Magazine that i edit also thinks to peter who is the editor for contributing so much to making this evening have been really it was his idea to have a big event like this to mark the publication of this important book and also i would like to think the people at the american conservative who is a tireless blocker as we all know. [laughter] actually right now he is posting. [laughter] and i would like to think that we are trying to think about how to move forward in Tumultuous Times of change not just in the political culture but also there is a spiritual earthquake abroad in the west and in our society and we try to do about what that really means so the plow magazine is on everybodys chair and so is the american conservative there are subscription cards in the magazines ready for you to fill out because were cheap thats not true we did the provide everybody a copy because we assumed an audience like this you were all subscribers already. But if yours was lost in the mail we would be h
Damage. Reporter the shards of glass injuring more than 1,000 people, 100 hospitalized. I heard this extremely loud noise that shook my apartment. Reporter canadian hockey player, michael garnett, lives there. We talked to him via skype. It blew the vents out of my bathroom and there was debris on the floor. And i am up on the 23rd floor and i could feel the building swaying. Reporter pieces of the meteor punched a hole in a frozen lake, but missed a town in a nearby nuclear plant. Linda specializes in meteorites at the smithsonian. These are the primitive materials left over from when the planets formed and are the basic Building Blocks of all of our planetary material. Its heavy. Reporter it is indeed heavy. Reporter in an amazing coincidence, an astroid half the size of a football field came whizzing by this afternoon. While the space station orbits 220 miles above the earth, this afternoons astroid passed 17,000 miles above the earth, much closer than many satellites that orbit 22,
Those passengers even after they got off the ship. And a warning tonight about the rights you give up when you get on board. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt in tonight for brian. The sky is not falling, but you would be forgiven if the thought crossed your mind after two spectacular but apparently unrelated cosmic Close Encounters today within just hours of each other. This morning in a remote part of russia, some thought the world was ending when a tenton meteor, five stories tall, hurtled to earth and exploded, causing a lot of injuries and doing a lot of damage without actually hitting anything. Its fiery descent was captured in vivid detail by numerous cameras. And then this afternoon there was a very close call with a massive astroid that whizzed by just 17,000 miles from our planet. In celestial terms, thats a very near miss. What do scientists make of all this . It was
Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt in tonight for brian. The sky is not falling, but you would be forgiven if the thought crossed your mind after kpro spectacular but apparently unrelated cosmic Close Encounters today within just hours of each other. This morning in a remote part of russia, some thought the world was ending when a tenton meteor, five stories tall, hurtled to earth and exploded, causing a lot of injuries and doing a lot of damage without actually hitting anything. Its fiery descent was captured in vivid detail by numerous cameras. And then this afternoon there was a very close call with a massive astroid that whizzed by just 17,000 miles from our planet. In sell celestial terms, thats a narrow miss. Nbcs tom costello reports. Reporter the video from russia is incredible. A massive meteor traveling at 33,000 miles per hour, trailing a brilliant quite con trail, hit
Of the new cold war between the west and russia is the u. S. Space program which, believe it or not, relies on russia for transportation. Unintended consequences. But, first, heres my take. The situation in iraq today is perilous but also chaotic and confusing. Should the United States do more to help the communities under threat of destruction . If it does intervene for humanitarian reasons here, then why not in a place like syria, which has seen many terrible atrocities and massacres as well . How to think through the issue. I have been cautious about getting the United States back into iraq, but i believe that in the current circumstances the Obama Administration should intervene more forcefully and ambitiously, use air power, offer training, support, and weaponry if needed. Why . The humanitarian crisis unfolding in iraq is terrible enough, but sometimes as in syria it is unclear whether u. S. Military intervention could really help matters. Whether there is a clear plan that would