. >> reporter: hal downes was a radar operator in the back of an air force bomber which went down on a mission over north korea. the pilot and navigator were able to bail out. >> what did they tell you about what they thought had happened to your father? >> they had no idea. >> was either of them able to witness the crash? >> the navigator said the plane went down over and finally crashed over a hill, and he heard the ammunition going off. that's all. that's all we know. >> reporter: two years ago, rick through to pyongyang to press for the return of not just his father's remains but those of the 5,300 american servicemen still missing in action in north korea. >> are you out to give your father a proper burial, do a son's duty? >> i got the son's duty already when i got to go to north korea. we flew in over where we think my dad's plane went down. >> reporter: this is him with a snapshot of his father as he flew over the site. >> that was all there. the hills that the navigator said the plane went down, there they were. it's the closest i've been to him, proximity-wise, since i was

among them, hal downes. d martin has his story. >> reporter: rick downes was three years old and his father, sl, went off to the korean war. he's been missing ever since. >> i call it the wound that never heals. after a while you get used to pving it and it finds a place within you and you go on and live life. >> reporter: he was too young to remember his father, so all he has is a home movie of a 26- year-old man with everything to live for. >> you just can't help but look at him and see that he had it together. he had what he wanted. he had the woman he wanted. he had the family he wanted. >> reporter: hal downes was a radar operator in the back of an enr force bomber which went down on a mission over north korea. the pilot and navigator were tle to bail out. what did they tell you about what they thought had happened to your father? >> they had no idea. >> reporter: was either of them able to witness the crash? >> the navigator said the plane went down over-- finally crashed over a hill and he heard the am

for their relatives today like the son of lieutenant hal downs, closure may finally be coming. >> we've been waiting a long time for things like this to happen, and it's the beginning, not an ending. >> reporter: it's an achievement for president trump. at his summit in june, the north korean leader kim jong-un promised to send home american remains. president trump today. >> and i want to thank chairman kim for keeping his word. these incredible american heroes will soon lay at rest on sacred american soil. >> reporter: north korea has also reportedly begun to smantle a rocket launch site. we visited while it was still operational. this is what u.s. officials are so concerned about. north korea says this rocket is strictly for scientific purposes. but today was about honoring those who fell on a foreign battlefield and never came home. the next stop, hawaii for detailed dna identification that could take months. richard engel, nbc news. >>> we're back now with a new alert from doctors as much of the nation rightly focuses on the opioid crisis that has so many people caught in its grip.

rick downes was 3 years old when his father hal went off to war. hiss bomber went down over north korea. he's been missing ever since. >> i call it the wound that never heals. usually you end up getting used to having it. >> he's cautiously optimistic his father will one day be returned. >> you have to really watch your heart here because this all could just fizzle. this could be nothing. it could be everything. too the remains could be about 200 that north korea has, but about 7,700 u.s. soldiers are still listed as missing. these are the first remains given to the u.s. in 2007 when six sets were returned. the north koreans have expressed a willingness to resume joint search mentions with the u.s. to help find more. those missions had stopped in 2005 because of north korea's nuclear program. anne-marie? >> laura podesta here in new york. thank you so much, laura. >>> president trump's long-time attorney michael cohen said then candidate trump knew about a trump tower meeting with russians in june of 2016. it was at this meeting that russians offere

as his neighbor, hal morris, chases him down with his tractor. h's wife told police hal was after her husband because of a property dispute. lynch got away safely. >> jimmy: well, thank god. [ applause ] he's lightly jogging for his life. here's something to look forward to for those of you who like me love the show "game of thrones." this is the final season of "game of thrones," but hbo is working on a prequel that reportedly, we learned this today, takes place 10,000 years before the original. which means winter won't be coming for a very long time. 10,000 years. that would mean the "game of thrones" we're watching now had 10,000 years to invent electricity and they're still usie ing torches for light and crows to deliver the mail. i guess these lannisters are more inbred than i thought. there are also said to be at least three more "game of thrones" pilots in the works at hbo, each one of them set in a different time period with different characters and story lines. this is all part of hbo's plan to make sure we never understand anything that

and hal, you know, not that you want to tip your hand but when we've looked at deals like this before, pharmaceutical companies have tried to buy out the entirety of these companies. could you see downe trying to acquire 23 and me in its entirety >> well, i'm really excited about the collaboration today and the opportunities it's going to have. you know, it's a private company. and i think the structure we have with equity is going to incentivize us to have great advances for 23 and me and terrific advances for gsk. >> okay. we're going to leave the conversation there hal and richard, congratulations on the deal. good luck with it. thanks for the conversation this morning. >> thank you >> and thank you, meg. >> thanks, guys. >>> when we come back, a lot more on "squawk box. home buyers pulling back on closing the deal as prices rise. a closer look at mortgage application data and where rates are headed we'll talk about that next check out the futures this morning on a wednesday dow looks like it would open down off about 107 points. nasdaq looking to open ten points down. the s&p 500 looking to open six wints off weill return with a lot more in just a moment >>> mixed quarter from b