tony and david are ready for those briana and boras, lots of love here we are excited. it was supposed to rain. it's not raining happiness, of bounds here and russell, arkansas a fantastic sign that the weather is coming through better than expected. stephanie elam, live from arkansas. thank you so much. so today's eclipse isn't just captivating humans, animals are going to be affected as well. >> that's right. cnn's ed lavandera is live for us at the dallas zoo and ed we know that some critters, they actually respond in pretty unusual ways. they did this during the last eclipse. what are you hearing from experts about what you should be watching for their well, a couple of different things and we've got our eyes when we got elephants over here, we've got zebras, we've got drafts, we've got some cu2, we've got all sorts of different types of animals and >> primates on the other the side of the zoo as well. so we'll be entering to see exactly what happens during this almost four minutes of totality when it comes over dallas, there's not a lot of research that has been do