no matter, just thinking about the films that you just mentioned. if it had not been for "moonlight" and "hidden figures," i wouldn't have been prepared for a role of this magnitude. i sit in gratitude. i sit in constant gratitude. there's not a moment in my life that i remember not being able to sing or act or perform. my mom was always taking me to the musicals or the after school sh shakespearean programs. think for reminding me of the journey. it seems like i'm still on it. >> and so grounded, that's the important part. >> so exciting. thank you so much for coming on to talk about this and everything you've done. it' amazing. >> thank you, guys. get some rest. >> "glass onion" streaming of netflix right now. >> congratulations. good morning. five more pages of classified material found over the weekend at president biden's delaware

home. that is the third batch found within a week. now his opponents are pouncing as a special counsel investigation gets under way. apocalyptic scenes in ukrainian, russian missiles kill at least 36 people, a deadly attack with a weapon meant to take out instruments of war, not people. >> the ukrainians say they're absolutely certain the missile who hit this building was a so-called kh-22, a cruise missile designed to destroy aircraft carriers. a university of alabama basketball player accused of murder after a deading shooting near campus early yesterday morning. a 23-year-old woman is dead. darius myles is off the team. he and another man are being held on capital murder charges. flood watches in place in california for 8 million people. there could be a break in the

forecast soon. something that state desperately needs. dr. martin luther king jr. would have turned 94 yesterday if he weren't gunned down 55 years ago outside a motel in memphis. we'll speak to his son, martin luther king iii about his father's legacy and today's politics particularly when it comes to voter suppression. house republicans with smelling blood this morning, demanding more information from the white house after more classified documents were discovered at president biden's delaware home. over the weekend, white house lawyers revealed the president's staff found five additional pages of classified material. now the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, james comer, sent a letter to the white house demanding more evidence for a congressional investigation. cnn's paula reid joins us live from washington. paula, good morning to you.

what's going on here? >> don, what we're seeing here is a shift in strategy after a week of taking heat for allowing most of the developments, seemingly a new development every day, coming out in the media. they disclosed five additional pages of classified material were found at the president's wilmington home. the white house says it does not intend to offer public updates consistently. instead, it wants to let the criminal investigation play out h here. president biden leaving atlanta sunday did not discuss the discovery of new pages of classified material among the records recovered at his home. on saturday, the president's legal team revealed in a statement that five additional pages of classified markings were discovered among the materials previously discovered at his wilmington residence. as of now, approximately 20 documents have been uncovered at

two locations connected to the president. cnn has learned ten classified documents were found at his former office in d.c. among them, information about iran, ukraine and the united kingdom and those documents included top secret information. on thursday the white house revealed documents had also been found at the president's wilmington home. in a storage space in the garage, and in what was described as an adjacent room. attorney general merrick garland also announced thursday the appointment of robert hur to serve as a special counsel to oversee a criminal investigation into the matter. >> the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. >> hur is a former trump-appointed u.s. attorney and trump-era department justice official. he'll take over from john

lausch, the attorney who led the initial review of classified documents found at mr. biden's office and recommended garland appoint a special counsel. over the past week, new details about the classified documents have leaked out mostly through media reports with the white house deferring to the justice department. >> we're just not going to get ahead of the process from here. >> reporter: and the president trying to defend why classified documents were stored in the same garage as his sports car. >> my corvettes are in a locked garage. it's not like they're sitting out on the street. >> reporter: on saturday in what appears to be a shift in strategy, the white house was the first to reveal that additional pages had been found. that has not stopped republicans for calling for more investigations. >> we're doing the biden family influence peddling investigation. >> reporter: democrats emphasize biden and his team have cooperated while trump is under investigation for obstruction.

>> president trump, who refused to cooperate, who refused to supply with a subpoena and ultimately forced the department of justice to execute a search warrant to retrieve the classified documents, and that is where we need to be centering this conversation. >> reporter: we learned from our sources the u.s. attorney in chicago did not wait for the biden team to search every possible location before recommending a special counsel. so there are still other spots that have not been searched which means that there could be other additional classified materials identify. it is not clear if the white house would update us if and when that happened. >> all right. paula reid, thanks so much. this morning treasury secretary janet yellen is warning house speaker kevin mccarthy that the u.s. will very soon reach its debt limit. she wrote in a letter, quote, beginning on thursday, january 19th, the outstanding debt of the united states is expected to reach the statutory limit. once that limit is reached, treasury will need to start taking certain extraordinary

measures to prevent the united states from defaulting on its obligations. what does this mean for you at home? chief business correspondent christine romans is here to explain. let's begin with what the debt limit is that's going to be breached on sunday and what the debt ceiling fight means to folks. >> it's exactly what it sounds like. it's the top line, how much debt the united states can have. congress taxes and spends. the way congress does business, we run on a deficit. we rack up debt all the time because that's the way congress works. how do we fund the government? we sell treasuries, sell things that the rest of the world gobbles up because we're so good at paying our bills. people want to own american debt because we don't break our promises and we have such a stellar reputation. when you fight about paying your bills, when you fight about not raising the debt ceiling, that starts to undermine your credibility. it's sort of like a credit card limit, if you want to put it

into your household finances terminology, it would be like your credit card limit. we can't arbitrarily raise our own credit card limit. that's how the united states is different than our own personal finances. if you hit the limit, then you should spend less. it doesn't mean you can't pay for what you already spent. that's what's sort of tricky about the situation we're in now. >> we keep going down memory lane. remember this, remember this happened? the obvious answer, which is not so simple, is to stop spending. >> or raise taxes. >> why do we keep needing to adjust it is the question. >> a century ago congress put this limit in to make sure it was prudent with american finances, it didn't just rack up a bunch of debt. i think we've raised it 100 times in the last 20 years or something. republicans and democrats raise it. if you're serious about spending and not racking up so much debt,

you have to spend less or tax more. some combination of that, and grow the economy. when the economy grows you can limit how much debt you're racking up. the answer is not to, after you have already passed the spending and tax laws, to then say, oh, we're not going to pay for that. that is dangerous, that's a self-inflicted potential crisis. the answer is to not spend on the front end and policies for a growing economy. >> i think they need christine romans in washington to get this straight. >> please don't wish that on me. >> selfishly we need her here. now we need to talk about what's happening in california. facing even more rain fall after another weekend of disasters. the latest round of heavy rain expected to fall well into today, as experts warn the oversaturated ground could trigger more flooding and landslides. governor gavin newsom echoed

those concerns over the weekend. >> the challenges will present themselves over the course of the next few days rather acutely, particularly because everything is saturated, particularly because the grounds are overwhelmed. what may appear less significant in terms of the rainfall may be more significant in terms of the impacts on the ground and the flooding and the debris flow. >> this weekend's showers, the latest in weeks of heavy, relentless rain, have only added to the devastation that's unfolded. there was this moment caught on camera. the roads were so saturated that part of a cliff fell off. meanwhile, winter storm warnings were posted for the sf mountains over the weekend. the heaviest snow is expected to continue through this evening. then there was this rescue. not rain, wind or high surf stopped these crews from saving a driver in la jolla saturday evening. while it is unclear how he ended up stranded there, they airlifted him from his suv

hanging off the edge of a cliff. president biden approved a major disaster declaration for the state, and it's coming at a perfect time. california is expected to get a much-needed break in the rain later this week, an opportunity to really get those recovery efforts under way. this morning hope is fading in the search for survivors in the rubble of a dnipro, ukraine, apartment building after a huge russian missile attack. russia repeatedly denied they're targeting civilians in this war, but the evidence is clear. the death toll in this bombing has risen to 40. our fred pleitgen is on the zbr ground in knednipro has more. >> reporter: the residential building home to dozens of families, annihilated to the foundation. even though rescue crews still work, the chances of finding survivors, virtually zero. all night residents watched in fear, anger and grief.

this woman says she passed by the building only about a half hour before it was hit. there are many friends and people close to me here, many, many she says. >> reporter: elena stunned by the destruction curses the russians. i simply hate them. children, people died here. she can't speak anymore. throughout the night the death toll continued to jump. on top of the many killed, ukrainian authorities say dozens were injured, many of them children. in just this location in knee pro, one of many sites in ukraine russia targeted with barrages of missiles this weekend. the ukrainians say the reason why the damage here is so extensive is this building was hit with a cruise missile called the kh-22. that's designed to destroy

aircraft carrier strike groups. obviously when it hit the building, it completely annihilated it, burying dozens of people underneath. the ukrainians call the attack state terrorism, and the president says rescuers will continue to try to save anyone trapped here. let's fight for every person, president zelenskyy says. the rescue operation will last as long as there's even the slightest chance to save a light. even the slightest hope has now all but died, and this is essentially a recovery operation. the crews searching for bodies where so many lives were violently ended in an instance. fred pleitgen, cnn, dnipro, ukraine. up next, republican congressman mike waller will join us to talk about the classified documents at president biden's home and office, the debt limit, the debt ceiling and what should happen to his colleague george santos. plus this. coming up on cnn this

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♪ ♪ so, as we have been reporting over the weekend, white house lawyers revealed the president's staff discovered five additional pages of classified material during a search of biden's private home in delaware. that brings the total number of classified documents recovered to about 20. now, the republican chairman of the house oversight committee james comer sent a demand letter to the white house to turn over evidence for a congressional investigation. he is defending his decision to focus the probe on president biden and not former president

donald trump. joining is republican congressman mike lawler. over the weekend five additional pages of classified information found at joe biden's residence in wilmington, delaware. how concerned are you about that? and are you satisfied with the attorney general, that he has now appointed a special counsel to investigate this? >> well, i think obviously when you look at the former president and the current president, the bottom line is this. classified documents shouldn't be in anybody's home. they shouldn't be leaving the white house. they should be returned back to the national archives, et cetera. i think you need to have consistency on this. so if there was a special prosecutor appointed in the case of the former president, then there needed to be a special prosecutor appointed here to investigate this. it's not enough to just say the intent wasn't there.

how do we know what the intent was? the fact you have classified documents on iran, on ukraine sitting next to a corvette, that's a bit of an issue. i think the current president shouldn't be so flip about it, especially given his comments when mar-a-lago was raided and his comments suggesting, well, i can't imagine how this could possibly happen, how can anybody be so care. well, that begs the question here. >> the response by the president has been concerning for many people, both democrats and republicans, especially the comment about the garage and the corvette that you brought up. also, his attorneys, they are commending -- they believe the attorneys at this point are keeping him out of legal jeopardy. as you say, i think most people at home say both guys have documents that they shouldn't have. even though one as of now has hundreds more. you don't think the difference in biden seeming to cooperate and the lawyers turning it over and trump not cooperating for

months and having to have a warrant or what have you, you don't think that makes a difference to folks at home? >> i think it's a distinction without a difference. >> i can't disagree with you on that. >> the bottom line is the documents should not have been taken or there's no issue with it. there needs to be consistency when we talk about these issues. frankly, i think the fact that we didn't find out about this until two months after the fact, including after the election when the white house was using the raid on mar-a-lago as evidence as to why republicans should not be in control speaks volumes here. i think it was the right thing to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of president biden, as was done with president trump we'll have to see what comes. >> if you're explaining, there's no difference. to the folks at home, this guy did wrong, this guy did wrong.

>> congressman, you bring up the need for consistency. how do you explain or defend or cannot not defend the inconsistency from republican colleagues, including james comer who is chair of the overnight committee. i'll play what he said in november to our colleague pamela brown and what he said yesterday. let's play it. >> i don't know much about that. that's not something that we've requested information just to see what was going on, because i don't know what documents were at mar-a-lago. so that's something we're just waiting to see what comes out of that. >> but is it fair to say that investigation will be a priority? >> that will not be a priority. >> well, this is very concerning. this is now the second location that the president was in possession of classified documents. look, what's the vice president doing with classified documents? >> congressman adam schiff said, i think congress ought to handle

both situations the same way. that's not what comer is expressing. should your republican colleagues be focused on treating them the same way? >> i can't speak for congressman comer. what i would say -- >> what would you do? >> there should always be consistency in dealing with this. the fact that classified materials left the white house and went to the former president's home in mar-a-lago or went to the former vice president's home in delaware is concerning. i think the law was put in place for a reason. so it should be consistent across the board. >> you do see the inconsistency in his statements. >> i generally see the inconsistency in statements made by folks on both sides of the aisle on this. adam schiff, it's nice that he said i'm going to withhold judgment, but adam schiff has not been some innocent bystander in all of these investigations over the years.

it's a little disingenuous. >> you see comer, there's inconsistency. >> there should be consistency with how we apply the law. any investigation should center around how these documents left in the first place. now, one thing that people would make the case is that the former president had the right to declassify. you can get into whether or not those protocols were followed, but one thing is clear. the former vice president didn't have the right to declassify. >> that's actually not -- >> but that is something where people are going to look at within -- >> that's actually not factual. it's not factual, that a vice president -- a sitting vice president has the power to declassify. >> according to who? >> as of 2003 vice presidents have been deemed original classification authorities. this is when president george w. bush altered the executive order on that.

>> so the white house is claiming that the former vice president -- >> the white house isn't claiming that. biden has never claimed it. i want to move on to something else because you just spoke about this on the house floor, and this is about the law that funds 87,000 new employees of the irs. for our viewers, here is what you said on january 9th about what you don't like this. >> i proudly support this legislation and urge all of my colleagues to vote yes and end the 87,000 new irs agents that are going to terrorize hard-working americans. >> point of fact. politifact called that mostly false that it's agents. it's not. it's actually mainly employees, everything down to i.t. employees. they're targeting the wealthy, right, not average folks, and a lot of these are employees that are replacing retirees.

is there anything you'd like to say differently this morning than what you said on the house floor. it seems to be quite a mischaracterization of what the bill is. >> according to the irs, the top 25% of income earners pay 89% of the taxes in the united states. so the idea that the wealthy do not pay their taxes is such a misnomer. frankly, it's such a political statement. the bottom line here is this, there are not enough billionaires and millionaires in the country for 87,000 new irs agents and agents to go after, period. they would go after hard working middle class taxpayers. i represent one of the highest taxed areas in the country. >> that's not what's happening. you're basing your answer on something that's factually -- >> that's not what the bill does. >> they're not hiring 87,000 new employees. >> part of it is attrition, part of it is training new people. >> and most aren't agents. >> attrition, you fill the spot,

correct? if you're eliminating a spot for attrition, then obviously -- >> it's not like you're agdddin 7 87,000 people to go after people. >> you guys are really -- >> when you're talking about replacing people through attrition, it was already budgeted. that is to me such a gross exaggeration of it. the bottom line for me is very simple. people in this country are nickelled and dimed today. it is too unaffordable for people to live in a place like new york. rockland county, westchester, we pay the highest property taxes in america, which is why my first piece of legislation was to double the cap on salt.a.l.t for married couples. to focus in on hiring 87,000 employees, agents, you can

classify it how ever you want. the objective is to go after hard working american taxpayers -- >> congressman, just point of fact. this legislation is to increase the amount of the highest income earners that they can to audit because the number they've been able to audit has gone down precipitously according to the jao since 2010. i'm wondering if you're concerned that the non-partisan congressional budget office says that this would add to the deficit. the net effect would be $114 billion increase in deficits over the next decade if you don't fund this. are you worried about this? >> just, on the first point, i fundamentally disagree with you on that. they are not just going to go after the billionaires and the millionaires. >> that's just your -- that's your guess? >> no. you can take it to the bank that there are just not enough billionaires and millionaires to go after. it's just a reality. i just fundamentally reject

that. secondarily, with respect to your second point. >> the cbo is saying this is going to add to the deficit. >> it's a snapshot. it's a snapshot. that assumes you're doing nothing else to reduce spending. that is looking solely at this bill and it assumes you're doing nothing else to reduce spending. we have to get spending under control. you talked about the debt ceiling fight. >> i don't disagree with you that we have to get spending under control, but this is separate from that. i'm just asking if you're concerned about what the cbo projects. >> no, i'm not concerned what the cbo projects. the cbo projections have long been ignored by congress and others. the bottom line to me is this, if you want to rein in spending, then part of what we're dealing with in this debt ceiling fight, that is one of the levers of power to do that. the white house has to get serious about it. you cannot continue to incur debt at the levels that we have,

and both parties are responsible for this. this is not one or the other. both parties have failed miserably when it comes to getting spending under control. you have to use this as a fight. i'm not concerned about what the cbo scoring is on this one bill. all it does is looking at the snapshot. it's not looking at the totality. >> we've got to go. you have to come to a realization with what the facts are on this, and not just, well, i think the objective would be, the facts don't bear out. i know you disagree, but we like to stick to the facts. up next, martin luther king iii will join us live. we'll talk about his father's legacy, voting rights and the new statue in boston. a lot to discuss. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. trtry this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need.d. mind if i root through your trash?

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on this day is we go forward. we go together. >> that was current president joe biden speaking at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta ahead of martin luther king day. the historic church is where the civil rights leader served as pastor until his assassination in 1968. president biden also making history as the first sitting president to deliver a sunday sermon from ebenezer's pulpit. joining me now, the eldest son of dr. martin luther king jr., global human rights leader himself, martin luther king iii. thank you, sir. good to see you this morning. >> thank you. how are you? >> i want to know, what does it mean to have a sitting president for the first time delivering this sermon from the historic pulpit where your father once stood. >> well, of course, that was extraordinarily significant,

that the president of the united states would be at ebenezer church delivering the message on sunday. it was certainly very appropriate in light of the fact that dr. warnock, as a united states senator, also, and pastor, is now helping to not just talk about issues, but to deliver for the state of georgia and for people across the nation. so it certainly was appropriate that the president would be delivering that message to the nation to corral and bring us together. we need someone standing for unity, because there are others standing for division. >> in 2023, how are we delivering on your dad's dream? >> we've still got a long way to go. that's what i think about every january. dad wanted to focus on poverty, racism and violence and the eradication of those triple evils. yet, we have not achieved it. this is a very extraordinary

holiday this year because also january 16th happens to be the birthday of my wife. today is very special for us. she's being honored at reverend sharpton's breakfast, along with speaker pelosi and others. today i think my dad and mom are looking down smiling, but yet saying we still have a long way to go before we reach the dream of freedom, justice and equality for all human kind. >> especially delivering on voting rights. you know it is stalled now. what's your take on that especially considering that was a huge piece of your dad's legacy, that he wanted to carry on. >> no question. it's very tragic that even in our own state of georgia there are restrictions that have been put in place. our goal, one of the goals that we have the drum major institute, i'm the chair and andrea is the president, is to create the climate where people have unfettered access to the polls.

there won't be restrictions put in place. we should be making it easier to vote, not harder. our laws in some states have made it harder for people to vote. yet, we've not passed the john lewis bill or anything to make it easier. it's going to be quite difficult for any of that to happen with this republican-led congress. we have to keep exerting pressure on them. nothing happened in the modern civil rights movement until it happened. my point is, as we're exerting pressure, we'll get there on voting rights. >> i've got to ask you about something that was unveiled this weekend, a monument called the embrace that symbolizes a hug that your father and mother shared after he won the 1964 nobel peace prize, unveiled in boston just last week. there's been some controversy around it. what did you think when you saw it? >> well, first of all, to me i was certainly moved by the

overwhelmingness, the large capacity of this sculpture. one of the things our daughter said was, look, it represents l love 360, coming from a 14-year-old's perspective. it's subjective. everyone has their opinions. opinions are like butts, everybody's got one. my issue is, i think that's a huge representation of bringing people together. it's called embrace, and i think the artist did a great job. i'm satisfied. yeah, it didn't have my mom and dad's i'm panels, but it represents something that brings people together. in this time, in this day and age when there's so much division, we need symbols that talk about bringing us together. it's personal for me, because had my mom and dad not met in boston, maybe i wouldn't be here. so i'm grateful, number one,

that it talks about the love story. people will be debating about it for a long time, but for years. the other thing, the final thing i'll say is it also represents mom and dad. many monuments are done just around dad, but it represents the kind of relationship they had, working together, and they were a partnership. >> i'm glad you cleaned up that analogy for morning television. thank you, martin. it's always a pleasure to see you. good luck to you and your family. we're thinking about you. we appreciate your appearing. >> thanks for the opportunity, don. ahead, wait until you see this. an inside look at the nfl medical teams as they get ready for game day. our dr. sanjay gupta literally takes you on the field behind the scenes to show you the preparation that are credited with saving damar mama'ahahamli.

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the bengals survive! >> the cincinnati bengals defeating the baltimore ravens 24-17. the been gals head to buffalo to face the bills in the divisional rounds of the playoffs. it's the first time they'll play each other since damar hamlin's on-field collapse after suffering a cardiac arrest. >> cnn is getting an inside look at the nfl protocols doctors say helped to save hamlin's life. it all starts before each game when medical teams and nfl officials meet to go over emergency plans. our very own dr. sanjay gupta went behind the scenes in jacksonville and got an up-close look at those preparations. >> he's wide open. >> reporter: when buffalo bills safety damar hamlin went into cardiac arrest, the game stopped. >> another bills player is down. >> reporter: for the emergency response team, everything was just getting started.

>> i don't like how he went down. >> all call, all kauchlt. >> bring everybody. we need everybody. cot with medics, all of you and good wood down here. >> reporter: as rare as this all is, i'm going to explain now the remarkable chain of events that came together to save damar hamlin's life. >> this is actually -- >> reporter: it starts with this. >> what is eap. >> emergency action plan. >> that takes place for every game. >> basically any time or any place that players are going to be active, there has to be an emergency action plan. the eap was followed to a letter that night. in that moment everyone knew what they needed to do, how they needed to do it and had the equipment to do it and felt comfortable. >> reporter: dr. alan sills is chief medical officer of the nfl. he's giving me a sideline view of the preparedness that goes into every game day. once you see this, you'll probably never watch a game the

same way again. you may have missed this, pop-up blue tent. it's on every sideline. >> it's like a medical exam room. now we've kind of made this a medical space. it's so much easier to do things in here. everybody is more relaxed. you don't have the cameras, don't have the fans. >> reporter: or this, the injury review screen. >> we can be down here on the sideline and the spotter's booth, if they've seen an injury video, they'll cue it up for us. we can ask them to run it back. >> reporter: the spotter's booth, they are the eyes in the sky. >> welcome, welcome. >> thank you. >> another part of our game day medical preparations. the real goal of this booth is to help spot any injuries or illnesses on the field. it can be hard to see the whole

field from down here. >> right. >> probably to me one of the most unique things in sports is the spotter can directly communicate down to the referee. these people can spot the game. >> so we watch every play probably minimally four times, and then we'll go back and watch it again. so we just want to make sure we don't miss anything. >> it's always about the right people, the right plan and the right equipment. we have almost every 30 medical professionals, and everyone has a job to do. >> reporter: er doctors, orthopedic surgeons, x-ray techs and airway specialists like dr. justin deeton. >> this is the bag i carry. the first thing is a portable video larynx scope. we have a portable ultrasound machine and ability to perform surgical airways. i really have all the resources available here that i would have in an emergency room. >> what's the biggest challenge of that scenario versus being in an emergency room? >> the biggest challenge is the

external environment and the chaos of the situation. when you have a larger-than-average size person laying flat on the ground and not able to be elevated to a certain level with extra equipment plus cameras and other people around, those are really the con founders and the things that make it more difficult to manage. >> how does everyone know you're the guy in charge? >> i wear a red hat on the sideline. that signifies me as the emergency physician, airway physician. so even the other term knows when i come out what my role is. >> reporter: every game comes with new lessons. on september 25th when miami dolphin tua tagovailoa stumbled after a hit, he was allowed back in the game. that won't happen again. >> we changed the protocol earlier this year when you and i spoke to say, if we see something like that, they're done. >> reporter: as the teams all warm up, there's one final crucial step. >> every time i'm in the

operating room we do something known as a time-out. everyone stops what they're doing, makes sure everyone is on the same page. this is the same sort of thing happening here behind me. it's called a 60-minute meeting. it happens 60 minutes before every game, a chance for all the medical professionals to make sure they know who each other are, and make sure they know who is going to do what if there's some sort of crisis out on the field. >> let's start with introductions so everybody is familiar with the medical staff here on the game. i'm kevin kaplan, head team orthopedics with the jaguars. >> airway management physician. >> justin is going to be on our 30 yard line. if a player goes down, obviously he won't know if it's orthopedic or internal medicine. he'll step out onto the field. our call sign is an x. if you need him to come out, he'll come out with an x. all the important equipment, airway, defibrillator, all the medications are behind him with our paramedics on our sideline. if a player needs to get taken

off the field, the ambulance will be in the tunnel to your right. we'll be out there if you need it us. hopefully we have a safe and healthy game. good luck. >> reporter: keep in mind the medical team was able to get to damar hamlin within ten seconds. speed really matters here. every additional minute that someone in cardiac arrest goes without cpr, mortality goes up by up to 10%. >> this is a process in place for every single game. we train in the off-season just like the players train and practice, we do as well. i have tremendous confidence. you always want to see a game with no injuries and you want everyone to, frankly, be bored on the medical standpoint. that's a good game from my standpoint. >> there's sanjay. >> what a piece. we've these players continue to get bigger, fast ir, stronger. the hits can get harder s that something the medical teams are thinking about too?

>> i think so. i mean, if you look at the sort of history of the nfl, it sort of fascinating. when the nfl started 100 years ago, average size of a lineman was 190 pounds. now the average size is about 300 pounds. >> wow. >> you add to that the speed, as you mentioned. yeah. they are a lot bigger and faster. 40-yard dash around 5 seconds. so think about that. someone 300 pounds plus, five seconds, if you get hit by somebody like that, it's about 1700 pounds of force. one of the doctors said to us, it's literally feels like a ton of bricks falling on you. you have to sort of keep up with the types of injuries. we talk a lot about concussions, obviously, over the last 15, 20 years. but these types of injuries that we saw with damar hamlin and the soft tissue injuries, they're a huge concern as well. that's why you see the evolution of the medical capabilities. it's remarkable. i work in a hospital. that was like basically doing

drills for codes in the hospital. they do that before every game to try to address anything that might possibly arise. that is fascinating. >> i'm not surprised they -- that the protocol watching and a very good piece. how many time they watch the plays. they watch them four times to make sure that -- that was fascinating. we have to run. thank you. nice job. love it. love it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> this morning's number is $4.8 billion. we're here to explain. so becoming a student again might seem impossible. national university is here toto support all of you. national university. supportiting the whole you.

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that's helping other people. every car company wants to sell you a car, but none of them give back like subaru. a live look at lax known for traffic. that is los angeles. and traffic across the country is getting worse as americans get back to their normal lives after the pandemic. more cars are clogging up the roads, especially in big cities. so our senior data reporter is here this morning with the number. what is it? >> good morning. okay. this morning's number is 4.8 billion hours. that's the time spent in traffic

congestion by all americans in 2022. or 51 hours per average driver. now where do you get the most traffic? so let's take a look at the urban areas. 2022, worst traffic, average driver per year. i would have thought new york city. >> i would say atlanta. >> no it is chicago. 155 hours. boston was second at 134. new york at 117. philly and then miami all above 100 hours. minneapolis is way less than. that perhaps that's a plug for you. now in terms of the trend line that you're looginking at this s to the point that it got worse since the beginning of the pandemic. this is the traffic and the top ten urban areas. we're now at 101 hours per the average driver in the top ten urban areas. that is way up from where we were in 2020 when 53. nearly back to 111 back in 2019. now here to me is the most

interesting trend which is compare that to the mass transit -- the number of people using mass transit. the traffic congestion is 88% of where we were in boston, chicago, d.c., new york city. but the rapid transit usership is just 50%. so people are cutting back on the cars but they're not getting back on the trains. >> they're afraid to be around people? >> maybe. maybe they just got used to it. >> i'm surprised. l.a.? right? >> surprised l.a. has bad traffic. >> not surprised that they're not in the top ten. >> right. what's is up with that? >> okay. we have to go. we'll see you tomorrow. >> we're going to beat the traffic and get out of here. >> see you tomorrow.

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