but, first from fox at 3:00, brand new details about the tragedy in tucson and what may have happened before the deadly shooting. all the details coming. first, we have a first look at the representative gabrielle giffords after the incident. you can see her husband sitting at her hospital bed holding her happened. the university of arizona medical center saying she is among six still hospitalized. and a few hours ago the members of the family of the other victims spoke including the daughters of a man twice shot. >> my dad is healing from his wounds remarkably well. and we really think that is because we have so much love and prayer coming our way right now. throughout this ordeal dad's focus has been on the well-being of gabbie and asks we continue to pray for her recovery and her family. >>shepard: we have a clearer picture of a timeline leading up to the shooting. and what appears to be incredibly hectic morning for the suspect. and now coverage on all of this with our correspondent in tucson with more on the parents and the victims but, first, catherine with the timeline. could we get a start with the night before the shooting. what do we know? >>reporter: the investigation is fluid, two law enforcement officers say they are building the timeline of the shooting. here is what they believe, the night best shooting, loughner did not stay at his parents' home but stayed at a mow hell and on the way from the motel to his parents' home he was stopped at 7:30 for running a red light. he argued with his father that morning and they also say he did have the mysterious black bag which they are trying to locate. >>shepard: after the argument, where did the suspect, loughner, go then? >>reporter: we reported that loughner bought the ammunition on the morning of the shooting and now they say he went to a wal-mart that morning and denied ammunition before he went to a second wal-mart where he was able to buy it. and you remember this surveillance video from the safeway, sources say the man in the picture is the cab driver who drove loughner to the safeway and he went into the supermarket while the driver got change. the cab driver as you know had no connection to the shooting. and it is believed based open the eyewitness account that investigators have been able to gather from the supermarket that loughner was there less than ten minutes before he started shooting. >>shepard: before he got to the safeway with the cab driver, loughner made one more stop, right? >>reporter: well, this is part of the mystery. loughner's hours were described as busy and he made another stop before taking the cab to the safeway and at one point, during that morning, he decided to the to drive his vehicle or his truck any longer and he either walked or took a cab to get everything done before the shooting. >>shepard: thank you, catherine from washington, dc. now word that the suspect's parents have left their long time home. our correspondent is there outside the home of the shooter's parents in tucson. what is the story there? >>reporter: well, the neighborhood is very quiet. and we know from members of our fox team who have ben taubing out the house here, that the loughners left yesterday and have not returned leaving with the public defender's office with an investigator who was here yesterday and a woman would looks like judy clark, his court-a.ed attorney. we have learned a lot in the last 24 hours how the sheriff has visited the loughner house before, for one we do not know. and in the meantime, some residents want people to know that two people who live in this house are suffering, too. remember his family, too. and i am sure they are suffering, too, and remember each individual, not just gabrielle giffords affected but everyone has been affected and keep the love going, keep the peace, and let something good come out of this. >>reporter: the next time we are going to see the suspect in court is january 24th for a preliminary hearing. back to you. >>shepard: we have updates from the hospital today. would you fill everyone in on that. >>reporter: yes, we got good news from the doctors this morning at a press conference on congresswoman giffords. her condition is stable, and has taken no dip. we heard emotional statements from the family members of some of the other victims, and the son of a giffords staffer read a statement from his mother. listen. >> i am grateful to the outpouring of love and support for my family, friends, co-workers and community. the wounds inflicted or healing, thanks to the care of the doctors and staff here at the university medical center. and i would especially like to thank dr. freeze. the deeper wounds and needless loss of life and severe injury of co-workers and community members and sadness over the violence will take longer to heal. >>reporter: as the victims recover this week, we also know that funerals for the dead are also taking place and tomorrow we are expecting a funeral for nine-year-old christina taylor green. >>shepard: thank you. fox news weather alert. big winter storm pounding much of the northeast overnight and, still, for some parts of new england just getting started. forecasters say it appears connecticut and massachusetts got the worst of it all and parts of each state expected to get up to 2' of snow and actually more in some places. spots on long island got up to that. connecticut's governor is asking nonessential state employees to stay home today. and in massachusetts, the governor declares a state of emergency, storm knocked out power to 100,000 homes and businesses. so right to our new england corporate, who is streaming live right now. molly, hello. >>reporter: that's right, the governor has declared a state of emergency and the national guard is caused -- called. you mentioned 100,000 with out power, those households are south of boston, where they are not getting as much snow but it is mixed with the rain and it is heavy. so that is causing trees to fall and power lines to snap and they have a real mess getting the power on. other parts of the state, the western part and the northern part of the state could get up to 2' of snow. but there is a little bit of a bright light. at logan airport, they say they are hopeful by the end of the evening they will be able to get a few flights out. they have a runway they have kept clear and a couple of flight could get out tonight and they are working on getting planes in so that tomorrow morning they can deal with the backlog of travelers wanting to get to their destinations. school has been canceled. nonessential employees are asked to stay home today. and, fortunately, it will be a beautiful sunny day tomorrow and the next couple of days to deal with the cleanup as we still have winds and high drifting. tomorrow is clean up. >>shepard: middle of january, plenty more to come. our new england correspondent, live from boston, molly line. we got 9" in central park. at 1:00 o'clock there were two plows on the street, two plows on the avenue and the snow was cleared when seconds. the mayor not letting anything go wrong in the big city. the schools and government offices opened and all the airports up and back to normal. 9" cannot beat up not after what happened a couple of weeks ago with more on the airs shooting ahead. and right now, president obama is on the way to tucson for memorial service there on when, so that means wednesday's with juan williams about rising above the politics. a year after the earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 people we will look at conditions. and they are sadly not much better. a live report on the orphans who are still waiting to find a home at "studio b" continues on fox news channel. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. >>shepard: president obama will address the nation tonight in the wake of the mass shootings that killed six and wounded 14 others. not the first time he has dealt with a national tragedy since taking office. there was the ft. hood matser and more recently, the west virginia mine explosion that killed 29 men and tonight we are told president obama will focus on uniting and healing. some have made this a political issue. people on the left and the right suggesting extreme partisan rhetoric may have played a role. there is no way to know but there is no indication. analysts say president obama's challenge is to stay above it all. to appear as a leader, first. not as a politician first. it is wednesday which means wednesday's with juan. if the snow was not still falling he would be in new york but instead in washington, dc, and seconds ago you were on espn. that was interesting to see. what is the president's goal tonight? >>juan: he has to rise above all of the political static and the political static is out there in a junior way with everyone either saying that there was a connection or the denial of a link to the rhetoric around the country. i think the president has to stay away from that political sand trap. he has to be very clear here that we do live in more politically polarized times but this is not about that. this is about us as an american people and an american family and we have to speak if those family terms about how a family goes through grief together, no one is alone, no one side is grieving, all of us are grieving and we can all have different points of view. i am reminded of the successful speeches we have heard from presidents on occasions like this. i think of ronald reagan after the "challenger" explosion in which he directed his comments specifically at schoolchildren. he spoke as if he was speaking to a schoolroom class and was successful in talking about the idea we were not giving up on space exploration and those astronauts include the lovely teacher who flipped the bonds of earth. it was poetic and bill clinton and it was tricky after oklahoma city in 1995 he, too, spoke about the men family. but, subsequently went on to catty gate right wing talk radio but the fact that he spoke to the idea of the american family and feeling pain and gravy but not directly into hate boosts his standing. some opt left think he could boast his standing by taking on right wing talk radio and i think that would be a huge, huge mistake. >>shepard: we have in indication he will do anything like that. one of the observations on this president, the observations for a reason, has come from all quarters whether he feels the empathy or not he does not give it off. and the way that bill clinton could on a dime and ronald reagan could on a dime, and this president has not gotten there according to most people who have observed him and here is the question: he is up six points. he is way up in the opinion polls. he is as high as a year and part of his job here, is just not mess things up. >>juan: well, that is kind of a negative way to view it, but the fact is, he can be too cool. and he is not an emotional person but a person would looktures and that is not attractive in a moment when the whole family is grieving. i don't need anyone to tell me how to feel but i want to be clear you have blood in your veins, too, and that is what the president has to do tonight. he has to not say he is the master of all the facts in this situation and all the points of view, but you have to share in the sense that this is a moment that could define us going forward in terms of how we do politics and how we think about each other and would we are as an american people. this is what he has to do. talk about what he feels in here and the fact that the congresswoman and a child were shot and that a judge, a man who upholds the law and who demonstrated courage in doing so is dead. he has to say he is impassioned and feeling, you know, upset and he has to be clear. i don't want him to weep and manufacturing tears but i want to know that he is a real human being in there and he is the leader of our family at this critical ment. >>shepard: juan williams, good to see you. we will have full coverage tonight uninterrupted of the president and the memorial service in tucson, tonight. crops destroyed. houses ruined. two dozen dead. many more missing. but the flooding just keeps getting worse. and now the country of australia's third largest city is underwater. and said to be a ghost town. we will get the details in a live report. a live report from down under ahead. what super fruit is taking sunsweet ones.orm? prunes? they're a delicious source of nutrients. wow! it's packaged by itself... that's fantastic! that is so juicy. this is delicious. sunsweet ones. over 400 million enjoyed, and counting. to london starts with arthritis pain... and a choice. take tylenol now, and maybe up to 8 in a day. or...choose aleve and 2 pills for a day free of pain. enjoy the flight. >>shepard: emergency sirens across one of australia's largest cities as muddy floodwater threatens to submerge 20,000 homes and literally wash away neighborhoods. breaking recently, the local river has piqued and lower than the worst case scenario. but little comfort to those already under. incredible, right? gas station underwater. so far, 22 people have died. more than 40 are said to be missing since the rains began in november. and look at this, horses and cows swim through the muddy waters looking for higher ground. rescuers tried to get them to safety but it is not clear if they succeeded. the floods affected enormous portion of australia. we are talking the size of germany and france combined. and you can see the comparison, the same size, really, as the states of texas and new mexico combined. our chief fox correspondent jonathan hunt with the news down in our newsroom. i thought he was down under, he is downstairs in his basement. this is incredible. than extraordinary images coming from australia and the northeast section known as queensland. look at this. ripped off the moorings and smashing into the bridge and pulled under. you can feel how strongly the waters are running. that boat sank. cars across a huge area of australia have been going, seen submergeed and we saw the pictures of vehicles swept away on the very powerful waters yesterday. and they are just dreadful scenes to watch. for everyone if the effected areas it is nothing less than a terrifying time. >> this is absolutely in believable. i have never seen anything like this. >> all the cars, what can we do about it? devastating. >> they are now saying that the waters have reached their height at 13 feet not as bad as they thought it might be but, still, very, very bad and they will not recede for three our four days. so a lot of trouble still ahead. >>shepard: and desperate attempts to rescue people and animals. >>jonathan: everyone is trying to get out and get what they can, including their pets. we have seen people, the military leading the rescue efforts. obviously, targeting the old and in firm, first, trying to do what they can to help them and everyone trying to get their animals. we saw these people walking away with a dog and a backpack of a parrot in a cage and you see the pictures of the mores and cows and everyone doing what they can to rescue those. people loading their possessions on the boat and trying to get to higher ground for as quickly as they can and for as long as they can but a desperately difficult time. >>shepard: tough times economically. anyone talking dollars and cents >>jonathan: no one can put a dollar cost on the cleanup but it is expected to run into billions of dollars. another problem is part of, if you like australia's bread basket, a lot of crops grown there and they believe the damage done to the farmlands in that area could mean that australia's gross domestic product is hit by something like $13 billion so the economic impact is going to be felt for a long, long time. >>shepard: thank you reporting from new york. and our chief correspondent chatting about the stop stories at the website. look at the fancy area today, foxnews.com/shep on the "on the hunt," icon. one year ago today, a massive magnitude 7 earthquake struck just off the coast of haiti. and the quake devastated that nation killing more than 230,000 people. and it is far from over. many of the tent cities that served as emergency shelters remain to this day housing more than a million people including hundreds of thousands of little children of the one survivor says that the help the government promised hasn't come. >> we wait. we wait. we wait. nothing. but we wait. many people prefer to wait and wait. nothing, nothing, nothing. >>shepard: the u.n. predicts 50,000 haitians will still be living in the camps at the end of the year. our reporter is live at port-au-prince. >>reporter: because the earthquake struck before 5:00 a lot of parents were at work and a lot of orphans were created. and now a new category of orphans has developed in haiti. 10:00 a.m. snack at open hands orphanage is a cup of corn washed down with a cup of water. a year ago, most of these children had homes and families. after the earthquake, they were found without parents, documents, sometimes even names. many of the children don't have names but each has a story. some were injured by falling cinder blocks in the earthquake. she is quiet. others like ashley, next to me, act up quite a bit. they were buried for three days next to the earthquake buried by his dead mother before being pulled out. in the year since the earthquake the number of children in haitian orphanages has grown to 380,000 and many of the new arrivals are so called economic orphans. >> it is an auction for -- an option for parents to drop the children off hoping they get a better life. when think orphan, they think this child has no parents or no living relative and that is not the case. >>reporter: 85 percent of orphans in haiti have one living parent which cop applicants any effort at placing the children with families outside of the country. we can visit the children in the orphanage but they have a lot of skepticism that they will ever be able to take their children back home again. >>shepard: thank you, steve, from port-au-prince. thank you very much. continuing coverage on the deadly shooting in tucson and a day of emotion on capitol hill as lawmakers mourn the victims. and the suspected shooter himself had quite a troubleed past including problems with the cops and college campus security. but officials refuse to release anything on that. our legal panel looks at why ahead. 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