records show loughner is a registered independent. he voted in 2006 and 2008 but not in the most recent midterm elections in which giffords won a third term. now jared lee loughner allegedly used a 9 millimeter glock handgun in this shooting and yesterday in arizona the f.b.i. says same-day gun sales spiked 60% from a year ago the same day, one of the most popular models sold was the same one loughner used. katie? >> couric: ben tracy in tucson tonight. ben, thank you. as for congresswoman giffords' condition the survival rate, a bullet wound to the head is only about 5%, but her surgeons are confident tonight she'll be one of the lucky ones. >> reporter: at tucson's university medical center congresswoman gabrielle giffords' condition is still listed as critical but her doctors are increasingly optimistic. you're confident now she's going to survive? >> i am 101% confident she's going to survive. there's no way she's going to die. okay, that's not an issue for me. >> reporter: giffords is able to breathe on her own but has a breathin

jared loughner's friend bryce tierny told "mother jones" magazine loughner kept a journal of his dreamsnd tierny saw it. "that's the golden place of evidence," he said, "you want to know what goes on in jared loughner's mind, there's a dream journal that will tell you everything." but tierny says loughner got in too deep, like the characters in the movie "inception," his dream life became more vivid to him than his waking life. >> don't lose yourself! >> reporter: psychologists say that's a very real risk. is it possible that when he allegedly pulled that trigger, he thought he was dreaming? >> it's certainly possible that this was very much like what he dreamt before. >> reporter: it might just be possible that on saturday, loughner's dark dreams became this community's nightmare. david wright, abc news, tucson. >>> and, after our break, let the games begin. the battle over your cell phone service. is it time to switch? big news today. do you think i'd let osteoporosis slow me down? so i asked my doctor about reclast because i heard it's the only once-a-year iv osteoporosis treatment.

officials say loughner signed it. >> reporter: loughner used a 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol he used at this tucson sporting goods store on november 30 for $500. the purchase was legal. we've learned he had at least 90 bullets. the 22-year-old lived with his parents in this middle-class tucson neighborhood where they seemed to have had few friends. >> people are so isolated now. they don't know who's living next to him. >> reporter: despite his antigovernment feelings, loughner tried to enlist in the army but was rejected for failing a drug test. he was suspended from community college on september 29 because of his erratic behavior. the school told him he needed a mental health evaluation to return. loughner dropped out. >> he would clench his fists and grin. >> reporter: former classmate steven cates was not surprised when he heard was what loughner allegedly did. he was so afraid loughner would bring a gun to class someday he tried to be friends with him so he would not get shot. >> it was very apparent that he was not on the same level as everyone else. >> reporter: the crime sce

loughner had a public defender. but none of his family members were there to offer moral support. [ bells tolling ] today across the country, a moment of silence for the victims. but there are still many unanswered questions about the shooter and his possible motive. the warning signs were there. plenty say they weren't surprised. including neighbors. >> i told my mother i thought he was a serial killer the first time i saw him. >> reporter: former teachers. >> jared was not your normal student. he was just mentally unstable. i was not too surprised of who the killer was, that jared committed this act. >> reporter: even law enforcement from what the sheriff told diane sawyer today. >> this is somewhat dysfunctional family. and this individual has probably been troubled for some time. >> reporter: you think there's little question that they knew he was very troubled? >> i don't think there's any doubt about that at all. i think the entire neighborhood, where they lived, was aware. >> reporter: but apparently no one f

that call, at 2:05 a.m., went unanswered, so loughner left this brief message. >> loughner: hey. hey, it's jared. i just want to tell you "good times." peace out. later. >> pelley: "peace out" is slang these days for good-bye. there's this heavy sigh at the end. >> bryce tierney: it was all in past tense, and it sort of bothered me how he said "we've had good times." >> pelley: bryce tierney heard his cell phone ring at 2:05, but instead of a number, his screen said "restricted," so he didn't pick up. >> tierney: i was afraid i was going to wake up and find... and see his name in an obituary in a couple of days. >> pelley: tierney and tyler conway met loughner in high school and hung out with him four or five times a week. >> conway: up until, you know, he was about, like, 19 or 20 he was always, you know, pretty enthusiastic, pretty passionate. he was always quiet, but you could see that there was that passion in him. he did care. he was happy. he was always an observer, and especially around the time he started getting mentally ill. >> pelley: we don't know what was happening t

loughner decided to leave voluntarily.r postings, he railed about currency, the gold standard and grammar. the government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar, he wrote. he said that police officers operate unconstitutionally. he also wrote about the definition of the word "terrorist." quote, if i define terrorist, then a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon. i define terrorist. the ramblings and rantings seem to make little sense. yesterday pima county sheriff clarence dupnik said loughner seemed unbalanced. >> i have no reason to believe that the person was insane. was he unstable? i would agree with that. >> reporter: the southern poverty law centers who monitors extremist groups also says it's clear to him loughner was unstable. >> it's clear that the man was extremely confused. you read through some of his writings and they are virtually impossible to understand. >> reporter: he believes loughner may have been looking to lash out

they were not present at loughner's court appearance. vinita? rob? >> diana, there's been a lot of talk about the shooting being politically motivated. what can you tell us about that? >> you know, we heard from both sides immediately following the shooting. but the truth was, he was a registered independent as of 2006. and he doesn't seem to be linked to any particular stance. at this point, authorities are sticking with a lone wolf, domestic terror explanation for the massacre. >> diana alvear, in tucson. thanks for that report. >>> about 100 miles north of tucson, there was a moment of silence before the victims, before college football's national game last night. highlights from the game coming up in a few minutes. >>> and during the governor's state of the state address, jan brewer praised daniel hernandez, giffords' intern, saying his quick action saved her life. >>> and the tucson tragedy has touched the lives of hundreds of families and friends. >> tearful classmates remembered 9-year-old christina-taylor green, since they returned to school

loughner had been told he'd need a mental health review before he could return. of course, this is the type of story that's affected the entire nation, but most of all, this community. i want to you take a look at that vigil there with the candles. people continue to come by and lay flowers and pictures and roses and light candles in honor of those victims, it's just a sign of how much this story has resonated with everyone here. vinita, rob. >> it is such a somber sight. diana, what can you tell us about the nationwide moment of silent for these victims? >> reporter: well, president obama said he was going to lead the nation this morning at 11:00. it's become such a significant event that even the supreme court is doing its part. they're doing opening arguments ten minutes early to allow everyone to participate. so it's clearly something that's going to be very, very important. hopefully, a part of the healing process in this event. >> 11:00 a.m. eastern time today. thank you, diana alvear in tucson this morning. >>> also, a picture is now emerging of suspect ja

>> loughner. >> loughner? >> loughner. loughner. >> reporter: it was one of a dozen encounters loughner and his family had with police, including two arrests on charges of alcohol possession when he was drunk at school, and for marijuana possession. and we're learning new details about the sequence of events leading up to the shooting. 7:30 a.m., an arizona game and fish officer pulls over loughner for running a red light. the officer finds no outstanding warrants, so he lets loughner drive away with a warning. a half an hour later, 8:00 a.m., loughner's father sees him take a black bag out of the trunk of his car. >> and he mumbles something back to dad that's unintelligible as to what the dad has told us. then he turns around and he leaves. >> reporter: shortly after 10:00 a.m., after being driven by this cab driver to the scene, the shooting begins. and today, there are new questions about whether law enforcement missed signals from such a clearly troubled man. we've learned that last year alone, campus police were call

loughner's high school friend says that loughner once asked him to go target shooting with him in theesert. >>> tragedy in tucson has put members in congress on notice with flags at halfstaff. >> i think it needs to be a wake up call for members who have treated security in a cavalier, their own personal security in a cavalier way. >> reporter: on the web and on sunday talk shows, lawmakers debated whether heightened myth cal rhetoric on various issues including health care and illegal immigration fueled the alleged shooters anger. >> it's gotten so elevated until people feel enboldened by this. >> this is from justice phillips the cofounder of one of the group's tea party nation quote, within the entire political spectrum there are extremists both on the left and the right. violence of this nature should be decried by everyone and not used for political gain. how do you respond to that, sir. >> the fact of the matter is, we just came out of the election. we saw a candidate for the u.s. senate. saying if you can't get what you have at the ballot box, let's seek second amendment remedi

and we may finally hear from the parents of the alleged shooter, jared loughner. it's been reported that his father has written a statement and he may release it. >>> jared loughner remains locked up this morning as investigators dig for more clues. the 22-year-old was denied bail monday at his first court appearance. he's accused of saturday's shooting rampage which left six people dead and 14 injured, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. authorities tell cbs news that they think loughner targeted giffords out of anger towards the governor, not out of hatred for any particular party. he might have been upset after reportedly asking giffords at a 2007 event, "what is government if words have no meaning?" and getting no answer. >> he seemed to dwell on the fact that she wouldn't answer his question. i think that's just like the start of it. >> friends say loughner appeared increasingly unstable. this makeshift altar with a skull was discovered in his back yard. congresswoman giffords remains here in critical condition. but doctors give them encouraging news.

loughner had them developed at walgreens and picked them up at 2:19 a.m.n the morning of the shooting. walgreens turned them over to detectives are also now testing the black bag containing bullets they found near loughner's home looking for fingerprints and d.n.a. when they arrested loughner he had two 15-round ammunition magazines in his pockets, as well as a four-inch buck knife, a plastic bag with money, a visa card and his driver's license. meanwhile, campus police reports show loughner's community college knew about his odd behavior since last february. once, while discussing abortion in class, loughner blurted out "why don't we just strap bombs to babies?" >> jared started laughing his sort of crazy little laugh, that heh heh heh. >> reporter: this past september one officer wrote "there might be a mental health concern involved with loughner." the school suspended him and says that was enough. >> this was a student that had no prior history of violence, who had odd and strange behavior but wasn't threatening a crime. >> reporter: we also learned to

loughner... randy loughner, jared's father, brought them into the garage and there they read the letter that was sort of the end for jared at the community college and many people we talked to said that was... that could have been a pretty significant psychological turning point or break for him because he was very attached to the school apparently. >> suarez: kirk johnson is in tucson, david farenthold in washington, gentlemen, thank you both. >> woodruff: still to come on the "newshour": the presidential call for civility and reconstruction frustrations in haiti. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: the toll from floods and mudslides in brazil grew drastically overnight to at least 400 people killed. more than 50 others were missing. heavy rain sent tons of earth plunging down mountainsides north of rio de janeiro before dawn on wednesday. the mud and water swept away everything, including entire homes. in one rescue, a woman leaped into the torrent, but had to

loughner officially withdrew from the college days later. then on october 7th, college administrator sent him a letter stating if he wanted to return he'd need letter from a mental health professional indicating his presence at the college does not present a danger to himself or others. classmates say loughner was a troubled yawning man. >> i don't think he everybody learned how to engage with the world socially and emotionally. >> loughner's behavior in the months and weeks leading much to his withdrawal was worrisome. in his algebra class he wrote "mayhem fest" all over his first quiz. also boarded out random numbers and phrases like "how can you deny math"? then his teacher. >> this guy is not complyingunfe quite a threat to our class. >> one classmate, 52-year-old linda soarn son raised concern about his behavior in an e-mail released to the "new york times." we have mentally unstable person in the class that compares the living crap out of me. he is one of those whose picture you see on the news after he has come in to class with an aut

jared lee loughner is scheduled to appear in court later today. he is accused of trying to assassinate congresswoman gabrielle giffords who was shot in the head. she remains in a medically induced coma. six were killed, 14 others were wounded. officials say they found evidence at loughner's home that he targeted giffords but they believe he was acting alone. cbs news correspondent ben tracy is at the store where the shooting took place with more this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. you can see behind me the crime tape is still up at the shooting scene but they expect to reopen this strip mall later today. the investigation as you mentioned continues. and we're learning a lot more about this alleged shooter including the fact that he may have been tracking congresswoman giffords for years. in just released 911 calls -- >> there is multiple people shot. >> okay. >> reporter: we can hear the chaos that erupted when the gun shots rang out saturday morning. >> you need more than one ambulance. more than one person down. >> how

as we said, his name is jared lee loughner. >> that's right. we're going to look deeply into the investigation. also more on the victims. here in arizona last night there was a vigil for the six people who did lose their lives, including a federal judge, a member of congresswoman giffords' staff and a 9-year-old girl, christine green. she had just been elected to the student council and came to meet her congresswoman yesterday and, bianna, gabrielle giffords was a popular member of congress. they called her gabby, and she was described by her friends as passionate about so many things. >> that's right, george, and she has friends on both sides of the aisle. all are shocked by the tragedy. we'll hear from some of those who know her best, the only member of congress whose spouse is an active military. her husband mark kelly is an astronaut and is scheduled to go on his next and last shuttle mission into space. together they are described as one of the most popular couples in washington. >> that's right, bianna. president obama yesterday called he

the discovery was made not far from the loughner home.h a black bag on the morning of the shooting. police know loughner bought ammunition from a walmart on that same day. police returned to the community college loughner attended for clues. one teacher says loughner intimidated other students. >> jared was not your normal student. he was just mentally unstable. >> reporter: a former girlfriend says loughner's personality changed over time. >> he had a temper problem. he -- he used to scare me sometimes. that's the reason i left him. because he kind of made me feel uncomfortable at times. he'd get really mad and clench his fists really tight. >> reporter: she remembers him as a drug user with a grudge against the government. >> he didn't have parentally figures. it's like having roommates. they were just there. >> reporter: he was a familiar figure to campus police. last year, they were called five times to investigate his behavior. loughner's latest brush with the law was on the morning of the shooting. he was pulled over for running a r

wrote randy and amy loughner. we wish that there were so we could make you feel better. we don't understand why this happened. sandra hughes is in tucson with more this morning. good morning, sandra. >> reporter: good morning, betty. well, two new doctors who were brought in to examine congresswoman giffords now believe that that bullet wound went in the front of her head, and exited out the back. and that's actually opposite of what we have been told all week. still, she is making a remarkable recovery. newly released photos show the husband of congresswoman gabrielle giffords holding vigil by her bedside. doctors are now fully confident the congresswoman will survive her injuries. she's able to move both her arms, and can even breathe on her own. >> a penetrating injury through the skull really, the survival, let alone recovery, is abysmal. she has no right to look this good, and she does. ♪ >> reporter: hundreds packed this tucson church tuesday night to pray for the survivors of saturday's shooting. and mourn the six dead. among the victims, 9-year-old christina gree

y los investigadores recuperaron un sobre escrito a mano con loughner que lo incrimina. investigación, fue aquí donde compró el arma para llevar a cabo la masacre del pasado sábado. las autoridades sospechan que pudo ser influenciado por publicaciones american. una revista conservadora que se auto des tri be como la publicación principal de pensamientos racionales realistas. >>>josé: janet, aún no se sabe que ideología tenía o quizás ninguna este hombre ¿que se sabe de la familia, están coopero arando con las autoridades?. >>> han entrevistado a los familiares, que ambos padres están cooperando y que ningún sabía qué estaba planeando Él vivía con sus dos padres. ver investigaron al padre. y una vez preguntado, y no tenía idea de lo que estaba pasando. >>>josé: lo que sí es inned ddu que de la mente no estaba bien porque llevaba tiempo con problemas. >>> no han dicho qué problemas tenía y por qué lo hubiera llevado hacer esta horrible masacre. >>>josé: vamos a continuar ahora con otro aspecto de la noticia. con más de 10 años de carrera política. la congresista gabriel gi

and fears that confrontations initiated by loughner might become physical.o surprise to classmate alex catonious. >> i was scared myself. i mean, he just had this aura that was creepy and unpredictable. >> reporter: school records show loughner was warned several times about his disruptive behavior. teachers, classmates and police noticed his confused look and bizarre talk. some thought he was on drugs. early last september, campus police said there might be a mental health concern. then came a youtube posting that started, this is jared from pima college, my genocide school where i'm going homeless because of this school. and i haven't forgotten the teacher who give me a "b." that triggered a police visit to the loughner home and immediate suspension. >> and at that meeting, both the mother and father were present. what they understood and didn't understand, you know, i really can't answer. >> reporter: the campus police chief stella bay says without a specific threat aimed at anyone by loughner, the college did what it was allowed to do. >> absolutely. we

investigators found incriminating details searching loughners parents home. hi sandra. >> reporter: good morning what we know now is that 22-year-old jared loughner is going to be defended in court today, by the uni bomber lawyer, judy clark of san diego has taken the case. >> 22-year-old jared loughner will face a host of charges when he appears in federal court including murder and attempted assassination. >> how many people are injured? >> a total of 10 people maybe more. oh, my god. >> reporter: he is accused of single handedly turning in tucson grocery store into a blood bath he shot congressman giffords in the head at point blank range before turning his gun on innocent by standers, six people were killed, 14 others wounded giffords was the intended target at his home they found a letter the congress woman sent him in 2007 thanking him for attending an event and an envelope with giffords i plan to head and assassination on it. >>> doctors are optimistic about gifford's odds but it could take weeks or months. >> brain swelling at any time can take a turn

my assassination and the name giffords along with what appears to be loughner's signature. linda sorenson of tucson says she's not surprised he's the suspect. six months ago when she was a classmate of his at pima college in tucson, she described him this way in an e-mail to a friend. she's one of those whose picture you see on the news after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. >> he alarmed me. his behavior was bizarre. i thought he was mentally and emotionally unstable and i was very much afraid he was going to do something exactly like this. >> reporter: he was so disruptive that he was suspended last fall and told if he wanted to return he had to get a mental health clearance showing he did not present a danger. the following month he bought the gun, a legal purchase because he had no record to disqualify him. he talked with congresswoman giffords in 2007 at a meeting in a shopping center. >> he asked a question that made no sense to me and i can't recall it today. he said she didn't understand it. i don't understand what it is with picns. g it. >> in that

i'm russ mitchell. 22-year-old jared loughner is charged with attempted assassination and first-degree murder in the mass shooting which has sparked a nationwide soul search over the tone of america's political debate. president obama is calling for a moment of silence tomorrow to honor all the victims including the six people who died. among them a federal judge, a congressional aide and a 9-year-old girl who was born on 9/11. >> my daughter had nine beautiful years with us and that is what we are going to remember. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> and good evening. there are new questions about yesterday's shooting spreeing in tucson that left six dead and 12 wounded. and tonight there is more debate about the political climate that may have been a factor in the massacre. here's the latest. congresswoman gabrielle giffords remains in critical condition after being shot in the head yesterday. the suspect in the case 22-year-old jared loughner was charged this afternoon with murder and attempted assassination. and congress has suspended

did he perhaps drive loughner to the scene? i'm told that he is not a gunman, and in that sense, not a suspect. >> schieffer: i find this very interesting. we find these people that are always described as deranged and so forth. they always seem to be smart enough to know when to stop talking. >> you know, the other thing is the congresswoman yesterday morning sent out a tweet that she was going to have this town meeting on the corner at the supermarket. and the belief among investigators is that perhaps loughner saw that, because when he went to the crowd, the only person he could have known who was going to be there was the congresswoman. he didn't know about the other folks that might show up. he went right through the crowd, directly to her and targeted her. so there's no doubt here that she was the intended target. unfortunately, the other folks in the crowd, including judge roll, just were perhaps in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> schieffer: we're going to take a take break here. i want to come back and also bring

his name is jared loughner. at this hour, officials are hunting for someone who they think may have been associated with the suspect. there's a picture they're hoping someone will recognize and call with information. coming up, we're going to get the latest from here in arizona. we'll have a conversation with two people who helped subdue the shooter until police arrived. >>> and we'll also take a closer look at some of the victims, including the youngest, a 9-year-old girl born on the day of the 9/11 attacks she had just been elected to the school council, and went to see the congresswoman because she was interested in government. a sad story there. >>> miguel almaguer joins me. >> reporter: at least six people are dead, another 13 injured. the fbi and sheriff's department is conducting a joint investigation. this morning they believe they have the gunman in custody, though as you mentioned they are looking for another suspect. they say the congresswoman was the target. panic and chaos outside a sub b suburban g

back to you. >> loughner lives with his parents. have we heard from them? have investigators said whether or not they'll question them? >> reporter: you know what, when i was out there today, i did knock on the door to try to speak to them because that family has to be hurting as well, right? and they did not answer. they were in the backyard. they would not come to the gate. i spoke to neighbors and they said that they're really sort of reclusive, keep to themselves. we are told that the parents are cooperating with investigators. of course, their home was searched last night. that's what we can tell you about the loughner family at this point. >> thank you. >>> representative giffords remains heavily sedated to let her brain rest from surgery, but doctors are encouraged by her responsiveness. y it will take weeks to months to learn the level o damage giffords mi >> the things that are most concerning to us are if the bullet crosses from one hemisphere to the other, one side to the sorry, if the bullet crosses through the geometric center of the brain and

and we turn now tonight to the suspect in this case, the accused assassin, jared lee loughner, by all accounts, a very troubled 22-year-old man. so much so, in fact, that many people are saying that the main story of this tragedy is more mental health than it is issues like the political process. tonight we finally heard from his family in our own mike taibbi is live outside the family home in tucson. mike, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, how are you, brian? in a written statement late today the parents of the suspect said we wish we could change the heinous events of saturday. we care deeply about the victims and families and we're so very sorry for their loss. the question remains, how could the parents of jared loughner been unaware of what their only child was thinking and allegedly planning living in the same house? secluded in their modest home, amy and randy loughner told the neighbor, wayne smith, to say a few words about how they were doing. in the aftermath of the tragedy their son is charged with creating they, too, are suffering. >> they're hurting bad. she's real

and loughner, like so many suspects before him, young, angry, troubled and with a gun. "this week," i'm pierre thomas in washington. >> there have also been so many stories of courage and fortitude around this tragedy. the person who tackled loughner to the ground and also a young intern, 20-year-old daniel hernandez, who held congresswoman giffords as he saw her go down running towards the gunfire. he joins us right now on the phone. daniel hernandez, thank you for joining us. it must have been an incredible moment as you ran towards the gunfire when it all broke out. tell me what happened yesterday. >> of course, because there is a pending investigation we're trying to make sure that everything that we talk about is just -- watching what we say and just things after the shooting. yesterday i was helping congresswoman giffords at an event where she would try to meet with her constituents and before the shooting happened, we had a lot of excited constituents who were very happy to get the opportunity to speak to their congresswoman because everybody was going to get a c

investigators say loughner was armed with 90 rounds of ammunition. before it was all over, congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot in the head. six others were killed. >> factually, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of wiggle room on the defense's side at this time. >> reporter: public defenders in the state recused themselves from this case because a federal judge from arizona is among the dead. loughner was assigned criminal defense attorney judy clarke, no stranger to high profile cases. her clients have included unabomber ted kaczynski, and susan smith, the mother convicted of drowning her two children. >> judy clarke is an individual who has had the skill and perseverance in her career to do really good work in the most difficult of circumstances. >> reporter: today, we learned more about loughner. law enforcement sources say he was fixated with gabrielle giffords, who he met in 2007 and he disagreed with her politics. court documents say inside loughner's home, investigators found an envelope bearing the words "i planned ahead. my assassinat

they say loughner is barely responding to their questions. a note found in loughner's home suggests that he may have planned to assassinate the lawmaker. >>> french president sarkozy has pledged to work with the united states to tackle trade imbalances. sarkozy met u.s. president barack obama in washington monday. he told obama he wants to discuss the trade and currency issues during the group of 8 and group of 20 summits to be hosted by france this year. >> translator: i'm aware of the importance of the u.s. in the world's economy and how important the u.s. dollar is as the world's number one currency. >> sarkozy also said the 21st century requires new ideas for the prosperity of people around the world. he suggested reviewing the existing international currency system and looking at ways to stabilize food prices. france wants to debate the current global order that relies on the dollar as the key reserve currency. the u.s. is expected to call on european countries to continue tackling the region's fiscal debt problems. america's so-called b

loughner left a trail of postings. anti-government rants. the last was a note saying good-bye to friends. adding "don't be mad." it's a picture of a troubled young man, rejected by the army after high school. there were minor drug arrests. but then, a serious downward spiral this fall. he was kicked out of community college. told he needed a mental health review before he could return. about the same time, the last day of november, he legally bought the gun used in the shooting at this store. neighbors said they had no idea that loughner was so troubled. >> this guy seemed to be a loony. >> the things that he put on the internet and nobody noticed that there might be a concern. >> reporter: the fbi director admits today that over the past decade, it's become much easier to spread hate speech on the internet. he says that a challenge for the fbi. we should mention that loughner will make his first court appearance tomorrow in tucson. >>> as the investigation proceeds, 13 of the wounded are here at the university hospital behind me with congre

loughner's life was unraveling. he tried to join the military. rejected. he was arrested for drug possession. some investigators wonder if loffner became obsessed with the giffords because of their american lifestyle. loughner even met the congresswoman. >> he met gabrielle giffords once in '07. he told me he asked her a question that made absolutely no sense to me. but he said, i can't believe she doesn't understand it. >> reporter: friends say after that he became obsessed with the giffords. in a safe at loffner's house police say they found an envelope with the words, "i planned ahead." "my assassination" and "giffords." an expert in psychiatry says the evidence is clear. >> classic delusions of persecution. delusions of false beliefs. they're indicators of psychosis and they mean that a person is suffering from a psychotic illness, most likely paranoid schizophrenia. >> reporter: so why didn't anyone intervene? diane, where does a young man who does not have a job get $500 to buy the alleged murder weapon? >> pierre, thank you for reporting in tonight.

evidence suggesting loughner planned his attack. and members of congress met to discuss security issues. for more on the shooting, here's t.j.winnick. >> reporter: representative gabrielle giffords is in a medically drug induced coma, her prognosis still unclear. many are calling it a miracle she even survived the point blank gush shot to her head. >> if this is off by an inch ', it could have been a very different scenario. >> reporter: of the 14 survivors shot, giffords remains in critical can. six victims lost their lives, including federal judge john roll, giffords' aide, gabe zimmerman, and kristine greene. 9-1-1 tapes released paint a picture of the sheer chaos at the time of the shooting. the suspect, 22-year-old jared loughner, remains in fbi custody as investigators probe possible connections to extremist groups. loughner bought the murder weapon, a glock 19-millimeter handgun at the sportsmen warehouse in tucson. he was only stopped on saturday when three bystanders enter veeped. >> fortunate the spring in the magazine fai

we haven't heard much from jared loughner.heard anything at all because he's invoked his right to remain silent. but as you mentioned we will see him this afternoon in a phoenix courtroom where he's going to answer charges against him. his intended target remains her in the hospital in critical condition still struggling to survive. gabby giffords remains in a medically induced coma. the long-term prognosis still unclear. she and 13 others in a medical center in tucson. six more victims lost their lives in saturday's senseless rampage including nine-year-old christina taylor green. >> came into the world on 9/11. and then nine years old she leaves it on this terrible day, yesterday. >> authorities have filed five counts against the suspected shooter, 22-year-old jared loughner, attempted assassination against a member of congress. as he tried to reload, a woman grabbed an ammunition clip from him. we got one dead. there's multiple people shot. >> okay. oh, my god. >> a search of loughner's home yielded an envelope with the wor

and more on suspected shooter jared lee loughner.l hear from one of his college professors who said his behavior raised red flags. that and more coming up this morning on "the early show." for now, though, that will do it for this monday morning edition of the "cbs morning news." i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody. have a great day. ,,,,,,,,

but loughner's mental condition is expected to be at the heart of the case. many experts believe the defense will claim he was insane at the time of the shooting. >> we wonder whether this young man's dilutions will interfere with his ability to have a rational understanding because that's what the law requires of the court process. >> reporter: so far loughner is charged with the attempted assassination of congresswoman gabrielle giffords and the attempted murder of two of her aides. he's expected to face additional charges including murder once the investigation is complete. doctors say congresswoman giffords is improving daily, but she remains in the intensive care unit of a houston hospital for treatment of fluid on the brain. her husband says she may be ready to move into full-time rehabilitation by the end of the week. karen brown, cbs news, phoenix. >>> it's reported this morning that the woman accused of stealing a baby from a new york hospital in 1987 has admitted to the crime. ann pettway appeared in federal court yesterday facing kidnapping charges

but wanted to know where loughner would be held if the case was moved.fter the hearing, loughner left the federal courthouse in a cargo van surrounded by a convoy of law enforcement officers. >> then that, again, was corey rangel reporting. >>> congresswoman giffords remains in intensive care after suffering her first setback. doctors say fluid has appeared in her injured brain. and they have inserted a shunt to drain it. giffords won't be transferred to a rehab center until the problem is under control. although, she has several hours of basic therapy where she is now. >>> in new york, a woman charged in a wrenching case of child kidnapping appeared in a federal court. ann pettway has confessed to taking carlina white from a new york city hospital 23 years ago and raising the girl as her own. pettway turned herself in after carlina found her biological parents. pettway told police, she took the baby after having several miscarriages. >>> police on long island, new york, are now searching for a serial killer. they say all four women whose bodies were fou