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I do not think this is the best person to lead the ticket. Im hearing my name mentioned. Your name wasnt mentioned, bernie, people were screaming at you. Although shouting is normal, so when people shout at him, what a pleasant conversation. Cbs this morning. Bernie had a message for one mr. Vladimir putin. Mr. Putin, if im president of the United States, trust me youre not going to interfere with any more american elections. Because if im president we wont get any more many shechin can hack ill make sure everyone gets a pebble to put in the coffee can of their candidate. You got in late. My eyes are like this today. It was quite a night. Sort of running on adrenaline this morning. I was worried about you there was so much incoming. Im thinking one or two of those people want to be president. They do. Welcome to cbs this morning. Democratic candidates unloaded on each other on cbss democratic president ial debate in South Carolina. Last night the front runner Bernie Sanders was repeatedly attacked over his ideas and electability. He argued he had a Grass Roots Movement behind him that can lead democrats to victory. In a news poll after the debate, nearly half the viewers we spoke to said they were nervous about the candidates. Almost the same amount said they were optimistic. Ed okeefe in North Charleston covered the last debate before saturdays South Carolina primary and super tuesday next week. Is this going to shake up the race, do you think . Reporter sure could. Were outside a civil rights breakfast here, former Vice President joe biden is trying to maintain his slim lead over senator sanders so he was on the attack, but he wasnt the only one trying to land blows. Im not going to be quiet anymore. Reporter often talking over each other. First of all let me tom, i think she was talking about my plan, not urs. Tking o math and it doesnt take two hours to do math. Reporter the candidates made their final arguments before the South Carolina primary and super tuesday. I will win South Carolina. Reporter senator Bernie Sanders went after new york mayor Michael Bloomberg. The economy is doing great for mr. Bloomberg and other billionaires. Bernie and i agree on a lot of things but i think i would make a better president than bernie. I like bernie, we came into the senate together but i dont think this is the best person to lead the ticket. Im hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight. Reporter sanders was pressed on his recent comments to 60 minutes about fidel castro. What i said is what barack obama said in terms of cuba. That cuba made progress on education. Were not going to win these critical, critical house and senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the castro regime. Bloomberg who will be on the ballot the first time next week faced his own attacks. The fact he cannot earn the trust of the core of the Democratic Party means hes the riskiest candidate on this stage. I have the experience, the resources and i have the record. And all of the side shows that the senator wants to bring up have nothing to do with that. Reporter in a state where nearly 60 of voters are africanamerican, issues of race were center stage. Im the only person on this stage who believes in reparations for slavery. My entire life ive been involved in the black community. We can no longer pretend everything is race neutral. Im conscious of the fact that theres seven white people on the stage talking about racial justice. Reporter and they weighed in on what they would do to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The president fired the specialist in this country two years ago, so theres nobody here to figure we should be doing. I would better coordinate for the next pandemic and prepare for this one. I would be on the phone with china, we need to be in your country, you have to be open, you have to be clear, we have to know whats going on, we have to be there with you and insist on it, insist, insist, insist. Reporter in our cbs news poll of debate watchers, viewers were most impressed by senator sanders followed by biden and warren. Campaigning continues across South Carolina and super tuesday states today. This breakfast hosted by the reverend al sharpton, candidates making their way here as voting is set for tuesday. The former Vice President sounded confident when he spoke to Major Garrett right after the ke bait. Im going to win. Reporter youre going to win . Im going to win South Carolina. Reporter by how much . I dont know. Reporter does it matter. Its important i win. Reporter one point is enough . One point is enough. Nerican knows me and my record. Theyve known me for 40 years. Major garrett is with us now from charleston. Good morning to you, major. Late night for you too. Good morning. Very much so, good morning. The Vice President row fefuso entertain any conversation he wont win. I know a lot of people said they hadnt made up their minds going into last night. Reporter his camp feels good about the night and after we had a chance to talk on the center stage theres so many people who came up and wanted to shake the Vice President s hands. Here in South Carolina im asking what are they telling you . He said they felt like we did what we needed to do last night. Theres no word that the momentum dissipated last night for joe biden. It is crucial for him to win, as he said. One point for him will be enough. I dont think thats true for the long ark of this campaign but a victory is a victory, joe biden hasnt had any. Hes had distant fourths, but he feels tonight got him closer. Everybody pointed their attacks at Bernie Sanders last night. Do you think that made a difference . How did sanders do . Reporter after the debate, talking to mayor pete buttigieg, the Vice President and others, they said senator Bernie Sanders is the undisputed front runner but his record in the senate isnt known. Theyre not evaluating yet as a potential president let alone nominee. Lots of attacks on the senators legislative record, rhetoric about other countries we heard references to cuba, et cetera. Whether or not his record is vetted, will be up to voters here in South Carolina. What voters here will suggest on saturday and give a signal to super tuesday states is do they want to take a second deeper look at senator sanders or run with the momentum he has built into this point in the campaign . Major, senator warren her performance rated favorably in the cbs poll, do you think she broke the streak last night and may see a bounce in terms of her performance . Reporter whats fascinating about her approach to the last two debates in the last two weeks has been to do two things, if shes going to attack, first attack Mike Bloomberg and if she says things about Bernie Sanders there, progressives are good, hes on the right track, im a better alternative. That tells us that senator warren also believes theres something about senator sanders thats not going to last. Because he hasnt been vetted hes going to fall and she wants to be the progressive alternative and at the same time make sure, helpful to sanders but also possibly to her, keep Michael Bloomberg and his millions and millions of dollars at bay. Thats a fascinating strategy. Im not sure its going to work, but it is the one she has played now consecutively in two straight debates. That tells you thats the one shes sticking with. Now to our other big story, the cdc says americans should prepare for a likely coronavirus pandemic now. They say an outbreak in the u. S. Is inevitable and the disruption to everyday life may be severe. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill where lawmakers were briefed yesterday. Is it being taken seriously on the hill . Reporter good morning, the cdcs warning about coronavirus coming here possibly runs counter to the president s message that everyone with coronavirus is getting better. Now some lawmakers from both sides are starting to question what theyre hearing from the white house regarding coronavirus, even as the president insists via twitter this morning that its the media that is doing Everything Possible to make coronavirus look as bad as possible. The coronavirus, which is, you know, very well under control in our country. Reporter even as the white house downplayed the disease. We have tightly contained this. Cdc officials warn an outbreak could be inevitable. Its not so much a question if it will happen but rather a question of exactly when this will happen. They dont have a plan. Reporter lawmakers from both sides challenged the white house tuesday on its 2. 5 billion budget for fighting coronavirus. If you low ball Something Like this, youll pay for it later. Youre the secretary of Homeland Security. Yes, sir. And you cant tell me if we have enoughs arepy raters. And the plan for stock piling supplies. Do we have enough face masks . For the department of Homeland Security we do. Im asking for the american people. For the entire American Public . Yes. No, i would say not. Reporter other countries struggled to curb the virus, italy now reporting more than 350 cases. South korea reported nearly 1,3 1300. In iran the deputy minister has now contracted the virus. It seems to be getting worse not better. Reporter President Trump seemed to say a vaccine is right around the corner. When youre talking about a vaccine, even to a scale it up, youre talking about a year to a year and a half. Reporter thats causing confusion on capitol hill. The white house is saying this is all but contained. I cant comment what the white house is saying. The people who work for the house is not saying that. Reporter thats exactly what the people who work for the white house is saying. The secretary of hhs argued yesterday afternoon that because the number of coronavirus here in the u. S. Has essentially not changed over the past two weeks its a sign that the virus is contained here in america. At least for now. Nancy, thank you. Dr. Ann shook, Principle Deputy director for the centers of Disease Control joins us from cdc headquarters in atlanta. Thank you for being here. A pleasure. As we heard nancy cordes allude to, theres mixed messages that seem to be coming at us on the coronavirus. On the one hand you have the white house saying its tightly contained and you have the cdc saying the spread of the virus here is inevitable. What are we supposed to make of this . It can be a confusing time right now as weve seen the Coronavirus Spread in china and now in a number of other countries. The good news is here in the United States the virus is contained with an aggressive approach weve been able to keep the numbers down, only 14 cases detected through our Public Health system and medical system and 43 other cases detected among people repatriated from hot spots in china or the cruise ship. But as we see in other countries we need to be prepared for when things change here. Your when and if scenario is unsettling for people. Do you have a timetable in mind and are you focussing on a certain part of the country . We need to be ready everywhere. Weve seen in other outbreaks there can be a popcorn outbreak, one community has an outbreak and another doesnt. You can see it in northern italy right now. We cant predict exactly where there may be community trance mission, we cant say for sure well get Community Transmission but based on what were seein in europe and the middle east its more likely we think than what we thought a week or two ago. What steps is the cdc taking to prevent a wider outbreak here in the u. S. . We have been working aggressively on a border strategy at airports and a strategy with clinicians to detect individuals who have the virus early and manage them appropriately. We learned a lot in the last few weeks about the virus. It doesnt seem to be as severe as we first feared but it seems to be quite transmissable and some people have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Were hearing you say the screening is in place for people coming here. What about the people that were infected but already here . What about those people . One things were doing is increasing Community Surveillance so we can find cases earlier so we understand whether there is virus circulating thats been undetected. Whos most at risk for getting infected by coronavirus . Based on what we know so far, the severe cases are primarily occurring in the elderly, in adults with chronic conditions like diabetes or chronic lung disease, we havent seen disease to any great extent in children, thats a difference with seasonal flu or other influenza. One of the drivers of our flu outbreak each year is the high rates of illness with children, but we havent seen that with this virus. Something were on the lookout for but that hasnt been detected so far. Thanks so much for being with us this morning, doctor. My pleasure. This morning President Trump announced he will hold a News Conference on the coronavirus outbreak with cdc officials at the white house. Its scheduled for 3 00 p. M. Pacific. And cbs news will be there. 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