Touched down near a local tv station. There it is. Go inside. Go now. Get inside. A witness also captured this video of the funnel cloud right there. Its huge. All schools in nashville will be closed today. Officials say some polli inin is will open late. Theyre all supposed to be going to the polls today. This is nashville. This is tough. Well have more on this breaking news in just a moment. Lets begin with super tuesday. Voting is under way. Cnns brian todd is live at a tolling station in virginia. How is it going there, brian . Alisyn, getting through the rushhour push here in falls church, virginia. This is graham road elementary poll peep coming in and registering here, even bringing their children here, which we love. Weve talked to a lot of voters coming in and out of here about what drives them. Whats motivating them to come to the polls. A sense of civic duty. Passion for a particular candidate. Some of them are saying that they are just tired of the political discourse in this country or maybe the lack of it. We talked to one named Steven Potter about the division among american voters. How do you feel about all this polarization . It disturbs me greatly. I think its going to be the ruination of this country. If we dont realize that we need to be civil to one another, and particularly, even if we dont agree with one another, civil discourse. I hate the rancor. Its tearing this country apart. And i dont think its good for this country, and i think its something that, quite frankly, putin loves. Im sure hes sitting over there just happy as a lark seeing this country tear itself apart. And what i can also tell you is the changing field of Democratic Candidates has changed. The voting dynamic on the ground among the people weve talked to. Weve talked to close to 40some people who have come in and out of the polling station here. A lot of them telling us theyre going for joe biden because Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out. So thats one of the dynamics well be looking for. Well be talking to voters throughout the day. Brian, thank you very much. Joining us to talk about everything that has happened and that will be happening in the next 24 hours, we have cnn political commentator joe lockhart, former press secretary under president clinton, angela rye, a former executive director at the congressional black ca cauc caucus. Wajahid ali and abby phillip. Lets start with the endorsements. Joe, youre new to the panel this morning. So the endorsements last night of people who, up until hours earlier, were running against joe biden. And then Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg earlier from beto orourke, all came together and weve been talking about what we can liken that to. Some say its a team of rivals. Waj was saying its the avengers movie seeing them on stage. I thought it was something of an insurance policy of joe biden saying, if you are worried about me out there, america, maybe my age has worried you, maybe my mental acuity at times. These guys have my back. Maybe theyll be in my cabinet. He was calling them a team. He was signaling something. What did you see . Listen, i have done five president ial campaigns, and have watched five others. And ive never seen anything like this happen so quickly. The earthquake of South Carolina, which were still trying to figure out what it means, and were doing it trying to figure it out without data which weve become so addicted to data. We dont have any data that feels real. So all of that, the race has been shaken up, and i think the most interesting thing is it hasnt had enough time to really settle out. So that my instinct tells me thats going to help joe biden because sanders hasnt had a chance to counterpunch. It hasnt settled. But were going to see. I think if using your insurance policy, it was more the bulk of the Democratic Party saying, were not comfortable with taking the chance to Bernie Sanders. And were going to take what they believe is the safe choice. Whether thats the right choice or not is open to debate, but i think you saw in something that ive never seen move so quickly, a movement of the party to get behind one person, not because they necessarily believe that person is the candidate but because they believe that person has a better chance and is less risky than sanders. Not necessarily giant fans of joe biden. Hes the same guy he was last week before South Carolina, however, to an extent that isnt true. He won decisively in that state with the types of voters that any democrat will need. How do you explain what weve seen in the last 24 hours and what it means for today . First, its so interesting, joe, to hear you say that people are trying to decide what it means. Its very clear what it means, and its something a lot of folks dont want to say. But it is the critical importance of black voters. You cannot say that folks who have been a very loyal base of the party dont have a say, even when they go fourth, a state that should have gone earlier. Its a reflection of what the Democratic Partys base is and should be. The second thing that is abundantly concerning to me, despite the decisive victory of joe biden, and he deserves all types of congratulations and every endorsement that he receives, but im really concerned about if being billed now as a twoman race when Elizabeth Warren is still in the race. Shes received an endorsement from emilys list and several other women who i value and support. Alecia brown. So i think there are just a few more things we have to consider as he go into super tuesday, including the fact that Mike Bloomberg has spent more than a billion on ad buys. What is Elizabeth Warrens role going to be both tonight on super tuesday and going forward. She started out trying to stake out a chunk of the progressive part of the party, but what i often find when i talk to her supporters is that a lot of them are actually maybe theyd consider themselves centrist. Maybe they were Hillary Clinton voters or liked Pete Buttigieg, too. They just prefer Elizabeth Warren, a woman who is slightly younger than joe biden. And she has a plan. I hear that all the time. They dont care what plan. They like that she spells out her plan. Its a big question to me where what are her voters going to do tonight, and what piece of the pie is she going to take up . How much of bernies piece is she going to take up and how much of joe biden or Michael Bloombergs piece is she going to take up . That can be really important in california. It can be important in massachusetts. And it can be important if she eventually does, you know, and ill let waj do his delegate part of this, play a role in the convention when shes trying to stake out a claim. I do want to play how Bernie Sanders has responded to this development overnight with all these people lining up behind joe biden. Listen to this. It is no secret. The Washington Post has 16 articles a day on this. That there is a massive effort trying to stop Bernie Sanders. Thats not a secret to anybody in this room. The corporate establishment is coming together. The political establishment is coming together. And they will do everything. They are really getting nervous that working people are standing up. Its interesting. We had peter wells, congressman from vermont who backs Bernie Sanders and wants him to win. Congressman welch was uncomfortable with that kind of statement. He said hold on. Be careful here because were going to need everybody if were going to win here. So my question is, is there something dangerous about the way this is being set up, not as a twoperson race but as this death match. 65 of democratic voters say consistently their number one priority is to get rid of trump, right . Thats it. Most of the voters will coalesce, whoever they think is leading, who will be the success, theyll go behind them. Look at the past three days. Theres a great bernie freakout that weve witnessed in the past two weeks. Everyone thought that Bernie Sanders would become president and usher us into a socialist state and well all be comrades in communism. People lost their minds. And people are worried as you heard from the establishment how everyone described them if bernie is their guy that down ballot, everyone else is screwed. So right now you are seeing this narrative play out if you dont believe me, youve got Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, biden, beto at the drop of a dime do a 180 and coming up and say, hey, we love biden. If your a bernie supporter, ahha, repeat of 2016, even if we walk into the convention with the most delegates, theyre going to screw our guy again. Its the establishment versus the rest of us. And 2016, donald trump ran on this. The day of the election, i was right here. Even the conservatives said theres no way hes going to win. Who won . Donald trump. So dont count out bernie and the momentum and the narrative and a lot of americans, a lot of people in the democratic establishment hasnt paid attention to them. Theyre fed up with the establishment. You dont represent us. At least bernie is going to fight back. Another reason not to count out Bernie Sanders is because of early voting. 3 Million People have already voted. You cant count all the people who have gotten out of the race because 3 million have already voted. Im going to speak for the establishment here. Listen, i think that we cant win unless we resolve this problem within the party in november. As a democrat. But there are things that sanders and i think his supporters have done that have added at least as much to the problem as the establishment. And this idea that somehow that everybody who is not Bernie Sanders is moderate and status quo. The positions these candidates have taken are the most progressive positions of any president ial campaign in history. The moderate position is now public option. You know, with private insurance. Thats not a moderate position. These candidates are not, you know, status quo. Theyre not necessarily moderate. Theyre center left, progressive. Theyre not ultra progressive like sanders is, and the bulk of the party, they can call it the establishment, Democratic Party, but what theyre talking about, as angela mentioned, africanamericans. You know, sort of the central part of the democratic coalition, the most reliable voters. Theyre talking about suburban women, working class voters and theyre talking about them in a disparaging way like somehow theyre all corporate or all evil or theyre all for status quo. Its just not true. Heres my one thing about Bernie Sanders. The question his theory of the case is he can bring out a ton of voters and they can win with the support they have in the Democratic Party. Does that happen tonight . It has not happened up to this point. If it, does hell have a much br better case for himself but hes already doing what he has to do. I suggest you show up tomorrow at 5 00 a. M. When we go back on air and well have more answers. We have breaking news were following. At least eight people now are dead after this huge tornado struck the nashville area early this morning. We are getting our first look at the damage, and it is extensive. Tens of thousands of customers are without power. Schools in nashville will be closed today. Our chad myers has been following this all morning. Help us out understanding the scope of this breaking story. What are you seeing . John, it happened when most people were sleeping. So somewhere around 12 45, after midnight last night. Theres the storm near ashland city with the hook there. It was on the ground a very long time. Through nashville here. Same hook. As we move farther all the way to lebanon, this continued to lebanon here to the east. Right along i40. Im going to give you a picture of nashville. Coming in from the west, over the river, and right through five point. Right over here through donaldson and following i40 again right through mt. Juliette and this is a long track. Big tornadoes. Little tornadoes jump up and down and bounce around. This did not bounce around. This was a major event, likely f3, maybe stronger. Weather service will be out there. But were looking at it now. This may have been on the ground, the same tornado, on the ground, john, for 60 miles. Well keep you up to date. That makes sense now based on the scope of the devastation were seeing from these aerials and other pictures. Thank you for that report. We are going to have a live report from the scene in just minutes. Meanwhile, dozens of schools in the u. S. Are closed this morning as coronavirus cases continue to grow. Dr. Sanjay gupta is going to help us understand the many new developments as of this morning. Thats next. That chad really was raised by wolves . Which one is your mother . Thats her right there. Oh, gosh. No, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. Its really great. Well, im just so glad to have met your beautiful family. And we better be sitting down now. Believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. With moderate to severe treplaque psoriasists uncover clearer skin that can last. In fact, tremfya® was proven superior to humira® in providing significantly clearer skin. 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These numbers that weve been talking about for several weeks, i think, have been a little bit of a guess because we really havent had good surveillance in this country. So, obviously, sadly, six people have died in Washington State, but, you know, i think were in the middle of flu season. Close to 15,000 people have died of flu this year or presumptively died of flu. What we may start to learn is coronavirus has been circulating in many places around the United States for some time and may have already caused impact. Some of those flu deaths my in retrospect be to coronavirus. Thats what the Public Health community is trying to grapple. Theyre in this phase, lets figure out what the connection was between these six people in Washington State. We may move beyond that phase quickly. Yeah, the interesting thing is that none of this is surprising to people like you, sanjay, and people within the Public Health community. Just because its not surprising doesnt mean its not concerning. And we are seeing actions starting to take place or at least be discussed by some communities in Washington State. Theyve closed a number of schools to clean them. Well see if they open. Weve heard the governor of washington jay inslee say one of the things being considered is things like games and other things, putting them off, keeping people apart. Social distancing is something were starting to see discussed in a serious way. That seems to be a change in the last 24 hours. Whats really interesting, john, is that the trigger at which some of these policies will be recommended, the trigger where communities would say, lets keep kids home from school and people should work from home, all that, is still a little nebulous. You know, hearing governor inslees comments you could tell he was sort of struggling with, when is the right point to do this . We dont want to incite panic but want to keep people safe. Is there going to be a specific trigger . Is that going to come from the federal government or dependent on Companies Like twitter to take care of their own employees . We are trying to get those answers. Thats part of what we should have been preparing for over the last several weeks. The other thing is we have known. We have known that this was coming, and weve known roughly the impact that it might have based on what we were seeing out of china. And the question the hospitals need to be prepared for this. One thing that weve talked about before, but ill tell you again is that a simple metric a lot of people may need to be in intensive care units, may need to be in the hospital or on breathing machines. We got a rough idea of what those numbers may be. Roughly a million hospitalizations, 200,000 people would need to be in the intensive care unit and 64,000 people might need to be on breathing machines. Thats the number of breathing machines we have in the country. And many of them are in use. So how whats the preparation thats been going on for that . A very tangible metric over the next several weeks. Im not clear the Surge Capacity has been addressed. We need to address it because its going to be a real concern over the next several weeks. I dont know if we can look to china as a window into our future of how this is going to play out, but i heard on the radio this morning that the that today the numbers