arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. fred pleitgen is live for us in kyiv with the latest. so fred, russian officials saying traffic has resumed on the bridge. what are you hearing? reporter: well, we re hearing and seeing some of that traffic, russian officials say it has resumed and it really seems to be just a tiny trickle of traffic if you will. just to give you an overview, it is a pretty wide bridge, it has the rail link that was disrupted for a long period of time. we are hearing a train apparently has managed to bypass that bridge thounow. but it had four automobile bridges, lanes, two in each direction and it seems like one lane is working for all of the traffic. and the explosion that we keep seeing on our screens there was so powerful that it caused part of the car bridge to collapse. and essentially what the russian investigative committee is saying, all of it happened in the very early morning ho
you know, it was really a tough decision to make. but, again, we have to err on the side of caution at all times. reporter: nearly 300 schools in four states will start the year virtually. d.c. and baltimore will take two days off to allow students and staff to test. other cities, like seattle, are telling families to prepare for a possible last-minute switch to remote learning. but following the guidance from top health officials, new york city has decided it s better for kids to be in person. your children are safer in school. the numbers speak for themselves. reporter: with covid cases rising, is it safe to reopen schools? it is if you have the protocols in place. reporter: washington state superintendent chris reykdal points to protocols like mask wearing and a high vaccination rate among staff. we know how to control this and keep spread minimal in schools. sports are a little harder, but in classrooms, very effective with these strategies, and we did it before we even
the foundation after 13-year-old s home. isaac phillips is a member of that football team. his mother is white. father is black. now his family says isaac doesn t want to go back to school and they are convinced it was a member of the team who wrote that slur. i feel horrible for, you know, the kids that are not involved but we are a small town. things like this shouldn t happen in a small community like ours. so when it does, i think it s time for drastic measures, canceling the football season, i think that will flush whoever that it is that is responsible for this to step forward. yes, it. . the superintendent plans to release more information about this investigation into who may have been responsible. that s the way to handle a situation like that, right? 47 minutes after the hour. a turn here. time for our morning rhyme. the best tweets of the day. today is from jay bart henthorn on the news. he says a dream liner lands at
if oil killed this endangered species. shepard: steve harrigan as the sun begins to set on grand isle. developing now as fox reports tonight, word of a possible scandal on the hallowed grounds of arlington national cemetery. just a week after we learned that the bodies of more than 200 veterans had been misplaced, we re now told several head stones have been found in a nearby creek bed. fox news has learned the head stones may have been used to prevent erosion after workers replaced them. it s unclear whose head stones they are, but it does appear they may have been in the creek for several decades. we re told arlington s incoming superintendent plans to hold a meeting on the issue tomorrow and we will have updates. before last week, alvin greene was a relative nobody in south carolina. now the unemployed man is a nominee for the united states senate. but maybe not for long. after greene won a primary without campaigning and while facing a porn charge, people