Solar eclipse began in the United States. These folks in oregon were the first to see it and feel the impact. The path continued, stretching throughoast of oregon, 14 states and 3000 miles through the shores of South Carolina. Ended in the United States surely before 3 00 p. M. Et. Good afternoon with the socalled Great American eclipse finished. We will take your phone calls to get your reaction to what you saw and the science of this natural phenomena. If you live in the mountain pacific part of the region. And in the eastern central. Join us on twitter, cspan, or go to facebook. Com cspan. Begin dialing in summary can get your comments on that. Lets go to the moment that the total Solar Eclipse left the United States. It happened that 2 46 p. M. Eastern time and it lasted one minutes and one minute 36 seconds. It there yet . I think that was just cloud cover. It is getting dark and cooler, too. The temperature has dropped. [cheers and applause] i dont think we are quite there yet. C
Continues. More than 2200 americans have been killed. This is the i, time a president has addressed the nation about americas future in afghanistan. Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett is at fort base myer. Major . Reporter its taken President Trump months to make this decision. Within that time, the taliban has grown stronger. The number of attacks have increased and territorial gains in eastern afghanistan. The presence in afghanistan will probably not be evident in months, probably not until 2018. This is a significant decision for President Donald Trump because hes now embracing a continued u. S. Military presence in afghanistan, something he was highly skeptical of during the campaign and something some advisers in the white house urged him to reject, urging him to withdraw from afghanistan. The president is not. And for the foreseeable future, the military will remain in afghanistan. Reporter and here is the president of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you
We have more people arriving but they will be uh sherdsherd. I want to thank you for joining us today for this lunch of our lunchtime dialogue series americas rural opportunity, i want to thank all the people in the room, as well as hundreds of people livestreaming and those watching live on cspan3. I wonder how many there are. I am jeanette executive director of the Aspen Institute director, we do a lot of work out in the country connecting, motivating and equipping local leaders to build more prosperous regions and advance those living on the economic margins, since 1985 Aspen Institute has focused most of its work in Rural America and through our experience over those years we have learned full well that Rural America is not fly ovover country, rather live in, work in, start a business in, and raise a family in country, recent media headlines have focused on the decline of critical sectors, Community Health crisis and more. It reveals an important but less publicized invasion and co
Of people livestreaming and those watching live on cspan3. I wonder how many there are. [laughter] i am executive director of the Aspen Institute director, we do a lot of work out in the country connecting, motivating and equipping local leaders to build more prosperous regions and to advance those living on the economic margins while they do that. Since 1985 Aspen Institute has focused most of its work in Rural America and through our experience over those years we have learned full well that Rural America is not fly flyover country. Rather live in, work in, start a business in, and raise a family in country,. Recent media headlines have focused on the decline of critical sectors, Community Health crises and more. A deeper understanding of Rural America reveals an important but less publicized invasion and collaborative local invasions to turn challenges into opportunities. So to launch this series today we wanted to highlight just three representative stories of innovation. Were happ
Lunchtime dialogue series. I want to thank the people in the rook in washington, d. C. As well those Live Streaming and those watching on cspan 3. Im i wonder how many there are. Im janet, im director of the group. What we do we do a lot of work in the country quipping local leaders to build prosperous region. Since 1985, aspen as focus its work in rural. Through our experience we have learned full well that Rural America is not fly over country. Rural america is live in, start a business in and start a family in country. So recent media headlines have focus nation acute rural challenges, inadequate job student, infrastructure challenge, Community Health crises and more. Those are real but a deeper understanding reveals important picture of innovation and using local are source to turn challenges into opportunity. We want to highlight stories of innovation that are build on local assets from three different parts of Rural America. We are joined today by the people you see here. Bureau