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do believe right now is him but they are waiting for fingerprint tests to come back and confirm it. this man himself says he is the suspect. he says he is luca magnata. he was caught in an internet cafe and there were reports that they had seen activity on his account. he still had his own personal mobile phone. they figured this gi sooner or later would give himself up in a sense. because he want doing a good job of trying to cover his tracks. >> let's bring viewers back it last week when you and i were talking about this case. it plays out like a slasher movie. absolutely chilling,...

of data. you like to see the trend for markets and economics. after three months of 200,000 jobs created or more, people are saying, look, it's healing. things are going to get better. the rearview mirror is a slow jobs recovery. then you have a stall here. when your biggest customer has countries in it that are in recession, that doesn't mean if you're a big company in this country you wan to be adding a lot of workers. that could be a big bart of it. i want to look at the private sector of public sector jobs. 82,000 private sector jobs created. 13,000 public job sectors lost. there...

>> reporter: these are urban minors. when you think about construction labors, at a house or building being build, these h-r sand hogs. these guys often go hundreds of feet below the surface of new york city to build the steam tunnels, the water and sewer pipes and the train tunnels for the east side access project which happens to be the largest transportation project in the united states. we went below ground with the sand hogs this week and met one of them, mike warfield and asked him how he measures progress when he's dealing with bedrock day after day. >> knock it off a chunk of a time. y...

America's 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 can't stay here anymore. if you are tired of all this fresh air and sunshine and you want to go deep underground and dig through rock and dirt then you might have a future as a sand hog. almost e...

Know it was there unless you went looking for it. sand hogs are chiseling out the future of transportation in the city that just never sleeps. rick leventhal is working 9 to 5 in new york today, and there he is. hey, rick. >> reporter: jenna, sand hogs dug the footings for the brooklyn bridge 140 years ago, and they've dug the footings for almost every other bridge in new york since then, and every single tunnel beneath our feet -- and believe me, there are a lot of them including the east side access project that's going to connect the long island railroad to the grand central station. it's a...