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Traveling at 33,000 mph, a massive meteor hit the Earth's atmosphere creating a giant shockwave that blew out windows of glass, injuring nearly 1,000 people and creating panic. On the same day, an asteroid half the size of a football field came within 17,000 miles from Earth. NBC's Tom Costello reports. (Nightly News)

Investigators in California are trying to unravel the mystery surrounding two suspicious and strange deaths of a mother and son, days apart, at the mansion of pharmaceutical mogul Jonah Shacknai. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports. (TODAY)

Investigators in California are trying to unravel the mystery surrounding two suspicious and strange deaths of a mother and son, days apart, at the mansion of pharmaceutical mogul Jonah Shacknai. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports. (TODAY)

Aliens, Armageddon, fireworks? The Internet was ripe with theories over what caused as many as 5,000 birds and 100,000 fish to instantly drop dead on New Year's Eve. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports. (TODAY show)

A new brand of cigarettes is receiving a lot of attention because of its name. "Bama's" are packaged with an oval around the title, but the maker insists the marketing plan is in no way related to President Obama's identity. 

U.S. authorities say that the case of two men being held in Holland may involve just innocent items in the luggage of one of them and a coincidence of missed gates. NBC's Pete Williams reports. 

Accused party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi say they were not trying to crash a second state dinner, claiming that they were headed to a restaurant near the White House. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.