it was expected to be a huge success if it only slowed the orbit by about ten minutes. but it actually slowed it by 32 minutes. dr. lori glaze and the dark team will explain more about how we confirmed that. now, this is a watershed moment for planetary defense, and a watershed moment for humanity. reporter: so that is an image right there that nasa just released at this press conference, brand new, taken by the huble space telescope on saturday. what you re see thing is the aftermath of this impact, which was more than two weeks ago. you re seeing the bright spot, that s essentially the point of impact on this astroid. and then this tail that stretches for about 6,000 miles. so victor, this definitely proves that if a potential killer astroid were headed towards earth, this is the type of technique that nasa would try to deploy. the only catch is, you would have to deploy it many, many years in advance in order for it to work, victor. now at least we have proof of conc
european court of human rights basically backs it up saying it has beyond a reasonable doubt that the russian security services were involved in this. it is another reminder, i think, looking back on this incident, which i covered back in london and in moscow in 15 or 16 years ago, it is a reminder this was an early sign perhaps of the kind of brutal authoritarian regime russia was to become under president vladimir putin. since then, off the top of my head, there has been a main opposition figure gunned down outside the kremlin, boris nemtsov in 2015, the skripals, former intelligence operative killed poisoned with novichok in salesbury in 2018 and last year alexny navalny, one of the leading critics of the kremlin, was poisoned with novichok while on a fact finding mission in siberia. this finding once again reminds us and underlines the fact that
from the south to new england. behind it, in some places, record shattering cold. mr. roker, thank you for sticking around for triple duty. where is this thing now? where is it headed next? right now, it s making its way up the coast. the good news is it is already what we call bombed out. it is now a classic nor easter as it comes up the coast. it has come a little closer to the west. 50 to 75 miles. we will see more activity as you make your way inland. albany, binghamton, salesbury. this system right now, snowfall totals, jfk airport officially in blizzard conditions. more than three hours of quarter mile visibility. three-plus inches of snow falling. winds of over 35 miles per hour. there have been blizzard conditions all along the new
incident and the lack of outrage i may add by a story in 1976 when the great e.b. white, long retired from the new yorker magazine, which he helped build as a matter of fact. and one of the great masters of the english language was reading in his local paper and found out that xerox corporation had decided to commission a piece in esquire magazine. it was to be written by salesbury, one of the stars of the new york times at that time and salesbury accepted a contract and $15,000 for travel expenses. and they would be running ads buffering this story. and esquire and xerox would give them a one-year contract. even in the retirement, on the
little farm, e.w. white came roaring forth and begab correspondence with the xerox corporation. let me read to you one passage from several letters that passed between xerox and e.b. white. whatever money changing hands, something goes along with it. an intangible something that varies with the circumstances. it would be hard to resist the suspicion that esquire feels indebted to zero, that mr. salesbury feels undebted to both. the ownership or the sovereignty of esquire has been nibbled around the edges. that moral direction it seems to me should stand today. that s what is at stake here. e.b. white called the contract between esquire and xerox and writer an invitation to evil. he said it was a disaster for freedom of the press.