. >> reporter: when the philae probe woke up from itself enmonth slumber on the surface of comet 67 p it sent a brief data signal back to mission control which excited scientists turned that a tweet. hello, earth can you hear me. >> i'm just overwhelmed. i'm tremblings i'm so happy. >> reporter: for british scientist monica grady who helped develop the probe's instruments, it was an you know -- unexpected surprise. the last tim the space agency heard from philae it was back in november after its historic landing on the comet 400 million miles from earth. but it didn't quite go as planned. >> philae should have landed in the middle of a sort of kraft erred area where it would have been in sunlight but it didn't. and so it was in shadow. >> reporter: philae was still able to capture these first ever images from the surface of the comet it also conducted experiments finding among other things water in the form of ice. but without direct sunlight to power the probe's solar panel, its battery eventually died until now. >> now the comet is much much closer to the sun. the sunlight is much s

. >> reporter: when the philae probe awoke after landing on comet p, it sent a message.earth. can you hear me? >> i'm so overwhelmed. >> reporter: for the british scientist monica grady who helped develop the probe's instruments, it was an unexpected surprise. the last time european space agency heard from philae was back in november after its historic landing on a comet 400 million miles from earth, but it didn't quite go as planned. >> philae should have landed in the middle of a sort of crated area where it would have been in sunlight, but it didn't, so it was in shadow. >> philae was able to capture these first ever images from a comet. it also conducted experiments finding among other things water in the form of ice. but without direct sunlight to power the probe's solar panels, its battery eventually died until now. >> now the comet is much, much closer to the sun, the sunlight is much stronger and it's fallen on the solar panels and has woken philae up. >> we now have to work on how to continue its mission even though it wasn't supported to be awake now. >> report

data which scientist hope to receive next time philae communicates with earth. next. wild animals on the loose. the city held hostage by rampaging zoo animals. coming up >> : so what are we suppose to do with them >> reporter: the county of san mateo and and the city of belmont are trying to get people to stop doing one i'll explain in the next edition of people behaving badly >> reporter: there is a problem that is not specific to the bay area but is a problem non the less and it's what these two men in the city of belmont are about to do. >>: ambiance >> reporter: they are smoking cigarettes which by itself might not be considered behaving badly its what they do when they are done smoking . yes they toss the butts on the ground and leave them there >>: ambiance >> reporter: then they get in there car and driver away, and that is where the behaving badly part starts allow me to explain on ralston ave hanging above the roadway is this banner which reads please don't drop and drive prevent pollution to our local waterways with a photo of the arm hanging out an au

phila e was the first aircraft to land on a comet.hor and ended up in the shadow of a cliff wall. and that limited how much power. and so the batteries only lasted 60 hours. but in november. phila e took incredible photos and obtained samples of ice. and now that the comets orbit is close tore the son it is receiving more sunlight. >> it appears it is operational and healthy and we will look and work on the coming slots and communication slots. >> as a scientist actually believe that phila e has been a wake as it has eight this happened packets of data. and scientist in europe will analyze that to so what phila e has provided. and that would be the building blocks of the union verse. it could help us preponderate understand the origin and evolution of our solar system. >> we take it for granted but it is amazing. >> have you ever heard of the kyaktist? >> they are launching a major protest in seattle and we have the story next. and before the constitution. there was another document. celebrating of the magna carta. when eating healthy

the probe known as philae touched down on the comet in november.but the batteries were depleted after 60 hours of communication, because the lack of sunlight its solar panels was receiving. now after seven months the probe is approaching the sun and re- charging. the german aerospace center which operates philae says the spacecraft has eight thousand packages of data which scientists hope to receive next time it communicates with earth. coming up. kron 4's jason appelbaum joins us with a review of tonight's warriors highlights. that's next in sports. sfx: engines revving. listen up. ready. ready. steady. sfx: engines revving. go! ♪♪ it's more than a movie. it's now a ride. fast and furious. supercharged. ride it at universal studios hollywood. we spend a lot of time online around here. but with all this speed from xfinity, it's all good. hey, why don't we do some homework for a change? gary, you too. dad...work stuff. yes! lovin' the new design! konichiwa hirosan. five minutes... all this speed is very empowering. check out the new hardware. with the fastest internet available, xfinit

the solar-powered philae comet probe is sending seg nals back to earth after several years of silencethe philae probe woke up from its seven-month slumber from the surface of comet 67p, it sent a brief signal back to mission control which turned into a tweet. hello, earth. can you hear me? >> i'm overwhelming. trembling and so happy. >> reporter: for scientist monica grady who helped develop the probe, it was a nice surprise. the last time they heard from philae was back in november after landing on a comet 400 million miles from earth. but it didn't quite go as planned. >> philae should have landed in a middle of a sort of crated area where utd would have been in sun looichlt but it didn't. it was still in shadow. >> reporter: it also conducted experiments finding among other things water with the form of ice. without power its battery eventually died until now. >> now the comet is much, much closer to the sun. the sunlight is much stronger and it's fallen on the solar panels and has woken philae up. >> we have to work on how we can continue its mission given that it wasn't supposed

the comet lander philae had contacted earth after months of hibernation.lae was dropped on the surface of a comet last november and worked for 60 hours before the solar powered battery went flat. the comet has moved closer to the sun giving philae the opportunity to work again. scientists are awaiting the next contact. i'll be back in "sunday housecall" two hours from now at 12:30 eastern. i'm eric shawn, back to "sunday morning futures" and maria. >>> thanks eric. >>> hillary clinton rebooting her campaign yesterday on roosevelt island. in a speech bashing the republicans as the party of yesterday, closed minded on immigration and women's issues. this while reaching out to minorities women, and the lgbtq community. she also brought up her mother in an attempt to make a connection with the financial struggle of everyday americans. as well as to distance herself from her ties to wall street and present herself as an advocate for the middle the class. alan kol ms is here. judith miller is adjunct full low at the policy institute and john helsenwrath is with

. >>> the comet lander philae has made contact with earth. it was the first spacecraft to land on a comet when it touched down back in november but then three days later contact was lost when the solar powered batteries ran down. scientists weren't sure if they'd ever hear from it again but it has moved closer to the sun and started to work again, transmitting data to scientists in germany for 85 seconds. earlier we spoke to dr. elizabeth pearson who explained the importance of what philea may have found >> philae gives an up close and personal look at the surface meaning week take samples and analyze them and work out exactly what they're made up of. what's brilliant about getting it back on line it means we might get another chance to use its drill. it can drill down right into the surface. it can get a really pristine sample. one that has not been exposed to space or sunlight. so this sample would really be what the solar system was like when it was being formed and that's going to tell us so much about water and the state of the solar sys

home. >> the philae resumed immune indication. it lost the power after the comet landing back in november. it is solar powered. the battery ran out, but now it's entered a sunnier orbit. >>> thank you for joining us in our next newscast is at 5:00 tonight. >>> find the latest anytime of the day at nbcbayarea.com or get that fancy app that sentence everything to your phone. have a great day. >> bye-bye. live" -- i feel like we're standing in post pockapocalyptic new york or something. >> our studio is not ready. loving the backdrop. >> bill shatner is on the show today talking about his new series his great relationship with leonard nimoy, writing a book. >> and adam rodriguez is here. "magic mike xxl" better than the first. >> and cookie on "empire" going down on the universal back lot. "access hollywood live" starts right now. >> arrived. >> come on in!

alive and ready to hit the ground running that's what scientists are saying about the comet lander philae. it woke up on saturday after a hibernation. that probe landed on a comet. shortly after making that historic landing, philae conducted experiments for 60 hours and then the batteries died. scientists are enwhoing that the sample -- are hoping that the samples will reveal details about howplanets, even life evolved. >>> well dave chappelle took a special photo with the graduates. he took a selfie as anybody would with the graduating class of duke ellington high school of the arts yesterday. you have to do the selfie these days. >> if you don't have a selfie it didn't happen. >> that's right. he studied literary and theater arts there and delivered the commencement speech over the weekend. he said to keep art in your life and be excellent for yourself and excellent for each other. >> good advice. >> great message. >>> well, outrage this morning after passengers on a flight from the u.s. to london get diverted. where they say they were forced to stay for nearly a day before reaching the

that's the number of seconds the philae lander made contact after seven months of silence.parked at 4 billion miles away from earth. it took 10 years to get there. scientist celebrated the historic landing in november that communications went dark when the solar powered coming occasions fell into a shadow. they were able to reboot it momentarily and sent 300 packets of data across the solar system. scientists are now awaiting its next signal. the e3 gaming conference is officially underway in l.a. it's the against conference for it gaming, but it is bethesda softworks jumpstarting the action for its epic post-apocalyptic game, "fallout 4" and a mobile platform. we got a look at doom. here to tell us more about the lineup for the rest of the year, i'm joined by the vp of marketing for bethesda softworks. pete, it looks like this mobile game has already taken off. in the last 24 hours, it's the number one game in the apple app store. how big is it so far? guest: it's going really fast and really big. not just the number one game but the number one free app of any kind. within

scientists in europe are celebrating after receivering communications from the philae spacerobe. it fell silent a few days later. it woke up june 13th and began sending messages back to earth after seven months. scientists credit a change in the comet's position facing the sun. >> now the comet is much, much closer to the sun. the sunlight is much stronger and it's fallen on the solar panels. >> we now have to work at how we can continue its mission given that it wasn't even supposed to be a white map. >> scientists say the experiments on the surface of the comet could help explain our evolution. >>> united airlines is apologizing for the way it handled a diverted flight to london this weekend while passengers were stockpiled in unheated military barracks in canada the crew of 11 spent a comfortable night in a hotel. >> reporter: for passengers aboard a juntd united airlines flight bound for london, this is the last place they expected to spend their friday night. >> i don't think i have all the warm clothes, had not planned to get marooned in goose bay. >> reporter: unheated mil

the little philae space probe that latched on to a comet last year, suddenly waking up after seven monthsfter its batteries ran out. the probe was only active for about a minute and a half, but that was enough time to send some hopeful signals back to earth. even this tweet -- "hello earth, can you hear me?" yes, we can. >>> and it's the day "mcdreamy" says he's been dreaming of. actor patrick dempsey making it to the podium today at the "24 hours of le mans" endurance race in france. the "grey's anatomy" star's three-man team finished second. the biggest win so far of his racing career. had him pretty choked up afterwards. as champagne corks were popping. >>> still ahead, befriending a killer. how the search for closure brought them together. that story, up next. agliptin) is a once-daily pill that, along with diet and exercise helps lower blood sugar. januvia works when your blood sugar is high and works less when your blood sugar is low, because it works by enhancing your body's own ability to lower blood sugar. plus januvia, by itself, is not likely to cause weight gain or low blood s

the comet lander which is called philae was able to communicate with earth for more than a minute. >> it landed back in november sent data back and then powered down until now. scientists are hoping that new samples collected by ph i lae will reveal details about how planet and maybe even life evolved. >> boy. cool. >> heavy expectations on that thing. >> impressive. thank you for choosing bay area news. we'll see you back here tonight at 11:00. >> until then, good night. nd a lot of time online around here. but with all this speed from xfinity, it's all good. hey, why don't we do some homework for a change? gary, you too. dad...work stuff. yes! lovin' the new design! konichiwa hirosan. five minutes... all this speed is very empowering. check out the new hardware. with the fastest internet available, xfinity is perfect for people who need to get a lot done at home. and now you can go even faster. we've just increased the speeds on two of our most popular plans. doug mcconnell: hello, i'm doug mcconnell, and we've got some great discoveries for you along "the open road." we'll see two

alive and ready to hit the ground running that what's scientists are saying about the comet lander philae. it became the first to land on a comet, but shortly after making that historic landing it conducted the experiments for 60 hours before the batteries died. scientists hope the samples will reveal details about how planets, maybe even life, evolved. serious work right there. >> good luck. >>> well, comedian dave chappelle returned to his dick cheney -- d.c. alma mater and he took a selfie from duke ellington school of the arts. he studied literary and theater arts there and he delivered the commencement speech over the weekend. see him on stage there. he told the students to keep art in your life. and be excellent for yourself and be excellent for each other. i think he graduated in '91 from ellington. >> a good stand-up routine for the kids. >> of course. >> very cool that he -- very cool he came back home for that. >>> tom kierein i mean -- >> don't look at me like that. >> this early in the morning and we are feeling it. >> it is just so steamy. >> it is. >> probably the most humid

the european space agency's" philae" probe landed on the comet in mid-november but stopped communicating two days later. yesterday, german researchers captured a signal that lasted 85 seconds, long enough for the probe to send a new batch of chemical data from the comet's surface. for the first time since russian forces annexed crimea last year, the united states is reportedly poised to send heavy military equipment into several eastern european and baltic nations near russia. it's meant to reassure american allies and to deter russian president vladimir putin from what the west considers military aggression. new york times reporter steven lee myers broke the story and joins me now from washington d.c. to explain the pentagon's possible plan. so what kind of equipment are we talking about here? >> we are talking about a brigade's worth of heavy equipment that would include tanks armored vehicles artillery pieces and so vorth. >> and where would this be stationed? >> what they're looking to do is to deploy it in several of the nato allies, a bulk of it would be in a place like poland, the

the lander called philae resumed communications with earth for a minute sending about 300 packages of data. it had lost contact last fall when its batteries died. the european space agency says the lander appeared to be in pretty good shape. >>> at the box office this weekend it surely was a dominating performance by the dinosaurs of "jurassic world." the movie took in $204.6 million domestically making it the biggest debut of the year so far. it was also the second highest domestic opening of all time, second only to "the avengers." "jurassic world" also set an international record making nearly $512 million in its first few days of release. >>> many people in london got a good look at the royal family including little prince george. they gathered on a balcony at buckingham palace to watch a parade adds the queen celebrated her birthday. >> prince william stood next to his wife kate and held prince george but there were no signs of princess charlotte. >> reporter: a british aerial display team left a long streak of red, white-x blue smoke across the sky as a part of the whole celebra

. >>> it is little space probe that could, the lost comet lander philae ace wake and awake after seven months. it loss power after it ran in the comet in november. when it phone home yesterday after finally getting enough sunlight on the solar pan tolls transmit data back to earth this initial message lasted just over a minute but lander setback more than 300 data packets communicating through its mother ship roseta. >> we have received signals from it. we have to work out how we can continue this mission given it wasn't supposed to be a wake now. it is a very challenging part of the mission but very exciting. >> scientists say lander should get enough sunlight new to operate until october when it will once again fall silent. >>> jurassic world stumped in to theaters this weekend and in the record books. it is the highest global opener of all time. it brought in 511 million-dollar. the movie also devoured a number of domestic box office record taking in 204 million-dollar jurassic world is also now the second highest domestic opening of all time right a around mar rel's avengers. >>> c

the lander called philae resumed communications with earth for more than a minute sending about 300 packagest fall when its batteries died. the european space agency said the lander appeared to be still in pretty good shape. >>> next two flying objects a lot closer to home, drones. and for a lot of people, they are way too close. >> when these flying cameras hover over backyards and peer into windows, fistfights and lawsuits can break out. abc's aditi roy with some of those battles. >> reporter: a drone smackdown causing buzz. watch as this man swats a drone to the ground. >> hey. don't touch that! >> reporter: warning its owners not to fly it over his home. that man declined to comment to reporters. but the owner of the high-tech device is now asking that man to pay for the destroyed drone, worth $1,350. >> he swatted it down. it hit his leg, then hit the cement and smashed the camera, the blades, and messed up the copter. >> reporter: the growing popularity of drones sparking disputes among neighbors across the country. in vancouver, washington. >> it was freaky. >> reporter: a 7-year-old