attempt to claim crimea from ukraine. russia claims at least three people were killed. a russian investigative committee arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. cnn s fred pleitgen is live for us from kyiv with the very latest on this. fred, russian officials are now saying traffic has resumed on the bridge? how is that happening? reporter: well, they are saying that the traffic is in reverse on that bridge. they are trying to clear the cars off that bridge but trying to get the traffic moving again as fast as possible. essentially, what they are saying is that all of this happened, this explosion happened in the early morning hours of this morning. when the lacey latest that they have is a struck they say exploded, even though it s not exactly clear whether or not that is the case, that a truck blew up. we have some of that video of that explosion taking place, which seems to have been massive. as a result ther
federal government to really take a hard look at the situation and step in and assist in at least two ways. one, the funding. the mayor said that the city is expected to spend $1 billion in response to the asylum influx. and also providing an expedited work authorization program for many of these over 17,000 migrants who have arrived here. because of a federal backlog, the migrants who come in, the ones who end up in the city shelter system, they are unable to work legally because they still have to wait in some cases up to 180 days to be able to work on the books. that s why many of these migrants, just this week i followed one all the way to florida, are choosing to take up job opportunities after hurricane ian because they know their options in new york city are quite limited. in terms of what the city is doing right now as the mayor calls on the federal government to assist, they are basically hoping to set up humanitarian relief centers. there would be a at least a first stop fo