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foregoing medical treatment and deciding instead to receive hospice care at his home. we will take a look at the 98-year-old's health and reaction coming in from around the world. plus top diplomats from the u.s. and china meeting after the shoot down of that suspected spy balloon. live in munich and tokyo to help repair strained relations. and secretary blinken on his way to turkey to assess the damage of the deadly earthquake. we will take to you istanbul for a preview of his upcoming trip. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. on this sunday morning across the united states people from georgia, across the u.s. and around the world are praying for peace and comfort for former u.s. president jimmy carter. a statement from the carter center reads in part, after a series of short hospital stays, former u.s. president jimmy carter has decided to spend his

remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. cnn's jeff zeleny has more from washington. >> reporter: former president jimmy carter, america's longest living president at age 98 is now in hospice care. on saturday afternoon the carter center, his presidential library and museum in atlanta, announcing that the former president would be spending his days in plains, georgia. they acknowledge that after a series of brief hospital stays he will be spending his time in plains, that small town about two hours south of atlanta, really where he spent his entire life with the exception of his service in the military and his four years here in washington serving as the nation's 39th president. he has had many health scares over the years, and he has overcome them again and again. brain cancer, other maladies, but this is a different moment we're told. he is in hospice care. but his life is an extraordinary one. his post-presidency certainly

spanning nearly a half century, includes building houses with habitat for humanity, traveling around the world to fight hunger issues, to push for democracy issues, and he is, of course, a member of a very unique club here in the united states, the former presidents club. if you take a look at these images from the time when barack obama was sworn into office in january 2009, you see that former president jimmy carter standing a bit off to the side with former president george w. bush, george h.w. bush, bill clinton and barack obama. that is a metaphor for how he was, he was sort of apart from his presidents club. he really marched to his own drum or did his own work, did not live in the elite circles that many former presidents do. he went back to plains, georgia, and he lived in the same home where he and rosalynn his wife of more than 75 years lived and they did their own work. so his legacy certainly is a strong one. if you walk through the carter center in atlanta, that really

comes to life. the work that he has done really in all corners of the globe is extraordinary. but jimmy carter is hospice care we're learning on saturday. president biden was alerted to this, he is close to the former president and the white house is keeping in close contact we're told with the carter family. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. president carter's grandson says his grandfather is, quote, at peace with his decision to turn to hospice care. he tweeted that his gran grandparents' home is full of love. brad raffensperger tweeted our prayers are with the carter family at this time that they may find peace that all that president carter was contributed to his decades of service to georgia, our nation and our world. u.s. ambassador to the united nations, human rights council michelle taylor says president carter has lived an extraordinary life of service to his community, his country and the world. wishing his family peace at this very difficult time. so what exactly is hospice care?

we wanted to get a deeper explanation about what it is and why it's being used. here is cnn medical analyst dr. lena wang. >> hospice care is a specialized type of medical care that is focused on ensuring comfort. so it focuses on reducing physical pain and also caring for someone's psychological and spiritual needs with an interdisciplinary team of providers. generally people qualified for hospice care are people who are near the end of their life, people with life expectancy of less than six months and individuals also who have an incurable medical condition. this is not about giving up on medical care, but rather it's tending to the individual, tend to go their caregivers, tending to their family and it's a type of care i think that's really heavily underutilized. there are a lot more people who qualify for hospice care and who would probably benefit from it and in this case i'm sure that it was a difficult but important

decision that the former president and his family made. >> and dr. wen also says that hospice can improve quality of life and in some cases help extend the length of life. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is on his way to turkey at this hour to see firsthand the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and the u.s. relief efforts there. blinken then travels to the turkish capital where he will attempt to smooth over ankara's opposition to finland and sweden joining nato. the trip to turkey follows blinken's contentious sideline meeting on saturday during which he directly confronted beijing's top diplomate over the suspected spy balloon. it was the first time the u.s. and china had spoken face-to-face since the balloon was shot down two weeks ago off the u.s. east coast. china denies the balloon was conducting surveillance and said it flew into u.s. air space by accident. also in munich on saturday u.s. vice president kamala harris leveled the most serious indictment yet of russia's war

in ukraine, accusing russian forces of crimes against humidity. it's worth noting no russian officials were invited to this year's conference. harris recounted some of the atrocities committed in ukraine. we want to warn you, some of the images here are disturbing. >> think of the images of bucha, civilians shot in cold blood, their bodies left in the street, the jarring photograph of the man who was riding his bike. think of the 4-year-old girl who the united nations recently reported was sexually assaulted by a russian soldier. a 4-year-old child. >> cnn has reporters all across these latest developments. nic robertson is in germany for the conclusion of the munich

security conference, mark stewart is in tokyo with a look at the meeting tween u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and his counterpart and nada bashir with the tour in turkey after the earthquake. i will start with nic robertson. lots of issues on the table, the war in ukraine, china and crucially the intersection of the two. so take us through the major points. >> reporter: i think the major point and tone was set by president zelenskyy when he spoke on friday, really the opening big speech here, when he said essentially there is no alternative, but victory for ukraine. ukraine to become part of the eu, ukraine to be part of nato, but most of all for ukraine to get weapons immediately and the tone of the conference has a lot and some of the back room meetings has a lot been around how do you make sure ukraine gets those munitions? how do you make sure they get the weapons? how do you make sure the troops get the training and how do you make all of that happening very

quickly? the consensus is all of those sorts of things are beginning to take shape. i spoke with germany's defense minister and he told me about a meeting he had had here on friday to -- with the armaments industry, with other leaders here to speak about how you can increase production of ammunition and other heavy equipment, military equipment for ukraine. so that's been the tone. i think the tone as well set by the u.s. vice president that russia is committing crimes against humanity and those who are doing it will be held to account. that resonates here, certainly european nations as well are looking at ways to formalize this, to take those facts as they are observed and find a way, a legal way, and a place to hold those response accountable, particularly the leadership in russia. and then this part about china as well, this concern that both the state department and the white house were having conversations here with partners

about this concern that china is increasing its support of russia and may be coming close to military support. no evidence that it's providing military support at the moment, but the concern about what that may mean. the message to china of how disastrous the consequences of if they pursued a military support for russia policy would be, and the more widespread concern here that the way that the united states, its allies in europe beyond to russia's aggression in ukraine is an important context for how china may respond to its territorial and interests in asia and that of course is a concern here. these, i think, have been some of the principal themes. >> i appreciate that. nic robertson in munich. thanks for that. i want to go now to mark stewart in tokyo. to that high stakes meeting between the u.s. secretary of state and his chinese

counterpart. what was china's take on the meeting? >> reporter: well, china has from the beginning been very unapologetic about its response to this balloon incident. it has said that the united states' response was absurd and that it was out of proportion. it's what china said pretty early on in this event and it's something that it maintains until today. but there are a lot of questions, especially after this meeting, about the future of the u.s./china relationship, particularly on a diplomatic front. i think there are really two take a ways, one, which could be viewed as perhaps disappointing, is that neither china nor the u.s. established any kind of roadmap for the future for diplomatic discussion, diplomatic talks. before this balloon incident even happened i was talking to an analyst in anticipation of secretary blinken's visit to china, he said one possible goal

would be to establish these lines, so something like this balloon swaying off path or now accused of something more nefarious at least by the u.s., there would have been a way to perhaps mitigate that. so at this point no roadmap on that front. with that said, there has been some room left for encouragement. we did hear from a u.s. official who said that the door is still open, this is something that blinken -- secretary blinken made known to his chinese counterpart, that the door is still open for discussion between chinese leader xi and president biden. so perhaps that's something we could see in the future. but at this moment neither side really seems to budge. china is being very resolute, the united states being unapologetic and direct that china did cross the line and did do something nefarious. we will have to see in the weeks and months ahead if there is more conversation. obviously china and the u.s. know there is more than just

diplomacy at stake, there's also the economic success of both nations that depends on a good working relationship, kim. >> absolutely. all right. thanks so much, marc stewart in folk co. still ahead, the railroad company is promising to help the ohio community where that train derailed carrying toxic chemicals, but is it enough? we will hear from an expert next. and a suspect in two anti-semitic shootings is in custody charged with hate crimes. los angeles authorities are revealing new details about his back background. plus hundreds of thousands of children haven't returned to public school since the start of the covid pandemic. where did they go? we will have details on a report about these missing students and how the pandemic affected the learning of so many kids in the classrooms. please do stay with us. these are the upshaws. and this is their playgrouound. there's a storory in every piece of land, run with us onon a john deere tractor and start t telling yours.

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a rail company that the u.s. epa says will be held accountable because of its role in this disaster. the company for its part on saturday tweeting a reminder that they said that they will not be walking away from this situation, in fact, on saturday also tweeting a link to an air testing service for businesses and homes in the area, free of charge, and also saying that they will be in it for the long haul. but still, this is doing little to assure many of the residents of east palestine, including some that have reported some symptoms like sore throats, nausea, feeling headaches. they're worried these symptoms could potentially be linked to the chemicals that were released after the derailment in early february. even after authorities have said multiple tests have shown no elevated levels of chemicals in drinking water or in the air, there are still many concerns that remain for the residents there in eastern ohio. >> we need help.

we do. we need -- we need president biden. we need fema housing. people are getting sick. >> the railroad isn't out his toxicology gist who deemed my house not safe. had i not used my voice, had i not thrown a fit i would be sitting in that house right now when they told me it was safe. >> i don't recommend you put anything in the ground. i mean, vegetables or tomatoes or anything this year because we don't know. >> reporter: late friday federal officials announced that fema will be supplementing the federal response on the ground in the coming days in the form of a senior response official, also a regional incident management assistance team, the goal will be to assess the long-term needs for members of the community there. they can also expect authorities to set up debris clinics potentially there to provide medical personnel and toxicologists an opportunity to

evaluate some of these individuals that have come forward with some of these symptoms that may potentially be linked to the events of earlier this month. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. peter decarlo is an environmental health professor at johns hopkins university, spoke to cnn earlier about the accuracy of the tests in the area. here he is. >> the epa differentiates between monitoring and air sampling and they've been doing both. monitoring seems to be what is heavily relied upon, especially in screening people's homes, and it's the data that's mostly reported on that response website. the problem with monitoring data is it doesn't give us chemical specificity, it doesn't tell us what chemicals are present and at what concentrations t gives us an idea of generally how much of a class of chemicals is there, but it doesn't specify the specific chemicals and that's what's important to understand exposure and potential toxicity. the air sampling data we haven't

seen updates on that for quite some time and we certainly haven't seen data for samples taken at the accident site and downwind of the accident site in terms of air sampling, in terms of the chemicals that are being released and that people are potentially exposed to. without that data it's hard to know what people should be worried about and what next steps may be. from reports on the ground, from people who live there and who have come back, there are certainly still odors and chemicals present in the area, and there are chemicals that we can smell, there are chemicals that we can't smell, and it really comes down to being able to measure those and understand what's in the -- what's in the environment. i really want to stress it's probably most important to know what's in people's homes. what from that accident may have gotten into people's homes or into the soil that people track into their homes. with small children i would always be worried about what they're getting into and their potential eggs exposures because

ultimately they are some of the more vulnerable people. in other words say the suspect in the shooting of two jewish men in los angeles was previously in trouble for bringing a gun on a college campus. 28-year-old jaime tran was arrested friday. investigators say he chose his victims because they were jewish. camila bernal is in los angeles with more on the story. >> reporter: authorities say both of these shootings were targeted, one happened on wednesday, the other one on thursday, but both victims were jewish men walking home from the synagogue. authorities say that when the man was arrested this 28-year-old man, he admitted to the shootings and said that he came to this area, was looking for kosher markets and targeted his victims because of their head gear. authorities also looking into his past and they say that there is anti-semitic behavior there. he sent messages to classmates expressing hate and also

threatening his classmates. the u.s. attorney that's in charge of this case vowing to bring justice. here he is. >> over the past two days our community has experienced two horrific acts. an individual motivated by anti-semitism, hatred for people in the jewish community, committed to tremendously horrible acts. targeting individuals because of their jewish faith. targeting two victims as they departed from religious services. >> reporter: and one of the victims of one of these shootings speaking out and telling his friends that he is lucky to be alive. he has gone back to the synagogue and said that this motivated him to pray even more, but the big picture here is that the community is in fear. so many people who say, yes, i am thankful and it's good that this man was arrested, but they're still worried about their children, their husbands, walking around on a saturday. they say that they will likely

live in fear for the next couple of weeks because of what happened and they're worried about the next attack on members of their community. camila bernal, cnn, los angeles. emotional ceremonies were held in michigan this weekend to honor three students killed in the mass shooting at michigan state university last monday. mourners gathered for a vigil for aerial anderson, she will be laid to rest tuesday, her family remembers her as a loving person who worked in her community. >> she was a sweet young lady, nice and kind, always helpful. she had a ministry of help, it's just like she could have been god's servant herself. ♪ >> funerals were held saturday for the other two shooting victims. this service honored brian fraser described as charismatic and hard not to like.

mourners also gathered to say good by to alexandria verner, remembered as a positive person who touched many lives. just ahead, america's top diplomate is due to arrive in turkey in the coming hours to survey the earthquake damage affecting an important nato ally. a live report from istanbul. plus speak seeking asylum in the u.s. to avoid the war in ukraine. we will hear from russian migrants refuse to go take part in russia's invasion. stay with us.

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the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." in turkey and syria thousands of earthquake survivors are still homeless and the focus of the humanitarian response is shifting away from search and rescue. turkish officials say the death toll there is more than 40,000. across the boarder in syria it's more than 5,800. in turkey more than 105,000 buildings have either collapsed or are so damaged they will have to be demolished. meanwhile, rescue workers pulled out three survivors from the rubble of a building in turkey on saturday, 296 hours after the quake. as we mentioned the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is due to arrive in turkey in the coming hours. we will get a look at the rescue and recovery efforts and meet with senior turkish officials in ankara. so for more on this story and the latest developments on

the ground in turkey, i'm joined by cnn's nada bashir in istanbul. as i said, the secretary of state will be there to, among other things, offer aid, which is obviously so desperately needed. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, kim, it is hugely needed and secretary blinken's visit today will underscore that support from the international community that we have seen being funneled into turkey over the last week so or where we have seen that huge ground swell of support in response to the earthquake. secretary blinken departing munich, expecting to have a tour of a province heavily hit by the earthquake where there are house st thousand us of people left homeless because of the earthquake and he will later visit an aid distribution center. there are thousands of volunteers, thousands of rescue personnel on the ground across the southeast still working around the clock both in support of that search and rescue effort

but also now as the focus shifts to more -- more to providing that support to those survivors to now supporting the humanitarian response effort. now, there have been teams flying in from across the globe including the united states to support that search and rescue effort and we have over the weekend seen those rescues continue, as you mentioned, it has been remarkable, quite miraculous to still see survivors being pulled out of the rubble but the window for finding survivors is closing quickly and now the attention is being put on providing support for those survivors, support for the thousands of families and individuals who have been left homeless by the earthquake. the conditions in southeast turkey are extremely difficult for them. it is freezing cold temperatures we are talking b many of them left with absolutely nothing, in addition to already having lost their loved ones. so there is a real push now for that support to continue from the international community, aid groups saying they don't want to be forgotten by the

international community. the united nations for its part has already announced a flash appeal over the next three months for $1 billion in aid. that is going to be pushed towards the aid relief program. that comes after a further appeal for some $400 million in support of the response effort in northwest syria. but for the turkish government as well there is going to be a huge challenge ahead when it comes to the infrastructure in southeast turkey. as you mentioned there, more than 100,000 buildings so far identified as either having already collapsed or being unsafe and requiring immediate demolition. there are still hundreds of thousands of buildings left to be assessed and examined. that is a process that is ongoing. and then there is the question of accountability. there is a growing sense of frustration here in turkey, some even angry that perhaps the government wasn't as prepared as it could have been for a disaster of this scale. the government for its part is carrying out an investigation into allegations of construction

negligence. so far the government says that they have arrested more than 120 people out of 400 people currently identified as potential suspects in connection with that construction negligence. but, again, this is a process that could take months. there is a significant challenge ahead for the turkish government and of course we can't forget there are also elections looming for president erdogan. but the focus aside from the politics, aside from the infrastructure challenges is very much squarely on the humanitarian response effort. we're already seeing families will go evacuated from the southeast, now even coming to istanbul. here we have seen university dorms being opened up to house those left homeless, we've seen volunteers opening up their homes voluntarily to host vulnerable families, but for many of them who have lost everything their future is deeply uncertain and particularly for those from syria who have already been displaced and made homeless multiple times before.

kim? >> all right. thanks so much, nada bashir in istanbul. for more information on how you can help the earthquake victims go to cnn.com/impact and there you can find a list of organizations that are working on rescue and relief efforts. ukraine is urgently requesting more ammunition to fend off attacks from russia. in the east russian troops and mercenaries are claiming to have captured a village near bakhmut the ukrainians are saying they are still trying to repel the offensive which has been a tall order. >> translator: to be honest the situation is difficult, the enemy is using a lot of resources and cold years. you can see the situation on the front, everyone can see it, how strong and how quick we push them back. no one thought we would survive, let alone win. >> and in the south russia appears to be sending more mercenaries to the front lines, the ukrainian mayor of occupied

ma leet poll said they were transporting what he called canon fodder to zaporizhzhia. since the war began thousands of russian civilians have sfled their country to avoid military conscription, many have found refuge in european done threes but some journal eid all the way to north america seeking asylum in the united states. of a real romo has their stories. >> reporter: this man says he already knows where he wants to build his new life. >> there is many russians in the los angeles. my friends pavel and sergei they want to the new york. >> reporter: the migrant from moscow is staying in a receiptor in a mexican city across the

boarder from texas along with two other russian friends. getting to this side of the world he says was not easy. >> from moscow through minsk, belarus, then istanbul. >> reporter: after arriving in istanbul he said he traveled to madrid before flying across to cancun and then making the trip to reynoso. his 26-year-old friend sergei who is also from moscow is not shy about the reason why he left his native country. >> i don't want fight and kill people. i don't want to fight for putin. >> reporter: at the shelter they were joined by pavel who says he left his dentistry practice in moscow as an act of defiance against his country's leader in a war that has become a threat for everybody. >> for man especially at 18 to 65, soldier.

no immigration, no pass, stay in russia. georgia, armenia, mongolia. >> reporter: during the first months of the war russian men fled in droves to neighboring countries like georgia, but some russians have decided safety can only be found on this side of the world. the migrants staying at the shelter in ray knows so are only three among tens of thousands who have made the long trip in the last year after the invasion started. many have applied for asylum and say they hope to build a new life in the united states, far away from the war and putin. according to u.s. customs and border protection figures, the number of russians who crossed the southern u.s. border last fiscal year when the ukraine invasion started grew by more than 430% there than the year before. back at the shelter he reflects on the hard decision he had to make. >> very difficult. i have a daughter, wife, young wife. very hard. >> reporter: he says he hopes

both of them will be able to join him soon to build a new life together in new york. rafael romo, cnn, atlanta. syria's ministry of defense says five people were killed and at least 15 others wounded after israeli air strikes on damascus. the defense ministry said the missiles were fired from the golan heights with targets at n. and around the syrian capital. some of the wounded are in critical condition. israeli defense forces designed to comment. learning more about north korea's long range missile test, it's third in less than a year. state tv reports an intercontinental ballistic missile was fired on surpaturdan a surprise drill. japan's prime minister says the missile landed inside their exclusive economic zone. the test comes a day after pyongyang warned the u.s. and south korea of unprecedented strong responses if they go

ahead with planned military drills. the covid pandemic pushed about half of the country's public school kids behind in their studies and hundreds of thousands of other students failed to return to school at all. we will have details on a new report when we come back. please, stay with us.

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it's an alarming wake-up call, more proof the pandemic caused historic learning setbacks. millions of kids are being left behind, one entire grade level in at least one subject according to a new report. education leaders say a survey of schools across the country suggest that about half the nation's public school children began this year and the last a full year behind in at least one subject. before the pandemic that was 36%. among schools that reported

students low levels nearly all said at least some students were lagging in reading and math. 80% cited science and 70% social studies. last week miguel cardona outlined in a speech what the biden administration's education priorities for the year ahead should be and he said, quote, safely reopening schools is just the baseline, it's not good enough. we must make up for lost time. thomas dee is a professor at stanford university's graduate school of education and joins me from palo alto, california. thanks for being here with us. as we just saw most of us know that the covid lockdowns have had serious effects, they have led to serious learning setbacks and now you've been doing some research that has found yet another effect of the covid pandemiced on students, so-called missing kids. take us through what you've learned. >> sure. thanks for having me. first of all, i mean, these new survey results underscore

well-established reality about how our children have suffered academically during the pandemic. my recent research done in collaboration with the associated press and some colleagues here at stanford has expanded our sense of the challenge we face. surveys like the ones you have mentioned as well as prior test score data underscore for the kinds of kids who are sitting in public school, who are old enough to be in our testing windows, we've seen historically unprecedented declines in learning. my team has been looking at the school enrollment data and they provide early indicators of challenges that are really outside the testing windows. kids who have left public school to attend private schools or even more prominently homeschooling and even more critically our youngest learners who have been missing years of preschool or maybe skipping kindergarten to go ahead to first grade or delaying kindergarten.

those are developmentally consequential losses of learning time that won't yet show up in many of the metrics we're use to go guide our academic recovery. >> yeah, and then there's a significant cohort who have just kind of disappeared, who haven't showed up in either, you know, private schools or formally announced that they are in homeschooling, these missing kids. i mean, how many are we talking about that we just don't know, did they just drop out of school? >> we were able to get data on private school enrollment, homeschool enrollment and population changes, along with public school enrollment data for over half the country, and for that group of states we basically saw about 230,000 students who clearly had left public schools but we couldn't otherwise account for. to my mind there are at least three explanations for this, and none of them are mutually exclusive. i mean, one is that some of these kids could be truant, some of them may be in homeschooling, there was a lot of migration during the pandemic, in

particular into florida, and so some families may have showed up, started homeschooling but simply not registered. but a third possibility, and we find some empirical support for this, is that a number of families in states where it's allowed are simply choosing to skip kindergarten. again, that's a year of lost instruction for kids that are very developmentally crucial age. >> you mentioned florida there. i'm wondering is there a difference between the scores and the number of kids who might have disappeared from the roles between the red states which reopened early or in some cases didn't shut down, or blue states in which in general they kept students out of schools longer? >> there are those patterns. the states that lost the most school-aged population were places like california, new york and the places that gained were texas and florida, but the reality is the loss of students

from public schools was quite broad. that being said, we do have quite good evidence that the decision to go remote only in that first year of the pandemic definitely drove families away from schools, in particular families of young children. i think there's something sensible there, they simply didn't want to put a young child in front of a computer all day, so they sought out other alternatives or no alternative, keeping their child home if they could. >> some sociologists and other researchers are already talking about generation c, generation covid, who could be, you know, if not defined by this and certainly profoundly marked by this experience for life possibly. that hyperbole? >> sadly, it's not. i mean w he know that some of the early loss in achievement we're seeing and also some of the social-emotional measures can have long run echos throughout life for economic success and other broad

dimensions of social welfare including civic engagement, health, but also i don't want to be too more ose. it's important to stress that we know about the substantial resiliency of our children. i think if we meet that with a sense of urgency in supporting them and being adaptive and using data thoughtfully to personalize interventions, support those most in need, we can meet that challenge and realize the learning potential of that generation. >> we will leave it on that optimistic note. i appreciate your time. thomas dee, thanks for speaking with us. >> it was a pleasure. thank you. a night of skills and thrills at the nba all-star weekend. ahead, the unbelievable highlights from the dunk contest and three-point shootout coming up. stay with us. o. and it's natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. formulated with nourishing, prebiotic oat. it's clinically proven to moisturize dry skin

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cnn's andy scholes wraps up the memorable events from saturday night and looks ahead to the main event on sunday. >> reporter: nba all-star saturday night was back in utah for the first time in 30 years and it did not disappoint. it was a guy who just got called up from the g league, stealing the show. mac mcclung the 2022g league rookie of the year just got signed by the 76ers, he was incredible in the dunk contest. his first dunk he jumped over a guy sitting on another guy's shoulders, tapped the backboard and finished with a reverse slam, that had everyone on their feet. and in the final he sealed the win with this spinning dunk, i caught up with mac afterwards and asked him how it feels to be the 2023 slam dunk champion. >> i feel a lot of gratitude, i had a lot of help and the groud was amazing tonight. it was a blessing. it's really cool, man, i will be able to tell my kids and brag about it one day. the goal is to play in the nba, i will keep working every day,

i'm hungry and i'm resilient so i'm going to keep working. >> michael jordan, kobe bryant, vince carter, mac mcclung. how does it feel to have your name with those greats. >> i feel like it's a blur, felt like i was out for 30 seconds and i'm back. >> reporter: damian lillard like he does so often coming through in the clutch to pete buddy hi hield. lillard went to college and wore his school's jersey for the competition. >> it was a second home for me and sometimes that's what it takes, you know, for an experience to be what it's supposed to be. i meal like this is how it's supposed to happen and i'm happy that it happened here. >> reporter: team utah giving the hometown fans plenty to cheer about. the fun continues on sunday night for the main event the nba

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