what people will be able to see without the funny looking glasses on. but everybody is getting their cameras out, i have seen some really expensive equipment brought here from just a citizen scientist. people who are interested in the stuff. a cross between woodstock and i don t know, a star trek festival where people are science geeks who are out here looking at what nature does once every hundred years or so. actually, you know what? i eclipse happens every year and a half, but very rarely across the holy united states like this one. funny madras, oregon, and getting ready for the sun to be completely covered by the moon. shepard: it will be dark out there, have a flashlight. crazy things will happen. i m told that dogs. parking and birds. the turbine. is this a good thing? derek malik is with us now. editor for space.com, at the eclipse crossroads of america event in southern illinois, university of carbondale, an
a primary challenge today. after 17 terms in congress, some say he is too old, and served for too long, and hall hit back saying, i m the hardest working in politics that you ever saw and i still run two miles every time and i vote 99% of the time and i do everything that those other guys do, and john rathman says it is a change and the founding father never intended for someone to serve for so long. all right. for all of you science geeks, you can geek out in the next hour, because the president is going to host the annual white house science fair which makes for great pictures. remember this shot of the president with the marshmallow cannon? what will happen this year? it focuses on the girls and women underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, and math. no surprises here, kelly ayotte will endorse republican scott brown for senate in new hampshire. he is taking on incumbent jeanne
eclipse and things like that. if you have clouds in the sky, forget about it. this is going to be around for most of the month of december. so, you know, you ll have a shot to see it. there is sort of a breakdown of where you are in the world and when you will be able to see it, around dawn and after sunrise for most of us here in the united states. see we re just really hoping it survives and we can see something. you are an astronomer or just a common geek, a space geek. when you are in meteorology, you just love everything. the sun drives everything. anything about space is just very cool. one of the things that fascinated me was all the videos online as to how to see this, just because there are so many people who are fascinated about it. they are posting a lot of science geeks. i really like science too. i raise my hand on that one. they are posting these videos saying, here is how you can watch it. the fact is, if you have the right camera, you could get a really good sho
that s right. politicsnation science geeks. and tonight we have a remarkable discovery to share with you. let s travel back 65 million years to the land of dinosaurs. ladies and gentlemen, meet obamadon. that s right. he s that small blue/green lizard down in the left-hand corner. scientists just today named him after the president. obamadon means obama s teeth in latin. and researchers say they think the lizard had a smile that resembled the president s. huh? not sure i see it. but anyway, just last week this species of fresh water fish was named for the president obama too. amazing. but perhaps we should take a closer look at those creatures
what is going to happen once it gets in the gulf of mexico. sometimes these storms can turn up towards texas. but not this one, stay south of texas and become a category one hurricane on its second landful in mexico some time friday night into saturday morning. now we ll show you the computer models because they re all pretty much in agreement. i don t feel there is any chance of this storm heading to texas. galveston southward and corpus christi can breathe a sigh of relief. this is the image i ve never seen before two category 4 hurricanes literally bumping up next to each other out in the middle of the atlantic. julia is not a problem. julia will shift well out into the open water and the storm we re going to have to watch is igor and approach bermuda as we go into the weekend. very big in size and intensity and produce a lot of big waves and those will arrive in the east coast. up until this weekend when the waves come, a beautiful forecast out there, tamron. no problems forecast w