rise. a strategic victory for ukraine and its war with russia. retaking a key city and a territory. this as a putin ally urges him to take more drastic measures in the fight. and portland oregon homeless crisis, no laughing matter. she confronted him about it at a city council meeting. much more on this ahead. we began with fox team coverage. steve harrigan kicks things off for us tonight. steve. we have been going up and down the coast along highway 75 seeing these flooded communities. we are about to see how this dodge ram doesn t this water. this worker checking on some downed lines. before they could turn the power back on here. 700,000 people. they will be back at 95% of the people with power. we have remarkable drone footage as well. it shows the flooding in these neighborhoods. two-3 feet of water around many houses. cut off from the rest of the place. we have seen a lot of rescues yesterday. today we have been seeing more salvage. people going in and trying to get
the ukrainians. so far the ukrainians have not claimed responsibility. in fact, one senior adviser to the volodymyr zelenskiy, hinted he believes tf an inside job within the russian security services but unclear who is behind it. we can see on our screens that massive explosion that took place in the early morning hours. the russian investigative committee, the russians say is on the scene and has been working. they say that an explosion occurred at a truck, that a truck blew up and that that explosion sort of caused the chain reaction because there was a train carrying fuel going past that area of the bridge at that point in time. several fuel tanks catching fire, blowing up as well. that s what that big fire that we see now with that thick black smoke going out there for a very long period of time before the russians were able to put that out. the status right now seems to be it s quite interesting because you mentioned this, fredricka, that the russians are saying that t
what president biden has called playing politics with human beings, former governor ron desantis, promised these flights are only the beginning. so they ve been in texas identifying people trying to come to florida and then offering them free transportation to sanctuary jurisdictions, and so they went from texas to florida to martha s vineyard. it was a flight. there s also going to be buses and there ll likely be more flights. but i ll tell you this, the legislature gave me $12 million. we re going to spend every penny of that to make sure we re protecting the people of the state of florida. governor ron desantis along with the governor of texas are transporting migrants to well-known liberal enclaves. critics say they re being used as props. the governors and their supporters say it s a protest of what is an inadequate federal response. for more on the politics of this debate in a moment. cnn s miguel marquez has been on martha s vineyard and has their story. reporter
flights.s. but i ll tell you thisis, the legislature gave me $12 million. we re going to spend every penny of that to make sure we re protecting the people of the state of florida. governor ron desantis along with the governor of texas are transporting migrants to well-known liberal enclaves. critics say they re being used as props. the governors and their supporters say it s a protest of what they say is an inadequate federal response of crossing the border. more on the politics of this debate in a moment. cnn s miguel marquez has been on martha s vineyard and has their story. reporter: after less than 48 unexpected hours in martha s vineyard, nearly 50 venezuelan migrants were given a warm send-off. volunteers embracing each person as they boarded buses, then ferries, and onto the next part of their long journey. their announced arrival wednesday all part of a campaign by texas governor greg abbott and florida governor ron desantis to send migrants to see called sanctua
we ll hear from one investigator in kyiv about building a war crimes case. and one republican governor says he s just beginning when it comes to sending migrants like these to other states. we ll hear how the white house is responding. it s now 8:00 a.m. in london, the furd full day of lying in state for queen elizabeth. the flood of people hoping to pass by her coffin before monday s state funeral has exceeded expectations with up to 2 million now predicted. authorities warn the miles long queue is at or near capacity and have shut it down multiple times. inside westminster hall the queen s four children led by king charles held a silent vigil. in the coming hours they ll hold the own vigil. we ve been keeping tabs of the government s live tracker with people waiting to get into westminster hall. the site continues to warn people not to join the queue. the wait currently so long people in the back of the line may not get to view the queen s coffin until some time tomorro