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Myhrvold was the long-time chief technology officer at microsoft, trained in physics by stephen hawking, and is a true polymath with interests ranging from physics to food and math and everything in between. he and his team have been working on nuclear power to stopping asteroids from hitting the either. it's xhenly believed that asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs but he says asteroid impacts are not just ancient history. take a listen. you don't think we pay enough attention to the problem of asteroids. >> so in 1908, an asteroid hit in siberia. it devastated hundreds of square miles. it was h...

No palcohol. the only thing preventing a city-killing asteroid from slamming into earth is blind luck. that from a former nasa astronaut and ceo of a top research firm. remember this asteroid hit a southwestern province in russia just about a year ago. that blast shattered windows and injured about 1,000. scientists say it had nearly 50 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima during the second world war. researchers say they recorded dozens of these explosions since 2000. most of those blasts over the past 14 years were too high up in the atmosphere to do any damage. still th...

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It's just a shocking situation on the ground there and you know it will take a long time before that story is over. bill: it is. we'll stay on it for you and hoping for the best for folks in the american west. martha: so a former member of the president's cabinet saying that he thinks his former boss is makeing a big mistake with the syria strategy. former defense secretary robert gaetz is saying that and senator john barrasso is chairman of the senate republican policy committee. he joins us live on that next. bill: also getting a new report raising questions about whether the budget fight, w...

Something down in the morning traffic and the existence of putin. during the commute, a fire ball, a meteor fell to earth, damaging about 3,000 buildings and injuring more than a thousand people, but most of the injuries were from shattered glass, and then later, an asteroid about half the size of a football field came within at least 17,000 miles from the earth. in scientist's terms, that is not very far. there are weather satellites farther away from that. scientists say if that had hit the earth, it would have been a thousand times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit hiroshima. las...