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Tour. a new anti-terror measures across the country of ukraine. militants show no signs of giving up buildings despite the international agreement. meanwhile, u.s. army paratroopers have arrived in poland. cnn will have house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers in the 1:00 p.m. eastern hour to talk about this and the implications. nasa astronauts making repairs outside of the international space station to replace a dead computer. they should have it repaired sometime by next hour. i don't want to alarm you. an asteroid so powerful it could destroy another city may come sooner th...

Were comparing it to covering canada -- from canada down to florida, just to give us some perspective. >> and we've seen the damage it's caused in the philippines, and we will see over the next day or so more of the damage thus far, the estimate from the philippine red cross, 1,200 dead. and that's just mostly in the city of tacloban. we'll continue to cover that, of course. but let's stay in outer space for just a moment, and just a sentence i've never actually said. [ laughter ] so the asteroid, space rocks, let's not think about that threat. there is another one possibly. >> yes. this 2,000...

For example, by blowing things up that are high inert orb-- in earth orbit, a, it is expensive, b, who keeps track of the space junk. the jet propulsion lab, again, our government keeps track of this stuff so that industry and our astronauts and the space station are safe, seeing these things coming. it is small space rocks like the one that hit russia in february that are the real things we can't see coming. >> that was small in your world, but at the same time it was pretty sizable, and did do some damage. >> it was scary. glad i wasn't there. and luckily no one was killed. >> right. >> we h...

Slammed into russia earlier this year? it's tough to really forget something like that. it injured more than 1,000 people. look. >> whoa! >> how scary. but nothing compared to what would happen if others giant space rocks slammed into our planet. there are some fears some day a massive asteroid will wreak havoc here on earth and we have had a lot of close saves. >> a scientist just discovered that an asteroid that could possibly end life on earth comes near us in 20 years. scientists say it has a 1 in skishgs thousandth chance in hitting us. >> good news, nasa says they have plain to save us f...

So that is good news. but there is bad is that some of the smaller ones that could actually devastate a city or a state if they hit us, those are much, much harder to detect and there are many, many more of them out there. we found just a tiny percentage of those space rocks. there is a lot of work still left to be done. >> megyn: nasa has dubbed this "a potential city killer" but it won't be they say because it is not going to actually come anywhere near us speaking in the larger term. 3.6 million miles away. close in the relative scale of things but not close enough for us to worry. mike, th...