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Captioning sponsed by Macneil Lehrer proctions woodruff a meteor exploded in the skies over russia today with the power of an atomic bomb, shattering windows and injuring more than 1,000 people. Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Brown and im jeffrey brown. On the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the spectacle, and todays other cosmic event a Close Encounter with a large asteroid. This thing is pretty big. Its about half the size of a football field, although there are larger ones out there t...

Paul davies of independent Television News begins our coverage. Reporter emerging from the russian sky, a giant ball of flame, a meteorite providing a spectacular show until it suddenly explodes 30 miles above the earth. The city of chelyabinsk was unlucky to be beneath the meteorites flight path and was showered with debris dropping from the sky. Thousands of windows were smashed, shocked workers evacuated their offices. This school class is about to be interrupted by the shock wave. Here the w...

Woodruff then, Margaret Warner updates the president s push to curb gun violence as he takes his case to his hometown of chicago. Brown mark shields and Michael Gerson analyze the weeks news. Woodruff and ray suarez talks with Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano about combating the growing threat of cyber attacks. To the extent that some are seeking to infiltrate our network, steal that information, not have to invest in the research and development that goes into innovation, thats a re...

Osgood ship of state is a figure of speech we sometimes use to refer to this country and those in charge of it. This morning Mark Strassman will be taking us aboard the United States not the figure of speech but the real ship. Reporter the s. S. United states was once the pride of our nation. She still holds the title of the fastest and some would say most beautiful ship weve ever built. But today shes in danger of being sold for scrap. Her legend fading like the paint on her smoke stacks. Later...

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 ...

More than 1,000 people were injured. Paul davies of independent Television News begins our coverage. Reporter emerging from the russian sky, a giant ball of flame, a meteorite providing a spectacular show until it suddenly explodes 30 miles above the earth. The city of chelyabinsk was unlucky to be beneath the meteorites flight path and was showered with debris dropping from the sky. Thousands of windows were smashed, shocked workers evacuated their offices. This school class is about to be inte...

To 500 people were injured by flying glass. Another astronomical event happens later today. An astroid is due to make a close fly by of planet earth. But nasa says theres no chance the 150foot astroid will hit us. At the closest point it will be 17,000 miles from earth, and thats closer than weather and tv satellites that are in orbit. Were giving you mixed messages there. Were saying its not far, but its closer than weather and tv satellites. Okay. Greg was in here, and i was happy to hear his ...

Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The curfew in ferguson, missouri did not stop is the curfew in ferguson, missouri, did not stop the violence, so governor jay nixon lifted it today and is trying Something Different tonight, he is sending in National Guardsmen who keep order after more violence sparked by the shooting of Michael Brown by an unarmed white officer darren wilson. An autopsy shows he was shot...

Good evening. Im lester holt. Brian is off tonight. Well show you where he is a bit later on. But we start here with the head shaking account of last septembers White House Security breach. And what a new report finds to be a series of human and technical failures that allowed an armed intruder to make his way into the front door of the first familys residence. The report by the department of Homeland Security details lapses by members of the secret service including an officer who apparently wa...

Chamber may move around and change, our duty to help working American Families never will. Senate democrats are ready to work in good faith if the republican counterparts whether its today, tomorrow, january, no matter when it is, to help the middle class and when we do that, we help all our citizen. Five senators would not commit to backing senator reid for leader. Republicans are making him a top target for 2016. Nevadas other senator republican dean helder is urging sandoval to run, and he sa...