Forms. In a statement jackson offers no excuses for his conduct and fully accepts responsibility for the improper divisions hes made decisions hes made. Another big story tonight. Where the blinding flash and a booming shock an event straight out of a scifi movie. A meteor blazed across parts of the skies in russia and exploded with the force of an atomic bomb. Many sent to the hospital and hundreds were hurt. We begin the coverage at 5 00 with a look at what happened from foxs greg pal cot. Reporter this amateur video catching the meet yore speeding to earth at more than 33,000 miles per hour. Turning to a massive fireball overhead in just seconds. The explosion lightings up the Early Morning sky cameras from all across this russian city 1,000 miles from moscow catching the rare event. On their cell phones including a sonic boom breaking through earths atmosphere. The amazing event also a destructive one. Explosion of the meteorite showering the city below with fireballs. Shattering windows and damaging buildings. Nearly 1,000 people were hurt. Most of the injuries minor though. Folks struck by debris and broken glass. [ speaking Foreign Language ] after the flash something happened for about three minutes. Then we rushed outdoors. I was not alone. I was there with katya. The door was made of glass, a shock wave hit us. Reporter ironically, the event occurring in the same day an asteroid is supposed to buzz by earth closer than any asteroid has since 15 years ago and scientists started monitoring them. Experts insist it will miss the planet by more than 17,000 miles coming closer than communication and weather slights which orbit the satellites which orbit the earth. On the scale of every 1,000 to 2,000 years and again theyre about the size of the olympic swimming pool. They dont pose a threat and this one isnt going to come close the colliding with to colliding with the earth. Reporter it blew up around 18 to 32 miles above the ground. In london, greg pal cot. Fox news. Of course the sky show, the structural damage and all the injuries suffered in russia today has many people wondering about meteors and could it happen here . Fox 5s bob barner has the explanation. Reporter we went to the Smithsonian Institution today looking for answers and spoke to their experts on all things having to do with meteors and meteorites. Most showers the ones we often see are basically dust particles falling through earths atmosphere but occasionally larger rocks like the ones today do crash to the earths surface. These samples are kept in a special vault part of the u. S. National meteorite collection at the museum of natural history. Some are four billion years olds. Geologists tell us not to worry. Most meteorites land in remote locations or fall into the oceans. Still many people we spoke to on the streets of washington say theyre fascinated by what happened half a world away. It is amazing. Its amazing, you would think that the world would come to an end right now. Thank god it didnt. Thank god it didnt. Rain down on you out of nowhere pretty scary. I think its actually bound a happen a little bit more. I mean im surprised it hasnt happened or we havent heard much more about it. You think about the stein saurs and dinosaurs and theyre no longer here because an asteroid came down and caused all sorts of havoc. By the way a meteor falls through the earths atmosphere. A meteorite ends up in the rock collection you saw today. Youll hear from the top expert, a geologist with quite a collection and some fascinating information. Bob that was fascinating now we know the difference between a meteor and a meteorite. Thank you. Will . A great deal of questions and mystery surrounding this. Nasa ambassador greg red fern also the sky guy is here. Always good to see you. You too will. Whether or not this thing actually hit the ground . Do we know that yet . I think that there was an impact because before we went on air i was surfing the net and they show a picture of a 26 foot wide crater in the ice. And in studying the video that we saw today. It looks like after the terminal burst which was a big flash that everybody saw was brighter than the sun. There were other meteorites that fell to ground that an expedition will go out and map the field where all this things landed and give us a good picture of what happened that day. The folks that actually do this. You call them hunters right . Yes i can guarantee you there are people who have got their passports and theyre on their way to there right now to join the people there. Not just because theyre interested. Theres value here right . Absolutely. I tell you with an event like this, youre talking tens of thousands of dollars for little specimens. Its going to be really big. Good as gold. Lot of gold actually. I think youre right. Given all the glass that shattered in such a wide range you know for hundreds of miles. Talk about the sonic boom. Why it carried so much. Okay. Everybodys experienced probably a sonic boom from an airplane military aircraft going boom. And this was according to nasa, an event that was on the scale of an atomic weapon. So it takes time for that shock wave to physically travel distance from wherever it occurred in the earths atmosphere to hit the ground. So with one report i read, three minutes between the time of the big flash and then that boom. That shock wave goes and takes out a million square feet of glass and damages 3,000 buildings over a wide area. And greg, given the fact that people were hurt, how rare is this . I have to be honest will. I am not aware of anything in the history books talking about this many 1100 people being hurt by a single event. I think its the first time. Can you imagine in this happened in a metropolitan area like d. C. With all the glass that we have and everybody would be thinking its a terrorist attack. It can happen anywhere and russia was the ground zero today. Does this have any correlation or connection to the doomsday asteroid . No, preliminary results on what we know with the trajectory of the one that came in over russia and 2012 da 14 they are not related. They are going to do more studies but right now nasa has come out and said they dont think its relates. Right now 2012 da 14 is on its way out from us. Its safely past and were okay and you can tune in tonight at 9 00 and watch life images going out courtesy of nasa. Thiazole on the blog. Whats the website . Wttg underneath weather. Myfoxdc. Com under the weather. Greg red fern. Let me talk a little bit manufacture about that more about that asteroid. It was the closest fly by ever for a rock of its size. 150 feet and it missed earth by 17,000 miles and that is closer than many communication and weather satellites. But as asteroids go, it was a small one. The one that wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago was six miles across. Still developing tonight, the fallout from the cruise ship katz tee. The ship finally reached land latinos and it the 4,000 people on board had been stranded on sea since sunday with little food and horrible conditions. A fire knocked out the ships main power source. Jonathan receiverry has the latest now from mobile. Alabama. Reporter some of the passengers on board that carnival triumph cruise ship are already home and others will be boarding flights throughout the day. Carnival chattered a total of 20 planes and 100 buses for passengers aboard the triumph. Everyone seemed relieved to be on dry land last night but with the conditions they endured on the ship, many passengers seemed to take it all in stride. We got some stories on the internet about how bad like that there was you know, stuff dripping down the walls and things like that. Yes there was places where there were and i definitely saw some very disgusting things. But i felt that you know, under the circumstances,have be reporter friday morning, the carnival triumph was towed from the alabama cruise terminal across mobile bay to bae a company that operates a shipyard where the vessel will undergo repairs, carnival says it will not be in service until late april at the very earliest. And in addition to undergoing mechanical repairs cleanup crews have their work cut out for them and the ntsb is investigating the cause of the engine fire that caused the ship to lose power on sunday. In mobile, alabama, jonathan serrie. Fox news. We also learned the first lawsuit against carnival has already been fired. The passenger says the company failed to provide a seaworthy vessel in sanitary conditions and also the passenger from texas claims she suffered harm while the ship was stranded. Now to news out of d. C. Where police have arrested a man in connection with an explosion out of virginia sub shop. It happened earlier this month. We covered it quite a bit. 25yearold horus thompson is accused of detonating a device inside this sub shop on richmond highway in lorton. The owner of the shop was hurt in the fire and he is now recovering at home. Thompsonson is awaiting extradition from d. C. To fairfax county. New details tonight in the murder of a 94yearold alexandria man. A woman charged with burglarizing elmer roars home last november is very likely to be charged in the murder. The commonwealths Attorney Says the woman 45yearold Marie Johnson remains held without bond as the investigation continues. Frederick police tonight looking for a second vehicle connected to a Jewelry Store robbery. The incident happened at the colonial jewelers february 5th. This is the other vehicle investigators believe may be connected to the robbery. Witnesses saw it speeding away from the scene immediately after the robbery. If you recognize the vehicle give Frederick Police a call. An olympic star crying uncontrollably in court. Thats because hes accused of killing his girlfriend. His First Court Appearance as we continue. And she was supposed to spend valentines day with her mother. But she never made it. The family of a woman who went missing four years ago is Still Holding out hope their loved one will be found alive. Its one of the highest civilian honors in the country. Find out why two people from our area received medals from president obama today. Gary, i am still focused on this bonus sunshine you were talking about. Well you know what . I think its all going away now will because we already have basically showers moving on across. Its rain now. Could turn into some snow though first future forecast is coming up. Stay with us. welcome back. Olympic Gold MedalistOscar Pistorius sobbed in court today as prosecutors said they plan to charge him with premeditated murder. Pistorius is accused of shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp inside his home in south africa. The double amputee was arrested yesterday. If hes convicted he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Its now been four years since a d. C. Woman vanished with no sign of where she went. Even the surveillance cameras inside her home show no signs of what went wrong. Her exboyfriend was questioned but never charged. Fox 5s paul wagner is here with a look at the Pamela Butler case that captured local headlines for months. Paul . Reporter will, the family never wavered from the theory pam was murdered and her body hid machine a place where it may never be found. D. C. Police continue to investigate the case. Supervised by a veteran cold case prosecutor. But other than butlers disappearance, theres no solid evidence of a murder and her ex boyfriend steadfastly denies having had anything to do wit. We havent given up. Its not a cold case you know were getting closer and closer every day. Reporter Derrick Butler misses his sister terribly. For four years he has been the one out front the one talking with police and the one talking with reporters can the bun trying the make and the one trying to make sure no one forgets about pam. You know its hard standpointing on this corner. This is standing on this corner. It is hard thinking that something happened to one of your siblings; its hard. Reporter the house on Fourth Street northwest looks very different now. The new owner giving it a complete makeover. At one time it was a meticulously kept home by a 47 yearold federal worker with a stateoftheart security system. When Derrick Butler learned his sister was missing he took a look. Footage that shows her ex boyfriend and not much else. If you look at just look at the cameras, nobody else is ever seen coming up to the house. Shes seen going into the house. Hes seen going into the house shortly thereafter. And hes seen coming and going at all odd hours of the night. And times when nobody had heard from pam. Hes seen coming in and out of the house. Reporter d. C. Police searched the house from top to bottom and had control of it for months. They also searched the park where pam liked to jog as well as Rock Creek Park where investigators believe the ex boyfriend may have been around the time she disappeared. So the work continues to go into this case. Its not as if its gone cold and you really have nowhere to go. No it has not gone cold. We are continuing to investigate the case. And we will continue to investigate the case. We hope to be able to bring this case to a conclusion. Reporter when pam butler first went missing, derrick confronted her exboyfriend with what he saw on the surveillance system. And other troubling behavior. He denied having any involvement in pams missing. But in talking to him, he actually talked in past tense most of the time you know. I guess ill just ill never see her again. You know. I wish i could see her again. Reporter no one has heard from pam butler in the last four years although police say they have had reports from people who claim to have seen her. Derrick butler though has no doubt his sister did not disappear on her own. Police have questioned butlers exboyfriend at least twice and searched his home. Hes still living in the washington area. Tomorrow afternoon, friends and family will gather on Fourth Street northwest in front of pams old house and hold a vigil in her memory. Like the family investigators are hoping for a resolution to this. Paul wagner, thank you. A man u. S. Marshals have been looking for since last november has now been arrested. Jerry baptiste was picked up last night in southwest d. C. Hes been accused of running a heroin ring in northwest. Maryland police launched an internal investigation because of a picture. Here it is the troopers posing with popular rapper 2chains after they arrested him last night on drug charges on the eastern shore. The rapper posted this picture on instagram. The van he was riding in was pulled over for speeding and officers smelled marijuana and found trace amounts in a backpack. He was given a citation and then released. Still ego from a couple of days of sunshine and fun outside to maybe talk of snow right gary . Yeah you know its again, the earlier this week we had a day where we were right up to 60 degrees or so and then that night it was snowing remember that . We had snow on the ground the next morning. Roller coaster. Think the difference here is we dont end up with snow on the ground overnight tonight. Thats not going to happen it looks like. But just go on record here as saying tomorrow looks very very interesting. Not a real high confidence in the forecast for tomorrow at least not yet. Well talk about that in the full forecast coming up in just a moment. A few minutes actually. First of all what we know. Putting a little shower here, this is northern Loudoun County and southern sections of Washington County right there and into frederick. Now i dont believe this is any sleet mixing in. I dont think thats the case. I think just a heavy pretty heavy shower moving on across and coming up from the southwest to the northeast. Looks like heavy rain not heavy rain but probably moderate rain will be pushing through most of Frederick County over the next 30 to 45 minutes. In the district were dry right now but thats probably going to change. A limit bit of light rain will come on through. In terms of the evenings forecast rain showers at 7 00 and mostly rain at 9 00. West and north there may be a little bit of snow mixing in and at 11 00 41, snow rain a little bit more snow mixing in. Probably again mostly north and west. Pretty important forecast coming up especially for tomorrow. Whats the snow going to do . Well have all the details coming up. Thank you gary. He is one of the best basketball players of all time. Really, ever if you think about it. This weekend, Michael Jordan turns can you believe . 50. Wow. Really . Yeah. Looks great. Why the legend says he is working hard trying to get back to his playing ways, scott . Well, i will say this transitioning out of Michael Jordan once in space jam. We are at space coast stadium here in florida where the whole gang is just about here. Position players joining pitchers and catchers. Reporting for duty. Coming up, well talk about this team thats loaded with talent and intangibles straight ahead on fox fox 5 news at 5 00. the boys of summer are down in florida getting ready for spring ball. Fox 5 sports director scott smith is also there. So scott yesterday, they won for the pitchers and catchers. How was day two . Reporter well, shawn you know were just getting warmed up here at spring training. Yes it is day two official workouts for pitchers and catchers. Position players join them today as well. Reporting for duty. Manager Davey Johnson praised all the pitchers but specifically by name dan haren the newcomer to the staff and also mentioned wilson ramos. His knee is feeling better. Ryan zimmerman had offseason right shoulder surgery and i chatted with him today. Hes going to ease into the workload but that shes feeling good as well. Everybody is feeling food and they look great and i will say two things. Kind of stand out when you watch these guys. And when you talk to them or specifically. The two cs ill say. They are confident and they are confident and they have chemistry. In some ways spring training is like a lab experiment. Take veterans, rookies new and old mix them together for a few weeks in a controlled environment, and hope for a special kind of chemistry. Chemistry is when 25 guys know their role and they know if they do their role, it can be expanded. Thats good chemistry. Reporter the nats have already started to develop that chemistry and also seem to be in step when it co