Trumps on the White House balcony join the millions watching eclipse as totality sweeps eastwards across the US in celestial event-of-a-lifetime

The total solar eclipse began in Oregon at just after 9am PDT and will travel from coast to coast over the next 90 minutes, ending just before 3pm EDT in South Carolina. While the total solar eclipse, where the moon completely blocks out the sun plunging the area into twilight, while be seen from 14 states, the rest will see at least a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun. In Oregon, locals ran out of their homes, with eclipse glasses or homemade contraptions in hand, to watch the moon fully cover the sun, blotting out all but the halo-like solar corona. This is the first time America has experienced a solar eclipse in 99 years.