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St. elizabeth ann seton this morning, the funeral set to get underway for u.s. district judge john roll in about two hours. u.s. marshalls are there, as part of the security detail, as well as local law enforcement. there will be several federal judges in attendance along with family and friends and judge roll was served on the bench for 40 years. and, was a close friend of gabrielle giffords and was attending mass just prior to the shooting when he decided to walk over and visit his friend, congress on the corner when the shots rang out and he s being remembered today and, last night there was a prayer service vigil and rosary for the victims, including judge roll. and, also, prior to that, the funeral for the youngest victim of the shooting, christina taylor green, nine years old, her father spoke at the funeral and in attendance were senator john mccain as well as mrs. mccain, and, also, at the ....
Take us through what happened. you said this started with a tweet from representative giffords. it did. the congresswoman does try to squeeze in abo boubout eight or events. saturday morning she sent out a tweet at 9:58 a.m. local time here inviting people to her first event called congress on the corner. . she wanted people to come and ask her questions. that was at 9:58. 12 minutes later, she was shot in the head, gunned down. it s unclear at this point because we don t know a motive about the suspect, it s unclear if maybe he had seen that tweet and that s what prompted him to go to that safeway supermarket or if he was already there waiting for her. i want to put up the mugshot that we got today of this alleged shooter. this is the first indication of what he looks like now. we ve seen a lot of pictures with him with hair. his head is shaved. he s got you can interpret ....
You said this started with a tweet from representative giffords. it did. the congresswoman does try to squeeze in about eight or nine events. saturday morning she sent out a tweet at 9:58 a.m. local time here inviting people to her first event called congress on the corner. she wanted people to come and ask her questions. that was at 9:58. 12 minutes later, she was shot in the head, gunned down. it s unclear at this point because we don t know a motive about the suspect, it s unclear if maybe he had seen that tweet and that s what prompted him to go to that safeway supermarket or if he was already there waiting for her. i want to put up the mugshot that we got today of this alleged shooter. this is the first indication of what he looks like now. we ve seen a lot of pictures with him with hair. his head is shaved. he s got you can interpret the look he has. drew, what do we know about this guy? well, we know apparently that ....
Many families affected by it, six dead and 13 others wounded. we talked to a sergeant 30 minutes ago and he described this is military veteran he described what he saw as absolute carnage. it was difficult for him to get to the interview on fox 30 minutes ago. when you look at this now, when you think about protecting members of congress and you know there are lone wolves out there and those that mentally unstable as the sheriff described two hours ago. now you have to start thinking about protecting everybody. you have 435 members of the house, hundred members of the senate. that would be unfortunate. i think members of congress really need to get it on and press the flesh. i worked in the senate and we didn t have to show an i.d. to get into the buildings. only time we had to do was on the weekends at the u.s. capitol. we have changed a lot and some ....
He called gabby giffords a friend of his. he called her an extraordinary public servant and also someone who was warm and caring. it s not surprising that today gabby was doing what she always does, listening to the hopes and concerns of her neighbors. that the essence of what our democracy is all about. that is why this is more than just a tragedy for those involved. as the tragedy for arizona, and a tragedy for our entire country. reporter: president said he also spoken with democratic and republican leaders in congress. a few members and segways into what you were talking about with neil livingstone, few members are calling for increased security grounds for all members which now is only offered to leadership in certain positions. thank you very much. bill: you mentioned this, ....