A deadly fire at a Siberian shopping mall, a Mexican American WWII vet and Holocaust survivor, and a smoking elephant?
A deadly fire at a Siberian shopping mall, a Mexican American WWII vet and Holocaust survivor, and a smoking elephant?
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Thousands of Russians take to the streets after a deadly fire at a shopping center in Siberia leaves dozens dead. Plus, The World’s Chris Woolf remembers Tony Acevedo, a Mexican American Army medic captured by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp during World War II. And an elephant in India gets caught smoking on camera — but it’s not what you think.