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Making clear the best way to help ukraine fight the russians is with weapons. >> the more weapons we get and the sooner they arrive in ukraine, the more human lives will approbe saved. the more cities and villages will not be destructed and there will be no more buchas. this is my message to the allies. it's very simple and i call on all allies to put aside their hesitations, their reluctance, to provide ukraine with everything it needs. >> cnn correspondents are covering this conflict from a number of angles. we have fred pleitgen in kyiv. matt rivers in ukraine. delia gallagher in rome. bria...

[ gunfire ] >> hearing all that gunfire gives you an indication of how long this lasted this morning in alexandria, virginia, at this baseball park and you see the people taking cover. you hear some of the voices. they asked about that guy who was down. that guy, congressman steve scalise, the louisiana republican, he was hit by the gunfire in his hip. we know he is just out of surgery after that shooting this morning. let's go and get an update on his condition, among the other survivors as well. i have brian todd standing by outside of medstar washington hospital and diane gallagher

The scene. you know, that all happened relatively quickly and they've been able to learn a lot about him since the shooting, brooke. >> they are in his home and there will be evidence. did anyone know he was doing this? we know that investigators will get to the bottom of all of it. shimon prokupecz, thank you. sir, i'm sitting next to you on a day like today and you all were supposed to be getting ready for this big game tomorrow night in d.c. i understand you missed your ride. you were supposed to be there playing shortstop not too far from where steve scalise would have been. >> right next ...

Outside of george washington university hospital. brian, to you first, steve scalise out of surgery, how is he? >> reporter: we were just told by officials that he's in critical condition after having surgery a short time ago. he's in critical condition and remains in critical condition. it is the most severe condition someone can be in while hospitalized, according to the american hospital association. it means that vital signs are unstable and not within normal limits and the patient may be unconscious. those are the guidelines for being in critical condition. according to an aide, it's not ...

Now it's drained away. but for a while this historic 450-year-old city was isolated, half of the residents did not take the mandatory evacuation orders seriously. staying put. and they ended up in a city that became officially closed. it is now reopened and the water is draining away. further north it is a lot worse than that. places like savannah and also charleston, where we find out brian todd standing by. brian, you're looking at record levels of water there in the harbor. and we're talking about a city that has problems with water at the best of times. >> absolutely. michael, we were told...