from elgin, illinois, please welcome angela siener-williams.are you? >> hi. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you too. >> oh, come on over here. now, i hear your plies were inspired by your grandma. >> yeah, my grandma's actually had a dance studio for 50 years. actually starting this year will be our 50th year at the studio, so she's-- she's been doing it a long time. she teaches. my mom teaches. and i help her out around the studio, and so it's a lot of fun. i love being able to share my passion with, like, the younger generation, so... >> that's great. how--what's the age of your kids that you teach? >> i have anything from 3 years old to 40, so we have a very wide range of ages, and it makes it a lot of fun because you get to see people in all their different stages of-- of dance.

brooklyn mack grew up in elgin, south carolina, a town of about 1,300 people and took his first ballet class at age 12. it was after he saw his first ballet during a school field trip and decided to use it as leverage for football. >> i ran with that and took it to my mom and said if you'll finally take me to football tryouts, i'll be willing to take ballet lessons. >> reporter: misty copeland started ballet when she was 13, a late start for most female dancers. both are accomplished ballerinas, he with the washington ballet and she with the american ballet. they've danced their way across the world and even onto commercials. >> you have the wrong body for ballet. >> reporter: both will star in the premier tonight of the washington ballet's swan lake. >> when i invited misty, i wasn't initially sure i was going to put them together. i knew there was a significance to that decision, but it took me a little while to get there. >> reporter: once the decision was made the pairing was significant. the first production of swan lake was over 100 years ago, but surprisingly a major production

the party won 49 seats in the 200 member parliament and elgin the process of forming a coalition. the election for turkish cipriots will go to the second round. they will vie for the presidency in the votes next week only turkey recognizes the self-declared. the international community views the greek cypriot government. members of grease's far right golden dawn party are set to go on trial later on monday. 18 current and former mp did are among 70 party members and supporters who are accused of murder and racially motivated attacks. the party says the case again it is all based on lies. john sirapolis reports. >> eports. >> he claims >> including alleged crimes stretching back for years. but the opponent says it's a frame-up. >> thing should gather these cases together. there was a political intervention in the justice system. these cases existed. the judiciary believed them to be unrelated and for that reason we haven't been charged. there was political intervention a political pressure media pesh to prosecute us. >> prosecution lawyer says the evidence is overwhelming. now that

they began to round up elgin civilians, use them for forced labor in germany, and began as a warning occasionally to shoot a number of belgian civilians, in spite of the fact that this was contrary to the rules of war. it is fairly clear that the germans also burnt a large part of the ancient city in belgium including a very old library which contained a great many treasures of the european past. this really shocked american public opinion. this seemed an act of barbarism. one german later on said the two things that really swayed american public opinion against us were the louvain and lusitania. in 1915, when german submarines sank the lusitania, a large number of civilians were drowned, including a number of americans. this was a shock to american public opinion. you can see a gradual shift in american opinion, which probably shares towards the allied side. this is a very long way from saying the united states should be involved in the war. wilson's own views was we should not be involved, this is not a war that involves us. on several occasions, he offered his services or the serv