due to the critical mass bike ride leaving justin hermann plaza at 6:00.about overnight lane closures saturday and sunday. you may want to consider san mateo bridge as an alternate if you are heading to the east bay. ten minutes late. bart and other mass transit report nothing delays right now. you can stay up to date on the weekend delays anytime by going to our website abc7news.com. kristen? >> all right. thanks a lot. >>> listen to this one. facebook founder mark zuckerberg is taking on an unusual new challenge. he is now about to eat only what he kills. zuckerberg says he is determined to get more in touch with his food. the 27-year-old internet billionaire has already killed a lobster, pig and a goat. he has also posted a photo of a chicken on the facebook page with a list of dishes he made from it. zuckerberg's guide is well-known palo alto chef jesse cool who is his neighbor. she introduced him to nearby farmers. he told "fortune" magazine, "i think people forget a living being has to die for you to eat meat. so my goal revolves around not letting m

with a critical mass bike ride scheduled to leave justin hermann plaza at 6:00 this evening.lan on extra time. try to leave before 3:00 or after 7:00. it's usually a lot better. also, mass transit systems report nothing delays, especially for bart right now. but do plan on big delays this weekend as amy hollyfield just mentioned. eric, kristen? >> thank you. didn't see much of a backup of the toll plaza but there was a tractor-trailer sitting there. don't know why that was. 5:38. >>> still ahead, a judge makes a key ruling in a court case that stirred new emotional pain for hundreds of bay area families. >> giovanni ramirez is and was and has been our primary suspect on the stow beating. >> also ahead, l.a. police reject the alibi of the man under arrest in the beating of giants' fan bryan stow. >> i don't know how to do this. >> why a passenger who had never flown before was forced to grab the controls of a plane. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> good morning. 5:42. astronauts are busy up on the international space station doing a little work af

tmc and tomorrow hermann arlington. even though she is here, i am still overseeing her patient care. when she goes back, the doctors will be assisting me in the congress woman's care. >> with that, let's open it up to questions. are there questions from the audience? >> you mentioned that after a shunt, there can be an improvement. can you elaborate what kinds of improvement and why that would be? >> the fluid is pressing in certain parts of the brain. once the shunt release that flu, there will be more of a chance for certain parts of the brain to heal. i cannot tell you exactly what i expect to get better, but i am optimistic that when she comes back next week, we're going to see a lot of positive changes that will allow us to upgrade the rehabilitation program even more. >> can you say how long the surgery was yesterday? >> from skin-to-skin, it was about three and a half hours. >> what made you decide to do the surgery now while her husband is away? >> her husband and i have talked about this exact issue. he always

at the international space station while his wife, congresswoman gabby giffords, but as memorial hermann hospital in houston for what could be her final surgery. after being shot in the head four months ago, gabby's brain began to swell, dangerously, pressing against the bone. for relief, surgeons removed a section of her skull to let her brain expand more freely. today, with swelling down, doctors performed a procedure called cranioplasty, covering that hole in her head with a plastic cast using small titanium screws to attach it to her skull. >> it's a quick surgery, generally about an hour and a half, two hours at the max. the risk is really low. >> reporter: this is the same surgery i had exactly five years ago. like her, the same left side of the head. almost the same spot. the helmet, which had become a fixture in my life, and part of gab gabby's too, after the surgery, it was gone. and surprisingly, so was much of the pain. >> she's going to look in the mirror today and see, you know, a person who's well on the mend. somebody that's really recovering. and that's going to go a long

but now pia carusone shuttles from washington to houston's tirr-memorial hermann hospital where the congresswomanmaking steady progress. at the hospital, carusone fiercely protects the congresswoman's privacy. while there, she uses a hospital conference room as an office and consults with the congresswoman before and after the grueling rehabilitation sessions. >> what kind of person would we encounter if we walked into her room right now? >> i mean, you'd encounter the same compassionate, warm, funny, smart congresswoman that -- >> excitable. >> excitable, yeah, when she hears good news. >> so full recognition? full facial features? full verbal skills? >> no. i mean, she clearly has challenges. we're just three months after a severe injury to her brain, and we can't forget that. so she's -- she has physical and verbal challenges. but the great sense of optimism is coming from her rate of recovery. >> she's able to speak, mostly in short, simple phrases. and, as she struggles to regain function on the right side of her body, she's adapted and she is now left-handed. the recent optimism has spawned

joining them will be ron paul, hermann cain and gary johnson, whoever he is.e are just learning that the associated press will not be covering the debate. its statement in part reads, the debate sponsors fox news channel and the south carolina republican party will only allow photos to be taken in the moments ahead of the debate and not during the event itself. these are restrictions that violate basic demands of news gathering. joining me now "the washington post" columnist dana millbank. thanks for joining me tonight. >> good evening, lawrence. >> who is going to watch this debate for what reason? this is pawlenty versus santorum. >> this could be the most interesting debate. >> now you've got me interested. >> how bad must these guys participating that even newt gingrich said this is so embarrassing, i don't want to be seen with you guys. what's going to happen here, is it's a freak show. ron paul is easily the most recognizable guy there. he'll dominate the debate. poor tim pawlenty, you're generous saying santorum could win. pawlenty is arguably the only

health and also the director of the misher neuroscience institute at memorial hermann, on his right issco. dr. gerard is the chief medical of tear memorial hermann and the chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at u.t. health. and then on dr. kim's left is tia karunz, chief of staff at the office of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. we'll start it off with dr. kim updating you on yesterday's events and at the end of the discussion, we'll open it up for questions. dr. kim? >> good morning. yesterday was an important step in gabby's recovery. she had two procedures yesterday and i'll describe both of them to you. the first was a cranial plasty and then she had a shunt placed at the same time. as you know, the cranio plasty was for the skull defect. it was an implant we used and it was something we planned to do around this time. gabby had also developed a condition called myohydrocephalous. hydrocephalous just means water in the head, in latin, and it's a condition that develops in many patients who have a brain injury. we produced daily clear fluid that bathe

they could also go to hermann kaine, an atlanta businessman who will announce his run on saturday.ial conservatives will be split up now, kiran. >> mark preston, to be continued. we'll see who does end up benefiting when the polls come out. very interesting to the guys that got attention, out of the race now. thanks so much. >> thanks. >>> for all the latest political news head to our website cnn l cnnpolitics.c cnnpolitics.com. >>> breaking news overnight, arnold schwarzenegger's stunning confessi confession, "the los angeles times" reports he admitted fathers a child with a household staff. he only told his wife maria shriver after he left office this year and that led to their split. >>> pakistan now says it will return the top secret tail fragment of the helicopter left behind in that raid. senator john kerry made the announcement from pakistan, calling it step number one. he also said secretary of state clinton would visit the country. >>> irish police defuse a bomb hours before queen elizabeth's history-making visit. irish authorities say it was on a private bus. another devi