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The image of the moon started to move over the sun in Mazatlan, Mexico, first. There was a large crowd at a beachside park when the sky started to get dark and people cheered.
“Happy to be here with family, friends sharing a singular, unrepeatable event that the universe and nature give us,” Luz Elena Aguillón de la O, of Mexico City, told The Associated Press.
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The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.