Paper mache is the comet. Comets can travel up to 300 miles per second so everything is really hauling here. This is such amazing stuff we are even seeing celebrity tweets. William shatner saying simply hooray. He posted this youtube video. Good luck, rosetta and philaes going to land on, i am so excited. A lot of people are excited. This remarkable achievement is the latest step in a mission that actually began a decade ago and culminated with cheers and hugs in a control room in germany. This celebration went on for a few minutes but the crew quickly got to work Monitoring Communications from the robotic probe. Philae was launched by rosetta which has been circling the comets for week. Researchers believe the comet holds clues about the dawn of our solar system, maybe even life on earth. A time capsule telling us what were conditions like when the earth itself was just forming. Thats huge. Officials say the aircraft may have bounced once before coming to rest. Scientists hope to lear
Frazier was a standout on the Richmond High School basketball team. His death has left teammates reeling with the start of the basketball season less than two weeks away. No arrests have been made in the death. A federal judge today fast tracked leland yees trial on corruption charges. He is set to be tried along with his former fundraiser keith jackson. Raymond shrimp boy chow would be tried separately. He was suspended from the state senate after his arrest on a slew of bribery and racketeering charges. His trial could start next year. Tonight it is a waiting game. A robot landed on a comet for the first time. It wasnt without some speed bumps. Reporter amazing story. Its not science fiction. This is really happening. Its a lander called filially and it is already transmitting Scientific Data back home. But were not sure if it was stable. The harpoon that would have anchored it to the surface didnt fire off so theres a chance it could fall over. Now, all scientists can do is wait and
The rain tapers off. The wind continues. Well see some high elevation gusts 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. Thats weaker than what we saw earlier today. Mount diablo 70 Miles Per Hour. Los altos hills 55 Miles Per Hour. So its been wet and windy an both will continue through the evening commute. Rain tapers off tonight but this is round 1. There is another round moving in, and that will hit us over the weekend. As we said, the highest rainfall totals are in the north bay. Kpix 5s da lin is in the north bay where its been raining hard in healdsburg. Da. Reporter yeah. Nonstop rain here, paul. Onetwo punch literally in the north bay. We got the strong rain and gusty winds. Take a look at this clogged storm drain forcing the water out of the manhole. Elsewhere we have downed trees and darkened homes. The morning started out with heavy rain causing pour visibility on the Poor Visibility on the freeway. At times windshield wipers couldnt clear the water fast enough. The wet roads caused quite a fe
Around eureka. Were on the southern end, and mounting pressure from the so what that brings us is just media, caltrans finally a lighter amount of rain. Announced it is suspending the theres the current radar imagery. If we come in real close here, systems, becoming the 41st take it out towards the san state to do so. We have decided to in the jose area, getting reports of light drizzle, this is really officer up suspending any new et plus guardrail and treatment not much of anything. Terminals on the state highway system until that testing is very light, windshield wipers done. Reporter that weight dinger on intermittent. Heres 2 00 a. M. Mentioned refers to how long and you can see scattered showers developing over san the tests will take. Results will be ready sometime in february. All the et systems will remain francisco. 4 00a. M. See how wide everything is. In place pending the outcome of what this is going to succeed in doing is wetting the pavement. That testing. Not heavy rain
Of new york city where two workers have just been rescued from scaffolding dangling from the nations tallest building. The window ush washers were 69 stories up on the new world trade center. The Port Authority which owns the building says it appears a cable broke on of scaffolding. The brokers were stuck and dangling for more than an hour. They were tethered and communeny kay kateing and communicating with rescuers. They had to cut a hole in the glass windows to pull the workers to safety. Were learning new details about the investigation into a hitandrun crash that killed a 14yearold in the east bay. It happened last night on east 14th and ashland in san leandro. And thats where we find ktvus mike mibach who talked to friends of the teen and has news about an important New Discovery by police. Good afternoon, mike. Reporter good afternoon, toeshry. Good news, chp confirming with us that it has found the car, although it did not say where it was located. The bad news, the driver has n