oh! iceberg tsunami. a glacier from greenland melting off the side of a cliff and causing the scare of a lifetime for a boatful of tourists. it s video you just have to see. newsroom begins right now. and good morning. thank you so much for joining me. i m carol costello. we begin this morning in oak creek, wisconsin, the site of the weekend massacre at that sikh temple. for the third straight night, the community has bonded in its grief. and the vigil keeps growing larger. the police department is also on edge. the fear white supremacists might retaliate for the death of the temple gunman. cnn s brian todd is in oak creek, wisconsin. you witnessed the depths of those concerns first hand. describe that for us. reporter: well, carol, yesterday we had gotten the name of the officer who took down the shooter on sunday. we ve gotten the name and the address of that person. we went to his house. we knocked on his door to see if he might want to talk to us. he declined, c
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touch and going situation because loughner has broken down in court . he s been dragged out screaming. he s exhibited active signs of mental illness at many hearings. here is what the judge is trying to decide. to be competent you have to understand what s going on in the courtroom, understand the charges against you and be able to at least provide minimal assistance to your own lawyers. it s a very low standard. if you are delusional and ranting and raving, youon t meet the test. he s failed the test on other occasions. two psychiatrists have said he s incompetent to stand trial. he seemso go in and out of competence. today, the judge is looking at him saying is he as of today competent stand trial and enter a guilty plea. all right. if not, if he is not competent then the plea deal becomes moot, doesn t it? plea deal is off. if he s found not competent, he goes back to the hospital and remains under treatment until some day in the future he becomes competent again and i
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the shooter who brought death and horror to a sikh temple in wisconsin was a u.s. army veteran discharged more than a decade ago for misconduct. authorities say the gunman may have had ties to white supremacists, and neighbors say he played in a far right wing punk band. we re learning more about how the shocking rampage left six victims and the gunman dead. brian todd is joining us from oak creek, wisconsin, right outside milwaukee. brian, what s the very latest? reporter: wolf, we have important new information. we have names of those who played pivotal rolls in the event and new details on the shooter s past at the temple. she can t escape it. an indelible moment of horror. she says she was among the first to see the shooter as he started his ram pain at the sikh temple of wisconsin. she says she was parking her car when she saw the suspect. now identified as wade michael page, approach the lead priest near the entrance. did he say anything to the priest? no, no. h