Some people traveling around the time of the eclipse got a chance to see it before boarding their plane. There were lots of people traveling in and out of Lynchburg Regional Airport on Monday. Airport officials estimated the daily average about 450 people were flying out for the day. They say the solar eclipse did not affect their daily operations other than that it was entertaining. Travelers who spoke to WSLS 10's Magdala Louissaint; said someone had a pair of the solar glasses and everyone took turns borrowing the shades and ran outside to see it. One passenger traveling from Charlotte into Lynchburg said he experienced the same thing in North Carolina. He also said the airport down there did an announcement reminding travelers to not stare into the sun. "When we were boarding our plane, they asked us to go out to the tarmac and load up outside. So walking out there was a lady with a pair of glasses she was letting people try on as they walked to the plane. So before I got on the plane I got a chance to look up. They said it was probably 80-85 percent maybe. And I think its peak was supposed to be 2:44, and I was out right around that time," Ian Mollick, traveling from Charlotte, said. Like Lynchburg, Charlotte didn't experience the full totality of the eclipse. At Lynchburg Regional Airport they experienced flight delays, but none of them were related to the solar eclipse. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2x7E9wz
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Students, staff and faculty of Lynchburg City Schools got to experience the solar eclipse on Monday. They used the donated ISO compliant solar eclipse shades to view the phenomenon. Students at R.S. Payne Elementary School got a lesson along with the special experience. Some third graders learned about what the eclipse is and where they would have to be to see the eclipse in its totality. Each teacher used this weekend to prepare for their students to watch the eclipse. Last week, students watched flim of the 1979, so they could compare it to and contract it with the eclipse today. Children from pre-K to fifth grade marched outside and screamed in awe at what they were seeing. "We used a pingpong ball and as the sun, with a hula hoop and different models to kind of build that background knowledge, and they were just so excited while learning about it," Michelle Stevenson, teacher at R.S. Payne Elementary, said. "It was important that all of our students got to experience this once in-a-lifetime event. We may not be here to experience it again. So we wanted to make sure that they all had a chance to no matter how little they are," Tracy Proffitt, STEM coach math remediation specialist, said. School officials say, throughout the week. teachers will use poetry and questions, to continue discussing with their students the experience of seeing the eclipse. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2imxD1w Firefighters worked multiple hours Sunday to extinguish a house fire in Bedford County. Shortly before 3 a.m., the Hardy and Stewartsville-Chamblissburg fire companies were dispatched to a reported brush fire in the 1400 block of Gravel Hill Road, in the Hardy area of Bedford County. However, when the first units arrived, they determined that it was actually a structure fire, a single-family dwelling with heavy fire showing. Additional fire, EMS and support units from Bedford and Roanoke counties then responded. Firefighters were on scene for almost five hours battling the fire. One adult resident, who was not home at the time, was displaced, but no one was injured. The owner's two dogs are missing. The Bedford County Fire Marshal's office is investigating this as a suspicious fire. Anyone with any information about this fire is asked to call the office at 540-587-0700 ext. 1325. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2viGxOA Share your experiences of viewing the Great American Eclipse! Where did you watch it? Who did you watch it with? What did you see? How did it feel? (function(d, s, id) {var js,ijs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//embed.scribblelive.com/widgets/embed.js";ijs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ijs);}(document, 'script', 'scrbbl-js'));via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2uZS2iD The celestial show will get underway just after 1:00 this afternoon with the peak eclipse for us happening at 2:40 p.m. Locally, we will see a partial eclipse so the atmospheric phenomenon such as seeing the sun's corona or the sky going pitch black in the afternoon will occur about 3-4 hours south of us. This is a livestream of the eclipse, starting out on the west coast. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2wx2Gx8 A Bedford County man is accused of pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend and assaulting her with it while their two-year-old child was asleep in another room. A woman went to the Bedford Magistrate's Office Friday evening and reported that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend, Brandon Johnson, earlier in the day. She said he also pointed a shotgun at her and assaulted her with it. She told deputies she tried to leave, but Johnson would not allow it. Their two-year-old child was asleep in another room and did not witness the assaults, she said. Johnson, 28, was arrested Saturday night and taken to the Bedford Adult Detention Center, where he is being held without bond. He is charged with malicious wounding, abduction, strangulation, domestic assault and brandishing a firearm. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2wqRqD1 State police are investigating a crash that killed a man and hurt an 8-year-old girl in Pittsylvania County. It happened around 3:40 p.m. Saturday on Kentuck Road, close to Kentuck Church Road. State police say a 1998 Dodge Ram pickup truck was traveling north when the driver failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway. The vehicle ran off the left side of the roadway, over an embankment and hit an unoccupied 2014 Ford Mustang, which was parked in a parking lot. State police identified the pickup truck driver as Timothy Carter Terrell, 70, Sutherlin. He was wearing his seatbelt and died at the scene. The 8-year-old girl, who was also wearing a seatbelt, was taken to the Danville Regional Hospital for treatment. The extent of her injuries is not known at this time. The cause of the crash is under investigation. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2iiZ2kS (KPLC) Jayden Fontenot, a 10-year-old from Sulphur, Louisiana became a hero last Friday when his mother, Ashly Moreau went into labor with his baby brother at just 34 weeks. The baby was breached and Moreau felt her baby's feet hanging out when she was in the bathroom, not knowing she was in labor. Moreau was home with Jayden when the baby started to come. Jayden ran to his grandmother's house next door, and she then called the police but was unable to help Moreau deliver the baby. Jayden ran back to his mother, who was laying on the bathroom floor bleeding out when they realized the baby wasn't breathing. "When he got to the bathroom, he just took a deep breath and said, 'okay mom, just tell me what I need to do,'" Moreau said. "He didn't look scared, he looked calm and brave and I said okay I'm going to tell you what to do and we need to get your brother out as fast as possible because he's breached and he can't breathe." Jayden pulled his little brother out by his legs but the baby was still not breathing and his mother was still bleeding out. Jayden ran to the kitchen to get a nasal aspirator to clear the baby's nose. The baby finally started to breathe. It was then that EMS arrived and took Moreau and the newborn to the hospital where they both quickly recovered. Doctors said if Jayden hadn't been there, the baby would have never started breathing and Moreau would have bled out during delivery. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2fYVOT2 State police are investigating a fatal pedestrian crash in Amherst County. It happened around 11:50 a.m. on Saturday on Route 60, near Tudor Hall Drive. William A. Grant, 76, of Waynesboro, was standing in the travel lane on Route 60 when he was struck by a 1997 Subaru Legacy, according to state police. The Subaru was unable to avoid him. Grant was transported to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he died later that same day. The driver of the Subaru was not injured. State police have not announced any charges for the driver. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2x68H1p Something new is coming to Tanglewood Mall in Roanoke County. The existing T.J. Maxx will soon become a combination T.J. Maxx and HomeGoods. HomeGoods offers discounted home decor, furniture, kitchen supplies and more. Previously, Charlottesville and Greensboro were the nearest locations. The grand opening is set for September 28, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. via News | WSLS http://ift.tt/2vRzTCq |
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