This is a historic event, unprecedented in the last 35 years. We havent seen flood levels like this in the area since 1983. This is going to affect a lot of people. It is certainly something that you should not take for granted. Entire weekend, its really about paying tribute to kobe bryant, his daughter gigi and late nba commissioner david stern. To be able to honor kobe bryant and his legacy, its a beautiful time. Its a beautiful time. Good sunday morning to you. Top of the hour now. Im victor blackwell. Good morning. Im amara walker. Lets start with breaking news in japan. Starting at any moment now, an evacuation of hundreds of americans stuck aboard a cruise ship under quarantine for almost two weeks now because of the coronavirus. Soon they will be bused from the diamond princess to board chartered flights back to the u. S. More than 400 americans have been on board the diamond princess ship for the past 12 days. At least 46 of them have tested positive for coronavirus. Cnns matt rivers is at the airport in tokyo where evacuees will be boarding their flights soon. Were going to start with will ripley, hes in yokohama where the cruise ship is docked. Wishlgs whats the timeline were expecting . Reporter we are expecting really any minute now, victor, for passengers to depart off of the diamond princess, get on those buses. We count 12 parked outside the ship along with three military vehicles. Then things are expected to move interpretly quickly. Just a 15, 20 minute drive to airport. Passengers on the ship were told to pack their belongings, also told to bring along water and snacks and to dress in layers. They were warned it might be a bumpy, long ride back to the united states. But for many, it is a welcome ride after what theyve gone through here for almost two weeks now of quarantine, confined to their cramped cabins. Many without windows. Only able to watch television and basically look at each other under the quarantine, except for the rare hour theyre allowed out every few days. Soom some americans are being left behind on the ship and in hospitals. There are 46 americans who tested positive for coronavirus. They do not qualify for the evacuation flights. Some of their family members are choosing to stay behind. What is the plan for them . The answer from the government, they just dont know. What the government does know, people who remain on the ship are believed to be at a higher risk of infection of coronavirus. Theyve urged all americans who can get on the flights to do so. Matt rivers, to you now. You ever the status and a timeline on when the charter flights will depart. Yes, it will be relieving for many of the americans who will be evacuating the ship and getting on the charter flights. Theyre going to be facing yet another quarantine. Reporter yeah, thats right. I mean this process for these passengers has been tough so far. Its going to remain that way for people who go back to the united states. Were expecting two charter flights to land here at the airport, one of two airports here in tokyo. The first plane set to land in a few minutes from now on one of the runways behind me there. The next plane landing about an hour later. The turn around will be pretty quick. This is going to be a quick process. Passengers brought here straight from the ship, put from buses on board the planes and off they go. The first plane set to take off around midnight. The next one about two hours after that. Theyre heading to Travis Air Force base in california. Some will remain there. Others will go to Lackland Air Force base in san antonio. No matter where they go, theyll be in quarantine for two weeks. Thats out of an abundance of caution, according to the American Government. But according to some passengers we spoke to, theyre wondering why werent they evacuated ten days ago . Theyve been in quarantine more than ten days now. Where was the American Government ten days ago . Why the about face. Thats why theyre frustrated. Theyre staring at two more weeks in quarantine at a base in hereto california or texas. This journey, oreg, ordeal for e passengers is going on. Matt rivers and will ripley, thank you for your reporting. Today a partial recanvas of the caucus results following the disaster of their kacaucus app. Nearly every democratic candidate is campaigning throughout nevada today. Early voting got off to a rough start yesterday. Look at this precinct. Voters stood in line more than three hours. What was the problem . Well, the large voter turnout, paired with too few volunteers to process them. Tensions are heating up on the campaign trail between democratic rivals. In an interview with nbc, joe biden says Bernie Sanders hasnt done enough to condemn his supporters for their online behavior. Sanders took a swief at Michael Bloomberg for his past positions on stop and frisk. The stuff that was said online, threatened the two women in the union is outrageous. Just go online. I invite anybody to go and take a look, the things they said. The vicious, malicious, massage nis particular things they said. To say i disassociate is one thing. Find out who the hell they are. Fire them, see whats going on. You dont think hes been curious enough . Im hoping hes looking. Regardless of how much money a multibillionaire candidate is willing to spend on his election, we will not create the energy and excitement we need to defeat donald trump if that candidate pursued, advocated for and enacted racist policies like stop and frisk. Communities of color to live in fear. Joining me to break down the headlines is Julia Manchester, political reporter for the hill and cnn political analyst julian zelizer. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. I would like to start with sound from voters in nevada. It gives us a sense of how theyre thinking and some are admitting they havent made up their minds yet, especially with no standard there for the Democratic Party emerging. Take a listen. Who are you excited about . Leaning towards . Biden and Amy Klobuchar. Okay. Hang on. I dont know who im doing really. I know a democrat for sure. I just i cant believe what trump has been doing. So you know democrat for sure . Ill be a democrat for sure. Whoever makes it in the Democratic Party, thats who well vote for in the primary. So you can see there that you have some moderate voters like those in this family who are still looking for their candidate. Julia, you reported a bit on this. About the impact of splintering the moderate vote, which ultimately benefits Bernie Sanders, but also for the divides, the democratic between moderates and progressives. Absolutely. When you look at the moderate lean of the party, its split really between four candidates. Amy klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Mike Bloomberg and joe biden. Bloomberg hasnt officially we havent seen the full impact he will have. We wont see that until super tuesday. What youre seeing, use New Hampshire as an example. Bernie sanders won that primary. If Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg were to combine their support to one kate candidate, they would have won that as well. Its interesting to see how it has splintered and how sanders has amassed this progressive support and leaving a number of us to question whether sanders support actually has a ceiling at this point or moderates will need to consolidate and maybe try to outpace that support. Bloomberg is that other moderate. We obviously asked him from the first four contests. But he is focusing on super tuesday, which a 33 of the delegates. Julian, to you. This is a billionaire, multibillionaire who has spent gobs of money. If we put a graphic out, it will show you some of the money hes spent. 400 million. 381 million so far on tv ads. This is, of course, his own money. 2400 plus staffers with him. Obviously, way outspending his opponents. Julian, put his candidacy into context for us and how its impacting the race. Well, its pretty remarkable. Hes throwing retail politics out the window to some extent and really focusing on these tv ad buys. But hes benefiting from the fact that the electorate is still so uncertain and uneasy as the people in the video conveyed. And hes showing that he is able to build up his numbers. But hes making a big bet that its all going to pay off in some of these big state delegations and there is a lot of there are many questions about him from stop and frisk to his workplace that are now coming up. You know, its unclear if the ads can outweigh those concerns that are emerging. Thats a good point you bring up. As we see bloombergs past is coming to haunt him, and you know, hes been battling a lot of Sexual Harassment claims, profane and sexist comments that he has allegedly made, i want us to listen to Washington Post reporter who is on cnn last night talking about some of these allegations, especially about a lawsuit that regarded regarding a former pregnant employee and her pregnancy. Here it is. The sales woman in her lawsuit said that bloomberg told her, quote, kill it. This individual recalls bloomberg said are you going to kill it . This witness who i interviewed said he also found that to be outrageous. Reported in the story that three sources tell me the settlement was in the six figures. Bloomberg gave a deposition in the case thats never been made public. Can he overcome these issues were women voters and African American voters, julia . Not to minimize any of these allegations in any way, but do we have a double standard for the Democratic Candidates and the current president . Yeah. Exactly. I think a lot of us have been drawing that comparison in our minds. Unfortunately, these issues of Sexual Harassment didnt really hurt President Trump in 2016. In fact, he went on, obviously, to still win. Its a question as to whether this will hurt Michael Bloomberg. Because we know the Democratic Party has been more vocal and more, you know, has been more willing to quash squash these allegations squash this kind of rhetoric from members of their party. So it will be interesting to see how the Party Establishment and how voters really respond to this. You know, talking to i followed Mike Bloomberg around richmond yesterday and talking to a number of voters on the ground, i asked them about some of these allegations. Some of these reported past comments. They definitely condemned them. But they said at the same time, were so focused on defeating donald trump, we feel that bloomberg would be the first best candidate. I want to give julian the last word. You wrote a piece about this. Yes, the media, critics, a lot of people, some of the Democratic Candidates wondering, hey, is Bernie Sanders a frontrunner right now, even electable, a democratic socialist . You remind people, look, our current president is the most radical of them all. Yes, the greatest double standard of all. I think thats a point the democrats need to figure out, how do they make that point clear to the electorate. He is very radical in terms of policy, shifting on issues like Climate Change to the right, hes very radical in how he uses his president ial power as we saw during the impeachment and his rhetoric, his public presentation is truly radical compared to what weve seen with other president s. We need to keep that in mind as we discuss what the range is in the Democratic Party. That would be incumbent upon the democrats to have appealing alternative. Yes. Appreciate you Julia Manchester and julian zelizer. Nancy pelosi says she did not intend to make why she says she decided to rip up the president s state of the union speech. The president has been taking a victory lap since being acquitted in the impeachment trial. Now hes going to the daytona 500. Will he take an actual lap around the track . A lot will happen in your life. Wrinkles just wont. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repairs fastest retinol formula works so fast. It takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. 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I also think it is a matter of not having economic threats be a reason why someone would choose huawei. It is cheaper for the moment. It is cheaper. They dont have to pay a lot for their research and development because theyre versed many u. S. Technologies and western technologies. Third, its about values. This is very dangerous. This is about choosing awe tock rah si over democracy on the information highway. Its about putting the state police in the pocket of every consumer in these countries because of the chinese way. Earlier, pelosi spoke about the moment she ripped up President Trumps speech after the state of the union. Thank you. God bless you. God bless america. Thank you very much. Heres more of what the california democrat told our christhian amanpour in munich. Are you giving a signal that the democrats will fight back hard, that you will not be constrained by what you believe to be insurgent behavior on the other side that this is, you know, a time to go mano y mano. Let me say this. I had no intention of doing that at the state of union. Im a speed reader, so i was reading ahead. I knew what was there. I got past like about a third of it. I thought this is terrible. A couple of pages, thinking i remember whats on this page, this page. I realized that most every page had something in it that was objectionable. So it wasnt a planned thing, but it was one of my disappointments is the fact that with all that we have done legislatively, whether its equal pay for equal work, raising the minimum wage, gun violence protection, issues that relate to our children, the list goes on, Climate Action now, we have literal press on it. It seems that if you want to get press, you have to get attention. So i thought, well, lets get attention on the fact that what he said here today was not true. Some people call this nascars super bowl. Starts today. Daytona 500 kicking off the 2020 season and President Trump will be there. He is set to speak before the race and sources say discussions are under way over whether or not he will take a lap around the track. Cnn White House ReporterSarah Westwood is in West Palm Beach with more. Will he . That is the question, amara. Whether President Trump will take a lap when he attends the daytona 500 later today. That is a possibility. The white house possibly planning on having the president do that lap in the president ial limo known as the beast. The president will also be serving as the grand marshal of that race, which means hell be giving that famous command, drivers start your engines. Hell make a little bit of history. Hell be the first sitting president ever to say the words at the race. The last time a president served as grand marshal was president obama. Likely to be friendly to President Trump. Take a listen. America is great. Better than ever. Under President Trumps leadership we are racing to new heights. Millions of new jobs rising wages, record low unemployment. Securing our border. Protecting our country. And respecting our veterans. The president is likely to get a warm welcome from the audience at this race today. Its keeping on a string of sporting events that the president has attended where hes gotten that warm welcome he craves from the crowd. His attendance comes one day after he attended the most expensive fundraiser of his campaign so far here in West Palm Beach where couples paid upwards of 500,000 to attend that dinner with the president. It was expected to bring in more than 10 million for his Campaign Just in that one night. That comes after the rnc and his campaign posted pretty high numbers from january, 60 million in that one month. They attributed that to impeachment victory, amara. 500,000 a couple, you dont have to invite too many couples to get there. Sarah westwood, thank you so much. It is a nasty battle of the billionaires thats getting worse by the day. 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