Students and educators are making decisions as one. damien: it s a real sense of community. leslie: we saw double-digit gains in math, in english, and reading scores. david: it s an innovation that s transforming our public schools. narrator: california s community schools: reimagining public education. russian president vladimir putin is memorializing wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin as a talented man who made serious mistakes. his first public comments come day after the mercenary chief s presumed death in fiery plane crash near moscow. translator: i knew prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 90s. he was a man of difficult fate. russia officials say flight
And people are streaming through, laying sort of flowers like this, putting photographs of prigozhin as well, people saying in this hell, he was the best. people talking about him in the past tense over here. if we look, wagner arm patches, wagner chevrons here that have been put all over the place. you re seeing a lot of people, family members of people who are in wagner, wagner soldiers themselves coming here to pay their respects. this woman here, i don t know if she speaks [ speaking in a non-english language ] she s not she doesn t want to speak to us. it is quite solemn situation. another photograph of prigozhin over there. this is very interesting because somebody here, look, has put this really heavy, really heavy
And, you know, we don t know much else apart from that. there has been an official passenger list that has been put out, with three crew on board and seven members of wagner. not just the name of yevgeny prigozhin, but also also the founder of the wagner group. and a few other people as well, the head of security for the organization, senior ranking commanders of wagner as well. and it is not known yet what caused the crash. there has been lots of speculation about whether it was a bomb, whether it was antiaircraft fire, whether it was something else. the russian authorities say that s the purpose of the investigation, to get to the bottom of that. but you know, i think the suspicions are very clear. it was just two months two months to the day after prigozhin launched the biggest challenge to vladimir putin s authority in 23 years, putin himself called it treachery, called it a stab in the back for
Two months after he led a briefed armed uprising against military leaders. matthew chance is there. beyond talented man who made serious mistakes, what else did he say? reporter: well, i mean, he said there was going to be an investigation under way and that that investigation was under way and it would be a full one to try and get to the bottom of what actually happened. you know, the incident that brought that plane down where yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of wagner, apparently on board, according to the passenger manifest. and so there is not absolute confirmation yet, you know, officially that he s dead, but clearly his name is on the list and everybody on board was killed. look at this makeshift memorial that sprung up here in st. petersburg, where prigozhin was from. it is outside the building which is the headquarters of the wagner organization.
Sledgehammer here with wagner written on it. the sledgehammer, of course, a potent symbol of the extreme violence that wagner represented and it is with a sledgehammer like that, someone they regarded as a traitor was brutally executed with and on camera and it really kind of like bolstered this reputation that wagner had as being this completely ruthless organization that did whatever it felt it had to, to fight for russia. so you re seeing a whole stream of people, someone doing it right here, look, a whole stream of people that are coming out now, paying their respects to yevgeny prigozhin, a man who was, you know, i think for lots of russians, he said a lot of things about the incompetence of the russian military. that many people in russia agreed with. so i think one of the big questions right now is come a bit closer, one of the questions