when gifford found out, she decided she wanted to -- giffords found out, she decided she wanted to go herself. >> these airmen, a lot of them 19, 20 years old, the first time away from home during the holidays and to have her here as part of our family to let them know they're home with their family now and we're serving them great meal and to have the comradery and be part of this day is just an amazing thing. reporter: giffords has earned a reputation as a strong supporter of soldiers, veterans and their families. earlier this year she was named honorary military spouse of the year by the national magazine military spouse. in washington james rosen, fox news. news. >>> president obama spent part of his holiday wishing americans a happy thanksgiving. the president also gave a special thanks to the men and women serving their country overseas. >> to all the service members eating thanksgiving dinner far from your families, the american people are thinking of you today. when you come home, we intend to make sure that we serve you as well as you're serving america. >> this morning presi

. >>> congresswoman gabrielle gifford's remarkable recovery.udio mess sam she has today. >> what everyone is dying to know -- did they kiss? the marine corporal dishes on her dream >>> i'm keeping my fingers crossed we don't have frost i need one more week of sun for my little tomatoes. >> i think we'll have that. next week things change quickly probably saturday, sunday you want to harvest that. to we get any? >> sure. >> i'm kidding. 11:18 this morning. i'm sure they are wonderful growing in the weather we've had. northbound from sutro tower some of the haze high clouds spilling over this ridge of high pressure dominating right now. one more like this time from south beach to the north, not too bad on the water today. a little chilly but the winds aren't blowing as fast as maybe they would be in the summertime. most of news the upper 50s to lower 60s. 63 santa rosa and mountain view for the warm spot monterey bay inland mid 50s santa cruz to near 60 in gilroy. sunny and mild this afternoon dry through at least thursday. then that pattern chan

originally asked a member of giffords staff to take part in the meal. when she found out giffords decided to participate herself. >>> youtube video shows a scuffle during an occupy oakland protest. in the video you can see oakland police officers tackling someone to the ground. it happened when a truck tried to deliver portable toilets to the plaza. officers organizedofficers -- officers ordered the truck to leave. >>> organizers tell us here at ktvu news that they have received a donation of more than 100 tents. more tents are expected soon. members of the community donated food yesterday for thanksgiving day dinner. it comes one week after campus police officers sprayed protestors creating nation-wide headlines. >> we are starting to have a self-awakening to what it means to live william police who have so much potential for violence and what it is to live in a police state. >> occupy protestors are gearing up for a campus wide general strike. that is set to take place on monday. >>> in san jose occupy protestors held a thanksgiving day dinner outside

but parts of it by giffords herself.nicles the congresswoman's long, difficult and emotional recovery after being shot in the head nearly a year ago. in the book, mark kelly says that for months it was kept from gabby giffords that six people were killed in the shooting rampage in tucson, including one of her aides, a friend, who was a federal judge, and christina taylor green, a 9-year-old little girl she had never met. finally, last june, giffords asked her husband. and he told her. kelly says she became distraught and had difficulty getting through her physical therapy that day. that night, as he held her in his arms, she wept. just a week after the shooting, mark kelly spoke to diane sawyer. >> do you ever worry, wonder, if she saw him? if she saw him and saw that gun? >> from what her neurosurgeons and the neurologists have told me, even if she did, she's probably not going to remember. >> reporter: but she did see it and did remember. when he asked her in march what she remembered, she uttered three words. shot, sh

we turn to the story of arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords.he sat down last night with abc news for her first interview since she was shot at point-blank range early this year. an event that left six people dead, including a member of her staff. giffords and her husband retired astronaut mark kelly talked about what her life is like now. >> how do you feel? >> pretty good. >> pretty good. >> i can see that your arm, your right hand, you move a lot more. >> yes. >> is it painful? is it hard? >> it's difficult. >> just difficult. >>> difficult. >> you do a lot of therapy every day. >> yeah. how many hours? >> two hours of therapy. >> yeah. here at the house. >> congresswoman giffords has missed about 98% of the votes in congress in the ten months following the shooting. understandably. she also spoke about her future in washington. >> today, does she really think she can go back to washington? >> no. better. >> it's better? >> oh -- >> she wants to get better. >> better. >> you want to get better. >> better. >> and so you think to yourself, i'll

last june, giffords asked her husband and he told her.elly said she became distraught and had difficulty getting through her physical therapy that day. that night, she wept. a week after the shooting, mark kelly spoke to diane sawyer. >> do you ever worry, wonder, if she saw him? if she saw him and saw that gun? >> from what her neurosurgeons and the neurologists have told me, even if she did, she's probably not going to remember. >> reporter: but she did see it and did remember. when he asked her in march what she did remember, she said three words. shot, shocked, carry. he says one of the worst moments was in rehab when she realized she couldn't speak. her eyes widened in panic. and she began to sob uncontrollably. but this courageous woman did learn to talk again. in part, by reciting the u.s. constitution and martin luther king's i have a dream speech. >> welcome back congresswoman giffords here. >> reporter: then, last august, she stunned the world with a surprise appears on the floor of the house of representatives for debt ceiling

gabby giffords sends out a new message to the world today. and we learn more tonight about the secret weapon she has used to help get back to health. >>> good evening. the dynamic has changed in the sexual abuse case at penn state tonight. after the accused coach, jerry sandusky, spoke out, claiming what he did with young boys was innocent, today, an outcry from people who thought he was blaming witnesses, even alleged victims, and the number of those alleged victims keeps rising. and also today, we tracked down that key witness in the case, and abc's jim avila is here to tell us what happened. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, diane. this could boil down to just two men. both coaches at penn state university who say they saw the same night in very different ways. first, jerry sandusky, who says he was just playing around, horsing around with a boy in the locker room. and a fellow coach who says what he saw was totally different. no game at all. it was a monstrous crime. the key witness in the child molestation case against jerry

and at first it wasn't clear that gabby giffords would survive. but she did, and would go on to make remarkable strides, the few of us could have ever imagined that fateful day. her husband, retired astronaut, mark kelly and gabby, chronicle their experience in a new book called "gabby, a story of courage and help." and mark kelly joins me now. mark, it's an extraordinary book. it's been an extraordinary year. your lives were remarkable, anyway. you know, you're one of america's great astronauts. gabby, a hugely successful congresswoman. you didn't need anything else to make your lives more dramatic. and then this fateful day, everything is turned upside down. take me back to that day. how did it start for you? >> well, it was -- for us, it was typical. a lot of saturdays, we would spend apart. she would spend most of her time in her district in tucson on the weekends, but i was home that weekend with my daughters, claudia and claire, and it was a typical saturday, and just received out of nowhere a call from gabby's chief of staff, peter carusone

this was filmed by her husband you see gabby giffords relearning how to walk and how to talk.therapy even includes 80's pop. ♪ girls they want to have fun ♪ >> but there are setbacks, too. however remarkable, this recovery is far from complete and asked whether she would run for re-election next year. >> she wants to get better. >> so you think to yourself, i'll go back to congress if i get better? >> yes. >> to many here she is already an inspiration wherever the journey leads. steve kington is, bbc, world news. >> to thailand where there's been terrible flooding, the worst in decades. and tourism is taking a hit. but the famous elephant palace has just been re-opened after it was forced to close after the rising waters. so they have to be evacuated from the residents when the flooding began. they were stranded on limited areas of dry land and lived on fruits and vegetables. but now they are back. the famous elephant rides around this ancient temple. it's a heritage sight and the monks have been leading prayers and chanting, the elephants have returned. the one good piece of

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giffords was shot in the head during a campaign event in arizona. she is describing her or to recovery. >> this was gabby giffords a few weeks after she was shot in the head. and this is her today. >> how do you feel? >> pretty good. >> at heart, this is the story of one woman's slow, painful recovery. >> difficult. >> just difficult. >> strong, strong. >> but she is also a u.s. congressman, and the attempt on her life and her struggle back to health has captured the popular imagination. she was attacked during a meeting with constituents last january. six were killed, 13 injured. giffords was critically wounded. tissue from her brain and part of her skull had to be removed. it was weeks before she was well enough to be told exactly what had happened. that so many had been injured and killed. >> sad, oh, sad. a lot of people died. but for the last 10 months, she has had to learn the basics of life again, captured on film by her husband as she learned how to walk and how to talk. songs have been used to help her recover her speech. >> ♪ oh, girls jus

have you seen kathie lee gifford? have you seen kathie lee gifford anywhere? have you seen kathie lee gifford? they don't know who she is. all right. come on. come on now. come on. come on. here she comes. i see her. come on. we're going to chalk this up to experience. hey, girl. we're going in. we're going in. hey. you want a little sip? i'm glad you made it. i didn't know it was so cold out. it's kind of like your homecoming. we're going in. we made it. bye guys. we're going to continue the show. >> here we go. just where we started. >> one more time. come on. i'm not sure if that experiment worked or not. let's go in. we're going in. >> this is the first time i worked with regis. >> careful. >> i ran up the street. are we still on the air? >> we're still on tv. >> oh, my gosh. >> i think we made it. >> that was the dumbest idea ever. this was the stupidest idea ever! >> someone thought that would work. that was me. i thought it would work. good try. take a breath. we will take a breath and while you're breathing -- >> breathing is good. >> we were at barnes

. >>> and diane sawyer talks to gabrielle giffords and asks an important question, will she return to congress? >>> good morning. i'm sunny hostin. >> i'm t.j. winick, in for rob nelson. we begin this morning with breaking news. a crackdown against occupy wall street protesters. >> this morning, hundreds of new york city police started clearing the park where the protesters have been living for nearly two months. they were told to remove their belongings. and they would be allowed back after it was cleaned. >> demonstratored streamed into the surrounding streets. we talked to rich esposito, who was in the middle of it. >> police were out in force, with batons and shields. they've been driving protesters away from the park, as additional protesters have been streaming, from other parts of the city in, alerted by tweets and social media, to the scene at the park. >> as the crackdown began, police told protesters that their encampment was becoming a health and safety hazard. we'll have a full report on "good morning america." >>> in other breaking news, this morning, jerry sandusky admit

should congresswoman giffords run again in 2012? i'll read your comments later this hour. >> just curious. these calls about whether or not she can serve her constituents, are they coming from people considered partisan or people who support her? >> this man i quoted, he's from a nonpartisan group. it's a valid question. can she serve her constituents effectively. i just talked to her press person and he said they check in with gabrielle giffords all the time. every day. she's still the boss. she's just not well enough to physically go into congress and cast a vote. she cast that one vote back on august 1st, remember that famous picture? but hasn't cast any since then and she's not likely to unless the issue is so important that she feels she must. >> okay. thank you. >>> more developments for audiotape wall street. around the world today, so in texas, it's another blow to the movement. a federal judge in dallas is denying the group's request for a temporary restraining order that would allow demonstrators to stay camped out in city

giffords is in the newsroom with what giffords is saying about the shooting. >> giffords struggled for word. this is gabrielle giffords's first appearance. giffords and her husband spoke to diane sawyer. many times, giffords would gesture to her husband, to help her forge the words. >> angry at what happened to you? >> no. no. no. no. life. life. >> giffords said she will not return to congress until she is better. her husband, mark kelly, says he has no interest in taking over her congressional seat. kai, back to you. >> vic, thank you. about a dozen survivors and family members are in washington, lobbying for tougher gun laws. >>> former pen state -- penn state coach jerry sandusky is speaking out about charges he abused boys. he is maintaining his innocence. >> reporter: jerry sandusky denies he abused any young boy. in a telephone interview with bob costas for rock center, sandusky refutes the allegations. >> i say that i am innocent of those charges. >> are you a pedophile? >> no. >> reporter: sandusky was charged last week with 40 counts of sexiumly a-- sexually abusing eight boy

gifford ha dicho que siz mejora regresarÍa al congreso.es que cada vez estar mejor y fuerte y que quiere regresar a trabajar para representarles en el congreso. un poco mÁs adelante, cuando le preguntamos a los niÑos de donde viene la fruta, muchos nos dicen de los supermercados, muchos creen que la fruta no viene de estos campos, ni de las manos de inmigrant inmigrantes, hablamos de fresas y de las manos que alimentan a estados unidos, mÁs adelante ahora vamos a los estudios. >>> gracias jorge, vamos a una pausa comercial y a la vuelta el entrenador que provocÓ el escÁndalo por abuso sexual admite que se duchaba con los muchachos en la ducha. no se vaya. ♪ >>> hablo "finalmente el hombre que originÓ el escÁndalo en la universidad penn state, admitiÓ baÑarse junto a menores de edad pero dijo que no tuvo intenciÓn de Índole sexual y que no es pedÓfilo. >>> rescatando algunas ideas la fracasada propuesta del presidente obama sobre creaciÓn de trabajo, un grupo bipartidista presenta un nuevo plan de empleos, la semana pasada fue presentadora

. -- gabrielle giffords. we do not often have opportunity to speak on the floor of the house of our staff, whose duties are performed almost entirely behind the scenes. the tragedy in arizona does remind us that staffers are often exposed as much as members. -- as members to harm and are in harm's way. therefore, i think it entirely appropriate that we commemorate this loss of life first in the -- this loss of life, the first in the history of congress, my bynaming a room after gabriel zimmerman in our visitor's center and i ask that my remarks be put in the record and that there be unanimous consent that the bill be managed by its sponsor, representative gabbie giffords. i'm sorry. representative wasserman schultz. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady from florida will control the time. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you. madam speaker, i yield such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. wasserman schultz: i rise today to offer house resolution 3

so many of you wrote in telling diane you were moved by the angels at gabby giffords side. tonight, the hugs and those heroes honored. >>> good evening on this friday night. we begin with late word coming in today that penn state's legendary football coach joe paterno forced to resign after that sex scandal is now battling lung cancer. his son revealing the news today, saying his father's condition is treatable. more on that in a moment. also involving penn state, the ncaa tonight says it is unleashing its own investigation which could put the entire penn state program in jeopardy. abc's jim avila leads us off on both fronts tonight. >> reporter: he is 84 years old. and never seen smoking in public. even on the night he was fired, the last time he was seen, joe paterno was still giving out fatherly advice. >> get a good night's sleep, all right. study. his son saying today, "my father was diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer." his friend todd black ledge visited him and found a paterno still concerned about penn state but not mentioning the scandal or the cancer r