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they have four shelters opening this morning at this hour here. they can hold about 4,000 people. but the evacuation order right now under way for zone a is about 40,000 people. so theyre hoping that they will use those shelters as a last resort and go find family or friends on the east coast of florida or just get out of town. i spoke with the spokesperson for the emergency operations center here in punta gorda and he told me that their motto is hide from wind and run from water. he s...

Oh my gosh! whoo! >> oh, wow! >> reporter: the nasa crew and scientists around the world celebrated the culmination of a grueling journey live. >> fantastic! >> oh, fantastic. >> d.a.r.t.s mission, the first of its kind, was to test technological capabilities to protect humanity from hazardous asteroids or other deadly objects in space. >> to see it so beautifully concluded today was just an incredible feeling. and also, very tiring. >> reporter: the d.a.r.t. spacecraft was about the size of a r...

An impact from a 200-inch object on the asteroid Bennu caused a landslide that helped experts understand asteroids more.

Humanity but from annihilation. its called the dart which stands for double asteroid redirection test. its part of nasas planetary defense asteroid deflection technology that. >> first test of planetary defense is intentional crash of a spacecraft into a rock and, of course, what we are trying to learn is how to deflect. >> a target asteroid is technically asteroid moonlit which orbits the at ter rode which is greek for twin. asteroid that one day could pose a maxics tension threat to earth like...

That is the scientific way of saying it is a kamikaze mission to smash an asteroid and push it off course. >> if it is successful and if we had a real inbound killer asteroid, we could do that with it and it would miss us. >> it will take the d.a.r.t. 10 months to reach its target. it is about the seize of the pyramid of giza in egypt. nasa says it will not create a dangerous debris field like last weeks test of a russian satellite weapon. >> it is creating an explosion and a debris field way ou...