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Literally. this story is buried. we dont know when or where it will happen but sometime soon billions of cicadas will swarm the east coast. these creepy crawley noise makers will make their way from deep underground in a phenomenon only hitchcock could appreciate. "the leads" erin mcpike is here with more of who could bear the brunt of the cicada brood. i hate these bugs. >> i thought it was an old wives tale that they came into our lives every 17 years but its not. its just that there are diffe...

An afternoon in the golf course ends with the golfer deep underground. mark mihal on the 14th fairway on a golf course near st. louis when an 18-foot sinkhole opened up and swallowed him. >> i noticed an anomaly. a bathtub shape d hole, and i went to look at it, took one step, and i was gone. >> unbelievable. mark dislocated his shoulder in the fall. it took 20 minutes to pull him out. a louisiana coast tugboat will bull itself out. it hit a submerged gas pipeline, which also caught fire. the ...

zimmerman. and new information coming out of afghanistan. we just learned what the u.s. is prepared to offer the victims of sergeant robert bales. and the future of your health care goes to the supreme court this week. in our main bar side bar story this week, well talk to a constitutional attorney about whats at stake. and one ceo goes above his corporate duties, way above. well talk with steve curtis about why hes risking his life to inspire others. from cnns world headquarte...

Americas largest transportation construction project is going on here in new york city about it many all invisible. men and women are working 15 stories below one of the most densely packed urban areas on earth. they are nicknamed the sand hogs and they are building tunnels for a new train line. nice hard hat, rick. what do you know about the project? >> reporter: i was told i have to wear this. or i cant stay here anymore. if you are tired of all this fresh air and sunshine and you want to go d...

pass if that diplomacy fails. according to israeli media reports. prime minister benjamin netanyahus visit to america this week included a request for one of americas most sensitive bombing systems, bunker bombs. it sounds like the administration is inclined to say yes. at the white house today a very careful response. >> in meetings the president had there was no such agreement proposed or reached. >> note the meetings with the president. from the spokesman there. prime minister netan...

he stepped into power following the death of his father, kim il-sung who founded the reclusive state in 1948. his funeral will be held on december 28th, a day before a period of official mourning comes to an end. and this is how the news of his death was reported on television in north korea. plenty of emotion on display there. thats hardly surprising considering the cult of personality fostered by the deceased dictator and his followers. whatever you might think of kim jong-il, ther...

>> with patty hearst now publicly a member of the sla, the group goes deep underground. >> they were always moving around. they would stay in one place for a week or two and then move to another place. >> but the fbi dragnet is tightening, thanks to what they call water gas leads. >> eventually, we started checking out all the new turn-ons of water and gas thinking that they would move in to a new abode and have to turn the gas on and the water on and we got quite near them. we were coming down ...

The owner of the damaged japanese nuclear plant is announcing that it lost $14 billion due to the disaster. overall losses from that disaster are expected to be far bigger, including compensation for the thousands of folks forced to evacuate from their home. the president of the utility which owns the fukushima plant is resigning to take responsibility for the way the disaster was handled. a scathing report on last years coal mine disaster in west virginia confirms what the victims families ha...

Toxic for thousands of years. but now one project in sweden is offering a solution to the problems posed by radioactive waste. on this weeks "eco solutions," we head to a town in southern sweden to see a pilot project that promises to be a world first. >> weve been doing an experiment for some years. >> reporter: deep underground at a lab in a swedish city, dress rehearsals are taking place for whats set to be the worlds first permanent solution dealing with the nuclear industrys spent fuel. onl...

Other things like diesel fuel. there is a push to move a large number of those vehicles off of gasoline andes he will and into natural gas to power them. youre saying to yourself, natural gas, isnt america running out of natural gas? that was the prevailing wisdom until energy companies found an economic way to tap a vast resource deep underground, have a look. >> we are at about 6500 feet. >> reporter: on farm land across apriappalacha, they are tappinga new source. crack it up the right way an...