face one to five years in jail in brazil and a fine. these are small charges, but not nothing. there's that as well. >> john, grace, thank you. kaitlan, this is why you're there today to cover the madness. >> reporter: george santos is one of the many joining this congress that's set to happen in a few moments. it's going to be a fascinating day to see not just what happens with kevin mccarthy. maybe that doesn't come to an end today. it's rare you hear we don't know what's going to happen, but that's the case today. >> are you telling us you might not be sitting here tomorrow? come back. >> reporter: i miss you guys. we'll see how crazy it gets. >> she'll need a hug tomorrow. >> great interviews this morning. kaitlan, see you soon. what a morning. we're all praying for damar.

>> thank you, everyone, for wat watching. cnn newsroom is now. ♪ good morning. i'm rerica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin still in critical condition in a cincinnati hospital. the 24-year-old collapsed on the field after a violent collision. players on the field shell shocked as medical staff performed cpr on hamlin for a full nine minutes before they finally restored his heart beat. he was driven out of the stadium in an ambulance. the nfl later suspended that football game. the bills updated that hamlin suffered cardiac arrest after that tackle. we'll be live in cincinnati with the latest on his condition.

we'll be talking to a lot of former nfl players about this. >> important to get their perspective on how all of that happened last night. what it means moving forward. we're monitoring the situation of capitol hill today. a new congress set to begin with republicans in control, but without a speaker. that vote is set for later today. at this hour kevin mccarthy hasn't locked up the support he needs. will we see a chaotic floor fight? we know republican lawmakers are set to meet behind closed doors this hour. we want to begin in cincinnati where damar hamlin is in critical condition. we want to warn you, we'll show you video of that moment because we think it's important for you to have the context to understand what happened. you may find it disturbing. we'll only show it once. this collapse comes after this

hit. hamlin makes a tackle. hamlin stands up and seconds later we saw him collapse. we know, of course, he suffered cardiac arrest. >> i was watching last night. it turned my stomach to watch that. it was heart breaking. look at those players on the field. they were saying prayers. visibly upset. adrian brada is in cincinnati. any new updates? >> reporter: he's still listed in critical condition according to the buffalo bills. you said your stomach turned as you watched that. can you imagine if you are close to him? his mother was in the stadium watching this unfold. if we take a step back and realize this is not just a football player who many look up

to. this is a person who is inside this hospital fighting for his life. he's under sedation. i want to take our viewers back through what happened. here's the timeline. it started around 8:55 eastern time last night. hamlin makes an open field tackle. both players fell to the ground. hamlin got up for a few seconds and then fell backwards to the ground. medics responded within ten seconds and cpr was administered for at least nine minutes on the field. the game temporarily suspended. around 9:25 that's when the ambulance carrying hamlin leaves the stadium and then it wasn't until 10:00 the game was officially postponed. it's unclear if the game will ever be played or picked back up. that is not what's important

right now, at least not for those who are close to damar hamlin. he's a fighter on the field and a fighter inside that hospital. here's what his friend told us. >> damar is someone who -- he isn't someone who is like i want to be a football player because i want to be rich. he wants a platform to inspire other people. that's what everyone needs to remember. yeah, you watch him on tv. you may be a fan of the sport or the game. this is a person, a human being who means a lot to a lot of people. if there's anyone i have confidence in making it out of anything, it's him. >> reporter: that was jordan rooney you heard from. i spoke with him earlier this morning. he said he was in dallas for another event. when he heard what happened to his friend, he caught the next flight to cincinnati. he's been inside the hospital all night with damar's mother.

as you can imagine, they are hoping for another miracle. the fact that his heart beat was restored on the field is one miracle and the family says they're counting on another. jim? >> adrian with the latest in cincinnati. thank you. dr. dave montgomery joins me now to discuss, he's a cardiologist. let's start with what we know this morning. it's good news that the heart beat was restored on the field. cpr was administered for a long time. he's in critical condition. what do you make of all that? what does it tell us about what he could be facing? >> good morning to you, erica and jim. i think there are two distinct possibilities and i will just say, as we're hypothesizing, keeping in mind this is a human

being, two distinct possibilities. one is what we're hearing about, that is the impact to hamlin's chest hit right at the time that the heart rhythm caused a chaotic spiral. if you see on your screen, right at the time of the heart beat, that red line shows you the most inopportune time to get a blow to the chest that can cause a chaos. there's another distinct possibility. that possibility after i went frame by frame yesterday, there is the possibility that the blow went to his jaw and into his brain. in other words, a traumatic brain injury of sorts. here's the connection. in very small cases, very rare cases of severe enough traumatic brain injury, you can have

traumatic cardiac arrest. >> when we look at all that, there's a lot of talk and rightfully so, we're talking about a 24-year-old man, a young man, one would imagine in good health given what he's doing for a job, his job with the bills. we look at that and there are a lot of questions this morning about what is going to happen to this young man. what could the impact be as he moves into recovery? what does an event like this, this cardiac arrest, what could that do to someone physically? >> yeah. you know, everybody wants to know how well he's going to do. really the only people who know are the people taking care of him. when you have blood flow to the brain, every second counts. they got there very quickly and started cpr quickly and that bodes well for him. in the next 48 hours we'll see how well he does.

does he recover? does he have meaningful movement? is he following and tracking with his eyes? then the neurologist will tell us how he'll do. >> before i let you go, when we look at how this happened and when i listen to what you explained, it almost sounds like this is a perfect storm, a 1 in a 1 million chance this happened. does it raise safety questions about professional football? >> you know, the answer to that supposes that we know the answer to it. we don't know his medical history. we don't know if he was having symptoms. he could have it and not have a diagnosis. any time there's something like this we think about can we make things safer. the answer in general is, sure, we can make it safer. let's get a pause. let's get more answers from

physicians and then we can come to that point. >> dr. montgomery, appreciate your expertise this morning. thank you. >> pleasure being with you. we want to get nfl players' perspective. dante stallworth joins us now. you were watching last night. you played ten years in the nfl. you've taken your share of hard hits. as you watched the hit, the collapse, what was your reaction? >> my initial reaction watching that was my reaction any time i see a player fall to the ground or take a tough hit. i cringe. there was something different about this when it happened. he stood up after the hit and looked like a routine catch and tackle, something we've seen thousands of times in the nfl. nothing too brutal. when he stood up and then he

fell back to the ground, that's when i became concerned about his health. when they started to -- when the training staff ran out on the field, the players were calling and motioning for them and you saw the players standing around wondering what was happening with their teammate, damar hamlin, at the time, you saw players start to become emotional. these guys are just as close as they are with these players as they are with these family members. they look at each other as brothers. even though we couldn't see what was happening with damar, i knew it was something that we hadn't seen before, something unprecedented. >> his mother was also present in the stadium. the nfl at first suspended the game. about an hour later, an hour after the ambulance arrived they

postponed the game. troy vincent said it never crossed his mind about warming up to presume play. you know n players. i'm sure you know some folks playing there last night. would they ever have gone back on the field to resume the game? >> no, i don't think so. troy is a former player himself. he understands the brotherhood we have on the field. we are, as professional athletes, and especially as football players, we're trained to compartmentalize physical pain and mental pain. we're trained to compartmentalize injuries, all these injuries where guys are out and they sometimes require surgery. we've not been trained or conditioned to deal with anything like this. that underscores why you saw the players' reaction. half the players were crying.

bengals players were crying. we've never seen that before. we've never seen a player be administered cpr on the field. to see the players' reactions, that told me the story of everything happening on the field. >> this has been a tough year for injuries in the nfl, tough span of years. every injury is different. no question. this one is particularly different. we've seen a lot of concussions. we saw players on the field incapacitated by concussions. has the league done enough to address health concerns and their response to health concerns? >> jim, i think i can honestly say -- i know a lot of players current and former can also vouch and would probably also say the same thing. five, ten years ago the game probably would have resumed. there's been instances where players have been carted off, players have been taken off by

ambulance and within five or ten minutes the game has resumed. we've never seen a game postponed because of an injury. usually games are postponed because of weather or other event that is not an injury. what we saw yesterday, i think, was the nfl today that's a different nfl than it was 5, 10, 15 years ago. >> let me ask you this finally, espn analyst booger mcfarland made a comment that struck me. he said we play a violent game. for all the changes that have happened, very real changes to training and medical response, we still see a lot of debilitating injuries from hard hits. is there something here -- do you ever wonder as a former player is the game too violent? are there limits to what you can do? >> jim, i grew up watching the san francisco 49ers in the '80s

and i've been a big fan of the nfl as long as i can remember. watching plays from the '60s and '70s, it was extremely brutal. the game has changed over time. i don't know if you can make the game anymore safer. i know they're looking at all kinds of data and all kind of different dynamics of the game to try to make it as safe as possible as they can for the players, but this is a brutal sport. i think people forget that. they look at players more as commodities especially with fantasy football. sometimes we forget the human side, that these players are human beings and they have families and wives and kids. that's something we're seeing more, especially last night when we saw damar hamlin and understood that his mother was there witnessing this with her own eyes. >> dante stallworth, we appreciate your perspective. thanks for joining us.

>> thanks for having me. just minutes from now the house republican conference will meet behind closed doors for what is expected to be a tense debate over who should be speaker. we'll do the math on kevin mccarthy's chances. apparently there's still some counting to do. plus, the suspect in the brutal murder of four idaho college students is expected to waive his extradition rights. schools are closed today in jessieville, arkansas, after a tornado took down trees and power lines. there's still a tornado watch in parts of louisiana. we'll take you live to shreveport. rayna can enjoy y wherever, she's headed next. ththat's the planning effect, from fidelity.

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big disagreement as to whether kevin mccarthy will secure enough votes to become the next house speaker. a group of at least five republicans have made clear they're a no, putting kevin mccarthy one vote short that he needs. lauren fox live on capitol hill where lawmakers are arriving for closed-door meetings. lauren, we know where the math stands. do we think there will be movement this morning? >> reporter: this is really an unprecedented moment in part because we don't know what is going to happen next. we know there's going to be a vote for the speakership and we don't know if kevin mccarthy has the votes. all signs right now putting to the fact he still has considerable work to do. this meeting going on behind me in a couple minutes is going to be important for kevin mccarthy. that's because he's trying to make sure that he can win over

those last remaining conservatives who right now could really number nearly a dozen. we have five conservatives who said they are voting against kevin mccarthy. there are nine more who signed on to a letter on sunday night saying they still had issues. scott perry, one of them, sent out a statement this morning saying he still has concerns about kevin mccarthy coming to the negotiating table a little too late. it shows you how much work is still to do here. meanwhile, allies saying they're for kevin mccarthy on the first ballot, as long as it takes. here some of his allies. >> it's untenable to allow a handful of people to try and overrun the conference and the will of the majority of the conference. >> we need to work together. we need to figure this out. we need to run the country. i'll tell you what, normal america, folks in my district, don't care about your

personality conflicts, bitching and moaning from folks who don't have vision. >> reporter: the frustration is that 95% of the conference is there backing kevin mccarthy. there's a small fraction of folks who are standing opposed to him still this morning. it may not matter because he only has that small majority. he can only afford to lose four votes. like we noted, he had a lot more members still on the fence. >> lauren fox, appreciate it. thank you. joining us to discuss further elena trini and nicholas wu. you have 95% of the conference there, but this vocal 5%, for some of it it's personal, they don't like kevin mccarthy. for others it's about the concessions. there's been so much that's been given up by kevin mccarthy at this point.

if you're giving in to every little demand, what's he left with if he manages to pull this off alaina? >> it's a great point, erica. he's given away the store in trying to cave to what members of the right flank want. the issue is he did that without really having any guarantee for what they would be offering in return, which is what he needs, their votes. as of now, they're remaining united in their opposition, even though he's caved on the motion to vacate the chair, a number of other concessions that these conservative members wanted. still, he hasn't flipped any votes with that. i think it's coming down to the wir wire. scott perry noted this in his statement this morning say that mccarthy waited until the last minute to give into these demands, to release that rules package that so many conservatives were waiting for.

it's going to play out on the floor today. this meeting that's about to happen is going to be crucial to see if there's any movement at all. >> nicholas, we know there are hold-outs. are there remaining concessions to be made here to pull them over or is mccarthy's plan to wear them down with multiple votes? >> well, it remains to be seen what other concessions he could pull out. republicans are having their closed-door meeting where mccarthy could present other options. as we discussed, there are centrist republicans who vowed they'll sit around for as long as it takes to vote for mccarthy. there's this hope that it eventually comes down to a war of attrition. if you keep on going, eventually people will give up and vote for mccarthy or not vote at all. you know, we're still waiting to

see how this could all play out. it's very unchartered territory. >> nicholas, you were tweeting about this yesterday, noting these concessions in terms of the rule package for the incoming congress. changes you noted, very significant impact this could have on ethics investigations for example. walk us through that. >> there's a number of different changes in this rules pack annual that sets up the house that republicans have laid out. one i noticed was this change to the office of congressional ethics, this independent watchdog that oversees all ethics issues in congress. what republicans proposed was -- on paper it looks benign. what this would do is institute term limits for members of its board, some of whom are republican and some are democrats. it would boot out most of the

democratic board members. all this could have a huge effect on ethics investigations at the beginning of the new congress. notably members of congress involved with january 6th or congressman elect george santos. >> elena, as nicholas was talking there, steve scalise walked by. is there another candidate quietly waiting in the wings to swoop in and, if necessary, take it from mccarthy? steve scalise is not publicly campaigning, but his name has come up as plan b. where does that stand? >> you're right, jim. steve scalise makes the most sense as the second person that the majority of the conference would rally behind. again, even though he's very popular within the conference, it's not like he's more conservative than kevin mccarthy

and he's still a member of leadership which is a huge reason why a lot of conservatives are pushing against mccarthy. there are other names that have been floated -- dan bishop, don bacon, andy biggs one of the people who is staunch in his opposition to kevin mccarthy is also running for speaker. a lot of these other potential names that are being floated -- jim jordan another that conservatives would love see become speaker, it's not possible. jim jordan doesn't want this. other people don't really want this. it will be difficult. if there's a point of no return for kevin mccarthy and he realizes he's not able to win the 218 votes necessary, then potentially steve scalise will step forward. he's been privately preparing for this i'm told as this became

more of a reality. it's still unclear. even if conservatives rallied behind one candidate, the majority of the conference wants kevin mccarthy. it's a difficult position they're in. >> we'll see how late they're there tonight. nicholas and elena, thanks very much. >> thank you. still to come, the man facing first degree murder charges in the deaths of four idaho college students now preparing to face a judge. what happens has extradition looms? we'll take you live to that pennsylvania courthouse. about two years ago i realized that jade was overweight. i wish i would have introduced the fresh food a lot sooner. after farmer's dog she's a much healthier weight. she's a lot morective. and she's able to join us onur adventures. gestarted at longlivedogs.com

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today the suspect accused of killing, murdering four idaho college students is set to make his first appearance in a pennsylvania court. bryan kohberger is expected to waive extradition to idaho. prosecutors have filed a complaint charging him with four counts of murder, along with felony burglary. >> overnight, the father of one of the victims says he looks forward to facing the suspect upon his arrival in idaho. >> we're going to definitely look this guy in his eyes. he's going to have to deal with this. he's been dealing with this for seven weeks. >> our cnn correspondent is outside the courthouse in pennsylvania. what is the timeline today and how quickly could he be in

idaho? >> reporter: it probably will take place quickly because you have constitutional rights at play. there's a really heavy police presence here. they've barricaded all the streets to the courthouse. you have the pennsylvania state police and the local police. one interesting aspect of what's going to happen today is not inside the courthouse in the courtroom, but they're going to bring him here from the correctional facility. normally a courthouse might have an underground parking lot where they go in and get him in the courthouse, not here. they are going to have to escort him from the street surrounding the courthouse at one of the entrances inside. we've heard they might drape that entrance and the whole way he would walk into the courthouse. however, there will be a pool camera in the hallway outside of the courtroom, so we will see him. this will be the first time we

see him since he's been arrested and formally charged in idaho. once that proceeding begins, it's going to be pretty simple. it's important that a judge talks to him directly to, not only confirm that he's waiving extradition, but also for him to affirm that he is bryan kohberger, that he's the person and there will also be some inferences, i'm sure, by the prosecutor that he was close to the crime scene when the crime actually happened. his attorney will speak. he's got to sign paperwork, but it will be over relatively briefly and then it will be on to idaho for that initial court appearance in the jurisdiction where the charges have been brought. >> very first step in a long legal process. jean, thanks so much. what happens next legal any in the court in the investigation? joining us now elliot williams.

kohberger, when he's returned to idaho, that's when we might see this probable cause affidavit and learn what investigators have here. instruct me that we know since his arrest they were surveilling him for four days and have known for a number of days this was a person of interest here. do you expect in a probable cause affidavit to learn the extent of the evidence they have and if they have more than we realized? >> absolutely. maybe not the full extent of the evidence, but what establishes first degree murder here. what are the facts that indicate not just that he killed individuals, but his motive. did he know the individuals? what were the means by which he's accused of having killed them? all those things will come out at trial, but we'll get a fuller picture as to what actually happened here. >> dna we were told was key here

in terms of connecting him as a suspect. give us a sense, how does that evidence tend to play out in court? is dna really a slam dunk for prosecutors? >> heavens, no, and it shouldn't be because it's not a perfect science. not to get too dark here, but this is a homicide involving a knife. in those you tend to find more of the assailant's dna at the crime because there's a struggle here. there's a decent chance that whoever the defendant or the accused is probably left some dna at the scene of the crime. investigators probably got their hands on it, analyzed it over these days they were in pursuit of this individual and then, you know, landed on a suspect. >> his family has told me they're concerned he might use

his studies in criminology to gain an advantage in this investigation, perhaps somehow exonerate himself. i wonder what should we be looking for in that category? do you think that's something to be concerned about? >> well, it's hard to know how he could exonerate himself. if anything, it could point to his attempts to cover up his tracks. that evidence could cut both ways. all this depends on what we find out in these affidavits. what was in his mind based on his education, experience and training? if it's him, this particular individual -- who knows? everybody is innocent until proven guilty. >> elliot williams, thank you. >> so many questions to be answered there. right now, tornado watches stretching across five states as yet even more severe storms are moving across the country. one suspected tornado has

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(uplifting music) some more severe weather to report this morning. five states under tornado watches. storms moving from eastern texas to kentucky posing the risk of possible tornado, at least high wind gusts. already a trail of damage left behind, a possible tornado reported in jessieville, arkansas, damaged a school while class was in session. no one was injured. >> another tornado reported in jones borrow, louisiana. a tornado watch in that area was

just lifted. derrick, what are you seeing and where is this headed next? >> reporter: erica, you know, a few hours ago the city landscape of shreveport was illuminated by lightning thanks to severe weather. that has moved east and we're starting to clear things up where shreveport is. the severe weather threat is pressing east across south central louisiana, into southern mississippi, alabama, eventually into georgia. if you're in baton rouge eventually into alabama, the severe risk exists. the more immediate threat is the flash flood threat. get to my graphics. this is important. we have flash flood warnings

from kentucky all the way to arkansas with flood alerts spreading from the ohio valley to the gulf of mexico. overnight and early this morning, greenville, kentucky, there were swift water rescues being reported to the national weather service. near memphis tennessee there were submerged vehicles and backed up traffic and there were homes and businesses taking on water in south eastern sections of arkansas. it's been a wild ride with more severe weather expected today. we can't forget, jim and erica, there's a full-fledged winter storm and ice storm happening across the upper midwest. >> that kind of stuff is scary. derrick, in louisiana, thanks very much. still to come, a final

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russian and ukrainian officials still with competing accounts as to the loss of life after an attack killed at least dozens of russian troops. >> the ukrainian military had claimed some 400 russian soldiers were killed. russian officials disputing that number claiming it was 63 russian service men who were killed. cnn could not confirm the numbers but it is note anl that russia is acknowledging that number of deaths. we're live in kyiv. so, scott, the fact that is interesting, we're hearing more from russia and they're saying that somebody must be held accountable. what more do we know about this attack? >> reporter: this is coming from a russian lawmaker who is not only calling for accountability,

but calling for criminal liability and he's not talking about the ukrainians. he's talking about the people within the russian military, within the russian intelligence service who really dropped the ball here, who allowed such a huge concentration of russian troops to be in one place. essentially sitting ducks for any kind of an artillery or a missile strike, which is what appears to be the case here. this is a vocational schools that russian troops were using this is air quarters, bunking there. and how many is there is unclear. if you ask the ukrainians, they suggest there was 700 there, 400 were killed and 300 were wound and trying to clarify this number. and if you ask the russians, they say 63 service men and women were killed. there is a huge gap between those numbers but even officials in russia are starting to acknowledge that, look, the

number of 63 is not the final number. if you look at the pictures from the scene, it is difficult to imagine how anyone could have survived anything like that. it is a pile of rock. you see maybe a couple of walls still in tact. but that is about it. at this point they're using heavy machinery to pick through the rubble. perhaps there is someone alive under there. but it seems unlikely at this stage and this is attracting criticism within russia. one pro-russian blogger said the russian command had been sloppy. another said that even this far into the war, more than ten months into the war incompetence is a problem in that thought only do you have this concentration of russian equipment and weapons and troops all in one place whereas they should have been dispersed along the front line. also one former official in the donetsk people republic, the occupied part of donetsk, said that the russian military doesn't have a grasp how effective this himars system

artillery system could be and how deep it could strike into russian held territory. >> and russia does not have a good record on casualty counts, if you look at the loss of the ships of the moskva. >> the family of pele is holding a private funeral in santos, brazil. the funeral procession winding through the streets there heading past pele's mother's home on the way to his final resting place. now the procession began at the stadium where we had taken you yesterday, where he had started his career. there was a wake. more than 150,000 people arrived to pay respects among them the brazil president desilva. >> he was a sports star there. and also very much a national star with great impact through the decades. julia vargas joins us now.

she's where the procession will end, in fact. julia, you're seeing the brazilian people yesterday and today show just how important pele was to brazil. tell us what you're hearing there? >> reporter: yeah, jim, it was a sendoff in brazil yn ian style. there was a drum roll and as pele was raised up into a fire truck that you probably see that in the life images. people surrounding that truck just screaming his name, adoration. there is confetti, very brazilian, very much in the spirit of what you would have expected for a soccer star sendoff. and he transcended soccer. he became a symbol of brazilian identity, of brazilian excellence. he showed us brazilians that we could be the best in the world at something. it is hard to imagine a brazil

where pele didn't open the path for soccer to flourish, to blossom and for us to become such an important part of this sport in the world stage. but you might have to been the case had he not opened that path. today, at this point, as we wait for the casket to arrive here at cemetery, there is no fans. there is no one able to get into this cemetery. the tallest cemetery in the world. he'll be on the onninth floor, overlooking the stadium where he started his career. >> julia, thank you. >> such a special man through the years. well still ahead, we're live outside of that cincinnati hospital where buffalo bills safety dammar hamlin is in critical condition after a terrifying medical emergency. right on national television. in the middle of monday night football. what we're hearing and the

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