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I'm Coy Wire.
This is "CNN 10."
And we have an awesome show for you today, so let's get going.
We start by getting caught up on what's
happening in the economy, specifically the job market.
This past year, rising inflation and high interest rates
made some economists fearful of a potential recession, which
among other things, would make it difficult for people
to find jobs.
But in 2022, the labor market held steady,
with the economy adding more new jobs than many people expected.
But what about 2023?
Let's take 10 to break it down by the numbers.
In November, there were 10.46 million available jobs
in the United States.
And while that was slightly fewer than the 10.51 million
jobs available in October, there were still 1.7 job
openings for each job seeker.
Also, the great resignation is not over.
Americans quit 4.2 million jobs, and that figure was 2.6 million
prior to the pandemic.
We'll hear now from CNN Business anchor and chief business
correspondent Christine Romans who's with us to contextualize
all the hows and whys of the current job market, especially
amidst recent headlines of all the layoffs that are happening
across so many industries.
- It seems like every day brings another round
of layoff announcements, especially in tech--
Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Salesforce, Lyft
all among the companies cutting jobs.
Media companies are laying off workers, too.
Even consumer giants like Walmart and Pepsi
are reportedly trimming staff.
At the same time, the overall job market,
though, is in desperate need of workers.
There are more than 10 million job openings
in the United States, about 3 million
more than before the pandemic.
Weekly unemployment claims are low and hiring remains robust.
So what's really going on in the job market?
High-profile headlines about tech layoffs
don't tell the whole story.
The industry hired aggressively during the pandemic.
And now, it's scaling back.
- It's important to note that tech
is a very small percentage, 2% of the overall labor market.
So tech is not a bellwether for the real economy
or for the labor market.
- Other sectors like leisure, and hospitality,
and health care are much bigger, and they're still adding jobs.
Those companies want to hang on to their workers,
not fire them.
The question now is whether the job market can stay strong.
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates
to slow the economy as it tries to fight inflation.
And the Fed chief himself admits that's going to cost jobs.
- There will be some softening in labor market conditions.
And I wish there were a completely painless
way to restore price stability.
There isn't.
And this is the best we can do.
- For Powell, slaying the inflation dragon
is the priority, even if it means losing jobs.
The Fed predicts the unemployment rate will rise
to 4.6% by the end of the year.
- Up next, heroes don't always wear capes.
We're getting a rare behind-the-scenes look
into health and safety measures that recently
saved an NFL player's life.
Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills
suffered cardiac arrest in the middle of a game two weeks ago.
And within seconds, medical professionals, heroes,
were at his side.
Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes us to meet the NFL's Chief Medical
Officer for a detailed look at all the precautions taken, all
the protocols that are in place to protect players in America's
most popular sport.
SANJAY GUPTA (VOICEOVER): Dr. Allen Sills
is chief medical officer of the NFL.
He's giving me a sideline view of the preparedness that
goes into every game day and once you see this,
you will probably never watch a game the same way again.
You may have missed this pop-up blue tent.
It's on every sideline.
ALLEN SILLS: It's like a medical exam room.
Now, we've kind of made this a medical space, even
in the middle of a very busy stadium.
It's just so much easier to do things in here,
because like I said, everybody's just more relaxed.
You don't have the cameras.
You don't have the fans.
SANJAY GUPTA (VOICEOVER): Or this, the injury review screen.
- So we can be down here on the sideline, and the spotter's
booth, if they've seen an injury video,
they'll cue it up for us, put on the video
exactly what we need to see.
We can ask them to run it back.
- We can talk, and we can talk to them.
The spotter's booth, they are the eyes in the sky.
Hey.
MAN: Welcome, welcome.
SANJAY GUPTA: Thank you.
- So this is another part of our game day medical preparations.
And the real goal of this booth is to help spot any injuries
or illnesses on the field.
It can be hard to see the whole field from down there.
SANJAY GUPTA: Right.
- Probably to me one of the most unique things in sports
is the spotter can directly communicate down
to the referee.
These people can stop the game.
- So we watch every--
every play probably minimally, four times.
And then we'll-- we'll go back and watch it again.
And so, you know, we just want to make
sure we don't miss anything.
- It's always about the right people, the right plan,
and the right equipment.
We have almost 30 medical professionals,
and everyone has a job to do.
SANJAY GUPTA (VOICEOVER): ER doctors, orthopedic surgeons,
neurosurgeons, paramedics, X-ray techs, and airway specialists,
like Dr. Justin Deaton.
- So this is the bag that I carry,
and it's got a number of things in here that we could use.
The first thing is a portable video laryngoscope.
We have a portable ultrasound machine that we can use.
And we also have ability to perform surgical airways.
I really have all the resources available here that I would
have in an emergency room.
- What's the biggest challenge of that scenario versus being
in an emergency room?
- Well, the biggest challenge is this external environment
and the chaos of the situation.
When you have a-- a larger-than-average-sized
person that's laying flat on the ground and not able to be
elevated to a certain level with extra equipment plus, you know,
cameras and other people around, those are really
the confounders and things that make-- make
it more difficult to manage.
- How does everyone know you're the guy in charge?
- I wear a red hat on the sideline,
and that signifies me as the emergency physician,
the airway physician, so that even
if the other team knows when I come out, what my role is.
- If a player needs to get taken off of the field,
the ambulance is going to be in the tunnel to your right.
If you need anything at all, we'll be out there for you guys
if you need us.
Otherwise, we hope you have a safe and healthy game.
Good luck.
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- Keep in mind the medical team was
able to get to Damar Hamlin within 10 seconds,
and speed really matters here.
Every additional minute that someone in cardiac arrest
goes without CPR, mortality goes up by up to 10%.
- This is a process that's in place for every single game,
and we train in the offseason.
And just like the players train and practice, we do as well.
So I have tremendous confidence, but you always
want to see a game with no injuries,
and you want everyone to, frankly,
be, bored on the medical side.
That's a good game from my standpoint.
SANJAY GUPTA: I hear you.
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COY WIRE: 10 Second Trivia.
Yakutsk, widely considered the coldest city on the planet,
is located in what country?
Canada, Russia, Norway, or Mongolia?
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Located in the Russian province of Siberia,
temperatures in Yakutsk have reached minus 58
degrees Fahrenheit this week.
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- And for today's 10 out of 10 story,
we're taking a trip to Wisconsin's Highway 35 to meet
Jeffrey the Giant Snowman.
And Jeffrey's snow joke.
He's 58 feet tall.
That's more than four stories high.
Drivers there try to keep their cool,
but Jeffrey freezes traffic to a halt with tons of people coming
from hours away to get a glimpse and to take
selfreeze with them-- an incredible feat
by Craig Carlson and his two sons, Bo and Hunter.
They named Jeffrey the Snowman after a loved one
that passed away.
Now, that just melts my heart.
All right, you already snow know what time it is.
West Milwaukee Intermediate School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
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