Oh my God!
There it is!
Incredible!
Oh my God!
[screams]
Oh my God!
Good morning! It's Monday, August 21, 2017.
The Great American Eclipse now just hours away...
This is purely American, right? This is an American eclipse.
... has brought us in some eclipse donuts!
They feel it's a once in a lifetime thing for them.
A lot of people.
... see something like this.
Here in New York we get about 71% coverage.
It's going to be totally cool to see...
200 million Americans live within a day's drive
of what's called the path of totality.
About sixty thousand people are expected to travel here,
nearly tripling the size of the city.
They are expecting 100,000 visitors to watch the eclipse.
Eclipses occur-- total eclipses-- every two years,
but having this one, going from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean
across the world's third most populous country
is a very unusual event.
You just want to be part of this thing
that happens once every 375 years.
It's a shared moment!
Yeah, spaced out here.
The moon is starting to cover the sun.
Totally vibes right now.
Just vibe out with me right now.
Oh my God! It's actually happening, like...
I'm probably just going to shake my friend, like a lot.
Boy, how many t-shirts do I have at home with stuff written on them?
My first tattoo is the eclipse.
So much energy!
I've been waiting for this for like ever!
Just a normal work day.
I didn't really trip on it.
I didn't think it would be that much.
Why did it just get dark out of nowhere?
What the heck is that?
You just got to step back
and you just got to think to yourself,
"That is beautiful."
It's just been cosmic. Cosmic!
And that's what this is all about.
It's the cosmic energy.
Meditation.
Prayer.
I just couldn't even sleep
because of how excited I was about this.
I honestly just think it's more of God letting us know that he's there.
The beauty principle, I think, testifies of God
just as much as the actual scientific data.
Why did God have to make it so beautiful?
He made it beautiful because he knew we would enjoy the beauty,
and he's a God that enjoys beauty.
We're observers here.
This is nature's event.
We are really witnessing this incredible, majestic choreography of orbital mechanics.
I think it's a really important time to reflect on our place in the universe.
For me, having my friends up here--
all congregating in the middle of Idaho--
this is all important to me because
I was recently diagnosed with ALS
so I don't have much time before I'm too paralyzed
and not able to do things like this.
That's really important to me and them.
It doesn't feel like a big disappointment that it rained.
It was so cleansing actually.
People ran up and said, "You want to use our glasses?"
So we got to see it through glasses too.
Any other time people might actually be a little more upset
about missing something like the solar eclipse,
but with what all we've been through,
we're just feeling very joyous about experiencing this together.
That's an impressive sight.
Here it comes!
Look at the street lights coming on!
Wow.
Stop it.
You see them? The street lights are on.
Almost!
It's almost there!
Oh the beads!
Oh wow! Look at that!
Whoa!
Whoa! I never thought I'd see that.
Totality! Totality! Totality!
Oh my God!
Look! Look! Look!
Oh my God!
Oh my God! Whoa!
Whoa! Got to take a photo!
Damn.
Holy sh... This is so crazy.
Wow. Look at how dark it is out here!
Look at the light. Look at the skyline.
It looks like night time.
It was amazing. Like, you stop...
When that diamond ring came out...
... it kind of felt like love.
You heard little crickets come out chirping,
because it got dark and-- I don't know--
I felt the temperature drop
Celestial things are just beyond comprehension,
and when you see one, and it's really there...
everybody sees it, no matter who you were
what your beliefs were...
... this wave of, just, joy and just...
... sort of let you where we sit in cosmos...
... because we all are experiencing life the same way so...
It doesn't matter at all what color, what political, anything.
Everybody's like holding hands and...
I think it's something we all really need right now:
to feel connected in a way.
There was such a camaraderie and friendliness.
And we were literally touching and hugging each other.
I bet the whole world was looking up.