>> well, gabriele confessed to the crimes as soon as he was arrested. but the pope was anxious to find out and make public whether he had accomplices. there is a commission of three senior cardinals to have very wide powers to question that anybody employed by the church or living in the vatican city state. the pope interrupted his summer holiday just two weeks ago because the cardinals had reached their conclusions. we do not know exactly what those conclusions were, but we know they held a meeting to present at that meeting was the pope's new media adviser who previously you will work for large american tv network incidently. and they, obviously, advised the pope that a trial should go ahead. i think the background to that is there has been a lot of speculation in the italian media in particular that the pope would pardon gabriele in order to hush up possible abuses within the church. i think the pope, who is, in my view, an extraordinarily compassionate man, that is my sense of him, and probably would pardon gabriele but has been pushed into a corner

gabriel society here.he was influential in getting it over here from italy. >> it is beautiful and we are definitely looking forward to this. again, it is saturday, sunday, from noon to 8:00. you will find tons of food, fun, so much fun for the entire family. so come on out. we're live in little italy this morning. >> if you are headed down to little italy, there are a lot of parking gar asks you will want to use right around st. leo's. -- garages you will want to use right around st. leos. if you are using the jfx to get into the city, no dehaze from towson all the way downtown. if you are traveling out on 895, it will be really congested as the morning does progress. it is due to the ongoing construction right along the northbound lanes. you will want to stick with 95. here is what that likes right now. just north of 395. no problems to report getting into the city. it will be nice and clear. if we can pull up a live shot of 83 here, no problems to report from hunt valley down towards 69 that. now, ident

gabriel and his father were walking through the parking lot when the boy was shot. suspect number one is described as an african-american male between 20 and 29 years of age. he is 6 feet tall and 185 pound with short black hair and brown eyes and he was armed with a handgun. here is a sketch of the same suspect wearing glasses. suspect 2 is described as a female african-american between the ages of 20 and 25. she is 5 feet 7 inches tall and 140 pounds with dark hair. the suspect vehicle is described as a 2006 and 2009 chevrolet i'm paula four doors, silver or light in color. again police are looking for these two people in connection with the shooting death of five-year-old gabriel martinez on december 30th of last year. there may have been other people in the vehicle during that crime. and there is a reward up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest. we have the phone number for the police posted at our website. go to abc7news.com and look under see it on tv. i'm alan wang, reporting live in oakland. abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> san francisco police are in

gabriel festival. we thought how unique this would be. an italian festival, italian family, italian car. that will be displayed on sunday i believe from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. along with that, the andretti family has been gracious enough to give us tickets to the grand prix which we will again raffle off on sunday. so this is a great opportunity for people to come down. the restaurants have been ones that have instituted the connection with the andretti family and the community as a whole has embraced this entire several weekends presume it is going to be for getting ready for st. gabriel to kick off for the grand pre. it will be dubbed race to the italy. so we want everyone to race for little italy this weekend to begin the st. gabriel festival. i told you a few minutes ago that st. grain relate was a racing fan. all italian boys arrestened of his an italian boy. between soccer and racing, they love each. you don't have to be italian to come this weekend. but we want to challenge you to come and take a look at the car. it will be so fast the

when elvia returned four hours later, gabrielle's bed was empty. she was gone. >> i grabbed my phone. and i started calling her number. the number rang a couple of times. then, it stopped. then, i called it back immediately again. and it went straight to voicemail. >> reporter: her cell phone was gone. but more alarming, her purse and wallet were left behind, suggesting her disappearance was not voluntary. >> her pocketbook was there, with her charger in it for her phone. and all the ingredients of her purse. her wallet, her credit card, even is still there. >> reporter: her mother has hired a private investigator, who says there's been no activity on her phone since the disappearance. police have not been said whether they've been able to locate the phone's signal. but now, the fbi has joined the search. >> there's roughly 100 stranger abductions of children a year. so, statistically the idea that a complete stranger abducted her is extremely low. >> reporter: the community has rallied behind the family. passing out flyers. raising $6,000 for a re

gabriel and his father were walking through the parking lot when the boy was shot.s an african-american male between 20 and 29 years of age. he is 6 feet tall and poun pound with short black hair and brown eyes and he was armed with a handgun. here is a sketch of the same suspect wearing glasses. suspect 2 is described as a female african-american between the ages of 20 and 25. she is 5 feet 7 inches tall and 140 pounds wi dark hair. the suspect vehicle is described as a 2006 and 2009 chevrolet i'm paula four doors, silve light in color. again police are looking for these two people in connection with the shooting death of five-year-oldbriel gabriel martz on december 30th of last year. there may have been other people in the vehicle during that crime. and there is a reward up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest. we have the phone number for the police posted at our website. go to abc7news.com and look under see it on tv. i'm alan wang, reporting live in oakland. abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> san francisco police are interviewing people who at l lands conc

loughner admits to the tucson shooting spree that left six people dead and wounded former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> mr. loughner will spend the remainder of his natural life in prison. >>> seeking shelter, more than a million people in china are evacuated ahead of a powerful typhoon that left parts of the philippines underwater. >>> tangled up. a police officer is called in to rescue a bull moose wrapped in a a police officer is called in to rescue a bull moose wrapped in a child's swing set. captioning funded by cbs. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, august 8, 2012. >>> yes, i said moose. wait until you see that story. good to be with you. the rhetoric on the presidential campaign trail is heating up. this morning is the issue a flap over welfare work requirements and former president clinton is on this one. a just released poll carries good news for both candidates. manuel gallegus is in washington with more. good morning to you. >> good morning terrell. the latest poll shows that each candidate has certain advantages in key battleground states. for example, across th

it was december 30th last year around 8:45 at night when gabriel martinez jr.h his mom and dad at their family's taco truck in east oakland. the 5-year-old was walking with his dad in the parking lot when someone opened fire. he was in his father's arms when he died. oakland police are offering a $25,000 reward, and we're hoping for an update from oakland police within the next 90 minutes. reporting live, christie smith, "today in t bay." >>> australia's highest court dealing with the blow, calling on the world to match the tough antitobago marketing laws. the decision means to bako products must be sold in place olive green packaging without company logos, but also must display graphic health warnings, including pictures of cancers and other related illnesses. >>> this time no drugs or steroids, a young contestant in the scrabble national championship has been kicked out for swiping some blank tiles. here's the deal. the national skrabl association sell he was caught hiding blank letter tiles. tournament directors say the boy was keeping the tiles to use them

murder and attempted murder yesterday including the attempted assassination attempt of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. karen brown reports. >> jarod lee loughner pleaded guilty tuesday to the 2011 shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including his intended target then congresswoman gabrielle giffords. a thinner expressionless loughner repeated i plead guilty 19 times, one for each count. >> mr. loughner will spend the remainder of his natural life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> a federal judge ruled that months of psychotropic medication and counseling to treat loughner's schizophrenia made him competent to stand trial and enter pleas. >> for some survivors it was little comfort. >> i'm glad he knows what he did. it doesn't change the facts. >> the plea deal spares jared loughner from the death penalty and spares the survivors and the victims' family from the pain of a lengthy trial. >> i grabbed him by throat and said don't move or i'll choke you. >> retired army colonel, bill badger helped disarm loughner at the shooting scene in spite of his own inju

another vatican employee is also facing a lesser charge for helping gabriele. the trials will not begin before september 20th, when the vatican court returns from its summer recess. >>> in india, impoverished women are able to earn good money by becoming surrogate mothers for pares outse the country. it may seem like a win-win situation -- poor women get much-need income, and for prospective parents, the costs are much lower than using surrogate programs here in the u.s. but what are the moral issues surrounding this? fred de sam lazaro reports. >> minutes after delivering a slightly premature infant by c-section, this busy gynecologist was back in her office and on the phone to the parents. they were en route from england and didn't reach the small town of india in time to watch a surrogate mother give birth to their child. the doctor has delivered some 400 surrogate babies since 2004. her clinic implants the embryos and pays around $7,000 for a pregnancy carried to term. the surrogates come from around the world. this woman came to pick up her baby girl named

gabriel graves was the father of two girls. the 32-year-old was found dead in his bed at narconon last october. >> it seems like it was just yesterday. >> reporter: gabe's mother and stepfather say they want answers from narconon too.

. >> atenciÓn noviembre leras, gabriel soto revela el secreto de su cuerpazo. >> escuchen esto, es algoe lo que nunca se separa. >> en "despierta amÉrica" se suelta la fiebre de baile camino en la temporada de "mira quiÉn baila" nos adelantamos a la competencia. >> (risas). >> no se pierda hoy las nuevas aplicaciones de la tecnologÍa que harÁn de sus hijos unos estudiantes de Éxito. >> y anahÍ graba un disco con juan gabriel y nos revela kroisz interimidades que viviÓ a su la. >> por quÉ hay mujeres que no pueden romper relaciones y caen una y otra vez. >> despuÉs de su larga carrera con el grupo los razos, ahora el cumpa sacra nos presenta en vivo su nueva producciÓn a ritmo de banda. >> eso me gusta, asÍ les damos la bienvenida a "despierta amÉrica" la mejor manera de comenzar sus maÑanas!. >> (♪). >> (♪). >> (cantando). >> (♪). >> seÑores ganÓ estados unidos!. >> bravo. >> (aplausos). >> quiÉn tenÍa la camisa de estados unidos por favor ¿quiÉn la tenÍa?. >> ¿quiÉn la tenÍa?. >> al menos ganamos todos porque yo tambiÉn soy estadounidense, porque ganÉ de todas maneras. >> (risas). >> o

this joyful picture is a memorial for 5-year-old gabriel martinez.eone shot and killed the little boy while he played at his parents' taco truck last december 30th. >> nice to come here and buy c was too cl. >> reporter: paul lives around the corner. he was minutes away from bringing his children here that december night. he can only imagine the martinez' grief and anger. >> it was really disgusting to me. it is really sad. and it is very unfortunate for the family. just an innocent child at their business. just playing around like a kid. >> reporter: little gabriel died in his father's arms. now 8 months later, oakland police are working new leads, releasing this sketch of the gunman. police say he is an african-american, 20 to 29 years old. six feet tall, 185 pounds with short black hair and brown eyes. police stay shooter was with african-american woman in her 20s. she is 5'7", 140 pounds with dark hair. police say this is surveillance video of the gunman's car driving away after the shooting. police believe it is a 2006 to 2009 four-door chevy i

he's accused of killing six people and injuring gabrielle gifford. why he may never be brought to trial. >> welcome center quiet right now but some changes are on the way in the extended [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen in the black forest. [ metallic bell toll ] [ car speeding down the road lightning strikes ] where things aren't always what they seem. [ wolves howling ] because thrills hide in the shadows just waiting at every turn. [ coaster whoosh ] brave the black forest on verbolten. the all-new multi-launch coaster. only at busch gardens. >> take a look at some of the stories making headlines this week. jared lee love anywhere could enter a guilty plea on tuesday. reporting that he is ready to say that he is responsible for killing six and injuring many others including former congresswoman gabrielle giffords in january of 2011. doctors who examined him are expected to say that he is competent to stand trial at the hearing. the pilot who left the cockpit during a flight and screamed about religion and terrorists may be

earlier today, congresswoman gabrielle giffords' husband said he and his wife are satisfied with the proposed plea agreement that would likely help loughner avoid the death penalty saying "we don't speak for all the victims or their families but we are satisfied with this plea agreement. the pain and loss caused by the events of january 8, 2011 are incalcuable and avoiding a trial will help us continue with our recovery and move forward with our likes. what is the status of the hearing? >>reporter: the doctor is on the stand now, loughner's court-appointed psychiatrist. she is going into detail about his life and his departure from mental clarity explaining it began when he was 16 and as time passed his parents were concerned because he was hearing things. his fronds thought he was suicidal and something was off because the conversations did not make sense. the doctor said when he was restored through treatment and drugs he started to express remorse from the shooting, screaming and describing over a nine-year-old child killed in the parking lot. she selfed that he said to her, i esp

dijeron gabriel giffords y su esposo. >>> ocurre a semanas de otra masacre, la del cine en colorado y peligrosidad fÁcilmente pueden pasar desaprecibidos en sociedades urbanas e industrialzadas. >>> pasarÁ el resto de sus dÍas en prisiÓn sin derecho a libertad bajo fianza. >>> ernesto ya es huracÁn, mientras avanza ala penÍnsula de yucatÁn en mÉxico, provocÓ fuertes lluvias en americano habilitaron refugios, se preparan para evacuar. >>> para saber mÁs pasamos con john morales de nbc miami. >>> tenemos a este huracÁn acercandose a la costa de la penÍnsula de yucatÁn, la misma distancia al sureste de cozumel, tocarÍa tierra en una zona poco poblada en la bahÍa de espiritu santo y asunciÓn. la lluvia tambiÉn puede ser un grave problema, ahÍ estÁn los avisos de huracÁn a lo largo de la costa de la penÍnsula de yucatÁn, no hay aviso de huracan en cancÚn. en la costa norte de honduras, ¿quÉ se puede esperar?. toca tierra esta noche alrededor de la medianoche, ciclÓn de categorÍa uno, pierde fuerza sobre la penÍnsula y entra en la bahÍa de campeche donde podria cobrar fuerzas de nuevo. >>>

six people were killed and 13 injured including former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. to stand trial. allowing him to enter the guilty plea. calling the pain and loss from the shootings incalculable, giffords and mark kelly said avoiding a trial will allow us, and we hope the whole southern arizona community to continue our recovery. another victim from the day agreed. >> i came within a, maybe a couple of inches of losing my life at the safeway. and that -- that kind of experience stays with you. >> reporter: loughner's attorneys had to persuade the federal judge to allow loughner to enter the guilty plea. a psychiatrist who evaluated him testified he showed signs of depression as early as 2006. he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. officials have been forcibly medicating him for more than a year. his psychiatrist said the treatment seemed to be helping. loughner told her he was remorseful for his actions, especially what he did to 9-year-old christina taylor green killed in the shooting spree. >> there is never closure because -- christina is never going to ring my do

six people were killed and 13 injured, including former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. a federal judge ruled that loughner was competent to stand trial allowing him to enter the guilty plea calling the pain and loss incal cuable. cuable. another victim agreed. >> i came within a couple inches of losing my life at the safeway, and that kind of experience stays with you. >> reporter: today loughner's attorneys had to persuade the federal judge to allow loughner to enter a guilty plea. a doctor said he showed signs of depression. he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and he had been forcibly medicating him for more than a year. loughner said he was remorseful for his actions, especially what he did to 9-year-old christina greene. loughner will serve a life prison in sentence. karen travers, abc2 news washington. >>> a former university of maryland student charged with making threats on campus submitted a guilty plea on charges of disturbing the peace and pg county county prosecutors said he will continue receiving mental health treatment and must perform community service. h

un exito de juan gabriel suena nuevamente ahora con otro ritmo... enterese, despues de la pausa...o... un famoso astronauta dice adios y un exito romantico viene al ritmo de rock... conocido como el primer hombre que ha caminado sobre la luna, neil amstrong murió a sus 82 años luego de una complicación que sufrió al ser operado del corazón.. la histórica caminata lunar se realizó un 20 de julio del año 1969, amstrong junto a dos compañeros realizaron a bordo del cohete espacial apollo 11 un viaje de 250mil millas hacia la luna... amstrong será siempre recordado por ser el primer hombre en caminar en la superficie lunar y por su famosa frase: "es un pequeño paso para el hombre, pero un gran salto para la humanidad" y unos 25 años después de que juan gabriel popularizara el tema de su autoría "hasta que te conocí", sus compatriotas rockeros maná realizaron una nueva versión, la cual estará incluida en su nuevo álbum de éxitos exiliados de la bahía... el videoclip se presentó hoy a nivel mundial... y les recuerdo que se aproxima el esperado festival salvadoreÑisimo, asi que univision

the attack left six people dead and arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords clinging to life. loughner pleading guilty today in a tucson courtroom after being deemed mentally competent to understand the charges. >> mr. loughner will spend the remainder of his natural life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> reporter: hearing the guilty pleas congressman ron barber wounded in the barrage. >> my hope is what happened in this court today can help all of us move forward and continue our healing process. i truly believe that justice was done today. >> reporter: loughner's court appointed psychiatrist telling the judge after months of medicating loughner to treat his schizophrenia, loughner expressed regret over the shooting. he was especially remorseful over the killing of 9-year-old christina taylor green saying he deserved to be executed, but the psychologist expressed surprise that gabrielle giffords surprised and said that meant he was considered a failure. mark kelly telling the associated press, "we don't speak for all the have. s or their familiars, but -- victims or

some high- profile court cases, including a guilty plea for the man charged with the shooting of gabrielle giffords. good morning, washington. it's august 7. i am steve chenevey. >> i am cynne simpson. let's check the forecast with meteorologist adam caskey. >> 4:30 and we have a couple showers. one of them east of stafford and another across the potomac western charles county both drifting east and fallen apart. we have some energy around. we cannot rule out a few thundershowers south of washington throughout the day even into the afternoon. we will be predominantly dry and partly cloudy. highs near 90 degrees today and for the rest of the workweek. the best chance of the most widespread showers and storms will be on friday. we have a daily chance of rain. >> 95 is closed in both directions just outside richmond. south of fredericksburg. that's because of an accident that happened earlier this morning. it took down power lines across interstate. the accident activity is wrapping up, but now they have to deal with the power lines. we are dealing with overnight construction clearing at new

including the then congresswoman gabriel giffords. and that's "the fox report's" top five. in 1782, general george washington created the badge for military merit. later renamed the purple heart it began during the height ofe . general washington had been looking for a way to honor troops who had performed above the call of duty. the result? a purple heart-shaped piece of sick with the word merit stitched in silver. but during the war, only three soldiers received it. it it was largely forgotten until 1927. then in 1932, the war department reinstated the purple heart for those wounded in combat.

plus, another chapter in the remarkable story of gabrielle giffords. what she's finally doing after being shot in arizona. first tonight, republican presidential candidate mitt romney and his new vp pick paul ryan hit the the road running today. their bus tour left virginia heading for another swing state. today, they focused on north carolina voters with their pitch for the economy. brian mooar has the story. >> reporter: mitt romney took his new running mate for a test ride in nascar country. >> you know what, north carolina? we can do better than this. help is on the way. >> reporter: with these overflow crowds in north carolina are any indication, republicans are embracing paul ryan as romney's pick. overnight, the house budget committee chairman and powerful wisconsin congressman has become the big draw on the campaign trail. he's the last missing chess piece in the 2012 presidential race. >> i'm so proud to have him on our team and to make sure we take back america. >> reporter: ryan has given a much needed shot in the arm to the romney campaign

jared lee loughner, the 23-year- old college dropout who gravely wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffordslicable shooting spree last year that left six dead and 13 wounded. today a federal judge in arizona ruled that loughner was competent to understand the charges against him, allowed him to plead guilty and he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. bill whitaker's at the federal courthouse in tucson. bill? >> reporter: bob, judge larry burns, who has presided over this case since the beginning, said he saw a different jared loughner today. loughner, who shouted and ranted at a hearing last year today was quiet and subdued and spoke with a slurred but understandable voice. for most of the two-hour hearing, loughner sat calmly by his lawyer's side as his court

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. >> after a year-and-a-half, gabrielle giffords is back at her arizona home. the couple moved back over the weekend. giffords and her husband had been living in houston while she s undergoing rehabilio six peop were killed in the 2011 shooting in front of a tucson supermarket. will spend the rest of his life in prin. jesse jackson, jr., is undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder. they released a statement saying its likely caused by genetic and environmental factors. he took an extded leave of absence from congress in early june. --the worry about us a dam= abotu a scam fed seems t be targeting seniors. we are told the suspect are asking for confidential information such as credit card numbers. so far they have at least four cases and say there are more victims. if you have information about the scam you should call police. good authorities say a theater owner was taken into custody after his behavior was uy and inappropate. by hearing waspiec set for september. >> a murder trial for the man accused of killing phylicia barnes in 2010 has been postponed. defe

and covers from and gabrielle giffords has returned home.fords and her husband mark kelly had been living in another city what she was undergoing rehabilitation. jaret loughner pleaded guilty last week and will spend the rest of his life in prison. >> still ahead, google is laying off about 4000 employees. details coming out. >> and while the summer may have ruined the garden, you may have better luck this fall. >> of little rain >> here is what we're working on for 11 news at 6:00 p.m. the council is calling on b.g.e. to reduce response times that of more than 1000 customers without [ female announcer ] with swiffer wet cleaning better doesn't have to take longer. i'm done. i'm gonna...use these. ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ [ female announcer ] unlike mops, swiffer can maneuver into tight spaces and its wet mopping cloths can clean better in half the time. mom? ♪ ahhhh! ahhhh! no it's mommy! [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. ♪ >> the focus in baltimore turns from gold matter to a silver

genetic mutation that speeds up the agingpaolo gabriele -- paolo gabriele faces charges of grand theftr leaking secret documents. paolo gabriele is a 45-year-old married layman who helped the pope. he was arrested in may after the documents appeared in news story. >>> presales for the iphone could begin next month. the website reports presales for the iphone are expected to begin on september 12. another website sites a source from at&t who said the iphone 5 would go on sale during the fourth week of september. apple hasn't comments on the reports. >>> with reports of the new nook due out next month barnes and noble is cutting prices on the existing models to $179. the nook with 16 gigabits will sell for less than $200. that makes the nook less expensive than other models. >>> the long time editor of cosmopolitan helen gurley brown died. she died after a hospitalization in new york. the cause of death was not disclosed. she was the editor of cosmopolitan till 1997 and her book shocked the public in the 1960s. it instructed women how to enjoy sex. she was 90 years old. >>> new poll numb

a computer expert who is accused of helping gabrielle. detailed rivalries between cardinals over the running of the vatican bank. the pope could intervene at any time, but it's unclear whether that will happen. >> coming up on 9news now, a new city for women only. we're going to tell you why one country is considering the unusual move. [ male announcer ] the choice on debt... mitt romney's plan: huge tax cuts for millionaires, tax breaks for oil companies and corporations that ship jobs overseas, adding trillions to the deficit. president obama's plan: a balanced approach that asks the wealthy to pay a little more, eliminates tax breaks for outsourcing and oil subsidies, cuts government spending, and reduces the deficit by four trillion. two plans. your choice. [ obama ] i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >>> a lot of eyes are on annapolis where a big debate over expanding gambling is underway. armando trull is tracking developments from the state house. >> reporter: i'm armando trull in annapolis where amendments are coming fas

gabriel and his father were walking through the parking lot when the boy was shot. suspect number one is described as an african-american male between 20 and 29 years of age. he is 6 feet tall and 185 pound with short black hair and brown eyes and he was armed with a handgun. here is a sketch of the same suspect wearing glasses. suspect 2 is described as a female african-american between the ages of 20 and 25. she is 5 feet 7 inches tall and 140 pounds with dark hair. the suspect vehicle is described as a 2006 and 2009 chevrolet i'm paula four doors, silver or light in color. again police are looking for these two people in connection with the shooting death of five-year-old gabriel martinez on december 30th of last year. there may have been other people in the vehicle during that crime. and there is a reward up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest. we have the phone number for the police posted at our website. go to abc7news.com and look under see it on tv. i'm alan wang, reporting live in oakland. abc7 news. >> thank you. >>> san francisco police are in

gabrielle giffords was moved to the hospital just a few weeks after she was shot in tucson in januaryormer astronaut, lived and worked in houston. jared loughner, the man who shot gabrielle giffords and killed six other people pleaded guilty last week. >> a candlelight vigil near the white house to remember the victims of the shooting at a sikh temple last weekend in wisconsin. six people were killed when a white supremacist opened fire at a service last sunday. tonight, in lafayette park, dozens of people got together in song and prayer to speak out against hate crimes. a vigil was held as a show of solidarity with the members of the oak creek congregation. >> to continue to have this dialogue, to show the people who may look different that, inside all we are same people. that's the foundation. that's what we believe in. >> earlier today, in oak creek, worshippers gathered for the first time since that shooting, about 1,000 people turned out for the services. many called it an important step in the healinging process. >> a fight over food ended with a teenager killing his roommate in

the victim in this case was 5-year-old gabriel martinez he died december 30th.as with his parents next to the family taco in the parking lot at international boulevard and 55th avenue when he was shot. there was widespread outrage in oakland when this child was kill. police are hoping these sketches the surveillance video of this car, will help people remember something, maybe you will see someone who looks like these people, maybe you will see the car they are hoping if you do you will give police a call so they can try and solve in case. -- solve this case. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> new youtube video of a vicious mugging as it happened in san francisco. the victim was this his car outside his home in the ingleside district when the suspect approached. have was shot and uploaded bayou tube to a neighbor. the suspect asked the victim for directions dragged him out of his car punched him in the face, stole his wallet and ran. >>> san francisco police interviewing concert attendees after three women reported being sexually assaulted at outside lands. the fest

gabriel. >>> and the little italy lodge. it is an opportunity for those three groups to work together. we need to work together. >> there is so much food. we talk about the food all the time. tell us about the special could bees there. they are homemade. they have quite some history. >> they are all hand made, homemade here by members of the community. we have a group of very fine ladies, individuals who get together over at the church hall and bake for hours on end to produce what you see here. also, the other cookies in the other contains are for the most part are homemade and assembled into the containers. if somebody buys those, they are getting some pretty authentic italian food. >> not only can you find food, drinks but lots of fun. to tell us more about that, dino, the bocce ball tournament. >> that is a tradition too with the italian festivals. we have a tournament sunday and a lot of the people that attend the festival join in. we have a good time playing bocce down here. it is very competitive on sunday. >> that is

gabrielle gifford. later saw the face of the accused gunman and today heard from him for the first time in court in the course of pleading guilty to 19 charges and facing a lifetime in prison. it's where we begin our broadcast tonight. nbc's miguel almaguer is in tucson. good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. today for the first time jared lee loughner was engaged with the judge. he answered with short answers,

reached with the suspect in last year's deadly tucson shooting that wounded former congresswoman gabriel gafrd. jared loughner is due in court today for a hearing to decide whether he's mentally competent to change his plea. nbc's jay gray has that story. >> reporter: it has been more than a year and a half since the storm of gunfire that ended six lives, injured 13, and forever changed this community. 19 months that included funerals, a one-year memorial, and a continuing struggle for the city and victims who survived, including former congresswoman gabriel giffords, the target of the attack. it's also been more than a year since we first saw this haunting grin of jared lee loughner, the man accused in the killing spree. time that the 23-year-old has spent in a federal mental hospital after being found incompetent to stand trial. initially, his court appearance later today was to consider treatment from doctors and psychologists and the use of psycho trophic drugs that made loughner stable enough to understand the murder and attempted murder charges against him. but now there are indica

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he is the husband of former congressman gabrielle giffords. here's what he says. he says, quote, gabby and i are satisfied with this plea agreement. avoiding a trial will help us and we hope the entire southern arizona community to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives. >> that was really tough to watch them grapple with that. thank you. >> reporter: much. >>> coming up at 6:30 eastern we'll talk to retired army colonel bill badger. he helped disarm and bring down loughner even after he took a bullet. >>> the gunman who killed six people at a sikh temple in a milwaukee suburb left no obvious clues about his motives. fbi teams have gathered some evidence from the home of wade michael page. oak creek's police chief says this case is unusual because mass murderers typically leave some sort of clue. obvious letters or something else about their plan. page did not. >> you look for the obvious, you know, somebody said he said this. he posted that. he did that. we're not finding anything like that. we may end up with just a lot of facts of what he's

jared loughner killed six people in that attack and wounded a dozen others including gabriel giffordst of a deal with prosecutors. it means he will not die for his crimes. but will never again be a free man. >> pursuant to the plea agreement entered today, mr. loughner will spend the remainder of his natural life in prison with no possibility of parole. suffered from schizophrenia and they have been treating him for more than a year now. officers determined is he better now mentally competent that judge also asked loughner specifically about each person he shot and whether he intended to do it. over and over again jared lee loughner answered yes. the top federal judge in arizona john role. and a 9-year-old christina taylor green. today the family friend who brought her to the event where the shooting happened says she is happy with