Then were going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if youre looking at the program you can see that that frank isnt able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for cspan. And with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. Yes. Hi everyone. So yeah, were getting pretty massive. Were gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first were gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and were gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out itll be Amazing Things that theyve written but were gonna get to know them a little bit better by asking and their relationship with tv by asking them. What was the First Television event that they remember watching as a child and also who is there face of the Television News so well begin with David Greenberg who is a professo
East coast, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Five stories trending out of this hour. Out of afghanistan but is it Mission Accomplished . Epidemic virus the flu will it slow down . California cold snap, citrus in danger. Admission imminent. Word of a Lance Armstrong tell all. And oops, did britney do it again . We have details on all those stories. But first now were getting to the president as he is sharing new details today on americas future role in afghanistan after meeting with afghan President Hamid karzai on friday, he is giving us an update on how he will end the war in afghanistan. This remains a very difficult mission. The work ahead will not be easy. Our forces are still in harms way. But make no mistake. Our path is clear, and we are moving forward. Because after more than a decade of war, the nation we need to rebuild is our own. Now at the same time, Democratic Leaders in the senate are advising president obama to consider any lawful steps to avoid a debt ceiling crisis, even fit mean
Damage. Reporter the shards of glass injuring more than 1,000 people, 100 hospitalized. I heard this extremely loud noise that shook my apartment. Reporter canadian hockey player, michael garnett, lives there. We talked to him via skype. It blew the vents out of my bathroom and there was debris on the floor. And i am up on the 23rd floor and i could feel the building swaying. Reporter pieces of the meteor punched a hole in a frozen lake, but missed a town in a nearby nuclear plant. Linda specializes in meteorites at the smithsonian. These are the primitive materials left over from when the planets formed and are the basic Building Blocks of all of our planetary material. Its heavy. Reporter it is indeed heavy. Reporter in an amazing coincidence, an astroid half the size of a football field came whizzing by this afternoon. While the space station orbits 220 miles above the earth, this afternoons astroid passed 17,000 miles above the earth, much closer than many satellites that orbit 22,
Those passengers even after they got off the ship. And a warning tonight about the rights you give up when you get on board. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt in tonight for brian. The sky is not falling, but you would be forgiven if the thought crossed your mind after two spectacular but apparently unrelated cosmic Close Encounters today within just hours of each other. This morning in a remote part of russia, some thought the world was ending when a tenton meteor, five stories tall, hurtled to earth and exploded, causing a lot of injuries and doing a lot of damage without actually hitting anything. Its fiery descent was captured in vivid detail by numerous cameras. And then this afternoon there was a very close call with a massive astroid that whizzed by just 17,000 miles from our planet. In celestial terms, thats a very near miss. What do scientists make of all this . It was
Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt in tonight for brian. The sky is not falling, but you would be forgiven if the thought crossed your mind after kpro spectacular but apparently unrelated cosmic Close Encounters today within just hours of each other. This morning in a remote part of russia, some thought the world was ending when a tenton meteor, five stories tall, hurtled to earth and exploded, causing a lot of injuries and doing a lot of damage without actually hitting anything. Its fiery descent was captured in vivid detail by numerous cameras. And then this afternoon there was a very close call with a massive astroid that whizzed by just 17,000 miles from our planet. In sell celestial terms, thats a narrow miss. Nbcs tom costello reports. Reporter the video from russia is incredible. A massive meteor traveling at 33,000 miles per hour, trailing a brilliant quite con trail, hit