green, her funeral mass held thursday, and her father said that s when her family learned some of her organs were donated to a little girl in boston. he told our susan candiotti and and his wife would like to meet her some day to give her a big hug. tucson police are putting together s loughner s whereabouts in the hours before the shooting. next hour, randi kaye retraces those steps and what it all means in this investigation. and turning to iraq now. the military says three american troops were killed today. two were killed while conducting operations in the northern iraq area, and they may have been shot by iraqi soldiers who opened fire in the city of mosul. a third soldier was killed during military operations in the central region of that country. back to this country now. in politics, michael steele is out as chairman of the republican national committee. he dropped out of the balloting yesterday after seeing his support dwindle.
tower-based remote video surveillance. you may have heard people say that a certain color is the new black, referring to the classic style of black and fashion. well in 2011, budget, apparently, is the new black. yes, saving money and spending less are en vogue. joining me from detroit, a personal finance and business columnist for the detroit free press. good to see you, susan. good to see you. thank you. all right. so you say it s very fashionable to, you know, try and stay with your budget constraints, and you say let s begin this new year with a new kind of 70/20/10 rule. the formula you adhere to. explain. absolutely. getting back to basics is the new vogue. and say we take our take-home pay and look at it as working income. so that 70% would go to your expenses, but 20% should be saved for bigger purchases later on down the road, other
so-called courtesy calls to sign up for some service that was optional. didn t need it, didn t know they it, but if they d look at their statement they d see this charge is occurringer month. paying for something you didn t want, you can dispute that charge. the other way to plug the leaks, as i like to say. am i going star bucks every day and spending $30 a month? that s a leak. maybe you only need to buy the coffee once a day, or once a week. whatever your budget can afford. or take a little thermos or something like that. absolutely. add your comforts but in a more conservative way. everybody has a latte factor they need deal with. fantastic. susan, thanks so much. we are all committed to 2011, to making sure that budgeting is the new black. absolutely. thank you. all right. thanks so much, susan. appreciate that. all right. we ve all been waiting for it. right? here s more. tonight, his first guest you
case. fredricka? susan cankan candiotti in tu meanwhile, congresswoman gabrielle giffords remains in the hospital recovering. she was shot through the head. responding to commands, able to move her arms and legs although movement of her right arm is limited. part of her skull was removed to allow for swelling s that portion will remain off about a moo or two. giffords is breathing with the aid of a ventilator. three other shooting victims from the tucson tragedy are still hospitalized but are improving as well. doctors say all three are in good condition. friends and family members are expected to pay respects to shooting victim phyllis schneck today. a memorial service is scheduled at her home and church in tucson. we expect the gathering to begin in about two hours for the 72-year-old woman. and the youngest victim, of course, 9-year-old christina
campus released him. helping break down the new video. susan candiotti. susan? reporter: hi, fredricka. you ve seen the suspect, heard about him. certainly taken a look at the mug shot of him smiling. even briefly appeared in court, but now for the first time we are actually hearing his own voice. this is a videotape that he shot as he was walking through pima community college at night. we don t know exactly when it was shot, but we do know that it was taken down from an online posting last september. and you rep about a month later is when he quit school after he was told he could not come back, unless he had a note from a doctor saying that he would not be a danger to others. now, we re going to get a few portions of this. first you re going to see a glancing reflection of loughner as he s walking through a glass door. that s pretty interesting in and of itself, but then we move into hearing from him, and at one point he comes across a teacher