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community has. we're here to represent a lack of fear of what this individual tried to cause. we're trying to show with our presence to the community that yes, he's here, but we're here also. the man was a coward, we're here to show we have strength, and now we're willing to fight back. >> at some point in the near future, also, we anticipate that the defense will ask for a comp taenls hearing to see whether he is mentally well enough to go through a trial. kyra? >> the judge has imposed the media blackout, no cameras in the courtroom. why do you think he decided to do that? >> he la...

Understand the nature and consequences of what she was doing? did she understand what she was doing was wrong? certainly trying to get a baby by killing somebody in what sounds like broad daylight you wonder if there will be an issue as to her mental competency? >>shepard: there are so many of these cases that come up it is an astounding number. at going of my journalism career, 1989, i worked in florida and this happened, almost exactly the same thing and a woman went to the hospital, stole the baby, almost killed the mom, ran off with the baby and there was a manhunt. there is something, in ...

trucks, to pluck people from their homes and their cars. a bus filled with middle school students got stuck in four feet of water. more than 20 inches of rain came down in some areas. >> it's more than we bargained for. we even had some local citizens that volunteered with their boats and came help do some rescues. >> there's still a flood warning for lafayette parish today. and the republican presidential candidates fighting for southern support. voting underway in the alabama and mississippi primaries. shannon travis at a polling place in ocean springs, mississippi. shannon, good...

Decision, but we are both hopeful about her future. >> reporter: the accused gunman jared loughner remains in a medical facility in missouri. he is being forcibly medicated with hopes of restoring his mental competency to stand trial. also, ahead of tonight's memorial, president obama phoned congresswoman giffords earlier today and called her an inspiration not only to his family, but to americans across the country. >> bret: casey stegall, thank you. sad news now, conservative author and commentator tony blankly died in morning. his family says he had been battling stomach cancer he served as...

they're acting as though it's today. is there any news in the last 50 or so minutes since we last spoke? >> reporter: since we last spoke, that impromptu meeting you and i were talking about between a bipartisan group of members of the super committee, that has broken p up. as members were leaving, senator max baucuss, facing a mass of reporters, the only way to describe it, he actually mentioned that there's possibly a new tax idea being floated possibly by senator john kerry. as you and i talked, this meeting was described by one aide earlier as kind of a hail mary pass to see if t...