U.S. President Donald Trump watched the solar eclipse with first Lady Melania Trump and son Barron from the Truman Balcony at the White House
Daily Mail: Trumps on the White House balcony join the millions watching eclipse as totality sweeps eastwards across the US in celestial event-of-a-lifetime
* Eclipse has finished its trajectory, traveling from Oregon to South Carolin some 90 minutes later
* The deepest part of the shadow, or umbra, cast by the moon fell over a 70-mile-wide, 2,500-mile-long 'path of totality' traversing 14 states
* First Family gathered on the White House balcony to watch the first total solar eclipse to sweep across America from coast to coast in 99 years
* Dozen of celebrities including the Kardashian clan, Ellen DeGeneres and Serena Williams also watched
* Experts advised people to wear proper protective eyewear or risk lasting blind spots during the eclipse
* Many in the Midwest missed the eclipse as rain, cloud and even fog is predicted over several states
The First Family gathered on the White House balcony to watch the first total solar eclipse to sweep across America in 99 years.
President Donald Trump was joined on the terrace by wife Melania, his children Barron and Ivanka, and cabinet members including Jeff Sessions, for the once-in-a-lifetime event. At one point he even risked blindness by peeking at the sun without eclipse viewer glasses before an aide instructed him to put them on.
Darkness swept across the US on Monday as the eclipse traveled from coast to coast, ending just before 3pm EDT in South Carolina.
The celestial event began in Oregon at just after 9am PDT, and by 10.20am, the sun was completely blocked out except for a halo-like solar corona plunging the area into twilight. Over the next 90 minutes, the total eclipse traveled through 14 different states until ending in South Carolina. The other 36 states were all treated to a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun.
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