The World

The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is Perugia, Italy. Eighten exchange students from Perugia have been stuck in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, waiting for a flight home. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with two of them? Francesco Merlino and Elena Mencarroni ? about how they’re spending their ‘extra’ days with host families.

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