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Buffalo Bills trainer Denny Kellington saved Damar Hamlin’s life on the field, head coach says | CNN

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January 6, 2023

Buffalo Bills trainer Denny Kellington saved Damar Hamlin’s life on the field, head coach says | CNN

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Simply seconds after Buffalo Payments participant Damar Hamlin collapsed on the sector from cardiac arrest on Monday, medical personnel swarmed onto the sector in an instantaneous response that has been broadly credited for the participant’s steps towards restoration.

However one Payments staff member specifically – assistant athletic coach Denny Kellington – has been praised by head coach Sean McDermott for “saving Damar’s life.”

Payments offensive lineman Dion Dawkins mentioned in a tweet Thursday that it was Kellington who administered vital CPR to Hamlin, who docs say misplaced his pulse on the sector needed to be instantly revived by resuscitation and defibrillation.

“For an assistant to seek out himself at that place and needing to take the motion that he did and step up and take cost like he did – and there have been others on the sector as properly – is nothing wanting wonderful,” McDermott mentioned of Kellington throughout a information convention Thursday.

“And the braveness that took – you discuss an actual chief, an actual hero in saving Damar’s life and simply admire his power.”

Hamlin was transported to the hospital, the place he was sedated. On Thursday, his docs introduced Hamlin had began to awaken. Although he stays critically ailing and on a ventilator, his medical staff mentioned the participant is exhibiting indicators of “good neurologic restoration” and is making important enchancment.

The speedy response of Kellington and different medical personnel was important to “not simply saving his life, however his neurological operate,” Dr. Timothy Pritts, one in every of Hamlin’s docs on the College of Cincinnati Medical Middle, mentioned Thursday.

In cardiac arrest, the center is now not pumping blood, which suggests no oxygen is touring to the mind or different organs. Seconds matter: The longer an individual goes with out oxygen, the probabilities of organ injury enhance, and the probabilities of survival lower. CPR mimics a pumping coronary heart, which retains blood flowing, and a defibrillator shocks the center, which may trigger it to start out beating once more.

Kellington has been a member of the Payments’ coaching employees since 2017. Previous to becoming a member of the staff, he was an athletic coach at Syracuse College for 11 years, six of which have been spent as the pinnacle athletic coach for the soccer staff, in keeping with the college and Kellington’s LinkedIn. He additionally beforehand served as a graduate scholar athletic coach at Ohio State College, the varsity confirmed to CNN.

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In audio obtained by CNN of medical personnel who responded from the sidelines, medical groups may be heard urgently requesting everybody to reply the minute Hamlin collapsed at 8:55 p.m. ET.

At 8:55 p.m. ET, when Hamlin hit the bottom, somebody may be heard saying, “Go over to the cot. I don’t like how he went down.”

Just a few seconds later, one other voice says, “We’re going to wish everyone. All name, all name.” Throughout the minute, a number of different cries exit for all personnel to hurry to the sector.

Between 9:12 and 9:20 p.m., personnel may be heard requesting one other medic and emergency tools for the ambulance.

The speedy response of medical groups that night time has been repeatedly praised by NFL officers, Payments staff members and physicians.

“It’s definitely not an exaggeration to say that the expert and the speedy response by all of those proficient caregivers prevented a really tragic consequence at that second,” NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills mentioned Wednesday.

Sills mentioned that the league holds drills earlier than the season to organize for medical emergencies and likewise holds briefing conferences amongst medical groups earlier than each sport.

McDermott additionally opened the Payments’ information convention Thursday with a phrase of thanks for “the primary responders on the sector this previous Monday night and the medical groups of the Payments, the Bengals and the employees, docs and nurses on the College of Cincinnati Medical Middle for his or her work and their care.”

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Biden to Spend a Last Day as President in Charleston

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January 19, 2025

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Biden to Spend a Last Day as President in Charleston

President Biden will spend his final full day as president in Charleston, S.C., where five years ago he revived his flailing campaign and secured South Carolina’s crucial primary that was widely credited with putting him on the path to the White House.

Mr. Biden will start his day worshiping at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church, a historically Black congregation that he visited on the campaign trail in 2020 before clenching the endorsement of James E. Clyburn, the powerful South Carolina Democratic representative.

During Mr. Biden’s visit, he will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to a White House official, which will be observed nationally on Monday when Mr. Biden hands the reins of the country over to President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has often shown contempt for contemporary civil rights efforts. Following the service, Mr. Biden will deliver remarks at the International African American Museum.

Mr. Biden’s remarks will focus on Dr. King’s legacy and continued efforts to make his dream of a just society a reality, the White House official said.

It is Mr. Biden’s last official trip as president of the United States, an ode to a state — and its Black electorate — that he has repeatedly credited for enabling him to cap off a half-century career in politics with four years in the White House.

“The truth is I wouldn’t be here without the people of South Carolina,” Mr. Biden said during a January 2024 visit to the state, speaking to Black voters. “You are the reason that I’m president.”

In an interview with The Post & Courier, the South Carolina publication, the Rev. Isaac Holt, pastor of the Royal Missionary Baptist Church, said that Mr. Biden requested to start a final day in office in the pews of the church. The sermon’s message will focus on Mr. King’s legacy, the pastor said, and his sermon will center on the word “struggle.”

“He’s coming back to where he started,” Mr. Holt told the paper.

It was in Charleston that Mr. Biden, seeking the coveted endorsement of Mr. Clyburn, declared during the Democratic primary debate that he would appoint the first Black, female to the Supreme Court — a standout moment in a crowded field of candidates that garnered a groundswell of support from Black Americans that carried him through the primaries. The White House official called the South Carolina primary a pivotal moment in his campaign to secure the Democratic nomination.

In 2015, when he was vice president, Mr. Biden attended the funeral service of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was murdered along with eight other people in the massacre carried out by a white supremacist at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church. Less than a month after the death of one of his sons, Mr. Biden surprised the congregation when he chose to attend and speak at the ceremony at the church, which he said helped him draw strength to endure through his own grief.

Mr. Biden and his family held hands of congregants and sang “We Shall Overcome.”

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Israel-Hamas ceasefire takes effect

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January 19, 2025

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A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Sunday, halting 15 months of brutal war in Gaza and paving the way for the release of hostages still being held by the Palestinian militant group in the shattered enclave.

The deal for an initial six-week truce offers hope of a pause — and potentially an end — to the bloodiest war in the decades-long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has left Gaza in ruins, consumed Israeli society and brought the Middle East to the brink of a full-blown war.

The truce, which is the first stage of a three-phase agreement thrashed out by US-led mediators last week after months of failed attempts, had been due to take effect at 8.30am local time (06.30 GMT).

But in an indication of the fragility of the arrangements, it began nearly three hours late, with Israel continuing to bomb Gaza after a delay in Hamas providing the names of the hostages set for release on Sunday.

The chances of the agreement being implemented in full remain uncertain, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under intense pressure from far-right allies to resume fighting once the first phase of the deal is over.

Israel’s government said the first three hostages — who will be freed in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners — were expected to be released after 16.00 local time on Sunday. The next exchange will take place in seven days’ time, when four more hostages will be freed.

The fighting in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’s shock October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, during which militants killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and took a further 250 hostage in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

Israel responded with a devastating assault on Gaza, which has killed more than 46,000 people, according to Palestinian officials. It has displaced most of the coastal enclave’s 2.3mn people, reduced much of the strip to rubble and fuelled a humanitarian catastrophe.

Even before the ceasefire belatedly came into force on Sunday, celebrations had begun to spread across Gaza, where many displaced people were preparing to return to the ruins of their homes.

Mohamed Bassal, spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence agency, said some had begun returning to Jabalia — a devastated area in the north of the enclave — as early as 8.30am local time. “They were targeted by Israeli strikes, but some people still got there and our teams are there,” he said.

Bassal added that civil defence teams were starting to retrieve bodies from areas vacated by the Israeli forces in Rafah and in the north, and that police had started to deploy in cities.

Under the terms of the deal struck by mediators last week, the first phase will involve a six-week truce, during which Hamas will release 33 of the 98 hostages still in Gaza — including children, women, the sick and elderly — in exchange for around 1,900 Palestinian prisoners.

During this time, displaced Palestinians will be allowed to return to their homes, including in northern Gaza. There will also be a partial withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, and the ceasefire agreement also sets out plans for a massive influx of humanitarian aid into the enclave.

By day 16 of the first phase, Israel and Hamas are meant to start negotiating details of the second phase of the deal, during which the remaining living hostages will be freed in exchange for hundreds more Palestinian prisoners, the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and a permanent end to the war.

The final phase is due to involve the return of the remaining bodies of hostages who have died, as well as the beginning of the reconstruction of Gaza, under the supervision of Egypt, Qatar and the UN.

Shortly before the deal went into force, far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pulled his Jewish Power party out of the government in protest against the deal, reducing Netanyahu’s majority in Israel’s 120-seat parliament to just two seats.

Ben-Gvir’s ultranationalist ally, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, has also threatened to pull his Religious Zionism party out of the government if the war does not resume after the first stage of the deal. If he did so, it would deprive Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority.

In a statement on Saturday evening, Netanyahu said the administrations of outgoing US President Joe Biden and his successor Donald Trump supported Israel’s right to resume the war if talks over the details of the second phase failed. He also insisted that Israeli forces would keep “full control” of the Philadelphi corridor, which separates Gaza from Egypt.

“If we have to return to combat, we will do so in new ways, and we will do so with great force,” Netanyahu said.

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Arctic blast surges across US as snowstorm targets Mid-Atlantic, Northeast

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January 19, 2025

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Arctic blast surges across US as snowstorm targets Mid-Atlantic, Northeast

Winter is making its ugly presence felt Sunday coast-to-coast, as a potent arctic blast roars across almost the entire nation, one that promises the coldest temperatures so far this season for millions.

“The level and extensiveness of the frigid air may be tough to match the rest of the winter,” said AccuWeather meteorologist Brandon Buckingham in an online forecast.

Weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce said, “although it’s not forecast to set many record lows, the temperatures during this cold snap will be anywhere from 15 to 30 degrees below average for a large area. Some people may experience record cold afternoons.”

Along with the cold comes a Mid-Atlantic and Northeast snowstorm Sunday, just in time for a frigid Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C.

‘Dangerously cold wind chills’

Subzero wind chills are forecast to reach the southern Plains tonight, which will last until Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. Hazardous cold weather will likely linger along the Gulf Coast and the Southeast U.S. through much of the week.

The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh warned that “periods of dangerously cold wind chills as low as 25 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes. Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures.”

In Cleveland, the weather service warned that “the long duration of this cold will lead to greater impacts to infrastructure, including increased risk of frozen pipes, dead car batteries, and structure fires. There is an increased risk of carbon monoxide poisoning from improper use of secondary heat indoors.”

Winter storm targets Mid-Atlantic, Northeast

Folks along the East Coast will have to deal with snow in addition to the cold: According to the weather service, snow is expected to begin this morning across Virginia and into the DelMarVa peninsula, progress north along the I-95 corridor throughout the day Sunday, then reach southern New England this evening.

“The swath of heaviest snow from this event is expected between the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and Boston, with 3-6 inches of snowfall possible,” the weather service said.