Reporting tonight from carbondale, illinois, heres Anthony Mason. Mason good evening. It was the greatest show on earth. The sun and the moon put on a celestial performance for an audience of hundreds of million, a matinee that saw the moon upstage the sun and bring darkness to daytime. The sun was completely blocked for a couple minutes n a band 70 miles wide that stretched across 14 states from oregon to south carolina. It was the first coasttocoast total eclipse in 99 years, for Many Americans a onceinalifetime chance to witness and celebrate a wonder of the universe. We have a team of correspondents at key locations across the zone of totality, and we begin with mark strassmann. Oh, my god, its almost complete. Reporter across america, the clockwork of the cosmos turned day into night and then day again. And for one afternoon, millions of people looked up at the sky rather than down at their phones. Oh, my gosh. Reporter 200 million americans live within a days drive of the path of
Next big Solar Eclipse which is in april of 2024. Yeah, and the crossroads, mark strassman, will be here again in carbondale, illinois. We had a total eclipse today, there will be another one in seven years. Tens of thousands came here to Southern Illinois university in carbondale to watch the total eclipse. Some came for fun, some for the science. Here is adriana diaz. Reporter totality was a golden opportunity for nasa scientists like lou gallo. This is game day, like the superbowl of eclipses. Reporter they gave superbowl worthy words as the u. S. Caught its first glimpse in oregon. It is amazing, fantastic. Reporter because of the potential for data collection, nasa covered it like the big game. They aimed 14 satellites, flew ten airplanes, launched upwards of 70 datacollecting balloons and deployed telescopes along the path of totality. Why is it important to study the suns corona . The most simple answer is were explores. It is in our genes so we explore the universe. Reporter ev
Mark strassman. Oh, my, it is almost complete. Reporter across america the clock work of the cosmos turned day into night, and then day again. And for one afternoon, millions of people looked up at the sky rather than down at their phones. Oh, my gosh, there it goes reporter 200 million americans live within a days drive of the path of totality, and many hit the road to witness the laws of nature go topsyturvy. Have a good time. Reporter 100,000 star gazers surged into madras, oregon, population 7,000. When the magic moment arrived, totality, people across the unit canry gaped in wonder, including our team of cbs news correspondents. This is incredible to watch. It is gone, it is gone. It is gone, were in darkness. Take off the glasses. Reporter satellite imagery showed the trajectory sweep. From the Pacific Northwest the eclipse raced 2500 miles across americas heartland in roughly 90 minutes. It was just as riveting from 30,000 feet. Youll have a nice view of the sun off the righthan
Showers were few and far between. Temperatures into the 80s in many spots. Only another warm muggy start tomorrow. We are not going to change much about the forecast because our weather pattern is not going to change much. Much. We have a hot southerly flow and better rain chances later this week. It is not tomorrow on your morning commute. Son is up at 6 35 as we cross the Halfway Point of august. We will start off in the as we look across the room raleigh skyline, 83 which could feel like 90 degrees. How cool is cool after you had 96 to start the week . I will fill you in on that in a few minutes. Crews have been added at all summer to ensure air conditioning units are working. Cumberland county Officials Say to have 30 schools where air ethan terry tells us barely focus is at school during the summer because the air conditioning rally works rarely works. They tell us they fix that one week and then it is hot another. When they finally say theyre going to fix it, it does end up fix.
Announcer right now, from milwaukee, this is todays tmj4, live at 10 00. Now at 10 00, in a flash, roads turn to rivers a downpour as heavy as weve seen in months. Walking through a water fall couldnt have been wetter. Bringing the evening commute to a standstill. We have team coverage, john malan tracking whats left of the ra, allis where drivers. Kids had to be rescued from daycare after they were stranded inside. Rebecca . Thats right, carole and george, im out here on cleveland avenue where even just a half an hour ago, the road had water on it, but, it wasnt as bad as it was at 5 00 tonight when the rain was coming down so hard it became inpassable. Kindercare werent sure what to do. They thought maybe at most they would be out here for an hour, but then they soon realized that the kids were going to have to stay with them much longer than that, because they couldnt get the roads had been filled with water, district manager said finally they realized they needed to call in the wes