Paul davies of independent Television News begins our coverage. Reporter emerging from the russian sky, a giant ball of flame, a meteorite providing a spectacular show until it suddenly explodes 30 miles above the earth. The city of chelyabinsk was unlucky to be beneath the meteorites flight path and was showered with debris dropping from the sky. Thousands of windows were smashed, shocked workers evacuated their offices. This school class is about to be interrupted by the shock wave. Here the windows come crashing in, and a National Judo squad runs for cover. Canadian ice hockey star Michael Garnett plays for the chelyabinsk team and lives in the city. I was awakened by this loud bang, crash and shaking in my apartment that, you know, literally shook me out of bed. I kind of gathered myself and looked out the window and i saw this giant streak across the sky that was the tail of the meteor. Reporter the last minutes of the meteorites journey were captured by hundreds of cameras as it
These kids, it was her mission. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Mason scott is on assignment. Im anthony mason. It happened in a flash and without warning. A meteor weighing 15 Million Pounds streaked across the sky over russia today causing a shock wave with a force equivalent to a small atomic bomb. The biggest meteor blast in more than a century. More than a thousand people were hurt, most from flying glass, when windows were blown out. That streak of light could be seen for hundreds of miles. The city of chelyabinsk 900 miles east of moscow bore the brunt. Mark phillips begins our coverage. Reporter thi reporter i m outer space may have been happening since the dawn of time but never before in the age of the dashboard video camera. On a highway outside of chelyabinsk in central russia a flash of light emerges out of a clear blue sky. It becomes a streak, then foreboding glow. It leaves a trail and other cameras are drawn skyward until exp
Then the real thing actually smashes into russia and it doesnt only smash into russia. It smashes as the biggest fall in 100 years and that last one in tunguska in 1908 was only 3,000 miles from this one. Thats the longest astronomical hole in one you can possibly imagine. The video was incredible. Reporter incredible. I want to ask you, like, how often does this sort of thing happen asteroids and meteorites . How often do they come this close to earth . Reporter welsh the one that happened this morning, you know, was the biggest one since 1908. We got a fireball at least once a day but most of the time its over the ocean. Something this big doesnt happen more than once in a century and the near miss Something Like this near miss, about once every 40 years, elizabeth. Wow. All right, brian hackney, thank you. You can see more of that amazing video of the meteor as well as the Photo Gallery of its path of destruction on our website, cbssf. Com. New details on the assassination threat ag
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Thats 1500 kilometers east of moscow. They say the object emitted strong light and people heard a series of explosions. The Officials Say the impact damaged more than 300 buildings. Glass fragments from shattered windows injured many people. Teams are searching a radius of several hundred kilometers to find possible debris from the meteor. Translator the small asteroid entered the earths atmosphere and starting burning. It looked like a bright fireball in the sky. The meteor fell faster than the speed of sound and we believe the shock wave is what shattered the windows. With this kind of size its very difficult to detect until it actually hits the earth. Its fair to say this event was completely unforeseen. Researchers say the United States believes north korea could be preparing a new Missile Launch in the wake of tuesdays nuclear test. Their analysis is based on recent Satellite Photos of a launch site in the northeast of the country. Researchers at Johns Hopkins university looked at