obvious wounds are but you look at the rest of her body to make sure she doesn't have another gunshot wound right? >> that's part of the trauma workup and evaluation, you never assume that just what you see is all that is present. so i saw the severe head injury, i saw some blood loss, her eyes were closed, she did have a blackened right eye, swollen right eye, and she was -- she was grunting a little bit. i got the impression she was trying to communicate but was being frustrated by the fact that she could not. >> reporter: scoop and run is how they describe it, anderson. picking up the patient at the scene, in this case the congresswoman, and running her to the hospital as quickly as possible. she did not have a breathing tube when she got here. they put one in in the emergency room. took her to the c.a.t. scanner after that and off to the operating room. the whole process took 38 minutes from the time she came to the door to the time she was in the operating room. >> that's incredibly fast. you also talked to some of the other shooting victims. how are they doing? >> reporter: this was -- this was -- you know, i didn't know