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Of henderson and las vegas. >> the plant was pretty close to a mountain range. and when the pressure waves went out, it rebounded off the mountain and came back with even more force. >> nearly everybody you talked to, no matter where they were at in las vegas, felt a tremendous hit. we realized that this was a serious, huge disaster. as you can see the damage, it really began to hit home. >> dennis todd watches from the mountaintop in disbelief. >> i was not ready for the mother lode explosion w...

Shook my apartment so much that my light fixtures were swinging. it blew the vents out of my bathroom and there was debris on the floor. >> this thing comes into the atmosphere and it builds up a pressure wave in front of it because the air cannot move out of the way. >> it came into the shallow angle and so as it was exploding, pressure waves were coming down onto the buildings below. its about 20 times the explosive energy of the hiroshima and nagasaki bombs of world war ii. >> security video ...

Any would we expect to see? >> well, in that part of the world off the coast of vietnam, we dont have that many stations, and im not sure whether wed be able to record signals seismically, we might, but it might be on one or two stations. were more likely to see the impact of an airplane into the sea on hydroacoustic arrays, basically cables that run on the ocean bottom and can measure pressure waves in the ocean or on infrasound, when you have an explosion it produced a wave in the atmosphere t...

Increasingly tense situation. but lets begin right now with a rare report from inside the syrian capital. fred pleitgen is the only western journalist right now, he spoke excsively with the countrys deputy foreign minister. fred, what are you seeing and hearing in damascus right now? >> reporter: well, the syrian regime is absolutely angry at what happened, and i can tell you, it was a massive blow right into the heart of this countrys military power base. we basically felt this in the middle of...

Catch this one on tape, the russian citizens. >> well, in fact, the way we really ought to classify this is more like a small asteroid than it is a meteorite. this is an object that seems to come from the asteroid belt. so it is actually on the large side for something that we would see, although not really that large for an asteroid itself, even a small asteroid. but its the interaction with the earths atmosphere, what it could possibly do if it strikes the surface of the earth. what it did jus...

Come from the asteroid belt. so it is actually on the large side for something that we would see, although not really that large for an asteroid itself, even a small asteroid. but its the interaction with the earths atmosphere, what it could possibly do if it strikes the surface of the earth. what it did just passing through territorys atmosphere that really makes the difference. >> hakeem, address the noise, the noise factor, the sonic boom to the effect of a bomb. >> yes. so if you have an obj...

From these other valves and ultimately they will shut down the oil from all the valves in this new cap theyve put on. one of the concerns that the government scientists raise, that when they do that, the goal is to build up the pressure and stop it, theyre worried some could come out down here, where the seal where the new cap was put on, some pressure could come out there. thats one concern. the bigger concern i was told today by people involved in this is this, that if you cap it here, the pre...

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