when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water come

so this does may seem like it has all the makings of charles dickens story to it but unfortunately this actually is real life and of course at this point russia is prosecutor general's office is looking into investigating the matter as well of children's rights on the committee is also going to come to this region and try to carry out a new suggestion on his own and see whether or not the allegations are in fact true kerry really as you say some shocking allegations there and there were similar claims a year ago so did an investigation at that time lead to any changes that were called . well you see one of the peculiar points about the investigation that did take place last year was the fact that the investigators were not allowed into the premises of the convent and of course the boarding school so they had to rely on hearsay and on the testimony of the students of the boarding school and ironically one of the student. is now one of the three teenagers who have now it's capes and at that point that very girl said that all the ica's ations presented by a sixteen year old teenager who ha

they went through and according to them this is going to sound like something straight out of a charles dickens story according to them nuns at the convent beat them regularly they are the newspaper demonstrated bruises and marks from beatings on their arms and the and the hands and knees everywhere sensually and this is a common that's right behind me right now apparently at that convent nuns that punished the pupils for behaving by making that making them stand on their knees cutting down their hours of sleep leaving them without food for days and forcing them to work in the fields one of the girls as a matter of fact says that her spine has been damaged as a result because one of the nuns thought that she wasn't working briskly enough in the fields and now we're talking about kids ages from ten to sixteen and they were made to work in the fields from dusk till dawn does t.v. are cases of child abuse and of course like is that this is not the first time. investigations that were carried out earlier but unfortunately of course the convent denies everything saying that all of these allegations

declaration will help those who have lost jobs >> couric: finally tonight, with apologies to charles dickenst of times and the best of times in europe. in france, protests continued today as the senate voted to raise the retirement age there. in britain, deep budget cuts. nearly half a million public sector jobs will be eliminated. but even with all that, mark phillips reports, opulence is making a comeback. >> reporter: it seems to have happened without much fanfare, except here where the queen named a new luxury ocean liner-- after herself, naturally. >> i name this ship "queen elizabeth." (applause). >> reporter: you might think all this celebration for a new liner is misplaced. she may be built in the grand tradition of floating opulence from the heyday of ocean travel, but this ship was commissioned five years ago in that buoyant, free-spending time before the world economy started to sink. yet as the queen e.'s owners held their breath when tickets went on sale, something unexpected happened. >> we're seeing, particularly for the first few voyages, regular guests coming back to us. >>

of fact this has all the markings of something that seemed to come out of a straight out of a charles dickens tale but unfortunately if these allegations do prove to be true. then we're talking about some of the most severe case of child abuse which has his russian russian orthodox church in recent years thousand very loud accusations and of course other moscow do you also see and the most you are looking into investigating the case of the allegations as well as the prosecutor general's office as well as the children's ombudsman of russia i was also looking into investigating this case because the course the allegations sound in fact too severe to be true but if they do prove to be true then we're talking about a very serious case of child abuse kerry shocking allegations there are similar claims a year ago found nothing so didn't investigation at the time lead to any changes at the convent. not particularly in fact one of the most one of those to interesting moments in this entire story is that one of the girls who is claiming that she was beat by the nuns now last year testified that none o