Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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 Alternatively, try one of these options: ||||| The neurosurgeon treating U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Friday doctors are "actually confident" she's making progress in her recovery. 
  
 Dr. Michael Lemole said her eyes are opening more frequently and she can carry out more complex sequences of activity in response to commands and on her own. 
  
 She remained in critical condition with a breathing tube still in, though it is expected to be removed Friday. The wounded congresswoman may also sit up in a chair. 
  
 Once the breathing tube is removed, "they'll be able to hear her speak and evaluate her brain," Dr. Nancy Snyderman said on TODAY Friday. 
  
 The medical team at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., aren't as concerned about brain swelling at this point, Snyderman said, but are watching for signs of pneumonia and blood clots. 
  
 "She is progressing normally without any complications or setbacks. She's on schedule as we had hoped," said trauma chief Dr. Peter Rhee on MSNBC cable. "She’s progressing at a good speed for this time period. Even overnight, she’s made significant progress." 
  
 Rhee said the UMC medical team may at some point perform a tracheostomy, a surgical procedure to create an opening through the neck into the windpipe, in order to clear an obstructed airway. 
  
 Earlier, doctors reported Giffords has been sitting up, dangling her legs on the edge of the hospital bed and moving her limbs in response to commands. That's after she spontaneously opened her eyes during visits with her colleagues Wednesday night. She is able to lift both of her legs on command and is yawning and starting to rub her eyes, doctors said. 
  
 "She's becoming more aware of her surroundings," Rhee, who has treated soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, saidThursday. 
  
 But moving forward, Rhee expects changes to be less dramatic than they've been this week. "We’ll see a lot of things in the next two months," the surgeon said on MSNBC cable Friday. "Then the changes will be more subtle for the next year ... and after that.” 
  
 Six people were killed when gunman opened fire outside a Safeway store in Tucson on Saturday. Giffords, who investigators say was the primary target, was among 13 people wounded. Giffords remains critical and four patients are in fair condition. One patient was to be discharged Thursday. 
  
 "Everybody is making fantastic progress forward," Rhee said. 
  
 Giffords' neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Lemole, said after five days of pushing for caution, "We're wise to acknowledge miracles." 
  
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 'Gabby opened her eyes' 
  
 At the memorial service Wednesday evening for the victims of the Tucson shootings, 
  
 President Barack Obama went off-script to announce Giffords' latest medical triumph. 
  
 "Gabby opened her eyes," Obama said to a loud cheer from the audience on the University of Arizona campus, adding that the congresswoman "knows we are here." Although the president wasn't in the room at the moment Giffords' eyes opened, he said her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, had given him permission to break the news. 
  
 House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, three of Giffords' close female friends in Congress, were in Giffords' hospital room when she opened her eyes, NBC News confirmed. 
  
 "She was rubbing our hands and gripping our hands so ... we knew she could hear and understand what we were saying and she moved her leg, and so we knew she was responding," Gillibrand said. 
  
 Giffords' husband realized the significance of the moment. "Gabby, open your eyes, open your eyes," he said, according to Gillibrand. "And then she's struggling, struggling. And she opens her eyes," Gillibrand told NBC News. "And then he's just almost beyond himself, because he's so excited. And he said, "Can you see me? Can you see me?" ... If you can see me, give me a thumbs up. 
  
 "And she doesn't just put a thumbs up, she raises her entire arm," Gillebrand continues. 
  
 So, it was the biggest thumbs up she could have given. 
  
 "(T)he doctors couldn't believe what they were seeing," she said, adding later that "it was truly the most inspiring moment that I'd ever witnessed." 
  
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 Gillibrand said on CNN that Giffords signaled by raising her hand that she was able to see. 
  
 'A glorious, glorious experience' 
  
 Speaking on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC cable, Pelosi said: "We witnessed almost a miracle. We saw the power of prayer, the power of the effect of the excellence of her medical care and we saw a little girl power too because we were trying to amuse 
  
 Gabby, trying to get through to her about how much she was loved and missed in the Congress and what was waiting for her when she came back." 
  
 "And being there with her parents and her husband and when she opened her eyes was quite remarkable. ... It was a glorious, glorious experience. We thought we brought a little fun to the room and she reacted," she said. |||||
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One of Gabrielle Giffords’ doctors has given a stunningly optimistic prognosis on her survival. “I’m going to get into a lot of trouble for this, but her prognosis for survival is 100%, as far as it being short term,” Peter Rhee, the chief of trauma at the University of Arizona Medical Center, told Britain's Channel 4. “Hopefully, she’ll live to be 95 years old.” At a news conference this afternoon, another surgeon said Giffords was breathing on her own, though still using a breathing tube to ward off infection. She also was following simple commands from doctors, reports MSNBC. Rhee said he wasn’t sure how well Giffords would recover in the long term, but was optimistic that she would not wind up in a vegetative state. Brain swelling is normally the biggest danger at this stage in a patients’ recovery, but Rhee said surgeons had mitigated the danger by removing part of Giffords’ skull, allowing “the brain to swell as it wanted to.” A new CAT scan showed no major changes overnight. "I've seen people in this scenario make very little improvement and require constant care, and I've seen other people ... who have made remarkable recoveries—functional recoveries—and gone back to work," said chief of neurosurgery Dr. Michael Lemole.