for another debate in new hampshire. it will be the second debate in 12 hours. they squared off last night during an abc news debate. around 100 soldiers are in lockdown at lewis mcchord army airbase in washington state. commanders reacting to a report of missing military equipment, including night lasers and gun scopes. restricted soldiers are all part of the 4th brigade 2nd infantry division. officials are saying there is no threat to the public. former pakistani president

musharraf is ready to return home to pakistan. he is expected to announce when he will do so to supporters today via a video link. musharraf is hoping to rebuild his political reputation before the country's election in 2013 but officials say he will be arrested if and when he returns. today marks one year since the shooting rampage in arizona that left six dead and 13 injured. among the victims, congresswoman gabby giffords. she survived after a bullet went through her brain. this is her on the left before and on the right after. she is undergoing a long recovery. giffords and her staff held a ceremony in her tucson office honoring her aide gabe zimmerman who was killed. thelma gutierrez takes a look back at that tragic day. >> we have breaking news. >> several people have been shot. the shooting occurred at a grocery store. >> we have discovered that we have 18 individuals who were

shot. >> reporter: january 8th, 2011, a day tucson will never forget. >> the bodies laying on the concrete. >> the screaming, the crying, the bleeding. >> reporter: 19 people were shot that day, six of them died. the youngest, 9-year-old christina green, was one of many who had gone to the safeway store to meet arizona congresswoman gabeelle giffords. christina was there with her neighbor. >> and then -- gunshot. >> reporter: christina was shot in the chest. >> i was holding hands with christina. we were just eyeball to eyeball. she was confused and scared and i knew when we were lying on the ground outside of safeway, the light went out of her eyes. >> reporter: as many of the victims lay bleeding in pools of blood, two men wrestled the gunman. >> i put my legs behind his knees and my arm on the back of the small of his back. the other guy was stepping on his neck. >> the gunman is in police

custody. >> jared lee loughner, 22 years old. >> reporter: the scene was chaotic with deputies and civilians trying to triage victims. the congresswoman had been shot in the head. her intern, daniel fernandez, ran to her size and used his bare hands to stop the bleeding. >> i couldn't see an exit wound. i didn't know if there was one. all i saw was the entry wound. that's where i was applying the pressure. >> reporter: in the end it was hernandez, the pare mettics and the trauma team who saved gabrielle giffords' life. >> overall this is about as good as it is going to get. when you get shot in the head and a bullet goes through your brain, your chances of living is very small, but the chances of you wae waking up and actually following commands. >> reporter: january 8, 2011, will be remembered as a catastrophic day, one where a year later a community has pulled together to honor the victims and survivors of the deadliest rampage in the city's

history. thelma gutierrez, cnn, tucson, arizona. 58 minutes past hour. for much of the country, winter is m.i.a. meteorologist alexandra steele says that may change. >> not quite. in the southeast, certainly it is not very winter like. 60, 70-degree temperatures. we had records yesterday from new york city to charlotte and in towards south carolina. the story here in the southeast, a very foggy morning and kind of sporadic rain showers so you could see flight delays from atlanta to charlotte. dense fog advisories until 10:00 this morning. story in the northeast, temperatures slightly cooler than where they have been but still well above average. also some snow in the mountains of colorado and new mexico. the story this week, the rain moving from dallas, staying in the southeast and staying in the mid-atlantic by wednesday. >> how unusual is it, it is january 8th and you're not talking about blizzards anyer