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
Paul davies of independent Television News begins our coverage. Reporter emerging from the russian sky, a giant ball of flame, a meteorite providing a spectacular show until it suddenly explodes 30 miles above the earth. The city of chelyabinsk was unlucky to be beneath the meteorites flight path and was showered with debris dropping from the sky. Thousands of windows were smashed, shocked workers evacuated their offices. This school class is about to be interrupted by the shock wave. Here the windows come crashing in, and a National Judo squad runs for cover. Canadian ice hockey star Michael Garnett plays for the chelyabinsk team and lives in the city. I was awakened by this loud bang, crash and shaking in my apartment that, you know, literally shook me out of bed. I kind of gathered myself and looked out the window and i saw this giant streak across the sky that was the tail of the meteor. Reporter the last minutes of the meteorites journey were captured by hundreds of cameras as it
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 innovation, thats a really big deal. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastin
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Explosion as it knocks down the door. A canadian hockey player now living in russia described it like this. I hear this loud bang i live in a 24story building on the 23rd floor and all of a sudden i looked up and the lights are shaking and i hear car alarms going off. It was incredible. The meteor streaked across the sky at 33,000 Miles Per Hour rocking a Mountain Range about 900 miles east of moscow. In total about 3,000 buildings were damaged. The worst was at this zinc factory where the roof completely collapsed. All of this damage was caused by a meteor about the size of an suv, too small for anyone to know it was coming. These things happen once every few decades of the centuries. As bad as that was, keep in mind that this happened over one of the more remote places on the entire planet. Just imagine, derek, if this had happened over a very populated place like manhattan with all those skyscrapers just made entirely of glass. What would have happened there . All that glass would h