As the countdown continues towards a total solar eclipse, officials are projecting grid-locked roads, sold out hotels as millions travel to get a good view. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah explains what a total solar eclipse is and why people are traveling to see it.
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Great way to start the video, with an annular eclipse. Not total.
Is that burnt toast I smell???😳😳😳
I think it’s time for an eye appointment for sure.
Yeah that chick is smokin hot
Don’t look at it directly or too closely
will i be able to use my phone?
NASA said not to use your phone to look at the eclipse because it will ruin the phone.
Nooooo, DON’T try to photograph or video the eclipse without wearing the special Eclipse glasses !! 👓
If you’re viewing through binoculars, a telescope, or a dedicated digital camera, they need to fitted with a solar filter, AND you need to wear the eclipse glasses (everything is being magnified, so extra protection is necessary).
Yesirrr
When their is a solar eclipse but where you live it is a partial eclipse so you can’t look up for about 3hrs and you are in a school with multiple buildings be like.
I had a stroke reading this
@@PrestonBozeman😂😂😂
im gonna take off my glasses
😂
You said 2045 but others are saying 2044 for the next eclipse?
The moon going to be hot
Short and family friendly video to educate you and your kids all about solar eclipses! ☀️🌙
https://youtu.be/sQw6RIaui7Q?feature=shared
This evokes an Islamic teaching, promising believers the ultimate reward: seeing God in the afterlife. This is only for believers.
Oh my gah
this is Gods warning/judgment .. wake up people of the world
We are sorry to report the eclipse has been postponed the money ran out
Oh my
Good most money went to Israel to fight off their invaders. 🇮🇱💪🏻
And that my friend is Joe they gonna make millions out of glasés 😂😂😂
Total eclipse here in Texas, and it’s cloudy….totality of being bummed out…100 percent
I’m in NY and it’s cloudy here too. Hotels raised their rates up to $700 and people are actually paying it.
Enjoy the view of clouds
@@luis-alberto. I know it’s hilarious. Especially if you’re one of the morons that dropped $700 for a hotel room
@@Mr102405That’s because people are morons.
@@Mr102405 Only upstate, near Niagara though, correct ?
must’ve been a lot of blind people when this would happen thousands of years ago
Right
Sun gazing is a thing, and once you train your eyes, it’s very healthy for you. Do a little research
My guy not everything is a conspiracy@@savesportquads
@@savesportquadsYou do this?
@@savesportquadsyou’re cracked bro
I never used glasses to watch the eclipse and nothing happened
When is this today? I don’t want to miss it.
Trump invented the solar eclipse.
Huh???
I’m not gonna look at the sun today
Who doesn’t know this by now… c’mon now 🤦🏿♂️
Why are people saying the worlds ending that’s my question is it really ending or is it cap?
I don’t know, bro. Maybe use your phone/computer to start researching questions you have, instead of games and Netflix….
Maybe start going outside and looking at the sky, being aware of your surroundings.
People say the world is going to end so they can pretend that all their problems are going away soon.
The next US solar eclipse is in Alaska in 2033…NOT 2045. But the one in 2033 will only last for 90 seconds.
lol so the one in October last year didn’t matter
whats the big deal about a solar eclipse?
That’s what I said about the one in 2017 and the one now. People are taking their vacation time from work, the kids are skipping school, or schools are canceling altogether, people are paying outrageous prices for hotels, states are declaring state of emergencies, etc. All for four minutes of darkness. Like people have never seen darkness before
They are rare – that’s all.
@@chrismacola9945 You’re really simplifying it. Nobody is asking you to be excited about it. If you don’t appreciate what is happening, fine. Why do you even care?
@@chrismacola9945
God hand
😂😂😂
The cutey eclipse 😊
Here is a song composed for the 1999 solar eclipse https://youtu.be/pVPTUEW1PEM?feature=shared
Reminds of that movie _Apocalypto_
Amigo in that movie had enemies from all sides it was crazy. Just like how I see it today. Happy Eclipse Day everybody!
Thanks great help 👍
It happens soon!!
BOOOOOOORING HUMANS MAKE AN EVENT ABOUT ANYTHING
Lucas 12:54 Decía también a la multitud: Cuando veis la nube que sale del poniente, luego decís: Agua viene; y así sucede. 55 Y cuando sopla el viento del sur, decís: Hará calor; y lo hace. 56 ¡Hipócritas! Sabéis distinguir el aspecto del cielo y de la tierra; ¿y cómo no distinguís este tiempo de la venida del Hijo del Hombre?
My fiance and i had planned to go to Niagara to watch it and now i am so glad we didnt. Its cloudy and crowded
while I’m inside there’s a bit of sunlight that shines through my curtains and and I have no way to block it out so I’m now I’m extremely anxious that I’m gonna go blind
Eclipses hit harder when you know heliocentrism is a lie 💯
I wouldn’t go out with large crowd… stay home
Nbc is washing my brain.
Wheres the solar eclipse..
SOMEBODY IN CHINA right now tell me if you don’t have a moon right now!!
It should be pitch black over there. Somebody wake uo and tell me what it looks like over there or are they lying and you DO have a moon right now!!
Actually, that is correct. The moon is not in the sky ev’ry night, when it’s not, that’s called “a new moon”.
China doesn’t have youtube.
if the sun is blocked out – how and why does it hurt the eyes ?
Some want to watch the sun slowly get covered that’s where the damage occurs, also watching it separate when the sun appears again.
Drink a glass of water before the eclipse.
I think thats y im blind cuz of my ancestors
That is Lamarckian evolution.
Here in south east Oklahoma almost and I’m already taking pics with my S21 Ultra while using my eclipse glasses over the lens to filter my camera and they are AWESOME!!!!
“Set the controls for the heart of the sun.” -Pink Floyd
Say:
Jesus you are the Lord and I believe in my heart God raised you from the death on the Third day, Cleanse me with your shedding blood on the Cross and help me do your will in Jesus name amen.
Sun gazing does not blind you 😂
A bunch of Cap. I live in the center of the 150 mile area where the eclipse is supposed to pass and still haven’t seen anything. It’s not dark, there’s no vampires, no weird UFOs, nothing. All just a bunch of “CAP”
Today is the solar eclipse and it already covered up 1 or 2 percent of the sun and it’s supposed to be at 82 percent at 3:03 pm
A solar eclipse is a phenomenon that shows how many people have gigantic bank accounts and nothing to do other than spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to travel to the most remote locations to entertain themselves for 3.5 to 4 minutes.
The eclipse isn’t anything spectacular, it’s what naturally happens every 4yrs. Staring at the eclipse is just as dumb as staring at the normal sun. Nothin new. Same ole, same ole.
Walmart restocking event, would be more interesting
I heard a total eclipse of the heart before 😂
So if we stare at the sun for a couple seconds while the solar eclipse happens we’ll go blind? how come that didn’t happen to the people back then?
Sadly, it did. 😢
@@sharkfintech5893Yeah if you look at it for like 5 minutes straight. but if you look at it for 3-4 seconds max you’ll be fine
WHY IS SHE CRYING!?!?
Well, for most of us we can explain this phenomena scientifically instead of claiming it as some sort of omen for GOP and flat earthers to worship as something else a thousand years from now.
You can’t see it were I am because I’m in lousiana
🗣️🔥🔥🔥Cheers I’ll drink to that bro
These people think they know everything all lies!!
The science behind this is amazing, and yet I still can find a way to despise the arrogance of scientists like the ones in this video. They aren’t any different from the pagan high priests mystifying the people with nonsense to appear religious and maintain their respectability.
Fire benders watch out
0:54 hey at least next time I’ll be able to see it I live in Florida though Florida may not exist in 2045
And people do not know yet who is god
It’s sll Trump’s fault
Satanic Communist Democrats tried to censor the Eclipse.
It was so dark I couldn’t see myself
Ophthalmologists are going to be very busy for the next few weeks
People are crying? Good Grief… what a goofy society we have become.
All lies, it didn’t get dark enough for birds to be confused and it didn’t get dark enough to see stars in the background
And lets never mention God. Okkk?????
It’s a sad truth that American has came to
This was so lame, it got cloudy for a few mins n that was it. You guys are like kittens with a laser pointer 😺 🐑
Fun fact: the word _eclipse_ was coined in 1952. It is named after Don Eclipse, Einstein’s bowling partner.
The eclipse was invented in 1908 when Nathaniel Eclipse wanted to take a nap at midday but it was too bright outside
I heard Pfizer has a vax that makes the eclipse safe
Way to promote only biden in your ads. Buncha woke jokes
God just made an X over the United States today. 7 years ago he drew a line through our country. Judgment is coming . Please repent America and turn to Jesus to cover your sins.
For those who missed it, there will be a second showing of the eclipse tomorrow, same time!😊
The moon doesn’t take one day to orbit the earth
I’m aware which is why this comment was tailor made for goofballs like yourselves who felt the need to reply.😉
Science fails again. What a disgrace. From evolution to Covid to eclipses they are clueless every time. Stop funding science.
If the eclipse crosses a blue state Marjorie Taylor Green is going to IMPEACH it.
What happen to end of days no emp disruption from solar flares, whole lot of nothing, & scared tactics failed
i saw a eclipse today in Borger texas at 1:48 and i was in totalty
Wish they would’ve scheduled this on a weekend when most are off school and work
Heard a lot of glasses were fake. Get ready for a lot of blind reports.
Fake
I was in the park and people started disappearing and some started being taken up into the clouds
I got to see this twice now, i live in southern Illinois so i have one of the best views, I even got to look at it without glasses for about a minute and a half earlier. it was awesome. i also saw mr beast 😭 💀
I got to see today it was cool
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People after the eclipse who were in totality (I live in Dallas)
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Wasn’t the last eclipse in 2017
Stare at with binoculars like a real man
In north American it was so cloudy today. I didn’t get to see the eclipse because the clouds.
Just hypothetically speaking since we can’t foresee the future but by the current standards I was in today, technically I’m out for another loss again by living in the wrong location 😂
I just wanted to see it, not all the hubub
Wow but bad for me😢
I can buy 😢
No
Its 5 am the next day and im stil hysterical crying! This was just greatest most amazing thing in human history. We ll never top it
The government manipulated the weather so it would be cloudy threw most of America, that way we will see less UAPs.