Posted on 01/29/2006 7:59:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yes, and they requested ted Kennedy's neck brace for their first public appearance.
No, but "swelling". Sounds like a serious concussion.
Is this Bob Woodruff related to that older Bob Woodruff, or to that walking skeleton Judy Woodruff?
Categories: Bob Woodruff | Middle East | World News Tonight
ABC's Bob Woodruff Reluctant to Label Hamas a Terrorist Group
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on January 26, 2006 - 00:42.
On ABC's World News Tonight on Wednesday January 25, anchor Bob Woodruff showed some reluctance to label Hamas as a terrorist organization outright, but instead qualified the label by calling it a "militant" group "which the U.S. calls a terrorist organization." Woodruff also referred to Hamas once as a "radical group" and once simply as a "group."
During the opening teaser, while previewing a story on the Palestinian elections, Woodruff announced: "It's been an historic day in the Middle East. Palestinians voting for their future. The radical group Hamas gains strength and gets a warning from the Bush administration.
Don't know ....
CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA We told you earlier about journalist Bob Woodruff and his photographer being seriously injured in an Iraqi bomb blast. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has more on their injuries.
Both men are now in Germany and in serious but stable condition. Anchor Bob Woodruff is said to be much more seriously injured with broken bones and some brain trauma.
44-year-old Bob Woodruff is in a medically induced coma, according to his brother.
In the bomb blast his head was injured, that commonly causes the brain to swell and a standard treatment is to remove a piece of the skull.
“If you remove the skull the principle is it allows the brain to expand in that space rather than becoming compressed and cause further damage,” said Dr. Doug Smith.
Dr. Smith is a brain injury specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine.
“Think of your brain like a jello mold and if your brain head is rapidly moving during an injury it could shift so fast that different parts of it are torn or damaged,” explains Dr. Smith.
(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting
No matter what this guy's reporting track record, he didn't deserve this and I pray he makes a full recovery.
from mediabistro.com--
Woodruff & Vogt: "Long Road Ahead"
ABCNews.com's headline at this hour is "Long Road Ahead," and the title unfortunately captured the mood all too accurately. Today it became increasingly apparent that World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff will not return to the network's flagship news broadcast anytime soon.
"Bob responded to stimuli in his hands and feet and briefly opened his eyes," ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto reported from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany on WNT. "I was able to meet and speak with Doug. He [Doug] was awake and alert and joking and I can tell you that gave us a chance to smile today."
Notice what Sciutto didn't say: Woodruff wasn't awake or alert. He wasn't joking. He didn't give them a chance to smile.
I agree. He needs prayer. And so do all our boys who have suffered similar injuries in this war. And all the wounded men and women at Walter Reed Hospital.
Our military also needs a better way to cope with IED's in Iraq.
That doesn't sound very good.
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