Thanks everyone. This was a very interesting event. The traffic slowed...everyone took their phones out along the sidewalks and tried to get a good shot. Most just pointed at the sun and couldn't understand why is was so washed out. I actually tried to shoot the plane and it came out ok. There is too much motion blur...I have areal hard time holding the phone still in low light.
The real truth is this in no way really shows how intense this actually was. The sun was a huge RED ball.