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These kids, it was her mission. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Mason scott is on assignment. Im anthony mason. It happened in a flash and without warning. A meteor weighing 15 Million Pounds streaked across the sky over russia today causing a shock wave with a force equivalent to a small atomic bomb. The biggest meteor blast in more than a century. More than a thousand people were hurt, most from flying glass, when windows were blown out. That streak of light could be seen for hundreds of miles. The city of chelyabinsk 900 miles east of moscow bore the brunt. Mark phillips begins our coverage. Reporter thi reporter i m outer space may have been happening since the dawn of time but never before in the age of the dashboard video camera. On a highway outside of chelyabinsk in central russia a flash of light emerges out of a clear blue sky. It becomes a streak, then foreboding glow. It leav ....
Captured here and here. Some of the explosions are the sonic boom caused by a space object the size of a large bus moving through the air at what the Russian Academy of science said was 33,000 miles an hour. If you were in your apartment you suspected something was up. And then you were sure. If you thought you were safe in a classroom, you werent. It caused widespread damage to buildings, blew out thousands of windows, knocked down walls. 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 has felt a few bangs in his time, but nothing like this. I was terrified. I had just hit the snooze bar on my iphone for another nine minutes of sleep and all of a sudden, you know, i fell back asleep and i hear this loud bang i live in a 24story building on the 23r ....