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Her husband, mother, chief of staff, communications director and nurse and dr. peter rhee, her trauma surgeon here from the beginning and last night i asked not about his hopes but his fears. >> that is a really good question. do i have doubts? i i have a range of what she can do, and, you know, i am worried that she may not get full function of her arms and legs. or that she may not be able to speak as clearly as eloquently as she was before. >> reporter: now, remember, giffords still has a portion of her skull missing and she'll be wearing a helmet. for a long period of time, and that piece ...

And waiting for congresswoman giffords to be put on an ambulance, put inside of an ambulance to be taken to houston where she'll be taken to a rehab center to continue her recovery. as you can see -- look at this memori memorial, it's growing and growing at that tucson hospital. hundreds of well-wishers have been calling the congresswoman's office saying where can we stand so we can watch this ambulance go by? this looks like the ambulance. we believe congresswoman giffords sin side along with her husband, mark kelly and her doctor, dr. peter rhee. you know him by now, of course. tracey colber...

By you have to think of these transports really as sort of almost intensive care units in the sky. dr. rhee will be traveling, there will be a nurse traveling. they'll have resuscitation equipment on the plane. but the concern about her is not so much her heart and lungs, which would be more of a worry. it's more this brain injury that she's had. and they do certain things on the plane to sort of compensate for that. simple things, such as keeping her head elevated. they don't want any additional brain swelling as a result of a flight, to maintaining a certain oxygenation in the plane. that sh...

Last look at the catalina mountains today before her trek to houston." tomorrow she will be flown to a hospital in houston to get ready for the next phase of the recovery process. joining me on the phone is dr. sanjay gupta live in houston. sanjay, dr. peter rhee said he was optimistic about her progress. i just want to play that. >> a lot of times we're very disappointed when they don't make much progress in the first two weeks. for her to be at her stage right now, and i see daily progress, it's very optimistic and i'm very happy and positive about that fact. what she's going to be doing in ...

Memorial is in front of the medical center. instead, they'll leave through another ambulance ramp on the back end of the hospital, they say, again, for security reasons and they will make that ten-mile trip through the streets of tucson all the way to davis monthan air force base. as you have mentioned, carol, her mother, gloria giffords, will accompany her as well as her physician, her trauma surgeon dr. peter rhee. her husband and also a couple of members of her staff who will fly with her to houston. and you know, all along we've been talking about how incredible this story is. the fact tha...