Good morning. Im Lauren Lyster in for annemarie green. The latest earthquake to hit kansas turned out to be the largest in a series that has rattled the state over the past year. The 4. 8 magnitude quake hit yesterday afternoon. It was centered about 25 miles southwest of wichita. It was the second day in a row that an earthquake was recorded in kansas. No significant damage or injury was reported, but the rumbling got folks attention. After probably i want to say like ten seconds, we heard like this big boom and then we came in here and everything was toppled over and we looked up here and the ceiling had actually fallen through. So far this year kansas has experienced more than 90 earthquakes. The arctic chill that brought bitter cold temperatures to the center of the country hits the east coast today. Ground rules at Denver International airport had their hands full yesterday. 45 flights were canceled. Overnight temperatures there dropped a record 45 degrees below zero. Workers shov
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The target is two miles wide and 300 million miles away. But today, the European Space agency landed a spacecraft on a comet, a first in human history. The lander named philae shot these pictures on approach to the comet which is called 67 p, a name as gray as the bolders and ridges that litter its service. Philae bounced once when an anchoring system failed to catch. When it settled, it began sending signals but it has not sent pictures from the surface yet. Charlie dagata is at Mission Control in germany. Reporter a decadelong dream of landing on a streaking comet came true today. applause matt taylor is with the European Space agency. We tried to land on a bleed comet thats 500 million kilometers away and we just dropped something the size of a fridge, and its going down. Its mental, its crazy that were doing this. Reporter the philae separateseparated from its unmad mothership the rosetta earlier today. The comet
Annemarie green. The latest earthquake to hit kansas turned out to be the largest in a series that has rattled the state over the past year. The 4. 8 magnitude quake hit yesterday afternoon. It was centered about 25 miles southwest of wichita. It was the second day in a row that an earthquake was recorded in kansas. No significant damage or injury was reported, but the rumbling got folks attention. After probably i want to say like ten seconds, we heard like this big boom and then we came in here and everything was toppled over and we looked up here and the ceiling had actually fallen through. So far this year kansas has experienced more than 90 earthquakes. The arctic chill that brought bitter cold temperatures to the center of the country hits the east coast today. Ground rules at Denver International airport had their hands full yesterday. 45 flights were canceled. Overnight temperatures there dropped a record 45 degrees below zero. Workers shoveled through the day to clean out the
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The target is two miles wide and 300 million miles away. But today the European Space agency landed a spacecraft on a comet, a first in human history. The lander named philae shot these pictures on approach to the comet which is called 67 p, a name as gray as the bolders and ridges that litter its service. Philae bounced once when an anchoring system failed to catch. When it settled it began sending signals but it has not sent pictures from the surface yet. Charlie dagata is at Mission Control in germany. Reporter a decadelong dream of landing on a streaking comet came true today. applause matt taylor is with the European Space agency. We tried to land on a bleed comet thats 500 million kilometers away and we just dropped something the size of a fridge and its going down. Its mental, its crazy that were doing this. Reporter the philae separatedseparated from its unmanned mothership the rose
October 13, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im lester holt alongside dylan dreyer and craig melvin in for jenna. Todays top story, the Government Shutdown is now 13 days old. Thats not all at this point. Were now just four days away from the country starting to run out of money to pay its bills. Still there is no deal on either crisis and no sense this morning that lawmakers are any closer to reaching an agreement. Kristen welker is at the white house to tell us more. Kristen, good morning. Reporter lester, good morning. Any hopes for a deal now rest with the senate where leaders will be back at the negotiating table today. With the markets set to open tomorrow, everyone from economists to average americans are hoping that progress comes soon. Its day 13 of the Government Shutdown and the publics patients with washington has just about run o