kerry is set to meet with his russian counterpart in london. they're trying to find a diplomatic solution to keep this crisis from getting worse. our nick patan walsh is in simferopol this morning in crimea. nick, what's the feeling on the ground there? >> reporter: really, everyone looks at this as a done deal here, the referendum moving full speed ahead to bring this peninsula closer to russia, if not make it actually part of the russian federation itself. we're seeing moves, talk of the russian ruble, moscow's time zone being introduced here. in fact, one man i spoke to yesterday considered himself a subject of russian as soon as the polls closed sunday. but yes, the real fear, what's happening on the eastern border of ukraine and russia, near an industrial town to the east, 8,500 russian troops conducting exercises which the russian ministry of defense said were there to make them familiar with territory they're not particularly aware of at the moment. that's going to be causing real fears in new government in kiev. we've also seen an outbreak of violence between pro-russian and pro-ukrainian protesters in dinesk last night where 1 person was k