Uplifting forecast. i love being here actually. thanks, rob. the surging floodwaters in australia are threatening the city of brisbane. 12 have died so far with dozens reported missing. the prime minister is calling it the worst natural disaster in the country s history. and president obama is going to tucson. he ll be attending a memorial service and meeting with the families of those affected by saturday s shooting in arizona. nancy pelosi is accompanying the president. hospital officials saying congresswoman gabriel give ordinaries is breathing on her own after being shot in the head during the attack. who s worse than tripping and falling on your face? doing it on camera. secretary of state hillary clinton knows the feeling. jeanne moos remembers other spills and a few bumps. reporter: for secretary of state hillary clinton, it was a foreign trip with a little too much tripping. her aides say she was okay,
Lady led the nation in a moment of silence to offer thoughts and prayers to the victims. after receiving briefing from the advisors and calling victims families and heroes of the attack, obama will try to start the healing process for the community and nation. it will be important for the country as a whole and the people of arizona to feel as if we are speaking directly to the sense of loss. but also speaking to the hopes for the future and out of the tragedy we can come together as stronger nation. newsweek offered obama advice on what after fort hood will be his second memorial service following mass shooting. he suggests the speechwriter who crafted george w. bush s words after the september 11
Scene to dooen deeal with that secondly comfort the families. he s been on the phone since saturday with almost all of the family members, reaching out to as many as he can. . so i think the last thing on his mind right now is politics. there s also people talking about whether there needs to be new gun control measures. we don t expect the president to address that either because in part number one that could inject politics into the discussion which he doesn t want to do, but secondly, this is a president who has been reluctant really to weigh in on gun control in general long before this episode. so i think after the dust settles on this, after this moment at the memorial service tonight in, the days ahead, there will be big debates on issues like gun control. and i think the country will be looking to him for leadership on whether he thinks there needs to be new measures or not. ed henry live at the white house. thanks. with the media camped outside of their home, and we mean catched out, jared loughner s parents have put out a statement and by all accounts they re truly distraught and horrified by the shootings. the loughners write, we don t
Reradicalize jihad is, irrespective of what happens with gitmo. we have spoken to yemen about this but recognize this has to be a gradual process. that s what we call a walk-back. what about this? and where secretary clinton was headed? you have to go back to when the yemen ambassador said he hoped the goal of the administration would be a week after president obama would be inaugurated, to transfer majority of the yemeni detainees from gitmo back to yemen so they could make a future for themselves back there. be reintegrated in society. so to do this, jemen has been pressing to establish a jihad rehab program like the one in saudi arabia, which the secretary describes accurately. thought to use the family and imam and cash bribes to get them to run away from their own radicalism. she claims that it worked
Program that worked with imam and others to work with the young men and to in effect challenge some of their ideas. some of the unfortunate ideas that they had been accepting. it has worked quite well. we d be open to something like yemen. bret: in yemen, saying that president is considering closing guantanamo bay and opening center in yesmen. asked about that, p.j. crawlly had this response transfer to yemen remain suspended a year ago, and there was one exception in july due to court-ordered return. congress was notified in advance and publicly acknowledged. yesmen needs to develop its own capability to