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Giffords. casey stegall tells us what happened over the weekend. >> reporter: nine days after being shot in the head, congresswoman gabrielle giffords continues to defy the odds. doctors say she's inching closer and closer to being released from university medical center. in to a repilation program. >> it could be matter of days to weeks. it's a matter of getting all that information from our own therapist when they think she is ready to move forward with that. >> over the weekend, giffords under went two surgical procedures, one to repair her right eye socket and the other to remove the breat...

>> this is something that's going to require an examination. our suspicion is that she can see something, but at this point a detailed evaluation has not been performed. >> now that the breathing tubes are out, can she speak? >> well, you want to comment on what a trachiostomy. >> that is a breathing tube, it goes into a surgically praysed incision in her neck. the one we have in place now does not allow her to get air past her vocal cords so she cannot vocalize, but she certainly could mouth words or something like that when she's ready to do that. >> as far as her husband mark kelly, who we ...