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"lord of the rings." >> john: on channeling manfred mann, "blinded by the light." that is where the fun is. >> aishah: we've got these cool glasses where we can't see anything if you look at normal stuff. >> john: when you look into the sun, you see it all. i am john roberts. good to see you on the roof today. >> aishah: we are on the roof of our beautiful d.c. bureau. very beautiful here in washington, d.c., but nearly clear skies with patchy group of clouds out there. we are the lucky ones. we've got our eyes on the sky for you as you all at home are about to witness a partial eclipse or a total eclipse depending on where you are. those in more than a dozen states from texas to maine, they are going to see the big show, the big event, that totality. >> john: this all comes down to the weather. cloudy skies could spell trouble for viewing for some people, particularly in the deep south.

we've got a jam-packed hour with our fox team coverage across the path of totality. jonathan hunt is live in indianapolis. jonathan, you should probably start to see the first image is of the moon beginning to cross in front of the sun. what is it like for you? >> we are expecting the moon to begin that creep across the sun. any moment now we've got about 50,000 people here in the stands with us. we've also got our drone pilot with us. we will launch the drone and give you the most spectacular shot of the indianapolis motor speedway and that thousands of people who have turned up here for what will be an extraordinary event. he looks at the moment if you look at the path of totality right across the u.s., we appear to be in a position where we may have the best weather of anybody in the country for this viewing. very, very excited crowd here.

indianapolis has seen tens of thousands of people come into the city beyond those who live here for this opportunity. what an opportunity it is to be here at the indianapolis motor speedway and witness an extraordinary natural events, the cosmic coincidence as nasa officials have called it as the moon moves across the face of the sun. we are just about an hour and 3 minutes away from totality here. it will be an extraordinary moment. i think nobody knows how they are going to react. i've never been in a total eclipse before. i don't know the physical or spiritual reaction you get. as everybody goes silent in the face of that spectacle? it will be a beautiful moment one way or another. you are still a huge celebrity here. every single person in this

50,000 person crowd wishes it was you here rather than me but they are stuck with me for today i'm afraid. >> aishah: i miss them and hello to everybody out there. i think you might turn into a werewolf if you look at it too long. >> i will try not. my mother might -- a long time ago. we have all got the glasses. i got mine. they are ready here obviously. we will only be looking with the use of these things, because that is the only safe way to do it. everybody right across the country whether you've got the total eclipse that we are going to see here, or you got 40% out in california where governor gavin newsom's policy and left them with 40%. i'm joking, governor. it has nothing to do with your policies. it is nature. wherever you are, it's your glasses. back to you. >> john: as we watch in mexico where the moon has just about entirely cover the sun, typically in an eclipse as we

approach the zone of totality here, you will see what are called to bailey's beads as the sunlight shines through the valleys of the moon just before it completely obscures the sun. the fact that the moon is very close to the earth at this time unlike in an annular eclipse in which the moon doesn't fully cover the sun, we may not get the same effect. this will be interesting to see. we are expecting in areas like del rio, eagle pass, dallas, indianapolis for the moon to completely cover the sun. we may not see those phenomenon like that diamond ring that we have seen in the past. >> aishah: i am way more interested in what happens here on planet earth. how everything starts to react when the wind starts to calm down and things -- the temperature starts to cool off and it starts to feel like desk is happening. animals and plant life. how does everything react? i can't wait to see that. >> john: i would like to see

the shots on the ground. there goes the sun. it's gone. >> aishah: there it is, guys, that is totality right there. i think it is the first one to go in mexico. it just disappeared. i thought i could see a little bit of the corona. you can hardly see it. just a little bit of light emanating from the surrounding of the moon. really you can hardly see the corona coming out of matt barrett >> john: very bright up here on the roof. we can fully see that. maybe folks at home can see more than we can from our vantage point. it is night basically. if you are a turtle, it's time to go find a mate. >> aishah: that is what we were waiting for. look at that already. i want to know how quickly that moon is moving. >> john: about 1500 miles per hour right now. shadow of the moon. >> aishah: we will start to see that corona a little bit more.

look at that. it looks like midnight. it looks like 11:00 p.m. in mexico for those folks down there. i wonder what they are feeling and how eerie that is looking up at the sun and how that would have been like so many years ago, a thousand years ago to see this happen in the middle of the day. >> john: this morning over a lot of the movies that have been made that include -- we start there to see. there is the diamond ring. that is what we are looking for. i was going over all the movies that have been made where somebody is about to be sacrificed and they knew that there was eclipse coming. they predicted that the sun is going to go away and suddenly they are proclaimed safe from sacrifice and go on to lead the people. >> aishah: i think this is a sign whether you are religious or not. >> john: you can see the corona now. >> aishah: this is such a spectacular sign of how expansive and how phenomenal our universe is.

>> john: look at that. you can see the coronal ajax is there. see those bright spots. you can see them on the left-hand side of the screen at the top left. those are prominences, small ones that are coming out of the corona of the sun. that is to build in degree plasma. you don't normally get a chance to see that because the sun is so bright that it obscures that. now with the moon covering the sun, you get to see that incredible show. that's amazing. >> aishah: this is such an awe-inspiring moment for many of us. obviously, this is a very predictable event. we knew this was coming. when you are witnessing it live, when you are there on the ground -- it will happen for so many millions of americans, when you are standing there looking up above, you kind of have an out-of-body experience. you have to. it is so unnatural. it happens so rarely. and help burbage, john.

you can't make this up. how appropriate for the moon to be just the right size. >> john: about 4:00, you got a little prominence there. this is stuff that we never get a chance to see. the hubble and the web telescopes can pick it up. this is something that you never get to see with the naked eye. >> aishah: if we could stay on this picture. let's bring in a columnist for the "national geographic." author of "the stargazer's atlas." he can talk to us about all of this. we are watching this along with you here in mexico as the folks there are just witnessing an incredible moment here, a once-in-a-lifetime really for a lot of people experience. give me your experience and having seen total eclipses, what is your favorite part about t this? mine is watching everybody else on the ground and how they re

react. >> it is. of course, all the action appears to be happening in the sky with a totality as we are seeing it play out in mexico right now. and if there is also a show happening, you know, back here on earth. there's so many eclipse parties. there's so many large congregations of people that are going to be watching this together. there is this electricity that happens. there is this visceral experience, multisensory experience. it is unlike anything that we are used to seeing. we may see it on hollywood movies and stuff like that. to actually experience it with your own eyes, feel the temperature drop when totality happens, you can hear animals that normally come out in the evening time and twilight. they start being active.

it really is an amazing experience unlike anything else. i have experienced and more with my family. it is an amazing family event. even my wife was teary-eyed watching it, because it is so profound. is very hard to put into words of what it really is like to watch totality. it is amazing that so many people are experiencing it to today. people traveled from so far from around the world to see this to be in the path. it's amazing. it brings people together. >> john: after getting a beautiful view from nasa tv, a lot of corona activity. we are seeing the other side of the diamond ring where you will see a very slim sliver of light around the edge of the moon. and a really shiny spot that people call the diamond in the diamond ring as the moon moves across. we will say goodbye to the area

of totality and folks who were in texas and on up through the rest of the ohio river valley will get a chance to see you soon. why is this so beneficial for scientists when the moon is completely covering the sun and all you see is the coronal activity there? >> you alluded to this before. the outer atmosphere of the sun is something that we don't quite understand of what is on. particularly the idea that the temperatures are so crazy hot. millions of degrees hot, hotter than the surface of the sun. this is a big physics question of how is that possible? the only time that scientists can study this is those precious few moments of totality. the one like we just witnessed happened in mexico and will be happening across our nation and into canada as well.

it is the precious 2 or 3 or 4 minutes. they stationed themselves there under the path of totality and examine the corona. the ecosystem of the sun, there are so many mysteries. it is these kind of special celestial events that help unlock those solar mysteries for us. >> john: from our rooftop here in washington, d.c., i put our glasses on. the moon has started to cross the sun here in washington, d.c. we are not going to get totality. we will get about 88%. it's a heck of a show. to everyone at home, i got so excited that i started to look up at the sky without putting up my glasses on. learn a lesson from me and don't do bad. i imagine nasa is taking up a jillion pictures of the star systems that are beside the sun right now and learning so much about those systems. can you just talk to americans

briefly about how rare this is? there are people out there that are thinking, who cares? it is the moon. who cares? this happens all the time. how rare this event when we think about, we don't know of any other event like this in the universe where a moon aligns with a planet and a star in this way, do we? >> this is so unique to our planet. it is an amazing coincidence that the moon and the sun, the way they are oriented. the sun happens to be 400 times larger than the moon. it also happens to be 400 times farther away than the moon. that is why there are 2 disks in the sky appear almost exactly the same size and why we have eclipses. science has shown us that in the distant past of our planet, millions of years ago, the moon

was closer to our planet. we did have eclipses, but they weren't like this. we weren't able to see the corona or anything like that would never have been visible. the moon was much bigger in the sky than the sun. hundreds of thousands of years from now, the moon is going to slowly move away from the earth. larger distance between our bodies. the moon will be smaller than the disk out of sun and we will never have total expenses like this ever again. don't wary. it will still happen for a few hundred thousand years. >> aishah: we don't need to worry about it. >> john: our kids may have to worry about it but at least we don't. this is great because we are going to see this. this eclipse is not going to last four and a half minutes. it will last three hours or so. we are seeing, we are about to get the same zone of totality

that we had. we are also looking in texas where the moon is covering about three quarters of the sun. we are going to have an unbelievable cat bird seed view of this from the coast of mexico in the pacific all the way up to the coast of maine in the atlantic. this is going to be amazing. >> it is amazing that you guys have this amazing footage from different geographical regions i know it is not the same to virtually see it. i am in montreal, canada, looking at your footage here as totality is going from one place to the next, it's incredible. now i'm getting even more excited for when i get to see this. >> john: you will be right on the edge of totality as i saw it. we just got that diamond ring. that is so beautiful. now we will get a shot of the corona as well. we wish you a lot of luck in your eclipse viewing.

you do have a terrific seats there. we hope it is everything you are expecting it to be. we hope that less guys stay clear for you. >> thanks, guys. >> john: look at that. a green corona now. look at how beautiful that is. that is incredible. >> aishah: it is very interesting to see how it looks a little different in different places wherever you are. i wonder if that is the atmosphere of the earth, the lighting. i'm not sure. i'm not a science whiz. that is interesting and beautiful in mexico. >> john: nasa does a spectacular job of covering things like this. i get pictures that no one else could possibly have. we have a camera with a special filter. can we take the camera here in washington, d.c., and give you an idea and put it side-by-side with what we are seeing?

it looks like -- that's washington, d.c., where the cookie monster has taken a bite out of the sun. >> aishah: we are going to put our glasses on. >> john: we should point out that it's been a pretty cloudless sky in washington, d.c., all day. now some light clouds are blowing and obscuring it just a little bit on the right-hand side of your screen. we are not going to get the beautiful shot in washington that you see in mexico. we are only going to have about 88% coverage of the moon. we should get a lot of the effects. the dogs will start t barking. when the sun comes back, my dog will wake up and go back to sleep again. we are expecting that we will get some effects of it. the breeze is popped up. >> aishah: the animals have been through a lot this week. they've gone through a few earthquakes and a solar eclipse. hopefully things don't happen in threes. we will cross our fingers for that. what a beautiful stunning site.

i was preparing myself mentally for this. i had seen the partial eclipse before. been like a in indiana to be in the path of god. to be honest, truly breathtaking. that beautiful shot is just incredible. it makes me realize why people like andrew kind of chase eclipse and go from one country to another. there is nothing like seeing it in person when you look up in the sky and you are one with that moon, that wonderful satellite that we have and the sun right behind it. i think it is a cool moment. >> john: 5:00 spot we see that same activity that we saw. there is a real hot spot. scientists clearly looking at very closely. this guy has cleared up a little bit in washington. across texas, they have almost lost the sun in some areas.

>> aishah: i am wondering if we can go down to texas now. we've got a reporter down there. i wonder what it is starting to feel like. if you guys can tell us how far in is the moon there. >> john: what does it look like? >> here's the deal. we have a momentary burst of sunshine when we are using our glasses. i can see we've got more than half of the sun covered at this point. team minus 24 minutes or so from totality here in dallas. then you will have the clouds that go in front of the sun entirely. you can't even see it. this thing is only going to be under 4 minutes. let's hope that the sun will make a peek through the crowd so we can see the moon fully move in front of it. i want to show you a live look at what's going on. this is the margaret hunt health bridge behind it paralleled by

span of traffic. police keeping people from stopping on that bridge so that they don't interrupt the traffic flow as this connects downtown dallas into west dallas. all those people lined up on the bridge. that is the ron kirk pedestrian bridge where this official viewing party has been scheduled for today. the organizers say 4,000 people are expected to be out here. if you keep on panning around, i want to show you what we have got down the line. if you look across the levy on the banks of the trinity river, you have several thousand additional folks that are sitting out here and i've taken time off of work and out of school. they have kids of all ages out here taking a look and waiting for the big moment. we have been talking to some folks that are here from not only the dallas-fort worth area but also from far away, washington, d.c., where our anchors are right now. welcome to dallas.

>> aishah: thank you. >> why dallas? >> i was thinking about the eclipse path. i thought dallas was the most interesting city. >> are you going to be horribly disappointed if you don't see it? >> they started talking about cloud cover. speak out again, the sun rears its head every now and again. whenever it does speak out, you can hear the crowd cheering. it is kind of electric. it could be a bust. >> in any case, it will be fun. >> this is such a carnival-like atmosphere. enjoy the eclipse. and drop it intern amelia is here. when i talk about a carnival-like atmosphere give a look at some of the insurance they are out here. "i got moaned." people are starting to grab pictures. she might want to take that home as a souvenir. one of the perks of the job.

we are sitting here with several thousand people. pretty wild when the clouds do break away. then, you can see the sun straight up in the sky. evidently more than halfway covered by the moon at this point. we are just really hoping that we don't have cloud cover for the main event. 1:44 central time is when totality begins. it will be just under 4 minutes or so. not terribly long to get a chance to see it. no doubt, a lot of here don't like people are waiting here very excited. >> aishah: we love what we heard a couple of seconds ago. i am looking at my weather app. it looks like it's 80 degrees down there. do you feel any sense that it's getting a little bit cooler? >> it is similar as when the clouds go o over the sun, partly cloudy day. you have the direct sunlight beating down on you and i cloud

moves in front and closing up a little bit. that is what we are experiencing. it's cooling off a little bit. as lemons lines right in front of the sun, and is starting to cool down. whether it's going to actually drop a few degrees are not on the mercury, i'm a little skeptical. i'm no scientist or meteorologist. allegedly, that can happen. we will certainly take it. it is warm here. for a eclipse day, the one that so many have been waiting for and coming in from so far to s say. >> john: thank you very much. we are almost in totality down there in eagle pass, texas. those of you in russellville arkansas, bill melugin is down there. we had totality and mexico. 350 miles from where you are. but it's out looking like, bill? >> john, we are just a few minutes away from totality here. i wish we had a nick lentz down here at the border. it has dramatically cooled off. it feels pleasant out here.

85 degrees. it is cool and breezy. you might be able to see you know it is darkening up out here. you can go live and see. it is 1:00 in the afternoon out here. it feels like at 7:00 p.m. like we are getting ready for sunset. ed is getting very dark out here. you can see post-gathering to watch this thing. i will put my glasses on and see where we are. we have what appears to be a tiny fingernail size of the sun remaining. we should be within a couple of minutes here. official time we are expecting l2:27 eastern. that is 2 minutes away. we are getting darker and darker by the minute. the temperatures keep dropping. very breezy here. this is a remarkable feeling. 1:30 in the afternoon, and it really feels like we are getting ready for a sunset. we have done many sun sets down here at the texas border. going to keep the glasses on to make sure i don't blind myself in totality happens.

this is the coolest thing i've seen in my three years of coverage. this is just remarkable. i'm looking over at the mexican side of the river. they've got music playing. you might hear that over my microphone right now. we should again be a minute or two away from totality here as it is getting darker and darker. we are now having to use our light as we are doing a nighttime live shot on me right now because it is gotten so dark out here. now the window slowing down a little bit. it's getting cooler. it's just a remarkable side. i'm going to buy the glasses on one more time. it looks like we are almost there. not to sound dirty here, but it looks like it is almost no ring from "lord of the rings." you see the outer edges of the sun blocked out by the moon h here. it got even darker. can we turn the light off real quick? >> give us a sense.

look at that. >> aishah: it is. it is like you are there at 9:00 p.m. at night. it is totally dark. you can hear the people. the crown in the background. >> that is people tearing. look how dark it is getting now. we have totality. i don't have to have my glasses on. what a remarkable site. look how dark it has gotten. this is crazy. the coolest thing i've ever seen in my life. >> john: it is so interesting to hear the celebratory atmosphere. typically in your coverage from eagle pass over the last 4 years, nobody has been celebrating. this really is unusual. >> it is remarkable. it almost feels like it is a rave going on out here across the river. flashing lights. we've got a stage with music going on. do you want to show it real quick for see it on the drone?

it feels like we are in the middle of the night. it is absolutely remarkable. you can see that police lights on the mexican side of the shoreline. haven't noticed any weird behavior from any of the animals just yet. we've got a lot of stray dogs. i am looking up at the sun right now. are we able to show it on the drone? no? it is remarkable. it is the same images you guys were seeing a short time ago. this is the first point in the united states where you are going to see totality in eagle pass in 40 minutes away in del rio. where we have spent so much time over the last few years. it is almost chilly out here. it feels great. breezy, cold, and very dark. it is gotten darker within the last 45 seconds. i am waiting to see. you guys are calling at the bailey's bees. we are waiting to see some of the sunlight popped out on one

side of the moment. we might be getting that a little bit right now. just an absolutely remarkable side to add a little bit of color. a really feels like i'm getting ready to do a nighttime live shot. speech of your reaction is priceless but i think this is exactly what people are going through. it looks like miami. there is a party and a rave going on. i can feel your excitement. this is the first time for you and i and a lot of us to be experiencing this. i don't know. give us a little bit more about feeling. we have yet to experience it. what are we in store for? why does it feel like when you are literally physically not looking at it on the tv but physically looking up, and there is nothing. the sun has disappeared. >> i can only imagine what people in the old days must've felt. we knew this was coming because of science and astronomy. i can't imagine going about your

day and looking up and seeing that all of a sudden. i think i heard you talking about human sacrifices. it's no wonder people will do remarkable events during something like this. and we turn the light off one more time? i want to give you guys an idea of how dark it is out here now. it is literally 1:40 in the afternoon in eagle pass, texas. it feels like i'm doing a live shot at 9:00 p.m. at night just as the sun is setting. by far, the coolest thing i've ever seen in my entire life. those in the path of totality and the united states today are going to be very lucky people. we are lucky as well. it has been overcast all day long. we have a small break in the clouds where i'm able to look up and see the complete totality of the cyclops right now. as this thing starts moving northeast across the united states, you guys are going to be in store for a remarkable site. even if you are not in 100%

totality, just feeling everything get darker and colder while it's the middle of the day, and a wild feeling, guys. >> i was going to say in terms of animal activity, be careful your step. you know that tarantulas and scorpions come out at night. they might be a little confused. i saw the biggest spider i've ever seen in my life down south on the border. just south -- five or 6 inches across. big tarantula that was sitting right in the middle. >> not quite that big. my head is rather large. sorry, go ahead. >> now the light is starting to come back. i'm going to look up real quick here. i am starting to see part of the sun starting to poke out again. we are starting to get a little bit of the light back. i am sorry to keep harping. let's give the viewers at home that you have backed up what we

are getting out here. it's starting up again. we had almost total darkness a minute to go. i am looking up now, and the sun is starting to peek out again. that was too high for 3 minutes of totality in that darkness. here we go again getting our daylight back. you saw it there with us. this is the first spot in the united states. for the viewers at home who just saw that, if you're in that path, get outside and get these glasses and take a look. it will be an experience you will never forget for the rest of your life. >> 20 years from now, 192044. probably 38 by that time. >> aishah: and still look exactly the same. thank you so much. what a cool experience. what a way to kick things off here in the u.s. let's go back to dallas where he is about to experience what bill just didn't hear it on fox.

tell us what is happening. >> it is really wild. it is something to read about these and see the coverage on tv leading up to this. you stand out here and experience it is something else altogether. i don't want to jinx anything. the clouds are not covering right now. we are only about 11 minutes from totality. when you look at with your special glasses, i see a little sliver of the sun that is still remaining. c- ten or 11 minutes from totality. look at all of these people that have come out here to gather. we've got to show our surroundings before we lose all of our lighting. this is one of the many certified watch parties that are going on across the area. the north texas metroplex. upwards of 4,000 or more people are expected to gather here on the cart pedestrian bridge. you can see them all lined up

for as far as the eye can see. if we keep panning down the line, i want to show all of the people that have put out their blankets almost as if they are having a picnic that have gathered out here on the levy to watch. so many people have come from all over the place to see this. we talked to some folks from d.c. i want to talk to these people right here all the way from slovenia. >> correct. >> when did you guys get to texas? >> 10 days ago. takes us, louisiana, a few places, beautiful places. now we are waiting for the expense. >> is this your first time visiting the united states? the expense was enough to get you on the airplane. >> not just the expense. we went for a ball game, basketball.

watching the good lunch -- we visited new orleans, houston and the famous teams. >> thank you guys so much for coming out and thank you for talking to us. it's about 10 minutes away or so. here we go. let's cross our fingers that the grounds don't get in the way. we have talked to some people from seattle who flew in this morning at about 6:00 this morning and landed on one of the first flights of the morning. it is a little eerie if i do say so myself as that sun starts to slide over. i was using the analogy that it is when the cloud goes in front of the sun on a cloudy day. it's not really the same. thinking about it, the clouds diffuse the sunlight on a little bit. the moon is going to totally block the sun. it is a different feeling. i want to say that i stand corrected. it is either my mind, or it's getting a little cooler around here. there is no doubt about that.

just a little bit of the sun left right now. here idallas as we await totality. not terribly far off. >> john: i would think it probably is getting a little bit cooler. here in washington, d.c., where the sun is only covered by about a third by the moon, we noticed that the light is starting to get more dim. it's not glaring as much as it was. i don't think there has been much in the change of temperature. are you working with a line on your camera at this point or no? >> we are. and we turn off. let's turn the lights off so we can give our viewers a sense of what it looks like without the artificial lighting that we used to go live. we are not in totality just yet. it is for sure getting darker and darker out here. i have to say, i was telling you

earlier, it's kind of an eerie feeling. it's exciting but also a little strange to be standing here in the middle of the afternoon to see everything getting really dim and to feel the weather cooling off. i heard bill talking about it feels like sunset. it's more rapid because this is happening much faster than the sun when it actually goes down on the horizon at the end the back of the day and the fact that it is straight up in the middle of the sky. it's not out on the horizon as we see during sunset. it is exciting but also a little bit eerie. i think i now understand these apocalyptic type of movies where this happens. it sure is a bit strange. but also exciting. so many people out here have butterflies in my stomach. these people came from slovenia and made a trip out of it. they are catching other things while they are here. if it weren't for this total solar eclipse, they probably

would not have bound themselves here. >> aishah: it is very ominous. i think that is the word you're looking for. sunrises and sunsets. >> about to lose everything. >> aishah: just a little sliver of the sun left on the bottom left-hand side in dallas. what is incredible there is you can hear behind you know everybody is -- their emotions are coming up. i saw a lot of kids down there playing and running around. you are going to hear my favorite part, the audible gasps and their reaction to -- we are all prepared for this. we know it's happening. and then it happens and you sort of have this out-of-body experience. >> great minds think of light. as we were standing here i was thinking the same thing. probably the neatest part of this is hearing the reaction from the crowd. i want to go down a little bit

further this way as we are not terribly far away from totality. i want to talk of these folks that came from miami. we have been doing manager interviews with folks as we have been waiting to go on with you. these folks came in from miami. welcome to texas. what made you want to get on a plane and come all the way to dallas? there are so many places around the u.s. >> we needed to experience this. >> we are getting close to totality. >> imc, it's closing up. oh, my goodness. >> is a spiritual or emotional? >> it is emotional. >> when they witness something like this, they cry. do you think you will shed a tear? >> now, but i'm excited. this is beautiful. >> goose bumps. i will leave you alone i let you enjoy about totality. thank you guys so much.

you hear the excitement building in the crowd. i know it sounds trite. we are not just saying this for fun. this is really an exciting moment that so many people have been waiting for. you can feel it in the air as we are nearing totality, you guys. oh, my goodness. it's a little bit ahead of schedule. they told us it would be at one: 44 this afternoon. it is one: 40 by my clock. we have totality. that is incredible. you can see -- you can see the distinct mark around the sun. >> john: you don't need me to narrate. let's just listen to the sound of the crowd for a second year. [cheers and applause] >> yeah, of course. [cheers and applause]

>> wow. [cheers and applause] >> john: hearing comments. here comes the sun back again. dallas isn't in the total zone of totality. they are not right in the bull's-eye. it's not going to last as long as i did down in eagle pass. that was some 4 minutes longer for .5 minutes long. it's going to be a little less than that in dallas. look at that beautiful shot. >> i am getting so pumped watching bill and casey and all those shouts. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say, you are

right. 3:50 seconds. you had to be prepared if he wanted to take video. the coincidence are not, but we have monitors set up out here. i looked at my camera. they are doing crazy things. you hear about the magnetic forces and some of the things that might be going on within the environment and the atmosphere. one of the monitors is going wild. not as wild as this crowd. you can just feel the excitement. this has been talked about for so long. it really is magical as we are starting to barely see the other edge of the sun emerging again. 150% bulldog. >> aishah: that is a beautiful corona there. that is a very bluish, purplish corona. the one in mexico had a greenish yellow to it. every single place we have seen so far, and has been different colors. i met and add something to do

with the atmosphere, the clouds in the sky, everything going on in that area. that crowd in the background, i am loving it and eating it up. they are experiencing -- do you think about what people would have gone through a thousand years ago if you didn't know this was happening, he would probably hear a lot of screaming and wailing and shouting. this is incredible to live through those folks and get ready for what we are about to experience in the northeast. >> i was going to say, it really is a spectacular show. i am so excited for the rest of the country as this moves onward from texas and the other millions of americans in the path of totality -- partial eclipse down in houston at nasa in 2017 is nothing like this. it was very cool. they were flying a special mission down there from nasa out through the path of totality with scientists on board. they are doing that again.

it was nothing at all like this. i want to say, it's wild, because the lights them all come on. you can see the streetlights are on as if it is 9:00 at night. the lights on the buildings behind us on the restaurants and the edges. those are all coming up. now you hear the crowd. now we are starting to see that sunshine through again. they are still having school. dallas-fort worth, the biggest cities here. they were keeping class in session. if people didn't keep their kids home to bring them to places like this, the kids are getting a real life science lesson no doubt about it. >> about the glasses. >> there is that diamond ring. there is not a fact we were telling you about. that diamond ring. the sliver of light around the edge of the moon and the really bright shiny spot. that is an extraordinary experience to see that.

>> and it is extraordinary. it looks like a big diamond in the sky. that is exactly right. it is getting harder to look at. definitely can tell that the moon is moving on. moving on to other places. you are starting to see that sliver through special glasses. the sliver of the sun returning. i think we are going to soon be reaching a point where once again it's not safe to look at. it was hard to see us probably because we have our camera lights up. during those moments of totality, i absolutely was looking straight up into the sky and looking at the magnificent white and bluish ring that you are describing. i find it just fascinating that we lucked out. it was not looking good. we have been standing out here since 7:00 this morning doing our live shots looking anxiously at the weather. even at the top of the hour as we are approaching totality, it

wasn't looking that good. maybe 50/50 as a big chunk of clouds was totally covering the sun. it is just what everyone was hoping for and all that wishful thinking. off almost as if it was timed out on few. mother nature took her queue and move those clouds out of the sky. it is wide open and through space now as we are starting to finally see the sun starting to reemerge around the side -- a while back. >> aishah: you are speechless. we are all speechless along with you. anything that moon is thinking about? looking up and gawking at it as it is just doing its thing. it is doing what it was supposed to do. moving a little bit faster. >> look at that. >> it is worth noting, it is the largest metropolitan area within

totality. folks were estimating the local chamber of commerce and estimated half a million people we're going to surge here into the dallas area and north texas area to witness this. the airport has been nonstop. we understand there are no rental cars left at all. some 35,000 hotel rooms booked solid. this is something as you have been talking about and some of the guests that have been talking about that has been planned by a lot of people for years. 1878 incidentally, 1878 was the last time that the dallas-fort worth area saw one of these total solar eclipses. the next time this area will get to experience this again will be 27 -- 2317. when we talk about a once-in-a-lifetime moment our historic event, it truly is when you look at dates like that.

>> aishah: another view incredible to be a pilot right now. you mentioned the airport flying up into this. i'm reading on twitter from flight radar 24 that there is such interest in this eclipse from pilots, in georgia, they are seeing more than 116% increase in flights this morning just private pilots taking out just to catch a glimpse of this. i can't even imagine what that looks like and how those instruments and how you would have to maneuver through this as all of a sudden as we saw her live with you. it went pitch black. just pitch black. >> virtual high five through the camera. this really is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. i am so glad i was able to share it with you and everyone at home. just incredible. a loss for words as the sun is starting to pick back up. you hear the music pick back up and all of these people are going to get their blankets and

hightail it out of here. this has been magical to say the least here in north texas as we have now gone through totality and we are on the other side of the expense which will last about a minute and 17 seconds. a partial eclipse will be over entirely and 3:02. we are running a little ahead of schedule, that will be 2:57 central time in the afternoon. magical, takes your breath away. >> john: thank you for sharing the experience with us as dallas reemerges in july. on the left-hand side of our screen going into totality. arkansas governor sarah sanders is leading the celebration of the eclipse in a state park about 100 miles away from little rock. all the folks there in arkansas getting a great view as the sun -- one tiny little sliver. just about to go away. here in washington, d.c., you still got our camera. we look at the sun.

it's about halfway is covered by the moon at this point. it is noticeable in the light. it's like if you dimmed an l.e.d. light. they get more a about the color doesn't change. it gets darker and cooler. that is what we are experiencing here. speak to a sunset, you start to experience glorious color. it happens very slowly. turning down the lights at home. i have noticed -- i don't know if you have not i have stopped squinting. i was squinting during the entire first hour of the show. now it is very pleasant. the winds are starting to calm down in d.c. which we anticipated. it has started to cool off a little bit as well. >> john: an interesting part of a phenomenon that i think we might have seen in dallas. when the sun completely goes away or is in the process of going away, the cooling of the air dissipates the clouds. i am wondering if that is what

might happened at dallas. >> aishah: bridge phase are we in now in d.c.? >> john: it is still going away. we are supposed to get about 80% of totality here in washington, d.c. it is on the right-hand side of your screen. it looks like a big crescent moon at this point. i will continue. the light will continue to get dimmer. the temperature will probably get cooler. take a look at russellville arkansas. take a look at how beautiful that corona is. a bright spot on the coronal activity. scientists are getting so much information right now. >> aishah: that is the neat part about all of this. it is such a cool experience for you and me and all of you at home. i scientists all across these places of totality are snapping away pictures of the star systems that are right behind her just off to the side of the sun here. because we don't normally get to

see those because the sun's corona is so bright. you have solar storms going off. it is very interesting that we are finally able to for a couple of moments for a couple of minutes able to look into those star systems to learn a little bit more about our expansive big universe. for me, john, everybody has their personal experience in intake. for me, this is such -- it brings you to a stop -- a pause and live. and it reminds you how small. we are a blip in this giant universe. all of our troubles and arguments and fights and we get angry and frustrated doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. look at this. >> there are greater forces at work than the individual. the next big major metropolitan center on the map for the eclipses indianapolis area. >> and as i walk down

memory lane for me. >> there in bloomington. what is it look like where you are? >> we are at memorial stadium at indiana university. we have captain kirk actor william shatner. reading the history of the universe. take a look at the on here. i would expect maybe 10,000 people to be here at memorial stadium if i had to do a rough guess. what he's doing right now is what he calls while coming the darkness. we are roughly 10 minutes away from totality here in indiana. the temperature is starting to feel a little cooler. we have wildlife in the area momentarily confused. we are also learning is that there are not many events of this size here. indiana university hoosiers graduation and big ten football games that draw this many people in. we are expecting about

$52 million to be generated in this small college town in -- one on one. take you listen. -- take a listen. >> else in the back to you because it was getting kind of loud. >> neil: it's amazing you get to see liam shatner the i mean he is so associated with all things celeste you it's quite a treat for everybody there. what's happening in terms of the atmosphere when we are talking to casey steagall that is quite a dramatic change obviously in the light because you complete the one away but then the temperature as well and the

emotions that people were feeling as the moon crossed in front of the son. what's happening there? >> since were in the stadium, air is a lot -- there is a lot of excitement. we know the temperature is a little bit cooler but at this point since we are still about ten minutes away, the light really hasn't changed demek may be a bit shadier i guess i would say at this point but we are still waiting for totality still about ten minutes away. >> tell us about the crowd if you can, you know, this whole experience, looking at the sun and the moon is incredible but a big part of this experience is what everyone else is feeling and what have people been telling you and how people have their glasses on? have you taken it -- to look up? what's happening right now most the people that are around you? >> here in indiana university they have taken the day off of school. so nobody had to go to class today. what we did hear from those

that traveled from far and wide that they were willing to give the kids the day off and that their families to drive out here, sometimes even play do you can really tell at the moment that people want to make a memory with her families, with their loved ones. >> sandra: i love it. thank you very much for bringing us that beautiful shot from indiana. what a wonderful place. they will get to see totality, one of the lucky few here in the u.s. >> john: yes to boldly go and cover the festival now. >> sandra: william shatner out there. >> president biden: >> john: say high to william shatner. my son is out there with his glasses. they got noticeably more here in washington dc. >> sandra: view from the columnist? i feel a little bit -- the building behind me maybe not calm i've or ever but it has i feel the energy okay the columnist of it sort of like i don't hear the birds chirping, i don't hear the animals.

it was a lot more excellent and bustle a little while ago. it feels like things are sort of starting to calm down a little bit. >> john: there is no question that there has been some change in terms of the environment. let me just put the glasses on and help -- >> sandra: which by the way look really great on you. you need to invest in a pair. [laughter] >> john: yeah, it looks like we're a low more than halfway covered at this point. were expecting 88%. it's not rbc the dramatic change that we saw in balance or you saw in -- >> sandra: it will be something the. >> john: or -- but things are beginning to change here elements. the wind with was pretty brisk teams to be dying down. the sky which was bringing to get a bit more cloudy was starting to get a little clearer and we saw that in dallas as well. the phenomena could be that as we smack the atmosphere changes in terms of temperature and sunlight that the clouds with a bit which is great because it gave everybody in dallas and to give you. >> sandra: i thought it was interesting that casey happened something was

happening on the monitor there and they're not sure if it had everything to do with this but that was earlier does t have any impact on satellites and what we know about the solar flares and the storms. has been pretty -- i think i've heard it's been pretty quiet a couple of days -- >> neil: >> sandra: we are not in vhd set -- ph.d. scientists. we are trying though. also very clerk smack if you're at home, go outside even if you don't have glasses on, take a look around, are the dogs barking, do you hear that you would use? as something howling? mean these are still connected to the world around them, we kind of, like, tune it out and we are so laser focus on what's happening on the hustle and bustle of the day but the animals out th there, they feel everything. >> john: and in areas of totality. that's what you through is a great place to go to experience this because of the light begins to them the animals behave differently we do there are not -- alarms going off?

[laughter] >> john: but animals are nocturnal begin to make up, animals that are do you know but they go to sleep. it matters with a custom. >> sandra: a little bit and plant like i would imagine too. our circadian rhythm, i mean, everything is a part. you think about how much the sun has to do with our day-to-day lives. >> john: look at that in carbondale, , illinois. they just got into totality, amazing. indianapolis not far behind. were turning off lights here because you can see it's a bit darker. >> sandra: look of that, guys. >> john: not a whole lot. >> sandra: this is what it actually looks like here. >> john: it's been great to explain this video. you are genuinely excited about this and not old and cynical like nice people i genuinely am. i hope you convince everyone other two get excited to. >> john: thanks for checking us out. i'm joanne roberts you tomorrow. >> sandra: and martha mccollum will "your story" and i believe bill is with her right now. >> martha: we are live from fox square. where a watch