21/08/2017 Newsround

Hi, I'm Jenny with Newsround on Monday morning.

First up, It's Great American Solar eclipse day!

People in the US are getting really excited.

Some will get a TOTAL solar eclipse, which means the sun will be

completely blocked out by the moon, and everything will go dark,

It's not happened there in nearly 40 years.

Nada Tawfiq has this report for Newsround.

In just a few hours this small family farm in western Kentucky

will be absolutely packed with about a thousand

visitors from across the

And that's because NASA has declared this is the point of greatest

What that means is that this is the best spot or the prime

location to view that spectacular moment of darkness.

When the Moon completely blocks the Sun's surface,

the sky will go black for two minutes and 30 seconds, longer than

This is a key location for scientists who want to study the

NASA has set up here and reserved their space years in

advance, they will be live streaming across the world.

The owners have also opened up their land to the

public, mostly for sky gazers who want to come

They will use these protective special glasses and

in the run-up to the big moment organisers will have live music and

activities and the BBC will be here with them all.

Well, that's what's in store for America today -

but will we be able to catch the eclipse here?

Astronomer Dr Morgan Hollis is in London for us now.

No problem. What will we be able to see? We will be able to see a

partial eclipse, the Moon just covers the edge of the Sun, it won't

be so dramatic as in the US. Terry exciting, what time will we be able

to see it and how long will it last for? At the last for just over half

an hour, should be visible at about 8pm this evening if the weather is

good and the sky is clear, there is no cloud anything like that. Fingers

crossed. Indeed. Any specific areas of the UK that will get to see more

than others? Should be seen across the UK from Cornwall to Scotland,

you should be able to see the same amount. Excellent. What are your top

tips? The most important thing, do not look at the Sun directly without

special eclipse glasses, if you don't have those lasses there is a

really great video on the newsround website that shows you how to make a

special eclipse viewer out of an old box, that's a great way of watching.

And what are you excited about? I'm looking forward to seeing it, it's

the first time I've seen an eclipse so it will be exciting. Thank you

very much for telling us about that. It's a pleasure.

Most of you are either already back at school,

or getting ready to start a new year.

And it's not always easy to fit in to a new school

That can be even harder if you have a disability.

Hi, I am PJ, I'm 13, this is my story. I like this sport, I really

do. In the past I wasn't able to do as much as I could because of my old

future, it was heavy. I had next to no independence, had to be

supervised all the time which was pretty awful. I needed a new

wheelchair and thanks to a charity I got a new one which is helping in

many different ways. It has made my life a lot better, now I can't

manoeuvre greatly around the school and it allows me to play with my

friends a lot more and allows me to play my favourite sport which is

basketball. When I got my chair I was like very excited, I was so

happy that I finally got a new wheelchair, this is how I feel in an

emotive. Anybody starting school with a future, stay positive, get

stuck in, get involved like everyone else. Don't worry that you're going

to be different, you will make tonnes of friends and that will be a

of fun the way through. Next, a quick round up

of the top sports stories... Marcos Alonso scored twice,

to give Chelsea their first win of the Premier League over

Tottenham yesterday. The Blues bounced back

from their opening-day loss to Burnley last week,

and beat Spurs 2-1. Awesome British athlete, Mo Farah,

has won his last ever track race in Britain,

in the Men's 3,000 metres, at the Adding to the four

Olympic titles he holds. His final track race EVER,

will be next week in Zurich. After that he's switching

to road racing. What people forget, as an athlete,

it becomes something that I enjoy, hobby, and it became a job,

I love what I do, but it can get real hard when you have so much

pressure, you can't go anywhere but now,

I'm going to the road, it's a completely new game,

and I'm excited. That's all from the team this

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