this is just been a godsend from mother nature as far as the economic boost that every business in town is going to wind up reaping the benefit fro from. service oriented or not, everybody is going to see some economic gain. like those selling eclipse viewing glasses in arizona. it s going out pretty fast. some are creating their own roadside pop-up shops to sell their wares. alabama, texas, washington, all over. the small town of hopkinsville kentucky is expected to add 200,000 visitors from its 30,000 residents. tourists will be able to view the eclipse there for a full 2 minutes and 41 seconds. leading the city to job itself eclipse bill. i think this is a potential opportunity to show off what a
they re only getting 66% totality here. we re about the height of that coverage. these nasa planes are incredible. we watched them take off earlier from this point at 11:15 eastern time. they were playing flying at 400 miles an hour at 50,000 feet zipping over to kansas missouri. they were going to follow the path of the eclipse throughout missouri and kentucky, some of the areas experiencing totality. the cool part about it is because they are so high, well above the first layer of the atmosphere nasa scientists tell us it s extremely clear, no weather or dust in the air. that allows them to get some of the best images that have ever been captured of an event like this. because of course technology has ee involved a whole lot since the last time we had one of these. so what is going to happen is
once in a lifetime. festive shepard: festive, i like it. yeah, yeah, that s a word we use in the family. it s hot right now i can tell you that much. otherwise, guys, what do you think? fun. ma am you drove here from michigan, right? yes, we did. we drove our grandchildren this time. next time 2024, heck bring us. [ laughter ] thank you guys. it was so fun. shepard: crusader sent me a picture. crusader, kind of kit ten, kind of not. trace gallagher is good. trace how do you think they re feeling in hopkinsville kentucky? they re having a total eclipse of the sun. kind of a competition between hopkinsville and where matt is. hopkinsville named itself eclipse ville because it last