ABC's Woodruff, Vogt Back In U.S.
Doctor Says Prognosis Is 'Excellent' For Injured Journalists
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Play CBS Video Video Injured ABC Newsmen Head Home Only On The Web: Allen Pizzey reports on the condition of ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, who are headed to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
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Video Injured Journalists Head Home ABC News anchorman Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt are being flown back to the United States for further treatment. Both are said to be making slow improvement, reports Allen Pizzey.
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Video Woodruff Shows Improvement Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt suffered serious injuries when they were attacked in Iraq, but they are improving and will be flown back to the United States. Byron Pitts reports.
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A person identified by U.S. military personnel as ABC news anchorman Bob Woodruff is carried on a stretcher from a bus to a C-17 Globemaster medical evacuation plane at Ramstein airbase, southern Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006 to be brought to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. (AP)
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A person identified by U.S. military personnel as ABC cameraman Doug Vogt is carried on a stretcher to a C-17 Globemaster medical evacuation plane at Ramstein airbase, southern Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006 to be brought to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. (AP)
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ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt (Getty/AP)
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ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff (Getty Images/Frederick M. Brown)
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"It will still likely be some time before we have a complete sense of the injuries, but with each day there are promising signs," Westin said. "As before, we have a very long way to go."
"Doctors will purposely keep his pressure in his brain under control by heavily sedating him so as not to raise the pressure and make the swelling worse," Dr. Maurizio Miglietta, chief of trauma and critical care at the New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue, tells CBS News' The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith.
The two men were brought to the airport in a gray bus and carried onto the plane on stretchers. Both were wrapped in blankets and attached to life-support machines.
Bob Woodruff and Vogt were taken to the nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on Monday. Medics there said the pair were showing signs of improvement from serious injuries inflicted in a roadside bombing.
Bob Woodruff, who was most seriously hurt, briefly opened his eyes Monday and responded to stimuli to his hands and feet, ABC said earlier.
Col. Bryan Gamble, the commander of the hospital, described Bob Woodruff and Vogt as "very seriously injured, but stable" with injuries "typical of victims of improvised explosive devices."
Woodruff, 44, and Vogt, a 46-year-old award-winning cameraman, were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and traveling in a convoy with U.S. and Iraqi troops near Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad when the device exploded, reports CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts. They were standing in a rear hatch – exposed – videotaping a report when the attack happened Sunday.
David Woodruff said his brother fell down the hatch after the blast, opened his eyes and asked if he was alive.
"At that point he started to feel the pain, I think, and he used some colorful language and said, 'This hurts a lot.' And then he became unconscious," he told "Good Morning America."
"I think he knew he knew he was in danger, but at the same time, he really wanted to get the news and wanted to get it right," Woodruff's other brother, James, told CBS News. "And sometimes when you need to get it right, you need to put yourself right up there."
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