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Piers will join me, as well as the always shocking joan rivers. she never pulls any punches and won't tonight. we begin with breaking news. new strides in congresswoman gabrielle giffords' recovery. just 12 days after being shot in the head, giffords was able to be wheeled outside the hospital today to do her physical therapy in the fresh air. this was posted on the congresswoman's facebook page, giffords's hospital dead outside in the home. the caption reads "gabby got one last look at the catalina mountains today before her trek to houston." tomorrow she will be flown to houston to get rea...

Details on the congresswoman's remarkable progress. sanjay, you spoke to mark kelly today, what did he tell you? >> he was in houston when he first found out, chief of staff to congresswoman giffords called him and told him she had been injured. he is a pilot as you know, astronaut. he was able to get on a plane, a challenger, get to tucson very fast. 45 minutes. arriving right around the time his wife was out of the operating room back in the intensive care unit. at that time he met with dr. rhee and dr. lemole to hear for the first time to hear what specifically happened to his wife. he lear...

He had run off, his father tried to chase him down. disappeared, didn't know where the bag was. they found it now, right? >> right. this was the bag he and his father argued about according to police in the front yard the morning of the shooting anderson. his dad apparently asked him, what is in the bag? loughner took off. his dad tried to chase him down. today a young man not far from the loughner home in the neighborhood actually found the bag. turned it over to police. and the pima county sheriff's department now says in the bag was ammunition, 9 millimeter ammunition to be more specific wh...

>> pam simon, the giffords volunteer who was saved by a good samaritan who then never came back. shot twice and has not been able to personally thank the good samaritan. you can see how happy they are to have her back. joining us no uh, dr. peter rhee, the head of the trauma unit that performed so magnificently and won the admiration of the nation. dr. rhee, there was another very positive report. and the last briefing, from talking to other trauma victims and head injury victims, families do need to heal in privacy without this enormous global attention. but whach can you tell us about the pr...

Emergency room had it not been for the aid rendered to me on the seen by anna bellis who applied pressure to one of my bullet wounds and helped stop the bleeding. there's so many people at umc who have given me and my family every time of support we have needed over these days and it would be impossible to name them all, but every one of them has had a profound impact on my recovery and the well being of my family. [ staying alive playing ] >> there are a few i would particularly like to acknowledge. dr. rhee and his trauma team, dr. hughes and his vascular team, critical care services directo...