welcome back, everybody. breaking news to pass along now. a texas judge sentenced ex-house majority leader tom delay to three years in prison for a money laundering scheme. he was convicted last november of trying to illegally funnel money to texas politicians. his lawyer asked for probation. he faced life in prison. he conspired to use associates in his political action committee to send $190,000 to too a corporate arm of the washington-based rnc. tom delay getting three years. also in the news vice president joe biden gets a firsthand reality check on the progress in afghanistan. biden will meet with afghan president hamid karzai about the
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.
fatalities today, a federal judge. john roll presided over the u.s. district court for the district of arizona. this was someone who really worked his way up, from the bottom of the legal ladder. he started his career as a bailiff in a county court. also killed today in what should have been a routine event was congresswoman giffords director of community outreach, gabe zimmerman. he specialized in the very gathering he and seven others were gunned down. 30 years old and engaged to be married. his press aide tells cnn that zimmerman oversaw the thousands of requests for help that came in to giffords office from constituents. the youngest victim of the tucson attacks was 9 years old. here s what the arizona republic newspaper is reporting. they say that she was, the little girl was just elected to her school student council and was invited by a neighbor who thought she would find it interesting. our special coverage of the mass shooting in tucson, arizona,
let s hope she survives. not so good for some of the others, federal judge john roll and the 9-year-old who died. and a senior aide to the congresswoman, zgabe zimmerman was shot and killed as well. stand by, don. we ll have much more on this beloved federal judge who was among the victims killed. who were some of the other victims as well? more information is coming in on that. our breaking news coverage here at cnn will continue right after this. sing polly wolly doodle all the day hah
opening up fire at point-blank range and going boom, boom, boom, boom. you heard one of the eyewitnesses say it sounded like firecrackers, one sound, one crack right after another. what a shocking story indeed. let s hope for the best. but sanjay, he s a neurosurgeon, he knows what he s talking about. so far, so good. let s hope she survives. not so good for some of the others, including the federal judge, john roll, who passed away. this 9-year-old who died. we were also told one of the other victims, a senior aide to congresswoman gabe zimmerman. we ll have much more on the beloved federal judge who was among the victims killed in tucson. who were some of the other victims as well. more information is coming in on that. our breaking news coverage here at cnn will continue right after this. more than $50 million can be earned by schools just like yours!