That he believes its going to be like the flu. That when temperatures get warm, that this thing will go away. It is summer in australia right now. Temperatures are warm there. So this goes against what the president is saying. We dont know if this is going to go away when temperatures are warm. Tom hanks and rita wilson are down there shooting a movie about elvis. They are on the set of a movie. It is warm in australia. So this whole idea about, well, the coronavirus is just going to go away. Its just going to be zero whenever the temperatures get warm, that is out the door. This is a case that shows you not so much. Look. What do we all know now . People are waking up to the realities in this country. So is the president. And one of them is, he doesnt tell you the truth. He underplayed it because he thought that was better for him and the economy. Well, the stock markets given back the gains that have come in since he came in. Who knows if they even allow regular trading going forward. Normal is going to change. And if we get on the same page fast and we do the best things we can, this will end sooner rather than later. But i have to tell you, don, you and i have been friends for a long time. You and i have never seen anything like this in our lifetimes. Not at all. I think your brother was right when he said this is what happens when you govern. This is what governing is all about. So its time to get serious. And he is learning this is what governing is all about. Thank you, chris, i appreciate it. Ill see you tomorrow. This is cnn breaking news. Here is breaking news from cnn. On multiple fronts tonight, within the last showhour, presi trump banning all travel from europe for the next 30 days. And just moments ago, after one of their allstar players tested positive for coronavirus, the nba suspending its season, and they are doing it indefinitely. That came on the heels of the ncaa banning fans from its march madness tournament that begins next week. And we have just learned that Actor Tom Hanks and his wife rita wilson have both tested positive for coronavirus down in australia. All of this. All of this as the death toll, the number of known cases here in the United States, continues to balloon. We are now at 37 deaths and at least 1,250 known cases in the u. S. We are going to get through all of this for you tonight. We have got a lot to get to. So make sure you stay tuned. And the numbers keep changing. So, again, you need to pay attention. We are going to start at the white house where President Trump addressed the nation just an hour ago and made the dramatic announcement about travel from europe. Our Kaitlan Collins is our correspondent at the white house. She joins us now. Kaitlan, good evening to you. I understand that the department of Homeland Security has had to clarify what the president said about the ban on travel to europe. Yeah. Don, the president appears to have left out the fineprint in that speech tonight. When it was the first thing, essentially, out of his mouth talking about these restrictions here and how they are going to bar all travelers coming in from europe for the next 30 days. Now, we are getting a statement from the department of Homeland Security and the acting secretary clarifying that. And i want to read a little bit of this to you, don, because its important. And its really notable in light of what the president just said, which seemed like this pretty stark restriction that he was putting down. But now, dhs says that what he announced suspends the entry of most foreign nationals who have been in certain European Countries at any point during the 14 days prior to their scheduled arrival to the United States. They then go on to list the countries. And, don, this is probably the most important line. It says this does not apply to legal permanent residents, general immediate family members of u. S. Citizens, and other individuals who are identifies in the proclamation. So the president made it seem like no travelers were going to be allowed back to the United States coming from europe, with the exception of the united kingdom, for the next 30 days. Starting effective midnight on friday. But when you read this statement from dhs, it really allows a lot of leeway there, don. So there are going to be a lot of questions for the white house coming out of that because that was one of the biggest restrictions we saw in the president s announcement tonight. All right. Kaitlan, stand by. We may have some more questions for you. But i want to bring in now our chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Doctor, thank you for joining us. I appreciate it. You have been a very busy man. Life is changing in america right now. Tremendous amount of change in our society. We we you know, just a week ago, we were told that there would be 15 cases and it would go to zero. And now, you are hearing about all these types of what they call nonpharmaceutical interventions. These social distancing mechanisms that we thought were really things that we would see in other countries but not here in the United States. Its its its changing rapidly here. And i think the Public Health community has been has been predicting this for some time. We havent probably, you know, heard from them as much as we would have liked i think over the last couple days. Tony fauci, anthony fauci, dr. Fauci, has been i think a little bit more clear with the language in saying that, look, no matter where you live, if you have one case there now, zero cases, it doesnt matter. This is coming. So hes sort of i think theres been a distinct phase shift and you are seeing all the different mechanisms that are sort of catching up with that. Listen, doctor, i think that you your your tone and tenor, youve been perfect. Pitch perfect on this. And even when you, on the air i think it was yesterday or the day before, when you said were in the middle of a pandemic right now. And then the World Health Organization came out today and said this is a pandemic. You werent surprised by that. It is a big deal. But i think if folks have been following your reporting on this, you have been right on about this. And, you know, maybe its not a time to be critical. Maybe it is. But we have not been getting 100 Accurate Information from the administration. I think the Vice President has been doing his damnedest to do a good job about it but, you know. Yeah. No. I mean, look, its surprising a little bit because i think there is some incredibly talented people in the Public Health department. People who have been through similar things. Although i will say this is unusual, this pandemic were going through now. For lots of Different Reasons which we can talk about. But there have been people sounding the alarm on this for some time. I have been talking to my sources, many off the record for some time, who have been very worried about this. And let me just be more specific here. Look at whats happening in it italy right now. There is a virus. We know this. We know some idea of how lethal it is. But whats more concerning in italy is the tax on the Hospital System there. They dont have the resources to take care of people. We could run into that same situation here, don. We may be 100,000 icu beds short. We may be tens of thousands breathing machines, ventilators short. Kwu imagine the decisions that might have to be made in hospitals . We could save both these patients but we dont have the resources to take care of both of them. I mean, this is what we should have been preparing for the last six weeks. Youre right. We are going to talk more. Were going to have more breaking news here. Massive breaking news in the sports world. Carolyn joins us now. Frank bruiny is here as well. Carolyn, fill us in on what is happening in the sports world. The nba has suspended its season, which is a decision maybe many people saw coming with the way the tip of the iceberg started. With the warriors earlier today. The sentiment right now within the league is they dont know whats going to happen from here. They dont know if, or when, the season is going to be able to start again. The playoffs are supposed to begin the middle of april. The finals are in june. And everybody making decisions at the very top is scrambling to figure out what the right decision is. And the thing about athletes and this applies with the big news with the ncaa as well is that when players are in such close physical contact, sharing bodily fluids when they are traveling, when their immune systems are broken down, theyre tired. So a lot of times, not just in basketball because, across the entire sports landscape, when one athlete gets sick, so many others get sick. You see it sweep through tournament squs big events and thats because they are susceptible to illness. So the fact that the twotime defensive player of the year has now been preliminary diagnosed with this is an indication to the league that ultimately forced their hand and said, you know what. No, we need to stop down and figure out what we are doing here. And quite frankly, there is no time table for when its going to pick back up. You have this nba superstar, dr. Gupta. Now, you ever tom hanks and his wife rita wilson now testing positive for the virus down in australia filming a movie. You know, its important when anyone gets this virus. But when you start to see, you know, these sort of superstars, people pay attention. They say, well, anybody can be affected by it. I think its been really interesting, you know, just being out there talking to people. There is a group of people, i think mostly people in the Public Health world that have been very concerned about this for a long time. There is a large segment of the population who still maybe up until the president s speech tonight, thought this was just not that big a deal. So whatever it takes. The nba season being suspended. Tom hanks. Whatever it might be. To make it real. I think, you know, thats clearly starting to happen. I think for a lot of people, they got a call today and said their kids schools are going to be closed the rest of the week or whatever. And what am i going to do . Do i have to take work off now . Do i have everything i need to be able to take care of my kids . Should i be worried about their health . Those are the real decisions and thoughts i think are coming into peoples heads over the last couple days. Producers and writers who work with me said my kids are going to be off at least the next two days. We dont know. We are trying to figure it out right now. As i said to chris, frank, the president tried to calm people tonight. At the same time, we had these other massive stories that are breaking right now. Things are different. Oh were talking about extraordinary developments, extraordinary changes in American Life. And i think in the context of that, people need more than they got from the president tonight. I mean, lets be grateful he did not flat out minimize the crisis, which hes done before. He did not bash the media or bash democrats. It was pretty low bar for him to clear. He didnt do those things. But i didnt hear, in that speech tonight, i didnt hear real empathy for what americans and the rest of the world is going through. I mean, i heard a lot of jane goeism about how Great America is and hey were doing better than europe. I heard a ridiculous plea for no partisanship whos done nothing but exercise partisanship since this thing began. And he had the aspect of a 3rd grader doing a homework assignment that he was doing under duress. Do you think it was because of nerves . Do you think he all of a sudden realizes the gravity of the moment . Because weve realized the gravity, you know, for a week or two now. That this is serious. Maybe he, all of a sudden, realizes it when he is sitting there in the chair giving this address from the oval office. No . Im trying here. No. This is going to sound really, really harsh. I would like to think its nerves and any one of us could sympathize with nerves. I think its annoyance. This pandemic is reigning on his parade. And i know thats a really harsh judgment but i think if you really look carefully at the character of this president , as revealed over the three year plus of his presidency, theres no other conclusion to reach. Kaitlan, have you noticed a shift at the white house . Well, heres the thing that was something we can say about tonight is this is the president s most public acknowledgment yet that this is real and this is happening. And they are going now to take action. Because this is a far cry from what he had been saying about downplaying this. You know, saying it was likely going to end soon. And now, hes letting out these travel restrictions which were still reading through this proclamation to see exactly what this is because it doesnt sound as extensive as the president made it out to be. Its not like they put this together at the last minute and didnt know exactly what it was the president was going to say. But he also lays out other measures in here because they are trying to blunt the Economic Impact of this. And thats why they talked about those loans from the Small Business administration. He talked about how he is going to take Emergency Action so people who miss work can still get pai cheks. Though, its not exactly clear what he is going to do on that. And he did still say he wants Something Like a payroll tax cut. But, don, then he made other comments that still said or implied that he believes this is going to end soon. Like saying this is not a financial crisis. He said this is just a moment in time that we are going to overcome as a nation. And that is something that is that still really remains to be seen. What exactly the impact of this is going to be. But one thing we did hear is essentially the president had been in a sort of denial about this where he wasnt just ignoring it. He was saying it wasnt happening in the same manner that his Health Experts and his advisers were saying. But it is really hard when basketball games are being scrapped. Audiences arent allowed at events. Parades are being cancelled. People are having to cancel their vacations for the president to act like nothing is happening. So it simply is at the part where the president can no longer ignore it and it seems to be something that has registered inside the white house today. You make a good point. Which leads me to, sanjay, dr. Gupta, the president has said that this testing is rapidly expanding. And thats we need to know exactly how many people, who is affected and whos not. Is that true . Is the testing rapidly expanding . Not yet. Not yet. I mean, i cant believe im saying that because we have been talking about getting millions and millions as dr. Anthony fauci put it out there several days ago. Millions and millions of tests are what are needed. Look. Ill show you, don, because i was just looking this up on my phone and i want to show you this because this is from the cdc site now. As of yesterday, don, you can take a look here. Thats how many tests were done at the cdc. The middle one . Right there. That number. Zero. This is how many tests were done at Public Health departments yesterday. Eight. Eight tests total between the cdc and the Public Health departments in this country yesterday. Now, there may be some that were done at commercial labs. Although, those are still up and, you know, getting up and running. But, you know, were talking thousands and thousands of tests that were being done a day in these other places. This is their own website. We have been monitoring this. First, we had to call these Public Health laboratories ourselves to get the real numbers because we couldnt get them off the cdc site. Eight tests. Are we ramping up . No. We dont have sight on this right now. We dont have clear vision on exactly how widespread this is in the country. As we talked about previously, sanjay, the reason this is called covid19 is this happened in the fall the winter of 19. And our government has known about this at least since the end of december. And so we would listen. Anyway, lets move on. I want to talk i want to talk about march madness right now because you have some news as well with that. Yeah. So very big decision earlier this afternoon. The ncaa was asked what they were really going to do about the situation. Hundreds of millions of dollars, as you all know, poured into march madness. I just got a glimpse at dr. Guptas phone. Everybody seems to love the college that theyre from. It is a huge part of what we celebrate domestically. But they decided theyre going to move forward without having fans in the stands. Not only is this going to be incredibly awkward. But more importantly than that, i think, dr. Gupta, you could probably speak to this more than me. It protects the fans. Im not sure it necessarily protects the players. When the players having contact with each other, then you are talking about a more major spread. Players infecting other players. Right. They are trimming everything down to immediate family. Do doing everything they can. And that being said, this is not me saying how could the ncaa do this . This is not something anybody anticipated. This is a very serious virus that is spreading rapidly and we dont have enough testing. And we dont know how far spread it actually is. Everybodys trying to do everything they can. The ncaa, the nba, every Single League is trying to make the right decisions for the fans. All the money thats involved and the players themselves. But when you have a situation where players are coming in such close physical contact with each other and then leaving these arenas, you would have to think that maybe there would be a possibility of them spreading through the rest of the student body at major universities. Yep. Thats the concern, also, with the fans. I mean, people come from all over. And then they go back to where they where they came from. And, you know, you cant social distance at a sporting event. I think thats part of the calculus for a lot of these events. I was actually surprised last night. I had espn in my office last night. One of the games, it was the nba game and it was a little kids. Went up to one of the players. The player