explosion of the only bridge connecting russia with the annexed territory of crimea. now, the blast partially collapsed the kerch bridge and paralyzed a key supply route from moscow s faltering war in ukraine. but this bridge isn t just logistically important, it s also a huge symbol for the kremlin in its attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this, but after the blast in kyiv, people can be seen taking selfies in front of a billboard depicting the image of the bridge on fire. that s not the only thing you re seeing from ukraine mocking the explosion. fred pleitgen joins us now. fred is in kyiv. he has the latest developments. what are you hearing, fred, about who s behind this explosion. reporter: yeah, well, the russians are moving very quickly to point the finger of blame at the ukrainians.
problem in hurricanes. so we have this standing water on the road here. this isn t storm surge. this is just the ground here is so saturated already that any rain, any water in some of these lower-lying areas, and you re getting water on roads like this. that could be very dangerous if people think they can head out. you don t want to drive through water like this. then of course, the storm surge as we go through the back half of this storm is going to be very dangerous, potentially deadly along the coast. so still a long night ahead for people here in ft. myers. a couple of key points you just made. first one that jo ling made. at these wind speeds, little things that otherwise won t be hurtful to you can be deadly. people die from signs and little things being shot around. the second thing is this is a storm surge which means it s going to come inland. it is going to go east, and then it is going to wash out west again. so you re going to get it twice. this isn t just a flood,
bill, for chuck making their way down from key largo, he is saying there s still heavy winds over there. they re still going to get gusts throughout it the evening probably up to 50 miles an hour. this is the population area and this is the airport here. we haven t really heard about all the bridges that connect. what s accessible yet and what s not. they re cutting their way through. chuck, have you gotten to any bridges yet? yeah. listen, this is a really important point, ali. thank you for bringing it up. there s a lot of information that gets flown out there. some of it is accurate, some is inaccurate. there s been numerous reports that there s been bridges out. however, we ve already confirmed that one bridge isn t. and so we want to be real careful what we push out about the brijdges. right now our intent is to get to marathon and put eyes on every single bridge and check along the way so we can get accurate information back to our emergency manager who s in the temporary e
long time ago. reporter: jeff rels prayed for and with president trump at the white house laying hands on him. it s this growing has caused the pope to call it an he cue mennism of hate. the question is whether the bridge-building pope, if this bridges extend all the way to conservative catholics and others that disagree with the premise of this article, or if that bridge isn t long enough for us. reporter: jeffress says he respects the pope but on this biblical interpretation he believes the holy father is wrong.
should have been taken out a long time ago. reporter: jeff rels prayed for and with president trump at the white house laying hands on him. it s this growing has caused the pope to call it an he cue mennism of hate. the question is whether the bridge-building pope, if this bridges extend all the way to conservative catholics and others that disagree with the premise of this article, or if that bridge isn t long enough for us. reporter: jeffress says he respects the pope but on this biblical interpretation he believes the holy father is wrong.