he announced a new council on jobs and competitiveness there today. it will be led by general electric ceo jeffrey. congresswoman giffords has arrived in houston. as we said, we watched these pictures feed within the past half hour. you see the red medevac chopper. inside that chopper we believe was gabrielle giffords on the way to the texas medical center, renowned brain injury center. late this morning, an emotional scene in tucson, people lining the streets to wave to the motorca motorcade. live for us now from houston is our medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, set the scene for us there if you will now that the congresswoman has arrived. >> reporter: right. she left tucson this morning. she arrived at hobby and then she was helicoptered here. and we learn -- you saw in the video -- she has landed at memorial hermann medical center, a part of the university of texas. now, you'll notice that she landed at the main hospital there. they were -- there have been plans that she was going to go directly into rehab, but apparently they changed that and said she needs to go to the hospital first to get assessed. they need to see how she did in the transport. they want to make sure she's not at risk for swelling oirn feks. those are the two big things they're looking out for. >> this is really where they're going to work on her prain. i've heard it referred to by some as brain boot camp. this is where they'll gauge exactly how her brain is doing before the rehab, correct? >> reporter: correct. actually, this is a little more basic this first step. she want to make sure she did well during the transport. they want to make sure there are no big medical issues out there looming. when i spoke to one of the doctors yesterday, he was very frank about it. he said there are medical concerns we need to address. he wouldn't tell me what they were. they fwaifrpt to make sure she is truly stabilized. after that, they'll do the brain boot camp you mentioned. that means, depending upon where she is right now, it may mean teaching her to walk again, dress herself again. they don't know what her starting point is, but whatever it is, that's where they'll begin and try to get her fully recovered. randi? >> so many are so pleased with her progress, including her husband who's tweeting about it today. he has said he expects her to be walking in a couple of weeks and in a couple of months maybe even walking into that hospital back in arizona and saying thank you to the staff that took care of her. are you surprised at all? i mean, this is just a matter of time and here she is already being transferred to houston. >> reporter: right. i think we need to think a little bit about why she's being transferred to houston. the hospital she is in is actually very similar to the one in arizona. you know, he explained that he wanted her transferred to be closer to him, closer to his work and closer to their children. she really has made remarkable progress. whether or not she'll walk in two months, who knows? certainly there have been patients with her type of injury, randi, who have walked in two months. there are also patients where it's taken much much longer. it's taken many months. there are also patients like her who hasn't walked. i asked the doctor, which category do you think she'll fall into? he said, i don't have a crystal ball. we dot know. >> she was actually lucky if i understand, if you want to call it that, because the bullet actually entered and exited in what they call the left hemisphere of the brain, and it didn't cross the hemisphere so that could be why she's doing as well as she is? >> reporter: right. the fact that the bullet did not cross that midsection, that it entered and left in the same hemisphere, on the same side, is really, really crucial because once a bullet or fragments of bullets cross to the other side, then you've disturbed many more structures of the brain, speech centers, emotional centers and other parts of the brain that are really quite crucial. again, i met up with a miami policeman who had an injury so similar to hers, very similar, and he is now nearly fully recovered three years later. i mean, even a year later he was walking and his personality, was able to talk just like before. >> vice president joe biden was actually speaking today about some aneurisms that he actually suffered from about 20 years ago, and he talked about his recovery and how his brain recovered over the years. let's take a listen to that and then we'll chat some more. >> i remember asking the doctor, thinking that i would never be able to function very well again, i said, this is happened to me. why? he said, i don't know why it's happened, but i can tell you from experience what we do know. we do know x percentage ever the case it's gets better. we don't know why it gets better. and as devastating as gabby's injury is, it does not surprise me, believe it or not, that she's making the progress she's making. >> what do you make of that, elizabeth? >> reporter: you know, i think maybe one of the reasons why senator biden is not surprised is because he knows her, and he knows how much of a fighter she is, and he knows that she has the will to get better. and i know that all sounds very polly annaish in a way, but really it's crucial, the will to fight, the will to get better, neurosurgeons tell me it can be the difference between full and no recovery. >> her doctors are expected to speak today, actually during our program, what can we expect to hear from them? rnchtsz we're hoping that they'll tell us if she arrived dog well. of course, flying halfway across the country, you know, things can happen. so we're expecting them to tell us how she did, how it went during the transport and also what their initial assessment of her is. that's what they're going to do, get in there, see if she has major issues. hopefully they'll tell us what they found. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. we'll be sure to bring you the news conference from gabrielle's doctors. today we're getting a new glimpse of the man accused in the tucson massacre. six people died, 13 including congresswoman giffords, were wounded. this videotape was shot about seven years ago, and that is young jared loughner playing the sax owe phone. the man who shot the footage is the father of one of loughner's former classmates. this is jared loughner now a high school freshman, still playing the sax. it's a far cry from the mug shot we've come to know, the 22-year-old loughner is due in court again monday for another preliminary hearing. any minute now the former dictator we all know as baby doc is expected to speak. we will take you live to haiti next. also, remember this guy? 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>> and as weigh wait to hear why he's actually come there, it's my understanding that he's actually stuck there, right? does he have a passport to leave even if he wanted to? >> reporter: well, he does have a passport. in fact, the attorney showed it to me. it was a passport he had renewed on december 23rd, the haitian consulate in france, sew does have a passport. his attorneys have told us, oh, he's free to come and go, he could leave the country if he wanted. but then we hear it's not the case, that he's not allowed to leave the country. we know he has to be at least available when the courts want to hear from him, but his haitian attorney had told us that at this point there was no date set for his next court appearance. it could be a day, a week, two weeks. it's very unclear as to when he will again have to make an appearance before the court here. >> john zarrella for us on the ground in port-au-prince, thank you, john. let's take a quick look at the other top stories this afternoon. president obama is back in washington after a quick trip to upstate new york. he was visiting a general electric plant in schenectady and touting his plans to get americans back to work. the coe of ge will lead his new jobs council. get ready for more sticker shock at the gas pump. aaa says they've jumped 12 cents a gallon over the next month and are expected to climb higher. according to the american petroleum institute, prices will increase until sources increase. we have an update on the woman who reunited with her biological family after discovering she was stolen as a baby. the fbi is looking for the wowoo allegedly raised carlena white. this is a mug shot of her. she may be in north carolina where she's on probation on embezzlement convictions. for now she's nowhere to be found. take a look at this. remember this guy, daniel dale goodwin, also known as spider-dan. he was arrested for misdemeanors for successfully scaling a skyscraper in san francisco. he is on trial and pleaded not guilty. he told reporters he's making a statement for better skyscraper safety and escape planning. it has now been 30 years since president reagan took office. >> i have only one thing to say to the tax increasers -- go ahead, make my day. >> and republican lawmakers are still trying to emulate him. we'll tell you what they're doing, next. also, if you're planning to going to the bears/packers playoff game this weekend, be prepared as more snow falls in the northeast, the midwest is preparing for a deep freeze. we'll have the forecast coming up. how far will you go to make your child perfect? are you an extreme parent? the answer is different for every mom and dad. so cnn set out to find out more about extreme parenting across the country, including a california family going the extra mile to help their son pursue his dreams of becoming a professional quarterback. >> come on, bounce and throw. >> i'm luke fauk and i'm a high school quarterback. >> hi. i'm steve clarksson and i'm the quarterback maker. >> reporter: nfl quarterbacks like leinart and roethlisberger and others. his latest client? luke fauk, a 16-year-old. >> he has a certain skillset. what is that? >> his skill set is he has the mental attitude but he's physically gifted. he's the rt 63, 6'4", 210 poundz. a former college quarterback who did a short stint with the denver broncos has been coaching promising young quarterbacks for more than a decade. he was recently hired by luke's parents to take their son to the top. >> most people don't do this, but mike and i are the kind of parents that say, you can't take your money with you when you die. what better place than to put your money and your time and effort. >> reporter: clarkson will tell you the making of a quarterback doesn't come cheap. we're talking about a pretty major investment. 7500 a season? >> easily. >> reporter: more than that? >> it could go quite more than that. >> reporter: up to what? >> i've had kids well into the six figures. >> reporter: extreme parenting? the falks say financially perhaps. but it's their son's dream, not their own. >> reporter: we're doing this story because it's an extreme parenting story. the fact your parents are putting so much in into turning you into a quarterback. >> right. >> reporter: what does that -- isn't that a lot of pressure? >> you know, i don't look at it as pressure. i just look at it as like a blessing because this is my dream. i feel like i'm here on earth to play football, and i'm just like happy i have parents that support that. >> reporter: since his parents can afford it, they say it's an investment. >> any investment you've got to look at the return. maybe the best way to say is t is it, what does a scholarship cost for college these days? what kind of return is that, and i can tell you it's a fabulous return as an investor. >> reporter: the falks moved from utah to california so their daughters, both song writers, could be close to the music business, so luke could be closer to steve clarkson. >> reporter: steve is a good coach? >> steve is an awesome coach. >> reporter: luke has been playing football since he was 7. he says he was born to be a quarterback. you say you've already charted out your course. you're a sophomore now. you want to go to stanford, you said, and then after that you want to go to the nfl. >> nfl. that's where i want to be. that haes my dream. i want to play for the denver broncos. i was born into a bronco family, and, you know, i think it would be great to wear a bronco uniform. >> reporter: how far do you think he has the capacity to go? >> oh, he can play on sunday. >> reporter: you think that it's possible that we'll read about luke in the years to come. >> not possible you will. >> reporter: thelma gutierrez, cnn, los angeles. have you heard about this? house republicans now are pushing a plan to slash government spending by 2$2.5 trillion. perhaps it wasn't coincidental they floated their ten-year package on the 30th anniversary of this famous address. >> it is time to reawaken this industrial giant to get government back within its means and to lighten our punitive tax burden, and these will be our first priorities and on these principles there will be no compromise. >> that was president ronald reagan, his first inaugural january 20, 1981. jessica yellin is in washington, and ronald reagan seems very much in vogue in the newly republican house. would that be accurate, jessica? >> reporter: yes, definitely. former president reagan is a hero in the trae party movement. his message that washington should aim to shrink government, lower taxes, generally view america as unique and exceptional with our best days ahead, tea party activists tell me all the tiex that inspires them. >> jessica, let's listen again to ronald reagan from his first inaugural 30 years ago yesterday. >> we have piled deficit upon deficit mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. to continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political and economic upheavals. you and i, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means. but only for a limited period of time. why, then, should we think that collectively as a nation we are not bound by that same limitation? >> so, like the new house republicans, ronald reagan entered office determined to put the government's books in order. are they dusting off the riegen playbook? >> good question. in theory, yes, but the reagan playbook didn't always get results reagan or the tea party politicians now say they want. regular, reagan is a hero among certain conservatives because he cut taxes, but the national debt and the national deficit skyrocketed under his watch. we have a graphic. this is the national debt under ronald reagan. it grew from less than $1 trillion when he took office to more than 2.5 trillion when he left. there are lots of reasons why, some blame it entirely on congress. but remember reagan fought to increase defense spending and under his watch borrowing to cover the deficit also spiked and deficit hawks would not like to repeat that. >> and one of the many books about reagan is "the role of a lifetime." the white house tells us president obama took it along to read on his last vacation. does this mean that even president obama is studying up on reagan? >> well, you know, that isn't even new because remember during the 2008 campaign then-candidate aum bestowed high praise on reagan. he said that reagan changed the trajectory of america. and, you know, think about the similarities. reagan tried to be a post-partisan candidate in a way, wooing the doemts. he promised to fundamentally changing government, in his case by shrinking it. candidate obama vowed to rethink the way washington worked. like president obama, reagan saw his numbers to plummet, won a second term. plenty of reasons that president obama would like to emulate certain things about ronald reagan's history. >> jessica yellin for us today. thank you. happy friday. >> you, too. from mob name like tony bagels and vito love to new details on the murder that apparently stemmed from a spilled drink. we're learning much more today about yesterday's arrest of alleged mafia member. that is straight ahead. and we're looking at the weekend snow forecast for parts the country. 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