looking up at the tv. >> breaking news for you coming out of tucson, arizona. several people have been shot. >> and right when he said the name, i saw the face. and i knew there was something terribly wrong. i immediately -- >> so you were talking and saw the face on tv. >> the weirdest thing. it is like a dissociation and click. it all came together. >> within 40 minutes of arriving at the hospital, gabby giffords was in the operating room. and the doctor was ready to operate. so she's obviously asleep now, breathing tube and all the necessary ivs. do you have a plan in your mind as you're walking in the operating room? you have an idea of what you want to accomplish? >> sure. the things that get you in trouble in this case is bleeding uncontrolably. so if that bullet cut a major artery, that's hard to clean up that kind of -- with that kind of trouble. and fortunately here that was not the case. and then of course the brain swelling we worry about. and, again, something we can't