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Place. reporter: a five-alarm monster. we re not going to be able to control this fire. reporter: neighbors pouring into the streets. everyone was grabbing their things and animals and getting out of there. reporter: several other buildings damaged. columns melting, windows shattered. asphalt is literally steaming from the heat. reporter: even a giant construction crane tumbling. oh! reporter: luckily, just one firefighter injured by falling glass. the fire chief telling us the building did not yet have a sprinkler system in place. the fire had the air, the fuel, and it had a head start on us. reporter: the blaze brought under control in three hours, but tonight hundreds of residents in the neighborhood are out of their homes. tonight, the cause is still under investigation, though the building was up to code, inspected just monday. david? gloria, thank you. as much of this country continues to dig out, the frigid temperatures keeping the snow in place. tonigh ....
. [ siren ] heather: can you imagine. that is the sound of the massive meteor slamming into earth causing mayhem on the streets of russia. 200 people were injured and many by falling glass. more than 4,000 buildings were damaged and government is saying it will cost $33 million to clean it up. this is one of several incidents that happened. a senior research scientist at carl sagen center of the seti institute and one who runs the nasa sponsored cameras for all sky meteor surveillance. we want to hear from you. thank you so much for joining us? pleasure. heather: nasa says this is ....
The flash was like ten suns and saw the shock waves, it was chaos on the streets. you could hear car alarm screeching and windows shattering more than 4,000 buildings were damaged and many them were apartments and the government promising to fix them. here is thing, that is a long time in the icy winter, about 200 people were injured including more than 200 children. most of them hurt by falling glass. nasa saying the meteor was about 50 feet and impact may have been 30 times stronger than the atomic bomb that hit hiroshima. drivers are searching a frozen lake, this one near where it landed. 20,000 searchers looking for remains of the meteor but so far they haven t found any. kelly: we have to check this out. an amazing video, an unrelated ....
This region of eastern russia. hundreds of people in the hospital. hundreds more just injured from falling glass. but the roof damage on many of the buildings. russia s emergency ministry is, canvasing the area. they re finding pieces of the meteorite you mentioned earlier. heather: sure. so it s a very widespread damage problem they re looking at right now. heather: let s just put this into perspective for our folks here. this meteor was traveling 33,000 miles per hour. it was going 40 times faster than the speed of sound. 60 times faster than a commercial jet. this thing sounds pretty massive and fortunately we have not heard of any deaths as of yet. yeah. and so, it is definitely a large space rock. not as large at least according to early estimates as the one flying by later today. that one if it hits could actually create even more ....