(NewsNation) — The Latah County jail in Moscow, Idaho, where suspected murderer Bryan Kohberger is expected to stay, is tightly quartered, according to the Latah County Sheriff’s department.

The jail reportedly only accommodates 42 inmates, and the cells are in the basement of the county courthouse.

Kohberger will reportedly have access to a library that has a selection of books, including a pull-up bar and a dip bar, and a small rec yard, all of which are constantly monitored. Inmates are allowed an hour a day in either or a combination of both.

Soon after authorities announced Kohberger’s arrest in the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, county prosecutor Bill Thompson addressed the next steps. 

“Once he gets here, he’ll have an initial appearance with our magistrate, they’ll deal with issues, such as making sure competent counsel is representing him and the case will be scheduled for hearings,” Thompson said. 

Should Kohberger be brought back through the Pullman-Moscow regional airport, it is just a ten-minute drive to the jail.

NewsNation saw food delivery this morning at the facility, which showed items that would work with Kohberger’s vegan diet.

Search warrants executed after the Friday arrest resulted in new evidence from Kohberger’s WSU apartment. 

Authorities also searched his office on the WSU campus, the Kohberger home in Pennsylvania and the white Elantra he drove cross country.

In building their case, law enforcement continues to seek tips about Kohberger, urging people to call or email Moscow police.

“Come forward. Call the tip line; report anything you know about him to help the investigators, and eventually, our office and the court system, understand fully everything there is to know about not only the individual but what happened and why.”

The probable cause affidavit detailing what led law enforcement to Kohberger is expected to be unsealed soon after he arrives in Idaho.

NewsNation learned that Kohberger’s public defender’s name is Ann Taylor. NewsNation reached out to her office, but has yet to hear back.

Similarly, County Sheriff Richard Skiles has yet to respond to an interview request.

Actor Jeremy Renner, who played Hawkeye in the Marvel “Avengers” movies and was hospitalized after a traumatic injury while plowing snow, was recovering on Tuesday and posted an image on his Instagram account thanking his fans for their wishes.

The actor posted a selfie from his hospital bed in Nevada, showing him looking bruised with oxygen tubes in his nose.

“Thank you all for your kind words,” he wrote on Instagram. “Im too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all.”

Renner’s publicist and local officials said on Monday that he was in critical but stable condition after his accident on New Year’s Day. He “suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries” in the accident, his publicist said.

Renner, 51, was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor for his work in the 2008 film “The Hurt Locker,” which also won the Oscar for best picture. He received a supporting actor nomination for his work in “The Town” from 2010.

After his success in “The Hurt Locker,” Renner starred in multiple Marvel projects as well as in two “Mission: Impossible” films, “Arrival,” and “American Hustle,” among others.

Renner has owned a home in Washoe County, Nevada, for several years, according to the Reno Gazette Journal.

That area in northern Nevada received heavy snowfall on New Year’s Eve. The National Weather Service had a winter storm warning over the weekend in the area.

In a media briefing on Tuesday, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said that Renner was run over by a snow plow that began rolling by itself after he used it to dig his car, which was being driven by a family member, out of a mound of snow.

Renner used his plow, described by Balaam as a PistenBully that weighed over 14,000 pounds, to extract the car. He went to talk to the family member when the machine began to roll.

“In an effort to stop the rolling PistenBully, Mr. Renner attempted to get back into the driver’s seat … it’s at this point that Mr. Renner was run over,” Balaam said, adding no foul play was suspected.

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Retail pharmacies will now be allowed to offer abortion pills in the United States under a regulatory change made by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, GenBioPro, the manufacturer of Abortion pill mifepristone, said in an emailed statement.

The “in-person” requirement that patients see healthcare providers in physical locations which was temporarily removed during the Public Health Emergency, is now permanently removed, GenBioPro said, quoting Danco Laboratories, which makes Mifeprex, another medication to end an early pregnancy.

Danco Laboratories did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.

The New York Times first reported the change in FDA rules.

Mifepristone, in combination with a second drug called misoprostol that has various uses including miscarriage management, induces an abortion up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy.

Congratulations, Katie Hobbs! It brings me so much joy to write that on Monday, Arizona Governor elect Katie Hobbs was officially sworn in as the Governor of Arizona! This woman is remarkable. The crap she’s been through by Kari Lake and Lake’s team was horrible. And there is also the fact that the media treated Hobbs in some ways worse than they treated Lake.

I say this because Hobbs passed on debating Lake. Good for her! By doing that, Hobbs got into Lake’s head and lived there rent-free. But the media treated it as some type of sin. Over and over pundits called Hobbs out for refusing to debate, undoubtedly because they were disappointed they wouldn’t get extra clicks and higher ratings by normalizing Lake’s debate performance.

Hobbs handled things with dignity and grace. I am so delighted for her and have no doubt she will make Arizona even greater and mightier than she already is. And Lake and company are not taking this well. Arizona State Rep. and insane person, Rachel Jones, took to Twitter to express her rage that Arizona dared certify the rightful winner of the Arizona election.

“I will not move on” She shrieked on Twitter, calling Arizona “stolen” by “radical leftists.” Those evil, evil leftists! In the meantime, Lake is still losing her mind about the race and her failure to win and has filed an appeal to the supreme court, which nobody really cares about, so I will speak if it is no more. So congratulations Katie Hobbs for winning your race and for saving Arizona! ! You more than earned this!

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Israel’s new far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Tuesday, a site also revered by Jews, angering the Palestinians and drawing a slew of condemnations.

“The Temple Mount is open to all,” Ben-Gvir said on Twitter, using the Jewish name for the site. Video footage showed him strolling at the periphery of the compound, surrounded by a heavy security detail and flanked by a fellow Orthodox Jew.

Although the visit at the flashpoint site passed without incident, it risked increasing frictions with Palestinians after a surge of violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2022.

Diplomats said both the United Arab Emirates and China asked the U.N. Security Council to meet publicly to discuss the issue, likely on Thursday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would seek a Security Council condemnation, a statement published by the Palestinian WAFA News Agency said.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “calls on all to refrain from steps that could escalate tensions in and around the holy sites,” U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.

When asked about the visit, a White House National Security Council spokesperson said any unilateral action that jeopardizes the status quo of Jerusalem holy sites is unacceptable.

In an apparent effort to lower the temperature, an official in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the premier was fully committed to the site’s decades-old status quo allowing only Muslim worship there.

An Israeli official said the 15-minute visit by Ben-Gvir, a senior member of Netanyahu’s new nationalist-religious cabinet, complied with an arrangement that allows non-Muslims to visit but not pray.

Ben-Gvir once advocated ending the ban on Jewish prayer at the sensitive site, but has been non-committal on the issue since aligning with Netanyahu. Other members of Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party still advocate such a move.

Jordan, the custodian of Al Aqsa and whose 1994 peace deal with Israel is unpopular at home, summoned the Israeli ambassador and said the visit had violated international law and “the historic and legal status quo in Jerusalem.”

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called on Palestinians to confront what he described as raids onto the compound and accused Ben-Gvir of staging the visit as part of a bid to turn the shrine “into a Jewish temple”.

Israel denies having such designs. An official at Netanyahu’s office said “claims of a change in the status quo are groundless”.

A spokesman for Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group that rejects coexistence with Israel and which controls Gaza, said of the visit: “A continuation of this behaviour will bring all parties closer to a big clash.”

The leader of Lebanon’s powerful armed Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, said that any infringement of the status quo would lead to an explosion in the entire region.

The rise of Ben-Gvir in Netanyahu’s government, one of the most right-wing in Israeli history, has deepened Palestinian anger about their long-failed efforts to secure a state in territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

Hours before the visit, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager in a clash in nearby Bethlehem, medical officials and witnesses said, the latest death in a growing West Bank toll. Israel’s army said troops fired on Palestinians who threw explosives, rocks and firebombs at them.

Al Aqsa is a symbol for Palestinian hopes of securing a state, a goal that looks ever bleaker with Ben-Gvir and other far-right allies now in Netanyahu’s government.

The European Union’s Middle East envoy Sven Koopmans said the status quo must be maintained.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides “has been very clear in conversations with the Israeli government on the issue of preserving the status quo”, a U.S. embassy statement said.

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, both among the few Arab states to have recognised Israel, condemned the visit, and Saudi Arabia also criticised Ben-Gvir’s action.

Turkey, which has recently ended a long-running diplomatic rift with Israel, condemned the visit as “provocative.”

Al Aqsa compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, is Islam’s third holiest site. It is also Judaism’s most sacred site, a vestige of two ancient Jewish temples.

Israel deems all of Jerusalem its indivisible capital – a status not recognised internationally. Palestinians want East Jerusalem, where the compound is located, as capital of a state also taking in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday, pious Jews fasted to commemorate a Babylonian siege on the first of those temples, in the 6th century BC.

Ben-Gvir oversees Israeli police who are formally tasked with enforcing the ban on Jewish prayer at the compound. He said that freedom of movement would be upheld there, without any mention of freedom of worship.

Not far from the compound, Israel police said on Tuesday they were investigating the vandalising of gravestones at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery.

Security camera footage circulating on social media showed two young men, one dressed in Orthodox Jewish garb, entering the graveyard, pulling down a cross-shaped tombstone and smashing it with rocks. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage.

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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) can continue to deliver prescription abortion medication despite a June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned a landmark abortion rights decision, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

The department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in an opinion sought by USPS that the mailing of mifepristone and misoprostol, commonly used to terminate pregnancies, did not violate an 1873 law known as the Comstock Act.

USPS said in a statement the opinion “confirms that the Comstock Act does not require the Postal Service to change our current practice, which has been to consider packages containing mifepristone and misoprostol to be mailable under federal law in the same manner as other prescription drugs.”

Mifepristone is a prescription drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to induce an abortion up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy. It must be followed by a second drug, misoprostol. Both drugs also have other uses.

A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on the opinion.

The FDA in December 2021 permanently eased some restrictions on the medications, allowing them to be sent by mail rather than restricting them to in-person dispensing.

USPS said it took no position on abortion policy at either the federal or state level and noted the Justice Department opinion “specifies that the mailing of those drugs to a particular jurisdiction that may significantly restrict access to an abortion is not a sufficient basis” for the USPS to refuse to deliver them.

USPS said the Justice Department concurred with its “determination that under the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity, any state laws that may apply to the shipment of those prescription drugs cannot be applied to Postal Service employees who are complying with their duties under federal law.”

The Supreme Court’s decision overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion put a spotlight on abortion by medication, which accounts for more than half of U.S. abortions.

A Dutch supplier of abortion pills by mail saw demand surge in the wake of the decision, which allowed more than 20 states to begin enforcing new restrictions on abortion.

Restrictions on the abortion medication lifted in 2021 had been in place since the FDA had approved the drug in 2000. They had been lifted temporarily earlier in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling women to consult healthcare providers by telemedicine and receive the pills by mail.

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The collapse of Buffalo Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin on the field Monday night shocked fans and left his teammates overcome with emotion, crying and huddling together as paramedics performed CPR loading Hamlin into an ambulance.

Both the Bills and their opponent, the Cincinnati Bengals, agreed to cancel the game—and the National Football League has said it will not resume this week.

Hamlin remained in critical condition on Tuesday. For some fans, the 24-year-old Bills star’s medical emergency evokes the death of Chuck Hughes more than 50 years ago, who also collapsed during a game.

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To date, Hughes remains the only NFL player to die after collapsing on the field, according to most sources. The teams did not suspend the game—but instead played the final minute as medics tried to save Hughes.

What happened to Chuck Hughes?

APTeam doctor Edwin Gis, right, attends to Chuck Hughes shortly after he collapsed during a game between the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears on Oct. 25, 1971. Hughes died later in a Detroit hospital.

Chuck Hughes, a 28-year-old wide receiver for the Detroit Lions, suddenly collapsed at the end of the fourth quarter of a game against the Chicago Bears in Detroit on Oct. 24, 1971.

His teammates finished off the final 62 seconds of game time after medical aid wheeled Hughes away. Attempts to resuscitate him continued in the hospital, but he was pronounced dead nearly an hour later at Ford Hospital due to a heart attack.

An autopsy confirmed Hughes suffered from arteriosclerosis heart disease, per an archived article by the New York Times. Prior to the incident, Hughes had complained of pain in his stomach and chest, but no doctor had found evidence of the disease despite numerous tests.

The Lions retired Hughes’ no. 85 jersey to commemorate his passing, though ESPN reports it has been fielded recently.

NFL suspended game for Damar Hamlin

After Hamlin collapsed on Monday, both the Bills and Bengals agreed to suspend play, and the NFL ultimately ended the game with no plans to resume the game this week. It’s a decision that has widely been agreed as the right thing to do given the circumstances.

The NFL maintains that was the plan all along, though ESPN’s Joe Buck said during the broadcast that players were told they had five minutes to warmup to continue the game. The NFL denies Buck’s statements, but Buck reaffirmed this stance to the New York Post in an interview.

“Neither coach was talking about resuming play, the players were not thinking of resuming play,” said NFL executive vice president of Football Operations Troy Vincent. “How do you resume play after seeing such a traumatic event?”

The NFL’s 2017 Official Playing Rules Manual affirms that in “most circumstances all regular-season and postseason games should be played” for their entire duration. Only if NFL authorities believe it is impossible to continue a match because of an emergency, of which the league lists inclement weather, lightning and power failure as examples, should the game end.

Rescheduling options are to be decided by the Commissioner. Article 9 of the manual indicates that it should be set for no later than two days after its originally scheduled date, though if that’s not possible, the game should be scheduled on the following Tuesday that the two clubs are set to play.

NFL spokesperson Jeff Miller said that there are currently no plans to resume Monday’s Bills-Bengals game during a conference call.

Questions about safety

Still, Hamlin’s collapse kicked off another round of conversations about safety in football—especially during a NFL season with several high-profile injuries on the field.

Concussions and major injuries are common in football, and the NFL has been subject of much criticism for its injury policy since its founding more than a century ago.

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Changes to better protect players are currently enacted by the Competition Committee, a body in charge of adopting or changing rules. Every season the committee reviews injury data and surveys NFL teams to better assess the sport. There have been more than 50 rule changes implemented since 2002, but it was only in 2011 that the League developed the NFL Game Day Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol, which is reviewed every year to “ensure players are receiving care that reflects the most up-to-date medical consensus on the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of concussions.”

In late September, the NFL was under fire after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was allowed to return to a game against the Bills though he was visibly wobbly. In the following game, Tagovailoa was injured again and had to be taken off the field.

Tagovailoa’s being cleared via the NFL concussion protocol in the Bills game led to an investigation. The NFL subsequently revised its policy so that players that are experiencing ataxia, or gross motor instability, cannot return to the field. Previous policy said that if there was another reason for motor issues they could keep playing in the game.

On Sunday, the day before Hamlin’s collapse, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Nick Foles convulsed on the field during a game against the New York Giants in what was later labeled as a rib injury. That same day, the Philadelphia Eagles’ Josh Sweat was taken to the hospital with a neck injury.

Volkswagen

• Volkswagen revealed the ID.7 sedan, its latest electric car, at CES 2023. 
• The ID.7 will compete with Tesla’s trendy Model 3 in the US, China, and Europe. 
• VW touts a new “intelligent” climate system that automatically directs the air vents and turns on before a driver gets into their car.  

Volkswagen is on a mission to beat Tesla at its own game. And on Tuesday it revealed its latest electric car at CES 2023: the ID.7 sedan.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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The ID.7 will compete with Tesla’s uber-popular Model 3 when it goes on sale in the US, China, and Europe.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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It follows up an onslaught of Volkswagen EVs launched over the last few years, including the ID.3 hatchback, the ID.4 SUV, and the ID.Buzz minivan.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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VW pegs range at up to 700 kilometers, or 435 miles. But that’s according to the European testing standard, which is typically more generous than the US EPA.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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VW says the ID.7 will offer some fancier features, like a standard heads-up display and a massive 15-inch touchscreen.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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That’s three inches bigger across than the display in VW’s ID.4 SUV.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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Plus, the ID.7 features a new, advanced climate system that can start heating or cooling the cabin when the car senses its owner approaching with the key fob.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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The direction of the air vents in the ID.7 is digitally controlled through the touchscreen.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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VW says this will improve user experience, but in my experience, regular vents with manual tabs work just fine.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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There is one neat benefit to having the vents be electronically directed: They can move automatically to distribute cool or warm air better — like an oscillating fan.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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VW also says that the “intelligent” system will react when it detects the sun’s glare inside the cabin — and adjust the air direction and temperature accordingly.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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Another highlight, per VW: The company pushed the ID.7’s wheels far out to either end, giving it extra interior space.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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VW hasn’t said how much the ID.7 will cost or when it’ll go on sale. We should learn more — and get a better, un-camouflaged glimpse at the ID.7 — closer to when it goes on sale.The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan.

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• Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to gain the votes to become House majority speaker on Tuesday.
• McCarthy failed to gain the necessary 218 votes three times at the outset of the 118th Congress.
• Later, key ally Donald Trump declined to say whether he stood by his endorsement of McCarthy. 

Donald Trump’s support of longtime GOP ally Kevin McCarthy may be fading after California Republican failed to win the House speaker bid three times in a row on Tuesday.

McCarthy did not amass enough votes from his Republican colleagues at the outset of the 118th Congress, with 19 GOP members voting against his effort to become speaker of the GOP-led House. Trump, for his part, has now tamped down on his support for his longtime confidant, according to NBC News.

“We’ll see what happens,” Trump told NBC News on Tuesday. “I got everybody calling me wanting my support. We’ll see how it all works out.”

McCarthy could not immediately be reached for comment.

In December, Trump encouraged GOP holdouts to rally around McCarthy, accusing them of playing a “very dangerous game.”

McCarthy needs 218 votes to secure the leadership bid, and by the third round of voting, the number of Republicans voting against him had increased to 20 members. Many of the members of the America First caucus, including Reps. Matt Gaetz, Chip Roy, and Lauren Boebert, voted against McCarthy.

“I will always fight to put the American people first, not a few individuals who want something for themselves,” McCarthy told reporters after the first vote. “I’m not going anywhere.”

By the end of Tuesday’s session, Rep. Jim Jordan had emerged as a frontrunner, but declined that he would seek the post when asked by NBC News.

(NewsNation) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest during Monday night’s game in Cincinnati. The incident immediately resonated with heart health awareness advocates who say it’s a reminder that sudden cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, even active young people.

“This is a good time for people to ask: is their child’s school ready for a cardiac emergency, is their sports team ready for a cardiac emergency?” said Martha Lopez-Anderson, the executive director of Parent Heart Watch — a nonprofit focused on protecting children from sudden cardiac arrest.

The issue is deeply personal for Lopez-Anderson. In 2004, her seemingly healthy 10-year-old son collapsed on the sidewalk just one month after a routine checkup. He died of sudden cardiac arrest from a heart condition that had gone undetected.

“I was completely blindsided… I just couldn’t understand what was happening,” she said.

Since then, Lopez-Anderson has dedicated her life to sudden cardiac arrest awareness so that other families don’t have to face a similar tragedy.

Unlike a heart attack, which occurs when blood flow to a part of the heart is blocked, sudden cardiac arrest is the abrupt loss of heart function which is usually caused by an abnormal heart rhythm.

Although rare, each year approximately 2,000 young people in the U.S. die from sudden cardiac arrest, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Studies have shown the risk is higher among student athletes.

In fact, sudden cardiac arrest is the most common medical cause of death in athletes. Many of those incidents, particularly in younger athletes, are linked to inherited heart conditions that often go undiagnosed.

For that reason, Lopez-Anderson says education around early warning signs and pre-screening tools like electrocardiograms (ECGs or EKGs) are key to preventing deaths.

At least 15 states have passed laws requiring sudden cardiac arrest prevention training in youth sports, according to Parent Heart Watch.

Other states are considering legislation that would go a step further. New York lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require heart examinations for public school students and a statement on whether a student is fit to participate in athletic activities.

But early detection is just part of the prevention strategy, Lopez-Anderson said. Schools and other public places need to have equipment — and people who know how to use it — when an emergency does occur.

“Every single school in our country should be equipped with life-saving devices just like they’re equipped with fire extinguishers,” she said.

Research shows easy access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) can save lives.

According to the American Heart Association, 90% of cardiac arrest victims who receive a shock from an AED in the first minute survive.

Lopez-Anderson pointed out that while some states require schools to carry AEDs, a lot of the time those mandates are unfunded and the devices aren’t properly maintained.

In a situation where seconds can be the difference between life and death, a lack of training or malfunctioning equipment can be lethal.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Hamlin remains in critical condition. If the Buffalo Bills’ safety pulls through, it will be due in large part to a rapid response by emergency personnel.

NewsNation will continue to provide updates on Hamlin’s condition as they become available.