Ten. There are now 11 cases in new york state, yesterday, new jersey announced its first presumptive case, bringing the total number of states with active cases to 17. At this hour, School Districts, hospitals, and now congress doing all they can to address spread of the virus, and fears that come with it. The house yesterday passing an 8 billion emergency funding package to help fight the virus. The senate is set to vote on the bill later today, this as two of the hardesthit states in the country are taking extreme measures this morning. And thats where were going to begin. Steve patterson is standing by in kirkland, washington, ander in mclaughlin in san francisco. Steve, you told the team you can feel a turning point this morning. What does that mean . Reporter stephanie, i dont think theres any question, worries the past few days, people felt it was a big scary story they were living next to. People will wake up today, realize daily life is impacted in a big way, starting with recommendations from the Public Health department, telling anyone over 60, with preexisting conditions, anyone pregnant, recommending they stay away from public spaces, large gatherings. Obviously these are not mandates, these are recommendations, but theyll make an impact. Secondly, School Districts in the area, north shore district is more than 23,000 students, 33 buildings. That district has announced it will shut down for the next 14 days, at least. Thats the largest district over the longest amount of time to be shut down as other schools and districts monitor the situation. Some outside that district monitoring day by day, will shut down school today as well. The work force is impacted. Several name companies, telling workers to stay home if feasible, telecommunicate, several including microsoft, amazon, rei, facebook had its first case of coronavirus, it is shutting down its seattle office. All of this capped by a visit by Vice President mike pence, scheduled to meet with the governor today, scheduled to tour the Emergency Operation center, and deliver a joint press conference with the governor, but i think for real people in real lives, theyll feel a change waking up today, stephanie. Think about the real people, lives, disruption for shift workers, for people that are freelancers, has may not have the dont have the opportunity to work to get paid, and dont have backup child care if theyre home indefinitely. Erin, help us understand whats going on with the cruise ship and when we hear the state of california is in an emergency, what does that actually mean . Reporter hey, stephanie. The grand princess cruise ship with up to 2500 passengers could have arrived here yesterday at pier 27 in san francisco. Instead it is being held offshore this morning. Test kits are being flown out by the coast guard on helicopters to the cruise liner. Up to 100 passengers and crew expected to be tested for the virus. Of those passengers and crew, 21 exhibiting flulike symptoms, over 60 passengers aboard the previous trip, that is problematic because of what happened on board the cruise liner in previous trip to mexico. Two tested positive for coronavirus, including an elderly man, confirmed as californias first fatality, had Underlying Health conditions, and boarded the cruise vessel, once disembarked, then falling very sick. Theyre concerned about state of the passengers and crew currently out at sea. Anyone suspected of having the virus is currently asked to stay in their state rooms. A lot of uncertainty and concern offshore of san francisco. Thank you, erin and steve. Joining me to explain why all this matters to you at home, ron claim, former ebola coordinator, former chief of staff of al gore, and democratic congressman from california, ruiz, an emergency room physician. I am glad youre here. You were the person in charge of our response during the ebola outbreak. Given what you know about corona, how concerned are you . Look, im concerned. Were seeing kind of a failure of competence, failure of confidence. On the competence side, arent testing people rapidly enough. You put up the map with 163 known cases, the number is significantly higher simply because we arent testing and finding cases. Just started testing the other day in new york, there are 11 cases already. All these numbers will grow dramatically. We also have a crisis of confidence. The president continues to lie to the American People about the disease, he continues to mislead people, misstate the facts. His Public Health officials contradict him publicly at risk of their own jobs to protect our safety and how much longer will the president allow that to continue. Whats different about this situation than other situations, democrat or republican, this isnt a partisan issue, whats different here is this president isnt letting the scientists speak up. He challenges anyone that tells him bad news, and that crisis in confidence is leading to the gyration in the markets, people shutting businesses down, all this kind of uncertainty on the economy is coming from the erratic communications from the white house. Congressman, your state, california, is now in the state of emergency with the number of cases climbing, but also the amount of working families who simply dont know what to do, and theyre concerned about taking care of themselves. Whats your message . My message is that for the vast majority of the American People, the illness is mild and many will not even have symptoms. However, we need to Pay Attention to those that are older than 60, have underlying illnesses with disease like diabetes, heart, lung disease, weak immune systems. Those are the individuals that are likely to get really sick. And if you dont have the test, if you dont have enough respirators, enough icu beds, enough personnel, then they can die. So thats why the 8. 3 billion of supplemental aid is so important. Thats why it is so important that the president and the administration do not give discrepancies in information and that they inform the American People early, aggressively to start thinking about what to do if your school closes, what to do if you have to stay home, be quarantined. Ron, how do you address that . That 8 billion is geared at stopping the spread of the virus, but what the disruption causes is massive, and it impacts peoples day to day lives. How do we help those people from a government perspective . I congratulate congress, congressman ruiz and others in passing that package, but that package is urgent, needed, it fights the virus. We also need behind it steps to protect people that are going to suffer economic dislocation because of the virus or frankly because of fear of the virus. Were already seeing layoffs in hospitality and travel industry, that will spread through the economy. Congress should step up quickly with a package that makes it clear, people that lose their jobs temporarily or in the long run could access extended Unemployment Insurance or other kinds of benefits. Employers should look at extending paid leave to workers. In ebola in west africa, even in west africa, major employers that had to send employees home paid the employees while they were home. It is a good Public Health measure. We need to do those things in this country, help people with child care. It will have real pocketbook impacts on men and women all over the country, and thats the next step of what Congress Needs to address. Stephanie, let me add to that. We also have to think about the students who will have to miss a test if theyre quarantined, miss a year of school, have to pay for schools again. We need to protect them. Also have to protect Health Care Workers at the highest risk of getting sick, make sure they have the equipment. If they need to be quarantined, who is taking care of the patients . So what do you do . Yes, this supplement, thats my question to Vice President pence yesterday in a briefing. I said will you activate fema, will you activate dmat, the Health Care Providers from department of defense to go into those fragile locations and take on those shifts in the emergency department. Ron, seeing that youve had to walk this line, working with government leaders, Health Professionals and Business Leaders, how do you figure out if precautionary measures go so far that those measures end up hurting even more than the spread might. Well, i think you have to do both, right . You have to not overreact, not underreact. And stephanie, as i said before, starts with restoring confidence, confidence in communications. Think about one thing the president said. Sick people should go to work. Thats not just bad advice, not just untrue, it will accelerate spread of the disease, make the situation even worse. The president is telling sick people to go to work, businesses and workers will be scared to go to work because they know the president is telling sick people to go to work. It is the worst possible thing that could happen. I think we need to get communications back on track and we need to accelerate the response. I think were so far behind where we should be on the kinds of things congressman ruiz was talking about, ramping up capacity to hospitals. The most modest estimate is this will lead to 60,000 hospitalizations in america. We only have 60,000 hospital beds in Major Hospital beds in america. We dont have capacity and tempo to deal with this. I a i think the Administration Needs to step up. Congressman, youre about to go into an all house briefing on this, well keep the audience up on this and more throughout the day. Ron, stick around, more to cover with you. 2020 ahead, well have much more ahead on corona, growing impact on the economy, a growing list of how some of the Biggest Companies are managing the threat. Also, what about Small Businesses . Former vp and sanders speaking to nbc news as we wait for results from super tuesday. Both campaigns are reaching out to senator Elizabeth Warren, trying to win her endorsement. , trying to win her endorsement. Upbeat music transitions light under control. Upbeat music transitions signature gen 8, available now in 4 new style colors. Transitions. With our moving and storage solutions. Pack what you want, we store it for as long as you want. Then, we deliver it where you want, so whether you need to move or store your things, pods is here to help you with flexible moving and storage solutions. 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That as senator sanders goes back on the trail today, fielding questions about if he can broaden his base, and then the question of whether senator warren will stay in the race at all. I have to go to ali vitale in cambridge, massachusetts. You have been reporting on warren. What are sources telling you, is this about her staying in the race or which frontrunner shes going to back . Reporter yes, stephanie, you make a great point. Publicly, the line out of the campaign is shes reassessing her options, what an aide told me yesterday. Privately there are a lot of ways this can go. There are three things i have been hearing consistently. She could end up suspending the campaign, suspend the campaign, endorse someone like joe biden or Bernie Sanders, she could end up staying in this. There is a percolation in democratic progressive circles that maybe it is worth staying in the race until the next debate, sort of a type of insurance policy to see how sanders and biden hold up once they get that smaller field frontrunner scrutiny. Thats something that all of the three options have in common, none of them end up with Elizabeth Warren as the democratic nominee. All of the ideas are percolating. I think the thing the last option hinges on, this is something i havent heard from the campaign but that is out in democratic circles as a theory that could possibly happen, the thing the theory hinges on is how volatile the race has been. Take the last week. I know you talked about this on your show, joe biden, we were writing his political obituary before South Carolina, now he has an air of inevitability. We wait for Elizabeth Warren to make the decision, something that my colleague said from the washington post, the underpinning of all this for Elizabeth Warren is having the power and leverage to enact her ideas and her agenda. Joining me, Los Angeles TimesWhite House Reporter eli stoke else, ron fornier, you got back from california, you were covering super tuesday. We dont have final results from the state, there are a lot of headlines still saying bernie has that state. Bernie will win the state. The final question, the final results will be by how much. You can already tell the margin is not what the sanders folks expected. Voting in california began february 3rd, night of iowa caucuses. That was a much different race back then. Yes, there were some voters that cast ballots early for candidates no longer in the race, but seems clear a lot of voters held onto ballots until the final week, and that they were effected by the late biden surge as well. Ron, michigan primary is tuesday. In 2016, Bernie Sanders beat hillary clinton. This is a state you know best. How do you see it playing out tuesday . This could be interesting unless he changes the narrative. Governor whitmer endorsed joe biden, thats a reflection of what happened in 2018. A coalition of African Americans and women flooded to the polls, turned tables on donald trump. What they wanted was donald trump out of the white house. Thats what we saw last tuesday. Her endorsement is a sign maybe that wave will continue through michigan. You mention early votes. Michigan is a state if you voted for pete, if you voted for mike, for amy, you can spoil your vote and recast it. Theres been 200 increase in people in michigan spoiling their vote to recast it. Youve got to think, looking at the trend most of those votes are being cast for joe biden, which has really got to scare Bernie Sanders. Let me ask, ron, about the governors endorsement. How influential is that . You know, endorsements generally arent very indicative. They were obviously with clyburn in South Carolina and then with pete and amy getting out, that was able to let biden coalesce. In this case, i dont think Governor Whitmer as popular as she is will transfer votes to biden, but shes a reflection of whats happening in the state. Suburban women, africanamerican voters sick and tired of donald trump that theyre willing to come out in numbers like they did when barack obama ran for president in a way they didnt for hillary clinton. We keep hearing over and over more saying theyre voting for normalcy, voting with their heart. Last night, senator sanders addressed concerns about lack of support he is getting from minority voters. Heres what he said. In California Well outpaced by joe biden among black voters. We are winning with people of color in a significant degree. Black voters, you know it was a problem in 2016. Might have cost you the election then. How has it gotten better . Were running against somebody that touted his relationship with barack obama for 8 years. Barack obama is enormously popular in this country in general and the Africanamerican Community. So sanders says it is all about obama. Look, theres no question, stephanie, voters of all races, democrats like barack obama, like the fact that joe biden was his Vice President , they like the fact that in michigan as ron knows very well, barack obama and joe biden saved the states economy with the auto bailout. But this goes deeper than that with joe biden. He has a 40 year history working with the Africanamerican Community in his state, in the senate, fighting for the Voting Rights act, extension of labor laws and other protections, rights protections. But i think it goes to the kind of campaign hes running. He is out there talking about the people that are left behind, left out. He is talking about compassion, empathy, he is talking with his heart on his sleeve. I think thats connecting with voters. As ron mentioned, it is a coalition of africanamericans and suburban voters who really want trump gone, want a candidate that seems decent, honest, caring, compassionate. All of the qualities missing in donald trump that theyre missing from public life every day. Joe biden represents that. I think he is just capturing this moment so powerfully with what he stands for. We have seen senator sanders with an impressive movement, think of all of the people that show up for him, that rally, attend his rallies. He said im not looking to be part of the establishment, theyre on notice. He is saying he is going to energize his base, bring in new voters. Were not seeing the numbers yet. Can he get there . Thats it. Thats the real lesson and surprise o