parents leaving their house moments ago. griff jenkins joins us live at the scene. reporter: greta, moments ago, randy and amy loughner left their home two cars pulled in the driveway. you see a white suv, bronze mustang, members of the federal public defenders office. amy loughner came out first followed by randy, who had his dog with him. they were hooded, as you see. they are visibly shaken. parents that are devastated. i simply asked or tried to speak with them to ask how are they doing? anything they could give us. it sounded to me as if amy may have been sobbing, lightly. randy clearly upset that any cameras were there. turned his back to us, getting in there. this is the first that the loughners have been seen. they ve been holed up in their house. earlier in the day, we ve seen the legal team come and go, a member of the legal team came out and entered a statement to the press that reads: this is a very difficult time for us. we ask the media to respect our privacy.
the world s biggest airport shut down. now, the storm is racing north. more than a foot of snow targeting the northeast, including new york city tonight. sam is live on the scene and on the ice, with the latest. the face of evil. the suspect appears in court as president obama heads to the scene tomorrow. new details about the reclusive loughner family from a neighbor who went inside their house. she just broke down. just a nervous wreck. and he s in there crying, just walking around. gma is live from arizona to atlanta and new york, covering both major stories this morning. and good morning, everyone. it s good to have you back, george. good to be back. the president and the first lady are heading to arizona tomorrow, for the memorial service for the six who died. it will include a they ative american blessing, a moment of silence, a poet reading and messages from the public. also, good news this morning on congresswoman giffords. the doctors telling us thi
well, we re expecting it to be fairly short. loughner is expected to appear at 2:00 p.m. local time here. so about less than four hours from now, at the courthouse in phoenix. rather than tucson. they moved his initial court appearance to phoenix. it s unclear where the rest of the proceedings will take place. whether it will be in tucson or here in phoenix. he will be read his charges by judge lawrence anderson. he s facing five criminal charges. the attempted murder of a member of congress. two first degree murder charges against federal employees, john roll, a federal judge, and gabe zimmermann, who was a member of congresswoman giffords staff. and then two attempted murder charges in the shooting of ron barber and pam simon, other staffers of giffords. what we re expecting is the reading of the charges and they ll also set a detention hearing which is basically a bail hearing and a preliminary hearing date. he will be represented, we understand, it will be confirmed later this a
and you re now looking at a shot of congresswoman giffords office as the country mourns her, mourns what happened to her and prays for her recovery. president obama asks the country for this moment of silence so that we could draw togethers a country so that some unity could be achieved and we could think and pray about those who survived that shooting rampage on tuesday and those who died. we want to take a closer look now at the six people that lost their lives in that tragedy. the victims were as young as 9 years old and as old at 79, all who gathered to hear congresswoman giffords speak on saturday. christina green, she was 9 years old, born on september 11, 2001. christina attending because she had recent i been chosen to be on the student council at her elementary school. gabe zimmerman, the 30-year-old who was giffords director of community outreach, he worked with constituents who needed giffords help want issue. he was engaged to be married. dorwin stoddard, h
At age 30. he looked like the kind of person that wanted to help everybody. that s what social workers do. true. the news has been reported correctly about gabe. he was a one of a kind guy. one of the strongest members of our team. there s people you run into in life like that that touch your soul and that s what he did everyday. as his employment was to help people. he sought true joy from it. any death is tragic this has been hard. it is going to be hard. i know what gabe would want. he would want us to keep on serving the community here. that s what we are going to do. you are right it has opinion it has been very difficult. greta: every question you want to ask seem profoundly stupid. i think how is his fiancee doing, of course horribly. what a stupid question.