Coronavirus. President trump cleaning house. Two impeachmecrucial witnesses impeachment inquiry forced out. Welcome, everyone. Both japan and the u. S. Reporting their first fatalities from the wuhan, coronavirus. Two victims said to be in their 60s were both in the city of wuhan. That of course the epicenter of the outbreak. That brings the virus known death toll to at least 726. Climbing so rapidly it could soon overtake the sars outbreak of 2003. And the infection rate soaring dally. Nearly 35,000 people now have the virus, the vast majority of them in china. Steven jang joins us now from beijing, and tell us about what we know about these latest two victims. Reporter well, michael, we dont know too much about them. In the case of the japanese citizen we know he was male in his 60s and died in wuhan. His cause of death was still listed as highly suspicious of pneumonia from this virus. Now in the case of the american citizen we know he we know this person was 60 and he died on thursday in one of the local hospitals designated to treat this coronavirus. Now a u. S. Embassy spokesman here in beijing told us out of respect for the familys privacy he is not going to disclose more information about this patient. These two deaths were not entirely surprising given the scale of the problem in wuhan where of course where this virus originated. As of end of friday we had seen the city recording more than 13,000 cases. And the overwhelming majority of the global death toll so far occurred in wuhan. 545 of them. Now, of course, the worry right now in Hubei Province where wuhan is the provincial capital is when we will see the next wuhan. Because already we are seeing two cities outside of wuhan reporting more than 2,000 confirmed cases. It is worrisome because these are smaller cities. So they have even less infrastructure to cope with the outbreak of this kind of scale. So thats why officials are very concerned about these cities outside of wuhan. Now in the whole province of hubei the authorities are reporting severe shortage of both medical supplies and medical personnel even after the rest of the country have already sent in more than 10,000 workers to reinforce overworked doctors and nurses. But authorities still saying they need at least 2,000 more personnel. Extremely worrying. Steven, thank you so much. Steven jiang there in beijing. Well over 300 cases have been documented outside of Mainland China. Fears of it spreading have led to the quarantine of two cruise ships. A third ship stranded at sea after being turned away from several asian ports, and yet another ship under scrutiny. That one is docked in new jersey. But it is the ship anchored in yokohama harbor, the diamond princess, where the greatest concentration of the virus is being found outside of china. At least 64 people on the ship testing positive. Cnns matt rivers is in yokohama. Youve got a lot of uninfected people jammed on a ship with a lot of infected people. It seems like a recipe for contagion. But what are the authorities saying out their theory here in terms of handling this . Yeah, michael, i mean logic just kind of laymans logic would think if youve got potentially infected people on a boat, get people off the boat and get them away from each other. But what authorities are saying in these kind of situations what the best protocol is to keep everyone onboard that ship who may have been exposed to someone who had that virus to shelter in place. Theyre saying its not being spread through the ventilation system and the best thing to do is to keep those people quarantined on that ship for around the next two weeks or so, and thats the day to day life for people on that ship. But in terms of that other ship you talked about stranded at sea, the reason why its stranded at sea is because the japanese and other countries here, they dont want a repeat of whats happening with the ship anchored here in yokohama, and that is making life onboard for the people on that stranded ship out in the middle of the ocean very difficult. David turns 64 on sunday. Where hell be on that day, he has no idea. David and his wife judy left on the westerdam a Holland America cruise from singapore january 16 on a dream 30day trip. All went to plan until february 1st and a stop in hong kong. Passengers spent a day onshore and new passengers joined and so off they sailed. But when they tried to go to next stop manila they were turned away and taiwan authorities banned cruise ships, too, as did authorities here in japan. Everywhere the ship was supposed to go after february 1st turned it away with each place siting fears the virus might be onboard even though sole far no cases have been found. Hes frustrated with not only the decision to go to hong kong but what he called a lack of Health Checks and screenings done at the time. He believes the company didnt take the virus serious enough. People are angry. I think the tension is rising. And everyone on this boat has lived for the last seven days under the dark shadow of a bell ringing and being told we have the virus onboard. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control warning levels didnt indicate the country was unsafe. Since then anyone whos traveled through china over the last two weeks theyre conducting pre and onboard medical screenings and among other things oil also issue refunds. Though that may not bring much relief for folks on the westerdam david got to send us this video from aboard. Passengers just sitting and waiting no idea where theyll go next. That ship is about 300 kilometers off the east coast of taiwan. And there is no update where that ship will go. And look, michael, i think no one onboard that ship will think this is worstcase scenario. No one is sick. No one as died. Its not as bad a situation as the ship docked here in yokohama but this is reminder the coronavirus has victims beyond the people that have contracted the disease. It seems extraordinary. Theyve got to go somewhere at some point. What a tale. When it comes to the diamond princess there in yokohama, what is the mood onboard there as we were discussing earlier . A lot of people do not have it. Some do. What are people telling you . Reporter people are describing it as a floating prison. I mean imagine you went on this boat, youre going to go for a nice vacation with your family or your wife perhaps, your husband and you wanted to have a cheap room. You didnt want to splurge for a balcony so you got one of those smaller rooms inside without a window and you thought maybe well be up on deck the whole time. Now those people are being regulated to those rooms for about 22 hours a day. Theyve used terms like get us the hell off of here. They dont have clean clothes. They feel tense, they feel frustrated, and unfortunately for those people thats going to be their reality it looks like for the next two weeks. Extraordinary stories. Unbelievable. Matt, thank you. Matt rivers there bringing us those amazing tales. As we mentioned u. S. Health officials scrutinizing another cruise ship, one that docked on friday near new york city. Cnns bab lpablo sandoval has o report on that. Reporter it was initially 20 passengers who got the attention of Health Officials who docked. All of them except for four were medically cleared, that family sent to a nearby hospital to be tested for coronavirus. We should point out according to Royal Caribbean cruises they did not exhibit any coronavirus symptoms and only one of them actually tested positive for influenza during the cruise itself. So it certainly looks promising here but they will have to wait until those test results are released they can definitively say they were not exposed to the virus itself. We can tell you Royal Caribbean implementing a series of stricter boarding protocols. They include guests holding passperts from hong kong or china denied access to their ships for now. And anyone traveling from Mainland China the last 15 days regardless of their country of origin denied access. And finally there would be mandatory Health Screenings for some of those passengers who feel sick and particularly if they report traveling to main lnld china in the last couple of weeks. In the meantime as for the ship itself it was initially scheduled to return back out to sea on friday afternoon. 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The president all but hinted at the move earlier in the day. Well, im not happy with him. Reporter it was Lieutenant Colonel vindman a purple heart recipient who got under the president s skin testifying during the impeachment inquiry. This is the country ive served and defended, that all my brothers have served. And here right matters. Reporter vindmans lawyer released a statement saying its obvious why his client was fired writing theres no question in the minds of america why this mans job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it as the white house. The president was tearing into another target, House Speaker nancy pelosi claiming she could somehow be prosecuted for ripping up his speech at the state of the union. I thought it was a terrible thing ripping up the speech. First of all its an official document. Youre not allowed. She broke the law. Reporter mr. Trump is still fixated on the impeachment fight. In an interview with cnn the Democratic House managers who presented the case against the president in the senate are insisting mr. Trump will never change his ways. Of course he hasnt learned a lesson because as we repeatedly pointed out throughout the trial donald trump is a serial solicitor. Reporter the democrats have just lost another legal battle with the president after a Unanimous Court decision to dismiss claims mr. Trump was violating the emoluments clause by accepting foreign payments at his washington hotel. This is the d. C. Circuit, and we just won the big emoluments case. I think it was a unanimous decision. This was brought by nancy pelosi and her group. Reporter the president also has a spring in his step after the latest unemployment numbers found 225,000 jobs were created last month. We just came out with fantastic job numbers. I think it was 230,000 or something thereabouts, which was much higher than projection. So jobs continue to be great. Our country continues to do great. Reporter but the president is pushing back on reports hes about to unload his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. A Senior Administration official told cnn earlier in the day that rumor of mulvaneys demise, quite, have been greatly exaggerated. Jim acosta, cnn, the white house. And joining me now from washington, cnn political analyst michael shear, also White House Correspondent for the new york times. So Lieutenant Colonel vindman literally escorted by security from the white house. He got the Eu Ambassador sondland recalled and of course the former ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch recalled aurally and left the service. Retribution under way . I dont think you can think of it as anything else. Not only did President Trump himself talk about retribution, talk about his anger in the sort of rambling sort of hour long venting session at the white house the day after the senate trial ended, but you also had the White House Press secretary publicly say that she thought that people who had done President Trump wrong in the course of the impeachment inquiry were going to have to pay for it. And so i think its hard to look at the actions of today in any other way than as retribution against people that the president perceives as his enemies. And i just dont know whether its over. Thats the question i think we all dont quite know the answer to. Is there more to come . Exactly. When you think of not Gordon Sondland but certainly vindman yovanovitch, that speaks to what has been an across the board loss of expert experience in this administration. Not just these cases but for a long time now. Yeah, i mean, look, part of what has been a consistent story about the Trump Administration writ large and certainly played out in the course of the ukraine situation is a real rejection by this administration, by this president of the kind of expertise that has been for decades builtup in the government. President s from the Republican Party or the Democratic Party alike, you know, have sort ofermento respected if fact theres a core Career Civil Service whether in the diplomatic corp, whether expertise in other countries, expertise about other policies, and most president s recognize while they install Political Leadership on top of the bureaucracy to direct them in the direction that theyre that the president wants to go in, that theres a respect for that expertise. This president obviously has no respect for that. In fact, hes got a paranoia about what he calls the deep state bureaucracy. And whats just remarkable is in the ukraine situation obviously it came to a head. You had people testifying to the president and now he seems to be taking his revenge. But that also sends a chilling message, doesnt it, when it comes to oversight of this president going forward, whether to speak up when you genuinely see something wrong. And also speaks to, you know, potential recruitment and retention of experts within the u. S. Government. I mean, i think thats absolutely right. Think about it this way. The whistleblower that came forward, the person we still dont publicly know who that is, why if youre in the government, if youre one of these cuveer civil servants, why would you come forward knowing that youve just seen a president of the United States wage a months Long Campaign of criticism against the unnamed whistleblower and now carrying out essentially retribution within hours, less than 48 hours after being acquitted in the senate. Hes firing people. And i think that does send a really chilling message. Yeah, and you mentioned this, and its worth revisiting that free wheeling and embittered in many ways address by the president. I dont know what it was, an address or what was it. He no doubt feels wronged, he feels betrayed and perhaps now dangerously vengeful. And as you say this probably is about that. I think its worth reminding people who dont have necessarily the long view of history this is not a normal response. It is no surprise a president would feel hurt and perhaps upset by being impeached and then tried in the senate. But if you look back for example 21 years ago to bill clintons response after he too was acquitted in the senate, you know, he chose the sort of normal political path which was contrition, apology, you know, essentially lets move on, you know, time to do the business of the country. And that is what is the normal political sort of inclination regardless of what party youre in. What President Trump did the other day from the white house using vulgarities and then lashing out at his enemies calling them evil, you know, that is very much pushing the envelope and on the edge of what normal politicians would do. A lot of people would say blowing right past the edge. Another thing that struck me that was interesting was during that whole thing, whatever it was not just the extraordinary of the president but how it was applauded by the republicans. Are they enamored by him . I was in the capitol every single day, i was interacting with the republican lawmakers both in the house and in the senate. Talking to them every day. Look, i think theres a mix of fear and genuine admiration. There are members of the president s party who truly feel as aggrieved as he does and theyre on his side, and theyre always going to be on his side. And there are others who i think genuinely dont feel that same kind of admiration but are fearful of the political power the president has over what ultimately are their voters, their base, their people theyre going t