Just in: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is alive, & out of surgery

[Denny Crane]

http://www.kgun9.com/global/story.asp?s=13807722

Just in: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is alive, & out of surgery

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Officials at University Medical Center have confirmed that U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords is alive. She is out of surgery. Doctors are optimistic about her chances of recovery.

The news is a dramatic reversal of previous reports circulated on some national news cable channels and local media claiming that Giffords and up to 6 others were dead.

Doctors say she had suffered from a gunshot wound to the head but is responsive.

All the victims were wounded in a mass shooting Saturday morning at the Safeway grocery store at Ina and Oracle in Tucson. One shooter is in custody.

 

[barfo]

The way this is going, later today I expect to hear:

6 o'clock news: Rep. Giffords goes jogging
11 o'clock news: Rep Giffords wins Ironman Triathalon

barfo

 

[Colonel Ronan]

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