Now from Times Square, here's what you need to know.

It's been a year since DeMar Hamlin, we just talked about it in the show open,

suffered a cardiac arrest in the football field,

and since then, get this, the American Heart Association says

searches for CPR on their site increased nearly 150%

percent, rather, since the incident.

So talk us through how critical CPR was

and saving his life and how we should all know how to do

CPR. A thousand percent we should all learn it and I was texting with

Damar Hamlin last night and this morning he has made it his life's mission to partner with the American Heart

Association to bring this education and awareness to the public and to save more

lives. But I want to hit you with some statistics here. First of all there

are approximately 350,000

out of hospital cardiac arrests in this country

every year experienced by adults.

Bystanders administer CPR only approximately 40% of the time and women are much less

likely to receive bystander CPR than a man. Every single minute that CPR is

delayed odds of survival go down by 10%.

We have a saying time is brain and heart muscle and bystander CPR can triple the chances of survival.

So in DeMar's case, that was initiated within seconds

as well as AED defibrillator use,

and that is why he is survived and and functional and

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