GretaWire has been giving updates throughout the day as the surgeries progressed.

4:51 p.m. UPDATE

Jeff Miller just called from the Pittsburgh Hospital and said doctors came out and said, “It was all a success… little Peter is now finished… and will be moved to the ICU if not there already… Catherine is doing extremely well and she is in the other hospital ICU… doctors said it went very well.”

Needless to say, we are all thrilled!

Jeff also said the doctors said that Catherine and Peter will spend the next 4-5 days in the ICU. Ultrasounds will be performed in next 3-5 days. After 7th day, worry about rejections. Second month worry about infections. The next 2-3 days are crucial, but everything went fine.

If anyone wants to send Catherine well wishes they may do so from here…

CNN announced today that Glenn Beck will be taking his show on the road this June…

Glenn Beck, Headline News’ new topical nightly talk show, will be taped on location in several cities in June as Beck kicks off his “Midlife Crisis Tour,” it was announced today by Ken Jautz, executive vice president, CNN Worldwide.

The “Midlife Crisis Tour,” which starts Saturday, June 10, in Columbia, S.C., is a live stage show featuring Beck’s often amusing perspective on the daily challenges he now faces having reached middle age. The eight-city tour runs through Friday, June 23. Glenn Beck airs at 7 p.m., 9 p.m., and 12 a.m. (ET) on Headline News.
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On the weekend, CNN came in 3rd in the Primetime Demo while FNC and MSNBC split the Demo with MSNBC winning on Saturday and FNC winning on Sunday…

Saturday, June 3
P2+ Total Day
FNC - 665,000 viewers
CNN - 370,000 viewers
MSNBC - 242,000 viewers
HLN - 184,000 viewers
CNBC - a scratch with 91,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC - 831,000 viewers
CNN - 464,000 viewers
MSNBC - 327,000 viewers
HLN - 130,000 viewers
CNBC - a scratch with 101,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC - 170,000 viewers
CNN - 127,000 viewers
MSNBC - 96,000 viewers
HLN - 73,000 viewers
CNBC - 54,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC - 143,000 viewers
CNN - 103,000 viewers
MSNBC - 149,000 viewers
HLN - 56,000 viewers
CNBC - 64,000 viewers
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CNN announced today that Ali Velshi will host a special on the CNN Radio network on the right to privacy in an age of electronic surveillance…

Personal information may not be as private as Americans think. In a special one-hour program for affiliates, CNN Radio will explore an individual’s right to personal privacy and the federal government’s domestic surveillance program, prying into the ethics and the effectiveness of this anti-terrorism strategy.

CNN business news anchor Ali Velshi will host “Who’s Watching You?” on Thursday, June 8, at 2 p.m. (ET). In addition to his on-air work for the CNN networks, Velshi provides business reports after the markets close for CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service, and “The Ali V Podcast” for CNN.com which can be found at CNN.com’s podcasting page http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/. “Who’s Watching You?” is produced by CNN Radio supervising producer Sherri Maksin.
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In the New York Times, FNC’s Steve Harrigan writes about lodging conditions while travelling around the world to dangerous locations.

But as a war correspondent, my first question in the morning isn’t, “where am I?” It is: “safe or not safe?”

I can tell by the sheets. Clean white sheets mean “safe.” You turn in them, hear them rustle, look at them and you know you’re all right. Maybe you’re close to a war zone, like Iraq or Congo, but the hotel is out of harm’s way, and there is nothing to worry about.

Dirty sheets — or no sheets — means you’re in trouble. You’re on a dirt floor of a hut in Afghanistan, waking up to the sounds of Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades or car bombs.

The NY Daily News’ Richard Huff writes up yesterday’s Catherine Herridge story but adds this…

Fox News Channel correspondent Catherine Herridge will be off the air for at least two months - maybe more - while she recovers from giving a part of her liver to her 5-month-old son, Peter.

From an emailer…

The story broke in the 9pm hour that the Missing Texas Baby and woman who took her were found but CNN HeadLine News decided to still run the old 8pm Episode of Nancy Grace when the baby was still missing. They are not even bothering to update the lower third graphics to tell people the baby was found. Is CNN that cheap? Even MSNBC would at least update the lower third or do the segment live.