A full team of reporters covering this thing from coast to coast. An analysis of what americans can see if they are in the path of totality or not. Our forecaster and weatherman, sam champion here with me for the course of the afternoon. He is with me still, and so are a number of reporters in just a moment. Mr. Brokaw said witnessing it in montana, it was as if he was seeing the birth of time. Sam, is this your first . I saw a partial in 79. In those days, we did the little viewer where you take a white card or two white cards that are in mens shirts or where ever, and you sandwich them. You put the sun to your back and you shine it through the card. And that is a very safe way to view the shape of an eclipse. You see that right there in shadow form. You see white light and dark shadow cross in front of it. If you dont have the glasses, you can do it that way. Many people will say you can see it through the shadow of the trees. You can still see the shadow and the shape of the sun and
that. we want to make sure you keep vision into your 70s and 80s clae stla tallahassat least. thank you, mom. we love miss melvin. here is the first family again taking this all in. on the balcony there at 600 pennsylvania avenue. president trump, pe lan ya. baron. we saw a few members of the cap nice as well. president trump going to give a big speech tonight, and there you go, a thumbs up from president trump, he appears to
glasses on? i do, but the clouds just covered it. i had a partial eclipse, now i see nothing. well that s because you have t the glasses on. where are you watching? i am watching in my front yard. oh, yes i do, okay. oh my goodness. ma, are you okay? oh my goodness, yes. i assume you re seeing the eclipse? i m sorry, i am, craig, it is, oh my goodness. oh my goodness. there has been a lot of that this afternoon. this is my mother on the phone, betty joe melvin.