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Closer and closer and closer. it was like you were at a football game. not at some kind of solar eclipse. football games happen all the time. solar eclipses dont. >> moving across the united states. first time since 1918. 99 years folks waited for this moment. chris hatfield, your thoughts on why it is so powerful, so emeshal, so spiritual for folks who actually see it? >> you know, through history, wolf, weve named the things in the sky with a sense of wonder. we named the planets after the god...

>> hearing the people scream. like a food ball game, without all the lights. >> it really brings everyone together. we were joking we should have more eclipses in this country >> shepard: we should. could one of your producers get on that? >> yeah, ill get chip on it right now >> shepard: chip will get it done. john glenn is really smart, hes really smart. hes one of the people who runs things around here. he was showing me this amazing picture. hes working on the next hour. okay, its pac man to...

We know this because theres a new report in "the new york times" that says the white house agreed to fade out bannon later this summer. and because of his comments to, guess who, the media. if trump ousted bannon for not knowing his place in the solar system, and its called a solar system because everything rotates around the sun, did trump make this problem worse by freeing up bannon to be even louder on the outside? breitbart now, today, alleged with hits against trump aides and family. bannon...

Moments you can feel connected to it. >> absolutely. absolutely. thats the essence. i carry away the eclipses i see in 1970, even the runs that i still experienced. >> chad myers, so -- you want to continue seeing them, you want to witness and experience it again. >> well, can you not imagine why? if you had those feelings, those chills, those goosebumps? trying to sneak out here to look at our sky here in atlanta, were about 85%, 86%, but thats not 1700 those people did feel. were talking about...

Explanations for what seemed like super natural phenomena. superstition didnt die out completely. in 1831, an eclipse inspired nat turner to begin the largest slave uprising in history. >> he tried to propagate when shall we rebel. and then there was a solar eclipse. he said then its time to do it and it turned into a rebellion. >> in the 20th century, eclipses were tools of scientific advancement thanks to albert einstein. in 1950, he predicted relativity would cause a discrepancy in mercurys o...

And what got me more than anything else was the 360-degree twilight. >> tell us about that. >> oh, its absolutely fantastic. it was, for me it was a golden twilight all the way around. >> because you would turn yourself around to see it? >> right. i had a special job. i had to stand at the top of a telescope dome and remove a filter exact listen at the point of totality but that gave me a view all the way around and i was able to see this incredible totality, but what it was capped by right at t...

Coast across america, its only about 70 miles wide. >> we called you an eclipse chaser. how does chases eclipses compare to chasing hurricanes? we often see hurricane hunters or tornado chasers, those tend to be unpredictable. eclipse is fairly predictable, correct? >> tremendously predictable. we have einsteinian physics working on our side this time. you can predict the cycle years into the future and years into the past if you want to research them. unlike storm chasers or lightning chasers w...

Is 400 times smaller than the sun. in 600 million years, scientists say at that point in time, the moon should be far enough out of our orbit that it will no longer be able to block the sun, which means there will no longer be any eclipses at all. >> shepard: im glad we live now. how about you? >> the next one, 35 years, 22 years, the partial things, you can catch one of those. but you know, 600 million years out, yeah, i mean, odds are slim. who knows. >> shepard: you never know. maybe your gra...

Returning to their nests, cattle and other animals in the field may be laying down -- bedding down for the evening. and it brings on an eerie feeling in many people. >> especially during the darkest phase of the eclipse. over clemson it is expected to occur at 2:37 this afternoon. >> bill: four hours from now. what do scientists want to learn from this, jonathan? >> eclipses give them their best opportunity to look at the suns corona, the suns outer atmosphere. here at clemson and 67 other locat...

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