0 jesus through the ritual of self-beating. now, this symbolic act during holy week is made to help participants atone for their sins. in bangladesh a celebration of spring. students play with colored powder during the annual holy festival. it washes out apparently. nice. you know they have races in atlanta where you can put your yeah. people complain because they got it on their cars. i remember that. we digress. that ll do it. we usually do. good to see you all. i ll be back tomorrow. good. see you tomorrow. carry on, mate. attention. texting while driving is dangerous, yet adults still are doing it. a new study showing more adults text while driving than teenagers. what you can do to stop yourself from sending e-mail or text while on the road. blackberry still breathing the company just announcing a surprise profit f profit for th quarter but will this help the company revive the brand? president obama is working to keep his campaign for stricter gun laws alive.
it s now time for our federal delegation to do the same thing. wooduff: in all, organizers said there were more than 100 events scheduled from coast to coast. the rallies are coordinated with an anti-gun ad campaign launched in 13 states this week by new york city mayor michael bloomberg and others. she just wanted to teach little kids, and she died doing it. wooduff: some of the ads feature family members of the school shooting victims in newtown, connecticut. bloomberg is spending $12 million of his own money on the campaign, to encourage support for stricter background checks on gun buyers. but the national rifle association s wayne lapierre had this message for the mayor on meet the press last sunday. he s going to find out this is a country of the people, by the people, and for the people. and he can t spend enough of his $27 billion to try to impose his will on the american public. they don t want him in their restaurants, they don t want him in their homes. t
there was one visible gunshot wound. it was to the head. and the reports depict how loughner s anguished parents had sensed he had become violent and tried to stop him. his mother, amy loughner, interviewing with police, said once at the suggestion of officials at jared s school, he had a shotgun that we took away from him. in another account, loughner s father, randy, said he tried to disable loughner s car to prevent him from going out. these were very anguished parents. they tried to stop his bizarre behavior. they coast do it. also, there s another really shocking, striking scene described in the documents. the car ride, when the police were taking jared loughner from the scene to the police station. right? another in a string of bizarre events that day. an officer who transported loughner from the scene said, quote, while en route, he worked himself out of the seat belt and moving around freely in the back seat. you can assume he was cuffed, but still, that would give an
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you see him walking down the street just seems kind of like to himself and wanted to be by himself and wanted to be left alone. reporter: have you ever had any contact with jared loughner? no, my son has tried to say hi to him or, you know, say hey, what s up or and he just he has blinders on. he just keeps on walking. reporter: woods told me he was there when police arrived saturday to tell randi and amy loughner their son had been arrested in the shooting of gabrielle giffords and 19 others. the father and mother drove up in a truck and i pointed them out to the police and i said, there he is right there. and they evidently informed him at that time because his hand went on his head, he seemed very upset, his wife was crying. so i assume that s when they told them. reporter: can you show me what his reaction was? he was just like, no, shaking his head and, no. reporter: woods says the suspect s father told the neighbor who lives here right