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Shooting her pointblank not head and opened fire on a crowd killing six people and under woulding 12 others, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. and now, live to tucson. i cannot pronounce the medication but what is happening in the courtroom right now? >>reporter: a lot of discussion about the medication that you were talking about, whether or not the meds he have been given are working because, remember, it was back at the end of may when a psychologist deemed loughner schizophrenic and mentally incompetent and he was transferred to a special facility in springfield, missouri...

. welcome back to "first look." i'm lynn berry. here is some of the news making headlines this morning. a judge has ruled that tucson shooting suspect jared loughner is not mentally competent to stand trial. the decision came after he was dragged from the courtroom following an outburst. mental health experts say he suffers from schizophrenia. a hearing to revisit loughner's mental competency is set for september. the man convicted of abducting elizabeth smart from her home when she was 14 and holding her captive has been given two life sentences without parole. in the courtroom, smart tol...

Kaylee. they say the little girl drowned in her grandparents' swimming pool and the girl's grandfather framed his own daughter casey for the death. >> humanly possible to save my granddaughter if what was stated prior would have happened. i would have done anything i could to save my granddaughter. >> the defense claimed that father you saw sexually assaulted casey as a child. prosecutors think she's a liar saying she covered kaylee's face with duct tape and stuffed her in the trunk of a car. >> mental competency hearing later today for jared loughner accused in the tucson shooting rampage. a ...

Bottom of this. alisyn: i can imagine that the defense attorneys will say this speaks to this his mental competency or lack thereof. we are supposed to learn the findings of those mental evaluations that were done on him by two different doctors at a federal prison or hospital in missouri at the end of march. and today we were supposed to learn the findings. the opinions of those doctors as to whether or note's competent to stand trial. a very bizarre outburst today. alisyn: meanwhile we want to get back to our top story. that's the tornadic activity from texas to the northeast, we are watchin...

Incompetent to stand trial. the judge agreed and made that finding. now loughner will be sent to a federal prison hospital for treatment. will the treatment restore his mental competency? if it does, the trial process will start up again. if not, he can be held indefinitely until he does, if ever, improve. the doctors told the judge he had been in decline for two or three year swez ws and he does understand the court proceedings and that is one of the two tests under federal law for competency. does someone understand what happens going on in court and are they mentally competent to help their...