Anne Barry

And I'm Anne Barry.

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Good morning and happy Thursday, everyone.

Well, I encourage everybody to go get a neck massage this morning because I foresee some upward gazing in your future.

That's because we're in the middle of a crazy northern lights display.

Aurora Borealis has been spotted in a huge swathe of states recently, including as far south as Florida and Alabama.

Now, this particular storm comes as a result of a phenomenon called a coronal mass ejection, where the sun blasts charged particles at Earth, leading to this crazy light show.

Well, this particular show has reached G4 levels, Toby, the second highest on the NOAA's five-step scale.

Now, the storm likely peaked the past evening, but some lights will still be on display tonight.

So, Toby, if I lived in one of these states that rarely gets a chance to see something like the Northern Lights, how do I go about capturing that moment?

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Well, I'm really struggling to think, Toby, of someone who is a winner coming out of all this, to be perfectly honest.

But definitely in terms of the losers, let's take a look at some of the numbers.

You know, every week that went by with the shutdown, the economy probably suffered between $10 billion to $30 billion in terms of lost productivity or lost GDP.

If you take a look at sort of specific sectors, to your point, you just talked about air traffic control.

By the way, I travelled through this shutdown and I got every delay you can imagine.