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For safety. it happened on a busy canal, which leads to the city's famous st. mark's square. the cruiseship owner says the vessel was about to dock when it had a mechanical problem. wow. we've skipped to this fox news alert, new report on the number of migrant apprehensions at our southern border last month. now expected to be the highest in 12 years. this, as "the washington post" is reporting the trump administration will send homeland security agents to the guatemala-mexico border to try and stem the flow of migrants far before they make it this far north to our border. acting homeland secu...

Were fleeing from the barbarians 1500 years ago. i have no idea whether or not that's true, but as a new yorker, it's everything i can do to keep from screaming in terror right now. it's just like i'm losing my camera. thanks a lot. thanks for that. selling bird seed and selfie sticks is a new kind of cottage industry. and the cafes provide another lesson in venetian supply and demand. this is 12 euros. that's a $16 cup of coffee, people. wow. ♪ coming in winter means venice is lonelier, gloomier but an empty st. mark's square allows me to

70% of those visitors don't spend the night and are what locals like giovanni and his antique boat club call [ speaking italian ] eat and run. >> every day they stay 4 1/2 hours, eat some junk food and buy a chinese mask. the threats to the city are too much, too much mass tourism compared with the good stories. it doesn't mean rich people. the student who arrives hitchhiking in venice and stays here and doesn't spend, it's okay. because he wants to live the city, he wants to know it. >> yeah. >> everybody wants to see st. mark's square, quite rightly. i mean, i would. >> yes. >> they have a p...

Mark's square. napoleon called it the drawing room of europe. galileo demonstrated the first telescope right there in the original bell tower. there's the basilica known as the church of gold and next door the doges palace where you can almost hear the political scheming that seeped into the walls through the centuries. there may be ghosts filling st. mark's, but most days it is definitely filled with tourists. and the pigeons who love them. ♪ [ camera clicking ] so legend has it that these guys are direct descendants of the pigeons that followed the initial settlers, the ones who

Unlike any place else, venice is a mix of both man-made beauty and audacity. i mean, even with modern engineering, it would take gigantic coglionis to place art filled cathedrals in the middle of a lagoon atop shifting mud long before cranes or mechanical pile drivers were even a thing. venetians figured out how to pound thousands of wooden piles into the muck, topped with layers of wood and rock. which means that every single brick in this entire city had to be bought or borrowed, salvaged or stolen. for some reason, that idea seems especially awesome here, st. mark's square.