i have not been here to relax since i took those photos. >> the louvre rats are gone or now.oncerned about its image, the museum deployed twice as many exterminators as usual this past summer and has the park cleared of trash each day, but soon, the world will not be looking so mostly, and the rats may slip out of their hiding holes again. >> now to greece, just over a year ago, greece's state broadcaster was suddenly shut down. the aim was to show international lenders that greece was serious about economic reforms. the station had been accused of exorbitant pay for star reporters and managers, but greek people were shocked to see the news suddenly replaced by a black screen, so the journalists decided to simply keep on broadcasting. >> radio station ert no longer exists. it was close to 15 months ago. police forced everyone out of its building in athens in november, 2013, triggering massive road test and riots, but the building remained empty. today, the new state radio station broadcasts from here with reduced staff and pro-government talk shows all day. andrea's work here

i suppose the idea evolved -- first of all, we met and bonded over lunch in a restaurant over the louvrerted off and said we would do conversations about what is a museum? then, philippe suggested it would be more fresh to go to galleries and respond to the works as we passed them. >> that is true because i tend to look at museums as containers of works of art. the content has always interested me more than the container. we looked at art and we talked about it. the whole idea is that our reactions, our response to works of art could be translated at least in part into words and conceivably be helpful and useful to the reader. >> did the two of you find there is some basic difference in how you approach this or how you approach art or did you find out surprising things about each other in your reaction to art? >> we certainly have different tastes, different responses to individual works. on the whole, we did stay pretty much with very high-quality works in the prado, the british museum, the louvre, museums in holland and florence. we were not experimental in the terms of the works we we

reporting louvre in berkeley, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >>> happening now, construction on the bay bridge. lanes of the western span of the bay bridge are closed for work as crews fix the joints. the work is expected to last for the next ten weeks. last month, the job brought traffic to a crawl when metal plates suddenly appeared. this go-around crews are closing fewer lanes and using quick drying concrete instead. the work will start at 8:00 and last until 5:00 a.m. every night sent sundays for the next two and a half months. >>> reminder to keep your kids close as you shop after a man was seen lurking behind a 2-year-old girl at a koss coin san francisco. police rereleased this video. he walked behind the child, patted her on the head and told her to come over here. police say the man ran away when mom noticed him snoof. >>> they have been on the case for couple of week. today they got their suspect. undercover police arrested a man outside of a peninsula high school. gary phuong was booked on charges of child annoyance and lurking near a school. police say twice this mon

(sirens wailing) a thief broke into the louvre, stole the frames, but left the paintings behind!iant baguette! and i suspect someone's let the animals out of the zoo. (french accent): what gives you that idea, bastings? just a hunch. (shouts) eh, another day, another puzzle to solve brilliantly. who cares? fern, why'd you stop? we're right in the middle of an exciting case! i'm sorry, george. i just feel sad. i think i'll go home. sad? why are you sad? i don't know. (french accent): it's a mystery. but you're the world's greatest detective! who else can i get to solve the case of why you're sad? (doorbell rings) (thunder crashing) how about me, buster baxter, private eye!

is it different than the louvr?? the product and other museums? rada and other museums?> it is a great symbol of the nation. perhaps for russia, even more. it combines a great collection and the history of russia. you feel this history in all the rooms of the hermitage. you feel the history of russia, the russian empire. it is all connected. all the main events through history have done something to the hermitage. >> the centrality of catherine the great and crating the creating the- in collection. >> she was quite an impressive woman. she was extremely clever. she was fully non-russian, she was german. no drop of russian blood. but she was the most russian czar on the throne. she understood what people needed, russian needed. she does it all the right things to promote russia as a great institution. she knew to be a great statement a great army, a economy, and collection in museums. >> i'm struck by the capacity of great leaders to view their role a significant part of the suite of history. they understand the context of it. what came before. are they want it to go. get

. >> rose: is it different than the louvre and the met and prada and other museums. >> yes, it is differente bit. it's like the great symbol of the nation, maybe like prada but even more. for russian it's part of the love to the nation, it's love of hermitage. and it is great history and nicholas the second and you feel this history. collecting is mostly imperial collecting you feel the history of the russian empire. it's all connected. all main events and then something to hermitage with hermitage and so on. >> rose: the centrality of kathryn the great in creating the collection. >> yes. well she was fantastic woman. it's quite important today feminism. shejyand she was fully non-russ. german. no drop of russian blood. but it was on the russian somehow. she understood what russia needed, what people needed, what it's all about. and me has done all the right thing to promote russia as a great institution and collections. she knew that to be a great state it mean great army, good economy and great collection in the museums. >> rose: i'm always struck by the huge capacity of great leaders to

moved in to a suite of hastily evacuated apartments which stretched along the banks just west of the louvrehere louis would live by lafayette's rules lafayette's rules and under lafayette's authority. on the morning of october 7 lafayette attended what could only have been an awkward ceremonial today. for better or for worse it seems that louis the 15th would always have lafayette at his side. the marched oversight ended so calmly was nothing short of extraordinary. the heads of two royal bodyguards had been transported to paris on pikes but large-scale carnage had been avoided, and much of the credit belongs to lafayette. his uncommon ability to think clearly under pressure and his unparalleled credibility with the crowd and allowed him to wrest control from a.m. that night lafayette proved to the world that he deserved his representative is -- deserved his reputation, but the future would bring challenges. thank you. [applauding] >> can we here those? zero, good. [inaudible conversations] >> as laura is fixing her microphone before the reading. so please write down your questions. ask the