Law enforceme lawmakers approved a bill to remove the debt ceiling. They could not agree on a spending bill so at the beginning of the month the government started laying off 800,000 employees. Now fair lowed staff at the white house and government offices have returned to work. And museums and monuments and memorials are opened again. Im personally glad that all the memorials are open for the tour guiding business and so that students can learn. More than 100 people lined up to get into the Smithsonian National air and space museum. Translator the exhibition was great. I came all the way to the u. S. To see this. Many Business People welcomed the deal to pay the governments bills over the next four months. Others are skeptical. I think it was forced and not well thought out but we got to a time crunch and needed to be done. I mean, around the world, our reputation is slowly dwindling. The lawmakers reached their compromise hours before a deadline that would see the government default
Snow, but the power and heat is still on. Its not as nasty. The last storm was nasty. Reporter this is the same storm that brought snow to the carolinas and icy temps to florida. Farmers there just trying to keep their crops warm through one more night of sub freezing cold. Glad to hear bob and arlene did not lose power again. You were saying, this system is moving off shore just as the system out west will cause trouble. Our attention has to turn to the west. Tomorrow into tuesday, theyre going to start to feel it. Southern oregon, northern california. Tuesday afternoon, thunderstorm, even hail in Southern California and that same system going to reinvigorate, pass over denver, through the midwest. See the white blob, that could be a foot and a half of snow or more. Going to be incredible. South looking for tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, thats on thursday. A mess of a week ahead. Ginger, our thanks to you. Now to the exploding case from south africa, the olympian known as the blade
Damage. Reporter the shards of glass injuring more than 1,000 people, 100 hospitalized. I heard this extremely loud noise that shook my apartment. Reporter canadian hockey player, michael garnett, lives there. We talked to him via skype. It blew the vents out of my bathroom and there was debris on the floor. And i am up on the 23rd floor and i could feel the building swaying. Reporter pieces of the meteor punched a hole in a frozen lake, but missed a town in a nearby nuclear plant. Linda specializes in meteorites at the smithsonian. These are the primitive materials left over from when the planets formed and are the basic Building Blocks of all of our planetary material. Its heavy. Reporter it is indeed heavy. Reporter in an amazing coincidence, an astroid half the size of a football field came whizzing by this afternoon. While the space station orbits 220 miles above the earth, this afternoons astroid passed 17,000 miles above the earth, much closer than many satellites that orbit 22,
Reporter the cause of this fire appears to be accidental but firefighters have not yet been able to determine exactly how it started. On treasure island. Anne makovec kpix 5. Several cars were damaged by flames at an auto towing yard in pacifica. By the time firefighters got to the fire on palmetto avenue this morning it had spread from cars to an outbuilding. It was windy at the time and that made the fire difficult to put out. No one was hurt and the cause of the fire is under investigation. Well, the bright light seen streaking across the bay area sky last night was a sporadic meteor. Thats a confirmation tonight from the american meteor society. It was captured on a camera mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle. Meteor experts say fireballs happen every night all around the world. This one just happened to be spotted here in the bay area. [ sirens ] that fireball was nowhere the size of the one that slammed into russia friday morning. Local time. That one was a 7,000pound chunk of s
Passenger now accused of slapping this little boy. And for the little girl from kentucky, up for an oscar. Behind the scenes with Bradley Cooper, what it was like to tell Robert De Niro off and how her mother is still worried about her. Got bless her, she text me every night, are you home . Are you okay . Good evening. Thanks for being here this sunday night. We start with two giant stormds on both coasts tonight. A blizzard in parts of the northeast. Look at in this evening, just a week after the last monster blizzard. Its slow going in portsmouth, New Hampshire tonight. This extends as far south as florida. Spring training, the pitcher for the Washington Nationals all bundled up. Out west, this new storm coming ashore will blow down the coast and then head to the midwest. Ginger zee with the all picture beginning with that blinding snow in the northeast. Reporter its snowing and blowing again in new england. Winds roaring on cape cod, nearly 60 Miles Per Hour gusts. The storm clipped