Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170821:18:15:00
Call the it the carrington event. it was in that corona, we call it a coronal mass ejection, and a huge blob of energy came from the sun and enveloped the earth. some of the telephone lines caught fire there was so much electricity going through the lines. so to try to predict such events leek that, and understand the physics, it isn't just a beautiful human event and exciting to see personally, but it's important scientifically, so everyone is taking, like never before, advantage of this to really try and lead all the information we can. >> david, the sun is 93 million miles away. the moon is...