the remote locations of these isolated mountain villages have kept old traditions alive. villa village fairs serve as an opportunity for families who live very far apart to get together, play game, eat and participate in religious rites honoring local deities. quite a ride getting here. yeah. how did you enjoy that road? white knuckles. meet hashim. he runs motorcycle tours through these parts. you re traveling almost 1,000 kilometers on the trip. so vegetable curry? yogurt based curry, quite typical in these parts.
frank whitney who s fighting to keep his store in the village. they re making demands on us as to what we have to do in order to repair and our contention is they re holding us to a completely different standard than everyone else. we re suspicious that what s really going on is that they want this property, it s considered a very critical property to be owned by the villa village. the village actually owns most of the property downtown, this is a privately owned property. it s the only building in the entire village that was stopped from repairing. reporter: imminent domain is the power through which government is seize property for government use. this building was damaged by the storm t floodwaters came through this village, we had four feet of salt water throughout the center of our village. the best option for us that this gets repaired by the whitneys in a compliant manner.
frank whitney who s fighting to keep his store in the village. they re making demands on us as to what we have to do in order to repair and our contention is they re holding us to a completely different standard than everyone else. we re suspicious that what s really going on is that they want this property, it s considered a very critical property to be owned by the villa village. the village actually owns most of the property downtown, this is a privately owned property. it s the only building in the entire village that was stopped from repairing. reporter: imminent domain is the power through which government is seize property for government use. this building was damaged by the storm t floodwaters came through this village, we had four feet of salt water throughout the center of our village. the best option for us that this gets repaired by the whitneys in a compliant manner.
hate. the tsa and ticket fees. add them together. what is it that s prompting them to ask for more? reporter: the agency backed by democrats in the senate wants to increase the security fee everyone pays for the ticket. from $2.50 a flight to $5 per one-way ticket. $10 round trip. 10 s pushing it to a limit. i guess it s only $5 more but i wonder, you know, how that fits in. they already have a budget. reporter: tsa s budget is set to be cut. the agency says boosting this fee would help cover the increasing price of security like the costly scanners. the fee hasn t been hiked in ten years. but a powerful lobby is pushing against it. airlines. they don t want the cost shifted onto their customers. air security is a national security function and something all of us need to be behind as americans, and the government should be picking up the cost. reporter: many travelers we talked to didn t mind. it s like using a toll road. you use a toll road you pay the toll.
it is searingly hot here in central russia. temperature is about 40 degrees ce sent grade. in fahrenheit, that s 104. these are really searing temperatures. highs are 130. looked a these burned out buildings. whole villages across this whole region have been burned to the ground in the inferno that s southwest the forest and jumped into villages across this area. 34 people confirmed dead. still wildfires raging across this vast area of this country. many people have had to make really daring escapes from the flames. captured on amateur video. it looks like the road to hell. the four russians in the car are desperately trying to escape the wildfires surrounding their villa village. through the wind screen an