And other countries. 80 it will resolve on their own. The woman who is now tested positive shes at home. Shes not even in the hospital. So the perspective here is important. And the facts once you know the facts, once you know the reality, it is reassuring and we should relax because thats what dictated by the reality of the situation. I get the emotion. I understand it. I understand the anxiety. Im a native born new yorker. We live with anxiety. But the facts dont back it up here. Also, were extrapolating from what happened in china and other countries. We have the best Health Care System in the world here. And excuse our arrogance as new yorkers, i speak for the mayor also on this one. We think we have the best Health Care System on the planet right here in new york. We have. So when youre saying what happened in other countries versus what happened here, we dont even think its going to be as bad as it was in other countries. We are fully coordinated, we are fully mobilized. This is all about mobilization of a Public Health system. Getting the testing done, getting the information out. And then having the Health Care Resources to treat people who are going to need help. Again, that is going to be primarily Senior Citizens, people who are debilitated and were going to have a special effort for our nursing homes, et cetera. Congregate facilities where Senior Citizens are being treated. And i cant thank our partners enough. Everybody is doing exactly what we need to do. It was a big break when the federal government allowed us to do our own testing because with now were actually in control of the system ourselves. And as new yorkers, we like control. So with that, let me turn it over to the good mayor of the city of new york. Thank you very much, governor. And governor, first of all, a compliment to your daughter, the apple doesnt fall far from the tree. She is asking the tough socratic questions that youre known for. I think its a great vignette to use, to help everyone understand whats going on. Particularly look as a parent, i want to say i know parents all over the city have been deeply concern concerned. I want you to heed the points that the governor just made. This is a disease were learning about. The International Medical community is learning about but so far it does not seem to be the disease that focuses on our kids. In fact, the opposite. Button point the vignette with your daughter, the facts are reassuring. All new yorkers should really Pay Attention to this. The information is showing us things that should give us more reason to stay calm and go about our lives. Also, i have once difference with the governors remarks we i do think we have the best Health Care System in the world, we know we do. And its a credit to everyone here and i want to thank each and every one of you and all of the professionals who work with you a credit us to. Ill take it. In the private in the voluntary hospitals and the public Health Care System theres no parallel on earth. So theres a lot of places for new yorkers to turn for help. I want to emphasize today how important it is to turn for that help to go get that help, the second you think you might need it. So the fact you have been listening to mayor big de blasio alongside the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, giving an update on the coronavirus. Both of them confirming the first case of the virus in new york city. Its a woman who she and her husband are both at home currently. She contracted it in condition right now is considered mild. She apparently took no Public Transit since her return to the u. S. You have that case in new york as we learn of two cases in southwest florida making a total of at least 89 in the u. S. Two of them deadly with Washington State confirming the second coronavirus death and theres likely more to come. One top Government Health official said hes concerned well see more Community Related cases. In omaha, nebraska, patients quarantined from the diamond princess cruise ship are set to be released so were watching that as well. All of it part of our coast to coast coverage. Ron allen in new york city. Gadi schwartz in seattle. In new york we have the director of the center for disease preparedness at columbia university. Ron, staying in new york here, what we heard from Governor Cuomo especially echoed by mayor de blasio was the reality is reassuring. People should not be freaking out. People should not be panicking at this point. One of the big words i heard was containment thats what theyre trying to do now. And thats what theyre emphasizing with this woman, the Health Care Worker who is 39 here in manhattan and ill. They have tried to contact everyone she may have come in contact with to try to determine exactly the extent of any other spread of the disease. Theyre doing with that with anyone who comes in contact with this disease. Theyre trying to increase screening at the airports. Because as you heard the governor and mayor say, quite obviously, a lot of people come to new york from all over the world. Theyre also ramping up testing. Youll remember when the cdc sent out test kits weeks ago, a lot of them were faulty or creating problems. New york now has the ability to test on the spot and get results immediately. As does connecticut and new jersey. All those developments just in the past couple of days. So the hope is that now that they can test and the governor said as many as a thousand people being tested in a weeks time or so, theyre trying to understand exactly what the extent of the problem is so then they can attack it. Theyre also the governor says passing a bill for 40 million for additional staff or Additional Resources for Health Care Workers and as you heard him also say this is not the first time new york or the United States has gone through this. There have been other Infectious Diseases that have hit the city and the country. They know what to do. Theres a confidence there you heard. But of course the bottom line is that people have to remain calm. They have to do what is necessary to prepare. And they have to as you put it not freak out or not panic. Right. Interesting to me that he made the fact that in fact this woman has not taken Public Transit that she took a car service from the airport back home. Of course thats a big concern here in new york, riding the subway or the buses. Its a place that people come in close contact but as so many others have been saying, there is an inevitability to this. Theres going to be more cases and the governor and others are saying just be prepared. Dont panic. Hopefully we can deal with this as we have dealt with so many other things in the past. One of the places we already have seen more cases, gadi schwartz, in kirkland, washington. We are expecting to learn some more today about the two deaths in the area that are linked to coronavirus, right . Yeah. Thats right, hallie. Just listening to the press conference happening in new york its interesting because new york is where Washington State was about a month ago. They had a 30yearold come to Washington State from wuhan when they got back to the United States, they felt ill. They took a test a few days later, around january 18th, january 19th. It was the first case that we saw in the United States. Now, heres where it gets a little bit tricky. Six weeks later, there was a high schooler up in the county, he took a flu test because he was feeling ill. It turns out a very similar strain, very similar genetically composed strain of the coronavirus was found with him. So the big difference between Washington State and new york is those test kits. There was about a six week gap between the first case and the case we just saw which meant that the belief is that the virus was traveling from person to person to person undetect, untested. Now Washington State is testing here in the state. Theyre not sending out the tests to get the immediate results. Theyre able to do that here so theyre able to see a lot more of these coronavirus instances. Two of them have been fatal here in Washington State. But its important to note that both of them are elderly people with underlying medical conditions. Thank you. Dr. Red land, let me go to you. Because you have an oped out now talking about the issues here. Writing that the coronavirus is a pandemic and we are not prepared. Can you explain that . Yeah. So first of all, i want to echo what the governor and the mayor said. New york is among the most prepared and experienced on this kind of issue than anywhere i know of. Im talking about the national readiness. When we were talking about avian flu and other kinds of flu for example in 2009, it was estimated by the federal authorities that we would need Something Like 740,000 mechanical ventilators and the total stockpile in the u. S. Then was a fraction of that. Its a little bit better now, but in general as a country wish the entire country was doing the kind of things that new york is doing. But we have a lot of work to do before we can declare ourselves prepared. By the way, even if we had lets just take this example of the mechanical ventilators. Even if we had seriously enough for everybody, we dont have the number of technicians needed to operate them and make sure everything going properly. The second thing has been referred to the issue with the testing. South korea has done 60,000 tests. 8,000 or 9,000 or 10,000 a day and we have a lot of catching up to do and we would have been in better shape if the cdc had its act together a few weeks ago. Im really glad that we have the capacity now in new york. Very quickly whats the next thing you want to see from the cdc and Health Officials today, tomorrow, in the coming hours . So id like to see them make sure that they have got the capacity for the tremendous number of testing kits not like new york. Number one. Number two as i think we need to find that, you know, that balance between complacency and panic. This is a pandemic, we still have to kind of monitor and do our normal things and send the kids to school, so on. But the other big thing this goes for any locality and for the federal government. Once we say we got to the point lets say where were closing schools, thats not a casual decision. I mean, think about that. We have parents who, you know, cant afford to take off work. Kids will have to be staying at home and somebody has to watch them, what happens to the family income, the economy, so on. So we need people with a lot of imagination to try to understand the cascading consequences of whatever the next steps well take. Doctor, i appreciate that perspective and that analysis. Thank you for being with us. We have a lot more to get to this because were live on the 2020 campaign trail. Pete buttigieg is now gone from the race but far from forgotten. Especially on the mind of team biden. Plus, breaking news from the Supreme Court in just in the last few minutes. What new case justices have agreed to hear and why timing is everything. Voluntary. Vulnerable. Voluntary. So it is now less than 24 hours until super tuesday and less than 36 until we find out how this race will change again. Democrats hitting the ground hard this morning. Publicly and privately. Our new reporting on aggressive behind the scenes move by joe biden. Those secret talks with Pete Buttigieg, how close we are or are not from the endorsement and maybe a way for Bernie Sanders. You could be the launching pad to the path to beat donald trump. In a couple of minutes in the show well have joe bidens Deputy Campaign manager joining us. But first, let me start with the road warriors blanketing the super tuesday states. Mike memoli, Shaquille Brewster and Josh Lederman is here in washington where Michael Bloomberg wrapped up remarks. And with us in raleigh, Yamiche Alcindor from pbs news hour. Mike, let me start with you, because you have some new reporting about joe biden and Pete Buttigieg connecting on the phone, whats going on . Yeah, thats right, hallie. An awful lot has changed for the Biden Campaign in the last 48 hours since the big victory in South Carolina. We knew yesterday that the two, joe biden and Pete Buttigieg had tried to connect by phone, trading some voice mails as their campaigns are separately having conversations with each other about consolidating support around the former Vice President. Along with Vaughn Hillyard we can confirm that they did connect this morning so we know that the conversations im sitting down with do you know what we said . So well have a chance to ask him we dont know yet. But as i mentioned im going to sit down with the Vice President. You can be sure thats one of the first questions i ask him in the next hour. But what we have seen here for the biden team is really quite a turnaround. Theyre seeing a surge in support in terms of fundraising. Raising 10 million in the last just two days. Thats more than they raised most months in this campaign. Youre seeing a surge in the crowd surge on the road. Yesterday more than 2,000 people in virginia. And certainly a surge in support from other democrats. Theres a wave of new endorsements coming especially from members of congress as biden himself tries to make this a twoperson race in the eyes of many democratic voters. What hasnt changed ahead of super tuesday hes still outmanned and outgunned on the air. Thats why you see him focus still heavily on africanamerican voters thats what hell be doing in houston trying to replicate the success in texas ahead of super tuesday. So you have biden talking with Pete Buttigieg, potentially. Maybe about the possibility right for an endorsement, do we think that could be on the table . That was certainly i think first and foremost the question that a lot of us had when we hear them talking about consolidating support. What better way for mayor pete to help consolidate the support behind the former Vice President by coming out with a public endorsement. One interesting thing we know that mayor pete was supposed to be heading to dallas yesterday when he decided to head home to south bend. No indication that theyre going to be doing a joint event together but it would be an interesting development. Yeah, theyre trying to consolidate support against Bernie Sanders and what you are hearing about how they move forward into what could be a huge day for them. Well, theyre still feeling good. You know, hallie its clear that in South Carolina they took a bigger blow than they expected. They thought that they were going to be able to close that margin. They werent able to do that. But when you look at where senator sanders has been and where he is going, its clear where he feels good. He this weekend it was boston, massachusetts. It was california. Big rallies that he saw there and then today hes here in utah and then going off to minnesota. When you look at the polling in many of these states, the polling in california, the polling in texas. These big delegate rich states this candidate feels like feels like they have an opportunity to really rack up some delegates and his support is build on the backs of young voters. Of latino voters, of progressive voters. So throughout his spots you have hearing him plea to the voters come out and vote. We want to have historic turnout. Thats something you continue to hear him say. Talking to aides and advisers about the shakeups that we have seen, a lot has changed since saturday with Vice President biden winning in South Carolina and then mayor Pete Buttigieg dropping out of the race. One advantage they believe they have is early voting. Some people have been voting for over a month now. So they feel like they have been able to lock in that lead, lock in the support that they believe they build through the month of february. Thats why theyre looking ahead to super tuesday knowing they can rack up some delegates and take a clear lead. Somebody on the ballot for the very first time in this race, we have been talking about is of course Michael Bloomberg. And josh, talk about we know whats at stake for him, right . A lot. Almost everything. Where is his campaigns head at, especially given what were seeing from buttigieg, from sanders as this race starts to consolidate here into the two candidates, and what our team at first read calls a 2 1 2 man race, if you will. Yeah, theres no question, hallie, that the situation has changed dramatically in the last 72 hours or so for Michael Bloomberg. As far as his rationale about being the most viable candidate to defeat trump. And the Bloomberg Campaign said theres no chance hell drop out before tomorrow. After all, he spent more than half a billion dollars already on this race. Pretty much all focused on trying to rack up delegates o