Who were watching it in awe and only to hear all that you just unfolded there over time, yeah, heartbreaking. All right, kate, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. And be sure to tune into to an allnew episode of the windsors inside the royal dynasty. It airs tonight at 10 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific, only on cnn. All right. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Were going to begin with the coronavirus and this growing spread. The u. S. Is seeing a big spike in the number of confirmed cases across the country. More than 490 right now, and the death toll just grew higher. Two more deaths in Washington State, bringing the total to 21 killed in the u. S. And this weekend, over a dozen states and washington, d. C. Reporting their first cases. In new york alone, 16 new cases popped up overnight. And that number is only expected to grow. Today, the Surgeon General says the u. S. Is shifting its response to the epidemic. Initially, we have a posture of containment, so we could give people time to prepare for where we are right now. Now were shifting into a mitigation phase, which means were helping communities understand, youre going to see more cases. Unfortunately, youre going to see more deaths. But that doesnt mean that we should panic. It means we should take the things that we know work for individuals to protect themselves. Communities need to have that conversation and prepare for more cases, so that we can prevent more deaths. All right. Meanwhile, some hope for the thousands of people stuck onboard the grand princess cruise ship, which has 21 cases of coronavirus. Officials are allowing the ship to dock in oakland, california, tomorrow, but passengers will then be transferred to military bases for a twoweek quarantine. Californias governor is expected to hold a press conference in just a few minutes and well, of course, take that live as it happens. But first, lets turn to cnns senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. So elizabeth, the Surgeon General says the u. S. Is going from a containment response to mission. What does that mean for us . Fancy words, and i think well be hearing more and more of them. Let me break that down for us. So containment implies a certain hope that you can, well, contain it. And usually that is done through several tactics, including something called contact tracing. When the early traces came in, the attitude was, well, heres our first case. Were going to find their spouse, their best friend, the person they had lunch with right before they got sick or right after they started feeling ill, and we will quarantine those people. And then if they get sick, well isolate them and so on and so on. And that this was how we were going to try to contain this outbreak. This was a major tool that we were going to use. And what we heard from the certain Surgeon General and others today was, you know what, we may not be able to contain it that way. Well have to move on to mitigation. Mitigation is larger things. South by southwest being canceled would be an example of a mitigation effort. Lets tell people not to gather in these large crowds, lets tell people to telework instead of coming into work facetoface. Trying to get ahead of it. Well, realizing that you cannot do this case by case. We are not going to take each person and trace all the people that they had contact with and quarantine them. That doing it case by case may not work anymore, because we have so many cases, and frankly, the Public Health staff in this country, there probably arent enough Public Health workers to Contact Trace each and every case all the time. At a certain point, it gets to be too big. So its really trying to get ahead of the next wave. Or in the midst of right, were sort of behind were in the midst of it, yes. Were in between that ebb and flow. For sure. Thank you so much, elizabeth cohen, appreciate it. All right, California Governor Gavin Newsom is set to hold a News Conference about the grand princess cruise ship in a few minutes, this as officials prepare to transfer the 3,400 passengers aboard that ship with 21 confirmed cases of coronavirus to four u. S. Military bases. Cnns Lucy Kavanaugh joining me now from oakland where the ship is expected to dock at some point tomorrow. So lucy, this is quite the undertakinging. So many layers of this phase. Explain. Reporter well, it seems like officials are still working out those plans. And of course, well have more clarity from the california governor in just a few minutes, we hope. But as of yesterday evening, the plan initially was to get that ship to dock today, on sunday, at the last minute, a shift. Take a listen to the captains announcement. We received an update from the u. S. Government that additional planning and preparations are required before the ship will be able to arrive in oakland. So instead of arriving today, we will arrive at some time on monday. They have not given us a specific arrival time. We know this will be a disappointment to you and we share in that disappointment. However, we are required to follow the government instructions. Zblef theres a lot of details to iron out here. At this point, we know that the ship is going to dock at some point tomorrow here in the port of oakland. The critically ill passengers will be disembarking first. Theyll get taken to local hospitals. The rest of the people, 2,500 or so, will be disembarking after that. The california residents, and theres about a thousand of them, theyll be taken to quarantine and testing in federally operated quarantine facilities here in california. Thats the travis air base and t the miramar air base. Those have been home to the wuhan evacuees. The rest of the u. S. Citizens will get taken to georgia and texas. They will be under quarantine there. Im actually in touch with one passenger from georgia. She says, im okay with it. Quote, we dont want people upset that we came back to our community too soon, especially if theres an outbreak. So they are happy to be getting off soon. They understand that theyre in for another two weeks of quarantine, fred. Lucy kavanaugh, thank you so much. So in new york state, there have been 16 new coronavirus cases since yesterday, bringing the total there to 105. Earlier today, i spoke to Governor Andrew Cuomo who warned that one of the biggest dangers is panic. Im afraid that the fear is actually outpacing the facts and were fighting the virus, but were also fighting this anxiety. And people out there take a step back, a deep breath and actually understand what were looking at. Cnns Polo Sandoval is in new york for us. So what do we know about these latest cases . Fred, this most recent announcement certainly places new york in the higher end of the spectrum here, in terms of amount of cases that have been confirmed here, 105. But context is certainly key, especially when you keep in mind that 82 of those 105 have actually been confirmed in nearby westchester county, a suburb of new york city. That is where Officials Say theres one particular patient that was traced as possibly being the source of many of those cases, likely individuals that he lived with or worshiped with. So thats something that authorities are certainly keeping in mind. Their focus throughout new york state is certainly there in westchester county. Some of the older care facilities having seen whats happened in other parts of the country. And in the meantime, i think what were seeing here is that reassuring voice coming from a lot of Officials Saying, looking, this is something that was expected. There was more testing that was going to happen. These numbers were certainly going to go up. So it certainly should come as no surprise that we have seen these numbers across new york state increase, yesterday. We saw that today. And certainly do not be surprised if that happens again tomorrow. But prevention is certainly key there as we just heard from governor cuomo, trying to avoid those large groups, possibly teleworking, if possible. And simply just staying informed, as these numbers do continue to rise as the testing continues. Fred . All right, Polo Sandoval, thank you so much, in new york. All right, still ahead, more than 100 cases of coronavirus in Washington State and 16 deaths associated with a nursing home in kirkland. Were live in whats being done to stop the spread. Plus, joe biden and Bernie Sanders getting ready for super tuesday part ii. The latest from the campaign trail, next. I recently spoke to a group of students about being a scientist at 3m. 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Cnns omar jiminez is in kirkland, washington, for us. So omar, what more are you learning about the situation there. Reporter this nursing facility has been a focal point in this story for all the wrong reasons. When you take the 17 deaths in this county alone, 16 of them stemming from the single facility, now a press conference is just wrapping up right now with officials from life care, where we got some new numbers about the staffing and about the people that are inside this facility currently. Now, to give you an idea, back on february 19th, this facility had about 120 residents. Between those that have died, sadly, and also been hospitalized, they are now down to just about 55 residents. And when you talk about those test kits that you received, now having enough to be able to test all of them, that is partly because of how depleted these numbers actually are. They are going to continue these tests. As we understand, they have about 11 more to go, to make sure they can get through everyone that is inside. Another aspect of this is the employees. You go back to that february 19th date, the benchmark theyve been giving for this, they had about 180 employees here. Well, 70 of those employees are now showing symptoms themselves. So they are not able to work in this facility. And as we found out from this press conference a few moments ago, a few of those employees have been hospitalized and one has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. So throughout the state, they are monitoring and right to get a state on this outbreak, but particularly, stemming from this facility, it has been a focal point for all the wrong reasons, fred. Omar jiminez, keep us posted. Thank you so much. All right, straight ahead, john kasich, john kerry, arnold schwarzenegger. A Curious Alliance with a common goal. Combat climate change. 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Secretary of state john Kerry Holding their first town hall for their nonprofit organization, world war 0. Their goal, move the country towards net zero carbon emissions. They joined me earlier to talk about their nonprofit, as well as their thoughts on the 2020 race. In regard to the election, the upcoming election, i think what youre going to see in ohio is a joe biden whos able to appeal to many of those blue collar disaffected people in our state. And if Bernie Sanders were the nominee, and im not here to knock sanders or to tell you im bidens campaign manager, because i am not. But as an observer, i dont think that Bernie Sanders really stood a chance in ohio. In joe joe can be the joe biden that people know, being able to relate to blue collar independents and calming those disaffected republicans who dont like trump, but they dont want revolution, they want some order in washington and in the white house, i think at this point, youre going to see joe biden have momentum and i think come the fall, its going to be one heck of a battle across this country. What joe biden brings that the democrats have lost is the ability to attract a working man and woman. And somehow the democrats lost them. And he has an ability to bring them back. Why . Because thats how he grew up. Thats who he is. Its going to be very interesting to see. So, governor, are you endorsing joe biden . No, im not endorsing joe biden. Im just an observer here. You asked me my view. Im an observer. As to what i will do after when we get into the fall, well just have to decide that. Right now im an observer and im enjoying it. Well, secretary Kerry Joe Biden is doing better. Okay, very good. Well, secretary kerry, you have endorsed joe biden and you did so early on. Now this tuesday, youre talking about six states, you know, including michigan, heading to the polls. Is biden Biden Campaigning differently ahead of these races . Well, i think he just came from michigan and i think joe bidens message is being heard and people are responding to it in michigan. My sense is that joe brings with him to build off of what john just said about appealing to the folks here in ohio. Joe is the only candidate on the democratic side who was running for president who was asked by 65 candidates in 24 states to go campaign for them. And we won 41 seats in 2018 that turned the house. Those 41, some of them are in very tough districts. None of them asked any other candidate to campaign for them except joe biden. Why . Because they feel joe can help them in those districts and those districts are critical to governing in america. You dont just want to have somebody elected president whos got a favorite issue. You want to elect somebody president who can bring democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives to the table, to fix our democracy and our country. Its broken today. We need to have a washington that becomes functional again. And i think joe has a proven record of bringing people together, not being the prisoner of ideology, but wanting to make things work. And i think thats what americans want right now. Governor schwarzenegger, youre a republican, but its no secret, youre not a huge fan of president trump, yall have a rather frayed of relationship. There remains one republican, bill weld, campaigning. So how are you approaching this race . Would you vote for a democrat . Well, first of all, let me just say that i am so thrilled that we three are working together. Because here you have two republica republicans, one democrat. We dont fight over these things. We may have different ways of looking at how we get there, but one thing we know for sure, we all want to go and reduce pollution and we all want to slow this madness down that is killing the world. So this is why its very important that democrats and republicans Work Together on this issue and that we dont see it as a political issue. I dont ever fall for those traps when they say, republicans are not there yet and theyre deniers, and that kind of stuff. As long as we stay out of that. As long as we make it a peoples issue. Because there is no democratic air, there is