chris jansing, nbc news, woodhaven, michigan. >> great story. you can find out more about little dresses for africa, you can see the original story chris jansing did that we aired. we put it all on our website, nightly.msnbc.com. >>> it's not too early to tell you that on monday night here, we're going to look at a mystery so many americans were talking about this past week. what's killing all these birds? that's right here on monday night. for us, for now, that's our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we'll look for you right back here monday night. in the meantime, have a good weekend. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >> reporter: it happened right along the calaveras fault as you've been talking about.

patricia mash told nbc's chris jansing how she tried to prevent him from reloading. >> i was not able to reach the gun, but he was pulling a magazine out of his pants pocket with his left hand and i was able to grab the magazine. >> reporter: meantime, giffords' intern of five days, danielle hernandez, was rushing to his boss' aid. >> i started applying pressure to her wound to make sure we could stop as much of the blood loss as possible. >> reporter: doctors are so for a hopeful over giffords' progress. >> congresswoman giffords is able to communicate with us through following of simple commands. and we're very encouraged by that. >> reporter: late sunday, federal charges were filed against loughner. court documents say in his safe, an envelope was found with the words "i planned ahead," "my assassination," and giffords' name. >> he'll be charged with the assault on the congresswoman with the killing of judge roll and the assault on the other staffers. >> reporter: authorities say loughner bought the semi automatic glock pistol legally at this tucson gun store in november. a former

chris jansing. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i want to thank our panelists for being here. on, too, want to commend you for the broad array of contributors to this very comprehensive report. among the many areas of concern come on, too come have to say i cannot understand the standards were lower than other countries and specifically lower than the u.k. if i remember correctly where bp should be the highest in the world. and i also want to support before i get to my questions, senator gramm's response on a moratorium, because according to my report, the department of interior since june of last year of sure shella water 500 feet or less, and only four or five shallow water permits under deep water drilling the moratorium was lifted on october 12th and gas operators have to comply with the new regulations to show that the it strategy to actually contain a blowout. according to the interior department, thus far no one has been able to demonstrate that all the line of they are working on at and that is the holdup, not the department of the fact the companies are not able to re

chris jansing. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i want to thank our panelists for being here.n, too, want to commend you for the broad array of contributors to this very comprehensive report. among the many areas of concern come on, too come have to say i cannot understand the standards were lower than other countries and specifically lower than the u.k. if i remember correctly where bp should be the highest in the world. and i also want to support before i get to my questions, senator gramm's response on a moratorium, because according to my report, the department of interior since june of last year of sure shella water 500 feet or less, and only four or five shallow water permits under deep water drilling the moratorium was lifted on october 12th and gas operators have to comply with the new regulations to show that the it strategy to actually contain a blowout. according to the interior department, thus far no one has been able to demonstrate that all the line of they are working on at and that is the holdup, not the department of the fact the companies are not able to resp