Reporting tonight from carbondale, illinois, heres Anthony Mason. Mason good evening. It was the greatest show on earth. The sun and the moon put on a celestial performance for an audience of hundreds of million, a matinee that saw the moon upstage the sun and bring darkness to daytime. The sun was completely blocked for a couple minutes n a band 70 miles wide that stretched across 14 states from oregon to south carolina. It was the first coasttocoast total eclipse in 99 years, for Many Americans a onceinalifetime chance to witness and celebrate a wonder of the universe. We have a team of correspondents at key locations across the zone of totality, and we begin with mark strassmann. Oh, my god, its almost complete. Reporter across america, the clockwork of the cosmos turned day into night and then day again. And for one afternoon, millions of people looked up at the sky rather than down at their phones. Oh, my gosh. Reporter 200 million americans live within a days drive of the path of
Next big Solar Eclipse which is in april of 2024. Yeah, and the crossroads, mark strassman, will be here again in carbondale, illinois. We had a total eclipse today, there will be another one in seven years. Tens of thousands came here to Southern Illinois university in carbondale to watch the total eclipse. Some came for fun, some for the science. Here is adriana diaz. Reporter totality was a golden opportunity for nasa scientists like lou gallo. This is game day, like the superbowl of eclipses. Reporter they gave superbowl worthy words as the u. S. Caught its first glimpse in oregon. It is amazing, fantastic. Reporter because of the potential for data collection, nasa covered it like the big game. They aimed 14 satellites, flew ten airplanes, launched upwards of 70 datacollecting balloons and deployed telescopes along the path of totality. Why is it important to study the suns corona . The most simple answer is were explores. It is in our genes so we explore the universe. Reporter ev
Mark strassman. Oh, my, it is almost complete. Reporter across america the clock work of the cosmos turned day into night, and then day again. And for one afternoon, millions of people looked up at the sky rather than down at their phones. Oh, my gosh, there it goes reporter 200 million americans live within a days drive of the path of totality, and many hit the road to witness the laws of nature go topsyturvy. Have a good time. Reporter 100,000 star gazers surged into madras, oregon, population 7,000. When the magic moment arrived, totality, people across the unit canry gaped in wonder, including our team of cbs news correspondents. This is incredible to watch. It is gone, it is gone. It is gone, were in darkness. Take off the glasses. Reporter satellite imagery showed the trajectory sweep. From the Pacific Northwest the eclipse raced 2500 miles across americas heartland in roughly 90 minutes. It was just as riveting from 30,000 feet. Youll have a nice view of the sun off the righthan
Landings are not that unusual u but nothing quite like whatt they experienced yesterday. Yesy that is the grass. He grass. And it looks like we took outoou a really nice chunk of runwayfun here. Reporter the passengersortee on board mike pences plane evacuated after the 737 ran ran right off the runway in the rain in new york. Or the gop vp candidate and his entourage including his stafftaf secret service and reportersnd p made it off safely. Af the plane ended up in the arrested bed at the end of thehe reason way destroyed about 800 blocks is that currently inurrei the grass off the runway. As reporter the ntsb iss going to investigate buttigate t pences boss spoke about the incident at a rally in ohio. The plane skidded off the runway and was pretty close tose grave, grave danger but i justus spoke to mike pence and hes h fine imdonald trump had spenttrm part of the day responding to reports ofthe da voting irregularities in texas whereas votes for trump were changederen to clinton.
It was pouring last night. Ourinl in additionas to mike pence pene aides and secret service, the, e press pool was also on board brd that plane. At plane. Now the good news is nobodyisob was hurt. Although a few folks were shake quite shaken quite atea bit. After that incident hillaryat ic clinton took to social mediaidoi tweeting gladal to hear mikek pence his staff secret service and the crew are all safe. She signed the tweet h to t indicate it did come directe dit from her and not an aide. Nid tightening in several keyningn e battleground states bothground candidates out in full force today. To Donald Trumps going to hito h three states today new t n hampshire maine and iowa. Ir hillary clintone ma will also bb in iowa today and president sint obama will campaign on her behalf in florida. We are just 11 days from election day but thousands off people are already hitting the polls. Pos. Early voting started yesterday in the state of maryland. Te of a the lines were long. Ere l a Rec