his parents named him adnan. but the family hasn't heard from the u.n. since. his favorite subject is english. he wants to communicate with as many people as possible, and he wants to be an actor. he is his family's only ray of hope. his mother has been out of a job for years. his father is severely ill with cancer. >> i am really proud they picked me as the earth's 6 billionth inhabitant. it is a great feeling, though it was just a coincidence. i know they can't actually count the babies like that, but it is still somehow nice. >> adnan arrived on october 12th, 1999 it's two minutes until midnight. then they told me kofi anan would be visiting. he came with reporters and a medallion as a gift for the child. >> it was a big event. adnan told the baby's mother that a bosnian child was chosen as a symbol of peace. they emerged from a civil war and the united nation was revealing from the massacre which had been under u.n. protection. a closer look reveals the medallion to be a mass produced souvenir with no personal dedication of any kind. the family expected mor

i'm adnan. coming up a little later for you, a good news day for president obama and the u.s. economy. unemployment has dropped to a three-year low. and south africa's governing african national of congress is marking 100 years since its founding. hello, again. a hot air balloon has crashed in new zealand killing all 11 people aboard. witnesses say it was on fire when it came down on the country's north island. the victims were five couples from the area and their pilot. sarah batley is a reporter from tv new zealand. she gave us this update. >> an absolute disaster. there are emergency services, police are here. there are a number of eyewitnesses that are starting to emerge. they're visibly shaken and upset by what they saw. around 7:00 this morning, a hot air balloon took off just out of a small town on the lower north island and headed northeast. at around 7:25, that's when things started to go wrong. eyewitnesses told us the first sign of trouble was a small fire started in the basket of the hot air balloon and there are some reports that people began to jump off. police h