class to go out to experience the eclipse but it was totally overcast in portland so it got dark for a couple minutes and got light again. but no spectacular light show. you re righting an old wrong. you can t skip class right now. got the day off from work. authorized. reporter: carbondale calls itself the crossroads of america because it will experience another total eclipse seven years from now. i m so impressed he got his glasses months ago. i thought about it two hours ago. we ll end with msnbc s jacob soboroff in madras, oregon, one of the first places to witness a total eclipse. i see a lot of tents behind you. those aren t the ones people paid like 1,500 bucks for the weekend to stay in, are they? reporter: no, this is not glamping, chris, as they call it, but about 100,000 of my closest friends showed up here. madras, oregon, is usually a town of about 7,000 people.