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Serious. >> richard, when his father did this, did a form of this escalation back in the early 90s, it ended with some real talks that began with easing economic sanctions. is this what we think hes trying to do? how does this end? >> reporter: its very hard to know. the japanese today think that this might end with a missile launch, maybe a test launch, that missile that was moved to the east coast today. if you look at the geography, once you move it to the east coast of north korea, you can f...

Nations. tell us more about the missile movement. >> south korean officials believe and a lot of experts agree that north korea is moving what it calls the missiles to an east coast launch site. its been put on display by north korea in some parades of its military might we have seen many times before. its outer range, 2500 mills, it could conceivably hit guam. that would explain the pentagons decision to move that missile defense system to the u.s. territory there the musadam said to be very in...

Missile but places like guam would be in the target zone. so would japan. so would south korea. there are tens of thousands of u.s. troops and assets in those areas. >> tom foreman, thank you. only a handful of americans have ever set foot inside north korea. former governor bill richardson is one of them. hes been there several times and now joins me. thanks for joining us. as we just mentioned the north koreans have moved missile components to their east coast likely for a test launch that cou...

Concern because it can be launched from a mobile launcher. and look at that map. if it goes off the east coast of north korea where that equipment is right now, it will by definition fly over japan. and that certainly will upset the japanese. the problem of course with the mobile missile launch, you get very little warning that it would be about to happen. so the u.s. now very much watching the east coast of north korea and watching to see if north korea notifies the world in advance that it wou...

Confirming intelligence had a shows north koreas moving around some mobile missile launchers. the movement indicates a possible test launch, this comes hours after the north declared its prepared to attack america with nuclear weapons. u.s. officials are increasingly concerned about the erratic behavior of the young kim jong-un. we dont know a lot about this, but what we do is rather strange. were told he was doted on by his mommy reportedly called the morning star king from a young age. and the...

Like right now nobody is in a position to take control, youll have a position of just a long and protracted civil war inside that country which has chemical weapons and is a very powerful regional player in the middle east. heather: thank you. rick: when we come back, back to politics and the battle over the political attack ads, with both candidates crying foul over ads from his opponent could these negative messages actually end up helping both sides? heather: after two years of bomb threats, ...

>> it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. a deadly past 48 hours in afghanistan. new details of two attacks. an effort to derail the transition of power there. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack wednesday that left four americans dead, including senior members of an army brigade after an in-ssurgent detonated a suice vest. thomas kennedy and kevin griffin and walter gray were killed along with an american aid worker and afghan in...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com its been an amazing few days in the race for the presidency. newt gingrich is go to get out and mitt romney wing five more states last night, and all, but clenching the nomination and the general election campaign under way. our chief political analyst gloria borger is here in "the situation room." gingrich effectively, we knew which was going to happen for sure, suspending his campaign and santorum getting ready to endorse mitt romney. whats goi...

bond hearing. >> and the oldest and most traveled space shuttle welcomed this hour at the museum where it will live out its days. more than 13 months after its final mission "discovery" on public display in a hangar near dulles airport in virginia. its part of the national air and space museum, home to that stuff that wont fit in the building youve probably visited on the mall in d.c. "discovery" flew into dulles on tuesday and its sister shuttle "endevour" was bound for los angeles an...

next year. that was last weekend. he told a radio interviewer now he is looking forward to meeting with the secret service. yeah, we actually have heard from the secret service and they have a duty and i salute them. i support them, and im looking forward to our meeting tomorrow. im sure it will be a fine gathering. we all remember the sight of oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. later washing up on the beaches. now bp has reached a class action settlement with thousands of business...