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Relatives of the victims. the president faces the challenge of becoming comforter in chief in the wake of the mass killings. much of the country still in shock and much of the country will be looking to the president for words of reassurance. let s bring in ed henry. i know the president has been working on his speech for the past couple of days. what do you suppose he ll say? reporter: that s right, he has been working on it since about monday night. this is a president who tends to be very hands on with the speech, especially the big ones. let s remember he also gave a pretty similar address at ft. hood there in late 2009 after that terrible tragedy, so many folks killed there, as well. and so he s had a little bit of a experience with this, but every time something like this comes up, it s obviously unique. we saw ronald reagan after the challenger disaster, bill clinton after oklahoma city, when again far more people ....
The rest of the country. the president is scheduled to leave for arizona within the hour. he ll speak at a memorial service tonight and meet with family members. on capitol hill, democrats and republicans honored representative giffords on the house floor. john boehner talked about the shooting that injured giffords and 13 others. our hearts are broken, but our spirit is not. this is a time for the house to lock arms in prayer for the fallen and the wounded and resolve to carry on a dialogue of democracy. we may not yet have all the final answers, but we already have the answer that matters most, that we re americans and we ll make it through this difficult period. we will have the last word. and congressman giffords releasing these pictures of her ....
The past three days. when they do this it s hard to get emergency crews to them to get them off the highway. people are just stuck on the roadways with nowhere else to go. so it s been crazy here. i guess it s not going to thaw until friday. did sandra leave us? sandra left us. we ll keep you update on this accident. we don t believe anybody was hurt. it s going to take time for emergency crews to get there to clear off that highway. it s the top of the hour now. let s check the big stories for this wednesday. briefing is set to ginny minute now updating the condition of congresswoman gabrielle giffords and five other victims of the mass shootings in tucson. giffords remains in critical condition but breathing on her own. according to the most recent information, a second person is also in critical condition right now. one is in serious condition. three others are listed as fair. president obama will offer words of comfort to the victims and families in tucson and to ....
Killed. that was a very difficult task. president bush after 9/11. so this is a chance for this president to try to walk that delicate balance, try comfort the nation, help the nation heal, but also steer clear of politics. that s one thing the aides tell us he won t do, weigh if on the whole debate about whether heat the rhetoric contributed to this. the last thing he wants to do is to have the moment being overshadowed by politics. and we re being told the president and the first lady who will be traveling with him will meet with families of the victims. there s even been some talk that he might go to the hospital. all of that, though in, terms of the details of exactly who he s going to meet and how many of vehicle tips families he ll meet still being worked out. this trip was thrown together in the last couple of days. but he will meet with some of ....
Nicolas sarkozy managed to stay on his feet but just barely. so far president obama hasn t lost his footing, but he has lost his blackberry while jogging up the stairs and he bonked his head. but then so did president bush more than once. and michelle bom has baobama ha her head on air force one. president bush has to give bar it any a push to get him on go up and he had to nudge spot to get her to go down. as we learned in a jimmy kimmel bit, the only thing more treacherous than using the stairs is having them go nowhere. the president was surprised when air force one pulled away without him. he suffered only minor bruises. reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. it s just cruel to keep showing those picture, but we ....