NBC’s Lester Holt Gets Emotional During Live Eclipse Coverage: See the Touching Moment [Video]

Veteran news anchor Lester Holt had a total eclipse of the heart on Monday while doing live coverage of the solar eclipse. 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. 

“My mom always promised me a trip to the moon, so this is as close as we get,” the visibly emotional man shared. 

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. This is to her.”

“She’s with you today,” Holt assured the man, patting his back. 

Holt was clearly choked up, admitting to the camera, “Listen, I’m caught up in the emotion too. You go into this. You don’t know what to expect, thinking, ‘Well, it’s just …