good to be with you, i m katy tur, and welcome to the opportunity of five lifetimes. five lifetimes, truly. if you were to sit down in any place on the earth, maybe it s a lawn chair in your front yard, it would take on average 360 years for a total solar eclipse to pass right over you. now for more than 30 million americans, this is their year, and this is the hour. it s already starting in eagle pass, texas, where in 27 minutes the moon will completely block out the sun. the first moment of totality over the continental u.s. from there, the path darts upward and to the right, like a sash from the country s hip to its shoulder. while only those this that specific band will experience totality, all of the lower 48 will get some portion of the eclipse. giving nearly all of us a chance to step outside of ourselves and into the only experience the whole of humanity has ever shared in exactly the same way, the same as our grandparents, as galileo and aristotle, as the mayans, the
msnbc coverage of the total eclipse. more tan 180 million of you have a chance to be part of a incredible moment thanks to mother nature. this is the view from houlton, maine. we ll bring you highlights but we start on another front and the news breaking today about that legal hail mary from donald trump on the eve of the first ever criminal trial of an american ex-president. that trial set to start in just over one week. it is truly the case that has it all. a porn star named stormy and a witness named hope and a tabloid cover-up and a former fixer turned star witness, overseeing this uniquely trumpian circus turned criminal trial judge marchan. 13 years as providing judge in the mental health he create and he has had his share of unusual cases there was a murder trial involving a curse on the defendant and the daredevils who jumped off the world trade center in parachutes and a soccer mom madam accused of running a high end brothel on the upper east side. none of them chall
it may provide. scientists it s actually over the course of science, how important eclipses have been an eclipse was used to prove einstein s theory of relativity because normally you can t see stars near the sun. and so in 1918, it was an eclipse that actually allowed us to see that relativity was true. and previous to that, you ll are going early on when the first estimates of the size of the moon and the distance of the moon way back in the greek time get eclipse s. now, now we can sort of create eclipse s if we want, or we can study these things often without having an actual eclipse occur but we re still using these eclipse s as ways of seeing into, are seeing that the outer layers of the sun and studying sort of the crazy dynamics, the explosive properties of that solar atmosphere and adam, people need to be safe. we need to be clear about that. they may have, you know, at the last minute decided, oh man, i really want to be a part of this and they
3:00 p.m. here in new york. if you re just joining us, we have our eyes to the heavens this hour. this is carbondale, indiana. illinois, excuse me. where they are experiencing totality. look at the green band around the sun out there. texas has already experienced totality. so has oklahoma and arkansas, missouri, and illinois. and now it is indiana that comes up next, kentucky, ohio, pennsylvania, new york, vermont, new hampshire, and maine. 30 million americans are in the path of totality today. the rest of the lower 48 will see a portion of the eclipse, giving nearly all of us a chance to step outside of ourselves and into the only experience the whole of humanity has ever shared in exactly the same way, same at our grandparents, as galileo and aristotle, as the mayans, the cave men, the dinosaurs but while it will look the same, we won t necessarily get the same message. the ancient chinese believed the sun was being eaten by a dragon. the inkas saw it as a sign of god s w
hi, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian in for chris jansing live here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. cue the dark side of the moon. the day is finally here. the first images of the eclipse that s got the whole country staring at the sky just a couple of minutes away, by the way. millions, they re betting on blue skies, but big parts of the country may wind up with a washout or at least some cloudy skies. al roker standing by for us with the very latest on the forecast. plus, donald trump ends months of mixed signals by resisting calls for a national abortion ban. instead insisting states should make the call. how will that play with critical female workers, with abortion being one of president biden s biggest political advantages? at the same time the president headed to wisconsin to make his pitch to younger voters that he needs. we re going to explain what he s going to say coming up. and it smells like death. the words of one palestinian mother returning to the