at girlup.org. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> it was the greatest show on earth. the sun and the moon put on a celestial performance for an audience of hundreds of millions, a matinee that saw the moon up stage the sun and bring darkness to daytime. the sun was completely blocked for a couple of minute and a band 70 miles wide that stretched across 14 states from oregon to south carolina. it was the first coast-to-coast total eclipse in 99 years. for many americans, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness and celebrate a wonder of the universe. we have a team of correspondents at key locations across the zone of totality, and we begin with

mark strassman. >> oh, my, it is almost complete. >> reporter: across america the clock work of the cosmos turned day into night, and then day again. and for one afternoon, millions of people looked up at the sky rather than down at their phones. >> oh, my gosh, there it goes! >> reporter: 200 million americans live within a day's drive of the path of totality, and many hit the road to witness the laws of nature go topsy-turvy. >> have a good time. >> reporter: 100,000 star gazers surged into madras, oregon, population 7,000. when the magic moment arrived, totality, people across the unit canry gaped in wonder, including our team of cbs news correspondents. >> this is incredible to watch. >> it is gone, it is gone. >> it is gone, we're in darkness. take off the glasses. >> reporter: satellite imagery showed the trajectory sweep. from the pacific northwest the eclipse raced 2500 miles across america's heartland in roughly

90 minutes. it was just as riveting from 30,000 feet. >> you'll have a nice view of the sun off the right-hand side of the aircraft. >> reporter: in greenville, south carolina, a baby girl born early was named eclipse. people everywhere tried to preserve this once-in-a-lifetime moment, using their protective classes to take photos on their smartphones and post them on social media, which exploded in wonder. this nats sa image shows the international space station crossing the eclipse. >> it looks a tiny bit like pacman. >> reporter: the char stone harbor resort and marina threw an eclipse party for 2,000 people. when totality arrived, the clouds parted just in time for jenelle and while alexis. >> humbling? >> very. >> that's the word, humbling. >> reporter: in many states highways are jammed because tonight's great migration of

star gazers are heading home. some have begun to plan for the next big solar eclipse which is in april of 2024. >> yes, and the crossroads, mark strassman, will be right 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. this is like the superbowl of eclipses. >> reporter: they gave superbowl worthy words as the u.s. caught its first eclipse 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. >> reporter: why is it important to study the sun's corona? >> the most simple answer is we're explorers. we have always been explores, it is in our genes and so we explore the universe. >> reporter: even though carbondale only got a clear shot of totality for about 10 seconds, nasa scientists told us they were able to collect valuable data in that short time, which will add to the information they gather nationally. they said the results of that 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 to have fun. we have reports from david begnaud in nashville and jamie yuccas in madras, oregon. first, jamie. >> reporter: tiny madras, oregon wassen would of the first places to watch day turn tonight. the big moment happened at exactly 10:19. >> whoa, look at that! >> reporter: 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. >> why did you cry? >> i don't know. it was awesome. >> reporter: old and young cheered the celestial event. like chris and eli white. >> we all came for the same reason, and we kind of like came with a small community. i love that. >> the sun looked like the moon instead of the sun. >> reporter: wasn't that weird sth. >> yeah. >> reporter: people came here 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 number of people at this camp site actually packed up before the eclipse happened so they could hit the road immediately after it ended, but if you 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 >> i'm david begnaud in nashville where "music city" celebrated the eclipse with a twang right in front of the grand ole opry. this was the largest city in the path of totality. 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 proudly showed off his handmade viewing box. at the local zoo, many animals didn't know what to do. the giraffes were clearly confused by nightfall at midday. then gary parker son. >> 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 route of totality promoting the event 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 it to last as long as possible. >> reporter: but as the moment of totality approached, so did a large cloud. parker son'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 it wasn't a total loss. gary is going home to louisiana to get some sleep, but he does plan to be there for the eclipse of 2024. he'll be 70 then. anthony. >> only seven years away, david begnaud. thanks. is that the rest of our food? what? no. how come you have cheese in your beard? because switching to geico could save you 15% or more on car insurance.

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steaming. it comes just two months after the "uss fitzgerald," an almost identical twin of the "mccain," lost seven sailors in a collision. the chief of naval operations is worried something has gone fundamentally 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. >> reporter: this time it happened ten miles east of singapore as the "mccain" and a liberian flag tanker, "alnic mc," were headed into one of the world's busiest ports. damage to the "alnic" was barely visible and its crew suffered no injuries, but its bow punched a hole in the "mccain" water line which flooded compartments where the crew slept. divers will search below decks important the ten missing sailors. which vessel is to blame is not clear. unlike the june collision

between "fitzgerald" and the philippine container ship off the coast of japan. last week a dozen officers and men from the captain on down were punished for mistakes made by the crew on watch. whichever is 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 standdown for all ships to review the basics of seamanship. he has ordered a ship of underlying causes, everything from the pace of operations to the way warfare officers are trained. >> thank you, david. next up, from wacky actor to fund raiser extraordinary the, remarkable life of jerry lewis.

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dick gregory was another comedienne with a social conscience and an edginess rarely seen on tv in the early '60s. >> you're a good audience tonight and treat me night because with president kennedy's new housing bill i might be your neighbor. >> he told cbs sunday morning this year he had to fight to have a chat with jack paar on "the tonight show." >> white comics could sit on the couch, a black comic couldn't. >> he moved his activism from the stage to the streets, rallying for civil rights and against the vietnam war and police brutality. on facebook his family said his death on saturday was caused by an aortic aneurism. he was 84.

finally tonight, the eclipse attracted a group of high achievers who saw a chance for a class reunion. here is jeff glor. >> reporter: no one in colin steele's physics class would imagine they would be together 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, okay. >> reporter: it is interesting you say they were all above you intellectually. >> i knew what their iqs were, every one is above mine. >> he used to tell us that but i'm not dead sure. i think it was one of his secret

schticks. >> reporter: barbara harrison is one of steele's students who made the trip to wyoming to watch the eclipse and share stories at the mangy moose. >> he is still teaching us. i think one thing about mr. steele is he was also actually a philosopher. >> the first day of class -- >> reporter: maura smith sullivan is the judge. >> he said, maura, can you come up and see me after class? i said sure. and i went up and he said, you know, maura, i think you got in this 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 shun shine ♪ you make me happy when skies are blue ♪ >> reporter: 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 incredible hospitality. i'm anthony mason in carbondale. thanks for watching. good night.

krebcbs 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 order put the president at orders with many of his supporters as well as promises on the campaign trail. u.s. crosshairs were trained on afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. since then 2400 american troops 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 rive 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 counterproductive it is for the united states to announce in advance the dates we intend to begin or end military we will not talk about numbers, 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, economic and military, toward a

successful outcome. some day after an effective military effort, perhaps it will be possible to have a political settlement that includes elements of the taliban in afghanistan, but nobody knows if or when that will ever happen. america will continue its support for the afghan government, and the afghan military, as they confront the taliban in the field. ultimately, it is up to the people of afghanistan to take ownership of their future, to govern their society and to achieve an ever. >> lasting peace. we are a partner, but we will not dictate how to govern their society. we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm jericka 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. >> reporter: i'm anxious right now. >> i am too. >> my goodness. >> reporter: looking at it, it is getting smaller and smaller. the crowd noise is going up. it is just amazing. >> reporter: oh, wow. they keep saying they don't know how you're going to react, and i

can tell you this crowd is very, very excited. anthony, this is just incredible to watch. >> it is again, it is gone. >> we're in darkness. take off the glasses. >> look at the halo. >> oh, my goodness. >> look at that halo. >> reporter: jamie, you disappeared on television. >> it is amazing. >> reporter: jamie yuccas has been eclipsed. >> reporter: it is absolutely 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: 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 the city was picked was because it was going to have clear skies. this is absolutely incredible. if you look around, it is like a beautiful sunset. you can see mount jefferson

behind me and some of the other cascade mountains in a smoky haze because they do have some wildfires burning, but it is incredibly beautiful here. people are ooing and ahhing. i want to take a second for people -- so you can hear their reactions here, anthony. [cheering]. >> reporter: isn't that great? >> wow. >> reporter: it is just 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. >> reporter: it is. >> it really is. >> reporter: the cheers, the oos and ahs, we talked to a woman who said she was planning to start crying because she felt it was such an emotional thing 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 we have a little bit of movement. i should probably put my glasses back on. >> it is coming back. >> coming back. [cheering]. >> reporter: the sun is getting a bigger cheer. >> here it comes. here it comes. >> reporter: so almost 100,000 people descended on this town in madras, oregon, usually a population of 6,00. on top of the traffic, fighting some of the lines in the grocery store, i think takes well worth all of that for sure. >> look at this. here it comes. >> reporter: 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 just want to -- here it comes. let's listen for a minute if we could. we hear some oos. >> whew! >> reporter: oh, man. wow. eerie silence there 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 harwood. we are right 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. >> a final flare of sunlight. piering tl peering through the lunar valleys. look how dark it is getting. check it out. 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. >> yes! [ cheering and applause ]

>> reporter: carbondale, illinois gets its total eclipse, defying the clouds. >> the cloud moved in for a moment and i thought, it is 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. wow. that is something. when i'm looking through the fl glasses you don't 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 a show for something like this. >> so much more than england. we had a partial eclipse before that just happened, but this is so big it is amazing. thank you for sharing it with s

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 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 listen for a moment. [ cheering and applause ] [cheering] .

>> reporter: you still see 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 sort of bursting through the clouds, or at least trying to. now it is getting much, much darker. that's the reason for this crowd noise. listen. [cheering]. >> there we are. that's totality right there. >> wow. that's stunning. >> reporter: it is an amazing sight.

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the university of texas 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, georgia. >> reporter: the entire carved surface spans three acres and is larger than mount rushmore. it depicts three confederate leaders, robert e. lee, stone

w wall jackson and there are calls to change that. at georgia stone mountain, removing this confederate memorial is more complicated. >> reporter: 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? >> well, we can remove it the same way it was placed there, using the stone cutters. >> reporter: the mountain is considered the birthplace of the modern ku klux klan more than a country ago, it is also where white supremacists clashed with

counterprotesters in 2015. but controversy has not stopped it from becoming the state's most visited attract, that even includes a laser light show. >> we understand the sensitivities 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 grandson of confederate president jefferson davis. while he believes monuments should be removed from public spaces, he thinks differently about stone mountain. >> because of the significance of the artwork i think it appeases people to look at it and 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, self proclaimed kkk member 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 worker has been traveling to baseball stadiums across america as a tribute to his closest friend from childhood. >> one of my very best friends. >> reporter: a plumber and devoted baseball fan named roy regal. roy died in april 2008.

>> and it was opening day. you know, that hit me good. so i came home reflective. >> reporter: he wrote a poem honoring roy. >> then i heard you kept on sleeping, a final opener indeed. >> 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 in minneapolis. >> it was indoors. what am i going to do. i can't pour powder inside. >> reporter: on the field. >> yeah. i got it, it was right there. this guy was the greatest plumber ever. this is what we're going to do. >> reporter: here is where the story takes an elbow turn. >> i could almost hear him laughing. >> 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. >> even though it ends up where it ends up, for those few moments it is in the ballpark. if you throw them on the field, where do they go? they're blown away, they're not there after a day or two. what's the difference really. >> reporter: i have to admit at first i found the whole thing a little sacrilegeous until we tagged along for the final flush here in durham. tom still had on our microphone and it picked up nothing but sincerity. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: which is why although i can't speak for roy's whereabouts tonight, i can tell you that 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

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