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i think has captured the intention of an entire nation now the entire world. an injury on the field on a nationally televised football game monday night football. 24-year-old omar hamlin collapsing on the field after a collision. we just got official word, the first official word on the exactly what happened, and his medical condition now. let me read you a statement just put out by the buffalo bills that is damar hamlin team. they say he suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in our game following the bengals. it s hard to beat was restored on the field, and he was chanceford to the use emoticons center for further testing and treatment. he is currently stated, and listed in critical condition. this is the first time we ve received official word of what happened, it cardiac arrest, and it is absolutely the first time we have been told that his heartbeat was restored on the field. that is a bit of i manage in good news, they got his heart beating again on the field, ....
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? get t thbestst rult t poiblele. call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, everyone. i m rosemary church in atlanta and we are following a major development in breaking news out of the national football league. about an hour ago the buffalo bills confirmed it was a cardiac arrest that brought down player damar hamlin in monday night s game. the bills said his heartbeat was restored on the field and that he remains sedated and in critical condition at a cincinnati hospital, a closer look now at what happened. hamlin who plays safety collapsed after a hard tackle in the first quarter of the game against the cincinnati bengals which has since been postponed. hamlin is number 3 and wearing white. watch as he makes the tackle and you can see him stand up fairly quickly, but then he falls backwards. an ....
Appreciate it. joe daniman is a reporter for wxix in cincinnati and he was on the field during the game and spoke with cnn earlier from the bills locker room about what he saw. reporter: on the field after this happened usually you see players gather around a player and that happened tonight, but when they saw them start doing chest compressions and they saw the medical staff start to use the aed to try to shock damar hamlin back, you saw the reaction of those players walking away very distraught and emotional, the kind of thing we don t see on a football field. i am told when he left the field at the stadium, he had a pulse, was not breathing on his own at that time, but the reaction from the players on the field, a lot of times we see in the nfl, we all understand it s a violent sport, head injuries, that happens. spinal injuries, that happens. we see some kind of positivity from the player as they walk off the field, a lot of times a thumbs up. tonight we saw players crying, ....
We saw him here in the hallway, his mother was out here when some place relieving here to go to the stadium for tonight. as mothers here, they should an emotional moment in on the, play just a football play. wide receiver making a catch turning up, field contact, and bounced up, and that is when things went up when he collapsed of the field. it looked like a football play with a guy getting hit in the chest, that is why they were shoulder pads. this one, obviously, created some kind of damage that we are not used to seeing on a football field, and that was from wxix in cincinnati. we have much more coming up on the condition of buffalo bills safety to more hamlin, is teammates, apartments, at least across the united states. reacting after he collapsed on the field. stay with cnn. exactly when we ll be there. woman: i have a few more minutes. let s go! tech vo: thatat s service that fits your schedule. ....