we have another hour of velshi, right now. good morning to you, i m ali velshi. is this saturday october 8th day 227 of russia s war in ukraine. breaking news this morning out of crimea. an explosion has crippled the bridge. this is a remarkable development. take a look at this bridge. look at the multitude of fires across it. it has collapsed part of the bridge into the sea. russians think the truck bomb exploded. it set fire to several oil tankers that were traveling on the bridge by rail. now, here is the important part. you probably never heard about this. it is new. it is the only bridge connecting mainland russia and crimea. this is a pet project for vladimir putin belt after russia s illegal annexation of crimea in 2014. north of crimea, on the battlefield front, ukraine continues to regain its land in the northeast, and east. this week the captured about 2000 square kilometers in the south near the area of kherson. it is the blue areas over here. ukraine has now captu
able to evacuate. because of an ability to travel because of work or whatever. but also, i ve been hearing just anecdotally people who are in the county, win that notice came, i think it was about a little a day before less than 24 hours before the storm hit. it came to communities, it came to people s phones that are mostly spanish speakers or creole speakers, and they didn t understand, they weren t able to read it. so, they didn t know to evacuate. i think we have to look at a couple things, one, when we re getting that notice, the ability for folks to be able to evacuate. and then also, making sure that information is accessible to who non english speakers. there s also an issue when i was there, you are not talking about the ice i talk to those shrimpers, they weren t far from where helpless, but they had no way to know that because their phones just weren t working. and fort myers beach cell phone service wasn t good. people had lost power things like that. we don t seem to hav