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America as millions upon millions gazed up along this awe-inspiring moment. i watched in brooklyn along side new yorkers who crowded in the streets. as my colleague did, rachel maddow. showing off vantage points, four generations of bushes held a viewing party and even the president watched from the white house balcony. but as everyone knows, there's just one rule about solar eclipses, only one. have you one job during eclipse, the president's extended lesson on what not to do is thing two in of 0 seconds. (boy) and these are the lungs. (class) ewwww! (boy) sorry.6of 0 sec. (vo) at our house, ...

The south. so you can't do that. as the legend grows about these eclipses for hundreds of years you've read about these things and a lot of people used to believe that they were precursors of evil because in the beginning of the eclipse, you see the snake like shadowy figures on the ground. a lot of people thought that was a sign of evil and so they would always have these big seminars and these praying circles in the wakes of these eclipses. you should finally know, shep, you should really enjoy this because in about 600 million years, there will be no more solar eclipses. the moon will have ...

Moment, one blocks the other out. >> that's right. it's really a wonderful apparition this won't always be the case the a few million years from now, the moon already farther away from the earth, so we won't get any more solar eclipses. we're experiencing it now in our age, it's really, really quite a wonderful thing. i want to add to what chris was saying, the 1859 carrington event, of course, tell graph lines melted down, there was a great description, an amazing aurora continued for a long time. in the more recent past, these coronal mass ejections have caused power outages, and other kinds...

The site. many of my kcolleagues from the uk have come across to america to see it. we will just have a fairly short time where it is clear but you have to go to america if you want to see the total solar eclipse this year. >> talk about things the scientists can learn from this particular eclipse? . >> it is very exciting. you would think with the tell scopes and ground-based tell scopes that solar eclipses wore super seeded by modern technology. but during solar eclipse, the aspect that makes it so exciting is that the atmosphere of the sun is revealed. the moon blocks out the surface and th...

Ellipse. we missed woodstock. >> they say it's almost mystical to do it. i would like to see one before i -- while i'm on this side of the dirt. >> bill: he will get his chance today. jonathan, what is happening where you are in south carolina? >> hundreds of people at clemson on the grass wanting to get the best possible spot even though the eclipse is still hours away. among those most excited a team of clemson astronomers. among that team donald, who has traveled the world to witness 26 previous solar eclipses. in 1973 he even flew aboard a concord jet to chase an eclipse for 74 minutes. he...