you. i m veronica de la cruz. today, we begin with arizona afteath. for the first time, the suspect the tucson shooting appeared before a judge to face charges. meanwhile, congresswoman gabrielle giffords reins in critical condition. but there s been some hopeful signs in the fight for her life. jay gray has the latest. reporter: quietly they gather ound this growing memial at niversity medical center, hundreds throughout the da many looking for the same thing as the vtims inside. the emotions here are still so raw, somber faces saying what words right now cannot. this is our town and s just horrible that something like thicould happen here. reporter: the emotis stretching as fa as nasa s mison control and astronaut mark kelly, including his brother, scott, currently on board the international spa station providing a unique perspective on the tragedy. as i look out the window, see a very beauful planet th seems very inviting and peaceful. unfortately, it is not. plea
auy came to the safeway and started shooting. wnesses in arizona say the entire attack took less than 15 seconds. tonight, the reality of loss is setting in, leaving aountry grief stcken. good evening, everyone, i m craig melvin. gabrielle giffds remains in critical condition tonight. jay gray is in tucson. continue t bring flows, cards and candleso the makeshiftemorial here, hoping to make sense out of senseless tragedy. it s morthan 24 hours after th deadly atck. newlyeleased รง911 call release more evince of the pic and pain. there areore people inred? there are multiple people shot. oh, mygod. reporter:o many say, an assassination attempt and t violent rage thatollowed isn t supposed to happen here or anywhere in ts country. now, so many are dealing with the reality that it did. i m just here to try to make sense of this. reporter: the realityf loss. t s hard to bear it is. reporter: theeality of suffering. we are still, still in critical condition.
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bipartisan basis with congress and the president both sides the aisle working togher. the vice president, who was on the program last week, responded to a question of me about when people think about the president, are they able to sort of pin him down? at is he exactly? liberal, moderate, ctrist, or what? he had this response inart. i want to pay it for you. what he is, is he is a progressive leader who, in fact, understands politics isll over the art of the possible. that s the art of the possible to a lotf observers is marked change from somebody somebody who wasgoing to change he way washington operated. hase made a shift in his own mind to say i have to change strategy here to achieve some of the things i want t aieve? i don t think so. i think the presidente are eing now is the same person ve known for over 20 years. when the president s in the state senate hhad a reputation for being able to work very closely with people on the her side of the aisle and rge that