Berlin ? A CBS correspondent seriously wounded by a car bombing in Iraq was able to start communicating with her family and doctors Thursday, and started by asking what happened to her crew, a network spokeswoman said.

Kimberly Dozier’s 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. Dozier was given the bad news, CBS spokeswoman Kelli Edwards said.

“Her first question was ‘what crew?’ – meaning what happened to the crew, and her family and doctors agreed that if she asked, she should be told what happened,” Edwards said in a telephone interview from New York.

She declined to say how Dozier reacted, saying CBS wished to protect her privacy in “what was obviously a very emotional moment.”

Dozier, a 39-year-old American, was flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany on Tuesday with head and lower body injuries in the Memorial Day blast.

On Thursday, she was less heavily sedated than she had been.

Her condition was still critical but stable.