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"You could tell it upset her," her mother, Dorothy Dozier, said during the interview with MacVicar. "She kind of closed her eyes."

Edwards declined to discuss the incident "to protect her privacy because it was an emotional moment."

Dozier was flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany on Tuesday with head and lower body injuries. Her family and boyfriend arrived the next day. When she first met with her family, Dozier was less sedated than she had been and wrote her comments and questions on paper because she was on a ventilator. Her condition was still critical but stable.

Kept less private by CBS News was the ceremony held Thursday at London's Heathrow Airport for the families and colleagues who'd come to meet the flag-draped caskets containing the bodies of Douglas and Brolan.

Portions of the event were broadcast on the "CBS Evening News," including shots of Linda Douglas, the distraught wife of Paul Douglas, and his daughter, Joanne.

"I'm going to miss him so," said a choked-up Linda Douglas.

"So many kind people have sent so many kind messages from around the world and stories that we never even heard and it just shows that he didn't just touch our hearts he touched the hearts of so many people," Joanne wept.

The report also included close-ups of CBS News President Sean McManus telling the families, "I hope you will all know . . . that you will always be part of our family at CBS News."

And Mark Phillips, of CBS News in London, who told the mourners, "This, quite frankly, is the day we've always dreaded. This was always the day of the unspoken horror, and now it's happened. To their families and to Paul and James, welcome home."

The hospital would not give details of Dozier's treatment yesterday, saying CBS had asked to handle all further media inquiries, the Associated Press reported. Edwards told The TV Column she could not confirm Dorothy Dozier's comment on air that her daughter's legs had been "badly injured" and she would need rods in her legs.

Last night, McManus sent an e-mail to CBS News staff: "You will all be very pleased to hear that I just left Kimberly and she is really doing well. She is talking well, hasn't lost her sense of humor, and was disappointed that we had to meet in Landstuhl, Germany, instead of over a drink in New York City. Kimberly obviously has a very tough and long road ahead of her, which she understands, but I'm confident that she will come through this and will again be one of the best reporters CBS News has."

The CBS Web site said Dozier may be transported to a medical facility in the States in the next couple of days.

Dozier had been traveling in an armored Humvee with a U.S. military convoy in Iraq on a story for a Memorial Day broadcast when a car bomb exploded. At the time of the blast the CBS crew members were outside the vehicle and on the street with troops who had stopped to inspect a checkpoint; they were wearing helmets, flak jackets and protective eyeglasses.