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San francisco/northern california area. what is going on? >> it is a really strange coincidence. first of all, astronomers and stargazers around the world were waiting for this other asteroid and they'd been tracking it for a year. they were really excited. it's the closest-ever approach of an asteroid its size. 150 feet wide, half the size of a football field. they were going to ping it with radar, which they did. they tracked it with telescopes. it was an amazing event. and then out of the blue, the meteor over russia occurred, early overnight, we saw the meteor over san francisco. that was ...

It weighed 10,000 tons, which is bigger than what we thought around midday yesterday. and the blast was about 500 kilotons. that's a massive atomic bomb scale -- >> we talk about being greater than what was dropped on hiroshima. >> yes. and it was much greater than that. almost twice as strong as they thought it was. and this is a fairly midsized rock that came out of space. >> so why is it that more people were not killed by this? >> and that's a saving grace, it seems, from this event. you've got 1,000-plus folks hurt and injured from the glass. >> people go to the window -- they're seeing s...

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