shepard: kelly also talked about the initial reports that his wife had died. he now says he got that news while he was on a plane headed to tucson with his daughters and mother. i just got up and walked into the bathroom. i just couldn t deal with it you know, for 30 seconds or a minute. and then i came out and gave the kids a big hug and my mom. and, you know, lived with that for probably about 15 minutes. shepard: he had seen it on tv. kelly says that was the lowest point of this whole process. and since then he says things have gradually improved each day. we re also now hearing from somebody who watched the surveillance video of the shooting itself. a chief with the local pima county sheriff s department and he described part of it to fox news radio reporter. it clearly shows the suspect entering from the right side of the screen with what i would call great purpose and deliberation. and as he does so, he walks around a folding table, approaches the congresswoman. he raises
to be involved in this same indictment or this same criminal enterprise. it is the five families in new york and two others in new england, but all of them in part of this big takedown, which they say emphasizes how important organized crime remains to the justice department. yeah, it s a really big swath that they were able to carve out with these arrests. pete, good to see you. pete williams in washington for us, thank you. you bet. president obama is getting a big bounce in the latest nbc/ wall street journal approval poll. his approval rating now up to 53%. john harwood joins us now. john, what can we attribute this bounce to? reporter: a couple of things, thomas. first of all, the president had a successful lame-duck session after the republican victories in the midterm elections. that showed the president adjusting to the new political circumstance, going forwarding
received nothing less than perfect care. and that s the reason she s in the situation she is in now, with the fact that within two weeks of this very serious injury is able to move on to the next phase. i also want to thank her nurses. the icu nurses who have attended to her around the clock. tracy callberrer, amanda burner, joshua coleman, abrina beckel, joshua and angelique taddeo have been by her side every step of the way. i also have very strong feelings for the support we ve received from the pima county sheriff s department and the tucson police department. there have been volunteer tucson police officers in the icu around the clock since we arrived. you know, making sure everything goes as planned and that we don t have any other issues to
following. according to an e-mail from her mother, congresswoman gabrielle giffords is doing well enough to be transferred to a rehab facility in houston on friday. this is a week and a half since she was shot through the brain at a public event. giffords has surprised doctors with her physical and mental capabilities. her mom s e-mail says giffords will begin aggressive rehab and be treated by surgeons who specialize in bullet wounds to the head. this development has not been confirmed by university medical center in tucson where giffords remains in serious condition. meantime, new details on some of the security video that captured the january 8th shooting tragedy. the pima county sheriff s department tells us about this key moment. there s a portion of the tape where you can see very clearly that the suspect comes out of one of the doors. he walks around a table, a collapsable, perhaps six-foot table. when he does so with very
interview with jeb bush for more with what went down in tucson today, jason ogen a deputy for the pima county sheriff s department joins us live alongside a familiar face or at least a familiar hairdo steven cats friend of the mass murderers jared loughner. steven was at today s town hall meeting. tell us what happened. tell us what was said and what you saw, steven. well, when the representative from the tea party stood up to speak and he announced that he was from the tea party, eric turned around with his cam camera, eric was in the front row and the tea party spokesman was in the fourth row. eric turned around with his camera, took the picture of the guy from the tea party and said you re dead, like you had said. geraldo: did it mean it? did it sound to you like a death threat, steven? it sounded like you re dead. it didn t sound like a joke at