Forecast for the total eclipse just in a new our of Cnn News Central starts now not only can you see it, but you can feel it if youre in The Path Of Totality, tens of millions of americans are preparing to see a total Solar Eclipse. The dramatic celestial show set to begin just a few hours from now and the United States, bracing for the real possibility of a wider war in the middle east, iran vowing revenge for an apparent israeli airstrike right that killed top iranian commander and another big attempt at clearing Student Loan Debt, the Biden Administration unveiling details on a new plan they say could benefit more than 30 million americans. On sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. This is Cnn News Central this morning, the existential question, if there is a total Solar Eclipse in the sky, but it is too cloudy to see does it make a sound . We are just about t minus six hours to show time. Everyone scanning weather reports to figure out if they will get a view roughly 32 gilliane to americans live in The Path Of Totality. That is where nasa says the moon will appear to completely cover the sun for about four minutes or as one scientists just told us were the moon will eat the sun. That is science. 99 of americans will view at least a partial eclipse, which is still pretty cool, but not totally cool. Again, science. The next time this will happen is 2044, 20 years from now. So consider this a deep ties cnns rosa flores and good to have a valdez are both in the zone as it were less begin with rosa incur ville, texas. Good morning to you good morning. Eclipse mania here and carville, texas is Out Of This World and is out of control. This is the heart of the texas hill country. And according to the mayor of this town, about 100 people from All Over The World are expected to be here in this town for this. Now, let me give you that tiktok of what were expecting because the he total this eclipse is going to cross from mexico into the United States at about 1 27 p. M. In eagle pass, texas or near eagle pass, texas. I just cant get away from covering the border here and the good thing is that the federal agency thats going to be monitoring and following this eclipse as it crosses the border of mexico, is going to be nasa. So theres gonna be no stopping this eclipse. Its going to continue on from texas all the way to main. Now, about the Economic Impact here, according to one on source that could be about 6 billion across the United States but the texas slice of that astronomical pi is about 1. 4 billion. And businesses are getting very creative, especially here in kernel, were not just talking about all sorts of glasses, afford the eclipse but also pins that show that its an eclipse. And guys, im not wearing this on this time, but you can see that its an eclipse pen, that its on here. Theres also of course Crystal Balls that are being sold in this town, just a little bit of everything, tshirts like the one that im wearing. But the business that gets the most points for creativity is the brewery thats just across the river from the park. Were in theyre actually going to be given free beer during the four minutes of totality here. And what could go wrong when you give free beer in the dark, take a listen the. Beer keg is 60 pounds when its full. So well see how that goes tomorrow to prepare for this. No so the beer line will be attached to this beer gun. And this allows me to quickly poor cups of beer high spill over everybody i hope not thats a great point. I dont know what its going to be like it seems if its like nighttime, maybe well have street lights on. I dont know john. I got just a couple of mood rings and also alleged that tells me that the weathers going to be good here in carvel, just a few of these you could tell if you read the legend, everything is going to be perfect. The weather is going to be perfect. The clouds are going to part. You see clouds right now, but dont worry about it. Its gonna be perfect Hearing Caravel im just going to keep this array that none of us are concerned about. You, rosa flores. Thank you so much for being here, showing us the one ring to rule them. All right there, lets go to mexico now now, gustaf of ellos, youre gonna get it first before the rest of us lets see if and we can see the sun starting to come out, out is you see a few clouds. We hope that they go away. Im an urban forest is what they call it here in torreon. Theres going to be about 30, 40,000 people in this place at some point some of them are trickling in, including six year olds your mat schumer. Are you excited for the eclipse yes. Do you know whats coming . Must have it led totally dielectric yes yes. Yes, its just trying to practice her english also theyve asked us to start youre gonna be scared know not that massive star is your first one. So its the look of us at accorded youre going to remember this when you grow up yes well. Thank, you her mother, olivia is going to be here and people are starting to frequently nasa, its installed about 100 yards from where we are are there two telescopes here. They were here to have a planetarium and their scientists from All Over The World that are gonna be closely watching this eclipse. And the rest of the world. Now, to answer your earlier question as to whether the eclipse will make a sound if its cloudy, listen to this there are a lot of birds that live in this forest, so theyre going to have experts here studying what happens during an eclipse right now is still dark, is early in the morning. Theyre trying to get on with their daily routine. You can hear the nodes are making their and have a experts not only listening, seeing what happened, but telling the people whats happening. Were hoping for not cloudy days then a big show on this guy extraordinary stuff because double valdez, rosa flores, our thanks to both of you, everyone obviously, get your eclipse Viewing Glasses. This rare opportunity will not come around again for two decades. You can join cnn for special live coverage of the eclipse across the country today at 1 00 p. M. Eastern, or you and streams on max in kate, i do have to tell you you heard the birds. Theyre going, you know, whats coming. The birds, theyre going crazy. Weve got a whole segment coming later in this broadcast about the effect of eclipse on it. Animals. Because in 2017, the last time we had a total eclipse, the Galapagos Tortoises inexplicably started mating and the eclipse. And if you remember, if you have not had the pleasure of seeing a galapagos to toward is made years and you miss it today. Thats it will. And when you do see it, its just like your retina. It will be burned in there forever and you can no longer unsee it. It was hard for you, but think about for them if they have to win back oh, my backwards again. He makes me laugh sometimes so hard that my back actually, its reentered. Okay. Weve got coming up for us on high alert. How you is actively preparing for Quote Significant Attack by iran. 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Thgrocery store this situation with glitter, knighted six point cnn new this morning former President Donald Trump saying hell leave it up to the states to make decisions on Abortion Rights if he wins in 2024, trumps stress, there should be and his opinion, exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, Abortion Rights expected to be one of the big issues for voters in november, cnn reporter limit following all this alayna, when you look at all that, he said he promised he was going to put something out. What else did he lay out for the American People . Right well, after weeks of months, i should say not just weeks. Ive sidestepping this issue and not being very clear with where he stands on abortion. Donald trump released a Video Statement this morning saying that he believes it should be left up to the states. He also took credit for overturning Roe Versus Wade, saying that he had stacked the Supreme Court with the three conservative justices that helped do that. And thats kinda where he leaves this. And i want to just remind you, sarah, that this is exactly what we have seen from him, from months. He believes that this issue is a political loser. Thats what he tells people privately and publicly. He knows notes that this is something that republicans are very vulnerable on and he recognizes the political landmine that comes with this issue. I want you to take a listen to how he phrased it in a video. My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint to stage will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the Law Of The Land in this case the law of the state. Now, its up to the states to do the right thing like ronald reagan, im strongly in favor of exceptions for rape incest, and life of the mother. You must follow your heart of this issue, but remember, you must also win elections to restore our culture they sat heritage from him himself. You must win elections and thats really what some of this comes down to. Now, i can tell you that this is not exactly resonating well with some of Donald Trumps antiabortion allies and prolife groups. We had a statement from Marjorie Dannenfelser this morning to cnn, where she told me that shes deeply disappointed in this statement from john trump. Im going to quickly read some of that for you should we are deeply disappointed in president trumps position, unborn children and their mothers deserve National Protections and National Advocacy from the brutality of the abortion industry. The statement goes on to say, saying the issue is quote back to the states seeds the National Abortion beat to the democrats. And so definitely not what i think a lot of his leading antiabortion allies had wanted him to do not going as far as they thought he should again, with donald trump, just leaving this to the states sarah all right. Alayna treene. Thank you so much so Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, he says the us is ready to quote, respond swiftly if necessary. Were talking about is a very real threat from iran right now, the United States is on high alert, actively preparing for a significant attack that could come anytime from iran, possibly targeting us or israeli assets in the middle east after last weeks israeli airstrike in syria that killed top iranian commanders. Us officials believe an attack by iran is inevitable. Cnns Alex Marquardt is following all this and hes joining us now. And alex, weve talked about this a lot. I mean, iran is in the backdrop, in the background of of everything involving the israels war against hamas but they have not been directly involved to this point. Is that about to change that is a very important point and that is the line that us officials now fear iran could cross. Iran has been more than happy to get involved in this war, indirect we by helping proxies like hezbollah, the groups in iraq and syria, the Houthis Carry Out strikes ainst usnd israeli targets. But until now administration and intelligence offials have told us th iran has shown no interest in getting involved directly that may soon change. And it is because of that israeli strike that. Was carried out exactly a week ago, i believe against the iranian consulate in damascus, in which an Israeli Attack killed some seven senior members of the revolutionary guard of the irgc. Now us officials i believe that iran could respond imminently within the next few days. They say against american and or israeli targets. Now, the us has been trying to distance itself from that israeli strike, saying publicly that this was israel that carry it out, that they had no prior knowledge that they had no oh involvement in this. But at the same time, warning that iran should not retaliate against us interests. Of course, kate, there are us potential us targets, all across the region and goes without saying that if iran were to get involved directly, that that would escalate this conflict quite significantly okay. So we now hear what Chuck Schumer is saying about this. What are the israelis though saying well, the israelis are certainly ratcheting up their rhetoric in terms of the possibility of this war expanding when it comes to iran specifically, theyre saying that they are ready to deal with iran offensively and defensively. Theyre really two pressing issues right now, kate, in terms of the potential escalation and iranian response against us or israeli targets. And what israel may do when it comes to lab on. Now, remember for the past six months, there has also been this low level war going on between hezbollah in Southern LebanonIsrael Tens Of Thousands of israelis have been displaced. The us has been working furiously to prevent a second front from opening up. But now israel is saying that they are ready to move from defence to attack when it comes to his blood, they are preparing ways to get more troops and equipment faster to that border. Now ive reported recently that Us Intelligence believes that israel could open up a second front by attacking Southern Lebanon by early summer. Us diplomats trying to prevent that from happening to create a buffer in Southern Lebanon to push hezbollah away from that border. But israel may feel that that is not enough and launch a a Broader Campaign into Southern Lebanon. Kate, alex has good to see you. Thank you so much for reporting. Sir. All right back here in United States, President Biden pushing for, but the new Student Loan Forgiveness Plane and tryin