>> venice is a paradox.re we live from tourists, but -- and that is what is ironic -- they are contributing to what is driving us out of the city. >> from the -- franca and fellow campaigners are back from the protests. many of them will be facing a charge, but they do not mind. >> so many people participated in two different forms of protest, in the morning and at night, on land and on water. it shows that a lot of people want things to change. >> but while the protesters are celebrating, a few hundred meters away, another cruise liner is passing through the canal with four hours delay, but still unhindered. >> since the beginning of the banking crisis in europe, ailing countries have received billions of euros in financial aid from their eu partners and international lenders. in portugal, every citizen gets 7500 euros in rescue money, but of course, the funds are not directly paid to the people but to the banks. portuguese citizens have, on the contrary, had to accept massive cuts and painful reforms, whic

>> venice is a paradox.re we live from tourists, but -- and that is what is ironic -- they are contributing to what is driving us out of the city. >> from the -- franca and fellow campaigners are back from the protests. many of them will be facing a charge, but they do not mind. >> so many people participated in two different forms of protest, in the morning and at night, on land and on water. it shows that a lot of people want things to change. >> but while the protesters are celebrating, a few hundred meters away, another cruise liner is passing through the canal with four hours delay, but still unhindered. >> since the beginning of the banking crisis in europe, ailing countries have received billions of euros in financial aid from their eu partners and international lenders. in portugal, every citizen gets 7500 euros in rescue money, but of course, the funds are not directly paid to the people but to the banks. portuguese citizens have, on the contrary, had to accept massive cuts and painful reforms, whic

later -- venice. austrians ruled here later. croatia is giving up some of its sovereignty again now voluntarily by joining the eu. many croatians have mixed feelings, even if accession means an economic boom and even more tourists. >> she drives home, inland on the peninsula. the restaurant owner was out buying flower in a neighboring town. he is one of the 25 citizens of the smallest city in the world. >> i'm really glad to live in such a special community. so many people from all over the world are very eager to visit. >> it was first mentioned in a document from the 12th century with its tower and church. it has all the trappings of an old city. the people here who are catholics continue to practice ancient rituals. tally sticks are used once a year. each voter carves a notch on the stick of his favorite candidate. only men can vote or be elected. >> we also wonder why only men can vote, but that's the tradition. >> on july 1, it will be part of the eu, which frowns on elections that exclude women.

we talk about the venice biennale. >> it's a form of perceptual jim fast i cans in which we practice to understand what we don't understand and that's what i love about art and what i think would encourage people to become familiar with art. not to go there to learn now go there to lose themselves and see things that don't utterly make sense. >> rose: we conclude with an important artist, james turrell. his show is currently on display at the guggenheim museum. >> ideas and thoughts are cheap. you have many of them but it's actually pulling it off, actually making these things, realizing them. and as an artist you have to manifest and i don't get to count the things that i haven't done but that i thought of that was terrific. >> rose: the venice biennale and james turrell when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: the venice biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition held every two years in veps any, italy. more than 158 artists from over 88 countries are participating this year. for the first t

later -- venice. austrians ruled here later. croatia is giving up some of its sovereignty again now voluntarily by joining the eu. many croatians have mixed feelings, even if accession means an economic boom and even more tourists. >> she drives home, inland on the peninsula. the restaurant owner was out buying flower in a neighboring town. he is one of the 25 citizens of the smallest city in the world. >> i'm really glad to live in such a special community. so many people from all over the world are very eager to visit. >> it was first mentioned in a document from the 12th century with its tower and church. it has all the trappings of an old city. the people here who are catholics continue to practice ancient rituals. tally sticks are used once a year. each voter carves a notch on the stick of his favorite candidate. only men can vote or be elected. >> we also wonder why only men can vote, but that's the tradition. >> on july 1, it will be part of the eu, which frowns on elections that exclude women.

petersburg is known as the venice of the north. founded in 793 by saint peter the great, it was built to a rival the canals of venice. capital to the moscow, and the city entered into a long period of decline. in jordan as the bombardment. after the fall of the soviet union, the city will from hibernation. -- will from hibernation. hibernation. but behind the facade, the toll of nearly a century of neglect hidden from view. in these once grand and now faded entrances, with many of the city's pour. crowded into apartments now coveted by russia's new rich and aspiring middle class. galina. she lives in a beautiful, but dilapidated building along the innks of the nevsky river, one of the most prestigious parts of town. like many, she obtained her apartment when property was privatized amid speculation and property wars. this is the story of galina and her neighbors, poor people under constant instigation of schemers. >> [speaking foreign language] >> in this communal apartments on millionaires street lives irina. >> [speaking russian

he took three buses and hitchhiked, making it to my old frame house in venice. i said, why are you here? he said i was in a car and we did drive by and i don't know what to do. you said you would always be there for me. there's the answer and the question. how are we always going to be there for bobby. how are we going to help young people at risk, people who are active, to build new identities? we begin with tattoo removal, legal expunged and and we work on attachment. every individual who wants to avoid being in a gang, who wants to leave the game, they need a role model and mentor, they need someone to be there. there is no single type of person. we need it the merging of former gang members, prosecutors and social workers and public defenders. you have all had that kid. he needs role models, job training, and real jobs. i was happy to hear that in the video, nothing stops the bullet like a job. we need to provide that. bobbie ann smiley did not ask for their fates. a young woman i worked with, who has five children and has been a member of valencia 13, and f

he took three buses and hitchhiked, making it to my old frame house in venice. i said, why are you here? he said i was in a car and we did drive by and i don't know what to do. you said you would always be there for me. there's the answer and the question. how are we always going to be there for bobby. how are we going to help young people at risk, people who are active, to build new identities? we begin with tattoo removal, legal expunged and and we work on attachment. every individual who wants to avoid being in a gang, who wants to leave the game, they need

pressure from washington right now so actually the chances of snowden getting political asylum in venice a well are much higher than getting it in ecuador and now the former n.s.a. contractor arrived to the transit zone. airport in moscow around a week ago from hong kong and so far it's believed that that's where he's been this entire time he does have an invalid american passport and washington has been asking for his extradition nicolas maduro will be joining the leaders of some of the world's top gas producing nations in moscow on monday looking at ways to keep global energy supply stable supply and demand is key this summit at a time when the controversial practice of fracking as upsetting markets and the environment katie pilgrim. we'll have more on that just a little later in the program. chiros to her years square is flooded with a sea of anti-government protesters for a second day in a row it comes after they have quarters of egypt's ruling muslim brotherhood was left in tatters after an onslaught by an angry mob at least sixteen people died on sunday in clashes as millions of ou

my dear venice whaler egypt russia is in good company and we've got the. heads of of iran and venezuela here in moscow today as you can see the members here in the blue and in the orange we've got the likes of doorway kazakstan too and altogether these countries accumulate sixty two percent of the world's gas reserves and it's all about maintaining that dominance well as we can see are the countries that produce a period in the gathering are rich in natural resources but what can we expect to come out of the summit given its busy and serious agenda well right now i'm thinking it's about shale gas and we know that the u.s. has got a surplus of supply at the moment and that means that gas prices a fairly low in the us at the moment and that's why they're on the verge of becoming a big exporter of gas particularly to the likes of europe where you're going to going to pay five times more for your gas gas what is it all about let's have a look at the process just here so this is how you get it you dig deep underground and you find your shale rock and then what

to venice a leaker edward snowden asked russia for asylum as he struggles to put an end to his legal limbo in a moscow airport sparking u.s. outrage for the kremlin. protests growing across the u.s. over the controversial acquittal of george zimmerman who shot dead an african-american teenager while the justice department pledges to review the verdict.

a situation she had absolutely nothing to do with >> my mom was a wonderful parent... 15 year old venice gonzalez was released from the hospital this morning... she says she has cuts and bruises... and... a broken heart... after the crash that killed her mother. 35 year old marisol mercado. it all started with a shooting. this is what police tell us: 11:30 last night - in the 100 block of south springfield. a 38 year old man was shot in the leg. the gunman took off. police in the area heard the shots...and a witness pointed out the gunman's car... he refused to stop... police say because of the violent nature of the crime...officers pursued. the chase..ending more than a mile away at chicago and pulaski...with the deadly 4- vehicle crash... the car it came out of nowhere. you could tell he was going fast...really fast.. the pressure of how hard the car was hit...made my mind go blank and when she regained consciousness... i just remember yelling and screaming...mommy mommy come on you can do this... the mother of 5 died at the hospital. police say -- in all -- 4 others, including the sus

. >> and i am going to go to venice beach, and what they don't know is that i'm horrible. >> you areo fall out. >> he is going to see how long it takes these guys to figure out he may not be verdell jones. >> oh, my goodness. here can barely do anything. he is terrible. >> you have to be wondering what these guys are thinking. >> that is [ bleep ]. >> if you go to the nba, i'm the president. >> somebody looks up verdell jones. >> that is not verdell jones, and this kid is not. >> you are not him, bro. >> i love the excuses. >> playing in germany will change your style. >> finally, it is serious. >> are you saying that my little brother is funny right now? >> watch out. watch out. >> 250. >> yeah, $2.50. >> he does make a bet. >> we play bank account. >> let me tell you that he does not score anything. and they go up to five. >> his prank did not work, because nobody was buying it. >> you are not verdell, boy. >>> juggling with cats. >> come on. >> you know, for the amount of pop corn videos that i have shown you, this one takes you inside and makes you feel like a part of the acon. w

i'm not talking about muscle beach in venice, california, but kiev. >> what is that?> this is a legitimate gym, but as you can see the equipment is unconventional and made using parts and scrap metal from soviet world war ii tanks. >> this is smart and recycling material already out there, and they put old equipment to good use. >> they have the elliptical machines and the girl is doing it backwards. >> nevermind that, it is looking completely dangerous and awesome, and you will feel like a total man after working out here. you are like, ugh, erg. >> tank parts? that makes you feel stronger no matter what. >> this was apparently founded back in the '70s by yuri cook, and it is maintained by enthusiasts and as time has passed, people have built their own machines. >>> somebody went fishing for a large mouth bass in pennsylvania, and that is not what he caught. >> he was using a blue gill to lure a large mouth bass. >> is that a snake? is that a snake? >> that is a northern water sna snake. >> but i don't know what the water snake to do with it. >> if you notice that th

. >> fourth of july festivities in venice beach. including a body building contest.n't hurt to be tan. apparently, as well as toned. all amateurs. if you get cracking, next year you can enter the event. >> i have a long way to go. i like they know their poses. like a dance that they do. >> holy cow. >> serious stuff. reminds me of the famous comic strip about the muscle guy. >> charles atlas. >> no, something about the beach, someone gets picked on and the muscle guy comes and takes care of them. >> yeah, ads, charles atlas, weight lifting program. and the weakling gets sand kicked in the face. >> look at that. i didn't even know. coming up a celebrity quits twitter. tell you who in "the skinny." >> first the inspiring story of an inspired man. the american lawyer who moved to south africa and ended up helping hundreds of young people. you are watching "world news now." ♪ because we have worked real hard to get this far we were ♪ catching the bus before we bought the car ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by hotwire.com. now" weather brought to y

well, you wouldn't believe it, but mexico city has its own little venice, where you can discover the canals and the boats, and i'm gonna do just that today with the help of my guide, coral. and i think that's her just there. >> hi, judith. >> hola. >> how are you? >> very good. legend has it that the aztec god huitzilopochtli told them to walk the earth until they found an eagle sitting on a cactus eating a snake by a lake. seems like a pretty tall order, but 200 years later, they found it right here on lake texcoco. the indians before them had used an ingenious technique to build islands on the lake to grow crops. these were called chinampas. chinampas were made by putting plants and mud in big baskets on the lakebed. >> and with the roots, when the roots are growing, they are going to find the bottom of the lake. so you are not going to have a lot of water more. you are going to have roots, and you are going to have a lot of things. exactly. so they started rebuilding the lands. >> this created islands dotted around the lake, and the aztecs used this method to build the foundations

welcome to be fair maybe george in an effort to appear on biased brought up the unconstitutionality of venice a program let's see. in two thousand and ten an e-mail that was revealed from you by barb gellman in time magazine said the you hope the revelations from wiki leaks would bring about quote the total annihilation of the current us regime is that still your goal and what do you mean by that. but i didn't say that and there is no i said no such emails wait wait wait what in the rare chance of speaking of doing a song george stephanopoulos decided to pull out a completely baseless five year old e-mail that asunder may or may not have sent really no no question a disproportionate prosecution of whistleblowers in the u.s. illegal trans national spying and. collection of every single americans communication records instead george decided that a focus on ecuador's human rights record of the songs later points out this massive unlawful interception of data is far worse than what nixon could have dreamed to do but aside from these tired old government talking points you know things have really

mean martin this is great in the subtle the three latin american countries a bolivia nicaragua in venice will have all this really offered asylum for n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden hardly a surprise considering the attitude the us has taken toward the leaders of these countries you know like blatantly disrespecting the president of bolivia by kidnapping in mid-flight and forcing a head of state to be grounded in an airport. tarmac sorry for cowards or indigent in mass propaganda. campaign against venezuela's leadership for decades according to russian officials then this one might be snowden's best bet specifically because there are clauses in the country's extradition treaty with the u.s. that pertain to reject any politically motivated requests in other words if venezuela thinks that the u.s. wants snowden back for political reasons they can simply say no and don't think u.s. politicians haven't noticed senator bob menendez told me at the press that he's quote not surprised by the countries that are offering him asylum they like sticking it to the u.s. yeah dude and i wonder why m

welcome to be fair maybe george in an effort to appear on biased brought up the unconstitutionality of venice a program let's see. in two thousand and ten an e-mail that was revealed from you by barr gellman in time magazine said the you hope the revelations from wiki leaks would bring about quote a total annihilation of the current us regime is that still your goal and what do you mean by that. but i didn't say that some there is no such no such email just wait wait wait what in the rare chance of speaking to julian assange george stephanopoulos decided to pull out a completely baseless five year old e-mail that asunder may or may not have sent really no no question a disproportionate prosecution of whistleblowers in the u.s. illegal trans national spying and the collection of every single americans communication records instead georgia started to then focus on ecuador's human rights record of the sun's later points out this massive unlawful interception of data is far worse than what nixon could have dreamed to do but aside from these tired old government talking points you know things have

another president who seems to be quite sympathetic to snowden and his revelations is the head of venice a while our team managed to catch up with him as well here's what he thinks about this case this young man has to be protected by the international community he dead with dignity to tell the world that there are mechanisms to spy on it even on your own allies if snowden stays alone he will be destroyed by protecting snowden we will protect the peace now when it's all well and believe you are so far saying that they haven't received an official request for political asylum from mr snowden and while he himself retracted his request for political asylum in russia after hearing the conditions voiced by president putin who said that he could stay here but only if he stopped harming washington so basically for the former n.s.a. contractor this there's a transit a limbo continues as he's still stuck inside that friends on actually meter airport the u.s. is still calling for his extradition or moscow does say they're not planning to buy some more since they do see him as a human rights activi

martin this is the break in the set well the three latin american countries a bolivia nicaragua in venice will have all this really offered asylum for n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden hardly a surprise considering the attitude the us has taken toward the leaders of these countries you know like blatantly disrespecting the president of bolivia by kidnapping in mid-flight and forcing a head of state to be grounded in an airport care mark tarmac sorry for cowards or indigent mass propaganda campaign against venezuela's leadership for decades according to russian officials then this one might be snowden's best bet specifically because there are clauses in the country's extradition treaty with the u.s. that pertain to reject any politically motivated requests in other words if venezuela thinks that the u.s. wants snowden back for political reasons they can simply say no and don't think u.s. politicians haven't noticed senator bob menendez told meet the press that he's quote not surprised by the countries that are offering him asylum they like sticking it to the u.s. yeah dude and i wonder w

official obstacles in this process now so for venice a while and bolivia seem to be ready to provide political asylum to the former n.s.a. contractor and earlier artie's spanish channel managed to speak exclusively to the presidents of both countries and hear what this was what they said about this. yes why not of course the situation is far from ideal his case is constantly this. custom an international level. bolivia is ready to give political asylum to the people who expose spying cities so to speak so this young man must be protected in terms of international and humanitarian law because he's being pursued by the u.s. vice president vice president by the secretary of state why is he being pursued what kind of crime has he committee has he launched a missile or killed anyone no he hasn't seen on the country he's doing everything to prevent it was to prevent any kind of illegal action against the whole world. or was the first crunchy words snowden asked for political asylum that we've heard from the country's president who said that he has to be at least on russian territory in ord

another leader who seems very sympathetic to snowden and his revelations as the president of venice so well on our team managed to catch up with him as well here's what he thinks about the whole situation this young man has to be protected by the international community he dead we've dignity to tell the world that there are mechanisms to spy on it even on your own allies if snowden stays alone he will be destroyed by protecting snowden we will protect the peace. both of them as well and believe you see these still haven't received official request for political asylum from mr snowden in the meantime he retracted his request from russia for a hearing the conditions voiced by president putin who said that snowden could stay in russia if you wanted but then he would have to stop working against washington so this transit limbo continues for the former n.s.a. contractor you were say is still calling for his extradition he's still inside that transit zone airport although moscow is saying that it sees him as a human rights activist and doesn't see a possible crossing over to the west where

of money this is a break in the set with a three latin american countries a bolivia nicaragua in venice will have all this really offered asylum for n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden hardly a surprise considering the attitude the us has taken toward the leaders of these countries you know like blatantly disrespecting the president of bolivia by kidnapping in mid-flight and forcing a head of state to be grounded in an airport.

welcome to be fair maybe george in an effort to appear on biased brought up the unconstitutionality of venice a program let's see. in two thousand and ten an e-mail that was revealed from you by barr gellman in time magazine said the you hope the revelations from wiki leaks would bring about quote the total annihilation of the current us regime is that still your goal and what do you mean by that. but i didn't say that and there is no such no such emails wait wait wait what in the rare chance of speaking of doing a song george stephanopoulos decided to pull out a completely baseless five year old e-mail that asunder may or may not have sent really no no question of a disproportionate prosecution of whistleblowers in the u.s. illegal trans national spine and the collection of every single americans communication records instead george decided to then focus on ecuador's human rights record of the songs later points out this massive unlawful interception of data is far worse than what nixon could have dreamed to do but aside from these tired old government talking points you know things have rea

able to marry those two and actually married two neighbors who knocked on my door i'm now living in venice they knocked on my door the day of the decision they said you got to marry me you got to me are said who are you and they said we're your neighbors so i married them on saturday before i could marry people anymore. and one of the great discussions in america as obama put it it's worthy of discussion on both sides privacy versus security equals the snowden matter where you stand. i don't know all the details of the snowden matter but it seems like he's committed a crime you know if he thought america was doing something wrong there are ways for him to share that not divulging. secret information. to the public in the way that is done again i don't know enough about the case they filed charges but i think i think he's in all likelihood has committed a federal crime do we have to be concerned about this as a constitutionally were open free nation that someone could be looking down at us now but like i said there's a right way to do something in a wrong way if he had real evidence of the

understanding anarchism is fundamentally nonviolent ideologies and thanks for that still on you tube venice it one writes in response to a segment that i did about obama and mendell up can anyone else detect the buyer's remorse coming from abby she probably voted for obama both times like the other obama girls now or she now lights going off in her brain that tells her that she got to do it toral failed bro. oh please don't lump in with the other quote obama girls if you knew anything about me on the show before making such absurd insinuations you would know that i've been against the two party system years before i even knew what an abysmal failure obama was supposed to spare me and i wanted to move on to e-mail where i just got a lot of this warning from a man named blair that said how do you deal with anxiety fear that someone may come to get you since you're shedding a light on this corruption blair first of all thank you for worrying about my safety but i choose not to live in fear fear is exactly what the establishment would like to use to cripple us from speaking out what i do want t

well to be fair maybe george in an effort to appear on biased brought up the unconstitutionality of venice a program let's see. in two thousand and ten an e-mail that was revealed from you by barr gellman in time magazine said the you hope the revelations from wiki leaks would bring about quote the total annihilation of the current us regime is that still your goal and what do you mean by that. but i didn't say that's and there is no such no such emails wait wait wait what in the rare chance of speaking to join us on george stephanopoulos decided to pull out a completely baseless five year old e-mail that asunder may or may not have sent really no no question a disproportionate prosecution of whistleblowers in the u.s. illegal trans national spying and. collection of every single americans communication records instead george decided to then focus on ecuador's human rights record of the songs later points out this massive unlawful interception of data is far worse than what nixon could have dreamed to do but aside from these tired old government talking points you know things have really g

understand that anarchism is fundamentally nonviolent ideologies and thanks for that still on you tube venice one writes in response to a segment that i did about obama and then bella can anyone else to tech the buyer's remorse coming from abby she probably voted for obama both times like the other obama girls now are she now lights going off in her brain that tells her that she got to do it toral fail bro please don't lump in with the other quote obama girls if you knew anything about me on the show before making such absurd insinuations you would know that i've been against the two party system years before i even knew what an abysmal failure obama was supposed to spare me and i wanted to move on to e-mail where i just got a letter this morning from a man named blair said how do you deal with things diety fear that someone may come to get you since you're shedding a light on this corruption blair first of all thank you for worrying about my safety but i choose not to live in fear fear is exactly what the establishment would like to use to cripple us from speaking out what i do want to daily

affairs committee of russia's state duma alexei pushkov tweeted that snowden had accepted asylum in venice while a that spurred a flurry of retreats news articles and even an associated press news report to be published but most seriously the tweet was taken down and another went out saying that push call is hearing from other sources that snowden accepted asylum but not breaking the news himself the t.v. station he says he heard it from has not published anything about that on its website meanwhile other news reports are surfacing saying that the government of venezuela confirms snowden has accepted asylum in that country but again no sources were named now that you are all caught up let's move on to the next big dilemma how is snowden going to get to whatever country he chooses asylum in if he flies the plane will most likely have to travel through american airspace or that of our allies we could see the plane diverted by a bolivian president evo morales his plane was last week now cuban president raul castro said he would allow the plane snowden is traveling on to land and refuel on the

terms of requests or government responses for the latest on edward snowden's international plight and venice wales reaction to his plea i was joined earlier by our to correspondent igor piskun off and i asked him what we know about these asylum. well snowden has sent requests to around twenty one countries this time and have already officially given the red light including brazil and india and eight e.u. member states including spain and germany and they're saying that under their rules all political asylum applicants have to be on very serious story since snowden clearly isn't you still stuck in that transit zone actually means of airport they're still not able to begin processing the requests the same goes for ecuador which became the first currency which returned through with the request and were heard from the ecuadorian president who said that by their rules has to be at least on russian territory and since he's not there and they're also not able to begin processing it now he has applied for asylum in over twenty one countries of course it only takes one of those countries in order for

to marry those two and i actually married two neighbors who knocked on my door and now living in venice they knocked on my door the day of the decision they said you got to marry me you got a marriage said who are you and they said we're your neighbors so i married them on saturday before i could marry people anymore. one of the great discussions in america as obama put it it's worthy of discussion on both sides privacy versus security equals the snowden matter where you stand. i don't know all the details of the snowden matter but it seems like he's committed a crime you know if he thought america was doing something wrong there are ways for him to share that not divulging. secret information. to the public in the way that is done again i don't know enough about the case they filed charges but i think i think he's in all likelihood has committed a federal crime do we have to be concerned about this constitutionally we're open free nation that someone could be looking down at us now but like i said there's a right way to do something in a wrong way if he had real evidence of the wrongdo

just kept bugging me kept nibbling at my my mind thinking hey you need to go out and have a look at venice and see what's really going on so when i decided to go to los angeles nationally spend the day there and and and kind of retrace what happened that probably agencies that are involved in this it became quite clear quite quickly that this seemed to be a lot more than just as a single car accident and it seemed a lot of the details that were being provided to the media who aren't in the los angeles area were you know fuzzy at that let's put it that way and let's let's so over those details and set the scene of the car crash for us what kind of road how fast was he going and what were the other circumstances that we know of that he was traveling down north island boulevard what to say two lanes that mean either direction plus a really big y. lane on the outside for partying in the evenings or as events that lived there so this was a very wide road and there was no it wasn't dark or dim or things like that as well that part that there grow there and he was traveling down. high rate of spe

. >> reporter: the 1,600-year-old city of venice has never seen anything like it. apart from "the italian job." but that was a movie. this brazen heist played out on those same, beautiful canals. 7:00 a.m. monday morning, armed men on a vessel pulled up to a small boat just loaded with three boxes of money. one robber pulls out a rifle, telling a security guard that a robbery is under way. a masked accomplice who was hiding under a tarp, jumps onboard the money boat and opens all three cases. grabs the two cases of the bank notes and puts them on the speedboat. leaving behind one case full of coins. the men disappeared with $1.7 million in cash that was supposed to pay the pensions of elderly venetians. >> robbers do watch movies. and they do get ideas about how to do things. >> reporter: just last week, in a "goodfellas"-esque, escapade, money disappeared from a cargo container. and one that will inspire a movie, this high-stakes smash and grab in a london mall last november. motorcycle bandits disappeared with 3 million bucks worth of rolex and cartier watches. t

didn't he look and the 7-elev venice surveillance video. i'm so sorry this happened. upset for the parents now and they go home and get no justice. sometimes awful things happened to nice people. it happened here. the cautionary tale shouldn't we if we want to remediate what happened here. first of all, have to say there is no winners here but also have to tell our children to avoid these kind of confrontations whenever you possibly can. you know, this is a crazy world. people are responding in a crazy world. >> rod, one last statement and then ted gets one. >> geraldo, we cannot profile just like your own son told you, dad. you cannot profile. >> geraldo: he did. he did. >> he told you that just because trayvon was wearing a hoodie. your son wears a hoodie. nobody should profile a person, on because of what they are wearing or because of what they look hike. >> geraldo. >> geraldo: ted. >> i couldn't disagrow with you more. trayvon martin had every right to be where he was at that time. it was raining and he had a right. right. >> geraldo: there is right and practica

and as he is getting political asylum at least in venice well it. if you accept that and he said i am actually accepting that. that means that he is protected by international law by article forty and of international conventional of human rights if someone applies for a political asylum no country has legal right to extradite him or her. and you personally do you think that he should and is a is a good candidate for political asylum in the russian federation i don't he says he's the best candidate will probably go asylum he could bring up a lot of problems diplomatically for russia and bring a lot of problems he's a father potato he is motives are not too clear. i ask him about his political views and i don't think he has many. he's not a politician morris. described himself as an independent. not being a republican or a democrat. i ask him whether he voted in the election he if so which party. did he support and he refused to answer describing it yourself. logically libertarian. so snowden is for russia is not of the biggest asset i think. taking

political asylum terrorists who exploded in venice. for instance. in a truck now living in miami. i see that as a big. of international politics we have to resolve. well you mentioned political asylum. and this new relationship between the. between. the united states let's speak about edward snowden he requested asylum from twenty one countries you mentioned. any. political from. any change in this situation i have no official confirmation for that. i'm flying. and then. fly. on the third. and. really. to confirm if there has been a request from this young man. i have this confirmation. and will make my decision. young man. the international community. he. the information. on the world even on the. look on how the. european. state. and syria. young man. can really change the world. opinion. what kind of. trying to improve the relationship with the united. states. community. official the. president. information. international community. to think the. problem. the. heart. of the united. for. then if i am up. here. someplace. here somewhere. do you think. did you have any contacts. o

this one rate in the famous canal of venice armed bandit ambush ago courier boat and making off with 1 million and a half dollars. abc news reporter nick watt has details now on this made for the movies caper. >> 1600-year-old city never seen anything like that. apart from the i tall i don't know job. that was a movie. this brazen heist played out on the same beautiful canal. >> 7:00 a.m. monday morning armed men on a vessel pull up to small boat just loaded with 3 boxes of money. one robbery pulls out a rifle telling a security guard that robbery is under way. meanwhile masked accomplice under a tarp jumps on board the money boat and opens all 3 cases. grab the 2 cases for the bank note and loads them on to the get away speed boat leaving behind one case full of coins. man disappeared with 1.7 million dollars in cash. that was supposed to pay the pensions with elderly venetian. >> robber do watch movies and they do get ideas about how to do things. >> cops are still scching their head. those robbers left not even a trace or tire mark technically not even robbers. they are pirates. >

didn't he look and the 7-elev venice surveillance video. i'm so sorry this happened. for the parents now and they go home and get no justice. sometimes awful things happened to nice people. it happened here. the cautionary tale shouldn't we if we want to remediate what happened here. first of all, have to say there is no winners here but also have to tell our children to avoid these kind of confrontations whenever you possibly can. you know, this is a crazy world. people are responding in a crazy world. >> rod, one last statement and then ted gets one. >> geraldo, we cannot profile just like your own son told you, dad. you cannot profile. >> geraldo: he did. he did. >> he told you that just because trayvon was wearing a hoodie. your son wears a hoodie. nobody should profile a person, geraldo, including your son because of what they are wearing or because of what they look hike. >> geraldo. >> geraldo: ted. >> i couldn't disagrow with you more. trayvon martin had every right to be where he was at that time. it was raining and he had a right. right. >> geraldo: there is

it happened on a currier boat in this lagoon in venice.ortedly struck after an armored truck delivered three cases of cash headed to banks and post offic. the thieves took the two cases holding the bank notes and left the third one loaded with coins. if you are planning a summer vacation with the family. "parents magazine" has a list of the best cities to visit for it a kid friendly good time. san diego came in one with its legendary zoo and array of museums of course. portland oregon, second place. followed by washington, d.c., orlando and chicago. the magazine used several factors, including, hotel prices, public transportation and the crime rate. >> i am going to confess right here, i have never been to san diego or portland. i have always want to go. >> are you headed to that part? >> san francisco. >> never been to san diego? >> i haven't either. i want to go to the zoo. everybody goes to the zoo. they love it. >> the weather. the golf. someday. stay classy, san diego. we're going there. all right, here is a look at your tuesday forec