Host this is the washington journal for april 9 millions gathered to experience the solar clips and others gathering and Public Places. For the first halfhour we will talk about your experience with watching the eclipse and what you gain from it. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones if you traveled for the eclipse 202 7488002, you can always text us at 202 7488003 on facebook at facebook. Com cspan and on x cspanwj. We have pictures from all around the states this is from cleveland where the total totality, this is the public square. People were watching through glasses in those Public Places in the Indianapolis Star shot a picture of people experiencing the eclipse from the motors eat way and if you go to the dallas news 150 travelers taking the plane out of dialysis love field saw these solar clips from the skies. You can add yours to the mix if you traveled or sought a home or want to tell us about that 202 7488000 for eastern and central time zones, 202 7488001 mountain and pacific and if you traveled to view the eclipse 202 7488002, you can post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan and x t cspanwj. Some people watched it on nasa and nasa tv giving that total eclipse perspective. Here is what happened yesterday. [video clip] we are getting so close. Look at this. We are about 10 seconds away, wow. It is going into totality. There you have, the diamond ring came through. You can see the light trickling through the surface of the moon. What are we viewing on the lefthand side . These pink fingers will start to pop out. They appear pink because of the helium ridge but lets focus on the corona you can see these streams that we dont have the ability to see him a daytoday basis. Host that was from nasa tv you could watch more of that coverage on the cspan network and on our website at cspan. Org. Your experience eric in colonial heights, virginia. How did you experience it . Caller i was visiting salem, virginia. The eclipse was beautiful and it made this guide turn darker. I was born in salem and i ended up visiting and i am looking forward to the next one in 33 and hopefully it will inspire the candidates to keep it clean. Host before you go were you planning to go there before the eclipse or was it other events . Caller other events took me and i got to see the hospital where i was born and i got to see the eclipse. Host some of the supposed in on our facebook this is about the event yesterday never thought how the shadow would look from spaces is how she described it. Yvonne molina said this is one of the coolest thing i have ever seen. I had heard about seeing the awe of the corona it was cloudy except for the moments of totality and then we got to see it all. You can post pictures on facebook and on x. You can comment on the phone lines 202 7488000 central and eastern time zones, 202 7488001 mountain and pacific and those who traveled 202 7488002. You probably saw yesterday nasa had experiments during the eclipse. There were five Research Projects as part of that. The observations will help researchers understand the myriad of ways the sun supports life on earth. Part of it was chasing the eclipse and High Altitude planes. They studied dust and orbits that make or break the earth and instruments from the university of hawaii to study these sons corona and those mass equations and an experiment by the university of scranton inviting him radio operators to send signals before during and after the eclipse and record the signals. If you want to see that on a xios. Com. The wall street journal highlights those states that depend on solar energy and how they may be impacted. The Power Providers bracing for the eclipse they were braced for bundys eclipse and ready to replace lost solar powers saying three states were expected to see significant hits to solar generation. They were set to lose the most solar Generating Energy in california. The sun was partially blocked in florida at a time of day when solar makes 20 of its power supply in the eclipse block sunlight for a few minutes for 6. 5 gigawatts of generation and partially obscured sunlight. During peak generating hours. Some of the impacts of these solar clips and you can give your own personal impacts of what you learn from it. Lisa, from illinois. Caller thank you for cspan. We went yesterday intro two hours south to sparta, illinois south of springfield, illinois. The conditions were perfect, so aweinspiring. Host was the experience different from 2016 . Caller i struck out on my own. I drove all out on my own there are a thousand acres with the lake and this time with the very dear friend. Just very concerned if the weather was going to cooperate but i am so glad and when that i went. Host that was lisette in illinois and we have ray texting us saying i cou not see it but im loing to travel into years for the next total eclipse. I think 2044 or 2045 or less are going to alaska. Some members oCongress Giving their thoughts on yesterdays event saying the u. S. Will lose 30 kilowatts but Oil Producers will keep the lights on in america. John in may and who traveled for the event. Caller good morning pedro it was the most beautiful thing. You have to repent. Host this is the shot you could have seen if you were watching our network. This is the Solar Eclipse perspective. If you are looking there, this is from the International Space station and that perspective there and a lot of these are Still Available on cspan on cspan now and cspan. Org. Representative rick larsen was one of those people who went to Wallace Island to watch several of those rockets being launched as part of the experiment. The three sounding rockets during the Solar Eclipse they study have the earths upbeat atmosphere is affected when sunlight dims over a portion of the planet. Many members of congress if you oked outside of capitol hill watching the event. I had to check out the eclipse. Looked like a fred myers rotisserie chicken. If you want to post on x cspanwj and facebook facebook. Com cspan. Some of the economic factors saying according to their website the Solar Eclipse could be worth more than one billion to the u. S. Economy saying it is clear where the moons path will trace a full blockage will generate a lot of economic activity. Visitors are trying to use the phenomenon to job sales. The pearman group says it could be several billion dollars between Tourist Spending and other consumption totaling as much as 6 billion. While the eclipse is a oneday event many areas hope the influx of visitors will lead to lasting benefits and areas that rarely get International Media coverage are likely to be enhancing future travelers. If you want to see the impact economically and some of those pi from members of congress this is senator m warner a democrat saying this is the a clips. Final meaning of spectrums watching the eclipse happen Senate Majority leader talked about it on the sen floor and if you wanted to see if there saying he e privilege of watching the eclipse from his office at the u. S. Capitol in these work glasses given to me by the president of fordham university. These are members of Congress Giving their perspective and you can give yourselves well 202 7488000 for democrats, for republicans 202 7488001, for independents 202 7488002 and if you want to text 202 7488003. You can go to the online aspects of facebook and x, if you want to give your thoughts there too. Tell us about your eclipse experience. Caller mi on the air now . Host yes. Caller you will have to forgive me it has been less than 30 days since my last call but i traveled from West Virginia to marion, illinois which was in the path of totality and this is my second total eclipse because in 2017 i went to sweetwater, tennessee. Both times, the weather was perfect and had a perfect view of the eclipse. I knew what to expect but what was really interesting, was being around a bunch of people most of whom had never seen a total eclipse of the sun and hearing their reactions was worth the seven hour trip itself. It was wonderful and i was listening to washington journal and there was one curmudgeon who called in and said i dont understand the big deal. Im going to be in my Office Making money and pulling myself up by bootstraps and i thought if he couldve been there and seen it. Its not just some anonymous lack disk. You can tell it is the moon because the earth shined his illuminating the dark side of the moon so you can see the cratering and that is an awesome experience. Host why did you choose the place you traveled to . Caller i knew was coming up and i reserve my room a year ago because i knew this was going to happen and i am kind of an astronomy geek. I knew there was going to be one in 2024 and even when i reserved my room a year in advance i was charged twice as much as i would normally pay because there was a big run on hotel rooms but i knew where the path of totality was going to be so i looked on the map and found a town in marion, illinois and it was a nice drive and i would not have given it up for the world. Host we had a few work on x viewer on x saying its not as special as people are making it out to be. Lets hear from trina in indianapolis. Caller i traveled, no, i didnt travel. I spent my day at his Senior Citizens village where my mother lived. A lot of them wont be able to see the next eclipse and to see their faces at the time of totality was just amazing. They all had a spiritual time and it was so quiet. It was more quiet than joyful at the time of totality. Host what is your mother say about it . Caller she was tearful. Quite a few of them cried. Host did you see other Family Members with their families there . Caller yes, they were. There wasnt old gentleman walking down the stairs and he had to lawn chairs in his hands. I got out of my vehicle and i carried his lawn chairs to make it to his destination and he said oh, thank you. And i said but me set them down for you. And she said what took you so long and i said i had to carry those chairs. Host trina in indianapolis. Thank you for calling and giving us your perspective. Jonathan in waterloo, iowa on yesterdays eclipse. Jonathan in waterloo, iowa . We will try one more time. Lets hear from kevin in kentucky. Caller yes. I want to go back to the earlier eclipse available in 78, 79 . That was a total eclipse. I was very young one that occurred. If you have never experienced in the eclipse of the sun you are missing out. I know a lot of these people dont care about that and will not be bothered with what is going on. And you are robbing yourself. You are robbing yourself of seeing something a lot of people are never able to see. I would advise in 2044 if you are young enough to make it, im sure i wont be around. Its an awesome experience. Host what is to think of yesterday specifically . Caller i got to the time where it was nearly completely, we only had 90 coverage. In Southern Indiana you could see a hundred percent. The way it looks is so phenomenal. You can experience that unless you get out and try to see it. Host did you run into people say they would not bother with it . Caller i heard Yesterdays Program and it seem like a whole bunch of people had not experienced it and didnt want any part of it. Either they had to work or do something else. But there was a time during work where employers said, go outside and look at it. There were about five vehicles looking at it at the same time i was but it was extremely cloudy here. You could see about 90 of it in the little outline of the sun in the sky. It was so awesome. If you have never experienced that you need to do it. Host if you missed it this time around, kevin, thank you for calling us from kentucky. You can give us your experience if you live in the eastern time zone 202 7488000, mountain and pacific 202 7488001 and if you travel that is 202 7488002. Jim in new jersey. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my phone call. To put it quite simply, may wonders never cease. Host how does that relate to yesterday . Caller there was a phenomenon that only our heavenly father could have produced for us. Or provide, rather. Host did you watch it with family, friends . Caller i watched about myself. I watched it via televised broadcasts. Host you watched it on television rather than going outside . Caller there was no indication whatsoever here. Not that i know of. I am homebound right now. I recently came home from rehab. I cannot go out. Host jim from new jersey talking about his experiences when it comes to yesterday. Adding into the mix, if you are interested in the financial aspects of yesterdays events axios has a story looking at the Dow Jones Industrial average and what it does the day after a total eclipse going back to 2017. They saw a series of losses in 79, 73 and 54 ended 1932 and dropped more than 1 . If you care to put that in the mix of yesterdays event. Thank you for those calling in and participated in that event. For the remainder of our time, we invite you to open forum. You could talk about the eclipse there was news about Student Loans, the abortion, pending work of the house and senate. Republicans 202 7488001. For democrats 202 7488000, for independentss 202 7488002. You can talk about the events of the eclipse as well and we will take those calls momentarily. One more thing to show you courtesy of nasa this is the eclipse coverage when it had totality in taxes. [video clip] the bird started to fly in a very wear pattern. Strange pattern. We are nearly there. Wow. [applause] woohoo. There is the corona. Oh my goodness, that is amazing. Go away clouds. Oh my goodness. Look how dark it is around here . You can see that white ring . Wow. Here we go. Yes, woohoo. We have about four minutes and 25 seconds. This really does remind you we are on this one planet a part of a larger system. And you have to be on this planet to view this. That is why we are team son, earth and moon. All of nasa science represented by the Solar Eclipse and something witnessed by 30 million of us today. Imagine how many people traveled here. This is getting me extra excited about all of the science. It was nice to get a taste of it. It is so dark. You are able to see the pink raised. It has been incredible. What is your favorite part about this . Is this your first . This is my second one. 2017, i saw it there. You can study the corona, but suddenly you see it with your own eyes and it is that feeling of that is our star. It is not just the sun anymore. That is a star. And you see it looking like a star. As we look for planets in other galaxies that might be able to support life, we need to understand our relationship on this planet with that star, so it is so important. When you see it, you are like, it actually is a star, not just a bright point of light in the sky. You can see how exciting the sun is and how dynamic it is. Host that was from yesterday. You can talk about the events of the eclipse if you want or other matters of politics if you want as well. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. Independents, 202 7488002. You can always text at 202 7488003. On this open forum in ohio, go ahead. I just think about how lovely the experience of the eclipse was for myself, my son. We were not in the totality, but we were in cincinnati, which was relatively near and got to experience it for a long time. I was moved by the caller who said he was housebound and how he watched it on television. That was one of the things i also experienced through the day leading up to it and i felt that was important. I think many people were able to experience it who would not have otherwise and it was a pleasant change of pace for the nation in our divisiveness, so that is all i had to say. I experienced a natural phenomenon that unified me with my fellow community members. Host werther a lot of people were there a lot of people around you . Caller no, i was alone with my son in our backyard. We were with the birds and stuff and the bees. Knowing that it was going on around the nation and having seen the crowds on television as well as the totality and just the feeling of calm that existed in the divisiveness we experienced today, sometimes it is lost. So i found this inspiring and rejuvenating. Host thank you for giving us your perspective there. This is in california, independent line. Caller thank you for taking my call. The eclipse is a sign that god is in existence. For god to show himself to the world. Most people a very unique position that the almighty living god but we do not recognize it. Thank you. Host lets hear from burning in kentucky, democrats line, on this open forum. Hello. Caller it was a great day yesterday the thing that was fascinating to me was when the birds and bees and everything felt like it was time to go to bed. They were so quiet. It was similar to a snowstorm where there was not any noise from animals and birds and we are in kentucky. I never thought about getting glasses for some reason, so i went downstairs to the university and i had an old welders helmet. I was able to watch it there and i came home for a few minutes down the street from where i worked and i watched it with my wife and dog to see how the dog reacted. Nasa also provides a schedule for the iss for when it will be flying over and when it will appear and of course you have to figure in weather, but that is another fantastic thing to watch out for. Host you mean when it travels in front of the son . No, this is night or in the early morning. They do in up to the minute schedule on when it will be flying over so you do not have to stand out and wait for it. Something else to look for. Space, the final frontier. Host have you been a science nerd, so to speak . Caller i think so. I work at the university. You work at the university, you have to love science. Host this is from william in ohio, independent line. Caller i was thinking during the eclipse yesterday of how small mankind really is in the universe and how stupid this country is acting right now. I wanted to make a comment about blood for this and blood for that. It was said before the civil war in congress that let there be blood and he said, bring it i