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We interrupt this program for a

special bulletin now with Sandy Hill.

Seismologists at Caltec, now report at least

three separate seismic events Tonight.

Each in the Northern Hemisphere with Earth

tremors of magnitude 8.5 and above.

And the first location is believed to be

in the Thunder Basin area of Wyoming.

That's about 200 miles

East of Casper.

So far we have no reports of

casualties.

The other two sites in Europe and Asia

have not been identified.

Stay tuned in to 11-o-Clock news,

For further details.

We now resume our regularly

scheduled program.

We interrupt this program for a special

report, from Evening World News in Washington.

Here now is chief National affairs

correspondent Sander Vanocur.

Good Evening...A Meteor shower

which appears at this time every year.

Erupted into a massive Cosmic event

tonight.

As pieces of an enormous

Asteroid, plunged to Earth.

Reports are just coming in.

But it appears that at

8:
24 pm, Eastern time.

The near..Earth Asteroid

known as 6645 Ventori.

Hurled in from space, and broke apart.

Striking the Earth, at three

separate points around the globe.

Aftershocks were felt from Contrepta island

In the Aleutians.

To santiago in Chile.

In all three.

The meteorites hit

deserted world areas.

Leaving wide impact zones.

Scientists say if any one of them

had struck near an urban..centre.

The results would have been catastrophic.

We begin our coverage with

correspondent Pamela Barnes.

Outside Mount Palomar observatory

in the mountains East of San Diego

Sandy, as this story first broke,

The report suggested that three.

Massive Earthquakes struck World..wide.

The initial shock waves registered within

minutes of each other at Caltec.

The best image we have right now,

is this, infra-red shot.

From a KH11 Reconnaissance

Satellite.

The crater is 2.4 kilometres wide.

More than a mile and a half

across.

The red you see around the rim

is a section of scorched earth.

From a wild-fire, that set the grassland

ablaze, at the moment of impact.

Correspondent Bree Walker was

vacationing in Wyoming, when the Meteor hit.

She came in with the first Fire-Crews,

And we go to her.

Above the crater, I'm told were having

trouble with the feed from Wyoming.

So we'll bring Bree Walkers report to you

as soon as possible.

In the meantime we go to

Barry Steinbrenner

of affiliate KTML in Casper

Wyoming.

The fires from the Meteor crater

raging out of control.

Units from the third Air National Guard Wing,

were quickly called in, to extinguish the flames.

More than 10,000 people living west

of Thunder Basin are being evacuated.

By national Guardsmen

amid fears the fires may spread.

And there are numerous reports of power

outages, both North and East Of Cheyenne.

This is Barry Steinbrenner, KTML Action News.

Casper Wyoming

I'm told we've now contacted

correspondent Bree Walker.

She now brings us pictures, of what

is being called impact site Alpha

Located 60 miles North of

Grover? Mill, Wyoming

Bree, can you Hear us?

Sandy, as you well know

I've covered my share of disasters.

The L.A Riots, Hurricane Andrew,

Last years floods in the Mississippi.

Even Mount St Helen? , when she blew.

But nothing I've ever encountered.

Could have prepared me for this.

Lets give you a look from the choppers

camera, mounted below.

What you are looking at now, is the

crater itself, A massive inferno.

The only way you can describe this.

Is that what the fire fighters are Temperatures

1200 degrees Fahrenheit and above.

Any Human Being within miles of this impact,

would have been incinerated in seconds.

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

rim, the scene of devastation below is unbelievable.

The Guardsmen and State Troopers, And National

Guardsmen surrounding the impact site.

When I asked her if yet ?? A massive fire-storm,

that destroyed much of Thunder Basin.

We're told that chopper you see down

below, is flying a team of specialists.

From the department of energy.

We expect that they'll be checking for Radiation,

or any potentially deadly chemicals.

That might be spilled.

And Sandy, Sandy we're just getting word

that there may have been some survivors.

Along the thunder Bay National grab land,

we're gonna go over there now, for a look.

The two other pieces of this gigantic Meteorite came

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

Along the southern edge of Mongolia.

Minutes later in a mountainous ares of the

Pyrenees, about 20 miles, south or Lourdes.

In southern France.

Now tentatively known as impact site Bravo.

Lourdes was the site in 1858, of the

fabled visitation by the Virgin Mary.

Its been a Mecca for religious pilgrims

ever since.

But tonight as correspondent

Paul Whitaker reports.

The mood there is one of fear.

The churches are full here tonight.

With religious pilgrims giving thanks.

But not because they came to this

Holy site, because they're alive.

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

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

After a long day of recreational skiing.

Just as the earth started to shake,

he and his friends looked up to the sky.

And saw a huge fireball

streaking across the sky.

This woman Sylvie Chounard also survived, but when she got

down, She discovered her husband Jean Paul was missing

I came down in a cable car, and err

Jean sat here, he wanted to sit down,

For the last one of the day.

And he never got back.

Ironically today was

their third anniversary

French rescue trams are combing the

mountain side for skier Jean Paul Chounard.

A bitter twist to an already

frightening turn of events.

The French have an expression.

"The more things change"

"The more they stay the same"

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

.One senses these people will never be the same again

Paul Whitaker reporting from Lourdes,

France.

Little is known tonight about the third

impact site, in China.

But as correspondent Denise Wong

reports from beijing,

the communist government has put

the country on a state of alert

Sandy. Its just after 10:15 in

the morning here in Beijing.

The Chinese news agency has reported, that the

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

It struck at 105 degrees east, 45 degrees north.

Along China's border with Mongolia.

While little more has come

from the government here.

Reuters has just released

this aerial photo taken.

By the French satellite agency

SP02.

From 12 miles above the Earth.

The crater is almost a mile

and a half across

Denise!! That's almost identical,

I repeat, Identical!

To the Wyoming impact site.

What do you know about casualties?

Well Sandy Too Fong

Is in a remote area.

Of the Gobi Desert, with

no rail lines, on two highways.

In or out.

As a result, it may be days, before the full

damage from this crash site can be assessed.

We'll be back to Denise as soon

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