helmet because if he hadn t been skiing with his helmet it would have been a whole lot worse. take a list en. translator: i think that given the violence of the shock his helmet did partly protect him certainly. had this kind of accident without a helmet would not have reached this stage. reporter: doctors say they will not give any prognosis as to the outcome of how this might end. they said they are looking at this hour by hour, john, and also the family has said they know doctors are doing all they can but they do not want to make any more comments at this time. as i said, jim, this has stunned sports fans around the world after a career in racing, which is a dangerous profession to say the ley, he gets critically injured by skiing. jim boulden monitoring michael schumaker s condition. thank you, jim.
accident would without a helmet, would not have reached this stage. thank god for the helmet. jim boulden is joining us from outside the hospital in grenoble, france. we ve been following this story all day and heard the doctors. they ve been very, very careful in terms of what to say, what kind of prognosis they would make. do we have any sense after i timetable and an update on how he s doing? yeah, what they ve been saying really is that they are taking this hour by hour. that s how serious the situation is for michael shumacher. they re not making any prognosis as you said. they have tried to put him in this medically induced coma to try to bring the swelling down from his brain. he fell on the right side of his head. they ve lowered his body temperature which is also supposed to lep with swelling. the doctors are saying they simply cannot know yet how badly damaged his brain is. but they are looking at things like you know, how can he
when he retired at the end of 2012, he said that was it. he s going to have to find something else to do. it s his 45th birthday in a few days. he was here skiing with his family. he s still a young man but loves the adventure. he was one of the best formula one drivers. it s a very scary thing to do. you can see why he would be somebody off piece. he was skiing off the main courses because that s what he does. and jim, a lot of people love this guy. it was three years ago he gave an interview to cnn about taking the risks he does. he loves the stuff. listen to what he said. the word if and the possibilities of things that could happen to you, they can happen anywhere. yeah, they can happen anywhere. jim, i guess he s a little bit of an adrenalin junkie i think. we certainly wish him the very best. if you ve got any updates from the doctor, please let us know. and here s more of what we re working on for around the world.
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