Its friday. Youre going to have a good weekend . Knock on wood. Lets not jinx ourselves with the meteor and asteroid, cruise ship, you know. Same thing. Thanks for joining us. America live starts right now. Now. Fox news alert, a growing number of injured and new reports of damage after a scene straight out of the movie of armageddon as russia is hit by a Meteor Strike sparking an explosion with the power of an atomic bomb of. Welcome to america live, what a friday, everyone, i am h megyn kelly. A bright light scene racing across the sky as the tenton meteor enters earths atmosphere travelling at least 33,000 Miles Per Hour. Imagine looking up and seeing this. This video of a roadway showing, look at the sky lighting up, bright white as a large fireball explodes. The sonic blast shattering windows, shards of glass and debris rain down on panicked local and thats how most of the injuries happened. Up close to a thousand people injured. And some thinking the worst, thinking the world was coming to an end. scream screams a flash of light and three minutes after a loud blast happened and people started to panic. And somebody screamed, the end of the earth reminded me of action movies like terminator 4. The light was very bright, looked like a very bright sun and lasted for three seconds and three minutes later, the blast happened. Megyn can you imagine what would be going through your mind . Greg palkot with the latest in london. Reporter megyn, weve been monitoring all day the spectacular amateur video coming in from that russian city. And that meteor slammed into it. It happened in the city about a thousand miles to the east of moscow, and as you noted it happened just after nine oclock in the morning local time thats why a lot of people saw it and recorded it. A russian scientists says the meteor was about 20 feet side. About the size of a small bus and hit the atmosphere at hyper sonic speed. Now, people saw the streaking meteor across the sky and a bright flash and a blast, and exploding into a fireball and three minutes later they heard an explosion, a sonic boom and thats what did the damage, what broke the windows, caved in roofs and damage to other building, again about a thousand hurt and a hundred hospitalized and some 20,000 rescue workers fanned out to see if anybody else was in trouble. And three impact sites for the immediator, now a meteorite. This is rather and unusual and spectacular and most burn up in the atmosphere when he they come down and some small ones hit the United States in the last few years and every five years you get a big one, rarely are there this many injuries associated with it. Rarely does it hit a populated area like this and with so many cameras rolling. And megyn, a couple of other quotes from eyewitnesses, they said it was panic in the streets. They said for 20 or 30 minutes, the city felt like a war zone. Its nighttime now there and now theyre all trying to get back down to earth after this strike from the sky. Back to you. Megyn cannot imagine. I cannot imagine. You know what . We may need to imagine it sometime soon here, greg. Thank you. More on that later. Todays Meteor Strike comes more than a hundred years after the largest recorded explosion of a space object plunging to earth. It also hit russia. This keeps happening in russia and well talk about why later. That 1908 ball of fire flattened some, well, said about 843 square miles of siberian forest, destroying about 80 million trees, how big is that . How big is that . Im told its almost the size of rhode island. Twice the size of new york city, l. A. Imagine that getting flattened by a meteorite. It happened thankfully in the forest in 1908 in russia, even though that was far bigger than todays meteorite hit, it did not injury anybody, but by the way, the asteroid that is now headed towards earth on a separate event. Its going to happen in about an hour and 20 minutes, is bigger than the meteorite that hit russia and caused that damage. So thats just to give you the perspective on the weirdness that were dealing with here as meager little earthlings today, reminded of the power of Mother Nature, and well talk about it. And this is the eerie cosmic coincidence or is it . This Meteor Strike comes 24 hours before an asteroid is due to have a very Close Encounter with planet earth. Its very confusing. The its like the asteroid is out in the atmosphere and shed things and become meteors and hit earth theyre meteorites, theyre related and nobody knows whether these two are actually related and next guest will tell us whether theyre related and maybe this was shed by the asteroid thats about to pass us. Its going to give us a buzz one in our from right now and this is coming uncomfortably close to earth. Astronomers around the world are eagerly anticipating the chance to study this thing and were tracking it, too, while this asteroid, which is a bit, no, the asteroid, yeah, it really big. Its expected to miss us by 17,000 miles, but thats closer than many of our communication and weather satellites. You know, when the tv station sends satellites up there. Those are farther away than this asteroid is going to be. So were waiting to see if this will affect our Communication Systems and will we be on the air in 2021. The and well see the asteroid and the meteor is the size of the bus. One shed off the other or totally unrelated. This is nasa and theres little ole earth and the asteroid you can see the distance away from us, courtesy of nasa. Right now a mere 25,000 miles, six minutes ago before we went on the air, it was at 27,000 miles, going very fast. And so, thats how they have it calculated not going to hit us or graze us, but buzz us in about an hour and ten minutes right here. I hope we live. Just kidding. They say its not going to hit us. Not totally true and, but they say theres no cause for concern, hello. You never know, do you . And in other news were following another major story for you today as the president heads to the windy city, his hometown, to deliver whats been billed pass a purely economic address. But theres he a growing sense that the economy will not be the only topic of discussion. This 174 shootings and 44 murders, so far, reported in chicago. Thats just by february 3rd alone, all right . So its going to get worse and it was really bad last year. Last year, the city saw 506 murders, and more than 2400 shootings. And what a mess all this after this 15yearold honor student was gunned down about a mile from the president s neighborhood. And just days after she performed at the inauguration the president may have many reasons to tie his gun control push into his remarks today as he did at the state of union the other night. And Chris Stirewalt power play on foxnews. Com. Given the amount of gun control news weve had, chris, how did the president , who hales from chicago, go back to chicago . Well, shes just facing an epidemic of gun violence there right now in the inner city in particular and not talk about this . Well, certainly, unfortunately for the chicagoland area its becoming increasingly synonymous with murder. Its the numbers are looking like they did once upon a time back in the early 90s during the crack wars and the cabrini green. Megyn a big housing project. They had to tear down it was so terrible. And cities are like los angeles, murder rates have dropped and chicago is up and up and up and this is not where they want to be and a half dozen murders just this month in the city and a very bad scene. For the president its hard for him to be talking about gun control in his hometown, at the same time his same former chief of staff, rahm emanuel passing Mike Bloomberg in mayors trying to bring about gun control as he tries to get a grip on a city thats becoming increasingly lawless. Megyn by the way 506 murders in chicago last year, which they say is worse than new york city. So i did just look up. What was it in new york city . I wonder, how was it here . It was a mere 414 murders in new york city. Like this is, i love that were touting this, look how much better were doing than new york, 414, but its down from 471 the in 1990, 2245. 2,245 people were murdered in new york city. Here were headed in the right direction and chicago not so much. And weve heard the debate that chicago has among the tightest, toughest gun laws in the country and tell that to the 506 people who died last year. Look, they have the toughest gun laws in the country and this is not a maybe, they do. Theyve got tougher gun laws here in d. C. Than anyplace and they put a woman in jail this week, a 55yearold woman who had a licensed permitted gun that she took to her workplace with no ammunition in the case and didnt want to leave it at home. And they jailed her. And may lose her bond and everything else. That city has tough, tough, tough gun laws, but they say that unless theres a national gun ban that can keep other guns from coming in from states like indiana, wisconsin, nearby, that theyll never be able to get a grip on the crime situation there and meanwhile, conservatives and other Law Enforcement people say chicago has to do with what they did in other cities that had murder epidemics like richmond and l. A. And elsewhere, which is lock people up. Theyve got to deal with the criminals. Megyn theyre on it. The researcher at university of illinois. Shes getting locked up and 25,000 bail, but the problem is shes not the one who is causing the 506 murders. Its the inner city lawmakers in chicago. Its these gang members who dont really care much about the law, chris. I mean, i guess we could make it tougher for them to get the guns, from neighboring states, i suppose, but from the looks of it they already have a lot of guns. Theyve got a lot of guns, but look, they did it in virginia. Richmond they built a lot of prisons and put a lot of people in prison for a long time and it wasnt researchers at universities who had gun permits and gun cases. It was people who committed crimes with guns, they locked up for a long time. And in time, what happened was the tide abated. It went away as these people were out of circulation. And this is the debate that is raging in the country right now. Do you focus on the guns, or do you focus on the people who commit crimes with the guns and this split has never been more effort than in chicago and mayor emanuel is doing everything he can to go after the guns themselves and creating a rift, a split as they try to sort it out. A question whether the law abiding citizens who would like a firearm to protect themselves from the folks who are actually committing the murders are going be to be deprived of their weapons or at least their weapons of choice if rahm emanuel gets his way. Chris, thanks for being here. You bet. Hope we live. Thats not about the gun violence, thats about the asteroid. Well, one of the president s most famous phrases may soon go away as he faces a petition from some women asking to stop referring to them as wives, mothers and daughters. Theyre calling that mi mysogenous. And a man texting, a blond bombshell and now he has a bomb they will shell of his own. And a ten ton meteor explodes over the skies in russia, an asteroid more than 14,000 times larger is expected to fly by the earth at 2 20 today. Well talk next to the scientists who has been warning about this threat from our skies. Moving forward is moving backward. [ engine turns over, tires squeal ] and youll find advanced Safety Technology like an available headsup display on the 2013 lexus gs. Theres no going back. Five days later, i had a massive heart attack. Bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. Now, im on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ woman ] learn from my story. Fox news alert. One eye on space, and the other on nasa. Scientists are monitoring a 150 foot asteroid thats only about one hour away from an extremely Close Encounter with earth. The space rocks, what is it going to do . Trace gallagher is monitoring it. Before we think that thats going to handle it, no worries, the only reason that we know about this . Pure luck. A dentist in spain spotted the asteroid on his high powered telescope and he told various space agencies around the world and nasa started following it. 2012 da 14. And 27 miles within the earth in about an hour and like seven minutes, like 2 24 eastern time and this here that youre seeing, this is it. This is from one of the high powered telescopes that nasa has and chartering it through radar like the santa claus coming through christmas. And thats it right there. 17,000 miles away travelling at 17,000 Miles Per Hour. Thats about 25 times the speed of sound. And it in space lingo is considered a near miss closest encounter ever with a spice object this size. Half the size of a football field with tons of dynamite well enough to wipe out a major city and nasa promises that wont happen. Were confident our analysis is precise and no risk, like to reassure everyone, this is a wonderful Mother Nature science experiment for us to witness. Reporter wonderful if it doesnt hit us. Were not going to see it from north america, but high powered satellites in australia and in indonesia, so, at 2 24, megyn, if were still here well he show you we hope very Cool Pictures of this thing flying by the earth if it doesnt hit the fox satellite. Only 5,000 miles away from the satellite ring around and by the way, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago was seven miles wide. Megyn all right, trace, one hour to go. As we told you at the top of the hour, the fly by on the same day that a meteor slammed into russia. How unusual is this . Dr. Jay malosh is an astro physicist and a preeminent and youre the person nasa calls, dr. Jay, if the asteroid makes a turn and comes toward us in an unexpected way, what do we do . Is there anything we can do . There are a number of things that we could do. The simplest thing to run a heavy spacecraft into it and deflect it we dont have to be bruce willis and use Nuclear Weapons although that might be effective, but all of these deflection techniques depending about knowing about asteroids ahead of time and thats to me whats encouraging about this asteroid we did know about it a year ahead of time. If it were going to hit the earth we might have been able to do something about it. Even something as ordinary and down to earth as simple defense of evacuating the impact site. Megyn if it were going to hit wed know exactly where or pretty close. We would know very well. We know the position is passing through the satellites to better than a mile or two so we would have had a pretty good idea where it was going to hit the earth if it were to hit, but its not going to. Not that one. Megyn thats good to hear. You and nasa are in agreement on that. Looks likes we will survive this one. When you say its going to pass within the ring of satellite, the media satellite, television, other satellites sent into outer space. Any interference, do you expect in terms of television or other things that we rely on satellites for . Well, the satellites are in a ring around the earths equator and the asteroid and your video may have shown that, pass through the ring and its possible it may interrupt some of the beams of information coming down from the satellites. I jokingly tell my neighbors, if somebody seems to hang up on you this afternoon, maybe its the asteroid. Not the person youre talking to. Well, so good. If we suddenly go off the air in 60 minutes, odds are were alive, but theres been some satellite interference. Now, i want to ask you blame it on the rock. Megyn i want to ask you about what happened in russia today where this meteorite came down and a thousand people are so injured, but no one killed because it came down in a remote area, why does russia keep getting hit with these. The big one in 1908 in siberia and this one. Whats the deal with russia and the meteorite . S. Russia is a big continent and theres a lot of area and thats the best i can do. These kinds of impacts probably occurred somewhere around the earth over the ocean and even more remote areas a few times every decade and we wouldnt know about it in that case. Megyn do we need to worry about our friends in russia and radiation as a result of this meteorite that hit. No, theres no possibility that radiation is a problem with the meteor. Megyn nothing to worry about. Yeah, go ahead. No, meteors are not radioactive. In space the cosmic rays produce a tiny amount of radioactivity and eagerly measure to find out how long theyve been in space, but they do not have any significant radiation. Megyn and its he so nice to hear your expertise, i dont know if you could stick around for 60 minutes, but nice to have you. Just in case and well be back with the developments in the olympian runner who allegedly killed his girlfriend. Target is in sight. Yes, dad, i see him. Now pour some chloroform into a white rag and. No. Hi. I understand youre looking for a hotel with a pool. With priceline express deals, you can save big and get exactly what you need. Do i have to bid . Use the stun gun. Hes giving you lip. No hes just asking a question. No bidding. Awesome. Get the grappling hook to. Dad, i. No . Ok. To compete on the global stage. What we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. By 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough College Graduates to fill them. 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Reporter youve got to set the scene because you have the president giving the state of the union address, right, and this democratic congressman, steve cohen from tennessee sending out flirtatious tweets, right . To a woman named victoria brink and first tweet read victoria brink, please you are watching ilu, stands for i love you. Followed by this tweet. Victoria brink nice to know you are watching the state of the union, happy valentines beautiful