Houston (CNN) – Gabrielle Giffords watched an hour of television from her hospital bed, a development her husband Mark Kelly called "'exciting,' " said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a friend of Giffords who spoke to Kelly Tuesday.

"Last night or the night before she watched television - it was CNN in fact - and the fact that she was able to do that for about an hour, in terms of attention span, they were pretty excited about that," Wasserman said.