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Didnt get the same experience as folks here because you have the total eclipse, they perfectly symmetrical ring around the moon of the gases that were on fire, the atmosphere. pretty cool and very different if you are not in this path where you can see it perfectly. >> kat: i will assume i would have been in tears and on my knees crying. >> lisa: she was crying and between the break. >> kat: thank you, dan. up next, the battle over confederate statues reaching the university of texas with four t...

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...

It was a huge hit. the pilots liked it and the flight attendants did. but, boy, this thing better make it to 2:36 today when we expect the eclipse to hit south carolina. >> that looks so sophisticated. that must have taken days, weeks. >> yeah. >> im going to say ten minutes total. my very own science project right here. i learned it on msnbc.com, chris jansing. >> when you talk to your son and what he wants to be when he grows up, astro physicist? >> picked the end of his year gift and this son...

Complete ring, so we went down to richmond, virginia, there was supposed to be one at the berkeley plantation, we sought out there, and it was cloudy, completely, about you it still darkened. we got that darkening. we walked away from there, though, i had the best fried chicken i ever had. >> what was that. >> annular eclipse. i used to think it was annual eclipse, but its annular. >> do we knee who the next time this will occur when we will see it kind of total eclipse move across the united st...

Apparently some are fake and not really effective, right? >> not as efficient in blocking the light. and its hard to tell which is which. you just cant test it with your eyes. but, yes. older-styled glasses like this, sometimes let in a little too much infrared, a little too much ultraviolet and there might be ones totally bogus. i hope not. >> i think there are unfortunately. weve seen some of those reports. >> im really sorry to hear about that. >> a dangerous situation that could screw up you...

To see the total corona for about a minute or two. it will see it maybe a total of four minutes, and that will give them so much more data than if they were just sitting on the ground, that it will be -- a terrific increase in our understanding of the processes that are going on just at the boundary of the visible surface of the sun and the inner atmosphere and the corona of the sun and its right there where we need to know so much more about how energy is transmitted, and during those four minu...

class to go out to experience the eclipse but it was totally overcast in portland so it got dark for a couple minutes and got light again. but no spectacular light show. >> youre righting an old wrong. you cant skip class right now. >> got the day off from work. authorized. >> reporter: carbondale calls itself the crossroads of america because it will experience another total eclipse seven years from now. >> im so impressed he got his glasses months ago. i thought about it two hours ago. well...

This is one of few live shots i get to wear sunglasses. excited about that. given the sun and the lights and everything else. this is one of those opportunities they get to look at the suns corona, so that will be exciting for scientists. let me tell you as a scene setter, "uss yorktown" horse in charleston harbor, 3,000 people expected later today here. youll see right across the harbor, that is charleston itself so, were mt. pleasant but charleston is right across the water. we have an expert ...

How about you? whats it looking like for you? >> it looks like someone took a bite out of the sun. >> reporter: wow. all right. and so are you guys going to sit here in these comfortable chairs and watch that for, what, the whole hour, two hours? >> yeah. >> reporter: is this better than a movie? >> pretty much. >> reporter: how about you? >> yeah. >> reporter: yeah? cool. and weve also got my family. they came up from new mexico. ive got noah. noah schwartz. hes been telling me a lot about the ...

In afghanistan, if we think we can solve that, youre wrong. and the total eclipse begins in just over an hour, as eclipse mania builds across the nation, people are pouring into the oregon down where the lights go out first. >> today because 100,000 people have shown up, it is the fourth largest city in the state. president trump is back at work in the white house today, preparing for a prime time address, for the troops in ft. myers. hes expected to announce hes adding as many as 4,000 troo...