Announcer new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. 7 00 on this sunday. Thank you for being with us. Talking, of course, about the coronavirus, its expansion and the disruptive changes were seeing on a global scale. Americans returning from europe are finding chaos at airports. Hourslong delays. Look at these lines. Goodness. Waiting to go through customs and Health Screenings and thats raising serious kearns aboconce hundreds of passengers crowded close together. This aint social distancing obviously. Are they being exposed . Starting the a midnight restrictions include the uk and ireland. Domestic restrictions also being considered. And in europe, france closing all nonessential businesses such as restaurants. Spain ordering people to stay in their homes and the vatican canceling public easter events. Good news, though, on the front of the health of the president. President trump says he has tested negative for the virus. But he came in contact with two people who tested positive. Again, the president testing negative. 2020 politics also feeling the impact. The state of georgia is moving its president ial primary from march 24th to may 19th. Louisiana also delaying voting. All of the reasons for this urgency is clear in numbers. 6 60 people died here in the United States. The update, more than 2,800 confirmed cases now. Around the world, more than 150,000 cases according to the latest data from the World Health Organization and john hopkins university. More than 5,000 people have died. We have reporters around the world covering all angles of this al goodman in madrid and a reporter in paris. Sarah westwood in washington. First, to paul o Polo Sandoval york. Handling flights impacted by the european travel ban rules. These pictures are unbelievable. What are you seeing there . Reporter victor, the pictures, stories, repeating themselves. Especially the stories that came in from yesterday. Passenger after passenger describing the scenes met with upon return back to the United States. Talking u. S. Citizens and permanent residents able to travel back into the country from the select regions in europe. The concern, of course, you have the government thats asking people to practice social distancing, and at the same time, many passengers comes in waiting for the cdc required testing, staged or forced to wait in long lines and in cramped spaces. What some had to say about their experience. We got off the our plane and were directed down a hall and the International Terminal and we got on an escalator and it was just absolutely, there were people piled up at the bottom. I think three hours, maybe a little bit more waiting first to get to customs and then waiting for the second step, im not sure what was happening. Very crowded. Not ideal considering what this contagion is. Its the worst system i could think of. All right. Remember what brought us here. A couple days ago the Trump Administration announced a travel ban and also this accompanying Wellness Check for all of these inbound passengers, designate ed about 13 airports across the country meant for these passengers to land. Talking u. S. Citizens and permanent residents and then go through customs, asked for medical and travel history and checked out for potential symptoms. A process according to the secretary chad wolff says lasts about a minute. With all the passengers a logjam. Taking to twitter saying the department is aware of these long lines of passengers who are undergoing increased medical screening and in they are currently working to add additional screening capacity and currently working with airlines to expedite this. The secretary goes on to say he understands this is obviously very stressful and concerning and asking for patience during unprecedented times saying this is a process that only takes about a minute, victor and christi. Multiply it by many passengers who fly into the country every day and the results of these pictures. Were seeing two things. Feeling criticism by critics that the Trump Administration was not prepared to enforce this european travel ban and also accompanying Wellness Check and fuels concerns by many of the passengers that feel theyre being crammed into these spaces could expose them to the virus itself. Polo sandoval there in new york. Thank you. Talk about whats happening in spain this morning. They had an issue travel restriction in effect. Spaniards there have to stay inside their homes. Theres only a few exceptions to this. That is after a spike of more than 1,500 cases in a single day including the spanish Prime Ministers wife who tested positive. Al goodman from central madrid for us. How are things going there, al, and what about the exceptions where spaniards are allowed to go outside . Reporter hi, christi and victor. You talked about churches in the United States. Talk to you about one thing not an exception. Church services here in traditionally very Roman Catholic spain, mass canceled. Im outside the church in central madrid that baits back to the 12th century. Nowadays on a sunday priests celebrate eight different masses on the hour in the morning and the afternoon. Each one attended by 600 to 800 parishioners according to the parish priest with whom we talked. Those have been canceled. Parishioners can individually go into the church. We saw a few, a handful in there, in just a few minutes ago. The priest said he will still take confession. That can be done, but the growing catholic leadership in spain put out signs like this one in spanish. Outside churches across the country, basically it says that because of this state of emergency, masses cant be held in the church here so encourages parishioners to do so in their homes and a lot of social media and televised masses to follow as well. Thats just one of the places that is so vital to so many spaniards not on the exception list. On the list food stores and pharmacies. Clearly, the Prime Minister says these are crisis days. Theyre trying to do here, as everywhere else, stop the dramatic increase that might overkem hospitals. Back to you. Al goodman, take care. Thank you so much for the update. From madrid to paris and the streets of france are quiet this morning. New sweeping restrictions announced by the french Prime Minister went into affect a few hours ago. All nonessential businesses closed. Talking restaurants, cafes, cinemas, clubs and it started at midnight. So our reporter is with france 24 joining us from paris. People are waking up this morning here realizing they cant go. Theres no place for them to go. How are they handling that . Do we know . Reporter yes, christi. People are slowly adapting to this new reality no you. Th now. A new normal here in france after a drastic shutdown of many of the Services People traditionally rely on. So restaurants, bars, many shops, all of those that arent selling food and medicine, are all closed this sunday. Theaters, too. We just heard also ski resorts as well. Peoples leisure activities curtailed. Daily life is getting more difficult for people as the coronavirus comes and sinks in here in france. We heard from the transport minister as well asking people to limit movement and announced that Train Services and Plane Services internally in france will be progressively reduced throughout the week. And for monday, all schools, universities and kindergartens shuts too. Its starting to hit home now that social interaction, life, daily life in france will not be able to carry on as usual. Let me ask you, before we let you go, about the vote thats happening there. Local elections happening today. What are the precautions being taken . Reporter right. So there is the first round of voting taking place all across france, 50 Million People registered to vote in france, in the first round of local elections, and some people saying this is not consistent with the sweeping restrictions that have just been announced by the french government. There are precautions in place at all of the polling stations. So, for example, people are being told to keep at least one meter, three feet apart and markers are taped down on floors. The polling stations have been disinfected and in places officials are actually cleaning the ballot boxes with sanitizer gel after each person has voted. People are being told to bring their own pens, bring their own ballot slips to try and avoid contamination, but there is a lot of controversy about the fact this vote is being held at all and not postponed. A lot of people, politicians from opposition parties, and also doctors and health professionals, saying that the government should have delayed this vote, and turnout, tell you late et number, turnout down. Just over 18 as of midday in france. Thats down around 5 Percentage Points from the last local elections in 2014. Reporting from paris. Thank you so much. Continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic throughout the day. Coming up on state of the Union Jake Tapper talking with dr. Anthony fauci director of the institute of allergy and infection diseases. Today at 9 00 right here on cnn. President trump finally takes a coronavirus test, but will he stop shaking hands . Will he stop shoving a dozen people behind a podium . We go to the white house next. And churches shut doors and shift from inperson to online services. The impact of coronavirus on religious communities. Were talking to a couple of leaders. Stay close. Whats this . Your colds gonna make you a zombie tomorrow. 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The white house and President Trump tested negative for the coronavirus. This after a surprise announcement from the president yesterday he had taken the test friday. Bring in cnn White House Reporter sarah westwood. Help me understand this, because the memo we received from the white house physician was about midnight, middle of the night, friday into saturday saying the president would not selfquarentine, did not need to be tested, but when were the president say he was tested . Reporter mr. President trump said yesterday he was tested friday night. A lot of confusion about the timing of that test given that as you mentioned the white house physician sent out a memo late friday night saying that the president had had what he described as low risk interactions with people who tested positive for kvcovid19 d wasnt recommending the president get tested. Nonetheless, the president suggested pressure from the media, types of questions he faced during that friday press conference later encouraged him to take the test. The white house doctor said after in depdepth conversation with President Trump they decided to go ahead and testcor. The white house seems to be taking this less seriously. For example a person from the White House Physicians Office took temperature of reporters in the Briefing Room with Vice President pence with President Trump. They are going to start screening people apparently who are going to come into close proximity with the president and Vice President mike pence. Sending all staff email to white house staff encouraging them to practice social distancing and avoice physical contact and yet we havent seen President Trump model that behavior. Continues to shake hands in public. Continuing to pack the rooms hes in with officials standing behind him when he appears at the podium, for example. So President Trump not clearly practicing social distancing but thats a message we are getting from this administration and the message they are giving to their own staff, victor and christi. Sarah westwood, thank you for theup date. Appreciate it. Joining us now is lauren bair who was a member of the state Department EbolaEarly Response Team during the obama administration. Lauren good to have you. Thanks for having me. So you know what this response is supposed to look like. You helped put together the plan during the ebola outbreak. Whats your assessment of the response to the coronavirus . Highly deficient, from the very earliest days in our response to the ebola crisis we recognized it wasnt only a Global Health issue, there were potential economic implications and also vast National Security implications to a disease that would spread in that way. All of the same applies to the coronavirus but this president from his earliest days treated it primarily as a political crisis looking at it with implications for his election in november, and not on the American People. Now, weve seen that start to change in the past week, but i take great concern out of things like the fact that in his statement on friday he was still saying things like, i take no responsibility at all, and until the president recognizes that the buck stops with him, and that the lives and livelihoods of American People depend on him owning this crisis and treating it with the seriousness it deserves i dont think we can be confident in the leadership here. Somebody else is talking out about this. Newt gingrich former speaker of the house wrote a piece in newsweek talking how hes living in italy, seen a strong response from that government and what he said about President Trump. Right to cut off travel from china early, right to enact travel bans in europe but the u. S. Doesnt need a stimulus package they need an Economic Growth package speaking against nationalism. The u. S. Has to recognize we may need to grow strongly enough to help pull europe out of a deep recession in the fall and cant think just about whats happening economically in the u. S. A collapsing europe would have a huge impact on the entire World Economy including america. What do you think at this point is the reasonable response to a pandemic like this and do you see anybody in President Trumps circle who can have some influence on that . First i want to take note of how meaningful it is that you have Newt Gingrich writing an article like this. Someone who was a stalwart republican who wife serves in the administration going outside the normal diplomatic channels indicating he thinks this administration is not giving this the kind of response it needs. Now where i might differ from mr. Gingrich is in saying we need to be concerned not only with the Macro Economic implications of this crisis but how its affecting everyday american families. If you look at just the change in the past week in terms of individuals starting to be asked to work from home. Schools closing in parts of our country. People avoiding mass transit. This is going to be hitting peoples pocketbooks hard especially if youre a worker in the company and an hourly worker. Why things like the relief we saw coming out of the house was so important. Things like paid sick leave and paid family leave. This is really just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what were going to need to be providing to ensure not only that the economy as a whole stays afloat but that Everyday Americans are able to make it through unscathed. Let me ask you, stay on the geoplifk ang plifpolitical angl. Your role makes you the perfect person to answer this. January 22nd. The cdc discovered a coronavirus positive in washington state. Listen to this and well talk on the other side. Words of a pandemic at this point . Not at all. We have it totally under control. One person coming in from china and we have it under control. The going to be just fine. You trust well know everything we need to know from china . I do. I do. I have a great relationship with president xi. We get everything we need to know from china, your view on that expectation . Look at the big geopolitical picture here and make clear to the American People this is just as much a test of americas Global Leadership as active warfare. Precisely the situation we need close coordination with allies and International Organizations to make sure we are doing everything we can in following the best practices in order to control this pandemic, but what youve seen from Presiden