making news in america this morning, overnight president trump revealing his strategy for the war in afghanistan. ruling out a withdrawal. his harsh words for the neighboring country pakistan. we're live in washington with details. tensions flair overnight at a city council meeting in charlottesville. watch as protesters storm the room with signs and hear what they're demanding. breaking right now, dozens injured near philadelphia as a train crashes into a parked train. the details coming in. and one last look at the solar eclipse. see the highlights as it made its way across the country and we'll also show you the view from space and the traffic jams back on earth and the first family taking part.

great news a lot got to see it. bad news they're still stuck in traffic on the way back home as we say good morning on a tuesday. we start with the president ready to rev up supporters after laying out his war plan for afghanistan. >> he's holding a make america great again rally in phoenix ignoring a request from the mayor to delay it and jim mattis skipped the president's speech today or yesterday, rather heading to iraq but it appears the president is taking his advice on afghanistan. >> yeah mr. trump announced that he's not pulling out of america's longest war any time soon but he's staying away from time lines and specific numbers on u.s. troops. abc's arlette saenz has the latest. >> reporter: in a prime time address to the nation, president trump placed his own stamp on the 16-year war in afghanistan. >> we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists.

>> reporter: with u.s. troops sitting before him the c made it clear he's listening to his generals who say the way to beat the taliban and isis is with more boots on the ground. the announcement marks the stark reversal from mr. trump's position as a private citizen. >> what are we doing? let's get with it. get out of afghanistan. >> reporter: after consulting his national security team including a recent meeting at camp david seen in this white house montage, the president admits he's changed his mind. >> my original instinct was to pull out but all my life i've heard that decisions are much diff sit behind the desk in the oval office. >> reporter: the president did not say how many more u.s. troops he would send to afghanistan. given that authority to defense secretary james mattis who favors adding around 4,000 more troops. one other thing not provided a time line for withdrawing u.s. troops. >> we will not talk about numbers ofor our plans

for further military activities. >> reporter: democrats pounced on the lack of specificity. ohio senator sherrod brown tweeting a commitment to win is not a clear strategy and our troops on the ground in afghanistan deserve more. president trump is placing new pressure on pakistan for sheltering terrorists insisting that must change. diane and kendis. >> we'll sear more about this at today's rally. arlette, thanks. the president kicked off that speech on afghanistan with a call for peace and unity here at home. >> he seemed to be trying to do some damage control after blaming both sides for the violence in charlottesville and he held up members of the military as inspiration to help the country heal its divisions. >> they wound inflicted upon a single member of our community is a wound inflicted upon us all. when one part of america hurts, we all hurt. and when one citizen suffersn

injustice, we all suffer together. >> the president added there is no room for prejudice, bigotry or hate. but his remarks on charlottesville from last week are taking a toll. our new poll shows 56% of americans disapprove of the president's response to the events in charlottesville. meanwhile anger boiled over in charlottesville again overnight at the first city council meeting since those uted down and other city officials calling on them to resign. they slammed the decision to grant a permit to hate groups and blasted the police response to the violence. several people were charged with disorderly conduct. house speaker paul ryan delivered his sharpest criticism yet to the president's comments about charlottesville. ryan was asked if he would condemn trump's statement. the speaker said he thought trump's comments last monday were pitch perfect. it was what trump said the following day that ryan didn't quite care for. >> he made comments that were much more morally ambiguous.

much more confusing and i do think he could have done better. i think he needed to do better. >> ryan also denounced trump's statement about there being fine people on both sides in charlottesville and he said he would not supporttion to censu his comments. police in spain say they ended the threat from the terror cell responsible for last week's terror attacks after killing a suspect. the 22-year-old man was killed after being found in a vineyard near barcelona. he's believed to be the driver of the van that barreled down a crowded promenade last thursday killing 13. he was carrying a bag full of knives when police fou and rescuers are working through the night after an earthquake hit an ialian coast.r, baby. now they're still trying to free that baby's two women, however, died and more than two d ozen injured by that magnitude 4.0e a look at your weather. the latest radar acentrated ove southern hern il that hit kansas c dumping up to six inches flooding low-lying areas and triggering flash flood warnings into this morning. just north of the city rivers

and dams were inundated and caused widespread power outages. more heavy rain expected for that region today. and the weather was near of people converged on the 70-mile-wide path of totality. across 14 states from o in the otal solar now the trafficjam.afte influxtretched forme areas. >> want t from high aboveturing this amazing image the moon's shadow as i coast to coast. >> looks eerie. >> president trump and the first lady also caught a glimpse of the eclipse with their son barron. the president even dared -- he apparently glanced right up at the sun directly without the glasses on before all three then decided to play it safe and put on. still ahead, chemist just discovered something about avocados and itve

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