calling in bruce willis or what nasa is doing with this dart mission where they re trying to crash this spacecraft into an asteroid. they called bruce willis and said hey, do you want to come down for the launch and he said no. so we re on our own, john he ll be surprised by the asteroid that sneaks up on us but nasa, hopefully will not be. come on, bruce. we need you. america needs you. things to do. i think he s free. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world and perhaps on asteroids flying near earth. who knows? it is tuesday, january 18th. i m john bedrrman.
some of the reasons why nasa is so concerned about the potential of not just this steroid, this steroid is something that has been watched and monitored and detected for decades now. what nasa astronomers are particularly worried about are those asteroids that sneak up on earth and this happened back in 2019, two years ago an asteroid got within 40,000 miles of e earth. that is nothing. this was a big asteroid, and the craziest part, john, is that nasa and astronomers around the world only noticed it less than 24 hours before it made its closest encounter to earth. and we now know it s a combination of things. i won t get into the fphysics right now but that is what nasa is most concerned about, not this one that you see that we ve been monitored fobut those asteroids that go undetected until right at the last moment. you can t have asteroids sneaking up on you. that s unacceptable, right? that s when you need to start
well, we re still just going through them. and we ve said before that we re in the investigative stage of our work. we will have a public stage that will include public hearings in the future, and that may be an opportunity where we can share what we have learned broadly through depositions and interviews and through some of the evidence and information that we see here today. so the answer is we re still working through this and we ll know more soon congressman pete aguilar, thank you so much for being with us. thanks, john. just in, bob saget s widow obeying her silence after the committee and sudden death. what she says about their final days together. plus, if you had a breakthrough covid infection, are you able to return to living like it s 2019? we ll ask an expert. and we ll be joined this hour by espn s steven smith who says without the covid vaccine, he wouldn t be here. b
and figure out what and who is behind these mysterious attacks. kylie, this is very interesting and i know it s going to raise a lot of eye brows and a nlot of new qu questions. thank you so much for your reporting. new day continues right now. b good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, january 20th. i m john bedrrman. briana is working nights this week. casey hunt here in the chair to mark the one-year anniversary with the biden presidency. good to be here. the white house is trying to make clear the president did not somehow give permission for v vladimir putin to launch a minor incursion into ukraine. his remarks at his one-year news conference raised alarm of what he sees as a likelihood of a russian invasion. and that was in addition to other major developments in the