The eclipse already started. Reporter yes, it did. Its about to start in the western part of the country. Give me five, you guys. You were amazing. Thank you so much for being with us. And craig, so many families like them, theyre going to experience this together in this stadium behind me. 15,000 people have poured into carbondale, illinois, and the local businesses here are ex attic. It is estimated the private sector in carbondale will gain almost 20 million just by the influx of tourists and people All Around The World who have come here to witness this astronomical event together. All right. Well come back to you in a moment, as well. My friend and colleague, jeff rossen, is standing by, not far from where we sit here. Hes in new york city, on the upper west side. New york city, by the way, expected to get an eclipse of about 70 . But heres the thing, jeff. That doesnt mean that folks should take viewing any less seriously, right . Reporter yeah, you can never look at the sun. Whe
in madras. this is where we started our coverage. one of the first cities in america to experience totality. and we re seeing a good chunk of the sun covered by the moon. and look how beautiful. we all talk about totality, that s the most exciting moment. i think hasht partial is pretty as well. if you re in new york city, this is what you re seeing. chicago if we can keep the clouds away from the lakeside away for you long enough, and even places in florida. we have some clouds in central florida that i was watching earlier today, but if you can breakthrough the clouds this partial is what you will get. what is that quite bit in the sun this, what do we know about that. there are many spots, hot spots and flairs, you heard of solar flairs, there is always
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it s built to be very deep underground. how many of these things are you selling? last year it was one a month. then it was one a week. then since december, it went to one a day. reporter: this is one of a growing number of companies now catering to catastrophes. selling real estate from $100,000 to millions of dollars. this is going to protect us against nuclear, biological, chemical attacks, tornadoes. reporter: it s definitely helped business that an ancient mayan prophecy predicts this friday may mark some sort of global expiration date. lots of people are projecting modern anxieties over that ancient mayan date. that the financial system might collapse. or the global warming. or solar flairs. or an act of terrorism might take out the nation s electrical grid.
pass if that diplomacy fails. according to israeli media reports. prime minister benjamin netanyahu s visit to america this week included a request for one of america s most sensitive bombing systems, bunker bombs. it sounds like the administration is inclined to say yes. at the white house today a very careful response. in meetings the president had there was no such agreement proposed or reached. note the meetings with the president. from the spokesman there. prime minister netanyahu made the request in talks with the pentagon. this would be used if israel were to launch strikes against the suspected iranian nuclear facilities. let s look at what we re talking about using recent satellite imagery. these are the reported iranian nuclear sites. let s focus on two, one at quom we talked about before. as you pull it out here s why the bunker busting bombs would be so important. look at these openings captured in the satellite images. these go down to some sort of undergroun