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Mexico. There are now 159 confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide with ten deaths in washington state. Also throughout the u. S. , 57 schools are closed today. A majority of those in washington and new york. Amazon is recommending all 50,000 of its employees in the seattle area work from home until the end of this month after an employee there tested positive. Several airlines including united and jetblue are scaling back domestic flights. And new forecasts shows the Airline Industry as a whole c...

Airlines and jetblue announcing they are reducing flights because of coronavirus. So we are starting to see this massive impact that the outbreak is having economically, socially. Dr. Sanjay gupta is standing by to gives his perspective. Lets begin with dan simon, live in San Francisco, near that cruise ship. Dan, whats happening . Well, hi, alisyn. Ive been talking and texting with people on board the princess cruise ship. The staff is doing everything they can to make things appear to be norma...

Fears skyrocket. The combination forcing halt in trading this morning after stocks lost 7 shortly after the opening bell. And now the white house is inviting wall street executives and that includes bank ceos to a meeting this week on coronavirus as President Trump huddles with his advisers on this issue and that meeting is set as a number of confirmed cases jumps to 100,000 worldwide and that includes this cruise ship where at least 21 people have tested positive for coronavirus. These are live...

House, brook, where we have been going back and forth on whether or not this trip was happening, and that statement from the white house saying he didnt want to interfere in their mission was kind of confusing from the start because b of course they had planned this trip over a week ago. We confirmed on sunday he was going. Its not like they hadnt considered this and what a president ial visit would, of course, do at the cdc at their headquarters in atlanta. He is going. He is there today. Hes o...

Does so many things well, and i think our Public Health system at times can do so many things well. Right now, i think were woefully underprepared. And i dont know what our the talks you and i are going to have next week, i dont know what were going to be talking about and im frightened to talk about that right now. Its within all of us. How i behave affects your health. How you behave affects my health. Never have we been so dependent on each other, at least in my lifetime, and we should rise t...

I think ive heard a lot of other people, is shelter in place really the right terminology for this, if you still can go outside, which you should be able to go outside. Maybe theres a different term. And were all learning together. This is brand new thing were face, so i think, you know, how you define things and you you name things is going to matter so it really settles in for people. Again, more than half of all californians now under well call it stay at home orders for now. Well check in wi...

This is new day. Its thursday, march 5th, 6 00 here in new york. There is news in the coronavirus outbreak. A cruise ship off of San Francisco not allowed to dock this morning with more than 2,000 passengers on board. 21 people on board the princess grand cruise ship already showing potential coronavirus symptoms. One man who traveled on the ship last month has died. Californias governor says theyre air lifting test kits immediately. Upwards of more than 5,000 passengers who have traveled on tha...

Princess ship, they have been tested. Until those results come in, the vessel will not be permitted to dock. Four California Air National Guard troopers delivered the test kits to the ship in this dramatic Helicopter Mission that took place yesterday. Look how empty the ships decks are. There are more than 3500 people on this vessel now. Every passenger has been told to stay in his or her cabin. Were also learning that a 72yearold man who was on the most recent trip on that ship just passed away...

Frustrations and faiths. I didnt meet the criteria because i didnt travel out of the United States to one of the countries and i dont know what virus i have. I am running a fever and i have chest congestion and nobody can test. I hope god tells me no, you are getting better. We begin the hour right there with american lives interrupted. Just about everything we do looks different today. Whats becoming a scary ritual for us to report, coronavirus ticking up shy of 1700 here in the United States, ...

System. Thats why i went to President Trump and said, look, ill work to flatten the curve. Im going to expand capacity in existing hospitals, but i need to find new hospital beds in 45 days which is almost an impossible under taking. We need the army corp. Of engineers in here. I need fema in here. I need extra equipment. Thats the game plan. Yes, flatten the curve. I dont believe youll ever get the curve down low enough where it meets the capacity of the Health Care System. Youve seen, im sure,...