st. petersburg. once russia's capital, st. petersburg is located far the north. its relative location to european economic markets and cultural centers provides clues to its unusual setting. this region continues to grapple with the challenges of new political and economic structures. as privatization forces cause housing problems for some residents, others, called new russians, find the future filled wi opportunity. as s not always beenransition to a fa smooth ridey for this russian city and its people. 1917: st. petersburg is where the russian revolution began. inflamed by leaders like vladimir lenin, the russian working class revolted against the czarissystem. this marked the beginning of 70 years of soviet communist government. under the czars, st. petersburg was russia's capital. it was an industrial city and a trading port, with strong links to weste europe. for a city with such a significant role in both russia and the world, st. petersburg's location was, and still is, exceptional. it lies almost as far north as anchorage in alaska. yet it is actually the

st. petersburg think differently. say celebrations like this are important, especially to give younger generations a feel for the true horrors of war. i need some young people on st. lavish shopping boulevard. observation will get underway soon, beginning with a minute's silence. now, rare quiet. fireworks over the river cap a big day. attended.rson hasn't the survivor of the siege of leningrad -- she just cannot summon the strength. still, she has dressed up for the occasion. perhaps her grandchildren will drop by after the fireworks are over. until then, she says, she will have her own celebration, watching television. this is my life, she tells me. ♪ f v vúúú

st. petersburg, florida, shop owner noticed a jeep near his store. >> it had blood and had all kinds of things inside of it. it had a purse inside of it. the seat belt was hanging out. and just a lot of things you could tell wasn't right. >> the right front windshield was shattered, and we found a purse with contents and identification and money and so forth relating to the female passenger. >> the jeep belonged to richard and karla van dusen. karla's cell phone was found on the front seat. just a half mile away, neighbors called police to report two dead bodies on the road outside their home. they were identified as richard and karla van dusen. >> richard was laying facedown in the dirt of the driveway, and karla was laying on her side. both had been shot in the head. and we later learned through an autopsy that karla had also been stabbed. >> richard and karla had been married for three years. they had three grown children from previous marriages. >> my son, he said, "they're dead." and i said "did they have an accident?" and i said "are you sure?" several times, i asked him, "are you sure?"

st. petersburg police give us guns -- real guns -- unloaded. we place them in a room, candy on the table nearby. and again, these are 44 good kids, most of whom know the rules by heart, and parents about to get the shock of their lives. as we begin this first group of boys are about to show you something you will see over and over again. >> aw, look. >> reporter: their words say don't touch that gun, but their bodies can't seem to help it. >> back away from it. >> reporter: think of it as a dance of temptation at the table. >> leave the area, tell an adult! >> reporter: and then around the room, even as they are chanting the rules -- a total of 20 times. they know to do it but they do not. and six minutes after finding that gun -- >> don't touch! >> reporter: they touch and dance again. our second group of boys is about to do the same. >> don't touch. >> reporter: but they take only two minutes not just to touch but to pound the barrel. and then the third group. >> don't mess with it. >> reporter: within ten minutes they take the gun out and do

st. petersburg, russia, czar peter the great's window to the wes. a city he created to pull russia out of its medieval darkness. putin lived in a one-room communal apartment with no hot water where he beat off rats with a stick. now it's a tourist attraction. for russians like this woman, it provides surprising insight into their prtd president. >> it was a very ordinary place, very ordinary. he wants to go up very much. very much. >> the city of putin's youth was called lennon grad. >> nazi's tried to blast them into submission, a blockade that lasts nine days. thousands of dead were hauled off to this memorial cemetery and buried anonymously in mass graves. amidst half a million buried could be the brother of vladimir putin. the president has revealed his brother, who was just a little boy at the time, died during the war. but he has no idea that grave may lie. >> this was the first one. >> an expert on russia, has met with putin several times. >> he learned as a child the brutality of life. will because of the citizens of lennon grad, what welsch

st. petersburg were hit twice. two planes to volgograd were hit by female suicide bombers who bribed the security guard or the russian equivalent of s.a. with about $100 or $150 bribe to not open their bags and the planes went down. so the threat is both homegrown and internationally connected. and clearly sochi is a huge, high priority target. volgograd apparently was a suicide bomb we are a controlled presence on the ground and volgogrod was targeted three times. the police headquarters was hit and then there was a bus and i think a trolley bus. no, the central train station and a bus hit that made me very nervous because this is awfully ose, time-wise, to sochi and the m.o. would probably be very similar unless they go for something much more sophisticated and -- a nightmare scenario in my mind which i don't want to share in an open forum how they could hit. why didn't it happen so far, thank god? it didn't happen because for mr. putin this is very personal. it's the show of president putin. he did not save mone

st. petersburg to find out what an early architect of the anti-gay law thinks of central station. >> disgusting you know? waste place. i should say that they should be thankful for our very patient society that we allow them to exist. >> milanov told us he believes reports of attacks on the club were all lies. and how does he justify a law that has brought so much pain and harassment to so many russians? >> to be publicly gay is not illegal. it's immoral. it's disgusting for a majority of people. because it's unnatural. it's a shame. it's a sin. it's called sodomy in the most civilized countries. >> reporter: at central station, all the hate, all the attacks, all the relentless pressure, it's all taking a terrible toll. the show, it seems, can't go on. one club manager has already left for washington, d.c. and is seeking asylum in the united states. backstage, everything is changing, too. victor, who started his drag career here is leaving, heading to san francisco for good. >> my mother say me, go for america, because you can live like normal people. here, you can't. here is dangerous, because

st. petersburg for two years. a survivor describe the suffering. rations we were given were pitiful. the people became weaker and weaker. and people kept dying faster and faster. city hadtrapped in the to survive without electricity or clean water. andcold, the hunger bombardment claimed more than one million russian lives. monday was also dedicated to another somber world war ii anniversary -- holocaust remembered today. the israeli parliament joined survivors to mark the liberation of the auschwitz death camp where 1 million jews were murdered. on tuesday, the former bosnian leader refused to testify at the trial of his ally. he denounced the un's war crimes tribunal as a tenant. -- as satanic. they are accused of being the chief architects of serb atrocities during the three-year war. u.s. president barack obama used his annual state of the union address to focus on the economy and the fight against income inequality. he had a warning for obstruction as lawmakers that he would go it alone if they refuse to work with him. >> america does not stand still and neither will i. so where

st. petersburg, florida. he often worked long hours and some nights were longer than others. >> he called me at 10:18 and said, i'm just letting you know i'm going to be later tonight because we had a late party and i just closed up. i just let everyone out and locked the door. >> around midnight, an exterminator entered the restaurant with his own key. >> that is when he saw all the bloody footprints and he saw and found mr. holmes' lifeless body. >> stephen holmes had been stabbed to death. >> i've never seen a crime scene this horrific. it was a pretty bad scene. >> in a clear case of overkill, stephen was stabbed more than 40 times. >> when you think of a murder, you sometimes think, okay, somebody is shot or stabbed. this was a vicious, vicious attack. he was almost decapitated. >> robbery appeared to be the motive. about $8,000 was missing from the safe in the manager's office. this was much more than usual, because the restaurant had been promoting $100 gift certificates as christmas presents that even

st. petersburg, florida, shop owner noticed a jeep near his store. >> it had blood and had all kinds of thingsde of it. it had a purse inside of it. the seat belt was hanging out. and just a lot of things you

st. petersburg, russia. far as our entire electric grid and cyber terrorism. >> jim, what do you think? >> i agree with john our power grid is extremely vulnerable. engineers give our grid a d-plus. it has grown ten-fold in the past 50 years. it's barely been modernized. a bunch of patchworks fixes here and there. this is why we need big, big infrastructure spending. something that obama has been calling from. this is an area where we should have agreement from liberals and conservatives. infrastructure investments are exactly what is needed to prott us from these types of attacks and to get our grid into the 21st century. >> gary, is that what this is really all about? are we doing enough to protect the grid? >> no, i don't think we are doing that at all. i happen to agree with you in this case. although, i don't think obama has said specifically infrastructure spending to re-establish or re-ignitthe power grid. he is talking act these shovel-ready projects that have never been shovel-ready. the big point i

st. petersburg was arrested for throwing chunks of concrete at a hotel claiming that zombies were chasingall have mickey mouse gloves, will you please put them on and you can take off your blindfold amanda and put on your mickey mouse gloves. well done. good job melissa. there's no contestant for being first. don't be so braggy. [ laughter ] all right, you guys ready? one more time. a man in st. petersburg was arrested for throwing chunks of concrete at a hotel because he thought zombies were chasing him. fake or florida, write down your answers now. the 8g band plays soothing florida beach music. ♪ >> seth: beautiful florida beach music. and the final question. [ laughter ] >> seth: all right, you guys have all written it down. let's hold up your answers. we have florida, we have fla and we have a florida with the #pride. [ laughter ] all right, the correct answer was florida. you are all right. that is a tie between melissa and jason. the winner of the inaugural round fake or florida, you win a full sized florida state flag, let's bring them out. ♪ [ cheering and applause ] >> seth: the

st. petersburg. >> two navy warships stationed off of the coast just in case.t does just in case mean? >> russia is a big place, it's a fairly remote difficult area to get to. if an attack were to take place, i imagine the russian authorities and security services will clamp down and shut the place down, so getting people in and out will be extremely difficult, having those warships available is going to be critically important. and just having that just in case nearby, will offer a level of sort of reassurance and confidence to u.s. athletes and anyone else that may be attending. >> tim crockett in atlanta, thank you very much. >> thanks, del. >>> opening arguments are set to begin today in a trial that is now being compared to the trayvon martin case. 47-year-old michael dunn is charged with murder in the death of 17-year-old michael davis. natasha ghoneim is in jacksonville, florida, and what are some of the other details of this case? >> reporter: well, del, it was november 2012, and the defendant, michael dunn, pulled into a jacksonville gas station. he wa

st. petersburg, paris and london. the russian government has been under a lot of pressure because of its negative view of homosexuality. but it is not the only criticism it has. >> transportation takes an hour and a half. this drag clean works at a gay club in sochi. he can be fined if he is judged to have promoted his homosexuality for children. he says so far life has not changed. >> some think it's like the stalin era. gays are shot. it's not like that. we live peacefully. the law can't ban us from loving someone. >> day people here are as aware as everyone else that the blocks are in town, and the games focussed international attention on russia's so-called antigay law. protests that the russian government repeal it, took place on wednesday in several cities around the world. rights groups say being gay in russia is becoming dangerous. >> it's like being bullied by your classmates, being harassed. these are the things that people are confronted with. what the people are afraid of is after the olympics is over, and

st. petersburg after an anti-discrimination quote. and though there's no doubt that russia would like all of the pantry on the showmanship, there's no escaping it in the games. >> a lot of controversy over who is going to the games, and who won't be there, such as president obama is about other heads of state. >>> indeed, of course the chinese president is here. and all of the russians, but very pointedly, president obama will not come himself. he sent a presidential delegation, and those people have been chosen very carefully. billy jean king, openly gay, was supposed to be part of it. and she couldn't come, her mother is ill. and kate howe, a member of the ice hockey team, she's taken her place. and brian boitano, an openly gay figure skater, in the calgary games, he's here as part of the presidential delegation as well. you don't have to read very carefully between the lines to see the message being put out by the u.s. delegation. they want equal rights. >> what the people of sochi are saying, this is their city and this is their c

st. petersburg in russia, this fella comes in in the jacket and his buddies follow after him.ou see the fellas start having some words with this guy over here. >> whoops. >> boot to the face. >> and the dude has a cig in his mouth and even after he got kicked, he's, all right, i'll have to deal with this guy. >> you can imagine he's pretty mad about it. a fight ensues. but everybody else is not into helping out. they're just watching. >> i would be watching, too. >> it seems that cigarette guy is having no trouble. >> eventually the fight spills out to the street and it seems like his buddies who are fighting and hugging on each other. no one really stepped in, but employees hit their panic button and a private security firm came in and now they handed this matter over to the local police. >>> this next video, again, alcohol may have been involved. you don't want these dudes as your friends. but you kind of do want to hang out with them because you want to be wherever they before this happened. >> oh, my. >> wow. >> according to the posters of this video, this is a couple of d

ukraine to chip in a little because now we're also getting donations from russia novosibirsk moscow st petersburg and katherine barrett give the strongest support also received money donations from paris london one the new york new york and los angeles before the people coming here are just ordinary citizens who are against extremism and fascism the reason they're against national flags and march is they used to be afraid something was holding them back expect now they're openly shouting glory to ukraine death to our enemies. and this is the point where you should think about why it might lead to this sort of peaceful protest anymore it's war. listen would this be a good use if i was at the moment we have information that they possess firearms. are most likely to have shotguns but as you know you can load those guns with anything you want especially ban in mind that the taliban sankoh the interior minister that is the spoke for the opposition and called on everyone to bring any weapons they have to start bloodshed here. and they want to seize power and create a new state. if. there's a list was f

st. petersburg for peaceful demonstrations and since it was enacted last year, it has stirred controversy really all over the globe and led gay rights activists to apply more pressure to both the international olympic committee and the companies underwriting the games in sochi. >> erin mcpike, thank you so much. bring us more as you get it. appreciate that. >>> all right. so speaking of those winter games in sochi, the u.s. has just added another medal to the tally board. bronze in the moguls, thanks to hannah kearney, the u.s. also snagged the first olympic gold of the games. it's from u.s. snowboarder sage. tweeting i just won the olympics. bringing back the first gold to the usa. rachel nichols is in sochi with more. >> reporter: he is the first gold medalist at these games, but the 20-year-old american sage katsenberg doesn't fit the clean cut olympic athlete in days' past. >> my mentality isn't about training or, like, you know, going in the gym and making myself better at snowboarding in the gym. that's not really how i like to do it. >> reporter: the night before the event, he wasn

st. petersburg painted on a banner. they tried to unfurl it.nation with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the olympic movement. a lot about russian vladimir putin's anti-gay enthusiasm is ridiculous. the russian olympic team, for example, walked into the stadium at the opening ceremonies tonight accompanied with the song "we will rock you." they picked that as their olympics theme song, the russians. we will rock you, of course, as sung by freddie mercury and queen. do the russians not know about freddy mercury? will somebody tell mr. putin what he needs to know here about freddy mercury and queen? they had the band tattoo playing at the opening ceremonies. tattoo, the terrible russian girl version for milly vanilli for pretending to be lesbian, but they're not. a lot of it is ignorance, but most of it is not. nobody wants politics mixzed up in politics or vice versa. this really is how russia started the olympic games today. on day one. holding our brea

st. petersburg, florida, but this noise is music to the ears of owner kelly lessem- bates. her business of producing cold-pressed juice jumped 400 percent since starting out just 18 months ago. it's been such an exponential growth, even from the time i was by myself in the kitchen. juicing is squeezing every last nutrient out of fruit and veggies until it's left into a pile of pulp. the juices are combined into ecclectic concoctions that nourish your body with more veggies than most people eat in a week. this process. it not only allows you to get those nutrients, but it allows you to get it in a very concentrated form. there's 4-6 pounds of fruit and veg that are in any 16 oz drinking tall glasses of green has gone beyond just the yogis and hollywood health nuts. a swanky juice bar like squeeze is the latest trend in the 50- billion dollar health and wellness industry, and the category is estimated to grow by 6 percent a year. over time as these juice bars grow and evolve they're going to saturate the market, similar to the way cupcake have grown over the past six years a

german forces encircled the russian city now called st petersburg for more than two years. survivor dani and i mean describe the suffering the rations we were given were pitiful. and the people became weaker and weaker auntie but kept dying faster and faster. you know. those trapped in the city had to survive without electricity or clean water the cold the hunger and the german compartments claimed more than a million russian lives monday was also dedicated to another summer world war two anniversary. holocaust remembrance day. members of the israeli parliament's joint survivors to mark the liberation of the l cats death camp where more than a million were murdered. on tuesday the form of bosnian serb army leave their record to lead it refused to testify at the trial of his former ally rather than carriage each. he denounced the u n's yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the hague as satanic. but they attend parent teacher accused of being the chief architects of serb atrocities during bosnia's bloody three you will. us president barack obama used his annual state of the union a

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the cities where that are most intense to be tweeting about sochi delighted to see moscow and st petersburg up there with the with the global twitter big shots and if you want to take a look at the hashtags that sochi twenty fourteen is figuring about twenty four percent of the conversation you add another ten percent on the site you live is about thirty five percent a straight up olympics so a few problems globally trying to get about three percent of conversations on softly there but that's not to say that if someone's using the sochi problems tweet that it's all about controversy that's taking place and so if you were over there if you had tried to be critical of the games themselves let's take a look at what people are tweeting you can see that's all she problems is to has taken on a life of its own there's late in the west coast the states can't go to bed that's a problem marina another who lost their keys in their car going west have to do with it well you know apparently some of the guys are having trouble watching the games and getting some sleep on the west coast states it's a sign

here's the cities where are most intense to be tweeting about sochi delighted to see moscow and st petersburg up there with the global twitter big shots and if you want to take a look at the hashtag is there such a twenty four is figuring about twenty four percent of the conversation you had another. ten percent of the site you live is about thirty five percent a straight up lympics social problems globally trying to get about three percent of conversations on tsotsi there but that's not to say that if someone's using the social problems tweet that it's all about controversy that's taking place it's what you want over there if you try to be critical of the games themselves let's take a look at what people are tweeting here i think we all empathize with this we can look at some of the social problems that are actually happening on other media this is a medals table where a.b.c. unfortunately mixed up the u.s. canada in the netherlands the dutch flags in their medals table you can understand it's you know it's a high pressure it's sports news right now it's got to be pressures and we can move i

here's the cities where are most intense to be tweeting about sochi delighted to see moscow and st petersburg up there with the global twitter big shots and if you want to take a look at the hash tag there we can see this is global figures so saucy twenty four is twenty fourteen is figuring about twenty four percent of the conversation you had another ten percent on the site you live is about thirty five percent a straight up olympics so the problems globally trying to get about three percent of conversations on their eyes that's not as much as they was before you know exactly the percentage going down so the meet the mean seems to have lived for a short glorious existence it's over that not without its merits here we've we've had a quick look at vancouver the former host city of course predecessor to sochi and as you can see the guys are very fixated on the games in vancouver there are five times up there before we had problems still trading slightly above average global average at about four percent there abouts we can get you take let's take a look at london london again we took us about a