‘Extraordinary’: total solar eclipse wows watchers in north Texas

The weather largely cooperated as eclipse watchers were awarded with a heavenly event as clouds parted and sun and moon merged

Ignas Barauskas almost missed it.

He bought plane tickets from his home in Lithuania to the United States about a month ago. After a series of flight delays, he landed in Dallas around midnight, ready for a once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse of the sun.