People on the cruise ship the grand princess have tested positive for the virus. Thats nearly half of the 46 people tested on that ship and of those 21, 19 are crew members. Now, that ship is currently located off the coast of san francisco. It has been in limbo there since wednesday and now all eyes are on this ship because the last cruise ship, the diamond princess, at one time was the second Biggest Center of coronavirus outside mainland china. That ship ended up with more than 600 cases of coronavirus. What is going to happen to the people on board the grand princess . Were working literal hour by hour with the department of defense. It is truly evolving right now. Hour by hour, truly evolving. They dont know. The only person who has made his view on what to do with the 3,400 people who are on board that ship right now waiting to know whats going to happen is President Trump. If it were up to me, i would be inclined to say leave everybody on the ship for a period of time and use the ship as your base. But a lot of people would rather do it a different way. Theyd rather quarantine people. When they do that, our numbers are going to go up. Leave people on the ship because when they come to land, theyll count in his mind in the u. S. Count of cases which is now at 282 up from 221 at this time last night. 15 deaths now. There were 12 24 hours ago. The virus has spread to new states. Last night it was 17 states. Tonight it is in 23 u. S. States. Lu lucy is out front. Shes in san francisco. She can tell us whats on that ship. Lucy, please tell me what you know here about the latest ship. Reporter well, erin, the population on that ship a vulnerable one. Many of the people are in their 60s, 70s, and 80s. Theyve been eagerly awaiting this news. That could be a higher number. One of those tests came back inconclusive. The question is what happens to the 3,500 people on board that ship . The Vice President said is going to be taken to a noncommercial port. We know that the 1,100 or so crew members are going to remain on that ship. They will remain under quarantine there. The rest, it sounds like, may be taken to various military bases to be tested and potentially quarantined if needed. But heres the rub, erin. A lot of the passengers that weve been talking to, they didnt have any advanced notice about this. They learned about it by watching the news. Take a listen to one clip a passenger sent us. Vice president mike pence announced that 21 people have tested positive for covid19. You may have heard this on the news by the media already, and we apologize, but we were not given advanced notice of this announcement by the u. S. Federal government. Reporter now all the passengers will remain in their rooms until that ships docks. We dont know when that will be. One passengers texted me saying it feels like no ones in charge. Were stuck. Thank you very much. I want to go to debbie lofta on the ship. Its got to be hard to smile. How did you find out about the results of these tests . I just heard the captain saying he didnt even get advanced notice of these results. He didnt. We were watching msnbc and we heard it and it was like um, excuse me, i thought the passengers were supposed to be notified first. I immediately called Passenger Services and said you better get the captain aware of whats going on and get on the intercom. He did come on about ten minutes later. But the fact that we werent told first made us quite upset and angry. I can only imagine how that must have felt. I mean, truly i am sorry. How does this make you feel that you had to find out from that announcement . You had to call down and say please, please announce and that the captain, when he came on, we heard that clip that you recorded says he was not given advanced notice. They thechmselves, the captain the ship found out about the press conference. Yes. Theres no excuse for this. So, we understand that 19 of the 21 people that they knew to be infected at this time because they swabbed 46 are crew members. Obviously, you know, crew members doing everything they can to help people on the ship to, help all of you with everything you need, 3,400 people on board with you tonight, debbie. How concerned are you that you could have come into contact with these crew members . Its all likelihood, but we have no idea what role they had on the ship. We dont have enough information right now. And if weve been exposed, weve been exposed. I know theyll be testing us. The biggest question will be if we test negative, what are they going to do with us . Can we go home, or are they going to keep us quarantine snd. We just heard the Vice President and the medical experts saying its evolving hour by hour. Theyre working with the department of defense on a plan. They dont have a plan yet though. Have you it sounds like i know the answer to this. Have you been told anything about your risk or when youre going to get off the ship, any idea . We have absolutely no idea except that they are going to be testing every Single Person on the boat. Otherwise we have no idea. They did give us a piece of paper today so we could write down any Prescription Medication that we might need if were going to be quarantined for two more weeks. Thats about all i know. And i know that thats very you know, thats disturbing. I can only imagine i. Know obviously they did that with the other cruise ship. They tried to get the medicine on board for people. The overall quarantine time period ended up being a month. God knows we all hope you dont face anything like that. But i know you heard, and i want to make sure just in case, President Trump weighed in on what he would do, his personal opinion. If it were up to me, i would be inclined to say leave everybody on the ship for a period of time and use the ship as your base. What do you say to that idea . Does he not realize what happened on the diamond princess when they did that . And hes more than welcome to come on to the ship with us and serve us our dinners and bring me my towels. You were on the ship, debbie. I know you took your parents on a cruise for your fathers birthday, his 84th birthday. Your parents are in their 80s. And many people on the cruise as we understand it, at least the Vice President said, you know, 60s and 70s and 80s, older people, how concerned are you for your mother and father . If they were to get sick, then im extremely concerned. Were praying that we dont get sick. We havent been around what we thought were sick people, nobody sneezing or coughing on us. So, hopefully, keep our fingers crossed and well be healthy. Debbie, we hope so too. And i am so sorry. I hope they get some answers and a plan very soon. You all deserve that. Thank you. Thank you. Next, dozens of new cases of coronavirus in the United States, yet the president s advisers today said this. This has been contained because the president took action. Plus a frustrating wait for answers. Were going to hear from a woman in Washington State who was exposed to the coronavirus. He was at the nursing home where several people have died. But she had to wait days before she was able to get tested even when she showed symptoms. Bernie sanders making an allout push for michigan. Will it work . Jay . He helped me set up my watch lists. Karl he took care of my 401k rollover. Wow, you call a lot. Yeah, well its my money were talking about here. 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Breaking news, the number of coronavirus cases and the number of deaths rising in the United States. Now 21 people infected on a cruise ship off the coast of san francisco. Trumps political inside team, though, today insists the virus is contained. What i am pleased to report is that the 14 deaths so far that are completely tragic and very sad in this country shows that this is plead guilbeing co because the president took action. We dont actually know what the magnitude of the virus is going to be, although frankly so far it looks relatively contained. The word contained in medical context means halt, and thats a huge, huge, huge thing to say. Underneath conway or kudlow are doctors but the cdc, who is a doctor, just said this. Theres no doubt were going to see more community cases. And tonight the cdc following on that issuing new guidance, saying older adults should stay home as much as possible due to the risk of coronavirus spread. You avoid the infection by avoiding other people. So, older people and others should really consider their life circumstances, and that includes nonessential travel at this time. So, with wh then the doctors saying things like that and the numbers are going up, when would Kellyanne Conway and larry kudlow say it is contained . Kaitlan, the president and his administration sending muddled points. Vice president pence is the point person and he may come out with that. Where is the president getting his information . Thats the concern from some aides is the level of quality of the information that the president is getting. Erin, the president has his habit since hes been in office where people are talking to him, giving him advice that he doesnt like or e he disagrees with, even if they are the expert, he seeks outside counsel. Were seeing that with coronavirus where the president is getting a lot of information from the Vice President who is briefing him four or five times a day, but hes also getting information from outsiders, people painting a rosier picture of whats happening because thats what the president was hoping with the projections hes made about it going away when it warms up. Thats the concern here. Thats why you see the president off message so many times with his own top health officials. You saw that on display at the visit with the cdc, where it was called off and called back on after they thought someone there may have tested positive for the virus and of course they later tested not positive they said. But the president was standing there with his own experts in the field and making false claims about the level of Testing Available at this state. Of course he was wearing his hat with these officials in this lab at the cdc. So, the question is why the president has not been on the same page with them. Were being told hes getting information from outsiders that clearly he is using to bring to the forefront instead of the subject matter hes getting from experts. Thank you very much, kaitlan. I want to go to dr. Ivan walks, former chief Health Officer. As a medical professional, as a chief Health Officer for washington, d. C. , would you say the same thing . Would you be comfortable saying that at this point . I would not be comfortable saying that. And the reason you cant say that now is because you have to maintain level of credibility. You have to make sure that when you do come out and talk to folks that theyll believe you. So, if people know that right now there are other things that youre thinking about and youre just saying anything, its one of the worst things do you thyo in Public Health. Clear communication is absolutely whats needed. And the reason for that, erin, is what about when its time to tell people i want you to do this so that we can be safe . I want you to do that so we can be safe . If they dont believe you now, they will not believe you then. And things can really get a lot worse. So, obviously the big reality here is nobody knows how bad it will be. I know thats incredibly difficult from a Public Health perspective. You dont want people to feel that you cried wolf but you want them to be prepared and to do the right thing. Its a tough needle to thread. But we hear the president is getting information from his friends and people where hes relying on wishful thinking. How dangerous is this right now from the president . I think its dangerous for us. I think its very dangerous for us. And i think that when you begin to do that, and people begin to guess about your motives, then the one motive you should have which is protecting the publics health, that one kind of gets pushed to the side when the conversation begins to be about other things. I think its important to have clear messages. I dont know why two days later you dont know what to do with the ship or you dont announce you know what to do. I dont know why we cant get a clear message on what is an elderly person you think the issue with the ship thats unacceptable. You heard them hour by hour its evolving. They should have expected some results to come off of that ship that werent fantastic. They tested 46. They got half of them as positiv positives. Youre thinking they should have expected this and been much better prepared. I think yes. And i think why do you only test 46 people. I dont know. There was no reason given for that. If youre going to drop tests on the ship, drop tests on the ship and test the ship and let people know whats going on. I know it sounds bad when the number is really high, but if thats the number, people should know. And if the plan is that if you are a certain page and have a certain level of illness, you shouldnt travel, then be very clear about that and let people know. Right, right, which some are saying and some are trying to down play by saying contain. David, i wanted to ask you about the president made a stop at the cdc today. At first he was going, then he cancelled it, then rescheduled it. Heres what he said about what happened, why he cancelled the visit to the cdc. I was told that one person maybe that works someplace in the building, im not even sure what level, but that one person may have had the virus. And therefore they said sir, because of the fact that one person may have had its a great building with a lot of great scientists one person had the virus. That turned out to be a negative report. That turned out to be negative. So, they called me but it was already cancelled. The statement they put out hes saying they cancelled because they thought someone had coronavirus at the cdc. But the white house put out a statement with a different reason for why it was cancel ld which is the president does not want to interfere with the drcds mission. Where does it say that the first instinct was that someone at the coronavirus . Im afraid this is just one more example of something very fra us from straiting to the american people. Lets be clear, the president and the people that work for him, im sure theyre sincere in wanting to get on top of this and protect the american people. Thats not a question. Its the way theyre doing which has been so distressing for so Many Americans and why the president s Approval Rating has been dropping so rapidly on his handling of this. What theyre showing is lack of confidence and also an attempt to give us a pep talk every time we turn around. Americans are not looking for a pep talk from the white house right now. What they want is Straight Talk and they feel theyre not getting it. We get these we were promised, for example, by the end of the week we would have 1. 5 million test kits out there as of today, we would have 1. 5 million test kits distributed by the u. S. Government. Where are we today, california, the hot spot, there were only 7,500 kits there at this time. And california has only tested 516 people. Right. And just to be clear, theres 3,400 people on that ship and youre going to need more than one test per person during a quarantine period. Next the frightening description of the Coronavirus Crisis and what it is doing the airline industry. It has a 9 11like feel. Think about that fran airline ceo. 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