congresswoman we do it for everybody. her husband is able to be by her side. yes, we ve been getting contacts from not just everybody in the city but also nationwide, and also even worldwide. i again want to take an opportunity to thank everybody who are wishing us well in this endeavor and sticking with us through this whole process. and thanks for caring. with that, thanks everybody. we ll talk to you later. jenna: dr. rhee and dr. lemole giving us an update on the congresswoman and other patients left in the hospital. for a little context although they continue to put forward a very optimistic assessment so far for the congresswoman and some of the other patients as well they also note that in about four or five days, that s when they ll really breathe, they say a collect think of sigh of relief. so we ll be following them and their updates as they update us. we are learning about this just as you are as well. that s probably an important
rehabilitation and physical therapy and all those sorts of things. it s a little premature to go into those specifics for her. i think dr. rhee was mentions the psychological health of the victims, but also the caretakers. this has had a psychological eupimpact on all of us. [inaudible question ] we had to look around the heart to make sure that wasn t hurt as well. we ve had vascular injuries, orthopedic injuries annex trepl ma tee injuries as well. and, extremity injury. their social being is also injured as well. the families members have deceased and they are going to go through the pros traumatic
i think when it happened we were ready and we were able to deliver in a way that is going to make our community and the state proud. i m happy to report that the victims are doing better. you will hear in a few minutes from doctors dr.~peter m. rhee and lemole. we have discharged two patients, only two remain in the icu. the other patients are on the regular hospital wards. i want to take the opportunity to make clear that dr. wrao e r-r, dr. lemole are the official spokesperson, for the university medical center, all their designees. across the nations many experts have been add their opinions and we appreciate that but we cannot really go into speculation about long term outcome and so forth. the only official records are coming from doctors rhee and
various shooting victims in tucson. hello i m jon scott on happening now. jenna: i m jenna lee. the news conference about to get underway. what is slowly becoming a familiar scene to us, the university medical center. that s where gabrielle giffords is being treated for a gunshot wound to the head. she is in critical condition. as of last night three others were in serious condition, six were in fair condition. we know that is a lot to take in and there are certainly a lot of people. we want to keep you up to date. let s listen to what the doctors are going to tell us today. good morning and welcome. mi m the chief of surgery and te chairman of the department of surgery. three other divisions in the department were put to task a couple of days ago, the division of trauma under dr. peter rhee, the division of vascular surgery. we were put to task, we didn t ask for it, obviously.