The doctors told us this is not going to be a sprint, it's going to be a marathon and we're all committed to be running that marathon with him.

This is a long road, we all know that, we are prepared for that.

He opened up his eyes and he said, 'Am I alive?' And Vinnie (producer Vinnie Malhotra) told him he was alive. And 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's improved markedly over the night, he looks much better than he looked the day before.

He still plans to offer ANWR before the Senate.

In the last couple of days, he's taken a lot of great leaps forward. He's definitely doing so much better.

Doug is in better shape than Bob, but the signs that Bob is showing are as good as he can expect with this type of injury.

At this point it would be too early to say what the end situation will be with him. But we're all so encouraged.

Even in his heavy sedation, we were talking to him all the time. I just looked down to him at one point and I said, 'Bob, I hate to tell you, but you still have a face for TV,' and he smiled.

Bob obviously arrived here in fairly serious condition but he stabilized very well here. Every hour that's gone by he's shown improvement or hasn't gotten any worse and they say that's good news.