any minute now the very first plane is going to enter totality, that s 1:16 local time here at nasa, 2:16 eastern and then at 1:19, 2:19 eastern the second plane is going to enter totality. they re going to be flying through that for about seven or eight minutes. so the pilots on board those planes have a very special show because they are going to be in totality for much longer than anyone down here on earth could ever see, and any minute now when they enter totality, they are going to be beaming images back down here to us on the ground. we re going to start to see some of the very first images of nasa starting to come out from this, from way up above. a whole lot to learn from this mission, shep shepard: a lot to learn. we ll learn it when it s over. right now i want to go to the
break. the viewers on twitter agree. shepard: which is rare on your twitter. have you been working? a lot of steve bannon news right now shepard: we left it that alone for awhile. that s what i get for going to you. i want to go to trace. trace, i didn t anticipate this, and i ll say it for the last time, this awesome amazing come togethery kind of thing where everybody doing the same thing across the country t i rather liked it. it was fun. shep you talk about the moments in time when everybody gets together, we don t have many of them. we ve covered big events and things people gather around their televisions across the country t you and i went on for hours over the balloon boy. it was the last time we had so many cameras pointed toward the sky. the balloon was going by and they had all the cameras pointed at the sky and everybody in
for a minute. and total eclipse of the sun. and right now, because it s 3:00 on the east coast and it s getting into main sun 2:30, main sun not viewing time we re gonna met stations across america join us here on fox news channel. and gavin from fox news in new york, i m shep smith and this is fox news coverage of the total eclipse of the sun on fox news channel and fox news stations and my station. it began on the west coast out in oregon they had a total eclipse of the sun in oregon earlier today. and then they had it in idaho, and then they had it there in wyomi wyoming. more recently they ve had it in nebraska. since then they ve had it in missouri where they showed me. pretty soon we re going to volunteer the whole thing and have it in tennessee. it s a total eclipse of the sun. if you re watching on fox
eclipse of the sun. matt finn there will come a time that you will have already experienced your two minutes and 43 seconds of total eclipse of the sun. it will be on the back side of the sun and you will go wow, really? i think that s probably what will happen. yeah, pack it up and take off. that s expected around 1:20pm local time, shep. i think a lot of people will be rushing out of here after it s done. like you said. where are you guys from? chychrun. we ve got a question for you. what happens when the eclipse is over? are you packing up and taking it back to chychrun. that s the plan. do you think it might take you more than six hours to get back there today? i m expecting a pretty big crowd so i don t know. how long did it take you to get here? probably about five. we actually came in last night. so it was okay. not too bad. give us one word to explain the pending total eclipse. it is just awesome. spectacular.
shepard: that s how the song goes. do you have any pictures or is that the last one? we can keep going. this is my other doing. i m trying to remember his name. he is protected. this one is a guinness. shepard: to go with corona and absent heineken of the day. that was a file picture. this is a real life today picture of my girl lu krichlt a. lucia. she is wearing safety goggles as you can see. the more that you eat the we know how the rest of it goes. what is happening out in carbonda carbondale. shepard: matt finn. are they about to jump out of their skin matt finn? shep we have a bit of disappointment. i don t know if my photographer can show you but a huge pile of