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Tim Lucas looks through a telescope as he gets ready to view the total solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Spring City, Tenn. (Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)
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The Latest: 1st US coast-to-coast total eclipse begins
Tim Lucas looks through a telescope as he gets ready to view the total solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Spring City, Tenn. (Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)
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  • Tim Lucas looks through a telescope as he gets ready to view the total solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Spring City, Tenn. (Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)
  • FILE - In this July 25, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan says the nation’s leaders “have an obligation” to steer the country past “the passions of the moment.” His remarks come after President Donald Trump drew bipartisan criticism for saying “both sides” were responsible for this month’s deadly clash between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
  • FILE- In this Aug. 8, 2017, file photo, newly acquired Buffalo Bills receiver Anquan Boldin makes a catch during passing drills at NFL football training camp in Pittsford, N.Y. Boldin abruptly announced his retirement just under two weeks after signing with the Buffalo Bills. General manager Brandon Beane made it official Sunday, Aug. 20, by saying the team respects Boldin's decision to retire. (Jaime Germano/Democrat & Chronicle via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this July 25, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan says the nation’s leaders “have an obligation” to steer the country past “the passions of the moment.” His remarks come after President Donald Trump drew bipartisan criticism for saying “both sides” were responsible for this month’s deadly clash between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
  • The moon is seen as it starts passing in front of the sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, in Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
  • FILE - In this file photo taken on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov smiles at a briefing in the Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia. Antonov, who has gained the reputation of a hawk during his earlier tenure at the Defense Ministry, was named the new Russian ambassador to the United States on Friday. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2016, file photo, Clemson defensive lineman Christian Wilkins celebrates after a Clemson sack of Auburn quarterback Jeremy Johnson during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Auburn, Ala. Clemson is in the No. 5, spot in the Associated Press' preseason media poll. If the offense needs some time to find its way, the defense has potential to pick up the slack. No team in the country has two better defensive linemen than Wilkins and Dexter Lawrence. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
  • Police block the road near San Sadurni de Noya, Spain, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A police operation was underway Monday in an area west of Barcelona, and a Spanish newspaper reports that the fugitive in the city's van attack has been captured. Regional police said officers shot a man wearing a possible explosives belt in Subirats, a small town 45 kilometers (28 miles) west of Barcelona. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
  • The USS John S. McCain is seen docked at Changi naval base after its accident Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 in Singapore. The USS John S. McCain was docked at Singapore's naval base with "significant damage" to its hull after an early morning collision with the oil tanker Alnic MC as vessels from several nations searched Monday for missing U.S. sailors. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
  • This February 2014 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Marcellus Williams. Attorneys for Williams are asking the Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Eric Greitens to halt his scheduled execution citing DNA evidence that they say exonerates him. Williams is scheduled to die by injection Aug. 22, 2017, for fatally stabbing former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle during a robbery at her University City home in 1998. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP)
  • Steubenville, Ohio, police officers, Jefferson County Sheriff's Department deputies and other investigators work following an ambush-style shooting of Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, on the Court Street side of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio. Bruzzese was shot and wounded Monday morning as he walked toward his county's courthouse, and a suspect was killed after a probation officer returned fire, officials said. (Mark Law/Herald-Star via AP)
  • Armed police officers stand guard near Subirats, Spain, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A police operation was underway Monday in an area west of Barcelona, and a Spanish newspaper reports that the fugitive in the city's van attack has been captured. Regional police said officers shot a man wearing a possible explosives belt in Subirats, a small town 45 kilometers (28 miles) west of Barcelona. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
  • French police cordon off the area after a van, center, rammed into two bus stops in the French port city of Marseille, southern France, Monday Aug.21, 2017. A van rammed into two bus stops in the French port city of Marseille on Monday, killing one person and injuring another, a police official said. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
  • FILE -- In this Nov. 15, 2015, file photo, Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk holds a press conference at the police headquarter in Beirut, Lebanon. Machnouk said Monday that the country's police intelligence played a major role in foiling a plot to bring down an Emirati passenger plane that was supposed to take off from Sydney in Australia to the United Arab Emirate capital of Abu Dhabi. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2017 file photo, maestro Gustavo Dudamel of Venezuela conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during the traditional New Year's Concert at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a televised appearance Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, said the musical director had been deceived by Venezuela’s enemies into betraying the socialist government that had for years generously supported the world-famous El Sistema musical education program. Dudamel for years toured with El Sistema ensembles and even appeared alongside Maduro in 2014 amid a wave of anti-government unrest to survey plans for a concert hall to be built in his name. But he publicly broke with the government in May after a member of El Sistema was killed in another wave of protests. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
  • Louisiana State University officially has a new live tiger mascot on its campus. The tiger arrived in Baton Rouge last week, coming from a rescue facility in Okeechobee, Fla. The university announced in a statement that the tiger began its "reign" as Mike VII on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, the first day of the fall semester. He is an 11-month-old male Siberian-Bengal mix. (John Ballance/The Advocate via AP)
  • Two women cry at a memorial tribute in Las Ramblas, after a terror attack that killed 14 people and wounded over 120 in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
  • Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, to the right of the podium, is joined by top U.S. and Afghan military leaders for the launch of the Afghan Army’s new special operations corp on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, at Camp Morehead, a training base southeast of Kabul. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)
  • Bolts and rubble are exposed atop a pedestal that had held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee which was removed from the University of Texas campus early Monday morning, Aug. 21, 2017, in Austin, Texas. University of Texas President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become "symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism."(AP Photo/Eric Gay)
  • Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, to the right of the podium, is joined by top U.S. and Afghan military leaders for the launch of the Afghan Army’s new special operations corp on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, at Camp Morehead, a training base southeast of Kabul. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)
  • FILE - This March 4, 2013, file photo shows a sign for Wall Street on the side of building near the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets traded in narrow ranges Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, as investors awaited a key meeting of central bankers later this week and continued to monitor developments on the Korean peninsula. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
  • FILE - In a Monday, May 8, 2017, file photo, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview at the Fox Business Network in Omaha, Neb. Sempra Energy is buying Texas power transmitter Oncor for $9.45 billion in cash, wresting it away from Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Sempra said Monday, Aug. 21, that it will also pick up $9.35 billion of the company’s debt. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
  • Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes throws a pass during the first half of an NFL preseason football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Gary Landers)
  • In this undated picture provided by the St. Franziskus Hospital in Muenster, Germany, Asia Faray from Syria poses with her daughter. Meet one of Germany's newest residents: Angela Merkel Muhammed. The little girl was born last week to a migrant couple who fled Syria's bloody war and decided to name her in honor of the 63-year-old German chancellor whose policies allowed them to start a new life in 2015. The St. Franziskus Hospital in the western city of Muenster told the dpa news agency Monday Aug. 21, 2017 that the little girl's first name is Angela, her middle name is Merkel, and last name is their family name of Muhammed. (St. Franziskus Hospital via AP)
  • Lt.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian Military General Staff speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. Russia said Monday it has intensified its air campaign in Syria to help President Bashar Assad's forces drive Islamic State militants from Deir el-Zour, a major stronghold for the group, killing an estimated 800 militants across the country this month alone. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
  • Jake Flyn helps direct dozens of workers preparing the home of the Georgia Bulldogs, Sanford Stadium, for eclipse viewing and the beginning of NCAA college football season, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, in Athens, Ga. The university, which is in position to view a 99.1 percent blackout, will open the gates of Sanford Stadium for a massive viewing party between the hedges. The first 10,000 guests will receive a free pair of glasses specially designed to view solar eclipses. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
  • In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, Aeroflot flight attendant Yevgeniya Magurina shows her summer and winter uniforms at her home in Lobnya, outside Moscow, Russia. The Moscow City Court is to due to rule in the case of two flight attendants who are suing Russia's flagship airline for taking them off the prestigious long-haul flights because of their looks. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
  • Belgian special forces soldiers sit on a rooftop with a guided-missile launcher, a few miles from the frontline, in the village of Abu Ghaddur, east of Tal Afar, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have launched a multi-pronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marking the next phase in the country's war on the Islamic State group. Tal Afar and the surrounding area is one of the last pockets of IS-held territory in Iraq after victory was declared in July in Mosul, the country's second-largest city. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko)
  • French police officers inspect a bus stop in La Valentine district after a van rammed into two bus stops in the French port city of Marseille, southern France, Monday Aug.21, 2017. At least one person was killed. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
  • FILE - This April 2017 file photo provided by NerdWallet shows Liz Weston, a columnist for personal finance website NerdWallet.com. (NerdWallet via AP, File)
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