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good to be with you, i'm katy tur, and welcome to the opportunity of five lifetimes. five lifetimes, truly. if you were to sit down in any place on the earth, maybe it's a lawn chair in your front yard, it would take on average 360 years for a total solar eclipse to pass right over you. now for more than 30 million americans, this is their year, and this is the hour. it's already starting in eagle pass, texas, where in 27 minutes the moon will completely block out the sun. the first moment of totality over the continental u.s. from there, the path darts upward and to the right, like a sash from the country's hip to its shoulder. while only those this that specific band will experience totality, all of the lower 48 will get some portion of the

eclipse. giving nearly all of us a chance to step outside of ourselves and into the only experience the whole of humanity has ever shared in exactly the same way, the same as our grandparents, as galileo and aristotle, as the mayans, the cave men, hell, the same as the dinosaurs, and it's all just a fluke, a blessing of size and distance. the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but it just so happens to be exactly 400 times closer to us than the sun. so while other planets have moons, we are the only ones who just so happen to have this specific moon at this specific distance. so we are the only ones who get to see this, which makes it wonderful, actually wonderful, as in full of wonder. just listen to how we've talked about it since we've had tv.

>> totality caught most of them unprepared for what they were seeing. >> look at the colors. >> only a few will ever see more than once in a lifetime. >> it's fantastic. it's amazing. >> i don't know, it's a very spiritual experience. it is to me anyway. >> i've never seen anything like this before. i would like to see it again. >> i thought it was beautiful. that's all i can say. >> we wouldn't have missed it for anything. >> we are now in a virtual total eclipse of the sun.

i got to be honest, craig, i have the chills. >> i was talking to a scientist who did on the average, an eclipse will happen in the same place perhaps every 360 years, and i was just wondering, thinking about what this area was like 360 years ago, a few french trappers, you and black feet indians, and now we have people running around the rockies in their cars, trying to find it. i wonder what it's going to be 300 years from now. >> isn't that amazing to think about? something that ties all of us to both the future and the past. and in the present, gives the luckiest among us a whole 4 minutes and 24 seconds to lift our eyes up, away from our phones. away from ourselves and to the heavens. joining us now, msnbc's chris jansing live in rocky river, ohio, just outside cleveland, one of the cities in the path of totality, lucky chris. and also with us, jay gray, live in junction, texas, where they will experience totality in just

about 30 minutes. jay, you are up next, you are so lucky, tell me what you're experiencing there, and how are people feeling. >> yeah, katy, amazing. everyone excited. we're at the music festival right now, the third day of parties here, where they have given us a texas welcome. take a look around right now. we have seen chili cookoff, margarita mix off, road you events, a lot of music and today the star is, of course, that giant star, and boy are people excited. we were out here before the sun came up. beautiful. but then heavy clouds moving in as the sun came up, and it looked pretty bad. the forecast was not good at all. locals said don't worry about that. it's going to be perfect here. and they burned off and it is perfect, and we're getting a great look. we've seen that moon edge across the sun with our glasses on here, and with the filter on the camera, and it continues to move

and move. eventually it will fill it completely. we're already starting to feel the temperature drop a little bit, so we're experiencing that part of all of this. it's going to be a magnificent sight, according to the chasers who follow this around. they say it's emotional for a lot of people who are a part of all of this, and like you said, we're getting very close here right now to that totality. we'll spend more than three minutes in that darkness before it fades away, and everyone here just very excited, katy. as you might imagine, to be a part of this. >> jay, your texas is coming out, and i love to hear it. jay gray, thank you very much. chris jansing, over to you. i'm filling in for you today, this is your normal hour, but we still get a chance to see you. talk to me about what it's like out there? >> reporter: it is unbelievable, katy, so it's so exciting and the excitement is building. i've got my sunglasses on.

look what an amazing northeast ohio day we have. kids playing in the water, and now they've got their glasses on because the partial eclipse has just started. is it? lots of families out here together. this happens to be my family, so we don't need to concentrate on them too much. but honestly, people have been coming here from all over the united states, and boy did they get lucky because it is something special. nathan and juliana are here. they have been reading, waiting for the total eclipse. are you excited? >> oh, yeah, super, super excited. >> why? why did you have to come out for this. >> we have never seen it. it might be once in our lifetime. >> yeah, and this is the perfect place to watch it, we felt, and it was a pretty short walk from our place, so yeah. >> what a day, huh? yeah, it is actually, they say, better to see it out over the water. that is lake erie. 30 different states at least representing just by people who have registered saying at rv

parks or camp sites, a couple of germans we ran into. magnus is living in seattle. i'm going to call you an umbrphile, somebody who follows eclipses. this is not your first. >> in 1999 i was in germany for the eclipse. i saw it briefly for like three seconds. i hope we will be lucky and won't get the clouds. >> what was the three seconds like? >> everything went dark, all the birds didn't beep anymore. it was really good. i liked it. and it became cold. >> did you come here thinking you would find a fellow german? this is al, by the way, who now lives in philly, you have retrofitted. go ahead, show me, tell me. >> i got to turn it out of the sun. we had to put on a specialty filter on this thing in order to not burn it out. don't look into the sunday directly, it might hurt you.

this one filters out like 100,000 times. >> i'm not going to hurt myself if i do this. >> you can look through it with the normal glasses, actually even nicer. >> oh, my gosh, it is starting. this is incredible. >> and once again, duct tape came to the rescue, and i'm now able to cover it. usually you thread it on, but this is how i had to make it happen. >> al actually told us, katy, that we couldn't actually talk to him during the full eclipse because he was too excited. so yeah, to say that this is a once in a lifetime experience doesn't begin to explain it. i think we have some pictures we can show you from the cleveland clinic. the babies that were born there got little onesieonesies to mar

fact that the eclipse was there. they'll be 75 years old. this is pretty exciting. they say as many as a million people have come into the cleveland area. the reason i'm in rocky river is my brother paul lives a ten-minute walk from here. paul, has anything this exciting ever happened in rocky river? >> never, this is amazing. >> yeah, we're all pretty excited, katy, and we wish you were here. we'll be back with you throughout the afternoon, but i don't know if there's a better place to watch the eclipse today. oh, and obviously all the local papers, inserts. so they have been getting ready for this for a very long time, katy. >> what i want to know is paul charging you to stay with it because it's a premium right now to be staying in any of these totality banded locations. i hope he is, he can make some money off of this. >> well, first of all, he knows

i wouldn't pay, but i do pay in baked goods. but you're right, you know, there are airbnbs and hotels that are normally 125 bucks, going anywhere from 5 to $100,000, and most of them are sold out. that just tells you the level of excitement here. >> it is really cool. chris jansing, thank you very much, and as you can see right now, as you look on your screen. >> i wish you were here, katy tur. >> i wish i was there, too, but i'm about to go into space, and that will be cool too. you can see totality in mazatlan mexico, the clouds just passed as we were talking about it. what an incredible sight, even on a tiny monitor from a studio here in new york. let's talk more about the science behind this and how it works. joining me now is lee billings, senior space and physics editor, he'll be with us for all of two hours of the special. and i'm serious. i am walking into space right now. into the vr that we have created. it's actually pretty cool, huh?

>> it is. it's fancy meeting in space. >> even for a scientist. >> i'm overwhelmed, all the stars. >> you don't normally get to see this in new york city. don't walk off the platform, you're going to fall into space, and leave and we'll never see you again. >> why is this so special. >> on average, total eclipse comes to any part of the surface, around 360 years or so. it's also very special scientifically because we're going to be able to learn a lot more about the sun and how it affects space weather and things like that, by studying the outer atmosphere, it's corona, which you can see the glowing haze around the full eclipse sun. the sun is now in an activity cycle. it has an eleven-year cycle. we're able to see it in 2017, our eclipse back then, the lull in the cycle, it's now at the peak of the cycle. we'll see better how the solar magnetic field affect the corona. >> nasa is sending rockets up right now. >> they've got three sounding rockets they're sending up, a

chase plane that's going to be looking at the corona and the eclipse and getting as much as totality as possible. chasing the moon's shadow across the country, and there's other reasons it's special, too. you mentioned how this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so special. you know, it's not going to be like this forever, though. if we were around 620 million years from now, we wouldn't be getting any more total eclipses. the moon is slowly moving away from the earth, about an inch and a half every year, due to tidal pull from the ocean. it makes the orbit speed up, and it means in 620 years, the best you'll get is the ring of fire, annular eclipse, and we won't be able to see the corona like we can now. we won't be able to see the special thing. >> the moon will be smaller in comparison to the sun. >> so we really are lucky, it's a blessing and a fluke that we happen to be able to see this on our planet with the sun where it is, and in this moment in human

history or earth's history, i should say. who knows how long human history is going to last. >> that's right. the next eclipse is only going to be in 2044 for the contiguous u.s., 2045 for the actual, like, sash like strip across the entirety of the country. 2044 is going to be in south dakota and montana, and alaska is in 2028. who wants to go to northern alaska and see the eclipse. >> i do. >> i do too. >> let's talk about what we're seeing in mazatlan. we have that in the upper right-hand box. >> it looks like now, obviously totality has passed. the moon is moving past the sun and revealing more of the face. the fireworks have kind of stopped. earlier you could have seen the close up of mazatlan, the solar prominence, which is like the thing i have on my shirt. a little kind of prominence, a little glowing red spot, and that's plasma that's being ejected from the sun. and that's kind of what we're looking at, what we're studying

scientifically. we're looking at the way the sun's surface, the visual surface affects this outer corona. >> in this moment, it looks like the sun is the moon, a crescent moon. >> it does. we're waiting for a few different phenomena. the bailey's beats, and the diamond ring effect. has that passed? >> the beads have happened, around totality. that's a very good shout, katy. >> i did my research. >> you can maybe see a little bit right here. not exactly. notice how it's not a perfect circle. it's not a perfect outline of the moon there, the silhouette. there's slight little changes, and some of that is topography, some of it is mountains on the moon. >> it's the sun going through the mountains, and you're seeing more sun in areas than others. >> let's talk about the science behind this. it's about every 18 months, a total eclipse somewhere on earth. how come it takes so long to pass over one area.

why is it 360 years or more for a total solar eclipse to happen in any area. >> the plane -- we can show everyone, by the way, we have this incredible studio. talk to me about the sun and the moon. >> how the sun and moon and earth are aligned. all the planets orbit, except pluto, the moon does not orbit in the plane of e clip tick. that's a quirk, a cosmic accident that came about when the moon was created by a giant impact by a pro to planet and the moon. since it's not in the plane of the ecliptic, but, you know, that basically, you look at the

orbital geometry things change around, i know i'm being scientific. if you think about where the moon and sun are, with respect to earth, it's not always in the same place at the same time. >> if it was every month, and you wouldn't have had the ancient civilians, thinking the world was ending or dragons eating the sun or ritual sacrifice. >> that happens every month. >> we're going to get into the history because the history of eclipses and how humans have interpreted it is fascinating, a little scary. in 60 seconds, we're going to head to north holton, maine, the last spot of the totality, and they may have some of the best views today with the eclipse forecast described as sheer perfection. msnbc's special live coverage of the great north american eclipse continues in just a moment. contt

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looking up at the sky today, you will see the same thing this the same way as everyone who has lived on earth. you won't necessarily walk away with the same message. the ancient chinese believed the sun was being eaten by a dragon. the incas saw it as god's wrath. the mayans thought the sun was breaking and the world collapsing. in ancient greece, they stopped a war, and more recently, in 1919, it verified a theory, einstein's theory of relativity that gravity is not a force but a curving of space and time. joining me now to dive into all of this is jasper walkways barth at ohio state university. what a fun area of study,

folklore studies, talk to me about how eclipses have been interpreted over the millennia. >> absolutely. happy moon day, first of all, and secondly, yeah, i think that, you know, you've brought it to the forefront of a lot of these tropes or motives that exhaust in different kind of folklore practices, the myths and legends we tell about the world. i was excited to see the archive footage, and what they're telling today, and what we might learn from that. in particular, there's a gradual movement of the moon in front of the sun, which for me caused one tradition in a choctaw tradition, the squirrel is gnawing at the sun and finally consumes it, and has to be chased away.

what are the other ways that human beings hold multiple things in their mind at one time. so, you know, we have oral traditions that suggest this is a time of fear, but there's also lots of other kinds of folklore practices that might be happening at the same time, some kinds of celebrations or rituals or things like that that might indicate that people have, you know, different kinds of dispositions to this eclipse, too, other than the stories we just heard. sometimes we hear stories about how people relate to the moon in different kinds of ways and the sun in different kinds of ways. we need to cheer it up or this is a phase of rest for the sun who rejuvenates and teach us a lesson about how we should care for ourselves, as well. >> what about the stories about the eclipse foreshadowing the death of a king, and what the cultures did in order to protect the king? >> yeah, you know, the thing about a lot of those stories is that we have the stories but we don't necessarily have all of these other rich practices that were happening around them at

the same time. so we can have this narrative. i was thinking today about some of our current folklore practices, too, and how our own politics get embedded in the memes that we're making about this moment as well. right before i got on, i was actually thinking about the stories that we're telling, if only our memes persisted like the stories from the kings that you're telling about, you know, what would people in the future think about us in this moment. i saw a lot of memes about cloud cover and what happens if you look directly into the sun. that actually tells a lot about our own anxieties and fears in this moment too. like what is the nature of the information we share across the internet in relation to what happens when you look at the sun. at the same time, we have all of these different kinds of folklore practice and the way we relate to the world that are part of the stories we tell, and sometimes the practices are contradictory to the stories we tell as well. >> one of the most interesting things i read about it is how it ended a war in ancient greece.

the armies laid down their weapons, seeing it as a sign from the heavens that god didn't like the fighting. we're in a divided moment, i wonder if this is our chance to lay down all of our rhetorical weapons and come together? >> yeah, absolutely. i think this is a chance for a sort of singular moment for us to collectively experience this moment of grand celestialty. i think there's something potent about this. we live in this world where we feel like our personal actions, our agency, our collective agency, impacts everything in our environment all this way, and now we have this chance to sort of participate in something that's so much bigger than us. i think it has the chance to bring people together across this band of the u.s. and throughout the world in many ways. >> at least in a few minutes: jasper, thank you so much. good to have you. appreciate your field of study. it's really interesting. and the last place to see the totality here in the united states will be houlton, maine, at 3:32 this afternoon, and by luck of the weather, it might

also be the best place to see it, it not also the most crowded. it's tiny, a town of 6,000, the heights of history are tethered by earthly concerns, like how do you house more than 30,000 eclipse chasers. how do you feed them, and where do you relieve them? nbc national correspondent kate snow is live in houlton. are there enough bathrooms to go around? >> reporter: yeah, actually there are, katy. not a problem at all. the folks in houlton have been planning this for three years at least and they have made a lot of provisions. we're at the main town center. you can see the crowds. there are definitely thousands of people, but a lot of locals too. it's not all folks that came from other places. this is just the event of the century for this town, as you can imagine. a small city. we're about three miles from canada. i want to show you and introduce you to josh and his family if i can. i know it's muddy here.

show me, you were just telling me, josh. first of all, josh is not from here, right. you guys came in, thought you were going to go to texas originally and totally changed your plans. >> yep, when the forecast in texas looked like it was going to be clouded out, we changed plans to get away from the clouds, and this is where we ended up. >> you looked at upstate new york. i think you made a good choice. >> i'm happy with it. i have friends elsewhere in the country that have clouds and we've got a totally clear sky. >> jessica you went last time in 2017, and said you were so moved by that. >> i was blown away. this is not really my thing, but i was blown away by the experience, and just have been looking forward to this for the last however many years, and encouraging all of my friends to go. >> reporter: adrian, do you want to talk again. we talked a few minutes ago. this is adrian, she's 5 1/2. show the camera your pretty face paint. look at that. the kids here have had a lot

going on, right. they have lots of things for kids to do. they have had a lot of science going on, like on the plaza and a lot of classes, katy, and then they've got their nephew, too, with really cool face point. you guys really looking forward to this, yeah? >> yes, thank you. >> reporter: tell me what you think it's going to be like. >> i think it's going to be like all dark. >> reporter: it definitely will be all dark, and that will be weird. i did it last time, katy, in 2017, with my family in oregon, and i think the thing was the stillness that comes over when you reach total totality. so, katy, the last one they had that they could see in maine, a full total solar eclipse was in 1963. so all of these folks missed that, and next one, i have to look down, 2079 is the next time that maine will see a full solar eclipse. so this is a pretty special day here. >> kate, you're lucky, 2017 and today, i think now you can identify yourself as an eclipse

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it is 2:31, and totality is starting in texas. this is eagle pass, this is what's happening right now. with us is nbc's priscilla thompson who's in dallas. what can you see? >> reporter: yeah, so i just put on my glasses and looked up at the sky, and you can actually see that there's a little slither of the sun there, but it is starting to darken here. it's starting to get a little bit cooler, we have been talking to folks. we've got auburn and aaliyah here. how are you all feeling? >> we're exited. we saw it when she was 6, so we're excited to see it again. >> reporter: have you looked up with your glasses on. >> the crowd has been erupting in applause. there are thousands of people spread out across the property for the opportunity to see it when it does finally happen.

we're also really close to a highway, and so we're keeping an eye out to see if traffic is going to stop. that's actually something that happened last time there was an eclipse here. you saw cars stopping on the highway, getting out of their cars to try and figure out what in the world was going on. i know we've got another family down here that we want to chat with, already looking up at the sky. jessica and her girls. what do you all see? what do you see? what did you say, it's so close. >> it's such a small line. it's like a smiley face, right. >> and a rainbow. >>. >> reporter: a smiley face and a rainbow. how excited are you for the moment the moon covers the sun and it goes dark. >> i'm really excited. >> we've never seen it before. are you excited? >> really looks like kind of like when it fully covers it, it kind of looks like a fire ring.

>> reporter: yeah, when you can see that corona. mom, let me ask you, why was it important to bring your girls out here today? >> the moment that they told us about it, i was so excited. i think there was an eclipse not too long ago, a few years ago. it wasn't a full one, so when i heard this one was coming, we're coming out here. >> reporter: and there are definitely a lot of fans we're hearing from that are doing that. they didn't want to miss this experience. we're hearing once in a lifetime, once in a generation, and really like generations crossing and just a few minutes, everybody here, thousands of people are going to be looking up at the sky for a chance to see that beautiful moment of totality. >> it is really fun. priscilla, thank you very much. joining us now is jay gray. he's back with us in junction, texas. 2:40 is when dallas is going to get totality. i think you're getting it right now. it's so dark, jay. >> reporter: it's amazing, katy.

we are in totality. i can tell you goose bumps, the temperature has dropped dramatically. take a look up. it just snuck behind the cloud. we have seen the corona here. i want you to come back down and take a look behind me. what you've got is a wedding that just finished. a wedding in totality. this couple wanted this to be their event, and while it's special to everybody here, obviously it's extra special for this couple. another applause. we have heard applause as totality moved in, and again, temperature dropping here. it's almost nighttime. let's give you a look around of this entire area where we have been. the tex clips music festival. it is dark here, and a lot of people focused on what's going on. it's been a three-day event. we have had music, dancing, chili cookoffs, rodeo events, a

margarita mixoff but the star of the show is the third day, the giant star covered by the moon. i want to talk to a family that made the trip here from houston. by the way, they're going to have about 98, 99%. in houston, they've got clouds all day. they're from the katy area. hey, guys. >> we made it to the totality. >> we did. >> reporter: what's your thoughts? what do you think about what's going on? >> it's absolutely amazing. it makes you want to cry because it's so beautiful. it's like a once in a lifetime kind of thing. >> reporter: girls what do you think? better than school, first of all? >> way better than school. >> reporter: and what do you think about what you're seeing, did you ever think you would see it nighttime in the middle of the day? >> no. >> reporter: you spent some time here. >> this is my idea, so glad they're enjoying it. >> best idea you've ever had. >> reporter: it was a good idea. it moved from houston down here.

you're right, it's starting to come back out. emotional for a lot of people. could ewe feel that emotion as this happened. >> absolutely, yes, definitely emotional. >> reporter: thank you for taking time on the special day with us. enjoy the rest of it. now we can hang out and do some stuff in the daylight. enjoy some music. you're absolutely right. so we're starting to see things lighten back up again. your totality here was just over three minutes, now we're moving back and away from all of that. i got to tell you, just a very special time here, and to see it with all of these people who have been waiting, celebrating this for three days, and got to see this. this morning, katy, it looked like we weren't going to have any view of all of this, we are going to see heavy clouds as we moved in. they burned off right around the time the eclipse started here, and we saw all the phases of the moon just chewing away at that

orb, and finally blocking it fully as we got totality, and temperature dropping and darkness, and now the temperature starting to rise again, and we'll get back to the sunshine in just a bit. what an amazing time. just a very neat experience. >> i think it's amazing that you are so calm and cool and collected. as we were watching you, the sun disappeared, it looked genuinely like nighttime there. it became light as you were speaking. and you just kept going with it. what a wild experience to go from night today in a matter of seconds. >> reporter: i wish i had the words to explain what it was like. it may have looked calm and cool. i mean telling you, i have goose bumps, your voice trembles a little bit. it's like something you have never seen literally because it's something we don't see all that often. you talked about it earlier. if i stayed here and waited it would be 365 years until i'd see

it again in that spot. it's really moving, and i don't know if you can see in our interview, but mr. methin had tears in his eyes, clearly moved by what happened here. and the kids are running around and jumping. as it got dark, everybody got very still and very almost solemn as all of this unfolded. and it's been amazing to see. i'll tell you that's something i won't soon forget. >> this is how i'm going to get my kids to bed every night. i'm going to mimic an eclipse to get them to calm down and stop jumping around. jay gray, thank you, i'm so happy you got to experience that with you. let's go to priscilla thompson in dallas. she's experiencing totality in about 60 seconds. priscilla, i can see the crowd behind you, and you can feel the energy, just look at that guy behind you in the yellow with his neck craned up.

i'm worried about his neck. >> reporter: yeah, we're seeing a lot of that around here. a lot of folks trying to lay down on the ground and get the shot. everybody's necks right now, craned up. you've got cameras, binoculars looking up. i just checked through my glasses, and we have a slither of the moon. i think something is happening, let me see if i can find out from somebody looking at it. can you tell me what you're seeing right now? >> maybe a quarter of a sliver of the sun, that's about it. >> reporter: and you definitely feel it getting darker. >> it's cooler, darker, kind of an eerie feeling. in the time we have been speaking, i'm feeling it get darker. it's strange. lots of folks running around, reminding people to keep the glasses on, even as they're sort of experiencing this. >> oh, priscilla, it's getting dark. >> reporter: i think it's

happening. i think it's happening. >> reporter: put your glasses on. put your glasses on. >> reporter: i don't want to miss it, you're right. thank you, katy, good looking out. can confirm, there's only sliver left, a tiny ring. >> reporter: keep looking. it is so cool. there it is. it's happening. it's completely gone. i see literally this much. y thi. there it is. >> look at it now. you can see the outer ring. >> oh, my god. that is so cool. katy, where would i be without you narrating this for me. this is awesome. >> reporter: what are you feeling? what's the temperature like? >> i don't think i need my glasses for the totality, yes, it is very cold. it literally feels like nighttime here. this is amazing, katy, i have never seen anything like it.

i want to try to get some reaction, i hope there's enough light on the camera. can i ask you what you think of it? >> it's amazing, and you can see the stars around it, it's incredible. >> reporter: have you ever seen anything like this? >> no. >> reporter: what do you think of it? >> it's so cool. >> reporter: are you glad you came? >> yes. >> reporter: i saw you looking up the whole time. tell me what you're seeing. it's so pretty, i heard that one back there. >> the sun. >> you can see the stars, you can see that beautiful ring. i hope you're getting a shot of it, and able to experience it out there as well. katy. it is amazing. it is amazing. complete darkness. >> we can see it on the monitor here. it looks incredible from where i'm sitting. what's more incredible, though, is watching you go from day tonight in realtime, and then just seeing the wonder in the

faces around you, and trying to put what you're experiencing into words. do me a favor, go ask some people how they're feeling right now. >> reporter: yeah, let's see if we can go back here. if my photographer will come with me. >> don't even worry about the light on the camera. >> reporter: we'll just move. can i ask you really quick, how are you feeling, what does it feel like? >> it's just awesome, and it makes you feel little, you know what, it's just unbelievable, and overwhelming. >> yeah. >> reporter: unbelievable and overwhelming, i think i'll agree with that. is she related to you? >> this is my daughter. >> reporter: how are you feel something what does it feel like to see this? >> it feels amazing. >> reporter: amazing. mom what do you think? >> i'm very excited for this opportunity. i missed it. we could see some of the coronas, shining off rugt now.

-- off right now. it's very exciting. >> next time we see it, we'll be grown ups. >> reporter: you'll be a grown up the next time this happens. are you excited you got to see it as a kid? >> yes. >> reporter: how old are you? >> i'm 8. >> do you think you'll come back in 20 years or so, will you try to see it then too? it's really amazing. let me see if we can get one more. i ran into you a second. how are you feeling? >> it's amazing. it's overwhelming, and the energy of this crowd, being here to watch this really helps a lot too, and knowing what's going on. >> reporter: i want to auk about that. for a moment, we're all together, in this moment, having this experience. what does that mean? >> it means we're one people, we all can get along about some things some days. >> reporter: and maybe some other things too, right? >> is that for the news. >> reporter: it is for the news. i see more kids back here. let me see if i can get one

more. >> reporter: can i ask you how you're feel something. >> this is one of the coolest things ever. >> reporter: is it a boy, yes? his first eclipse and likely your last eclipse? >> oh, wow. >> reporter: whole family here. how many generations here. four generations of a family here. can i ask why it was important for you all to come together and be here for this together? >> oh, it was a good opportunity for all of us to experience something together all at once. >> reporter: where are you all from, the dallas area? >> yeah. >> reporter: there you have it, we're starting to get light again, but it was an incredible experience. i'll put my glasses back on before i look up. it's starting to move. but just an amazing experience to be here surrounded by these people. >> if i were you, i would leave those on. keep looking up, you have an opportunity of a lifetime there,

five lifetimes as we have been saying. thank you so much. and while you were speaking, we saw a plane go through the shot watching the eclipse over there in dallas. which was also just so cool to see. the next time the moon passes in front of the sun here in america will be 2044, and school kids, as you just heard from the little girl who was 8 will be about as old as me, maybe a little less. will those who experienced it this time around be hooked for life. adrian rocca garcia, she wrangled 500 kids from eleven schools into town to see the wonder of space for themselves. oh, my gosh, so what was it like? >> it was incredible. and we got to have our mayor here. this is mayor, and we got to have our friends sponsor this event. it took everyone to put this event together. we had educators, we had just an

incredible time. there was 15 s.t.e.m. activities, and we just got to experience this total darkness for a little bit with the mayor, and with all of our pretends. >> what was it like for the kids to see it, do you think you turned any one of them into future astronomers or scientists? rocket scientists? >> i haven't seen anyone so excited in a long time. there's no doubt that this event today has inspired them. they'll remember this for the rest of their lives, and so many were saying they wanted to become astronauts. this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for all of us to inspire our young people. >> how was the cloud cover? >> we did have a lot of clouds. when it actually happened, it got so dark. it was just a fantastic experience. we saw the enthusiasm of the kids. we had the spurs out here.

we had the spurs coyote, getting the kids excited, and what the mayor was talking about, i am so excited about what this is going to do for the future of san antonio, inspiring kids to seek cyber security careers, data science careers, hopefully we'll get some astronauts and entrepreneurs in technology. >> what an amazing opportunity to show kids the power of the universe with their own eyes and not to give them a telescope, not to put it on a screen. not to have it on your phone. not a virtual reality experience either but to see it right in front of your own face. >> we were excited about it. we have about 500 kids today. we have a school district that lent us their nurses, and of course the teachers came out here. we were able to feed all of the kids. we kept them busy. there was so many activities going, and we're really hoping that they're inspired to be the next generation that really

brings spaceanomics to san antonio. this is our future. today's event was for the future of san antonio. we're so lucky to be here and thank you all so much for joining us. >> it's been really great to have you. >> being out here in the outdoors is the best classroom experience that you can have, and we truly hope hope this inspires another generation of scientists. we need it. looking up at the stars and the moon and the sun doing their thing. it reminds us how insignificant our problems are here on earth and work to understand our universe a little bit better. >> hopefully it will bring us closer together seeing this all happen at the same time, the same experience that people have had for thousands and thousands of years. thank you guys so much for joining us. it's really great to have you. lee billings is still with us. and i looked at your face as we were watching some of priscilla

thompson and jay gray as it went to totality and everything went dark. you heard from the people who said they felt small. they seem to be at a loss for words, many of them. it's amazing. it seems emotional for you to see it. >> it is. >> even at this distance. every time, to see the human reaction, to see how the mixture of, yeah, the sacred and the scientific coming together. there's something for everyone there. >> what's it like to see it with your own eyes. >> i have only seen it in 2017, i was in my hometown of greenville, south carolina, and it's phenomenal, and it's not just a sight. it's a full body experience. right? so you feel the air getting colder, you hear the hush. you might hear crickets chirping, you might see birds suddenly go to roost. or roosters crowing. your color vision changes a little bit, something people don't notice. a lot of times there will be a silvery sheen that will come over your view and your rods and

cones trying to figure out whether or not it is night or day. >> virtual purple getting into the mix. >> your top would pop a lot during the eclipse. >> now my bosses notice for the next eclipse. let's bring in bill karins who's also with us. there was all of this talk about cloud cover and worries that people who had traveled great distances, spent a lot of money would not be able to see it. there's been enough of an experience for people to feel that it's been worth it. >> yes, and the happiness, even with people that had clouds from the darkness and change of their world. so this is flying. that little black circle is heading over little rock. the next big city in about 30 seconds, they are going to go into complete darkness, this shadow is moving at 1,500 miles per hour. lasting about three to four minutes, and all the locations you have been seeing. it's going to head into a favorable weather area right now. there's huge traffic jams coming out of st. louis, heading

southwards, crystal clear skies in southern illinois and indiana. watch this darkness. my maps even go dark because of the sun, the moon's shadow. here's the forecasted area, st. louis, paducah, indianapolis, what a show on the motor speedway, clear skies as tb. the next problem spot where people are like, this is horrible. buffalo to rochester to syracuse. you're locked in the clouds. erie cleared out. we can't be perfect everywhere. >> russellville, arkansas, is currently experiencing totality right now. that's the image of it. are we seeing the diamond ring? >> i think what we're seeing, the bailey's beads. >> i see it. >> and some of that might be also prominences erupting from the sun and getting away from the disc, so we're seeing a little bit of some space weather brewing as well perhaps. >> i was told that niagara falls, it's going to pass over

niagara falls. there's a ton of people. very scary to be at niagara falls and suddenly go dark, and take a wrong step and suddenly you're in the falls. they're thinking the falls themselves might turn pink during this, the way the light plays off! a lot of it has to do with how your eyes adapt, and it's not the same for every feature. dogs unfortunately, have different rods and cones, and probably don't experience the weird color shift. birds, they have cones that see ultraviolet. it's clearly something that affects all of earth in the path. >> so interesting. let's bring in jana levin, at barnard columbia university. thank you so much for being here. we're not going to get -- where are you exactly? are you in new york? >> i'm in brooklyn, greenwood cemetery. you can see behind me, this is an event that was put on by

pioneer works in arts and science center in brooklyn. we have about 10,000 people in the park, which is quite amazing. >> it's only going to be 90% totality. we're going to get not quite the same experience everyone else is getting. what are people expect something. >> the moon has taken a little bite out of the sun, and even at 90% totality, it's still a gorgeous event. we had this for the great eclipse in 2017, we underestimated people's interest in the partial eclipse. we had thousands of people swarm on to pioneer works garden, which can hold a couple hundred. this time we opened the entire park of greenwood cemetery. people are sharing glasses. we can see it going on, and even with a little bit of cloud cover, although right now, it's actually quite clear. you can still see with the glasses because the sun burns right there. >> explain to me the physics of all of this? >> the eclipse, well, it's

really quite interesting. every new moon, every time the moon is between us and the sun, we could in principle have a total eclipse. we don't because the moon's orbit is a little bit out of the plane of the line of sight between us and the sun. it has to just coincidentally be new moon when it is right in the plane between us and our orbit around the sun. and so we only get eclipses every once in a while. they do come in families, meaning that the moon is at a certain point in the orbit. it's approaching a note in a certain way, meaning that line of sight, and it's a new moon, and all of those three things align and you get an eclipse. they happen in families every 18 years or so like that. the last one that came across north america was like three cycles ago, in 1970 in the family of eclipses, the same family of the one we're experiencing now. >> jana, really interesting, i

love that you were able to take what is a very complicated subject and put it into laymen's terms. that's the mark of a really good professor. thank you. >> much appreciated. >> thank you so much. >> have fun. enjoy it. >> i'll be watching now. don't forget to wear those glasses, don't burn your retinas. right after the break. continuing special coverage of the eclipse across america. that same reminder goes for my kids, if they're watching. wear your glasses, kids. we're minutes away from totality in bloomington, indiana. our reporter is standing by to bring it to us. don't go anywhere. to us don't go anywhere. [street noise] [car door shuts] [paparazzi taking pictures] introducing, ned's plaque psoriasis. ned, ned, who are you wearing? he thinks his flaky red patches are all people see otezla is the #1 prescribed pill

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