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We interrupt this program for a
special bulletin now with Sandy Hill.

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Seismologists at Caltec,
now report at

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least three separate
seismic events Tonight.

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Each in the Northern Hemisphere with
Earth tremors of magnitude 8.5 and above.

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And the first location is believed to be
in the Thunder Basin area of Wyoming.

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That's about 200
miles East of Casper.

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So far we have no
reports of casualties.

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The other two sites in Europe
and Asia have not been identified.

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Stay tuned in to 11-o-clock news,
for further details.

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We now resume our
regularly scheduled program.

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We interrupt this
program for a special

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report,
from Evening World News in Washington.

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Here now is chief National affairs
correspondent Sander Vanocur.

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Good Evening... A Meteor shower
which appears at this time every year.

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Erupted into a massive
Cosmic event tonight.

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As pieces of an enormous Asteroid,
plunged to Earth.

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Reports are just coming in.

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But it appears that at 8:24 pm,
Eastern time.

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The near... Earth Asteroid
known as 6645 Ventori.

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Hurled in from space,
and broke apart.

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Striking the Earth,
at three separate points around the globe.

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Aftershocks were felt from
Contrepta island In the Aleutian’s.

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To Santiago in Chile.

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In all three.

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The meteorites hit
deserted world areas.

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Leaving wide impact zones.

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Scientists say if any one of them
had struck near an urban center.

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The results would
have been catastrophic.

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We begin our coverage with
correspondent Pamela Barnes.

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Outside Mount Palomar observatory
in the mountains East of San Diego

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Sandy, as this story first broke,
The report suggested that three.

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Massive Earthquakes
struck World... wide.

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The initial shock waves registered
within minutes of each other at Caltec.

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The best image we have right now,
is this, infra-red shot.

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From a KH11
Reconnaissance Satellite.

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The crater is 2.4
kilometers wide.

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More than a mile
and a half across.

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The red you see around the
rim is a section of scorched earth.

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From a wild-fire, that set the grassland
ablaze, at the moment of impact.

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Correspondent Bree Walker was vacationing
in Wyoming, when the Meteor hit.

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She came in with the first Fire-Crews,
And we go to her.

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Above the crater, I'm told were having
trouble with the feed from Wyoming.

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So we'll bring Bree Walkers
report to you as soon as possible.

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In the meantime we
go to Barry Steinbrenner

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of affiliate KTML
in Casper Wyoming.

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The fires from the Meteor
crater raging out of control.

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Units from the third Air
National Guard Wing,

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were quickly called in,
to extinguish the flames.

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More than 10,000 people living west
of Thunder Basin are being evacuated.

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By national Guardsmen amid
fears the fires may spread.

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And there are numerous reports of power
outages, both North and East of Cheyenne.

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This is Barry Steinbrenner,
KTML Action News. Casper Wyoming

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I'm told we've now contacted
correspondent Bree Walker.

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She now brings us pictures,
of what is being called impact site Alpha

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Located 60 miles North of Grover's Mill,
Wyoming

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Bree, can you Hear us?

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Sandy, as you well know I've
covered my share of disasters.

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The L.A. Riots, Hurricane Andrew,
Last years floods in the Mississippi.

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Even Mount St Helen's, when she
blew. But nothing I've ever encountered.

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Could have prepared me for this.

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Lets give you a look from the
choppers camera, mounted below.

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What you are looking at now,
is the crater itself, A massive inferno.

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The only way you
can describe this.

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Is that what the
fire fighters are

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Temperatures 1200 degrees
Fahrenheit and above.

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Any Human Being
within miles of this impact,

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would have been
incinerated in seconds.

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As we get into the smoke
on the edge of the craters

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rim, the scene of devastation
below is unbelievable.

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The Guardsmen and State Troopers,
And National

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Guardsmen surrounding
the impact site.

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When the Asteroid hit,
it touched off a massive fire-storm,

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that destroyed much
of Thunder Basin.

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We're told that chopper you see down below,
is flying a team of specialists.

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From the department of energy.

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We expect that
they'll be checking for

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Radiation,
or any potentially deadly chemicals.

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That might be spilled.

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And Sandy, Sandy we're just getting word
that there may have been some survivors.

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Along the thunder Bay National grab land,
we're gonna go over there now, for a look.

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The two other pieces of
this gigantic Meteorite came

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down, came down first in
the Gobi Desert of China.

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Along the southern
edge of Mongolia.

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Minutes later in a
mountainous Ares of the

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Pyrenees, about 20 miles,
south or Lourdes.

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In southern France. Now tentatively
known as impact site Bravo.

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Lourdes was the site in 1858, of
the fabled visitation by the Virgin Mary.

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It's been a Mecca for
religious pilgrims ever since.

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But tonight as correspondent
Paul Whitaker reports.

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The mood there is one of fear.

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The churches are
full here tonight.

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With religious
pilgrims giving thanks.

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But not because they came to
this Holy site, because they're alive.

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In the hours before the Asteroid fell,
in the mountains to the

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south, hundreds of people were
still on the snow capped peaks.

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After a long day of
recreational skiing.

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Just as the earth
started to shake,

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he and his friends
looked up to the sky.

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And saw a huge fireball
streaking across the sky.

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This woman Sylvie Chounard also survived,
but when she

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got down, She discovered her
husband Jean Paul was missing

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I came down in a cable car, and err
Jean sat here, he wanted to sit down,

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For the last one of the day.

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And he never got back.

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Ironically today was
their third anniversary

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French rescue trams are combing the
mountain side for skier Jean Paul Chounard.

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A bitter twist to an already
frightening turn of events.

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The French have an expression.

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"The more things change"
"The more they stay the same"

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But tonight as the lucky ones
celebrate happy to be alive...

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...one senses these people
will never be the same again.

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Paul Whitaker reporting from
Lourdes, France.

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Little is known tonight about
the third impact site, in China.

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But as correspondent Denise
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the communist government has
put the country on a state of alert

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Sandy. It's just after 10:15
in the morning here in Beijing.

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The Chinese news agency has reported,
that the

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third Asteroid hit at 9:29 am,
Beijing time.

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It struck at 105 degrees east, 45 degrees
north. Along China's border with Mongolia.

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While little more has come
from the government here.

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Reuters has just released
this aerial photo taken.

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By the French satellite agency

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From 12 miles above the Earth.

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The crater is almost a
mile and a half across

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Denise!! That's almost identical,
I repeat, Identical!

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To the Wyoming impact site.

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What do you know
about casualties?

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Well Sandy Too Fong
is in a remote area.

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Of the Gobi Desert,
with no rail lines, on two highways.

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In or out.

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As a result, it may be days,
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damage from this crash
site can be assessed.

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We'll be back to Denise as
soon as there's more Thank you!!

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We switch now to the Johnson Space
Center where Matt Jensen, is standing by

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Sandy!! The NASA scientists who
track these enormous Asteroids.

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Sometimes refer to them,
as Killer Rocks!!

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As such one of the first
questions we asked, was how??

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How could an Asteroid of this
magnitude have been so close to Earth.

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And not be detected till impact.

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In July, the Comet Shoemaker Levy
9 struck the planet Jupiter, in a series.

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Of massive impacts,
equal in force to 2 million Hydrogen bombs.

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These events were
monitored World wide.

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Through the enormous eye of the
Hubble space telescope, orbiting the Earth.

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Scientist had known for months That these
events on Jupiter were about To take place.

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In fact, they actually able to predict
the precise moments of impact.

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Dr Kurt Martin was one of the NASA
Scientists Tracking Shoemaker Levy.

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Well, what about it Doctor,
why the surprise this time???

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Well first of all, there are at present,
some 25 hundred near earth Asteroids.

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OF magnitude of one mile and above,
that could intercept with the Earth.

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We've only identified
about 10 per cent of them.

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Until tonight.

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Yes!! well you see

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if an Asteroid is coming
directly towards the earth.

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It's very difficult to see it
until it's literally on top of us.

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Doctor Martin, this is
Sander Vanocur in Washington.

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Do I understand you to
say the Earth is at risk.

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From more of these Asteroids.

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Well I don't want
to sound alarmist.

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But if one of those... Rocks
came down in a big city.

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Well!!

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Well what Doctor.

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Lets just say it would make
the Russians seem like.

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Thank you.

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That was Doctor Kurt Martin
of the Johnson space center.

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In a moment we'll be joined by Doctor
Jaffe, Evening World News science editor.

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But first some rather startling
developments from correspondent Bree Walker

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Sandy!! We're told now that at least
three men have perished in the fire storm.

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Touched off by the impact of the Meteorite
believed to be Sheep ranchers who were.

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Leafing grazing land, from the nearby
Thunder Basin National grasslands.

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The scene is
live and it's like...

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Lush green grazing land.

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Now... Ash... Charred.

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You can see there the bodies of
dead animals scattered everywhere

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Bree!!! You should know you
should know your signals breaking up.

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Wait a bit something new.

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What!! WHAT!!

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Down there to the
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All I know is the helicopter is over
Thunder Basin National Grasslands.

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You have the picture.

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My god, it's a human being.

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I've no idea how anyone
could have survived this.

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If that is a human being it
appears to be... A Child. It's a Child!!!!

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We're moving in... Lets just see

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Bree Walker and
Cameraman Billy Dunne

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I hope you will
They're moving in.

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There they are. That's Bree moving
in on what appears to be a survivor.

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Moving!!! Moving
towards the child.

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She's moving towards
the child. There, she is ok!!

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Cameraman William
Dunne behind her.

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It was definitely a child.

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Ok.

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It looks like it was a
little girl. It was a little Girl

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I cannot tell you
what she is saying.

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As you can see, she appears badly
burned how she survived I'll never know.

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Apparently we've
lost our signal.

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It's just extraordinary
to think that anyone

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could have survived
so close to that fire zone.

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It appears the child was trying to say
something, something incomprehensible.

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She obviously was in shock.

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We try to get back with correspondent
Walker, to learn more about that little.

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Girls condition... I the meantime,
we give our affiliates.

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A chance to break.

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This is Sander
Vanocur in Washington.

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Here once again
is Sander Vanocur.

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If you're just tuning in, all of us
witnessed a remarkable rescue tonight.

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After three fragments from
a giant Asteroid, fell to Earth

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causing untold
damage World ...wide.

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An evening World News Crew,
was flying over one of the impact sites.

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When they saw something moving,
correspondent

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Bree Walker and cameraman,
William Dunne.

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And Found a survivor.

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A little girl, we still don't know
who she is, or what she was saying.

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At this moment our Helicopter is flying
her to the mercy medical center in Casper

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Wyoming, and we'll get word to you on
her condition, just as soon as we have it.

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Joining me now is
our Science editor.

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Doctor Carolyn Jaffe

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Sandy!! In the grip of a story like this,
It's a reporters job, to hold back.

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Remain dispassionate, and yet.

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When you look in
the eyes of that child.

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You can't help but be moved

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I understand you, prepared a report,
on just how powerful.

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These Meteors can be.

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That's right Sandy, the philosopher
George Santayana, once said that.

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"He who forgets history"...
"Is destined to repeat it"

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Now the three asteroid fragments
that rained down on the earth tonight.

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Ahh, Weren't the first,
And most likely won't be the last.

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The crater at Winslow Arizona,
more than Half a mile across.

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An enormous hole caused by
an Iron Asteroid just 60 mt rs wide.

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More than 50,000 years ago.

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In 1908 an object the same size
exploded a few miles above the ground

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at Tunguska river in Siberia.

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The shock wave with the
force of 15 Hydrogen Bombs.

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Incinerated more than in
acres in an impact area.

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That would have spread from Maine to The
Carolina's, if it had hit the North East.

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The gulf of these were just BB
shots compared to the big one.

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Known now as the KT event,
Scientists now believe and object.

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In the order of 7-10 kilometers wide,
impacted 65 million years ago.

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Along the Mexican
Yucatan Peninsula.

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A month after impact the debris
from the giant crater covered the Earth.

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In a dust like cloud that
blocked out virtually all sunlight.

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Billions of life forms were killed within
weeks, and ultimately the dinosaurs.

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That had ruled the World
for 140 million Years perished.

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And Sandy!! If an Asteroid
even one half that size

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were to hit the Earth today,
the death rate could easily match.

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That of of the Black Plague,
that wiped out half the population.

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Of Europe during
the Middle Ages.

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Well the question I've got to put to you,
is how real is the.

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To the Earth today

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I'm afraid it's quite real.

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Two years ago NASA Scientists
calculated that the odds of a person dying.

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Through a near Earth
Asteroid were about 1 in 20,000.

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About the same as being
killed in an airline crash.

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And that's what they assumed??

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Until tonight.

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You see the
danger is increasing.

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Why ls that.

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Astronomers announced at JPR,
say there is a

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20% likely-hood,
that because of the meteor.

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Shower tonight we can expect
more of these Earthbound Asteroids...

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Forgive me!!...I apologize, but they're
ready now for that report from NASA.

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And then we go to the Johnson Space
Center where correspondent Matthew Jensen.

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Is standing by... Matt!!! Sandy the men
and women who track these giant near Earth.

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Objects,
have been working non stop to

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analyze the data ever
since the first impact.

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At 7:24 Central time... We were inside
the operation center, where we regularly.

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Follow the Shuttle flights, then just
moments ago, some data came in from NASA.

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Big radio Telescope at Gold
stone in the Mojave Desert.

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And all reporters were asked
to move behind this wall of glass.

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They say a statement is imminent but
right now, we're watching and waiting.

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We'll be back to you Matt, but first for
an insight on what may be happening.

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We go to correspondent Ron
Olney at Goldstone... Ron??

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Sandy... this enormous 70 meter
steerable antenna, is part of NASA's.

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Deep Space Network, here to track
spacecraft, when a Comet or Asteroid.

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Is identified by one of field telescopes
like the one at Mount Palomar.

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The data is fed here and the space
debris as they call these killer rocks.

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Is then tracked with precision.

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Now the scientists who work here are
normal rather cool understated people.

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But about an hour ago when the
data on 7645 Ventori was fully analyzed.

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This marine Helicopter made an unscheduled
landing, a pair of MP's, raced inside.

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Minutes later with one of the scientists
here, they rushed him aboard, the chopper.

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Now word yet on the scientists
name or his position with NASA.

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But sources say he was flown
to nearby Edwards Air force base.

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For a trip by Jet to the
Space Center in Houston

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Roy!,
what could have so important that they

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couldn't have linked up
with Houston by phone.

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Or a tele-conference.

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Well they're big questions with no
answer form here, Sandy, once here.

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It says that the scientists involved may
have something to do with the Asteroids.

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Trajectory,
both before and after it broke up.

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Thank you!!, very much.

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We just received an update
from Denise Wong in Beijing.

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There are no known casualties near
the third impact site designated "Charlie"

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However the impact is said to have
damaged the Tingshin Hydro-Electric dam

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40 kilometers to the south, power
outages have been reported throughout most

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of LANGSHAN province. The Chinese
government is requesting emergency.

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Generating equipment, and Red Cross
assistance, for the estimated 7.5 million.

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People,
now without electricity or running water.

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Doctor we've just got
word on the condition of

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that little girl found
wandering near the Wyoming.

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Impact site.

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We go now to Evening
World News correspondent

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Bree Walker,
standing by at mercy.

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Medical Center in Casper.

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The little girl we found at
the scene was badly burned.

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She's in intensive care now being treated
for exposure and second degree burns.

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Doctors have sedated her,
and they say she's resting comfortably.

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Meanwhile Makoma County
Sheriff department has set up a

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special hotline to try to
find out who the little girl is.

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If you can help
here's the number

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Bree Walker, Evening World News,
Casper Wyoming.

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There's more now on the fate of another
victim, French Skier Jean Paul Chounard

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after combing the area near
the second Asteroid impact site

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French rescue workers,
came upon Jean Paul

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Chounard,
holed in a snow cave near the base.

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Of Mount Dimen.

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We'll have an update soon,
from correspondent Paul Whitaker in France

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Sandy in this era of home video
where people seem to shoot everything

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I guess this was inevitable.
We just received tape from KWBF.

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Our affiliate in Newcastle Wyoming,
some 80 miles from the impact site.

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It purports to show Asteroid fragment
Alpha, streaking across the sky.

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As it roars towards Thunder Basin,
I'm told it was shot by Chris O'Neil.

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The father of three from Newcastle,
the voice you're hearing is Mr O'Neil.

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Come on out, it's freezing... Ohh Kylie,
that looks great.

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Joshua.

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Trick or treat.

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Look at that!!!!

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The tape was analyzed by the FAA,
and apparently that was the Alpha fragment.

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From 6645 Ventori, we're gonna watch it
once more as it come into the-cameras lens

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Sandy we're happy to report that no
one was hurt and the children went on to.

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Trick or treat with one
incredible story to tell.

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Well thank goodness for that.

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There's new information on that scientist,
rushed to Houston to confer with NASA.

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Officials,
he is Doctor Avram Mandel.

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An Astro Physicist,
at Nasa's Jet propulsion Lab

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Sandy!!! Sources say Doctor Mandel,
visits the Space Center here at Houston.

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At least once a month.

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But this is far
from a routine trip.

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In fact we've just learned that he's
flown here, not on a conventional carrier.

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But in the jump seat
of a Air Force F16.

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With a maximum airspeed of
more than 1400 miles per hour.

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The flight time from Edwards to Houston,
should put Doctor Mandel on the ground.

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Some 22 minutes from now

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Sandy!! correspondent Robert Roveno,
has just flown in from Denver.

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And he is at the edge
of impact site Alpha.

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Apparently the police there
have just changed the ground rules

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Robert!!

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All the news crews here have been
asked to pull back from the immediate edge.

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Of the crater. The official reason
is safety, state police saying there.

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Have been after shocks,
as with the impact.

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But none of the press here
on the ground has felt anything.

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And there's been,
activity at the crater by NASA Scientists.

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We shot this video
only moments ago

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Sandy!! as you can see dozens of
investigators from NASA and the pentagon.

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Have been flown in to the site which is
now beginning to resemble a civil air base.

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Ahh you can see a chopper from
Olney landing, carrying additional troops.

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Armed with assault weapons, Why? The
government would need fire-power like that.

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At the site of a Meteor impact,
is anyone's guess???

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Ahh... We're told among
the personnel being

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moved to this site is
a team of mapmakers.

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From the US Geological survey.

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In addition the FAA now established a
no fly zone immediately over the crater.

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They have made it quite
clear anyone violating

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this restriction,
would be fired upon.

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So these are the last picture
you'll likely to see for a while.

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Ahh Sandy!!!, At impact site...
We're going to have to cut away.

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A statement is imminent from, from the
press room, at the Johnson Space Center.

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We go now to
correspondent Matt Jensen.

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After a virtual blackout
since the first impact

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Dale Powers... NASA director
of Community relations.

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Is about to speak now.

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Mr Director... Can you... Here
we have a short statement.

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There'll be no
questions at this time.

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Let me just say... Ahh for now,
except that what we're about to show you.

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Is based of findings that are preliminary,
at best...

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The findings, are not,
I repeat NOT definitive.

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Data just analyzed by the Space Centers
computer suggest that the Asteroid...

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6645 Ventori, was approaching the
Earth on a precise trajectory, for impact

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at 90 degrees North Latitude when
it broke up over the Polar Ice Cap.

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The three debris segments that split apart
Landed at the following impact points.

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Ah... 0 degrees longitude, France. The
other two sites, were at 105 degrees west.

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In Wyoming,
and the same at longitude East in Mongolia.

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At Here and here.

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All three sites were located
at 45 degrees North latitude.

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That is all we have,
at this point.

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You're saying it broke up over the North
pole and came down in a perfect pattern.

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That is correct.

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We've made no
conclusions at this point.

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But what are the chances, that a random
Asteroid would hit and break up and fall.

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With such precision

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what about the fact that
Doctor Avram Mandel is being flow here.

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In an Air Force Fighter Jet...

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What about it???

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00:24:22,062 --> 00:24:26,562
Well you couldn't have got him down here
any faster if you shot him from a cannon.

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Well What's your point???

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Well according to his Bio,
he is a founding member of S.E.T.I.

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Does that mean that Extra
Terrestrials are involved.

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Like I said at the beginning,
There are NO questions.

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There you have it,
Sandy!! in fact during Watergate

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they would have called
that A non denial tonight.

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This isn't like NASA ever
since the Challenger disaster.

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They've been one of the most
open agencies in the government.

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00:24:53,982 --> 00:24:56,707
That's right Sandy... But as
soon as I mentioned S.E.T.I.

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Well Paul just shut right down.

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00:24:58,137 --> 00:25:00,057
S.E.T.I. was originally
a NASA program.

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Yes but!!,
just last year their funding was cut.

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Most of the scientists
here are members of

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And As you know Sandy
S.E.T.I is an acronym it

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stands for Search for
Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.

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And these are scientists,
who are dedicate to the belief that.

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There is life on other Planets.

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Our continuing coverage "asteroid fire
from the sky" will resume after this.

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World News continues it's coverage, with
Doctor Carolyn Jaffee and Sander Vanocur.

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For those of you just joining us,
we're tracking

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the story of a large,
near Earth Asteroid.

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That broke up over
the North Pole tonight,

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and collided with the
Earth at three sites in.

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The United States,
Europe, and Asia.

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We'll have more on the
damage in a moment.

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But first news on
two of the survivors.

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Correspondent Paul Whitaker begins
with this live report, from Lourdes.

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In southern France

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Sandy!! rescuers are bringing skier
Jean Paul Chounard down to the mountain.

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Where he's been stranded since
the Asteroid hit, earlier this evening.

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We've been getting reports,
that his condition is critical

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He's semi comatose, and suffering
from Frost Bite, and third degree burns.

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Getting him down of this mountain,
has been an incredible task.

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As you can well imagine.

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And his wife Sylvia, is thoroughly
relieved, that he's been found alive.

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She's going to accompany him,
to the burn center in Nice.

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We'll follow this story, and will get
back to you as soon as we know more.

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This is Paul Whitaker AP World News,
reporting from Lourdes.

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We switch now to Mercy Medical
Center in Casper... Wyoming where.

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Correspondent Bree
Walker is standing by

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Bree

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Sandy... A woman called here
to the hot..line, just moments ago

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and said,
the little girl is her DAUGHTER.

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She gave few other details,
but did issue a

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statement,
confirming the identity of the little girl.

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As 8 years old Kimberly
Hastings of Cordales in Mexico.

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Apparently she had been
missing since last Friday.

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No one knows yet how
she got this far North.

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Corales is almost 400 miles,
from where the Asteroid hit.

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Doctors say she is still in
a critical condition tonight.

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Yet she is one lucky,
little girl.

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With the mystery over little
Kimberly's identity cleared up.

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We shift now to
a larger question.

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How is it that an Asteroid
can break up and fall to Earth.

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With an almost
Geometric precision.

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My colleague, Science Editor,
Doctor Carolyn Jaffee.

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Has found one Astronomer
who believes he has the answer.

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We were looking at the Sea of Tranquillity,
and that's a stretch of craters.

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00:27:34,068 --> 00:27:38,180
Created over the Centuries, when
Asteroids pock... marked the Lunar surface.

453
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,900
This shot of the Moon, was taken
through a 158 inch, reflector telescope.

454
00:27:44,296 --> 00:27:47,014
And operating it is
Doctor Robert Pearlman.

455
00:27:47,114 --> 00:27:49,038
A Caltec PH.D. and Astronomer,
who has

456
00:27:49,138 --> 00:27:51,734
personally identified,
a half dozen, major Comets.

457
00:27:52,197 --> 00:27:53,286
Doctor Pearlman!!

458
00:27:53,386 --> 00:27:56,509
What's the significance
of tonight's events???

459
00:27:57,464 --> 00:28:04,007
Well you see, in the Astronomical term,
coming so close to Shoemaker Levy Nine.

460
00:28:04,107 --> 00:28:06,486
Is really unique
in recorded history.

461
00:28:06,586 --> 00:28:10,271
We understand, that you actually
have photograph, of 6645 Ventori.

462
00:28:10,371 --> 00:28:11,853
Taken just before it broke up.

463
00:28:11,953 --> 00:28:13,073
Um.

464
00:28:13,748 --> 00:28:18,648
This was taken, at an elevation,
12,500 miles, above the pole.

465
00:28:18,930 --> 00:28:22,831
Now four minutes later,
when we attempted to take another plate.

466
00:28:22,931 --> 00:28:24,051
The Asteroid exploded.

467
00:28:24,366 --> 00:28:26,444
Doctor Pearlman...
Sander Vanocur.

468
00:28:26,544 --> 00:28:27,664
Hi Mr Vanocur

469
00:28:27,776 --> 00:28:32,341
I understand you're the co-chair
with Doctor Avram Mandel of S.E.T.I.

470
00:28:32,441 --> 00:28:34,676
The search for extra
terrestrial intelligence

471
00:28:34,776 --> 00:28:35,386
I am!!!

472
00:28:35,486 --> 00:28:38,075
Well Doctor... What do you make
of the announcement by NASA.

473
00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:40,795
That the Asteroid fragments struck,
in precise order.

474
00:28:41,187 --> 00:28:44,047
Well it just confirms what
we've been saying for years

475
00:28:44,147 --> 00:28:50,870
I mean with 200 billion star systems,
in the Milky way Galaxy alone.

476
00:28:51,002 --> 00:28:54,822
The existence of intelligent
life beyond Earth is undeniable.

477
00:28:55,249 --> 00:28:57,501
Right!! But why jump to
that conclusion in this case,

478
00:28:57,601 --> 00:28:59,999
just because the Asteroid
fragments hit at the same latitude.

479
00:29:00,099 --> 00:29:04,319
Ha ha ha, but that's a very
very good question, let me see this.

480
00:29:05,146 --> 00:29:07,471
Yes, yes!! Can you see this.

481
00:29:07,571 --> 00:29:09,088
Yes!! We can.

482
00:29:09,188 --> 00:29:13,991
Alright... Er-mm... 6645 Ventori,
Approached the Earth.

483
00:29:14,091 --> 00:29:17,661
On a dead center trajectory,
for the North Pole.

484
00:29:17,761 --> 00:29:23,182
The angles of the three impact sites
A, B and C are exactly 45 degrees.

485
00:29:23,670 --> 00:29:27,317
So... The odds against that happening
in nature are something like ohh...

486
00:29:27,417 --> 00:29:29,346
10 to the 58th power.

487
00:29:29,446 --> 00:29:31,766
Soooo... What are you saying??

488
00:29:32,041 --> 00:29:35,661
I'm saying that what we've
seen tonight is unnatural.

489
00:29:35,761 --> 00:29:37,784
Could it happen at random??

490
00:29:38,414 --> 00:29:39,740
Not a chance.

491
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,855
Ohh, thank you Doctor.

492
00:29:41,955 --> 00:29:44,642
That was Astronomer Robert Pearlman,
executive director

493
00:29:44,742 --> 00:29:47,276
of the American observatory
In Chips peak Arizona.

494
00:29:47,923 --> 00:29:51,248
We need to point out for our viewers,
the danger of speculation.

495
00:29:51,348 --> 00:29:52,468
At this point.

496
00:29:52,618 --> 00:29:56,768
Because, of the breaking events tonight,
we're bringing new information that's live.

497
00:29:57,956 --> 00:29:59,185
And unedited.

498
00:29:59,285 --> 00:30:01,452
That's right Sandy... And
viewers should keep

499
00:30:01,552 --> 00:30:03,799
that in mind,
as they watch this next report

500
00:30:03,899 --> 00:30:07,533
Barry Steinbrenner at
KTML in Casper Wyoming.

501
00:30:07,633 --> 00:30:10,807
A 39 year old Crop-Duster
Pilot identified as Thomas

502
00:30:10,907 --> 00:30:13,854
Aspell,
was questioned by local Law enforcement.

503
00:30:13,954 --> 00:30:17,774
And Air Force officials,
and later released, after reporting a UFO.

504
00:30:18,186 --> 00:30:21,502
The alleged incident occurred as he
was landing his plane some 40 miles.

505
00:30:21,602 --> 00:30:25,622
West of crash site Alpha,
near Benson Wyoming.

506
00:30:38,429 --> 00:30:41,130
Why were you in
there so long????

507
00:30:42,294 --> 00:30:46,895
Since Casper refuses to talk, We've
taped this interview with Sheriff's deputy.

508
00:30:46,995 --> 00:30:48,322
Anson Peters.

509
00:30:48,422 --> 00:30:50,058
The first official to
speak with Aspell.

510
00:30:50,158 --> 00:30:55,661
He told me, that he was just coming down
at around ahh 6:45 after dusting, that day.

511
00:30:56,071 --> 00:30:59,691
Anyway Askell was shaken... I
mean the man was terrified.

512
00:30:59,923 --> 00:31:03,407
He said he was just coming in when,
this uh THING.

513
00:31:03,507 --> 00:31:05,488
Appeared on his right inside,
and it followed

514
00:31:05,588 --> 00:31:07,223
him a few hundred feet,
as he landed.

515
00:31:07,323 --> 00:31:09,642
And then it,
streaked across his windshield,

516
00:31:09,742 --> 00:31:11,756
then took off
straight up like a shot.

517
00:31:11,856 --> 00:31:15,041
At this point the,
the pilot Askell is in seclusion.

518
00:31:15,141 --> 00:31:18,793
We checked with the FAA to see if
there was anything unusual on Radar.

519
00:31:18,893 --> 00:31:20,143
And they have no comment.

520
00:31:20,688 --> 00:31:24,991
This is Barry Steinbrenner
KTML action news Wyoming.

521
00:31:25,506 --> 00:31:30,411
Well we've just learned that Mr Askel, has
sold his story to the National Enquirer.

522
00:31:30,511 --> 00:31:32,994
Though he denies it,
the full purchase price

523
00:31:33,094 --> 00:31:35,658
is believed to be upwards
of 100,000 Dollars.

524
00:31:35,758 --> 00:31:39,778
Well!! Was there really
something up there tonight???

525
00:31:39,915 --> 00:31:43,065
We took our camera's outside,
just moments ago, to get reaction.

526
00:31:43,432 --> 00:31:45,452
Do I believe in UFOs

527
00:31:46,857 --> 00:31:48,380
I don't know

528
00:31:48,896 --> 00:31:51,996
I like the aliens...
I like the theory

529
00:31:52,304 --> 00:31:54,724
I have no doubt, there is a UFO

530
00:31:54,901 --> 00:31:58,802
I definitely,
definitely don't think it's UFO;s.

531
00:31:59,090 --> 00:32:05,154
But That to me is just arrogance to
think that everything can be explained.

532
00:32:05,254 --> 00:32:10,699
With scientific data and information,
I mean, for years we've always assumed.

533
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:14,690
That there's no life on other Planets,
but why wouldn't it be there

534
00:32:14,790 --> 00:32:16,444
I'm not surprised

535
00:32:16,544 --> 00:32:18,864
I don't know... I don't think so

536
00:32:19,726 --> 00:32:21,146
I really don't

537
00:32:21,508 --> 00:32:23,929
I don't believe in aliens.

538
00:32:26,643 --> 00:32:27,633
Alright.

539
00:32:27,733 --> 00:32:31,304
Do you know the White House
has been noticeably silent, in all this.

540
00:32:31,404 --> 00:32:34,917
Because in the time of the
country at the G7 economic summit.

541
00:32:35,017 --> 00:32:36,437
For him that may be a blessing.

542
00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:39,712
But!! there's a least one
segment of the administration

543
00:32:39,812 --> 00:32:42,532
willing to comment on
the alleged UFO incident.

544
00:32:42,632 --> 00:32:47,584
We go now to National security
correspondent Mark Manetti at the Pentagon.

545
00:32:47,684 --> 00:32:49,491
Here with me tonight
is the deputy under

546
00:32:49,591 --> 00:32:51,755
secretary of defense for
advanced technologies.

547
00:32:51,855 --> 00:32:54,275
Doctor Norbert Hazelton.

548
00:32:56,796 --> 00:33:00,873
So Doctor, with NASA's announcement,
of how the Asteroid fragments came in,

549
00:33:00,973 --> 00:33:03,889
I suppose that talk of
UFOs was inevitable.

550
00:33:03,989 --> 00:33:07,733
Absolutely!...They all come out
of the woodwork, at times like this.

551
00:33:07,833 --> 00:33:11,453
Granted the reporting
s have to be confirmed.

552
00:33:11,672 --> 00:33:13,983
But what about the
findings of Doctor Robert

553
00:33:14,083 --> 00:33:16,309
Pearlman. Would you
respect the scientist.

554
00:33:16,409 --> 00:33:17,529
No!

555
00:33:18,110 --> 00:33:21,568
There's an irresponsible segment
of the scientific community.

556
00:33:21,668 --> 00:33:25,108
That seems bent, on proving
the existence of little green men.

557
00:33:25,208 --> 00:33:27,904
And that's fine... The
problem is that the US has

558
00:33:28,004 --> 00:33:30,552
been trying to establish
contact for decades.

559
00:33:30,652 --> 00:33:31,672
To no avail

560
00:33:32,203 --> 00:33:36,421
7 separate unmanned probes have been
launched towards the edge of the Galaxy.

561
00:33:36,521 --> 00:33:38,533
Beaming messages from Earth.

562
00:33:38,633 --> 00:33:41,695
There have been more than a
thousand US space shots alone.

563
00:33:41,795 --> 00:33:46,391
Since the 1960's... Another
24 hundred by the Russians

564
00:33:46,491 --> 00:33:47,791
12 men landed on the Moon.

565
00:33:48,744 --> 00:33:50,944
And returned, without sightings.

566
00:33:51,067 --> 00:33:53,687
We wanted to find them,
there was nothing.

567
00:33:53,790 --> 00:33:57,461
What about the Geometric
patterns of the crashes.

568
00:33:57,561 --> 00:34:02,286
How can something so precise,
simply be attributed as a natural phenomena

569
00:34:02,386 --> 00:34:04,066
well I've got just
one answer for you.

570
00:34:04,266 --> 00:34:05,087
Snowflakes.

571
00:34:05,187 --> 00:34:08,537
Hundreds of trillions of
them fall to earth every year.

572
00:34:08,637 --> 00:34:12,403
Each with an intricate geometric pattern,
and no two alike.

573
00:34:12,503 --> 00:34:16,823
Nature is precise in its randomness,
and that is the fascination of it.

574
00:34:17,318 --> 00:34:19,148
Thank you Doctor.

575
00:34:19,248 --> 00:34:20,368
Back to you

576
00:34:20,553 --> 00:34:22,976
Sandy with these allegations
of UFO involvement,

577
00:34:23,076 --> 00:34:25,176
we shouldn't forget
the real story here.

578
00:34:25,365 --> 00:34:29,896
That the more than 2,000 near Earth
Asteroids, still uncharted by NASA.

579
00:34:29,996 --> 00:34:32,839
Represent a significant
threat to the Earth.

580
00:34:32,939 --> 00:34:36,035
Two years ago during a
Football game in New York.

581
00:34:36,135 --> 00:34:38,742
Fans observed this Meteorite
streak through the sky.

582
00:34:38,842 --> 00:34:41,896
Where it almost destroyed
a residential neighbourhood.

583
00:34:41,996 --> 00:34:47,816
In 1972 an alert photographer in
the National Park, caught this object

584
00:34:47,994 --> 00:34:51,717
as it streaked across the
sky at 33,000 miles an hour.

585
00:34:52,136 --> 00:34:54,788
With an estimated weight
of one million pounds.

586
00:34:54,888 --> 00:34:57,884
It narrowly missed the camp
grounds of thousands of people.

587
00:34:57,984 --> 00:35:02,805
And in 1989, an Asteroid half a mile wide,
narrowly missed the planet.

588
00:35:03,042 --> 00:35:07,162
The Earth had been directly in line with
that giant rock only six hours earlier.

589
00:35:07,547 --> 00:35:12,047
You're saying that we were only
six hours away from catastrophe.

590
00:35:12,206 --> 00:35:16,205
That's right, ahh in fact after that near
miss, a congressional report concluded.

591
00:35:16,405 --> 00:35:21,325
Quote... Had the Asteroid struck the Earth,
it would have caused a disaster.

592
00:35:21,545 --> 00:35:22,926
Unprecedented, in human history.

593
00:35:23,026 --> 00:35:25,121
Doctor as you know,
Government officials

594
00:35:25,221 --> 00:35:27,778
continue to insist that
tonight's Asteroid hits

595
00:35:27,878 --> 00:35:32,288
were Natural origin, there's a growing
segment of the population who sense.

596
00:35:32,388 --> 00:35:33,508
Something more.

597
00:35:33,794 --> 00:35:37,886
And joining us now is Terence Freeman,
author of the recent best seller.

598
00:35:37,986 --> 00:35:39,425
Messengers from beyond.

599
00:35:39,525 --> 00:35:40,871
Mr Freeman, You're welcome.

600
00:35:40,971 --> 00:35:42,080
Glad to be here Sir.

601
00:35:42,180 --> 00:35:44,857
Ah Mr Freeman, you've warned
that a proponent of the theory.

602
00:35:44,957 --> 00:35:48,896
That intelligent life,
has visited Earth before... Correct?

603
00:35:48,996 --> 00:35:51,229
Ah there's no question,
there are ancient cave

604
00:35:51,329 --> 00:35:53,484
drawings showing
figures in space helmets...

605
00:35:53,584 --> 00:35:56,650
Ah .The Pyramid's,
the enormous figures on Easter Island.

606
00:35:56,750 --> 00:35:59,517
Even the circle at Stonehenge,
were all built at a

607
00:35:59,617 --> 00:36:02,637
time before we had the
technical skills to create them

608
00:36:02,737 --> 00:36:07,011
I'm sorry Mr Freeman, But! You, You seem
to be denying all of human achievement.

609
00:36:07,111 --> 00:36:10,488
No! On the contrary, men and
women accomplished these things.

610
00:36:10,588 --> 00:36:12,964
But they were guided
by forces on high.

611
00:36:13,064 --> 00:36:16,762
It's humanic, you can trace the
bench marks throughout history.

612
00:36:16,862 --> 00:36:20,392
They come once every few hundred years,
and we are long overdue.

613
00:36:20,492 --> 00:36:23,272
Well there are plenty of responsible
scientists, who would argue that.

614
00:36:23,372 --> 00:36:25,878
These Asteroids
are long overdue.

615
00:36:25,978 --> 00:36:28,894
You Know! There is a dictum
that scientists are taught to follow.

616
00:36:28,994 --> 00:36:31,475
It says that when you
are faced with an enigma.

617
00:36:31,575 --> 00:36:35,757
Ahh the best ...Explanation is usually
the simplest and most logical one.

618
00:36:35,857 --> 00:36:37,507
In this case
Asteroids. Not Aliens

619
00:36:37,718 --> 00:36:39,491
I gotta interrupt you both.

620
00:36:39,591 --> 00:36:44,106
We've just received, a disturbing
report from correspondent Robert Marino

621
00:36:44,206 --> 00:36:47,924
He's now on the ground near
impact site Alpha in Wyoming

622
00:36:48,024 --> 00:36:49,144
Robert

623
00:36:49,404 --> 00:36:51,942
Sandy... Two events in
the last ten minutes have

624
00:36:52,042 --> 00:36:54,604
put the Asteroid impact
in a chilling New light.

625
00:36:54,704 --> 00:36:58,527
First our News chopper and about a
half a dozen aircraft, were forced to land.

626
00:36:58,707 --> 00:37:02,269
When an intense radio signal began to
interfere with our navigational systems.

627
00:37:02,369 --> 00:37:06,675
Then after we hit the grass, we began
to hear that noise in the background.

628
00:37:06,775 --> 00:37:10,777
A pulsating hum coming from
the direction of the meteor crater.

629
00:37:10,877 --> 00:37:13,236
The decibels have
increased minute by minute, to

630
00:37:13,336 --> 00:37:15,617
the point where you
have to scream to be heard

631
00:37:15,717 --> 00:37:18,617
Bob can you get any
closer to the rim of the crater.

632
00:37:18,717 --> 00:37:21,626
Can you get any closer to
the rim of the crater... Right.

633
00:37:21,726 --> 00:37:25,949
RIGHT... Ahh

634
00:37:27,766 --> 00:37:31,786
you hear sound as we
move towards the crater.

635
00:37:33,957 --> 00:37:39,205
It's eerie, it doesn't sound like
anything I've ever heard before.

636
00:37:39,305 --> 00:37:41,825
And it... it ...pow.

637
00:37:43,739 --> 00:37:45,139
In fact... it's painful.

638
00:37:46,193 --> 00:37:51,596
In fact... it's happening.

639
00:37:52,465 --> 00:37:53,865
It's like...

640
00:37:57,750 --> 00:38:03,775
The AP is reporting that State police
units as far away as Casper Wyoming.

641
00:38:03,875 --> 00:38:07,964
Have been picking up that same loud hum,
on their Radio's.

642
00:38:08,064 --> 00:38:11,977
And there's this statement just in
from NASA's Jet propulsion Laboratory.

643
00:38:12,077 --> 00:38:15,128
Quote... A persistent
audio signal of unknown

644
00:38:15,230 --> 00:38:18,795
origin, on the edge of the
FM band is being emitted.

645
00:38:18,895 --> 00:38:21,110
From the crater... un quote.

646
00:38:21,210 --> 00:38:24,054
In other words,
that apparently benign piece

647
00:38:24,154 --> 00:38:26,755
of space rock is
charged electronically.

648
00:38:26,855 --> 00:38:28,973
And sending out
some sort of signal

649
00:38:29,073 --> 00:38:30,793
Matt Jensen has
more from Houston.

650
00:38:31,044 --> 00:38:33,997
Officials here at the Jensen Space Center,
have confirmed

651
00:38:34,097 --> 00:38:36,699
that similar radio signals
have now been detected.

652
00:38:36,799 --> 00:38:40,038
Emanating from the Bravo
and Charlie impact sites.

653
00:38:40,138 --> 00:38:43,037
In southern France and in
the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

654
00:38:43,137 --> 00:38:45,900
There's no official word
from NASA. But sources

655
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,958
here say that the signals
could be natural in origin.

656
00:38:49,058 --> 00:38:51,603
From the result of ...What
is being described as

657
00:38:51,703 --> 00:38:54,161
...quote... The
pulsating charged ion field.

658
00:38:54,261 --> 00:38:57,891
Which developed during the parent
Asteroid's flight through the atmosphere.

659
00:38:57,991 --> 00:39:03,397
We repeat at this juncture, the word
is that the signal's are of Natural origin.

660
00:39:03,497 --> 00:39:04,497
Back to you.

661
00:39:05,731 --> 00:39:10,357
There's some activity at the FAA air
traffic system command in Washington DC.

662
00:39:10,457 --> 00:39:12,707
We go there now with
correspondent Mike Curtis

663
00:39:13,093 --> 00:39:15,343
Caroline... I'm standing
in the aviation command

664
00:39:15,443 --> 00:39:17,666
center. Where authorities
have now confirmed.

665
00:39:17,766 --> 00:39:21,395
That signals emanating from the
Asteroid site have begun to disrupt.

666
00:39:21,495 --> 00:39:22,645
Commercial air traffic.

667
00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:25,228
With me now is Facility manager David Case,
David!

668
00:39:25,328 --> 00:39:27,671
Are you able to shed
any light on this situation.

669
00:39:27,771 --> 00:39:30,225
For us... Air traffic is
being disrupted across the

670
00:39:30,325 --> 00:39:32,907
country, but as you can see,
on the screen behind me.

671
00:39:33,007 --> 00:39:36,022
Ahh, the problem is most acute
at O'Hare in Chicago, Wayne.

672
00:39:36,122 --> 00:39:39,127
County Airport in Detroit,
and the three New York City.

673
00:39:39,311 --> 00:39:41,344
New York, JFK and La Guardia.

674
00:39:41,444 --> 00:39:43,182
Mr Case... This
is Caroline Jaffee

675
00:39:43,282 --> 00:39:47,232
45 degrees north is the very same parallel,
where the Asteroid fragments struck.

676
00:39:49,241 --> 00:39:50,361
Yes Mam.

677
00:39:50,657 --> 00:39:52,386
Do You want any comment on that.

678
00:39:52,486 --> 00:39:55,113
No!...I'm afraid I have nothing
to say about that, at this time.

679
00:39:55,213 --> 00:39:57,563
If you'll excuse me,
I have to get back to work.

680
00:39:58,477 --> 00:40:01,589
This is Mike Curtis reporting live,
back to you Caroline.

681
00:40:01,689 --> 00:40:02,809
Thanks Mike.

682
00:40:03,079 --> 00:40:06,479
In a moment we hope to have more
on those mysterious radio signals.

683
00:40:07,031 --> 00:40:11,225
We stress again, we don't yet
know the full significance, of all this...

684
00:40:11,325 --> 00:40:13,145
But one thing is clear.

685
00:40:13,275 --> 00:40:18,606
An event that began some 95 minutes ago,
with huge human casualties.

686
00:40:18,706 --> 00:40:23,826
Has now grown into an International
air crisis, affecting thousands.

687
00:40:23,928 --> 00:40:28,294
Our continuing coverage...
Asteroid Fire from the Sky.

688
00:40:28,394 --> 00:40:30,814
Will return in a moment.

689
00:40:35,625 --> 00:40:39,481
Now once again with
Doctor Caroline Jaffee and Sander Vanocur.

690
00:40:39,581 --> 00:40:41,677
For those of you
just joining us now.

691
00:40:41,777 --> 00:40:44,996
We are following,
an ever widening crisis, touched

692
00:40:45,096 --> 00:40:48,073
off by the impact tonight
of a massive Meteor.

693
00:40:48,173 --> 00:40:50,221
That broke up,
and fell to Earth.

694
00:40:50,321 --> 00:40:53,070
Radio signals from
the three impact sites.

695
00:40:53,170 --> 00:40:56,052
Are affecting Air traffic World-Wide,
and FAA

696
00:40:56,152 --> 00:40:59,124
officials are recommending
people fly tonight.

697
00:40:59,224 --> 00:41:01,988
Only if it's absolutely
necessary.

698
00:41:02,088 --> 00:41:05,059
We go now to one of
the cities hardest hit.

699
00:41:05,159 --> 00:41:08,366
Correspondent Ernie
Anastos is in New York.

700
00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:13,565
They come here to Times Square, as they
always do, when the World is in trouble.

701
00:41:13,665 --> 00:41:17,946
The Cuban Missile crisis, The Kennedy
assassination, the war in the gulf...

702
00:41:18,046 --> 00:41:22,333
All recorded up on that sign. When you
want to take a pulse feel of the Planet.

703
00:41:22,433 --> 00:41:25,141
Few places can give you
a reading like New York.

704
00:41:25,241 --> 00:41:28,517
Ever since the Meteor shower started,
several hours ago.

705
00:41:28,617 --> 00:41:31,138
Things we take for
granted have been affected.

706
00:41:31,265 --> 00:41:34,883
Officials at New York Airport are
reporting, delays of up to 3 hours.

707
00:41:34,983 --> 00:41:38,020
The situation is worse at La Guardia,
and the two

708
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,053
runways at JFK,
have been completely shut down.

709
00:41:41,153 --> 00:41:44,702
All New York Valley Air traffic
was diverted to Boston, and Hartford.

710
00:41:44,802 --> 00:41:48,871
As interference form the three impact
sites continues to scramble Radar.

711
00:41:48,971 --> 00:41:52,429
The only planes moving at La Guardia,
were outgoing flights.

712
00:41:52,529 --> 00:41:56,531
The resulting gridlock at airports,
has produced massive traffic jams.

713
00:41:56,631 --> 00:42:00,025
This is the Holland tunnel tonight,
and as you can see, traffic backed up.

714
00:42:00,125 --> 00:42:02,460
With thousands
leaving the city by car.

715
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,020
Others abandoned their
vehicles and rushed into the tunnel.

716
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,970
Trying to get out
of the city on foot.

717
00:42:07,214 --> 00:42:10,069
New York city 911
emergency center is overloaded

718
00:42:10,169 --> 00:42:13,230
now, and running on backup
generators at this hour.

719
00:42:13,330 --> 00:42:15,439
The Police and fire
departments have called

720
00:42:15,539 --> 00:42:17,850
in all off duty personnel,
during the crisis.

721
00:42:18,129 --> 00:42:23,498
And finally, hundreds of people of all
denominations, jammed St Patricks Tonight.

722
00:42:23,598 --> 00:42:27,018
For a prayer vigil conducted
by Terence O'Connel.

723
00:42:30,012 --> 00:42:32,245
So Sandy... Here we
are at the foot of the

724
00:42:32,345 --> 00:42:35,015
tower,
where the ball drops every new Years eve.

725
00:42:35,208 --> 00:42:37,598
And if we had still been
here last December 31st.

726
00:42:37,698 --> 00:42:38,818
Looking ahead to 1994

727
00:42:39,613 --> 00:42:43,326
I assure that no one
would have predicted this

728
00:42:43,426 --> 00:42:46,183
Ernie Anastos... Evening
World News New York.

729
00:42:46,283 --> 00:42:48,622
As money markets open now in Asia,
there

730
00:42:48,722 --> 00:42:51,327
are reports that trading
has been suspended.

731
00:42:51,427 --> 00:42:54,068
On the Hong Kong
and Tokyo markets.

732
00:42:54,168 --> 00:42:57,806
Scattered power outages have been
reported, throughout Europe and Asia.

733
00:42:57,906 --> 00:43:00,698
But for the most part,
people are staying calm.

734
00:43:00,798 --> 00:43:04,798
Just watching and waiting to
see if the unthinkable is possible.

735
00:43:04,929 --> 00:43:09,558
Could intelligent life exist elsewhere,
out side our solar system.

736
00:43:09,658 --> 00:43:13,787
And if so, do they have the
capability of visiting Earth.

737
00:43:13,887 --> 00:43:14,733
Doctor

738
00:43:14,833 --> 00:43:18,516
Sandy, you know America is a
country that thrives on conspiracy...

739
00:43:18,616 --> 00:43:21,364
The very word cover-up,
is part of our national lexicon

740
00:43:21,464 --> 00:43:23,497
and For close to
five decades now.

741
00:43:23,597 --> 00:43:27,020
Ten's of thousands of Americans,
have been convinced of two things.

742
00:43:27,153 --> 00:43:31,073
That there is something out there and
the Government doesn't want us to know.

743
00:43:31,268 --> 00:43:36,911
The UFO era began in 1947 when a
sheep rancher in Roswell, New Mexico...

744
00:43:37,011 --> 00:43:40,232
found fragments of what
he said was a flying disc.

745
00:43:40,358 --> 00:43:43,140
Later... The Air Force called
it a weather balloon, but

746
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:45,938
a secret government report
made public years later.

747
00:43:46,038 --> 00:43:50,251
Describe the recovery of four tiny bodies,
from the Roswell crash site...

748
00:43:50,351 --> 00:43:53,803
And ever since then, there have
been hundreds of reported sightings...

749
00:43:54,495 --> 00:43:58,402
However the Air Force shut down
project Blue Book concluding...

750
00:43:58,502 --> 00:44:01,573
Quote... No evidence has been found,
that any of the

751
00:44:01,673 --> 00:44:05,011
UFO reports reflected a
threat to our national security.

752
00:44:05,111 --> 00:44:08,283
Well... There's science
fact... And there's science fiction.

753
00:44:08,383 --> 00:44:10,591
To help separate the two we go,
we go now to

754
00:44:10,691 --> 00:44:13,103
a man who has spent
years studying the threat.

755
00:44:13,234 --> 00:44:14,534
From these massive Meteors

756
00:44:15,010 --> 00:44:19,799
Arthur C Clarke... The noted author
of 2001 and dozens of other books.

757
00:44:19,899 --> 00:44:23,108
Was recently nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize.

758
00:44:23,208 --> 00:44:27,078
He joins us now live from his
home in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

759
00:44:27,178 --> 00:44:30,418
- Doctor Clarke... Thanks for being with us
- My pleasure.

760
00:44:30,518 --> 00:44:33,748
Doctor Clarke ...as far
back as 1973..In your book

761
00:44:33,848 --> 00:44:37,169
Rendezvous with Rama,
you wrote about the threat..

762
00:44:37,269 --> 00:44:39,801
From near Earth
Asteroids... isn't that right??

763
00:44:39,901 --> 00:44:41,021
That's correct.

764
00:44:41,414 --> 00:44:44,140
There are those who believe,
tonight's impacts

765
00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:46,746
have some connection
to extra terrestrials.

766
00:44:46,846 --> 00:44:48,810
What's you view...
Well I believe there's

767
00:44:48,910 --> 00:44:51,149
plenty of intelligent
life out there in space.

768
00:44:51,249 --> 00:44:54,219
That troubles the
Earth... Very unlikely

769
00:44:54,319 --> 00:44:57,078
despite the claim by
the UFO enthusiasts.

770
00:44:57,178 --> 00:44:58,499
Why is that?

771
00:44:58,986 --> 00:45:04,865
We've been sending out
Radio.Radar. Signals for 50 years

772
00:45:04,965 --> 00:45:08,190
a volume of space
100 light years across.

773
00:45:08,290 --> 00:45:09,959
And we haven't had any reply.

774
00:45:10,059 --> 00:45:12,070
UFO advocates would say
that you have had a reply

775
00:45:12,170 --> 00:45:14,379
but the government just isn't telling.

776
00:45:14,551 --> 00:45:19,771
Nonsense... I'd give any social
date. About 24 hours from???

777
00:45:20,063 --> 00:45:23,109
And apart from being
broadcast transmissions,

778
00:45:23,209 --> 00:45:25,858
NASA has made
attempts to send messages

779
00:45:25,958 --> 00:45:28,680
to any possible
civilizations in space.

780
00:45:28,780 --> 00:45:31,362
Using the Voyager Space Probe

781
00:45:31,462 --> 00:45:36,385
I understand you have a copy there of
the disk, they sent out on Voyager two.

782
00:45:36,629 --> 00:45:42,355
Yes a record like this carrying
pictures and messages.

783
00:45:42,455 --> 00:45:45,255
From the peoples of Earth,
and from the United Nations...

784
00:45:45,573 --> 00:45:48,816
Well if they're out there and we
sent them a beacon... So to speak.

785
00:45:48,916 --> 00:45:50,537
Why wouldn't they answer???

786
00:45:50,759 --> 00:45:53,851
I'm afraid it's a function
of time and space.

787
00:45:53,951 --> 00:45:58,771
The distance between advanced civilizations
may be thousands of light years.

788
00:45:59,114 --> 00:46:01,847
So even if they were
traveling at the speed of light

789
00:46:01,947 --> 00:46:04,617
it might take them several
millennia to get there.

790
00:46:04,775 --> 00:46:08,523
But just for the sake of argument,
say it was possible.

791
00:46:08,623 --> 00:46:11,343
All right... but then the question is,
why bother to come here...

792
00:46:11,510 --> 00:46:15,053
For the Earth to be chosen,
we must assume, we are special...

793
00:46:15,153 --> 00:46:18,386
But looking at the primitive
state of our civilization

794
00:46:18,486 --> 00:46:20,502
I think that's very conceited.

795
00:46:20,602 --> 00:46:22,022
So what are you saying???

796
00:46:23,093 --> 00:46:24,913
Well... There is a much
bigger issue at stake. We

797
00:46:25,013 --> 00:46:27,465
need to protect ourselves
against rogue Asteroids.

798
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,423
Which are very real.

799
00:46:30,523 --> 00:46:33,127
And pose a much bigger threat,
to Earth.

800
00:46:33,227 --> 00:46:34,680
Thank you... Doctor Clarke.

801
00:46:34,780 --> 00:46:37,969
That was Scientist and author,
Arthur C Clarke.

802
00:46:38,069 --> 00:46:39,962
Speaking to us from Sri Lanka.

803
00:46:40,062 --> 00:46:43,581
We go to Lourdes France where
correspondent Paul Whitaker.

804
00:46:43,681 --> 00:46:45,005
Has an update on the condition.

805
00:46:45,205 --> 00:46:49,693
Of Jean Paul Chounard... The French
skier who survived the second impact.

806
00:46:49,793 --> 00:46:52,559
I'm here at Toulon Airport near Lourdes
France, where just moments ago...

807
00:46:52,661 --> 00:46:56,761
Doctors airlifted Jean Paul Chounard
to the burn center in Nice.

808
00:46:56,965 --> 00:47:00,365
We spoke to Chounards wife Sylvie,
just moments before they departed.

809
00:47:02,421 --> 00:47:04,322
What is your husbands
condition Please.

810
00:47:04,422 --> 00:47:12,423
Err, um he ah, he was trying to tell
me I don't know maybe, how he survived

811
00:47:12,764 --> 00:47:14,184
I just don't know.

812
00:47:14,427 --> 00:47:18,147
But ...Jean Paul is strong
and he will not give up.

813
00:47:20,764 --> 00:47:24,638
In the meantime, Air France has
suspended all flights in and out of Rome.

814
00:47:24,738 --> 00:47:26,438
Where these bizarre
radio signals threaten to

815
00:47:26,538 --> 00:47:28,588
paralyze one of Europe's
busiest Airports.

816
00:47:30,349 --> 00:47:35,307
This is Paul Whitaker Evening World
News. Julian Airport Near Lourdes, France

817
00:47:35,407 --> 00:47:38,427
Wyoming Police,
have widened the area of

818
00:47:38,527 --> 00:47:42,427
evacuation,
to 200 miles around impact site Alpha.

819
00:47:42,606 --> 00:47:46,798
We're about to go live,
to correspondent Robert Moreno... Near...

820
00:47:46,898 --> 00:47:50,973
Well I'm sorry we're not going there
...we're not, we've just received word.

821
00:47:51,073 --> 00:47:53,445
Of an unscheduled
briefing at the White House,

822
00:47:53,545 --> 00:47:55,619
correspondent Mike
Curtis is standing by

823
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:56,939
Mike!!!

824
00:47:57,039 --> 00:48:00,100
Sandy... A formal briefing
had been scheduled for 11

825
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,360
pm tonight,
to coincide with local news broadcast.

826
00:48:03,494 --> 00:48:06,207
But moments ago the White
House press corp... was summoned

827
00:48:06,307 --> 00:48:09,237
here, for what has been
described as a high priority briefing.

828
00:48:09,337 --> 00:48:14,033
Press secretary Barbara Schiller,
er. that must be her now.

829
00:48:18,658 --> 00:48:25,798
Uhhm... Earlier tonight following
the impact of three Meteor fragments.

830
00:48:25,898 --> 00:48:28,242
President Clinton directed
NASA to begin a round

831
00:48:28,342 --> 00:48:30,913
the clock monitoring,
of all near Earth Asteroids...

832
00:48:31,013 --> 00:48:33,532
with a potential of
penetrating the atmosphere.

833
00:48:33,632 --> 00:48:36,867
At approximately 9:17 pm,

834
00:48:36,967 --> 00:48:40,094
the Air Forces,
Geo Tracking Station,

835
00:48:40,194 --> 00:48:43,472
at Sacola New Mexico, Maui Hawaii,
and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...

836
00:48:43,572 --> 00:48:48,492
...Ah, detected the presence of what,
appears to be a second Asteroid.

837
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:53,433
At 65 meters, or 200 feet in length,
it is on a trajectory,

838
00:48:53,545 --> 00:48:56,441
almost identical to the
path of 6645 Ventori.

839
00:48:56,744 --> 00:49:00,294
The Radio telescope at Arecebo Puerto Rico,
locked on, and they confirm.

840
00:49:01,248 --> 00:49:04,659
That the object is
heading towards the Earth,

841
00:49:04,759 --> 00:49:07,802
at an airspeed of
33.000 miles per hour.

842
00:49:07,902 --> 00:49:13,309
The expected impact, in the area of
the polar ice cap is 5 minutes from now.

843
00:49:13,409 --> 00:49:17,609
At 9:52 pm Eastern time, the President and
joint Chiefs of Staff ordered units of the

844
00:49:22,346 --> 00:49:24,704
388 Fighter Wing.

845
00:49:24,804 --> 00:49:28,670
From Hill Air Force base
Utah to full alert, A pair of

846
00:49:28,770 --> 00:49:32,807
F16 Fighters from the 18th
space surveillance squadron.

847
00:49:33,191 --> 00:49:36,947
Were ordered into the air,
under defense condition, two standards.

848
00:49:37,047 --> 00:49:40,077
The planes are armed with
Hawk optically Guided Missiles,

849
00:49:40,177 --> 00:49:42,867
capable of destroying
the Asteroid before impact.

850
00:49:43,098 --> 00:49:46,848
Ahh... These missiles are tipped with
2 kiloton, low yield Nuclear warheads.

851
00:49:49,089 --> 00:49:52,948
The f16's are expected
to be in target range, at

852
00:49:53,048 --> 00:49:57,092
approximately 10:16... Which
is 4 minutes from now.

853
00:50:00,365 --> 00:50:01,283
Yeah

854
00:50:01,383 --> 00:50:05,904
Barbara..How can the President possibly
justify the use of Nuclear Weapons.

855
00:50:06,004 --> 00:50:09,554
Ahhh... Well a panel from the National
Academy of Sciences, met Tonight.

856
00:50:10,033 --> 00:50:14,619
And... Their conclusion was, that if
the Asteroid penetrated the Ice Cap.

857
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,603
Then the consequences
for the Earth's ecological

858
00:50:17,703 --> 00:50:20,142
balance,
could be absolute catastrophic.

859
00:50:22,077 --> 00:50:24,409
What about the radio signals,
jamming air

860
00:50:24,509 --> 00:50:27,297
traffic,
how will that affect the F16's launch.

861
00:50:27,431 --> 00:50:29,791
Ahh it is our understanding,
the traffic is

862
00:50:29,891 --> 00:50:32,351
only affected,
along the 45th Parallel yet.

863
00:50:35,043 --> 00:50:38,601
Does the President
consult congress.

864
00:50:38,701 --> 00:50:42,471
Ahh... the President did speak
with leaders of both houses, earlier.

865
00:50:42,571 --> 00:50:44,760
And what about
other World leaders

866
00:50:44,860 --> 00:50:47,197
Russian President Boris Yeltsin,
and Chinese

867
00:50:47,297 --> 00:50:49,545
Premier Deng Xiaoping,
have been informed.

868
00:50:49,645 --> 00:50:51,345
Both leaders have expressed their concern,
as

869
00:50:51,445 --> 00:50:53,595
has,
the chairman of the UN Security Council

870
00:50:54,749 --> 00:50:57,237
let me just tell you,
one other thing, and that

871
00:50:57,337 --> 00:50:59,869
is, the military hardware,
that is to be used.

872
00:51:00,206 --> 00:51:02,144
Is identical to that
which was deployed so

873
00:51:02,244 --> 00:51:04,427
successfully,
in the Gulf War... That's all.

874
00:51:07,588 --> 00:51:10,093
There's word just in,
that the E vac will be

875
00:51:10,193 --> 00:51:12,666
monitored live at the
Johnson Space Center.

876
00:51:12,766 --> 00:51:15,889
They're deciding whether or not,
to give the media, access to the feed...

877
00:51:15,989 --> 00:51:19,339
But NASA, which has been quite
quiet throughout much of this crisis.

878
00:51:19,644 --> 00:51:21,390
Now... Seems to be opening up..

879
00:51:21,490 --> 00:51:22,990
Matt Jensen's live in Houston.

880
00:51:23,686 --> 00:51:25,786
Why the sudden turn around?

881
00:51:26,013 --> 00:51:28,159
Sandy... no one here
wants to openly break

882
00:51:28,259 --> 00:51:30,482
ranks with the White
House or the Pentagon.

883
00:51:30,582 --> 00:51:32,557
But there are a number of Scientists,
who are

884
00:51:32,657 --> 00:51:34,563
unsure,
about the use of Nuclear Weapons...

885
00:51:34,663 --> 00:51:37,684
Among them... Doctor Kurt
Walden. Who I spoke with earlier.

886
00:51:37,784 --> 00:51:39,495
Doctor ...What is your concern??

887
00:51:39,595 --> 00:51:44,272
It's this... With an incoming projectile
moving at 50 times, the speed of sound.

888
00:51:44,372 --> 00:51:47,241
A close quarters air engagement,
will be quite ineffective.

889
00:51:47,341 --> 00:51:50,898
No Sir. The prospect of a
Nuclear burst over the Ice Cap,

890
00:51:50,998 --> 00:51:54,580
may produce consequences,
even more dire for the Earth...

891
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,100
For the Earth's ecology

892
00:51:58,515 --> 00:52:03,740
I'll be monitoring US Strategic Command,
off an Air Force base... Omaha, Nebraska.

893
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,960
We will be listening
to the voice of Air force

894
00:52:06,060 --> 00:52:08,155
Ones, control officer,
Major Scotty Powell...

895
00:52:08,255 --> 00:52:09,755
You will.-be allowed to stay..

896
00:52:11,932 --> 00:52:16,567
That was Dale Powell. The director of
community relations here for NASA...

897
00:52:16,667 --> 00:52:18,625
He's has just told the press,
that we will be

898
00:52:18,725 --> 00:52:20,754
allowed to stay here.
In the operation center.

899
00:52:20,854 --> 00:52:23,287
Where they will be
monitoring the F16's...

900
00:52:23,387 --> 00:52:26,637
So... We'll be back, when the
missiles are ready to be launched...

901
00:52:27,354 --> 00:52:29,180
Doctor there's late
word from New York.

902
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,729
Where the United Nations Security
Council has gone in a special session.

903
00:52:32,829 --> 00:52:36,249
Correspondent Ernie Anastos,
is outside UN Headquarters.

904
00:52:36,367 --> 00:52:37,434
Excuse me!!

905
00:52:37,534 --> 00:52:39,634
Could you tell me why?
You're here tonight.

906
00:52:40,076 --> 00:52:42,454
So that the World Leaders
know that if we are being

907
00:52:42,554 --> 00:52:45,248
visited, the Asteroids
represent some kind of contact...

908
00:52:45,348 --> 00:52:48,045
And the World should
respond in peace.

909
00:52:48,145 --> 00:52:50,176
Ambassador... what
action will the council take?

910
00:52:50,376 --> 00:52:54,156
In the event of the unthinkable,
and these are indeed extra terrestrials.

911
00:52:54,256 --> 00:52:57,270
We'll try formulate an agenda,
for the sake of it.

912
00:52:57,370 --> 00:53:01,219
Personally... I don't care
if it's Asteroids or Aliens.

913
00:53:01,319 --> 00:53:05,565
The most important thing is the keep
our family's safe, keep our homes safe...

914
00:53:05,665 --> 00:53:07,886
If they come to Brooklyn,
we'll know what to do...

915
00:53:07,986 --> 00:53:10,639
I come down here with my boys,
from St Kotch,

916
00:53:10,739 --> 00:53:13,294
figure maybe we could find us,
some Aliens.

917
00:53:13,394 --> 00:53:15,857
Smash some heads...
Why so hostile... You

918
00:53:15,957 --> 00:53:19,021
Kiddin... I got a brother
flies for the airlines.

919
00:53:19,121 --> 00:53:22,440
These things are messing with
aircraft... we got to stop them.

920
00:53:22,540 --> 00:53:25,690
The two fighters that took of
from Hill Air force base, in Utah.

921
00:53:26,764 --> 00:53:30,768
Will be designated interceptor one,
and interceptor two.

922
00:53:30,868 --> 00:53:33,918
We go back now to mission control,
at the Johnson Space center

923
00:53:35,147 --> 00:53:38,992
Sandy... We're at T-minus 52 seconds,
and counting here.

924
00:53:39,092 --> 00:53:42,331
You'll be seeing three, pictures
up on that active Matrix display...

925
00:53:42,431 --> 00:53:46,632
On the furthest screen, is a feed from the
tracking station at Sacora, New Mexico...

926
00:53:46,734 --> 00:53:48,354
Showing the incoming
Asteroid... The middle

927
00:53:48,454 --> 00:53:50,754
screen will be a graphic
showing the two F16's.

928
00:53:51,842 --> 00:53:54,166
And the Asteroid,
in relation to the North Pole...

929
00:53:54,366 --> 00:53:56,681
And the image on the
far left is from a camera

930
00:53:56,781 --> 00:53:58,986
mounted in the cockpit
of interceptor one.

931
00:54:00,703 --> 00:54:02,123
T minus 30 seconds.

932
00:54:02,460 --> 00:54:05,810
That's Major Scotty Powers,
the... Air Force launch control officer.

933
00:54:07,789 --> 00:54:09,609
Confirm...
Lock on guidance.

934
00:54:11,408 --> 00:54:16,980
Prepare to fire 3-2-1.

935
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:18,200
Engage.

936
00:54:19,465 --> 00:54:21,485
Come on home boys.

937
00:54:23,705 --> 00:54:25,251
What the hell is that???

938
00:54:25,351 --> 00:54:28,571
6-5... We're losing
video on India one...

939
00:54:31,212 --> 00:54:34,000
It seems like we have a
direct hit on the Asteroid.

940
00:54:34,100 --> 00:54:37,920
There's some concern here,
that we've lost the image of the cockpit.

941
00:54:52,312 --> 00:54:54,087
People are watching here

942
00:54:54,187 --> 00:54:56,008
India one... India two.

943
00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:01,338
Shut down.

944
00:55:12,584 --> 00:55:16,004
At 10:16 pm,
some 4 seconds before the Asteroid was

945
00:55:16,104 --> 00:55:20,032
destroyed, the transponder
signals from the the two F16'S.

946
00:55:20,132 --> 00:55:23,196
Went off the Radar screens,
at the same time as sounds we've

947
00:55:23,296 --> 00:55:26,173
been hearing from the craters,
were heard at extra speed

948
00:55:26,273 --> 00:55:27,923
transmissions...
the two fliers...

949
00:55:34,413 --> 00:55:38,913
Both of Hill Air Force Base,
are missing and presumed dead.

950
00:55:39,137 --> 00:55:43,976
The Nuclear Submarine USS Houston,
which surfaced at the Polar Ice Cap.

951
00:55:44,076 --> 00:55:49,021
Has reported seeing debris,
consistent with the afterburner of an F16.

952
00:55:49,121 --> 00:55:52,861
Search teams are racing to the
scene from Gander in Newfoundland.

953
00:55:52,961 --> 00:55:55,501
Now to the Pentagon
where the Air Force is about

954
00:55:55,601 --> 00:55:58,058
to conduct a briefing
on what they're calling.

955
00:55:58,158 --> 00:56:00,958
Defensive engagement
with the Meteor

956
00:56:02,172 --> 00:56:08,370
deputy under secretary of defense Norbert
Hazelton and General Lucian Alexander.

957
00:56:08,470 --> 00:56:10,011
US Air Force GM staff.

958
00:56:10,111 --> 00:56:12,761
Let me say at the outset
that we are deeply grieved...

959
00:56:14,598 --> 00:56:18,184
Over the loss of two
outstanding Air Force pilots.

960
00:56:18,284 --> 00:56:22,795
But they gave their lives so that
we can stand here tonight and report.

961
00:56:22,895 --> 00:56:25,095
On their perfect
mission profile...

962
00:56:25,531 --> 00:56:31,449
I want to stress, that the Warheads
loads were extremely low yield...

963
00:56:31,549 --> 00:56:36,350
Any trace radiation should be spread in
the atmosphere within a matter of days.

964
00:56:36,450 --> 00:56:41,782
The Radio signals from Wyoming,
France, and Mongolia, have ceased.

965
00:56:41,882 --> 00:56:44,451
There's every reason to
believe that what the people

966
00:56:44,551 --> 00:56:47,143
of the Earth experienced
was a natural phenomenon...

967
00:56:47,243 --> 00:56:49,887
General Alexander...
GENERAL ALEXANDER.

968
00:56:49,987 --> 00:56:53,190
How ...How can you attribute
this to natural phenomenon,

969
00:56:53,290 --> 00:56:55,977
when we all saw the
glow inside the cockpit...

970
00:56:56,077 --> 00:56:58,365
Just a lens flare...
With air speeds like

971
00:56:58,465 --> 00:57:01,009
that and the light conditions,
over the Pole.

972
00:57:01,109 --> 00:57:02,229
The cockpit awry.

973
00:57:04,806 --> 00:57:07,307
What about the trajectory.

974
00:57:07,716 --> 00:57:12,856
Hey come on 6645 Ventori and
the same Asteroid, the latest one.

975
00:57:12,956 --> 00:57:14,658
They were all on
an identical path.

976
00:57:15,091 --> 00:57:17,191
Not surprising,
it's not surprising.

977
00:57:17,369 --> 00:57:21,589
It's quite possible they were both
part of the same source Asteroid.

978
00:57:22,486 --> 00:57:27,606
Look the pieces simply split in deep space,
and came in on line.

979
00:57:28,352 --> 00:57:29,580
Tell you one thing
Ladies and Gentlemen.

980
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:31,703
IF there was ever an
argument for jump starting

981
00:57:31,803 --> 00:57:33,713
the anti missile defense shield,
this is it.

982
00:57:33,813 --> 00:57:34,933
We were lucky tonight.

983
00:57:35,986 --> 00:57:37,975
Good shooting, great hardware.

984
00:57:38,075 --> 00:57:40,186
The Next time it might
be a different story.

985
00:57:40,386 --> 00:57:41,506
Next time.

986
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:48,314
That Anti Missile Shield, the general was
talking about of course is the Star Wars...

987
00:57:48,414 --> 00:57:50,918
System ...The favourite
of President Reagan's. Put

988
00:57:51,018 --> 00:57:53,598
on the shelf when President
Clinton came into power

989
00:57:53,698 --> 00:57:58,700
Sandy... The Air Force F16 jet carrying
Avram Mandel, has touched down in Houston

990
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,644
He's about to arrive in the
Johnson Space Center, in Houston.

991
00:58:01,744 --> 00:58:03,144
And Matt Jensen's there live

992
00:58:04,367 --> 00:58:06,641
Caroline, Any minute now that
door behind me will open and

993
00:58:06,741 --> 00:58:09,118
the man, who has become
something of an enigma, in all this.

994
00:58:09,218 --> 00:58:13,518
Will arrive, and speak, with us.

995
00:58:23,681 --> 00:58:26,932
The action of the Pentagon
is frankly unforgivable...

996
00:58:27,032 --> 00:58:30,447
There is a force behind these
Asteroids that is clearly intelligent

997
00:58:30,547 --> 00:58:33,193
fact that they chose to
land first in unpopulated

998
00:58:33,293 --> 00:58:36,295
areas. demonstrates clearly
that they meant us no harm.

999
00:58:36,395 --> 00:58:39,265
The Radio signal was
acting merely as a sort of

1000
00:58:39,365 --> 00:58:42,715
transponder,
they have steered the second vehicle in.

1001
00:58:44,549 --> 00:58:48,845
The entire notion, of a flying
saucer is a fiction... it's a fiction...

1002
00:58:48,945 --> 00:58:51,280
It took the form that
they wanted to take,

1003
00:58:51,380 --> 00:58:54,027
they came in the way
that they chose to come...

1004
00:58:54,127 --> 00:58:55,247
In peace of course!!!!

1005
00:58:57,043 --> 00:59:00,134
What I'm saying is that we have
made a pre-emptive strike... people.

1006
00:59:00,334 --> 00:59:02,454
We have just declared war.

1007
00:59:07,695 --> 00:59:10,915
It's clear that Doctor Mandel,
is quite emotional.

1008
00:59:11,329 --> 00:59:14,110
And as soon as we have
details of his meeting here.

1009
00:59:14,210 --> 00:59:15,331
We'll be back.

1010
00:59:15,787 --> 00:59:19,484
This is Matt Jensen Evening World
News at the Johnson Space Center.

1011
00:59:19,584 --> 00:59:21,824
An Evening World News Telephone Poll,
suggests

1012
00:59:21,924 --> 00:59:23,834
that more than two
third of the public.

1013
00:59:23,934 --> 00:59:28,629
Now believes that the Asteroids
are connected, to alien life form.

1014
00:59:28,729 --> 00:59:31,506
It has been a night filled with
charges and counter charges.

1015
00:59:31,606 --> 00:59:36,124
But we would be remiss as journalists
if we didn't separate fact from allegation.

1016
00:59:36,224 --> 00:59:38,624
To the best of anyone's knowledge,
at this point.

1017
00:59:38,907 --> 00:59:43,528
The giant Meteors that came to
Earth tonight were of natural origin.

1018
00:59:45,952 --> 00:59:47,070
All right hmm...

1019
00:59:47,170 --> 00:59:51,768
With the radio signals now silent
Robert Moreno is live from Faith.

1020
00:59:51,868 --> 00:59:55,308
A Wyoming town less than 50
miles from the impact site Alpha

1021
00:59:55,408 --> 00:59:56,459
Robert...

1022
00:59:56,559 --> 00:59:59,116
I'm here in Faith an
old religious community

1023
00:59:59,216 --> 01:00:01,314
dating back to the
mid 19th century.

1024
01:00:01,414 --> 01:00:03,427
The town is well outside
the evacuation zone,

1025
01:00:03,527 --> 01:00:05,611
there are no reported
casualties or incidents.

1026
01:00:05,711 --> 01:00:07,110
After the nearby impact

1027
01:00:07,210 --> 01:00:10,276
Then... after the meteor
explosion at the North Pole

1028
01:00:10,376 --> 01:00:12,926
Wyoming Edison detected
an unusual power surge, here

1029
01:00:13,705 --> 01:00:15,187
They sent a repair
crew out to inspect,

1030
01:00:15,287 --> 01:00:17,437
when they got here,
this, is what they found

1031
01:00:18,982 --> 01:00:22,382
Sandy... the streets are deserted,
everybody has vanished

1032
01:00:22,510 --> 01:00:27,311
Men Women Children, cats and Dogs.
Cars are left in the middle of the streets.

1033
01:00:27,411 --> 01:00:30,732
And except for the National Guardsmen,
there isn't a soul here...

1034
01:00:30,832 --> 01:00:33,160
The town is completely empty...

1035
01:00:33,260 --> 01:00:34,280
Frozen in time...

1036
01:00:34,832 --> 01:00:37,138
The side walks are streaming
with Trick or treat bags,

1037
01:00:37,238 --> 01:00:39,567
as if the Children simply
dropped them as they left...

1038
01:00:39,667 --> 01:00:43,102
I don't know what
else to say... It's eerie

1039
01:00:43,352 --> 01:00:45,463
International guards
Sergeant... Leroy Diggs,

1040
01:00:45,563 --> 01:00:47,872
told us he was a forward
re-con in Desert Storm

1041
01:00:48,050 --> 01:00:50,076
That he never saw
anything like this...

1042
01:00:50,176 --> 01:00:51,741
It's like they got
swallowed up...

1043
01:00:51,941 --> 01:00:54,496
We did a full house to house,
checked for

1044
01:00:54,596 --> 01:00:57,435
radiation, Toxic emissions,
we got Nothing...

1045
01:00:57,535 --> 01:01:00,256
I'm telling ya there's
no way to explain this,

1046
01:01:00,393 --> 01:01:02,250
The rescuer workers
are even using motion

1047
01:01:02,350 --> 01:01:04,650
detectors,
set to pick up the smallest movement

1048
01:01:06,253 --> 01:01:07,916
But there's nothing

1049
01:01:08,016 --> 01:01:14,750
In a town where 3,000 people lived, work,
and go to School... Everyone is simply gone

1050
01:01:14,850 --> 01:01:17,375
As soon as we have any word on
what happened here... We'll be back

1051
01:01:17,475 --> 01:01:19,325
But for now... This
is a ghost town...

1052
01:01:19,604 --> 01:01:22,024
This is Robert Moreno... Faith,
Wyoming

1053
01:01:23,145 --> 01:01:27,517
A rather sad note from France,
Paul Whitaker reports from outside the

1054
01:01:27,617 --> 01:01:30,417
Colombiere Burn Center in Nice,
where it's now morning...

1055
01:01:31,264 --> 01:01:34,753
It's 6:43 am Greenwich time here...
Sandy... And doctors have just sent word

1056
01:01:34,853 --> 01:01:38,951
That Jean Paul Chounard the French
skier they took off the mountain has died

1057
01:01:39,051 --> 01:01:41,481
He regained consciousness
briefly before succumbing

1058
01:01:41,581 --> 01:01:43,687
to injuries sustained,
when the Asteroid hit

1059
01:01:43,787 --> 01:01:46,804
And doctors were able to get a
recording of his last words here

1060
01:01:46,904 --> 01:01:49,691
Hearing that it would be
exploited by the Tabloid press his

1061
01:01:49,791 --> 01:01:52,841
widow Sylvie has requested
that it be released on the networks

1062
01:01:53,508 --> 01:02:01,511
Jean Paul

1063
01:02:08,665 --> 01:02:12,085
Evening World news continuing
coverage will resume in a moment...

1064
01:02:16,934 --> 01:02:19,436
Continuing our coverage
on the aftermath of three

1065
01:02:19,536 --> 01:02:22,432
enormous Meteors fragments
that struck the Earth tonight

1066
01:02:22,532 --> 01:02:25,650
We go first to correspondent
Mike Curtis at the

1067
01:02:25,750 --> 01:02:29,025
FAA's air traffic system
command in Washington DC

1068
01:02:29,125 --> 01:02:31,892
Radio signals from the three
impact sites may have stopped...

1069
01:02:31,992 --> 01:02:36,843
But Aviation authorities, report ticket
counters jammed, at Airports Nationwide

1070
01:02:36,943 --> 01:02:39,100
This is Baltimore
Washington International

1071
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,550
Most Airlines report
delays of up up three hours

1072
01:02:41,810 --> 01:02:44,418
As dozens of flights
are being diverted here

1073
01:02:44,518 --> 01:02:46,896
Sandy... This is a
Continental lite market - and

1074
01:02:46,996 --> 01:02:49,553
fortunately,
the people at this end of the terminal

1075
01:02:49,653 --> 01:02:53,034
Are able to get out, because
these flights are still taking off...

1076
01:02:53,134 --> 01:02:56,982
Authorities say it may be morning
before traffic returns no normal

1077
01:02:57,082 --> 01:03:00,982
This is Mike Curtis at the Aviation
command center, Washington DC

1078
01:03:01,327 --> 01:03:06,808
Meanwhile correspondent Ron Olney, has news
on the final words of Jean Paul Chounard

1079
01:03:06,908 --> 01:03:10,186
He's outside Nasa's Goldstone
facility in the Mojave Desert

1080
01:03:10,286 --> 01:03:11,210
Warren

1081
01:03:11,310 --> 01:03:14,730
Caroline in this breaking story, that
seem to take a different turn every minute

1082
01:03:14,918 --> 01:03:18,341
We've just learned that the last
words of Jean Paul Chounard

1083
01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:21,303
Are being analyzed here,
by Nasa's computers

1084
01:03:21,403 --> 01:03:23,888
They're checking for
any similarities between

1085
01:03:23,988 --> 01:03:26,268
Chounards incomprehensible
speech pattern

1086
01:03:26,368 --> 01:03:29,336
And that of 8 year old
Kimberly Hastings who

1087
01:03:29,436 --> 01:03:32,567
of course was found
more than 6.000 miles away

1088
01:03:32,667 --> 01:03:35,488
We'll have more on this when
we get it... Now back to you

1089
01:03:35,940 --> 01:03:38,947
We have an update now on
little Kimberly Hastings, the

1090
01:03:39,047 --> 01:03:42,080
8 year old girl found
wandering near impact site alpha

1091
01:03:42,180 --> 01:03:46,203
Bree Walker is at Mercy Medical center,
in Casper Wyoming... Bree

1092
01:03:46,303 --> 01:03:49,411
Finally some good news to report,
as little Kimberly's

1093
01:03:49,511 --> 01:03:52,109
condition is upgraded
from critical to stable

1094
01:03:52,209 --> 01:03:54,310
Doctors are still not able to
get through to her verbally,

1095
01:03:54,410 --> 01:03:56,535
but there's no way to know,
what if anything she remembers

1096
01:03:56,635 --> 01:03:58,254
When the Asteroid crashed

1097
01:03:58,354 --> 01:04:01,216
As to how she got to the impact
site. When Donna Hastings,

1098
01:04:01,316 --> 01:04:03,894
her mother arrived at the hospital,
just moments ago

1099
01:04:03,994 --> 01:04:06,714
She was mobbed by the Media,
wanting to know news

1100
01:04:07,228 --> 01:04:09,651
How did Kimberly get to Wyoming

1101
01:04:18,543 --> 01:04:22,163
They took her from me

1102
01:04:23,395 --> 01:04:25,315
We're going to Canada

1103
01:04:48,405 --> 01:04:50,841
Sandy... Doctor Robert Pearlman,
the Astronomer we

1104
01:04:50,941 --> 01:04:54,010
interviewed earlier,
has done a computer analysis of the first

1105
01:04:54,110 --> 01:04:57,160
Three impact sites,
he's joining us now live from his

1106
01:04:57,260 --> 01:05:00,455
Lab from the American
observatory Kitt Peak, Arizona...

1107
01:05:00,555 --> 01:05:02,775
Doctor Pearlman can
you hear me. Yes Mam??

1108
01:05:03,504 --> 01:05:09,582
This is a 3D Model of 6645 Veturi,
as it came to Earth

1109
01:05:09,682 --> 01:05:14,802
The break up occurred some 65 hundred
miles above 90 degrees north latitude,

1110
01:05:15,246 --> 01:05:17,166
Which is the true North Pole

1111
01:05:18,116 --> 01:05:21,817
You can see the three fragments
falling to their impact sites

1112
01:05:21,917 --> 01:05:24,337
Designated Alpha, Bravo, Charlie

1113
01:05:25,323 --> 01:05:30,386
As I connect the trajectories, you will see
what looks like a Diamond shaped Pyramid

1114
01:05:30,486 --> 01:05:32,586
With its apex above the Pole

1115
01:05:32,740 --> 01:05:36,519
The angles on impact
are exactly 45 degrees

1116
01:05:36,619 --> 01:05:38,979
Forgive me Doctor Pearlman,
but that looks remarkably

1117
01:05:39,079 --> 01:05:40,998
like the line drawing
you showed us earlier

1118
01:05:41,098 --> 01:05:42,856
What’s on you, about this model

1119
01:05:42,956 --> 01:05:45,556
Well it will become relevant,
when I show you this!!!

1120
01:05:48,050 --> 01:05:51,599
Now this is an exact reproduction,
of a pixellated

1121
01:05:51,699 --> 01:05:55,273
message, that was sent out in 1973,
on Pioneer 11

1122
01:05:55,856 --> 01:06:00,899
Here you will see symbols for MAN,
The Solar System, the DNA Double Helix

1123
01:06:00,999 --> 01:06:02,699
Which is the basic
molecule of life

1124
01:06:03,409 --> 01:06:07,509
And a figure representing
the Pioneer Spacecraft itself

1125
01:06:10,561 --> 01:06:13,382
You will note the
upside down pyramid

1126
01:06:13,703 --> 01:06:15,103
Now watch

1127
01:06:18,300 --> 01:06:19,720
It's unmistakable

1128
01:06:20,364 --> 01:06:23,366
The Asteroid fragments
represented a symbol

1129
01:06:23,466 --> 01:06:27,137
They were using the descent
vector to send us a message

1130
01:06:27,237 --> 01:06:29,649
That’s an intriguing
theory Doctor Pearlman,

1131
01:06:29,749 --> 01:06:32,414
but I'm sure you'll agree,
it's subject to debate

1132
01:06:32,514 --> 01:06:33,545
Of course

1133
01:06:33,645 --> 01:06:35,744
We've invited Doctor Norbert
Hazelton to join us, He's

1134
01:06:35,844 --> 01:06:38,644
Deputy under secretary for defense,
and if you don't mind

1135
01:06:39,313 --> 01:06:41,239
- he has some questions.
- Not at all.

1136
01:06:41,339 --> 01:06:44,436
- Fire away Doctor Hazelton.
- Doctor Pearlman.

1137
01:06:45,039 --> 01:06:46,653
If I understand you correctly

1138
01:06:46,753 --> 01:06:49,041
You're saying Aliens
visited Earth tonight

1139
01:06:49,141 --> 01:06:50,641
No, no, I said it was possible

1140
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:55,142
Come come... You brought in Pioneer,
you've matched

1141
01:06:55,242 --> 01:06:58,266
a couple of triangles,
what are you saying??

1142
01:06:58,366 --> 01:07:01,786
Well if you put it like that,
quite frank it sounds improbable

1143
01:07:01,894 --> 01:07:04,171
But consider what
happened tonight

1144
01:07:04,271 --> 01:07:07,333
The pattern of the impact sites,
the radio signals,

1145
01:07:07,433 --> 01:07:11,094
survivors speaking-in in tongues,
an entire town missing...

1146
01:07:12,768 --> 01:07:15,936
Forgive me Doctor,
this isn't some trekkie convention..There

1147
01:07:16,036 --> 01:07:18,574
are millions of people
in the World right now...

1148
01:07:18,674 --> 01:07:20,494
Panicking needlessly

1149
01:07:20,660 --> 01:07:23,160
Yes and I would like to
know how much that has to

1150
01:07:23,260 --> 01:07:25,784
do with the hair trigger
response of the Pentagon

1151
01:07:25,884 --> 01:07:28,190
If you can show me
aliens in those triangles, I'll

1152
01:07:28,290 --> 01:07:30,540
give you the second
gunman on the grassy Knoll

1153
01:07:31,450 --> 01:07:33,777
Listen you know as well as I do,
the scientific

1154
01:07:33,877 --> 01:07:36,153
community is divided on this,
But you people

1155
01:07:36,411 --> 01:07:38,342
You people see this as
an opportunity to hot-wire

1156
01:07:38,442 --> 01:07:40,792
Star Wars,
and it shouldn't come down to that...

1157
01:07:41,844 --> 01:07:43,726
There's is much
more at stake here

1158
01:07:43,826 --> 01:07:45,510
You're damn right there is

1159
01:07:45,610 --> 01:07:47,986
Gentlemen I'm sorry
but we've run out of time

1160
01:07:48,086 --> 01:07:50,928
You've just heard from
Astronomer Robert Pearlman, and

1161
01:07:51,028 --> 01:07:53,806
deputy under secretary of defense,
Norbert Hazelton

1162
01:07:53,914 --> 01:07:56,490
And Now to recap. The
Earth was rocked tonight by

1163
01:07:56,590 --> 01:07:59,135
three separate fragments
from an enormous meteor

1164
01:07:59,235 --> 01:08:02,382
That landed in the United States,
Europe, and Asia

1165
01:08:02,482 --> 01:08:06,402
A second Meteor on a direct path with
the first one was shot down by US planes

1166
01:08:06,832 --> 01:08:09,461
Using Nuclear Weapons,
over the North Pole

1167
01:08:09,561 --> 01:08:11,561
The two Pilots,
in that mission perished-

1168
01:08:12,449 --> 01:08:15,051
After radio signals
from the three meteor

1169
01:08:15,151 --> 01:08:18,249
fragments began jamming,
Air traffic World wide

1170
01:08:20,894 --> 01:08:23,600
There's some speculating
that the Asteroids

1171
01:08:23,700 --> 01:08:26,429
may have a connection
to Extra Terrestrials

1172
01:08:26,531 --> 01:08:28,931
That issue has fractured
the scientific community

1173
01:08:30,069 --> 01:08:32,919
While the sole survivor
of the Asteroid impact in

1174
01:08:33,019 --> 01:08:35,969
Wyoming,
and 8 year old girl remains Hospitalized

1175
01:08:36,234 --> 01:08:37,354
Unable to speak

1176
01:08:37,849 --> 01:08:41,834
President Clinton in new jetting back
to Washington aboard Air Force One

1177
01:08:41,934 --> 01:08:45,654
He's scheduled an address to the nation,
when he lands at Andrews air base

1178
01:08:46,392 --> 01:08:49,113
At 11;16 pm Eastern time

1179
01:08:49,277 --> 01:08:52,131
Excuse me Sandy, but Doctor Avram Mandel,
the second scientist

1180
01:08:52,231 --> 01:08:54,874
rushed to the Johnson Space Center,
has just emerged from

1181
01:08:54,974 --> 01:08:56,524
The meeting with NASA officials

1182
01:08:56,731 --> 01:09:00,651
He's talking with reporters right now,
and we pick up his comments, in progress

1183
01:09:01,337 --> 01:09:04,179
No, no, no, I'm way past that,
well why do this here

1184
01:09:04,279 --> 01:09:07,240
Because, I'm no longer speaking
as a stat scientist at NASA

1185
01:09:07,340 --> 01:09:11,389
Effective at 9:32 pm central time,
I resigned my position

1186
01:09:11,489 --> 01:09:14,481
as a concerned Astronomer,
and most importantly, as a human being

1187
01:09:14,581 --> 01:09:18,783
I can no longer associate myself with the
governments handling of this ongoing crisis

1188
01:09:22,650 --> 01:09:25,250
We were given a
gift tonight People!!

1189
01:09:25,724 --> 01:09:29,589
We had a visitation... They
came in peace and we answered

1190
01:09:29,689 --> 01:09:33,724
them with 2,000 tons of TNT
at he end of a Nuclear Warhead

1191
01:09:34,730 --> 01:09:39,022
What if this had been Jesus,
or Buddha, or Mohammed

1192
01:09:39,122 --> 01:09:40,159
Or a prophet of old

1193
01:09:40,259 --> 01:09:42,780
I mean,
haven't we learned anything from history

1194
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:45,932
We all know that we have the
most violent planet in the Galaxy

1195
01:09:46,609 --> 01:09:49,738
In gods name why did
we have to take it to that??

1196
01:09:49,838 --> 01:09:50,958
Doctor you're upset

1197
01:09:51,764 --> 01:09:52,771
Couldn't we do
this in the right way

1198
01:09:52,871 --> 01:09:56,226
No I want to do this in the right way,
that's why I flew out here

1199
01:09:56,326 --> 01:09:58,749
I tried to plead with these people,
and it didn't do any good

1200
01:09:58,849 --> 01:10:00,549
Doctor Mandel. You
mentioned before that this

1201
01:10:00,649 --> 01:10:02,949
is an ongoing crisis,
what did you mean by that

1202
01:10:06,617 --> 01:10:08,205
You don't know No!!!

1203
01:10:08,305 --> 01:10:09,330
You mean they
haven't told you anything

1204
01:10:09,430 --> 01:10:11,534
Look the Doctors
clearly disturbed

1205
01:10:11,634 --> 01:10:14,779
Avvy, don't you do this.
This is not responsible.

1206
01:10:14,879 --> 01:10:16,899
I'm being responsible
to myself now

1207
01:10:24,099 --> 01:10:27,952
I'm so sorry I'm so so sorry

1208
01:10:29,945 --> 01:10:32,966
At approximately
10:32 pm Eastern time

1209
01:10:33,188 --> 01:10:34,488
The Radio Telescope at umm

1210
01:10:38,275 --> 01:10:40,995
At Goldstone Mojave,
received a signal

1211
01:10:41,226 --> 01:10:43,826
The Air Force tracking stations,
locked on as well...

1212
01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:45,853
There are three Asteroids
of a magnitude of two

1213
01:10:45,953 --> 01:10:48,153
miles each and above
that are on a trajectory

1214
01:10:49,799 --> 01:10:51,119
With Earth

1215
01:10:51,317 --> 01:10:54,567
They are headed directly
towards three of the Earth's most

1216
01:10:54,667 --> 01:10:57,885
populace cities,
Beijing in The Peoples Republic of China

1217
01:10:57,985 --> 01:11:00,611
Moscow, as well as Washington DC

1218
01:11:00,711 --> 01:11:01,878
Are those Cities???

1219
01:11:01,978 --> 01:11:04,971
I don't know, I can only guess and
that is they are the Capitols of the

1220
01:11:05,071 --> 01:11:08,794
only three nations on this Planet,
who have a first strike Nuclear threat

1221
01:11:08,894 --> 01:11:16,714
The Asteroids are expected to hit sometime,
around 10:52 pm Eastern time

1222
01:11:17,127 --> 01:11:20,647
And That's nine minutes from now

1223
01:11:23,645 --> 01:11:26,165
We declared War against them

1224
01:11:27,449 --> 01:11:29,404
People We did it

1225
01:11:30,088 --> 01:11:32,308
And now they've just
decided to respond

1226
01:11:34,988 --> 01:11:37,008
So may god have mercy on us all

1227
01:11:40,289 --> 01:11:46,189
Our coverage of this continuing
crisis will resume after this

1228
01:11:56,711 --> 01:12:01,681
From now on we'll stay on the air
continuously, until this crisis is over

1229
01:12:01,781 --> 01:12:04,248
As we count down now
to the moment of impact...

1230
01:12:04,348 --> 01:12:08,868
The Mayors of the nations ten
largest Cities, have all imposed curfews

1231
01:12:09,012 --> 01:12:13,532
Looting is widespread, amid fears of
food shortages, as the crisis deepens

1232
01:12:14,382 --> 01:12:18,273
Meanwhile the Radio signals,
at all three impact sites, have resumed

1233
01:12:18,373 --> 01:12:21,210
This time they're affecting
not only commercial air traffic

1234
01:12:21,410 --> 01:12:24,616
But Radio and TV
signals across the globe

1235
01:12:24,716 --> 01:12:27,488
In many countries
telephone service is out

1236
01:12:27,588 --> 01:12:30,133
The reaction in this
country has been panic

1237
01:12:30,233 --> 01:12:31,830
Mostly everything’s gonna be ok.

1238
01:12:31,930 --> 01:12:33,591
But I just don't know what
I'm gonna do when it happens

1239
01:12:33,691 --> 01:12:37,258
Well! as of right now
I'm not worried. I haven't

1240
01:12:37,358 --> 01:12:40,948
seen them,
they haven't really come after me but

1241
01:12:41,048 --> 01:12:43,398
If they star coming after
me I'm gonna be scared

1242
01:12:43,654 --> 01:12:44,774
I gotta get outta here

1243
01:12:45,038 --> 01:12:46,440
My family’s waiting for...

1244
01:12:49,094 --> 01:12:53,476
I'm not a religious person... I
haven't been to Mass in years

1245
01:12:53,576 --> 01:12:55,096
But I came tonight

1246
01:12:55,772 --> 01:12:57,796
Sandy there are reports
of panic World wide,

1247
01:12:57,896 --> 01:13:00,088
as fears begin tonight,
as you can see here the

1248
01:13:00,188 --> 01:13:04,414
The French police are having no success in
trying to calm the people who are rioting

1249
01:13:04,514 --> 01:13:07,095
Crowds in Washington,
and other Cities around the World

1250
01:13:07,295 --> 01:13:11,298
The fear has been disrupting candle
light vigils, and other peaceful gatherings

1251
01:13:11,521 --> 01:13:14,974
No one seems to know what to do,
or where to go

1252
01:13:15,074 --> 01:13:18,838
No place is safe,
as we hear out the magnitude of this crisis

1253
01:13:18,938 --> 01:13:22,330
People take to the streets in
different ways, but one thing is clear

1254
01:13:22,430 --> 01:13:25,061
Racial,
and National boundary's are disappearing

1255
01:13:25,161 --> 01:13:27,051
As the World reacts
to a greater danger

1256
01:13:27,251 --> 01:13:30,689
The Best advice anyone can give,
at this point, is to get inside a building

1257
01:13:30,889 --> 01:13:32,739
Move to the basement
and stay there ..

1258
01:13:33,550 --> 01:13:38,538
In the event broadcast stations lose power,
tune to the emergency broadcast network

1259
01:13:38,638 --> 01:13:42,438
At AM 640... At FM 102.4

1260
01:13:42,655 --> 01:13:47,348
We begin with a series of reports from
Evening World News Correspondents

1261
01:13:47,448 --> 01:13:49,098
This is Paul
Collingwood in Moscow

1262
01:13:50,257 --> 01:13:54,482
It's 6:40 in the morning here and
Red Square is completely deserted

1263
01:13:54,582 --> 01:13:57,224
Even during the darkest
days of the Cold War when

1264
01:13:57,324 --> 01:13:59,767
the US Nuclear Arsenal
was aimed at this city

1265
01:13:59,867 --> 01:14:02,133
You never felt
such palpable fear

1266
01:14:02,233 --> 01:14:04,689
This is not a religious country,
but this

1267
01:14:04,789 --> 01:14:07,639
morning the Churches,
and synagogues are filled

1268
01:14:07,739 --> 01:14:10,664
This is Michael Curtis
reporting from Washington

1269
01:14:10,764 --> 01:14:13,696
A city normally
associated with great power

1270
01:14:13,796 --> 01:14:17,116
But tonight all anybody
really feels is powerless

1271
01:14:17,241 --> 01:14:19,727
Some people have gone
home to be with their family's

1272
01:14:19,827 --> 01:14:22,534
Some are in transit trying
to get out of this city, but...

1273
01:14:22,734 --> 01:14:25,393
A group of people
have gathered here

1274
01:14:25,493 --> 01:14:28,995
To be together at the feet of a great man,
who once saved this union...

1275
01:14:30,350 --> 01:14:33,294
Perhaps in the hope that he might somehow,
do it again...

1276
01:14:33,394 --> 01:14:38,166
What would you do, if you were told
you only had seven minutes to live...

1277
01:14:38,266 --> 01:14:42,766
Or maybe it's a strange attraction we
have for witnessing natural disasters

1278
01:14:43,195 --> 01:14:44,945
Tidal waves,
great fires, or this...

1279
01:14:46,336 --> 01:14:47,636
Asteroids falling to Earth

1280
01:14:48,624 --> 01:14:55,554
Whatever the reason is, all we can
really do is wait, and watch, and pray

1281
01:14:55,654 --> 01:14:57,554
This is Denise Wong reporting in Beijing,
where an

1282
01:14:57,654 --> 01:15:00,054
eerie calm has set in
after hours fierce fighting

1283
01:15:01,602 --> 01:15:05,044
Between riot Police and
angry student demonstrators

1284
01:15:05,144 --> 01:15:09,278
Now people simply want to be with their
family’s, and we can understand why...

1285
01:15:09,378 --> 01:15:12,000
All services are
reported shut down

1286
01:15:12,100 --> 01:15:14,550
Hospitals are overflowing

1287
01:15:14,650 --> 01:15:17,986
And there’s word of a massive
fire raging through Shanghai

1288
01:15:18,086 --> 01:15:21,319
With no apparatus of
fire-fighters to stop it...

1289
01:15:21,419 --> 01:15:27,168
If this is your last day on Earth you
want to spend it with the people you love

1290
01:15:27,268 --> 01:15:31,588
Denise Wong... Evening
World News in Beijing

1291
01:15:32,788 --> 01:15:35,551
You know. At a time like this,
you cant help

1292
01:15:35,651 --> 01:15:38,242
but feel for our
correspondents elsewhere

1293
01:15:38,342 --> 01:15:40,192
You know Denise
Wong has got a husband

1294
01:15:40,718 --> 01:15:43,487
And two children,
up in San Francisco

1295
01:15:43,587 --> 01:15:46,510
is imminent to the city’s
we've just mentioned

1296
01:15:47,489 --> 01:15:53,278
But if the Asteroids hit Earth, as feared,
the entire Planet will be impacted

1297
01:15:53,378 --> 01:15:58,393
Matt Jensen is standing by as he has
been all night, at the Johnson Space Center

1298
01:15:58,493 --> 01:15:59,342
Matthew

1299
01:15:59,442 --> 01:16:01,222
Caroline, as you can see behind me,
many of the

1300
01:16:01,322 --> 01:16:03,605
scientists here at the operation
center have gone home

1301
01:16:03,805 --> 01:16:07,455
To be with their family’s, of the few
that remain. Doctor Kurt Lowden...

1302
01:16:08,284 --> 01:16:12,456
Doctor we've been told that if even one
of these Asteroids impacts as expected

1303
01:16:12,556 --> 01:16:15,457
The effect World Wide could be apocalyptic,
could you elaborate...

1304
01:16:15,557 --> 01:16:18,653
Yeah just like the KT event,
65 million years ago

1305
01:16:18,753 --> 01:16:23,010
If an Asteroid one mile
or larger strikes on land...

1306
01:16:23,110 --> 01:16:26,610
It'll throw up enough debris to create
what amounts to a Nuclear Winter

1307
01:16:29,951 --> 01:16:32,689
If we can see the screens
behind us you can see

1308
01:16:32,789 --> 01:16:35,432
the three Asteroids as
they proceed on target

1309
01:16:35,532 --> 01:16:39,755
They are now some 11,000 miles from Earth,
but closing fast

1310
01:16:41,907 --> 01:16:46,831
With 5 minutes, and counting, until the
Asteroids break the Earth’s atmosphere

1311
01:16:46,931 --> 01:16:48,452
Late word from the Pentagon

1312
01:16:48,552 --> 01:16:51,267
That there's a plan in place,
to meet them, head on

1313
01:16:51,367 --> 01:16:54,017
General Lucian Alexander,
is briefing the Reporters...

1314
01:16:55,093 --> 01:16:58,661
Air Force Space Command, and the US Navy,
are preparing to counter the threat

1315
01:16:58,761 --> 01:17:00,056
With Nuclear Weapons

1316
01:17:00,156 --> 01:17:03,351
Directed by the most
advanced guidance system...

1317
01:17:03,451 --> 01:17:07,318
Each carrying 10 independently
target-able re-entry vehicles

1318
01:17:07,418 --> 01:17:11,838
They'll be launched from the Trident
Submarine USS Ohio in the North Sea

1319
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,272
And from Matthew Warren air
Force base in Cheyenne Wyoming

1320
01:17:15,372 --> 01:17:17,823
The Soviets and the Chinese,
have agreed not to

1321
01:17:17,923 --> 01:17:20,453
respond,
for fear of an all out Nuclear exchange

1322
01:17:20,553 --> 01:17:25,150
The Peacekeepers and Trident B5 devices,
will hit their target and take them out

1323
01:17:25,250 --> 01:17:27,971
With surgical precision,
and minimum collateral damage

1324
01:17:31,165 --> 01:17:33,560
Can nuclear missiles
be used against UFOs

1325
01:17:33,660 --> 01:17:38,603
We still have no definitive
proof of Alien Life-forms

1326
01:17:38,703 --> 01:17:41,025
There’s every likelihood
that these Asteroids are

1327
01:17:41,125 --> 01:17:43,669
the result of a Meteor shower,
of massive proportions

1328
01:17:43,769 --> 01:17:46,421
The point is,
either we cut and run or we stand and fight

1329
01:17:46,521 --> 01:17:50,141
We're now at defcon 1,
T minus 5 minutes, and counting

1330
01:17:53,318 --> 01:17:56,300
You know Caroline,
in the midst of a story like this...

1331
01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:58,900
And you talk about millions
of lives being affected

1332
01:17:59,850 --> 01:18:01,270
I cant help but think of one

1333
01:18:01,711 --> 01:18:03,531
Kimberly Hastings, in Wyoming

1334
01:18:04,304 --> 01:18:07,404
We go now to Bree Walker in
Mercy Medical Center, in Wyoming...

1335
01:18:08,433 --> 01:18:11,953
With all the hope in this room,
just moments ago

1336
01:18:13,462 --> 01:18:15,262
I don't quite know
how to say this...

1337
01:18:16,875 --> 01:18:18,475
Shortly after we spoke to you...

1338
01:18:19,499 --> 01:18:22,153
Little Kimberly
Hastings collapsed

1339
01:18:22,253 --> 01:18:24,073
And went into Cardiac arrest

1340
01:18:25,013 --> 01:18:26,813
The crash team rushed in,
but they...

1341
01:18:28,133 --> 01:18:29,801
At 8:51 pm

1342
01:18:29,901 --> 01:18:33,121
Little Kimberly Hastings,
passed away

1343
01:18:34,601 --> 01:18:39,321
And whatever it is she knew
about that Asteroid, went with her...

1344
01:18:41,768 --> 01:18:46,469
We are now less than 3 minutes from
the first impact in the Peoples Republic

1345
01:18:47,966 --> 01:18:49,816
Uhhm ...I'd just want
to say something

1346
01:18:52,868 --> 01:18:55,088
To all of Linzy
...My little girl

1347
01:18:58,985 --> 01:19:03,447
She's six. She had ..She
had a tooth out last week

1348
01:19:03,547 --> 01:19:05,867
The Tooth Fairy
brought her a Silver Dollar

1349
01:19:09,807 --> 01:19:15,331
Honey!!! I want you to know
that Mommy loves you very much

1350
01:19:15,897 --> 01:19:20,917
I want you and Daddy...
You hold each real real tight

1351
01:19:21,980 --> 01:19:23,700
You know how
much I love you both

1352
01:19:25,085 --> 01:19:26,535
I'm just gonna finish up here

1353
01:19:28,761 --> 01:19:33,461
and we're all gonna
be together real soon

1354
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:36,040
Caroline you don't have
to stay here ...You Don't

1355
01:19:36,981 --> 01:19:41,585
Lets go..Lets just
hear it through

1356
01:19:42,117 --> 01:19:43,237
Sure???

1357
01:19:45,068 --> 01:19:46,688
We're now less than two minutes,
before the

1358
01:19:46,788 --> 01:19:48,888
Air Force launches its
peacekeeper Missiles

1359
01:19:49,336 --> 01:19:54,180
We'll be live via Satellites with
correspondent Denise Wong in Beijing

1360
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:56,087
Paul Collingwood in Moscow

1361
01:19:56,187 --> 01:19:58,409
And Mike Curtis here
in the Nations capitol

1362
01:19:58,509 --> 01:20:03,714
And now for the launch phase, we go to
Matt Jensen at the Johnson Space Center

1363
01:20:03,814 --> 01:20:07,402
Sandy... the Radio signals, that you hear,
and that is coming through our headsets

1364
01:20:07,602 --> 01:20:10,248
Are coming off the feed
from impact site Alpha

1365
01:20:10,348 --> 01:20:12,168
The sound is ear piercing

1366
01:20:17,272 --> 01:20:18,922
It's ok Matt,
we can hear you now.

1367
01:20:19,724 --> 01:20:24,447
The Asteroids have now
been designated and Zulu

1368
01:20:24,547 --> 01:20:28,447
X.Y.Z... In a few seconds you'll be able
to see them, moving down towards Earth

1369
01:20:28,967 --> 01:20:31,392
At 4-5 thousand miles an hour

1370
01:20:31,492 --> 01:20:34,771
The missile exchange will
be monitored by tracking

1371
01:20:34,871 --> 01:20:37,912
stations in Maui, Sacora,
and in Diego Garcia

1372
01:20:38,682 --> 01:20:40,232
all stations Status green alert

1373
01:20:41,206 --> 01:20:44,956
That voice you're hearing is the leader
Scotty Powell, the launch controller

1374
01:20:45,434 --> 01:20:47,168
Execute launch
command on my mark

1375
01:20:47,268 --> 01:20:48,973
Mark... in ten seconds

1376
01:20:49,073 --> 01:20:53,160
His voice is from the US Strategic Command
Offutt Air force base in Omaha, Nebraska.

1377
01:20:53,260 --> 01:21:00,384
5. 4. 3. 2. 1 launcher
closure over... Missile away

1378
01:21:01,164 --> 01:21:03,910
Denise Wong
Beijing is Target one

1379
01:21:04,010 --> 01:21:06,685
Impact destruction in
40 seconds from now

1380
01:21:06,785 --> 01:21:08,985
Uhhmm... the radio
interference is too strong

1381
01:21:10,175 --> 01:21:12,107
Do you see anything at all

1382
01:21:12,207 --> 01:21:13,807
Ahhm... You're breaking up Sandy

1383
01:21:14,980 --> 01:21:17,030
I'm going to have to
take this headset off

1384
01:21:17,672 --> 01:21:19,872
But I Think you were
asking if I saw anything

1385
01:21:21,258 --> 01:21:26,681
the answer is nothing yet.
I can tell you I'm scared

1386
01:21:28,163 --> 01:21:29,713
Impact over China at T minus 50

1387
01:21:31,051 --> 01:21:33,208
We've lost the audio,
but I assume, that’s a

1388
01:21:33,308 --> 01:21:35,771
picture of her husband
Greg and her two children

1389
01:21:37,393 --> 01:21:39,813
They all live in San Francisco

1390
01:21:40,791 --> 01:21:44,981
Denise!!! hold on as
long as you can Launch

1391
01:21:46,984 --> 01:21:49,908
We've lost contact with
Denise Wong in Beijing

1392
01:21:50,384 --> 01:21:53,304
Matt Jensen can you tell us,
the status, from where you are

1393
01:21:54,771 --> 01:21:56,451
Well by the cheering behind me,
I'm sure you

1394
01:21:56,551 --> 01:21:58,801
can tell we've had total
assimilation on x-ray

1395
01:21:59,281 --> 01:22:00,581
But it's far from over yet

1396
01:22:02,161 --> 01:22:05,180
We believe the first Asteroid,
has been destroyed

1397
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:08,297
We go now to Paul
Collingwood in Moscow

1398
01:22:08,397 --> 01:22:10,346
Paul what’s it look like,
where you are

1399
01:22:10,446 --> 01:22:13,367
Nothing so far,
This ear piercing signal in my headset

1400
01:22:16,314 --> 01:22:18,509
Sandy for the record... I'm
a 4 year correspondent...

1401
01:22:18,609 --> 01:22:20,759
We're all proud of you Paul,
and your column

1402
01:22:23,330 --> 01:22:25,499
And tomorrow would
have been my 28th birthday

1403
01:22:25,599 --> 01:22:30,977
12. 11. 10. 9. 8... I love
you Mom and Dad

1404
01:22:31,077 --> 01:22:36,297
6.5.4.3.2.1

1405
01:22:41,041 --> 01:22:43,261
Sandy!! What happened??

1406
01:22:44,231 --> 01:22:46,151
It should have impacted by now

1407
01:22:46,545 --> 01:22:49,275
Paul... It looks like we've
destroyed two out of three now

1408
01:22:49,375 --> 01:22:51,275
Mike Curtis has the
lead been destroyed

1409
01:22:52,762 --> 01:22:56,962
Well Sandy, it's really ...It's impossible
to see anything tonight, it's so overcast.

1410
01:22:58,767 --> 01:23:04,849
All night long... Impact over Washington in
15 seconds... ohh my god, now I see it...

1411
01:23:04,949 --> 01:23:07,573
It's so bright,
and it's coming in fast.

1412
01:23:09,177 --> 01:23:13,997
It's getting to too close. Why aren't
they shooting at this thing now.

1413
01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:15,240
3. 2. 1.

1414
01:23:28,542 --> 01:23:31,036
How does it feel
out there...? It feels

1415
01:23:31,136 --> 01:23:34,066
fine... It's like the day
the World went down

1416
01:23:34,522 --> 01:23:36,272
Birthday Paul...
Happy birthday Paul

1417
01:23:37,491 --> 01:23:39,070
Aww... Thank you
Sandy. Thank you Denise

1418
01:23:39,270 --> 01:23:40,856
We're gonna go home

1419
01:23:40,956 --> 01:23:44,884
I'd say you've earned it, thanks for a
job well done... Thank you very much

1420
01:23:44,984 --> 01:23:46,884
Have a very good
day... Have a good day

1421
01:23:47,231 --> 01:23:49,508
Reaction from around
the World is typical of

1422
01:23:49,608 --> 01:23:51,931
this live footage...
We're seeing right now

1423
01:23:58,609 --> 01:24:00,087
Well before we sign off

1424
01:24:00,187 --> 01:24:04,179
Correspondent Ron Olney has some
information for us, from Goldstone

1425
01:24:04,279 --> 01:24:06,939
Sandy the scientists here
have deciphered the speech

1426
01:24:07,039 --> 01:24:09,799
pattern,
of Kimberly Hastings and Jean Paul Chounard

1427
01:24:10,077 --> 01:24:11,597
Here’s the feed now

1428
01:24:36,952 --> 01:24:39,952
A hundred and forty
seven member states

1429
01:24:41,306 --> 01:24:42,426
Wait a minute

1430
01:24:43,444 --> 01:24:51,248
That’s the recorded message
we sent up in Voyager two

1431
01:24:52,546 --> 01:24:54,422
Sandy there’s a report
from Johnson Space Center

1432
01:24:54,522 --> 01:24:57,397
And Matt Jensen's there
...With a... Coming to us live

1433
01:24:57,497 --> 01:24:58,046
Matt

1434
01:24:58,146 --> 01:25:01,859
Caroline as you can see, the elation
in the room behind me, as stopped

1435
01:25:01,959 --> 01:25:05,189
People were cheering and celebrating,
Now it's as if their balloons burst.

1436
01:25:05,289 --> 01:25:09,239
Quiet from the end of the room and nobody
seems to be giving any indication why?

1437
01:25:11,302 --> 01:25:16,626
Matt what is it??? MATT what do you
see?? Tell us what you're seeing Matt

1438
01:25:17,753 --> 01:25:19,673
What’s the cameraman seeing

1439
01:25:20,464 --> 01:25:22,284
I'm told his name is Parfitt

1440
01:25:23,169 --> 01:25:24,171
Move the camera to the screen

1441
01:25:24,271 --> 01:25:26,091
Show us what,
you're seeing on the screen

1442
01:25:26,291 --> 01:25:27,411
Parfitt

1443
01:25:28,888 --> 01:25:30,629
Track trajectories

1444
01:25:30,729 --> 01:25:33,379
Well there's too many,
there's too many we can't do it

1445
01:26:08,250 --> 01:26:12,283
Obviously... We'll stay
on as long as we can

1446
01:26:12,383 --> 01:26:17,303
And we'll keep feeding you the
signal from the Johnson Space center

1447
01:26:18,108 --> 01:26:19,528
As long as possible

1448
01:26:20,742 --> 01:26:23,542
With all the Missiles,
and all the Power

1449
01:26:24,881 --> 01:26:28,001
I can only leave you with
this thought from Shakespeare

1450
01:26:29,517 --> 01:26:30,667
The fault give with us,

1451
01:26:32,210 --> 01:26:33,934
Not in our stalls...

1452
01:26:35,491 --> 01:26:37,311
But in ourselves

1453
01:26:39,453 --> 01:26:41,089
Washington, Washington, Washington.

1454
01:26:41,189 --> 01:26:42,609
Washington do you read me

1455
01:26:43,436 --> 01:26:45,886
Washington this is Houston control,
Please come in

1456
01:26:46,195 --> 01:26:49,745
Come in Washington, this is Houston
Control. Washington, come in Wash...