elizabeth palmer, cbs news, st.etersburg. >>> now to the weather and a large storm system that threatens the middle of the country with heavy rain that may lead to flooding. the rain will come in several waves throughout the weekend. flood watches and warnings are posted from east texas to vermont. some towns along the ohio river in ohio are already under water. officials say the cleanup could take days. >>> in denver, folks are dealing with snow and a dramatic temperature drop. from sunday to monday, the temperature fell nearly 55 degrees down to the teens. and it was expected to get colder overnight. and there is snow. some areas could get up to five inches. >>> coming up on "the morning news," spreading hoaxes. russian internet trolls jump into action after the florida school shooting. >>> and here's the pitch. how major league baseball plans to pick up the pace. >>> this is "cbs morning news." ship in juice from overseas. a only florida's natural grows all of our oranges in florida. great taste. naturally. hair

elizabeth palmer spoke with a former insider. >> reporter: today on this street, there was a "for rentsign in the window. the building says the u.s. indictment was a busy troll factory set up to influence u.s. voters. the russian foreign minister denied the kremlin was involved. "where is the evidence," he asked. but russian internet activist lud mila savchuk saw it with her own eyes. in 2015 she went undercover and got a job at the troll factory writing fake news in russian. this shaky video is the only glimpse she has now of the operation, but she says "we knew there were people working in english. they were better paid, and their work was absolutely secret." it consisted of posts ridiculing hillary clinton and fanning the flames of divisive issues in the u.s. when ludmilla saw the english posts, she recognized them right away as the work of the trolls. "they use the same techniques that we did," she told us. the troll factory's boss was yevgeny prigozhin. known as putin's chef, he originally made his money in high-end restaurants. that's him serving george w. bush at a state dinner.

elizabeth palmer went there and spoke with a former insider. >> reporter: today there was a for rentign in the window, but this building, says the u.s. indictment, was a busy troll factory set up to influence u.s. voters. russia's foreign minister, sergey lavrov, denied russia was involved. where's the evidence, he asked? but a russian activist saw it with her own eyes inch 2015 she went undercover and got a job at the troll factory writing fake news in russian. this shaky video is the only glimpse she has now of the operation, but, she says, "we knew there were people working in english. they were better paid, and their work was absolutely secret." it consisted of posts ridiculing hillary clinton and fanning the flames of divisive issues in the u.s. when she saw those english post, she recognized them right away as the work of the trolls. they used the same techniques that we did, she told us. the troll factory's boss was yevgeny prigozhin, according to the indictment. nobody as putin's chef, he originally made his money in high-end restaurants. that's him serving george w. bush at

elizabeth palmer went there and spoke with a former insider. today, at 55 sabushkin street, a for rent sign in the window. this building says the u.s. indictment was a busy troll factory set up to influence u.s. voters. russia's foreign ministers denied the crem len wkremlin wa. where is the evidence. but the activist saw it with her own eyes. in 2015, she went undercover, and got a job at the troll factory, writing fake news in russian. this shaky video is the only glimpse she has now of the operation. but she says, we knew there were people working in english. they were better paid. and their work was absolutely secret. it consisted of posts, ridiculing hillary clinton. and, fanning the flames of divisive issues in the u.s. when she saw those english posts she recognized them right away as the the work unfortunaof the. they used the same techniques as us. she told us. the boss was, according to the indictment. known as putin's chef he originally made his money in high end restaurants. that's him serving george w. bush at a state dinner. the u

elizabeth palmer is outside the building in st. rsburg thought to be the center of the russian influence operation. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this rather ordinary-looking office building behind me was the headquarters of the troll factory, the by now infamous internet research agency named in the indictment. which also says it was controlled by a kremlin insider and oligarch called evgeny prigozhin. that's him with president bush during a state visit here in st. petersburg in 2002. several young activists filmed video inside the internet research agency. we spoke to one of them, lyudmila savchuk. she says she was shocked by the scale of the operation. as for the operation that targeted the u.s., she says not only the 13 people named in the indictment should be prosecuted, but so should hundreds of others who were involved. the indictment says that in the run-up to the u.s. election, the internet research agency was working around the clock employing hundreds of people and spending more than $1 million a mon

elizabeth palmer spoke with a young activist who got a job in the factory. she is in st. s can be brought to justice. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the russian government has pushed back fiercely against charges of trolling u.s. citizens in the run-up to the presidential elections. not all russians are in denial about it. we spoke to ludmila savchuk, an activist who went under ground in 2015 to get a job in the infamous troll factory. she was horrified by the round-the-clock operation including night shifts and depressed by the kremlin-aligned propaganda aimed at russians, as well as americans. what did you think when you saw the american indictment? >> translator: i felt as if it brought me back to life. they're never punished, so the u.s. indictment was a first step in bringing these people who are basically criminals to justice. >> reporter: she told us the trolls based in the office building on this street are still hard at work. [ speaking russian ] >> reporter: the u.s. operation may have wound down, but she says now the trolls are churning out

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elizabeth palmer is in moscow and has details on the syrian attack and the role of the russians.rs called in those air strikes to defend themselves they had no idea they were going to end up killing and wounding dozens of russian citizens. now, the pentagon has released video of two of those attacks. their own air strikes. they show one of the mercenaries and their tanks. activists here say they were in the process of or about to attack a gas installation where u.s. special forces were already dug in with their kurdish allies. the mercenaries essentially the private army had been sent to syria originally to back up the russian military, but more recently it seems, they cut a deal with the syrian government to try tover oil and gas tak o fields in syria in return for a cut of the profits. now it wasn't until facebook photographs or photographs of some of the men killed in the air strikes started to show up on social media that the pentagon realized it had killed russian citizens. >> much more than just putin's [ inaudible ]. isn't there a hotline between the russian military and u

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