Odayer congresswoman Gabby Giffords cape face to face today d th the man who tried to kill her. 24yearold jared loughner. En january of last year, loughner, mentally ill and armed with a semiautomatic pistol, tried to assassinate giffords, raising his gun to her head and firing. Then he kept shooting, killing six, wounding 13. Loughner pleaded guilty, and today a federal judge sentenced him to seven life terms, one for pch of the dead, plus one more for attempting to kill a member of congress. John blackstone was in the courtroom. Reporter loughner sat in the courtroom as one by one, victims rose to speak. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords ask her husband, mark kelly, stood side by side. Loughner look toward him as kelly said, mr. Loughner, you may have put a bullet through her head, but you havent put a dent in her spirit and her commitment to make the world a better place. Giffords did not speak but stood fully upright, her paralyzed right arm in a sling. Kelly ended with this, you have decades upon decades to contemplate what you did, but after today, after this moment, here and now, gabby and i are done thinking about you. Pam simon is one of giffords staffers who was wounded. I could see in the way she stood, very straight, standing with mark kelly. I knew i could sense in the way she held her head, her curiosity, her great intellect, and, also, i believe, that it may have provided some closure for her. She is an amazing woman. Reporter loughner only spoke when he was asked by the judge if he waved his right to address the court. He replied, thats true. Loughners shooting rampage was in january of 2011 in the tucson Shopping Mall where giffords was holding a meeting with constituents. Hes been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has spent the last year in a psychiatric word where he has been treated with psychotropic drugs. The six people loughner killed, included a federal judge, a 19 yearold girl, and betty jeans mother. So you were looking in the eyes of the man who killed her mother. I had to. Reporter do you think he heard you . I hope he did. Gabby giffords, she said, gave her the strength to speak. She greeted me and she said i needed to be strong because i was a little weteyed. Reporter you were weteyes. Gabby giffords told you to be strong. Yes. Reporter loughner will be sent back to the same federal prison where he has been getting psychiatric treatment. Isat treatment will continue but, scott, the judge told loughner he will never again set foot outside of prison. Pelley folks hit by Hurricane Sandy were digging out or ahe snowstorm today. Many are struggling with no electricity or heat. Sandy is blamed now for at least 123 deaths and more than 767,000 people in four states are without power. As snow fell on Staten Island, nason auer was helping clean out a relatives wrecked house, and Mark Strassmann is reporting for us from new jersey tonight. Mark. Reporter i want to show you something, scott. All this is the aftermath of sandy, a growing mountain of debris. That pile is construction materials, furniture, and thatances. Over there, whats rest of belmars famed boardwalk, that pile splintered by sandy, and that peel ground up for scrap. And town after town on the jersey shore had a pile of ruin just like this with no place to go. Ive never seen this much material in our building before. Reporter dominic mazzas doste removal business has ss hected 7500 tons of debris since sandy hit. You cant get to outofstate landfills. Its backed up here, and its backed up on the streets. Reporter mazza cant get rid of it all because there arent enough statementlicensed trucks to haul it all away. Some debris mounds contain potential health hazards. Nd oil, paint cans. Theres refrigerators and toxic chemicals that get released into air. Th reporter and those are now are nowin towns exposed because there is no permit to allow them he take to a place like this. , reporter exactly. Reporter for every two steps tep brd, this recovery from sandy takes one step back. Mayor Michael Bloomberg bloounced new gasoline rationing olineew york city drivers. Well have to wait until the rs. Kend for the last of the citys flooded tunnels to reopen. And the winds and snows from wednesdays noreaster killed power to another 200,000 customers, mostly in new jersey. And all of this, unfortunately, runs on electric. Reporter lynn croftons fiancee, billy reed, a stroke victim, needs this Life Sustaining equipment from his ventilator to nebulizer. Theyve all had to run on generator power since sandy hit. A who would ever expect in the United States of america that youd be without power and heat for 11 days . Reporter crofton gases up the generator three times a day the paits for the power company. Without this lifesustaining equipment. Wed be in the hospital. Or a nursing home or sitting in a sitting in an e. R. , and god only knows what hes going to catch this there. I cant do that to another human being. Reporter crofton knows shes lucky that at least she has a roof over her head. Scott, other families have their entire homes in these mounds of rooms. S pelley and a lot of folks are being told theres no telling when the power will be back. When ting disaster of another kind has wall street worried. Its the deep federal budget cuts and tax endless will kick cuts and tax increases will kick in on january 1 unless congress and the president reach a deal on cutting the deficit. The dow lost 121 points today. That brings the twoday loss to 434 points. This socalled fiscal cliff that hits in seven weeks was designed oc be so painful, that democrats and republicans would have to compromise. But will they . Nancy cordes is at the white house for us tonight. Nancy. Reporter scott, white house officials told me today they were encouraged by House SpeakerJohn Boehners comment yesterday about finding common ground. Still, they reiterate today any hal is going to have to involve allowing those bush tax cuts to expire for Household Incomes 50er 250,000 a year. And thats something republicans adamantly oppose. The nonpartisan congressional fidget office put out a report today that stayed allowing those tax cuts to expire just for top tax earners would constrain economic juowth next year by just one oenth of 1 . The report also showed whats at stake here if all the tax increases and spending cuts l cociate with the fiscal cliff ,re allowed to kick in, the Unemployment Rate will shoot up to 9. 1 in 2013, from 7. 9 now. Hats why Vice President biden predicted today the two sides till come up with a solution. Were not going over the cliff. Were determined not to go over the cliff. I think better heads will prevail. Reporter white house officials insist they have all lhe leverage here because all the bush tax cuts are set to expire if republicans dont compromise on taxes for the wealthy. Nhats an argument well likely hear the president make tomorrow when he gives his first address since being reelected. Scott. Pelley tomorrow afternoon. Nancy, thank you very much. The votes are still being counted from the president ial election. On. Us show you where the r voter vote stands tonight. Of about 120 million votes cast, lee president is leading by less than 3 million votes. But, of course, president obama has already won the electoral vote, so nothing will change the outcome now. China is also changing hisdership this month. Inday, Chinas Communist Party began a meeting that is held once every 10 years during which duringople will be told who heir new leaders are. That leadership has to manage a ge aa that is evolving into a nation of haves and havenots and Bill Whitaker is reporting tonight from beijing. Reporter the opening of the congress, a choreographed spectacle of power and pride, but outgoing president hu jintao told the assembled delegation hee communist partys greatest success, chinas economic development, has created one of its greatest threats a growing divide between rich and poor. On one side of the divide, huang nubo, a 56yearold billionaire real estate developer. These buildings, these are dings, tldings, too . Yes he was poor as a boy, he told us, but hes rich and powerful now on forbes list of the worlds wealthiest po people. He started with one piece of property 10 years ago. And now his company owns apartments, malls, and resorts around the world. He was lucky, he said, to get aboard chinas exploding economic expansion. Chinas cities are boom, but prosperity didnt reach many rural areas, and now the economy is slowing. If you could come up with one drd to describe your life in this village, what would it be . Hard says farmer jin dengshan. He, his wife, and three young thldren live in rural henan province on 800 a year they earn selling mushrooms. They were part of the 128 million chinese who subsist on less than 1. 25 a day. I resent rich people he said. Its so unfair. Is neighbor, upon it jin xinzhen, said hes too poor to d. T married. We are like 1,000 miles away from the rich. We couldnt catch up if we had a rocket, he said. When they instituted capitalist reforms, chinas leaders said to get rich is glorious. Oday, hu jintao warned of aocial unrest if new leaders fail to narrow the income gap. Bill whitaker, cbs news, revealin pelley u. S. Navy seals are part of an elite force that operates in the shad shadows, best known for killing Osama Bin Laden. But our pentagon correspondent david martin has learned a group of seals is being disciplined rairevealing secrets. Reporter the Seven Members of seal team 6 are all still on active duty. One of them was on the raid dhich killed Osama Bin Laden and made seal team 6 a household name. For two days this spring and summer they worked as paid consultants on this recently avleased video game medal of honor warfire. Four other members of the team who have since transferred out of the unit but are still on active duty are under e gastigation. The game does not recreate the bin laden raid, but it does portray realistic pictures such as an attack on a pirates den al somalia. It was produced by Electronic Arts which boasts that real commandos, both active duty and retired, help make its games as realistic as possible. Operators can jump at altitudes of 30,000 feet. Reporter it is unclear what secrets members of seal team 6 gave away but while serving as consultants for the game they use classified material which had been given to them by the navy. They also violated the unwritten lsde that seals are silent warriors who shun the spotlight. In fact, the seals have been buried in an avalanche of publicity, some approved by the commander of the bin laden raid, add now the head of the special operations command. For instance, the movie act of valor. Yes, there are seals that i thnk eight of them, active duty acy seals one may be out now that participated in this. Now, it started off as a recruiting film. Reporter seal team 6 will be featured in two upcoming movie. One about the rescue of the captain container shipped kidnapped by somali pirates, the other about the bin laden raid. He seals have gone hollywood ut it could cost those who worked on the video game their years. He seven who have been punished r far all received letters of reprimand which would kill their chances for promotion. Ion. Also had half their pay taken away for two months. Tinpelley david martin break this story at the pentagon n conht. David, thank you very much. An pentagon confirmed today that an american drone was attacked by Iranian Military jets. Apparently, its the first time thats ever happened. It was a week ago the drone was th conducting surveillance over the persian gulf. Ting surveays it was in International Air space. In pentagon says the iranians ired at least twice but missed. The u. S. Protested to the iranians and let them know that the drone will continue to fly. A u. S. Soldier stands accused of mass murder in afghanistan. Af, survivors tell us what they saw. Sce Pakistani School girl shot for standing up to the taliban is recovering. And motorbike bandits hit the mall when the cbs evening news continues. And me. Discovering oncedaily levemir® flexpen. Flexpen® is prefilled. Doesnt need refrigeration for up to 42 days. No drawing from a vial. Dial the exact dose. Inject by pushing a button. Flexpen® is insulin delivery. My way. 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Kelly cobiella reports from afghanistan tonight that their stories have not been widely reported until now. Reporter at night, rafiullah told us, the nightmares return. Et see everything clearly, he said. Over and over. Nhe 15yearold is one of the ew eyewitnesses to survive the massacre. We sent an afghan journalist mrking for cbs news to meet nith him and two other villagers in kandahar city. It was too dangerous for westerners to travel to their village deep in taliban erritory. Fifiullah told us he was at home atleep on march 11 when a man broke down the door. He pushed me against the wall to put the pistol to my sisters head, he said. We all started shouting, dont kill her. When the shooting started, rafiullah ran to another room. We heard gunshots. My uncle, my little cousin, and my grandmother were killed. Puas told to put my hands on the wall, and then he shot my sister in the head. Iniullah was wounded in both ehighs. He told us the shooting lasted a half an hour. When we asked how many gunmen he had seen that night, rafiullah answered, one. He wore an american uniform, he said. He had a gun but no helmet. He shot us with a pistol. Aps ke 16 afghans killed in the village that night, nine were children. Many of the bodies were burned. Another villager who lost two family members, tells the story differently. Nabaryan wasnt an eyewitness, sut he told us his brothers erfe had seen more than one gunman. She told me they had lights on their heads, he said. They were searching the house, t and they told her to be quiet or r,eyd kill her, too. Pelley Kelly Cobiella is joining us at our cbs news bureau in kabul, afghanistan. And, kelly, what do we make of these various accounts that indicate there was either one in gunman or more than one . Reporter well, the prosecutions argument is that this was an act committed by one man, Staff Sergeant bales, but some of these witnesses have said from the very beginning , at they saw more than one terican soldier, and the defense will try to take advantage of this to try to save bales from the death penalty, and youll start to see hints of that when some of these afghan witnesses begin testifying aomorrow. Pelley kelly, thanks very much. Barack obama is about to go some place no president has ever gone. Thats next. Here shippings a hassle. Ill go to the mall. Hey. Hi. You know, holiday shippings easy with Priority Mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. If it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. Yea, i know. Oh, youre good. Good luck Priority Mail flat rate boxes. Online pricing starts at 5. 15. Only from the postal service. Heartburn symptoms causedelieve by acid reflux disease. 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Reporter John Reinhold shoveled his front walkway just like he does after every snowstorm, except he is no longer living in his home. What did you lose here . Everything on the first floor, living room, dining room, entire basement. Reporter all flooded . All flooded. Reporter he has no electricity, no hot water, and even had to borrow his neighbors shovel. A little break. A little normal. Reporter Something Like shoveling . Right. Its just yeah. It feels good. Reporter just before a blanket of snowcovered up sandys mess, we found eric scanlon standing on what used to be his house. Youre here picking up. Youre looking through things. How do you begin . Where do you start . Well, i made a list of, you know, categories most important. Reporter whats most important . Most important were some of the items that were given to me by my father. Reporter this designer with a masters in city planning zeroed in on a piece of plastic sheeting that was buried. This tarp, i mean, its a massproduced item. I could probably pick up 20 of them right now if i went to home depot. But that was my fathers tarp. So thats important. This was the cookie cutter the cookie press that i made the cookies at christmastime. Reporter you saved a cookie press . Why a cookie press . Because i love cookies. Reporter your husband did . Yes, he loved these special cookies that i made for him. Reporter most of teresa breens belongings are on the street. This grandmother of four says she has put her faith in god and will just start over. A whole lifetime of memories kind of gets pushed down into a little bag. Yeah. But thats okay. Ive got something. Reporter in the wake of such a disaster, people we met are focused on the Little Things. They say thinking about anything bigger is just too much to bear. Seth doane, cbs news, Staten Island. And thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. Your realtime captioner linda Marie Macdonald good evening, im allen martin. Im dana king. Taxpayers just handed california another 6 billion. Thats a six followed by nine zeros. And when 6 billion is up for grabs, a lot of people want a slice of that pie. Cbs 5 reporter joe vazquez and the first signs of a prop 30 feeding frenzy. Joe. Reporter that includes uc Berkeley Students here who say they are just tired of all those tuition hikes. Demonstrating in the driving rain, a couple of hundred uc Berkeley Students gathered this afternoon to let their voices be heard. Why do the 1 ers hate us so much . Reporter two days after passing prop 30 which infused millions know Public Education statewide many bemoan the fact it may have little Immediate Impact on how much they pay. The point is not that we need to refund education. We need to completely restructure it. And we need to put our priorities need indicating students. Reporter uc officials applaud the passage of prop 30 but make it clear there is no new money. There is no infusion of cash from proposition. We