you do not have to wear those masks. please take them off. honestly, it s got to do anything. if you want to wear it, fine. you have to stop with this covid theater. this is ridiculous. please take them off he said. steve in st. petersburg, florida. desantis clearly an opponent of masks but it was frightening to see him ask the kids to take them off. yeah, john. the reaction to this video online was swift. it blew up immediately. you had democratic candidates and politicians all across the state criticizing the governor. nicki freed, the agriculture commissioner running for governor likened desantis as a bully. charlie christ write on twitter criticizing the governor. he said, young people in our state deserve to be treated with respect, not dumped on by a heartless egotistical governor
students letting them know this was, quote, theater and that they had an option. there s going to be a lot more blow back to this today, john, i m sure. we ll be watching it. steve, thank you very much. more now on the breaking news out uf crane. just in, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy speaking moments ago to his citizens as the russians are attacking his country. translator: you are leaving people without food. you are leaving us without medication. you are shelling evacuation routes. there is no weapon you wouldn t use against us, against free citizens of ukraine and now you go out and tell your propagandists that you are going to send so-called humanitarian aid to ukraine. please remember you godless people when people curse you, you have nowhere to hide. we don t have nuclear arms. we don t have oil and gas to
we re there for we ll come down to get them out. flooding is not going to be just here the coast some of the greatest damage could be far finland especially in towns along smaller rivers, across mississippi which is already had tremendous flooding. jon back to you. all right steve in st. louis, thank you. our meteorologist adam is tracking barry from fox extreme weather center and has latest on that. hey there jon. still a slow-moving storm picked up three to five miles an hour, not fast enough that it is going to stop all of this flooding potential. center of circulation now is off to the west of lafayette, louisiana, this is going to continue to track to the north and you do notice most of the action is being pulled behind this system. usually we get a little bit more balance this one you see almost all of the rain still hanging offshore. so as this continues to track north it is going to pull that rain with it and heaviest rain are is on the way. winds currently in the 30s to 40 m