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Questions you might have for us. >> okay. two of the doctors who were tending to congresswoman gabrielle giffords talking about what they did, giving us some descriptions about what happened in virg. several surgeries it seems. elizabeth cohen is with me now. they talked about the eye socket. they had to rebuild it. they had to release pressure. they talked about removing a portion of her skull to alleviate the swelling and a couple other surgeries. anything there that surprised you? is this what we sort of heard? >> this is definitely what you would expect and it all sounds like it went very ...

Anti-itch tion gives fast, lasting relief. got an itch? gold bond lotion. the quick fix for almost every itch. i do have some encouraging news i want to pass to you out of arizona today. doctors say congresswoman gabrielle giffords could be out of the hospital and transferred to a rehabilitation center in day orz weeks. doctors gave us an update on her condition just about two hours ago. they say the congresswoman had minor surgery saturday to repair fractures in the top of her right eye socket and they say -- this is huge -- giffords is now breathing on her own without a ventilator through ...

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...

Giffords has just given their first briefing since updating her condition from critical to serious. doctors performed surgery to remove bone fragments from her eye socket. there were no complications with the surgery. >> the next major step is the graduation to rehabilitation, and that skull repair is many months down the road. we won't cross that at this point. the key we're trying to get her to is to rehabilitation so she can move on with the next phase of her recovery. >> for the suspect, a former friend released a voice mail he says jared loughner left him hours before the shooting rampage...

Repair of the orbital wound fracture. so let me take you back to that operation and describe exactly what we did and what we needed to do. if you recall from the first conference where i mentioned the congresswoman's initial injuries, i did mention she had bilateral orbital roof fractures. that's basically fractures in the roof of the eye socket. fortunately on the left that fracture does not look as though it will need any kind of repair. on the right, however, the bone fragments from that fracture were pushing down enough on the eye and the contents of the eye socket that the doctor actually...