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hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster joining you from london. just ahead on "cnn newsroom." the bills safety, t damar fl to the ground. >> cpr administered to the field. >> sharp blow to the chest at precisely the wrong moment. >> you never want to see anything like that happen. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is 9 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. on the east coast. people are starting to wake up wondering what happened during

monday night's football after a buffalo bills player suddenly collapsed and the game was postponed. the bills are providing some answers. >> they recently tweeted damar suffered a cardiac arrest. his heartbeat was restored on the field and he was transferred to the university of cincinnati medical center for further testing and treatment. he's currently sed dated and listed in critical condition. >> for hours there was a lot of confusion about the terrifying incident. hamlin who plays safety for the bills made a hard tackle about halfway through the first quarter. he stood up and fell back. he is number 3 and wearing white. he received cpr immediately and was then rushed out of the stadium in an ambulance. bob costas explains how the play unfolded. >> damar hamlin made the tackle. t. higgins, the receiver for the the bengals, accidentally hit

him in the chest. nothing dirty about the play according to the rules. this kind of play happens all the time in football but hamlin a although he made the tackle, took the brunt squarely in his chest. >> a lot of people are extremely worried about hamlin right now, including his mother who was at the game and then rode with him in the ambulance. some of his teammates are also at the hospital with him. the 24-year-old is in his second season with the bills and has played in every game of this season. many players, fans, even experts say that they've never seen anything like this during an nfl game. cnn sports correspondent carolyn manno is joining this live from new york. for our viewers joining this now, can you explain what it is that made fans and teammates and the other team aware that something unprecedented had happened to hamlin? >> reporter: yeah. i think, you know, americans unfortunately have become desensitized to a certain extent to the violence that's often

associated with head trauma in the nfl, but you got the sense very early on, bianca and max, that this was different, not because a different part of the body was targeted but just the way that damar hamlin responded. the video is disturbing. we try to play it as little as possible, but to see him get up and then suddenly collapse on the field and then to have players from both teams completely breakdown. i mean, the emotion was so overwhelming as they crowded around him and watched him essentially be resuscitated from this cardiac arrest incident that the team has since confirmed in the last couple of hours that took place was unlike anything we've ever seen before. i think it was just the panic and the devastation on all of the players faces, the fact that they were holding their towels over their heads sobbing. the unknown and wondering if they were watching their friend,

their brother as they often say, their teammate being carted off the field for the last time. i mean, it was a very chilling scene to watch and it left a lot of people wondering what might be happening in the ambulance and beyond. so the statement that we received from the buffalo bills a short time ago was, you know, we can't speculate or interpret it to be anything at this point, it was reassuring to have a little bit more information that this was, in fact, a cardiac event, that he was able to be resuscitated on the field and that now though he's in critical condition, he's under watchful care and is being sedated. >> thank you. joining us from los angeles, dr. anthony carter and sports analyst eric mitchell. first of all to you, doctor. obviously people look at this very shocking video and they see a tackle and be then they see a player falling to the floor.

what do you think happened there without having direct access? >> after analyzing this video, it does appear he had this acute chest trauma. when you first look at the video and see a player falling down, your immediate thought was was there any cervical spinal trauma? then we're finding out he did go into cardiac arrest. there are very few things that can put you into cardiac arrest after acute chest trauma. this known as komojo card yia. this is a post traumatic that happens when the heart is getting ready to beat again. if you look at it on the ekg, you can imagine what happens when the heart is depolarizing and repolarizing, if you get hit at an exact moment.

it goes into ventricular fibrillation and then starts fibrillating, that's when you're in cardiac arrest. i will tell you a lot of us are looking at that video carefully to identify what was going on. now we're hearing he was pulseless, he was in cardiac arrest and that pretty much kind of confirms what had happened here. >> and, doctor, in a situation like that obviously the speed of which somebody can be administered cpr is essential. it was administered for nine minutes and we have it confirmed his heartbeat was restored on the pitch. what does that make you think of immediately? are you concerned about him being deprived of oxygen or further damage? obviously it's very difficult and we don't want to speculate but what would your primary concerns be? >> the primary concern is the length of time that he was not having cardiac activity. it sounds as though cpr was administered immediately.

you can't get much faster than it happened. that medical team was there, prepared, ready. the first thing was administering cpr. circulating the blood. the next was the defibrillation, the shocking of the heart with the automated external defibr defibrillator. it sounds like it was done there on the field. then the pulse was restored. once the electrical activity was regained and restored, that's when we got a pulse again. it's going to be a matter of time, how long was he down? every second counts. it's no different when a child falls, 1 versus 2 versus 3. these are critical time junk tires and every second is going to count for how long he was deprived oxygen. what's going to happen now in the post humol setting, he has a

pulse, he's intubated, they're breathing for him, we do that to restore and maintain his ability to breathe and to control his physiology. they will slowly start pulling back on that ventilator in the next 12 to 24 hours. that will be critical in determining whether he's breathing on his own, whether he's breathing over the ventilator. that will be vitally important to see how much damage his brain did suffer while he was in cardiac arrest. when you're in cardiac arrest, remember, there's no blood circulating to the organs in your body that's why it's essential to start cpr emergently and use the aed. we know from 1 minute to 10 minutes that he was deprived. we don't know when he was shocked. that's going to be critical. but really it's up to his own body, how is he going to respond? we know that he's a young 24,

healthy, conditioned athlete. he's in the greatest possible situation to come back to a normal life at this point, but our prayers are with him to make sure he does recover like that. >> absolutely. and, eric, obviously the medical response seems very impressive. what do you make of the nfl response? because there's some criticism that the game wasn't suspended right away. >> you know, it's hard to judge. this has never happened before in the nfl. we've had severe injuries on the field, but nothing like what we saw. like the doctor's saying, damar fell to the turf and all of a sudden almost immediately you can see a buffalo bills player just waiving for medical attention. you don't see that with most injuries. in just a few short weeks ago on the same very field tua was knocked out on the field. the nfl had to deal with what they were going to do. it has come out that this five minutes that everyone's been

reporting and even was shared on tv wasn't exactly -- there was miscommunication according to the nfl. they left it up to the coaches and players. it was very obvious each time they came back on tv, those of us sitting on our couch in disbelief, you can look at the player's faces, look at joey burrow, josh allen, stefon diggs, they were not going to play a football game. it took longer than i thought it would. once they put those cameras on, there was a zero percent chance they were going to play on the field. i don't think they're going to redo this game. it doesn't matter. at this point all we care is that -- this is the only thing that matters is that a human being can recover from this. i was happy he's alive because that was a scary moment. when they're playing cpr on an envelope football field on

monday night football, that's scary stuff. that shows us how human they are. we're all united and human. you look at the crowd, the way the faces -- i mean, the bengals fans and players, they're standing in front of the hospital right now having a candlelight vigil. what does that say about how this isn't a gigantic competition that comes down to this is a human life and everyone is praying for damar. >> seeing the physical displays of solidarity and unity, stadiums being lit up in the bengals and bills colors, what can you tell us about the response we're hearing from spor sportsmen, nfl players and the athletic community at large? >> the players i work with, we were instantly on the phone texting each other back and forth. their hearts and prayers go out. they're all combatants on this field. they go hard on the field. they see injuries. it's not -- it's a violent sport, right? let's just face it.

donovan mitchell of the cleveland cavaliers scored 71 points, he made sure at the end of the press conference to send thoughts and prayers, klay thompson, lebron james, j.j. watt and t.j. watt. the university of pittsburgh where damar went be to school. you're seeing it from teams, whole teams and i guess he has a go fund me -- i'm probably saying it wrong. he had a charity that went from a low amount of money to a couple million. it's amazing the response, everybody, sports, folks that don't normally watch sports have been drawn into this story. it's united a very -- let's just face it, we're a little divided in the states. it has really divided everyone. >> eric mitchell in dallas. dr. anthony carmillo, you're looking at pictures outside the hospital hoping to get any sort

of update hamlin is recovering as many people hoped. this is a young age. prime health, isn't it? just looking at the go fund me page, stood up by hamlin for kids to get toys in his local community where he grew up. it's raised more than $3 million in the few hours since this happened. >> and i read that the initial target was 2,500. >> people want to help, express themselves. >> absolutely. especially when people feel powerless. it's something they can do. one nfl executive said some plan to stay in cincinnati while others will be traveling back to, no. their concerns for hamlin are being shared by football fans praying for his recovery. some even gathered outside the hospital where hamlin is being treated. fans of both the bills and bengals came together to show their support with some holding candles as you can see.

also developing this hour, israel's far right national security minister has visited a keyholely site in jerusalem. >> they say his visit to temple mountain amounts to an unprecedented provocation and serious threat and they say new israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is ultimately responsible for the response it brings. >> reporter: some religious national jewish groups have been demanding access to the area for prayer. now we have much more on damar hamlin ahead at this hour including reaction from teams around the nfl. >> the serious questions being asked about whether kevin mccarthy has what it takes to be speaker of the house. that's 218 votes. we'll find out within hours whether or not he's got them. and from the midwest to the south, americans are under

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. coverage out of cincinnati. he's in critical condition after collapsing on the field. >> there's an outpouring of support for hamlin throughout the nfl. the cincinnati bengals said sending our thoughts and prayers to damar. >> new england patriots said our thoughts are with hamlin as well as the entire organization. >> the atlantic falcons had this, sending our thoughts and prayers to damar hamlin, his family and the buffalo bills. >> lebron james is one of the many athletes expressing his concern for hamlin. he praised the decision to postpone the game saying the safety must always be the most important consideration. >> i seen the replay. i don't know exactly what happened. my thoughts and super prayers goes up to the skies above for that kid's family, for him, for

that brotherhood, the nfl family. it's definitely by the right call -- whoever made that call, roger goodell or whoever had the opportunity or authority to suspend that. the safety of all players in all sports is always the most important. it was a terrible thing to see. i'm a huge fan of the nfl. i'm a huge fan of football. you never want to see anything like that happen even in the type of competition that they're playing in. the. >> 24-year-old hamlin is in his second year in the nfl. he's played every game with the bills this season. the cloud of uncertainty hangs over republican kevin mccarthy's bid to be the speaker of the house. >> he's trying to secure one of the most powerful positions in the house. he needs 218 votes to land the speaker role and he's not there yet despite efforts to persuade

people to back him. >> we have more on the developing story. >> reporter: house republicans bracing for a once in a century fight. >> do you have the votes for speaker locked in tomorrow? >> you have a good day. >> reporter: after their leader kevin mccarthy has struggled to lock down the votes. >> he worked very hard to earn the job as speaker and we'll see whether this has placated the people that put out a list of demands. he's gone really right up to the line. he's conceded on virtually everything. >> he has given in to his most hard line demands including making it easy irto topple. >> i won't be voting for kevin mccarthy tomorrow. he's part of the problem. he's not part of the solution. >> reporter: in addition to five hard no votes, another group of nine republicans made it clear they're unsatisfied with mccarthy's promises writing in a new letter, thus far there appear to be missing specific commitments with respect to every component. the drama threatening to

paralyze the house and overshadow the gop's new majority. >> kevin mccarthy has his own problems. obviously republicans are in complete disarray in trying to get their leadership house in order. >> reporter: mccarthy still projecting confidence and vowing not to go down without a fight. [ inaudible question ] >> reporter: while his allies acknowledge the tough road ahead. >> i'm confident he can pull the votes together. it's not an easy job. it isn't easy being speaker but i believe he can unite us. >> if he can't get the veets on tuesday, no one knows what happens next but there's speculation another candidate could jump into the race. >> i think you'll see an increasing number of members vote for a true candidate that can represent the conservative center, motivate the base, inspire the republicans. get to 218 votes.

bring our conference together. >> reporter: now kevin mccarthy is still very much in deal-making mode. he is hoping for an 11th hour resolution. he held various meetings in his new speaker's office. he met with the supporters how the floor proceedings are going to go down on tuesday then he met with a handful of his critics but leaving the meeting they were very tight-lipped. they said it was short and productive. it's unclear whether mccarthy is going to have to give in to even more of their demands. time is running out. melanie zanona, cnn, capitol hill. millions of americans under threat from extreme weather including a risk of tornadoes in the first few days of the year. >> heavy snow falling from the rockies to the upper midwest and some areas could see ice storms. >> elsewhere we've seen more than 20 reports of strong winds, hail, at least one tornado. cnn meteorologist britley ritz

joins us. >> we have tornado watches up into kentucky until 11 a.m. those areas highlighted in red. isolated tornadoes a possibility. stronger storms up through parts of kentucky, down into tennessee so these areas highlighted in that fuchsia color. those are tornado warnings. we also have severe thunderstorm warnings. know where your safe spot is and if you hear the siren or if your weather radio is going off, take shelter. you'll see the areas highlighted once again. some of the stronger storms expected within the vicinity. tuesday some of the tornado threat concentrated down to the south. parts of louisiana back into southern mississippi as well as alabama. moving into wednesday. while the threat weakens, we still hold onto the stronger storm threat all the way from panama city to norfolk, virginia, where we'll have stronger winds and hail.

not just the hail, winds, but also flooding. flood watches in effect all the way along the mississippi river, ohio valley, stretching into the southeast with an additional two to three inches of rain on top of what we've already picked up. these are estimated rainfall totals. you see the swath of dark red, that's four to six inches of rain that's already fallen. on top of it with that area of low pressure spinning across the northern plains, snow and isom of the bigger concerns. winter storm warnings in effect where we could pick up 10 to 15 inches of snowfall. ice storm warnings for parts of the plains back into the midwest where we can pick up 1/4 to half an inch of ice. we could be dealing with widespread power outages and trees coming down on top of that and that ice starts to get heavy and the winds start to pick up. max and bianca. >> thank you. just ahead we'll have reaction from the sports world about damar hamlin's collapse on the field in cincinnati.

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not just about the physical injuries that we witness, it's about the mental health. >> i've never seen anyone have cpr administered to them on the practice field or game field, that's when i became concerned, more concerned. and i saw the players faces. half the players were crying, both on the bengals and the bills. to see their faces, it just underscored the severity of it that we couldn't see because they were all crowded around. it was devastating and i just pray he's okay. >> let's get back to our expert panel. doctor, i mean, you're the impartial person here in terms of sport. a lot of people talking about the violence of the game becoming too violent or the players are too big or it's just becoming too tough. what's your view as a doctor? >> oh, boy, this is a rough question. i'm sure my two younger boys aren't going to be happy with

the answer as most people in america because it's such a part of our culture whether it's football, whether it's hockey. there are a lot of sports that are very dangerous. i will tell you, however, the majority of these cases, this komojo cardis, acute chest trauma that induces cardiac arrest, we see it a lot -- not a lot but we see it most in baseball believe it or not. it's when the pitcher gets heit with that ball traveling at a high rate of speed into the chest. if you look at the literature, that's the majority of these cases as related to sports, it's in baseball. we have a handful of cases every year that we see so obviously if it can happen a few times, it can happen many more times. i'd have to agree that football is becoming very dangerous. a lot more dangerous than perhaps 20 or 30 years ago. the players are a lot more sophisticated. the equipment is also being

pared down more and more. it's almost becoming more violent, so to speak, when they're playing. we know this. it's just a matter of making sure the players are safe, whether it's concussive injury, whether it's neurologic and spinal cord injury and now whether it's chest injury with cardiac events. you have to look carefully at how we can protect these players. i don't think it's reasonable at this juncture to start talking about dismantling football as part of our american culture but certainly to think how can we prevent our players, looking at the disease entities that injure them, and then doing the best we can to, you know, just institute policies, procedures, protective measures to keep them as safe as possible. >> eric, when we were speaking a short while ago you were mentioning how what has happened to damar hamlin is uniting fans and also america to some extent because sport can do that for

people, but what more are we learning about damar as a man? max was mentioning the charity drive which he started in 2020 to buy toys for local children in his community. what are we learning about his approach to the game and to life? >> what i heard come being from pittsburgh natives like damar. he represents that entire community and he takes it serious just like you see other football players from that area. damar is just like all of them. he came into the league in his second year, played every game this season and he gives back off the field. he's not one of these football players that are around, that are ego driven, forget where they come from. damar is the opposite. his mom was in the stands tonight and as anybody -- i'm a momma's boy. that is something significant that his mom was there. i guess that's a blessing in surprise. at least she was there to be in the ambulance with him when he went through it.

what we learned about damar is how he gives back. he's well liked in the league and the community, he gives back. football players don't forget where they come from. you see this from other athletes and leagues and we're talking about damar. that's something that's amazing about him, such a young athlete at the age of 24. the already figured it out. got to give back to my community, make sure i don't forget where i came from. the. >> thank you both. still ahead on this show, we'll have much more on the health condition of damar hamlin. we'll tell you how fans are supporting the player through an online service he set up. the suspect in the killing of four idaho university students will appear in a pennsylvania court today. details next. responds to both of you. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more e restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number.

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. we are following news out of cincinnati where buffalo bills safety damamamam hamlin is in critical condition after collapsing on the field during the monday night football game against the bengals.

>> the bills tweeted that hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following the hit during the first quarter of the game. that's when hamlin tackled t. higgins. hamlin's heartbeat was restored on the field before he was transferred by ambulance on the hospital but he's sedated and receiving treatment. here's how one nfl executive described the situation. >> obviously we saw the coaches and play ers and those that tun into the game all traumatized. >> hamlin joined the bills in 2021 and has played every game this season. fans wanting to show support for hamlin have made more than 100,000 donations to a fund-raiser he set up during the holidays. >> it was reported on twitter after his injury. it's a christmas toy drive for kids in need. >> meeting fans and posing for photos at a toy drive event just

last month. >> something i've always been into. something i've been doing at my home in pittsburgh. for three years i've been doing a toy drive. being able to extend it to buffalo is something i love doing. >> since hamlin's injury, donations have ballooned more than $3.1 million. we'll keep an eye on how much it's raised. now the suspect in the killing of four idaho students will be in court. his attorney says he plans to waive extradition which will expedite his return to idaho. he faces four counts of first degree murder. cnn's jean casarez has more. >> reporter: the man who police say killed four college students then weeks later drove cross-country tracked by police will go back to idaho to face charges. >> detectives arrested 28-year-old briyan christopher kohberger.

>> reporter: the students were stabbed to death november 13th. >> this was a very complex and extensive case. >> reporter: dna was recovered at the crime scene. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells cnn the suspect was identified through genetic genealogy, a process where tdna is compared to a database. his father flew to washington state to bring him to northeast pennsylvania for the holidays. >> his father went out interest and they drove together. >> reporter: they drove his white hyundai elantra, a car matching the description found in the immediate area. they stopped at a repair shop in pennsylvania where some work was done on the vehicle. >> i believe he arrived somewhere around the 17th of december. >> reporter: jason lavar, the chief public defender is representing kohberger until he is extradited.

a law enforcement source says the fbi watched him for four days before he was arrested. >> the fbi, local police, idaho state troopers were at their house approximately 3 a.m. knocking on the door and announcing themselves. >> kohberger graduated in may from desales university with a masters in criminal justice and was pursuing a doctorate only about seven miles away from the university of idaho. >> he has to appreciate the seriousness of what is happening right now. >> oh, absolutely. he is very intelligent. in my hour conversation with him, that comes off. i can tell that. and he understands where we are right now. >> reporter: while at college at desales, kohberger asked ex-cons to participate in a study on crime. this study seeks to understand the story behind your most recent criminal offense with emphasis on your thoughts and feelings throughout your experience he wrote on an online

message board. >> kind of grading my papers was allegedly this like horrible murderer. >> reporter: kohberger was working as a teaching assistant in washington and one student said his grading changed. >> he started grading everybody 100s. now it seems like he was very preoccupied. >> reporter: for victims families this is a step towards closure and a chance to see kohberger in court. >> a little bit of hope things are moving in the right direction. there was a lot of time of not knowing and we're going to definitely look him in his eyes. he's going to have to deal with this. >> reporter: defendant bryan kohberger will be in a courtroom tuesday at 3:30 in the afternoon. following that at a time that is not known at this point he will be transported back to the state of idaho to face a judge for those four counts of first degree murder. jean casarez, cnn, monroe

county, pennsylvania. >> to learn more about the man accused of attacking three new york police officers with a machete on new year's eve. 19-year-old trevor bickford was formally arrested on monday and is awaiting arraignment. >> law enforcement says a diary he left at the scene is giving him insight. he wrote of joining the taliban and criticized his brother in the military for entering, quote, the ranks of the enemy. bickford was put on an fbi watch list after relatives reported concerning behavior but managed to avoid detection as he traveled by train to new york. still ahead, one more update on buffalo bills safety damar hamlin who suffered cardiac arrest during monday night's game against the cincinnati bengals. plus a missile strike takes out dozens of russian soldiers. a live report is next. the tightness, stinging... the pain. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfyaya®, most people sw 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks.

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russia is acknowledging dozens of its troops have been killed in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in ukraine. the russian defense ministry

says u.s. made himar rockets hit a temporary barracks in the donetsk region killing 63 soldiers. >> ukraine is not claiming responsibility for the strike. the ukrainian military said around 400 soldiers were killed. now they say that number is being cut back. >> nada is here. we don't know the numbers, do we? but it's unusual for the russians to issue something bigger. >> that's right. we are hearing different messages from the two sides. they say they're now working to clarify this. the russians say just over 60. it is likely to be far higher than that. we've already heard from the former defense chief of the donetsk region. there are still russian soldiers unaccounted for. they haven't been added to the official death toll. there are forces the kremlin in

general has been keen to downplay the death toll. what we have heard from the ukrainian side, while they are working to clarify that figure, up to 10 units of russian military has been destroyed completely or damaged following that attack. >> nada, during the break you were telling us something interesting. the aftermath of this attack has led to criticism within russia or by russians of the russian military command. >> yeah, absolutely. we've heard that criticism from the western intelligence about the setbacks around the russian armed ministers. they're calling for criminal liability not corrected towards the ukrainian armed forces but rather directed at the russian military command. he says there shouldn't have been a scale that size concentrated in such a small space essentially making them an easy target for ukraine.

heard from pro russian blockers to question the use of sloppy tactics by the russian armed forces describing the russian military command as being incompetent. clearly we are seeing a shift there in the rhetoric that's being used from pro russian voices around the russian government, around the russian armed forces. now of course the concern now as we've heard in the past from president zelenskyy, from the ukrainian military officials is when we do see the substantial losses being faced by russia -- >> repercussions. >> exactly. a retaliatory attack. that's what we've heard in the past. we heard that previously. president zelenskyy gave a nightly address. he said he is expecting a prolonged attack. the aim is to force the energy sector, which has been a huge

target. >> and morale, going to tackle morale keep attacking the infrastructure of the general public. >> absolutely. over the last few days we've seen that intensification of russia's bombardment across the country. that wasn't unanticipated. we heard from them and western sources that there were expectations of a potential intensification in the new year. that's certainly what we have seen. saw that in the closing of the year as well. morale, of course, in the russian armed forces we've heard in the past has been low. there have been questions around support being provided there. we did see president putin attempting to boost morale celebrating with soldiers. how long can that last? been facing setbacks for ten months. it has not gone as swiftly and smoothly. >> thank you very much.

pope emeritus benedict xvi is lying in state for the second day. >> the public viewing underway. the former pontiff died on new year's eve at the age of 90. >> vatican police say 65,000 people paid respects on monday. >> also paying respects the italian president and prime minister. his funeral will be held thu thursday. in the day ahead the late football legend pele will be laid too rest where he began his career. it will follow an emotional 24 hour wake that has drawn thousands of mourners. we have the details. >> reporter: when players body arrived he received a homecoming worthy of a true legend. his fans were already standing in line outside his old football ground, some of them waiting

overnight inside the stadium he was treated like a brazilian head of state. an open casket, body exposed, somber sound to mark the historic moment and the wait in line, emotional. >> translator: it's a mixture of feelings. on one side sadness, at least for me, but also a lot of emotions because where it's pele, the biggest player in the world. i've actually been emotional. i don't know how to explain it. i think i'm going to cry. >> reporter: pele was an icon for all generations. >> translator: for me he was great by staying humbled. >> translator: he's a distinguished person for his effort, professionalism in football. people think a lot about money. that was a time when there wasn't money. he earned money after years of working. he's an example to be followed.

the youth should follow him. >> reporter: santos, the club that launched his career, said about 17,000 people paid their respects in a mere few hours. on the main stage no moment was when pele's wife gave him one last gift. standing in the stadium you see the true size of the legend. his casket was wrapped in a brazilian flag. outside the average fan saying a last good-bye to a man who always stays true to his humble roots and loyal to the city of santos. >> reporter: and for those who share decades of memories, this farewell will not be forever. >> translator: pele will never die. >> amazing scenes there. our top story there, buffalo

bills football player damar hamlin is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest on the field between monday's games between the bills and bengals. >> his heartbeat was restored on the field. the defensive back collapsed after a hard tackle earlier in the game. the game is being postponed due to his medical emergency. in a statement the nfl said our thoughts are with damar. >> arizona cardinals defensive end j.j. watt says the game is not important. damar hamlin's life is important. please be okay, please. >> patrick mahomes said praying hard. please be okay, man. >> pittsburgh steelers linebacker t.j. watt, absolutely speechless. please pull through, damar. >> we'll have much more on the story coming up. >> our thoughts for everyone

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