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Ten minutes, rubbing my neck. i keep telling her, gabby, you're in the icu. you don't -- you know, you don't need to be doing this. but it's so typical of her. no matter how bad the situation might be for her, she's looking out for other people. >> it does imply that she is recognizing him and that she's interacting, perhaps, in an old familiar with way with him. >> reporter: the congresswoman is breathing on her own after doctors removed a breathing tube that went down her throat. still after a smaller tube was inserted, she still can't speak. >> she cannot vocalize but she certainly could mo...

Remove bone fragments from her eye socket and her husband, mark kelly, is offering even more positive news. he spoke with abc diane sawyer in an interview that aired at least in part tonight. he told her that his wife is do so well she even gave him a neck massage from her hospital bed. >> it does imply that she is recognizing him, and that she is interacting in an old, familiar way with him. >> shepard: there are still several unanswered questions about the congresswoman's condition. our correspondent casey stegall live on fox top story live outside the university medical center in tucson. ca...

>> you're next. >> when i walked in, a guy looked up and he goes, oh, who's next, willie? mika was there. you need to take your wife there. >> you'll love it up there. let's get to the news. we'll start with the latest on the condition of congresswoman gabrielle giffords. now, doctors say they have removed several bone chips from her eye socket as she continues to recover from a gunshot wound to the head. medical staff are still watching to see whether giffords' speech will return. she is currently unable to vocalize sounds because of a tracheotomy tube. she could be released from the hospit...

Ring and she'll move it up and down my finger, take it off like this, she'll put it on her own finger, she'll move it to her thumb, and then she can put it back on my finger. the reason i know that that means she recognizes me is because she's done that before. >> great news. nbc's kristin welke joins me live. what are we hearing about the congresswoman leaving the hospital soon? that is possible? >> reporter: well, it is, richard. doctors are saying she could leave within a matter of days or weeks, but we do want to stress that once she leaves, she will go directly to a rehabilitation program...

Tracheostomy. that allows them to take care of her lungs on a regular basis, prevents her from aspirating or getting food down her food pipe. and what i did was to fix the fracture she had over the right eye socket pause that was pushing on the eyeball itself and we didn't want her to have complications from that down the road. >> why wasn't that done initially? any reason it was not done officially. >> sure. there was a procedure done that in fact they released ligaments to relax the eye. what we didn't want to do is get in a situation we were trying to retract and pull on the brain in order ...