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Good morning and welcome. Now on to the news.

Good morning and welcome back to fun fresh episodes of Kid News. I'm Tori.

Today is Monday, April 8, 2024.

And we begin with one news story eclipsing all the others.

Early this afternoon, 32 million Americans will experience 3 to 4 minutes of night time

in the middle of the day when the moon passes directly in front of the sun blocking its light and creating a total solar eclipse.

Not everyone in the US will see it, only those in the 115 mile wide path of totality that stretches from Texas to Maine.

The rest will get a partial eclipse. Mother Nature, however, may mess with her own Celestial show.

The forecast in parts of the Prime viewing area call for clouds, and a lot of them.

Regardless, don't look skyward without special glasses.

You could do serious damage to your eyes.

Scientifically, today's special event is called a scizagie,

which means three objects, in this case, Earth, the Moon, and the Sun are lined up in space.

In today's kicker, some of the strange goings on you might notice when the sky darkens.

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