Other cities included in the path of totality will be Austin and Dallas, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio; and Buffalo, New York;

There will be several more solar eclipses between now and then around the globe, but most of North America will not be able to see them. In downtown Charleston, the last point in the path of totality, crowds of tourists — some in special eclipse T-shirts and star-printed trousers — had staked out prime spots on the bustling city’s storied waterfront. LATEST STORIES > Americans cheer as total solar eclipse spreads across country > Illinois town gears up to become heart of U.S. eclipse > South Carolina aquarium to monitor animal behavior during eclipse > Solar eclipse presents first major test of power grid in renewable era > Millions of Americans to gaze upon Monday's once-in-a-lifetime eclipse > Solar eclipse to be streamed live for first time, from balloons > Lights, camera, corona: Hollywood embraces the eclipse > Self-sufficient eclipse chasers hit the road to 'totality' > Forest rangers, fire crews brace for eclipse watchers to descend on U.S. West > Citizen scientists will take to the field for U.S. eclipse > Oregon coastal city at 'double ground zero' braced for eclipse > America's total eclipse floods market with fake sunglasses GRAPHIC > Solar eclipse in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2fNQHFb SLIDESHOW > Eclipse over America http://reut.rs/2vX9dPj

VIDEO > Americans get ready to view solar eclipse https://reut.rs/2iiJ0Ye (Compiled by New York newsroom; Editing by Bill Trott) “It is such an incredible, sensory-overload kind of event,” eclipse-chaser Fred Espenak, a retired NASA astrophysicist, told AFP of the first total solar eclipse he saw in the United States back in 1970.
Millions of United States residents and visitors are able to witness a total solar eclipse that crosses through North America. It is the first total solar eclipse visible across the entire contiguous United States since the solar eclipse of June 8, 1918.