CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier, seriously injured by a car bomb while reporting in Iraq, was "awake and alert" at a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Thursday but remained in critical condition, the television network said.

U.S. Air Force medical personnel carry CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier from the U.S. on a stretcher out of an aircraft into an ambulance bus at Ramstein airbase in southwestern Germany May 30, 2006. Dozier was seriously wounded as a roadside bomb killed cameraman Paul Douglas, sound technician James Brolan, an U.S. soldier and an Iraqi contractor travelling with a U.S. military unit in Baghdad.  [Reuters]

Dozier, an American, was flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on Tuesday after sustaining head and lower-body injuries in the Memorial Day blast in Iraq.

Her two British colleagues, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, were both killed in the attack Monday, along with a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator.

The coffins with the bodies of the two Britons were flown from Kuwait to London's Heathrow Airport, where a ceremony was being held Thursday afternoon with their families.

Dozier, 39, has been under heavy sedation and is on a ventilator to breathe, but reacted well when her family and boyfriend arrived Wednesday at her bedside, according to hospital officials.

The hospital would give no further updates Thursday, saying CBS had taken over all media inquiries.

The network's office in London would only say there was no change in Dozier's condition from Wednesday -- critical but stable -- but CBS said on its Web site that she is now "awake and alert."

"Dozier is unable to speak because she is still on a ventilator, but she has been writing questions and communicating with her family and CBS colleagues," the network reported. "She has also asked about cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, and has been told of their deaths."

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