>> the affectionor rom my famil, from my friends and from my fans hit me at a much deeper level than i would ever had imagined before. >> now thescar winner is ready to start a new chapter in his >> now thescar winner is ready to start a new chapter in his life today, january 11, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal televion and welcome to today on thi tuesday morning, i'm meredith viera. >> and i'm matt lauer, and can i just say how nice it was to see miael douglas looking good an sounding good. we'll let you hear wha he has to say aittle later on. meanwhile a much, mh fferent subject. let's put up this picture of jared loughner,ou can attach your own words to it. 's drecreepy, it's center. . >> h had theame smirk when he nt before the judge on monda to face murder and asssination charges. none of loughner's famil was in the couroom. his mother apparently sat down in the streetn front of their home and cried. this morning w have learned that loughner's father is preparg to release his first public statement since the shooting. meanwhile presidt obama is ading to tucson for a special merial service tomorrow. >> and gabrielle gifford is showing further signs of imprement. she managed to give doctors a umbs-up sign on monday but doctors say she is not out of the woods yet. in a momente'll talk to one of the doctors giving the congresswoman round the clock care. nbc's lester holt is in tucson where he has been for the past several da,ester good morning. >> reporter: on mony as arizonans and the rest of the country try to kp their focus on the victims. suspect jared loughner had his first appearance in court where the judge labeled him a danger to society. also we learned theorning of the shooting he went o a opping spree buying 200 bullets. defiant, mocking, there's at to read in the first post arrt pho of jared lee ughner. in a u.s. courthouse in phoenix, loughner lookedtraighthead as the jud read the charges, murder, attempted murder a attempted assassination of a member of ngress. nehbors say his parents are in pain. >> he told me to tell you boys whboys when he gets to a point where he can give a statement he will. >> reporter: to the u.s. capitol where people linedp to show their support for congresswoman giffor. president obamaho led a moment of silence in honorf the tucson victims will travel here tomorrow for a memorial service. some of those wounded in the attackre nowut of the hospital likermy colonel bill badger, who was grazed in the head. >> everybody was hitting the ground, including me. an so i turd to my left and went to go down and i lowered my head aboutix incs and i felt this burning sensati in the backf my head and i went right on to the ground. >>ave bowman, a physician, and his wife nancy a nurse were shopping in e safeway at the time of thettack and along with other civilians, began treating and triaging viims. >> i heard people moaning and crying for help. and i was goi up the line, because that's really whayou saw, the guy just went up the line shooting and got tohe young girl's position and started cpr on here. >> when i got to judge boll, i startecpr on him. you can't save him, there's other people that are bleeding and need yr help. so i hado leave him. i just looke in his face and said i'm so, so sorry. so then i started movg up towards t little girl, but i could see that sheas getting good care so i directed my attention to her neighbor wh was right beside her. and i saw that she had a gunshot wound in her chest. so i just put my hand over that gunshot wound. but she was qte concerned about christina so she pulled out he phone, here with four gunshot wounds on her, she pulls out her phone and dials christina's pents number. she handed the phone to me and the message machine picked up and i told said that sheas in an accident an she was taken to unc. >> reporter: you couldn't y she's been shot. >> i couldn't s she's bee shot >> reporter: nancy told me that leaving the scene s wrestled with the question did she do enough. she made ing when h heardhat a sixth pers had died she knew it was chriina. >> all right, lester holt, thank you very much. for the latest on congresswoman gifford's condition, we turn now to the chief ofeurosurgery at the university of arizona dical center. goodorning to you, good to see you. >> good morning, matt. >> let me just start with a simple question, any change to the condition of congresswoman giffords overnight? >> no, there is no change. and as frustrating as that may sound, at's a good thing. >> you said somhing and d reid has also said this over the last couple of days, i believe i first heard you say itn sunday. at when it comes to swellin after a brain injury or a brain trauma lik congresswoman giffordsas undergone, the swelling tds to peak on or about day three, that would make today a very important dayn her condition. so in terms of swellg around e area of theunshot wound, what can you tell me? >> the c.a.t. scan doesn't sw any swelling thismorning, but i caution you and yr viewers that in man people the maximum swelling is around d three, but it can be longer tn that. >> and you're monitoring that with c.a.t. scans, can you tl at all by the way she responds to certain commands when she take her out of this medically induced coma >> just the fact that she's able to respond to those commands, impliethat there's not a lot of pressure in the brain >> we talk about the fact that she's unab to speak right now, be but as you just said she is responding to certain comman, she can raise her fings, she i believe gave a thumbs-upign and i w reading that she tried on a couple of occasions to grab at the bathing tube that's inserted in her throat and while that may sound upsettg to some people, that's something that you found to be very encoaging. can you explain why? >> ablutely. that impes a purposeful level of consciousness. if i were to iitate your pinch you, it's a natural response to reach up and slap my hand. d the fact that she's able to register tt discomfort and then react to it, again, it means the brain is working on a higher lel. >> we also want to mention that the two biggest queions on people's minds, e, can she survive and tha remains to be seen. but if she survives doct, and i know y've gen this a lot of thought, what is the most likely outcome in yr mind in terms of her long-term prognosis? >> without spulating, i think she has a full range ahead of he have seen people in this scenario make very little improvements and requi consnt care, and i have seen other people and you have them in your own trade in the media who have made remarkable recoveries, functionalrecovers and gone back to work. so i think the full range i still available to her. >> before we go and so much attention bng paid to congresswoman giffords, i want to mention that at your hospital there are sen other victims of this shooting tragedy. can you briefly jus tell me in terms of theireneral prognosis and progress, howre they doing? >> i'm told byy trauma colleagues that ty're doing ve well. an i thankful that my services weren even needed on them >> all righ doctor, as i mentioned, you've got an awful t on your plate and the ft that you're sharing information with us and making yourself available greatly appreciated, thank y very much. >> you're welcome. s we mentioned president obama will heado arizona to speak to a memorial service on wednesday to support and remember the victims of the shooting. nbc's white use correspondent savannah guthrie has details. savannah, good morning. >> reporter: good morng to you meredith. the president just accepted this invitation by the university of arizona at:00 eastern time last night and they just started working on this spee. the president has said he feels the need to speak to this sense of loss. he wants to share rememr brnss with the victim and try to be here to pull t community gether. that's the purpose ofim coming. there's no wordet on whether th president will address what a lot of people ar talking about which ocourse is the divisive politic climate we have seen. >> savannah, i know that that your alma mar, your house is about five minutes away from where the shoing occurred, yo your -- the sck has to be wearing f at this point? >> the sck is there and you justalk to people and they're prone to burst into tears. they can't belie it happened here. this is a big city, it's grown souch even in the te i have moved away. but in many ways, it's still a tight knit cmunity. they call it the old pueblo, a sleepy desert townnd people are so shocked and they don't want the rest of theountry and the world to see them in this way. in man ways i don't think it can ever rlly sink in. i asked somebody, do you thi tucson has lost its innocence, and they said i don't want to believe that, buin some ways, yes. >> savannah guthrie, thank you so much. now the politicalfallout tied this this tragedy, sarah palin is facing criticism for using -- andrea mitchell is in washgton with the latest on that. >> reporter: the momt of silee that president obama ordered was perhaps the only since as angry voices on the left and theight fought over what l to the tragedy in arizona. expt for a plea from outer space for less violence here on eah. as i look out the window and see a very beautiful planet that seems very invitin and peaceful. unfortunately, it is not. >> fro the space station, gabrielle gifford's brother-in-law, her husband's twin fellow astronaut scott kelly. >> these days we're constantly reminded of the unspeakable acts of violenc and damage we can inflicupon one another, not just with our actions, but also with our irresponsle words. >> reporter: back onearth, the loud voices only got louder. >> they're desperately usi every oppornity to try to convince you, that somehow or another rah palin is dangerous. >> reporter: on t and radio, fox news commentatorlenn beck shed to sarah palin's defense as she became the center of a national debate over her campaign map last year, targeting gabrielle gifford's district and 19 others with crosshairs. >> we know violence isn't the answ. when we take up our arms, we're talkin about our vote. >> reporter: there is no direct link to this suspect a far as investigators know. palin refused inrview requests but e-mailed beck to say -- >> our childn will not have ace, politico is just capitalizing o this to proceed in betraying anyone with terror and violence. >> reporter: one republica says e criticism could be a defining moment fo palin. >> you can hunker down and say it's not my fault a she's right, it's not hefault. or you can be bigger than at, you can go out and mt the chlenge and you can be the leader that america want to see. >> what started as squall tued into a storm. >> it really is depraved. sad tragedies where people die are seen first as moments of political oppounity for democrats. >> reporter: the internet also lit up with criticism of the tucson sriff for speaking out agait vitriolic speech. >> thatay be free speech, but it's not without consequences. >> reporter: in a dhabi, hillary inton on the senselessness it all. >> a wonderful, incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by an extremist in our country. thextremists and their voices, the crazy voices that sometimes get on the tv, tt's not who we are. >> reporter: and gabrielle giffords may have expressed it best the day bore she was shot when she eailed a republican frie a day after the election that said i would lik to talk about what we can do to promote census. weeed to tone our rhetoric down now the intense winter storm that's impacting air travel nationwide it's a dangerous mix of ice and snow that's pounded the south leading to at least nine weather related deaths now it's taking aim at the northeast. the weather channel's stephanie abrams is in atlanta this morng. >> reporter: the mayor's office says there are 11 plows to clear off these icy and snowy streets and i've got to tell you, the sidewalks aren't much better. apparently mother nature had some unfinished businessn these firstew days of janua and she's not finished yet. here wgo again. i spun sidays over to where i'm at right here. >> reporter: onmonday, a major winter storm dped as much as nine inches of snow aoss the south, including texas. in atlanta, there was onlone way down the road. slipping and sliding. >> his engine began smoking. >> reporter: and for this one driver, fire on ice. >> it started overheatingnd when you guysold me i was on fire. >> reporter: the sound of the snowstorm. may not be as familiar in ts part of the country, but the havoc of air travel sure is. >> we had to get water and i and all of that. and they didn't go about trying do much to help us. reporter: more than 2,000 flhts were cancelled on monday. the ros weren't exactly a better optn. >> where's thesalt? i need some ice skas because i could have got toork quicr. i'm just upset. >> reporter: and today in the northeast, a potential grouhog's day in the making. it's heading to the northeast so let' hopelearned something om that christmas day storm because this the storm is going to bring snow anhuge winds. >> here we go, a double barrel low pressure system, o in the midwescausing snow there, the other bringing snow ithe southeast and icy conditions, that midweern snow --e got it jt off the carolina coast, low pressure in the ohio river valleythat i'm combine entually and start to spread this sno into the northea early tomorrow mning and overnight. and then as we move during the early morng hours on wednesday on into wednesday afternoo the new englanarea is going to be in it. they're going to be looking at one to two feet of snow, we're talking about winds that will gust in some cases over 60-mile-per-hour. here the accumulation, chicago, you're goingo be talking about ybe nine to 12 more inches of snow, but cleveland may pick up six to nine inches,ut the northeast, ts is where we're really focusing on hartford, to 18 inches. four to seven inches in philelphia. new york city eight to2 ines, eastern parts of new york may pick up more an that, providence 12 to 18 ches, boston could be one foot to two feet of snow on into new england. add to that 60 purpose winds and we'll prably be seeing blizzard warnings up this afternoon on into tonight and tomorrow. >> we're going to get the rest of al's forecast in just a moment. natalie is over the neuews desk in for ann this mornin resers are combing austlia for nearly 60 pple who are missing in the rising floodwater floodwaters. former predent bill clinn arrives in haiti today ahead of thene-year anniversary of lasyear's devastatesearthquake. he will visit with vario reconstruction projectsnd meet with the country's prime minister. hillary clinton h made an unannounced visit toemen where she is discussing counter terrorm efforts. it'she first visit of u.s. cretary of state in three years. investigators are watching alcoa reporting earnings after the ll earning 21 cents a share, that wasetter than excted. but what's rlly important is what the ceo says about demand. he sees an increase of 12% or the next year that means that cntries are producing more cars and making more soda cans. we're also watchingas prices picking u two cents in the past week the national average now $3.09 a gallon. a big announcement from verizon here in new york day. the network is expted to add apple's iphone to is smart phone family. th will begin offering t device within weeks in direct competition to at & t. >> it was last second field go from the detroit tigers thatook down the oregon dks for 15-19 win that clinched th bcs national championship. itas auburn's first shot at the title since 1957. i know annurry is going to be very disappointed. she was at the game. she's heang back home on a river of tea. but they played great. what great seas. oregon and aubn as well. >> but she's got the best of duck feathers >> you've got ausy day. >> i > good morning. radar showing some light snow reaching t ground now in southe maryland, northern neck of virginia. there's another batch of light snow reaching the ground in shenandoah valle and in the panhandle of west virginia. this is going to taper off a bit in the next couple of hours and maybbe just cloudy to mid afteoon. later on and overnight it appears the bulk of the snow is going to fall. two to four inches. more north and >> and that's your latest weather. stil ahead our poignant conversation with michael douglas, his first television interview since undergoing cancer treatment. and he'll tell us how hiss battle has changed his life. but first this is hey, what are u drinkin'? 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