Two years ago intercepted a call from one of the brothers back to their mother in dagestan, a vague conversation apparently about jihad. the younger suspect, now in a ten by ten foot cell outside boston, has a new lawyer on his defense team specializing in death penalty cases. her name is judy clark. she once defended jared loughner, the tucson shooter. joe johns joins me tonight along with nick payton walsh. this female dna found on one of the pressure cookers, what more can you tell us? what might it mean? there s no way to tell at this point, quite frankly. what could it mean, we don t know. one law enforcement source said the dna could belong to anyone who came in contact with any of the consumer products that were used to make the bomb. just the same, they want to see if they can track it down and of course, they started with the wife of the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev. so joe, you can t assume that it was somebody who helped make the bomb.
He was the first inmate in the state to receive a controversial drug normally used to put down animals. jackson had no final words. the victim s son says jackson s execution was long overdue. new details this morning about the man suspected in the disappearance of a woman in aruba. investigators say gary giordano expected to add explicit photos on his camera calling them beyond pornographic. the news comes after learning he tried to cash in on a $1.5 million insurance policy just two days after she went missing. ok. arizona state senator now the first potential candidate to run for the u.s. congressional seat held by gabrielle giffords, the tucson republican has formed an exploratory committee. giffords has not said whether she ll seek re-election. earlier this month, she returned
Nuclear site. power has been hooked up to the reactor site but it will still take more work before electricity can be restored. other stories making headlines, wildfires west of denver has prompted the vaexz of 100 homes, with 200 more at ring. jared loughner, the tucson shooter who killed six people and injured 14 others including congresswoman gabby giffords has been ordered to undergo a mental examination. the judge has ordered the exam to be completed no later than april 9. the bonds former trainer greg elson to jail because he refused to testify against bonds. and an op-ed piece, fidel castro says he resigned from all of his official duties including
You know, i wrote a piece this week about all the lovely speeches on the house floor on wednesday praising giffords, saying why can t we all get along, tone down the rhetoric. you know, you write a piece about glenn beck or sarah palin in the washington post, 1,500, 2,000 comments. you write something about all the night things they re saying in the capitol, i think there were like 60 comments. it s a gauge of how much interest is in that sort of thing. that s why i think even the best intentions will ultimately fail to tone it down. i want to come back to that point. but david frum, let s be clear. has most of the toxic talk on the air waves the last couple years come from the right, and do you see that changing in the aftermath of tucson? well, in the past couple years obviously most has come from the right because there s been a democratic president. in the years before that i think the question is not which is worse, right or left is it comparable, the vitriol directed
Bill kurtis, the veteran anchor at the cbs station in chicago, is a windy city institution, and this week he spoke out about something both personal and painful, prompted by the media furor surrounding jared loughner and the shootings in tucson. my son was schizophrenic. and i ve been listening of course over the weekend and trying to draw parallels. one, he showed a dramatic personality change at 19. i was told by doctors that at 19 something happens in the brain to turn off a chemical perhaps. i was told my son went non-violent and he was no danger but 10% of the crimes are committed by mentally ill people who do turn violent. kurtis s son scott died a year and a half ago at the age of 38. the wbbm anchor joins me now from chicago. bill kurtis, welcome. good morning, howard.