Woodruff walks, brother says

Injured ABC anchor Bob Woodruff has begun walking and talking in recent days and eventually will be able to return to the anchor chair, his brother said Tuesday.

“I think he’s going to come back,” David Woodruff said during an interview with “Good Morning America’s” Diane Sawyer. “When that is, is when he’s ready. But I think he’s clearly going to be able to do that.”

Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured in late January when the Iraqi military vehicle in which they were riding was hit by a roadside bomb.

Vogt was released from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., last month. Woodruff remains there, but will be moved to a rehabilitation facility in the coming weeks, his brother said.

David Woodruff said his brother had taken “a lot of great leaps forward” in the last few days, having conversations with his family and testing his strength by getting out of bed and walking.

“He’s not talking up a blue streak,” he said, describing Woodruff’s communications as “a couple sentences here, a few words there.”

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-- Matea Gold