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top of the hour this tuesday morning, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill, it is a busy hour ahead to let's gigt rue to it. a horrific scene during monday night football, damar hamlin in a hospital after the 24-year-old collapsed on the field following a violent collision in the game against the cincinnati bengals. on the field reacting in shock and horror in those moments. medical staff performed cpr on hamlin for some nine minutes before his heartbeat was restored. he was driven out of the staid in an ambulance. that game ultimately suspended by the nfl. the bills updating this ...

ambulance. this whole thing playing out live on national television. and before clearly shell shocked players, and staff and fans. you see the team there together in prayer as the ambulance was leaving the field. let's go to vince right now. adrienne broaddus is standing by at the hospital where hamlin is being treated. what is the very latest? >> reporter: kate, at this hour, he is on a ventilator. fans are used to him fighting on the field to help lead his team to victory. but right now that 24-year-old is fighting for his life. the first monday night football game of 2023 between ...

The way that it normally does but instead starts to quiver, and fib ril ate and it is not moving blood through the body and what you need to do is restart the heart and restart the process of normal pumping and it sounds like that happened. so that is an optimistic sign but as you just heard from adrienne, he's still in critical condition and that is probably the case for sometime and then they'll need to evaluate how much of an impact did that lack of blood flow have on the rest of his body. >> and you noted that his heartbeat was restarted on the field and the seconds and minutes matter. it ...

Rare known as commotion cortis, which is a blow to the chest and to the heart, coyi could show y from this model. it could happen at a precise time to the heart and it basically theysrows the heart i an abnormal rhythm. it is rare for this to occur. maybe two dozen times a year type thing. but that actually causes the heart to go from pumping blood as it normally does, to the heart muscle actually quivering or fib ril ating: someone could be rendered unconscious quickly because they're not get enough blood to the brain and that seems to be what happened according to the bill's statement that t...