Chest Hit News Today

>> thank you, everyone, for wat watching. cnn newsroom is now. ♪ good morning. im rerica hill. >> im jim sciutto. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin still in critical condition in a cincinnati hospital. the 24-year-old collapsed on the field after a violent collision. players on the field shell shocked as medical staff performed cpr on hamlin for a full nine minutes before they finally restored his heart beat. he was driven out of the stadium in an ambulance. the nfl later suspe...

Being, two distinct possibilities. one is what were hearing about, that is the impact to hamlins chest hit right at the time that the heart rhythm caused a chaotic spiral. if you see on your screen, right at the time of the heart beat, that red line shows you the most inopportune time to get a blow to the chest that can cause a chaos. theres another distinct possibility. that possibility after i went frame by frame yesterday, there is the possibility that the blow went to his jaw and into his br...

Baby. this tornado that hit mississippi traveled some 150 miles and was reportedly about a mile wide. rob marciano has been keeping an eye on things. where is that weather? its out of that area in particular, but other people might be under threat from the same system. >> the energy moved off to the east and that storm cell that produced the tornado is certainly incredible and the width of the path and the length of the path just amazing stuff. 97 miles long. maybe longer than that once they g...

Gasoline tank and it rolled this way. it lodged up against it and saved her life, keeping her from getting crushed. t.j., in the preliminary information from the national weather service, is that this tornado had winds of up to 175 miles per hour. that is well into a category 5 hurricane strength winds and this was a baptist church. you heard that man talk about how it was like a bomb going off. this is essentially the same thing that happened here. people described that pressure being so intens...

We found matthew mccray and his wife, jo, on a back road, their house blown 40 feet off the foundation. his guitars muddies. it is days like this that inspired the mississippi blues. what was it like being in there when this happened? >> just that quick -- it sent woof and woof again and the roof was off. >> reporter: was it scary? >> i just started praying and asking the lord to save me. >> reporter: along this dirt road, the tornado killed its three youngest victims, two sisters and a three-mo...

But back in the 1850s and 1870s a yellow fever epidemic almost wiped out the population. today, they will be recovering, rebuilding. they will get help. 80 members of the mississippi national guard will be here. later today, the governor is expected to ask for federal assistance. they are going to try to get the help they can get. back to you. >> all right. well check in throughout the day on cnn. thank you very much. i want to turn it over to rob marciano in the weather center. it was interesti...

Mississippi hardist hest hit by tornado. a 50-mile-long path of destruction for a storm they say was about a mile wide wind speeds. we are up to 175 miles an hour. today on capitol hill, a key vote on reforming the rules of wall street. republicans and democrats say it is essential to pass safeguards that would prevent another financial meltdown. this point may be timing. two sides close to a compromise. the democrats want to begin debate today. the republicans say they are not ready just yet an...

Stripped completely clean like the trees you see in a world war i battlefield or something. then some trees have all the leaves. its strange how random the storms can be. this one, as rob has told me, we have new information. the winds exceeded 170 miles per hour as they came through. for the viewers at home, the tornado actually came through from behind the camera or behind where you would be sitting and roared in this direction toward the watertower. you can see the damage in the foreground. i...