ABC Anchor, Cameraman Showing Improvement

[tocqueville]

By JAN SLIVA, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jan 31, 12:22 AM ET

LANDSTUHL, Germany - ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were showing signs of improvement Monday after being seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.

Woodruff briefly opened his eyes and responded to stimuli to his hands and feet, the network said. The two were expected to return Tuesday to the United States, where they would be treated at the brain injury center of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Woodruff and Vogt were flown to a military hospital in Germany on Monday. "They are showing early signs of reaction, signs of slow improvement," Marie Shaw, a spokeswoman for Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, told The Associated Press late Monday.

Col. Bryan Gamble, commander of the medical center, described Woodruff and Vogt as "very seriously injured, but stable," with injuries "typical of victims of improvised explosive devices." Gamble said their body armor likely saved them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060131/ap_on_re_eu/germany_woodruff

[4freethinking]

1. What Bob Woodruff

has done is shown how much of a handle on the situation the military has in Iraq.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. It's going to be a long road of recovery for Bob and Doug...

Semi-related, did anyone catch the reports (on CNN & MSNBC) telling of Woodruff & David Bloom's close friendship (Bloom died in Iraq in 2003 from a pulmonary embolism)? Evidently, it was Woodruff's wife who told Bloom's wife that Bloom had died (Mrs Bloom's cellphone was off, so they called Woodruff's wife and had her relate the news to Bloom's wife). Small world...:(