It is 4 00 a. M. In new york. Good morning, everyone. The u. S. Trying desperately to contain the coronavirus. 14 americans who tested positive for the disease were among the hundreds of americans evacuated off cruise ships and other evacuees. Its special bio containment unit is a stateoftheart facili facility. Now other countries making plans to get their citizens off the floating petri dish and out of japan. This disembarkation process will be beginning starting tomorrow here in tokyo and last from the 19th through the 21st. Everyone on that ship is now going to be tested for the coronavirus by the end of the today. So it takes a couple of days to get those results back. So if you it was a few days ago and youre negative you can get off tomorrow. If you tested negative you wont be able to get off ship. We also know other countries are following the United States lead in terms of evacuating their citizens. We know the canadians, australians and italians among other countries are going
Well, donald trump is writing his prescription to stop the spread of the Novel Coronavirus in the United States and the effort will be led by Vice President mike pence. The president is trying to reassure americans the risk is very low. But he insists his administration is working with congress on funding and is prepared. Meanwhile sources say privately the president is worried the falling stock market will hurt his chance for reelection. Were very, very ready for this, for anything, whether its going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not were at that very low level. We were asking for 2. 5 billion and we think thats a lot but the democrats and i guess senator schumer wants us to have much more than that. Well take it. Well take it. If they want to give more, well do more. Were going to spend whatever is appropriate. I think weve done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum. Meanwhile, another new Dangerous Development with centers for Disease Control saying a pa
4 00 a. M. In new york, 2 30 p. M. In new delhi where the president is on a state visit. More on that in a meet. But first democrats are bracing a high stakes depate, a critical showdown tonight in South Carolina. Expect a much tighter focus on Bernie Sanders now the undisputed frontrunner in this race. A new marist poll shows biden within striking distance of sanders. The vermont senator has been working to grow his coalition, a Lesson Learned from his 2016 losses. Will put that to the est on saturday as well as the delegate rich and very diverse super tuesday states of california and texas. Other democrats face mounting urgency to blunt sanders momentum on super tuesday when he could amass a delegate lead hard to overcome. So far sanders rivals havent drilled down on his record at all. Thats a break. President trump, his super pac and surrogates wont give him if hes the nominee. They focused their fire on bloomberg last time who isnt even on the ballot in South Carolina. Cnns jeff ze
Months before america votes. Three sources tell cnn the breefr said russias interference is also designed to raise questions about the integrity of the election system itself. Its not a big surprise, but it illustrates the tremendous challenge the Intelligence Community has where theyre teeing up facts our president doesnt want to hear. The new revelations once again prompting an assault on the Intel Community. The first time we went through the president bamg so aggravated he fired the very first in charge of getting to the bottom of it. Of course fbi director james comey which then led to the mueller probe. Now round two and the president is unable to accept his victory could be legitimate squan adversary could already be interfering. Loyalists, nautica rear intel professionals are now overseeing national security. Heres White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. Reporter its really a fascinating turn of events were learning about and i want to start with last week. There was this in
Quarantined on the cruise ship off the coast of japan for close to two weeks. So many questions now. Cnns Lucy Cavanagh is at Travis Air Force base in california where one of the charter flights landed. She joins me now. It seems this saga is far from over for these folks. What are you hearing there . Reporter no one should be canceling their Netflix Subscription because all the americans who landed overnight are due for two more weeks of quarantine, they were quarantine on the diamond princess cruise ship since february 5th. The u. S. Government is doing this out of an abundance of caution, and it might not be the worst idea because were now seeing that more people are infected on that ship, the numbers rising, 99 people infected overnight. A lot of questions, though, about how those 14 sick americans were allowed to board the evacuation flights. Remember, kate, there were 46 americans who had been infected with the coronavirus. They were not allowed to go home. They had to stay in ja