And fighting for freedom, a florida man serves decades for a murder he doesnt commit. What hes telling us before judges decide if he should have a new trial. Its wednesday, march 11th, 2020. Well have the latest updates on the coronavirus after todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful. But be calm. Its really working out. And a lot of good things are going to happen. The president urges calm as the outbreak widens. A containment zone is ordered in a new york city suburb. The National Guard called in. It is a dramatic action, but it is a matter of life and death. Reporter former Vice President joe biden notching hear wins in the latest democratic primary. Biden took home the biggest prize, that was michigan. We are a step closer to restoring decency, dignity, and honor to the white house. Reporter disgraced movie a maxum of 29ears. Tenced,is i think Harvey Weinstein is going to be sentenced to some rather serious time. Reporter the against his former attorney general, jeff sessions, in the race for alabamas senate seat. Russian president Vladimir Putin has opened the door to constitutional changes that would allow him to stay in power until 2036. All that reporter a rescue dog made up his own rules at the annual show thats definitely against the rules. And all that matters joe biden was confronted by an auto worker, and things got heated. You are actively trying to diminish or Second Amendment rights and youre full of [ bleep ] what happened to malarkey . Come on. On cbs this morning. The coronavirus, the Music Festival coachella has been suspended. Postponed. In fact, headliner rage against the machine has already changed their name to rage to get the vaccine. Thats not the only musical act that plans to be in coachella in october. You can also county on miley virus, justin fever, the flu fighters, pandemic at the disco, weve got like 100 of these. The only band yet to confirm is the cure. [ laughter ] this mornings eye opener is presented by brought to you by toyota lets go places. Thats a great list. Rage to get the vaccine is my favorite. Weve got a lot of breaking news this morning. Welcome to cbs this morning. Starting off with joe biden who is closer to the democratic nomination after his latest run of primary victories last night. And the number of known coronavirus victims in the u. S. Is now more than 1,000, jumping around 30 in just 24 hours. Lets get to the lead National Correspondent, david begnaud, here with the latest numbers and Important Information on the outbreak. Good morning. Whats the latest . Good morning. Facts over fear. Let me set the scene. Specifically there are now more than 1,030 cases here in the United States. One week ago there were just 126. The virus is linked to at least 32 deaths nationwide. It has spread to 37 states and the district of columbia. 15 are under a state of emergency. Globally weve got more than 120,000 cases reported. You know, a growing number of schools and universities around this country have canceled classes for now. Big events like the Coachella Valley music and Arts Festival have been postponed, and sundays democratic president ial debate will be held without a live audience. Now, a new issue for airline passengers. Three tsa agents at californias san joportave te ti f v. On theubjef , spoke to an American Technology writer who tested positive while traveling in egypt. Matt swider is being confined at a hospital in a remote part of that country. Matt says he was retested, and the results were negative. Its taken me to just various scary places in a lot of ways. To say the least. When you dont speak a language and people dont speak english, that is a difficult thing when were dealing with a monumental problem worldwide. And people are kind of going about it, theyre kind of learning as they go. So that is the scariest part. Reporter matts parents are trying to find a way to help him get home. In london, a Health Minister in britains government tested positive for the virus. That official reportedly attended an event with hundreds of people and met with the prime minister, boris johnson, last week. There are currently no plans to suspend britains parliament. David, thank you. New york state is taking actio t nas te. A coainment area wa onemiius, squa miles nhelle just son nat mostaffected counties with at least 108 confirmed cases. Meg oliver is just outside the zone in new rochelle. Meg, how does this work . Reporter the plan is believed to be the first of its kind in the country. Youre still free to come and go, but a ban on large gatherings here is what the state hopes will help lower the infection rate, now one of the highest in the nation. This is literally a matter of life and death. Reporter new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling the outbreak in Westchester County breathtaking, and hes not taking any chances. This will affect the local community. Local shop owners dont like the disruption. Nobody does. Reporter beginning on thursday, this onemile radius of new rochelle will be under a newly enforced ban no large public gatherings for two weeks. That will shut down a number of schools, houses of worship, and community centers. Local businesses like Grocery Stores can remain open. Because of childcare issues, i dont know what im going to do with my kids for two weeks. Just having to reevaluate everything, figuring out how youre going to get to work and deal with the kids and stuff like that. A little tough. Were also going to use the National Guard reporter the state has deployed the National Guard to the new york city suburb to help with sanitizing public spaces and distributing meals to students of shuttered schools who usually rely on their breakfast and lunch programs. The National Guard will be here in a very helpful, logistical and Organizational Support capacity. Its not as though new rochelle is going to become a militarized community. Were not going to have checkpoints at the border of the containment zone and so forth. Reporter the state is bringing in a testing facility inside the containment area in an attempt to help people who believe they have the virus from spreading it. Meg oliver, thanks. The white house and congress are working fast on a package to limit the economic damage from the outbreak. President trump wants to suspend the payroll tax boosting americans paychecks. Lawmakers are not convinced. Paula reid is at the white house. Paula, what are the chances of a deal like that coming together . Reporter good morning. The white house is working with democrats to try to find some out next week, there is some skepticism about whether any proposed relief will come quickly. While the white house is hoping to help those impacted by the outbreak, they also hope a payroll tax cut could offer a boost to the economy which is central to the president s reelection strategy. As a nation, we cant be doing the kind of things we were doing a few months ago reporter at the White House Coronavirus briefing, dr. Anthony fauci urged americans to prepare for a new normal. You have to start taking seriously what you can do now that if and when the infections will come. And they will come. Reporter it was a remarkably different tone than the one the president struck when he was on capitol hill earlier. It will go away. Just stay calm. Reporter the president was lobbying republican senators on a stimulus to ease the Economic Impact of the outbreak. I was just with the republican senators, and there was they were just about all there. Mostly all there. And theres a great feeling about doing a lot of things. Reporter the proposals include assistance to those without sick leave, possible tax relief to Industries Hit hardest by the outbreak, and a temporary payroll tax cut through the end of the year. That could cost up to hundreds of billions of dollars. The payroll tax supports the countrys two biggest safety nets, Social Security and medicare, and the white house has given no details on how it would make up the lost revenue. At some point in the near future, we will outline in more detailed package for you. Reporter the idea was met with resistance by democrats, and even some republicans arent fully on board. I dont know if a payroll tax cut is the right stimulus. But we need something. Reporter meanwhile, the Coronavirus Task force is working to provide tips on how to stay healthy, including avoiding large crowds. Will the pence Trump Campaign suspend Campaign Rallies and other activities . I think that will be a decision thats made literally on a daytoday basis. Reporter shortly after that briefing, the Trump Campaign announced a catholics for Trump CoalitionEvent Next Week at an arena in wisconsin which seats thousands. It appears the administrations message on large social gatherings is do ad we say, not as we do. Thank you. Delays and mixed messages have hampered the federal governments response to the coronavirus. Yesterday cbs news evening news anchor Norah Odonnell asked President Trump about one of the biggest challenges. Why has the u. S. Been so slow with testing . Other countries have tested tens of thousands i think the u. S. Has done a very good job on testing. When people need a test, they can get a test. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar has said around four million tests will be distributed by the end of this week. So far only about 8,500 tests have been performed. Secretary azar joins us now. Good morning. Good morning. You want testing is difficult to track, because while tests have been sent out theyre sent to private labs, and those labs dont report back to the cdc or to your department. Why has that tracking not been more careful . So this is the system we have in the United States. We have sent out over 1. 1 million tests. We have another two million tests that are either being shipped or are waiting to be ordered. We actually have a surplus of Testing Capacity in the United States right now. The numbers that you quoted are simply the tests that have been conducted by cdcs labs in atlanta or by Public Health labs using the cdc test. Thats not really the relevant. Et, ands we always get that data. Mr. Secretary, why has it taken so long to build that system to monitor this and get the tests out . It actually hasnt. We had the tests right away, as soon as we got the genetic sequence from china. We have had capacity to test throughout this. There has not been an instance where a Public Health official needed to test somebody for the Novel Coronavirus where they couldnt get tested. Weve always had the test running at cdc. They work with the network. Weve had Public Health labs up and running. What were doing now is expanding the testing to make sure its ever closer to the patient, ever closer to the doctor and hospital, and just as convenient as humanly possible. Can you guarantee that any doctor who wants to get a test any doctor who believes that a test is clinically indicated can get that test done. There is no barrier whatsoever from the federal government in terms of getting that done. Mr. Azar, lets talk about risk. Thats what Everyone Wants to miceask rce has aying er and or that for the typical american the risk remains low. C is saying in the latest update that many people will be exposed. This virus spreads easily and rapidly, and theres a good chance people will become sick. So when we talk about risk, what are we really talking about . Well, its a good question. There are two types of risk. First is the risk of contracting the coronavirus. At this point for most of us, that risk does remain low because the spread is really localized in four or five main jurisdictions in clusters, plus popup cases related to travel to infected areas. The Biggest Issue is severity. But the fact the cdc im sorry, the cdc is saying over th ericanwill bsehe rus, and theres a good chance that they will become sick. So the chance of spread it seems to be acknowledged, is going to be high. When we talk about a low risk, were talking about the second type i guess, seriousness. Illness . So its two issues. First, the risk of getting it for anyone right now. I said right now is low. That can change over time as this spreads further in the United States. We of course are doing aggressive containment and mitigation efforts at the local, state, and National Level to prevent further spread or to mitigate that spread. I dont many im sorry to parse the time frame, but we want to be clear with americans. They should prepare over the next year, right now or the next 12 months, to be exposed and potentially become sick from this virus . Weve been clear from day one that were going to see further spreading and would see more cases. The most important issue for your viewers are the elderly, especially the medically frail elderly, as well as any individual with certain medical fragility issues like liver disease, kidney disease, diabetes, recovering from cancer or immunosuppressed condition, these are the individuals globally that we have seen who tend to get the most severe consequences from getting the virus. Most of us if we contract the virus get mild to moderate symptoms globally. All right. Secretary azar, thank you very much. Thank you. Former Vice President joe biden had another super tuesday and expanded his lead in the democratic race. Biden won in four of six states which voted yesterday with two biden took the battleground state of michigan by double digits. Biden now leads the race by 150 delegates, which significantly narrows any path to victory for senator Bernie Sanders. Ed okeefe is in cleveland, ohio. Ed, what are we hearing from the Sanders Campaign now . Reporter well, good morning. Sanders and biden were both scheduled to speak last night, but canceled the events. The senator went home to vermont. We havent heard from him, but one of his supporters called it a tough night. Exit polls it shows that democrats are look ing for the candidate they believe can defeat President Trump, and more of them believe its joe biden. Looks like were going to have another good night. [ cheers ] reporter addressing staff in philadelphia, joe biden said that Going Forward his campaign is about party unity. I want to thank you Bernie Sanders and his supporters for their Tireless Energy and their passion. We share a common goal, and together well defeat donald trump. Reporter biden was lifted by high turnout in michigan where nearly one Million People voted absentee. Almost twice as many as in 2016. The former Vice President claimed victories again with the backing of africanamerican voters and also thanks to white voters and labor union members. Earlier in the day, touring an auto plant in detroit, biden had a Testy Exchange with a voter over gun rights. You are actively trying to end the Second Amendment right [ bleep ]. Now shush, shush. I support the Second Amendment. Just like right now if you yelled fire, thats not free speech. I have a 12 gauge, my sons hunt. Guess what . Im not taking your gun away at all. You need 100 rounds you say youre going to take our guns away. I did not say that. Its on video. Its a viral video like the other ones that theyre putting out that are a lie. Reporter biden went on to say he proposed taking away semiautomatic weapons. Both called off rallies. Because of coronavirus. Whenever we do rallies, we consult with Public Health officials. Exit polls found that democratic voters overwhelmingly believe the former Vice President is best equipped to deal with a major crisis like this coronavirus outbreak. Thank you, ed. Harvey weinstein will be sentenced today for rape and a criminal sex act. Ahead, what we are learning from newly disclosed emails between him and his brother. Good wednesday morning nt we have been tracking very light showers and sprinklesness isolated showers across the south bay earlier this morning. , through the afternoon, mid 60s sane parents also for oakland. Upper 60s fremont. And there is a chance to see an isolated shower for the south bay. Many of us will be dry. Rain chances late saturday into sunday and much cooler. We have much more ahead. We have much more ahead. A florida man imprisoned for three decades a florida man could get a new trial. He insists he was innocent all along. I have been convicted for a crime i didnt commit. 31 years. That is enough to break a man. That is enough to destroy a man. Ahead, allegations that a prosecutor withheld key evidence that could have helped green at his trial. Our story begins more than 60 years ago inside an abandoned chicken coop. Where our f