Still debating animated shorts here. Thank you all very much for the discussion. I appreciate it. That is all for today. Well be back next week. If its sunday, its meet the press. If republicans and democrats get together this week and take a look at the president s plan which he put on the table to save 85 billion this does not have to happen. Congress returns to work with five days left before the across the board spending cuts take effect. Is that enough time to hammer out a last minute deal . And what does it mean to you. Transportation secretary ray lahood insists there is still time. Our experts break it down and talk about the on going sequester blame game. Plus, big news from afghanistan. President hamid karzai is requesting them pull out within two weeks. The reason plus how officials are responding. Stewart 33. And that fiery nascar crash leaving questions about the safety of speedways. A lot of news coming out of daytona today. We will take you there, as well. But we begin w
More of that story this morning, today, friday, february 15th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from bosto boston. And youre looking at a live sh shot. Im matt lauer along with Savannah Guthrie. We are on a friday field trip in boston this morning. We are inside this citys historic hall. Well get into everything that makes boston such a great place. Theres a great crowd outside all fired up. Cant wait to get outside and say hi to them. Meteorite coming out of russia, absolutely terrifying and frightening. This is something you expect to see in a weird movie. You can see that meteorite as its burning, streaks across the skies in the euro mountains overnight, 900 miles of east of moscow. Seconds later you can hear that loud explosion. Unfortunately theres been some injuries this morning. Duncan golestani has more. Reporter traveling at 33,000 Miles Per Hour, no wonder people were panicking. Streaking across an Ea
And an explosion of sound. These unverified pictures show the close shave with a meteorite. Locals heard and felt the shock wave of it passing. On the ground, people stunned and unsure of what they had seen were left staring at the thick trail. This man said it lasted three, maybe four seconds. More than 400 are reported injured, many hurt by broken glass. Windows popped out and a large part of this factory roof collapsed. This level of damage is rare, but meteorites are common. Theyre often smaller an burn up as they enter the earths atmosphere. An asteroid the size of a Swimming Pool will make the closest recorded pass of earth. Closer than some satellites. We understand its going extreme he well and we can say theres no chance of it hitting the earth. Reporter this part of russia, that will be welcome news. Some people asking if that asteroid flyby were expecting later is somehow linked. Scientists say no. Theyre calling it a cosmic coincidence. Savannah . Thank you. Dr. Neil degras
Murder of his girlfriend. Were live in south africa with more of that story this morning, today, friday, february 15th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from bosto boston. And youre looking at a live sh shot. Im matt lauer along with Savannah Guthrie. We are on a friday field trip in boston this morning. We are inside this citys historic hall. Well get into everything that makes boston such a great place. Theres a great crowd outside all fired up. Cant wait to get outside and say hi to them. Meteorite coming out of russia, absolutely terrifying and frightening. This is something you expect to see in a weird movie. You can see that meteorite as its burning, streaks across the skies in the euro mountains overnight, 900 miles of east of moscow. Seconds later you can hear that loud explosion. Unfortunately theres been some injuries this morning. Duncan golestani has more. Reporter traveling at 33,000 miles per hour
Passengers returning from vacation. They were in the resort on the part of the peninsula. 17 children on board that flight also just into us here at cnn. The black boxes have been retrieved according to egypts Civil Aviation minister in cairo. Lets go straight to Cnn Senior International correspondent Nic Robertson in russia. Ian lee is on the ground there in cairo. To you first, youve covered this area to this point about the developments of this early stage of the investigation. A lot of information to go over with you. We do know that the search area has the diameter of 5 miles. When you look at these pictures that are coming in from the Egyptian Government. What show is the terrain earlier today, we were told by the government that it was a mountainous terrain and as we can see there, there werent many mountains in the nearby facility. Trying to go through and pick about what happened and get those bodies. Were hearing from the Prime Minister that 129 bodies have been recovered so