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,
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
Fans. Racked up nearly 7,000 online fans. Today, february 16, 2013. Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Boy, the little pig that could. I think its adorable. Yeah. Weve got the little guy with wheels because he, obviously, cant his back legs dont work. Yeah. I dont think anybody will want bacon after seeing this cute guy. I certainly dont. Well have that coming up. Well meet him. This morning, were learning more about what happened aboard the Carnival Cruise ship. Very little of it is good. Passengers are waking up glad to be back on solid ground. The conditions on that ship horrible. Coming up, a look at what rights you have as a passenger when youre on a cruise. Also, the big cleanup has begun now in russia after a space rock exploded there on friday. It happened the same day a different asteroid hit earth. Could the two be related . Well talk to an expert about whats happening in the skie
Miraculously, the damage to people was minor, mostly cuts from splintered glass. Michael garnett, a canadian goalie who plays for chelyabinsk in the Russian Hockey League hasas felt a few bangs in his time but nothing like this. Reporter 70 miles outside of town a meteorshaped hole in the ice of a lake indicates the visitor nameless visitors last resting place. Meteorite fragments were sc scattered around likerstellar c interstellar calling cards. As if anyone would ever forget. Chelyabinsk has made history before for not being in the news. It was part of the old soviet unions Nuclear Weapons program and wa and was a closed zone, forbiddenground for ground for foreigners. Now its famous as the place where heaven and earth met withen and e a bang, anthony. Mason mark phillips. Thanks, mark. Derrick pitts is chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute in philadelphia. Derrick, what caused this huge explosion and sonic boom thats associated with this meteor . Asso and why did it cause so m
Tell me about this plea deal thats being filed apparently today. Well, the sun times is reporting at suntimes. Com that the plea deal is going to be made public today. We have a statement from the jackson lawyers where jackson says that he says he offers no excuses and takes responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes ive made. We expect this document to be filed in the u. S. Attorney in washington d. C. And it has to do with the allegation over misuse of campaign funds. The investigation also takes in his wife sandy in chicago who served as his campaign manager. Lynn sweet, thank you very much. Much more coming up. Also, well hear from the president in chicago. Im brooke baldwin. Listen to jim acosta in for wolf in washington. Hey, jim. Thanks, brooke. Happening now, look up in the sky. A fireball and a shocking reminder that planet earth is spinning around in a very unpredictable neighborhood. Back on dry land and already heading to court, we have details of the first laws