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Breaking tonight, doctors seeing small but encouraging signs of improvement in damar hamlins condition. hes receiving 50% oxygen after receiving 100%. hes still in the icu sedated and on a ventilator. doctors have flipped him on to the stomach to relieve pressure on his lungs. hamlins family and friends are feeling positive about the direction things are headed. >> theres not clarity at this point in terms of how long things are going to be, how long its going to take, where things are going to ...

Suffered a cardiac arrest and his heart needed to be restarted on the pitch. he is still in a critical condition on a ventilator but he is still awake. so some good news. thank you for watching. please get in touch with me on twitter. goodbye. hello. some blustery conditions out there for many of us tonight, particularly in scotland, where gales are likely in places. also rather squally winds in association with a band of rain pushing eastwards. what we have on the satellite picture from earlier...

Its something well never forget. >> reporter: mcdermott saying hamlins father addressed the team wednesday, urging them to play for damar. >> his message was the team needs to get back to focusing on the goals they had set for themselves. damar would have wanted it that way. >> reporter: and david, doctors say the next immediate goal is to get him gradually off that ventilator and breathing on his own and eventually strong enough so that he can go home. his team will be taking the field on sunda...

Changing some of the ways in which we vote to allow new competition and choice to emerge in the american republic. that is under way in some us states but this is a generational challenge, make no mistake and what were seeing right now is a symptom of the illness. lets look at some of the other stories making headlines today. the nfl player who was seriously injured during a game at the weekend is awake and able to communicate in writing. according to his doctors, damar hamlin has asked who won ...

Buffalo bills safe damar hamlins condition has changed. the team says, damar has shown remarkable improvement over the last 24 hours. thats great news. when they say remarkable improvement, do we know anything about what that means? >> reporter: yeah, katy, that remarkable improvement indicating that he is now awake his agent has confirmed to nbc news. we know he had been sedated and on a ventilator to help with his breathing. doctors hoping that would help him heal faster. physicians saying hes...

Other than the tracheal tube that he has. as for the long-term recovery, we are focussed on the right now. he has a little ways to go in terms of the liberation from the ventilator and i believe that is the focus right now in terms of helping him to recover, liberate and continue to get stronger and rehabilitate, but it is entirely too early to project into the future. >> so, is there any reason that you dont expect him to make a full recovery? >> again, more focusing on the right now, but i don...

Cylinders are firing within his brain. >> reporter: hamlin collapsed on the field after this tackle during the first quarter against the cincinnati bengals. today, doctors revealing those first medics on the field started the process of reviving hamlin less than one minute after his heart stopped. that swift action likely saving hamlins life. he remains in the icu, breathing with the help of a ventilator. late today, the bills taking to the field for practice. head coach sean mcdermott emotional...

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The donors, they may not know it, but they helped heal my son. technically when enamel is gone, you cannot get it back. but there are ways you can repair it. im excited about pronamel repair because it penetrates deep into the tooth to help actively repair acid-weakened enamel. i recommend pronamel repair to my patients. damar hamlin, the buffalo bills player severely injured during last nights "monday night football" game, is still sedated and on a ventilator, not breathing on his own. he als...

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