sven haakanson is steering his boat out of the narrow bay of kodiak island his ancestors have lived here since time immemorial. over the thousands of years they to solve this seascape each time they put out to sea to hunt. but they use narrow canoes with a couple of paddles instead of comfortable motor boats with powerful engines in the past yes it was very very difficult to hunt as an individual you need to group in order to. actually capture for example you look at the sea lines over here in order for you to hunt one of those in the several people. on a summer day and seven hundred forty one scores of you need it's of the land set out on a hunting expedition in canaries they spotted odd looking ships on the horizon. those big sail boats belonged to an expedition led by russian explorers bearing and . that was how kodiak island made its appearance on russian maps the first colonists were. forty years later. the city of kodiak was the capital. for fifteen. street service a reminder of. the names of russian travelers and merchants. there. who are all founded to. tell you where we first ru

sven sees telling the history of. people as a mission. which is one of the principal tourist attractions of. when few tourists visit. local people come here to when the russians actually took over. claimed alaska. one of the friends together with his family is listening to his story although his name is of russian origin he doesn't know a single word of the language spoken on the other side of the bering strait nor does he know much about where his last name comes from. my mom told me in the morning the russians were here they were taken people often are drawn to your hundred your honor and they couldn't say our last name so of a russian. spy you don't seem you enough doesn't need to speak russian all services in the orthodox church in kodiak city are held in english. father in a county was born in new england a place that is far away from here he has no russian roots nevertheless he decided to serve as an orthodox priest in alaska but it was a long story. it's a story of growing up in a christian church a protestant church but always run

sven how concerned the lives a life entirely different from his ancestors to him putting out to sea is more like fun than work. sven is proud of his traditional bathhouse he sees it as a symbol of successive generations and imbedded russian traditions. when the russians came. the thing that is similar are the rocks and the heat and steaming the washing inside of vanya and that's something that we've been doing for centuries and that's a tradition where the now we have a wooden house which is a russian vanya which just adapted to it i mean i grew up taking wine yes for baths . svend sees telling the history of. people as a mission he kiri it's a museum which is one of the principal tourist attractions of kodiak island when few tourists visited during low season local people come here to when the russians actually took over our claimed alaska for russia speed you don't see one of sen's friends together with his family is listening to his story although his name is of russian origin he doesn't know a single word of the language spoken on the other side of the bering strait nor does he kno

. >> reporter: sven jones was a close friend of hers and one-time expect.eeling i had was anxiety. nine years later, jones says closure is impossible, no matter what happens in the trial. >> it's never going to be resolved. you're never going to get over it. you are going to learn to live with it, to some extent. >> reporter: former congressman gary condit is expected to testify. a spokesperson also tells us condit is planning to release a tell-all book sometime following the trial. erica? >> whit john snon washington this morning. thanks. >>> the florida teenager who made headlines for hiccupping nonstop is back in the news and behind bars. jennifer mee, who famously hiccupped for 37 days straight in 2007 was arrested yesterday along with two others for murder. police say she shot and killed a man in st. petersburg on saturday during a robbery attempt. she remains jailed without bond. >>> katie couric has a preview now of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> good morning. it's one business that's booming but it's costing you billions and threatening public hea