memory, or of amelia earhart.hese are like fulcrums that we can bring all the other things that we're thinking about around them. woman: ...by being the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic. christopher: the voice was really important to me, and the speech pattern -- the way that she sounds rehearsed when she speaks in these things. yesterday, i hopped off from los angeles about noontime, and landed in newark this morning after a nonstop, transcontinental trip. she has a certain stiff, formal way of speaking to the camera, so i liked that. i really wanted to use that. well, i carried some water, of course, because my cockpit is very warm... and i carried a sandwich. i didn't eat it, though. goulish: i would say maybe 80% of what we do in goat island is imitating something or someone. it's a lot like, maybe, what children do when they see a movie that they really liked, then they go home and reenact parts of it. ...the old, reliable tomato juice. i like the idea of amelia being constructed, and i think it's

what happened to amelia earhart?say a photo may on not only point to where her plane went down, but also shed some light on what happened after that. trace gallagher has more on this one. trace? >> reporter: there have been dozens of searches, megyn, for amelia earhart over the years, but what if they were searching thousands of miles off target? we knew she was headed for the howling island. there was a plane wreckage site found about 800 miles off the coast, but that plane turned out to be the wrong plane. in 2010 way over here on gardener island they found bones and artifacts that may or may not have wronged to amelia earhart and her navigator. the bones were inconclusive. well, now over here 2,000 miles away on gardener island, look what at what a marine surveyor found. this is a picture, right? we're going to kind of circle what we're talking about. if you zoom in on that picture, what it is they believe might be the strut, right? the landing gear and the strut of amelia earhart's lockheed martin plane. keep in

the guy, for example, discovered amelia earhart as an obscure person and put together her first flight across the atlantic as the first woman to cross. she passed as a passenger, nonetheless, it made her reputation. he did other things. while the lis tainia had been suvg in world war i, he was a serving officer at that point. after the war he put together a consortium to try to raise the sunken gold from the lusitania, which is crazy for a lot of reasons. one of which to the british it was a sack ra sankt tomb of lost souls and shouldn't be distu disturbed. he lost lis fortune, but he made and lost many forchings across a period of time. a special correspondent for the "new york times" set about a secret mission across the country to delve into morale in the u.s. army and found out a terrifying thing. that this was just on the verge of pearl harbor that if we were attacked, or if we were to send troops into battle at that point, many of them wouldn't go. there was -- this was at a time when congress had sort of unilaterally extended enlistments of all draftees due out in six months and

and i know you're going to be doing that possibly again with amelia earhart.ou're talking about you have a 15-year-old daughter -- >> i have been asked by senator clinton to advise the team, rick gillespie and the tiger group are going out in july, and this new data has really collapsed the search area. so they've got a good shot and i wish them fair winds and a following sea. >> you were explaining how it happened, there was a picture from 1937 -- >> a picture from 1937, three months after amelia disappeared. they were photographing this island called gardner island, not even thinking about her, they saw a ship up on the reef, and everyone's looking at the ship, and over in the left-hand corner was a little something. and the secretary of state and assistant secretary of state, kirk campbell, gave analysts, real special analysts, this image. didn't tell them anything. >> cia? >> well, you never know. real good analysts that can see golf balls on a golf course from way up far, day gave them the image and didn't tell them what it was, and said, what is it? they

amelia earhart to christopher reeve to shower her how to be a great woman. >> three stooges. ree stooges? >> the three stooges were the very first people to take on adolf hitler. i don't like them because they bash each other in the head but they parodied adolf hitler, these three jewish men. i love they stood up to the bully and i want my daughter to realize that. >> women are not weak, read that again, lila. women are not weaker be just as strong, creative and filled with just as much potential as any men. yes, as your father. my instinct is to protect you like the first day with the nurses. other people want to protect you, too, but you're not a damsel in distress waiting for a prince to rescue you. with your brain and resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself. >> that's my favorite line. my editor said, we have a problem. she said, you use one word over and over. i lsd, what's the word? fighter. i use it in over 12 heroes. i use is-t in the dalai lama passage. i want my daughter to learn how to fight. i don't apologize for that. when she sees something, she should fight for

so we did shirts like amelia earhart. world.com, it says on the back, i know no bounds. i want my daughter to know that. we did my favorite, abraham lane lincoln. his says, i will always speak my mind and speak for others. if you go to ordinary people change the world.com, i said, that's what i want to inspire people with. not with the dumb heros we have on reality television or some sports figure we hate, but real american heros that we can all stand for. >> gretchen: heros for my daughter, great to sigh. thanks so much. >> always. >> eric: thanks. coming up, never before seen video. we'll take you inside the bin laden home where his wives and children are under house arrest. >> gretchen: attacked by 100 enemy fighters for 14 straight hours, now captain barry crawford about to receive one of the air force's highest awards for doing something most people would never do. he shares his story next. mon fom "hero" to be bandied about. but does bringing a floor back to life really make us heroes? [ chuckles ] yes. yes, it does