Giffords husband: I thought she was dead

The husband of shot politician Gabrielle Giffords said today he believed for about 20 minutes that his wife was dead after seeing a TV news report that said wrongly that his wife had been fatally wounded.

Democrat Ms Giffords, 40, is recovering in a Tucson, Arizona, hospital from a gunshot wound to the head after a gunman targeted her in a rampage outside a supermarket that killed six people and wounded 13 on January 8.