president obama and first lady visited congresswoman giffords and her friend kirsten gillibrand who was holding her hand at the time calls ate mi s miracle to witness, and guess what, doctors agree. >> yes, miracles happen everyday and in medicine we like to very much attribute them to either what we do or others do around us, but a lot of medicine is outside of our control, and we are wise to acknowledge miracles. >> in a cnn exclusive, our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta got access to the trauma room where gabrielle giffords was first treated, and he spoke with her physician. f. >> the first thing i did was to walk into the room and some things were occurring and i think that i have said it before, but my first response was that i grabbed her hand and leaned into her and said, mrs. giffords you are in the hospital, and we are going to care for you. please squeeze my hand, and she did. >> i mean, she have a wrap on