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As well. and then in the center it's the eclipse. >> reporter: how long will it take to build this sculpture and for the sculpt color to come to totality if you will? >> exactly. started at 8:30. should be finished in about an hour. almost there. >> reporter: classes started up for you again? >> we started xo eed school thu. and start again tomorrow. >> reporter: today's an off day? not skipping school? not getting you in trouble putting you on television? >> no. they didn't have school today, because the eclipse is so important, i guess. >> reporter: what have you learned about the importance...

Solar lenses, i put them on, i can see that the eclipse has started. clouds are no clouds, it's still pretty darn cool, wolf. >> very cool indeed. stand by. i want to go to cnn, our reporter in south carolina. one of last locations for this eclipse. we have drone video to show viewers as well. tell us a little about the people who showed up where you are. >> reporter: well, wolf, this is a seven-mile-long island. in the winter months only about 4,000 people here, but on the busiest weekends of the year more like 30,000. the kind of numbers we expect today. people say it will be like the fourth...

And always mention this one. >> reporter: why is it so big? >> a total eclipse close to home. ordinarily you have to go to china, pacific ocean, ant tark ti antarctica and this time here. >> reporter: and they're meant to be at work and played hooky and have trdriven 700 miles. >> we shut down the planetarium and up here, but back in class tomorrow morning. >> reporter: no hooky tomorrow morning. you will be there. >> first day of school. >> reporter: and the path of the eclipse. why is that so special? >> it's going clear across the united states. we get that path of totality. hasn't happened...