it was drawn by reese who survived the attack and sat down exclusively with our jim bitterman to reflect on the nightmare day and to ponder what it means for freedom of speech in the future. >> translator: this past year has been very difficult. we had to rebuild the newspaper. we had to rebuild ourselves. confront our pains. so it is on the one hand, a personal struggle. it was a personal fight. so here we are, one year later, with a vision which might be even a little more pessimistic today than it was one year ago. >> reporter: is it more difficult to be funny now than before? >> translator: no. we always manage to find the urge to laugh because we have the will to live. to laugh is like going to the restaurant. the it's like going for drinks. it's a pleasure one has to continue to have. we don't have less of an urge to laugh. >> i think you said you're no longer going to do caricatures of muhammad. why is that? >> i didn't say that. i said it was a question of circumstances in that we don't rule out anything. maybe one day again we'll draw muhammad as a matter of principle. >> report

we were going to go to jim bitterman there, but we're having problems.l attempt to get him back. gun violence in chicago has been rampant, barely seven days in the new year, 12 people shot and four of them died. that's the same day the u.s. president made a plea to put an end to gun violence. rosa flores reports. >> reporter: before president obama started his emotional speech tuesday against gun violence, two people had been shot in chicago, say police. >> we are the only advanced country on earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency. >> reporter: soon after he finished speaking, that number would jump to three. by day's end, nine more would be shot, four fatally. two of them teenagers, shot and killed on chicago's south side. >> these teenagers were walking from the store, and they was practically ambushed. >> reporter: police say the teens were on a corner when a gray ford explorer fired multiple gunshots. what emotions do you feel when you hear about the shootings? >> i cry. i'm easy to cry. i cry. i cry for that fam

jim bitterman joins me now with breaking details. in full disclosure, i thought they're going to find out this was a deranged guy. you're saying as you try to track the reporting, there are more and more unknowns that are troubling about this man. how so? >> totally. the paris prosecutors in charge of terrorism investigations added to the confusion around this this morning by saying they really don't know who this guy is. that he was picked up on a minor criminal charge, declared himself to be a moroccan and gave a name and what not in the south of france a couple years ago. that's how they connected the first identity that came out. but now, they found on his person, on the body, there was a note describing him as a tu near tunisian. the people in the neighborhood thought he was algerian, a homeless guy. they are focusing on a cell phone yesterday which had a german sim card in it. there's something suspicious, shows sophistication. they're hoping they'll get information from the telephone. let's take a look at what we do know so fa

jim bitterman has the story. >> reporter: for one dramatic moment, parallel lives came together. they would end in radically different ways. for a terrorist, it was in a hail of police gunfire. the gunman killed four people and took hostages at a kosher supermarket, and then police took control can. another grow up in the sufficient suburbs of paris, the son of immigrants from the west african country of mali. early on he fell into petty crime and drug dealing and eventually radical islam, but that deadly day a year ago, there was another immant grant, a box boy at the supermarket. he turned out to be a hero. >> translator: i opened the door of the freezer and i said come, come. >> reporter: he sheltered shoppers and co-workers in the basement freezer. he stood up to the terrorist and then slipped out by an elevator to tell police the situation inside. people called him a hero. >> translator: no, no. not a hero. i always live like that. i was raised like that. to help other people to aid those in trouble. my parents taught me that. >> reporter: all those he protected made it out