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attempt to claim crimea from ukraine. russia claims at least three people were killed. a russian investigative committee arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. cnn's fred pleitgen is live for us from kyiv with the very latest on this. fred, russian officials are now saying traffic has resumed on the bridge? how is that happening? >> reporter: well, they are saying that the traffic is in reverse on that bridge. they are trying to clear the cars off that bridge but trying to get the traffic moving again as fast as possible...

What did you hear? >>on is doing a good job of trying to convey a message without revealing too much information about specifics of this logistics effort, which clearly the russians want to be able to hits . the u.s. is the best in the world when it comes to logistics but it take a few days to get going. i am a little frustrated. we talk too much about what we can't do and what we're not going to do. you don't feel the energy of what the full power of the united states getting behind ukraine, doing everything we can to give them the ability to destroy russian rocket and

60s who said are we're taking up arms. >> my brother, his family, my nieces, my nephew. >> my girlfriend, she's actually in lviv right now. >> i call them almost daily. sometimes you actually hear the bombs. >> reporter: cleveland is nearly 5,000 miles from kyiv. but in these suburbs, the war feels close. >> these are a comp medication -- >> reporter: the doctor is an internist, not a logistics effort, but he's running a frantic effort to send planeloads of medical supplies to ukraine. how much time are you spending on this? >> 18 hours. i'm usually going to bed around 12:00, get up at 5:00 be...

You have to imagine there will be air support up above as those last troops are coming out as it becomes more and more difficult to secure those troops as it gets closer and closer to august 31st. >> oren, we've learned of these two congressmen, seth moulton and peter meyer who right field at that to afghanistan. the pentagon said they had no idea about this. do we know if their presence affected the evacuation mission? >> certainly any time you have two u.s. lawmakers on the ground in kabul, it would require its own security effort, it's own logistics effort once they're on the ground and onc...

Bit about the situation in beaumont, specifically, the police are saying that the city is essentially on an island. what does that mean? how does that change your rescue efforts here? >> most importantly the concerns us the most with all the first responders in the texas division, emergency management, is the water situation. we're getting a status on whether the generators can come back up at the pumping stations and restore water. in preparation for that, we're moving tremendous logistics assets to be able to provide water as we rescue people and as the water starts -- the floodwaters start ...