these mirrors on these boilers. one of them, they were moving it, it s run by computer and it came past us. i ve got to tell you like when you were a kid and you used the magnifying glass, boom it heated us right up. it was incredible. jenna: what an interesting story. you don t want to get too many tv people around all those mirrors. you d never get a show. jon: a family making big sacrifices so their two terminally ill sons can live at home. guess what they are getting big help paying for that house just in time for christmas. it s a heart-warming report we have just ahead. also what impact does kim jong-il s death have on north korea s nuclear weapons program? a closer look coming up. at bank of america, we re lending and investing in communities across the country, from helping to revitalize a neighborhood in brooklyn
jong-un is no stranger to the west, he was schooled in switzerland, lived life at that private swiss school under a pseudonym so no one knew he was the son of the dear leader of north korea. he did apparently confide in a couple of close friends there. his placement in a swiss school chosen because that country has maintained neutrality in the north south korean conflict throughout the decades. jenna: interesting. we saw that limited video we have of him and we re going to be see thank throughout the day. again, we have such little footage of him, as well as photographs. doug, let s turn now to those missiles. we now know apparently there could be two that were fired in north korea today. what do we know about that? reporter: what we know is these were conventional missile, they were short range ballistic missile, the kinds of missiles that western observers have seen many times in the past, they apparently landed into the sea after they were firing them. the missile that you re look
now. one of the questions we re asking, is north korea more dangerous today than it was last week when kim jong-il was in power. jenna, i think the answer is yes. jenna: i think he was going to say well? jon: we hope the north koreans weren t in charge of the satellite. jenna: i think he did say yes but i don t want to put words in jim s mouth. sy a security expert, he s been to north korea which obviously many of us haven t, it s a closed country. he s also been to iran. one of the things we want for talk about jim when we get him back and we re working to do that is the axis of evil question, who is more dangerous now. jon oni m told he s good. jenna: i believe he s back. jim, if you re with us, jon pointed out it might be the north koreans messing with our signal, and hopefully that s not the case. sometimes you get these technical gremlins. but you were about to answer the question of whether or not north korea is more dangerous and you say. yes, you were correct, jen kwrar
hard for newt gingrich to head into new hampshire with a head of steam. jenna: i was taking a look at the real clear politics average, taking a look at the polls averaging out there and this is the order they have the candidates, gingrich, paul, romney in the top three, separatedby very little in iowa, followed by michele bachmann and rick perry. if you take a look at 2007 going into the 2008 campaign, here s a list of candidates in the order of the most successful to the one trailing, huckabee, romney, thompson, giuliani, and mccain was a fifth. this is, of course, mccain ended up to be the nominee. taking a look at the past, how does that tell us how we should take the iowa poll? the thing about iowa is that that doesn t make a nominee. it gives you momentum if you re someone like barack obama who was underestimated and you need to get going and want to be a serious contender for the nomination. if ron paul wins iowa it will be written off. he is not considered a contender for the
injured players. there is no word yet on why it went out of control. jon: boy, that is just scary to watch, that could have been so much worse than it was. absolutely. jon: patti ann, thank you. thank you. jenna: we re going to talk more about what s happening in north korea. we re also watching new signs that the united states and iran are already engaged in a covert war. the evidence one security expert calls too significant to ignore. that s coming up. also, just a torbl tragedy in the philippines, funeral parlors there are literally overwhelmed by the loss of life caused by the massive flooding you re seeing on your screen. what the government may now have to do with hundreds of remains. their omises once a year. but we believe in helping people take steps to keep them every single day. that s why every day we help people across the country get into their first homes. prepare for a comfortable retirement and protect the people and things that matter most.