this dancing gay sailor, his neon light box, the thing also emits morse code. it sends out a code message that says over and over again this way if you are gay, this way if you are gay. the idea of dropping this off the coast was if the russian military is as terrified of gay people as their prime minister is, vladimir putin, they might see the gay sailor and hear the morse code message and turn their submarine around and flee in terror in which case problem solved. alternatively, if they liked the morse code message and found themselves attracted to the underpants clad shirtless dancing gay sailor, then they would be welcome to stay on those explicitly friendly turns. kind of a make love not war underwater version. that happened this spring. then it hand again kind of. this time in finland. one of the weird geopolitical leftovers from world war ii is that when nazi germany lost the war, german-owned property in some other countries got distributed to the people who won the war. got distributed to the allied powers and in finland, that included a little bit of

they used these lights as a morse code. the movement of the light has certain meaning. the captions indicate what is being communicated with those like patterns. -- light patterns. occasionally, his wife would join him. they would go to a hotel at night and make up songs about the trip they had just made on the train. he would play the harmonica and she would sing and they entertained themselves while they were traveling on the road that way. part of what he did was to photograph women at work. he was very sympathetic to women workers. his mother supported the family by running a black market dentistry office in their home. his father was never able to adapt to uslife very well -- u.s. life very well. his mother was the one who made the money they lived on. he was very sympathetic to other women working. he made beautiful portraits of women. it was natural you would go into the rail yards and photographed the women -- it was natural he would go into the rail yards and photographed the women at work. they look very different from the women photographed by the office of w

. >> morse code. >> i got stuff on my phone. >> all right, you too. >> have al good show. >> thank you. >>> time for a check on the accuweather forecast. >> meteorologist bill evans is live outside the studios on the upper west side. >> it's live, buzzing out here. lots of folks are out. school is going on in the suburbs and around the area, they start at different times. today a humid day, warm day. hot and humid day. temperatures with the real feel of 95 to 98. today is the last day. day 3 of our third heat wave of the summer going out kicking and 77 degrees at the park. sunrise, sun getting up at 6:30. yes, the daylight hours are getting shorter. heather noted that. 77 degrees. humidity on the high side. a day with a west wind at 6 and southwest wind, pressure at 30. normal high 38. we are starting out at that. that let's you know it will be the hot day. another humid day today. thunderstorms tomorrow could be locally heavy. we are 7 inches short of rain for the year. that front exits tomorrow night. nice front going into the weekend. 75 rockland county. 70s to 60s north and west. e

>> i was told that the inmates in this -- on this side were actually flashing their lights sos, morse codeoking for the outside to come in and help them. >> owe could hear the yelling, the screaming, people yelling for help. >> inmates, i heard, were tied up on these railings and thrown over and hung. some were just tossed off from manly the third tier, which is the tier above us. this black mark is the outline of a body of an inmight. they used the remainder of the torch on. i think his name was perry. he had a lot of enemies in population. that outline there on the floor is permanently there. it will not come up. >> some of the groups that were holding the officers hostage were attacked by other groups of inmates. the hostages were taken from them, dressed in inmate clothes, slipped out of the prison, and subsequently those prisoners that did that got pardons. >> after a 36-hour stand-off, exhausted, hungry and freezing, inmates surrendered to the national guard. >> when it finally was over, we came in with the national guard, the state police. we rushed in, and the first thing that i en