male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Catherine the man wanted in connection with an indecent exposure case in menlo park. May have struck again. Police are releasing this composite sketch. They say the man approached three Elementary School girls. Frightening them as they headed to class. New at 11 kron fours Philippe Djegal explains what happened reporter at around eight oclock monday morning. The Menlo Park Police say the three girls were walking along this sidewalk on the 12hundred block of almanor avenue. They were headed to school, when police say this man pulled up alongside them in a white van. And, asked if they knew the janitor at their school. Belle haven Elementary School. The girls ignored the man not responding. Then continued onto school, which just so happens to be across the street. The girls told School Administrators what happened. Police were called, but the man got away, leaving some students on edge. I immediately told my mom an
But its there. Reporter the explosion blew out windows in thousands of apartment buildings sending glass shards flying. No one was killed. Among the jur injured two00 children. More than 300 schools sustained damage. A wall at a zinc factually claeped. The regions governor promised to replace all the broken windows in a week, a long way where the temperature was 12 below zero. Tony guida cbs news, new york. Axelrod the russians werent the only ones looking up and seeing meteors purpose there were two other apparent meteor sightings reported last night one over cuba and then look at the upper right part of your screen. This image was captured in san francisco. Neither of these other two meteors caused any injuries or damage. Joining us now for more on all this activity above earth is jeffrey kluger, the science editor for time magazine. It has started to feel weve warnedded into some sort of meteor blizzard. Has something actually changed . Actually, it hasnt. The earth has been playing
Four decades. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. We begin tonight with that meteor that exploded over russia. Scientists now say it was even bigger and heavier than they first thought, 55 feet long and weighing 10,000 tons. It was moving at a speed of 40,000 Miles Per Hour when it hit the atmosphere, produce an enormous shock wave that blew out windows and injured 1200 people in chelyabinsk, russia. Tony guida has more on the largest known media to hit the earth since 1908. Reporter at chebarkul lake, 950 miles east of moscow, scientists today looked for remnants of the meteor. Fisherman Valery Morozov saw the space rock falling through the sky. In a matter of seconding, he says, it appeared to grow from a small flare into a huge ball and then an unbelievably bright flash. About once every 100 years something bigger than a minivan will come through the atmosphere and impact either our atmosphere or the earth. Reporter and this was that event
Four decades. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. We begin tonight with that meteor that exploded over russia. Scientists now say it was even bigger and heavier than they first thought 55 feet long and weighing 10,000 tons. It was moving at a speed of 40,000 Miles Per Hour when it hit the atmosphere, produce an enormous shock wave that blew out windows and injured 1200 people in chelyabinsk, russia. Tony guida has more on the largest known media to hit the earth since 1908. Reporter at chebarkul lake 950 miles east of moscow, scientists today looked for remnants of the meteor. Fisherman Valery Morozov saw the space rock falling through the sky. In a matter of seconding, he says, it appeared to grow from a small flare into a huge ball and then an unbelievably bright flash. About once every 100 years something bigger than a minivan will come through the atmosphere and impact either our atmosphere or the earth. Reporter and this was that event .
Blend together, and my job, my hope is that we dont forget. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. 100 miles north of los angeles, an explosive wildfire has Santa Barbara county under a state of emergency tonight. At least 4,000 acres have gone up. Hundreds of residents have been forced from their homes. More than a dozen major fires are scorching the west, and teri okita is on the front lines of the socalled sherpa fire now howling through Santa Barbaras coastal canyons. Reporter fueled by the notorious sundowner winds, the exploded overnight, doubling in size to 4,000 acres. 90 degree temperatures in the canyons, combined with 50mile perhour winds, sent the fires whipping down mountains and on to the main highway, causing road closures and sending firemen to take cover. 400 people were evacuated. Ranch hand griffin sterch, is on standby. We didnt think it was going to come this early. It came out of nowhere. It