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Congress today. giffords got a huge show of love and support from the president as well as her capitol hill colleagues at the state of the union. today the arizona democrat votes on a drug-smuggling crackdown bill that she introduced. she will then submit resignation letters to house speaker john boehner and arizona governor jan brewer, promising she will recover and she will return. >> certainly a moment of unity there when she walked in. but interesting too, the president did not mention her directly in the speech. interesting. because she was there. >> probably an oversight. >> yeah. intere...

To joe pa. his son jay described the last days with his father. >> his eyes would look up, and he'd nod, and when we were praying you'd see him mouthing the words even though he had a ventilator. >> reporter: paterno's death comes 65 days after family members say he was diagnosed with lung cancer. he spent his last moments praying with his family. the official cause of death is metastic small cell carcinoma of the lung. but his supporters believe stress was also a factor. now a little more than two months after his last day as penn state's head coach, past and current members of the team came ...

State after sandusky was banned by penn state to take children to the campus. sandusky is keeping a low profile. we have not seen or heard from him in the last few days. >> one of the points of fall out, was the long time head coach joe paterno leaving the university. and news now, that he's health problems. any more reaction to that today? >> active and former members feel an emotion of sadness and shock in learning that joe paterno has lung cancer. his family said it is a treatable form of the disease. his son jay who is a coach with the football team described his father's reaction in heari...

A statement, saying "this is unfortunate news and another sad note for our penn state community." meanwhile paterno's son jay, still on the coaching staff, described his father's reaction after receiving the diagnosis. >> he just waved me off. said, oh, don't bug me about that. i'll be fine. you worry about coaching the football team, worry about the game next week, don't worry about me. every day i've gone by the house to bug him, and he says the same things. he has a tendency to minimize things, but he'll be fine. >> reaction from current and former players ranges from sadness and shock. one...

Sound from the coaches and the son of joe paterno. >> our fans, as i'd asked them to do on thursday night, asked them to show glass and dignity and they did all day today, this was a proud, solidarity for the children. >> we are here for the kids and to be completely honest i think we should have put them first rather than-- i think we put the university first. >> we're a strong school and we can make it through this and just stay together, and ride the moment. >> dave: and watch the game from an unknown location, before returning to his home. later in sports we'll have emotional reaction from...