Theyre enjoying the eclipse of the sun. Enjoying it everyone has been doing it throughout the day. Thats from the roof bridge. Now were coming back into the studio where its been quit a day of enjoying eclipsing. Heres what has happened. This is the monster wall. Monster lights, please. Thats what happened over there. This it is. Thats live in nashville. Thats about what i saw from my glasses here in new york. Sun moved again. Its been doing that today. Heres extra pictures. This is the path that its taken throughout the day. Started up there in oregon. Its now gone all the way down to South Carolina and South Carolina is where Jonathan Serrie is. How is it in clemson, jonathan . Its still a crescent sun. Amazing how much a fraction of the sun can illuminate the area here. When it was completely obscured, it was amazing how dark it got here. That was the only light you were seeing other than the dusk light sky in the distance. I saw a planet. Not sure which it was but to the right of the eclipse. Looked to bright to be a star. That is how dark it got. And then as the moon moved away from the sun, its as few you were at intermission and it got bright again and started heating up again. I could have used the natural air conditioning a little while longer, shep. Shepard thats why we did the sky bridge here. How do people feel now that its over . Yeah, were going to chip, can you round up some people, get them close here . Awesome. Im tethered here. Are you a clemson student . I am. A sophomore this year. First eclipse, i take it . Yes. My first ever. It was quite exciting. I never realized what a full eclipse would look like in person. Today it just wow thats all i can say. My first eclipse as well. I was surprised how quickly it got dark and how quickly it got light again. What was your Biggest Surprise . My Biggest Surprise, you see the eclipse coming over slowly and slowly and comes on you real quick. Everybody was wowed. Youre looking up at the sky. Its like a small ring of light. Something you have never seen in your life before. Having experienced what you experienced, do you think youll travel a Long Distance to see the next eclipse . Maybe. I might come around that time. This is something i wont forget soon. Shepard like a rerun. You watch them on cable. It was amazing. You heard the cheers from the crowd. When it was dark, it was like an Evening Concert except you didnt hear anybody yelling free bird. An amazing experience here. Just going from day to night and back to a hot day again. Shepard one of the things that we noticed around here is, that you have that corona, which we know is a poorlynamed area around the outside of the sun. The reason its a total eclipse, the sun is 400 miles the sun is 400 times larger than the moon. But the sun is 40 times further away with us from the moon, which works together nicely. If you were on other planets and dealing with other stars and trying to do the same thing with the moon, unless all those numbers were the same, it wouldnt be the same thing. As far as eclipses go, it hasnt always been fancy glasses and parties. According to one legend from ancient china, people were scared that a dragon might eat the sun. Always something to consider. So i that banged drums and shot arrows to chase it away, which as the prompter says now did not work. Then the eclipse went ahead. The emperor was not happy with his astronomers. He failed to tell the emperor about the coming eclipse. When it happens, they lost their job and their lives. Sometimes an eclipse led to more positive outcomes, at least according to a story by greek historians. In 585, there was a battle. All of a sudden, the sun was covered by the moon. They stopped fighting and they made a peace treaty. Scripture mentions eclipses. There was a Solar Eclipse when the sky got dark. The hour of darkness at noon. There was an eclipse around 389 a. D. Around the time that jesus was crucified. Eventually astronomers in the 1700s provided scientific explanations for what seemed like super natural phenomena. Superstition didnt die out completely. In 1831, an eclipse inspired nat turner to begin the largest slave uprising in history. He tried to propagate when shall we rebel. And then there was a Solar Eclipse. He said then its time to do it and it turned into a rebellion. In the 20th century, eclipses were tools of scientific advancement thanks to albert einstein. In 1950, he predicted relativity would cause a discrepancy in mercurys orbit. The 1919 eclipse showed einstein was right. There you go with science. All of a sudden, you star the warring because the moon got in the way of the sun. Trace gallagher was there when that happened. The total eclipse is impacting local businesses and communities along the path, huh . Yeah, i just i can hear you. Were talking about this. Just to go off of your package that you just ran here. Its interesting. Throughout this thing people are trying to gain the system. You started in oregon and moved on down to illinois and kentucky and then down in the carolinas. People are trying to gain the system, see if they can race the eclipse. They couldnt do it. Pilots are saying what if we flew in and started and got the tail end of it or the beginning in oregon and could make our way. You cant. Even if youre in a fighter jet, maybe if youre traveling a little over 800 miles an hour, you can catch glimpses of it. Theres no way. You had the 9 06 a. M. On the west coast and then you had 10 44 in illinois area and then move down to the 2 00 hour in the south. So you cant do that. As the legend grows about these eclipses for hundreds of years youve read about these things and a lot of people used to believe that they were precursors of evil because in the beginning of the eclipse, you see the snake like shadowy figures on the ground. A lot of people thought that was a sign of evil and so they would always have these big seminars and these praying circles in the wakes of these eclipses. You should finally know, shep, you should really enjoy this because in about 600 million years, there will be no more Solar Eclipses. The moon will have moved out of orbit so far that it wont be big enough anymore to actually block the sun. Even though as you explained, its 400 times further, the sun is, from the moon and the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun. In 600 million years, Scientists Say at that point in time, the moon should be far enough out of our orbit that it will no longer be able to block the sun, which means there will no longer be any eclipses at all. Shepard im glad we live now. How about you . The next one, 35 years, 22 years, the partial things, you can catch one of those. But you know, 600 million years out, yeah, i mean, odds are slim. Who knows. Shepard you never know. Maybe your grandchildren will be around then. Youll probably be done by then. You know, stegall is in houston waiting for the planes to come back. Any sign of them . Shepard, theyll be here in about an hour. You asked jonathan glen. He did a nice youre explaining why science is science and why and researchers are interested in studying this. Were here with the most renowned scientists and theyre explaining to us that when you have an event like this, the planes that the nasa launch from this location earlier today, that were able to fly in totality for seven or eight minutes, it allows them to gather an incredible amount of data. Scientists say theyre betting understanding the sun and how it impacts the weather in space. That has to do with things like satellites. So how are pictures are broadcast and transmitted down into folks living rooms. So a lot of things utilized, space and the knowledge that is learned. They also have known that the outer area of the sun, as we talked about, the corona, its much hotter than the surface of the sun itself. So with the data that was gathered, theyre hoping to better understand why that is and how the heat is actually transferred across the suns surface. Weve been looking at the live pictures of totality. Theyre sort of streamer looking type trails coming off of it. Those are solar winds. Theyre looking at that as well. So there is a wealth of information to be gathered from this mission. Nasa tells us that it was successful. Theyve had some technical problems getting the images back down here to earth. The planes were flying about 50,000 feet in the air. As you know, most jet liners that we fly on commercially level out about 30,000 feet. So this is much higher. The reason for that is because there is no weather up there. Theres no dust, theres no particles in the air. That has given them a very good look with High Definition cameras of not only the sun but they were also looking at mercury as well, shepard. Mercury is closest to the sun. It has a symbiotic relationship. Scientists are interested in that, too. Shepard have you ever looked up at the sun with one of these pairs of glasses before today . I have never worn them. Its like a new look. Shepard its not. Im 53. I have never worn them before. We may babying punked. Because ive never looked at the sun before. Maybe its always shaped like that. Just maybe so. Shepard to be sure, im going to take these out and look at it tomorrow. If its not like this, well report it here. What was it again . Finally got it together. Been doing this since fluff was a kitten. Shes a full grown cat. Finally got it right. Got to do other stuff now. President trump heading to virginia this evening to deliver an address to the american people. In afghanistan, u. S. Forces have fought and died for almost 16 years. What we expect to hear from the president and what it may mean to our military. American sailors missing after the u. S. S. John mccain collided with an oil tanker. Real news is going on. Today has been fun, havent it . I enjoyed watching the eclipse along with you and the words like weird, dark. This is amazing, crazy, cool, i see some red on the sun. Awesome, awesome, spectacular, amazing, tremendous and huh . Huh . Well be right back. After a dvt blood clot. I sure had a lot on my mind. My 30year marriage. My 3month old business. Plus. What if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i made a point to talk to my doctor. He told me about eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. 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The pentagon reports more than 2,200 americans have died serving our nation since the war began in afghanistan. Its cost the u. S. More than 700 billion. Before he became commanderinchief, President Trump called for american troops to get out of afghanistan. Heres a tweet from 2013. We should leave afghanistan immediately. No more wasted lives. If we have to go back, in we go in hard and quick. Rebuild the u. S. First. Just last month though, the president said he wants to start winning again in afghanistan. John roberts is live at fort meyer in virginia. Thats where the president is set to begin his teach tonight. This is the president s first day back at work at the white house. I guess they finished the repair theres. Yeah, they did. He came back late yesterday. The first day without his strategic chief adviser, steve bannon. Theres a sense of lets get down to business and get the president s agenda moving. Maybe the stories of palace intrigue will diminish. 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Just because steve bannon has left the white house doesnt mean that his influence wont be felt at the white house. The president was tweeting over the weekend that he enjoys bannon and probably more powerful at breitbart. He left to join the Trump Administration. We can expect the president will reach out to steve bannon and vice versa to give advise on particularly how to deal with conservative as hes Going Forward with his agenda. Shepard any headsup on the speech, john . You know, i will tell you, shep, the white house officials are playing this close to the vest. Were picking up things on the periphery. The president is expected to announce that more u. S. Troops will be going to afghanistan. The number kicked around is between 4,000 and 5,000. Thats what james mattis supports. Thats what h. R. Mcmaster supports. The president may not mention a troop number. He may say ill leave that to the secretary of defense to decide. 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So were down to about 8,500 troops. 11 have been killed this year. An unusually sad year given were smaller and not playing a combat role in general. But anyway, the increase would probably sounds like get us back into the range of 12,000, 13,000 u. S. Troops. Far less than the 100,000 number that we were at a half decade ago. And with some of the units in the field, advising the afghanis as they conduct operations. That was the part of the mission that we were supposed to do the last three years under president obama who was becoming frustrated that skipped down over that phase and went to a lower force total, which wa