Bryan Batt grew up as a child of Pontchartrain Beach, the amusement park founded by his family. He moved to New York in 1985 right after college, and launched a
son. her family defected from what was then the soviet union to new york when she was a child. her step father co-founded the restaurant with the ballet dancer and the russian poet. everybody they all found it here. reporter: but now this little piece of heaven is facing hell on earth half a world away. calling us nazis, fascists. leaving messages, our sign was kicked in. reporter: never manld she is married to a ukrainian and locker room work here are ukrainian. all she said people see is the word russian and lash out and it is not just here. in washington, d.c., the famous russia house vandalized, threatening messages left at the pushkin restaurant in san diego.
the restaurant s owners are armenian and most of the staff, ukrainian. similar messages september to chicago s russian tea time restaurant where just like the other restaurants, some of the employees are ukrainian. we really feel pain. we have a waitress whose mother is hiding in bomb shelter in kyiv. reporter: some have discontinued sales of russian vodka. in las vegas, a bar owner is did you evering russian made vodka. in new york, there is no more, they changed the name of the takeout restaurant and delivery business. i think they re calling it cheat sheet chicken. do you think you can survive this? yes. with a lot of help from our friends. yes. time will tell. this place has lasted through a lot.
some of these storms could be rolling through at night. we know knocnocturnal tornadoes be especially deadly. be aware of alerts as you re going to bed tonight. this could impact all weekend travel, especially big cities. yeah. we re talking about big cities in the northeast. d.c., new york, boston. a lot of that as we get into the weekend, not only the snow is going to be because of wind. we re going to have very strong winds with this system. look at places like atlanta. we could see winds up to 40, 50-mile-per-hour gusts. that s really going to delay flights through atlanta by the time we get into saturday. then sunday, we could see wind delays in places like new york city, boston, as those winds reach that area. but new york city and boston could also see, as well as d.c., could also see some travel delays due to the wintry precipitation as well, jake. jennifer grey. not good a good weekend for travel. thank you so much, jennifer grey. coming up, the time that dolly par
so. turning to our money lead. russian eateries, restaurants coast to coast that once proudly displayed that country s heritage are feeling the wrath of bigotry. many of whom fled soviet and russian regimes for a safer life are seeing their restaurants vandalized. wondering whether it is time to rebrand in the face of all the ignorance. i will show you the table. this is the special table. there are people that call just to reserve this table. bundle these days. russia s invasion of ukraine brings increasing worries in this new york theater district. overnight, you just wake up one day and your business is gone. nobody is hear. reporter: she is the co-owner of russian sammovar with her