that s right, that s it right there. that is from nasa television, we are down to something like a sliver and that s it. i feel like i should put my glasses on. as i write up from our brain room, i learned that when the whole sun is covered, if the whole thing is covered, the whole dang thing, you can look at it because it s covered. much like my phone analogy from earlier. you can t see it so you can look up at it. look at this, it s coming close. this is from nasa tv, down to a little sliver of sun. but there it is and we are getting to that big a moment when the sun is gone. and as a result, i am thinking are you guys good over there? everybody could? most of them are millennials and
tim slater is on the phone in casper, wyoming, how was it? the eclipse doesn t happen here yet, the shadow when across madras, oregon and we are still about 16 minutes before the shadow gets here in central wyoming. shepard: you are only seeing a little sliver, right? the temperature has dropped about 15 degrees just a few minutes ago, about 90 degrees and now it is closer to 70 degrees, we are standing here on a bluff overlooking the city in the center of wyoming and i ve got to tell you, nobody here is wearing tinfoil hats but i am literally watching down here in the valley the deer and the antelope play. shepard: you are auditioning to sing it again, you only get one song per customer. how big is the crowded there? the atmosphere is electric.
side of the sliver. we are about to have a total eclipse in some areas of idaho and wyoming. i don t have anything that fascinating, i m keeping an eye on the various feeds coming in. we are hoping to get some shots of elephants cavorting at the eclipse. animals are very sensitive to eclipses. shepard: caters up here, she s working on the rundown. this is somebody s life shot coming up? we have a 3:00 program. it s political stuff he is writing for later. ash, you want to be doing nothing, it s your last day.
almost. what is that? i don t even know. there it is, it s down to a sliver. dan springer is out there in madras, oregon, wow, would you look at that? it s a total eclipse of the sun, it s going to go all the way across america. and now it is in oregon. dan springer, tell me about it. these people are fired up. are you guys ready? countdown, give me a countdown. 3 minutes? 2 minutes? 3 minutes. who is an astronomer here? we ve got tinfoil hats, the guy with the tinfoil on his head, i tell you. i don t know what i m doing here but these people are nuts. they camped here for days, they took days to get here, came in
dan springer is watching at solar fest, madras, oregon. it s almost there. the excitement must be building and building like fireworks. it s building here. we are about 12 minutes away from total darkness in madras, oregon, one of the first spots in america that is going to be in total darkness. of the folks are getting ready. we ve got people here with tinfoil hats because they think they need that for protection. they also say those who will not be wearing the hats could be slaves to them by the end of the day so we are not quite sure what they are all about but they are from washington. we ve got people from all over the world who have descended on madras, oregon because they were told years ago that this was the best place to watch the solar eclipse because of the chance of sunny skies that we got today. as i look up with my glasses i can see we have a sliver of that