LIVE BLOG: Total Solar Eclipse Across North America

 

Let's start out by checking the live stream from ABC News YouTube channel.

2:05 - Mazatlán, Mexico is first up in less than 2 minutes.

2:07 -  And there is a reporter on the beach in Mazatlán and it's getting pretty dark and you can see people looking up and then there's a view of the sun being occluded by the moon and there it is Bing Bang Boom. 

2:08 p.m. Eastern the moon has covered the sun over Mazatlan.

2:08 - Well let's check in while the reporter is interviewing folks on the beach in total amazement to see what the chat has to say...

alberto ascari

Fantastic

Verøsika

​​Yeah, science!!!

HindProtector

​​It's the end of the world....

GeneralNiemiec

​​I sacrifice

R U Excited

​​just eyeballing it

Jesse Vega

​​we r still here Jesus is great

B Millwood

​​eclipse babies !!!!!!

Ayla Mayo

​​imagine losing your whole account for spam

ChilledMonkey 🍌

​​why she crying

Alan DE Alejndro

​​my brother

Saro Lucero

​​where's her glasses???

ChEazyE

​​Carl Spakler

Cucud

​​Jesus will come with cake! 🎂

Alan DE Alejndro

​​my brother

Tobechukwu Olumba

​​Staying inside and this is Amazing

Jesus M

​​Did he just look at it without glasses?

박근우

​​와우

Jayden L

​​cringe

Russell

​​how does ABC get the orbit of the moon wrong its been. 28 days NOT 31 for 4 billion years

Soloméo Paredez

​​E in chat for the sun

alberto ascari

​​I will pray an Our Father 10 Hail Marys

derp derp

​​crack heads

Willow

​​HindProtector I think you are experience some kind of psychosis please go get help. its not the end of the world. These happen twice a year.

Edwards Paffie

​​people leaving their house just to go n see that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☝☝☝ jah jah

HindProtector

​​E

Te-Ben Chang

​​No glasses?

Monoamine

​​just drive the path so you can see it the whole time like a real G

2:11 - The reporter is babbling on about shared humanity and international Kumbaya looking back at the chat several people had said why are they looking at it without glasses remember that when it's in totality you can look at it without glasses since the sun's rays are no longer casting right upon you.

2:12 - It looks like the beach is lighting up as the sun emerges from totality in Mazatlán and it's looking like everyone's just suddenly coming awake.

2:13 - There are people actually looking up at the Sun now that the sun has emerged from totality not a good idea folks oh well I have a feeling a lot of people in Mazatlán will be visiting Urgent Care soon.

2:15 - They're showing a map across mostly the US conveying that people are lucking out in that the only real cloud cover right now is over Western New York State so it looks like if the weather holds out for them over the next couple hours or so a lot of people will be able to have very nice views how nice for them I'm not jealous at all, hurmph.

2:19 - Let's check in on my chat peeps:

Guys let’s all be friends

meetu soni

​​😍😍😍😍

Michele Hedrick

​​yep

amira elhawat

​​♥🌹🌹🙏

$KevonSix

​​$KevonSix $1 🙏🏾

Dopey1

​​don't forget to get the money from the store and the store or something else and I can get it from you

G

​​Psalm 19:1King James Version19 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Drafter

​​We just had the solar eclipse here in Australia. There's no one left. For the love of god, save yourselves.

$KevonSix

​​$KevonSix $1 🙏🏾

Matthew

​​I know!!!! I think I’m just gonna go for a “bathroom break”.😀

Jack Ripper

​​beep beep

G

​​Psalm 19:1King James Version19 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

$KevonSix

​​$KevonSix $1 🙏🏾

Ebony Andrews

​​The diamond ring is awesome

Brittany France

​​i see a sliver gone cause i live in florida

$KevonSix

​​$KevonSix $1 🙏🏾

SMS

​​Damn

Dopey1

​​no friends

2:20 - The reporter in Cleveland babbling on and on about his mom yes sir make it all about yourself.

2:21 - Del Rio, Texas up next in 7 minutes.

2:22 - Reporter in Indianapolis at the Indianapolis 500 it looks like they have a goodly portion of the stands packed with people probably 5000, my estimate man.

2:24 - There's a dude at a cave in Texas I guess they're going to wait for totality when it's expected all the bats will come flying out and there's actually a crowd waiting to see this.

2:25 - Sock it to me my crazy YouTubers:

J. F. I.

​​MER VIBEZ If that's true, then maybe we'll get a total eclipse at around 1:35 Central Time here in South Texas.

Monoamine

​​bats

MariaKCollins

​​🍺🍿🚬

Gisa Dzielski

​​Signs from heaven for us to see the glory of God before the coming of Jesus.

A M

​​I think I'm on the wrong side of the sun lol 😆 too view this

Sue Saosa

​​in 2028 in Sydney, Australia!!face-blue-smilingface-red-heart-shape

Eric Chan

​​TRUMP 2024

Rosario Rosita

​​Mi hija dice que muchas gracias por ponerlo el el utu

Hauro_z

​​LOOKING FROM SWEDEN!! <33

Michele Hedrick

​​bye

Monoamine

​​batman??

Molly Collie

​​WELL I DAM SURE AM NOT VOTING BIDEN

D. Roy Official

​​From Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

Идрис Гаджиев

​​FJB

Haider shah 😎

​​penguin-blue-waving-tear

Soloméo Paredez

​​The glory of god is ever present if you needed an eclipse to see it that’s on you

Saro Lucero

​​i voted for the Meteor!

Идрис Гаджиев

​​lets go brandon

Bamc525

​​seeing it from erie Pennsylvania

KingDaddyy

​​🌑🤍

Rafael Morales

​​What vote for Trump

B Kim

​​LMAO @ "POTENTIALLY"

Ace Bravolini

​​don't eat the bats!!🤢🤢

Towerofsnake

​​LtsGOBrandon

Sylvia Lewis

​​"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge...". Psalm 19:1–2 KJV

Belinda Spechtenhauser

​​God at work, Abloustly incredible!!!

Rita Reilly

​​The heavens declare the glory of God! The eclipse is happening the day before Jesus died AD32. The sun went dark when He died. Praise God! He’s risen!!!

D. Roy Official

​​Anyone from Bangladesh 🇧🇩?

William Burns

​​everyone who loves Jesus type 1

felisha A.

​​Trump 2024

Michele Hedrick

​​loll

liquid8v

​​The moon is flat just like Earth

David Santos

​​a lot of swallowing

Spring Chick

​​3 minutes until tx

felisha A.

​​#LGB

A M

​​superman not going to be happy losing his energy boost lol

Michele Hedrick

​​loll

GrandmaKeith

​​Hundreds of swallows are the best

David Santos

​​where in tx

Sue Saosa

​​The Great Spiritual Awakening in 2024!!!🇺🇸🙏 Earthlings wakey wakey y'all!!!face-blue-smiling

Monoamine

​​I always swallow

mrKisobo🎬

​​where is my flat earthers

2:27 - Close to totality overthe border I saw at least one comment saying the illegal immigrants are just waiting for total darkness and that's when they're going to strike their way going right across the border.

2:30 - Del Rio is a little cloudy so they're getting the totality but they don't have full View all the time of the Sun but when it does poke through the clouds the crowd whoops it up.

2:31 - The reporter is interviewing this woman who's talking about her students viewing the eclipse and her eyes are crossed it looks like she may have looked at the sun oh no.

2:32 - There's a guy with a wine that has a special label the wine is called Eclipse he says it was made specifically for this event and the bottle has a cutout in the middle of the label on the front with the picture of the corona of a sun around that cut out and then on the other side of the bottle there's a dark moon so that when you hold up the bottle of white or rose wine I guess this wouldn't work too well with a dark red you can see through it and see the moon moving into the cutout Circle kind of cool.

2:37 - They're talking to one reporter's mom in Mazatlan as he's covering the event in Cleveland the mom is sharing her experience and the sun remembers his experience in 2017 and he's anticipating what he's going to be seeing pretty soon and it does remind me of the feeling I had when I saw the eclipse in 2017 in Charleston it truly is a spiritual feeling even if you have no religious inclination there's a cosmos spirituality I remember feeling pretty deeply as I talk about in this post.

2:39 - Dallas in less than 2 minutes now that's most likely where I would have gone had prices not been in the same but frankly looking at all these places and the massive crowds that would have been a big issue too I can deal with a bit of the crowds but even Charleston was a little overwhelming 7 years ago with the massive traffic and as you remember I couldn't even find a place to park so that I could enjoy the Old Town Charleston after the event so I'm not sure if I had made it to Texas and plunked down the amount of money they wanted to charge for hotel rooms if I would have been all that Keen that having to endure these gaggles of people.

2:41 -Totality in Dallas. Nice. Well I'm out. But one last check in on chat:

hiteditz2

​​what i saw it

liquid8v

​​shake shake shake

R U Excited

​​wall of cards, sock soup

Jebedia

​​MORE BLACKS AND MUSLIMS IN EUROPE!!

Jebedia

​​MORE BLACKS AND MUSLIMS IN EUROPE!!

Carmel Cooking

​​mike berichon let people belive ok

Jebedia

​​MORE BLACKS AND MUSLIMS IN EUROPE!!

Soloméo Paredez

​​How do they not MODERATE this

Drafter

​​The block button is your friend.

Hashmi M Basheer

​​മലയാളീസ്

Jebedia

​​MORE BLACKS AND MUSLIMS IN EUROPE!!

kjdnyhmghfvb

​​@Gargoyle... some say it is so

Sue Saosa

​​🙏🙏🙏

Jack Ripper

​​lavender

Jebedia

​​MORE BLACKS AND MUSLIMS IN EUROPE!!

Rover

​​Even Jesus was brown

liquid8v

​​Jesus is black

hiteditz2

​​can it happen in africa

MIGI FRESHMAN

​​Who’s Mr Chang?

Dragos

​​NEW EARTH 🌏🌎🌍

Turner Roberts

​​🌹♥🙏🏿

Frank Castle

​​drafter. lol

bony bony

​​sanha സോറി ഞാൻ ഓർത്തു boy ahnunnu

Monoamine

​​@PaidCrisisActor you do know the pop vote was 52% to 46% in texas right?

hiteditz2

​​face-red-droopy-eyesface-green-smilingface-blue-wide-eyesface-blue-wide-eyesface-turquoise-drinking-coffeeface-turquoise-drinking-coffee

Jolene Simpson

​​what about jamaica we want to experience this too

liquid8v

​​Hesus' real name was Tyrone

Anas Ck

​​@jeedia iam a muslim

Anthony Richardson

​​i am the coming of Jesus Christ,,,you will see me come out of the darkness of the eclipse

Geoff Jones

​​As a Cowboys fan... <insert joke here>

Mike Berichon

​​PEOPLE CAN BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY WANT... STOP SHIVING IT DOWN MY THROAT!!!

Cace

​​girl bye its just a solar eclipse

Iztok Draksler

​​Jesus iz yellow

YoppaBam

​​veryyyyy Black brother

Oliwer

​​?

Edge of Florida Rider.

​​te amount of people stearing into the sun without glasses is scary

Soloméo Paredez

​​Guys this is a good EXPERIENCE bc it’s a good EXPERIENCE what an EXPERIENCE guysss

meetu soni

​​face-orange-biting-nailsface-orange-biting-nails

Anas Ck

​​bony bony mm

Anthony Richardson

​​I'm green

Julian

​​oh my god why are they acting like this

Rover

​​why have they turned the lights on

Anas Ck

​​വീട് എവിടാ

G

​​Matthew 16:4King James Version4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Spring Chick

​​glasses-purple-yellow-diamondglasses-purple-yellow-diamondglasses-purple-yellow-diamondglasses-purple-yellow-diamondglasses-purple-yellow-diamondI love is so much

Jamey Suniga

​​This is really a once in a lifetime opportunity

hiteditz2

​​can it happen in israel

Dustin Leffert

​​purple like grimace