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>> the question is how a guy who worked at a best buy ended up with a backpack with all of that money in it. what's that deal? >> i don't have a backpack with 40 grand in cash. no way. >> we don't work at best buy. >> maybe they have a good payment plan. good samaritan. that much is clear cut. he is a great guy. >> in fact he said even if he were desperate for the money he wouldn't have kept it because god has always looked out for him. >> got to love it. >> yeah. one man's goal to run more than 58,000 miles. find out what is motivating him. also this morning, an engineering feat off the c...

The humanitarian crisis in north korea is classified by many people as an out right genocide. jenna: by the way, 12-12-12 are you rid i for that. >> reporter: that is the occasion why we are paired together. jenna: it finally happened. it's a big story we'll continue to follow. john has more on north korea now. jon: gordan chang is a frequent guest of ours the author of "nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world." were you as surprised as the rest of the world seemed to be when they got the missile off the launch pad. >> i was stunned. this is a really important engineering feat. they di...

Really symbolic in many respects, this building has really transformed lower manhattan. it has revitalized new york's -- following the attacks of 9/11. many tourists here today gazing upwards in absolute awe of this engineering feat. jon? jon: wow! how does it compare with the rest of the country and really outside the country? >> reporter: here's a brief scorecard. when the 1 world trade center is complete it will stand at 1776 feet that figure by the way is not a coincidence. it is going to surpass in just a few hours time the empire state building. it will soon surpass the willis tower in c...

Are also from the lake, but they've been kind of contaminated, so we hope these will be the first clean samples from the lake, and we hope that we'll have a first insight into what can live in a lake underneath two miles of ice. jon: robin bell, thank you. let's talk about it with tom jones. tom, some are suggesting that this is the accomplishment, the scientific accomplishment here and maybe the technological one is equivalent to landing on the moon? >> it's certainly an impressive engineering feat, jon. it's equivalent to having to work in the south pole of cold. this is one of the -- it's a...

>> bill: what i understand, and what i read, is that the space shuttle mission has gone so well that they're almost bored with it. >> [laughter] >> you know, i don't know how you -- you were there. i don't know, bill, whether you saw it for the first time or not, but how can you be bored with what you saw, number one, and how can you be bored with probably the greatest engineering feat in history of mankind, building -- building, developing, assembling the space shuttle? it's just now at a point of full potential and there's no other vehicle on the horizon that can service like the shuttle. ag...