also, would you ask your boss wife out on a date? especially if your boss is the president of the united states? we ll explain this and you ve been chiming in on it this morning as well. let s start with the senate. open for business today. they ll be in session. first on that agenda is extending the payroll tax holiday. this is a compromised keel that appears to have been reached. it s just an extension that goes for two months. it means we have to come back and do this all over again in 6 house today. athena, the white house at least happy to know that the taxes for a lot of folks in this country will not go up january 1? well, yes, they say they are. they say this deal meets the test that the president set out. he s been saying for days and weeks, really, that the important thing is that taxes for 160 million americans don t go up on january 1st and even though they ll have to return to this whole issue in another two months, for now this is a significant step and it s
air. literally. and now clearing things up, bruce, when, where, and who will this hit? guest: we don t know. we don t know. we don t know. but, other than that we know a lot things. it will hit in the next . neil: bruce, bruce, bruce, you are with the planetary society, and you saying, there is no way of knowing, like all the experts. guest: right, no way to know exactly. probably hitting on friday. but it could be saturday. it s a tricky thing to try to figure out for a couple of reasons. big reasons. one, the atmosphere, the earth s atmosphere is static not moving, but it actually is bigger and gets smaller and changes with time for a variety of factors, and, so, you don t know exactly how many air molecules the
streaking across the sky last night. witnesses say it changed colors. from this blue green to this orange thing and yellow thing. shooting star? u.f.o.? trace in los angeles. come on, trace. little grown men? trace: asteroid that the experts say streaks across the sky, you could see it for 0 miles and the police department phones lit up, the u.f.o. buffs got all fired up. when it hit the atmosphere it has air molecules that glow and they say these are very common. listen. believe it or not an object of this size could be expected to enter the atmosphere on a weekly basis but, of course, the earth being mostly ocean and uninhabited areas it is unusual for an object this bright to be seen in an area like los angeles
i m melissa harris perry. nascar. the multibillion dollar stock car racing. i live in north carolina. south carolina is kind of a big deal there. part of the draw of nascar is of course the danger. cars are traveling at speeds of up to 200 miles an hour. they do it just inches away from each other. see, this, it s called drafting. you see it all the time in nascar. especially at the talledega speedway. getting within centimeters of another car when you re both going really, really fast. seep seeps kind of crazy but it s not. why? it s all about arrow dynamics. air molecules create friction against the car, slowing it down. this is called drag. drag is the enemy. nascar teams reduce drag all sorts of ways. the cars are as low to the ground as possible. pit crews tape up the grils to block air from flowing through the engine. the side view mirrors are on the inside of the car.