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On courtroom surveillance cameras. >> in all my years on the bench, i haven't had to use the panic button before. but i pressed it on that day. >> latasha williams. >> march 22nd, 2011. las vegas, nevada. judge jackie glass, a veteran in the 8th judicial district court, is presiding over a competency hearing for 36-year-old latasha williams. >> she can't leave the courtroom. >> months earlier, williams was arrested for two counts of child endangerment and first-degree kidnapping when she allegedly dangled a neighbor's grandchildren over the balcony railing at this apartment complex. williams' ...

>> elizabeth wanted to see him there in court and to face him when she testified. and he was too big of a coward. >> he wouldn't stay. >> he would not stay in there. he would sing or do whatever and ended up being in this remote room. but at least he had to hear it. >> after she telephones at mitchell's competency hearing, elizabeth leaves utah for an 18-month latter-day saints mission to france. steeped in her faith, she talks of taking the mormon rite of passage. >> i know that there is a god and that he loves us. and that no matter what people can take from you or do to you or harm you, tha...

Gabby giffords. loughner is due in federal? tucson for a competency hearing. if a judge finds that loughner understands the charges against him a plea deal could move forward tomorrow. alicia acuna is live in the tucson. hi. >> reporter: hi, patti ann. today could come down to how jared loughner handles himself and there are a lot of ifs. the doing nosed schizophrenic has not been in court for more than a year. he has been receiving treatment in a missouri mental hospital since last summer. the expectation is he is ready to enter a guilty plea. however loughner could change his mind or he coul...

planet. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're learning much more about the shooter and the victims in the sikh temple slaughter in wisconsin. i'll speak wit oak creek police chief coming up live. we'll hear exclusively from two men who lost their mother in the killings. first, we're getting new details on the weapon. our own brian todd is joining us now live. he's in oak creek, wisconsin. brian, you've been tracing the gun. what are you finding out? >> reporter: spoke to the gun store manager, wolf. new details on that weapon that authorities believe was used in t...

times, if you can believe it. david mattingly is joining me with more on those stories and much more on this case. the wounded officer, lieutenant brian murphy, how is he doing now? >> reporter: well, yesterday, he was listed in critical condition. today, the hospital says there is no change in that. he was shot eight to nine times. he was the first officer to arrive on the scene and actually ran to the aid of a person who had been shot there in the parking lot when he was ambushed by the killer and shot at very close range. his boss, the police chief, says he was shot in the extremi...