Miraculously, the damage to people was minor, mostly cuts from splintered glass. Michael garnett, a canadian goalie who plays for chelyabinsk in the Russian Hockey League hasas felt a few bangs in his time but nothing like this. Reporter 70 miles outside of town a meteorshaped hole in the ice of a lake indicates the visitor nameless visitors last resting place. Meteorite fragments were sc scattered around likerstellar c interstellar calling cards. As if anyone would ever forget. Chelyabinsk has made history before for not being in the news. It was part of the old soviet unions Nuclear Weapons program and wa and was a closed zone, forbiddenground for ground for foreigners. Now its famous as the place where heaven and earth met withen and e a bang, anthony. Mason mark phillips. Thanks, mark. Derrick pitts is chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute in philadelphia. Derrick, what caused this huge explosion and sonic boom thats associated with this meteor . Asso and why did it cause so m
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These kids, it was her mission. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Mason scott is on assignment. Im anthony mason. It happened in a flash and without warning. A meteor weighing 15 Million Pounds streaked across the sky over russia today causing a shock wave with a force equivalent to a small atomic bomb. The biggest meteor blast in more than a century. More than a thousand people were hurt, most from flying glass, when windows were blown out. That streak of light could be seen for hundreds of miles. The city of chelyabinsk 900 miles east of moscow bore the brunt. Mark phillips begins our coverage. Reporter thi reporter i m outer space may have been happening since the dawn of time but never before in the age of the dashboard video camera. On a highway outside of chelyabinsk in central russia a flash of light emerges out of a clear blue sky. It becomes a streak, then foreboding glow. It leaves a trail and other cameras are drawn skyward until exp
And good evening again from the port of mobile, alabama. This is a special edition of ac 360. Im erin burnett, for the 3100 passengers and more than 1,000 crew members leaving the cripples cruise ship behind me, there were two songs of the night, sweet home alabama, and the sweet music of a ships whistle. Well, listen to that horn, martin. Look how happy they are to hear that. Port of call horn, means theyre about to dock. Thats a sound that many family members are waiting for. Im sorry, martin, you were saying . Joyful noise at the carnival triumph came into port. I remember hearing that horn, everyone stopped dead and watched that. People have been coming off the gang way. Its been very smooth so far from everything we have heard. Its gone floor by floor, from bottom to top. This, of course, was not the triumphs intended destination, but a fire on sunday left the ship almost dead in the water. Main power was gone. Toilets did not work. Hallways became open sewers. It was truly a nigh
Captured here and here. Some of the explosions are the sonic boom caused by a space object the size of a large bus moving through the air at what the Russian Academy of science said was 33,000 miles an hour. If you were in your apartment you suspected something was up. And then you were sure. If you thought you were safe in a classroom, you werent. It caused widespread damage to buildings, blew out thousands of windows, knocked down walls. Miraculously, the damage to people was minor, mostly cuts from splintered glass. Michael garnett a canadian goalie who plays for chelyabinsk in the Russian Hockey League has felt a few bangs in his time, but nothing like this. I was terrified. I had just hit the snooze bar on my iphone for another nine minutes of sleep and all of a sudden, you know, i fell back asleep and i hear this loud bang i live in a 24story building on the 23rd floor and all of a sudden i look up and the lights are shaking and i hear car alarms going off and it was just incredi