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watermelon haul, which you can picture. >> oh, boy, yes, i can. hey, go big or go home. thats what i say. thanks, jeff. >> okay. >> all right. at 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, im kyra phillips. thanks for joining us. wall street just minutes after opening, only hours removed from the gut-wrenching plunge, u.s. investors seem to be shrugging off some of the concerns, at least for now. riots erupt across great britain. dozens of police officers hurt. hundreds of p...

What we call a coronal mass ejection, which is what happens when it leaves the sun. it flows around on the earths magnetic field. it has few positive effects, it has several negative effects one is -- jenna: walk us through a few of those. >> reporter: okay. the first one is it can hit satellites that are in orbit around the earth, especially the ones that are out in go stationary orbit. jenna: what exactly does that control, is it like television satellites, for your cellular phone, what do the...

One, two, three, not so bouncing anymore. the first bounce is pretty good. the second bounce, not so bad -- >> am i responsible for that? i just did what you told me to do. >> you had nothing to do with it. a coronal mass ejection. do you know what that is? >> no. >> solar flare. here its coming in our direction and takes our atmosphere, stretches our atmosphere that way because of all the energy from the sun that comes in, were stretching our atmosphere. its going out and out and out. all of a ...

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