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look now at what happened. hamlin who plays safety collapsed after a hard tackle in the first quarter of the game against the cincinnati bengals which has since been postponed. hamlin is number 3 and wearing white. watch as he makes the tackle and you can see him stand up fairly quickly, but then he falls backwards. an ambulance was soon brought out and he was given cpr on the field before being rushed to the hospital. the looks on the players' faces from both teams said it all, of course, some in tears visibly upset, many kneeling and embracing one another. a lot of people understandably worried about damar hamlin right now. the 24-year-old is in his second season with the bills and has played in every game of this season. athletes from across the world of sports are sending prayers and well wishes. football fans are also sending their thoughts and prayers, some even gathering outside the hospital where hamlin is being

treated right now. fans of bot the bills and bengals came together to show their support with some holding candles and earlier the nfl held a conference call to discuss hamlin's injury. one of the people speaking on that call from the league was troy vincent, executive vice president of the nfl, himself a former all pro nfl player, and here's part of what he said. >> it was really about damar and making sure that -- look, i've never seen anything like it since i've been playing, so immediately my player hat went on. how do you resume play after seeing such a traumatic event occur in front of you realtime? and that's the way we were thinking about it. >> and cnn sports correspondent carolyn mano is tracking this

live for us from new york and joins us now. we are learning more details now about what happened to damar hamlin on the field. what is the latest you have on this breaking news? >> reporter: that statement from the buffalo bills happened about an hour ago and so far that has been the most significant development here and it's consistent with what some of our medical experts have said as they've tried to analyze without speculating what we witnessed on the field. i mean what was obvious to us was that it didn't seem to be consistent with a head injury because the hit occurred in the chest in the middle of the body. the head trauma we've become accustomed to in the nfl is something that unfortunately many people around the country have been desensitized to, but this was very, very different. i mean it became clear right away, particularly as you noted with the response from both teams the way both benches immediately reacted. they were overcome with emotion. the gravity of this, the seriousness of this was immediately apparent and to

have those players watch one of their brothers as they describe it, a member of the national football league, a man who, you know, they workday in and day out with to be revived, need cpr, need defibrillation on the field, was overwhelming to the players that witnessed that. we talk about this being a violent game and it truly is. unfortunately it's one that americans are obsessive over. it's a powerful league. they make a lot of money in the nfl. so all of these things are what we've kind of just grown used to, but to see something like this that we haven't seen in decades and this specific instance maybe ever, just brought everybody to a complete standstill. it was very scary to watch. >> absolutely. i mean traumatic for the players as you say and for the fans watching on. so why did it take the nfl so long to figure out that they needed to postpone this game? many people asking that question.

>> reporter: well, that is the million dollar question and i think right now it's obviously important to focus on the health of damar hamlin. that is the most important part of what we're going to learn over the next couple hours is he okay? you know, is he out of sedation. is he going to ultimately recover from the cardiac arrest? once we're past that point and no longer speculating about his health, i think the story will shift towards those moments in between and there's a little bit of confusion right now. in that conference call you mentioned from the nfl, troy vincent was very specific on that call telling all of us that at no time did the nfl consider restarting this game, that the five-minute warm-up matter of confusion. he called that notion ridiculous, but as we watched it play out and myself from the couch and many americans around the country, that did not seem to be the case. it seemed as though there was going to be a five-minute warm-

up period. things were going to try to move forward and we've seen the nfl move forward in the past with things like concussions where the game must go on, so to speak. for me it was really the coaches, the head coaches on both teams, particularly sean mcdermott of the buffalo bills, that was the one that changed that tide and really observed what his players were going through and talked to zac taylor, the bengals coach and met and said i don't think we can continue this. that's kind of what it looked like. when we went to the locker rooms and saw the state the players were in, it became very clear they were the ones going to step in and protect the mental and physical health of their team as everyone was clearly struggling with what they witnessed. >> we will certainly hear no discussion, no doubt on, this very issue in the hours ahead, carolyn manno, many thanks, appreciate it. i want to bring in dr. anthony cadia now, an emergency room specialist and the ceo of mend urgent care. thank you, doctor, for being

with us. we have received official word now from the buffalo bills that damar hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in the game and his heartbeat was restored on the field before being transferred to the hospital where he is currently sedated and in critical condition. what does all this reveal to you? >> well, it reveals that we're onto the right diagnosis. when you have traumatic chest injury at a specific time during the heart's repolarization during the time when a heartbeat is getting ready to beat again. when you have a chest trauma at that time, this is what happens. you have this sudden cardiac arrest and the ventricular fibrillation or the squirming of the heart, it's all painting a picture now. remember hindsight's always 20/20. these professionals there at the game didn't have access to a video camera like we do watching this play over and over again. they had seconds. they had seconds to respond and what we're finding out is that

we did -- we're hearing they did revive heart functionality. they got a pulse back right there on the field. that's an amazing testimonial to how prepared they were and how quickly they acted and that's the single most important factor for his survivability at this juncture. >> yeah. let's look at that because as you say, thankfully medics did respond very quickly to damar hamlin's medical emergency administering cpr on the field, getting back his heartbeat. so what are the possible outcomes in terms of recovery with a medical situation like this? >> all right. so this is very similar to when let's say a child drowns in a pool of water. it's really how long were they deprived of oxygen? we know that he suffered an acute cardiac arrest. that's what we're hearing now. this has been verified. so his heart did start fibrillating on that field. cpr was started immediately. we're hearing that it was within seconds cpr was instituted. that is a very important

factor. the next is that sounds like they defibrillated him with the automated external defibrillator, the aed, again, a very important factor in his survivability. then getting him to the hospital, level 1 trauma center, as emergently as they did, again critical. what's going to be the most important factor now is how long was his brain graved deprived of oxygen? he's in the hospital now and his breathing is controlled. breathing controls all physiology. he's sedated because he's intubated. that's expected. they're probably also lowering his core temperature giving therapeutic hypothermia to keep his brain cells stabilized. it's really unknown. we don't know how long his brain actually was deprived of oxygen. it's anywhere from one minute

to 15 minutes or so. we don't know how long. that's going to be the most important factor for his recovery. what they'll do now is they will slowly start turning off the ventilator. they'll slowly little by little start weaning it down. they'll see how much he's breathing over the ventilator, how much of his own respiratory drive he has. that's going to be important in the next 12 to 24 hours as well. >> i wanted to talk to you about that timeline. so really the next 12 to 24 hours are critical for determining recovery? >> exactly. you have to imagine that right now he's been stabilized. his heartbeat is back to normal. they're really concerned about the brain injury, the anoxic brain injury, the lack of oxygen to the brain. they're going to stabilize him and the intensivist in the icu will slowly start pulling off

that ventilator and see how much drive he has itself. it will be a very poor sign if as they pull back that ventilator, he has no respiratory drive. we're looking for he's breathing on his own. he's breathing with the vent. those are really reassuring and we will see that in the next 12 to 24 hours. >> doctor, i don't want to put you on the spot, but this incident does highlight how dangerous the game of football can be and while we've always known this, of course, how big of wake-up call could this incident prove to be and do changes need to be made in the game to perhaps better protect players? >> yeah. well, at baseline it's a very dangerous game. we know that. from an orthopedic standpoint, all the musculoskeletal injuries and then the brain injuries with the spinal cord and paralysis. now we're dealing with chest trauma, another third element now, musculoskeletal,

neurological, cardiac. it's going to open a whole new area of investigation into this sport. i have two young sons myself and i will not allow them to play tackle football at this juncture because it's just too dangerous at this point. also the players are getting so much moral sophisticated how they tackle each other it's getting to become a very, very dangerous sport. now we all love football, but we have to really think it through now and say is it worth it and what could we do to protect these players so that nothing like this ever happens again? even though this case is one in a million, this is like getting struck by lightning, the way that the chest has to be hit at a millisecond of the heart's repolarization. we're talking about milliseconds here as to when the heart has to be hit for this to happen, but still it's happened and once it happens once, it can happen again. >> such an important point. doctor, many thanks.

appreciate it. joe daniman is a reporter for wxix in cincinnati and he was on the field during the game and spoke with cnn earlier from the bills locker room about what he saw. >> reporter: on the field after this happened usually you see players gather around a player and that happened tonight, but when they saw them start doing chest compressions and they saw the medical staff start to use the aed to try to shock damar hamlin back, you saw the reaction of those players walking away very distraught and emotional, the kind of thing we don't see on a football field. i am told when he left the field at the stadium, he had a pulse, was not breathing on his own at that time, but the reaction from the players on the field, a lot of times we see in the nfl, we all understand it's a violent sport, head injuries, that happens. spinal injuries, that happens. we see some kind of positivity from the player as they walk off the field, a lot of times a thumbs up. tonight we saw players crying,

on a knee in prayer, players just being around each other. >> danneman also tells cnn damar hamlin's mother was at the stadium watching the game. the ambulance waited for her so she could ride to the hospital with her son. reaction continues to pour in from across the sports world as well as from those who know hamlin well. the nfl players association tweeted in part, "everyone in our community is praying for damar hamlin. the only thing that matters at this moment is damar's health and well-being." the university of pittsburgh, hamlin's alma mater sharing their thoughts, damar hamlin is the best of us. we love you, 3". much more to come on this breaking news including more reaction from around the league as well as some of damar hamlin's teammates. do stay with us.

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we are following breaking news. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is in critical condition in a cincinnati hospital. the bills say he suffered a cardiac arrest after taking a tackle early in monday's game against the bengals. the team says his heartbeat was restored on the field and he was taken to the university of cincinnati medical center where he's currently sedated. 24-year-old hamlin is in his second year in the nfl. he's played every game for the bills this season. earlier cnn's john berman spoke with jay skerski, a reporter for the buffalo news who was at the game. he described what it was like watching the scene unfold. >> reporter: it appeared to be a relatively normal football play where damar hamlin was involved in the tackle on tee higgins and because there was a crowd around of other players and officials after the play, none of us at first saw him

collapse from the press box from a pretty high vantage point, so we never saw him collapse. it was very apparent from the reactions of the players around him and the officials that something seriously was wrong. i have, quite frankly, never seen players react that way. obviously these are guys that are accustomed weekly unfortunately to seeing their teammates be injured. it was very apparent just seconds after he collapsed that something was terribly wrong and then the sheer number of athletic trainers and emergency medical personnel who came out to treat him, the speed with which a backboard and stretcher was brought out and then the ambulance was brought onto the field, all of this led us to come away with the conclusion that whatever it was that had happened to damar hamlin was

something extraordinarily serious. >> and support for damar hamlin is pouring in from fans and other athletes. here's how cnn's cory wire reacted to the incident. >> reporter: nausea was going through my gut. my heart is still racing. it hits home for me. i played six of my seasons in buffalo as a safety, same position as damar, had a titanium plate and four screws in my neck. i was knocked unconscious several times. one i didn't remember what happened until the next day. my teammate at buffalo, kevin everett, we were covering the kick together. he was paralyzed, ambulance came on the field. our team was crying. in stanford in college our running back made a play with curtis williams from university of washington was paralyzed from the neck down. two years later he passed away. these scenes are haunting. the thing i think we need to take away from this is, one,

it's a reminder how precious life is. two, it's a reminder that there is progress being made. all the talks about safety, player safety, all the lives that have been lost, all the lives that have been altered from players who have played this game, perhaps they're not in vain because you know what? a year ago, five years ago, certainly not ten years ago they would not have stopped the game. >> coy wire there. the entire nfl community is expressing concern for damar hamlin. arizona cardinals defensive end j.j. watt tweeted this. "the game is not important. damar hamlin's life is important. please be okay. please." kansas city chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes said, "praying hard. please be okay, man." and pittsburgh steelers linebacker t.j. watt tweeted, "absolutely

speechless, please pull through, damar." and we have much more ahead on the buffalo bills damar hamlin, his teammates, his opponents and athletes across the united states reacting in shock after he collapsed on the field. do stay with us. even the most chill of parents know when it's time to go into protect mode. nothing kills mo viruses on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. ♪

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welcome back. we are continuing our breaking news coverage out of cincinnati where buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is in critical condition after collapsing on the field during the monday night football game against the bengals. in a statement the bills say hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit during

the first quarter of the game. that's when hamlin tackled bengals wide receiver tee higgins. the bills say hamlin's heartbeat was restored on the field before he was transferred by ambulance to the hospital where he's sedated and receiving treatment. meanwhile there's an outpouring of support for hamlin from the entire sports community. the cincinnati bengals tweeted, "sending our thoughts and prayers to damar." the tampa bay buccaneers wrote, "you are in the thoughts and prayers of tampa bay." new england patriots said, "our thoughts are with hamlin as well as the entire buffalo bills organization." atlanta falcons said, "sending our thoughts and prayers to damar hamlin, his family and the buffalo bills," and the baltimore ravens tweeted, "we offer our prayers and well wishes to damar hamlin and his family." joining me now from dallas texas, lifestyle and sports analyst and president of life

flip media, eric mitchell. thank you so much for being with us as we cover this very difficult story, of course. >> very difficult story. >> what are your thoughts this hour as we wait to hear more on damar hamlin's condition? >> i guess the good news is we got that release from the bills about an hour or so ago giving us an update on damar because we hadn't had one. we'd gone hours without one. the last all the viewers at home saw was him driving off in the ambulance and getting zero feedback. teams didn't give us anything. i think that's what most nfl football fans are used to. player goes down on the field. we saw it just a few weeks ago that same very field is where tua went down with his concussion that he was taken off in an ambulance and we received word probably 20 minutes afterwards that he was stable. we didn't get that last night. we literally all went to bed. everybody's on twitter or their social media checking over and over again going what is going on because when you hear from

the guys in the booth that there was aggressive cpr, they had to shock his heart back and they had an oxygen mask on him and put him in an ambulance, that kind of left us all on this cliff hanger of this is way more than a game. i think not just the emotion we saw from the players on the field, but those viewers at home who were like myself sitting in my house just shook from this watching what had happened because i watched it live happening and went okay, that wasn't normal. >> yeah, absolutely. as you say, i think a lot of us are taking comfort in learning that damar hamlin's heartbeat was restored on the field there, but, of course, it's not the end of his journey here. talk to us about reaction that you've been hearing in the football world in the aftermath of damar hamlin's collapse on the field. what is being said about him as a player and as a man? >> i think one of the greatest things we've seen take place is

how all the athletes and not just professional football has come to the aid and chatted out messages. you look to the nba, we had an nba basketball player tonight donovan mitchell score 71 points in a game. he made sure at the end of his press conference to send thoughts and prayers out to damar. same thing with klay thompson tonight. he made sure to include a comment about damar and even lebron james. what we're seeing is this is a great young football player 24 years of age from pittsburgh where he played at pitt. if you know anything about the great people of pittsburgh, they love their local guys no matter who they end up playing for. so you're seeing a lot of the local community hearing about what he's done in just two short years in the nfl. he's really affected a lot of younger athletes making sure to give back to his community and as we could see from the outpouring of players in the nfl, just lots of thoughts and prayers and seeing the greats like patrick mahomes. we've seen drew brees retired in the hall of fame send his

thoughts and prayers out, j.j. watt, the entire watt family making comments this evening. it's just the whole league, all athletes, i think everybody. you're seeing a lot of nonsports fans going okay, i'm watching my loved one or spouse watching this game and they're caught up in it. i've never watched football. wow, this is emotional. thoughts and prayers go out to him. it's in a time where we're all very divided, it's really united everybody. >> i can see it's affecting you emotionally definitely, as it has a lot of people we've been talking to this evening. so from a football perspective why did it take so long for the nfl to figure out they needed to postpone on and reschedule this game, particularly given the impact this had on the players themselves? we saw them out on the field. they were distraught. >> i think you mentioned my emotions. i come from a military background. so i relate to those players.

in the military as a marine, we work very close with our brothers and sisters, same with these athletes. they're family. they're around them more than they're around their family. you felt the emotion on the field. obviously this is the first time this has ever happened where you have an athlete having cardiac arrest on monday night football in a game that a lot of people are watching. this wasn't just some game that happened to be on. this was a big football game with a lot of eyeballs and i think they scrambled to try to figure out what they were doing. it has come out. you did hear from one of the nfl officials did release a statement a few hours ago saying they weren't ever going to go back on the field with that five minutes where they'll be like you're okay, go back on the field, which was good because a lot of us were like really, five minutes? that's what you expect these guys -- they put the pictures of the camera on josh allen and joey burrow. those were people who were not ready to go back on the football field and go hard and heavy at each other. the nfl had to figure it out

and put this together. we don't know if they'll reschedule this game. the nfl has come out and said that. i think right now that doesn't have anything to do with it. i think take lot of us when the nfl was making the decision went i don't want to see these guys back on the field and we've heard now captains from both teams refused to go back on the field. this is more than just a game. this is a player's life and that's the most important thing. i don't care if they do that. i care about damar and i know the nfl and athletes around the world agree on the same thing. >> so important, damar hamlin's condition right now. his health is all that matters at this juncture. eric mitchell in dallas, texas, thank you so much for joining us, appreciate it. >> thank you. still to come, the u.s. braces for three different weather threats at once. we will tell you which areas are at risk and the damage they could face. we're back in just a moment with that. g cyp3a4 inhibitors.

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more on our breaking news story this hour, theful about bills say damar hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest after making a tackle in their game against the cincinnati bengals. the whole stadium was visibly stunned when hamlin collapsed with some players shedding tears. the bills say hamlin's heartbeat was restored on the field before he was carried away in an ambulance and that he is currently sedated in hospital and listed in critical condition. millions of americans are under threat from extreme

weather including a risk of tornadoes in these first few days of the year. heavy snow is falling from the rockies to the upper midwest. some areas could see ice storms and heavy rain in the far west could once again cause flooding in california. cnn meteorologist britley ritz joining us now. >> tornado warnings are extended into southwest tennessee through the overnight hours and early into tuesday morning because of the tornado threat. storms are starting to die down a bit. we've lost some heating of the day. on be be obviously it's dark outside, so we don't have the sun to help us out. wind gusts a bigger threat overnight and heavy rain and still dealing with one tornado warning now for butler and edmond county in kentucky just north of brownsville in that

pinkish box that you're seeing. you do need to take cover if you live within those vicinities. here we are with that enhanced risk of severe weather, especially where we're highlighted in orange from just north of new orleans into montgomery, alabama, where we have more of that threat of tornadoes, but hail and wind can't be ruled out rolling into wednesday while the risk receding a bit, we still hold the threat from panama city all the way to norfolk, virginia. also flooding is one of our bigger concerns as these storms slowly move and train over the same areas, highlighted areas in green flood watches and in red, flood warnings. so these are areas that have already picked up 4 to 6 inches of rain. an additional 2 to 3 inches of rain is expected just within the next 24 hours. that spinning area of low pressure that's causing the threat of severe weather in the south causing heavy snowfall across the plains and ice. that's one of the bigger concerns, ice storm warnings in

effect from southern minnesota all the way back into parts of nebraska highlighted in that fuschia color where we could pick up a half inch of ice. within that vicinity these areas could be dealing with widespread power outages and very difficult travel. you'll see these areas highlighted in pink where we're most vulnerable for a quarter inch to half inch of ice. snowfall totals, 5 to 15 inches of snow, the darker pink indicating 18 to 24 inches. so isolated higher amounts are definitely possible. we watch this system continuing to press further eastward and the flooding threat will move on into the southeast. >> we appreciate you staying on top of this. many thanks. a cloud of uncertainty hangs over republican kevin mccarthy's bid to become the next speaker of the u.s. house. later today the incoming congress will vote on whether he should hold one of the most

powerful positions in washington. the vote comes as members from the house and senate return to the capitol to mark the start of the 118th congress. republicans regained control of the house in the midterm elections and mccarthy needs 218 votes in order to secure the top job. in the senate democrats remain in control with chuck schumer as the majority leader. mccarthy has made a number of concessions in an effort to secure votes, but his attempts to persuade some of his fellow republicans to back him appear to be falling short. house republican bob good from virginia is among those who oppose him. take a listen. >> there's nothing he's done to earn my vote. there's nothing that indicates to me that he's going to change his pattern since he's been in leadership where he's part of the swamp cartel. >> the feud within the republican party threatens to overshadow its new majority in the house.

here's cnn's manu raju with more. >> kevin mccarthy still does not have the votes to become the next speaker of the house and that is because of the razor thin republican majority. 222 seats, that's how many seats republicans will occupy in the 118th congress after they won the majority in the november midterms, but that also means he can afford to lose just four republican votes when the house votes tuesday afternoon to elect the next speaker. there are already five hard line conservatives who say they are no's. there are another nine who are asking for a whole wide range of concessions. mccarthy already made a bunch of concessions to try to empower the rank and file members, weaken the speakership, but that's still not enough for others who are pushing to go further. what does that exactly mean? it could be a situation that perhaps we have never seen before or at least something we have not seen in the 100 years multiple ballots for house speaker. 1923 it went up to nine ballots, took several days. ultimately a speaker was

elected. how long will this process take? mccarthy is indicating to his allies he plans to stay in the race no matter how long saying he would stay in the race till hell freezes over and it's uncertain if republicans who are challenging him well continue to mount the opposition through the course of many ballots. one republican congressman plans to run in this race, andy biggs of arizona. that could be enough to siphon away just enough votes to deny mccarthy the speakership. the other big question here is whether any other potential alternative could emerge to mccarthy. at the moment no one exists who can get 218 votes, not even steve scalise who is the house republican whip poised to be the new house majority leader, the number two in the new congress. if he were to run, i'm told by multiple republicans, he also would not get the votes to become elected speaker, all which of raises major questions for republicans as they would hope to celebrate their return

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soccer stars like neymar. brazil's new president is also expected to pay his respects in the coming hours. after that pele's body will be carried away in a procession before it's laid to rest in a private funeral. pope emeritus benedict xvi is lying instate a second day at the vatican with public viewing now underway inside st. peter's basilica. the former pontiff died new year's eve at age 95. vatican police say about 65,000 people paid their respects to benedict on monday. also paying their respects, the italian president and prime minister. the former pontiff's funeral will be held thursday and led by pope francis. you're watching cnn special coverage, the nfl in shock after the buffalo bills damar hamlin collapsed on the field, the latest details about what happened and h his condition ju

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