Out here in New York City. Joining millions of americans witnessing this extraordinary sight. If you were not excited about this this morning when you watch this actually happening it is a phenomenal site and one that we will not say and might not see to this extent because all the conditions are exactly right for some super super viewing of this today in the next one is not for another 20 years so a short time from now we will be under maximum coverage here in New York City. We are going to get around 90 of the sun blocked by the moon and it is a beautiful spring day. We havent had too many like this but weve got great visibility here in new york. So when it comes over new york were going to get 90 as i said. So the Total Eclipse past that we are watching sweep across the country is about 115 miles wide and 4000 miles long and it has more than 33 Million People who are under that. The last one was about Something Like two minutes. This one is twice as long it will get darker so i thin
Morning. We will get into that. We are just over 24 hours away from the Solar Eclipse. Were going to be talking about everything you need to know from the glasses, viewers, how you can make one of those viewers yourself, i know you will offer people good advice on that. I tried it out. Its not so hard. We will also talk about that all important eclipse forecast. We will be talking about that. Wherever you are, whether it is partial or total, you want to have clear skies. I have a feeling we will be a bit in trouble. The forecast is going to be changing. Lets talk about sunday. Hopefully, you have plans for today, enjoyable ones here is the cloud cover all the way into the east bay. Widespread once again. Here is another view into San Francisco. Low 60s in oakland. San jose has 63 degrees to start the morning. Here is a view, widespread cloud cover. Today is going to be a lot like yesterday. Temperatures will not change a whole lot. On shore breeze will be at 18 Miles Per Hour. Heres a
And clouds, allie rasmus is here at the Chabot Space Science Center in the oakland hills. Unfortunately not a lot of sunshine. Folks will be able to see it but we dont know if you will be able to see it in person. So i was looking at some information you can see it is gray around the bay but this is what we expect. The further inland the better off you will be so we will bring him in in just a second. Before the scientists figure figured out what the eclipse was it was believed it was a bad omen. The chinese believed dragons were eating the sun but we know that is no longer the case we have scientists at the ready with meteorologists here to see it all. We will talk to are experts in just a minute to get a glimpse. We are only going to experience a partial eclipse about 75 in the bay area but we want to take you up north to the path of totality where they will experiencing 100 eclipse they will have the full experience with a live pictures from madras, oregon in the path of totality yo
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
We hes in specially formulated glasses to keep out the rays. Especially children. Oh, absolutely. And everybody outside in that totality range needs to wear these. Even if youre not necessarily in the totality . If youre not in totality you definitely need them, because at any point the surface brightness of the sun is just so great that even a small fraction of that surface being visible and if you stare at it, you will be damaged. And the damaged for the rest of your life . Unfortunately so. Weve spoke ton individuals who were 15, 16 years old, looked up and got problems the rest of their lives. Standing by. I want to show viewers live pictures coming in now from big summit prairie, oregon right now. On the left, theyre going to be experiencing totality and, what, roughly 20 minutes or so, and on the right, look at this. Put it on the screen. Blackwell, missouri. With totality in about an hour from now. Quickly going back to cnns chad myers to set the scene for viewers here in the Un