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Were right on him, two marshals were staring at him the whole time, they got on him, threw him down on the ground and dragged him out. loughner was still yelling at the judge. the judge took a ten-minute recess. they brought loughner back in and the judge asked if he would rather watch the proceedings on a television monitor and loughner said, yes, i would like to watch it on tv. so they took him out of the courtroom and they moved ahead with the competency hearing. it was very dramatic and it's always shocking when there's an outburst in the courtroom. i was sitting behind loughner's parents ...

Right. after 25 years, 5,000 shows, oprah will sign off with just her talking to the audience. i'm told she will say, this isn't good-bye. this is, until we meet again. of course, that is true. she will now be focusing full-time on her own cable channel, the oprah winfrey network, which has been struggling a bit in the ratings but now she will be able to spend more of her time on that and it will be a sad good-bye. >> it will be. >> alina cho, many thanks, a great story. >> you bet. here is a look ahead at stories making news later today. in the next hour in washington, the house foreign aff...

Trial. >> did loughner have any apparent injuries? what does he look like now? >> reporter: new york none at all. his hair's grown in. remember the infamous mugshot, when he was first arrested, he was bald, eyes ablaze. he looks meek, shrunken, lost some weight. he's a young man, 22. he sat there with a shrunken should somewhere meekly in the beginning until it appeared he began to get agitated. >> when he expressed himself in the way that he did, how did you see the jury react? was there a reaction? >> well, there's no jury. we're in a jury box. there's no proceeding against him. this was a c...

For 30 minutes of the first part of the proceeding when the judge was having a long colloquy about press access to investigative records, that issue that had nothing to do with the competency hearing. loughner put his head down in his hands and seemed to be building up to something and burst out. he said, thank you for the freak show, she died in front of me and then the last thing he said was, you're changing this, you're changing this. apparently a reference to the story. and one of the delusions that we heard from our sources that he suffered from, he believe head killed congresswoman gabri...

In peace and security. >> mr. obama is due to give a speech thursday on his vision for the middle east and africa starting the air of spring and the death of usama bin laden. the white house aides are not revealing details, but-- >> he will have specific new ideas about u.s. policy toward the region. >> and then after unveiling those ideas, president obama will host israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu here at the white house on friday, hopping to pump energy into the stalled peace process. >> a lawyer for an american citizen accused in a plot to attack new york city synagogues, say he wi...