(Photos) America witnesses it's first solar eclipse in 99 years

America today witnessed it's first solar eclipse in 99 years.The total solar eclipse began in Oregon at just after 9am .
While the total solar eclipse, where the moon completely blocks out the sun plunging the area into twilight, while be seen from 14 states, the rest will see at least a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun.

In Oregon, locals ran out of their homes, with eclipse glasses or homemade contraptions in hand, to watch the moon fully cover the sun, blotting out all but the halo-like solar corona.