detained in north korea nearly 500 days ago and bob levinson captured in iran. he spend more than two decades with the fbi before retiring. cnn's alexandra fields has more. >> reporter: 7 years ago today bob levinson disappeared in iran. tomorrow marks his 66th birthday. >> this is going to be the 8th birthday that he has been away from us. he has missed so many family occasions and has three grandchildren that he doesn't know about. >> please help me. get home. >> when it was publicly revealed that he had been working undercover for the cia, his family told cnn that they had known all along. >> the risk to bob. i didn't know what the risk would be. >> at the time, the family provided cnn with paperwork given to them by a source in iran. they believe it proves he was arrested there in 2007. according to an fbi translation given to the family, it reads in part, since his spying activities have been established arrest him immediately. the name on the paperwork rob beard anderson is only partially correct. >> we think the number one priority should be bringing my d

. >>> earlier i spoke with christine levinson, the wife of bob levinson. i began by asking her reaction from secretary of state john kerry about her husband. >> i think it's wonderful he's speaking about bob. all we want is bob home safely. in this his message he asked the iranian government to help, and i would like to do that, too. i believe with the help of iranian government we can resolve this case and get bob home safely to our family. >> earlier this year your family decided to come forth and say that your husband was, in fact, working with the cia. since then have you felt more support from the u.s. government? >> i haven't felt anything different. the u.s. government has always been helpful in the case. they have told us they are doing everything they can, and so i believe especially with secretary kerry's statement that they are. >> so far have you gotten any updates whatsoever regarding his health in the seven years he's been away? >> in november of 2010 and in april of 2011 we received a video and piblctures and haven' heard anything since then

bob levinson, the fbi agent whose family says he was working for the cia when he disappeared, has not government says they have no idea where he is, but his family will be asking questions, especially as negotiators sit down for a deal. >> although it's been seven years, we've never been more hopeful with the continued developments between our two countries. we're going to keep pressing officials on both ends, and we're not going to go away until this is resolved and my dad's home. >> the state department says it is committed to levinson's safe return and is asking iran to work with the united states to find him. >>> meanwhile, a top european negotiator warning there are no guarantees the nuclear talks between the west and iran will be able to reach an agreement. catherine ashton called the process challenging and difficult after meeting with iran's foreign minister in tehr tehran, and the iranians said they wouldn't agree to any deal that doesn't respect their country's rights. >>> breaking overnight, he has to finish his 28-year murder sentence first, but peru has agreed to extradit

they decided to re-elect their directors including william campbell, tim cook, al gore, bob egr, arthur levinsongar. melissa, back to you. >> all right, josh lipton, thank you very much. >>> big deals, could they find ways to monetize them. stan is at the plasma and has this one. >> this eye-popping deal, we saw facebook buy what will be $19 billion whatsapp, the messaging app. people think of apple as hardware company, they make their own software. it's been a fantastic story in that regard. lot of things brewing at apple, the fastest-growing businesses don't have actually their hardware. the whatsapp acquisition, they're doing 50 billion -- 50 billion messages a day on whatsapp. tim cook told us they're doing 40 billion a day. that's on a closed network, just on ios. i find that interesting. look at the active users that facebook bought. 450 million. imessage, it may be difficult, between 250, maybe 400 million ios devices. android, 800 million users. that's iphone and ipad. bbm, blackberry, 50 million. maybe, just maybe, apple, they're just buying back their own stock. they spent $14 billion

levinson's wife holds out hope. >> i think cooperation between the two countries could resolve bob's case. i hope the iranians will cooperate and get bob home. secretary of state john kerry released this statement: >> the iranian government denies holing reupena levasa, and says they are unaware of his whereabouts. >> secretary of state john kerry went on to say that robert levinson is one of the longest detained u.s. citizens in history. >> mexico's government says a leader of one of the nation's powerful drug cartels has been killed. but as adam raney reports from mexico city, it's not the first time the king pin, known as "the craziest one" was killed. >> the killing of nazario moreno gonzalez in western mexico comes two weeks after the government announced the arrest of joaquin guzman, shorty, and he was the head of the sinaloa cartel, the biggest in the world. know they announced the killing of nazario moreno gonzalez, who headed the most powerful organization, the government is trying to show they have control of this ongoing drug war that has been carrying on for seven years. it's a

levinson's wife, christine, still holds out hope. >> i think cooperation between the two current trees can resolve bob's case.would hope that the iranians will cooperate and help us get bob home safely. >> sunday, secretary of state john kerry released this statement: >> the rannian government denies holding levinson and says they are unaware of his whereabouts. >> syrian rebels today release 13 greek orth dodge nuns who had been captured in a monastery three months ago. they were released as part of a deal struck with the syrian government. it released about 150 female prisoners in exchange for the nuns' freedom. the uae amend saudi arabia ordered all working fo-qatari media outlets to resign immediately. this, according to the peninsula, a doha basedno newspaper. former ambassador to the united states says it has nothing to do with the issues between katar and those kuntz trees but it does have to do with egypt. >> katar is saying i have nothing to do with egypt. i will never support dictators of killers of their own people. these countries want dictatorship to continue in egypt and they have plans to impos