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>> mitchell: and good evening. there is more good news tonight in the recovery of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. giffords remains in a houston rehabilitation center this evening where doctors say shes progressing nicely and responding to therapy, this two weeks to the day after she was shot in in the head at a tucson rally. don heeg with the latest. don, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, russ. gabrielle giffords still has a breathing tube installed in her neck and she cant sp...

Through the streets of tucson, there were several times we could hear applause in the ambulance with gabby, and she responded very well to that, smiling, and in fact tearing a little bit. it was very emotional and very special. the -- the plane trip went very well, very smooth. absolutely no difficulties, and getting her here to this facility was streamlined and well planned. im very pleased at the entire process, and im very, very happy to turn her care over to her new team of physicians, dr. h...

In a second but before we get to the physicians and a question and answer, let me call up dr. john holcomb who is the trauma center here at memor hermann and also with the ut health medical school and also the principal physician leading the transition team today. dr. holcomb. >> thanks, dan. good afternoon, everybody. you know, i would just reiterate what dan just said. transfers are always a little shaky and went flawlessly. the team there prepared her well and the aircraft landed, loaded her ...

Hospital in houston. giffords will be flown by air ambulance to texas, where she will meet her new team of doctors, led by colonel john holcomb, one of the armys top trauma surgeons. his experience treating soldiers in iraq makes him uniquely qualified to help the congresswoman. >> what we need to do is make a good medical plan. and the time to do that is after we get our chance to look at her and examine her and talk to her. >> reporter: houston is also home to the johnson space center, so at s...

he announced a new council on jobs and competitiveness there today. it will be led by general electric ceo jeffrey. congresswoman giffords has arrived in houston. as we said, we watched these pictures feed within the past half hour. you see the red medevac chopper. inside that chopper we believe was gabrielle giffords on the way to the texas medical center, renowned brain injury center. late this morning, an emotional scene in tucson, people lining the streets to wave to the motorca ...

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>> there are treatments i cant see that are out of my reach probably. "q&a".ay on c-spans this weekend on booktv, bill crystal discusses his late fathers essays on the neo conservative movement. 52 women look back on the work of the civil rights movement. prime minister gordon brown on coming back from the economic downturn. find a complete schedule at booktv.org. at the schedule sent to your in box. >> arizona rep gabrielle giffords is scheduled to travel to houston friday to continue...

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