In the skies over chelyabinsk, no one saw it coming. In this day and age, how is that possible . Kpix 5 sharon chin tells us the answer is pretty simple. Reporter a bussized fireball exploded across the russian sky. Dashboard video cameras captured the meteor soaring an estimated 33,000 miles an hour, with the force of two world war ii atomic bombs. [ sound of explosions ] reporter the explosion shattered thousands of windows and injured about 1,000 people in chelyabinsk. The sonic boom was felt in booms and classrooms. Astronomers call it cosmic coincidence that the meteor struck on the same day that an asteroid passed near the earth. But why did we know about the asteroid a year in advance, yet have no warning about the meteor . It just snuck up on us. Thats not unusual for the small ones. Reporter an astronomer at chabot space and Science Center says the meteor was too small to detect by radar. The meteor was only a third the size of the asteroid. The asteroid was about as big as a
San jose. Officers are concerned its only going to get worse. 2012 was one of the most violent years in san jose reaching a 20 year high in homicides. Police released new numbers revealing total crime increased by 27 . Is this unique to the city . Reporter in 2012 homicides increased by 15. 4 . Rape up 23. 9 . Robbery was 9. 7 . The number of aggravated assaults youre looking at 150 to 200 more in 2012 than we had in 2011. Anyone one could have resulted in a homicide. Reporter the biggest increases were in property crimes. Burglaries increased 23. 3 and vehicle theft increased 71 . This year san jose is on pace for about 1000 car thefts a month. They took away my honda civic. And they stole everything that i had in there. Reporter a new calendar year is not slowing down the crime. A 17yearold was shot to death earlier this month and another 17yearold was stabbed to Death Outside his high school on wednesday. A drive by shooting injured two men last night. All three crimes appear to be
Moments before that police fired shots the scene stolen car suspect after the driver may have tried to run down an officer after police put spike strips in the street to stop the town car. Officers laid out spike strips to disable the vehicle. The suspect vehicle drove on the sidewalk and at one point the officer was on the sidewalk that was deployed the strips discharged the firearm fearing for his safety. The spike strips were put down. The suspect was arrested after the crash white house incident. Others involved in the crash, bystanders, were hurt, but are expected to be okay with nonlifethreatening injuries. Live in San Francisco for abc7 news. Thank you. Developing news, prosecutors say this morning they will pursue premeditated murder against olympic track store Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who ran on blades was formally charged with murdering his girlfriend in south africa. Oscar pistorius sobbed as the judge read the murder charge. Cameras everyone not allowed inside. Y
None of the injuries are considered life threatening. Scientists are going to study the space rocks to gain insight into the origins of our solar system. And weve posted more video of that meteor online, cbssf. Com and that meteor hit russia with the force of 20 hiroshima bombs, but it was only 1 3 as big as the asteroid that then hurled by earth a little bit later. That asteroid came within 17,000 miles of the earth which is closer than it sounds. Satellites are in a higher orbit than that, but unlike the russian meteor, nasa did see this space rock coming. Nasas currently studying about 9,000 of these nearearth asteroids. About 1,800 of them are fairly large and those are of very particular interest to us. Now, overnight a bright flash was spotted streaking above the bay area sky. You might have seen it. And as the sky lit up, so did the phones in our newsroom. Emails and tweets came pouring into kpix5. Check that out. People concerned about a streak of light in the sky, and this you
Man, 18 or 19 years of age, bleeding from a bullet wound. He was lying in the schools field by a chain link fence. He died later at eden medical center. The s. O. Has not yet confirmed his id. They are looking into whatever he was shot over a game of dice. What happened here has been very unnerving for one parent we spoke with whos having serious second thoughts from living down the street from this school. We just moved here about three months ago. Weve noticed theres a lot of activity going on on this street right here. Were planning on moving pretty soon. Reporter you say a lot of activity well, i think theres drug sales going on. I think some gang members walking up and down the street. It just doesnt look like a really nice area. We just moved here. I know if you look up the next block, theres a lot of gang writing on the wall and stuff. Reporter investigators are not saying whether or not this was gang related. They do tell us they have leads but no suspects, no arrests. This, by