next big solar eclipse which is in april of 2024. >> yeah, and the crossroads, mark strassman, will be here again in carbondale, illinois. we had a total eclipse today, there will be another one in seven years. tens of thousands came here to southern illinois university in carbondale to watch the total eclipse. some came for fun, some for the science. here is adriana diaz. >> reporter: totality was a golden opportunity for nasa scientists like lou gallo. >> this is game day, like the superbowl of eclipses. >> reporter: they gave superbowl worthy words as the u.s. caught its first glimpse in oregon. >> it is amazing, fantastic. >> reporter: because of the potential for data collection, nasa covered it like the big game. they aimed 14 satellites, flew ten airplanes, launched upwards of 70 data-collecting balloons

and deployed telescopes along the path of totality. why is it important to study the sun's corona? >> the most simple answer is we're explores. it is in our genes so we explore the universe. >> reporter: even though carbondale only got a shot of totality for about ten s nasa tells us they were able to collect data in that short time to add to the information they gather nationally. they said the results of the data could take months. >> monday means day of the moon, and for most folks it was a day to celebrate the moon, the sun and have fun. we have reports from david begnaud in nashville and jamie yu, ccas in oregon. >> reporter: it woregon was one the first places the watch day turn tonight. the big moment happened at exactly 10:19. it lasted precisely two minutes

and two seconds. eclipse watcher rebecca boyd. >> the light got so weird and it was like, oh, this world never looks like this. >> reporter: the town of 6200 estimates it packed in 100,000 spectators, including mona thompson. >> reporter: what did you think? >> i totally cried. >> reporter: why did you cry? >> i don't know. it was just so awesome. >> reporter: old and young cheered the celestial event, like chris and eli white. >> we all came for the same reason shall and we came with a small community. i loved that. >> the sun looked like the moon instead of the sun. >> wasn't that weird? >> yeah. >> reporter: people came from 30 countries and every one of the 50 states. once the sun's party ended, many jumped in their car to head home, like brits susan and paul weston. >> it was the place to come and see. >> reporter: little madras, oregon? >> yes. you're on the map. >> reporter: a numb per of people at this camp site actually packed p before the eclipse happened so they could hit the road immediately after

it ended, but if you go ahead and take a look at the highway behind me, it is pretty slow moving hours later. a couple of people told me they may stay camped here until wednesday to avoid any traffic jam. ♪ you've got that -- >> reporter: i'm david begnaud in nashville where "music city" celebrated the eclipse with a twang in front of the grand ole opry. when the moon swallowed the sun, the skies went dark and the glasses came off. >> you look through the peephole. >> reporter: grade schooler josh taylor showed off his handmade viewing box. at the lo zoo, many animals didn't know what to do. the giraffes were confused by nightfall at midday. then there was gary parkerson. >> for 50 years i've been waiting for today and it has finally come. >> reporter: he edits an astronomy magazine. he spent 15 months biking the entire path of totality and

missed the birth of his granddaughter. today was everything to him. >> you know, i didn't sleep at all last night, i was too excited. i'm exhausted, i'm exhilarated. i want this to last as long as possible. >> reporter: but as the moment of totality approached, so did a large cloud. parkerson's moment in the sun was ruined. but not his spirit. >> i wish i had seen the totality, but i got to see so much. i got to experience so much. i got to meet so many wonderful people. >> reporter: so itasn't a total loss. gary is going home to louisiana to get sleep but he plans to be there for the eclipse of 2024. there for the eclipse of 2024. he will be 70 your toilet is germ-ridden with mineral buildup. there for the eclipse of 2024. he will be 70 clorox toilet bowl cleaner with bleach is no match against limescale. but lysol power toilet bowl cleaner has 10x more cleaning power against limescale. so switch to lysol. what it takes to protect.

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deadly collision during routine steaming. it comes just two months after the "uss fitzgerald," an almost identical twin of the "mccain" lost seven sailors in the collision. the chief of operations is worried something has gone wrong in the way the navy operates ships at sea. >> our thoughts and prayers go out to the sailors and families of "uss john mccain" and "uss fitzgerald." we need to get to the bottom of this. >> it it happened ten miles east of singapore as the "mccain" and a tanker,al nick mc, were headed into one of the busiest ports. damage to the "alnic" was barely vigible, but its bow punched a hole below the "mccain's" water line which flooded compartments where the crew slept. divers will search below decks for the missing ten sailors.

which vessel is to blame is not clear, unlike the "fitzgerald" off the coast of japan. a dozen officers and men from the captain on down were punished for mistakes made by the crew on watch. whether the "mccain" or the "alnic" turns out to be at fault, a warship should be nimble enough to stay out of the way of a tanker four times its weight. the chief of naval operations has directed a safety standdown for all ships to review the basics of seamanship. he has also ordered a search for underlying causes, everything from the pace of operations to the way surface warfare officers are trained. anthony. >> david martin at the pentagon tonight. thank you, david. thank you, david. next up, from wacky actor to ♪ thank you, david. next up, from wacky actor to lysol max cover kills 99.9% of bacteria, even on soft surfaces. one more way you've got what it takes to protect.

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finally tonight the eclipse attract a group of high achievers who saw a chance for a class reunion. here is jeff glor. >> look at that. >> my goodness, there's venus. >> reporter: no one in colin steele's physics class would imagine they would be together on again this way. >> oh, wow! whew! >> reporter: but something extraordinary took root in that classroom more than 50 years ago in bethesda, maryland. >> 32 students, 16 ph.d.s. >> yes, sir. seven of them in physics. >> reporter: along with five lawyers, three doctors, a judge and a five-time jeopardy champion. what was the special sauce? >> they were all above me intellectually and i'm going to keep them well entertained. >> reporter: it is interesting you say they were all above you intellectually. >> i knew what their iqs are, every one is above mine. >> he used to tell us that, but i'm not dead sure. i think this was one of his secret sticks. >> reporter: barbara harrison is

one of steele's students who made the trip to wyoming to watch the trips and share a few stories at the mangy moose. michael hagan is another. >> he still is teaching us. i think one thing about mr. steele is he was actually also a philosopher. >> the first day of class -- >> reporter: maura smith sullivan is the judge. >> he said, maura, can you see me after class? i said sure. i went up and he said, you know, maura, class by mistake, but if you want to be here i want you in this class. that made a big difference in my life ♪ you are my sunshine ♪ my only sun shaun >> are these like your kids? >> yeah, yeah. ♪ please don't take my sunshine away ♪ >> reporter: jeff glor, cbs news, jackson, wyoming. >> with thanks to southern illinois university for their hospitality. i'm anthony mason in carbondale.

thachgs f thanks for watching. good night. >> cbs news, original reporting. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm anthony mason. president trump is staking out a new strategy in the 16-year-old war in afghanistan. the new marching orders put the president at odds with many of his supporters as well as his promises on the campaign trail. u.s. cross hairs were trained on afghanistan after al qaeda terrorists based this the country launched the 9/11 attack. since then 2400 american troops have died there, 20,000 others were wounded, and the u.s. taxpayer has forked over nearly a trillion dollars. despite all of that, the afghan government remains rife with corruption and controls less than 60% of the countryside. here is the president.

>> a core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one based on conditions. i've said it many times, how counter productive it is for the united states to announce in advance the dates we intend to begin or end military options. we will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities. conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on. america's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. i will not say when we are going to attack, but attack we will. another fundamental pillar of our new strategy is the integration of all instruments of american power, diplomatic,

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the next pillar of our new strategy is to change the approach in how to deal with pakistan. we can no longer be silent about pakistan's safe havens for terrorist organizations, the taliban and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond. pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in afghanistan. it has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists. in the past pakistan has been a valued partner. our militaries have worked together against common enemies. the pakistani people have suffered greatly from terrorism and extremism. we recognize those contributions and those sacrifices. but pakistan has also sheltered the same organizations that try every single day to kill our

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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm jarika duncan. the first total solar eclipse to pass across america in nearly a century is now just a happy memory. after months of anticipation on the ground, the sun and the moon did their celestial dance and it had millions of americans looking up to the heavens. the eclipse started in oregon and quickly worked its way to south carolina. here is a sample of our cbs news coverage starting with jamie yuccas in madras, oregon. >> i'm anxious right now. >> i am too. as i'm looking at it, it is getting smaller and smaller. soon we'll see it and the crowd noise is going up. it is just amazing. >> oh, wow. they keep saying they don't know

how you're going the react, and i can tell you this crowd is very, very excited. anthony, this is just incredible to watch. >> it is gone. >> reporter: it is gone, it is gone! we're in darkness. take off the glasses. >> look at the halo. >> reporter: oh, my goodness. >> wow. >> you disappeared on television. >> it is crazy. >> jamie yuccas has been eclipsed. >> reporter: it's spectacular. >> it is even more beautiful than i -- than i thought it would be. >> reporter: this is spectacular. yeah, i don't think -- you and i have never experienced this before. >> never. >> reporter: and you have about two minutes here in oregon from start to finish because we are tilted further away from the moon here in oregon than you guys are in carbondale, illinois, anthony. you guys get about 37 extra seconds than we do here in madras, oregon. i have to tell you, you know, the reason this city was picked was because it was going to have clear skies. this is incredible.

if you look rnd a, it around, ia beautiful sunset. you can see mount jefferson behind me and some of the other cascade mountains in a smoky haze because they have some wildfires wur wildfires burning. people are ooing and ahhing. i want you to hear their reactions here, anthony. >> whew! >> reporter: isn't that great? >> reporter: wow. >> reporter: it is spectacular. you know, as you're leading up to doing these stories, anthony, i'm sure you heard as well people describe, if they've seen it before, just how everyone reacts in a different way. i was feeling so anxious, like the mayor was, just to see this happen. now to take it in, it is just breathtaking. >> even on television it is stunning. >> it really is. >> reporter: the cheers and oos and ahs, we talked to a woman a little earlier that said she was planning to start crying because she felt it was such an

emotional experience for her. i think to be in a place like this -- can you hear the car alarm? apparently the car is excited about the eclipse as well, to the left of us right now. it looks like -- looks like we have a little bit of movement. i should probably put my glasses back on. >> it is coming back. [cheering]. >> reporter: the sun is getting -- >> here it comes. here it comes. >> reporter: almost 100,000 people descended on this town in madras, oregon, usually a population of 6,200. on top of the traffic, fighting some of the lines in the grocery store, i think it was well worg all of th worth all of that for sure. >> here it comes. they didn't want to speculate on exactly how many they think. i wouldn't be surprised if that number gets quadrupled today, or more. but people have --

>> there it is. >> reporter: people have found their own locations. i swrus wajust want to -- let's for a minute, if we could. we hear some oos. >> whew! >> reporter: oh, man. >> wow. >> reporter: erie silence in wyoming. we are just enjoying this as it happens. there it kuls. there it comes. wow.

>> reporter: so, yeah, that's -- that super it up nicely. going glasses on here, bill. we are on the edge of a total eclipse in carbondale, illinois. the last little bit of the sun is peeking out. but the cloud has cleared just far enough away. the final flare of sunlight appearing through one of the lunar valleys will make its way through. look how dark it is getting, anthony. check it out, look around. it is amazing. >> reporter: it is amazing to hear the crowd's roar echo across the campus. >> there it is. look at the corona, see it? >> reporter: there it is. >> oh. [ cheering and applause ].

>> reporter: carbondale, illinois gets its total eclipse. defying the clouds. >> the cloud moved in for a moment and i thought it was going to ruin this party but the forces of darkness united and did something good for a change. boom, here we go. look at that. [ cheering and applause ]. >> reporter: wow. that is something. when i'm looking through the glasses right now you don see a thing, it is dark. when you take the glasses off, it is a total eclipse. the ferrari family from england is watching right now. what do you think? >> it is amazing. everything has gone dark and it is just wonderful. i love being here! it's great! >> reporter: how do you think america does when it comes to putting on a show for something like this? >> so much more than england many we had a partial eclipse before that just happened, but it is so big. it is amazing. thank you for sharing it with

us! >> reporter: we're so glad you guys are here. this is the closest place you can see the eclipse for anybody who lives from the eastern seaboard all the way down to florida, that's about 100 million people. right now they are getting the show that they hoped for because the crowds are seeing a parting of the clouds, and that is really something special. as i look around here, everybody is looking up. there's nobody who's doing anything else. anthony, it is not going to last as long here as it did where you are, but, i tell you, it is pretty special. >> i love what you said, mark, about how one of the great effects of this occasion is that everybody is looking up instead of down. and then you hear this, which is -- which is thrilling. let's just listen for a moment. [cheering]

>> reporter: you still see the -- a little bit of the eclipse. we have a lot of cloud cover right now, but the crowd is going nuts regardless just because they've been waiting for this moment. we can see some -- i see some blueish and greenish colors that are bursting through the clouds, at least trying to burst through the clouds. now it is just getting much, much darker. and that's the reason for this crowd noise. listen. [cheerin [cheering]. >> reporter: there we are, that's totality right there. >> wow. that's stunning. >> reporter: it is an amazing sight.

this should last for a minute and a half here, a minute 36 to be exact. it is eerie how dark it became on the ground, it really is. >> well, if you missed this eclipse, you don't have the wait 100 years for another. the next total solar eclipse will pass across part of the united states on april 8th, 2024. you're watching the "cbs overnight news." ♪

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the university of tech as removed four confederate statues from its campus in austin. the monuments were taken down quickly right after a vote on the measure. the school wanted to avoid giving protesters time to organize. the statues will wind up in a museum, but the largest confederate monument in the nation won't fit in a museum. manuel bojorquez reports from stone mountain. >> it spans three acres and is larger than mount rush more. it depicts robert e. lee, jefferson davis and stone wall

jackson. there are renewed calls to change that. across the country confederate statues are being pulled down, hoisted up and driven away. but a georgia stone mountain, removing this confederate memorial is a bit more complicated. when you look at that carving, what do you see? >> i see three white men on horses still fighting a battle that was ended 140 years ago. >> reporter: edward williams is one of hundreds petitioning to remove or alter the massive monument. >> the images and the monuments and statues are a representation of individuals that wanted to maintain and keep a way of life that treated african-americans as non-citizens, and we want those images removed from public spaces. >> reporter: but how could you remove this though? >> we can remove it the same way it was placed there, using the stone cutters. >> reporter: the mountain is considered the birth place of the modern ku klux klan more than a century ago, also where

white supremacist clashed with protesters in irt tw, but controversy hasn't stopped it from becoming the state's most visited attract that even includes a laser light show. >> we understand the sensitivity of the carving. >> reporter: john bankhead is with the stone mountain memorial association. >> any changes to the park would have to come through the state legislature and a change in the law. >> reporter: do you see that happening in the near future? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: bertram hayes davis is the great, great grand some of confederate president jefferson davis. while he believes confederate monuments should be removed from public spaces, he thinks differently about stone mountain. >> because of the significance of that sculpture as an artwork i think it appeases a lot of people to look at that and i think it should remain where it is. >> reporter: one person urging people to move past the monument's debate is civil rights icon andrew young who feels there are bigger battles. still, this remains a rallying point for hate groups. a self-proclaimed kkk filed for

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we end this half hour with a tribute to a baseball fan. steve hartman found his story on the road to the ballpark. >> reporter: at the old durham bowl stadium in durham, north carolina, tom mcdonald is closing in, on closure. for the last nine years this retired new york city transit authority workers has been traveling to baseball stadiums across america, as a tribute to his closest friend from childhood. >> we were very best friends. >> reporter: a plumber and devoted baseball fan named roy regal. he died in april 2008.

>> and it was opening day. you know, that hit me good. so i came home, reflective. >> reporter: tom wrote a poem honoring him. >> i heard you kept on sleeping, a fine opener enindeed. >> reporter: but it wasn't enough. he needed to do more. so he asked roy's mom for some of his ashes. put them in an old planter's peanut can decorated with ticket stubs and made a plan to sprinkle the ashes at ball clubs all over the country. first stop, the old metro dome indoors. >> it was indoors and i said, what am i going to do. i can't pour powder inside sfoo on the field. >> i got. this guy was the greatest plumber ever. this is what we're going to do. >> reporter: here is wherehis story takes an elbow turn. >> i can almost hear him laughing. i said, okay. >> reporter: yes, tom decided the best way to honor his friend was to let him lose in the plumbing. he has hauled roy to 13 different ballparks, including

city field where their beloved new york mets play in the queens neighborhood of flushing. >> you know, even though it ends up where it ends up, for those few moments it is in the ballpark, right? if you throw them on the field, where do they go? they get blown away. they're not there after a day or two, so what's theive d differe really. >> reporter: i have to admit at first i found the little thing a little sacrilegeous. until the final flush in durham. tom had on the microphone and it picked up nothing but sincerity. which is why although i can't speak for roy's whereabouts tonight i can tell you tom at least is in a much better place. >> i think we kind of turned it around, yeah. >> reporter: steve hartman, on the road in new york. >> that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of us the new continues. for others, check back with us later for the morning news and, of course, "cbs this morning." york city, i'm jericka duncan.

it's tuesday, august 22nd, 2017. this is the cbs morning news. trains collide in pennsylvania leaving dozens injured. president trump delivers his plan for afghanistan. >> terrorists take heed. america will never let up until you are dealt a lasting defeat. >> and digging for survivors, a baby is pulled from the rubble after a deadly earthquake strikes an italian island. good morning from the studio 57