on tonight but we have to begin with shocking breaking news. what appears to be a very very serious injury. tonight, monday night football game. between the buffalo bills, the cincinnati bengals. the bills safety, lamar hamlin, collapsed on the field after making a tackle in the first quarter of the game. this is where joe is so good. but now another bills players down. of the we can tell exactly who that is. maybe hamlin? good jordan player was able to go it was indeed hamlin. he was number three on the bills. we are watching it, he appeared to stand up for a moment before collapsing. it is incredibly disturbing to watch what is happened. we don t yet have all the information on his current condition. but we do know that in absence was brought on to the field and according to the espn broadcast, and then received cpr. on the field before being driven out of the stadium in that ambulance. bob costas joins us now on the phone. bob, so scary to see that. to watch consecutiv
health and life of a player. should be not done. i think no one is suggesting that. the broadcasters toy aiken and susie coleman were in the studio for the espn. they ve had this in a very sensitive inappropriate way. they haven t speculated, because you can t possibly do it. is it possible, possible, that the young man had some kind of pre-existing condition. which was unknown and it s contact could ve trigger that? this was not the sort of collision that automatically, it and of itself, causes concern. but what he got up, for a moment, and then collapsed. it was clear that something significant had happened. and then when the ambulance came out on the field. and you saw the expressions on the faces of players from both teams. this was something very much out of the ordinary. and what you alluded to earlier, laura, most of the focus has