the federal judge john roll known in this area for decades a long time public servant here. there are also charges that we expect to be filed. we learned today from the prosecutor in pima county here, they will be for the others. and what happens you could also see additional state charges, sort of repetitive charges on these five counts. so the prosecutor has indicated those not covered under federal law, she does expect to file charges as well. this will be the first in a series of probably a lot of court appearances for the defendant. >> chris, have we heard about who is going to be defending jared loughner? >> yeah, what a tough case, right? when you look at the evidence that is against him, we learned for the first time today, thomas, that actually the surveillance camera there at the safeway captured the shooting. obviously we haven't seen that. they have that evidence. they have the eyewitnesses. they have the people who tackled him. but we're told considering it strongly is judy clark. she defended timothy mcveigh, the unabomber, susan smith. she obviously will probably be facing the possibility of a death penalty. there's a lot of speculation that a defender would go for an insanity defense but also set themselves up potentially for a penalty phase. we've seen this before with very difficult cases. what they try to do is basically spare the life of their client, thomas. >> earlier we heard from doctors treating the congresswoman, other patients at the hospital. specifically what are they saying about gabby gifford? >> i actually talked to dr. reed today, her doctor. this really is, they called it a miracle. against all odds, she is doing as well as can be expected when you take a bullet straight through your head. they are cautiously optimistic that the swelling, and that's the biggest concern when you have so much trauma to your brain that the swelling will continue. they did take off a large section of her skull to give it essentially room to swell. but since the beginning, they haven't had any more swelling. the other thing we want to point out, thomas, remember, right after the shooting she was able to respond to basic commands. they are continuing to ask her those questions like squeeze my hand, open your eyes. she can still do that. so they are optimistic for her recovery. they are slowly taking her out of sedationened day by day as they watch her more closely they will learn more about her condition. >> governor jan brewer expected to give her state of the state address coming up. do we know how much of it is going to be influenced by what took place on saturday. >> all of it is the easy answer. this is going to be unlike any state of the state than we've ever seen. she goes before both houses of the legislature. there will be increased security, dozens of extra police officers. but usually this message would be about the state of the state and what they are going to do going forward. this is going to focus almost exclusively on what happened here on saturday. we are told she's going to talk a message of unity against evil. it will be very short, under 15 minutes. sometime later this week she will get what is essentially her state of the state and budget message to members of the legislature like so many places. arizona facing a very difficult fiscal crisis. we know that there have been a lot of problems with the immigration crisis, a very heated debate here. but today jan brewer really wants to focus on what happened and recognizing that a great trauma has been done all throughout this state. thomas. >> chris jansing, your fieldwork is fantastic. thanks for joining me. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the next hours are critical in the recovery of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. doctors remain cautiously optimistic as chris pointed out. it's still too soon to give a definitive prognosis. department of neurosurgery, specialist joins me live. doctor, good to have you with me. the doctors treating congresswoman giffords are saying they are cautiously optimistic. there's been no change. no news is good news. talk about this type of injury. why the phrase there's no change and that's good and how impactful that is. >> this is a horrific injury no doubt. the fact that it passed all the way through her brain and exited may be very advantageous. it didn't cross over to both sides of the vein. didn't pass through the ventricular cavities. these things reduce the possibility of it ricocheting inside the skull and increasing the damage. the first 72 hours are critical. that's when the possibility of brain swelling really increases. they talked about how they removed a part of the skull which let's the brain swell out. so all these things give us some optimism, i would say. >> doctor bales, ags we understand it, the bullet went through the left side of the congresswoman's head to the front. some describe the trajectory as fortunate in a situation like this, if we can even use the word fortunate. could you explain how the prognosis could be different if it had gone just a hair of a different direction? >> absolutely, it could be. if it crossed over to both sides, both helms fierce of the brain, it could be very, very bad. many times that's 100% fatal. the fact it went straight through from the back to the front and exited probably let the projectile leave. it traversed one side of her brain. she has some language, following simple commands and she has movements on her right side. to some extent speech and motor system from that side of the brain have been spared. >> since she does accept these simple commands, does that mean the two sides of communicating with each other, which is fantastic. explain to all of us the left side controls exactly what? we know it controls the right side of the body, also speech function and other things. >> most importantly speech function. not only the ability to speak but more importantly to understand the written and spoken word. so it seems like in most right-handed people it's the left side. amazingly it seems like she's got preserved function. we really want know until she's out of this medically induced coma, we have a few more days for the doctors to assess her further. >> the doctors, as we understand it, taking a pretty progressive approach to treating congresswoman giffords, having removed part of her skull to allow room for the swelling to take place naturally, also the bleeding to come through. could it be months before they go ahead and physically replace it? >> replacing that really is not all that important. it's something done several months later. it's allowing her to survive and minimize this acute trauma of her brain absorbing a bullet. the first few days are critical for her to get over this time of maximum swelling. >> and as i understand it, today is post op date. post op date three is what doctors are saying is critical to the swelling? >> yes. usually about 72 hours after surgery or after the injury is when maximum swelling occurs. but you know, she's not going to be out of the woods necessarily day three either. but so far it seems like the swelling has been controlled or not an issue thank goodness. >> doctor, thank you for joining us and talking about the information from the doctors out in tucson. many thanks to you. whenever a shooting tragedy unfolds in this country, it's quickly followed by a passionate debate over gun control. in this case there's a fascinating twist. arizona laws permit anyone over 21 to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. remarkably one of the people who witnessed the shooting and helped bring down the shooter were carrying guns on them and did not use them. in another twist of fate, arizona governor jan brewer will deliver her state of the state address. almost immediately after she's finished, the legislature is expected to begin consideration of a bill that would allow faculty members to carry concealed weapons on college campuses. the brady campaign to prevent gun violence, as a reminder it's named after jim brady who served as press secretary to president reagan. he was shot and seriously injured on that assassination attempt on president reagan in 1991. let's start with jared loughner we expect to be in court at the top of the hour. the idea of background checks to buy a gun. he was kicked out of his community college after a series of run-ins with campus police. he was told he couldn't return until he had a mental health examination from someone. what is your advice in the work you do in trying to toughen up gun laws. >> we need to strengthen our gun laws that make it so easy for dangerous people to get deadly weapons. here is a guy, couldn't enlist in the military, kicked out of school because of obvious danger he posed, yet he could walk into a gun shop and buy a high-capacity semiautomatic weapon with a magazine. this turns these weapons into weapons of war. it allowed him to fire 30 rounds of ammunition before stopping to reload. once he stopped, they were able to tackle him. we need to limit high-capacity magazines like the federal assault did to 10 rounds of ammunition. that would have saved so many lives here. >> the federal assault ban lifted in 2004 after years, enacted in '94. it sun setted. do you think this is something our people in washington need to revisit? because as you say, this kid wouldn't have had access to a gun like that. >> there's no reason a civilian needs to fire 30 rounds without reloading. no hunter shoots 30 times at a deer in self-defense, if you were able to fire 30 shots many innocents are killed. no reason this should be sold to civilians. with the assault weapons ban expired, it's very easy to get those weapons. because of that we see the results. arizona, some of the weakest gun laws, highest death rates in the nation. others have banned those type of military weaponry, much lower rates, safer community. >> remind us why the ban had to be sun setted. >> it was a tough fight to get it reinstated. nra insisted it be renewed. they open any restrictions on military style weapons or gear. president bush unfortunately allowed it to expire. congress needs to reinstate that ban on high-capacity magazines. this guy was tackled after he ran out of bullets, after he fired more than 30 shots." if he would have stopped at 10, imagine the lives that could be been saved. >> the civilians were carrying guns. it's not the person carrying the gun but the individual that's the problem. >> all of these mass shootings have one thing in common and it's guns. guns kill lots of people very quickly and it's mass chaos. no one at the scene had time to even draw a weapon. a killer goes in there armed with a gun because our weak gun laws allow him to get it. he goes armed with a high-capacity magazine because our weak gun laws allow him to acquire military style weaponry. we need common sense gun laws that say enough is enough. when our children want to go learn about democracy by meeting representatives do we have to send them in body arm or. why can't we draw a line and say no to military weaponry and put an end to these sales. >> thank you for joining me. i appreciate your time. coming up, a winter storm alert. who will see the worst from this latest storm? 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>> that is a report from the arizona republic. we don't know that independently. we're going to have a crew go over there right after this report. that family has been in contention with neighbors for a long time. we interviewed one neighbor who lived there seven years diagonally across the street, never had a pleasant exchange. it is his father and mother. his father unemployed. his father someone that screamed at neighbors. according to neighbors, they are saying this and never initiated a pleasant exchange, as i say. we wondered whether or not the mother and father would be in phoenix for the arraignment in federal court. apparently they are not. we will seek to confirm that independently ourselves. they have stayed in tucson at this point and are not letting anybody in, including the fbi. this is a guy, thomas, whose gathering problems over the last many months, not just couple of weeks but many, many months, were obvious for anybody in the position to see. who were in the better position than classmates and teachers where he had been a student on and off for five years. we're learning talking to administrators, classmates, some of them were so concerned even though he never directly threatened anybody, so concerned they called the police. there were at least five incidences when campus police at pima college had to intervene directly with him. finally he was expelled. a classmate who wrote an e-mail saying this is a guy you see on the news after he bought an automatic weapon. a math teacher that said he was afraid to turn his back to the blackboard without keeping an eye out for this guy because they were afraid he might have a weapon in class. there were concerns but nothing was done despite the fact he was expressed. local pd wasn't informed, local health wasn't informed. what happened happened. played out in the last 48 hours. a guy some say deteriorating so fast and so far that somebody had to have dropped the ball for it not to have been reported to authorities before saturday. >> i'm hearing friends described him as a pretty normal teen in high school years. when he got to community college age, that's when trouble started. is there something investigators learned or looking into that may have sparked this huge change, deviation from the high school kid he was into the student he became in community college? >> if he was a normal teen, thomas, don't forget that was four or five years ago when people were saying he still had a sense of humor, et cetera, et cetera. we spoke to someone who claimed to have been his best friend for four years after his teen years. he developed into a daily pot smoker, marijuana smoker, became a darker personality, lost that laugh. two minor things that developed, what could have been misdemeanor charges were expunged. nothing that would have kept him from buying a firemen. his behavior became so inappropriate, anybody witnessed to it said i'm not surprised about what happened. i'll give you an example. he was in a poetry class. new writers exposing themselves, difficult, sensitive. a young woman writes about an abortion she took and the agony of having one. according to another classmate we interviewed this guy was snikering the whole time, broke out in uproarious laughter and shouted you're a terrorist, you killed your baby. everybody was stunned to silence. that's the kind of behavior they are describing not last month, last fall but last spring. red flags all over the place. >> mike taibbi in tucson for us. thank you. want to pass information reported by arizona republic that family members of the suspect of loughner have now barricaded or blocked themselves into their home. this is coming again from the arizona republic saying agents began banging on this blockade built 4 by 4 double plywood yelling this is the fbi, let us in. they are prevented from the home. the family members left in the house, which as mike taibbi said are his parents, his mother and father, are refusing entry to the fbi for the investigation. we're going to work on that and independently verify this information as soon as we get it. some members of congress reacted to the shooting saying they will carry a gun in public when they are back in their districts. heath shuler of north carolina and republican from utah said they will do so thought not back in washington. president obama spoke of a possible trip to arizona himself. >> we're in close consultations with the families who have suffered these losses as well as governor brewer, congressional leadership. there is no doubt that we will establish some mechanism, memorial over the course of the next several days. when we have that, we will announce it. it's important for the country as a whole, as well as the people of arizona, to feel as if we are speaking directly to our sense of loss but also speaking to our hopes for the future. >> nbc's luke russert joins us live on capitol hill. on a day like today lawmakers tend to find themselves saying all the right things. what's been the reaction to hearing certain members are saying they are going to carry concealed weapons themselves when they are in their home sbrikts. >> reporter: i spoke to some members about that. they said obviously it's up to the member and their individual district. the two districts of mr. shuler and mr. chaffetz are more rural districts where firearms are available. i know mr. shuler is a gun owner himself. he's mention thad before. that's something he'll do from here on out. officially we can tell you from a conference call, capitol police instructed them to develop a dialogue with the police, appoint someone as liaison within their office to tell police when and where that member will have public events. oftentimes members go back to their home districts, such as the event miss giffords had in arizona and will not announce it to local police. police have no idea there's a congressional representative on a street corner interacting with that citizens. the main answer going forward, thomas, what will be the new security protocol for members on capitol hill. we know on wednesday there will be a thorough review by the capitol hill police department and fbi and sergeant at arms, security details given to members of congress. it might tell members of congress, hey, if you feel there's a credible thrt against you in your home district, perhaps you could apply to be guarded 24/7 by one of our details. perhaps it's in the budget to have your own security guard back home. those are the kinds of questions answered wednesday and moving forward in this process, thomas. >> as we all are concerned about the safety of our congress, we can't forget about the six people that died, the constituents that are there at a safeway for this congress on the corner type of event. so luke, any new legislation that's going to be introduced or maybe even talking about raising the assault weapons ban back from the dead that expired back in 2004? what's the talk about that? while the congresswoman is fighting for her life and recovery, there are six constituents who are dead. >> what we can tell you about, there will be no legislation that has to do with the assault rifles ban. what there will be legislation on, senator mccarthy in the house, proposing to introduce, legislation that would ban the type of magazine clip used in this horrendous crime. this is an extended clip that held between 25 and 30 rounds of bullets. these magazines clips were banned until 2004. the ban wore out and they are now perfectly legal. with that type of clip, the barrel of the handgun that goes out the bottom, can shoot up to 25 rounds. the idea behind the legislation, it's nar oh, not like the assault weapons ban, very controversial, it's narrow, a security protocol that must be taken. in fact, these magazines must be banned so you can avoid these types of future massacres. what will be the main thing they say, sources tell me, when loughner was tackled, he was tackled because he had to change the magazine clip. if there were only 15 rounds in the magazine clip, it would have prevented him from shooting bullets. it's going to be very sensitive going forward but that's what you'll see in terms of legislation on this issue. >> nbc's luke russert on capitol hill. thank you so much. >> have a good afternoon. family and friends are mourning the six innocent lives bankruptly taken this weekend in tucson, including a federal judge, retirees, and the youngest being a 9-year-old girl. "dateline" keith morrison has their stories. >> reporter: they were doing, though it may sound grand to say so, the real work of a great democracy there in this grocery store parking lot. imagine what we've lost. irreplaceable. like john roll, the chief federal judge in arizona. a man who received death threats himself over a judicial decision someone didn't like. judge roll had been working with an avalanche of drug cases. some say he went to thank her for helping unsolicited for the help on that. he sandwiched it in. >> he went to mass, was going to go home and do the floors, which he always does on saturday. >> he was just wonderful, said the retired supreme court justice sandra day o'connor, sounds like something that might happen someplace like afghanistan, she said. so it did. it took a young man named gabe zimmerman who served representative giffords as director of community outreach, such a nice man, so kind is what even opponents have said about him. all the political vitriol around these days and gabe zimmerman was nice to everyone. what did he do? he stuck up for people, said his friend. >> those who are disenfranchised, that didn't have a voice, he felt passionate about. >> dave zimmerman, just 30, gone now. dorwin stoddard standing patiently in line, he and his mate to speak to representative giffords. we don't know about what? why would hood sweet hearts that fell in love after their spouses died. in charge of benevolence and maintenance meaning, said the pastor, if you needed to fix a sidewalk or help a needy person, dor win was who you called. >> he would throw himself on a grenade for anybody, spiritually, financially. he wasn't one who stood back and let the other guy do it. >> reporter: maybe he intended to go out for breakfast after meeting the congresswoman, instead he fell on her body to shield her from the bullets. he died. she lived. there were two women of the most impressive accomplishments, mothers, grandmother's, one a great-grandmother. there was dorothy morris, dot to her friends, there with george, her husband of 50 years. and phyllis schneck, 79, doing, like the others, her bit for the political process. phyllis, by the way, a lifelong republican. but i like this lady, she said about giffords to her family. and now a small army of off spring is beginning a cycle of grief. and of course, there was her, christina taylor green, born, as about everyone knows now, on september 11th, 2001. there was that book about such babies, including her, faces of hope. and she was that, all right. and now she was going to meet her congresswoman, this face of hope for her country's future. and certainly famous now for what we could learn to do better. >> that was "dateline nbc's" keith morrison reporting. we're going to have more news right after this. 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[ male announcer ] it's a new year. so, ask your doctor about chantix. and find out how you could save money on your prescription go to chantix.com to learn more and get terms and conditions. welcome back, everybody. this wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in haiti that left over 200,000 dead and over 1 million homeless. one of the biggest challenges now facing the island nation is crime especially against wichlt members of the new york city police department traveled to haiti to help train the national police force, help them regroup after the quake. mara schiavocampo joins us live. tell us what you've learned about how new york's finest are helping there are. >> reporter: this is the second group to come since the quake. they are mentoring their counter-parts who are dealing with extreme challenges in the wake of the disaster. >> the precinct was destroyed. >> everything in it was destroyed. they lost all the documents. they had to start from scratch. you can see the condition they are working under. they took 14,000 complaints last year, all by hand. >> reporter: documents destroyed but many officers lost so much more in the disaster. >> some lost their house and members of their family. >> reporter: prisons were destroyed allowing thousands of inmates to escape. >> they had over 4200 people escape, in the country about 6,000. because of a good portion of them were hardened criminals they have restarted what they were doing before. >> reporter: when it comes to crime, rain against women in tent camps. by some estimates rain has increased three-fold in port-au-prince since the earthquake. women in camps are particularly vulnerable because there is limited if any security. they are dark, crowded and tents are very easy to break into all adding to the overwhelming challenge of rebuilding here in this country. thomas. >> in haiti after the quake a year ago. from estimation what changes have been made, the progress, and what surprises you by what hasn't been done. >> reporter: it's very difficult to see the progress because there's rubble everywhere. 10 to 15% of the rubble has been cleaned up, that's not very much. everywhere you go, things look pretty much to me like they did when i left. the tents look the same as when i left. if anything, a little more livable, trash cans, barriers to take showers but they are there. there is some progress being made. the number in tent camps is under 1 million since the disaster. aid groups say they are getting food and water to about a million people a die. some progress. as one aid said you can't expect first world progress in the third world. check out thegrio.com all week for special coverage from haiti. coming up next, another live look at the weather channel with the storm that is sweeping up the east coast. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. also available in small, easy-to-swallow petites. citracal. the smell of home made chili whatever scents fill your household, purina tidy cats scoop helps neutralize odors in multiple cat homes... keeping your house smelling like it should. purina tidy cats scoop. keep your home smelling like home. welcome bark. flights canceled, schools closed. several southern stateses declaring an emergency. joining us now from mississippi is ron blown. how is it looking? >> when they issue a winter storm warning here, people usually say here comes the ice. energy, the power company, expected 80,000 people could lose power. they flooded the area with service trucks, but it was snow. a little sleet, but mostly snow. last night, interstate 55 was barely passable. about one lane at 10:00 last night and the snow was blowing, but you can see right now, the friction of trucks. it is put it back down to pavement. the side roads are another story. what we found driving around was schools are closed. businesses shut down. just about everybody was trying to take this in. the fact that grenada, mississippi, had been dumped on with about three inches of snow. there was one group that spent last night putting together a plywood sled and they were hauling it around behind an atv. they provide plenty, so people were outr running around with that. only about 800 now out of power. those are in the delta, closer to the louisiana line where they saw more freezing rain. one other thing to note, over in neighboring alabama, the official auburn watch parties have been canceled. we can pretty much guess in this part of the south, what people are going to be doing tonight. >> we can imagine for sure. thanks so much. want to turn to chris warren who's going to give us the latest. what can we expect? >> taking a couple of looks, we want to show you we have a mixed precipitation. then here in the midwest, we're seeing snow. these two systems are going to come together and meet up in the northeast. and this is where we have the watches, warnings and advisories. here's one, here's the other. they are going to come to be the. tonight, midnight, into the overnight hours, they're going to be coming together. snow is going to be moving up to the northeast and we could see a foot or more in the big cities. >> thank you very much. we want to take everybody out to arizona where the governor there, jan brewer, is giving her state of the state address. >> remarks that outline an exciting an solid plan for job creation, education and tax reform. and i will deliver that plan to you, but not now. not today. tragedy and terror sometimes comes from the shadows and steal our joy and take away our peace. that happened on saturday. when a gunman took away people we love, innocent people, and outstanding public servants like united states district judge john m. roll. judge roll had just come from the right of a catholic mass and confronted the darkness of a madman. the gunman greatly wounded others. people we love and respect. like gabby giffords, my good friend. this past weekend's events have caused me, caused all of us to reflect on many things. including how we respond to those terrible events. first, our response to this tragedy must be led by prayer and comfort for the victims and their families. so, please join me in a moment of silence as we pray for all of those we've lost. for the injured, and for those who are suffering. thank you. with our faith and our courage tightly in place, we will step forward from the chamber, dedicated to do the lord'swork. continuing our service to the public. one year ago from this very place, i told you i would serve beside you. proud to serve the people of arizona. i said then that public service is acting not in self-interest, but on behalf of others. and i asked people to join me in the field. gabby giffords did join me in the field. and we worked together. knowing that when our public service ended, we would be judged less by what we achieved than what we overcame. in addition to judge roll, arizona also lost dor thi morris, dorwin stoddard, phyllis sheck and gabriel zimmerman. let me take a moment to recognize the acts of extraordinary arizonans who responded with professionalism and saved lives. law enforcement, emergency responde responders, the tucson medical community and the staff at the university medical center. daniel hernandez, a university of arizona junior showed no fear in the face of gunfire. his quick action in going to gabby giffords' aid likely saved her life. daniel is here today and i'm going to ask him to stand and receive the thanks of a very grateful state. daniel? >> i'm thomas roberts signing off. dylan ratigan is up next. thanks for joining me today. a time of tragedy. good afternoon to you. i am dylan ratigan and we find ourself, a nation in shock, stunned by grief,