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Out in applause. jade rabbits three month long mission consists of snapping pictures, analyzing rock samples, and mapping the lunar surface with radar. no other nation has visited the moon since 1976, begging the question, is there anything left to learn there? >> one of the big topics right now is what resources are available on the moon. can you perhaps mine it some day and bring things back to earth that would be of some value. and then youve always got the moon as a staging post, a place whe...

So even if you dont become an engineer or a programmer, it is a great way of thinking. so everyone should try to learn it. >> and the thing is, every young kid i know has a device like this. they carry it at all times. probably a laptop or an ipad and so on and so on, they are surrounded by technology, it is not a huge lap for them to be getting into the code game. i guess the argument they think is, oh, code, geeks, people like jack -- you know what i mean, it is not all that cool. he is making...

Tonight. john, thank you. today the white house said the presidents health insurance web site is working much better. this week 29,000 americans enrolled on the obamacare site in the first 24 hours after it was repaired. that is more than signed up in the entire month of october when healthcare.gov flopped in its debut. major garrett is following this. >> reporter: dawn erin of austin, texas, is one of the americans who signed up for health care this week. its the first health insurance the self...

>> axelrod: tonight a big week, meets a big storm, slow ice and rain blanket it is southwest and the system slowly moves east, just as we hit the busiest travel week of the year. less than 24-hours after an historic nuclear agreement with iran, the feedback comes from around the world. reports. brennanhe the vatican revives a 2000-year- old mystery, publicly unveiling the bones of a saint. alan pizzey is in rome. and the bookless library, the look of future in one citys

Insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. go long. >> glor: finally tonight, with the holidays approaching and families arriving it is not always easy to find a little piece and quiet. it is also increasingly difficult to find the kind of place that often provided that quiet, a good old-fashioned library, it is not the libraries are going away, they are just changing dramatically. >> reporter: walk into the bear county digital library in san

>> we are able to focus more on the patron contact aspect and the community outreach and we dont have to do all of the physical processing of the books. >> reporter: biblio tech was built in a city that is 63 percent hispanic, most in this neighborhood do not have internet access at home, the library lends out inexpensive e readers, makes downloads from home and conducts technology classes on sight. >> see where it says get a free blog here? >> reporter: we found 93-year- old jesse vidales who j...

The air corridors going into the local airports. almost half a world away, they are on high alert for an eruption from one of its most active volcanoes, thousands have been evacuated from a volcano after sending up ash and volume a nick gas. >> one week after a tornado devastated the small town of washington, illinois, parishioners attended services today at a methodist church, turns out the storm damaged and destroyed up to 500 homes and killed eight people but the toll may have been much worse...

Antonio, texas, and you will see plenty of screens, but zero books. >> this doesnt look like a library. >> no. thats the point. >> reporter: thats the point. biblio tech, the only public book less library in america is the brainchild of bexar county judge nelson wolff. >> this is the digital public library of america. >> reporter: and it would seem you would be hard pressed to find a less likely backer. wolf, a collector of rare first print editions this is his library at home pushed through a $...

Neutral country and learn to ski or something. >> reporter: mears spent the next a 15 years documenting their treatment was equal to p.o.w.s in nazi germany. he also petitioned military leaders trying to set the record straight. >> at first at the very beginning this was about my grandfather but as i started interviewing other airmen i came to identify with them and i felt that they were worthy of recognition. >> reporter: the air force finally agreed. they recently approved the airmens applicat...

Reporters they needed to interview him. armando basco is his neighbor. >> we never thought -- hes a very quiet guy. >> reporter: since being wheeled into the hospital friday, ciancia has been heavily sedated and unable to talk. this picture was taken moments after police shot him to end the rampage. thats when they say ciancia told them that he acted alone and was dropped off at the airport by a friend. police also found a hand-written letter in his bag. in its ciancia wrote he made the consciou...