john blackstone is in tucson tonight with more. good evening, john. >> reporter: good evening, michelle. today, doctors removed a breathing tube from congresswoman gabrielle giffords' throat. she was given a tracheotomy, a tube in her wind pipe and feeding tube. doctors say this is standard procedure for patients with severe brain injuries and that her treatment is proceeding as planned. at the scene of the shootings outside a tucson supermarket, employee asks. shoppers paused for a painful moment of silence exactly a week after the gunfire and bloodshed. >> i'm sorry they lost their lives, but i'm thinking of all the heroes that were here that day and in our store. >> reporter: the supermarket reopened this morning for the first time since the shootings, and for employees returning to work meant confronting disturbing memories. when she heard the gunfire, sheila mott ran out of the store and found nine-year-old christina green near death and the woman beside her severely wounded. >> she was bleeding. i could just see the blood com

>> mitchell: john blackstone in tucson. thank you. of course, congresswoman giffords was shot last weekend while meeting constituents outside a supermarket. this weekend, several of her colleagues made a point of holding similar public sessions. man well gallegus has that story. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: new york congressman anthony weiner was out in his district meeting with constituents. >> look, i don't have concerns. i did 27 town hall meetings during the health care debate. sometimes voices got raised, sometimes passions got raise bud i have no concern about my safety or the safety of my constituents. >> reporter: there's a feeling of defiance among politicians. they are undeterred by the violence that erupted at gabrielle giffords political event in tucson. >> i think right now she's inspiring all of us. she's inspiring our nation with her courage and strength. >> reporter: now reinforcing that courage is added security. this weekend at a minneapolis market, officers were out in force for representative keith ellison'

john blackstone reports. >> reporter: hundreds who were already connected by shock and sorrow walked together sunday through the streets of tucson, organizers called it a walk for peace. the still raw emotions here were evident when one of the victims of the shooting, eric fuller, who took a bullet in the leg, was charged with intimidation and disorderly conduct after he threatened a local tea party leader at a town hall meeting organized by abc news. >> he booed me as i was talking and then he took a picture of me and said that you're dead. >> reporter: there were two more funerals sunday. one for gabe zimmerman, 30-year-old aide to congresswoman giffords. and services were held for 75-year-old dorwin stoddard. he died shielding his wife from the bullets. the accused shooter, jared loughner, left voicemail for an old friend a few hours before the shooting. bryce tierney played the message for scott pelley of "60 minutes." >> hey, it's jared. so, i just wanted to tell you good times. peace out. later. >> this is heavy sigh at the end. >> at the end. it was all intense, you know, and

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john blackstone has that part of the story. >> reporter: the 9-year-old girl who was born on september 11th, 2001 was carried to her funeral beneath a flag that survived the world trade center attack that day. a symbol of both tragedy and resilience. the service for christina green was private, but in death, she's become a public figure. while christina has touched the nation, for the hundreds lining the route to her funeral, she is tucson's child. >> i pray every night that she'll be in a happy place and that she's with god now. >> reporter: among the tributes at christina's school is one from her little league team where she was the only girl. >> we're all trying to process this. >> reporter: dave briton brought six of his seven boys, isaac was in the third grade with christina. >> and she's the same age as me. and it's just sad. >> reporter: along with the sadness, there is also a new fear. >> a little scared? >> yeah. could have been me or any of my brothers. >> reporter: since the shooting, kelly has been holding her 7-year-old twins closer than ever. >> it's sad to see that you j

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john blackstone has christina green's story. ♪ >> reporter: from the children's choir at church, to aucson little league field, one young face was missing, 9-year-old christina taylor green. the youngest person to die in this american tragedy was also born on a day of tragedy, september 11th, 2001. her father, john green. >> she was born, and she left us in very tragic moments in united states' history here. her life wasn't all like that. >> reporter: christina's picture was one of those in a book of babies born on 9/11. called "faces of hope." and christina's life was filled with dreams. >> very intelligent. she had lots of thoughts on what she was going to do in the future. being a veterinarian. a politician. an artist. she wanted to play professional baseball. >> reporter: baseball runs in christina's family. her father is a scout for the los angeles dodgers, her grandfather is dallas green, who pitched in the major leagues and is a former manager of the philadelphia phillies. christina was the only girl mike coached on his little league team. >> i can think of times that she hit t

john blackstone. john, thanks very much. meanwhile, one law enforcement official has been thrust into the national spotlight for some remarks he made following the shooting. on saturday night, pima county sheriff clarence dupnik, a democrat, blamed the rampage in part of overheated political rhetoric saying arizona has become "a mecca for prejudice and bigotry." some republicans have called his remarks irresponsible. i spoke with the sheriff earlier today and he's not backing down. >> if you're in law enforcement and you're not a right winger you get all kinds of heat from the right wing nuts. >> couric: but some people would say you were overly politicizing the situation. that it appears at this juncture-- although it's unclear-- that this was a loan deranged individual that might not have been inspired to do this at all for political reasons. >> and we'll never know the answer to that because there's no way to get into the heart and soul of a person and find out what their true motive is. and second of all, we're dealing w

john blackstone reports tonight's jackpot is now up to $355 million. >> reporter: at lottery countersf the country today, business is brisk with sales peaking at $240,000 worth of tickets a minute. the dreams are flowing just as quickly. >> well, you know, maybe get a candy apple red lamborghini or something like that. >> retire. retire. >> reporter: the megamillions lottery-- played in 41 states and the district of columbia-- has been growing and growing since early november. >> i'm going to quit my job! ( laughs ) with two week's notice. >> reporter: the odds against winning are as long as ever-- almost 176 million to one. but still, there are winners. in 2007, cynthia stafford of los angeles won $112 million jackpot. >> that was the most surreal and exciting moment of my life. >> reporter: she went from struggling to starting her own film company, mixing with the stars, donating to charity. >> i'm still the same person. i just have more resources to do the things that i want to do. >> reporter: christopher shaw won $258 million last year. >> well, at first you hope you're not going

john blackstone reports. >> reporter: raising their right hands may be the easy part of the job for they elected governors taking office this week. in california, jerry brown took over a state facing a $28 billion budget deficit. and unemployment over 12%. >> no more smoke and mirrors on the budget, no empty promises. >> reporter: brown's no frills inaugural ceremony featured a high school choir and hot dogs. in nevada the new governor is republican brian sandoval. at 14.3%, his state has the highest unemployment in the nation. >> we live in a statement when the odds seem to be against us. >> reporter: in new york, andrew cuomo became governor of a state with a $10 billion deficit. he came in asking for a pay freeze for all state employees. >> my gray hairs are multiplying just thinking about what we have to do. >> reporter: here in california, and across the country, what governors are likely to have to do is cut spending. it's one reason that in the 37 states that elected governors, 23 went to republicans and only 13 to democrats. but on inauguration day, at least, no matter their par

yet as john blackstone reports, one group of mortgaged defaulters seems to be bucking that trend. >>ter: in wealthy communities like la jolla, california, living near the ocean is a privilege that many homeowners are willing to pay millions for. but for darren thomas that ocean view was quickly losing its value. >> from $1,3485,000, it's worth less than $800,000. >> reporter: he bought his town house in 2006 but after seeing its value drop steadily he stopped paying. >> i haven't made a payment in two years. it was a business decision. it was a really easy decision. i've got a property that is worth 5 or 600,000 less than i paid forit. and i was making payments of about $10,000 a month. >> reporter: he has gone into strategic default. comake payments but is refusing to put more money into a home that's worth less than his mortgage. among luxury homeowners, he is not alone. one in seven homeowners with wlons over a million dollars will seriously delinquent. compared to one in 12 with mortgages below a million. but with the more you owe, it seems, the better off you may be. darren thom

john blackstone now that story. >> reporter: raising their right hands may be the easy part of the job for the newly elected governors taking office this week. in california, jerry brown took over a state facing a $28 billion budget deficit. and unemployment over 12%. >> no more smoke and mirrors on the budget. no empty promises. >> reporter: brown's no-frilled inaugural ceremony featured a high school choir and hot dogs. in nevada, the new governor is republican brian sandoval. at 14.3%, his state has the highest unemployment in the nation. >> we live in a time when the odds seem to be against us. >> reporter: in new york, andrew cuomo became governor of a state with a $10 billion deficit. he came in asking for a pay freeze for all state employees. >> my gray hairs are multiplying just thinking about what we have to do. >> reporter: here in california and across the country, what governors are likely to have to do is cut spending. it's one reason that in the 37 states that elected governors, 23 went to republicans and only 14 to democrats. but on inauguration day, at least, no matter

john blackstone has her story. >> reporter: from the children's choir at church, to a tucson little league field, one young face was missing today, nine-year-old christina taylor green. the youngest person to die in this american tragedy was also born on a day of tragedy. september 11th, 2001. her father, john green. >> she was born and she left us in very tragic moments in united states history here. her life wasn't all like that. >> reporter: christina's picture was one of those in a book of babies born on 9/11 called faces of hope. and christina's life was filled with dreams. >> she intelligent, she had lots of thoughts on what she was going to do in the future, being a veterinarian, a politician, an artist. she wanted to play professional baseball. >> reporter: baseball runs in christina's family. her father is a scout for the los angeles dodgers. her grandfather is dallas green who pitched in the major leagues and is a former manager of the philadelphia phillies. christina was the only girl mike cojanski coached on his little league team. >> i can think of times that she hit the ball

i had been reading blackstone since i was 10. so i went to the court and i pled my own case and won. then, after that, mr. fultz decided he needed to go on to greener pasttures and he left so i realized that i was going to be the court of myself and my children. so i decided now is my chance to be a lawyer. why couldn't i be a lawyer? well, it is right there in the code. you have to be of good moral character. i'm that. you have to be over 21. i'm that. and a white male. so i simply took the code, took out white male, put in person and called it the laid lawyer bill and off i went to -- the lady lawyer bill and off i went to sacramento. there i was. now i had very little money so i was able to talk a conductor of one of the trains into taking me in the caboose for free but i got to sacramento. when i arrived there at the state capitol it was a constitutional convention and i never saw so many men, so well -- throwing tantrums over a little woman like me just wanting to be a lawyer. well, their faces were as red as turkey gobblers

i had been reading blackstone since i was 10. so i went to the court and i pled my own case and won. then, after that, mr. fultz decided he needed to go on to greener pasttures

i had been reading blackstone since i was 10. so i went to the court and i pled my own case and won. then, after that, mr. fultz decided he needed to go on to greener pasttures and he left so i realized that i was going to be the court of myself and my children. so i decided now is my chance to be a lawyer. why couldn't i be a lawyer? well, it is right there in the code. you have to be of good moral character. i'm that. you have to be over 21. i'm that. and a white male. so i simply took the code, took out white male, put in person and called it the laid lawyer bill and off

ross, blackstone and carlyle group in 2009. >> susie: with high unemployment and a shaky outlook for housing, you'd think consumers would stay away from stores and stop shopping altogether. but last month, shoppers were out in force, ringing up the best holiday season in four years. tonight's commentator says there's a good reason for it. he's bernard baumohl, chief global economist at the economic outlook group. >> the year 2010 left us with a tantalizing puzzle. we know the job numbers were awful, the worst in nearly 30 years. and yet, even with such a dismal job market, americans were enthusiastic shoppers. retail sales rebounded by the most in more than a decade. you would think high joblessness would temper household spending, but it didn't, and it's worthwhile pondering why. there is new evidence the u.s. has a thriving underground economy. by underground economy, i'm not talking about illicit activity, like selling stolen goods or drugs. it's largely legal work, where millions of unemployed find income by doing handyman work, selling stuff at flea markets, or computer repairs.

private equity investors including wilbur ross, the carlyle group, and blackstone bought it for $1 billion. it now has $11 billion in assets and its profitable. so why should investors take a fresh look at bankunited? that's what i asked the bank's c.e.o. john kanas. >> we've completely restructured the company. it is-- it is structured today with new employees and new technology and new products and services geared almost exclusively to small business people and local consumers in the florida market. so it's, in our view, a far more profitable strategy, a far safer strategy. >> susie: john, what time of bank do you want b.k.u. to be? >> if you're running a small business in the outskirts of miami and you need to borrow $300,000 to run your business or a commercial mortgage on your property, you would bank at b.k.u.. >> susie: you are operating in the miami area, which still is struggling with a weak economy, high unemployment. so who are you going to be lending to? who are going to be your borrowers? >> surprisingly embedded in that there are companies that made it through the recent down

john blackstone on the a tribute to the victims. >> reporter: employe es and shoppers paused for a painful moment outside the safeway in tucson, arizona. exactly a week after the gunfire and blood shed. >> i was thinking of all the heros here that day and in our store. >> reporter: the supermarket reopened this morning for the first time since the shooting and for employees returning to work meant confronting disturbing memories. when she heard the gunfire sheila ran out of the store and found 9-year-old christina green near death and the woman beside her severely worried. >> i could see the blood coming out of her stomach. i can still see that. i told her you need to lay down. your little girl will be fine. you shouldn't be moving. >> i walked up. all i saw was chaos. lots of people moving around. people on the ground. >> reporter: tony was one of the fist on the scene, a paramedic, and had to separate the living from the dead. >> it was tough. it was very tough. i admit it right now when i got up there my mind went a little blank for a while. >> reporter: what liz gator chose to remember

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john blackstone, cbc news, tucson. >>> gun advocates defending their right to bear arms at the cal palace. >> hold the trigger with this hand and... >> reporter: john kellyly enjoys a sport called cowboy action shooting. he says the tucson carnage is being used by gun control advocates to try to take away his guns. >> there there a whole bunch of people that do not like guns, do not think that anybody should own a gun and they want to take away guns from everybody. irregardless. and they are using it as an execution. >> reporter: on february 1st a new california law will require a thumb print, photo i.d, address and birth date to buy bullets. members of congress are talking about such things as making it a federal crime to carry a gun within 1000 feet of a member of congress. mandatory background checks at gun shows. and banning the sale of gun clips or magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. >> i think it will make a difference. >> reporter: guns are part of the culture of southern arizona much the wounded congresswoman owns a glock, the same type of gun that was used to shoot her. sinc

cbs news correspondents john blackstone in tucson. thank you. >>> congresswoman giffords is making great strides in her recovery, these next several days are crucial. for a look at that we turn to dr. david linger, neurosurgeon from new york. thanks for being with us. is it really hard for you to imagine in the capacity serving as a doctor, neurosurgeon we are looking at congresswoman giffords today not only still alive but making remarkable progress? >> i'm not sure -- it's certainly remarkable progress. i think the most critical thing was she was alive and doing -- had function when she arrived at the hospital that. really was the set piece for the rest of her possibility of recovery. i think it's just obviously just a terrific story and a great medical story of all the resource that went into her care and really how wonderfully she's doing. yes, it is -- it's remarkable in that the system worked, she's obviously a high-profile person and couldn't be a better person for this to work on. i'm sure everyone's very grateful for that. >>

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seemed to be a question of what a judge delayed part of the nineteenth century thought about what blackstone's that about the trial of walter raleigh. i did a free send my clerks to the library and i know i wrote something but if i tell the truth i have to say i don't know and i don't think my clerk does. we don't really know what this nineteenth century judge thought about a description of the seventeenth century trial in that particular case. you can go call up heller and the gun cases and i believe what you will see is justice scalia having written an excellent historically based opinion but comes to one conclusion and john stevens having written an excellent historically based opinion comes to an opposite conclusion. i believe stevens is right and that is what i said but nonetheless the personal nonetheless, of turnover, putting those stories in the court if that is what you want and in many of these cases the nine historians will disagree. that is one reason. another is this. it is almost an unanswerable question to me. of rand over you find instances where people who will write a law or

judge in the late part of the 18th, early part of the 19th century thought about a trial of what blackstone had said about walter raleigh. i dutifully sent my clerks up to the library, and i know i wrote with something, but if i have to tell the truth, we don't know what this 19th century judge thought about a 17th century trial. [laughter] look if you want to, go call up those heller and mcdonald, the gun cases. and i believe what you'll see is justice scalia having written a really excellent historically-based opinion where he comes to one conclusion. and john stephens having written an excellent p historically-based opinion where he comes to an opposite conclusion. now there i believe stephens was right, and that's what i say. [laughter] but nonetheless, nonetheless, over and over -- put nine historians on the the court if that's what you want, and i think in many cases the nine historians will disagree. so that's one reason. another is this, and it's an almost unanswerable question to me. over and over you find instances where people who write a law or a provision of a constitution are

john blackstone has filed this sunday journal. >> reporter: in a city searching for ways to heal, putting> i just wrote please, please don't feel alone. we share your pain and are here to help. >> reporter: from elementary schools to the campus of the university of arizona, the people of tucson have been adding to a paper chain of expression, words of comfort, support, and hope. what did you write on the note there? >> we love you. god bless us all. >> reporter: the week since the shooting has given tucson reasons to cry and reasons to cheer. >> we are grateful for the doctors and nurses ( cheers and applause ) and first responders. >> reporter: when the president came here wednesday he celebrated the heroes who stopped the gunman and those who moved quickly to save lives. >> right after we went to visit. >> reporter: and he delivered encouraging news about congresswoman gabrielle giffords' recovery from the bullet that passed through her brain. >> in the room gabby opened her eyes for the first time. >> reporter: the president also remembered those who did not make it including the young

john blackstone has the story behind the headlines. >> reporter: visit the campus of any top american-- this is the university of california berkeley-- and the racial diverse itsy of students can be striking. partly it's a reflection of america's diversity, but it also reflects the desire among ambitious students from around the world for an american education. more than 690,000 foreign students came to the united states to study this past year. nearly 105,000 of those came from india, and nearly 128,000 came from china. and foreign students often excel, earning more than half the doctorates awarded by american universities in math, computer science, and engineering. >> we're a land of immigrants. we've brought in the best people from all over the world all the time. >> reporter: on the faculty of three american universities, harvard, u.k. berkeley and duke, he came from india to the u.s. as a graduate student and says the immigrant story has been the same for centuries. >> whether they came on the may flower or india, they bought one-way tickets over here. there was never an option o

if you read blackstone he says willing to kill someone is just ordinary murder. it is a capital crime. so it is illegal. it is unchristian. dueling was condemned by the christian church in the ninth century. no christian thought that their -- every christian thought there was a serious christian argument against dueling. why? for dueling to make sense there has to be some connection between who is right in who wins and the only person who can make that connection is him. and you use the tool to force him to make his choice you are tempting god. and not tempting god is something that we mustn't do. and remember he is on the temple temple -- the angels to lift him up and he says no doubt shall not tempt the lord thy god. it is undetectable for this perfectly good christian and by the way also jewish reason. so it is unchristian. it is illegal. this plainly if all because one reason for having a duel is because somebody has accused you you of being dishonest. now falsely accusing you of being dishonest is bad but it is not a capital offense. plurality does not think

if you read blackstone, he says if you kill someone in a duel, it's ordinary murder. so it's illegal. it's un-christian. dueling was condemned in the ninth century by the church. not in the 19th, the ninth. and that condemnation was repeat bed at the end of the reformation and was common place of the protestant churches when they came into being with. no christian thought -- every christian thought there was a serious christian argument existence dueling. why? -- against dueling. why? for dueling to make sense, there has to be the some connection between who's right and who wins. ask the only person who can -- and the only person who can make that connection is him. and if you use the duel to force him to make his choice, you are tempting god. and not tempting god is something that christ himself explicitly said we mustn't do. remember, he's on the temple, and he's asked to throw himself down so that the angels will lift him up, and he says, no, thou shalt not tempt the lord god. christian and, by the way, also jewish reason. so it's un-christian. it's illegal. it's p