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good morning, thank you so much for waking up with us here live now from Fox. I'm G Francine, I'm waking up with you this Monday morning, it's April 8th. We have so many important stories and headlines to share with you, so go ahead and get started right now. I want to give you a live look in the Netherlands, half a year into the preliminary war hearings that open today at the United Nations High Court in a case seeking to end German military and other aid. For Israel, this is now all based on claims that Berlin is allowing acts of genocide and violations of international humanitarian law in connection with Israel and Hamas' war in Gaza.

Former President Donald Trump is preparing to make a major policy announcement as we approach the election season and how it could change the course of the presidential race. Additionally, he is working to remove containers from the freighter that crashed into the Baltimore Bridge. We'll have the latest on all that repair work ahead, of course, although everyone is talking about what's going to happen with the eclipse. You look great, that's all. right, no, I'm not feeling well, but I'll be looking at the sun looking at the lights for now. I was being generous D, it's okay, these are hard to come by these days.

I know I'm going. to steal yours, I think I still have mine from last 2017, that's how much of a hoarder I am. You know my place is a mess anyway, yeah, get your eclipse glasses, whatever your device, to help you out, make sure you get the right ones. those at CU too if they don't do the right job they put your eyes in danger you don't want us to have a clear sky right now we'll keep it all day well we're going to drift in a few clouds but I don't think it's going to ruin our eclipse experience here in the Tri State.

Good news for us to the much more unstable north and west. We have 43° in Central Park, now 40° in Newark 29°. In Sussex, the winds are very light and variable, but yes, we have a warm front heading northeast. They have rain in places like Buffalo, towards Cleveland. They are coming right now, but with luck they may rain. and get some breaks in that cloud cover, uh, during the peak of the whole eclipse later this afternoon because right now, looking for Shady, uh, for the folks here, we're going to see some clouds coming through. I don't expect them to obscure the Viewing an Eclipse either way, but it will filter the sun a bit, which is good news in a way, because it just reduces the UV potential, but still make sure you wear the glasses, since that thing will be turn on. long event but it peaks at 3:25 and it's a beautiful day with a high of 65 let's bring it in and see how we are at this point uh with our commute good morning good morning problems VI for Shore 78 at this time, the tractor trailer overturned.

That median draws your attention, so heading east we have two lanes closed, they're all subject to closure on the left lane on the west side closed, so it's a little messy, especially if you're heading toward Route 24 there and then via Palaski Skyway heading towards Holland Tunnel which is moving slow this morning is right next to the Tunn circle. You can see those delays on the incoming road due to an accident under Covered Highway 139. You have a lane block there heading east and then on the west side around the same area. a traffic sign down to las guanas looks pretty good, we have had some previous problems on the guanas canal by accident and then at can plaza all that has been cleaned up as far as the rails, everything is running on schedule or close to he Dan and Back to you, thank you very much, okay, this afternoon here we go, millions of people will be out to catch a glimpse of today's solar eclipse and even though the tri-state area won't see full totality, it hasn't stopped.

Total sales cpse happens about every year and a half somewhere on the planet, this time it's our turn, already around 31 million people in the US have front row seats to today's show since they live in the path of totality. Millions more will occupy temporary residents to watch the moon align perfectly with the Earth and Sun. Those not in the path of totality will still receive a celestial portion. a small piece of sun in the shape of a crescent is what you will see. The US last saw a total solar eclipse in 2017. Denolo is looking forward to this one more for a few reasons: The shadow will be broader, so the eclipse itself will last longer.

For a divided nation, things could be looking up if only temporarily. It's a wonderful experience and I think we need it. It is a great time to communicate as a nation. Robert Moses. Good day. New York and NASA are using this as an opportunity. To study, the agency will launch three rockets to observe how the sudden loss of sunlight will affect the upper atmosphere. We are live in Stover, Vermont this morning. Dan, back to you, okay, Robert, thank you very much. One of those few times when we all can. Get together and let's take a look at something.

It's nice here at home while people go out to see the eclipse. You may want to leave the car at home if you can. Those roads are expected to be pretty crowded with people trying to get the best view, good morning's briela thetti is live outside the Intrepid Museum which is on the west side, of course, with what you need to know, baela, good morning, yes, Dan, good morning to you and for a Monday, there is so much going on in and around. the city, for example, if you come here on the int tripid to see the solar eclipse, you'll be able to see it all from the flight deck, which is an amazing experience now that the event is free with museum admission, of course, but you'll want Get here as soon as possible because they are allowing people in on a first come, first serve basis.

If you haven't gotten a pair of those glasses yet, they're not practically everywhere anymore, but if you come here. will also be provided. I am very excited. I made a plan to try to see it from New York. It's supposed to look like Twilight. It's what I've heard, no matter where you're from or what brought you here today. I have a once in a lifetime opportunity because there are a lot of things happening in the world so we just hope that you know about the eclipse, if something changes people's energy and makes everything go well in the future, the solar eclipse is estimated to will attract about a million enthusiasts here to New York State.

Something Governor Hogel is welcoming with open arms to small businesses, restaurants, diners, the bakery, everyone is preparing to prepare special food from Ste, the rare event that generates so much buzz, local museums and libraries public. I've almost run out of glasses to see. I don't have the glasses yet. I've heard if they exist, but I haven't been able to get some. They are giving some away at my university in New York. The city won't be in the path of totality, but we'll still have a pretty impressive spectacle—as long as the weather cooperates, the celestial event will be special enough to freeze life as we know it well.

It will bring some kind of traffic in and around the city. stopped completely this afternoon, the gridlock is expected to be as intense triaa The Northeast says getting around will be almost as difficult as it is during the holidays, make sure you give yourself plenty of extra time, meaning even double the usual time. Eclipse Mania will also affect the skies, the Federal Aviation Administration has warned Flyers to prepare for delays because the root of the eclipse could force some planes to maintain patterns deep in the field, it will see you there and if you are preparing for one day at the Ballpark, the Yankees have delayed their home game against the Miami Marlins from 8:50 p.m. to 6:05 p.m., the gates will still open at 3 and the first 15,000 fans will receive a free solar eclipse t-shirt, yes , and if you can't. do it here don't worry there are so many things to do in the five burrows and here in Manhattan you can see the eclipse from The Edge observation deck uh you can also go to Summit one Vanderbilt of course you will have to buy tickets for Those covers to go up and see how this plays out, but Tavern on the Green in Central Park is offering an event that is free to the public.

You can also go outside and just spread a towel. It looks like it will be beautiful. you can go to a rooftop, uh, you can see it in a restaurant. I mean, everyone will have the same view in the sky, so at the end of the day, being a part of this is a really cool thing and we are here in the best city in the world doing it for now, we are live outside the Intrepid Dan and toie Okay, Bria, thank you very much, those children who are also there begging to be taken out of class a little.

ET presented by Nissan, my colleague Josh Presler will be in the host seat and guide you through today's events. It's something so spectacular that he definitely won't want to miss it. It's now 6:10 on the east coast and now he's giving you a live stream himself. Look again at New York City since we first went on air, 5 minutes before rush hour, you couldn't really see the sun rise, but now you see more sun peeking over the skyscrapers in the distance, come on. Let's go ahead and go to our first commercial break oftwo minutes into the hour and when we get back, let's talk to New York Governor Kathy Hokel as she had media availability and gave an update showing what people can expect as they head to the Big Apple will participate in the today's solar eclipse.

We'll be back soon with more details. Welcome back to live now from Fox, bringing you a live view of New York City and we know that New York Governor Kathy Hok put the pressure on as thousands and thousands of people are flocking to the Big Apple to participate in today's total solar eclipse, let's take a lesson governor of New York Kathy Hule Governor thank you commissioner uh, I'm glad to get started, we've been waiting so long, I'm really sorry, I can't get there today I thought I might be there in person But we're here in Albany working hard on the state budget, but the countdown has finally begun for the first total solar eclipse over New York in over 99 years and it's just 2 4 hours away.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the majesty of God's creation as eyes from the earth look to the heavens. It will be impressive to see the The sun covered its entirety, leaving us mere mortals in the dark for more than three minutes. First of all, Commissioner Bray, I want to thank you and your entire team in the Homeland Security division and the emergency services for the preparations, with the seriousness of intentions that we have brought. to this, treating it like it's one of the big BL, because we've treated it like it's one of the big storms, so we want to make sure that we keep people safe, also our acting commissioner Randy Simons from the office of Parks and Recreation.

I'll be hearing from him to talk about how our state parks, including the unique Nagar Falls State Park, are ready for this rare event. Jessica ders, she doesn't want to be called that, but we'll call her anyway. eclipse, she has done an incredible job and I thank her and all the representatives she worked with from the Park police, the State Police and we are literally thrilled to welcome over 1 million people to our state for this once in a generation moment, some people from all over the state have traveled hundreds of miles, others from out of town have traveled thousands of miles to come and for good reason the stars are really aligned for New York, we will have incredible visibility here , this total eclipse will pass through some of the most beautiful places. backdrops our state has to offer, from Leworth State Park, the beautiful Adonic Mountains, the shores of Lake Eie, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and of course, the stunning Nager Falls, which has been selected by the NASA to launch their Eclipse headquarters, so we'll join them tomorrow.

I have teamed up with your brilliant team to put on a series of exhibits at our state park and they are free and give people a deeper understanding of the science behind this incredible spectacle we will experience tomorrow, so make sure everyone sees them and If you bring the kids, these educational events are a great way to spark a lifelong interest in science that can take them anywhere—literally, anywhere. The other day I had the opportunity to speak virtually with Dr. Janette EPS, a young woman from Syracuse. She was born and raised in Syracuse, was on the International Space Station as a trained astronaut and at the age of nine decided that she wanted to venture into the possibility of becoming an astronaut someday so that children are not too young to be inspired by this event.

We also had an overwhelming response from students sending questions to Dr. EPS before our event, so she is an inspiration to all of us and will not only excite the kids, but will be one of the first astronauts to be able to witness a total explosion. solar eclipse from space, so we had a chance to talk to her about that, let's see what another exciting dynamic is welcoming all these visitors, our small small businesses are enjoying the spotlight, they will welcome people from all over parts as people see how our hidden gems are spread across the state, small businesses, restaurants, diners, bakery, everyone is gearing up to prepare special Eclipse themed food so you should check it out and We know that those who visit us for the first time will definitely want to do so.

Come back now remember that the full eclipse will only last a few minutes and our team has spent over 7 months preparing for this event to make sure you can experience it safely and pleasantly. I want to go over just a few tips to make sure First, you have the best viewing experience possible. Perhaps many of you have traveled and realized this. Those who stay at home know where they want to see it and, in fact, the safest and easiest Pace may be your own backyard if you live in Western New York or anywhere else in the state, but in New York we know that the path of totality passes through Jamestown, Rochester, Buffalo Nager Falls and continues to Platsburg, you can visit I Love New york.com eclipse to see a schedule of our eclipse. events across the state and there are still many more today and tomorrow you can also find out the exact times that the eclipse will pass through each city on its path so that you are ready and look up at the right time.

Follow a second tip. Keep an eye on the forecast and conditions in the area you are visiting. Some of our areas, particularly in the north of the country, had record snowfall recently. The floor is wet. There could still be some difficult conditions if you are planning. When traveling upcountry, there may be some areas you can't access, so you'll really want to check all of this ahead of time, but in general we're looking for good conditions throughout the state, but it may be one of the conditions. more important. long travel time, we warn everyone that the roads can only handle a limited amount and we expect a high volume of traffic before and after the event as people go to the destinations they want to visit, like I said, our state parks, the coasts, mountains, uh, up to the Niger Falls, where I hope to be if we can make any progress here, so with this large influx of visitors, especially in some of the remote parts of our state, it is really necessary to expect long delays in traffic, so pack up your patients. along with snacks and water, and make sure you have a full tank of gas.

We have been in communication with our gas stations throughout New York. Be prepared, fill up ahead of time, you don't want to run out of fuel in the middle of the day. a crowded highway, as has happened in past experiences across the country, we have learned many lessons the last time there was a major event like this, there were 10 hour delays, people stranded in their vehicles in the west, so we just want People know that can happen so be aware of it and plan accordingly and as you travel I know you will be tempted to pull off the road and look up at the sky from the shoulder.

Please don't do that if we need emergency vehicles to get through. Our first responders will use it as the best place to possibly get to you and your family quickly, so let's make sure we are aware of that as well and take the proper precautions during the eclipse. Don't be blinded by the light and anticipation, we have these incredibly cool glasses, these will be a collector's item after this date, pass them on to your children and grandchildren throughout generations, they are very exciting and people have been wanting them , they are definitely attractive. Comfort, be sure to protect your eyes from light.

Staring at the Sun during the eclipse without proper eye protection can literally cause permanent damage to your vision and therefore to make sure you are doing this, it should not just be your regular sunglasses, but here they should also be worn. special ecli solar sun filters, so make sure you are prepared with the great glasses. Now, in conclusion, we are very excited to welcome people from all over the country and indeed the world to witness the wonders of our universe that are at hand tomorrow. It will be a very special and unforgettable day for all of us, a once-in-a-century event, it will be beautiful and profound, and for a brief moment, New Yorkers and our visitors from across this great country will come together in a shared experience that we will tell everyone about. our children and grandchildren for the rest of their lives, so don't rush, take your time.

Everyone is excited, so be courteous to each other. Prioritize your safety and that of your family and hope everyone has a spectacular time. Thank you so much. and let me turn it back to Commissioner Jackie Bray, thank you Governor, we appreciate it and I also want to thank the jusers, who are here, our um, our Eclipse, and I want to take a second to thank Jen Waka, who has been leading. Public safety planning for the eclipse also let me start by just reiterating some safety tips and then I'll talk about our preparation as the governor said we expect traffic.

A really good resource in New York State is the 511ny. an Apple and Android app that you can download today that can help you have real-time information and also help you see alternative routes to places that are blocked, like she, as governor, said, make sure you refuel. If you have a full load, be sure to bring snacks and water. I want to take a second to talk to people who go to the eastern northeast part of our state, particularly Outex, it's mud season, it's very wet. the backcountry is going to be dangerous, so we ask people to try to stay out of the backcountry, stay on well-marked trails, and really only park in designated parking areas at the trailheads, like the governor.

Parking is a big problem for us, so please do not park on the side of the roads. I want to reiterate that tomorrow morning we will issue tickets and tow quickly, especially in the North Country, so if you are in the North Country, if you are on uh, two-lane roads, we will ticket you, we will tow you, uh, and that's really, simply because it is a public safety hazard for us to not be able to move emergency vehicles. Let me talk a little bit about the preparation. We begin to prepare for this. on October 20, 2022, we have been preparing together with 29 counties that are within the path of totality, we are organizing tomorrow, there will be a state Operations Center in Albany that will open at 8:00 a.m., we will open a State Operations Center Regional Operations in the lake area and a regional Operations Center in the Buffalo area, plus we will open the Fire Operations Center also at 8: a.m. uh, in terms of our road preparations, we have a hundred aid trucks, ready to go, the aid trucks will be on the state roads and on the highways, moving the disabled vehicles and doing it quickly, they will have fuel, in case of If people run out of gas, they'll have water, they'll have things that can quickly fix a flat tire if we need that, all in the service of keeping traffic moving, some of those aid trucks will also be able to recharge an electric vehicle, if the people lose a load, we will have more than four dozen tow trucks prepositioned to quickly move any vehicle that is disabled or running out of gas or charge, the New York State Police will have four strike teams or four we will have strike teams throughout four different areas of your troops because those teams will be able to deploy on roads that are particularly congested or particularly dangerous, also, between the Department of Environmental Conservation, the parks department, the State Police, State Fire, we have all-terrain vehicles, UTVs, and motorcycles that will be uh deploying to reach people and hard to reach roads uh our state fire team is deploying two task forces the task forces have technical rescue capability including swift water rescue capability , and they have unmanned aerial systems, drones, uh, to help.

Along with large refueling tankers, we will send a wireless emergency alert in the Adarand area to remind people not to park on the sides of the roads tomorrow morning and to inform them that we will be issuing tickets and towing. We have more than two dozen boats. uh that we're deploying uh between our parks department and our Environmental Conservation division to get ahead of any maritime issues those boats will be in Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Ona, Lake Kuga, Lake Champlain, the area from Old Forge, St. Lawrence River, Fair State ParkHaven Beach, Buffalo's Outer Harbor and the Upper Niagara River.

We are deploying our aviation assets, including fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft for emergency response, along with more than a dozen doctors to provide us with real-time traffic information and real-time looks. On highways where we do not have cameras on or access to them, the State Department of Health is deploying 20 ambulances strategically located throughout the state, in anticipation of the possible need for additional EMS capacity and lastly, but not Least important, I just want to touch on the topic. The weather, uh, tomorrow will be a dry day in New York, temperatures will be mild, so we will have highs in the mid 60s and lows in the mid 40s, we anticipate some cloudiness in the west, extending into the western edge of the adex uh that seems to be increasingly likely uh there will be additional cloud cover.

We're expecting minimal cloud cover in the Platsburg area and kind of northeast of our state and with that I'm I'm going to introduce Randy Simons, our Acting Parks Commissioner, good afternoon, thank you Governor Commissioner, it's always a pleasure to be with you. and I've never been in a room when there are eclipses, so this is a first for many of us. we're gonna talk about all the fun stuff uh and also just to emphasize our preparation on the state park aspect, we're one day away from the universe putting on the show of shows, it's going to be a big cosmic display and New York.

The state is really the center stage for a lot of this. You heard the governor everywhere from Western New York, the Fingerlakes, to Central New York, the rest of the North Country Thousand Islands, and think of all the inspiring places within those regions. We talk about a lot of state parks, that's what I get paid to do, but Buffalo Harbor State Park, Niagara Falls, I mean, can you think of a better backdrop than right here, Alagan State Park, Leworth, did you hear the governor? You have Green Lakes Fair Haven. Southwick, the list goes on and on, so with all of those, some of those inspiring backdrops, millions will descend on New York specifically on the path of reality, but really throughout the state of New York, and I want to emphasize the preparation. that we are here at the state parks and while this experience will be unforgettable for everyone, it is also a complaint against our visitors and their preparation as well, so at the state parks, what are we doing?

You know, to increase accommodation across the state, especially in the path of totality. We opened many camps earlier this year. We are proud to say that we are 100%. busy uh tonight uh and really what's equally nice to hear is that tomorrow night we're 93% busy so what does that tell us that people are heating up the warning right when they come, they're not just going to witness the eclipse and will they go away? uh, but they're going to stay, they're going to make this an experience and that will certainly help us on the traffic side as well. uh we are increasing presence in all of our parks uh on the path of totality and outside of totality uh Park Police uh Park Rangers uh and our park we are a thousand strong just in the parks on the path of suchity and thousands more uh inside in Parks out of the way uh you know because obviously you 100% are where you want I know, but still, the experience will be pretty incredible, also in areas outside the path of totality, also, in all the parks, you know, inside from the path of totality, you know, I want to emphasize, in many of our parks, parking, we.

We are expecting it to fill up very early, now this is not unusual, you know, in our parks on a big summer day, you know, on a weekend or a weekday, we fill up pretty quickly, so some Tips for all of you, for our visitors, arrive early, stay late, you've heard it, but also have an alternative plan somewhere else where you want to experience the eclipse and also the GPS will often take you to a parking lot inside a park and They will just know how in Niagara Falls it takes you to the main parking area, but there are other parking lots within the park that you are going to visit, so really familiarize yourself with the park footprint or the footprint or the place that you are visiting at any location, You heard the commissioner right, we are encouraging visitors to stay in safe places to witness the eclipse, you know, avoid the backcountry, like you heard, avoid going off trail, you won't find a better experience doing that. within the park boundaries or within these designated safe areas, you'll get the full eclipse experience, and in addition to 511, our state park explorer app, we'll send push notifications throughout the day. to get the latest on parking, you'll get the latest on park closures, you know if we're at capacity, and all the park information you'll ever need to know, so that's the preparation, and now the fun. part I mean we've packed in a sort of uh, you know, in addition to packing up the patients, we've packed in a lot of fun over the next few days, uh, you know, and what if NASA, right, NASA is here in Niagara Fall? to also mention the canadian space agency, they have several days of public science education and more, you know, down below, I went through the experience in about half an hour to an hour and I'll tell you it was amazing.

Have plenty of opportunities to meet and greet astronauts and space engineers. The Canadian space agency presented a virtual reality experience. It is an 8 minute experience and literally puts you on the International Space Station. You can appreciate it, obviously, you know. you know what's out there with the infrastructure and the technology uh and I learned about emus 2 right, this is uh this is scheduled to grow in 2025 uh to circle the moon, which will eventually lead to Artemis 3 in 2028, what to put to the first woman on the moon in history, so again, all of this that we are learning, this education, is to deepen and connect our experience with what we will see tomorrow, and I am very excited to have NASA and the Canadian space agency here.

So with that special programming in our parks, both in and out of the path of totality, you know, in music, games, food, fun festivals and more, 84 million visitors visit our parks each year, we expect much more in the centenary year. Our teams, uh, you know, they are certainly ready, so if the visitors come prepared as well tomorrow, they will have an unforgettable experience, so with that with our Centennial slogan I will leave you, see you there, yes, any questions. when you said 100% of the park, do you mean all the parks in New York or along the way, the entirety, what does that mean, what does that mean, what does that mean, as far as safety or % occupancy, so do we open campgrounds?

Campgrounds typically open in May, in the path of totality because of the type of avalanche lodging they were looking for, we opened dozens of campgrounds in the path of totality from the Finger Lakes from western New York to the south of Central and North Country. Thousand Islands, so those camps are at 100%, so everything you've opened basically in the path of totality tonight is at 100%. And then 93 and then it drops like 90%, so people stay for a few days, even a week. it's platsburg is that's where you need to be I mean, this is what I'll say you know, um, we know, you know, platsburg will have the least cloud cover there, there's no kind of um, you know, uh, ask about that um, we're hoping for somewhere in between 60 and 80% cloud coverage here, uh, what we don't have, you know, what we won't know is how high those clouds are, if the higher they are, the better chance we'll all have to um, all the bells and whistles of an eclipse, but no matter what an experience this is going to be, no matter what it takes you, you know it will be dark midnight, you know it within minutes, no matter what you see, you know the wildlife will go silent, um. and it will be an experience regardless of where you are, but yes, tomorrow platsburg will have the least cloud cover.

What, if anything, has been done regarding safety, especially drops in footfall and the potential for disruption to self-service? Absolutely, let me tell you that if there is a disruption to self-service, 911 will continue to operate. We have been in regular contact with AT&T and Verizon to maintain both 911 specifically and broader cellular coverage. There is a Wi-Fi network at Niagara Park State Park, which will help offset some of the volume, but I won't do it. I wouldn't be surprised if cellular circuits become overloaded during different times of the day. You know, if that happens, make sure you call 911 just in that case. of an emergency, being stuck on the road without cell reception, if you're okay, it's not an emergency, also, we have moved some assets that are called Cults, to certain strategic locations, which provide even stronger cell coverage, but they do . in a pretty tight area so you know security operations will have backup cell coverage tomorrow and if I can I would like to point out that certainly Park Police we have increased presence by 200% here in Niagara Falls , uh additional.

Park rangers and park staff uh and when we look at our partnerships with state police and local law enforcement, it's going to be hard for you to go into a full 360 at least in Niagara Falls and not see that you know. of some presence and knowing that these people, you know, are also points of information and can also help you with any needs or questions you have in the parks, as well as one more, okay, we're good, thank you very much. that was the governor of New York and other officials in New York City speaking before today's total solar eclipse and on the left side of your screen other important news that we are following this morning here live from Fox and a quick reminder to You're here live from Fox's coverage of today's solar eclipse starting at 1 p.m.

ET presented by Nissan, my buddy Josh Westlo will be in the host seat bringing you some exclusive interviews and some great footage right now at 6:37 on the East Coast. I want to give you a live look at our xrap system and this is what we use to see the latest on weather related events and I know you all had some concerns about the cloud cover in many areas and we're just here to give you an insight live of what the cloud cover looks like now at 6:37 on the East Coast as you make your plans for the total eclipse later today, so we'll go ahead and take a quick two minute commercial break and when we come back, we'll be plus top stories from live events and headlines for your Monday morning.

I'll be back in just two minutes. Welcome back to live from Fox and good morning to you if you're just tuning in. I'm Gie Francine waking up with you this Monday morning, it's April 8th as we continue to toast. Your top stories and headlines of the day We know that this total solar eclipse is top of mind for many of you. People across the country will be looking up to witness the total solar eclipse that will move across the country from Texas to the Northeast. You can see that with the map I provided on your screen now, as long as Metro Atlanta is not in the path of totality, you will still have a fantastic view.

Fox Atlanta's Caitlyn Pratt is live at the Fernbank Science Center, one of the best viewing locations. Good Caitlyn. good morning to you, yes, and all the events start here around noon today because the real action will start at 1:45 here in the metro Atlanta area and the school systems in the area have already prepared for this county of Daab, the county where right now, they don't actually have a school on campus, today there is an independent learning day at home, while other counties in the area are releasing children early until the Sun and Moon set. line up, the peach date is not on the path of totality and we will only see a partial solar eclipse, that's why Atlant and Trevor Jones hit the road.

I want to experience it unhindered as much as possible. I already drove about 10 and a half hours just to get here for those of us who stayed there. There are numerous Eclipse events in the metro area when we say this is Once in a Generation, we really mean it with the school in Cab County for an independent learning day in Cob County that releases students early , our little ones will want to participate in this once in A generational event as exciting as this will be safety is key. Solar eclipse glasses are 100,000 times darker than your normal sunglasses.

Normal sunglasses can't be used at all if you can't get a pair of protective glasses, don't worry, this is where you and your kidsThey will be able to do an art project and make their own solar eclipse projector. You will take your box, put it on the white paper and trace a small square that fits the bottom. Make a small hole. Like this and with your back to the sun, point the hole at the sky. I'm not that good at arts and crafts so I have to try to get some glasses of my own for today's event and in case I'm wondering in case you're here in the metro area watching at home the next time we see a total solar eclipse here in the Atlanta area in 2078, so there you have it, it's the last one here in Decab County.

Caitlyn Pratt, back to you, Caitlyn, it's always a pleasure to have you here with us live from Fox and I'm among that group that doesn't have a couple glasses, so I found a box of local cereal in my cabinet and I'm trying to get some scissors and make my own, but hey, at least we know what to do if we don't have the glasses to be able to see the eclipse safely. Caitlyn, thank you so much for joining us this morning live from now on. Fox, enjoy the rest of the day, you too, thank you very much, and as we continue to move forward with our coverage, don't forget live now on Fox's total solar eclipse coverage presented by Nissan, our live coverage throughout the day. day, but the action really takes off. at 1 pm.

ET with my colleague Josh Brlo, you don't want to miss the time now at 6:44 on the East Coast, let's go to a quick two-minute commercial break and when we come back, more live event highlights and headlines from Your Monday morning we will once again be welcome to live from Fox. I'm G Francine as we continue to bring you that total coverage of the solar eclipse and look forward to our own coverage later at 1: p.m. ET, we want to bring you some other top news. We're following the day right now at 6:47 on the east coast, giving you a live view of Gaza.

We know that the Israeli army says it has withdrawn its ground forces from the area. In southern Gaza, this Sunday marked six months since the massacre of October 7. Fox News correspondent Trey yinx joins us now with the latest on this conflict. Six months have passed since the massacre of October 7. We sat down with a woman who was freed as part of the October 7 massacre. ceasefire agreement she describes what life was like as a hostage. Amen, Alon and for the last few years I have lived in kib nadav. My husband was shot in the chest at point-blank range.

I remember there were two or three shots. I was lying on the floor like this in silence I remember him with his legs bent and lying in silence immediately there were five terrorists inside the Mad the Safe Rooms with weapons opening the closet there and telling us to get dressed we were naked we were in pajamas and they demanded that we let's disguise what's going through your mind at that moment fear terrible scare and shock we left in a line the boys were already leaving and then yam continued before that one of the terrorists saw yam's uniform shirt he opened it like this I remember his big green eyes and he yelled at me in Arabic and I don't understand what he's asking me, so they take you to Gaza with your children, what were those first hours and days like? seven minutes to get to Gaza and 7 weeks to get back when we got back from Gaza the unbearable of how it all happened was unbearable at first when we arrived we got to the tunnel We were there for 2 days What were the interactions with Hamas like when they held you in these places?

In fact, in an absurd way, they guarded us, sometimes even protected us with their bodies from the attacks of the Israeli Air Force. We talked about this. Absurd, we talked about this absurdity several times and they also made sure to point out that we protected them from the Air Force attack. That's the word absurd, the reason Hamas wanted to keep these hostages safe is to exchange them as part of a broader ceasefire agreement. for the Palestinian prisoners in Tel Aviv Trey and Fox News, okay Trey, we appreciate that detailed report now on 650 on the east coast giving you another live look at Gaza.

Let's go ahead and take our last 2 minute commercial break. hour and when we get back to Brussels, Belgium, getting an update from the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Joseph Morell, he has an update on the hoes and the conflict in the Red Sea, we will be back in just two minutes. minutes welcome back to live from I'm G Francine. We've got the latest from your total solar eclipse coverage this morning, but we're also covering the day's other important news and headlines before the break. I gave them the latest information. of the Israel Hamas war and right now I want to take you to Brussels, Belgium.

You see on your screen the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Joseph Bell, who has joined the operation. Commander Rear Admiral. They are holding a press conference on maritime security. in the Red Sea when it comes to the beauties and what they are doing there in the Red Sea, let's listen and I will also show frames on your screen with other top stories that we are following this morning here live. now from Fox, since it is the blade launch on February 19, you have the floor, thank you, it is a great pleasure for me to be here with you with the rare commander of the operation Admiral Garis of this new Navy operation NV like speedis, do you know what you're doing?

In ancient Greek it means that this operation was a clear and rapid response by the European Union to the deteriorating situation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that was having a negative impact on our commercial shipping and regional stability. You know, the Houthis. has been attacking commercial ships with drones and missiles, violating international law and freedom of navigation by doing so, threatening maritime security, endangering international trade and putting regional peace and security at stake, creating significant damage and costing human lives, negatively affecting the security of the environment and the regional economy this increases the cost of goods for ships is affected even the population of Yemen is paying the consequences because they are further deprived of vital assistance increases the cost of food for the economies of the region that was already affected by the consequences of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, eh, just before giving the floor to the Commander of the operation, I would like to illustrate the reasons for this Mission with some figures, its attacks on maritime traffic that it has It has to be redirected around the Cape of Good Hope and you can see that through any Google application it is 10 to 14 days more travel time, the cost of a container transported from China to Europe has doubled and the shipping insurance has increased by 60% before the crisis 133% of World Trade transited the Red Sea annually 133% of world traffic passed through these Waters today only half of the 70 ships that passed daily still use the S Channel so that it was necessary to intervene and I am very proud that we were able to launch the operation just a month after the first talks between the Member States took place.

Within a month, the operation was launched. It has become operational very quickly and is fulfilling the three mandates of this Mission: protecting ships under attack, accompanying ships and reinforcing maritime security. conscience, the r alal will give more operational details, but let me simply emphasize that today four member states have been deploying frade for the mission and 19 member states are contributing personnel to the operational headquarters and force headquarters in less than two months since the operation was launched, the operation has escorted 68 ships and repelled 11 attacks, so it is a mission that has a certain significant level of commitment and risk, but has a defensive mandate.

We are not involved in any operations against the Hoodis on land. Our ships. Operating in self-defense and protecting specific ships must be clearly established because transparency and openness towards regional actors have been our priority since we began preparing this operation. We have exchanged with regional states to discuss and communicate on the NP mandate and we will continue. In doing so, our mission is to actively engage with other partners and participate in restoring security in the region. We cooperate closely with the French Le Agenor operation. We have regular conversations with the US Operation Guardian of Prosperity. I am also very proud of our two EU maritime operations. aspides and Atlanta are cooperating closely and sharing the support of the Maritime Security Center in chest to conclude before giving the floor to the red adiro this mission is clear evidence of our will and our ability to strengthen International Security to protect global public goods to protect transport routes to defend the interests of the European Union.

It is a concrete example of how the European Union acts as a maritime security provider and now, Commander, I ask you for more detailed information on the specific actions of the SS. Thank you R. Admiral Garis, you have the floor, thank you Mr. High Representative Borel, ladies and gentlemen, I am the commander of the operation in Spees, Admiral Vasilos Gares of the Allenic Navy. It is a privilege and of course an honor to address you and brief you on the ongoing UN council speed operation on 12 February. He has appointed commander of the operation and on February 19, as you know, the operation officially began.

The commander of the force is the admiral of the Italian Navy Stefano Constantino, it is a float with his force headquarters aboard his gaot dilio, the initial operating capacity of the headquarters was already declared since February 23 and this It was within the first week also that the operation was launched, even from the first day the very few assigned assets began to perform protective functions to support the freedom of navigation and the rights of the Global Community as derived from international law and the corresponding United Nations regulations and resolutions, this was a defensive reaction to the illegal attacks carried out against merchant ships in the Red Sea in the Gulf of Iden and the Arabian Sea, as the high representative also mentioned these attacks.

They will have serious consequences not only for the security of the sea, but also for maritime and regional security and will threaten trade through the Strategic Maritime Corridor, hampering the economies of many countries. The area of ​​operation covers the Red Sea, the Adam's Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Man Sea, the Gulf and also the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean, as can be understood, the entire land mass is twice as large as the landmass of our 20, seven member states, to better understand a single Transit. of one of our ships between the two largest distances in the area can take around 10 days and also crossing the high risk area takes almost two days considering the amount of assets in place, the size of the operation and also the request.

To provide immediate effects, our priority to focus on was the high risk area, most of these illegal attacks took place along with our presence in the operational domain, we also had to accelerate and build command and control networks and also an architecture solid logistics. and then a reliable contact and trust-building procedure for the maritime community and the shipping industry. In parallel, we are working with like-minded stakeholders in the area to inform them about a mission, as well as neighboring countries, the operation mission and, of course, the speed. is to contribute to freedom of navigation M, maritime security and decrease any escalation in the area, so to achieve this we are accompanying the ships, we are protecting them against attacks, including multi-domain attacks, maintaining the defensive mandate that any response will always come As a consequence of an attack and being necessary, proportional and limited to international maritime and air space, the area has seen multiple attacks in recent months, from intimidation and threats to saturation attempts with one-way drones, complex attacks that include ballistic and aerial drones coastal and C. missile based assets Aspides is proud to say that so far all protected vessels have been successfully safeguarded during these attacks and that all vessels that requested protection have been escorted, so we also need to develop a comprehensive understanding of the maritime situation in the area of ​​operation, in other words, understanding what is happening at sea and, above all, what could affect the security, economy and environment in the area based on current military capabilities .

They pose a threat to both moving vessels and static targets. You will also remember his ability to save ships at sea. Last year's hijacking of the aircraft carrier Galaxy Leader on November 199, 23 and which caused extensive damage such as the sinking of the Ruby Man and also the heat of true trust with three dead and four injured, the Houi leaders have taken responsibility for dozens of attacks andhave managed to discourage normal maritime traffic, resulting in the decrease of maritime traffic through the Red Sea by approximately 50% compared to the equivalent levels before the crisis, as stated in the message from the high representative with whom we are cooperating and coordinating with related actors in the area of ​​operation. in the following way, of course, with euna for the operation in atanda comp implementing the actions and activities of each and with a European maritime awareness mission in the state of Mo and specifically its military pill uh pillar, which is Operation AO In addition, we are coordinating with the Guardians of Prosperity operation from We are operating in a very congested area and we exchange information to avoid fratricidal attacks and also incoming threats.

Asped has a solid defensive posture there and any response from Aspas will always be a consequence of an attack following the principles of necessity and proportionality proportionality sorry, in addition, our operation will not carry out any ground attacks during the seven weeks of the operation. Pedas has achieved the close protection of 68 vessels contributing to freedom of navigation and restoring confidence in the shipping industry and making them Return to the Red Sea and Su Canal trade routes, as the high representative also mentioned that our ships They have disabled nine UNM aerial vehicles, one unmanned surface ship and four anti-ship ballistic missiles, of course, for all this we have to give due credit.

As we cruise aboard ships that provide protection, we are expanding our commitment to the maritime industry and their response is overwhelmingly positive. I am confident that aspides is making an important contribution to maritime security in the area and that the operation will support the EU's efforts to protect the global commons, defend freedom of navigation and contribute to regional peace and security, thank you, Thank you, thank you very much and we start with the questions. I see many hands raised. I'll start with irini, thank you. High Representative I would like to ask you if you are satisfied with the results obtained so far with this operation and if we expect more developments, more decisions, action regarding the operation and Admiral Gree participates has a triple role in this operation and, in addition, in case that the situation will get worse.

In case there is an escalation by hthi, is this operation ready to respond with more means, for example? Thank you, as I said, the operation was launched in record time, it was a quick response and once the mission was over. deployed has been working very satisfactorily, the figures that I myself have presented to you show how necessary this mission was and at the same time the level of commitment that they are having, the number of vessels that are being protected, the number of attacks that have occurred. No, we are not talking about a game, they are repelling attacks with live fire, they have to turn off missiles that are directed against the ships they escort and we are very aware that this is a mission that brings or comes with a level of risk, we have to increase our capacity now that we have ships and occasional cooperation with others, but the Admiral knows very well that we are trying to work to increase the logistical support that the mission needs on land and also medical capabilities uh only in Cas but certainly so far the performance is very good and I think the M for that question yes, thank you for the question uh we are constantly investigating the actions of every day and now we are under a condition where we plan again and try to improve our operational plan.

We have estimated that the condition is worsening in the area and we are dealing with it, so we are informing the relevant EU bodies to be aware of what the situation really is. in the operational field and we have asked for specific assets to be in place, so we are also dealing with any possible unfortunate actions that may take place, so this is part of my work so far, during my visits to the local countries, as well We have contacted the countries to receive the best possible solutions taking into account the logistics of medical treatment and also the member states are willing to contribute to this, so there will also be the world conference on April 19. uh for the fourth generation and I have already directed to the member states the necessary assets to support the mission and cover any future needs Maria hello from me Mariaa with euron news I also have two questions the first is for the Admiral uh you said that the area you are in covering is twice as close, the area you are covering is twice the land of the 27 member states, right, yes, so can you cover this entire area with the ships you already have and, for range, three purposes that the high representative has described and then and the second question for you two but mainly for the high representative uh what is the contribution of the merchant shipping companies to this operation because it is mainly done for them for the uh um for the merchant for the industry of merchants what is happening with the merchants yes yes they do contribute to this operation and how thank you where yes thank you um the areas I said this extremely vast, so we have also been ordered to provide immediate effects and I, as I have already told you In my introduction we have focused on the high risk area as the number one problem was the attacks in the high risk area and the approximately 50% reduction in shipping volume through the Red Sea, so PC and The UMC, everyone and all other necessary bodies of the U, are aware of my intention there and agreed until now, so we are focusing on that area and giving our uh and carrying out our operations directly there, so it is too early to reach a conclusion. that if we are achieving something so far, but we have to be patient and see, but anyway, okay, this is the way to go, so we have shown at least with a number of assets that we have what we can do and then , if we increase the number of assets and our presence then we could in the near future be able to deploy the assets in ACC also to the rest of the operation area.

Well, as I said, this is a security provider and we have to balance the cost of action with the cost of no action. The council has allocated €8 million for the common cost that will be purchased by the Member State for the initial mandate. of one year of the operation, these 8 million do not include a national cost like the one, but compare this cost with what the cost is, we do nothing, as I said, command B is crossing 30% of the global containers and 21% of the global energy Transit is a vital artery is a vital vein for us we cannot allow this part of the A world without protection is our strategic interest and we act as a security provider and the cost for the budget of the European Union for the budget of our military operations allocated by the council is 8 million EOS for the first year, thank you.

Good morning sir, my name is U mag. I'm writing for European Defense and Security, a German defense outlet, and in my story I'm a former Navy captain, so my questions are a bit off-putting. First I want to know if it bypasses the vast area and you have a high risk area, so I assume the high risk area is the Red Sea. Do I correct the southern part of the Red Sea? Yes, the southern part of the Red Sea. How is the task performed? Is it at the request of merchant ships? or it's done like uh, I just want to imagine what our procedure is like as a maritime security provider or we're uh, we're going into boxes and if I mean um, then the operation, what are our sustainability ideas?

I know the Mandate Now it is for one year, how do we want to accept it and what would be, in the worst case, our exit strategy? Yes, better than me, how do they get involved? I can tell you how long the mission will last. I hope they are short. possible but it's not up to me so thank you you know we have the Horn of Africa Maritime Safety Center which has been around for over 15 years so the shipping industry is very aware of the procedures followed there so that It was not a need for me to endorse a new, shall we say, process so that we can prosper across the shipping industry to use the appropriate site for the Maritime Safety Center and declare that they are willing to move from the area and that this should be done approximately . 72 hours before, these companies should make a second request.

If they need protection, then this entire list of ships will be narrowed down according to a list of criteria that we have already drawn up and to the Force Commander and according to the forces he has in place and the time and space he decides how to protect and give the protection and escort of all ships so far the requests we receive have all been covered so anyone seeking our protection has already received it, but if the marit CH industry is convinced and they increase the number, which also means for us that it may be the case that we have to increase the assets available in the operational area.

Good morning. Nordine released from Saudi news channel. I have a question for Mr. Borel. Is there any question? political way out of this situation in the Red Sea, you know, any political way out, any political way out of this crisis in the Red Sea, taking into account, of course, Hui's argument, etc., and the situation in Gaza, Did you see any type? political solution to get out of this tense situation and my question to the Admiral: what is his evaluation since the mission began? The situation is still very tense or because perhaps you and other fleets in the area are deterring the H.

Do you see that the situation is still very tense or, let's say, that they are less threatening? Look, let me clarify that this initiative, this Navy Mission, is not intended to be a response to the situation in Gaza, not to Israel's response to Hamas, uh. In the October 7 attack, we have a strategic objective: to protect the lives of sailors to guarantee freedom of navigation and ensure international trade and this mission will be key to protecting the sea lines in the strategic corridor under attack, but it does not have nothing to see. Doing is not an answer, it is not related to Iran and hoodies or the war in Gaza, this is something that certainly worries and worries us a lot, but we are there to protect the ships, the lives of sailors and our strategic interest . thank you, yes, it is too early to say if our operations have impacted those who attack, okay, in absolute numbers, let's say we could see a small noticeable reduction, but you have to keep in mind that they have the ability to always choose the moment and place, so we are still very vigilant and very focused on what we are doing and we have to wait and see the next results while operating in the small area.

I am from European diplomacy. I have a question but with two aspects. one political and the other operational because Russia sent its warships to the Red Sea and started drills there, so my question to you, how does this affect the situation? Is it an asset or is it a problem? Well, freedom of navigation is freedom of navigation. Also for Russia, Russia can send its ships, we have rules of engagement, there are many procedures that different navies have to follow and to coexist in the same geographical situation, so I don't see any connection so far, so I do it.

Its own operations are not interfering with ours and we are providing freedom of navigation to anyone who requests it. This and just one question, how good is your boot contact and does that help mitigate the things that are there? is happening and I wonder what impact the attack on the embassy in Damascus has, it could be having a traffic in the Red Sea, that slowed everything down, it became a big concern, so it worries me, I have no connection with the WHO. It's because I'm at the level of connections I'm allowed to have. I have no connection with the hoies directly, so of course we are following the general political situation and all the strategies, let's say, or we.

We want to have strategic awareness of the entire area, we are considering what this could cause, but we are there, watching and waiting, we are not attacking them, although we could say we have a different mandate, so if you look at it from the military perspective, that We, uh, what we're doing is the worst case scenario, let's say it's the hardest part, we have to wait all the time being Sho, so you have to keep that in mind, so let's be patient and fulfill our mandate. Yes that's how it is. very clear they have to wait for them to be shot in order to react question s if you have any direct or indirect contact with the H if not what is your message today today if not what is your what is your message to him you are not in contact Direct contact with No, we do not have monitoring of the situation in this part of the world.

We know that there is a relationship between the different actors in the region and we have condemned, for example, the attack on the Iranian consulate. We have an executive area that excludes the north of Muscat andthe Sea of ​​Rage and the gulf. We do not have direct contact with this, but you know, we have an embassy in Yemen and we follow everything that happens in the regions we want to keep communication channels open with Iran, we urge Iran to show restraint and use its influence to avoid escalation and in particular in relation to hoodies, thank you and last question, but I don't think Iran has full control over the hood's decision making, they have become quite autonomous.

Is it that good? You said you clarified before that the Navy Mission is not intended to be a response to the situation in Gaza, but the hoies have linked the two. Do you think that? If the war in Gaza ends tomorrow, the attacks will stop. I mean, just to be clear, do you think there will be an end to attacks on ships if a political solution to the war is found tomorrow and, oddly enough, Admiral um one? A month ago there was a significant escalation in the Red Sea, we had the first deaths and the last that I know of, and there was also an incident with a German drone and an American drone.

I think what happened since then because we haven't heard from him. Any significant escalation since then has seen better communication, is this a sign of success? The fact that we don't find out what's happening. So much success. What has changed maybe in the last month, you could tell us. Thank you. After the start of the war in Palestine, the war between Israel and Hamas, the Hoodis clearly position themselves as defenders of the Palestinians and this has certainly given them greater popularity in the wider Muslim world. On October 19, they began attacking with drones. against commercial ships that they label as linked to Israel's interests, they began on October 190 by saying: "Today I will attack ships linked to Israel's interests", yet they indiscriminately attack commercial sheep in the Red Sea in the Arabian Sea or the link. with Israel or American interests who knows and they are well coordinated with Iran, they have a partnership of convenience, but the control of H's decision-making power is something we do not know for sure, it has been gaining capacity and autonomy. and now, 80 attacks.

Today 80 attacks have been reported in response since October. There have been 30 military actions carried out by the United States or the United Kingdom since February. The Hoodis have expanded the scope of attacks and now require ships to obtain permission from what they call their Maritime Affairs Authority before entering Yen Waters and have also announced the expansion of the geographical scope of their attacks on ships of Israel sailing in the Indian Ocean. Well, certainly for the hoodies there is a relationship between the attacks they are carrying out and The G on our side we just want to guarantee the freedom and security of navigation and we hope that we can control the situation and this will not expand to a geographical area broader so about the unfortunate incidents that happened earlier so keep in mind that those ships were not escorted or protected by aspids or any other ships so of course the incident you mentioned about the fgs session that It took place on February 23, it was just in the first days of the action of Operation FR, as you know, it acted as it was supposed to and with the orders given, until now we have better coordination with Operation Guardian of Prosperity and we have an understanding common operational throughout the area, so this is the way to deal with any conflict and this is how we can deal with these conditions so far, thank you very much, this CL, our press conference today, thank you, thank you, so that The press conference concludes in Brussels, Belgium, on maritime security in the Red Sea. and on the right side of your screen, following other news highlights from this morning regarding that total solar eclipse, in the top right box, a live look at our x-rat system, as some clouds could affect views of the solar eclipse today and in that bottom box some of you are wondering what the path to reality is well there you have it in the bottom right box the current time 7:31 on the east coast I'm G Francine, let's go to our first commercial break 2 minutes into the hour and when we come back more about today's total solar eclipse we'll be back in just two minutes welcome back to live now from Fox and good morning to you if you're just tuning in I'm G Francine continuing with the top stories and headlines of the day and for many of you, that total solar eclipse is my priority as we continue to look toward 100 p.m. hour here live from Fox for our in-depth coverage right now we want to talk to consumer strategist Lisa Miller Miss Lisa good morning thank you very much for being here good morning Jan so today is an exciting day the first thing I want to ask you what is that anticipation like? in Texas where you are, what is your anticipation for you and your family as you are all just a few hours away from experiencing this total solar eclipse in Texas as you know it is one of the peak areas of totality to the 4 minutes and 23 seconds and it's definitely been crazy, you know, the airport has been crazy, traffic is increasing and people are very excited right now in Texas, you've probably heard that the weather is not good, but hopefully people you're still going to be patient and just enjoy spending time together, you talk about all the people flocking to the Texas area to participate in this anticipated event, and since you're a consumer strategist, I want to ask you how that all works. boost the economy when you think about the restaurants, the hotels, the people taking advantage of this for an entire weekend, well, I'll say, I'll just have to say it will potentially eclipse the Taylor Swift era tour and the reason is because people are trying to create moments and memories from this event people are traveling Texas Dallas alone is supposed to have half a million additional people Texas could have more than 1 million additional people, so when people pay for gas restaurants Airlines There's even a little town just north of In Austin they're hosting a music festival, the J Festival, and it's $350 just to come in and set up your tent, so there are a lot of different ways to create moments and memories, and that It will definitely be a boost to the overall economy and that is very smart. how the local chamber of commerce and other government entities have decided to hold real events around this.

Could you share some that I know you just mentioned one, but others that a lot of people are going to experience? I've even listened to some people. they say they're going to go to their place, to their place, to the nearest bikes and they're just going to park there and sit outside and do a shopping event to try to get a good look at it and it's funny, I even think there's a couple of things that are happening because you know you want to be somewhere where you can relax and have fun and I'll even say like Nebras Nebraska Furniture Mart.

I've seen so many commercials here, Jana, where you go to Nebraska Furniture. Mart and you know they're going to have an event on their rooftop, so yeah, everyone's going to have them, they're free events, most of the ones I've seen, but you think about if you get all these people. come in and buy things whether you know it's going to be a drink or some glasses or some snacks so they're just trying to make it fun but from a safety perspective you know some of the small towns uh there are small towns. like Hillsboro and Enis, which are small, they've really had to, they've been planning for years and they have to be able to have safety protocols and things like that, so I think there's a lot of joy and I think people, they have to be smart and be prepared yes they are going to be stuck in traffic and have gas, snacks and water, things like that, but I hope it is a very joyful day and for many of this it is a family event, they are trying to turn this moment into a memory of a lifetime and you really held up the total solar eclipse, a loot there with the glasses, some of the tokens that people will save as impulses of On this occasion, what are you seeing on your side?

How people are turning this moment into a memory for sure and as you know, I've been measuring joy since the beginning of the pandemic and only 59% of Americans are completely back to normal. activities and think about yes, maybe you've gone to restaurants again, but are you going to restaurants more often? It's like you used to do it and the answer is no, so yes, families of all ages, friends, you know people are making a big The important thing and the loot that the data I showed is that you could definitely make hundreds of millions of dollars just from the t-shirts in Dallas while driving through my neighborhood.

Yesterday, Sunday, I already saw a couple. one of those pop-up stores, you know, tents, pop-up stores that sold t-shirts, so it's pretty crazy. In a little town called Minola, they have an RV rally and a friend of mine is there and she's been sending me pictures over and over again. There is a lot of camaraderie and it is a special moment, I mean for many it will be the one that will really be the one I really know, it's a bit of a crazy saying but it really happens once in a lifetime so people want to remember it without a doubt and it brings joy to people getting together and again the weather is not supposed to be good here in Texas, in fact the storms will arrive around 3:00 to 4:00 so I hope it will still be enough to be exciting , I think for my part, Miss Lisa.

That memory will be having to try to make my own type of improvised glasses. I don't have any, so you know you've been watching videos of people trying to make them out of cereal boxes, so I think that might be me. and then I'll have to go to the local eye doctor to make sure I don't have any problems with my eyes because God knows I'm not a carpenter or anything, but have you seen a family? just talking about the fun that leads to the foreplay per se of making different coloring books and putting together your own different solar eclipse menu and your solar eclipse playlist, that kind of thing, what's really crazy I would say is the menu um, when you think about what even all the grocery stores are right, so there's the cookies going out, the coffee drinks going out all over Texas.

Right in my inbox today I got an email from Chili's um you know they have a solar eclipse uh appetizer that we're promoting so it's just all these little moments and that box of cereal. I definitely did that when I was a kid. I remember making those cereal boxes, but I've never seen a total eclipse. It'll be okay, but I'll say Jan, I want the bottom, okay, we have to talk a little bit about that for a moment, so in Texas, because the weather isn't bad, there are now articles coming out about people trying to cancel their reservations and that kind of thing, so it will be interesting to see if there will be some people who will just leave because the weather is not good and that is an interesting point, especially because a lot of people have come from out of town for this, so imagine spending all this money walking across the US and then AR driving in an area where there are a lot of clouds or even rain in the forecast so I'm glad you brought up that point Miss Lisa you know I always enjoy talking to you .

You're one of my favorite people, thank you so much for waking up with me early here live now from Fox. Before I let you go, is there anything else you'd like to add? Well, I would just say, as you know, for anyone who's into that. path of totality or make the effort to do so just enjoy the moments and memories whether rain or shine just make the most of your time together with your family and friends and be patient and kind so those are my final thoughts , some great. tips there, I've even heard people say: you know what time of night might be to pick up the phone and try to record, just be in the moment and see it for yourself.

Great advice again, Miss Lisa, thank you so much for joining us. here live now from Fox enjoy the rest of your day thank you very much have a good day thank you very much and while we talk about that path of totality that Miss Lisa just mentioned I want to show you our own live now from Fox The path of totality of the eclipse United States total and you can see the Texas area highlighted there on your screen. Dallas and Eagle Pass, specifically those are areas where this total eclipse will be able to be seen in its entirety and don't forget it here live now.

At Fox we are anticipating today's coverage starting at 1 p.m. ET Presented by Nissan, our very own Josh Westler will be in the host chair bringing you all things Total Solar Eclipse. He says that he can expect some great footage that he has to share with you, as well as some exclusive interviews, something you wouldn't do. It doesn't really happen every day, so it's something you can expect starting at 1 p.m. ET and of course myself and the other hosts this morning will be doing all that pregame coverage to get you excited as we talk about today's total solar eclipse, current time at7:43 on the east coast, let's jump into a quick two-minute commercial. rest and when we return more coverage of today's total solar eclipse we will be back welcome back to live now from Fox I'm G FR and I say that the weather is the most important thing for many of you who are taking trips and even planning to travel.

Do something in your local area to give you a live look at our Speaking about today's total solar eclipse, however, that's not stopping many people from continuing with their plans, as we know we're just hours away from the long-awaited Toar solar eclipse and millions of Americans are in a prime spot to see it. and many more have taken time off. and travel just for a glimpse at what could be a once-in-a-lifetime event Fox Weathers Max Gordon joins us now with more We're now just a few hours away from the can't-miss celestial event that's been on everyone's radar for the last few weeks on Monday. in the afternoon the moon will block the sun a total solar eclipse it's amazing it's everything people say it is um it's just a completely different experience this is the path of totality that starts in Texas and cuts northeast across the country if you are not in that area It will still be worth seeing, it just won't be a total eclipse.

People traveling throughout the cities and towns are expected to get the best view, but what is causing some concern among those who came here is the possibility of clouds in the forecast. One person we spoke to in Cleveland says she booked a last-minute Airbnb in Quebec in case conditions aren't ideal. I want to experience it unhindered as much as possible. I already drove about 10 and a half hours just to get here and I'm willing to drive another N9 and 1 and a half hours just to see a clearer and safer version. Others say they're excited, no matter what the weather brings, we'll still see it get dark.

I think so. I think still. Be cool no matter when the moon completely blocks the sun, it essentially looks like it's getting dark for a moment and I'm really excited to see that, but don't forget to wear proper eye protection by looking directly at the sun before and after totality. it can hurt your eyes and there's a good reason why people don't want to miss the next scene of the total solar eclipse in the US that won't happen for 20 years in Cleveland Ohio Max Gordon Fox the weather is fine Max, thank you very much and again giving You can see our xrad system live as for some climates it is a concern but for others you may not care, it doesn't matter if there are clouds or even rain you will still go out and try to see what you can see.

It's now 7:48 on the East Coast, let's go to our third 2 minute commercial break of the hour and when we come back, more live events, the day's top stories and headlines, welcome back to live now from Fox. I'm G Fran. Watching the live feeds I see some excitement with the Fox 29 Philly team as they have their own preparations underway for today's total solar eclipse, let's hear it, it's so lovely, OMG there are so many great little restaurants and you show houses like, oh, sorry, the lunar module, but on the other side of the lunar module, uh, just an example of the big houses.

I guess there was a lot of money here back then, Kod, you know Eastman Kodak was here a lot. of trade, you know, in Ontario, like Ontario, a lot of ships used to come here, so it's really lovely, a lot of great little restaurants that we went to, where were we last night? Silver Iguana, yeah, and then we went to a place called lies. both places are full of humans yeah it'll be full soon right there okay we'll let you get your e we'll check back in just a couple of minutes here Mike let's get to the cherry blossoms Jen is already showing them off.

Good morning Jen, okay guys, so we're here at one of the Philadelphia stars Susan slaon here good morning good morning, you have a new title. I do, Commissioner of Parks and Debris for the City of Philadelphia. Congratulations, thanks Jen. What's going on here? weekend and it's the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival. This is a wonderful event here in beautiful Fairmont Park and is held at our Hor Cultural Center. Last year we brought 40,000 people into WoW for the weekend, so this Saturday and Sunday from 10:00: until 5: and Sunday from 10: until 4: please come out, it's suitable for families, dog friendly, whatever you want and it's free so come and visit us this weekend you know how it is if it's free it's for me it's um and then.

You can walk and walk and walk, there are so many parts of the park that you know and that's the wonderful thing about one of the wonderful things about the city of Philadelphia. Talking about Green there is nothing better than this. We're here at this time of the morning with these beautiful trees and there are miles of trails all over the city of Philadelphia, not just here where we are in West Fairmont Park, but all over the Northeast with a place where you want to find a trail, you can find one here in Philadelphia, the other thing you said is that this is the beginning of the festival season, right, it's kind of a kickoff, MH, this is the beginning and the Japanese American society are doing this Festival this weekend They are going to start it at the Hard Cultural Center.

They are going to have music. They are going to have dancing. They are going to have calligraphy. We really want you to come out and enjoy and be a part of what's happening here. The um chaosu will take place down here. I don't know if you've been to the Japanese house there. It's beautiful, this is your chance to come and visit the grounds, if you've never been here, people come from all over the country and most of the festival happens on the weekend, but things happen every day. There's going to be beer at that Hort Center.

I like to call him by his cool name. Yeah, that's the cool name. There's a beer garden that doesn't love a beer garden on the weekend. Come drink your beer. Bring your family, bring your kids to see the beauty and guess what, it's not raining. I love it, thank you and congratulations. Just if you're keeping score, she now has 80% of the leadership positions at the Philadelphia City Fair, oh Jen, it's the truth. A pleasure to deal with each and every time, thank you Jen, it's been a great journey talking about a journey, a journey of wholeness, let's check back in real quick with Mike and Rochester.

Look, you guys are getting the feeling that I'm just hanging around, but oh no, they stab. We're going to do another glasses segment with a guy who's studied this inside and out because we don't want to get hurt, so come back and we'll talk to him, he knows all about proper glasses. I learned this when I was working with Ronda Rousey, that I can kick the man's ass very well, okay, very good coverage from our content partners at fox29 Philadelphia as we continue to preview today's anticipated event of that total solar eclipse . It's now 7:54 on the East Coast, let's go to our last two minute commercial break of the hour, we'll be right back, welcome back to live now from Fox and good morning to you if you're just tuning in now on 7: 57 on the east coast, we have some breaking news we want to share with you now, at this hour, Fox News content partners tell us that Morgan Wallen is reportedly facing multiple felonies after being arrested on Monday early this morning. country music superstar was arrested on three criminal charges in Nashville, Tennessee, after allegedly throwing a chair from the sixth floor of Eric Church's Chiefs bar which, coming from Content Partners there in Nashville with News Channel 5 Nashville, now the chair landed a few feet from the police.

Officers on the ground we told staff reported to police that Wallen was responsible and he was arrested after a video showing the neon-eyed singer lashing out and throwing an object over the roof comes from that same report. Now witnesses reported to police that Wallen was allegedly laughing. After all of this happened, we were told that he now faces three counts of reckless endangerment and had bail set at $5,250. Wallen was released from custody a few hours after being arrested; That information comes from the local jail website, but now at 7:58 on the East Coast it's breaking news coming to us live now from Fox Studios, as we learn that country music star Morgan Wallen was arrested early this morning on felony charges.

This happened again after he was accused of throwing a chair from the sixth floor. from Eric Church's Chief's Bar and we're told he faces three counts of reckless endangerment and had bail set at just over $155,000, but we're told he's since been released and was only in custody for a few hours. After being arrested this is preliminary information we are entering our live now from Fox Studios and of course as we get more information you will be the first to know and this happened just a few months after your tour and many people are still to Morgan Wallen and listen. to his music, as he is more of a contemporary country music artist, his music spans beyond the lines of country music and into other genres, so as we learn more about this breaking news, you will be the first to know here, live now from Fox. uh Changing gears now to other important stories.

We're following here live now from Fox as it relates to today's total solar eclipse. At this time we want to check in with our content partners at fox4 Dallas as many people are flocking to the Texas area. To get into the action, let's hear it's just before morning comes in the next 24 hours and there's another risk of big rain and storms tomorrow, so three events that don't even count the eclipse, so as we watch this morning, we'll talk about the eclipse because obviously that's the first thing everyone thinks of first of all, as expected, here come the high clouds that they are moving in as we speak, we can live with high clouds, they will filter the Sun a little, they are not the worst thing is that low clouds are now in Cors County.

You can see them. They look a little different in this. They are a little stained. In about an hour we will obtain a better visible satellite image. I could tell you late in the morning. and at noon these low clouds indicated on this forecast map by the color orange, the dark orange, you're going to cover a big chunk of real estate and you're going to be sitting there at 11 to 12:00 in oh, this is going to be rough. and you can also see the high clouds that give good visibility to the north and west, but 11:30 is not the time of the eclipse, we are worried about 1:40 and approximately at that time between 1:00 and maybe 2 :00 These low clouds will begin to disperse and will receive more and more sun.

Will it be like this in your house? I can't tell you that when the low clouds break, they break into pieces, so some people will end up with Sunshine because of the eclipse others are going to get trapped in the clouds it's just luck of the Raw on this one what's not luck is that after from 5:00 there will be storms east of Dallas with a severe risk only for about 50 60% of us and then another area overnight after 10 to 11:00 overnight, another risk of severe weather and We will discuss severe weather factors. However, they include large hailstones and, for some in our southeastern counties, even a tornado risk. by midday low clouds are expanding in others, otherwise there will be hazy sunshine and then clouds will break this afternoon again.

You know, if you're feeling lucky, what does Clint say? Do you feel lucky, punk? um I just hope the clouds break over your house this afternoon May the force be with you Eric for sure and by the way for those people Eric is here because of the traffic this morning but chip will be here we have a special good day coverage or special coverage of Eclipse from 10:00 to 3:00:00 Dan Henry will be here chip will be here Alex will be here the gang is all here yeah and well now it's Monday now all the traffic is here yeah Monday traffic is definitely piling up all in the same area, let me be nice.

Get out of the way here and show him that we have three major problems, all very close to each other, first of all on the north side of Loop 12. Walton Walker approaching the intersection with 35e, two left lanes are blocked and then if you want to continue and Go east on 635 and then you will encounter a backup on 35e due to an accident where first the left lane is blocked and then the right lane is blocked. It looks like there is a liquid spill and if not, it must be out. on the south side of 75 approaching Spring Valley at Midpark HOV and one left lane are blocked that's why you have a backup on Richardson Lauren and that's fine you can track the storms as they come into North Texas on the app fox4 weather that WAP has live.

The radar provides you with information about alerts andwarnings, it's free to download, just scan that code right there on your screen, alright, years of planning will pay off today for many communities across North Texas, that's hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. The world is expected to come here to experience the total eclipse. Well, probably the coolest place will be the town of Enis in Ellis County, south of Dallas. They're expecting 200,000 um for those four minutes of totality and P Gelenberg is already there in the center. Andis is ready for the day, good morning Paige, hello Brandon and Lauren, good morning, and with all those people of course it raises awareness in the city and of course dollars too and usually the city of NIS is used to Blue Bonnets being the economic proponent. really driving the entire month of April but the solar eclipse just adds to that hype and Jeffrey Williams is the president of the Chamber of Commerce here in town and it's already been an incredible month for all of you and a lot of that comes to a point this afternoon hello good morning can you tell me a little about that?

Yes ma'am, um, you know that Inis is being prepared for the eclipse for several months, in the middle of all this is April, which is traditionally Blue Bonnet and Inis. It is the blue capital of Bonet in Texas and we are driven by an economic force here that benefits the locals, benefits our retail, our hotels, all that in general and we like the exposure because those who come to the city give us the opportunity of giving back to the infrastructure and the benefits to our local businesses and communities, and you mentioned the hotels and from what I understand, they've been a little bit busy to date and also a little bit, yeah, all of our hotels have been booked.

It comes out several months before the eclipse and you know, that's great, we love to see that we have great festivals, we have great attractions, but it's always good to see when things are packed and you all are no strangers to festivals. The festival of course will be held on April 19, of course, that brings a lot of awareness to what today has meant, on top of all that, yeah, what it means on top of that is you know inis is progressing, inis is growing, but we still have a hometown in the country. In all of this we welcome everyone, we want people to come, but we also support everything we can do for our local establishments, our local business community and our local people.

It's kind of a good formula of work and play and where live and very, very fast, what has been the outlook for small businesses here in the city until today? Yes, we have a lot of people, the hotels are sold out, we have restaurants that are doing very, very well, we have boutiques that are doing very well. Well, with the influx of people, those dollars help everything we do here, uh, it's amazing, Jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, I mean, of course, events like today, events like the Blue Bonnet Festival bring a lot of attention to cities like Andis and It's going to be important to come this afternoon when you have your eyes in the sky watching the total solar eclipse Brandon and Lauren.

It's going to be such a good event, so much excitement. Yes, thank you very much. PA, just sign in at a business window. In the center of the city, Aache offers some hope for today's climate. It shows a newspaper story from July 29, 1878, when the previous total eclipse was seen in North Texas. Cloudy skies that day and apparently yes, the clouds parted just in time for the eclipse, wouldn't it? something beautiful, that's what we'd like to see walk aah hatchee concluding three days of celebrations for the total eclipse today with the viewing party downtown at the Rail Yard Park.

It's interesting to see how different cities and towns have decided. to celebrate this big event and there will be a big crowd event at Clyde Warren Park today on the north side of downtown Dallas a big watch party there too yeah Fox Force Hannah bah they're live with a look at the good stuff. Good morning guys, we're in for a treat because Dallas is the largest city in the path of today's eclipse totality. As you can imagine, downtown Dallas has several events, but one that is really exciting and lasts all day is the one here in Clyde Warren Park this morning we are talking to President kit SARS about today's event that is really something which will take place from sunrise to sunset, what have you planned?

Well, we are very excited that there is so much. lots of out of town people here too, hotels have been booked for weeks and we have a band that will be playing Eclipse related music all day, we have partnered with the perau museum, they have sent over 35,000 pairs of eclipse glasses and an astronomers panel that will be set up right behind us, where people can really know what they are about to see. Yeah, so we're right in front of the main stage. That setup was already happening before we even got here. around 6:30 but I just realized a couple of guests had already shown up, you guys were really busy all weekend, what do you think the turnout will be like today?

Well, we have had about 35,000 for our Independence. Event of the day, lighting of our tree and we are waiting for that today too, that's why we have so many glasses, but there is a lot of space, you are right, people have already started to lay out their blankets, and we are really waiting for a big turnout today yes, for people who come, what is your recommendation as far as just parking to get here? Just those logistics. I think I went to an eclipse in 2017 and experienced no parking issues in Nashville or any traffic issues. I really believe that if you avoid traveling. during that total eclipse period and you get to 11: and then you know, give yourself enough time after the eclipse, you'll be fine to get in and out of this part of the city, the Department of Transportation within the city is everything. get over it, so take your time and come, relax and enjoy.

It's really comforting to know that you didn't have too many problems getting around because I know it's been a big concern, especially for a lot of the locals until now. like your experience whenwhen you were part of the total eclipse, what was that like for you? It was incredible. I mean, it's really bringing the community together and you know it's a shared experience for all of us across the country, and that's really what you know. Clyde Warren Park is everything, so we're thrilled to welcome all of these people to Dallas, all of our typical communities that come from all over the city, as well as all of these people that come from the United Kingdom and Germany.

It's really great to be all together for this. Yeah, I was going to say where is the farthest you've heard visitors coming. We have some that came from Asia. So, it's a long travel time for a 4 minute total eclipse, but there are many benefits available. Now they are here now. I'm excited that they have the astronomers here. It will be a very fun experience. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thank you. Happy eclipse day everyone. Yes, happy eclipse day. I'm going now. To give it back to you, Brandon and Lauren, I mean several minutes of that totality here at Clyde Warren Park, so leave like she said, get there early, get your spot, but they have a lot of things for all the visitors that include. not even just the eclipse, but the performances, the speakers, all that kind of stuff, so you don't really have to go anywhere else, which I'm a big fan of.

I'll send it back to you, but for now I'll report live. in Dallas, I'm Hannah B, good morning, okay, yeah, I hope it's not like the end of a baseball game where everyone eventually gets in their cars and tries to leave. If you want to just hang back, drivers heading into downtown Dallas around the time of the eclipse will notice some changes in traffic. Police are closing some downtown ramps during the hour of totality, so the i35e uh I30 exits at the Central Expressway downtown, including at the Woodall Rogers Highway, will all be closed. closed from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

All exits outside the city center will remain open. Dallas police are urging drivers to keep their eyes on the road, not the sky. Oh come on guys, during the eclipse, the fact that you even have to say that, I have to say yes, please keep driving. uh Fox 4, of course, your solar eclipse headquarters, we've got everything you need to know about the eclipse all morning and continuing into totality this afternoon. You can also learn more about the eclipse on our website fox4news.com or even on our broadcast channel. Local Fox, it's like when please look at your glasses, make sure you have them on during the eclipse, but if you're driving, don't put them on.

Thanks, boy, I appreciate it. 12 minutes after 7:00, on a good day at Southwest. Airlines' Boeing 737 had to make an emergency landing at Emer Mercy after a piece of the plane fell off. Well, here's what the pilot said. All eyes on the sky today for that eclipse, so later for the chance of storms, Evan has all the weather details coming out in a moment. Trust Foxb Dallas for their highly detailed coverage and don't forget about Fox's total solar eclipse coverage live now starting at 1:00 p.m. ET presented by Nissan my colleague Josh Brlo is very excited to host these festivities for you.

He tells me that he can expect some exclusive interviews and great live footage from all over the United States. You won't want to miss the action starting at 1M ET. time now 8:13 on the east coast, let's go ahead and go to our first two minute commercial break of the hour and when we come back, let's touch on some other big stories and headlines from your Monday morning, we'll be right back. In just two minutes, welcome back to live from Fox. I'm G A Francine as we continue our coverage of the biggest news and event headlines live this Monday morning.

Right now we are heading to Brussels, Belgium. On your screen you see the Secretary of NATO. General Jan Stenberg is meeting with the President of the Bosnian Presidency to give us an update, let's hear it Dennis bovich President of the BOS Presidency Dennis it's great to have you here welcome to NATO it's great to see you again and indeed welcome back to NATO We last met during my visit to Bosto in November and the secret deputy general led the North Atlantic Council's visit to Saro earlier this year. Today's visit from him is an opportunity to take stock of our partnership and discuss what more we can do together. is a long-standing partner of NATO, we firmly support its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

We continue to support the EU's Operation Le Altha under the Balin plus agreements to maintain a secure environment and commend Bosanova for its recent progress on the path to NATO membership in the European Union, but remain deeply concerned about continued secessionist policies and divisive rhetoric. This is reckless and dangerous. He undermines difficult progress and hinders reforms that would benefit his people. All political leaders must work together to preserve unity and safeguard national institutions. This is key to peace and security in the country and stability in the Western Balkans NATO has been committed to our partnership for many years we support their security reform efforts through our headquarters in Salo and through our capability development package of defense uh now we are helping you further strengthen your capabilities in areas including crisis management, cyber defense and counterterrorism.

We also appreciate Bostando's contributions to our common security and appreciate her efforts to upgrade the Armed Forces to work even more closely with NATO, including through the certification of a light infantry battalion. to NATO combat standard Availability NATO's commitment to Bosnia and Herzegovina is firm and we are ready to continue our political dialogue and strengthen our practical cooperation for the benefit of shared security President, thank you again for being here today, please rest assured word, welcome, thank you allow me, as the current president of the BN presidency, thank you for the general assistance you have provided to bosnan and Hera.

NATO is one of the key factors ensuring peace and security in Bosnan. Bosnian and Heroine citizens really appreciate that's why. It is no coincidence that the vast majority of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina support the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina in NATO. I would especially like to thank you personally, Secretary General Yen Stenberg, for the assistance you have provided to Bosnia and Herzegovina in maintaining peace. and Security in bosnan and heroin it is very important what you have been saying and what you have said right now that you and NATO fully support the independent sovereignty and territorial integrity of bosnan and Herzegovina NATO's role in bosnan and Herzegovina is multiple Annex one of the The Dayton peace agreementgives NATO the mandate to establish forces operating following NATO authorizations and operations through the NATO chain of command in the event of any danger to peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

NATO has a clear international basis for action, therefore, I wish to support this proactive action and NATO's proactive activities, including any necessary deterrence measures and the presence of NATO forces at military bases throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina . Full membership in NATO is one of the strategic objectives of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is what has been decided by the state authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina uh this vote was carried out with the votes of the representatives of both entities in Bosnan Heroa and of all nations in Bosnan Heroa that creates a very clear legal framework, specifically the state institutions of Bosnan and Heroa have adopted all the necessary legal conceptual and strategic documents in the area of ​​defense.

Further proof of this is the single defense of bosnan and herina, as well as the review of the defense of bosnan heroa, the defense policy of bosnan heroa, the security policy of bosnan and heroa, we have adopted the presidency of bosnan heroina statement that our objective is for Bosnan and Heroin to enter NATO and finally the resolution of the parliament of Bosnan and Heroin which also states that our objective is for Bosnan and Heroin to enter NATO I wish to specifically emphasize the importance of article 84 of the law on defence, that particular article says the following presidency of bosnan and heroina Parliament of bosnan and herina the Council of Ministers of bosnan heroina and all defense issues, I quote Implement all the activities necessary for bosnan heroina to join NATO, so this is our legal commitment obligation also our path has lasted almost 20 years we have done a lot we have traveled a considerable part of this path and we have achieved some important results bosnan herina we cannot turn back at this point we are knocking on the door of the NATO and this is an opportunity that we have to take advantage of for the good of all the people and all the nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We have shown that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a reliable partner of NATO and this is very important. We have also achieved some specific results in recent years. years I will specifically mention some of them, we have adopted three imps that were presented to Brussels after NATO officially confirmed that the map was activated for bosnan and heroa uh this particular BOS presidency mandate and heroa adopted more than 40 decisions in the area of defense we have also adopted the defense budget in 2023 also the new general structural code for bosnan and herina after two years of blockades we have appointed new generals for the Armed Forces of bosnan and Herzegovina after 2 years of blockades that we had to face uh During the sessions of the presidency of Bosnan Heroa we have approved the sending of military missions of the UH abroad as well as the participation of the Armed Forces of Bosnan and Heroa in the peacebuilding operations of the UH, thus providing our contribution to our collective security we have activated the The light infantry of the Battalion Strike Force are Bosnian and Heroine forces that have been positively evaluated by NATO.

The Bosnian Heroine was invited for the first time to contribute to the NATO Response Force, which is basically a High Readiness Force capable of rapid deployment. We have complied with all formal requirements. conditions um for bosan and heroa to receive a formal invitation to join NATO we have adopted all the legal acts all the political acts that define the aspirations of bosnan Hera regarding our membership in NATO we have achieved a high level of interoperability between the defense and security sector in the Bosan Herina country is ready for joint action in accordance with NATO standards. Finally I would like to say that this encouraging and very important meeting for us with the Secretary General was an opportunity for me to suggest some specific suggestions and, hopefully, NATO leaders will consider my suggestions that I suggested to be more specific that NATO through a more comprehensive implementation of the Bosnia Heroin membership action plan Define a higher and more specific level of integrity and connectivity between NATO and Bosnia Heroin that would include uh more specific if security safeguards will hopefully be confirmed by NATO's decision during the next Summit to be held in Washington.

I also suggested that bosnan heroina, which is an aspiring country for NATO membership, that NATO confirm KN plus bosnan heroina in future meeting format, and that would be further intensified. NATO Bosnia Heroa Path also suggested that NATO um um affirm a proactive commitment including any necessary deterrence and strengthen NATO presence at military bases in Bosnan and Heroa to prevent any danger to peace and security in the country we all know. that lately there has unfortunately been the influence of anti-dayon forces that have been endangering both the Dayton peace agreement and peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I also suggested that in the future NATO take a step forward ADD which is very important for Bosnia and for her, but also for NATO.

What would be the invitation to Bosnia and Herzegovina to join NATO? Thank you so much. We have a question from nma to conclude the press conference in Brussels, Belgium, with the Secretary General of NATO speaking with the president of the Bosnian presidency. now they are answering questions from the media there in the audience and on the right side of the screen. We're following other big news of the day and you guessed it in relation to that total solar eclipse seen live in the top right box. our xrad system, as the weather could affect views of the solar eclipse, we have a lot of clouds and some rain in certain states and then we also give you the path of totality in that bottom box, current time 8:27 on the east coast .

We're going to take a quick two-minute commercial break and when we come back more to today's total solar eclipse, we'll be back in just two minutes. Welcome back to live from Fox and good morning if you're just tuning in. At I'm gie francen, we now know that we are just hours away from a celestial event that will have millions of us looking skyward. Part of the country is about to experience a total solar eclipse when Doug joins us later from Eastern Washington. In the morning, almost all of us will be able to see at least some of it firsthand Doug.

Good morning for you. Good morning here in Washington we will see an eclipse of approximately 89%. It all depends on where you are and what the weather is like. to the left as well and probably at the bottom with telescopes already pointing towards the sky amateur and professional astronomers in Mexico will be the first on the continent today to see the Big Show this is the first place on the continent where the Shadow of the Moon will touch so the Moon Shadow will land first in the Pacific Ocean, it will come running from that direction, it will cover us and the first view will be from here and from there the path of the total eclipse, which is only about 115 thousand wide.

Travel northeast through a densely populated area of ​​the United States where about 32 million people live and millions more have done the trick. I already drove about 10 and a half hours just to get here and I'm willing to drive another 9 and a half hours alone to see a clearer and safer version, if the weather cooperates, of what they are going to see in those Final 5. Minutes before totality is complete, the street lights come on Venus begins to appear, then Jupiter, then We will see the diamond ring effect where that last speck of moon or sunlight comes through the valleys of the moon and then we are pushed into the Twilight, that is.

The weather is cooperating and cloudiness today is the real question. Most of the rest of the country will see only a partial eclipse, but either way doctors say never under any circ*mstances look at the sun with your naked eyes and that makes these special eclipse glasses a good option. very popular product very popular product and even warned about using your phone to take a photo directly of the sun if you are in a partial eclipse area which is most of the country today. Back to you guys, Doug Lor with Fox News. Channel Doug, thank you so much for joining us on this long-awaited day, enjoy the rest of yours, thank you very much, and as we continue to bring you the top stories and headlines right now, we want to preview what to expect later today. live now from Fox's live coverage of the total solar eclipse presented by Nissan starting at 1 pm ET, my colleague Josh Brlo will be bringing you all those cool images and exclusive interviews now at 8:32 on the east coast and watch our broadcasts.

I see there are some of our content partners providing some weather forecasts regarding today's total solar eclipse right now, let's check in with Fox 29 Philadelphia as they continue their coverage, grab a pen and check this out, it's so easy, boom , it does. a little hole, I get closer to the camera, look at that little hole over there, that's all you want to do and next is the sun, pretend the sun is behind you because you never look through this to see the sun . the sun is behind you, the light shines and then you get a second plate and this is the cool thing: the sunlight goes through that little hole and it shines on something white like that or maybe let's say a piece of paper computer like this and it shows you what the sun looks like while the eclipse is happening, in other words you will see the Crescent Sun projected onto your plate through a small hole, so just look around your kitchen for things with little circles and you will be able to see the clips. safely with that sun behind you shining through whatever you have we have all the instructions and much more for these household items this is what you do go to fox29.com right click on this on the page To start, we have all these tutorials, including this cereal. box we did last Friday directly on fox29.com again cool that's great thanks Dre we really appreciate them they're great to do with the kids in case they are when they get home if they get home everyone they can.

Do that together and you can have the Cheez itss at the same time a Cheez Honestly, it works too, it's the same idea this little hole in the cheit the light goes through it and it will project what the Sun looks like on a plate a cheit of all things and then when it's over you have a snack. Good idea, thanks Dre, speaking of food, we always eat on a good day. How would you like hash brown on your cheesesteak? Mike says you have to try the sha steaks, and we appreciate that. Fox 29 Philadelphia it's great to see how you can make your own makeshift glasses out of some cereal boxes or in that case cheit boxes you have at home so you can properly and safely observe the anticipated total solar eclipses at that time . now at 8:34 on the east coast, let's go to a quick two minute commercial break and when we come back with more preview coverage of this anticipated event, we'll be back in just two minutes, welcome back to live now from Fox I. m G Fran looking at our content Partners I see that foxb Dallas is giving its uh preview coverage of the total solar eclipse uh let's hear it from mazatan in Mexico residents and tourists in the towns the people of the West Coast of Mexico gathered yesterday to prepare for the Today's big event, many amateur astronomers are there waiting to see the eclipse, but of course, just like in our area, they are expecting clouds for totality today.

Fox 4 is your solar eclipse headquarters. We have everything you need to know about the eclipse. all morning and we will continue our coverage in full this afternoon you can also learn more about the eclipse on our website fox4 news.com or even on our local Fox streaming channel at 7:38 this Monday morning where the Dallas Stars face a split. rival in a night game as they try to secure the first playoff spot in the west, we'll have highlights coming up, so a quick hit from Fox to Dallas as they're about to go to a brief two-minute commercial break, but Looking at our other content partners, I see that Fox 29 Philadelphia are discussing an eclipse viewing party. uh let's check now to see.

I'm trying to see if they are about to break and I just said they did. we're going on a break but okay let's see if our content partners at fox weather have anything we can check out with nowack onad the full tracking is audible on the line omaha omaha so that's what we're looking at just a picture visible and We are starting to see the clouds coming in and they are spreading from the west to the east of Cleveland through Buffalo, they are not in Rochester but they are not in Syracuse or Watertown either, New York looks amazing, doesn't it look nice?

Maine looks amazing, it seemed like there were clouds, no, that's snow, fresh snow on the ground, yes, visible, you will see everything if it doesn't move,It's snow. Here's a look at the Rochester forecast, which looks like fairly cloudy temperatures, generally around 60°. the path of the total starts at 320 its discouraging when you see 90% right there but again what we see at least in the visible images Tall thin things and even if it clouds up folks it will still get dark it will still have a temperature difference it's still an experience even with the cloud it's going to be great I mean there's no question and again this could be going in and out right now is it in the poor?

We have a board up there, good and bad visualization. In none of them have we seen a couple of cities swing between poor and good, yeah, we took, we took Dallas out of the poor and put it in the good viewing area, so I mean it can still change and probably will , but here. Buffalo is cloudy again guys right now Buffalo isn't looking too good, but you get closer to Rochester and Syracuse starts to wind down, we'll look at the game time decision again, we have several hours left to go, well we'll continue our walk here. up yeah let's take a look at Dallas let's go to Dallas where we appreciate our content partners at Fox Weather giving us that quick forecast as many of you are concerned about the size of the noise and even the potential for rain in certain parts of the US today and don't forget, as we look forward to the latest coverage this morning, we want to keep you informed here, live, from the box until 1 p.m.

ET to live now from Fox's total solar eclipse coverage presented by Nissan again that coverage live starting at 1 p.m. ET with my colleague Josh Brlo, it's now 8:40 on the East Coast, let's take a quick two minute commercial break and when we come back, more live events, stories and headlines of the day, welcome back to live now from Fox and Good morning, if you're just tuning in I'm G Francine, we're just a few hours away from this anticipated event, the total solar eclipse right now, we're going to check in with Fox Weather correspondent Max Gordon, he's live there.

Cleveland Max, good morning, what can people in that area expect? Hi, good morning Gina, well I have some bad news for the people here in Cleveland, but if you're here in Cleveland you already know, it's been raining this morning. fortunately the rains are going to decrease and the clouds will unfortunately stay, we should have around 60% cloud cover as today we will reach this total solar eclipse, the eclipse will start around 1:59 local time and then we will have totality at 3:13 p.m. that will last 3 minutes and 49 seconds, that is when the moon will travel in front of the sun blocking the light.

It should be a really cool experience, if we can see it, it will still get dark even if there are clouds. cover, but it won't be as spectacular a sight, uh, but there will be a lot of people in town here to see it, uh, there have been a lot of tourists walking around, a lot of excitement has been building up and during the eclipse, there will be It will be some very Cleveland stuff in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame based here in Cleveland, they are going to be braving the eclipse and during totality they will be playing none other than Pink Floyd's Eclipse, very appropriate now that we talk to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO about what wait to get a lesson I want to feel the temperature drop uh I understand when I've seen it before we all become a little circ*mspect a little calmer uh there's some emotion involved and uh I I can't wait to do that with a bunch of people here together, it's going to be very magical, yes, and there will be a lot of people here, between 140 and 200. 100,000 people will flock to Cleveland specifically for the eclipse, we talked to some people who said they had made backup plans elsewhere in case of That it was cloudy here in Cleveland today, you know, I haven't gotten up and with some of those people, I don't know.

If they moved locations, we even talked to a guy who said he had booked an Airbnb in Quebec, Canada, in case it was cloudy, it actually looks like the chances of less cloudiness should be pretty good in Maine and potentially. Also in Canada, but you know a lot of people here in Cleveland who have stayed here and will be crossing their fingers that the clouds will part when totality is complete because if they do, it should be a cool place. G Max Gordon there. with Fox Weather Max I'm keeping my fingers crossed for them too. I mean, my God, a lot of people, this is the first time they've seen one.

I have never seen one. I don't know if he was taking a nap working the morning shift. or something like that during the last one, but I really hope that the people of Cleveland can participate and I want to ask you, you know, I saw you this weekend in Cleveland doing some things with the Guardians. Are there any events that people can attend if they can't get out and see it due to cloud cover so they can have a great day despite the rain? Oh yeah, well, there will be events all over the city. You mentioned it there, the Guardians will have their home opener today at 5:10 p.m. local time, they're going to open the stadium a little early so people can get in there and experience the solar eclipse from inside the stadium.

There will also be events at the Great Lake Science Center. NASA is going to open the stadium a little earlier. Being at the Great Lake Science Center, doing presentations, there will be a street fair, there will also be events at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, really, Cleveland is going to be rocking and rolling for this Eclipse. I've also had the women's semifinals in town so a lot of things have happened here in Cleveland, but yeah, I think you know there's no real way to mitigate the fact that the clouds could. be there, you know, there's no way to make this look better here in Cleveland, so it really all has to do with what Mother Nature has in store for us and, again, I think a lot of people here are just hoping that the clouds I'm guessing we'll split up at eclipse time because we're going to have 60% cloud coverage so we'll just have to wait and see what Mother Nature absolutely has in store and watch, if not maybe use your imagination.

I know that for a minute. Really creepy, a little creepy and it gets dark anyway, so imagine the cloud cover, it's the darkness of the sun that's covering up, maybe we can use our imagination, Max Gordon, you know, I always enjoy talking to you. Thank you very much for joining us in this. tomorrow live now from Fox, enjoy the rest of your day, thank you and as we continue to talk about today's anticipated event, we want to appreciate and thank Fox Weather, don't forget they are our weather headquarters, just search and watch Fox Weather on any website. browser and again as we continue to look ahead to today's event, giving you a look at 1 pm ET, live now from Fox's total solar eclipse coverage presented by Nissan, my colleague Josh reslo will be in the host seat giving you everything related to today's event.

He covered some pretty interesting footage from around the world and also some exclusive interviews. He didn't tell me who he's talking to because he said you had to tune in to find out, so I tried to find out for you, but he wouldn't. Give me the preview, so make sure you tune in at 1: p.m. ET for the latest coverage of the total solar eclipse, so it's now 8:48 on the East Coast and right now we're going to transition to another big news story. We're following here live now from Fox, giving you a live view in Gaza As we continue to bring you the latest on Israel and Hamas' war, we know that the Israeli military says it has withdrawn its ground forces from the conun in southern Gaza.This Sunday marks six months since the massacre of October 7.

Fox News correspondent Trey Yinx joins us now with the latest on 6 months since the October 7 massacre. We sat down with a woman who, at least, was part of the November ceasefire agreement. She describes what life was like as a hostage, amen, Al, and for the past few years I have lived in kib farav. My husband was shot in the chest at point-blank range. I remember there were two or three shots and he was lying on the ground. floor like this I calmly remember him with his legs bent and lying calmly immediately there were five ISTs inside the Mad the Safe Rooms with weapons opening the closet there and telling us to get dressed we were naked we were in pajamas and they demanded that we disguise what is going on in your mind in that moment terrible fear scare and shock we left in a row the boys were already leaving and then yam continued before one of the terrorists saw yam's uniform shirt he opened it like this I remember his big green eyes and he yells at me in Arabic and no I understand what you are asking, so they take you to Gaza with your children, what are those first hours and days like?

It took us 7 minutes to get to Gaza and 7 weeks to get back when we got back from Gaza the unbearable ease of how it all happened was unbearable at first when we arrived we got to the tunnel we were there for two days what the interactions with Hamas were like when you were held in these places in In reality, in an absurd way, they protected us sometimes even with their bodies from the attacks of the Israeli Air Force. We talked about this absurdity. We talked about this absurdity several times and they also made sure to point it out as if we were protecting you from an attack with force.

That's the word. absurd the reason Hamas wanted to keep these hostages safe is to exchange them as part of a broader ceasefire agreement for Palestinian prisoners in Tel Aviv Trey yst Fox News, okay Trey, thank you very much for that detailed report now at 8:51 on the east coast, giving you a live look at a cloudy, hazy Gaza, all this while those missile attacks continue in the middle of the war and speaking of the war, we actually heard yesterday from Chuck Schumer, who gave an update on him and Iran. He also talked about some concerns he had about some credit card mergers and how they could affect your pocketbook.

Let's listen in the body who is this of ours, but what is this little thing? Are you going to give them something about what this is? Oh, that's just a microphone, okay, no. It doesn't matter, just out of curiosity, okay, good morning everyone, first we'll talk about credit cards and then we'll talk about Iran, okay, we're here today because two of the main credit cards that millions of New Yorkers use every day and that Capital One discovers They could soon become one company. In a multi-billion dollar doll merger with potentially really bad consequences for consumers, people have been pretty, yes, people have been pretty quiet about it, but if these two companies merge, this is Capital One and Discover.

It could mean greater interest. fees higher fees, less competition for tens of millions of customers and millions in New York and Long Island, so this would be the largest credit card merger ever recorded and usually when there is a consolidation, the consumer pays the price, so we are asking a lot of questions. about this merger because we are very concerned in terms of price increases today. I demand answers about this merger before it is given the green light and have sent a letter to the bosses of both. I have sent a letter. On this side, the heads of the credit card companies asking them a lot of questions because, again, mergers usually mean problems for consumers.

I have written to companies asking a litany of questions about antitrust and consumer protection. Look when it comes to credit cards. For businesses, one thing is certain, their bread and butter is a ton of fees and sometimes surprising interest rates, which is why the proposed merger of Capital One and Discover is so concerning that consumers are already fed up. of the interest rates on your credit cards. Consolidation in the industry could very well mean even higher rates and fees and many credit cards, many credit card holders are unaware of this merger, it has remained relatively quiet and therefore they won't even know when their rates go up, Why the merger?

If it happens and you will not have the opportunity to switch to another company before the rates go up. Less competition in the credit card market could well mean higher interest rates for cardholders. Higher fees and higher fines. I just like this. to give it to Angelo and Paige look how they put these two cards together really well, okay so let me say this, what are the types of fees that could go up? Annual fees, interest charges, late payment fees and the history has shown it. Oh, more, wait. I'm starting over, there are more of them, which could increase if this merger happens.

Your annual fee, interest charge, late payment fee, plus foreign transaction fees, balance transfer fees, and cash advance fees may increase. We're tired of this, we've all had enough and credit card companies are anything but bankrupt according to Investopedia quote, if Capital One's $335.3 billion purchase of Discover goes through, the deal would create largest credit card lenderof the country for balance owed that would affect the credit. cards are offered, under what conditions and where they can be used, this could revolutionize the overall credit card market at a time when plastic is an increasingly important part of the domestic finances of American households, according to the public, the settlement comes as credit card usage and credit card debt is growing rapidly and the CF PB, which is our consumer protection board, we have been warned that the CF C cfpb says that banks Larger banks tend to charge higher interest rates, let me give you an example, according to the CFPB, large institutions charge customers with good credit scores an average of 28% in late payment fees, while smaller banks only They charge 18% so here is a rule that often occurs the larger the company the higher their rates and this will create the largest company on record.

Larger banks charge consumers more simply. and overall simple credit card debt, as you know, has been breaking records is $1.3 trillion right now, the average consumer owed $6,000 on their credit card in the third quarter of 2023, according to TransUnion, which It keeps these records, so we need to get answers and we need to make these answers known to consumers and we will shed light on this so that if you have one of these cards, you know what's going on before you do. risk paying even more we want to know about the possible increase in rates we want to know what effect this will have on the market we want to know how credit card companies are informing consumers right now we have more questions than answers okay, now let's go Just I want to say a few words about Iran, so Iran and its proxies, the most destabilizing force in the Middle East, we see this every day in Yemen, in the Red Sea, in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, have little regard for peace and little regard for your fellow Middle Easterners, so this is the question that some of you have asked me and it is: what are we doing to prepare?

I know that the president and his team are working hard to prevent an escalation and are prepared to defend any attack and respond quickly if necessary. Look, general tensions are high throughout the Middle East and that's why we want to pass. We've been working on this all weekend, which is why we want to pass the bipartisan Senate infrastructure bill because, sorry, tensions in the Middle East are very high, which is why we want to pass. The National Security Supplement is critical and we are all urging President Johnson to put it on the House floor. It was approved by the Senate with a large bipartisan majority of 70 votes.

Okay, we'll answer questions about these two topics first. About credit cards. Any question. Well, so about Iran, okay, have a good yes, Mayor Orus, how are you going to handle it? How is the Senate going to be run well? As I said, I think the charges are absurd, there is no evidence, zero evidence that he committed an impeachable crime. Okay, thank you all, thank you. So a brief New York City press conference from US Senator Chuck Schumer shares some concerns about credit card mergers and Iran on the right side of your screen after this morning's major news here live from the box in relation to that anticipated event. total solar eclipse, the top right box gives you a live view of our XR system and I'll actually bring it up in full if you don't mind so you can get a closer look at our .

Most importantly for many, some are worried that cloud cover and even rain could dampen their total solar eclipse parade, but nevertheless, you are watching the X-ray system live to see how it could be affected. We are also following it. Our content is partnering with Fox News Channel as we continue to bring you a preview of coverage of the total solar eclipse, so right now we're heading to Dallas and checking in with fox4 Dallas as they're previewing coverage of that area and neck of the woods. of the prominent places where you can see the action in its entirety, let's check them out now for the only local news at 8:00 a. m.

Thank you for watching Good morning on Fox 4 Well, good morning, it's Monday, April 8th. I'm Brandon Todd. Lauren main, thank you for being with us. Today we head straight to Evan, not only for the clips but also for the severe weather later today, so at least the two of them aren't on at the same time. I am very happy because we are going to have several. Events after the eclipse. I'm going to have one, two, three, count them in the next 24 hours, starting around afternoon. Three events that could have severe weather associated with them. Let's start with this morning, with the high clouds flying this morning. you are looking, you can see them running, if they are running, they are blowing with upper level winds and they are the clouds and you can see them out there, you have no choice, they are definitely out, here is the first visible satellite. morning shot, it's kind of a wait, it takes a little while after the sun comes up, but these are the low clouds that are now taking over the sky from Dallas to the south and east, as expected, really They are starting to cover a good chunk of real estate and late this morning I would say everywhere from the Metroplex east and south will be on the mostly cloudy to cloudy side and you will be sitting there getting ready for your Eclipse party 11:11:30 12:00 Well this is not what I wanted and the areas to the north and west will actually have pretty decent conditions with just high clouds as the afternoon progresses these clouds will start to disperse at about the time when the eclipse begins, not the total one. just the partial eclipse and then the total which is about 140 to 144.

Notice how that dark orange area is getting less and less now, it doesn't mean you're guaranteed to see a sunny sky and it doesn't mean you're guaranteed a cloudy sky, the clouds they'll just disperse during the afternoon which is pretty typical, this has nothing to do with everyone saying oh the atmosphere is going to cool down and we're going to magically break up the clouds, these are not the kind of clouds that break up like that , but this afternoon we are going to have more and more breaks as the day goes on, so once you get past 2 and 3:00, the chances of having breaks are better now that we are heading into severe weather. to 11:00 storms, especially from Metroplex East, overnight it is around 10 or 11:00 and then overnight from the northern Dallas Fort Worth area and each lot can have its own type of severe weather, which We will discuss in a few minutes. but the low clouds are expanding and then the low clouds are really expanding as we move towards midday and then the clouds start to break up this afternoon again.

The time for the total eclipse from 140 to 144 in Dallas and, by the way, that is the only time. You can take off your glasses when it is at its maximum. You must wear them all the time before and after. I have someone wearing glasses here and he sees the traffic very clearly and it doesn't look good, no, no, especially in Dallas County, but let's start with some good news in Taran County on the east side of 20 as it approaches to the Bowman Springs area, it looks like they've moved everything to the shoulder and traffic is easing up, but it's still pretty heavy in that area further down. down the road on I20 eastbound past 67, this was originally called because a stall appears to now be an accident and the right lane is blocked.

You have considerable support in that area trying to get to downtown Dallas on northbound 45, just past Pennsylvania. I had this accident where the right lane is blocked and that's really backing up traffic on that stretch and guess what guys, we still have that problem on southbound 75 approaching 635, you know, run for the central area HOV park and two left lanes are blocked. I have considerable backup all the way to Plano, so good luck and Brandon and Lauren get back to you. You can track the storms as they reach North Texas. It's always good, especially if you're going to be outside to keep up with the weather. wap has live radar it has clocks, warnings it's what we all use here it's free to download you can scan the QR code on your screen well we're ready communities across North Texas are ready, uh, to welcome thousands of people from all over the world.

For today's total eclipse, the town of Enis in Ellis County, south of Dallas, hosted a large viewing party to experience the four-plus minutes of totality that you paig elenberger lives in the center of NIS and is funny because we think NIS isn't one of the biggest cities but boy is it big today and it's probably the talk of the town oh my god no you're absolutely right Lauren all morning we've been talking about that hat festival blue and how many people it really attracts and I'm with Marty Nelson. and just a few minutes ago he's a city manager here at NIS just a few minutes ago I said, do you know how many people come to the Blue Bonnet Festival?

You told me just over 10,000 people around 12 today, although it's going to be very different. story, how many people do you expect and how do you prepare for that? So, it's a completely different order of magnitude for the solar eclipse. The lowest estimate is about 50,000 people, so to put that into context, there will be an additional 25,000 vehicles coming to us. Today, to have this once-in-a-lifetime experience, you told me that if you put together all the festivals NS does throughout the year, it wouldn't even come close to the total number of people you expect today. That's right, you put them all. all together and it's a lower number than what we're going to have today for the eclipse, of course, a lot of planning has gone into this.

I know a few weeks ago we talked about, guys, reaching out to other cities that experienced the 2017 solar eclipse, can you give us a little insight into what those conversations were like in preparation for today? I bet the planning team reached out to other cities that had gone through this kind of consensus is that people will start driving today. starting with the weather forecast and while we're here I can see the blue sky starting to peek through so the clouds will dissipate. We hope people will start driving this morning all day to be here for the eclipse. during the early afternoon hours and then everyone wants to go home at the same time, so it's after the eclipse that traffic congestion will be worst.

Well, today there will be a big party. What's the hope all afternoon heading into the On the night that everyone has a great experience, we have the watch party downtown, of course, the entire month of April is the Blue Bonnet trails, so we have thousands of people every day coming to us just to ride the 40 miles of blue hood Amazing trails Marty, thank you so much for joining us this morning Brendan and Lauren. I'm going to put on these solar eclipse glasses and I know they can see me. I can't see you guys at all, but Marty mentioned it standing here. there was a lot of cloud cover this morning, there are some blue skies peeking through, I don't even know if I'm looking at the camera anymore, so let's keep our fingers crossed that a lot of those clouds will dissipate and it turns out to be a really, really good day here in NIS because a lot of people will be here looking for just under four and a half minutes of totality, guys, yeah, a little bit in the dark right now, yeah, yeah, I know, but you're going to need it, so hold on.

For them, wait, yes, a crowd of 30,000 is expected at Clyde Warren Park on the north side of downtown Dallas to view the eclipse and Fox Fors. Hannah is there this morning. Good morning, good morning guys, yes, it's been a while since there's been a full-on solar storm. The last time an eclipse occurred in Dallas was in 1878, so yes, the anticipation has really been building even during the weekend that we saw so many people come to Clyde Warren Park, as you mentioned today, it will look more like tens of thousands of people, some people. We saw their blankets put out as early as 6:30 or even 7 in the morning and for good reason, because today's events here are a full day of activity, they already have the food trucks outside, they are going to have a band playing and In fact, we're partnering with the Perau Museum to have Carnegie scientists here doing a panel discussion about the solar eclipse and what this means more broadly in the scientific community.

We talked about all the fun family activities this morning. The president of Clyde Warren Park also wanted to point out that they are going to hand out free ISS-certified solar eclipse glasses for anyone who wants to come here to see the event and the best thing is that they believe that people from today have come because of today's events, the response has been overwhelming, we have been getting calls from the UK and Germany and all these placesdifferent for weeks and weeks, now people are traveling from all over the world to come to Dallas for a natural event that is really exciting and they will come to our Green Space, which is also very exciting for Dallas, so our trucks food yesterday they said they serve people from every other city in the country and they couldn't even believe it so it really is a great day for Dallas um and we're glad everyone's here yeah and when I talked to Kit this morning, She said she only recommends that people leave early to get their spot, but also to resolve the parking situation, she said, as long as you're where you want to be, whether it's downtown Dallas or somewhere else around the city.

North Texas for the eclipse, simply arrive before the start of the eclipse, not an hour before the start of the eclipse, the next time you are expected to arrive in Dallas. by the way, it will be in the year 2317 and over here we will see that totality for about 4 minutes later today for now reporting live at Clyde War Park and man, good morning, I think that's the perfect place to see it CU. It's going to be like downtown, you're like in the middle of downtown with all the buildings, so it's going to be really, I mean, it's really going to change things just to see how dark it's going to be in the middle. city, so be cool, awesome, enjoy Hannah, many North Texas students will be watching the solar eclipse at school today.

Yes, I will be around little kids later today, so I am excited that the medical professionals spoke with Grand Prairie ISD. students on Friday all children in all schools receive a lesson on proper eye care Eclipse uh watching the protocols yes, how to avoid any damage to the eyes students will wear certified protective glasses when looking at the sun, even when it is partially covered We want to be very firm about safety ahead of time so that in the days after the eclipse we don't have an influx of patients having problems because they look at the eclipse too much.

Many students, many school districts, I should say, are keeping campuses closed. for visitors during outdoor eclipse viewing, which is from 12:30 to 2:30 this afternoon, some school districts, including nsis, just closed today because there are a lot of people in that area and they just want the kids to be with your parents, stay with us. Fox 4 is your solar eclipse headquarters. We've got everything you need to know about the eclipse throughout the morning and also continuing into totality this afternoon. We will be live throughout. You can also learn more about the eclipse on our website foxnews.com. and even on our Fox Local streaming channel 13 minutes later and we thank Fox for Dallas for their extensive coverage and don't forget here live now from Fox we have extensive coverage of the live total solar eclipse presented by Nissan starting at 1 p.m.

Today, my buddy Josh Brlo will be hosting the festivities for you and giving you a look at some cool camera shots and some exclusive interviews as well. I tried to ask him who he will talk to. He says no. You don't want to give up the products just yet, so you have to tune in to find out and see some tips on total solar eclipses. Let's watch with our content partners at Fox 29 Philadelphia, we'll show you what the Sun looks like. The eclipse starts at 2:08 and ends around 4:30 but wait, there's more. You have snacks in the house, like Chez itss or Cheerios.

Things like that work too. You're looking for anything with a circle like a small. pinhole look at this here's some cheese yeah there's a little hole there and then let me use my hands we'll do something like if you ever made animals with your hands look at that little circle there it'll show You can see how it looks see the Sun during the clips. I love it and it also works with Cheerio. I feel like we always have Cheerio or different Circle cereals at home. It will show you what the Sun looks like, so it's a sunny Circle right now, but during the. eclipse will look very different and then on Friday at Good Day Philadelphia we did Eclipse View.

If you really want to do something with the kids, we have the instructions at fox29.com. We have a little piece of tin, another little hole. I poked it with a pen and it's the same idea where the sun is projected and it's hard to see from my point of view. Here I will turn it. Let me know if I need to spin this or not. I don't know, can you see it? Tom Tom is operating the camera for me, let me know if I need to modify things a little more because you can't see them there, but I'll take you at your word, you'll get it there and you can look at it, you put a little piece of white paper and it's so clear how they all work these things and we're just getting started.

This morning I walked through my house, went through the garage and found many more items that you probably have there. your house that you can use to view the eclipse safely in case you don't have the eclipse glasses and by the way, I tried some glasses for welders. Welding glass doesn't block the sun as much, which is great right now. I'm looking at the sun and I see a perfect circle through the eclipse glasses. I can't see anything cooler than a check from the roof and all the household items you can make, Mike, everything you can finish is yours. of beer beer I'm in I found it I found the beer what's your name Johan and the name Brewer roach Brewing Company I love this New York yeah this is a collaboration we did with the three Brew strb three heads and Roar boox um Then I heard which sold out, sold out very quickly, much faster than we thought and you know, it takes a while to make beers and why people like it so much.

WoW because it's a great beer, but it's also the eclipse it's once. in a life event, so I think part of it is that they're just trying to make sure that the people they have in their hands want to save it. He made thousands of cans. There's only one left and let's take a look. We are shining it with spotlights, well, the camera lights anyway Sergio, thanks for the lighting. Thank you. I remember. Yeah, so this is all in black can. Isn't it great? All in black can. Yes, and that's the whole thing. We had a lighter side and a darker side and that's a black Chakan, it's the only one left, the only one I know.

May, sure, are you sure? Yes, are you sure? I'm sure, where's the glass? I guess you could drink from it. You know Mike, I have to tell you it looks creamy, whatever, you're a die-hard because it's early in the morning, but it's not bad at all, right? It's not that early for me. I wake up in the middle of the night. I love it, oh that's really good. applause applause applause for the eclipse and I think it's getting clearer again that's right look the sun is shining the sun is out at least for now it's shining very soon we won't be able to see it properly so it seems An exciting moment in Philadelphia as they prepare to the total solar eclipse.

It's now 9:18 on the east coast. Let's get to our first two-minute commercial break of the hour, and when we come back, we'll continue those live events. Top stories and headlines for your Monday morning, welcome back to live from Fox. I'm G Francine and good morning to you, if you're just tuning in, you're in for a special treat. Check out the Fox broadcasts. 29 Philly again I see they're making some Eclipse snacks Yeah, you heard that right, let's take a look at this one together because it couldn't be easier, okay, I've got some Thin Girl Scout cookies and some cupcakes with lemon glaze, check it out. in the picture of what we're going to do, you can also do it with an Oreo, there's your Eclipse cupcake, you just dropped that cookie, look at that snap, Eclipse, let me do it again, wait, we didn't get that one here.

It comes, it comes here in full, here we go, so could this be any easier? And for bonus points, I got quants because they are Crescent Shaved for Crescent Moon and I have vanilla wafers. You could put the black frosting on the vanilla wafers and then you can. make your own eclipse, yes you can put them in there too so this is all a quick last minute thing, better than Pinterest right, and a little breakfast and fun, thanks oh no, I broke them, these are breakable, they are defective Oreos, it's the Breaky type, it wasn't me, I even bought the mineral that my baby arms live in, it's a total eclipse of the closet, we will have a fashion show inspired by the eclipse and we will tell you what colors you should wear today to see and experience the eclipse.

Even better, we're back right after this, it's great to see those snacks and the Eclipse cheese plate and even cupcakes showing the different phases of the eclipse, so if you're thinking of something interesting to do with the kids today to put things into perspective for them and do an interesting science experiment that might be the thing to do right now, make some cupcakes. I want to give you a live look at our xrad system as we continue to discuss today's anticipated event and for many the weather is a concern. I know. Earlier when I spoke with Fox Weathers, Max Gordon, he said that in the Cleveland area people are a little sad because they were hoping to see some remnants of what the eclipse will look like today, but in that area there is a lot of cloud cover and it has even there's been some rain that I'm also checking in with.uh Dallas, they were saying the same thing so as we continue to bring you these top stories and headlines throughout the day, just know that we'll also keep you weather ready so you can be prepared and talk about later today.

I'm giving you a preview so you can keep looking forward live now from Fox's total solar eclipse coverage today brought to you by Nissan's live coverage starting at 1 pm ET with my colleague Josh Brlo, he says that you will get some very interesting photos from all over the United States and also. some pretty compelling and exclusive interviews, so while we continue to bring you all things eclipse, be sure to tune in right here to live now from Fox. I'm G Francine and I'll be joining you this Monday morning, it's April 8th. It has been a pleasure for me.

I'll be here with you for the last few hours bringing you all the top stories and headlines from the day's live events, but we have to take a quick two-minute commercial break when we get back. My colleague Mike Pae will take over and continue his pregame coverage. of today's anticipated event, the total solar eclipse, also brings you other top stories and headlines from your Monday morning. We'll be back in just two minutes and we welcome everyone here to live now from Fox. Beautiful photo of New York City. This Monday, ah, but it is not a normal Monday, it is not a normal start to the week, it is Eclipse day, welcome.

I'm your host, Mike Pae. I will prepare you for the next three and a half hours while we prepare you. For our coverage starting at 1:00 ET, you won't want to miss it, but we'll get you ready for the eclipse. It will be a show that will be attended by more than 32 million people in this country. You can and will participate and watch it in some way and we thank all of our viewers watching right now, as always. I want to start with NASA giving some tips on how to get the best photos and also be safe. at the same time let's listen here live now oh alright I'm looking forward to that and I'm excited to see all the great videos and selections that will be coming a little later here live now from Fox let's get on with things let's go out to Fox For Dallas, where they are preparing, their morning show has been doing a great job.

Let's listen to some of their coverage as they prepare for the moment of totality ahead. Let's listen live now from Fox. Okay, 5 hours. 12 minutes and 50 seconds counting who is performing away from all the solo clubs. Fortunately, we have the countdown there. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people will plan to witness this Celestial event, yes, and you have plenty of time to attend these free tours. parties all over the Metroplex Fox Force TC mzinga joins us in the studio with a look TC yeah good morning guys very exciting so there are several preview events happening all over North Texas so let's go ahead and start here in downtown Dallas, the Ron Kirk and Felix Bridge. loada Gateway in downtown Dallas is welcoming thousands of people, there will be music and hands-on activities, plus the first 3,000 people will receive free northbound solar eclipse glasses, the park's total eclipse will be in Addison Circle Park again.

Expect food trucks with live music and outdoor activities starting at 10:00 a.m. m. to 4: This afternoon there are now two parks in Plano to view the eclipse and people are invited to visit Haven Meadows Park and Oak Point Park at the nature preserve in McKenny Gabe. Nesbet Community Park and Sports Complex is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. m. to 2: p. m. and people can gather on the Exchange Lawn at the Fort Wart Stockyards. The viewing party is from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. today and we also have other free events in the Metroplex on our website fox4news.com.

One good day, I'm Tmuinga, yes you know some people like to be with the crowd and celebrate, some people like to just stay home, maybe just look at their backyard, if you take some photos share them with us on social media because it's fun see how everyone is, you know, I say celebrate together, it's kind of a celebration, we all do it together, it's pretty unique, okay, 8:28 this Monday. and we'll be checking in with Fox for Dallas throughout the morning and afternoon right here, live from Fox. Everyone, let's go ahead and continue showing you this great preview of the NASA eclipse that you're watching live now from Fox.

Welcome to NASA. science live this is your chance to interact with NASA experts and get your questions answered in real time I'm your host Tahira Allen today we dive into the excitement surrounding the next total solar eclipse that will cross North America and pass through Mexico. United States and Canada, if you have questions during the show, you can submit them using the hashtag, ask NASA on social media or send them directly to the comment box wherever you are watching now, this eclipse is not just any celestial event. a rare opportunity for millions of people to witness the moon completely blocking the sun turning day into dusk for those in the path of totality and get this.

This will be the last total solar eclipse to cross the contiguous United States for the next 20 years, making this even more special is that an estimated 31.6 million people live within the path of totality and if you are not in the path of totality don't worry, everyone in the contiguous United States will have the opportunity to see at least a partial solar eclipse. Now imagine this. a collective pause as people across the US look up to experience the wonder of the cosmos together. I can't wait and today I'm joined by Dr. Gina Deio, a sun expert who will explain how to prepare for the event on April 88.

Gina, welcome, hello dear, thank you for having me and thank you very much for being here now. Can you start by telling our viewers a little about your role here at NASA? Sure, I'm the deputy director of the heliophysics science division at NASA Goddard. CER space flight, that means I'm helping to oversee an organization of scientists who are studying heliophysics, which is the study of the Sun and its influence on everything, so we're looking at the physics of the Sun but also how it impacts the Sun's magnetic field. the earth. field the atmosphere of Apper and really understanding how the whole system works together, that's great and Gina, I'm very happy to be here with you again today.

Yes, Gina and I had a great time presenting last year's annular solar eclipse and I think it's safe. Let's say we're excited to be back for the total solar eclipse now, before we delve into some details. Gina, can you help clarify something for me? What exactly differentiates an annular solar eclipse from a total solar eclipse like this year's? Well, then when? a solar eclipse occurs, the moon is going to cross between the Earth and the Sun and when that happens, the shadow of the moon is cast on the earth and we can look up into the sky and see it now to see an annular eclipse, the moon goes be a little further away so that it does not completely block the Sun and that is what you can see on the screen here you have a Ring of Fire in the Sky now for a total solar eclipse the moon is It will be closer to the Earth so that the Sun is completely blocked and that way we can see the Solar Corona.

It is that hot upper atmosphere of the Sun that we cannot see with our visible eyes on a day-to-day basis. It's really good to know that difference because you know I understand that in the total solar eclipse the safety tips are a little bit different than a ring right exactly, so for our viewers at home we have a special guest, someone who maybe recognize that it is here. to let us know how to safely view the April 8 event. Hello eclipse enthusiast Lance Bass. I want to tell you how to protect those eyes and stay safe during a solar eclipse.

During these celestial events, the sun, earth and moon are synchronized creating solar energy. Eclipses You can look directly at the Sun during a total solar eclipse, but only when it is completely covered by the Moon for a short period known as totality, this is a truly special moment, the rest of the time you should wear eclipse glasses so as not to say goodbye to your vision seriously and eclipse glasses are not the same as normal sunglasses. No, they are not safe. Solar visors are thousands of times darker and will have a specific certification that you should look for here. a space cowboy and try looking directly at the sun, if you don't have eclipse glasses you can use an indirect viewing method such as a pinhole projector, you can make one of these with something as simple as a token with a hole in it or a strainer. or even with your hands with a sun on your back, you can safely project an image of the sun through the hole onto a nearby surface like the ground.

I'll be the one wearing my eclipse glasses and are you okay? We're already seeing a lot of questions online from our viewers, so let's jump right into these questions and answers. Now remember that if you're watching live you can submit your own questions for Gina using the Asknasa hash or by posting them in the comments wherever you're watching today. Alright, Gina, our first question is from Oh, it actually looks like we have kind of a group question here. Okay, it seems like a lot of people watching are asking about advisories that may have been issued in certain areas with guidance on how to prepare for crowds and, um, preventive measures aimed at reducing traffic.

Could you give us a little more information on how to best prepare for April 8? Sure, as you said before, Toira, along the path of totality, we have about 31 million people. people, which is great because it's already packed to begin with and of course we'll have people traveling to that area to make it even busier so just think about preventive measures you can take in case you get stuck in the traffic. so make sure you have gas in the tank, make sure if you have a battery powered car that you've charged, you have some extra food and water with you, uh, if there are lines of traffic, know to be prepared to be patient and wait a little for that, thanks Gina, so we have a Our next question is from a user on Facebook who wants to know what science will be done during the total solar eclipse, just one of the things we are most excited about in the POT. is actually doing different science experiments during the eclipse, now one of the favorites that I like to talk about is we're using NASA's WB 57 high-altitude research plane to do some experiments, so the plane, yeah, The plane will fly through the path of totality, so it gets a little longer in total than if you were standing on the ground and what that means is that the instruments on board will look at the solar corona and take images so we can study the composition of the crown. understand how particles are accelerated and charged and also be able to study the dust around the Sun that we can't really understand when we look at it on a day-to-day basis, and this is just an experiment that you can do during a total solar eclipse is like this, so we have instruments called coronagraphs which are essentially artificial eclipses and they will block out the Sun so we can study the corona, but the way the light bends around these corona graphs, we can't actually delve into the corona itself in that part. bottom, so for the total solar eclipse that occurs naturally, it allows us to go down to the bottom of the corona, which means that this is one of the only times that we can know how to study this area of ​​the Sun which is incredible, that's why we have our next question about Jordan, uh, from Jordan on YouTube, who wants to know why it's bad to see a solar eclipse directly?

Well, thanks for that question, Jordan, so we. You want to be very careful about eye safety during any eclipse or even in everyday life. He doesn't want to look at the Sun so as not to cause any permanent damage to his eyes now as it is. What works for a total solar eclipse is that during the partial phases you need to have the proper safety display we just heard about. You can have the glasses to see eclipses. You can make a pinhole projector and you need to use it to view the partial eclipse. m, if you are in the path of totality during totality, you don't need to have those glasses, you can look directly at the sky and see the sun because it will be blocked, so you're just looking at that Corona that you're in.

Actually, I'm not going to look at the sun, but just totality and I have a great following of Mouse 757 on YouTube who wants to know where the path of totality is for this event. Well, you can go to the NASA website. nasa.gov Eclipse Explorer and it will show you the map so you can see where totality is, but across the US it will stretch from Texas to Ohio. We will also have a station in Cleveland doing the broadcast. and then to main also yeah exactly and thank you for that uh and then our next question is from Matthew Hinson on YouTube, who asks what happens to the Moon and the Sun seen from Earth during the eclipse, so we have the Sun in the The sky and the moon will cross in front of the Sun, so when you look at the sky with the right safety equipment, what you will see is the sun slowly being covered by the moon and that is what will happen. our perspective from the surface of the Earth is basically that we're going to see the sun disappear as the moon moves in front of it, that's also so cool that the Moon is the right size, you know, to cover the sun, yeah .

During this event, we have Alana Franklin on YouTube who wants to know how long the eclipse will last, so if you are on the path of suchness, maximum totality will last around 4 and a half minutes, although it depends on where you fall. within that path if you're on the edges it might be a little bit shorter you want to be as deep as possible within it and then you'll get that maximum totality but I will say that this eclipse that we're going to have in April in totality will last longer than it did in 2017, when we had the eclipse across the United States, do you know why?

It just has to do with where the Moon is in its orbit, how far it is from the Sun, and, for that one, in 2017, maximum totality. It was only 2 minutes, a little bit longer than that, so we almost doubled, oh yeah, that's great to know, so our next question is from a viewer on X who wants to know what tips you have for taking photos. eclipses is fine, well if you are taking pictures of eclipses during totality you can use your phone that's fine, the same way we can look at the eclipse with our eyes only during totality you can also use your phone to take pictures now anywhere else.

We will continue to bring you the latest and will also reach out to school children who are preparing for today's big event and are you all ready? We are getting excited just a few hours away from the big total solar eclipse event. I'm your host Mike Paage, thanks again for joining us here today as we get you ready for The Big Event today, but I'm not the only one excited, millions of people aren't the only ones excited, we have school age kids who are definitely excited about all of this right now, so let's go to the Houston area.

Fox 26's Chelsea Edwards joins. We're here with the latest and you've got a lot of eager students uh uh ready for this Chelsea yeah Michael we're here in Crosby ISD at Barrett Elementary where we have a wide variety of students ready for the solar eclipse right yeah it's good. right, we also have a lot of know-it-alls in this group level, first let's talk to Miss Smith, third grade science teacher, tell me how you helped your students get ready for today's eclipse, so we've been doing a lot of projects. about the solar system and then it happened to me that it led up to the solar eclipse and we did some reading comprehension questions, um, just to prepare you on what exactly is going to happen today and then you were able to make some cool little masks to protect your eyes every time you look at the solar eclipse today, so just like the Sun and the Moon, everything aligned as far as the curriculum goes here, yeah, okay, okay, let's talk to some students about how ready are you?

Do I see so many moon faces? Alien faces all kinds ofcorona because The sun will not be completely covered, but you will still be able to experience a partial eclipse and depending on where you are, the amount of that partial eclipse will vary. You can go to the Eclipse Explorer map to see what coverage you have but viewing. a partial eclipse is also really exciting and you're still going to get some of those temperature changes and the changes around you as well so whether you're in totality or watching that partial eclipse it's still exciting yeah so we've got the mayor Yusman on YouTube, who wants to know well if a cell phone interruption is expected?

Do you know if this will affect any of our communications during the eclipse? Oh, that's a great question, so he knows that there is space weather activity that can disrupt our cell phones when the sun is sending. harmful radiation into space, you know, it can impact the upper atmosphere of the Earth and cause small interruptions in the cell phone, however, first of all, we have different things to avoid that and specifically during the eclipse, that is not something that we have to do. be worried, but I'm glad people are thinking in that direction, that's great, yeah, and you know you mentioned studying space weather, things like that, we have another viewer who wants to know what missions NASA has to study the Sun and what mysteries.

Do we hope to solve it well now? NASA in the Helium physical sciences division, we have the Parker solar probe mission and this mission is actually flying into the upper atmosphere of the Sun so that the solar corona that we are talking about can be seen during the eclipse. Parker actually flies through it and touches it and this is the first spacecraft to get this close to the Sun; in fact, on December 24 of this year it will have its closest approach flying nine solar radii close to the Sun and that may seem far away. but it's actually the closest a spacecraft has ever been to us really figuring out how the physics operates in this region.

Well, now nine solar radios, can you give us an idea? Oh yeah, I'll ask my team to give me an idea. Leave us some stats on that and put them in the chat so we can get them in miles for people to understand, but it's a lot closer to the Sun than we are so we can touch the atmosphere there amazing, so our next question. In fact, you once again have to deal with the sun and its activity. It's from Fox McLoud on YouTube. Who wants to know if we will see solar flares during the eclipse?

That could very well happen now that the sun has an 11-year activity cycle where activity is waxing and waning and as it ramps up we see more of those solar flares, we see coronal mass ejections and more and right now we're heading towards solar maximum, which means we have more of this solar activity and you can see the explosive flares. happening so if we ever saw any of this activity during the eclipse this would be the time because we have tons of activity happening so fingers crossed your solar telescopes or if you are watching we can see some solar energy. flares erupting, is there some hard science we can only do while you're watching the live broadcast now from Fox?

We thank you all for continuing with us. I'm your host, Mike B. It's always great to be back with you, we'll be hanging out again. to NASA in a moment, but since we are now live from Fox with the name live, we try to give you all the events that are happening live right now, so let's go to Fox for Dallas, they are doing a great preview of Today's big event let's also continue to hear it live now from Fox's years of planning. It's all going to come to fruition today for many communities across North Texas as hundreds of thousands of people from around the world come here to experience the eclipse. the city of Enis, how you've brought this into the spotlight, it's Ellis County, south of Dallas, they expect 2,000 people to experience the four-plus minute totality, that's the area where you'll see, you should see the longest period of darkness known.

Pig Ellenberger lives in downtown Andis good morning hi Brandon and Lauren good morning and I know on my last live shot I was talking to Marty the city manager who said the hotels here in NIS have been booked for months. I actually found someone who booked their hotel room a year and a half ago Spencer rley thanks for joining us this morning and um I know your name is Spencer but you introduced yourself to me as the Astron nerd tell me a little bit about what you do and what you've been doing since 1970, well, the first eclipse I saw was in 1970.

I was a senior in high school. Me and a group of friends got in the car, drove from Lancaster, South Carolina, to Florence, South Carolina, and saw the most wonderful thing we've ever had. seen in our lives and that's what hooked me and you said it hooked you and I said why and can you explain to me if I've never seen a total solar eclipse? I know some people who will be here on N haven't either. that experience like a big black hole in the sky, it's the blackest thing you've ever seen with something that looks like white fluffy cotton and it's dark from horizon to horizon and there's a sunrise around 360°.

The stars come out and leave me. tell you what a type of religious experience is it's like seeing God and we talked a little bit before the cloud cover here in Texas specifically doesn't look good I know some rays of sun are shining on us right now you've been a Sim, in a similar experience in France, there is a bit of optimism there, what do you want people to know about today's eclipse? Well, when we were in France, we were on the coast in the channel and it was trapped, it was trapped, people were. crying, you know they were all, some of them were even packing their bags and leaving and just as the totality was supposed to start, the clouds broke a little bit and we saw the totality and it opened up, we saw a big totality and then it was absorbed again.

After totality is over, but there is some hope there and I know we don't have much time left. You also take photos of these eclipses and I don't know if we're on live video right now, but I do. I want to bring it up if that's the case and show him Spencer's shirt. This is one of the photos taken. Can you explain to me why this is so special to you and why this is the seventh? Did you mention Eclipse? Fifth eclipse. This will be the sixth. and uh, this shirt. I sneaked around Aruba. I stayed for about 12 hours.

I had no hotel, I had nothing. I simply set up my equipment and took the photos. I got back on the plane and I came home and that's one of the photos and I'm proud of it and as you can see it's old and it's kind of wrinkled and stuff, you know, but I wore it today for this special occasion, Spencer, many Thank you for joining us, it was truly a pleasure to receive you. to get a little bit of your story, thank you so much, I love Spencer's story in France, Brandon and Lauren, about how the cloud cover was so immense when he was spending time in the canal and then just as totality hit the skies , they separated and were I can see it, fingers crossed, it's happening today, the sun is shining on me this morning, so I hope the time of totality comes, it will be like this, fingers crossed, it's a good sign, It's a good sign, okay, that's what everyone is waiting for, thank you very much.

Lots of Paige, there's also a big viewing party on the lawn of Clyde Waren Park on the north side of downtown Dallas. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend Fox Force Hannah bah there live with a look at what we can expect. Good morning. Hello good morning. Brandon Lauren, happy about solar eclipse day for both of us, yes, here at Clyde Waren Park, people started coming out at 7:00, but they expect up to 30,000 people to attend, according to the program that said it would start at 11: but I mean, as you can see, that hasn't really stopped anyone, they're going to have so many fun things and that includes a panel of Carnegie scientists and this morning we're really in luck because we have one of the astronomers Peter are here with us to talk about today's events first, let's talk about the eclipse in general, give us a little overview of what we can expect today, yes, absolutely, so we are very fortunate to have, you know, a moon that is approximately the same size as the sun and a moon that rotates around us in a way that occasionally lines up and perfectly blocks the sun, so around 12:30 we will start to see a partial eclipse that many people have probably seen.

I have seen those where the moon moves slowly over the Sun's disk and, albeit slowly, will move into increasing coverage and eventually around 140 p.m. In Dallas it will be completely dark for about 3 minutes, and those 3 minutes are when the moon's disk perfectly covers the sun. You are in the middle of a 360° sunset. It's really cool, you know? you're completely in shadow, um, you can see it because they're perfectly the same size, you can actually see the outer corona of the sun, the very hot outer atmosphere, the outer atmosphere of the sun, you'll never be able to see it normally, um, we'll do it. being able to see planets as if it were completely dark, you know, completely Twilight, at least, if we're lucky with the weather, the best thing about a total eclipse is that even if we have some clouds, it's still going to get dark like that. uh you know that's still going to be very dramatic even if we can't see all of this, but you know we will, we'll cross our fingers that the clouds clear up a little bit, we'll cross it. bridge when it arrives and I know you said the most important thing when we see that complete Crown.

That's when it's safe to take off your glasses, yes, exactly, so yes, yes, very important in this whole lead-up, to have these, um, these eclipse glasses on that allow you to look at the disk of the Sun because even if there's only a small portion, that small portion still has the same surface brightness as the rest of the Sun, so it is still very harmful to your eyes, but you will actually see through your eclipse glasses. that splinter gets smaller and smaller, it disappears, you can't like it during totality, you won't be able to see anything through those glasses, so it's very important to also know when the sun will rise on the other side, but for those moments of whole. um just enjoy, know your surroundings and don't be scared, you know, try to take a look at this Corona during those uh, those 3 minutes, um, very exciting, well Peter, thank you very much for being here and being a part of today . panel yes, of course, yes, we are very excited and I have to mention to Brandon and Lauren that it is Peter's first total solar eclipse, he is part of this team of scientists that has been traveling around DFW going to different schools, obviously, today We'll be a part of this panel, I'm talking to everyone here, but it just goes to show the enthusiasm of so many people, from us newbies like me to those experts who have been studying this all their lives, to really take advantage of this whole moment.

In us. I'm very lucky to have these backyards of interest reporting live on C Park. It's great that we can anticipate their arrival, huh. Fox Warriors Solar Eclipse Headquarters. Alright, thanks to Fox 4 Dallas for giving us another preview this morning as we get them ready. Here is the path of totality again, which we will see throughout the afternoon. here and preparing for that moment, but before the United States experiences it, Mexico does it first there and we already have many people along with the media preparing their announcements for this moment in history, the total solar eclipse, our coverage continues below. live now for Fox, let's continue right now as we prepare you for today's solar eclipse, our coverage continues.

We were all looking at the sky and screaming and getting excited, oo, and it was something that until you experience. It's really hard to imagine, but it's cool, so it's different than looking at a photo or something, yeah, because, like we talked about before, all senses are correct, so you're seeing the eclipse, but you're also hearing changes in the nature, you feel the temperature drop and maybe the winds increase a little. In fact, during the 2017 eclipse, in my experience, some clouds started covering the sky just before totality and then as soon as totality hit, those clouds dissipated and were gone, so we could also see the changes in the atmosphere with our eyes and we covered this a little bit earlier, but can you tell us about some of the experiments that NASA is doing that can only run during a total solar eclipse, yeah, so let's talk about sounding rockets, which is actually something we haven't accomplished yet so we have three sounding rockets that will be launched from our wop flight facility which is located in chinka Virginia and these three.

The rockets will launch, one will take off 35 minutes before totality, one will take off during totality and finally 35 minutes after, and what we're trying to study here is basically directly measuring the changes in the upper atmosphere where the rockets are headed. to reach andwe are doing it before, during and after so that we can see the change in how it propagates now, where these rockets are launched, it will not actually be inside the path, but like the moon and its shadow like the shadow of the moon is moving Along that path, you're having changes in the local atmosphere and they propagate almost like a ship going through the water and leaving a wake, yes, it's the same thing, so we're trying to see how those changes change. propagate in the atmosphere, so we have a plane, we have rockets, we have rockets, are there any other instruments that NASA is planning to use to study solar cups?

I know, last year for the ring finger we had balloons. There is something like that, there are balloon projects, in fact, led by several schools, we have a lot of balloons that will launch scientific balloons measuring everywhere, and that is something that you see on the screen here, some of the students prepare to those. balloon experiments um there are also radio telescopes in California that will measure those radio waves coming from the sun because whatever active region is occurring on the Sun at that time will be covered by the moon so that the radio telescope is simply looking at the sun and these regions active are covered, we can see it turns them on and off so we can see where the waves are coming from and where they're not, to understand what the sources are basically, so we're studying this from every angle, everything we can do.

Yeah, that's cool, so our next question is from Happy Thumbs Gaming on YouTube, who wants to know if the solar eclipse will be visible to all of the United States? All 48 contiguous states will see some type of eclipse, if you are in the path of totality you will have the opportunity to see that total solar eclipse, if you are not in the path of totality then that is where you will be able to see a partial eclipse , as long as it's within those 48 contiguous states, then yes, you can see it and you got to this a little early, but why is this eclipse such a long duration?

You know you mentioned that this year it's almost double that. of 2017, why is it like this? The Moon's orbit is actually not circular around the Sun, it's elliptical, so it all depends on where the Moon is in its orbit and really how close the Moon is or how far it is from uh the Earth and so, for this one, compared to 2017, we're going to have that shadow, uh, just cast a little bit, the path will be a little bit wider, the shadow will actually make that eclipse last a little bit longer, just based on where it is.

The Earth is relative to the Sun and Bert on YouTube, who wants to know, being so close to the equinox, why the path of totality makes such an angle with the equator? Yes, so it depends on the Moon's orbit being inclined 5° and Of course, with the Earth we also have seasons, so there is a kind of game you have to play between knowing the right orbit of the Earth and the Moon and how the Earth is tilted, how the Moon's orbit is tilted and how it changes. kind of like the geometry of where the eclipse occurs and how long and everything, before you know, we talked a little bit about photographing a total eclipse with a cell phone, now we have a viewer on YouTube who wants to know if pointing a telescope at the sun will damage the telescope during this event.

We have telescope filters as well as solar filters that you can put on your telescope so you can view the eclipse safely, so that's what I would recommend, especially if you're into it. partial, you know, the partial eclipse area now for the total eclipse, is when with our own eyes we don't need to have the glasses on and you don't need to have a filter, but it also depends on what you're trying to see if you're trying to see that Corona under a certain light, you might also want a filter for that that allows you to take different types of images and different sciences.

Okay, for those of you just joining us, we have another one. Question from Scientific Potato on YouTube Who wants to know if animals under the total solar eclipse will act strangely? Yes, nature changes during eclipses. He gets confused. Nature basically thinks that the Sun is setting and it is setting. during the night and that's where we have animals getting ready to go to sleep. Birds go up in the trees, crickets come out and chirp, so that's part of the whole Eclipse viewing experience, it's really seeing and hearing nature around you. Also, you also mentioned something. I remember from the previous eclipse something about spiders and there, oh, there's something with spiders.

I can't remember it off the top of my head, but I think it has to do with, yes, there are spiders appearing. and their networks also go up and down, that's right, so our next question is actually coming from a YouTube viewer who wants to know what advice you would give to anyone who may be experiencing this solar eclipse for the first time. Oh I love it. This question, I would say, really take a moment to embrace it and you know, live it with as few distractions as possible. I mean, I know we're all excited to take pictures of the eclipse so we can share the experience, we're lucky. that totality lasts four and a half minutes because you can, you know, have a few quiet moments to see and feel and look around, but then you can also take whatever photo you want, so I would just say that you know, make sure you leave all your stuff and try to enjoy it, yeah, very good Gina, unfortunately, that's all the time we have for today, but thank you so much for joining us and for answering so many questions from our viewers.

I'm so excited. sharing the NASA and kville Texas stage with you in just a few weeks, yes, thanks to her, it was great to be here today and I'm looking forward to watching our broadcast on kville and thanks to everyone who joined us, that was just a preview from NASA. A couple of weeks ago on the big event that happened today, we'll check back in with NASA when they're live with their coverage and we'll again bring you the latest, as always, live from Fox as we prepare for the total solar eclipse. you're watching it live now from Fox everyone welcome everyone here to live now from Fox as we continue to bring you the latest here and let's take a look at this event happening just moments away from the big event coming up as we bring you The coverage of the eclipse is the only one you can expect here live from Fox as it is gearing up to be a spectacular and historic day, but let's continue our coverage here.

I want to bring another guest here live. Now from Fox, I'm John Pery, CEO of Destination Niagara and you guys are getting ready for this moment too, let's all talk about it John, happy eclipse day, happy eclipse day, it's finally hard to believe you're here after you've talked of it. for several years, several years, let's talk about the planning phase that you guys had for this event, what was the lead up to this big day, believe it or not, we even talked about this this morning, we started this process, believe it not before. -co in 2019 we even bought our glass clothing or the glasses that people wear here in Niagra Fall s um back in 2019 we were afraid that they would run out and then we started 5 years ago and so we have been in that planning process, it really has heated up over the last six months to a year, um, to get city officials and our firefighters and police officers and everyone on board, um, and the state parks police, everyone to prepare for today and here's a big opportunity right now of people getting ready at night at Agara Falls and what moment will this be in the making and how many people do you think will come to your area to take part in this story and I wish we had a playbook.

It's very difficult to say that the weekend was very strong. I have to say that the previous weekend was very strong. It was like a very strong 4th of July weekend. The 4th of July is probably our busiest weekend of the year. Niagara Falls, so the weekend was a good indicator of how busy we will be today, but very strong with people staying in hotels joining us for the weekend. The weather was spectacular. I wish today's weather was as spectacular as Saturday or Sunday. We even hope that there will be a light layer of clouds now we expect those clouds to say possibly with fingers crossed that it will dissipate hopefully between 2: and 4: uh you can see in the photograph that there is some light cloud cover, if there is a lot of light and high clouds, people will still be able to witness the eclipse and of course we will enter total darkness at 3:18 p.m. today Eastern Standard Time here in Niagara Falls, yes, and that's the moment that everyone is waiting for, it will be spectacular, it will fade to total darkness and then it will reverse course and, of course, it starts at 8:00 p.m.: 05. for US departures, you know, start Dem 318 for 3 hours and um I get them all 3 hours 18 or 338 and then we'll come back and we'll be full light again at 4:32 um so It's a good two and a half. one hour period where we will have an eclipse period if you want, yes, that is very true and how you will see it as to where you will actually be located.

That is a good question. Try talking to the staff. I mean, I can. Even just walking out the door of our offices, although I hope to believe that the governor is here and some dignitaries, so I hope to end up with our governor, Kathy Hokel, in a tent who is there like you in this window. almost where the chamber situation is is where the governor has her VIP tent, so I hope to be able to witness this historic moment, with our governor and many other elected officials, etc., but it's great to be, you know . with the crowds and seeing the crowds um it's really starting to uh people are gathering now I knew it was going to happen today between 9 and 12 uh the mass of people that will arrive uh has been gradual, which has been nice So there has not been a complete closure of our roads.

Downtown Niagara Falls is very small and so is the state park. So it's hard to fit in the thousands we're expecting for this period this afternoon and boy, New York has really done it. I've been busy these last few days. Haven, I mean, started on Friday with the earthquake and now we're going right into Monday. Oh, let's hope there aren't any equations you know, earthquakes and eclipses and I hope not. um uh, you know, I'm really looking forward to a nice day and families, our Visitor Center here has been very busy even since 6:00 AM. m., we had people here from 6: a. m., we open at 6:00 a. m.

Um, so it's nice to see families, you know, schools closed, that families can really enjoy this together in an iconic wonder of Niagara Falls and a historic moment in our time, especially for the little kids, who hopefully will be witnesses several times. in their life so it's cool you know it's true and I'm glad to see that schools were dismissing early or taking the day off and I also like that businesses like you look like grocery stores that you know, stop for about an hour for your employees to be able to participate, I thought it was cool to show that too and I think a lot of companies said to stay home and work from home or I know other companies. planned parties and food.

I had to make sure we had food here because we couldn't get food delivered for lunch at 12 or 1:00, so, uh, you know, we flooded our kitchen with food even this morning, to make sure we could feeding our staff and since all of our staff had to be president, it's great to see companies hosting parties allowing people to stay home for a long time as a family. parties and a lot of street parties in our community in Western New York, which is great to see, so it's a great day for our community and for Niagara Falls specifically, it's really good, John, congratulations to everyone.

Today's hard work is going to pay off and I know you're waiting for it just like millions of others, but thank you so much for taking a little time here. We appreciate it as always live now from Fox. Thank you. Mike appreciates it, yeah, take care and we'll continue to bring you live coverage now from Fox and some of the sites and sounds around the country participating in this event. We're going to take a two-minute break next. Here in a moment, but again our official coverage begins at 1 p.m. ET, it's brought to you by Nissan, our great friends over there and the 2024 total solar eclipse, oh it's eclipse day and we're just getting started, stay here with us and there will be more to come. in moments live now no oh and we are preparing for the moment here live now from Fox the total solar eclipse we are looking forward to it as always great photo there of Niagara Falls many people continue to come there to get their spots we hope the clouds will pass, so you can truly experience that moment of wholeness, we're going to take another two minute break and continue to present a few more live events, all here, live now from the boxfor everyone else.

NASA's coverage on this day of the Toler solar eclipse now imagines this as a collective pause as people across the United States look up to experience the wonder of the cosmos together. I can't wait and today I am joined by Dr. Gina deio, a sun expert who is going to explain to us how to prepare for the event on April 8, Gina, welcome, hello dear, thank you for inviting me and thank you very much for being here now. Can you start by telling our viewers a little about your role here at NASA? I'm deputy director of the heliophysics science division at NASA's GED space flight center, that means I'm helping to oversee an organization of scientists who are studying heliophysics, which is the study of the Sun and its influence on everything, so we're looking at the physics of the Sun, but also how it affects the Earth's magnetic field, the upper atmosphere and really understanding how the whole system works together, that's great and Gina.

I am very happy to be here with you again today. Yes, Gina and I had a great time. It hosted last year's annular solar eclipse and I think it's safe to say we're thrilled to be back for the total solar eclipse now, before we delve into some of the details. Gina, can you help clarify something for me? What exactly differentiates an annular solar eclipse? From a total solar eclipse like this year, okay, when a solar eclipse occurs, the moon will cross between the Earth and the Sun and when that happens, the shadow of the moon is cast on the earth and we can look up at the sky. and look at it now for an annular eclipse, the moon will be a little bit further away so it doesn't completely block the Sun and that's what you can see on the screen here, you're left with a Ring of Fire.

In the sky now, for a total solar eclipse, the Moon will be closer to the Earth, so the Sun will be completely blocked and that way we will be able to see the Solar Corona, it is that hot upper atmosphere of the Sun that we cannot see. our visible eyes on a day to day basis, so it's really good to know that difference because you know I understand that in a total solar eclipse the safety advice is a little bit different than a right override exactly, so for our viewers at home, we have a special guest, someone you may recognize, who is here to tell us how to safely watch the April 8 event.

Hello eclipse enthusiasts, this is Lance Bass, and I want to tell you how to protect those eyes and stay safe during a solar eclipse. celestial events the sun, earth and moon are synchronized creating solar eclipses. You can look directly at the Sun during a total solar eclipse, but only when it is completely covered by the moon for a brief period known as totality - this is a truly special moment in all the others. Sometimes you should use eclipse glasses so as not to say goodbye to your vision seriously and eclipse glasses are not the same as normal sunglasses, no, they are not safe, solar viewers are thousands of times darker and will have a darker appearance. specific. certification you should look for right here don't be a space cowboy and try to look directly at the sun if you don't have eclipse glasses you can use an indirect viewing method like a pinhole projector you can make one of these with something as simple as a card with a hole in it or a calendar or even your hands with a sun on your back, you can safely project an image of the sun through the hole onto a nearby surface like the ground.

I'll be the one wearing my eclipse glasses and are you okay? We're already seeing a lot of questions online from our viewers, so let's jump right into these Q&As. Remember that if you're watching live you can submit your own questions for Gina using the hashtag "Ask NASA." or posting them in the comments wherever you're watching today, okay, Gina, our first question is oh, it actually looks like we've got kind of a group question here, okay, it seems like a lot of people watching are asking about the prompts. which may have been issued in certain areas with guidance on how to prepare for crowds and preventive measures aimed at reducing traffic.

Could you give us a little more information on how to best prepare for April 8? Sure, as you said before here, along the path of totality, we have about 31 million people, a lot of people, which is great, it's already full to begin with and of course we will have people traveling to that area so that It's even more crowded, so you know. Just think about the preventive measures you can take in case you get stuck in traffic, so make sure you have gas in the tank. If you have a battery-powered car and have charged it, have some extra food and water.

You, if there are lines of traffic, you know, be prepared to be patient and wait a little bit, thanks Gina, so we have a our next question is from a Facebook user who wants to know what science will be done during the total solar eclipse, one of The things we're most excited about at NASA is actually doing different scientific experiments during the eclipse. Now one of the favorites that I like to talk about is that we are using NASA's WB 57 high-altitude research plane to do some experiments to get the plane, yes, the plane to fly through the path of totality, of so it stretches out a little bit more than if it were just standing on the ground, and what that means is that the instruments on board are going to look. looking at the solar corona and taking images so that we can study the composition of the corona, understand how the particles are accelerated and charged and also be able to study the dust that is around the Sun that we can't really understand when we just look at it on a day to day basis, and this is just an experiment that can be done during a total solar eclipse, is that right?

So we have instruments called corona charts which are essentially artificial eclipses and they will block out the Sun so we can study the corona, but the way the light bends around these corona charts we can't delve into the corona itself in that part. bottom, so for the total solar eclipse that occurs naturally, it allows us to get towards the bottom of Corona, which means that this is one of the only times we can study this area of ​​the Sun which is amazing, so we have our next question about Jordan, uh, from Jordan on YouTube, who wants to know why.

Is it bad to see a solar eclipse directly? Well, thanks for that question, Jordan, so we want to be very careful with eye safety during any eclipse or even in everyday life if you don't want to look at the Sun. So that you're not causing any permanent damage to your eyes, now the The way it works for a total solar eclipse is that during the partial phases you need to have the proper safety display that we just heard about. You can have the eclipse. glasses to watch, you can make a pinhole projector and you need to use it to see the partial eclipse.

Alright, all of you watching live now from Fox, we want to continue our coverage here. We have a live event covering the eclipse today, so let's get to it here live now the Moon and the Earth to cooperate even today is a special occasion, a truly amazing solar event that each of you will remember for years to come. I remember seeing the eclipse of 2017. I remember all the details to this day, but it is also part of a larger story about the Elegance, the power, the Wonder of Nature and the Ingenuity of Science and the scientists who seek to understand it to our mutual benefit I hope that what you see and what you hear today inspires you listen listen during the eclipse don Don't just look, listen, see how quiet it gets, see what the birds are doing and I wouldn't be surprised if for the solar eclipse of 2044, one of the many school kids here would be running an agency like Noah or the National Science Foundation or NASA. not to mention serving here as a scientist or engineer or more.

I can only imagine the technology and tools that you school children will be able to apply to understanding solar eclipses in the future. Thank you for listening to me for a few minutes and I'm happy to give it back to Meredith, thank you, thank you, how fun, and we're just getting this party started. Yes, I love your enthusiasm because okay, let's have a little more energy. Come on, the sun needs to wake up, wake up, son. We want a show right here at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, so we can begin the path of totality.

Oh yeah, look, it's working, so we're going to keep that energy going until the path of totality, but we've got a lot of cool stuff. speakers to arrive before we can begin the official countdown, so I'm very excited to announce our next speaker, Tim Patton, who is the National Science Foundation, deputy deputy director of the geosciences directorate, Tim, welcome to the stage, thank you, hello everyone, good morning, so I'm very delighted to be here today as a representative of the US National Science Foundation, it's a federal agency that plays a really critical role in expanding our understanding of the universe and the promotion of the progress of science.

NSF appreciates its continued collaboration and partnership with Noah and NASA. This day of learning and fun is an excellent example of interagency cooperation that shows our collective commitment to improving public understanding and appreciation of science, so I have a video for the next section, if it can be shown, so let's get to it hot of the sun, which is the star attraction of this event, let me share a couple of interesting examples of how NSF leads solar research NSF manages the NSF solar telescope Daniel K anui this is the world's most powerful tool for studying the sun this telescope improves our understanding of solar phenomena that impact and affect our daily lives, our planet and our daily lives.

In fact, almost a year ago, this telescope produced this image, one of the highest resolution images ever taken of the Sun, revealing this turbulent plasma boiling within Texas cell-like structures. across the surface of the Sun during totality of the eclipse, this telescope will observe the solar corona and that's not all, the eclipse presents many other unique scientific opportunities for NSF-supported research, for example, the Airborne Coronal Emission Surveyor or Assisi. fly along the eclipse path at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. The Gold Stream 5 plane that will study infrared emissions from the Sun's Corona and the GF Stream 5 will fly over Dallas around noon today, so not only that, but also approximately 40 citizens.

Teams of scientists from the South Southwest Research Institute will conduct observations of the sun's corona as the eclipse crosses the country. Our work at NSF and with our partners at Noah and NASA exemplifies the power of cooperating and promoting scientific discovery and education by supporting projects like NSF. The annual and Asus solar telescope and by organizing public events like today's viewing event, we aim to connect you directly with the world of science. We are happy to have you, your friends and your families, here to experience the wondrous wonders of the cosmos together. The eclipse will be an inspiration to continue exploring the unknown.

Making science a journey for everyone to share and thank you very much and have a great time today. Thank you so much. I've been seeing a lot more sun than all this morning, so our kids. They are doing a great job with the energy, the sun has heard us, yes, and we are not done yet because we still have a lot of guests for this event here at the Cotton Bow in Dallas and I can tell you as a meteorologist that it has been. I work hard to put together this forest our friends at the National Weather Service here in Dallas Fort Worth have been working very hard, in fact, I saw them yesterday at the press event and they are fine-tuning that forecast but also putting that positive energy. right, because we have such a historic event happening here in Dallas and I know for a long time that forecast didn't look good, but as we know, we call them M, okay, we'll all call them to come back to Dallas here.

In a moment, while the school kids are getting ready, they will be excited about this pre-eclipse event that will take place there in Dallas, so we will keep an eye on that, as always, we want to go somewhere, however, we are following breaking news about actor Jonathan Major. He's been sentenced to probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, but he won't go to jail here, so here's the update after Jonathan Majors was sentenced to probation in to complete a year-long counseling program, but today he avoided jail time for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising Stars career the 34-year-old star of Creed 3 and other films had faced. a year behind bars after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of misdemeanor assault in December, the judge also ordered Majors to complete an in-person batterer interview prevention program.

He also has to continue with hismental health therapy following Majors' guilty verdict. He was immediately dropped by Marvel Studios, who cast him as Kang the Conqueror, a role planned as the main villain in Empire Entertainment films and television shows for years to come, for which he was denied but not sentenced to death. Majors was jailed, the conviction stemming from an altercation last year. March in which the eldest and then girlfriend accused him of attacking her in the back seat of a chauffeured car, saying that he hit her head with his open hand, twisted her arm behind her back and squeezed her middle finger until she fractured there, so we'll continue again. uh follow this story for you live now from fox stay here with us more coverage of the total solar eclipse below live now welcome back to live now from fox we want to continue to update you on the latest news regarding actor jonathan major sentenced to freedom Paroled but avoiding jail this morning for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star's career, the 34-year-old star of Creed 3 and other films had faced up to a year behind bars after He was convicted of misdemeanor assault by a Manhattan jury in December.

The judge also ordered Majors to complete an in-person batterer intervention program for 52 people. He also has to continue his mental health therapy after the guilty verdict. Majors was immediately dropped by Marvel Studios. that he had been chosen as king by the Conqueror, a role planned as the main villain in the Entertainment Empire's films and television shows for years. The conviction arose from an altercation last March in which Major's then-girlfriend accused him of attacking her in the back seat of a chauffeured car, saying he hit her head with his open hand, twisted her arm behind her back and He squeezed her middle finger until it fractured.

Majors claimed the 31-year-old British dancer was the aggressor and became enraged with jealousy after reading a text message from another woman on her phone, maintaining that she was just trying to get her phone back and take it from her girlfriend there, so again we will continue to follow the story here for you as always live from Fox and we are preparing uh for a new hour here as always live now it's 11:00 on the east coast 8:00 a.m. on the west coast and we continue to provide you with the sites in sounds of the coverage of the eclipse that will impact Mexico and Canada and remember that this is the last time in this century that Mexico, the United States and Canada together will participate in this moment here, so what a spectacular way to start this Monday, start the work week off and it comes with uh, history in the making so I'm looking forward to it all.

I want to go back to Fox for Dallas. They continue to show everything. Eclipse coverage. The best of Fox for studios in downtown Dallas. The views here are absolutely spectacular. I know it's a bit. cloudy right now, but we're going to check with our weather people because they say there's a good chance we'll have a pretty spectacular day. Did you have a lot of traffic coming in or did you arrive early enough? Do you know why I came? This weekend, pretty early, I was in Athens with our son on a Boy Scout camping trip and you could see people starting already because that's one of those cities that you know is in the path of totality, the Traffic signs warn people, please don't. stop in the street, the eclipse is coming, you know, make sure you find a good spot and today we have spots all over the city, I think we have 10 different remote locations where we have teams that are monitoring the day as it progresses throughout that path of totality now just to our right is the perau museum and that's where we're going to catch up with Dan Henry and Blake Hansen good morning, hello, good morning guys, how are you doing so far?

We have 7,000 people who are just starting to stream at any given time. It seems like they've already been waiting in line for about an hour after being here. They are ready to start programming. It's really happening all day here, food trucks, they have vendors, they have bounce houses, music, you'll hear the music too and they'll also do some presentations to prepare people for the science side of things. I'm here to get you interested and ready for the eclipse. It's not that you really need to force people to get excited about something like this, Dan, and we're excited to see, hopefully, see a good glimpse of what's in the sky today.

Yeah, I've got an eye here on the Loop satellite and I'm hoping that the weather is our friend on this one because obviously if you were up early this morning, we had some low clouds, that's what we were afraid of some of these low clouds. would come in here now we hope that eventually over the next 2 or three hours the sun will do its job and clean them up. We've been talking about it all morning on a good day and working on the dryer a little bit, okay, this is this. that's a cool timeline, that's the Shadow of the Moon, it's going to be moving over 1,600 miles per hour, that's twice the speed of sound, we pause it right here, that's when the Shadow just enters the Dallas area Fort Worth at 1:40, that is the time of totality and it will last about 4 minutes until 144 and then you will see the Shadow of the Moon shooting northeast across Missouri Illinois Indiana there are over 30 million people in the path of the totality that stretches from Texas to northern New England uh and it's It will be a great pleasure, this is something that's happening in our backyard and it won't happen again for another 300 years, I think, 2345.

So, this is truly a once in a lifetime event, Blake, yes, and we're going to talk to scientists. Throughout our coverage this afternoon, they'll be breaking down what we can look for, so if you're watching at home, if you're attending one of those events, you can get a primer before you go. and also broadcast us on your phone and we'll explain what we can expect and also the latest weather conditions that everyone wants to be aware of, uh stepen Heather, we'll send it back to you on the roof is fine, thank you very much. I have to tell you that the professional people are so fantastic that they have a big event for the people there this morning that includes thousands of people, but they have been planning this day for five years and I have delivered a million pairs of eclipse glasses to people you know when we talked about this event and you heard Dan allude to this, you know, in 2017 during here, uh, you know, it was certainly during in the continental United States, but because of the way the road runs through the United States This year, more people are in the path of totality than ever before, so we have two things at play here: one, the number of people, but when it comes to the duration of totality, there is neither. better place than NIS Texas that's where pton Jer is uh and by the way some of the best pictures I have to say pton of Enis were in the car on Facebook live doing your makeup this morning big fan big fan oh god he was telling me that I usually don't get up this early.

I will do that. I will do that. I usually don't get up this early. My shift usually starts at 2:30, but I had to come in. I thought, please put me in NIS because this is where I want to be, it really is the epicenter of this eclipse. You know, the longest time of totality will be a NIS, so I thought it has to be here 4 minutes and 23 seconds, that's how long it will be dark here. in the center of NIS and we really have the best place, we are in the center, on top of a rooftop, beautiful weather, beautiful temperature behind me, you know there is a stage, they are going to have live music and food trucks, You know, we've been here since 7 a.m. and now we're on the air, but we've seen this, you know, people are starting to wake up, people are starting to come out here, but you know NIS is really again the epicenter, so thousands of people are expected to be here and I brought Mis Nifty glasses, so let's do this incredible zoom on my face that I'm sure is absolutely stunning on television.

So here are my Enis glasses, they are super stylish, so I was looking up. oh, I can see the sun right now, so it's been coming and going, it's a little cloudy here. I know we've been crossing our fingers for this weather, but it's coming and going and before I go, I mean, we're just. Up here, I brought my little NASA mug. I don't know if you guys can see this, so my mom worked at NASA for 35 years, so I know she's watching at home and she's very excited to see this, they're actually in Dallas. to witness this but I wanted to give you a little shout out but we'll keep you posted all day from here at Enis guys that's awesome hey Payton's mom hey she's watching yeah she has a place on the roof like we. but I will tell you that one of the best places in the city will also be the Dallas Arbored.

I was there on Thursday. He was organizing the launch of his cool Thursday Scout events. I'm busy. I have to keep up with you. Heather. Hayes, come on, I was there for their cool Thursday concert series, which is the best thing you can do in the spring and summer, and they had everyone on the lawn. I know they have a lot of national media outlets. out there, but they also have David Sendry's Fox, who is live waiting for us. Hey Steve, yeah, I know you said you were watching that event last week. Concerts here usually take place on the lawn.

There is a stage at the bottom, but today. The show is not on the grass, it is actually in the sky. There will be about 8,000 people on this lawn filling it this afternoon. The funny thing is that while they have this beautiful view of White Rock Lake behind us, you can probably see that everyone is starting to look in this direction, that's because the sun is actually looking this way, it's starting to rise right now as we speak, so we've been seeing people coming and going all morning, some local people, some people from out of state, some people from out of the country we talked to a woman just a few minutes ago who flew in from Paris, not Paris, Texas, Paris, France quickly.

I want to bring in the executive director, Sabina Carr, from the Dallas Arboretum, so I know they're going to have their hands full today with all these people, but will you have four minutes to breathe and take it all in when this actually happens? Yes, welcome to the Dallas or the burrito and I hope I have at least that much time so I can watch it like everyone else around the world, it's exciting and obviously the sun is coming up right now so everyone get your glasses ready so We hope for the best here. You've seen people coming from all the places you think they are. best place in dallas to get a good look at it is definitely the most beautiful place in dallas in the bedroom dallas ar and now that the sun is coming up you never know the clouds could roll out as fast as they came this morning so cross your fingers , you never know, you never know, but like we said, 8,000 people, unfortunately, it's sold out right now, but there are obviously plenty of other places to see it.

We'll send it back to you right now in the studio. Yes, there are no direct flights from Paris, Texas to. from the gazebo to Dallas, but certainly from Paris, France. Well, we've got Crews all over the place, huh, but probably the woman of the moment here is going to be Ali Terano, so Ally, we've really seen that she was a lot cooler. Steve and I were having this conversation when we first went up on the roof here, I was like, oh it's so cold, he's like it's warm, I'm like it's cold, so we had back and forth, but I feel like the temperatures They are getting a little warmer. now they are, but it's because of that south wind and the south wind is also bringing this layer of low clouds that we were afraid of now there are some points in our Fox more views that have some breaks in the clouds there was a little bit Bluer in Lantana just a few minutes ago, but notice it's a little patchy in spots, so the big question will be whether this cloud cover will fade in time for the eclipse now for some of us.

Yes, I think that's going to happen. The question is: can we say exactly where? Probably not, so it's pretty much a coin toss for you guys. Now I'll tell you the high clouds that have been to the north and west, that's all there is, so there's actually better visibility. this eclipse, but you see the thickest cloud cover hanging over Colin, moving through the Dallas County rock wall and also into Ellis County, those are the spots where we're dealing with this at these cloudy conditions, there's some movement here so that's great and as mentioned. As we warm things up, yes, there will be some breaks, but I still think we're going to average partly to mostly cloudy skies for much of North Texas during the day.

This is one of our high resolution computer models as we start to look at that. The eclipse, of course, here is our area of ​​totality, so conditions may start out decent, but then as the afternoon progresses,there will be more cloudiness. possibility, it's very difficult to say exactly where that thicker cloud cover will be now. I'll tell you once we get through the eclipse, then all eyes will turn to our strong to severe storm threat, so we need to talk about that as well. Yeah, okay, Fox 4 Dallas is doing a great job getting things started this morning as we prepare for the total solar eclipse, let's take another two minute break here live from Fox, stay here with us, there's always more to come , thank you.

A huge thank you to all of our fantastic viewers who continue to watch with us live now from Fox as today is Eclipse Day. Happy Eclipse Day to everyone watching, want to keep showing you more coverage and watch this right now. getting a good reminder to wear eclipse glasses and viewers today put on your glasses look up at the sun and then look please look down again before you take those glasses off so remember the down up down everyone say it for me down up down down up down we can do it all down Hey, where are my kids?

Are they having a snack or something? down interpretive dance for down up down down up down we have this down up down woo thank you he knows follow it so if you too for those of you are at home if you don't have eclipse glasses if you have uh if you know a welder you can get shade glass 14 welders and that's a perfect way to look at the sun we have a couple of uh kind of welder on the end of a cereal box so that's the other thing you can use the cereal box for is you put the lens on and then create a little viewer so you can look like this, amazing, yeah, when the sun comes out again. so we'll be able to see it, oh look, I can't work this any better than my PL, so the sun has been peeking in and out, hopefully we'll be able to see it here in a moment, but if we do The good news is that it's not the last eclipse of the history.

The bad news is that you will have to wait until what he says. some partial eclipses are visible, until then, but let's move on to the next one, around 2045, I don't know, there we go, yes, there is one that will go directly, it will go a little bit north of where we are today. It's going to happen pretty close to us, so it'll be while you can see the next eclipse, so it's not your last chance, but I think we need to send some positive energy into the sky and try to clear the clouds. Let's all try to be safe, we want to get back to Fox 4 Dallas' coverage of today's great total solar eclipse.

You can already tell people are excited that they're coming in and I mean when Dan saw the sun. 5 minutes ago I jumped out of my seat and saw him again. It's going to be like this all day. We will be looking to the sky and hoping for the best. We mentioned that we have teams everywhere. the area this covers and we want to cover Taran County we also want to get to our Deion England which is at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Deion how is she going there she is in the sun there hi Blake and Dan it's going great here in Fort Worth I'm at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the courtyard here I can tell you we can show you it's already starting to get busy we have people who are showing up with their kids uh already and they're checking out what's going to be possible here and I'll tell you activities in abundance, we have educational opportunities in abundance, there is a full day available here planned at the fourth Museum of Science and History, this is also US Navy week Fort Worth, so the Navy Band from the US will be here very soon they will play music until about half an hour before totality and then they will take a break of course they will come back and finish with uh more music for the people here there is um so you can see the food trucks in the distance, there's a lot going on already, there's a crazy scramble just to make sure they have everything in place and are welcoming people.

I can already see from the distance that people are still starting to arrive, they are giving them pamphlets and a kind of agenda of what we expect today and the cloudiness, we are not going to worry about that. I think we've had a bit of cloud cover, but as you mentioned, it's very sunny right now and if we have any problems, you might already know. I've tried with my outfit to give the Sun a little help, so let's leave it there and just be optimistic, that's the last direct. You guys love that positive attitude, you have to be there, you have to be there. will and I hope the sun stays with us and participates with us today yes you know it will take a while for people to filter here to get through security but we expect 7,000 people here in the perau among the 7,000 that have gathered there . at least a couple dozen world-renowned astronomers and we're going to talk to some of them throughout our live coverage here, they'll tell you some incredible things, the science, the numbers.

I love that kind of stuff when you really dig into it in terms of the eclipse itself, so we're also looking forward to those interviews and we talked about one of the places where scientists have put together one of those places is the UTA UT Arlington Planetarium. and that's where we find our own guy Alex, who's going to talk to them and some of the people that are gathered there today, Alex, how's it going? Hey guys, it's going well, especially now. I mean, what a difference a few minutes makes to know. I put on the hoodie just a few minutes ago, now that it's out the sun is starting to peek out here in Arlington and we're hoping the good vibes continue.

You know, it's pretty quiet right now on the quad here in front of UT Arlington. planetary, but all that is going to change in just a couple of hours right now. What you're seeing are some of those high-powered telescopes that are being set up here in the courtyard, where people can see the eclipse up close and there will also be some astronomers and other scientists who will be walking around and will be able to talk to the spectators about what that we will be experiencing during the day. Also here you can see in the distance there we have the student campus radio station that will be broadcasting.

It lives here all day, so even if you're walking around campus and not right here in front of the planetarium, you can still get an idea of ​​what's going on. There are also 10 minute tours in the planetarium, so if you want to come here and enjoy. The day you can check it out too, of course, we'll be here all day and let you know how it goes. Thank you so much. One of the things that's interesting to point out, obviously, listen. The weather is the big story of the day, if it weren't for the Eclipse it would be the biggest story of the day and it certainly will be after the eclipse is over, but it's important to know.

I mean, you saw the live shot of Dion, the sunlight and the shadows. Alex's live shot, so really Depending on where you are, just because it's sunny right now or just because it's cloudy doesn't necessarily mean those conditions are going to hold, so today's advice is don't try to chase the sun if you have a place to stay. You gotta let Mother Nature do her thing and two things to add to that number one, wherever you are, you need your glasses, you gotta have your clip-on sunglasses and your point of staying where you are. We listen to Dan and Blake. 7,000 people in the perau were right over here and then Clyde Warren Park is right there and you also have the Arboretum so there are thousands of people now on their way to their places to stay yeah you know I was actually surprised The little traffic we had this morning was around 7am. m., well, and even throughout the fine day, when we were covering the traffic, there was nothing important, but listen up friends, as now we get into the nitty-gritty of there being less than two of us.

Hours into the beginning stages of all of this happening, whether you're in your place or not, get there and stay there, you don't want to be on the roads, we're going to get back on the roads. The other side of the break uh with a closer okay everyone we'll continue to check in with Fox 4 Dallas and much more in the coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse here live now from Fox everyone welcome back everyone to live now. from Fox we have a new video. This was Jonathan Major leaving the courtroom moments ago after actor Jonathan Majors was ordered to complete a year-long counseling program, but today he avoided jail for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a case high-profile crime that derailed Stars' once-promising career, the 34-year-old star of Creed 3 and other films had faced up to a year behind bars after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of misdemeanor assault in December. , but the judge did not grant him a prison sentence, only probation.

He said Majors must complete a 52-year intervention program in person in Los Angeles, where the actor lives. He also has to continue mental health therapy in which his attorneys say he has been participating. Majors faces a year in jail if he is found in violation. of those terms, which also included a no contact order with his ex-girlfriend, the older one dressed in black and accompanied by his girlfriend, actress Megan Good, refused to address the court and left the court without speaking to reporters, but His attorney said he will comply with the judge's sentence, but he maintains his innocence and plans to appeal there, so we'll be keeping an eye on that, as always, live now from Fox.

I'm your host, Mike Pae, thanks again for joining us live Now, we want to continue. our coverage of the solar eclipse as we prepare for the big event and back to our friends at Fox for Dallas who always do a great job anticipating the big day today that we're working with a thousand kids from the Dallas Independent School District. We have a NASA advisor, Dr. Nicholas Gross from Boston University, who will be here and there will also be lots of gifts from our friends at the Mavericks. Lots of educational content, but what an opportunity to witness the future home of Harold Sim here. spark on the bridge Ronald Curt is going to be amazing, it's going to be a great day today not only to watch but also to learn with our DISD student, you absolutely know this doesn't happen every day so we have a special opportunity so let's celebrate this with our school kids from a radical education standpoint, but yeah, you know, we're just waiting for the sun to come out.

The sun is said to rise at 12:00, so we're keeping our fingers crossed, well we're looking for a Lot of cosmic miracles today, including the sun peeking through the clouds, right, that's right, that's right Tony Moore is the CEO of Trinity Park again, a lot of students will be here today, people will come and mark their spots and everyone has an eye for the sky hoping that the sun breaks through and we can see you know what's going to happen total uh Darkness right here in the path of totality this afternoon we will be here we could post here we could move to other places but it will be a great memorable day for everyone okay Sean thank you very much and one of the best things about us being here in the press conference is that we will have scientists that we will talk to.

We had Dr. Jeff Rich all day, he was the outreach coordinator for Carnegie Science. Many members of Carnegie Science are here today to help show us what we're seeing and get everyone excited, so, first of all. Thank you very much for joining us. First of all I want to ask you, have you seen a couple of total solar eclipses? I've talked to a few people who come to the city and they all describe it as a visceral experience. describe the kind of being able to witness that, it really is, uh, that's one of the things I'm most excited about is for all the people who have never seen a solo Eclipse before.

I'm just Jazz because it's so hard to describe. It is very difficult to express in words. I saw a person last week trying to tell people what it will be like. They said it's like the sky is broken. It is such an unusual but beautiful and natural wonder. Really yes, obviously. It depends on the weather, so we keep our fingers crossed, at least these low clouds disperse, what do you think we're going to see? If there are high clouds, we will partially cover it. If there are high clouds, it depends on the thickness, so it will get dark.

The eclipse still. It happens whether there are clouds there or not, um, I hope there are clouds poking through, especially those high clouds, when it's a little clearer, you'll be able to see the sun through them, someone told me, I haven't seen a cloudy eclipse, uh. but you might actually be able to see the shadow of the moon moving through the clouds as it gets closer, which would be really interesting. I've never seen that before. Awesome and there is so much great science that happens during these eclipses. You know, important. Stop, you know. scientific discoveries in history, but there is still a lot to learn and people are publishing it all over the country.

Can you put into perspective how important this is as a moment to capture that brief window in time and learn? I love solar energy, something like a solar eclipse because in some way it unites us all, it is a shared experience scientifically, it is an opportunity for astronomerslearn about a part of the sun that is really difficult to observe the corona, the outermost layer, that when the Moon completely blocks the Sun, you can observe it in a way that is only possible during a solar eclipse. One of the really interesting things is that there is a lot of citizen science around eclipses, so we're asking people to collect photos along the path of the eclipse.

This is a NASA project. You'd have to look it up, but it's really cool, so you'll see how things change as the eclipse moves. throughout the United States, okay Dr. Jeff Rich, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your experience, the sun has peaked while you were talking beautiful, take that as a sign of and we'll reset it, I think We'll send it back to Steven Heather for now, yeah, fingers crossed, you know that well and you can see, I can see right above us, the clouds are starting to part a little, they're certainly moving, let's just hope new ones appear clouds. we are not moving to replace them, there will be some traffic, although we moved to our roads. chip Wagner joins us, it's not very often that you have a free morning on a good day CH, but now the real work begins, what are we looking at for sure?

Right now, the good news is that Stephen Heather can make it to his Destination wherever he's decided to watch this event. It's easy enough to at least get there, for example, where he is pton. He's fine on I45, right? Now in all directions, Highway 287 comes from the Wahatchee area. We will stay in Wahatchee on i35e in that part of Ellis County. It's pretty easy at this point. There was an earlier incident on I20 that I circled westbound around Lancaster. Highway, but the remains of that activity ended up on the right shoulder of the road and you can make out that vehicle there and that's it, no major delays.

You will see signs everywhere like this one that is on this Cu uh camera took without stopping on the road to see the eclipse, that is against the law and that is my biggest concern, without a doubt at this moment is that someone stops on the road causes a slowdown and then you have a 18 Wheeler truck pulls up carrying 880,000 pounds of whatever and can't stop in a timely manner so again, it doesn't stop on any road, get to where you need to be, you have some time right now to do it again in downtown Dallas trying to get around.

Around the Woodall Rogers junction where Blake and Dan are, it's easy to get to that area right now, but it's going to get worse before it gets better, obviously, in the next hour to an hour and a half, so now is a good time to do it. I30, if you're going to be in the rock wall area, I thought maybe around the lake. The R Floating Bridge could be a nice place to see something and right now it's pretty easy to get to that area and there really aren't any time delays right now. Going through those construction zones because it's obviously down and Colin County drivers haven't seen anything unusual around 75 Central and George Buern's bike okay thanks so that's one of the things we were about talking when I entered.

This morning, Chip said he was very concerned about people just stopping because of the fireworks or the bad weather or the eclipse, and we've seen that in other areas where the total eclipse occurred, where I think the last time there was a Try a 13 hour delay, because think about it, if all lanes of traffic stop for 5 minutes, the chain reaction of buildup on that and then you have to unwind L to get through that pit and also again we should point out. Please note that there are two big stories today, first of course our Eclipse coverage, but there will also be the possibility of significant weather after this is all over, so if you go somewhere, be sure to make it a place where you can stay or that you can easily return from when everything is done, all the good points are good, so we will be here with you until 3:00 this afternoon until totality, we are going to take a break, but we want to see The Ron Kirk Bridge is where Shawn RAB is talking to people he's already talked to people from all over the country.

That was just some of the coverage from Fox 4. We'll continue with more coverage here live now from Fox in general. new we will have new and diverse points of view uh uh ahead and to and and then but you can visit uh you can visit you can be a part of any of these three launches you can see it virtually um it each of you is a unique opportunity for this and you can find out how to participate in the Noah's website or you can come to the launch. We would love to have you in Florida and where we will launch the two NOA missions and keep an eye on the ISA.

Mission Beyond these three missions, we are working on our next-generation satellite constellation, space weather observation. Alright, it looks like this event will continue with other space adventures coming up, so let's take a two minute break, stay here with us. coverage coming soon welcome back as our great viewers watch with us here live now from foxy we prepare you for the great total solar eclipse want to return to fox4 Dallas coverage here live now greetings to people joining us on Local Fox at fox4news.com and of course right here on Fox so I said hello to Payton's mom earlier my mom is in Houston so hello mom are you watching on local Fox?

She is, see, she is very happy to know. I'll be able to say hello to my mom this morning, okay, so pton joerger is at Enis and Payton. There are many reasons for people to come to Andis in April. The Blue Bonnet Festival is one of them, but I'll tell you which one it is among the Blue Bonnets. festival and the eclipse is a great time to be there today, yes, April is a really big month for the city of Enis, but I have been talking to families, you know, for months, the weeks leading up to today, and did you know I had lucky enough to be in contact with a family from New Zealand, they came here, to Enis, just for this total solar eclipse.

I also spoke to a couple from England, they came here and are staying with their family in Mckin, so I want you to take a look at this story here very close we have been waiting over a year for this the Sharp family from New Zealand is flying 14 hours to see a once-in-a-lifetime moment that will last a little more than 4 minutes fingers Crossing that everything is going to be perfect, the plan began in 2019 during a stopover in Houston, the couple met a man from Enis at the bar of a hotel, a few beers later, the families clicked and stayed in touch.

Ellie and John just kept in touch for well, you know, for the next five years, every once in a while, send a message and say, hey, how's it going? What are you doing? They always longed to see a total solar eclipse, so they booked their trip to Texas and now the couple along with their 15-year-old son, Ben, will stay with the NIS family in April, where the total eclipse will last almost 4 and a half minutes. Ben will miss a week and a half of school for the first time in the United States. We ask him how his classmates feel, are they jealous or do they like to care, they are really jealous, they all want to get out of New Zealand and go experience the world, while the Sharps will witness their first eclipse, this will be the third for Jill and Steven G. from England most recently traveled to Idaho in 2017 for the total solar eclipse on April 8.

G's plan is to stay with the family in Mckin. The feeling is magical. You can't understand it if you haven't experienced it. It was so powerful the way the whole world became still and silent, but it wasn't as long a totality as you're going to have this time, it wasn't as long, so this one will be even better. I hope if the weather is good we wanted to know if there is anything they will do differently this time. I think I spent too much time looking through the camera and taking pictures and I just want you to know that having gotten pictures from last time, I just want to experience that aura of stillness of all the temperature dropping, you know that and that was, yeah , because the atmosphere surrounding this very rare event just cools down, so I'm joined by the Sharp family.

All the way here from New Zealand, they just showed, they just showed the story that we made and now you're here and I saw them down from the balcony. I was like, wait and then come here, how was your time in Texas? It's been amazing, absolutely friendly people, everyone is super welcoming and it's been absolutely amazing, so just before we went on she said it's so hot in here, this is nothing, this is Breezy, which has been the coolest thing ever. you've seen so far on NIS Dallas. everywhere I saw you you went on bias uh we went on bias so we don't have that in New Zealand we don't have a lot of things that you guys have here so it's cool to see all the different things so that's just part of the coverage from Fox 4 in Dallas, let's keep things moving right now live, now let's look at some of the coverage from Fox 29 in Philadelphia, they're actually in New York right now, so let's take a little look at their coverage here on , as always, you're watching it live now from Fox, it'll be there later, they have a famous Lilac Festival that lasts 10 days, we used to cover that when I worked there, maybe I'll stay. in May it would be wonderful to send you back, still it's amazing, to tell you that those glasses are not just to show that you can walk there during the eclipse and be safe.

I thought they were authentic. I thought that might be the case, that's really cool, we'll take a photo with that's your instagrammable moment right there, um with the big one, absolutely fine, Mike, you've been doing it, complete, okay, it's completing, thank you , okay, what are we going to do? go to um at 11:40 I think we're having a lot of fun streaming um let's talk to Hank Flyn hi Hank and you're at our world famous Franklin Institute you couldn't pick a better place to be honestly the weather Karen honestly it just keeps getting better plus, we're in the 95th 96th percentile for the weather here today, whatever eclipse there is to see, we're going to get every ounce of it here in Philadelphia and how are we going to know we're?

I'll be with a man everyone wants to talk to: Derek Pitts, the chief astronomer here at the Franklin Institute at the Fields Planetarium. Welcome and thank you very much. He and I have been talking for 10 minutes about this. What do we hope to learn from this? Eclipse we've never learned before and how we'll get there. Our technology is much better. Now visually we will see this in a way that we have never seen well among the visual information that we will choose. and the other scientific data that we will collect, we will learn a little more about how our atmosphere reacts to a situation in which less sunlight enters, in this case during an eclipse, the other thing we will be able to learn more about how the sun's atmosphere behaves the corona at different points in the 11e activity cycle of the sun now the corona is not just for our own scientific interest the corona of the sun we talk about things like solar flares and sunspots that have direct effects Impacts on the climate that we feel here on the planet Land.

Well, we know that the Sun has a direct influence on the Earth's climate. To what extent can we distinguish whether they are flares, prominences or sunspots and even activity in the corona. I have more parts of the puzzle to try to solve and satellites like the ones launching today will help us understand which is amazing and guys, 2024 being what it is, Derek tells me millions of pictures will be taken. Most of them have databases in different ways and different things happen that we will learn with, but I am also curious with me. We are going to take photographs from space of the Earth during the eclipse.

What will the Earth look like from space? This is a really interesting sight when you look at an eclipse from space, what it will look like is that it will look like a brown dot on the surface of the planet, but I should actually say a brown circle because it won't look like a little dot. It will look like a large diffuse circle covering the area where the eclipse passes. It won't look like a band, it will just be the circle where the shadow is at that moment. Well, that's right, so don't wait. it will look like a black dot moving along a narrow strip, it will look like a wide circle and you will probably see these images tomorrow immediately guys, it is this experience that makes you the busiest man in Philadelphia today.

I'm going to monopolize it. While I can tell us from your expert point of view, we have three NASA rockets, not just one but three, and I've seen them, they're smaller, they're faster, their missiles are really full of sensors and instruments on them, what we wait? To learn from them, I think we did this the last time they came up, but again, technology has changed a lot. The point is that the more data we can collect about how the atmosphere behaves under changing conditions, the better we can understand our own environment. and our own atmosphere and this is really important for us today to be able to understand ouratmosphere because there are many different things that are affecting the atmosphere.

Our understanding of it will allow us to take better care of the atmosphere for the whole rocket thing. that's happening to put sensors in the atmosphere, even to study the corona, it all helps us understand our atmosphere better, guys we are always smarter to talk to. Derek Pitt, last quick question for you, the child in you You must be going crazy, man, today's game day, what a great day, you must be really excited, hey, look, this is an incredible experience, no matter how you look at it, no matter if it's 90%. o 100% o 50% it is an incredible scientific experience that is happening like the mechanics of our universe, we can see it here in front of us, so everyone participate in this, it is incredible and we are all going to participate in it today, whether we like it or not Philly is going to be part of this whole Eclipse experiment today we'll see how it goes thanks Derek thanks Hank hey, don't let him go.

I have a question, so I've seen conflicting information. Can we take what we all want? To take pictures with our smartphones, is there a way to do it safely? What's your advice for smartphone photography here? What is the safe way to do it? filter over the lenses you must have a filter over the lenses you cannot take a photo like a selfie with the camera pointing at the sun and your back to the sun you have to have a filter over the lenses of your camera can you get a pair of eclips glasses and hold them over your iPhone?

You certainly can do it, yes, there you go. I knew it. He would have a solution. He has always liked the easy solution. Exactly, thanks guys. I really appreciate it. Also, if you have questions for us, you can use our hashtag. We will go with fox29. Good morning after the program. Yes good day. We'll look for them because we'd love to answer your questions because I know they have a lot, they certainly have a lot and we have a lot more in store. We're going to go all over the country and take a look as people prepare for In this eclipse we'll be right back so Fox 29 is definitely gearing up and we'll have coverage again with more of Dallas and Philadelphia in just a few moments stay here with us a great shot of Niagara Falls right now.

As people continue to line up to take their spots, we're just getting started for you, total solar eclipse 2024, stay here with us, there will be more in a few moments and welcome everyone to live now from Fox. I'm your host, Mike P, preparing them. For the total solar eclipse, millions and millions of people from all over the country have traveled to the areas of totality and in a moment, we will continue to feed Fe with some of those cities as well, but again we want to continue to show the many people who They have prepared for this event and continue to come in droves, so what we are going to do is talk a little about the weather situation that is coming up in a moment.

Also, we'll get updates from our teams across the country to see, just you know, some areas will be so cloudy that the weather will be annoying on this eclipse day. We'll be keeping an eye on all of that during you too, but let's get back to our friends at Fox 29 Philadelphia, they're doing some coverage and they have Rober Ray in Indiana right now with Fox Weather getting ready for today, the way to experience this total solar eclipse which will happen at 3:00. 6 p.m. this afternoon and we're lucky, these skies, as you can see, and all the people are just magnificent attempts at almost 70° for when this eclipse occurs, in the path of totality, and you know what happens if I want to tune into some pretty immersive coverage interesting.

Let me tell you why you should watch Fox Weather. We have this camera. Alright. Lloyd Alford is behind. The camera records me during the eclipse. I'm going to train my eyesight. Until the eclipse when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun and that is what creates that total eclipse. We all have a sunscreen here and I want to tell you that the shot is as tight as possible. It'll take up the entire screen and you'll be able to experience it because I'm giving you kind of a play-by-play like a sports announcer would do on the actual clips and hopefully you'll have a lot of people looking up at the sky.

They will have protective glasses like these and they will be able to look up so as not to damage their eyes and they will be able to see this celestial event. Darkness will fall. The birds can calm down and there will be a sense of peace. uh, if it's anything like 2017, uh, the previous total solar eclipse, uh, that will be the aura and the feeling here, incredible when you think about it, 15 states that will have a total of more than 30 million people, uh, we'll see this approximately 115 miles wide. it's totality and the big news is that all the lower 48 states will experience some of this phenomenon the total solar eclipse you won't see it again in the US for another 20 years look up and be sure what day good way , good way to start. the week for a Monday, right, I have questions, so Robert, where are you from?

I am originally from a shy city. I also grew up in Connecticut, but I lived in Atlanta, there you go everywhere, have you seen the eclipse in 2017 last year? The time I did it I was in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, uh, for that total solar eclipse and then I covered the man eclipse in San Antonio last October, so yeah, I think in total this is my fifth eclipse, uh, like crazy television professional, can you rate? them, how about that? Let me rate them, which ones were the best and why. I think Hopkinsville was pretty amazing. I wasn't expecting at that moment the darkness, uh, that fell over where I was in totality and it surprised me. and how everything was still and the sky almost like a blue-gray tint.

I wasn't expecting that kind of feeling and I have to tell you this too. People get very excited during this. I wasn't one of those people, I was just I'm amazed because you know our atmosphere and the Moon in the sun, but there are people for whom this becomes a kind of Zen moment for them and I think that's why we're seeing that You meet so many people here at Indianapolis Speedway, you really do. It's amazing that there are places like this all over the country, uh, that people will be able to see. I mean, you guys will get to see this too and Philly, hell yeah, we're looking forward to it, Robert, thank you.

Thank you very much for answering my questions. I'm a very curious person, so thank you and we'll probably check back with you about the course later in the day. Let's take a short break and we'll be right back. Well some of the coverage from Fox 29 who always does a great job, let's head over to Fox 4 Dallas right now as they continue to provide the update and preview of today's big event as well as from Alaska to Hawaii to catch one of these. let's go ahead and do his interview, he has a fantastic perspective on these, obviously the weather is very critical, so we can look at this talk a little bit about, you know, how a clear sky might compare to maybe a partly cloudy sky, um in terms of how that would affect the eclipse itself for Observers, so I'll tell you that unless it's completely cloudy like we had in Antarctica, if you have light cloud cover, if you have serious cloud cover or even a layer of clouds in the middle of the cover, you are still going to see something special, in fact, the clouds will act as a screen.

You will actually be able to see the leading and trailing edge of the Moon's shadow cloud moving above and beyond you for the entire duration. phase of the eclipse in 2016, you actually skirted a flight from Alaska to Hawaii to intercept the total solar eclipse in that year, talk about that adventure because it's quite a story, well, many of my fellow eclipse chasers were a little upset about the fact. that and these are people who go to Every Eclipse they said oh my God we have to go to Indonesia the path of totality went through New Guinea and Somatra and then I looked at the eclipse path and noticed the end of the path was passing between Alaska and Hawaii, so I went online and found a flight 870.

Alaska Airlines Flight 870 contacted the hierarchy there and said, "If you delay that flight by about 25 minutes on the way from Anchorage to Hawaii, there's a chance it could intercept the shadow of the Moon and could give its passengers and crew a chance to see a total solar eclipse. In short, if they liked the idea, they did it and it was an incredible sight for all of us to have a chance to see a solar eclipse. Is there a favorite? I mean, is there one of all the eclipses that you've seen? Is there one that, for some reason, stands out above all the others?

The first time I experienced totality as a 16- My one-year-old grandfather, who had seen the 1925 eclipse in New York when he was 16, promised me he would take me to see a total eclipse and took my grandmother, mother, and sister on a leisurely 900-mile trip. m to Gas Bay. Peninsula in Quebec where we experienced a total solar eclipse which was my first in 1972 and right after I was hooked. Sounds inspiring. We are waiting for you for sure. Joe. I really appreciate your time. luck to everyone, I have my destination in Texas, if I don't make it there, I still hope that all of you have the opportunity to see it because, like I said, this is an event that you will remember and take to your grave.

You will remember this for the rest of your life. It's an incredible show. I'm certainly looking forward to it, of course, right here, live now from Fox, let's continue our coverage. Now we'll head back to Philadelphia to see some of their previous coverage as well. Society. the American Astronomical Society and they went and rated different people's glasses, which made them safer. There is a certain code on some of these glasses that we have online at 29, but I would also double check to see if they are on that list. just to make sure you have the safest glasses and Ken, you were talking about juggling.

I don't know if I can juggle some of these. A Clips glass, let's see here, no, I don't think it will work here with me. I think so. I need to learn that skill a little more, but here's what you can do if you don't have any of those clip-on lenses. You can still safely view the eclipse with a few things you may have at home, first and foremost if you have a plate. This is what we did before on Good Day Philadelphia. We have the instructions at fox29.com. You get another paper plate and what you do is with the pen you make a little hole, so here I'm going to do it live with you. here's a pen, here's a plate and what you want to do is have a little hole like that boom and what's going to happen is the sun will come out through it and you won't look at the sun through it, no, no. no, the sun is behind you, let that little hole shine, a little bit of light, look at that very small circle and that will show you what the sun will look like during the eclipse.

Right now it is a circle because our Sun is a circle, but during the eclipse. We'll see the sun block out and you'll see a little crescent shaped light shining on the plate and there are some other things that you might have in your pantry that you can use. I love this, so this is what I have. I have a box of knockoff Cheerios because they were cheaper and I also bought a box of knockoff Cheerios and they both work. I think this is cool first let's get the Chee it because if you haven't had cheit in a while they have a little hole right there in the center it will do the same thing this little hole will project a little dot and I can even make maybe some animals with my hand right there, I'll be talking about animals in just a second, how they react to the eclipse and Look at that little hole through the cheit, it's another way you can safely view the eclipse because look, we'll never look at the sun.

You know your sunglasses won't work. The welder's glass I was testing doesn't seem to be dark. Enough, how about a Cheerio, since we have it right there? Who doesn't have a Cheerio in the pantry? It does the same little effect like this. Oh, first, there's the bright side. It's hard for me to get the Cheerio and the light at the right angle, there it is, I think that's the best and you know it's not just the pantry items that you have too, maybe smoke a little, talk about a barbecue, we find this in our backyard because we love grilling at Good Day Philadelphia. and this here will do the same.

This can project some circles of what the Sun looks like. It's cool to see, while we can see it, how do animals react even though the eclipse makes us smile? Not all animals act. Same thing when I saw the total solar eclipse in Tennessee, suddenly the bird stopped chirping when it got dark, so let's see what else the animals did during the 2017 eclipse, when the eclipse happens, we will be looking up, but how will the animals react? animals in 2017, when we had the last total solar eclipse? Scientists studied how zoo animals in South Carolina reacted when the sky darkened.

They say that Galapagos tortoises began breeding during the peak, giraffes began galloping, and other animals displayed behaviors related to dusk. Some of the animals behaved as if night had arrived, so some of the animals entered their nighttime routine.They made strange calls The songs They made a type of vocalization that we had never heard before I was in Tennessee to see the full clips and the birds stopped singing when it got dark in South Carolina The flamingos at the zoo did something interesting The flamingos gathered around their chicks during the eclipse as if they are trying to protect the chicks, it would be really interesting to see if other flamingos do that or if other birds in flocks do the same type of behavior this time.

Researchers are going to study how the eclipse affects animals in Texas. They want to see if the behaviors they witnessed earlier in South Carolina point to larger patterns. This time we will see some. of the same types of animals Texas is the first place in the United States where the eclipse will pass, there are other really interesting places where the types of observations could be made and, to that point, what about your pets? Do you take your dog to relax with you? How do your dogs react? Basically, everything we know. about animal behavior during the eclipse could reasonably be considered anecdotal because there is very little information about it.

This gives us another opportunity to see how your pets react and how all animals react and we want to know, please let us know. Send it to us on On our social networks, I will be safe Clips with your cell phone and what your animals are doing, whether they are your pets or around you, so share it with us and we will share in our 5:00 news the latest news from the beautiful roof with these perfectly. blue skies Karen, we'll send it back right thanks, okay, let's go to cloudy Rochester to Mike Jerck, so Mike, did you hear that the animals, their behavior, what they do, that's what the Galapagos do: oh, do you understand it?

Now look, I think it might be interesting to do that in those three and a half minutes, you know what I mean, I think obviously that's what the T, you know, they get frisky, it's good, you have to have a little sight. outside and I think there are a lot of people in America around the world who are going to play right at that moment, it's only fair that three and a half minutes we had to get away from the band, there is a very good band, but they are loud, but I can only give them some of the atmosphere around here.

I mean, people are starting to get more excited. Did Drew say reporting live from the crystal clear skies of Philadelphia on the roof? I didn't want to rub it, but that's exactly what it was. how he threw God and it's very clear in Indian you've never heard of channel 29 where you're from we're out of Philadelphia we came from Philadelphia to Rochester well I came from California oh you beat us then you get the prize what's the city, my name is SEI Valley California, I know where part of outside of Los Angeles is, yes Calabasas, yes Thousand Oak, you come visit me when you are, are you from there?

No, I lived in uh La para a while ago, about 10 years, well my story is that I came here to be a school counselor and after I retired, I am a volunteer with no husband, no dogs, no cats, no children, my passion was travel. I've been to over 75 countries, but then I moved to California because I didn't want to be found dead in bed, so I continued a meeting here with these uh uh with this committee and I said I had to come back, so I flew back. here and I've been doing everything I just finished my volunteer boat and you know, even if it's cloudy, whatever it is, it's going to be great because I think positive and I say it's great just to see all these people coming together.

Can you believe I know people coming from Philadelphia to record this fantastic thing and I think everyone should have a good time and I love it thank God and when you know what California says, how could you handle that snow? You know what I'm saying, what you're saying, I'm saying, that's love sent by the Angels, yeah, and them. Say it's okay, we'll accept it. Thank you very much guys, stay well. God bless you. They know we have a lot in common. We both have a very positive attitude about everything. It's good for me. Someone like me.

He could listen to her if she told him. Not my age, now say what you want. I will be 84 years old on September 8th. Wish me a happy birthday, happy birthday, so you came here for the eclipse, although yes, 3000 miles, 2500, yes, why, because the eclipse is memorable, it is important and not only. that, but I knew that coming to the eclipse I could meet a lot of people that I had met and you know what they're all doing well and he well, I'm glad I met you, yes, you are. yes actually I'm your name Mike Mike I'm Josephine Josephine let's hug Mike ask Josephine after that I can't believe it 84 years old I feel better about things now I feel better because she, like you, said the sun is, we can more or less see the sun, yeah, it's a little cloudy, yeah, and you know what, what does it matter, it's just the idea that you're here with the right experience and I would never think of staying at home watching this alone.

I want to be here with all of these exact people and I have met connections. I made connections with people from SEI Valley who actually live there and I have, do you know, there, Cornell sent eight buses? I saw that and a bunch of buses got on. from Princeton, from our area too, right, I just haven't been able to find it, well, well, talking to you, okay, stay well, this goes out, uh, yeah, we're done, okay, take it off, let me tell you about New Jersey, It's okay, Mike, she's leaving. to give you some of the real scoop, now look at it, she might have some choice words right there or Faith Sassy language that is Sue, how about that?

I think that's when she was going to get into the good part of the interview, uh, you. We're watching live now from Fox everyone, we appreciate you continuing to join us here as we're just taking you from market to market here to show you the latest and greatest on the total solar eclipse. More people continue to come from all over the country and really all over the world, we want to always continue, continue to bring you the latest live now from Fox around the world, we'll be back in just two minutes. I was going to take them to Fox 5 New York, but it looks like the shot didn't happen. right now so we'll wait and see more live now and a look live right now in Indianapolis as people are preparing for the big solar eclipse today it's eclipse day and welcome everyone to live now from Foxes, We continue exhibiting. all for you, bringing back the top stories of the day and really this is the top story and we're going to stick with it, we have more coverage again, starting in less than an hour from now, we'll be bringing Thanks to our friends at Nissan.

Oh, I deleted it all when I got to this one. Alright, full coverage of the 2024 solar eclipse again starting at 1:00 ET, brought to you by our friends at Nissan. Another live look. Now let me bring it all back to you. Another live look right here from Niagara Falls, as more people continue to come out to get their spot, they will also be in the path of totality, so we'll keep an eye on that, let's go out now with some of our friends. Fox for Dallas as they show up and we hope the clouds stay away, stay away, clouds, let's listen to it live right now northwest in areas like Lantana posum Kingdom Lake and a little bit different as you head into Plano and Cedar Creek Reservoir. that strong south wind is pumping in moisture, you can feel it outside, something is about to happen.

Well, our first round, as Dan mentioned, will start around 5:00 p.m. In our far southeastern areas, those strong to severe storms will lift to the north, capable of generating very large damaging hail winds and even a low risk of tornado activity approaching the Metroplex overnight, but expected a second round after 10 p.m. and continuing here overnight will mainly be a major threat of hail and wind. We are all at risk of strong to severe storms today, but around 60% coverage, so not everyone will get these storms, with hail being the biggest threat and it will become large.

Now we needed at least a quarter of the size for a severe storm war, but I will tell you that some of them could produce hail the size of a tennis ball, as well as winds between 60 and 70 M per hour, compared to threats of previous tornadoes this one is just a little higher than what we've seen recently so all eyes will be on the radar as we go through the evening okay Ally thank you so much there's so much excitement here at the pro as the crowd continues to grow here. uh hopefully we can show you a little bit later some matching Eclipse dresses and hey look here's sky4's Clyde Waren Park as you see the crowd continues to grow there uh it's going to be a lot more crowded as we get closer to the time of the whole uh we've been mentioning that we have some scientists that we'll have a chance to talk to throughout our coverage, learn a little bit about not only what we're going to see but what scientists can learn through all of this. and we'll talk to one of them in a moment for now, although you're watching Fox Wars' coverage of the total solar eclipse.

Thanks to Fox 4 as always and to us. We will contact them again in a moment. Let's now go back to Philadelphia which you are watching live now from Fox. All eclipses can sometimes be influenced by clouds. It can be influenced if you have vision problems. There's a There's a lot of reasons why you can't see things, but there's a really cool machine and a group of people that have this setup so you can experience the eclipse if it's cloudy, if you have vision problems, all these things. We are going to get out of the way, they are going to show us.

First introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Kathy. I'm the head of educational programs at the American Philosophical Society and we're demonstrating the light sound device. In fact, we borrowed it from our colleagues at the Institute of History of Science, they were very generous and lent it to us. This device was actually created through a collaboration at Harvard, so if you're interested in learning more about the light sound project, you want to check out their website very cool let's demonstrate it, but first don't we introduce you are you hello, I'm uh, I'm Adriana Link, I'm deputy director of library and museum programming at the American Philosophical Society, so there's a whole plan this whole plan for the day, okay, so this machine tells us what it actually does, so this machine reads light levels and translates them into sound, so I'm going to show you or demonstrate to you the different sounds that happen as the bright light disappears and dims just like it would happen in the eclipse, so we're going to have this out later today to absorb the light levels of the eclipse and be able to sonify the experience forever so it's the eclipse in sound and visual on the screen exactly exactly okay this is great so let's see explain to us how you're doing it so I'm going to turn it on this, okay, and we'll be able to hear the humming and I'm going to turn on the software, so we have the visual component here, now I'm going to make it super sunny and bright, so that's how it went and that's how it went, the light got darker and De done now you can hear a little click it's very faint so the click is when the eclipse will be at its darkest so city let's try can we make it one more time so the bright light is when it's sunny ? this right now, let's leave it there for a second, let's get the bright light so it's at its brightest, this is when it's sunny outside so you can hear that and then when it starts to get dark, then Eclipse, that's cool and that will be everything. will be set up here, we'll be participating in the conversation as well, so everything will be set up here so people can experience, yeah, so we're right across from Independence Small at the American Philosophical Society, so we'll have the The garden will be open, the Garden Jefferson.

We will have the light sound device ready so you can experience it in person. We will also have activities. We will have some black and white cookies to reflect the shadow effect. And you know, we hope that people will come visit us and see some of the other activities that we have during the week, but one of the cool things that happens right down the street is that you can come here. you can get your glasses, you can draw, you can experience it here and then walk down the right street and experience more too. What has been the response to people who have something like this?

It's a great way for people who maybe don't. being able to see everything to experience um well we're getting positive feedback about our event people are excited to come um I had a few questions about it so yeah please join us and come experience it yourself in person, it's great. I appreciate you both doing this so this is one way Karen, if it's cloudy no problem, if you're visually impaired this would be a good way to experience it, they've covered a lot of interesting things that happen throughout this process, this is another one. one of them I have three questions we go to many places and museums here at Fox 29 on good morning whatand remember that this will be the last one of this century that Mexico, the United States and Canada will participate in this, the next one, for the United States, will be in about 20 years here, so there is still a lot of time to wait here, that's why that we have had people from all over the country and really all over the world who have traveled to these places of totality to glimpse this moment that will take you anywhere between 2 and a half to 4 minutes maximum of that 100% darkness, so it will be great to see for sure, we all want to continue our showcase here live now from Fox, let's hang out with our friends at foxp Dallas doing a great preview job and unfortunately it still looks like there are some cloudy skies in Dallas 140 to 144 and then it ends at 302 and I'm telling you, Blake.

I mean, obviously we want people to enjoy this, it's a once in a lifetime event, soak it up, enjoy it, but keep in mind that from this afternoon to tonight and again tomorrow we have the chance to face a couple rounds of bad weather and so we want you to remember that and, uh You know, my colleague Ali Terano has been in the Fox Force studio at the weather center keeping a very close eye on things here and I think we're going to get an update from her now on where we stand. and what we expect.

See you later today Ally, yeah, Dan, you know, I think it's a big concern. We North Texans get it, we know that we deal with severe weather all year round sometimes, but many people who visit us from other parts of the country, even the world, are not used to it. we got here so uh it's going to be It's a very difficult situation for some starting this afternoon fortunately the threat of severe weather remains until after the eclipse and it's really fortunate that there is here at the Texas Motor Speedway which has a Good amount of sun, but it is surrounded by those clouds around Dallas Cedar.

Creek Reservoir same thing, strong southerly winds continue to bring a lot of low level moisture and as you go north and west, that's where it's generally clear, but from, say, Dallas Colin counties eastward and the south, that's where the clouds have been pretty stable here, yeah. You will have some breaks here and there. The question is: will we have those breaks exactly between 12:23 and 3:00 this afternoon? Some people will have them and it's actually a very fluid situation with this cloud cover continuing to come in from the south. So this is during totality, yes, I think there will be some breaks, but we will have an average of partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies and then once we get to 5:00, that's when our storm threat starts to increase in areas south and east of the Metroplex.

At this point, all severe weather modes are possible, so what does that mean? Well, damaging winds, very large hail, and even an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out. This is our first round approaching the Metroplex at 89 at 10:00 tonight and continuing higher coverage of the I35 Corridor to the east. During the late afternoon and then as we move through the night we will have more activity coming from the west. Those will also pose a serious threat with potential for wind and hail, so at this point the damaging hail threat is our biggest opportunity for your county. 30%, so from the 60% rain coverage, the 30% chance in your county that very large hail could be as big as tennis balls damaging the wind line is 15% for your county and our tornado thread is 5%, yes that's low. but it's not zero and our atmosphere is really optimal for one or two spins, so it's something we'll be paying close attention to throughout the afternoon and evening, so we'll continue to monitor it and, of course, stay tuned. about those satellite conditions too, yes we are certainly getting a lot of questions about the severe weather moving into the area, a lot of people are also asking about the eclipse itself and you know why this is such a big deal, certainly the spectacle of all of this It's a big deal for us people here in the path of totality and they were saying that because of the way this spreads across the middle section of the United States, everyone in the country will have at least some type of experience which he certainly won.

It won't be complete darkness and totality, but no matter where you are, you will be able to glimpse some kind of change, but on that path of totality of tens of millions of people it is truly extraordinary, yes, in 2017, when we saw this, it was certainly a similar experience. for those people, but it didn't go through as many major cities, the population in the path of totality, which you know is going to be huge and then of course there's the scientific side that you also know, that you know you have. Remember that the corona, that outer layer of the sun, is so bright and so hot, about a million degrees Celsius, that it's almost impossible to study, but if you block out the rest of the sun now, suddenly scientists have a vision unprecedented what that is about, so I also love talking about the scientists, how much the students and NASA are incorporating the curriculum within the classrooms and giving the students the opportunity to say, "hey, this is your chance to study temperature drops to release balloons and see what happens." I'm going to brag on you for a second, let me show you all, so we got to work at 7:00 this morning.

I'm going to put in, give me this and Steve says, hey, look what I do over the weekend. We can go? Getting back to this, I know we have this great photo, but look at this, so this is like this, he went to a Boy Scout camp and did that and then he put together this whole notebook of Hi Heather, I brought crafts for us to do, like this What if we need to make some eclipse boxes. There's a giveaway section of things to do and I'm like, "Okay, well, I've got a couple sheets of paper here, but you're one of us who's used to watching our newscast." you know, we have some time to occupy, it's okay, we can do crafts if we have to anyway, it's just fascinating all of this and how much everyone is so no, now I'm serious and how much you know the schools and and We get to experience this along with the rest of our Fox 4 family here on the roof that you can't see, so it's great to be a part of this, there's so much more to experience on the other side of the break.

I want you to continue watching a live look outside right now, that's our camp on the roof, looking up at the sky, where things are starting to bring you Fox 4 coverage, but this is a great live look here in the Niagara Falls, since you have more. and more people coming to take their places preparing for the big moment that will happen to them in the eastern part of the country. I want to show you a live look right now at Indianapolis, a great shot of the train here from the Sun and we'll continue to watch. This as it will slowly fade away in a moment, you are watching live now from Fox and welcome everyone to live now from Fox, getting ready for our big coverage starting at 1 pm.

Um, so in a moment here, the 2024 total solar eclipse brought to you by our friends at Nissan and this really shows what we're seeing right now across the country. This is a great look at Indianapolis at this time of the Sun and we'll continue. To see it, as it will become smaller and smaller for us in a few moments. I want to continue to show other events as well as those high latitudes, so this is something I'm sure the airlines are into if Noah Noah is doing his job. the airlines when we have space weather events, yes, absolutely inv from a satellite that is looking for asteroids that could work, that's something around the Earth outside the atmosphere I think, but apparently when the sun activates it affects your satellite, does it affect your satellite? how is that?

If then. we have a satellite that looks for asteroids and comets that are approaching the Earth and we're going around and around the Earth in the Earth's atmosphere and you think, oh, we know we're high enough to There's not much air left, it's not a problem Well, the satellite is pretty old now and it's starting to go down a little bit and what's happening, everyone can feel it. It's eclipse day and we've been giving you all the coverage. all morning and afternoon here live now from Fox, let's keep doing that and head over to the Houston area right now, that's where we find Melissa Wilson from Fox 26 joining us now with the latest as we're getting so close to Melissa.

They are very close and let me tell you, I am usually in Houston, but today I headed to Waco. I'm on the Baylor campus right now and I apologize for the loud music. I hope it's not too overwhelming for you, so take advantage. Look at what's happening behind me right now. Look at all the Baylor University students piling in here because this will be the place where they will experience this history. Most of the students I have spoken to have never experienced a solar eclipse and are beside themselves with excitement, there are expected to be 10,000 students here.

I want to go here and see if we can find one and see what they're thinking. Hello, welcome to Fox News, you have to tell me how you feel about this. solar eclipse what's your name my name is Jack I'm currently an Aviation Science student at Bayor University and I'm a sophom*ore and tell me how you feel about this and what it's like to be here with all these people, yeah It's an experience absolutely amazing to be here today. It is a great opportunity that our University allows us to have this day off from classes and I am truly blessed to have this opportunity to experience this live here and it is a great place for this. you enjoy every second.

I'm very happy to talk to you now. What's important here in Waco is that Baylor University has partnered with NASA with the Loyal Observatory and they're all meeting here so they're just a mile away in Milan Stadium and that's where people come from all over the country to witness this, while most will be students, all the other people are down the street and are so excited about this that I've been talking to an astrophysicist all morning. long and they tell me that they can't believe everyone is so passionate about this and that it's just a moment for us all to stop and appreciate.

I also have to tell you that we expected there to be so much cloud. cover here I actually had to wear my sunglasses all day and we had to find coverage so we wouldn't have so many shadows, so we hope that's the case when it all happens in a moment. Back with you in the studio, yes Melissa, the clouds might show up tomorrow, right, let's get them out of the way, let's enjoy it right here, everyone look up at the sky, that's what we're sure hoping for. Yeah, okay, Melissa Wilson, reporting for us in Waco. G getting ready we appreciate it here live now as always everyone is doing well we're going to take a break here in just a few moments but we want to continue to show you the latest on what we're seeing right now with the sun. a live look here in Indianapolis and I just want to give you a perspective of how unique this really is and a lot of things have to happen for this total solar eclipse to really take part so scientists tell us that the sun is 390 times larger than the moon, but is also 3 90 times farther away every 18 months or so, line up perfectly so that the moon's shadow passes over the Earth and those in the path of that shadow see a solar eclipse often described as one of The Big Coincidences of Our Solar System Astronomers tell us that there are 295 moons in our solar system, and yet ours is the only moon with the exact size and distance to perfectly coincide with the Sun and produce the amazing spectacle we see somewhere on our planet every 18 months or So if our moon was smaller, the sky wouldn't get darker and if it were bigger, we would never see that bright moment.

For many, it is a source of awe and truly a moment to show too and we have been bringing you that coverage all day here and will continue into the late afternoon hours as we approach the moment of totality when so many people from all over the country and all over the world will participate in this spectacle that is truly we are going to take over social media with videos with photos the last time we saw this happen in the US was in 2017, the next time we will see it, It won't be for 20 years the next time both Mexico and Canada see it.

Yeah, it's not going to happen for another century, so this is really history in the making. So many people come out wanting to see that moment of totality. We're going to have 32 million Americans participating in the area of ​​totality. I'll be watching something really amazing where you'll go from light to dark and then back there in a few moments, so that'll definitely be something you'll see. I want to show you a live look right now of Niagara Falls right now for you to see. The clouds are clearing, that's a good sign because we saw agoabout an hour that didn't look very promising there in Niagara Falls, but we were talking to officials there who have been preparing for the last three years for this moment. and having these different viewing sites all over the place, so it's going to be something really very interesting to see and participate in, and again I want to show that in just a few moments it will be our full 2024 total solar eclipse show presented by Nissan. again that live coverage starting at 1 p.m.

Eastern, 10:00 a.m. m. for our people on the west coast, but before we take a 2 minute break, I want to show you again this image from Indianapolis of the Sun, as they have a very, very powerful camera that shows this as We're coming into the home stretch in the that things will really start to fall into place there and we will have so many people who will continue to show it on social media calling their friends sending messages. It's going to be uh uh really the talk of the day and it's been our main story uh obviously also during the day, that's going to be done during my time here at the desk, we're going to take a two minute break and when we come back You'll see my buddy Josh Breslo, he'll be at the controls and he'll give you insight like you've never seen before, so stay with us for more moments live now from Fox, back in two, welcome here live. now according to Fox, the time is 12:55 on the east coast and 9:55 on the west coast.

My name is Josh Frlo and I'm here to bring you all the hours and hours of coverage as we take a look at that total solar eclipse, now you can see on the right side of your screen a lot of different cameras that you're looking towards the Pacific coast of Mexico and down at the bottom right of your screen, which is a shot. In Indianapolis, I want to get a little closer so you can see it better. Take a look there and this is, of course, our live coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse that Nissan will be presenting over the next few hours.

There we are going to have these live views from our cameras along the path of totality. Now those cameras are in more than a dozen states where at least some will experience a few minutes of complete darkness. Indianapolis isn't quite there, but they seem to move their camera, so all you're seeing now is pitch black. Let's go back to that other camera that we have that is finished in Mexico. I see that people are gathering in large numbers because it looks like in about an hour we will see totality there on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

I want to bring on a guest now to help take a look at the conditions in Buffalo New York, we have Elizabeth with AAA for us, thank you so much for being here with us today, yes, happy to join you, there's a lot of excitement here Along the shores of Lake Erie, there are some eclipse chasers here setting up photos. Team I talked to them, they're from Florida so they came up here to see this and there's a little restaurant called Hoax here that's right on the water, famous for people coming to watch snow storms here in Buffalo, well people .

They're starting to arrive to see the eclipse, hopefully, but we have some cloud cover hoping it goes away, yeah, and that's what I was going to ask you, is there some kind of backup plan? Because I know there are so many different events that are happening. What's happening there in Buffalo is still about two hours away from totality there, but what if that cloud cover is still there? Yes, unfortunately we won't have the view everyone was hoping for if the clouds stay in place, but there is a chance they could start to move in. I talked to a friend in Cleveland a while ago from a fox station and they said the clouds just moved in, clear skies and there are some blue spots behind me, so depending on the location.

I could have a better view, a lot of people are lining up at Niagara Falls today, checking out the view from there, so people came early to get a good spot and you can see right behind me the city of Buffalo and that's where you mentioned. There's a lot going on at rooftop parties at hotel bars at the ballpark, um, Buffalo Bille Stadium in Nor Park. There are also a lot of people there today too. How much preparation was done for this? How far in advance were people there in Buffalo? preparing for the eclipse because you find out you're in the path of totality years before this, so you really have to get going, get in shape, and get everything ready to go.

Yeah, Buffalo is in Eie County and they started planning for like a year in advance, just for road safety preparations and things like that, and then all of a sudden all the different hotels and restaurants started jumping on board when they saw that road. and they realized that Buffalo is right there in the center, so we're safe. I hope everyone can have a nice time today and I want to ask you because we talked about this the other day, but there have been a lot of concerns regarding people driving during the eclipse. Tell me about some of those concerns and why people may want to stay off the road, yes triaa is reminding people to get to your destination, get your spot, don't try to stop on the highway or the side of the road to try to do the eclipse, it is not safe, you want to make sure.

Make sure you are in a safe parking spot and also make sure you take off those eclipse glasses before you start driving again. You should never try to drive with them on and don't try to take pictures while you're behind the we want to make sure everyone is safe and again, there are a lot of visitors in town, they're both coming off airplanes and they also drove into downtown Buffalo yesterday of course, Yesterday there were perfectly clear skies, but there are many people. at City Hall taking pictures, standing in line at local restaurants trying to get some wings to get the whole Buffalo experience, yes there is a lot of excitement there, Elizabeth KY with Tria of Western in downtown New York, thank you very much, like always, for taking the time to stay here with us and give us an idea of ​​what's going on.

Anything else you want to add here about this before I let you know, just a reminder for everyone to have a good time, enjoy it, keep those glasses on and hopefully we'll get it done. experience the eclipse and totality right here on the shores of Lake Erie hey that's what we're all hoping for thank you again for taking the time to be here with us thank you that's okay we all want to take you to some of the Other Images live that we have here at this time. This is a beautiful shot coming from Niagara Falls.

You can see it not far from where Elizabeth Krey was joining us, but I mean it's a beautiful place. You can really see how many people. We've turned out for this, we talked about the skies a little while ago, we're going to have people from the FAA joining us in a matter of minutes to discuss all of this, but for now I really want to check in with one of our teams in the field we have coverage from Dallas , as well as from Houston and Austin, let's show the audio here on our Austin affiliate, uh, with some of your coverage here as we get closer and closer to the total solar eclipse, but we've noticed that in the last hour the clouds are trying to dissipate.

We've had a few breaks in the cloud cover with rays of sunshine here and there in the town of Capol, looking alive now overlooking Lake Travis, a few more boats, people trying to get a glimpse of the solar eclipse while we're on Lake Travis and then some more sunshine promising near Augusta Vin in Fredericksburg we'll switch to the visible selite this is taking a snapshot from space what kind of clouds we have out there it's clear in Mason s Sab lamp Come on in so far you'd have a great view and some holes in the cloud cover even in the Hill Country, but the clouds are really thickening to our south, the eclipse will have to get here in a hurry sooner. that cloud cover moving in with about a 15% chance there will be some clear weather here in Austin during the solar eclipse with about a 10% to 20% chance in fredburg we not only have the eclipse today but a few more storms Late afternoon showers are bubbling along I 10, there is a slight risk of severe weather between 3 and 7 from I35 to the east, the number one threat is that large hail could be a breakthrough when the main storm system reaches city, we'll talk more about the increasing chances of rain and storms.

Coming soon and because of that, the Texas Eclipse Festival in Bernett is canceled again this afternoon due to severe weather happening later here in Central Texas, organizers say with the support of Texas County officials Brunett and local security. The agencies' safety remains a top priority and they have agreed to end the festival early. They ask guests to leave a little early to avoid traffic. Venue entry transfers will be canceled and additional guests will not be permitted to enter the venue. Organizers say Gest can still stay for the eclipse as long as they are packed and ready to leave after totality, a partial refund will be sent via email.

The Hill Country is one of the most popular places in the country to view the eclipse, yes, in the heart of totality. Area, some areas will be without sunlight for several minutes. Fox 7 Austin's Rudy Kosy joins us live from Lake View Canon with a look at the eclipse seen there, hey Rudy, hey guys, yeah we're about 15 minutes away from the start of the eclipse here. at this location in Black Rock Park which is operated by LC you know the anticipation has been building all morning everyone is hoping mother nature will cooperate after teasing us all Sunday with some clear skies from CL and then earlier today with skies that would be clear and then it would get cloudy and now we're starting to see those clouds that Zach was talking about now that the sun is back out hey it's cool right now LC has 40 parks like this, nine are west of Austin and one Black Rock park among the nine uh in the path of the total eclipse are all booked up and have been booked out for some time now, that includes those parks east of Austin around Bastrop just those days.

The parks are also reserved. There's no sign of vacancies there, but we're seeing a lot of people along the edge of Lake B banan right now, people here in the park, not just from Texas, many have traveled from states far away, out of state, like Utah, Idaho, and some even come as far away. like South Africa, England and Australia now I asked several people here in the park if they are worried about their trip turning into a cloudy failure. Never in a thousand years would I have dreamed that I would be here and here we are, so you saw the forecast with the tense clouds here, right, a little worried, no, it's going to be amazing, no matter what you were doing a few days ago, I was shoveling snow, it was 20 degrees and it snowed on us just before we had to leave. for the airport, so the snow shovel to get our car out of the driveway and so we can get to the airport yesterday, so if we're surrounded by clouds, this is still a win-win, yeah, yeah, I mean, well , we.

Do you know how to meet up with college friends here? Do you know how to escape the cold weather and snow during the weekend? What do you think of this road trip? Definitely good, definitely good. I bet you now take a look live using our solar camera that we have here on the site and you can see that the sun is struggling trying to fight through the clouds and it's been doing that all morning, it gets cloudy and then it gets cloudy. clears and then clouds. Now our eclipse start starts at 12:17 and then, uh, the total.

The eclipse starts here at 134 runs until about 138 and then the sun comes back in full force or completely covered in clouds, one or the other, depending on what Zach says, around 3:00, now behind me you can see that a lot of people are uh uh. Taking advantage of some of the modified telescopes and cameras that have been installed, they have special filters on their lenses so people can watch the event as it happens. But be sure to look up before totality. make sure you wear your special glasses, you don't want to hurt your eyes, we'll talk to you a little bit later, now we'll go back to the studio, okay, that was our Fox 7 Austin crew, just some of their solar power. eclipse coverage, as I mentioned, we have our Fox 4 Dallas Fox 7 Austin team, we also have our Fox Houston team and really these affiliates that are in the path of totality, we will reach out to them in the next moment.

In fact, a live image comes through NASA and this ended up in Mexico along the Pacific coast. You can see that the partial eclipse has already started and this camera is kind of moving all over the place, so we're seeing several different shots. To keep an eye on this for the next few hours as well, I want to bring in a guest to talk a little more about those friendly skies out there. Kevin Morris is an advisorsenior technician and aviation security expert at the FAA. Thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today.

Thank you very much for inviting me. It's a very exciting day. First of all, I just want to ask you a little bit about what happens in heaven. My question here is when? Are there flights that take place during the eclipse? Do you still see so many flights happening? Do things have to change? Well, that's a great question. I think like millions of people across the country, well, at least half of our country is looking up at the sky. Air traffic control professionals are also watching the skies, but perhaps for a slightly different reason, they are ensuring that the number of aircraft operating the international airspace system operates at a safe level so that we can ensure safety. and efficiency of those aircraft. and passengers on board, so what we're seeing is a slight increase in the number of aircraft operating along the eclipse path, especially in areas of totality where there are clear skies, so we're on that minute by minute. here to see if there's anything else we need to do any special procedures we might need to bring in airspaces, I'm assuming they're specifically closed right now, everything is working for the most part as usual, yeah, that's really the interesting part is that , so far As far as the eclipse goes, we are operating as usual, there are certain parts of the country, of course, that are having adverse weather that could affect planes and flight routes or delays, but in terms of the eclipse, we will not close any airspace that we don't have any restrictions currently that may affect planes in that area, and for people who are planning to fly, are you seeing a lot of cancellations and delays?

Do we have many of them at the moment? I'd say no more than the normal amount and that's mostly weather related. I don't think we will have any cancellations or delays related to the eclipse itself, however, my best advice I give to any passenger traveling any time of year is to call. with your airline or check with your airline before leaving for the airport to make sure your flight is not delayed or cancelled. Hey, that's always good advice when you go to an airport, okay, Kevin Morris, thank you so much for taking the It's time to be here with us today and help break down what's happening in the friendly skies.

Anything else you want to add before letting go. I think that's really only for people who fly on a plane like we mentioned. a passenger plane check with the airline before leaving for the airport and if you are flying your own plane be sure to check the air mission notices. These are our messaging system for pilots to ensure there are no special procedures or restrictions along your route. true Kevin, thanks again for being here with us, we appreciate it, thank you very much. Fly carefully if you are there and enjoy the eclipse. Okay, you're watching live here on one of our many cameras.

This is actually it. Coming from Texas here via NASA, I want to see it so you can see it better. This actually ended in Junction Texas, where you know totality will happen in a matter of an hour or so. We'll be sure to bring you more of those images as we get them. NASA is circulating through these images right now, so they keep changing the location, but it looks like we had another one that appeared and then disappeared. The weather is now 109 on the east coast and at 10:09 on the west coast my name is Josh frlo and I will be here for the next few hours to bring you all of your coverage here during our coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse that you are watching live now from Fox.

I'll be right back, welcome back here live from Fox. You're watching live from one of the many cameras we have along the path of totality. This one looks very dark and cloudy and actually comes from Dallas, Texas. I want to go over some of the timings here, since that partial eclipse started around 12:23 p.m. Eastern Time, it looks like totality will be around 1:40 p.m. Central Time It's 2:40 Eastern Time, so we'll be keeping an eye on all of these different cameras and bringing you all the updates here as we get them. Do you want to go to Cleveland right now, that's where we have Fox?

Max Gordon from the weather joins us live to see what you're seeing and I know there were some concerns about the weather, Max, but it seems like a lot of people have turned out, there's a lot of enthusiasm, yes, absolutely, there were a lot of concerns about the weather. , you know, the Fox Forecast Center was initially counting on about 60% cloud coverage for the time of the eclipse. Things are looking pretty good right now, although looking up at the sky it looks like we have some high clouds moving in, but they are pretty thin right now so hopefully they won't affect eclipse viewing too much now that the eclipse here in Cleveland will begin around 159 p.m. local time which is when the moon will begin to cover the entire sun will begin at 3:13 p.m. local time, it will last about 3 minutes and 49 seconds, so it will be a pretty long period of totality here in the Cleveland area, when it will be plunged into the moon's shadow, it will be pretty dark for a while and, uh, you'll be able to look to where the sun would normally be without eclipse glasses, but before and after totality you still need to wear those glasses when it comes to participation.

I think things are a little light compared to what city officials were doing. Predicting that they said 140 to 200,000 people were going to be downtown, I think the weather might have scared some people, some people I talked to over the last few days said they had made alternative arrangements in other cities, uh, just in case it was going to be cloudy here and I think the cloud forecast might have scared some people off, but as you can see behind me, we definitely have some people here at the Total Eclipse Fest, filling up the lawn. here outside the Great Lake Science Center, so it should still be a great event.

Nice and warm temperatures right now are in the 60s, which is a nice departure from what we've seen the last few days where temperatures haven't really increased. up, you know, out of the 40s, so it's been really nice today, nice and sunny, and it's going to be a great day to see this solar eclipse here in Cleveland, yeah, fingers crossed that everything stays that way and everything stays the same. incredible. Max Gordon There with Fox Weather thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us today. We appreciate it. Thank you. You're watching live right now from one of the cameras that we have very zoomed in right now, which is Dallas, Texas. where we've been checking in with our Fox team for Dallas for their live coverage, they've been running 24 hours a day all day long, let's turn on the audio and listen while they're live, raw and unfiltered, 1 million of these glasses that We then distributed to 575 schools around North Texas, so about 600,000 pairs went to the kids in the schools and their teachers so they could access our little QR code here and download all kinds of activities so they could be prepared for the eclipse and then the others.

We have sent first responders to nursing home community centers so that everyone in North Texas has the opportunity to safely participate and participate in this eclipse. That is incredible. You know, I've seen a lot of eclipse t-shirts. I've seen Eclipse dresses, does anyone know where I could find a pair of eclipse boots? There they are, oh yeah, just in Dallas, so we have this wonderful local boot maker, myON Crosby, who created an eclipse boot that launched just today. They are beautiful, they are going to be a hot commodity, I see, I hope they only are in Dallas, that is true, they must do a great job here in Dallas, well, thank you very much, Dr.

Silver, for inviting us and joining us. part of this great experience here in Peru for the total solar eclipse Steven Heather, Ed we will be back with you. I love the boots, they are so amazing. I'm seeing some shadow in you. I was gonna say. I was just seeing if you have any sunscreen here for us because it's about to get at least my side. It seems I'm the Sun that attracts the Sun more than you Heather it's because the spotlights shine on you okay a man who was always in the spotlight of the Sun Sean RAB live for us right now probably enjoying a little sun with himself my friend how are you hey okay and we're having a great time here on the Ron Kirk Pedestrian Bridge in the Trinity Grove area just on the west side of downtown. people are getting very crowded now it's starting to get packed with families and friends let me show you some people they are getting ready to try to capture the moment look they have their camera here the camera in the camera lens the safe solar glass The lens is already there, so they're ready.

I want to introduce you to a couple of young people. I met a couple of brothers talking to Andrew and, uh, Adrien Danton, they're from Witchita Kansas, they were walking and we started a conversation. Yo, Andrew, what are you hoping to see? Man, I hope you see the eclipse. The solar eclipse. How exciting is this for you? It's very exciting. I love science and stuff, so I've been wanting to watch this for a while. Adrian, tell me what you hope to see, you hope to see the clear skies like now and see everything, yes, I hope to see like the glow of the sun around the moon, like totality, waiting to see it, yes.

It's going to be an exciting time, let me ask you, if there's no school in Kansas today, oh, then this is like a science experiment for you, yes sir, that's what we'll tell the teacher when we get back so you can see. a lot of people here had a great time, it's going to be a great day, it's going to be a great memory and we really hope that what's happening over our heads right now continues because we see some sun here, the clouds are breaking right here and we hope that this continues maybe we can see everything in the next hour or so.

Okay, that's a great site. Sean, blue skies, blue skies, even we, we just had to readjust our shadow structure here because guess what? the sun is rising right now, the sun is starting to peak behind the shadow of the moon, although in Mexico these are live images right now, you can see that the eclipse has certainly begun there. Mexico will also, like Anis, enjoy some of the longest durations of the totality. uh to give you an idea again of how quickly this is going to move across the country, we're about what time and 21 of totality here in Mexico has already started the eclipse and it's going to fly across Texas. and of course, just over North Texas, as we all experience those moments of wholeness together, we'll take a little break and come back in a moment.

Our solar eclipse coverage continues here on Fox this Saturday Bank Crush Day, okay, what you're seeing right there was our Fox coverage for Dallas. We have several different affiliates and stations that are along that path of totality. We will have all this coverage for you throughout the day. Here live now from Fox I want to introduce a new feature here that we are going to be working with for the first time, it's called megaphone and I know a lot of you will be out there taking eclipse photos, all you have to do is use your phone to scan the QR code which is right at the top right of your screen, which will make it very easy to send all the photos, the videos that you take and that means we can play them and show them right here live from Fox.

You can also go to livow fox.com back/vote. It shows you that we will use it for other functions, but today it's about that total. Solar eclipse we are going to take a short break here at 1:20 on the east coast and 10:20 on the west coast. You're watching live now from Fox. Much more to come welcome back here live now from Fox. we're watching live in cville Texas this is an image provided by NASA here as we get to the latest you're watching our live coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse presented by Nissan over the next few hours.

We're going to have live views from our cameras along that path of totality and those cameras in over a dozen states where at least some are going to experience a few minutes of total darkness, we're going to check in with many of our Fox Affiliates, As we have been all day, we have those stations along the path of totality, including Texas, Illinois, Michigan and New York, Fox Weather, NASA and the Associated Press are also part of this coverage and, speaking of the NASA, here I want to bring Dr. Carolyn Mercer, the chief technologist of NASA's science mission directorate, joins us now live.

Thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today. Hey, thanks for inviting me. It's a great day for science and a great day for those of us who live on the path of totality. I was going to sayIn any case, with this solar eclipse. Good, it's good to be here, so first of all I have to ask what you expect from the animals, because what do they do? You know, I know we were hearing from Fox4 Dallas that some of the animal bugs specifically make a certain sound, so what do we anticipate happening?

Yes, that's a great question and you know I asked that question myself recently. at our Orca show, our Orca presentation at 12 o'clock and I wanted to see if there was any effect on the whales from the beginning and they were flawless, but I ended up talking to Dr. Kelly Miller, I'm not sure. If most of you know, we have Dr. Kelly Milly Miller here and she is from the Southwest Research Institute. She's actually a cosmopolitan chemist, so she studies these kinds of things. She gave an incredible presentation on what we were hoping to see with the science of what happens with these solar eclipses and I asked her the exact same question and she referred it to us animal experts so what we've been doing here to answer that question is correct science and that starts with us with observations, so in the last three four days we have had our entire zoo team in almost all the exhibits, our otter exhibit here in our Seine exhibit with our orcas, our dolphins , uh, with our flamingos, birds that can sometimes be affected by um during the day and night cycles and we have observed them from a baseline, a set of behavioral observations, once we established the set of line observations baseline, we can compare by taking those same observations today and comparing them to the baseline.

We'll also take a couple sets of observations later. The eclipse is over but, frankly, what we expect to see is behavior that represents them starting to change. Behavior as the night approaches, what will change. What's going to change for these guys is that they're used to eight to ten to twelve hours. the light cycles here in the middle of the day it's a sunny day here a little cloudy but in the middle of the day they don't expect all the things that happen when the night approaches and the night will come earlier in the day and it will also come a lot more fast, so we expect you'll probably feel like there's a little bit of a change, it'll go dark very quickly and then light up very quickly.

Those are the behavioral changes we expect. to see some of the animals may do absolutely nothing other animals birds, for example, animals that are active in the mornings and afternoons Dawn and dust, they may begin to believe that night is coming, let me crouch down and look for a safe place to spend the night. those are the things we're looking for, the behavioral changes we hope to see, but the best thing about working at SeaWorld with our animals, the best thing, the announcement, they are our best teachers, they will always surprise us, we're just watching. go ahead like everyone else is see what they're going to do we have our guesses we're not exactly sure we'll know much more about a solar eclipse that will impact animals in um probably in almost I would say. about an hour, yeah, well, and then my question is what can you do with that information because it has to help in the future and really just for knowledge purposes, but what can you get out of that information that you find today and use in the future? future?

It's a very good question. I learned today from listening to Dr. Kelly Miller of the Southwest Research Institute that the last time San Antonio had full solar power was about 600 years ago, so we certainly won't be using that information for maybe 600 years. In the future, I'm joking, what we will learn is that we want our animals to be very well adapted and flexible to the changes that occur in their environment, so that if storms come and it gets dark or lightning strikes in one day. or a clip happens, we want these guys to be well adjusted so they know they're still going to be taken care of, they know their well-being is still going to be great, we were hoping it would go out, but we're also hoping the temperatures will rise. change when these things happen, we want our animals to know that they are okay, that they are safe and that is how we will apply it.

Animal welfare, making sure the animals that live here know that no matter what, they will be well cared for. and their well-being comes first all the time, okay, Steve Abel, Vice President of SeaWorld San Antonio, thank you so much for taking the time to join us and help us, we are excited to see what happens with the animals and like you said, we should know in a matter of an hour or so, anything else you want to add before we let you go, you know, I think that's the most important thing, and again, this is more of a service to our community here in San Antonio.

These solar glasses are very important um this is an event that is full of excitement especially here coming to the park enjoy it with us um there are so many things to see but protect your eyes don't look at the sun the harm of looking A solar eclipse can be permanent so that we just want to do our part, you know, from SeaWorld, to make sure that everyone is safe, so wear your solar eclipse glasses and let's make sure that everyone enjoys this in a safe way. Have a great day. I appreciate it, uh, you contacted us too, Steve, thanks for being here.

Okay, everyone, and it's actually really hard to see it with these on because, surprisingly, the studio isn't that bright, but what you're seeing on your screen is over. along the Pacific coast of Mexico they are going to get that totality here as soon as possible and then it will travel towards Texas and then to New York and then to Canada, but we have a lot of these shots coming from NASA wants to upload this right here. It's actually a shot showing Dallas, Texas. You can see that the partial eclipse is already underway. I want to head into a short two-minute commercial break right now at 1:44 on the east coast. 10:44 on the west coast here watching live now from Fox much more coverage right now welcome back here live now from Fox We continue our coverage of the total solar eclipse here 2024 presented by Nissan I mentioned this a little earlier but we are testing it our new device here is called a megaphone and it allows you to send your photos, your videos, anything related to the eclipse.

Here you can just scan that QR code which is on the top right of your screen and then we can display them. here live now from Fox this one from Atenas is by Rafael L Verde I hope I said your name right I took this photo on my phone with the solar eclipse glasses on I mean that's cool it's hard to do because I can't even see it on the studio when I'm using mine, this one from Louise in El Paso, Texas, starting in Sun City and you can see it there from a distance. It's actually a cool shot, thanks to everyone who sent in their photos.

So far, it's Rose over Abington, got those glasses ready to go get ready from Maryland again. Thanks for sending these photos. You can scan the QR code right at the top right of your screen and send us those photos. José López de Corona isn't sure if he's just taking one photo of the corona or maybe both, but he says Corona California and this is outside of Dallas? We've been looking at the photos that have been coming in from our Fox War Dallas team and that's it. one of them right there and uh that's coming again from Dallas, Texas to photograph it as we get closer and closer to that totality.

That's all for now, but be sure to scan those QR codes and send us your photos and videos so we can. show them on our website here and I want to take a look at one of the images we have from NASA right now. This is actually outside of Mexico, where they are getting closer to totality. I mean, very close at this point. I can see, uh, that's the moon right there that's essentially about to block out the sun in a matter of minutes. We're going to have all of that footage for you right here live from Fox as it kicks off for now.

I want to get another short two minute commercial break, but on the other hand we'll check back in with our Fox for Dallas team for their live coverage of the 20 24 total solar eclipse. Welcome back here live now from Fox and we've got all these different live views as we get closer and closer to totality there in Mexico this one along the Pacific coast you can see the moon is getting closer and closer and it's almost there so once let's get to the totality, I'll have a beautiful picture and you can watch it here live from Fox right now.

I want to get back to our Fox team for Dallas, as we've been communicating with them all day for their live coverage. Good thank you. You've done a great job and we're all here ready and waiting for the glasses, everyone has them and I think it's going to be wonderful. Thank you so much for joining us and once again, all of you are still coming. Only a few more are coming in as we speak, but I definitely just wanted to point out that I saw Lori or heard Lori interviewing her kids. I missed that age and I have to say that even though my daughter is an adult now, she's 24.

She's in California, she called me, she's looking online and she's a little jealous, I wish I was here, but it just shows that we are very lucky to have this opportunity and I think we are making the most of it. especially here in Fort Worth, it's the last hurrah back to all of you. I love it, Dion, thank you, yes. I got a picture of one of my daughters at school that they posted on Instagram and all the girls are pointing at this guy saying "bring it on." Overall, as I already mentioned, our daughter lives in California, that's the best thing about local Fox.

I mean, you can tune in from anywhere in the world and see local coverage of a big event like this, so we want to. to remind people who are watching on local Fox that they're watching on fox4news.com I mean, this is really the place to get the full total eclipse coverage experience, no matter where you are in the world. CU, we will take it to all places. uh you gotta talk about which one we're headed to next yeah we're going to Melissa Wilson actually with our sister station in Houston who's traveled to Waco to see what's going on there Melissa well hello.

Stephen Heather, I tell you I'm in my element, I'm a big gr and so I'm happy to be home, so to speak, but it's great to be in Waco and guess what we have the blue sky and what we've been able to experience. every moment of the partial eclipse so far and it was very unlikely to happen and so we are delighted that it has been very exciting to see the students here, they are all checking it out and they are having a lot of fun, you guys are having fun. Okay so it's a perfect day here at Baylor because it's god so the students don't have classes they're celebrating bear day but why are we on the Baylor campus since they've partnered with the city of Waco with NASA with the AL Observatory and people from all over the country have traveled here for it, so it's really exciting.

I know you can hear the band in the background. I have a teacher here, Robbie Rogers, a photography teacher, and you've been capturing today's moments. Well, first of all, welcome back to Baylor, welcome home, we love having everyone back here and the day is just a great day for students to take a break to relax. I know we have something coming up, but before that, let's pull ourselves together and have a great day, so we have corn dogs and fair food and there are all kinds of activities to do and of course we've decided to host it on the day of the eclipse , which is perfect.

We always love to shine our lights at Baylor, so you might as well enjoy this eclipse and we're reeling. Do you think we can do this with them just a little bit, just a little bit, oh, you got it? Look I feel like we need to celebrate today this is a big day in history you gotta stagger with me Steve and how are you doing hey what will I do if you can ask on our behalf to Robbie we have so many people who will try to capture this moment really through his you know. cell phone camera, any advice you can give to our viewers, to try to get a better image, of course the best will come from the professionals, but for amateurs, what is your advice?

Yes, I'm very glad they asked me. I didn't know if I would have time to ask, so I'll just do that. The presenter in the studio was wondering if he has any tips for people to get that perfect picture because we know people may not have the right filter, how can they do it? that in the comforts of your own home or just outside, so one thing I would really encourage everyone to do is just enjoy the moment. I know you guys want to capture it too and if you wait until totality, you don't need a filter, but you have to wait until totality, but before and after make sure you use approved filters, things like that, but even with the glasses on top of a iPhone works perfectly, but like everything in life, I want you to sit back, relax. and enjoy the eclipse, did you hear that this is all you have to do?Steve, put it over your iPhone, point it up, and you're done.

In fact, I did it a few minutes ago. My photographer here has the A neat little lens that he put on the filter, he's showing it to you right there. I put my cell phone in front of her and got a perfect photo. I'll share it with you in a moment. We appreciate you and I appreciate when people validate our advice, we were just saying that it is the best option, leave it to the professionals and just enjoy the moment when you will get much better photos than yours. We certainly appreciate you reaching out to us from where we have so much more.

To bring you here on total eclipse live, it's on Fox and it'll be back in just a moment. Many thanks to our team at Fox for Dallas. We will continue to communicate with them throughout the day here as we get closer and closer. in its entirety in so many different locations, we have now been showing you this through megaphone. These are different friends who are watching right now and they're scanning that QR code at the top right of their screen and submitting their photos there. It's zavi bages, I hope I said that right and this is in Buffalo, New York where you can see kids making their own cups and honestly that's cool.

I wish my producers had bought me such cool glasses, they still have them for me, but you know. They don't look as good as the ones there on your screen, well, looking at some of the other photos, this is Zeke Snow right here, from Waco, Texas, and it says Eclipse Homes, you can see him in the distance, uh, kinda , a bit. a little cloudy, but still great to see right there on your screen. I also have, uh, no, Heli Martínez from North Hollywood. The anticipation is real from North Hollywood, California. I love it. These were all cool glasses photos.

I want to apologize to my photographers. You could see they got angry when I said: I wish they would buy me better glasses, but it's still great, thank you all. Okay, this is from Chelsea Bailey, says China Maine and says the snow is bright, but The eclipse will be brighter. I made a cover for greater security. The image doesn't seem to load there, but many thanks to Chelsea for sending it to us. We also have this one, Adriana, in Dallas, Texas. Thank you very much for watching it says Eclipse 2024 ready, we will continue to move forward to show more and more of these amazing photos sent again by simply scanning the QR code that is right at the top of the screen, press the QR code that allows. send in your own videos and photos here this is from George and it says Ready in Illinois and speaking of Illinois, we'll check in with our team at Fox 32 Chicago for your live coverage a little later, we also have Izzy. in Austin getting ready for totality in Austin Texas again thank you all for watching us here live now from Fox but also for sending in all your photos and videos we will show as many as we can right here live now from Fox I want one of the cameras on live that we have.

I mentioned that we are getting closer and closer, but this ended up on the Pacific coast of Mexico and that is a live image that comes through NASA, where you can see that it is almost entirely we are just a few minutes away from that whole. I think we did see that it would be just a few minutes after 2:00 p.m. ET so we'll keep this camera on as we check in with some of our different affiliates, for now let's head back to Fox to watch the Dallas clips that have started all over North Texas, we're only 40 minutes away from totality, uh here in our area, so Steve Novell again, the everything man, brought cereal, well, I'll tell you what listen, because you need the cups right and I know there are some people that think, oh, I'll be fine, I don't need the glasses. or maybe you couldn't find any of the glasses, so I just want to go over it real quick because we want you to be able to enjoy the moment here and there is a way to see the eclipse without any glasses, so I brought some supplies here cereal box that I know you all have B at home right now quick, are you ready?

What I do? So what do I want you to do? First you are going to trace on a sheet of white paper, how wide are the boxes? and I precut it here for you, so there you go, thank you because he knows how crafty he is. I'm not going to take the role. What you're doing is thinking of it as a movie screen, so I want you to pick it up and put it on. It's at the bottom inside the bottom of the box, you did it right, right where the bottom is right and you're going to steal the top. here and I've got a little piece of tape for you too.

I can't put my hand in. Oh, come on, okay, I'm not crafty, but I'm trying to make it really easy, so go ahead and close the top. here's your piece of tape, oh gosh, you actually made the tape for me too, yeah, you have the same thing here with the aluminum foil that you're going to put on just one side, right, you're going to need some. tape, but we'll improvise, okay, they're called pinhole cameras, pinhole viewers for a reason, what you're going to do is take a pin and a little hole here, you can use it, yeah, there you go, okay, that's all what do you need.

Now think of this as a projector. You are going to stand with your back to the Sun and what is going to happen is that the Sun is going to come through that little hole and project an image on the movie screen that you just made. What you're doing is you're looking here and what you're going to see, like if you're playing in real time, the inside of the Box is going to show the way the Moon blocks the Sun, so you've got all this stuff in your house right now. So again, please, if you want to go out and enjoy the eclipse and you just don't have the glasses, I guarantee you have a shoe box, a cereal box, an Amazon box, whatever you need to make the job.

Yes, I will also post a tutorial on social media if you want to share it and thank you for pre-cutting my materials and we want to thank Dan Henry and Blake Hansen who are with Live Forest. I imagine the crowd must have done it. has grown exponentially professionally since we first contacted you a couple of hours ago. I feel like we're not doing enough. We don't have crafts here. I feel excluded. Steve. There are food trucks. In abundance, they also have live music and in about 8 minutes or so the people of Mexico will have the opportunity to see the entirety and we won't be much more than them, 7,000 people here in the pro, I can tell. you, every single one of them has shown up based on what he saw, there are a lot of people that are inside, of course, all of those people will come out to get a chance to see you and we've had quite a few breaks. in the clouds, hopefully I say yes again, hopefully in 37 minutes and 40 seconds we'll have at least some breaks during that 4 minute stretch of totality here because it's going to be very, very special, I guarantee I feel like a lot more Definitely optimistic as we go through the morning seeing what we've been able to see so far.

For now, Steve Heather, we'll send it back to everyone on the roof. Fine, thanks. both so I love crafting it's super fun if someone's not doing well and it's easy and it doesn't cost much if you have the materials and it stays safe but let's also talk about the glasses okay so I know a lot people. We had the partial solar eclipse just a few years ago and a lot of people at that time took the glasses, put them in the trash drawer and said, "Okay, I'll take them out again in 2024 when the Big Show happens," so listen up over time.

They could be scratched They could be damaged If your glasses have any scratches, they really aren't safe, so here's a quick way to make sure that the glasses you have are, first of all, effective and then safe too. What you are going to look for is ISO certification, so the special ISO is iso1 12312 is the number you are looking for and listen, don't take any chances if you don't see it printed on the glasses. I don't use them, it's not worth it. I mean, staring at the sun could cause permanent eye damage, but you can try it in your own home by getting close to any light bulb, which we did with the light we made before.

Not being able to see the bulb from afar when you get up close and look directly at it, you should be able to look beyond the glare of the light and see like the F El on the inside of the bulb if you have an incandescent bulb, that's how you know the glasses of eclipse are working correctly, which one comes first? So if so, that's a great question, so you want to make sure again, the idea here is to block. It eliminates as much of the Sun's light as possible, so wear eclipse glasses first so they are as close to your face as possible and then prescription glasses on top, my CVS readers, yes, because imagine if you put them outside.

I'm sure of that, I think. I'll stick with these, go there, it'll be bright enough so you can see, oh, speaking of Bri places, are we going to Payton next? Yes, okay, Pton is live on NIS for us. I also have to imagine the crowds. They are getting very excited, we are only half an hour away from totality. I know it's really amazing here and the energy is increasing. I'm joined by Ashley Kunga, she works in marketing for the city of Venice and has really been planning this. for years right yes our entire team has been collaborating for over a year just to make sure this is an amazing and safe experience for everyone.

Such a huge team effort across multiple departments and multiple agencies within the city. What is it like to see? It comes to life right behind you, it's amazing and everyone talks about how emotional the whole thing is, but I'll be honest with you. I'm already getting emotional. No, right now it looks like a half moon. I know we have it on the screen um, but we were looking at it and it looks like it really looks really amazing, tell me about where people see it. I know it's a downtown party, but a lot of people are spread out around Denis, right, so we created the EC. on the website and on Facebook so we can bring all the events together in one place so people are in all of our public parks, um, multiple businesses throughout the city, tons of people downtown.

I feel like everyone wanted a different experience. people wanted to be close to nature and in the park, some in the countryside and some in the center where all the hustle and bustle is right, they just wanted to be around people. I mean, we already see people lining up, you know, at the barriers, people have their lawn chairs, so I'm really glad you saw this come to life. I know it's been a lot of planning, it's amazing and my kids are here. I think this is once in a lifetime. I want to experience it with them so I can do it.

Don't wait to go down and capture them in their entirety. Thank you very much Ashley and you are watching the Fox 4 Dallas team's coverage as they continue to cover this Eclipse around the world. Here now. I want to bring you to light. to this live image from NASA, as we are just one minute away from totality along the Pacific coast of Mexico. This is a live image here. I want to leave it on your screen so you can see that live image as we are again. just seconds away from that beautiful image of totality here in our coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse presented by Nissan over the next few hours.

I want to remind you that we are going to have these live views from our cameras along the path of totality. one of them and those cameras are in more than a dozen states where at least some will experience a few minutes of complete darkness. We will be checking in with our different affiliates and have also seen our Fox 4 Dallas team. and the Fox 7 Austin team, our Fox Houston team is also in this, we'll be bringing you some of their coverage as well, and as we continue down that path of totality, we'll also be reaching out to Chicago as well as Detroit and Philadelphia now .

The first US cities to see that total eclipse in total darkness will be around 2:40 p.m. Eastern time, that will be in Texas, so in 30 minutes the last one will be around 3:30 p.m. ET which will be in Maine, the path of the total solar eclipse varies from 108 to 122 miles wide and NASA estimates that almost 32 million people live along that path in its entirety, but in addition 150 million people live within 200 miles of that trajectory. Again, that's a beautiful image right now, as we're seeing that totality happening along the Pacific coast of Mexico. You're seeing this first and then in about 30 minutes we'll see it move across Texas and then, as I mentioned, a lot of different ones. areas along that path we will be able to experience what you are seeing right there on your screen, courtesy of NASA, one of the many images we have and will have now, the longest length of totality today in the US in It will actually be in Texas and that will last approximately 4 minutes and 26 seconds at the center of the eclipse path.

Something interesting is that every state in the US, including parts of Alaska and Hawaii, will see at least a partial solar eclipse, so just because you're not in that path of totality, I know you're probably seeing some type of solar eclipse partial if you walk outside, but make sure to wear thosespecial glasses, never look directly at the sun without those special glasses on again, a lively look, right? Now coming from NASA TV, this is the 2024 solar eclipse, it's the countdown to totality and for the people along the Pacific coast of Mexico, they were the first to see this, now they are in that moment of totality , it's beautiful here, so I just want to leave that up. for you on your screen right now so you can see the entirety of the achievement there on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

Oh, it's beautiful to see you there. I just want to leave it on your screen without me talking as much so you can get that view. You are again looking towards the Pacific coast of Mexico when totality has arrived. You're going to see it come back to a partial solar eclipse because totality here lasts about 4 and a half minutes and then continues. but I want to leave you this image on the screen while this totality happens. If you join us here at 210 on the East Coast and 1110 on the West Coast, you are seeing totality here on the Pacific Coast.

Mexico, this is a view coming from NASA TV, as they have cameras pointed at the sun almost everywhere, not just in Mexico, in the US, Canada as well, so we will be checking those cameras throughout the day. we'll get those beautiful views over the next few hours now that you're watching our live coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse presented by Nissan uh we're going to have these views live from the cameras along the path of totality and we'll be communicating with our different Fox Affiliates, we have teams that are in the path of totality there in Texas, Illinois, Michigan and in New York, we will be reaching out to Fox Weather, NASA and the Associated Press as part of our coverage, as well as now the first cities in The United States is still minutes away from having that total eclipse, that complete totality and darkness, the first of which will be in Texas and will be around 2:40 p.m.

Eastern time, the last one will be around 3:30 p.m. ET in Maine and then from there the path continues into Canada, there it goes right there on your screen, you saw that totality existing there for about 4 and a half minutes and now we move forward and we should have a view just like that which will appear shortly on Dallas, Texas, but right there what you're looking at is the Pacific coast of Mexico and I want to show this live image that comes from NASA, as you can see on the right. On the side of the screen, that is the image showing the Sun as it was in its entirety, but you can also see how many people are watching it.

On the left side, which shows how it became completely dark, you hear these stories. and over and over again from people saying it's just dark, there's no wind yet and you can see it right there on your screen, while people are hugging and crying, they get emotional watching this all unfold and you can see it on your screen right now, as we have the Sun rising, the moon moving out of the way and now there are people clapping, cheering and, like I said, crying because once again it is a very emotional thing to witness. I saw one in 2017 in Cookville.

Tennessee and it was beautiful, everyone around me was just looking at the sky as they tried to deal with the emotions that were overcoming them as they watched that, it's now 213 on the east coast and 11:13. On the West Coast we will head into a brief 2 minute commercial break, but remember that in a matter of 20 to 30 minutes we expect totality to begin over the US and that will begin again in Dallas, Texas. live now from Fox we'll be welcome back here live now from Fox and we've mentioned our megaphone app that we're using here to get your pictures and videos on this one from Amber in Midland and it says it's in Midland Texas you can see that partial eclipse right there on your screen and if you want to send us your videos and photos just scan that QR code right on the top right of your screen and it will do it. pretty easy, you can send it directly with your name, location, all that and we'll make sure to show it here on air.

This is from David and ended up in Elonte. You can also see that partial eclipse in that photo. Hey, look. They have us there behind them says ready for the solar eclipse and it ended up in Texas. I love those lenses and was actually trying to figure out how to make them a little early, but I appreciate the fact that other people could figure it out. I definitely couldn't make it, so I just had to buy the ones from the store. This is adorable. My dog ​​watches the eclipse in Dallas, Texas. I also love dog photos.

Looks like Ryan in Santa Paula almost sent us. the best we have in SoCal, but unfortunately the photo does not appear here on the screen for now. I want to come back to our Fox for Dallas team as we dive into their live coverage here, we'll show you. I'm here taking photos of my son. Well, I'm getting the live updates here, so Kelly, you don't know. I just took your photo, one of our producers for the night has his glasses on his chair, he's looking up, call her there, I mean, she's going to see something cool, it's a cool photo, yeah, you know, and again We also want to remember you.

You, the photos you are sharing with us on social media again. I was distracted. My son is at school, obviously, looking at any of the glasses. The people who show us photos of you and your families. Bringing them together, please he continues to do so. we, we enjoy seeing you the sun, the moon, we'll take care of that part, we'll do the heavy LIF, yeah, sure, and it's cool that Lori Brown is experimenting. I mean, we're getting pictures of our kids. Lori Brown is actually with her kids at school and the principal's kids, I get it, making it a family affair at school today.

Lori, that's right, it's so much fun to be here at Kenyon Creek Elementary School and I'm joined now by Principal Ashley Baker, who is also here today with her sense of experiencing this special phenomenon, so tell me about the learning opportunity and what have you done to try to help capture that for the students here. Yeah, well, at any time we can get students excited about real-world learning. which is the best thing, so they've been running outside and saying look at the moon, look, it's starting, it's happening, so the excitement is in every hallway, but before this, the teachers are actually talking to their classes about what does this mean and of course different levels from prepre to sixth grade, but so that when they come out they know what they're looking at, so some classes have already been here sketching before, during and after, are they there? now and um, so all the fun and excitement has already started, the kids are super excited, lunch today was pretty loud, but we'll take it, we love it, yeah, I love that everyone seems to understand how cool this opportunity is and how rare it is.

It's just that Ames is here with us too, so you're in second grade, so tell me what you're looking forward to and what you're enjoying about this experience so far. I'm excited for when it gets dark and I like that. the whole moon covers the sun yeah and now we can start to see we're seeing it happen so this is Abbot and he's in pre-k so what do you think of all this? I love it, the moon is going to turn black. that and it will be dark, yeah, that's very exciting. Thank you for talking to us and we'll continue to see The Experience through the eyes of children, which is really, I think, one of the most exciting things to see, for sure. for you and you know what that says it all I love it I love that that's all you have to say yeah, live footage from right now really what looks like a rising sun.

We are 19 minutes from totality here in all of North Texas. Our coverage continues. Right off the bat, a big thank you to our team at Fox for Dallas as they've been covering this and we've been checking out their different shows all day. I want to take you to this live image that comes from Mexico. where totality was also reached in this area, it looks like we saw that partial eclipse, now we have totality and it's going back to partial eclipse once again, but in a matter of about 20 minutes is when we expect that totality in Dallas and it's I'll continue going up until passing New York to Maine and then to Canada, so we'll be sure to tell you all of this as it happens for now.

I want to talk a little bit more about the importance of Wearing those glasses we say it over and over again, but I mean it's a big deal if you don't wear them, you gotta make sure you wear them, so let's bring in Ronald Benner, the president of the American Association of Optometry, so that it breaks everything. down and talk about the importance thank you so much for being here with us today thank you for having me of course now the big question people have who say I look at the sun all the time is no big deal tell us why that's not okay Well, I hope they're not really doing that and looking at the sun.

Our eyes are not designed to receive as much intense ultraviolet and infrared radiation when you look at the sun or look towards the sun, it is quite uncomfortable and there is a reason. That's why we can damage the eye tissue around the back of the eyeball, we think of sunburn on the skin or even a welding burn on the front of the eye and that tissue hitting the epithelial skin surface of our cells. that tissue repairs itself. In a day or two, sunburn hurts for a couple of days and then the skin completely repairs itself as does the front of the eye, but the retina or neurological tissue in the back of the eye does not repair itself , so you should stare at the Sun and take a good look at it, you may notice that your vision is a little strange for an hour or two and then it may come back, but within six eight hours it may get even worse tomorrow morning it may get even worse, Those cells will try to recover and try to recover, but they may give up and just quit.

Neurological damage to the retina is permanent and can affect distortion. Vision distortion can affect color vision and can even give you holes in your vision much like looking through a large screen where the cables are very large where you see pieces but not the entire image sometimes solar retinopathies are sunburns by watching eclipses you will never recover you would have to live with this for the rest of your life we ​​want everyone to enjoy and experience Eclipse as a happy moment, something they can remember, we don't want them to have to be reminded of it every day as something they wish they had taken more precautions.

So enjoy the eclipse, but make sure you wear approved eclipse glasses and make sure they are stamped with the ISO 12312 D2 number to make sure those glasses are the right ones and yes, I've heard patients even say. I can't see anything when I look through these glasses, that's the point when you look at the eclipse you will be able to see what you want to see, but when looking at the general lights around the room or outside you shouldn't see anything. It's for your protection and your eyes' protection and I know that's something that's important to mention because a lot of people wear them and don't realize that they can't really see through them, so actually, I'm going to put them on and maybe I'll start driving with them, that's obviously not a good idea or not a good idea.

In fact, have a plan if you're going to go see the eclipse, make sure you look down at the ground or don't look at the sun until you're ready to put on your glasses, then look up and probably the most important thing is that if you have children with you, make sure they follow the instructions. the rules too, um, because if you're busy enjoying watching the eclipse watching it come to totality, um, but you're not paying attention to the kids, we don't want the kids to take off their glasses and actually cause damage that they're going to cause. . they have to live the rest of their lives, so parents, if you're out there, make sure you're paying attention to what kids are doing, because they don't always understand those consequences, that's definitely very true, okay, Ronald Benner, thank you .

So much for taking the time to be here with us and explain the importance of those glasses. Anything else you want to add about anything before I let you go here if you have a problem and think you may have damaged it or caused some damage to your eye make sure you go to your local optometrist make an appointment tell them what happened so they can evaluate and to say this is what's going on we don't want someone to mistakenly think that they think I had a problem like looking at the eclipse and oh, we'll see if it gets better.

We want to make sure we catch all vision problems and eye diseases as early as possible, so if you think there is a problem, please make an appointment and arrive as soon as possible. as much as possible okay Ronald thank you so much for taking the time to be with us today we appreciate it thank you okay you're looking at a photo coming in from NASA right now this is a live look and as You can see, he's just kind. of missing, but that was by Tech Texas court order and we're looking at just some of the other live images that we're not clear on exactly what part of Texas it is in, but again, they were all in the Dallas area where they're getting that eclipse partial. and we should see totality in just about 15 minutes.

ThisIt gets dark, it's still amazing. when that moment you realize how quickly it goes from day to night there was a gradual effect and then the lights just went out and then you look at this it was beautiful to see and we appreciate both our Fox 7 Austin crew and the Fox crews 4Dallas. For your coverage, I want to get this live image right now, it's courtesy of NASA and you can see it's off of Russellville Arkansas where the sun is very red and they're in a partial eclipse almost in its entirety there. We have been reviewing. with our different Fox affiliates around the country here and I want to bring Bob Barnard, he's in Washington DC right now where people have gathered here and, uh, Bob it looks like there's a lot of people there right now, yeah, Josh, we.

We are here on the National Mall in the heart of Washington, you see the US capital behind us and in the last few hours the crowds have increased here and you see that many people are already looking up because, as you just showed that live image. NASA image. The partial eclipse that we will see here with 87% coverage of the Sun by the Moon has already begun and as we go through here, you will see that there are a lot of people out here, filling up. the National Mall, the Smithsonian, Noah, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA were here giving away Shades, so pretty much anyone who wanted one, was able to get a pair of these Shades and as we look over here, I want to write.

I talked to them earlier when we were on our local news, Josh, we have a couple of high school students from nearby Montgomery County who escaped and are here. Hey guys, sure, sure, written permission, tell me, what are you doing? Do it like this, this group of people together watching this cool event, it's really nice to see your community come together to see something that I like, it's really special, that sometimes you only get to see once in your life and it's great to see the people come. The weather is good here, I had a great time, yes, and why did you want to be here?

Why not, maybe just in your backyard 20 miles from here or, you know, in the back of the school or something? Because that's what I did last year and it was pretty boring, but yeah, about 2017, remember that? Yes, I remember the exact layout of everything that was happening. It was in my well, not in my apartment building, obviously, but everyone was gathered outside, you know, wanting to look at it to see if anything was going on. Nothing happened, nothing because it was summer, of course, obviously this is school. You know, we've been able to show our viewers a live image from NASA coming out of Arkansas.

Here it is difficult for us with our news camera to put on our glasses. put on the curtains and look up, but what do you see when you look up right now? It's starting to get covered, it's great, it's really great, it's really exciting, it's exciting. I keep looking at it every few minutes and it's changing little. little by little and it's a lot of fun because the shadows are coming from the bottom right and it looks like it's moving towards the northwest, almost to the right obviously the best advice is don't look without these yeah yeah keep those glasses on put on, you need them. you need to keep them on, you won't know for a few hours if you say yes sure, go home and start walking towards the walls, you know you made a mistake, maybe a little damage, just a little thanks. guys have fun okay I'm glad to see you so hey Josh I'll leave you like look here you know you got a lot of people here and as we point we'll point our camera up to show I mean.

They said there is 20 to 40% cloud cover, yes there is some cloud cover, but the Sun shines with these glasses, you can see through the clouds and see the exact shape of the sun, uh, partially covered in the lower right by the Shadow of the Moon. um or you know, the moon blocks the view uh we hope that eventually here, over the next 45 minutes or so, there will be breaks in the clouds and everyone who is here on the National Mall, thousands of people will be able to see clearly with their Shades see this uh here at least in the DC area partial solar eclipse today is something very exciting Josh very impressive things okay Bob Barard there with our Fox 5 DC team thank you very much for always joining us we appreciate it it's a pleasure and we have this beautiful image coming in right now from Russellville Arkansas, we were showing it a moment ago, but now it is in its entirety a beautiful image, one of many that we have and we will be looking at it for quite a while in the next 30 A few minutes or so, let's take A quick break, but we'll be right back with more live coverage here on the other side.

Welcome back here live now from Fox. Thank you so much for being with us here for our 2024 total solar eclipse. Coverage presented by Nissan right now, you can watch Russellville Arkansas. It looks like that partial eclipse is coming back after we saw totality just moments ago. This is a live image coming out of Russellville powered by NASA. We've seen some beautiful images here in the past. I'd say about an hour in, but it looks like it's now moving into a partial eclipse and they'll be uploading another photo here to give us a look at some of the other images we're seeing.

Now it's 254 on the east coast and 11:54 on the west coast. We have one more commercial break we have. We have to get in here so we'll head into that and then we'll have a lot more coverage here on the other side you're watching live now from Fox we'll be back welcome back here live now from Fox and you're watching our coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse brought to you by Nissan and we're just getting started here because we saw a totality there in Dallas, we've seen it in Austin and we still have many days left until it heads down. the line uh the last stop will be to Niagara Falls.

We will have a camera there. We also have one in Cleveland and a live reporter will join us in about 20 minutes in Buffalo, New York again. This is a live image. that appears to be coming from Carbondale Illinois, it's courtesy of NASA TV and it looks like they're possibly about to be entirely there. We have our Fox Chicago team that's covering all of this as well, so we'll be checking in with them for their live coverage, but again, this is a live look at Carbondale Illinois, one of many areas that will see that totality. Let's see what we're going through here with the Associated Press.

They have quite interesting coverage. well, with a lot of different views, I'm going to open them up just so we can listen to them in a minute, and here are those images coming out of Carbondale, Illinois, where it looks like they're about to appear in their entirety. see the edge of the sun right there, we should see it any minute now and you can see the crowds on the left side of your screen standing around, they're waiting for it to go completely dark. Darkness will fall upon them for a matter of 2 three minutes or so, for most people this will actually be a bit longer in regards to the totality of what we saw, when we saw all of this happen in 2017, now it looks like our Fox. 32 The Chicago team is covering all of this, so let's show the audio here and get a better look at, like we told you, another city right in the middle of the path of totality and, um, full images here as we watch live from NASA's point of view that has been showing us these images all morning, but seeing this live is incredible.

Massive crowds show up everywhere to witness this live and in person for you and me watching it on TV. It's so spectacular. Imagine being out there and seeing. With your own eyes, live and in person, many people have spoken about the reaction they have after witnessing this, from excitement and applause that I'm sure is happening everywhere right now to people saying that it's just an experience that uh they'll never forget here's another live image for you as they're taking it here with their glasses on this is from our live cameras in Indianapolis here's where Mark Stell has been joining us and imagine this point of view here you are Indianapolis Speedway normally go to watch auto racing here, everyone has gathered just to watch it in that place as we take another photo here from our NASA cameras and I'm wondering, Emily, as you look at these live images from NASA.

Have you ever witnessed this live and in person? No. I've never been on the path of totality, so I missed this one, but there will be another one in 2044, so of course we have to be patient. but wow, what a view, and it's hard to capture through a television screen, it's difficult to capture through a camera, because what you're not seeing here from this view is just total darkness in the middle of the day, right? you imagine? Have you ever seen a total solar eclipse, Syvia? Yeah, you know, I think it's still fascinating to watch and in 2017, when I saw the partial, I was surprised by how spectacular it is and now I feel it.

I'm not trying to go be with some of the 31.5 million people who live on this path of wholeness, but one of our friends is there right now. Mark St, let's go live with him again. Mark, tell us what you're experiencing, you know? I have to tell you that not only is it getting darker right now, as expected as we get closer to totality, but this is actually a true sensory experience now, the last time my photographer Jeff and I were together again in 2017. In the Shauny National Forest there were about 100 people and you could hear the silence of the crowd.

A little different experience. Now we are at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. You can hear, you know, maybe a little bit of music from 2001's Space Odyssey. You can, it's a little bit different in tone, but you can still, you know, feel a palpable difference because the crowd is, you know, in anticipation. , since we're actually just a minute, a couple of minutes away. I heard someone scream. A minute ago we already lost four degrees and it can feel like we are in Pit Row right now. It's usually very hot here with the sun shining on the asphalt and I can feel a cool breeze coming in now too.

So, again, it's a total sensory experience: it's not just losing the sun, which is pretty incredible in itself, but it's the change in temperature, as Mike Kaplan described earlier, it's how the temperature of the colors change, the color spectrum changes a little bit. I know I'm looking up through some of these high clouds right now and you know the cirrus clouds, those ice crystals at the top of the atmosphere change a little bit and also pull out like prisms some of that light and kind of fracture. uh the light too so we're down 4° here uh in 2017 there were reports that the temperatures dropped between 5 and even 10° now that it was a much warmer August day, but I'm glad that the temperatures today are reaching the 70s because we can still feel that temperature drop and the temperatures are not the only thing and as Mike talked about the character of the colors they are also changing, but we will also see quite frequently.

Well, the wind changes too, so this is actually a true climate phenomenon as this shadow of the sun moves across the Earth fundamentally changing the environment and you can feel that right now, when we are on the cusp of totality here in Indianapolis you can hear the crowd it really is a surreal experience this is so cool Mark Mark I know you're taking all of this in so it's like it's getting dark what you're experiencing you know it's like nightfall and the steroids it's just everything It's getting dark and in just a few seconds here, when we go totally Dark, it will be like the light screen, the lampshade just goes down and we go to Darkness, not like a sunset, but like a 360° Darkness , you know I'm looking.

Someone took off from Indianapolis International Airport and I can imagine what their experience is on that plane right now, just being able to see that shadow moving towards Indianapolis now at over 1100 mph here we are here we are wow you know I've experienced this before in 2017 and it was worth it worth the price of admission today too. This is an absolutely spectacular brand. It's really amazing to see how quickly it gets dark and you can also hear the crowd going crazy. I love this. What are you doing? I feel like it's just exhilarating. I mean, being able to experience and understand.

I mean, you know, I could understand how you know that native people from centuries past would be totally freaked out by something like this. You know, something totally unexpected. actually having the science and knowing the science and knowing the miracle and the mystery behind it makes it even more incredible. This is absolutely a beautiful and beautiful experience. I love hearing the crowd cheering. It gives me chills. You're provoking me. I feel like I'm really there with you, Mark, and as it gets darker and darker, remind everyone how long totality will last for you. Okay, we're a little over 4 minutes in and I'm going to have Jeff walk the floor. here and you can see, I believe in the camera lens, how it's perfectly dark above us andwhen you look north and northeast, it's still daylight, it's still normal, but here in this little almost eye of the hurricane, it's absolutely surreal, so impressive, yeah, the crowd, ok, headmark, I was just going to say that the crowd is amazed, just amazed by this, they're so excited, you know, it's been a polite crowd, it's been an enthusiastic crowd, I mean, this is the kind of crowd.

I love seeing when you go to an event. Everyone is friendly, they are polite. This is how America should be. I agree, that's what I said before when I was talking to Adler Planetarium. That's what really makes this special. We see your area getting even darker at the moment as we speak, just everyone coming together, we have an interest and it's good and we're excited for each other and excited to be there and thank you Mark for giving us this point of view. I, uh, it's amazing just watching it from the television. I can't imagine how you feel, you're welcome, this is, it's joy, it's pure natural joy and looking at the sun and seeing it just erased except for that ring. that ring of fire that ring of fire don't you know?

Are you noticing that temperature? Dr. you have told us sometimes will come with this before we even get to this point. Uh, we listen. I heard someone, one of the scientists here in the crowd. I shouted that we had a 4 degree temperature drop. I would say we easily probably have six, maybe 7° at this point, but you can feel a change in the atmosphere, a change in the air, it's an absolutely incredible change. the direction of the wind, wow, and how lucky we are that this is even better than 2017, considering we won't see another one for a long time and someone needs to enlighten you.

I don't know where to go, it's okay. I'm hiding here the sun will shine on me here very soon um yeah, this is great um, I had a lot more I wanted to tell you, but you know what the excitement is here, it just takes over, I know, and here comes the first peak of sun again and you can hear the crowd going crazy, in fact you can probably see me getting brighter and brighter by the second. This is absolutely beautiful and we keep our camera here. I'm watching you go from darkness to light again and hearing the screams of the crowd, which makes this even more special, don't you know?

And that's a great thing. I mentioned before that about 100 around us. In the forests before now there were literally tens of thousands and I have to tell you it's the same raw human emotion that people are experiencing something they've never really experienced before for the most part and it's just something incredible out of the ordinary. ordinary experience wow and it's almost like a community, uh, a community, a shared community experience at this point, which is the best thing, it's something we all need and want right now. Mark, wait, because guess where I'm headed. I'm going to Lake Michigan, where I'm not going out.

I'm going to go there, where my friend Tim McGill is. He has an amazing seat. Tell us about your Vantage Point. Tim, yes, I'm at the Sea Dog. Don't know. I know if you can hear me, they just strangled him here. We were cruising at the Peak Hotel at least towards Chicago trying to take it all in or about 94% very jealous of Mark Stell, especially when he said we're getting 60,000 times. There is more sunlight here compared to Indianapolis, but it's still pretty cold because it seemed like it was getting dark here for a moment, it still feels like that, the sun is definitely a little dim, we have about 73 people on board this ship and We are Sailing on Lake Michigan watching the eclipse that just went full at least here in Chicago just a couple of minutes ago, it's cold here but I think it's more because I'm in the colder waters of Lake Michigan and now especially because We're cruising around here, I guess at about 30 or 40m an hour, enjoying it, but everyone was taking it in, everyone had their safety glasses reclined in their seats facing the sun.

I was able to glimpse it with my confidence. glasses when we were close to that totality here people seem to be enjoying here I have the I don't know if you can hear me I have Grace Fuller, who is the general manager of City Cru in Chicago, also people have to book this in advance, yes, but we made walk-ins every day and this is just the beginning of our boating season so we are really starting to operate again with the Sea Dogs on the water. We are open Thursday through Sunday until the Warmer weather arrives Sea Dog Extreme opens over Memorial Day weekend and we are excited to get back on the water thanks for being here today so I love the idea of ​​doing this cruise and I know you probably have no way of knowing, but you do know a lot.

Of these people, tourists, do you think many of them are from Chicago today? I think a lot of them are from Chicago today. In general, our crowds are typically our friends from the city. We have many guests from out of town. Well, we also have our dining boats on the lake and river, but this is a great way to experience an amazing afternoon. How fast are we going? Any ideas? I'd have to get back to you because it seems pretty quick to get a little wet here too, so I'm feeling all the elements here, but everyone seems to be having a good time as we sail close to shore or now approach Navy Pier.

We're heading back. Home guys, but we're enjoying what we can of this management spot on Lake Michigan, trying to stay dry and trying not to get too seasick. You know what Tim, I'm thinking, although people will say where. Were you during the 2024 solar eclipse? See what you can tell on a boat, what's the best place to be. It was incredible. Thank you so much. Tim, keep having fun, like we showed you before. There are a lot of people in Chicago. uh, watching the total clip of the Adler Planetarium in the shed area and we are joined once again by Dr.

Laura Tril, she is an astronomer and vice president of scientific engagement with the Adler Planetarium. Laura, I just want to know what this experience has been like. Uh, I am. I am delighted to be here in Adler. It's been such a special moment where it got a little darker, a little colder. The light, the feeling of the light changed a lot and there is an incredible, warm crowd here enjoying the moment. Altogether, a big thank you to our team at Fox 32 Chicago. I want to take you to this live image that we have from NASA and the Associated Press.

You can see Cleveland Ohio now seeing that totality right there. I want to leave that image up and turn up the audio because you can hear all the cheering and excitement there again. This is a live look at Cleveland Ohio, I can't even see anything, this is way bigger than the US, let's try it, let's try it. we're going to try to go, go, go, go, and we're here to bring you the sights and sounds of all over the United States as we watch totality continue to move north, right now you're looking at a beautiful picture of Cleveland, Ohio, where you are in its entirety and as you can see, people have gathered in the stadium there, they're looking up and dealing with complete darkness at this point.

This is just one of several places that are still left to experience that totality in the next few minutes and in a matter of minutes we are going to go live to Buffalo, New York, and we will be joined by Conor Hansen, he is on Fox News and they are experiencing totality in Buffalo right now, let's go to a quick two-minute commercial break here. at 3:17 on the east coast and 1217 on the west coast, you're watching live now from Fox, we'll be right back, welcome here live now from Fox and you're watching live from NASA right now, that's a camera in Tupper Lake New York, as you can see, it looks like they are close to being in totality yet, although there is a partial eclipse at this point, one area that is now in totality is Buffalo, New York.

I want to address Connor Hansen. with Fox News joining us live and Connor, you can see it's very dark around you right now, that's right Josh, in the last few minutes it went over to Daylight to complete the darkness and we're actually looking at it right now and we just finished to see the entire ring around the Sun, the corona there as we enter totality of this eclipse, uh, such a cool experience, uh, you can't really make it out behind me because it's completely dark now, but we're in a park full of hundreds of people. of people as soon as it happened everyone was applauding having a great time uh you know, even a religious experience for some people we've seen here and uh it's been cloudy but we've been able to look up and see it, I can look at right now it's going to be hard to show you with our camera, but I know NASA is broadcasting it too.

We've been very lucky to have some breaks in the clouds at the perfect times so everyone here can enjoy it. We're getting a little nervous because it was very cloudy this morning right up until the eclipse happened, so people have been waiting patiently, with their glasses on, they've been able to see it in different phases and luckily we were able to see it in its entirety. eclipse, which has been a great experience, very exciting, uh, because this is the last time that most people in the US will be able to see this Josh for at least another 20 years, I must say for sure, and It's a long time to wait, so As for the question, as for those crowds, I know that a lot of people were expected to show up there.

What are you seeing in terms of the number of people who attended? It's more or less what they expected. You know, we are in a moment. We're in a really nice park right here in the heart of downtown Buffalo and it's pretty crowded. You have to take my word for it because I know it's dark behind me, but New York State is expecting over a million people to come. visit, especially in the western half of the state, where that path of totality passes, so you know, they've been preparing for this for years, there are warnings on all the roads, delays are expected, traffic is expected, as the people flooding these communities, even warning people who fill up their gas tanks get extra money, uh, warning that it could stretch cell service, um, I have to be careful when I look at that now, it could be, uh, in the danger zone again, but it's now when it shows behind me, I think. uh starting to light up again so it's crazy how fast it happens uh going from daylight to total darkness it's just a surreal experience okay Connor Hansen there with Fox News joining us on I live from Buffalo, New York, thank you so much for being here with Us, Connor, thank you so much and you're watching here live from one of the cameras that we have in these different locations.

These are courtesy of NASA and you can see Tupper Lake in New York. It seems that they are about to disappear entirely. moment now, so I want to leave this camera up here in this image so you can see it. I'm not going to talk too much, I'll just leave it up here so you can get a better view, but you are watching our coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse, presented by Nissan and for the last few hours we have had live views from our cameras throughout the path of totality and there are still several areas that have yet to experience this, including people who are already done. towards, say, Niagara Falls and also into Maine, so there's still a lot more to see in our coverage presented by Nissan, but over the last hour we've seen totality happen in places like Dallas, Austin, we saw it in Carbondale , Illinois.

Not long ago and yes, all the pictures look the same, but it's one of those situations where you can be there and like Connor was saying, you have an almost religious experience for some people and it just feels different, everything becomes a little bit don't worry. and dark, uh, and that's what the people of Tupper Lake, New York, are about to deal with at any moment, as you can see, there's only a small portion of the sun left there as the Moon moves, so we should see that totality. It happens in just a matter of seconds here we have been checking in with our Fox 4 Dallas team as well as Fox 7 Austin Fox 32 Chicago we will also be checking in with our Fox 2 Detroit team and they will all have coverage as we have locations that are all over this area impacted by the totality.

Here it almost looks like you're not seeing anything right there, but there you have it, that's the entirety right now in Tupper Lake, New York, just one of several areas where we've seen. These live images appear during the last hour. I'm going to lower the mic and leave it in the shot so you can get a great view. I see it, I see it and what you're seeing is over in Tupper Lake. New York, which is on the right side of the screen, is totally reached and on the left side you see people gathering and you can't really capture how many there are, but this ended up in Niagara Falls, New York, where I hope to see totality in any moment.

We now know that tens of thousands of people are expected to show up there. If you look in the distance, you can see that there are people everywhere waiting for that moment of totality and it is just a few minutes away here. I want to show this other imageright now so you can get a closer view of totality there in New York again. A beautiful sight and we have seen many images like this in the last few hours. you can see Niagara Falls as it should be seen in its entirety at any time and while this is happening on our Fox Philadelphia station the coverage is also continuing as they cover areas of New York so let's open the audio here and listen to them yeah.

I can see why you chase these things and want to see them again. Yes, connection to a celestial event like that. Yes, it is very special. We are all connected today. We are all going through this together. So it's very special. We will be right. I caught them right before a break, but again you can see totality now in Tupper Lake, New York, but it looks like any minute now we'll have a nice view of Niagara Falls, let's go to a quick two minute commercial break and I'll be back right away, welcome back here live from Fox and our coverage continues of the 2024 total solar eclipse presented by Nissan, what you're watching at the top right of your screen that ended up in Maine as you're about to see it in its entirety there , we've seen it go through areas of Mexico into Texas, it's gone Carbondale Illinois Russellville Arkansas and the next one will be Maine, but I wanted to draw your attention to this image on the bottom right which is New.

York City and it's a lot darker than you would normally see and that's because parts of New York are seeing that totality or for New York City that partial solar eclipse wants to lift this up so you can get a better view. Maine, let me take that banner down so you can see it again, you're just moments away from that totality. Here, let's check in with our team at Fox Philadelphia as they cover the last 750 of these to distribute and they gave them all away, so we. We're talking about over 750 people who showed up to see exactly what you're seeing here on this beautiful campus, we have people with their chairs, we have people from all walks of life, all ages, some of the kids came out of school to be able to have his lunch on the grass to see it has been very exciting and not only that, of course, we have also had some experts here from Westchester, like teacher Karen, who has been with me all morning.

Good morning how are you? Good morning, good afternoon, listen. You have to forgive me, so good afternoon, an incredible day, a historic day, tell me about what we are seeing. It's a little cloudy, but we're still getting some action. Yes Yes. In fact, the clouds are working well because the people who didn't have glasses, they are reducing the light and they can see through the clouds, huh, but yeah, we have a lot of people here, they all share glasses, we were using the telescopes until these clouds appeared and it's just It's been great, yeah, sure, and you know, I have to tell you it was a little cold once it's normal, it makes the temperature drop a little bit, but I think more than that the clouds They are what cools the atmosphere around here, yes, yes.

I'm sure Professor Karen has been really great to me because she's been explaining a lot of this and you have a special telescope and people have been checking it and it has a special filter to make sure that of course you don't. it hurts the telescope, but you also get a good glimpse of what we're looking at for the eclipse and we've been lucky today that there have been a few sunspots to look at so before the E clips started, everyone was checking. sunspots and now we have been seeing that Moon slowly covering the sun by 90%.

I have to tell you, it's quite fascinating. I know, Sha and Jason. I'm not sure if you have anything to do with this except my goodness, and this is 90%. I can't imagine what 100% would look like. I know we have Mike Jerick, our anchor in Rochester, in full um and the next time we see this will be in 20 years, said 2044. Oh my gosh, okay, so this is the time to see it guys, I mean Wow, that's something to behold and I mean people are excited. I'm excited. By the way, I've never seen anything like this. Thanks for the glasses, by the way.

They're fantastic and guys, I'm so excited to be here, these kids have been, I don't know if they're missing school or not, but they've been here enjoying it and taking their time, they did. I neither confirm nor deny it, so I told them to just do what they had to do, hopefully they wouldn't miss too many classes. I know they have two or three absences, an excuse for a semester, that's right Professor Camon, how many classes can they miss? until they get in trouble it's up to the teacher okay it's up to the teacher so I hope you have a lenient one for today guys but yeah it's really cool I could still see it it was on and off I thought we were going No I had nothing to show you until you came to me, so I'm really excited to have something to talk about rush hour for us in our area.

At about 3:23, that was about 10 minutes ago. Was there a darkening in the skies? I know it's only 90% for us, nothing compared to what we saw in Rochester, but can you walk us through what was going on for about 10 minutes? Yes, about 10 minutes ago, I mean, first of all, the crowd started cheering like crazy just to see what they were looking at, it also became a little more cheerful, as heard by Professor Karen, who explained the fall Of temperature. It happens often, we're also dealing with clouds here, but it was really something to behold in terms of the darkness that we were able to see and it was that the darkness only happened for a brief second.

I heard Mike Jerck talk in Rochester that It looks best if you just get through it in a moment and that's what we saw here about eight minutes ago. I would say that's great and what you explained. What Mike saw, we saw at a little less than that Vantage Point since we're only at 90%, yeah, I mean, you know we have clouds, but at least it's warmer there outside, so it's comfortable, you can pass it, it's the best. day we've had here for a while so it could be worse and what day no one should be in a classroom today you have to be outside Professor, did you have a class today?

No, no, he didn't have a class today. Wawa sandwiches here, people bringing their WWA sandwiches, their hogies and their Waters. I mean, they're doing well. I mean, the kids are here, the grandkids are here. Many people in the community, of course, know West CH University outside of it. It's very very residential so we've seen the neighbors come with their chairs and it really is a community event and people are taking the time to watch it so it's been great, that's the best part of all of this I think yeah, and that and it goes on for the entire next hour, so until about 435, so you may have missed the peak, but you can still pick up your glasses and see everything that's going on with the sun and the moon , Alright.

Thanks, if you don't. By the way, I don't have these glasses, remember we have a lot of things and crafts on our website fox29.com. Drew Anderson was great with this this morning, so if you have a box of cereal, some paper plates, check out our website. a lot, if you can't get them, apparently they're hard to get, so yeah, and then you can do it, and that's our Fox29 Philadelphia coverage. We've been consulting with our different affiliates for the last few hours, I would say. As we've seen that partial eclipse move toward totality in so many areas, we appreciate everyone who's watching our coverage of the 2024 solar eclipse presented by Nissan and I want to call your attention here to megaphone, it's something new that we're on.

We are using here which allows you to send us your eclipse photos that you took yourself here. All you have to do is scan the QR code at the top right of your screen. He makes it really easy and then I can show his pictures right here live from Fox and that one says my chicken is Ricky's and he's watching our live coverage here while taking a picture of a chicken with glasses on so at least the chicken keeps your eyes safe. Also important thanks to Jane in Torrance, my dog ​​and I enjoyed the partial eclipse.

The video is a time-lapse image of that partial eclipse. Jane, thank you very much for sending it to us. Lillian in Dallas putting the same type of glasses on her dog. What a situation Josie would make watching the eclipse at Turtle Creek in Dallas, if you still want to send us your photos she just whips out your phone and scans that QR code at the top right of your screen Archie enjoying the eclipse. that's from Emmy in Florida I'm personally in Orlando Florida I haven't left the studios but some of my producers have and they say it's cool to see the partial eclipse here it's important to note that just because you're not in the way Totality doesn't mean you can't see at least a partial eclipse;

However, if you're going out to see it, make sure you have those glasses like this cow here on your screen, John in Northrop, Texas, saying they're cows taking turns watching the 2024 solar eclipse another look right here this comes from Jalel hopefully I said your name in Brownsville Texas here is Brownsville Texas with a photo of that partial eclipse that eventually turned into totality we are Let's head into a quick 2 minute commercial break now at 3:38 on the east coast and at 12 :38 on the west coast. You're watching it live now from Fox. We have much more coverage to come as we watch the entirety on several. other parts of the US, welcome back here live from Fox.

We are in our coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse here, as we have seen totality in several areas of the US, there are still only a couple who haven't seen it yet, but that partial eclipse. It's going to last a while because a lot of people want this image here from NASA, one of many images where that partial eclipse is still in full swing. This is a live look at Dallas, Texas, uh. We have other cameras as well, but for now I want to reach out to our team at Fox Philadelphia as they are still continuing their live coverage in New York in a couple of years.

You know, I can do it two more years. You're always up for an adventure, I know you are, okay, you suddenly perked up, wait for Brandy, okay, Mike, no, oh, she's gone, she's gone, go, pick the day we come back later. From this, everything is fine, it seems. We just saw the end of their coverage before they took a break. We have several other affiliates who are covering all the action from early this morning until this afternoon. We've been communicating with our Fox team in Dallas. Still in their coverage for another 20 minutes or so, it looks like they're in that coverage, so let's open the audio and listen.

We really wanted it. Now, as we move on to talking about severe weather, we don't want it as much. We will do it. Please continue our Eclipse coverage, continue to communicate with our team, show you some of the images from that very special moment as we experienced totality in Texas, we'll be right back, everyone decided to go to a commercial break right now, so I think en It's the perfect time to take our last 2-minute commercial break of the hour. We'll be right back with more live coverage as we continue our coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse presented by Nissan.

You're watching live now from Fox. My name is. Josh Breslo and we will be welcome back here live now from Fox, we are still watching live from our cameras that we have all over the country right now. This in Carbondale, Illinois, was about 30 minutes away from them experiencing totality, but still. The partial solar eclipse will be in effect for many people for about another hour. We've been taking a look at some of our different affiliates, including Fox for Dallas, which are back on the air right now, so let's pull up that audio and here we go.

In fact, if you want to just run out and take a look more, uh, while the hotal is long gone, we still have a little partial eclipse left, uh, I know all eyes are on the skies over UTA, where the planetarium is located. People have been bringing us some really amazing photos and Alex Boyer is out there, meeting some amazing people too, what are they doing? Yeah, you absolutely do, guys, and of course, I don't think anyone could be more excited about how this finally turns out. It turned out that the director of the UTA planetarium himself lent him Gamir.

I know this has been a long time coming, you can breathe a little easier now that this has come out really incredibly, I think so, but it was all worth it, it was worth it because What we experienced was for me just cosmic art exactly and what? How did it feel to be here and feeling the energy of the students and staff? I mean, it almost felt like a gathering of voyeurs to me. Well, I couldn't believe my eyes, in fact, I saw many images of the eclipse. This is the first time I've experienced it in person.

I've seen a lot of videos, uh, pictures. You know, I heard the testimonies of many people, but everyone needs to experience it. Is different.Yes, you even spoke. About your little son, your six-year-old son, you wanted him to experience it, what did he think? What did he say to dad? Well, he said it was amazing. I mean, he was so excited that he didn't want to go to school today. uh, because he wanted to experience it with me, but uh, yeah, it all became, yeah, as a scientist and as someone that this is what you do, this is, uh, you know your day to day life, what is it like for you to see others?

People who maybe aren't scientifically minded really get blown away by something like this, well I think it's a great experience for everyone because this is a strange thing that's happening, it's not something we get to experience even once in a while, It's just an opportunity. For most of us it is a once in a lifetime event otherwise we would like to chase eclipses for our entire life so it is a great experience so everyone should experience this. I mean, I just can't find any other words, yeah, it's not. It's pretty incredible that you and I were here not even 30 minutes ago, this place was packed and now I think I see the last cars leaving for today, but anyway I'm sure you'll agree that this is really going to live . in the minds and hearts of people and especially this is, you know, nature, nature is doing something different today, I mean, regardless of what we have, you know we like science or we don't like science. science, it doesn't matter, it's for everyone, thank you very much. for your perspective and thanks for having us today guys, I'll send it back to you.

Yeah, you know, listen again. This is certainly something, as he mentions, that doesn't happen routinely for all of us and what I love about it. is that there are people who will see this today and who will be inspired to pursue careers in science or really dig deeper, you know, into what happens, you know, in nature. I know Deon Angland has been meeting a lot of those people and I will say that we have given Ally a lot of credit for the climate. I think it was Dion England's suit. He was actually called the son. He said no, no, you're not going to outshine me in that suit, I hope, I hope.

I hope it helped I hope it was a little sunshine inspiration, but that's just one of the many aspects of how amazing this experience was. Impressive, amazing. I think I heard a lot of ways that people just described how it made them feel and like you mentioned we talked to people who were from right here in Fort Worth and then even someone as far away as London and it's just amazing how this experience was so moving for those here. We are watching the last of the people walk away and leave this area. They had over 2,000 people here that bought the tickets and showed up here.

It was just the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. He was an incredible host. I asked him a moment ago. They told me nothing. There were no failures. Everything went without problems. We had the opportunity to see the eclipse. I did all my Eclipse homework last night and went over I know as many facts and details as I could, it was nothing compared to what it was really like to be here to be able to be in the moment and like you all have been describing it, just take a step back for a moment and take a few seconds if you want to take it all in and I think that's what everyone here had a chance to do, they were screaming there was just oozing and awz like you all mentioned but just a lot of people just really hard to put into words and that was a reaction too, but the last one live from here in Fort Worth, back to you, Dion, thank you, yeah, it's crazy how we all did a lot of homework over the weekend and we're going to get ready.

We know this and we know that and then the moment comes and we think let's just take a good look, you know, listen, even here in the back, you know, I'm going through even the professional photography that we have now. posted on our website and you can see I'm looking at pictures that I know were taken just a few feet from where we are and they don't compare at all to what's in my mind sitting here having this experience, it was just wonderful kids mine you both have been texting me and sending me pictures since school look at this i think you're going to remember this for the rest of your life share the stories about absolutely our Eclipse coverage continues uh don't go we're back with more , TRUE?

After the break, a big thank you to our team at Fox for Dallas as they continue to bring us their live coverage with many different views and what you're seeing on your screen now ended up in Cleveland, Ohio oh, as I mentioned, we are. Basically, continuing to have all these partial eclipses going on just because you didn't experience that totality doesn't mean you didn't have at least one pretty good partial eclipse and this will continue for another 30 minutes or so. in most places in the US as the path of totality now moves towards Canada and yeah it's cool to see we're going to show another live image that we have again they're all coming in and changing so which I am checking. to see exactly where this camera is located right now, it looks like it has actually ended up in Washington DC.

Now we had Bob Barnard, who was with us a little while ago and was talking about the large crowds that had gathered on the National Mall, of course. We know they're not getting the whole thing, but they did get a very good view, as did many people across the country again. A live look here in Cleveland, Ohio. This shot comes via NASA TV. We will continue to check with different stations that we have, NASA, we have Fox Weather, we have Associated Press and our teams Fox 4 Dallas and Fox 7 Austin, also Fox 2 Detroit. I'm trying to figure out what source this is that we have.

We're watching one here, this looks like NASA, this is NASA TV, so let's open the audio and listen to you guys vote, we have the results of that poll right now, let us show it, okay, congratulations Sarah, congratulations Earth team. 26% team Sun 26% too but team Moon 48% congratulations team moon today team Moon is doing well again thanks to everyone who participated we were the real winners today although those who got a show but we are sending you back to Indianapolis to another really important interview. Thanks Megan, we're back. It's been an incredible day here in Indianapolis and it's not over for me yet.

I have Jake Bleader, NASA's chief exploration scientist. Jake, welcome. I couldn't be happier to be here. What was that eclipse like for you? Really fast. It was incredible. It's getting. warm again I still have my fleece on from when we were in totality, that was incredible, well today was all about the eclipse, all about the light of the Sun and I want to spin a little here because you are preparing the astronauts to return to the Luna lives and works there for the first time in 50 years. What is the way sunlight shines on the Moon? It's also very crucial to what we're trying to do there.

Yes, well, just like this eclipse, it is the cellular dance between the Sun and the Earth. and the moon and when we go to the Moon we will have cases of eclipses where the Earth will eclipse the Sun. Wow, so it's something to think about, but we are really interested in the illumination at the South Pole from our emissions. Mission 3 will land the astronauts at the South Pole and there because the moon has almost no axial tilt, sunlight is always right along the horizon, so the high peaks have more sunlight than normal and the Low depressions have almost no sunlight. or never see the Sun, so we think there could be an incredible water trap there, so one thing we've talked about a little bit on the broadcast is space weather and it's very important to understand space weather, especially when it comes to It's about security. of our astronauts, can you describe how the Ursa and Hermes instruments are really helping to keep our astronauts safe?

Yes, Ursa and Hermes are payloads, scientific instruments that we will have at our front door, it will be a station, a research station that orbits the Moon. and the astronauts can stop there on their way to the surface of the Moon and these payloads or these scientific instruments will be there basically to detect what the solar weather is like, what we call space weather, so that the radiation that our astronauts will live in When In fact, we are there, so understanding the weather is the best way to be absolutely well prepared. You've given us a lot to be excited about with Jake.

Thank you for being here on this incredible day. I wouldn't have missed it, friends. Everything we've got from Indianapolis, thanks for joining us, it's been a wild pun absolutely intended and we've had an incredible time, so from all of us here, again to you, a big thank you to NASA TV for your coverage . I mentioned that we have been consulting with our different Fox affiliates around the country, especially those that have been on that line of totality, the path of totality, we have also consulted with NASA, the Associated Press, Fox Weather, they are all Fox. The team continues its live coverage, so let's definitely listen on TV because severe weather is coming, but I will say this as we leave if you have a chance to see a total solar eclipse, even if that means traveling.

It's worth the trip after experiencing it for our peace of mind if this were Groundhog Day and we could do it all over again Tom. I wouldn't mind if we made that happen, okay, we'll send him to break up, uh stepen. Heather will be with you right after and connect you to what we do. Yes, you organized this wonderful three-day event here and invited the community and all your visitors to come, explore, and learn a little about Glenn. Why was it so important? It's important to you, but well, as you know, having a total solar eclipse pass over your community is for most people a once in a lifetime opportunity, but having a total solar eclipse pass over a NASA community like Cleveland, true, that's even weirder, but what?

What it does is it creates a great opportunity to connect people to what we do. Everyone is here paying attention to our planet, paying attention to the Moon and the Sun and how all these things work, our solar system and our universe, and just that. It gives us a great opportunity to say this is what we do well and connect people with that and that's you can't pass up that kind of opportunity and talking about everything, like you said, the science, all this discovery that we are. You're enabled today because of the eclipse, you know, let's talk more about the science, you know, um, I know nothing flies without Glenn, that's what you love to say, Jimmy, so can you explain the critical role of the Center?

Within NASA, at NASA Glenn, we work on airplanes. spacecraft propulsion propulsion power for both airplanes and spacecraft Communications uh, we also work on materials and testing in extreme environments, but our core competencies are an electric propulsion Communications no airplane or any spacecraft flies without those three things and never will they will do, so Nas NASA Glenn is literally part of virtually every Nas mission. Well, Jimmy, thank you very much. I really appreciate you being here and hosting again. This was a wonderful event. I know a lot of people joined us here and really enjoyed it because we were watching. to the crowd a lot of smiles so thank you so much you and the Great Lake Science Center thank you for being here and being a part of this with us and really putting NASA and NASA Glenn on the map here for us thank you Jimmy.

Thank you very much, have a great day and many thanks to all our team located across the way, from our correspondents to our experts to our telescope operators. We couldn't have done it without all of you and Sarah as we took Again this aerial shot of the Great Lake Science Center is so beautiful, it's a wonderful way to experience my first total solar eclipse and I hope you had a good time too because I know this isn't your first total solar eclipse, this is the second one, but it was really cool and special to be able to experience it with you and all the people here, yes we noticed that the people right after the people looked like they were trying to get out.

There are a lot of really fun events happening in Cleveland, so there are a lot of people downtown, so I hope you took some time to look up today and really enjoy what you saw. Yes, not only all the great views we had, but we also did some interesting science today. Yeah, really cool science. and actually, yeah, let's talk about that. You know NASA's big year of heliophysics isn't over yet. You know we had the annular eclipse, then we had the solar eclipse, and now tell us about what's going to happen in December. Yes, coming soon on Christmas Eve.

In fact, the Parker Solar Probe will get closest to the sun at 3.9 million miles, which still seems like a long way to me, but apparently it's pretty close, yeah, I can't believe that's happening again, it's just all thewhat we have been saying. all this day lining up everything is lining up so that we have a beautiful show and yes, you meet Sarah again, thank you very much, you know we watch this together Race Across Mexico to Maine in just an hour and 28 minutes and again we have so much more. We're looking forward to it, so we hope you all stay with us as we continue to study our sun and how it affects us from all of us here at NASA where we make air and space available to everyone, thank you for watching and enjoy the rest of Your day.

NASA TV coverage there, we appreciate your live coverage as we once again take a live look at Cleveland, Ohio, that's a chance as they are still dealing with that partial eclipse right now, if you haven't been looking outdoors, you may have missed it. but yeah, that's a live image that we have right there on your screen and another one here, as I mentioned, they're switching back and forth, but this seems to have ended in Washington DC. I want to bring in a guest right now to discuss all the details of the eclipse now that it has mostly come and gone.

Dr. Luke Willa is a professor of physics and department chair at Florida Atlantic University and joins us now live. Thank you very much for taking the It's a pleasure to be here with us today, so first of all I want to get back to basics. It's a question we've asked quite a few times because there are people who say, "I understand what an eclipse is, of course I understand it." It breaks down for us what we saw today and what an eclipse actually is. In particular, this was a solar eclipse. There are also lunar eclipses. It's a different breed.

In a solar eclipse, what essentially happens is that the Moon moves in front of the Sun. The middle of the day blocks the sunlight if you are in the path of totality now to do that things need to align correctly in a sense this is the original problem of the three bodies that the Earth, the moon and the sun need to align and then you need to be in the right place and look up at the sky and where the sun is supposed to be, the Moon is blocking that view and because of Since this happens during the new moon, we don't actually see the moon. we see the dark side of the Moon, which means we don't see it.

All went well. I guess today went as planned, I know there were a lot of questions about the weather but it looks like a lot of the major cities got a perfect view of totality, in fact it looks like they got very lucky, in South Florida we only had a partial eclipse , but the cloud sped up often enough that everyone who wanted to get a good view could and some people couldn't. I don't realize that they look at that path of totality and think that essentially you either see that totality or you don't see anything, but a lot of people in the US actually saw a partial eclipse, that's correct, so if you're not in the path of totality never goes completely dark in the middle of the day, but you certainly have a part of the sun blocked, you can't see it with the naked eye, even at 90%, it's hard to detect that change in intensity, huh, but with the kinds of eclipse you want to be able to see the sun partially covered yes why is this so historic?

I know you were excited, a lot of people in the US are very excited about this, including Mexico and Canada, so what is it about this that is so historic and very exciting for so many people, well, it's several things, so In this particular case many of the major cities in the US were in the path of totality or near it, which means that many more people could eclipse, uh, there is also something special, something very primitive and profound to the At the same time, looking at the celestial bodies doing a kind of dance and realizing that we are witnessing something that Humanity has been observing for several thousand years, if not more, there is something very profound about that. and I always marvel when I see ordinary people looking through their telescopes or the sunglasses that we make available to them and the first thing they usually say is oh wow.

It's very primitive, it's something deep in humans. I think what scientists can learn from. these eclipses because I imagine that each one of them is studied and they provide information that perhaps was not known years ago, what type of information is collected and how it can be useful, so a lot of this is routine, we know very well when these occur eclipses. going to Happ we can look at the corona, the part of the sun that is still visible outside the blocked region, a lot of this is routine, it is always good to check that things are still behaving as they should and even with the most routine experiment in the Science is one of the exciting things about science.

You never know you'll discover something you hadn't previously realized, so there's always that chance and adding to the cannon of human knowledge is a good thing and it will be a while before we have another one of these in the US. , that's right, about 21 years before we see another one, so time is speeding up, so to speak, yeah, I mean, 21 years is a long time, but as you take a look, you know, the eclipse itself, we were looking at a live image right now from Burlington, Vermont, what comes to mind as a scientist looking at that image right there, well, there's that.

I wonder as if it were really happening. The human mind is capable and imagine that people realized this, the first astronomers discovered the timing of the eclipse and even what was happening about 2500 to 3000 years ago. I feel connected to ancient scientists even though we have all the modern technology. True, Dr. will thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us and explain a little more about this Eclipse. Anything else you want to add about this before I let it go. I hope this stimulates something. eclipse observers young and old to pursue science in any field of science there is still an enormous amount of work to do even the things we think we can fully understand there are surprises lurking that we don't need to know about yet, so check out the science is a very interesting topic, okay Dr.

Willa, thank you again for being here with us, we appreciate it, it's a pleasure and I want to take you to this live image that we have, it actually comes from Burlington Vermont and as you can see there at the top of the screen, which is courtesy of the time and date. They are still seeing a beautiful parallel eclipse at this point and there are some areas where that partial eclipse, especially in Texas, is no longer happening, but in Vermont. They'll only have it for a few more minutes there, so if you can still look out the window, go outside, you can do it, just make sure of course you have those glasses if you're going to look up. sky I want to take a look at more of those megaphone posts while I call them, they come from people who are watching us, all you have to do is scan that QR code that's right on the top right of your screen and you can send photos of what you've seen today and maybe what you haven't taken a photo of yet and you know you run outside and send it here, but this is from TCH in Milton in New Hampshire and was taken at 2:56 p.m. local time a beautiful photo of what appears to be a partial eclipse again we have a lot of these and anything involving an animal I love so this is Cookie saying our dog Cookie can't wait obviously that total eclipse is gone.

Around that area now, but Cookie had the glasses ready to go. I mean, she could look at these photos almost all day, but this one was of Scott in southwest Missouri. Unfortunately, that photo doesn't seem to load. This is a very good one, although it is getting there. from Zack in Reading the clouds have a cool effect some areas had to deal with cloudy skies even some storms overall the weather was not as bad in most areas along the path of totality as previously expected but again We are still dealing with some cloud cover. Since you were watching that partial eclipse right now, if you have those photos of the eclipse and want to send them to us, please do so, just take a photo of the QR code at the top right of your screen. open it in your camera app, click the button and you can press the send button to send us your photos.

The current time is 4:07 on the east coast and 107 on the west coast. Thank you very much for watching our coverage here of the total. solar eclipse 2024 presented by Nissan, we'll be right back with more live, raw, unfiltered coverage, on the other side, you're watching live now from Fox, welcome back here live now from Fox and once again you're watching on Live from one of our many cameras, this is the courtesy date and time that the partial solar eclipse is still ongoing, especially as it heads northeast. This is a live view in Burlington, Vermont. A little bit earlier today, we got some reaction from people in Texas.

As you watch that eclipse, I want to play some of that for you right here, it comes from the Associated Press. There was something special about being here in the woods, on top of a hill, looking at it the way you might have seen it. 10,000 or 100,000 years ago there's a way that the experience we just had is exactly the same experience that people have had since the dawn of human beings, so this seemed like a good place to do that, you know. , I don't know. I want to see him peeking out of my office window. I want to be somewhere where you can really feel it and, uh, the last one.

What about the kids who attended today and you know? I hope we'll be around to see the next one. one you know brings his family to see him, yes, it's that kind of cycle. I think for kids of a certain age, you know, if you're older than six and seven, this is going to loom large in your memory because it's going to be like what that was even like and then if you're a little bit older and they were able to see some of the scientific talks, I hope it inspires you to appreciate the magic and the joy in our natural world and the pure passion that all these people have to understand it and study it and you know that science is not dry, science is not boring, science is that science is a total solar eclipse and the simple fact of being able to appreciate with an application what it takes in terms of cosmic convergence and coincidence to achieve it. happens, so I hope, I hope that we, I hope that we secretly produce a whole generation of astronomers and eclipse chasers and strange artists, I hope that we have uh yeah, that's what I hope comes out of this, that's your goal, that That's my goal, that's my goal.

A bunch of weird scientists running around like I don't know. I went to this crazy Eclipse Festival in Hot Springs Arkansas when I was a kid and here I am today, this is, yeah, thanks for being here, yeah, that's cool. true man, I really appreciate my pleasure, amazing, okay, so you can see how excited the people who ended up in Texas are. We have seen people come together in different areas that were on that path of wholeness. We know that, of course, not everyone was. there in the path of totality, but about 150 million people estimated by NASA were at least 100 miles from that line, that's where we saw that totality and of course the moon covering the sun, which led to that beautiful photo there, but again, so many people also had that partial eclipse.

Let's show this video one more time from the date and time and when I pull it down, you can see it's a live image of Burlington, Vermont, one of the last places that right now they're still dealing with. with that partial eclipse so if you're in that area and you couldn't see it just walk outside take a look and it's a beautiful photo you're headed for a short break here at 413 on the east coast and 1113 on the west coast which you're watching live now from fox much more to come welcome back here live now from fox what you're watching is courtesy of Launchpad and NASA as they've been doing several different launches here throughout the day during the Looks like eclipse is buffering, but we know another launch is expected to happen here any day now.

It looks like again it's still buffering, but we'll load it for you and listen to Inc check 535 ACS check 538 539 SRP TD. Are we counting directly through RC DPM RC is requesting interrogation of the transponder in operation PLC check 536 PLC check 537 M DPM m record RF parameters and report TM hold lock tdpm we will hold it for 3 minutes for no more than 5 million of copies DPM m our registered parameters nominal TM are locked copy that marks 541 542 everything so this is PM, sorry, we are going to hold a T minus 3 for no more than 5 minutes, how is that?

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AO vadia, our private investigator is happy with the science and we will launch our third and final rocket today as part of NASA's atmospheric disturbances around from the eclipse path or apep Mission PLC check the 5 W flight facilities here in Virginia again in 3 minutes we will wait for no more than five so let's listen and aim for a new t0 DPM M. I can give you a reading. Has a lock on swarms 1 to 4. 6tm lock on 1 to 3. Copy that. M check 549. STM check 550. exp check 551 good swarm data so it looks like that video coming from NASA TV and the launch pad keeps freezing but again NASA is doing some of those launches here during eclipse time .

I want the image to appear uh, right? Here you can see that it's coming from Burlington Vermont time and date, where at this point they're still seeing that partial eclipse, but as you can see, it's almost over. I want to take you to another live event that What we have right now looks like in the Senate people are discussing the bridge collapse in Baltimore, so I want to show that right now so we can listen. Madam President, we are still on a recovery mission to locate. the remains so that families can completely close the Port of Baltimore is so critical to our economy the 50 foot canal, uh, which is 700 feet long, which is totally blocked by the bridge collapse, basically closed the Port of Baltimore Now the Port of Baltimore has been a trading port since the 18th century.

It is the third largest port in the United States. It is the largest port for the transportation of automobiles and farm equipment and construction equipment and equipment. It moves about $ 80 Billion 80 Billion Dollars of Import and Export Products Annually It is estimated that there is between one hundred and 200 million dollars worth of cargo moving through the Port of Baltimore each day. It moves 1.1 million containers a year through the Port of Baltimore. As you can see, this catastrophic event did affect the people of Baltimore and our workers, but it also affected the entire nation. 20,000 workers depend directly on the Port of Baltimore and their jobs have been put at risk, but automotive supply chains impact auto dealers across our nation.

Farm equipment arriving through the Port of Baltimore affects farmers across the country. the nation, the raw material, coal, steel, aluminum, iron and the list goes on and on and on, it affects our entire country, in fact, 20% of the coal exported from the United States is exported through from the Port of Baltimore, so yes, we have workers who are out of work and one of our top priorities is to help them during this period of time. I met, for example, with a truck driver who has two employees. This is typical. Remember we are moving 1.1 million containers, many of them going by truck.

Of those transportation companies are small businesses, as the chair of the small business committee knows, we are very concerned about the strength of small businesses during these types of events. I'm so glad I was able to take the small business manager to Baltimore and do an emergency. The statement was made, but Madam President it not only affects small businesses in Baltimore with this emergency but also in Pennsylvania also in Virginia also in Delaware also in West Virginia also in DC this is a national problem our next priority is to reopen the eastern channel It is a ship that is almost a thousand feet long and is fully loaded.

I'm going to show you a photo that shows the challenges we have. this is the dolly, as you can clearly see, this is the bridge that is on top of the dolly, it is actually trapping. many of the containers contain this is part of what fell this is a piece of the 4,000 ton bridge that is on the bow of the ship that will have to be removed. We have seen underground photos of what is under the canal from the bridge collapse and we see a real disaster, we see concrete reinforcement bars, steel, everything mixed together and here is the challenge and I want to thank the Army Corps.

I want to thank the divers who have been In very dangerous conditions we have been going down and taking a look at what is under the channel. Once they remove a piece of the bridge, they will have to cut it into smaller pieces in order to remove it. We do not. I don't know if that will cause movement in the rubble. Our first priority is the safety of the people doing this work. It's like cutting a spring. You could have a reaction and we have to do surveys again after each of the removals. This is very, very difficult job and it's being done by real professionals and again I thank the federal government for providing the experts who are now in Baltimore figuring out how to open that channel and we're going to need a replacement.

Madam President, this was a major Carter along the east coast of the United States I95 30,000 vehicles travel across it a day, so we need to replace that bridge. The bridge was built in 1977. 1.6 miles. It is an engineering marvel of its time in terms of a suspension bridge. and it took 5 years to build it, so we have a huge challenge. I had the opportunity to personally visit the site where it was. In fact, I think I took this photo from a coast guard boat. You see, it's a horrible sight. to see the work that is being done but I want to thank the unified command led by the Coast Guard who started the day of the tragedy and have been there every day 247 leading a unified command that includes the Army Corps of Engineers who will do the most Dr. part of the majority of the salvage work within the canal itself, the Coast Guard of course keeping everyone safe.

We also have the Department of Defense because we need some of their equipment to be able to move the debris, uh, includes the secretary of the Department of Transportation, Judge Buda was there the day of the incident. I spoke to him early in the morning, a few hours later I was with him on site and his team was there every day and he came back to provide help. I want to thank you for getting us the approved emergency relief funds right away so we can start doing the work on the traffic issues we had and begin the plan for the bridge replacement.

I want to thank you for those emergency funds. $60 million was desperately needed, we got it immediately, thanks to the Biden administration's commitment. I want to thank Administrator Guzmán, small business administration, she was there, I talked to her, I think a day or two after the episode she came to Baltimore. I had a roundtable to talk to small businesses about what they need, they're doing dormant loans and they've set up business recovery centers, one in Dundock and one in Baltimore City, so businesses can get the help they need on the spot. and I was there. I met with many small business owners.

They have many questions. I was impressed with the urgency of what their needs are and that we must coordinate our response. I want to also thank the The Department of Labor that has been there has provided us with grants for displaced workers to help those who cannot get jobs so that we can deal with those who have been directly affected. Mayor Scotta Baltimore has been one of our truly great leaders throughout. this Mayor Johnny oesi of Baltimore County, County Executive Johnny oesi of Baltimore County and County Executive ANA Rundle, they've all been involved in this along with Senator van Holland and Congressman and fum.

I want to thank our colleagues, Senator Schumer was there. At the beginning he said that he is there to help wherever the Senate can. I want to thank Senator McConnell for his comments in which he said that in situations like this, whether it's a hurricane or in Florida or an accident like this, the federal government will now step up and the results of this have been that we have provided support to the families of the victims who lost their lives we have met with the workers the I laa workers and we are trying to make sure that they can get through this period of time we have met with the small business owners, the channel, the engineers here have been incredible , the Army Corps has been there 247, they have opened two alternative canals, one 14t 11ft that receives only a minimal amount of traffic, but they are working on the northern part of the canal which is not where the dolly is on the other side of the channel to open a 35t channel by the end of this month, if we can do that, we will return about 75% of the business to the Port of Baltimore, which would be extremely important for our economy and in the end what they were hearing was part of the ongoing discussion in the Senate on the subject.

Baltimore bridge collapse now, if you were looking here, you would see, in the corner of the screen, you could see what is still the remaining part of that partial solar eclipse developing in Burlington, Vermont and areas that are there in the part northeast of In the country now many people saw a partial eclipse and some even saw that complete totality. It was amazing to a lot of people that we were up in the air and we showed them all the different sights and one of the places we were in was Dallas. Texas. I want to bring in Carrie Striber, vice president of marketing and communications at the Dallas Zoo, to talk a little more about what she saw there and how the animals responded.

Thank you so much Carrie for taking the time to be here with us today. Yes, absolutely fine, so first of all, she discusses your personal experience there, since we saw the entirety of it at the Dallas Zoo. It was incredible. The zoo was packed which was great to see a lot. We know we had it. Over 5,000 people at the zoo today, from 46 different states and 16 different countries, came to join us here and had some incredible moments as we went in and those four minutes of totality were just kind of oozing and aw and yelling um as we went into the darkness and then a lot of people also turned their attention to the animals um we saw animals doing um probably actually a little more reactive than we thought they were going to be um which was cool um but everyone, you know, I think that they did what we expected them to do, most of the animals huddled together, many of the mammals, the elephants, the ostriches and the giraffes, huddled together or moved as if they were going to their backstage areas during that totality it makes sense that it's time to go to bed um in terms of what the lighting looks like um The birds landed and were silent um in many places and then we heard some birds um and Some of the primates were calling to each other because they were lost of view at a strange time and quickly, so I think it was not out of the ordinary, but it was a surprising phenomenon to experience and It's like going a little bit backwards, how do you prepare for all this?

Because you probably have to think that we don't necessarily know how the zoo animals are going to react, so how do you make sure the right measures are taken? I guess preparations are underway, yes, so we are very fortunate in the zoo community because there is a lot of collaboration between zoos, so we are aware of what other zoos have experienced, whether it be partial or total eclipses in some cases um and So the teams were ready again, we weren't expecting a lot of extreme behavior, so we didn't make a lot of changes to Habitat or anything that we would do.

We kept very normal schedules today, what we did was we had staff out not only watching the eclipse themselves to enjoy it, but also doing animal observations, so we wanted to keep an eye on how the animals reacted, and that's a little bit different, whereas normally we would have staff out and observing, today there were a lot more eyes on them, on the animals, and then we also asked the guests to participate and gave them some research or observation sheets to I guess they are a simpler version of what normally our staff would. look up um they're called um uh the observation sheets that they use so we asked them to describe what animal they were observing, what was the description of the activity that they saw, they even drew a picture if they wanted, especially for the younger ones. and then tell us at what stage of the eclipse it occurred and we will collect them.

It's more to keep guests interested and give them something to do. It's not a formal research task, but it's cool for us to see and Compare that to what our team also saw and talk more about animals in general, how exactly can you learn from the experience? Because it's not like a solar eclipse, especially a total solar eclipse, it's going to happen that often, but you can learn from this and how animals react and study it well, yeah, so we have zoologists that work with our animals every year. days, thewe know very well and we know their personalities very well, we also have a team. which focuses on animal behavior and what they focus on is working with zoologists in those cases where we need to understand how animals are going to react to an environmental change or to a change in something else that may be happening around them. around, um and everything.

From the research and from all the observations we can make throughout any different situation we observe helps to better understand how to ensure that animals respond well, that we know what to look for when there is a reaction that we need to be aware of and therefore So, it's all part of the learning, and then the nice thing about the zoo community is that we share that across the zoos, so anything we can learn by watching the animals again in this It's a unique opportunity, very different and once in a lifetime. It still tells you how different animals can react even within the same herd.

A giraffe can react very differently to several of its herd mates that we also saw today. um, you know, anything we can do that gives us more information about how these animals move and react and, uh, and respond to things, it's all good in our book today, a success. I would say just based on what you expected and what you did. witness, yes, absolutely, I think the response from the guests was incredible, um and uh, and what we were able to feel together, um, in those moments, you certainly saw Guess's reactions, uh, as the totality established in um, and then the animals, you know. than we expected, but it was also cool to see some of that validated because we just didn't know that this hadn't happened in over a hundred years, so none of us were around the last time and uh and so it was going to be an experience of learning either way, but it was a great day at the zoo and the weather cooperated.

We're so grateful that the clouds cleared for us and we had a really great afternoon here and that's what I was going to ask too because I know there were concerns about the weather up until the last minute, were you worried that we were going to have some stormy weather , cloudy weather and you wouldn't get that perfect view? Yeah, so we were ready, you know, that's why we added some extra activities and we had some NASA live streams available on TVs just in case, because we saw what the forecast was, but luckily this morning the clouds were there. but you could still tell they were high clouds and they burned off and it became a beautiful partly cloudy afternoon here so we had some great moments, there were a couple of clouds that came in just before totality which made us a little nervous but It cleared up, the clouds passed and we had a great view of totality, okay, Carrie, thank you so much for taking the time to join us and talk a little bit more about the eclipse we're actually in.

Looking at a live image of Burlington Vermont on the left side of the screen, where you can see the partial eclipse now that it has moved, was incredible, although for several hours people were able to see anything else you want to add. about all of this before I let you go no, I think it's that we really appreciated, you know, the opportunity that we had and especially because Dallas is the largest city, one of the largest cities as a whole, we loved being able to host people from the We saw all over the world and give them the opportunity to see this incredible event.

Alright, thanks again for taking the time to be here with us. We appreciate it, thank you, and as I mentioned, what you're seeing there is. an image of Burlington Vermont where that partial eclipse has officially ended. They have gotten very close and you can see that there is no longer any portion of the moon covering the sun. It was incredible, as I mentioned over the last few hours, as we saw. that path of totality where people had total darkness, we joined many of them, including our team Fox 7 Austin, Fox for Dallas, we are also with Connor Hansen with Fox News in Buffalo, New York, as we reach that moment of totality , He came and he left. but for many it will be a memory that will not disappear soon.

I want this image to appear quickly here so I can show it to you. We've been reviewing what we call a megaphone, which essentially means you can scan. that QR code at the top right of your screen and send us your own photos here, include your name, location and photo, and this one just popped up so I had to show it, it says he's looking too and it's from Liam. in Anadale or Anandale Virginia, thanks to everyone who sent in those photos, especially if they were as nice as this one here. Remember you can scan that QR code and still send us all your images here live now from Fox.

We're going to take a quick break now at 440 on the east coast and 1:40 on the west coast. You're watching live now from Fox. Much more to come back to, welcome here live now from Fox. It's 4:42. on the east coast and 1:42 on the west coast my name is Josh Brlo and I've been here for the last few hours to bring you all of your images through that path of totality as the total solar eclipse arrives. To finish our coverage, although presented by Nissan, we want to show this image that we still have, it is enlarged, but right there is Burlington, Vermont, where a few moments ago we saw the partial eclipse come to an end for so many people who were watching us here , you saw quite a few highlights and I actually want to go to some of the coverage that we didn't play.

This is out of Mexico and is courtesy of our partners at the Associated Press. Here, let's open the audio and listen. since some of their reporters were in the field. The gathering of details happens every few years or so, especially in the case that, you know, it usually happens somewhere else like the South Pacific, so it's something really special that we're affecting so many people around. this is North America, this continent, um, so you know what we're going to go to hear more from citizen scientists who are setting up their solar eclipse experiments in Carbondale, Illinois, let's take a look at the eclipse streaming initiative and is a joint venture between NASA and Southern Illinois University here in Carbondale Illinois and what is your role in this in the study What are you doing as a citizen scientist?

Well, he said it. I am a citizen scientist. I was recruited. I'm an alumnus here at Southern Illinois University and they contacted me before the annular eclipse we had last October and asked me to record that for my home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I stayed with the team and then they asked me if I could join them here in Carbondale, so I drove 2 and a half hours. days from Santa Fe and I ended up here with all this equipment that you see in front of me to capture data from the solar eclipse that is happening today your background is in the film industry you have no experience as a scientist how did you do it?

I ended up doing this, that's right. I worked in the film business for about 25 years, so I know cameras, but I don't know telescopes, so when they sent me all this, I had never operated a telescope. I had never operated a saddle. In this way, I have certainly used a computer, but all the software was new to me as well, so there was a bit of a learning curve. However, I think my experience and the crowd are really getting into this right now. I hope you can hear me, there is a countdown, but all my experience in the film business helped me and prepared me to really figure out how to use this equipment and get the data that NASA needed.

What is your experience capturing the annular eclipse? In October, that caught your imagination and made you want to continue. Well, it really was something else. I didn't know what to expect. I had never been through a total totality or annular eclipse. Of course, it's when the moon only covers a portion of the sun. and even so it was very interesting, some people say that it is a magical moment. The sky darkens, obviously, but there in Santa Fe a breeze picked up, it got noticeably cooler, I had to put on a sweater, it was October. Anyway, but still, when the sun was covered, it's amazing how much energy we lose here on Earth when it gets dark like that and we saw the effect of that, so I'm looking forward to experiencing that here when the whole disk is darkened.

By the moon this should be really cool to see in another half hour in 45 minutes what exactly are you doing here? You are on the margins of football. You have a lot of cameras and telescopes. What exactly are you measuring? NASA is going to have to tell me what they are using my data for. I really don't know very well why. I'm doing with the special files that I'm preparing using this material here, this little telescope, there's a mono camera here that records in black and white. I have my other equipment here, my DSLR over here.

I have one behind me that is Shooting wide angle, I have the stadium in the background and I'm capturing different phases of the eclipse as it happens with that camera, so when I get home I'll take my images here and from the other camera. and I'll run them through Photoshop and make a nice collage of that and on top of that, I'll download the data for NASA and send it here to Bob Bear at SIU, who is overseeing the project. for the University and I will have to trust them to tell me what they find in the data I collect.

I'm not that smart. What do you hope to experience during totality? I mean, this is new for all of us, yeah. it really is, I know it's going to be cold, I hope I can see my equipment so I can operate it because it's going to get dark very, very quickly for 4 minutes, we will be experiencing that, I hope we can hear the environment around us. I hope we can hear the birds come out and start chirping and behaving differently than what happened when I was in Santa Fe with the annular eclipse a little bit, so I'm hoping for more of that just amplified because of today's cool totality event Thank you very much Robert Dennis and let's enjoy some more photos of the eclipse.

All right, thank you and that was just some of the coverage provided by the Associated Press. They were talking to us. A lot of people who were just waiting for the eclipse to happen were on that path of totality and we reached out to them, but that was just one of the scientists they talked to who will look at their work and use it to help. Basically, more science, but he said he doesn't really know exactly what it will be used for. We've also been talking to our friends at Fox Weather. I want to see the audio and hear some of your coverage.

Right now, as you're following the latest on a storm system with a tornado watch that's been issued for Texas and Louisiana, we're going to show that audio here and listen inside the storm, maybe a little bit wider than the last one. time. I looked at it but it's actually there when we get closer. That's the couplet with red and pink, which is the wind moving away from the radar. The green moving towards the rotation is evident and it is moving north and east at about 30 35. miles per hour, so this green shading here is where the Doppler radar has estimated at least a weak rotation in the latest scans of the radar.

We'll have to keep an eye on this one as it moves across the Interstate, if that rotation intensifies. that tornado threat will increase; will be present on this portion of Interstate 45 in Texas to I49 in Louisiana, a tornado watch that will be in effect until 8:00 p.m. local time, so we have several hours left with storms that could perhaps produce some tornadoes as well as very large hail in the meantime, I'm going to go the other direction here, people in New York City suffered about 90% of the totality during today's storm. Eclipse playing them, yeah right, Little Euro Step, if you will.

Fox resists Nick Coer. He's been to Fox Square. We've both been outside with him for the past few hours to get a look at this Nick. It was still pretty special even though I didn't get the full experience, yeah Nick, you're dealing with a little cloud cover bouncing between the buildings too. I think so, that was difficult, the buildings made visibility a bit difficult. However, I told you when we first arrived. I came out here early this morning, it was eerily quiet out here. I think a lot of people took the day off to see the eclipse or maybe their kids were home and I think a lot of people also drove upstate to see or get closer to the path of totality so it was pretty quiet , it was almost like a Sunday here in Midtown Manhattan, but once the eclipse really got going and especially during Max's coverage around 3:30, it was rocking and rolling, it was chaos. on some of these corners and now everything is back to normal, these solar eclipse glasses were worth 50 dollars a couple of hours ago now maybe not so much, guys, did you see the eclipse today?

Yes, we did it, we did it. something special, yeah, it was really cool, so you liked it, yeah, it was amazing. Tell me about your experience, where you were and how you were able to look up and see where we were, where we were, like 50, 53 and 7, uh. right next to Ray's Pizza and we were able to stand on the sidewalk andSee it as a perfect view just outside the buildings. It wasn't fun pushing through other crowds to get there, but it was cool once we did it, you could pull. Some elbows out there, many, excuse me and don't touch me, they have recovered, they have some size.

Hook this guy, left hook on my part, so let me ask you this: have you ever seen a partial or total eclipse? uh now we've seen both, we actually saw one in Missouri in 2017 2017 the fall of 2017 in Columbia Missouri oh wow, so what was that experience like? oh it was special not to downgrade this one yeah there's no better place to see it than New York City but they are different in their own way amazing well you guys are great thanks for chatting with me and enjoy the next one in 2044 we will absolutely enjoy it yeah, okay guys, we'll send it to you right away, yeah, Nick.

I have to sell a lot of eclipse glasses because those values ​​do not increase for another 19 years, something like that. Nick is the everyday guy, especially the guy from before, although because he was handing those out, everyone at Fox Square loved them. Nick, thank you. you, hey, let's give a big shout out to our friends at Fox Weather. We've been taking some of their reporters and showing them some of their live coverage. Max Gordon joined us live from Cleveland, Ohio, as we were. some details of course the weather has cleared up there have been concerns in places like Dallas, Texas and Cleveland, Ohio thankfully though the clouds cleared long enough to get a nice view of the entirety of what you're seeing right now on your screen is an image of the time and date that is outside of Burlington, Vermont, where, as you can see, the partial eclipse is already over, even in the northeast, we saw that totality move towards Canada and now it continues, but it is a beautiful site and we appreciate it. spending the last few hours with us here live from Fox for our coverage of the 2024 total solar eclipse presented by Nissan.

My name is Josh Breslo and I've been here for the last few hours sitting in the hot seat, but we're going to head into our final two-minute commercial break of the hour and on the other side, our very own Andy Mack will be taking over hosting the main stories from your live events, everything you need to know this Monday, April 8. Thank you so much for watching, we'll be right back, welcome back here to live and now from Fox, I'm Manny Mom, as we appreciate you joining us here to watch live there in Vermont as the solar eclipse crosses the United States and, of course, the road. of brutality, millions of Americans see it, thank you again for joining us here live from Fox.

I'm Andy now back in the anchor chair as we take you into the late night hours as so many people took over that majestic epic site. There are a lot of adjectives to use when talking about the solar eclipse passing through Texas, through Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, beyond that too, so we'll continue to follow the latest developments about it and we will get some reaction in the future. a little bit from some of the major sites on the path to totality of course, I want to post just a few tweets here live now from Fox, a very funny one coming from NASA, their Twitter account, their X account linked to the moons and oops, I did it again since they blocked out the sun, which is a nice play on what happened there earlier today with that path of totality around the country and so many different places to see coming from all over the country.

Indiana Indianapolis Motor Speedway Dallas, which was also in the path of totality and so many people who attended this, across the country, our Fox stations from coast to coast did a great job covering all of this. Let's take it right now to our Fox weather team as they continue to cover everything with the total solar eclipse earlier today Americans look to the sky this afternoon to witness the United States' total solar eclipse and while some areas saw clear skies to along the path of totality other uh not so much Adam no so let's take a look at our total winners and losers, city by city, working together, let's start with our winners, which obviously and we knew Indianapolis was a big win, a Unlike this one, which was a great winner, this was what became clearer.

The skies that Kendall and Robert Ray were both in at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, that will be one of the coolest experiences possible, one of the coolest experiences for my family in this area. I received text messages and phone calls and it seems to have changed some of their lives. Friends, yes, the clouds slowed down the moment of totality a little for the people of Rochester. Listen this. We've been waiting for this moment for a long time, so we're excited and a little sad because the clouds, but. Still, it's amazing, it still feels like the middle of the night, Adam, it's still pretty cold, it's still pretty cold, but Dallas was finally forecast to see some cloud cover, so kind of a wind behind it because it was looking gloomy and then our own Steven , Alright. you're just listening to our Fox weather team as they continue live coverage there throughout the day.

We're going to take you right now to Lime's coverage from New York City as they detail some of this, of course, just a little bit north was the road. of totality, let's listen here live the moon was between the Sun and the Earth and it cast a shadow on the Earth um and why is this so strange? Well there are annual annular eclipses, you might think, oh I remember one last year, yes there was one last year but there was no complete coverage, so an annular eclipse the moon covers the Sun but never reaches 100% its entirety, the outer edge still glowing, what is often called the ring of fire and then what we saw today, of course, was a complete coverage if you were Outside it got a little bit colder.

We talked to some journalists earlier and they noticed that some animals thought it was night and the birds stopped tripping over all that stuff and here's another example of how weird it is, even when there's an eclipse to be in the way and be so close off the road like we were today, it's really weird, you see how small they are compared to the size of our nation, so last year the 2023 eclipse was on the west side. And in fact, we just mentioned that there will be one in 2044, but it will be closer to this path that we saw in 2023, so today in New York, being able to see it, we really won't see one like that until 2079.

So, again, It was a once in a lifetime experience for many, so here was the road we saw passing through Texas today. They actually had some cloud cover. I saw some reporters down there and they were waiting for the sun to come up. They really weren't able to see as much as they expected, so again, this is the 2023 one, so I'm just reiterating that we only had about 20% coverage last time today, we had about 90%. And for the most part it was a beautiful day, I mean in New York City we had a high of 67 degrees. Rochester saw a high of around 5960 but they had some clouds and in fact Buffalo had some rain but a high of 60 so it's still pretty warm for them for this This time of year there are those clouds that we saw pass by Before, fortunately it didn't rain and the clouds we had were very high and very thin, unfortunately in upstate New York they were a little lower to the ground. denser but I saw I had some friends and family that were there and still it was an amazing sight we had really warm temperatures 67 here in New York like I said and 66 in Philly 67 in Alby it was a great day and We have more warm weather on the way I'll tell you more about this later in the show Well, okay, thanks Li Well, regardless of whether they were in the path of totality, people gathered to watch today's Eclipse.

That's right, our reporters had front row seats. to witness the rare celestial event Stephanie Bertini is at the Intrepid Museum on the west side of Manhattan Teresa Prolo is at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, but first we go to Robert Moses in Stow Vermont Robert, you had the perfect assignment there, possibly the better view. How was the? Natasha and Steve were spectacular. It's good to see you both. It's hard to put into words what we experience here on Mount Mansfield, which is the highest peak in Vermont. Did the eclipse live up to expectations? It would be an emphatic anticipation of yes and Excitement built all day before the eclipse began at 2:14 this afternoon, but the crescendo came in full from 326 to 329.

Darkness descended on the mountain and it became very cold , the skiers stopped to look up and the sun set. An amazing spectacle. Nature was silent, but what was not silent were the cheers emanating from the crowd. Solar flares shot out of the darkness and the sun briefly looked like an inverted diamond ring. We met a couple who came here from West Icelet to ski what they didn't know until they booked their Airbnb is that they were entering the path of the entirety and when they found out they didn't miss the opportunity to watch. It was simply phenomenal.

It was worth the 10 hour drive here from Long Island. It was simply epic. It's really something you've heard about.