powerful that decision was and in just over 48 hours or so they re going to step on to that field against division rivals new england patriots to show damar hamlin who is still fighting for his life, that they are fighting for him. dr. gupta, so much great news in the last 24 hours, right? he is awake, he is communicating. we did hear more from the hospital physician yesterday in effect about his status and also what happens next. have a listen because i want to get your reaction. he is still on the ventilator, that does require still a little bit of sedation to make sure he s comfortable being on the ventilator it s not the most comfortable thing. that in fairness to damar has not been fully assessed in terms of even his awareness of everything that has happened in the last three days. that will come more as we have better assessment. so, sanjay, how does this type of recovery typically work and what better assessments are they talking about there?
outfront next, breaking news. the house about to reconvene as mccarthy s bid for speaker looks shakier than ever. six humiliating rounds of votes and we could be looking at a seventh shortly. we have the very latest from capitol hill. plus, who are those 20 republicans waging this war against kevin mccarthy? we re going to give you a closer look. new details tonight on buffalo bills star damar hamlin s condition. for one former nfl player, hamlin s injury brought back members. he was hit in the chest with a puck, collapsed on the ice, carried out on a stretcher. and the former nhl star is it my guest tonight. let s go outfront. good evening. outfront tonight the breaking news. the house is about to gavel back in as open warfare breaks out in the gop. congressman matt gaetz tells cnn he s a, quote, desperate guys whose share is dropping with every subsequent vote. kevin mccarthy s allies are working furiously behind the scenes trying to search for any
on a stretcher, rushed to the hospital. he suffered from a rare injury called commotio cordis. now that is also what the nfl s chief medical officer tells wolf blitzer the league is investigating as a possible cause in hamlin s collapse on monday night. and he is outfront with me now. chris, look, watching that, i know you have had to have seen this so many times, but it is hard to watch that. a lot of people, though, when they see it, they see similarities. you sort of get up and then you went all the way back down, just suddenly collapsed between what happened to you and what happened to damar hamlin. you know, because he was able to get up for a moment just like you. he gets up, everything s fine and then, boom. now we do not yet know the details about his injury, what caused his heart to stop. we don t know if it s commotio cordis. but when you saw the hit on monday night, did you think it could be the same thing that happened to you? it looked like a routine tackle to me. and
later and kind of staring up at the rafters and looking at all the numbers that are retired and the banners, and got doctors over top of me, my shirt s cut open. and then i glance over and i look at the bench and i see a bunch of teammates crying and teary-eyed. i m kind of wondering what just happened. you re kind of in shock and you don t really know what s happened. the last thing i remember was i covered the puck and got the whistle. so there wasn t much for me to kind of talk about. it was pretty surreal. so, this commotio cordis, which is what happened to you, they have talked about this as possibly what happened to damar hamlin. we just don t know, of course. you returned to the ice after the commotio cordis for 13 more years. and hamlin is in the early days of what we hope will be a recovery. we don t know, a little bit of improvement today. although his situation is still in critical care. no matter what happens, this is going to take a long time for
how the nfl has had such wide-reaching impact when we got that news from the buffalo bills about the improved condition. fans are just happy sort of cheering about that improvement that they finally got some notice about. something else, though, there are players across the nfl who obviously feel so close to this situation. take a listen to this player who is a friend of damar hamlin s just talking about emotion and everything that s going on right now. i ve been talking to him. i know he can hear me. even if he can t hear me, don t matter. a loft times we talk to families in pain. and something that stood out to me is last night when the family came out from that hospital and they went over to the memorial that s right across the street. they were taken aback by it. and they said the prayers that they have been getting from across the country have really given them some spirit. you can understand how tight this family is and how this