Nasa also named a backup commander for endeavour s flight in april. the current commander, of course, is mark kelly. he is still at the bedside of his wife, congresswoman gabby giffords. and he apparently has yent decided whether to go ahead with april s mission. but his twin brother scott tells the houston television station trrk that he expects mark to make a decision in the next few weeks. scott kelly is an astronaut himself. and he is right now commanding the international space station. yesterday he spoke with the difficulty of being so far from home during all of this. i would prefer to be there with gabby and my brother and other friends and family. but i don t get easily frustrated and i recognize that, you know, the best thing i can do in my situation, which is here on the space station, is to just continue to do my job. shepard: scott kelly says he is able to call his brother often. he is scheduled to return to earth in march updating some of
District director. he was shot twice on saturday there in tucson. he s now left the hospital. before he did that, he was wheeled outside the university medical center to see the memorial that so many people have placed outside. so it is a bittersweet day as the daughters were saying, they were able to receive their dad home, but again, they ve received so much support at the hospital that it was in some ways sad to leave that support behind. i want to get you caught up to date on some of the angles of the investigation now taking place. we know that there was a black bag believed to belong to suspect jared loughner that appeared near his home. we ll replay it. we wept out to retrieve the bad and found inside several boxes of .9 millimeter ammunition. and loughner s dad told place he saw loughner removing the black in the car the day of the attack. nasa has named a backup
American household earn in one year. it is also higher than the median household income in 14 states. for those who can splurge it will buy you with mercedes c-350 sports sedan. that s quite something. doctors in tucson wrapping up their final regular medical briefing on the shooting victims. surgeon treating congresswoman gabrielle giffords says doctors from quote confident she is making progress. the congresswoman has made huge strides in her recovery thus far from opening her eyes to raising her arms and sitting up in bed. meantime, nasa has named a backup commander in case giffords husband cannot fly. he is scheduled to command endeavor in april. nasa still hopes he can.
Will have a backup astronaut, rick sturka, will serve as a backup commander for the space shuttle mission he was involved in to facilitate training for the crew and the support teams. while mark kelly is off tending to his wife, representative gabrielle giffords. rick sturko will fill in for him at nasa. the second piece of information is that police have told us that they have finished processing the crime scene. this was a very involved crime scene outside of that safeway in tucson, arizona. they have completed their processing of that crime scene. however, more information has been discovered. two things i want to tell you about. the first one is that the suspect s father, jared loughner s father said he had seen his son with a black bag the morning of the attack. and he had gone after him. he couldn t find it. apparently that blag bag has been found. according to the police.
Shuttle mission, but that could change. and now john zarrella is joining us from miami with more on this. what is the latest that is going on, john? well, wolf, it is just precautionary, but nasa has decided that it was going to name a backup commander, rick sturkow who is a veteran of four space shuttle flights all of way back to 1998 and last flew back in 2009 and he is the deputy chief of the astronaut office, so he is extensively qualified to fly the flight, and the people at nasa say there is not much of a learning curve, because he has been a commander before and been a pilot before and if he should have to take over the endeavor flight. but one thing he has to do is to probably practice a lot of touch and goes. now, i flew actually a couple of months on in a touch and go with steve lindsey who is flying the discovery mission coming up,