>> mitchell: and good evening. for tucson residents still healing after last weekend's shooting, this was a sunday for prayer, reflection, and an inspiring act of generosity. here's the latest. doctors today upgraded congresswoman gabrielle giffords' condition from critical to serious. the parents of nine-year-old victim christie that taylor green have donated her organs to a young girl in boston. funerals were held today for two other people killed in the shooting. and a shooting victim is charged with threatening and intimidating a tea party leader. john blackstone is tracking events in tucson tonight. >> reporter: hundreds who were already connect bid shock and sorrow walked together sunday morning through the streets of tucson. organizers called it a walk for peace. scott burns says news of congresswoman giffords' shooting hit him hard. >> i found myself crying i'm like, why am i crying? i don't know her that well." >> reporter: the still-raw emotions here were evident when one of the victims of the shooting-- eric fuller who took a bullet in the leg-- was charged with intimidation and disorderly conduct after he threatened a local tea party leader at a town hall meeting organized by abc news. >> he booed me as i was talking very loudly. he turned around and took a picture of me and said "you're dead." >> reporter: there were two more funerals sunday, one for gabe zimmerman, 30-year-old aid to congresswoman giffords and services were held for 75-year-old dorr wan stoddard. he died shielding his wife from the bullets. the accused shooter, jared loughner, left voice mail for an old friend a few hours before the shooting. bryce tierney played the message for scott pelley of "60 minutes." >> hey, it's jared. what's up? i just wanted to say i had a good time and peace out. later. >> there's this heavy sigh at the end. >> it was all in past tense, you know? and it sort of bothered me how he said "we've had good times." >> reporter: loughner had several run-ins with the law but nothing that indicated he was a danger. last september he completed a program to have a 2010 drug related conviction expunged. the judge who sentenced him fears he now knows why loughner was anxious to clear his record. >> the reason why he went through this this program so quickly was related to his ability to be able to possess and buy a weapon. >> reporter: at the church where the youngest victim of the shooting-- nine-year-old christina green-- sang in the youth quire, she and her family were remembered sunday for their generosity with the news that christina's organ donation had helped a girl in boston. christina's father told a boston newspaper the organ donation is another amazing thing christina has done. russ? >> mitchell: john blackstone in tucson. thank you. of course, congresswoman giffords was shot last weekend while meeting constituents outside a supermarket. this weekend, several of her colleagues made a point of holding similar public sessions. man well gallegus has that story. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: new york congressman anthony weiner was out in his district meeting with constituents. >> look, i don't have concerns. i did 27 town hall meetings during the health care debate. sometimes voices got raised, sometimes passions got raise bud i have no concern about my safety or the safety of my constituents. >> reporter: there's a feeling of defiance among politicians. they are undeterred by the violence that erupted at gabrielle giffords political event in tucson. >> i think right now she's inspiring all of us. she's inspiring our nation with her courage and strength. >> reporter: now reinforcing that courage is added security. this weekend at a minneapolis market, officers were out in force for representative keith ellison's "congress on your corner" event. around the country, law enforce system offering up extra security to political leaders there were there in las vegas for congresswoman shelley berkeley. >> i thought it was very important to send a signal to my constituents and let them know we're open for business. >> reporter: in pitt county, north carolina, the sheriff is looking for new ways to protect public events. >> simple little things of planning ahead, making changes in where people sit, changing in your camera system, alarm systems and stuff like that. little things we can do to prevent tragedies such as we have seen. >> reporter: sheriff elk says he'll add security to events, from school board meetings to visits from senator kay hagan. >> i think we need to recognize that democracy in our country is critically important to have access to elected officials. >> reporter: and access that both politicians and voters refuse to surrender. manuel gallegus, cbs news, new york. >> mitchell: security forces in the north african nation of tunisia today battled militia forces loyal to the country's deposed president. police arrested four people with german passports in connection with a shooting at an opposition party headquarters. a published report today credits a joint u.s./israeli effort with developing the cyber weapon that has delayed iran's nuclear weapons program. the "new york times" says scientists at a facility in israel perfected the computer virus that sabotaged crucial machinery in iran. national security correspondent david martin has more. >> reporter: iran took ambassadors from the international atomic energy agency on a tour today of the uranium enrichment plant believed to be at the center of its nuclear weapons program. but the iranian guides made no mention of the technical projects which have afflicted the plant, delaying its quest for a bomb by up to five years. >> iran had technological problems that have made it slow down its timetable. >> reporter: secretary of state clinton attributed those problems to economic sanctions leveled against iran. but the iranians themselves say their enrichment plant has been hit by a computer virus. no one will admit to it, but every indication is the virus it was product of a covert operation run by the u.s. and israel. >> it was a professional job. they had some serious insider knowledge beforehand, before they started the project and there's not too many people you can think of who could pull off a job like that. >> reporter: liam omurchu of the computer security firm symantec gave a description of what a simple virus known as stuxnet can do to the manufacturing process. >> this program runs indefinitely and causes malfunction here. >> reporter: infect the computers that run iran's enrichment plant and stux could throw off the speed at which the seine trif fusions spin causing them to break down. >> and this is stux senate >> that is stuxnet. >> reporter: sean mcgurk insists he does not know where stuxnet came from but he demonstrates how easy it is to spread the virus by plugging in a thumb drive infected with it. it doesn't pop up a warning or notice saying "you're now infecting your system with stuxnet. it's very sophisticate sod it hides itself. >> reporter: israeli intelligence, which used to think iran was only a year away from getting the bomb now says it will be delayed until 2015. david is martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> mitchell: still to come on the tonight's "cbs evening new," the food and gasoline price increases that the inflation figures miss. >> mitchell: in labor department's core index of consumer prices flows december by one tenth of a percent. but that does not include the cost of food and fuel which most americans pay for everyday. count those in and the rate of increase was five times higher-- the fastest pace in a year and a half. cynthia bowers has more. >> reporter: with gasoline topping $3 a gallon in much of the country, for many americans, a fill-up is a budget buster. >> it's terrible but what can you do? >> reporter: prices at the pump have jumped 13.8% so far this year on top of last year's 5.5% rise. the national average for a gallon of regular is $3.90, ranging from $2.81 in wyoming to $3.70 in hawaii. but big-city prices can go much higher. try $4.30 a gallon at this d.c. station. increase is driven by the rising cost of crude oil, nearing $100 a barrel, an amount opec calls realistic. no wonder there's fear of $5 a gallon gas. commodities analyst phil flynn disagrees. he points out the u.s. is actually exporting more gas than it's using due to decreased demand. >> we're going to be using new kind of cars, electric cars, better technology, better mileage. we'll probably never consume as much gasoline as we did before the economic slowdown in 2007/2008. >> reporter: and if you think fuel prices are bad, just try taking a trip to the grocery store where just last month fruit prices jumped more than 15%. vegetable prices went up 23%. dairy products are up nearly 4%. meat, poultry, eggs and fish up 5.5%. two big factors that florida cold snap damaged tender produce and the floods in australia are slowing wheat exports. add to that the increased demand for food in the developing world. what remains to be seen is how these price hikes impact the economic recovery. the more money americans spend on food and fuel the less they have to spend on anything else. cynthia bowers, cbs news, chicago. >> mitchell: still ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news," closing california's budget gap. is dumping state cell phone it is right call? >> mitchell: the nation's governors are facing budgets trillions of dollars in the red. nearly three in four americans think their state budget is in bad shape. but an overwhelming majority is not willing to cut spending for public safety. of all the states, california is in the tightest squeeze. as terry mccarthy reports. >> what i propose will be painful. >> reporter: california's new governor jerry brown inherited one of the worst financial messs in the country. brown began announcing cuts from day one. his first target: the cell phones. 48,000 state workers with taxpayer-funded cell phones must turn them in by next june. that includes the governor himself. >> you have a state issued cell phone. have you turned that in? >> i have in the my desk ready to turn it in. >> reporter: with a deficit of $28 billion, eliminating cell phones will only save the state $20 million. >> the cell phones are a symbol. it won't save a lot of money but it sends a real message. >> reporter: and the message that all californians are hearing: there is more pain to come. california may have the biggest debt overall in the nation but many other states are struggling to deal with enormous budget deficits. either by cutting spending or by raising taxes. knee cher of which are very popular with voters. according to a cbs poll, 77% of respondents prefer cutting spending to raising taxings. but almost three quarters think in an emergency situation it's okay to keep running a deficit. in illinois, the governor wants to raise income taxes by an almost unthinkable 66% to help close his state's $13 billion deficit. >> this is a temporary income tax to deal with the immediate fiscal emergency our state faces to pay the bills so we don't have severe cutbacks. >> reporter: in new jersey, which already has some of the highest tax rates in the country. governor chris christie took the opposite route, facing an $11 billion gap, christie imposed stringent cuts on education and public employees. he even nix add badly needed new tunnel between new jersey and new york city. >> i can't print money. >> reporter: in california a double whammy. public finances are so bad governor brown says on top of spending cuts the state will also have to raise taxes. but that will require a public referendum expected this spring. the only real solution in the long run for the problems facing the state is national economic growth. >> reporter: until that happens, state governors thereof do whatever they can to reel in their deficits. but every action they take will make somebody unhappy. terry mccarthy, cbs news, los angeles. mitch matsch pacific storm is sweeping over the northwest and could dump up to three inches of rain in oregon and washington state. the national weather service has issued flood warnings in parts of several counties are some rivers are already swollen by melting snow. and we'll be back. >> mitchell: in a surprise development, exiled dictator jean-claude duvalier, known as baby doc, returned to haiti for the first time since he was deposed in 1986. in that country, reconstruction from the earthquake a year ago last week has been slow and frustrating. but bill whitaker found some bright spots. >> reporter: in the year since the earthquake amid the cries and cholera it sometimes seemed like watching haiti's slow death but haitians are survivors. and even here in the highlands, hard hit by the quake, there are signs of renewed life. "it's been hard picking up the pieces" says this merchant" but with the help of oregon-based merci corps and the red cross business is back. the agencies gave 303 households vouchers worth $225 to buy necessities. eunice luberice moved here to escape the squalor of port-au-prince. she bought drapes and paint at the market today. "before i needed these things, but today i was finally able to buy them" she says. merci corps plans to give vouchers to 10,000 households. >> what we want to do is try and create some opportunities out here so they have the option to stay. >> reporter: more than 800,000 haitians still are living in teeming tent cities. these are so-called tent people. they've been living in tent cities for a year now. today their frustration boiled over. they say they're sick and tired of living like that. good intentions aren't enough. world vision built 500 tidy houses on a hot, dusty plain miles from port-au-prince. adele adieu says it's good to have a house but it's not good out here. we don't have jobs, there's nothing to eat. this man says he travels four to five hours each way to port-au-prince everyday to look for work. "they dropped us here, gave us shelter and nothing else" he says. with unemployment above 70%, relief agencies offer cash for work. $5 a day for jobs like cleaning drainage canals. with so much heavy work to be done, u.s.a.i.d. is training haitians to handle heavy equipment. after the quake, congress cleared the way for haiti to export more textiles to the u.s. this bustling industry employs 25,000 haitians and expect to need 450,000 if business keeps humming. but haiti needs so much more. >> it will take a long time for haiti. >> reporter: one year later and the record on recovery is mixed. but with so many hopeful shoots taking hold, it's too soon to write haiti's obituary. bill whitaker, cbs news, mirebalais, haiti. >> mitchell: up next on tonight's "cbs evening news," echoes from a half century ago. inspiring words of a president. >> mitchell: finally this sunday it was 50 years ago this coming thursday that john f. kennedy took the oath of office as president. he went on to deliver one of the most memorable inaugural addresses ever. senior political correspondent jeff greenfield looks back. >> that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. >> reporter: he had come to the presidency as the child of wealth and privilege. as a world war ii hero who had almost lost his life. as the winner of the closest of elections. >> i'm not just the youngest elect bud also the first catholic. so that's another reason he had to give a speech for ages, a speech that would unite the country. >> i didn't know you could be a president of the united states and not have gray hair. >> reporter: former reagan speech writer peggy noonan was a ten-year-old girl on new york's long island. >> these new people that came in they had dark hair, like sort of relatively young people, like parents not like grandparents. >> reporter: and it was not just youth but glamour. after 15 years of the midwest plain-spoken harry truman and then dwight eisenhower, kennedy was not just impossibly young, a 31-year-old first lady, but strikingly attractive. john kennedy took the oath of office bathed in brilliant winter light. but what is most remembered are the words. >> that we shall pay any price, bear any burden. >> people remember this as a cold war speech because of the "pay any price bear any burden." but most of the rest of the speech was about peace and negotiations and the threat of nuclear war. >> let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. >> reporter: long time kennedy speech writer and advisor ted sorensen was often given credit for the inaugural address. thurston clark disagrees. >> the torch has been passed to a new generation, bear any burden, those were kennedy. he had a sorensen draft in front of him on january 10. he flew to palm beach, he looked at the draft and he dictated his changes and additions to the draft. >> reporter: at the kennedy library in boston, director tom putnam showed us the display that includes pages from the steno pad of kennedy's secretary. >> even in her short hand you can see she's written "out doors long, twilight struggle" or "the trumpet summons us again." "tier new england, disease, war itself." these are signature lines that we remember and this is the genesis of them on that flight to palm beach. >> reporter: most memorable, of course, is the line that defined his central message. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. (cheers and applause) >> reporter: the sudden end of the kennedy presidency left behind a sense of what could have been. >> this was a presidency interrupted. it didn't have enough time to impose real meaning. it had enough time to impose a mood. and to impose an indelible memory. >> mitchell: that was jeff greenfield reporting. that is the "cbs evening news," i'm russ mitchell in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org may be the final chapter in a notorious missing person's case ... the pieces of the puzzle being assembled tonight by amortize side in the south bay may be the final chapter in a no toreous missing person's case. >> it bothered me how he said we've had good times. >> the final hours before the mass shooting in tucson. what friends say he was doing before he opened fire. and more questions for pg&e in the wake of the pipeline explosion. did the practice of spiking gas lines contribute to the disaster disaster.