they released thousands of documents that offer vivid details about the gunman, jared lee loughner. r brian todd has actually been poring over these documents. here's what he found. >> reporter: early morning, january 8th, 2011, jared lee loughner is stopped for running a red light in tucson, arizona. state fish and game officer alan thorny lectures loughner on his driving. loughner seems to break down. i said i won't write you a citation for this forney says later in a statement to investigators and when i said that to him his face got kind of screwed up and he started to cry. forney asks if loughner is okay. loughner replies, yeah. i'm okay. i've just had a rough time, and i really thought i was going to get a ticket. loughner is sent on his way. just a couple hours later -- >> he went in, he just started firing, and then he ran. >> jared lee loughner kills six people, wounds congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 12 others at a safeway in tucson. we're getting new details of the incident in thousands of pages of documents just released by the pima county sheriff's department. a judg

that was before jared lee loughner killed six people, wounded 12 and left gabrielle giffords fightingrvive. that is just one of the many details in thousands of pages of newly released documents. the gunman is serving a life sentence. he's been diagnosed with schizophrenia. officials would not release the records, things like police reports and page after page of interviews. we're reading through them and getting and inside look at exactly how this rampage went down. trace gallagher poured through the materials and is live at our news hub. it seems clear his behavior was more and more erratic before the shooting. >> his parents not only took his guns but his dad tried to disable his car. he says in the weeks leading to the shooting he couldn't communicate with jared and kept a journal with undy cipherrable script. he brought the gun to a friend and when asked why such high capacity, he said it was for home security. before the shooting he called another friend and left a voice message saying, hey, it's, this is jared, i had some very good times and peace out. later. the shooting happe

jared loughner at the scene. just hours beforehand. early morning, january 8th, 2011, jared leeed for running a red light in tucson, arizona. state fish and game officer allen foreigney lectures love ner on his driving. i said i'm not going to write you a citation for this, foreigney says, in a statement later to investigators. when i said that to him, his face got kind of screwed up and he started to cry. forney asks if loughner is okay. yeah, i'm okay, i've just had a rough time and i really thought i was going to get a ticket. loughner is sent on his way. just a couple of hours later -- >> he just went in and started firing and then he ran. >> reporter: jared lee loughner kills six people, wounds congresswoman gabrielle giffords. we're getting new details of the incident in thousands of pages of documents just released by the pima county sheriff's department. a judge had kept them under seal until now, concerned they would prevent jared loughner from getting a fair trial. a witness described how he and others subdued loughner. >> i put my legs behind his knees and my arm in t

reports described how the shooter jared lee loughner acted before and after he opened fire in a supermarket parking lot killing six and wounding 12 others. loughner's parents told police they were worried about their son's erratic behavior but never had him evaluated. for mental illness. loughner pled guilty in november and is serving life in prison without patrol. >>> meanwhile, lawyers for aurora movie theater suspect james holmes may offered up a guilty plea for the death penalty that may be wiped from the table. holmes skilled 12 and injured 60 others during a midnight screening of "batman: the dark knight." >>> bill karins is standing by. clearly, syracuse is playing tonight? >> as long as i'm not hanging out with an indiana person, i'm doing all right here. welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> hasn't really rained all that much for that amazing landslide picture we showed you earlier. for the march totals, if you look at the map, you have the areas of brighter colors there the yellows, the oranges. two inches in the yellows, three inches for the orange. as we go towards th

what exactly did jared lee loughner's parents randy and amy do to try and curb his behavior? now quite a bit about jared loughner and his motives. we don't know what was done prevent him acting vilently or how late in the narrative he started getting violent thoughts. >> woodruff: does more of a picture come together with this information, though, about how his parents were struggling with his apparent mental illness? >> absolutely. in the court testimony leading up to his sentencing while the judge was trying to reconcile whether he was competent to stand trial the psychologist who reviewed his file determined that he had visible signs of schizophrenia as early as 2007 or 2008. the randy and amy loughner both testified to police in their home about four hours after the shooting that they knew their son was sick. what we didn't know is what they tried to do about it and what they both told police was that the pima county community college people came to their house and told them if there were any guns in the house to keep them out of sight or locked away. randy put them the tr

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a lot of riveting new detail, nugget type information about the day of the shootings, about jared lee loughnerhis demeanor the day of the shootings. 2700 pages of documents released by the pima county sheriff's department today. they give the details, as far as loughner is concerned, one account is from alan foreiny, a officer from the arizona fish and game department. he describes stopping loughner at a traffic stop, just a couple of hours before the shootings. this was for running a red light. that traffic stop we did know about. but in one document, he describes loughner's behavior to a detective and fbi agent, he said he started lecturing loughner about his driving and listen to this detail, then i told him i said i'm not going to write you a citation for this and when i said that to him, his face got kind of screwed up and he started to cry. that struck me as a little odd. so i asked him if he was okay? and he said, yeah, i'm okay, i just had a rough time. and i really thought i was going to get a ticket and i'm really glad you're not. brooke, that leads to all sorts of questions, was he

. >> reporter: once he was ruled competent to stand trial, jared lee loughner pled guilty, but he wasnced to seven consecutive life terms and 140 years on top of that for the rampage. in los angeles, adam housley, fox news. >>> are we seeing the end of the diesel locomotive? how a switch to natural gas can affect the environment, your health, and your pocketbook. >> a surfer made big headlines for riding this huge wave. how his believes and beer could keep him from collecting the prize. >> how much more rain you can expect in the complete bay area forecast. when i take a picture of this check, it goes straight to the bank. oh. oh look the lion is out! no mommy no! don't worry honey, it only works on checks. deposit checks from your smartphone with chase quickdeposit. just snap a picture, hit send and done. take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> san francisco mayor ed lee assured people in a neighborhood affected by a water main break and sinkhole, that he's on their side. the water main break flooded as many as 23 homes, and three are now red tagged. cavity in the garage. e l

learning new details about the tucson shooting from new documents as well, including that jared lee loughner's were worried he displayed erratic behavior before that attack. how timely are these revelations on a day when your group along with organizing for action is looking to rebuild some momentum for gun control? >> well, it illuminates something we've known for a long time. we know how to enable states to get their records about peoples into the background system. and that's what congress is going to be voting on. >> much of today is about putting the pressure on congress, as you mentioned before the vote in the senate next month. do you think that politicians who don't hear the message, do you think there is actually going to be a political price? or do you think that the attention span and that the collective memory of the citizenry will once again prove to be a lot shorter than we'd like for it to be? >> we're having a national conversation on this issue of the kind we haven't had in a generation. it took the brady bill folks seven years to i think it's goi much less time to pass these

police say jared lee loughner killed six people and wounded a dozen more including congresswoman giffords. she is still recovering from that gunshot to the helped. the shooting happened more than two years ago at a shopping center in tucson. witnesses say they tackled jared lee laughner when he was reloading. documents revealed people in the crowd were yelling "kill him." loughner pleaded guilty he is serving seven life sentences in missouri. that's why the judge says he is allowing the release of these documents now. trace gallagher has looked over them from our west coast news hub. trace, an officer stopped this guy, laughner, right before the shooting, huh? >> he was a fish and game officer, shep. pulled him over for running the red light. when the officer told jared loughner he was not giving him a ticket. he said loughner thanked him and cried and said he was having a rough time. he he went home and his dad saw him pull a black bag out of the car and stuff something in his pocket. he asked him what it was. he ran off. the father chased him but couldn't catch him. he took a cab from t

remember jared lee loughner, the young man who tragically shot gabrielle giffords, he had these veryord amas that he would put on the internet, obsessive and focused on violence very much in his own world of dilution. i would see these as very similar to that, but in his mind he probably felt it was important to somehow imitate or act out the-- and he was in this cold, pre-dilutional calculating way beginning to plan out that crime. now, look, world, nation, we need to commit the resources to spotting these kids. as your reporter said, self-help books scattered around the house amongst these weapons when instead what she needed was a kid in useful treatment and what we needed for the many people who buy their own weapons and don't have them purchased with their mothers with birthday checks, majority of case, we need them to walk into a place wherever it is, be it a gun show, be it a straw purchase, be it a licensed gun owner or be it an online venue, and have them background checked if we do that will stop-- >> that's the one piece of legislation pushed on capitol hill that appears--

husband mark kelly, survivors and victims' families gathered outside the tucson safeway where jared lee loughner fire killing six and wounding 13 others. loughner is sentenced to life in prison without parole. >>> the former head of the transportation security agency, kip holly, saying he supports a new policy allowing small knives on planes but says it actually doesn't go far enough. he says, quote, they ought to let everything on that is sharp and pointy. battle axes, machetes, bring anything that you want that is pointy and sharp because while you may be able to commit an act of violence, you will not be able to take over the plane. it's as simple as that. he insists the search for knives slows down the search for objects that can cause major harm like explosives. >> yeah, people are mad about that. i feel like the machete thing is a good line. >> battle axes also. >> even small knives. you have to take off your shoes -- >> why don't they change that rule? >> i don't know. >> there's no explanation. >> no, none. >> sometimes there's just no sfla sp explanation of the news. why is that, john b