Officer Saves Infant Who Was Not Breathing
PAUL: Well, today marks 75 years since Japan unconditionally agreed to accept the terms that would end World War II. A formal surrender was signed September 2nd. So in the United Kingdom and the U.S., today is known as Victory over Japan Day. A wreath laying ceremony was held this morning in London.</s>BLACKWELL: There was also a ceremony held at a shrine in Tokyo. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended along with Japanese Emperor Naruhito and grandson of Emperor Hirohito who ruled Japan during the war. An officer in Michigan is being called a hero after rushing into save the life of an infant. CNN's Ryan Young has the story of their call of duty.</s>RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Officer Cameron Maciejewski of the Sterling Heights Police Department in Michigan got a heart stopping call of a baby in distress.</s>CAMERON MACIEJEWSKI, POLICE OFFICER, STERLING HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT: I was about a mile away from the house. I was right around the corner when the call came out. And the only information I got from our dispatch was there's a three-week-old infant not breathing, and everyone is screaming in the background. OK. Calm down. Calm down. Let me see the baby.</s>YOUNG: Dash cam video picks up the next very tense seconds filled with fear.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Please, please, please.</s>MACIEJEWSKI: I was checking the baby's mouth to see if I could see anything. Didn't see anything. And then next thing after is trying to do some back blows to dislodge whatever might be deeper down in the baby's airway. And I gave her three back blows, and that third one I heard a faint cry come.</s>YOUNG: Even before the ambulance could arrive, the baby was breathing on her own.</s>MACIEJEWSKI: Yes. There you go. OK. He's crying. He's crying. It was a sigh of relief. I think I actually before I spoke into my radio, I took one -- a deep breath and put that out over the air that baby is crying, which it brings joy to everyone. But that was definitely a giant sigh of relief.</s>DALE DWOJAKOWSKI, CHIEF, STERLING HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT: What was going on in the emotion in that moment, and anyone that has a child, any mother on the planet that watches that video, any family, you can just feel the pain, the confusion, the worry. It's all there in the moment, those two or three minutes. Very powerful.</s>YOUNG: Maciejewski's chief couldn't be more proud of his young officer.</s>DWOJAKOWSKI: I've been a police officer for 25 years. The last couple months have been brutal, not just for me but every cop in the United States. What a lot of people don't see is what we do every single day. Our guys do great police work, including saving lives.</s>YOUNG: Maciejewski got to meet the infant and the family as they thanked the officer for his calm under pressure. Police officers from around the world have reached out to say good job, but Maciejewski got the seal of approval from his hero and the man who made him want to be a police officer -- his dad, who also served as a police officer for 20 years.</s>MACIEJEWSKI: And he said, usually it's the dad that's the hero to the son, but he's like, you're my hero today. It hits home. It really does. It pulls on the heart strings, because I'm a human just like everyone else in this world.</s>YOUNG: Ryan Young, CNN, Chicago.