store. gabby giffords survived and is still recovering. he will avoid the death penalty. after the hearing a number of survivors came together outside the courthouse. give up this hopelessness in this country that we can t do anything. because we can and we must. these taboo words, gun control can be spoken plainly in the halls of congress again. one of ways i believe we can make good come out of this, is to begin some common sense discussion about who should bear arms. what hands should firearms go into. kyung lah was in the courtroom. he seemed calmer than previous appearances. clearly medicated. when he first walked into the courtroom, he did have an unusual look on his face a he looked at the public at his family and reporters and some of the victims. he looked very briefly at everyone and sat down. he was very calm. he sat very still and he was able to engage with his attorney as well as respond to questions from the judge. this is different from the jared lee
of six lives but to honor the lives of six people. we re here because that healing effort and those six lives, they deserve attention. we ll be doing that throughout the hour ahead. but we also want to tell you tonight about what we ve learned about their killer, wade page. a man motivated by hate. who officials say took inspiration from the swastika. where precisely that hate came from, where it all came together and when, we don t yet know. we do know that one of his stops on the road to sunday s massacre was the time he spent at the army s fort bragg in north carolina, which of course has a long tradition of producing heroes. drew griffin has been investigating how and when wade page was at fort bragg, what his service entailed. he joins us now. drew, what have you found about page s time in the military? well, it was not stellar, we ll tell you that in a little bit. but we wanted to focus on fort bragg because fort bragg, as you said, produced a lot of heroes, thousands
the stronghold. video posted online by the opposition shows extensive damage to neighborhoods. there you can see it for yourself, and that one appearing to show people finding the body of a man crushed in his collapsed home. the opposition says that 20,000 people have now been killed since this uprising began 17 months ago. filipinos got more bad news today. expect torrential rains and flooding to continue. listen to this. manila, the capital, already drown i drowning in water. check out the pictures. 30 inches of rain fell in just 48 hours at one point. water chest deep in some place, and so far the flooding and the landslides have killed at least 11 people. almost 800,000 are out of their homes and some of them on rooftops waiting to be rescued or wading through the deep water through high ground. secretary of state hillary clinton providing dancing and diplomacy with her visit to south africa, and after a dinner, with the foreign minister, clinton hit the dance floor sho
earth. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administration s policies, but with support from an unlikely ally he s raising the stakes today. here s our national political correspondent jim acosta. reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for the poor to receive welfare checks and to help make his case he s getting some help from an old rival. they just send you your welfare check. reporter: even though his ad accusing the president of weakening work requirements for welfare recipients got a pants on fire from politifact and four pinocchios from the washington post, mitt romney is doubling down on the claim. this is to help people go to work so they can stop drawing a welfare check and start drawing a paycheck. reporter:
names. they were members of the sikh temple. wade michael page appeared, took out a nine millimeter pistol and opened fire. this is a facebook picture of him. yes, that is a swastika of him. tonight the latest on efforts to pin down any and all hate group connections he may have had. earlier today, president obama reacted to that possibility. i think the american people imdiately recoil against those kinds of attitudes. and i think it will be very important for us to reaffirm once again that in this country regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people. and we look after one another, and we respect one another. mitt romney called the shooting a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship. nationwide, there s been increased security at many sikh semples. we ll talk to local leaders that are worried that this may happen across the nation. as always, focus as much as we can on who the victims were. what their lives were