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24-year-old is showing substantial improvement, i will say that again, substantial improvement, although his condition is no critical. our own maggie vespa has more. >> tonight, renewed hope for damar hamlin, now awake and interacting with friends and family in the hospital. >> it's been a long and difficult road for the loss three days. >> emergency trauma physicians shooting him at the university of cincinnati medical center. they said the 34-year-old who went into cardiac arrest on monday night's game remains in critical condition and on a breathing machine, but they know that he is showing...

Some time what whil be the impact on the spine. and so far there's no negative impact, which is good news. >> our doctors said he showed signs of acute respiratory stress syndrome. what does that tell you? >> if you sort of think about the lungs like two sponges. when you start to get fluid into the sponges, what happens the sponges become boggy and it's hard to transfer oxygen into those sponges. that's essentially what acute respiratory distress is. you can understand why a breathing machine is hard, it's hard to push air into these boggy lungs. that's a -- it's a challenging thing in the ic...

Breathing machine, but they know that he is showing signs of good neurological recovery. >> it's not only that the lights are on, that he is home, and it appears that all cylinders are firing within his brain. >> even communicating with visitors using a pen and paper. >> he was able to follow commands and even ask who had won the game. when he asked, did we win, the answer was, yes, damar, you won the game of life. >> he definitely won the game of life. >> cincinnati wide receiver higgins who tackled him of the night, reacting to the progress. it was another big relief off my chest. >> in buff...

>> reporter: right. it just keeps going. this is the news that everybody was asking about yesterday. it was like yesterday we knew, okay, he's awake. he's reacting to family. now today the breathing machine has been removed and he's talking. that's massive. the bills sending out this tweet to show how this is hitting the team letting them know he face timed his taem mates today and told them love you boys. we know how much that means to the team. we saw the press conference with josh allen and the coach yesterday. they were just so emotional having gone through this and seen it happened firsth...

Says that there are signs of improvement, given the nature of what we know, his cardiac arrest, and the impact on his lungs as well, it would probably revolve around that. is his heart starting to take over more activity, requiring fewer medications, is it becoming easier to actually ventilate, and use the breathing machine without having to use higher settings? those are the sorts of things that you are looking for. are his vital signs stabilizing? again. it could be a long, right and it could be a rocky ride from day today. so you might hear improvements one day, a little bit of a step backw...