hi james welcome to the observatory this but let me give you we've been looking at the aurora here for ages come in and make yourself at home and later we'll put you in the picture. they've been studying the up here for more than fifty years so i'm never going to have a better chance in russia to see it's them right now i just have to wait. let me show you where our engineers view the information from. pictures of what's going on in the sky. we also get information about. high frequency variations in the magnetic field on the field all these phenomena of what's connected to the aurora. area the. north magnetic poles. that serves as the source for particles. are a gift of nature. what's going on in. space if you. trees can be seen here in the north if you study the northern lights closely. summarised. is quite moderate. because it takes. two days to travel from b. . to the. days can be very long if you're not used to them and you decided to introduce me to one of the popular local posts on. now we're not exactly surrounded by shops out here so for us food in the lab is in roll the short

we're talking about the aurora borealis, these lights over sweden. is is in the nabisco national park. as you can see from the people below, this is time-lapse footage. >> it's cool, it looks like you're at some kind of pink floyd laser show. the aurora borealis is formed from fast-moving electrically charged particles emanating from the sun. they're drawn to the poles of our planet by the magnetic field of our planet. the aurora borealis peaks in 11-year periods, and this year is a solar maximum. a time when it peaks. >> if i had a bucket list, this would be on it. >> it's on my list for sure. it wasn't until recently. but i didn't know these lights didn't move this fast. every time you see it, they show these time lapses and as a kid growing up, i thought that's how these lights actually move. >> this video here is actual lay stretched-out version of time-lapse footage. meaning it's kind of a slowed-down time lapse. so the aurora borealis looks smoother. >> a little closer to real life. >> a little more glorious. >>> that's our show, folks, thanks f

hi james welcome to the observatory this but again we've been looking at the aurora of all ages come in and make yourself at home and later we'll put you in the picture. they've been studying up here for more than fifty years so i'm never going to have a better chance in russia to see it's them right now i just have to wait. let me show you where our engineers view the information from all the. pictures of what's going on in the sky. we also get information about. high frequency variations in the magnetic field on the field all these phenomena of what's connected to the aurora. area the. north magnetic poles. that serves as the source for particles these. are a gift of nature we see what's going on in. space if you. are a fake sort of. trees you can be seen here in the north if you study the northern lights closely. summarized. it is quite moderate. it's. because it takes. two days to travel from. one year. but those permanently days can be very long if you're not used to them and you decided to introduce me to one of the popular local post on. we're not exactly surrounded by shops ou

seven years ago her son was gun down in the streets of aurora. then this summer she got a middle of the night call about the mass shooting in her district. >> we went into this grief mode, in this disbelief mode. i would say the initial month was, you know, attending memorial services and dealing with the loss. then shortly after that when all the cameras left, that's when the real work began in reference to what can we do? >> reporter: while fields supports all of the gun-control measures she says extending background checks to private sales is perhaps the most important. >> if we can keep the guns out of the hands of criminals i think that's where we can make our greatest impact. with the background check, felons won't be able to get access to a gun from a private seller. if you're mentally ill or if you are a domestic abuser, you will not have access to a gun unless you take a c.b.i. check. i think it closes that loophole. i think that's a good hinge the. >> reporter: democrats control both chambers of coloradotate legislature and the governor'

the aurora these lights over sweden. this is in the nabisco national park. as you can see from the people below, this is time-lapse footage. >> it's cool, it looks like you're at some kind of pink floyd laser show. the aurora borealis is formed from fast-moving electrically charged particles emanating from the sun. they're drawn to the poles of our planet by the magnetic field of our planet. the aurora

field all these phenomena of what's connected to the aurora. area the. north magnetic poles. that serves as the source for particles. are a gift of nature. to space if you. trees can be seen here in the north if you study the northern lights closely. summarised. is quite moderate. it's. because it takes. two days to travel from b. . to the earth. but those permanently days can be very long if you're not used to them and you decided to introduce me to one of the local post on. now we're not exactly surrounded by shops out here so for us food in the lab is in roll the short supply. here has invited me to try a little night fishing so we're going to see. if we can get him by saying. you know people here really enjoy fishing during the long pole and they get so carried away by it that they become oblivious to anything else if you're lucky enough to catch one you'll enjoy eating it it tastes so good you wouldn't want to eat any other kind of fish there's nothing like it and it was nothing tastier than fish caught in a long pole a night so no pressure then but fortunately jaroslav

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hi james welcome to the observatory this but let me give you we be looking at the aurora here full pages come in and make yourself at home and later we'll put you in the picture. they've been studying up here for more than fifty years so i'm never going to have a better chance in russia to see it's them right now. i just have to wait. james this is a mystery let me show you where our engineers view the information from all the trends juices in the observatory about ophelia this camera takes pictures of what's going on in the sky when it's dark and if we also get information about a magnetic pulse is a high frequency variations in the magnetic field and data on the j a magnetic field where all these phenomena i was connected to the aurora. seventy second the day the northern lights can be seen across an oval shaped area that centered on the cell center north might. interrupt our programming for some live coverage from here in moscow a news briefing with president putin and french leader francois a lot let's take you there. from through. eclipse so i mean you know who says that you know as

the type of weapon used in the aurora, colorado shooting in a similar to the one used in newtown. they point out the difference between an assault and assault- style weapon. an adjustable stock simply changes the size of a weapon. >> is an experience i have never had before. they said it is a sporting rifle. an assault rifle as were you squeeze the trigger and multiple bullet come out. >> we're regulating that? why? >> they have been holding private sessions the past three years and the senate is expected to take up amendments tomorrow and a vote on it by friday. >> lawyers tried to convince the supreme court to allow dna to be taken from people arrested for certain violent crimes. >> dna replaces fingerprints as a primary means of identification. at the supreme court today, she has more. >> the stakes are high. justice aledo call this the most important case that the supreme court has heard in decades. the requirement that people arrested for certain crimes give up their dna is an effective crime solver with 43 convictions. the supreme court must decide if the procedure runs afou

. >> the city of aurora, colorado is planning a study into ambulance response time to last year's mass shooting. the rampage killed 12 people and injured 70 others back in july. the "denver post" reports it took medical workers more than 24 minutes to get to the theater and monday the aurora city council approved a $250,000 contract for the study. >>> superstorm sandy is expected to be the second costliest tropical cyclone in the nation's history behind hurricane katrina in 2005. that's according to the national hurricane center. sandy was blamed for 72 deaths in the united states. more than 600,000 homes in new york and new jersey were damaged or destroyed. >>> a valentine's heart displayed in times square this week is made with debris from superstorm sandy. the heart was made from boardwalk boards that were salvaged in october. the art studio that created the heart said it represents a hope and perseverance of all who survived the storm. >> they are coping. >>> it is 4:51 now. low enrollment and budget cuts may force san bruno to shut down an elementary school. the superintendent wil

on that woman, who obviously needs it, that woman whose son was killed less than a year ago in the aurora, colorado mass shooting. that's the footage that was aired by channel 3 in phoenix. obviously, there was an edit between the end of the woman's question and the part where john mccain sneers the straight talk line at her. maybe that edit was cut in a way that's not fair to john mccain. maybe he really wasn't in real time so insensitive and abrasive to a woman who probably deserves some sensitivity when she is talked to about these matters. but for what it's worth, patricia maisch, the woman who disarmed the tucson shooter, she was in the room at that john mccain town hall. she saw the whole thing happen. she saw that woman ask the question about what john mccain thought should be done about gun violence and saw him answer by saying you need some straight talk. and patricia maisch, who was in the room, told talking points memo in an interview after the town hall that she found senator mccain's response "unsatisfactory." "in my opinion," she said, "the comment the senator made saying ka

if he would have said that to the woman whose son was lost in the aurora massacre, i would have a lotspect for what he's talking about. at the end the day we have to have a public dialogue that can be more encouraging for your elected officials. if we go the route mccain is talking about, there's no pressure on them to ignore the lobbyists or push back against the lobbyists that are controlling the ways in which they're voting. the only reason we can say there's not going to be a ban is because the lobbyists are controlling too much of what's going on in the capitol. >> let's talk about the cost of doing nothing. just in the last 24 hours, police near dallas have reported that a 3-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed in what appeared to be an accidental death. there's no word yet on who fired the fatal shot but police say that both of the child's patients we parents were at home at the time. in chicago a 41-year-old man was shot three times and rushed to the hospital for surgery and this morning on the las vegas strip a gunman in a black range rover opens fires on a maserati s

. >> this is the weapon that's been used in the last five mass shootings in america including aurora and sandy hook. okay. the magazine is how big? >> this is 30 round capacity. it's standard. >> it's perfectly legal. weapon is ready to be charged. weapon is on safe. >> okay. shoulder the weapon. keep your finger out of the trigger until you're ready to shoot. take it off of safety. go ahead an shoot. >> once i got the hang of it and pressing the trigger faster and faster it was firing fast. >> this has a muzzle break. >> somebody that knows what they're doing how many rounds could they fire in a minute? >> maybe 60 rounds or so. >> 60 rounds a minute. >> 400 rounds a minute. >> the true rate if you have unlimited magazine then 400 rounds a minute. >> somebody like you? >> in one minute? 200 or so. >> 200. >> if i had to guess. >> you can buy this at walmart. you think it's a good idea. >> for law-abiding citizens it's an excellent idea. we shoot pigs out of helicopters in texas. we do things nobody does. if you start banning one particular anything, where is it going to stop? if you

so the aurora borealis looks smoother. >> a little closer to real life. >> a little more glorious. >>> that's our show, folks, thanks for joining us, we'll see you next time! troutman. it's time to watch the best videos of the day, "right this minute". >>> it's a different kind of smash-and-grab. gangs robbing cars as they sit in traffic. >> how it's leading to a new brand of street justice. >>> you can't believe three guys are doing this inside grocery stores. now meet the cousins behind the outrageous videos. >> did you get in trouble for this prank? >> we didn't get in trouble actually. they kind of felt bad. >>> every day, a woman gives herself bee stings. the story behind one strange addiction. >>> plus, the monday buzz word for your chance at an ipad mini. and does this house cat realize who he's messing with? it's the epic showdown of -- >> cat versus crocodile, y'all. >> see who's a big man now. oh wow! >>> reports say that this is video released by police in lima, peru. and what we're seeing is a group of men that police say are known as the coyotes, they're robbing cars as t

this is the weapon used in aurora in the movie theater and used at sandy hook in the elementary school and has been used in the last five mass shootings. i can see why. it was very light. it was easy to use. i had very little training before. maybe a minute's worth of training. and i found it very accurate. even i was getting an accuracy rate which apparently is the same as the trained police officers with real firing in new york, 20%. under different circumstances, i'm sure. >> who were shot, by the way. >> i don't understand -- and i want you to tell me, in the least inflammatory way possible, outside of hog hunting, why does anybody need one of those? if the answer isn't convincing, why the least we couldn't do to those poor families who lost people from that weapon is not just remove those from the equation. >> a number of things. first of all, i've been monitoring your gun debates. go ahead and take it to the bank. you will never understand. i really don't believe you'll ever grasp -- >> what don't i understand? >> it's a simple inadamant tool that tens of millions of american fam

he was a teenager killed in the aurora movie theater shooting. a teacher shot and wounded in the sandy hook massacre will also be there. and the motherle of gabe zimmerman, among the six people killed in the assassination attempt on gabby giffords. all told, more than 40 people with their own tragic stories will be spread throughout the chamber. >> i want members of congress to know that they're looking up in the gallery, seeing all the people there that are watching the president's speech that are looking at the congress and knowing that they're waiting for us to act. >> reporter: it was congrethis congressman that convinced three dozen colleagues to give up their prized tickets to the state of the union to victims of gun violence. >> this is the effort. this is the time. if not now, when? >> reporter: he has seen first hand what guns can do. he was paralyzed by an errant bullet when he was just 16. also in the chamber will be kaitlin roig. she was the first grade teacher at sandy hook who spoke to diane sawyer just hours after the massacre about

the victims of aurora, the victims of newtown, gabby gifforded, it was the first time in ten years that gun control, gun safety, ending gun violence had been raised in a state of the union address, so the mobileization that we've all been talking about combined with the shift, i think, slowly, admittedly, one has to be real about regional differences and how people feel about guns, but gun safety, ending gun violence, i think now has traction in a way it didn't ten, 20 years ago because of leadership, because of the extremism of an nra. not what it was. it was a sportsman's club. i think -- >> let's be honest. it represents -- it represents gun makers. i mean, this is a business. >> it's a lobby. it's a lobby. >> e.j., i want to talk about the difference between the federal and the state levels, because this is a problem that the republican party has on a host of different issues. they'll say one thing nationally, and then the state -- the governors, the statehouses, either take the party back two steps or just complicate the issue entirely. you saw that on reproductive health, women's

was making by way of comparison was why would anyone need an ar-15, which was, of course, the weapon used at aurorand, again, at sandy hook, and, indeed, in most of the mass shootings in america. what would your response be to that? >> well, i agree with him that i think an ar-15 is not something that the normal, average citizen should have, and, indeed, he is right that if you had a shotgun and you pull the trigger, it's going to -- it's going to scare somebody. there's no doubt about that. >> sandy phillips, you're in a better position than most because of the appalling tragedy of losing your daughter at aurora. when you heard joe biden say what he said, what would you think of it? >> well, as you know, i am a gun owner, and i do own a shotgun, and i have to say that i agree with him. just the sound of a shotgun can deter a lot from happening to you. that's not the answer. it's important to have auerbach ground checks that we're pushing so hard for, so that the wrong people can't get access to the guns. i kind of agree with him? that's a great weapon to own. >> part of the problem i have is, a, t

nasa says the biggest effect here will likely be auroras near the north and south pole. >> the auroras are beautiful to see. we benefit in that way for sure. >> for sure. >>>let check had with tom kierein for a look at all the rain coming down. tom? >> yes, we've had a tenth to quarter of an inch of rain late last night. raining lightly in washington right now. we can see the jefferson memorial from the hd city camera. we've had a lot of the rain tapering off across northern virginia, the district into maryland. you see the areas in yellow and orange raining harder. right now in northern virginia, fairfax, loudoun, prince william, stafford, spotsylvania, just scattered light rain. a little bit of light rain, just sprinkles now in washington. prince yorjs county, sprinkles. a little bit of light rain in charles county. northern part of prince george's county, it stretches west into montgomery county. all the rain is moving to the north and east. as we look at temperatures. right now, well above freezing but it's cold. it's only in the 30s. so you need a winter coat and umbrella. mid and