Piers is back on monday keeping America Great with a president s day special. He is taking on politics with reagan, a hoover and a taft. President ial descendants. Thats on monday. Im ashleigh banfield. Thanks for watching, everyone. Hello, everyone. Im don lemon. The stories youre talking about in just a moment. But first lets get you up to speed on the days headlines. A truck bomb killed at least 79 people in central pakistan. At least 180 others were wounded. Police say the explosives were packed inside a water tanker and detonated by remote control. The attack was the latest in an Ongoing Campaign of violence against muslim shiites in the region. Cardinals could meet sooner than thought to decide on a new pope. Benedict xvi steps down at the end of the month. An idaho man could get a year in federal prison for smacking a toddler on a recent delta flight. According to court paperers, joe Ricky Hundley he used the n word and slapped the 2yearold when the boy started crying as the pla
Captioning sponsed by Macneil Lehrer proctions woodruff a meteor exploded in the skies over russia today with the power of an atomic bomb, shattering windows and injuring more than 1,000 people. Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Brown and im jeffrey brown. On the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the spectacle, and todays other cosmic event a Close Encounter with a large asteroid. This thing is pretty big. Its about half the size of a football field, although there are larger ones out there that were tracking. Woodruff then, Margaret Warner updates the president s push to curb gun violence as he takes his case to his hometown of chicago. Brown mark shields and Michael Gerson analyze the weeks news. Woodruff and ray suarez talks with Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano about combating the growing threat of cyber attacks. To the extent that some are seeking to infiltrate our network, steal that information, not have to invest in the research and development that goes into inn
Miraculously, the damage to people was minor, mostly cuts from splintered glass. Michael garnett, a canadian goalie who plays for chelyabinsk in the Russian Hockey League hasas felt a few bangs in his time but nothing like this. Reporter 70 miles outside of town a meteorshaped hole in the ice of a lake indicates the visitor nameless visitors last resting place. Meteorite fragments were sc scattered around likerstellar c interstellar calling cards. As if anyone would ever forget. Chelyabinsk has made history before for not being in the news. It was part of the old soviet unions Nuclear Weapons program and wa and was a closed zone, forbiddenground for ground for foreigners. Now its famous as the place where heaven and earth met withen and e a bang, anthony. Mason mark phillips. Thanks, mark. Derrick pitts is chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute in philadelphia. Derrick, what caused this huge explosion and sonic boom thats associated with this meteor . Asso and why did it cause so m
Six people lived in the apartment, a total of 22 are now displaced from the building. It was just crazy. How we looked outside and we seen that big fire. Reporter 9yearold neighbor joy meade considers the girl who died identified as corlina a dear friend. It breaks my heart. It hurts my heart. It hurts me because like i said, she doesnt like like she was like a sister to me. 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 . A building were damaged by and a building were damaged by flames in pacifica at an auto towing yard. By the time if firefighters got to the fire this morning it had spread from cars to an outbuilding. Fire Officials Say 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. Its has been less than a week since fugitive cop killer chris dorner died i
Now with don lemon. Now with don lemon. Have a great week. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com thank you very much. Im don lemon. Going to get you up to speed on the stories making headlines. History made today. Danica patrick becomes the first woman ever, woman driver in the history of nascar to win a pole position and she did it at the sports biggest race. Patrick posted a qualifying lap of almost 200 miles an hour. She will share the front row next sunday with jeff gordon. Ultimately at the end of the day, too, everything happens for a reason. Ive thought about it and i thought about how i was kind of a favorite pole going in. You know what . Maybe i wasnt ready. Maybe it would have been hard on me. Maybe my life would have changeded and been different. I just feel like im comfortable and cool. Ive been around for a long time now and maybe now was the time. Its your time, its your time. This will be patricks first full season in nascar sprint series. Ill talk to her life in the cnn ne