david baron says more than anything this is a moment of wonder.n earth to space travel. >> there's a certain amount of sadness it was over. was so brief and so beautiful. >> he was in jackson, wyoming, catching it from a mountain top 10,000 feet up. >> it's that feeling of being in the presence of something much larger than yourself that humbles you. >> the path of this total eclipse cut right through those rural red states within driving distance of big blue metro areas like denver and chicago. >> this is a shared moment for all of us as americans for something that's not a natural disaster, not a school shooting, not an election we're fight being, but something we can all get excited about. i think it's important for the nation to have this moment of unity. >> a polarized nation sharing something awesome. today we all looked up in wonder. in glendo, wyoming. >> up next, remembering jerry lewis, celebrating the life and works of the legendary king of comedy. >> abc news "nightline" brought to you by -- this this this is my body of proof. proof of

i can see david baron in bright sunshine butjim greene, you look happy.the experience? it is the first one i have ever seen but i have to tell you there was not a cloud in the sky and it got dark and it was just beautiful. what did you learn? you have the awe and wonder, but what immediately are you learning from a scientific perspective? nasa has an array of instruments we tested, some from planes, others from balloons we launched. we launched 57 balloons along the path. they went up to more than 100,000 feet. we performed a variety of experiments. what will that tell us and help us, that we do not know now? i had, as a planetary scientist, an experiment on a balloon. a principal investigator david smith had bacteria we put on two coupons. one on the ground and one on the balloon and we did it to 30 balloons. we went to 100,000 feet. the reason we put the bacteria on it, and it is a hardy, harmless bug, but pervasive in this world, is that we wanted to see if it could survive the conditions. they were special conditions. at 100,000 feet you are above ozo

david baron chronicles that in his best seller. >> the experience he that eclipseent was>> com t thrghwestand among the scie went out to a young inventor named thomas edison who came back with a new idea. >> if he didn't goo wouldn't ha first person to come out with the successful light bubblb. >> and four decades later, einstein's relativity theory came from watching stores. >> giving the strongest evidence gravity was bending light. >> that was crucial to showing theory of relativity. >> in another small town in wyoming they wonder how they will get through it. >> wow.he town has a 1-1 ratio t potties to people. no hotels here. visitors all watching. >> farmers are charging $20 to park in their field. >> they're the center of the universe. >> right.>> for two minutes. the universe. 're the center of anything this is a moment of wonder. the closest thing on earth to space travel. >> there's aof over. waef and so beautiful. >> he was in n, wyoming, catching it from mountain top 10,000 feet up. >> it's that feeling of being in the presence of something much larger than yourself that hum

david baron. [applause] >> thanks for coming out on this rainy night. i am thrilled i lived in boulder so this is a real gem as the tattered cover bookstore. i would be talking about the eclipse in history in case assume there is one coming up very near future for the first time in 99ers it will cross the country coast-to-coast it is a big deal. we'll flee by the end you all have plans for the eclipse. how many of you have been planning for least a month? a year? a decade? commandeers?. >> six years. >> not that this is a competition by negative planning 19 years. i had been planning this book 19 years. son wanted to start off. so i did 19 years ago but the start -- the story goes back further than the average of as i was a science correspondent for npr and a partial solar eclipse was set and how oh the viewers that we emphasize that but a taller solar eclipse is totally different the it a completely obscure the face of the sun creating the most lot inspiring spectacle of all of nature so this astronomer said to me before you die you owe it to yourself

david baron says more than anything, this is a moment of wonder.something much larger than yourself. that humbles you. >> reporter: we all looked up in wonder. i'm david wright for "nightline," in glendo, wyoming. >> well, most of us looked up in wonder. >> i looked up at it, i didn't know it was that deep. did you? >> i was asleep. >> i looked at my little glasses. >> oh, yeah? you sure you had the right ones on, right? >> i guess. you're supposed to be able to see -- it's supposed to burn your retina, right? next one is july 2nd, by the way. burn your retina, right? next one is july 2nd, by the way. and i never thought i could get quality life insurance with my spare change. neither did i. until i saw a commercial for the colonial penn program. imagine people our age getting life insurance at such an affordable rate. it's true. if you're 50 to 85, you can get guaranteed acceptance life insurance through the colonial penn program for less than 35 cents a day, just $9.95 a month. there's no medical exam and no health questions. you know, the averag

she defended baron and other trump children before. >>> david has the final look at the accuweather forecast. >> hot and sticky out there today. northern and western suburbs here is what is in store for you. temperatures of 90 to 93 in some sports. later tonight in the north and west could be a strong thunderstorm. hot and humid in the i-95 corridor. similar numbers, low to mid-90s in spots and down the shore not quite so bad but you have a moderate risk of rip currents and muggy down the coast. cool drinks and a.c. breaks are important today. >> finally this noon, the south carolina family won't forget yesterday's eclipse soon. meet eclipse elizabeth youbanks. they say the decision on the name started as a joke. >> on the drive here trying to keep her mind off the contractions, i said hey if she is born during the eclipse we'll name her eclipse. >> the couple had picked out the name violet months ago but mom thought it was a great idea. the family didn't get to see the eclipse live they were occupied enjoying their own new ray of of sunshine. how about that? >> that will do it for "action n