and the other half jointly to professor brian schmidt.va research team, australia national university, western creek, australia. and professor adam riess, supernova search team, john hopkins university and space telescope science institute, baltimore. >> the nobel committee in stockholm announced the winners on tuesday. two americans, saul permutter and adam riess and an australian, brian schmidt were awarded the top award in the field. the committee said they're studying dozens of exploded stars, called supernovas led them to conclude that the universe is continuing to expand. the study surprised the world, the expansion of the universe had thought to have been slowing down. >>> in the second part of our series on refugees, tonight we take a look at people from myanmar. currently, half a million of them are thought to be displaced, both inside the country and around the world. some ended up in japan. last thursday, 18 refugees from myanmar left for japan under its pilot scheme to resettle displaced people, now in its second year. the fou

perlmutter shares the nobel prize with brian schmidt and and dam reese leaders of the super nova search team may the same discovery at almost the same time. perlmutter receives half of the 1.5 million dollar prize. schmidt and reese splits the other half. perlmutter says it is a team effort and credits the national lab with giving him 10 years, starting in '86 up to '96 when he was working in the project didn't have anything concrete to show but they said keep going and . now here we are in 2011 and he has the nobel prize for physics. -- terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> big congratulations to everybody. >> loved that reaction. >>> the breast cancer survive who says she was humiliated by airport security and why the tsa is apologizing. >>> the american exchange student whose murder conviction was thrown out in italy yesterday was now on her way back to the u.s.. will amanda knox have to return to italy? >> new jersey, whether you like it or not, you are stuck with me.  >>> american exchange student amanda knox is on a flight back to seattle right now after f

perlmutter shares the nobel prize with brian schmidt and and dam reese leaders of the super nova search team may the same discovery at almost the same time. perlmutter receives half of the 1.5 million dollar prize. schmidt and reese splits the other half. perlmutter says it is a team effort and credits the national lab with giving him 10 years, starting in '86 up to '96 when he was working in the project didn't have anything concrete to show but they said keep going and . now here we are in 2011 and he has the nobel prize for physics. -- terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> big congratulations to everybody. >> loved that reaction. >>> the breast cancer survive who says she was humiliated by airport security and why the tsa is apologizing. >>> the american exchange student whose murder conviction was thrown out in italy yesterday was now on her way back to the u.s.. will amanda knox have to return to italy? >> new jersey, whether you like it or not, you are stuck with me. >> the race in new jersey governor christie says he's not going to run. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini slee

the two other winners also americans brian schmidt and adam rice, he hasn't been able to talk to themheir morning. their phones have been ringing off the hook. a reporter called him and he thought it was a prank. his wife went to the computer and checked the in evidence and it was confirmed that he was the winner after she checked and found it on the internet. there will be a press conference today. he will take the day off from work and just enjoy the award which he will receive on december 10, which was the anniversary of when nobel passed away. >> does he have any idea how he will spend the third of the money? >> reporter: i don't think so. he is overwhelmed. it's split between three people maybe get together and take a fabulous trip together somewhere or maybe they will already have plans. an exciting day. >> a lot of times they just dump it back into research. he deserves little vacation. >> thank you. >>> hayward police are on the scene of a murder this morning. a man has been shot to death outside an apartment. it happened sometime before 9:00 near tyrell avenue. police do not

-australian citizen brian schmidt. their study found the expansion of universe is accelerating, meaning the universe is destin today expand forever. the discovery lead to speculation there's still an unknown type of energy that is pushing the universe apart. >>> 6-year-old girl will be laid to rest today a week after she was struck and kill by a car in an east palo alto crosswalk. her death has triggered angry response who want the driver charged and a safer intersection. terry mcsweeney is live with more. >> reporter: the east palo alto city council is expected to get an earful tonight from friends and family of the 6-year-old girl killed last week across the street from where i am you can see the memorial is still there. lots of toys and candles. same intersection where 6-year-old really torres was kill and another child injured badly six months ago a place known as one of the most dangerous intersections at the city. look at last night's funeral for the girl prayers and tears and anger we are told. some of these peo

the university of california berkeley and brian schmidt&who heads the team at the tracualian university. they were honored for the discovery that the downforce is -- universe is expandding at a extreme space. it was slowing 14 billion years up to the big bang and scientists might be able to predict when the universe would come to an end. today, reese said he could not have done it without his colleagues in astronomy and astrophysics. >> we have to use the incredibly powerful and complicated strums and facilities that take decades to build that require people to risk their lives in some case to put new instruments on them, require political will in order to get them done and to, if we're lucky at the end, people like me get to have fun and we do get to get data beeped down to us. -- beamed down us to. >> they will share the prize money worth $1.5 million. >>> and you know him as a hard- charging businessman. donald trump has a new time. he's bringing the winiery to charlottesville and john henrehan is live there where that announcement was wrapping up. john? jy we're at the klugy, state

adam rice is sharing the prize with saul pearlmutter and brian schmidt. honored for their discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. today reese says he couldn't have done it without his colleagues. >> we have to use these incredibly powerful complicated instruments and facilities that take decades to build and require people to risk their lives in some case to put new instruments on them, require political will in order to get them done and if we're really lucky at the en, people like me get to have -- end, people like me get to have fun. well, we don't get to city at the prime focus of hubble but we -- sit at the prime focus of hubble, but we do get to beam down the data we ask for. >>> downstairs in the newsroom talking about the new iphone 4s with pete erickson, an entrepreneur of emerging technologies. thanks for coming in, want to fire up some fast questions and you can give mitch the reasons why we at home -- me the reasons why we at home should buy. this one, it's got a faster processor. why die care if i'm not a gamer -- do

scientists today: brian schmidt of australian national university, adam riess of johns hopkins university, and saul perlmutter of university of california, berkeley. that research found the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. perlmutter was recently profiled on quest, a science program produced by kqed-san francisco. here's part of that story. it's narrated by andrea kissack. >> i was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works and understand it. here we live on earth and we don't fall through the floor. somebody should have given us an owner's manual about how the whole thing fits together and how you use it. >> reporter: in 1998 perlmutter was part of one of two teams that discovered the expansion of the universe, had started to accelerate 7 billion years ago. but what exactly does it mean that the expansion is accelerating? first, you have to understand the universe is infinite, not an easy concept to grasp. >> look, you're not going to be able to take to this very well but just imagine that you are living here on a galaxy and there's gal bei