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Thanks for your company today. In mexico, the u. S. Department of Homeland Security is helping in the search for a stolen truck carrying radio active material, cobalt 60 which the International Atomic Energy Agency says could be used to make socalled dirty bombs. The agency says all of this happened monday near mexico city. The truck was transporting the material to a waste storage facility. The iaea says the material was properly shielded but could be very dangerous if that shield were damaged ...

Ten years after george w. Bush dragged the country into war in iraq, and explosive new documentary narrated by Rachel Maddow details the trail of deception like never before. Rachel joins me to preview the film tonight. Plus, the big Congressional Panel on John Boehners decision to go on vacation before we go off another cliff. It was the biggest meteor blast in 100 years. So how did we know about an asteroid the size of a Swimming Pool but not a meteorite the size of a house . Good to have you ...

That made history. Today something happened in american politics that has never before happened in the history of our republic. In all of the trials and tribulations we have been through as a nation, through the wars, through the great depression, through the time when senators used to beat one another with canes inside the capitol, in everything we have ever been through as a nation what happened today has never happened before. Not ever. Not one of the 44 president s our country has had has ev...

Explosion as it knocks down the door. A canadian hockey player now living in russia described it like this. I hear this loud bang i live in a 24story building on the 23rd floor and all of a sudden i looked up and the lights are shaking and i hear car alarms going off. It was incredible. The meteor streaked across the sky at 33,000 Miles Per Hour rocking a Mountain Range about 900 miles east of moscow. In total about 3,000 buildings were damaged. The worst was at this zinc factory where the roof ...

It is now bearing down on texas. Ice sleet and rain have closed roadways and have stranded passengers. You cant do much of anything, you cant walk the streets are so slippery. Drivers in midland are using whatever they can to remove ice from frozen windshields. I used to live, and we never saw weather like this. There is horrible here. 240 miles north, Police Responded in am rill he to 30 accidents, in oklahoma more than a foot of snow has fallen and this storm is horribly. Hardly over. The stor...

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You can be prepared to watch. Temperatures dropped 40 degrees in just about 24 hours. If youre to the east of there, this may be a preview of what to expect. And if you live where its warm, youll be the envy of the rest of the nation over the next few days as a big cold and crawling weather system is about to cause a whole lot of trouble as the weather is due when winter takes hold. Its already bad in the rockies. And well begin there in denver. Good evening. Reporter brian, good evening. It nev...

The president has ordered aid to be sent to the area and schools are closed because it is zero and the windows are broken. Right now, nasa is watching for another event unrelated to the meteor, a giant 150 asteroid will fly by earth in the next half hour. Observatories around the earth are pointing telescopes in the direction of the asteroid. Amy joins us live from the laboratory in oakland where there is a party going on. Amy . The party will be tonight when we can see it, closest to the earth ...

It could create a manmade crisis courtesy of congress and send prices skyrocketing. I certainly dont want to pay higher prices for whats basically a political game. Reporter because congress cant agree on how to create a balanced budget, its set in motion a meat cleaver approach known as sequestration. Instead of cutting with a scalpel, all departments face devastating cuts. The department of agriculture says all Food Service Inspection employees will face a 15 day furlough. Their absence will a...

Tremendous this is the third maw and ice storm this month. More than 10,00 10,000 flights e been canceled this week, 1,000 today alone and as Terrell Brown reports, the timing of this storm couldnt be any worse for retailers among a short shopping season that has been underwhelming. Reporter in the middle of a dusty snowstorm on a 19degree day in mohegan lake new york, nicki couldnt resist going to shop. We are in a snowstorm. Yes. And you are shopping. Yes. Why . Because it is still christmas, ...