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NBC's Lester Holt Gets Emotional During Live Eclipse Coverage: See the Touching Moment

The NBC Nightly News anchor was clearly emotional as a solar eclipse viewer shared memories of his late mother.

The 65-year-old NBC Nightly News anchor was interviewing an unnamed man at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway about the personal meaning behind the eclipse. Holt asked the man when his mother died, and he replied, "Two years December, 1969 watching the first moon landing together, she made it an event that we would never forget. - Antonio Ojeda/Agencia Press South/Getty ImagesMonday's solar eclipse was the natural phenomenon in which the moon's position between the Earth and sun casts a shadow on North America.

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