Wild blue yonder. The news today that reminded americans and people all over the world what it feels like to dream and explore and what can happen when science and brain power and engineering combine to take us places far away. After traveling through space for ten years and doing five laps around the sun, a small spacecraft has landed on a comet and both are now hurtling through space at 40,000 miles an hour, traveling somewhere between mars and jupiter. Think of it this way, tonight as we come on the air there are american footprints on the moon, a rover driving across the surface of mars, now a spacecraft the size of a washing machine hanging onto a comet for dear life. We begin tonight with nbcs katy tur at the European Space Agency Headquarters in germany. Reporter these are pictures from 300 million miles away of something weve never seen this close before, the surface of a comet. The Mission Rosetta journey began a decade ago, today success. From Mission Control in germany to vi
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Pepco. But back here theyre trying to figure out what caused the insulator to break off and cause all the problems. Now the power outage to the university of maryland so hard that the College President closed the campus at 2 00 p. M. More on the situation there now, bruce. Reporter power is coming back on to parts of the campus at this point but there are some estimates that it may be as late as 11 00 tonight before they get the power fully restored here at the university of maryland. Prince George County fire said it had to pull a half dozen people off of stuck elevators and university crews may have pulled another half dozen people off of stuck elevators. There were long waits for shuttles as people rushed to the tours. Thousands of students started a mass exodus after the president here canceled classes. Inside the Student Union a recretement went on under emergency lights but many classrooms pitch black. All the lights went out through campus and then a strange buzzing noise. It to
Tries to pull him on to the brink. A train rolled over them two small slips of paper words big bucks. Well tell you where the winning megamillions were sold and how some states used their share of the lottery to boost education. Good morning. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Escalating violence in two nash ouring nations in south sudan there are reports that up to 500 were killed tuesday, with 800 wounded. The government says 10 follow tirns are under arrest for taking part in a foiled coup attempt. Led by the former vice president. The United Nations says fighting across the border cost more than 200,000 people to flee the capital. The French Foreign minister says several nations are sending in troops to support a military effort to restore order there. We begin with the violence in south sudan. The state department is warning american citizens to leave the country and is suspending normal operations in juba. The u. N. Security council held an emergency meeting tuesday
I love the people of this community and what they represent. Why what i want to be any place else . Why would i want to be any place else . And second, this district does not belong to me or to my opponents, for that matter, it belongs only to the voters of this district, the new yorkers who get up every day and busied themselves with building a better, fairer city. Those new yorkers get to choose who best represents the people and values of this city. And you know what . I think the voters make themselves clear tonight made themselves clear tonight. [cheers and applause] before we go on, i want to take this opportunity to thank a few people. First, let me thank the incredibly hardworking democratic clubs who volunteered all around on my behalf. West side democrats, crdc, and the Upper Eastside progressives. Thank you. Heuer out early in the mornings and late at night you were out early in the mornings and late at night making my case to thousands of new yorkers. Next, i want to apprec