blanchard in alabama running for governor, hillen running for governor in nebraska. and of course desantis, he has a minute-long web ad that calls fauci a flip-flopper, plays different clips of him saying one thing on masks then another, and the shot widens out into a beach and a pair of flip floms in the sand and he tells fauci to pound sand. if you think this isn t effective politics, there s a poll today showing desantis has a relatively comfortable lead for florida, that is, over his possible democratic opponent. it s early on, as you have discussed. the virus gets a vote. charles frankel from wisconsin pollster told us that for our story today. so things change, but the trend is with republicans. some case the top line, like mask mandates, still slightly popular than unpopular, but
we don t need to see flip floms on the beach. reporter: i saw that on twitter. i ll take them off. you see, you tweet, he does that. follow ed on twitter. follow me@ali velshi. that s senior white house correspondent ed henry working hard rolling up those sleeve. oh, wait, they re short sleeves. working hard in hawaii. 24 minutes after the hour. bring you up to speed with breaks news from capitol hill because they re all working there. cnn has learned a deal has been reached to get a 9/11 health bill passed in the senate before this session ends. it would provide free health care to ground zero workers. one of the biggest changes is the cost of the bill. it would drop. it had already dropped to $6.2 billion. now it will be just over the $4 billion mark. the senate also moving closer to a vote on the start nuclear treaty. there seems to be enough sport to approve the treaty that cuts the number of weapons in the arsenals of the u.s. and russia. it also allows for better