Countdown to total eclipse coasttocoast. Like. I dont think you really should thirtytwo at the sun. No, you shouldnt. It might burn your eye. Guys, monday is the big Solar Eclipse. Experts have issued some warnings. Prepare yourself ahead of time and dont look direct at it and not to watch for too long. Wait im sorry. They are talking about trumps press conferences. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you. We start with breaking news. Another Nuclear Threat from north korea this morning. Pyongyang is ready to strike at any time. Blaming the u. S. For driving the two countries to the brink of nuclear war. Lets get straight now to Cnn International correspondent Paula Hancocks live in seoul. This threat comes hours before the beginning of military drills between the u. S. And south korea . Thats right. Reporter it is monday when these u. S. South Korean Military drills start and every time there is military drills, north korea react and up the ante and are infur yiated about these drills. We have heard them suggest this is pushing korea to a nuclear war. We have heard this before but we are starting from a much higher level of tensions than we have been in previous years. We also heard from an article in a north korean staterun newspaper. They mentioned Vice President pence by name as well talking about when he was asking latin american countries to stop their support or any dealings with north korea and they call that a selfishness, arrogance, and outrageous interference so a special mention for the u. S. And not happy what he is saying as well. When you look at the drills that start on monday, they carry on for ten days. We hear from the you there will be about 17,500 military personnel along with south koreanss and other countries. Its a computer simulation than live fire or massive Amphibious Landing we have seen certainly in the springtime. Potentially, there are less provocative pictures as far as north korea is concerned but we will see how they react. Back to you. Paula hancock in seoul, thank you so much. North korea issues new threats against the u. S. , President Trump is getting back to washington today. The end of what has been a really turbulent two weeks away from the white house. The west wing is refreshed and renovated and ready for the president when he arrives this evening. Cnn White ReporterJeremy Diamond joins me now. The president was a lot more vocal on twitter yesterday about a free speech rally and counterprotest in boston. Tell us what he said. Reporter the president said he needed to wait for the facts which is why he didnt immediately contdemn them by name. Yesterday we saw Something Different take place as the president took to twitter, as the rally was still ongoing, to go ahead and slam, quote, antipolice agitators on twitter, despite the fact the protests yesterday in boston, many of them counterprotesting against a free speech rally that was protesting for the right for antiwhite supremacists to protest and those were peaceful yesterday largely. Actually, an hour or so after the president tweeted that initial statement slamming antipolice agitators is sounds like somebody got in his ear and the president took to twitter to applaud the protesters. He tweeted i want to applaud the many protesters in boston who are speaking out against bigotry and hate. Our country will soon come together as one. The president also tweeted that he believes the country has been divided for decade and that perhaps sometimes protests may be necessary to help the country heal. Jeremy diamond, thank you so much. Lynn sweet, of the chicago sun times, errol louis, political anchor for spectrum news, both with us now. Thank you fok here. Lynn, what is the first thing the president tackles . When he gets back . Uhhuh. Well, on his todo list is getting ready when Congress Comes back to deal with tax reform, trying to see if he could rehabilitate some relations with the republican senators who are alienated in this time to see if he can get 50 votes to pass this legislation. Also on his todo list what does he want to do to structure his white house in the wake of disbanning his counsels he was going to reach out and corporate and business america, and what is he going to do this is something i think we should keep his eye on you know, there is a saying close you keep your friends close and your enemies closer . Im not saying that steve bannon is an enemy of the Trump White House but with him on the outside i think we are going to see some new story lines emerge here and new things to look at. Just think how extraordinary it is, a Senior Adviser hours within leaving the white house is running a big media corporation. You didnt see sean spicer jump back into the public eye so soon. I think it may ab white house still struggling to be on the offensive and instead of react to go events because as we know in the last few days, they havent been able to push. But one other thing when you ask what is on his todo list to see if he can get this infrastructure plan off the ground and running an built support the coalitions you need to get something done. Very good. I want to talk to you about the nuclear im sorry. The north korean Nuclear Threat they are pushing out this morning. We know these drills are an annual event. The u. S. And south korea does this every year. I want to look what north korea said last year about this. The spokesman from military last year said this. The threats seem to be the same. The military xerexercises are a annual thing. The only thing is that President Trump is in office. Is that of concern . Yes. Certainly. What has changed, in fact, is that we have now got an american president who is answering in kind the sort of bombastic comic book talk. The boasts and empty threats and the ruin and raining down fire and all of this kind of stuff. So it certainly doesnt help. Some of the at the military level, some of the connections that were in place, however, tentative, just to make sure that accidents dont escalate and turn into a complete disaster, some of those connections needs to be restored and, if anything, strengthened. There is a little bit of concern there as well. I guess, finally, you know, on his way out the door steve bannon made some remarkable statements on the record to bob kutner what is and is not possible with the saber rattling. Some of this we have to get some clarity from this white house and with all of those generals who are running around, including the new chief of staff at the white house, im hoping that we will hear something that is clear and coherent that sort of takes us a step or two back toward safety because nobody wants to hear the kind of talk that we are hearing from the american president and north korea an dictator while people in the field with real weapons and doing real drills. We could hear something as early as tuesday when the president is in phoenix. It is being reported this morning that before he makes it to that rally in phoenix, the president is actually stopping in yuma at the marine base there. That is on the Mexican Border and plays into his conversations about grags. What do you make of that strategic move . I take it that this whole trip out west, one of the this is the furtherest west that trump has gone since he has become president , i believe. And it is very rare for him to go west of the mississippi. It is working to the base again. I think nothing seems to jar or not jar the base staying with him locally, but in the other side of it, i think if he go to the border, it only shows that his central promise that he is going to build a wall and have mexico pay for it shows no sign of being kept in congress because the budget that congress is going to be looking at and what they are taking up has the u. S. Paying for the first payments fost wall. It shows he is going back to a very core theme and the sense i have of this is that he wants to continue to play to the base at a time when he is also stressing he and attorney general Jeff Sessions stripping federal funding to cut crime in the socalled sanctuary cities. Errol this was written by roberts. She said in asking why he is coming to phoenix. What is your money on . I say all of the above, actually. He certainly does rely on the rallies to sort of present a public imagine, if only for a few minutes or certainly for himself as well. But president who is in command at least of his base. If he cant be the president of a unified country he can serm be the president of his base. He does that all the time. The notion that he would pick that as the location to pardon or at least speak some nice word about the maycounty sheriff is likely possible. He wants to weigh in the politics of it. Border politics as lynn said is really core to the trump brand. If he cant pull this off in the right way, it will be one more political setback after a week in which hes had quite a few. Lynn sweet and errol louis, always grateful to have you here. Thank you. Tune in monday night, tomorrow night, a special cnn event coming at you after losing on health care, of course. What will House Speaker paul ryan say as he faces his wisconsin voters . 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Award winning design. Award winning engine. The volvo xc90. The most awarded luxury suv of the century. This august visit your local volvo dealer to receive sommar savings of up to 4,500. That is dramatic. Eclipse of the century. It is. The big day is tomorrow. Total eclipse. Moon passes in front of the sun. We have got cnn crews all across the country where leach are coming together to watch this event. This will be the only time in their lifetime they will be able to watch it. Lets go to cnns Miguel Marquez who is in independence, oregon. Im guessing this is your first visit where you are counting down to the eclipse. Miguel, i know folks are excited. Reporter i got the best duty ever. Look. This is going to be like the super bowl, the world cup, the olympics. All of them put together. The game in this case will only be about two and a half minutes long. Millions and millions of people pouring in to that path of totality. Reporter countdown to total eclipse coasttocoast. This is the sun and this is the eclipse. And this is the moon. And it goes directly at it and then makes it totally dark. Reporter in its path, an astronomical celebration from oregon to south carolina. The place to be the 70 mile swath of full eclipse or totality. The mans shadow racing across the country through 12 states turning day into night. What do you think is going to happen . Like on, i dont think you really should look at the tsun. It might burn your eyes. Reporter good advice. In long lines, despite the rain for eclipse viewing glasses. Eclipse traffic is already heavy. We are hearing a lot of information traffic is real heavy that day. We are going to be staying home. Reporter cities and small towns along the path of totality preparing for massive crowds. You think you can literally double. Quadruple size of this place overnight. Very much so. And the people will be spread out through town. Reporter in idaho, all hands on deck for massive crowds across the country, friends staying with friend, families coming together. Millions on on the move, even camping out for this once in a lifetime happening. Youve been planning this trip for how long . At least seven years. Reporter seven years . Yes. We got two vehicles with truck campers and left at 4 30 in the morning and got here at 3 30 in the afternoon. Reporter in the path of totality . Total eclipse of the theme for everything from dark of day wine in nebraska to martinis in oregon. We take the martini glass and rim it with oreo crust. Reporter and eclipse cal doughnuts. A chocolate top with the sun ring around it. When you break it open, its full of sunshine, orange creamsicle flavoring. Reporter this eclipse unique for the u. S. The last time one went coasttocoast here 1918. Woodrow wilson was president and the First World War was nearing its end. Now one other interesting thing about this eclipse. The path of this takes it only through the u. S. The last time that happened . 1257, king henry iii was on the throne in england and about 200 years before columbus black and blue born so the u. S. Wasnt even thought of as a country at that point. People are incredibly excited for this one. Back to you guy. What youre saying is its been a while . Been a few years . Reporter its been a minute a minute. A minute. Independence, oregon, thanks so much, miguel. Allison chinchar keeps bringing us these glass and we are bitter. She brings us these glasses to show everybody and they are cool and everything. You look good in them. I feel fashionable here. However, we have to give them back after every shot. When i say give them back, we had these last hour. We had to return them before receiving them again for this shot and now we have got to give them back immediately after this. They are under guard. The sad part they probably cost 2 to make but we have them under lock and key because so many people. A lot of places have run so so many people are asking. I think in the last 24 hours ive had at least a dozen people ask me if those could go missing the ones that the Weather Department are using. This is a big event. Everybody wants to this. A very select few will be able to. That is going to start in oregon around 1 15 eastern time. Okay . So you have to change your time zone for this. Eventually hit around kansas city at 2 00 eastern time. And then eventually cross past charleston, south carolina, just shortly before 3 00 in the afternoon. But the ultimate question that everybody wants to know is what is the weather going to be like . Because if you have rain, if you have cloud, youre not going to get the best view for that eclipse. Here is what we have. Out to the west, states like oregon and idaho and even into wyoming, rain is not going to be a factor. However, especially in oregon you may have some haze from some of the wildfire smoke that is out there. Technically that will not ruin your eclipse viewing. If anything it may change the coloring a little bit maybe to a mitt bit red or orange hue because of the smoke and hazes effect on that coloring. When you move further east that changes entirely. We have not just some rain chances in the forecast for places like kansas city and des moines and lincoln but damaging winds and potential for isolated tornado or two and large hail. If youre in those reason have your weather alerts ready if you need to pack up the camping equipment and go to to a safe place. To the south and east places like columbia and charleston, south carolina, a potential for a few isolated showers and thunderstorms in the forecast here. The question is going to be some place like nashville where its not supposed to rain until late at night, but you may have some cloud that develop ahead of time. We talked about this ahead of time. Its like the folks that say i cant get sun burned. Its cloudy out. Even if its cloudy during the eclipse you have to have the glasses. Make sure that you still have these on. If you are in totality, you can take these off once everything lines up perfectly for, say, about that one and a half to twominute time frame. Until then you have to keep glasses on. So just make sure that you have a pair. If you dont, check your local animal shelters. A lot of them are taking charities so that might be the best choi. Where can i get a boat . I cant get glasses so i certainly cant get a boat allison, thank you. Lets turn to a serious story here. North korea issuing another Nuclear Threat. We go inside the air base in south korea where pilots say they are ready. Also, another charity has pulled the plug on an event at the president s florida resort. We will tell you what that means on. I love you. Love you too, dad. 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