Appearance since being extradited back to idaho in the disappearance of her two children. Yes, i understand the charge. The judge setting a new bail with the childrens grandfather desperate for answers. Caught on camera, dramatic rescue. A skier buried under the snow. Just stay calm, stay calm. Struggling to breathe. Im digging you out. The skier who arrived just in time to save her. And final appearances. Its tata to meghan and harry as senior members of the royal family, their last engagements as the couple make a whirlwind farewell. Hey, good morning, happy saturday. Lets get straight to the latest on the coronavirus emergency. Overnight two more people have died. Both of them in florida as we come on the air this morning. At least 234 people have been diagnosed with the virus in the u. S. According to the cdc. Also this morning President Trump has signed a bill allocating 8 billion to fight coronavirus. This as events all over the country are being canceled including the south by southwest arts and Music Festival in austin, texas. Some universities including stanford canceling inperson classes and going online instead. Meanwhile, everyone on board that cruise ship stuck off the coast of california will now be tested after 21 people on board already tested positive for the virus. 19 of them crew members. We have Team Coverage of this Global Health crisis beginning with abcs chief National Correspondent matt gutman who is in San Francisco with the growing concern on that ship. Matt, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, whit. Developments are coming in fast. Just hours ago the captain of the grand princess announcing that somebody on board required Urgent Medical assistance. They were maneuvering the ship closer to shore for a possible air lift. We dont yet know if this is related to the coronavirus on board. What we do know is in a infection and frustration are arising. Overnight conditions deteriorating aboard the grand princess. A passenger requiring immediate medical assistance. The captain informing passengers the ship was moving to 20 miles offshore. The coast guard has been called and a possible airlift of that guest may be possible tonight. Reporter the nature of the medical emergency is unknown. This comes just two days after test kits were lowered on the ship and a pair of medical professionals and hours after mike pence announced some of those kits tested positive. 46 persons were swabbed. 21 of those on the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. Among those were 19 crew members and two passengers. Reporter the 2,400 passengers already effectively in quarantine in their rooms learning about the infections along with the rest of the country. The ships captain voicing his frustration. And we apologize but we were not given advance notice of this announcement by the u. S. Federal government. It would have been our preference to make this news available to you. Reporter kari kolstoe is on board who her husband paul who is battling stage 4 cancer and now fears infection. I go from laughing and trying to look on the Positive Side to tapping my faith to crying hysterically. Reporter there are nine cases of the virus now linked to the ships previous voyage including that 71yearold passenger who died after exhibiting symptoms before getting off the ship two weeks ago. Right now its just numbing. Its trying to process this information and see what our life holds in the next couple weeks. Reporter no word yet where the current cruise will dock or when but outside this San Francisco hospital, theyre setting up tents to handle any overflow coronavirus patients. You know, all of us have stories. So although in theory we understand that nobody wants the ship to dock at their port, but we have lives too. Reporter federal officials tell us the 1,100 crew members on that ship will be kept on board for quarantine. The 2,400 passengers, they will be offloaded at a noncommercial port for testing quarantine. Now, federal officials tell us this has never before happened on u. S. Soil. Nothing quite like this and that is the reason they have yet to fully formalize a plan for the ship. Dan . Were in unchartered waters in many ways. Matt, thank you very much. The total number of states known to have infections is now at least 24. Officials all over the country are scrambling right now to respond and abcs Stephanie Ramos is right here in new york city where the governor has Just Announced 4,000 people across the state are in precautionary quarantine. Stephanie, good morning to you. Reporter dan, good morning. And one of those patients is being treated here at columbia Presbyterian Hospital while other new yorkers who are showing symptoms of the virus as you mentioned are being asked to selfquarantine. Breaking overnight, the first deaths from covid19 on the east coast, two people in florida succumbing to the new virus. One in the panhandle, the other near ft. Myers both in their 70s with recent overseas travel. In new york state the number of cases quadrupling, 4,000 people in selfquarantine. 2,700 of those in new york city. About half of the confirmed cases linked to a lawyer who remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition. This is like a flu on steroids. Reporter the state testing around the clock. Abc with a first look at new yorks department of Health Wadsworth Center in albany. The first state lab in the country to develop its own fda approved coronavirus test after the cdcs rollout of its test faced criticism. There has been a lag in the ability to get tested. Reporter fear now growing nationwide. Some primary and secondary schools shutting down including these schools outside philadelphia. And out west, the university of Southern California, stanford and the university of washington all canceling inperson classes for the next couple of weeks. In seattle, 30 Health Care Workers deployed to a nearby nursing home linked to ten deaths. Residents quarantined inside like susan hailey awaiting test results. One of my dear friends was brought in last weekend, and she died. She was in relatively good health. That really makes you stop and think of the mess that youre in. Reporter businesses also affected as some americans begin cutting back on social gatherings. Overnight the nba telling teams to prepare for the possibility of playing games with no fans. I play for my teammates. I play for my fans, thats what its all about. If i show up to the arena and there aint no fans in there, i aint playing. Reporter the city of austin canceling the south by southwest arts and Music Festival. Last year more than 4,000 people attended and it is a boom to the economy. Apple is adding to the growing list of companies asking their employees to work from home. As this virus spreads from coast to coast. Eva . Stephanie ramos for us, thank you. President trump touring cdc headquarters in atlanta after initially canceling his plans to visit the agency. While there he blasted washington states democratic governor. Abcs Mona Kosar Abdi is in washington, d. C. With that story. Mona, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you, eva. The president is downplaying concerns regarding the growing coronavirus outbreak. Even insisting that the federal government has the situation under control during that visit you mentioned to the centers for Disease Control in atlanta friday. A trip that was initially called off after there were concerns that there may have been employees there exposed to the virus. Now, while touring the facility, the president also addressed is widecale testing for covid19. The president now says that there is tests available for everyone. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. Theyre there. They have the tests and the tests are beautiful. Reporter at the moment the availability of the tests remain unclear. Dr. Anthony fauci of the National Institute of health says theres been a lag in the ability to get people tested. Whit . Mona kosar abdi for us, thank you so much. I do want to bring in our dr. Jennifer ashton, our chief abc news correspondent, Health Correspondent on all of this. First of all, i dont know how youre still standing. Youve been working around the clock. We do appreciate it. I want to talk about what mona brought up. The testing, theres been a lot of confusion over this. Trump says there are plenty of testing for those who want it. Mike pence, the Vice President acknowledged theres been a delay. But on the ground level what are the challenges that still exist in getting those tests . First of all, whit, we need to be able to test hundreds of thousands of people to really get a grip on true numbers here and how many people have been infected with coronavirus even those who are asymptomatic or showing no symptoms and we are far from that. The other thing thats important for people to understand is that if you came to my office right now and i thought you should be tested theyre not in doctors offices. Theyre not in urgentcare centers. Even the hospitals who have them still have to get approval to run the test on the state level and right now its just not possible to test everyone. Nor should everyone be tested. You know, common things occur commonly and right now for the average person coronavirus is not up there but we need to ramp up our capacity in a big way. Weve seen a lot of local officials saying, look, we need the tests and need them much more quickly. I want to transition to the cruise ship weve been talking about. Here we go again. Thousands of people stuck on this cruise ship floating out there. Of course, we had the diamond princess in japan. What have we learned about how to respond to this and what are we doing wrong here . We have to remember were over two months into this. The diamond princess cruise ship showed us that keeping people on a ship with this virus is not effective, nor is it safe. I think a plan could be swab test everyone as they get off the ship, send the people with severe symptoms to the hospital. Mild symptoms on home quarantine with direct contact and followup and even asymptomatic people on home quarantine. There is a plan and it protects Peoples Health in the short term. I want to ask you, elderly patients seem to be taking the brunt of this. What do we do to protect them . Thats the vulnerable population. When we hear school closings, understand its not just to protect kids but their grandparents, as well. Dr. Ashton, thank you so much. Well have much more with you later on in the show here. Much more on the coronavirus in the next hour including dr. Ashton answering your viewer questions and warning about scammers preying on peoples fears and trying to take advantage of the outbreak. Thats a terrible story. Thank you, dr. Ashton. Well see more coming up. Were going to turn to other news and a new shakeup at the white house. President trump ousting overnight his acting chief of staff and naming a new person to the job. This is the fourth person in three years to hold this position. Abcs Kyra Phillips is in West Palm Beach where the president is spending the weekend. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, dan. Overnight the president fired acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney after 14 months on the job. His White House Communications folks didnt even see this coming. Now, trump announced mulvaneys departure in a tweet saying i want to thank acting chief Mick Mulvaney for having served the administration so well. He will become the United States special envoy for northern ireland. Mulvaney was trumps third chief of staff replacing retired general john kelly who succeeded former rnc chair Reince Priebus in july of 2017. Mulvaney served in an acting capacity since last year. Dan . No longer in that role so lets talk about who is replacing him. A vocal trump supporter. Reporter the president says that congressman mark meadows will become his fourth chief of staff saying that he has known and worked with meadows for a long time, dan, and that they have a good relationship. Meadows is one of congress most conservative members. He served as the chairman of the House Freedom caucus until last year and is one of the president s closest allies. Dan . Kyra phillips in florida, thank you. Eva, over to you. Now to the president ial race and former Vice President joe biden racking up the endorsements following a super tuesday win as senator Bernie Sanders looks to slow down bidens momentum heading into tuesdays primaries in six more states. Abcs rachel scott is in st. Louis where voters will be heading to the polls. Good morning to you, rachel. Reporter eva, good morning. The next set of primaries are just 72 hours away and former Vice President joe biden and senator Bernie Sanders are both making a play for the midwest. Sharpening their attacks before the next states weigh in. With the next round of primaries on deck, senator Bernie Sanders is out to stop joe bidens momentum. All i can tell you whether it was iraq, whether it was doma, dont ask, dont tell, those were difficult votes. I was there on the right side of history and my friend joe biden was not. Reporter taking on the former vp at every campaign stop. Joe bidens campaign has received funding from over 60 billionaires in this country. Reporter biden who didnt hold any rallies yesterday warned against the primary becoming a negative bloodbath. Phoning into a closed door fundraiser 500 miles away in maryland, he said he is bracing for an increasingly negative campaign ran by supporters of sanders. Just days before the next contest, the vermont senator is focused on the midwest. He canceled his stop in mississippi to campaign in michigan instead. The Battle Ground state has the most delegates up for grabs on tuesday when voters in six states head to the polls. Biden fresh off the super tuesday surge says his campaign raised 22 million this week alone. And is racking up endorsements with eight of his former rivals including senator Amy Klobuchar now supporting him. While it was hard to end my campaign, i could not think of a better way to end it than joining joe biden. Reporter the democratic primary dramatically changed this week. Five candidates suspended their campaigns but that endorsement from senator Elizabeth Warren is still up for grabs this morning. Whit . Some big primaries coming up on tuesday. Rachel scott for us, thank you so much. A mom whose two kids havent been seen or heard from in months appeared before a judge in idaho asking for her 5 million bail to be reduced. Abcs Marci Gonzalez is in our l. A. Bureau with what went on inside the courtroom. Marci, good morning. Reporter whit, good morning. The judge granted that request lowering bail to 1 million but the mother of those missing children is still saying nothing about where they might be. Reporter this morning, nearly six months after her children were last seen, tylee ryan and j. J. Vallows mother is behind bars in idaho. Lori is presumed innocent. Reporter a day after facing a judge on five charges connected to the childrens disappearance. Her husband sitting right there behind her. Do you understand the charge in count three as well as the maximum penalties . Yes, i understand the charge. Reporter lori vallow who asked to go by her new married name lori daybell extradited from hawaii where she and chad daybell moved last fall, a day after police visited their idaho home for a welfare check. Police believe the couple lied about the childrens whereabouts. Saying they told officers j. J. Was with a friend out of state and told others tylee had died a year earlier. The defendant has not only misled Law Enforcement in their efforts to find the children, but she has completely and utterly refused to aid in any attempts to find the children even before charges were filed. Reporter 7yearold j. J. s grandparents in that courtroom friday, desperate for answers. I dont care what the judicial system does or doesnt do to lori. But i do care about what happened to tylee and to j. J. Reporter Lori Vallow Daybell is due back in court march 18th. Her Attorney Says shes eager to defend herself against these charges. Eva . Marci gonzalez for us. Lets turn now to weather and rob marciano. Hi, guys. How are you doing on this saturday . All right. Good to see you. Good to see you. We have a combination of storms coming together thats winding up on the shore of cape cod. It dumped snow in boston. The Boston NationalWeather Office is in norton. An inch and a half there. Wind blowing. Cape cod recording a wind gust of 61 Miles Per Hour as the storm winds itself up. Kind of a combination of the storms that brought Severe Weather across parts of the south and the great lakes storm and now its really getting itself together. Some coastal flood alerts because of high tide and full moon is coming monday night. We turn our attention to the west, a little storm coming through the northwest dropping into the Intermountain West tomorrow getting into the plains. Kansas city back through Oklahoma City on monday pushing it to indianapolis. Mostly rain. The next storm after that is more potent coming into Southern Cal