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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 Ebola Early 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 President Trump is actually precisely the opposite. He spent the first three years of his administration distancing himself from allies, cozying up to dictators and were seeing the implications now. This is a situation the world actually isnt looking to the United States for leadership. No one saying we are engaging in best practices here. That should be a concern to all of us. Thanks for your insight. Thank you for having me. Coming up, churches and synagogues now closing doors shifting from inperson to online services. The impact of coronavirus on religious communities. Thats ahead. Im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. Sorry hes a baby i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. Does it worry me . Absolutely. 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Many religious leaders decided to close places of worship, ban large gathering, modify traditions. The vatican, in fact, cancelled easter mass and holy Week Celebrations and the pope is Live Streaming the events. Here with us this morning is Senior Pastor of a christian center. And also rabbi of the ora torah synagogue. Bishop, start with you, and the decision to move to, i understand, a teleworship. Tell us about the decision and how will this work . Because a lot of, i know specifically the coachic denomination, how do you replicate that . Its unchartered territory for sure, and our system certainly social interaction is paramount. As a matter of fact, god designed us to be in community. So, yeah, we do a lot of touching your neighbor and those kind of things and certainly encouraged all of our members to do something weve never had to do before. Stay home and watch us live stream via facebook. Inevitably there will be those who will show up, and im going to be at the physical church with a few staff people and were going to stream our service, but for those who decide to show up, we are going to, were using the greatest sanitary measures possible, but were encouraging people to watch us online. Its again, unprecedented. Something weve never had to do before, tell people to stay home but hopefully thats the best option. I want to put on the screen pick chesh of the website. The Atlanta Jewish times. People went there to try to get information. Its a bit jolting to see this. So we know that connectivity and communal life is pivotal to orthodox dutyism. There is an edict you practice to have a quorum of ten people to read certain prayers from the torah. How do you remedy that if people cant get together . It is difficult. A synagogue operates 365 day as year, nonstop, no matter the weather, no matter whats going on in the world. For the First Time Ever weve had to close our doors. And we had people praying at home, but its not the full prayer service. We cant read from the torah. There are elements were not allowed to pray unless we have that quorum, its a really challenge but we feel for the sake of what we call hebrew [ speaking in Foreign Language ] of saving a life, they override this otherwise extremely important religious concerns and doing the unthinkable which is closing the door for services. Hmm. Bishop, let me ask you. The president has said that a miracle would end coronavirus. That was early on, and were seeing a televangelist using his platform to do this. Weve got a clip of the video and then i want to talk. Consider not my own body. Yes. I consider not symptoms in my body. I cannot symptoms in my body. But only that which god has only that what the word has said. Only that what the word has said. And by his stripes i was healed, and by his stripes i am healed now. Im not the sick trying to get healed. Im the healed and the devils trying to give me the flu copeland. Devils trying to give me the flu and consider not my symptoms. What are the allowances you make for faith, but also for medical advice . Well were she to use common sense. God gave us medical science for a reason. The Christian Faith is all about believing, and faith is believing in what you cant see. If you can see it, its not faith. So we subscribe to the fact that god is supernatural. God can guard us, protect us, keep us. We believe that we have to confess it but also know the reality is, as believers things dont always go as we would like them to and weve got to trust the knowledge and the wisdom that god has given us via medical science. So i think we need to encourage our people to do what 2 timothy said, giving us not a spirit of fear but of power and love and of a sound mind. Dont live in fear. Confess what you believe absolutely, the bible says we have to confess what we believe in and hold fast to what you believe god can do, but at the same time we understand in this realm of humanity, bad things happen to good people. Were in a pandemic experience here. Yeah. So it would be naive of us to think that because were believers that it wont happen to us even though were hoping, praying and believing that it will not. There is a woman, from the Washington Post believe jesus is present in union. You cant get that on television. From the christian perspective, from the jewish perspective as what you are doing. How do you retain these people that depend on that Human Interaction . And who, perhaps may be very uncomfortable with a tv version of worship . The irony here is that people come to our holy spaces, our sacred spaces when they need support, they need comfort, when they need solace. Good point. And the challenges, these are the places they cant come to at this time, and we are finding very creative ways to resume in other technologies to reach out to them. To do acts of kindness for those who may be in need. I had an email this morning from a teenager asking, can they go shopping for some other elderly people more at risk to go to the supermarket . In many ways this challenge can bring out the best in people. I do think that is doing gods work even if they cant come to services. Yeah. At our church, the sick and shutin list, people who were members couldnt come in. Many in their 70s, 80s or 90s. You go visit them every week. This may be the week maybe you dont go visit them. Theyre most vulnerable. The walls of the churches are expanding. Should we go . Put that to you before we go quickly, bishop. Should members go and visit the sick and shutin . You got an 80yearold woman a member of the churn, weekly may be visited only by members of the church is this the week to go visit her because of the vulnerabilities of the coronavirus . Oh, man. Thats a great, great question. The bible teaches we should take tear of the widows, the sick and shutin. In is until our scriptures. Use the best saner to practices we dont want to abandon our seniors. We, too, are doing everything we can by Grocery Shopping for seniors encouraging them not to leave their houses. We will bring everything and anything they need to them. We have to do that, if were asking them not to leave their housess sanitize ourselves and trust . Our god as we do the work of the lord, serving seniors and less fortunate and underprivileged we just have to believe god will cover us. At some point have to ask, what would jesus do . Jesus would not turn his eye, turn his head to this situation. He would come to those who need him and trust the god to cover him and protect him. 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Youre a scientist, half meteorologist. What do we know about, like, the flu . Warmer the temperatures, the less the virus . Because the virus doesnt like warm temperatures. Right . Correlation is not causation. The main focus here. Okay . So theres a lot of factors that go into this. Yes. The flu has a lot of strong seasonality with it, but pretty sure weve fallen on someone whos gotten flu in the summer. Doesnt mean you cant get it. Some viruses we know a lot about. Coronavirus isnt one of them. You cant always compare it to other things we have a bit more research on. And point out tom hanks and rita wilson are in australia. It is summer. There are cases all over the world in warmer climates. Yeah. According to the center of Communicable Disease dynamics, they point out there are humid and hot conditions where the flu can actually thrive, because the thing is, its adapting to its environment. Adapting to the conditions that are there. Yes, obviously the most favorable conditions are very dry and very cold for transitions but it doesnt mean it cant survive in warm or humid environments. Telling us, there is no definitive answer as we have all tried to find this hope in what warmer temperatures may mean . Or as we look ahead to what fall might mean . A lot of concern from people about, is this going to go away in the summer and come back with a vengeance in the fall . Remember the 2009 pandemic flu did just that. Again, thats the flu. You saw decrease in number over the summer. In september, it came rapidly back. Point out, too, for a lot of people. Florida had 39 new cases bringing their total to 115. Over 50 in the miami area. The last four days temperatures above 80 degrees. Other things are at play than the weather. We cant make that definitive correlation once temperatures get warm, gets humid, that this thing will go away. This is novel. This is new. A lot of things we do not know and will look at the answers together. Allison chinchar, thanks so much. Thank you. So across the country we know retailers are changing how they operate during this pandemic. Nike is shutting down stores. Food chains cutting back hours to restock. Up next, how to manage your money through a National Emergency. Feel the clarity of new nondrowsy claritin cool mint chewables. The only allergy product with relief of your worst symptoms, including itchy throat. Plus an immediate blast of cooling sensation. Feel the clarity and live claritin clear. Were in the height of the primary season, election in november and the coronavirus is keeping people inside. The last thing you need now is another political argument at home. In todays staying well how to keep the peace during these troubled times. Do not have to tolerate something thats divisive and make everybody miserable. Im a psychoanalyst. I am a Senior Editor of national review. 39 years in september. A conservative republican. Shes a liberal democrat. You know, we used to fight a little bit, and then over time we learned just not to do that. It didnt result in me or jeanie changing either one of our minds. As a therapist, the issue is not politics. Its psychology. I interviewed 50 people for this book. I would say about 48 of them were busy trying to stick their opinions down the other persons throat. If you want your marriage to be better, your friendship or relationship with your child, i hereby give everybody permission to say, lets not talk about this, and stick with it. You dont have to agree with the position. It makes relationships closer. It also says, i know the place of politics and i know the place of personality and character. I choose character over anything. We got the wrong key. silence silence silence faint tone slowly starts to build chime of a bell chime of a bell chime of a bell chime of a low bell a book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today have you been to a Grocery Store lately . Oh, my goodness. Its clear its panic buying. A lot of people are buying everything. Food shelves, empty. Cleaning products cleaning out. Starting today at 11 00 p. M. , stores will close so they can restock. Krogers and publix also closing early. Michelle singletary with the Washington Post. People are hoarding grapes. Theyre not going to last you 14 days. This panic buying, whats your take on it . People are scared, and theyre worried theyre going to be trapped in their house and college kids, theyre home. My son is home and he eats his body weight in a day. Its like im going to run out of bread, im going to rupp out of peanut better. For a second, i almost got caught up in it. Hes like put that back, put that back. I get it. People are scared. Heres something to consider. The longer were home and people may not be able to work or furloughed or run out of paid sick leave, youre going to need some of that money to pay your bills, so get what you need. There are some things you might want to have a little bit more of like soup and things like that, but dont stock up so you have this closet full of stuff but you actually need that money that you used for those items. Thats a good point. All of this toilet paper, you guys have washcloths. We have heard from so many people, why are people hoarding toilet paper. I want to ask you something that you actually wrote. You said, when my husband tells me to calm down even if my concern is warranted, im going to punch him. There are a lot of those people letting those feelings bubble up and they say when it comes to their finances, theyre very uncertain and theres a lot of fear. When youre talking about that anxiety, how do you make solid thought out conditions in your private life . There are several in my family who are therapists and social workers. I listen to my niece. Your feelings arent the facts. Feel what you feel. Its scary out there. Youre worried, your retirement. Thats okay. I dont think you should use the words calm down. When my husband says it, it sounds like were being irrational. Were not being irrational. Dont let your feelings drive your financial decisions. Even i. I write for the Washington Post, i write about personal finance. I have a good chunk of money. All of my kids went to college and are debtfree. Im like you. I have my feelings. Im a worrier. I say all of those things to my husband, but then i calm down and i havent touched anything. I havent changed any way that i invested because i know the market will come back eventually. Aside from touching anything or making any moves, for as long as ive interviewed you, youve always said dont ignore your finances, open your envelopes, check what you are. Is this the week to ignore that. I dont want to see it. Let me correct you a little bit, baby. Okay. What i said was Pay Attention to your budget and the money thats coming in and out. You should not be checking your 401 k , even your 529 plan on a regular basis. You check it when you get those quarterly statements at the end of the year, but now because we can go online i had a dear friend at church who said i lost 70,000. I said stop looking. I said, long you do have before retirement. She has about ten years. Dont look. I havent looked in about two weeks because i cant handle it. If i cant handle it, you mere mortals have no chance at all. Dont touch your face and dont touch your stocks. Thats right. Its really important. Miss singletary, weve got to wrap it there, but thank you so much. Always a pleasure. Youre so welcome. So good to see you. Listen to this. When ncaa canceled College Basketball tournaments, a school was left with uneaten food. Well talk about good stuff. The out of the garden prospect in greensboro knew exactly what to do. We can feel however we want to about the acc tournament being canceled, but the blessing this that, there are going to be thousands of children who are getting meals that they may not have had that not happened. Im not saying thats necessarily worth the tradeoff, but its not a waste. So this outbreak has changed all of our normal routines we know. Youve been sharing your storieses, which we love to hear. Thank you for tweeting us and gets on facebook and instagram. Megan says i manage a Grocery Store. We are all tired. This is worse than any food holiday with less staff. This is another one. Just got back from a family dog walk. Looking forward to a sunday brunch. Happy family time and stay healthy. A lot of families are having family time. Kids are out of school, adults working from home. This is alvin. Finished work, go home, hunker down, great time to bingewatch and catch up with dvr. Go home and hug your kids. 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