iran may indeed have helped. because they have worked together on missile development for many years, because iran has been a major client of north korea weapons. reporter: cnn reached out to iranian officials about that. they didn t respond. the white house maintains north korea acted alone. we ve got no indication north korea was acting in conjunction with another country. reporter: north korea denies hacking sony but if pyongyang pulled this off without any outside help, it would be the greatest success for their shadowy hacking group called bureau 121. frankly, north korea, probably doesn t immediate the help. they ve been investing in their own siper capabilities for the last four or five years very heavily. they ve had a couple of trial runs with attacks on south korean media and banks. reporter: one analyst points to a key reason why other governments may not have helped north korea with the sony hack. he says most governments wouldn t be foolish enough to hand any kin
uber has been ordered to cease operations amid allegations it wasn t complying with local laws. in paris it banned uber pop after the taxi industry protested. all this for a company that just launched four years ago and is now valued at more than $40 billion. as an entrepreneur, did you ever think you would be running a car service? absolutely not. reporter: that s uber ceo travis back in the days, explaining to me the original vision behind the company. it was for me, the co-founder and our 100 friends to push a button and a s class mercedes rolls up. and that was it. all of their friends wanted it so we just opened it up. reporter: uber doesn t actually employee its drivers. instead, it serves as a technology middle man connecting them to passengers. its valuation has surpassed companies like delta and hertz, but of course the press coverage hasn t been so friendly. it was tear fight. reporter: just last month, a
reporter: that s uber ceo back in the early days explaining to me the original vision behind the company. it was for me, my co-founder and our hundred friends to be able to push a button and a mercedes rolls up but everybody wanted it. we just opened it up. reporter: uber doesn t actually employ its drivers. it serves as a technology middle man connecting this them to passengers. the press coverage hasn t always been so friendly. it was terrifying. reporter: an executive said at an yuber dinner silicon vally sarah lacy, one of the apparent targets of the scheme. i ve covered powerful tech companies for a long time and powerful moguls for a long time and i ve never heard of a plan
for for me, my co-founder and our hundred friends to be able to push a button and an s-class mercedes rolls up. that was it. but everyone wanted it. reporter: uber doesn t employ its drivers, it serves as a technology middleman, connecting them to passengers. its valuation has surpassed companies like delta and hertz but the press coverage hasn t been all good. last month an executive said they should hire a million dollars. silicon blogger air is ray lacy one of the targets of the scheme. i ve covered powerful tech companies for a long time and powerful moguls for a long time and i ve never heard a plan like that detailed before. reporter: uber later tweeted the executive s comments wr terrible and don t represent the
the debut of the commercial transport rockets and the orion up, maybe six-tenths of 1% of the whole federal budget, that would do the job. jon: we re looking at the shuttle enterprise as it sits at jfk. for those who might have missed the coverage earlier, this was the test vehicle, this was the vehicle they would take up onboard probably that same 747 that it s sitting on now and release it at about 40,000 feet and just test its flying characteristics. really it doesn t fly all that well, does it? it flies like a brick, jon, and it s meant to do that. it s got very stubby rings, it falls out of the sky rapidly. it cannot glide with the same efficiency as a jet liner, but it can handle landing at kennedy space center, so it proved that you could actually guide this unpowerred, 100-ton machine to a safe and precise landing. jon: just so our viewers get