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The murder of the arizona judge john roll who was actually a federal judge and five other victims. in fact, the state of arizona has yet to announce any charges in the case and we don't know whether the suspect plans to mount an insanity defense. and our reporter is working the details in phoenix. casey, what is expected to happen inside the courtroom in 29 minutes? >>reporter: it is mostly a procedural matter and it will be very brief. no cameras are allowed inside the courtroom but my producer is inside sending out information. jared loughner will go before the judge who was brought in from ...

Napolitano. you have to put the charges in there but in a perfect world if he did this, he's found guilty and there is a death penalty and that's it. >>judge napolitano: but this is not a perfect world and many obstacles to the resolution of this. the federal government has charged him only with attempted murder of federal officials to prevent them from carrying out their official activity. the federal government has to decide whether to charge him with murder of a federal judge in order to do that, they have to have evidence to support the claim he was trying to prevent the judge from exercis...

Arizona federal judges recused themselves because their colleague federal judge john roll who was shot and killed in those shootings, because of that connection, it's actually a judge from san diego. as soon as he gets out of there, ted rowlands, we'll get an update as to the court appearance. moving on here, talking about oprah. there was quite an announcement today. oprah has been saying for days she has this big, big announcement. today she made it. the queen of daytime talk has a half sister. a half sister. she apparently knew nothing about. oprah told her tv audience today that her moth...

But an indictment for the attempted murder of gabrielle giffords and two of her aides. that is all there is. potentially life in prison but there is no capital punishment attachable to this. >>shepard: i read something and i don't know who is inputting this, but if we could get clarification on that word "tapes," it is a word we need to eliminate because nothing is on tape anymore so i don't know if it is audio file or video file or what it is. but, it could be very interesting because once it is in discovery, once it makes its way into the courts and into a court of law, then, often, often, o...

Attempted assassination and trying to kill federal employees. mike tiabbi is in phoenix with the very latest. >> reporter: hi, andreandrea, he you? u.s. district attorney says this is the beginning of the case of u.s. v jared lee loughner. there is still the death penalty charges, we'll get to that in a second. right now these are the charges for the attempted assassination of congresswoman giffords and the attempted murder of government aids. there's still going to be an application made to the attorney general's office to frame those charges as death penalty cases against mr. loughner. those...