in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours as they wait for a bed. residents evacuated from a town in shropshire as flood barriers are overwhelmed. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with sarah, and england s women back on track are in the cricket? i ll have more on england s convincing win against thailand, back on track at the women s t20 world cup. captain heather knight struck her maiden t20 hundred as she lead her side to a record 98 run win. thanks, sarah. and the other ben has the weather. thank you, good afternoon. one year ago brought the highest february temperature on record, we got above 21 degrees. this year, very different, severe flood warnings in force, more rain in the forecast, and snow for some as well. all the details coming up. see you later! also coming up. if we do not get ahead of this surge, we will see more of the will s most beautiful destinations closed or destroyed. in one of his last official engagements, prince harry warns that the growth of tourism is threatening to destroy some of the world s most beautiful places. hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. the coronavirus outbreak is spreading across europe, with a sharp increase in the number of cases in italy, and the first infections reported in austria, greece, croatia and switzerland. here, the government says it has a clear plan to respond to the outbreak. in tenerife, the authorities have said that around a thousand holiday makers in quarantine at a hotel since yesterday will be kept there in isolation for 1h days many of them brits. four guests, including an italian doctor and his wife, tested positive for the virus at the costa adeje palace hotel on the island. at least eight schools in england and three in northern ireland have sent home pupils and staff after they returned from half term trips to northern italy. and there are calls for the ireland italy rugby match in ten days time to be postponed. we ll have the latest from our correspondents, but first this report from sophie hutchinson. police checks on the outskirts of the town in northern italy. it s one of 11 areas here in lockdown, designated a red zone because it s at the centre of europe s largest outbreak of the new coronavirus. more than 370 people have been infected and 12 have died. a big concern is how the virus is spreading across italy s borders. today, the health secretary here told the commons once again the government was doing everything it could to protect the public. our approach has at all times been guided by the chief medical officer working on the basis of the best possible scientific evidence. the public can be assured that we have a clear plan to contain, delay, research and mitigate, and that we are working methodologically through each step to keep the public safe. in tenerife, a thousand guests and staff remain in quarantine at this hotel after four people from northern italy tested positive. many say they are frustrated by a lack of information. we ve been in our room for about 2k hours now. you are allowed out now that they had tested our temperatures and given us a mask and you can wander about if you want, but you should probably stay in your room. in the uk, at least 11 schools have been affected by classroom closures after skiing trips to northern italy. there s concern that government advice isn t being followed and some are too quick to close their doors. schools say they are putting the welfare of their pupils first. due to the risk that i perceived, i made the decision that it was in the best interests of our community, of our children, to close the school. it is an ever changing picture, and the information given today i m sure will be contradicted to what we were given yesterday. across the world, there are 81,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in 33 countries. injapan, where the outbreak has taken hold, there are mounting concerns about this summer s olympic games. the prime minister has called for all sports and cultural events to be cancelled or limited to two weeks. closer to home, in dublin today, ireland s chief medical officer has called for the six nations match between ireland and italy, scheduled for a week on saturday, to be cancelled over fears of fans travelling from italy. the very clear view of the public health emergency team is that this game shouldn t go ahead, that it would constitute a significant risk because a very large number of people would be travelling from an affected region. my department will be contacting the irfu. i know it will come as a cause of great disappointment but it s important we make decisions. a decision is yet to be taken in ireland. greece has now reported its first infection, and the world health organization says there are more new cases being reported each day in the rest of the world than in china, the heart of the epidemic. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. our correspondent fiona trott is in tenerife. she is at the hotel that is currently on lockdown, some of the just pretty angry they will have to stay in isolation for 1h days, fiona. yes, they say they have heard that but not had official confirmation from the hotel that is happening, so is is part of the frustration that they have, as the hours go on. you do get the impression, though, that inside things have relaxed slightly. whereas last night they were told that they had to go back to their rooms, couldn t leave their rooms, again this morning, not knowing if they could even go down for brea kfast, they could even go down for breakfast, for food and something to drink, but now we are hearing from people inside the hotel that they are at the pool, a few of them are wearing face masks, we are being told. i want you to listen to an interview that we had with a couple we spoke to earlier mandy and roger, who arrived on monday. we are on our balcony, not outside, like everybody else, and life goes on, but we have had no cell sanitary products, nothing brought to our room, no cleaning stuff, absolutely nothing. to be perfectly honest with you, everybody is down by the pool, walking along, food is brought to oui’ walking along, food is brought to our room, walking along, food is brought to our room, and the truth of it is that nobody, not the hotel, not us, not anybody, not the foreign office, not anybody, not the foreign office, not the spanish people, nobody now is what the right thing to do is, because nobody has had this virus before. so please let s sort something out, come and rescue us, please, boris, and let s get the hell out of here, because i can assure you that we are clean out that people sitting on buses and trains, because everything here has been sanitised over and over again wherever we are. the things we haven t had our tissues, cotton wool. .. haven t had our tissues, cotton-wool. .. toilet paper. things like that, and the food is not edible, it is not right, we need hot food once a day, and even though i like vegetables, potatoes, rice, vegetables, fish or meat. we are getting rolls. and a little dish of nothing. there is no cereal in the morning, there is rolls brought again, but not everyone likes rolls. no coffee, no drinks. we have to go downstairs for that. so one thing is defeating the other. we were talking about the prospect of staying here for another 1a days, that has not been confirmed to the hotel guests that we have been in touch with, but for them another consideration is medication. we spoke to one guest at the hotel who has an allergy, and she was prescribed some medication last night, she hasn t received that yet. other people here who require medication, going to the hotel reception to see if they could find out, you know, if they can leave, because these are things that they need to consider, especially if they are going to be staying here for another 1a days, they want to make sure that they can get those tablets to them. i want to update you on a news c0 nfe re nce to them. i want to update you on a news conference that was held here on the island earlier. we have heard that the rest of the group travelling with the infected doctor have tested negative for coronavirus. we also heard that another 11 samples, though, were still being checked. but what they also said at a news conference was that a number of people encountered the coronavirus symptoms, that was very low. what we have also heard as well, of course, from the president of the canary islands is that he was hopeful that around 100 guests at this hotel could be leaving soon because they arrived after the infected people had left this hotel. but of course the question that they have, the question that everybody at the hotel has, is when will that be, when can they leave? fiona trott, thank you very much. let s talk a bit more about what the british government are planning to do about the coronavirus outbreaks, we can talk to assistant political editor norman smith at westminster, the government saying they have a four point plan. you always shudder when a government has a four point plan, but if matt hancock had not come to the commons, he would have been pretty much forced by opposition mps demanding clarification about what the government advice was, because they did seem to be a developing degree of confusion about whether people should go to italy, or really whether they ought to give it a mess, what they ought to do when they came back, whether it was only those who show the symptoms you should self isolate, and then there was confusion about what schools should do with, as we know, some schools sending pupils and staff home if they have been on skiing trips to northern italy, others closing down altogether. so i think there was a degree of pressure on there was a degree of pressure on the government to come up with some clarity and reassurance. and what we heard from matt hancock today was, i think, a sort of sense that there is no need yet to press the panic button. there have been, i think you said, 7000 people tested, only 12 positive, and i d have already been discharged from hospitals. in terms of the contingency measures, yes, we did get clarity for schools, he said there was no need for schools to close if pupils or teachers coming back from skiing holidays to exhibit any symptoms, and he said they should wait for the test to come back, they would be contacted, there was not at the moment any reason for schools to close, and that would be a decision taken pretty much at a local level. and his advice was basically for people to continue to ta ke basically for people to continue to take what he called sensible precautions, in other words to use tissues, wash your hands, that sort of thing. and he held out the prospect that soon the government would be publishing a wider public information campaign, so a bit of clarification, a bit of reassurance. but from a government that was under some pressure to come forward with some pressure to come forward with some form of proposals that people could understand and get their head round. crighton norman, many thanks, norman smith there, i was assistant political editor at westminster. and we ll be including your questions on coronavirus in a special edition of your questions answered on afternoon live today. send us your questions on the health advice being given out in the uk and also about travelling and coming back from affected areas abroad. that s coming up on the bbc news channel just after 2:30. send your questions in on twitter with #bbcyourquestions or email yourquestions@bbc. co. uk. as we ve heard, the coronavirus has heightened concerns about the pressures on the health service. there s been a sharp rise in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours while a bed is found for them. there were nearly 200,000 in december and january, up more than a third on the same period the winter before. here s our health correspondent nick triggle. so where does it hurt? ethel has come to hospital after a fall. i didn t think i d get to 102. with an ageing population, demands on hospitals are rising. many who come to a&e need to be admitted for further treatment. the bbc has been looking at the delays these frail and seriously ill patients face during december and january. nearly one in four patients had to wait over four hours for a bed. that amounted to 199,000 trolley waits in corridors and side rooms. that s more than double the numbers seen four winters ago. and a growing number of patients experienced delays before they were even seen. one in seven arriving by ambulance waited over 30 minutes before being handed over to hospital staff. similar pressures are being reported in other parts of the uk. 93 year old kate milson was taken to london s hillingdon hospital after a fall. she spent six hours on a trolley. i was in the corridor in pain, and you can t think of anything else, just wondering what s going to happen. and i thought, i have broken this hip before. oh, my god, what have i done this time? the hospital said: staff in colchester a&e admit it can be challenging coping with such demands. thejob is exhausting, but for me, it is the life i ve chosen. i wake up every day happy despite all the problems we face every day. some patients get angry because we can t see them as quick as they wanted to be seen. and it s not due to the fact that we don t want to, it s due to the fact that we physically can t. but that hospital has created new roles to keep patients safe. caroline looks after those who end up waiting in corridors. i am here to ensure patient safety from the time they arrive in hospital until the time they are seen by the doctor. i am able to observe these patients and prioritise them and make doctors aware that i think these patients should be seen quicker than what they would normally be if they were left out in the corridorfor any length of time. a royal college of nursing survey suggests these roles are commonly used now, with nine in ten emergency nurses in england reporting that it exists where they work. nhs england says it s investing extra money to help recruit staff and cut waits, but in the meantime, patients are likely to face continued delays. nick triggle, bbc news. our news correspondentjo black is at a gp surgery in peterborough. hi, ben, we are in a medical centre is slap bang in the middle of peterborough, and a sort of place could help be the solution to the winter pressures we have been hearing about in that report. i am dying to buy drjessica randall character, tell us why you are part of the solution. i am joined by. you open your doorfor hundreds of patients every morning. every morning we have up to 400 appointments available across the multidisciplinary team. this morning you had around 200 patients who simply walked into my at 8:30am about 220 patience came in to see a doctor or nurse today, they were not feeling well will need to follow up on an ongoing chronic condition. they walked in and are assigned to a member of staff. and they could easily have walked into a&e. some of them do unfortunately come to us when they should go to a&e, if they have chest pains or they are suffering shortness of breath, please call 999, but we give them the care that is required, and if they need a hospital, we arrange transport for them. tell me about the doctors who work in this surgery, you don t allow them any annual leave in january surgery, you don t allow them any annual leave injanuary because of winter pressures. everyone knows that respiratory viruses swing around in the winter months, putting extra pressure on the nhs, the flu was typical, and coronavirus is a potential worry to patients, so we know it is a terrible month for staff to go off, so we don t have annual leave in january, and staff to go off, so we don t have annual leave injanuary, and it is a good month to work, full of staff, the car park is great, the patients get the access they need. you talked about coronavirus, it is not at pandemic levels yet, but there are growing fears that we could get there. the nhs is used to the flu season, which is a respiratory virus, the coronavirus is also transmitted through coughs and sneezes, and advice for both is the same, you know, catch a sneeze into it as you your hands, and i think the nhs is very practised with managing flue, and it will manage coronavirus in the same way. a quick word from nhs england who say that staff have pulled out all the stops to deliver high quality care to millions this winter and there were government plans to increase the number of nurses and hospital beds in the future. joining me now isjohn appleby, chief economist at the nuffield trust, a think tank focused on health policy. i will not get you to go through these graphs in detail, but the rising numbers of patients stuck on a trolley waiting for a guide for more than four hours, a lot of people will be shocked at a time when they thought more money was being ploughed into the nhs. more money is going on since last april, the government pledges have kicked m, the government pledges have kicked in, so the nhs is getting more money. what this shows is how long it takes to actually turn around some of these headline performance measures. i mean, it has taken three orfour measures. i mean, it has taken three or four years measures. i mean, it has taken three orfour years for a&e measures. i mean, it has taken three or four years for a&e departments to get into the state, it might not ta ke get into the state, it might not take out as long to come out again, but it is not going to be instant. one of the things people talk about is the extra demand for a&e, more people turning up true up to a point, but the last six months has been fairly flat in terms of numbers of people turning up, and yet as the bbc has pointed out, the trolley white situation has got much worse. and people waiting over 12 hours on a trolley has more than trebled, up to 3000 in the last few months. tell about that is a long time to be on a trolley. are out is an appalling situation to be in. given demand is flat, what is causing this? the number of people coming and has remained constant, and yet waiting times have gone up, and that points to come in a sense, the back door of the a&e department, so people who need to get into the hospital, beds are full, need to get into the hospital, beds a re full, staff need to get into the hospital, beds are full, staff are completely occupied, the problems with discharging patience from the main hospital as well. so a&e is part of a big system, part of the community, i have to mention social care, in terms of having a destination to be discharged to from hospital. we know the situation with social care is very desperate as well. so it is all coming together now over the last three orfour years, as i coming together now over the last three or four years, as i say. we hear a lot about a staff shortages in the nhs, tens of thousands of extra staff needed, is that one of the key reasons for the problem? absolutely, the money is no use on its own, it is what you can buy with the money, and health care is a labour intensive industry. you need people, you need hands, you need equipment and beds, but people are absolutely key, and although numbers of staff have risen over the last ten yea rs of staff have risen over the last ten years or so, they simply have not kept pace with the demands of the population. if you could have a magic bullet to try and deal with this problem of people being stuck on trolleys for so long, what would it be? what one thing? or is there not one thing? well, the thing is, the quick analysis of the figures, it is what happening not so much in a&e, it is what is happening in the rest of the hospital. so there needs to be an expansion of beds, the nhs has squeezed down on the number of bedsit has squeezed down on the number of beds it has available, it has probably done that too much over the last 5 15 years. you can tjust rustle staff up out of nowhere, they need to be trained and so on. and if there were a major coronavirus outbreak in this country, heaven forbid, like the situation in italy, how well prepared would be nhs pay for that, do you think? in terms of planning, very well prepared. pandemics are number one on the government s risk register. we have had experience of swine flu, of sars and so on. during those outbreaks, we didn t see much change in waiting times, for example. we did cope. i mean, the trouble is, at the moment, with coronavirus, there is still an awful lot of uncertainty. no one knows quite what is going to happen, it is almost guaranteed there will be more cases in the uk, but in terms of preparation, the nhs is very well prepared. john appleby of the nuffield trust, thank you. now let s talk about the flooding affecting parts of the country. the town of ironbridge in shropshire is being evacuated after fears that its flood defences could be breached by rising waters on the river severn. severe flood warnings, indicating a threat to life, remain in place in ironbridge as well as shrewsbury, as the severn continues to rise, with more rain forecast. rescue teams are going house to house with a dingy to help residents get out. our correspondent phil mackie reports from bewdley in worcestershire. it s only from the air you get a real sense of the extent of this flood event. this is bewdley where the river severn is peaking right now. these homes don t usually flood any more, but the barriers overtopped in the middle of the night when they couldn t hold the water back any longer. this is the aftermath, nearly 20 properties flooded and debris everywhere. that is a fridge bobbing along in the polluted water, and there is a sofa. all morning we ve seen rescue teams coming along the front of the river severn in bewdley, they ve been bringing people out, people who hadn t expected those flood defences to overtop and haven t experienced anything like this before. justin and faye, plus their pets, were among those who had to be brought out by boat. flood defences were put up promptly, what else can they do? it s nature, it s something that happens. there s just got to be a big clean up operation to everyone involved and see what the damage is that has been done. they might have to look at higher flood barriers next time if we get any more storms. there s nothing you can do, really. there s increasing concern upstream in ironbridge, where flood defences are also under threat. this was them yesterday, and look how they buckled under pressure from the river since then. the continued scale of the flooding is putting an enormous strain on staff, but there has been criticism that the government hasn t been giving them enough support. i m very proud of the response the government has made over the last few days, and we convened the nationalflood response centre on the 14th. since that flooding began, there has been a constant stream of ministerial activity. back in bewdley, the water is still coming over the top of the barriers and into people s houses. people have done everything they can to protect themselves, but it hasn t been enough. we ve got floodgates on all of the doors, multiple floodgates on some parts of the house. we put up sandbags as well to try and stop the water. we ve got multiple pumps, they are all in place and switched on. the house is full of water. the river peak is heading downstream towards worcester, where homes have already been flooded for ten days. phil mackie, bbc news, bewdley. let s show you some aerial pictures we have got of ironbridge in shropshire, and the flooding there, and police, as we have been saying, moving people to safety, because at least some of the temporary flood barriers there have been overwhelmed, so pretty dramatic pictures there from ironbridge in shropshire. joanne writtle is in ironbridge. they had thought that the flood barriers here were going to hold, but overnight a three metre section moved inwards and then, just before noon, there were reports of a loud bang and parts of a barrier came towards a house. there are fears that water is coming up underneath the barriers, and it is now causing an emergency evacuation of the few people who have chosen to remain in their homes. some had already been evacuated over the last week or so when the severe flood warning was in place. this is what the environment agency and police had to say earlier. there was a big shift in the barrier that we have heard, we believe it has become ineffective, so therefore we will be issuing a severe flood warning once again, risk to life, and therefore there has to be an emergency evacuation. water has now penetrated the barrier, we have up to two metres on what was the dry side, so we have immediately authorised and evacuation of premises. we have spoken with residents, and those residents are coming out with us as we speak. yeah, understandably, lots of shock for those residents who have been evacuated. a short time ago i spoke to hayley, who had remained in her home behind the barriers of last week with her mum, but in the last hour or so she and her dogs have been evacuated. all that water is it my mum s bottom web, we have two foot of water. just looking out the window, there is a massive bang and the barriers are coming towards the house. the environment agency has now reissued a severe flood warning here, meaning a severe flood warning here, meaning a danger to life, and that is because of the water rising up behind the barriers next to the houses. the emergency services are all working together here in ironbridge to keep everyone safe. back to you. joanne little there. let s just show you the latest from the environment agency on that actually. that is the latest advice on their website. severe flood warning in place. flood barriers at the river severn have been compromised, they are saying, and cannot prevent flooding of properties. your safety come home and possessions are at risk. act now, say the environment agency. these are the latest pictures we have been showing you from ironbridge. residents in riverside properties there have been told to leave their homes and businesses immediately after those temporary flood barriers were overwhelmed. the barriers holding back the flood water from the river severn moved overnight in shropshire, and police said they appeared to be buckling under pressure. right, let s get the latest on what the weather is doing and whether it will compound some of that flooding we have seen along the river severn. ben rich is here with me with the latest. how is it looking, any respite? we thought we would put this into a bit of context first. the story of this february is all about the rain. but let s go back two february is, february 2018, at this point in the month we were just getting into the start really of the beast from the east, which of course we will never forget. of the beast from the east, which of course we will never forgetlj remember it very well. you will never forget it. a very busy time for us. it snowed very widely across the uk, an exceptionally cold spell of weather, the coldest we have had in quite some years. let s go forward a year to last year. on this day last year, we had scenes like this, do you remember that, day last year, we had scenes like this, do you rememberthat, last february? new skies, sunshine and our highest february temperature on record, the temperature at kew gardens got up to 21.2 degrees, which while very pleasant was far out with what we would expect the weather to give us at this point in february. now we fast forward to this year and it is all about those flood warnings. you havejust this year and it is all about those flood warnings. you have just shown them but in reminder of those severe flood warnings on the river severn. you ask what is to come, there is more the rain in the forecast, and also some snow. met office warning is in force for snow and ice as we head through this evening, tonight and into tomorrow across parts of western scotland, northern ireland, down into northern england, north wales will stop this morning is for snow and ice, this little warning is for the potential of some snow into tomorrow morning s rush hour, some of these parts of the midlands, east anglia for example which haven t really seen much of that so far this winter. that is one thing and then rain still on everybody‘s minds. this is not what you want to see, another met office warning covering the hills of wales hills of northern england. of course it is the rain that falls into this area that goes through to the river severn to places like shrewsbury and worcester. another potentially 60 millimetres of rain on friday night but that is not good news. yes, i think this story well run and run. so no respite and the outlook for the next two or three days? rain is pa rt the next two or three days? rain is part of it, snow is also part of it for some of those places that haven t seen any so far. more rain at times through the rest of the week and the chance of snow particularly tonight and into tomorrow. let s get into the detail. on the satellite picture you can see this fairly menacing looking area of cloud, this is an area of low pressure that will really just scrape its way across the south of the british isles. they will bring rainfor the british isles. they will bring rain for some but it is that that generates the chance of some snow in places. this afternoon wintry showers continue across western scotla nd showers continue across western scotland and into northern ireland. slow snow to relatively low levels at this area. in scotland. through this evening and tonight, across the northern half of the uk, across the northern half of the uk, a continued story of wintry showers but down to the south, remember that area of cloud, it will be spinning its way in, rain mostly for the far south west of england and the far south west of england and the far south west of england and the far south west of wales, generally speaking it will be a bit milder here. further north in a cold night, thatis here. further north in a cold night, that is where we have the risk for some ice. but tomorrow morning the weather could get quite interesting actually to stop rain mostly to the south of the m4 corridor, but to the north of the m4 corridor it will be a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. especially over the high grounds, the malvern some cotswolds, the chilterns, but even at lower levels i can t completely rule out a slushy covering of snow for a little while. that area of rain, sleet and snow will slide away tomorrow to reveal some sunny skies, still some showers around, and it is another relatively chilly day with highs of 69 degrees full stop thursday night gives a brief chance to draw breath, this little bump in the isobars, a little ridge of high pressure, it will be cold friday morning. friday, here comes our next rainmaker, another set of frontal systems pushing in from the west, bringing outbreaks of rain to the south west of england but over the hills of wales and midlands, rain into northern ireland as well, snow is possible again once again across the pennines, southern parts of scotland as this weather system parts of scotland as this weather syste m ru ns parts of scotland as this weather system runs into some cold air. for the start of the week and receive these various frontal systems pushing through, so a wet spell through friday night into saturday. behind that, low pressure in charge, very brisk winds, gales and places and coming from a really cold place, so it is going to feel decidedly chilly. to sum things up as we head into the weekend, yes, a wet start, more rain in the forecast and in places where we don t need it but it is going to turn colder with some showers after that and some of those showers after that and some of those showers will continue to be wintry. this is bbc news our latest headlines. coronavirus continues to spread around europe italy records a twelfth death while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases here, the government says it has a plan to deal with the outbreak. the public can be assured that we have a clear plan to contain, delay, research and mitigate. and that we are working methodologically through each step to keep the public safe. in tenerife, british holiday makers are among a thousand people now confined to to their hotel after four guests tested positive. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. water is now penetrated the barrier and we ve got up to two metres of water on what was the dry side, so we ve immediately authorised and the evacuation of the premises. we ve been out and spoken with residents and those residents are coming out with us as we speak. new figures show a sharp rise in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours as they wait for a bed. sport now on afternoon live with sarah and we ve been talking a lot about the coronavirus it s having a major impact on sporting events, isn t it and we ve just heard ireland v italy on seventh march has been postponed? yes, this news hasjust come in. we have kind of been waiting for it over the last 12, 24 hours as such, this fixture, ireland against italy next weekend on march seven. we have just had the confirmation that it has been postponed. we saw that last night the ireland health minister had recommended that it was going to be postponed and then they were having a meeting with the irish rugby football union, the rfu in dublin. this news hasjust come out following that. scotland s women s match in italy on sunday if you remember was called off because of the virus. you might remember back in 2001, there were changes to the 6 nations then with the foot and mouth three games ended up being played in september and october. in a statement, the irfu say: the national public health emergency team has determined that the series of matches should not proceed in the interest of public health. the irfu is perfectly happy to comply with this instruction. we will immediately begin to work with our six nations partners to reschedule those three matches and hope to have an update in the coming days. let s talk about the t20 women s cricket, because it was a bit of a shaky cricket, because it was a bit of a s ha ky start cricket, because it was a bit of a shaky start for england, but they ve done a bit better now? absolutely, a much needed win for them and a good performance as well to boot. remember they lost their opener to south africa on sunday.. but they bounced back with a 98 run win against thailand in canberra today. . . .. captain heather knight starring. she smashed her first t20 hundred as england made 176 for 2 and then restricted the tournament debuta nts to just 78 for 7 with anya shrubsole claiming three wickets. knight is the first woman and the first england player to hit centuries in test, one day and t20 internationals. really pleasing. i guess i m really enjoying being a bit further up the order, being able to face more balls. obviously very pleased and a much win game but we know we have a long way to go in this competition. we ve got another game in a day or so to win again. so yes, it s important we take the momentum from today. england are top of their group, just ahead of pakistan, who shocked the former champions west indies, beating them by eight wickets in canberra. chasing 125 to win, they raced to their target with 10 balls to spare, captain bismah maroof leading the way with 38. it s one of the biggest wins for pakistan, who ve never made it to the knock out stage. five time grand slam champion maria sharapova has retired from tennis at the age of 32. she famously won wimbledon in 2004 as a 17 year old, beating serena williams in the final. she s recently been plagued by injuries since coming back from a drugs ban. she said she was saying goodbye and that whatever came next in her life, she d apply the same work ethic and focus as she did her tennis. manchester city s appeal against their two year ban from european competition has been registered by the court of arbitration for sport. the ban and a fine were imposed after city were found guilty of breaching football s financial fair play rules. the process is expected to take several months. city are still in this season s champions league and they re away to real madrid tonight. manager pep guardiola has told his side to fight until the end , to gain their first victory over real, who ve won the tournament in four of the past six seasons. we play with the king of this competition, so we know the challenge in front of us we have to face, but in the same time, when you re going to die and after there is no more chances but in life you are in this business, you want to train anyone to play, always you never know what s going to happen. that s all the sport for now. sarah, thank you very much indeed. now it is time for a special your questions answered on afternoon live. we ve been asking you to send in any questions you have about travel and the coronavirus outbreak. with the outbreak in italy particularly in mind. here to answer them is our health correspondent sophie hutchinson and victoria bacon from association of british travel agents. welcome to you both, thank you very much for being with us. let s kick off with the first question, that comes from judith in orpington who wa nts to comes from judith in orpington who wants to know what advice is there for tourists who are returning to the uk from italy? we have seen quite a lot of cases in italy, sophie, so what is the advice to anyone who is coming back from any pa rt anyone who is coming back from any part of italy. how worried should they be? we have seen lots of cases in northern italy, this is where the real hot spot is for the outbreak of the virus, so the advice is if you have been to one of the quarantined areas, there are 11 areas and the cu rfews if you areas, there are 11 areas and the curfews if you like at the moment, where people are not meant to go out and about, then when you come back to the uk you must self isolate, you must stay at home for 14 days full stop clearly if you have any symptoms, you have to call 111. for goodness sake, whatever you do, don t go racing into a hospital or anything. the advice for people who have been to northern italy who have not been to the quarantined areas is keep an eye on yourself, if you think you are getting flu like symptoms, call again 111 and get some advice about what to do next. victoria, would you add anything to that? the 11 quarantined towns so if you mention are not typically tourist town so we haven t had reports of any tourist in those towns itself, so as sophie said the advice is very much for other parts of italy not to go into that automatic self quarantine but to just monitor for symptoms. a lot of people are worried about travelling out of the united kingdom, and we ve got lewis on e mail asking, i am travelling to tenerife on friday. for two weeks. i have copd, chronic lung disease, would it be wise to cancel my holiday? what precautions should i take? obviously some people are more vulnerable to coronavirus than others, aren t they? absolutely, and in tender if we have seen this hotel in lockdown because there have been four reported cases associated with it. it is on a person by person decision really, it is about whether you have underlying health problems, such as lewis here who in particular has this chronic inflammatory lung disorder. we know the coronavirus equally attacks the lungs. so it isjust the coronavirus equally attacks the lungs. so it is just about weighing up lungs. so it is just about weighing up the risks, is that a risk too far for him in particular. if you are a young, healthy person, is it a risk young, healthy person, is it a risk you are prepared to take and therefore travelling is fired? definitely possibly even talk to louis s dr about it. victoria, what would you say to somebody like lewis who is planning a trip, may be does have an underlying health condition and is thinking about cancelling it, what would be the implication? typically your rights in terms of claiming your money back or getting calculation cancellation trigger when there is a change in foreign office advice. there isn t probably on very specific areas, mainland china, there is 11 quarantined towns we talked about in italy and parts of italy. so it does mean you are not going to have those same rights. another question in a similar vein, liam in london wants to know, i am due to visit singapore in early march. is it safe for me to go? my travel insurance picks out as they will not cover any cancellation costs unless the foreign office advised against travel to singapore. travel insurance, package holiday protections will all follow the advice of the foreign office, which is saying it is safe to travel to those destinations. in that instance, it is safe to travel based on that. clearly it is very important people monitor that information. laura on twitter wants to know our travel insurance firms likely to cover somebody cancelling a trip because of infections or travel warnings for their destination? travel insurance will not, there is this area disinclination to travel, travel insurance would not cover that sort of category of thing, there has to bea of category of thing, there has to be a change of foreign office advice, and travel insurance for only cover certain parts of that. package holiday protection is much more extensive than travel insurance alone. this is one for you, sophie, and in london wants an about face masks when you are travelling. would it be advisable for airline passengers even on short haul flights to european countries where there are no outbreaks, should those sorts of people wear protective face masks? there is some discussion about how effective a face is. clearly there is a physical block so if somebody sneezes, it is like sneezing into a tissue, there is that bar, but face masks can be quite loose as well and also viruses are in the whole body, they are in the liquid in the eyes for example, and people touching their eyes and then touching somewhere where there is an infection might still pick up a virus like that. it is notjust breathing out, it is bodily fluid generally. and so there is a? effectively over how effective facemasks are, and whether it is possible to get enough facemasks for everybody. the main supplier of facemasks comes from china, and so there has been a supply issue. they have been concerned about whether they can get enough facemasks. the government has opened up some supplies of facemasks it put aside post brexit, because it wanted to make sure we had enough of that, and it is allowing those now to circulate in the uk. but you can see worldwide if everybody was using facemasks, there might actually be a supply issue. this is another one for you. we have had matt hancock from the government talking about the government s four point plan to contain any coronavirus outbreak, but we have had a question from yorkshire, saying why are the british government not screening people who enter the uk? it would be a huge task to screen everyone coming in. number one, the government are doing things and there are teams from public health england at a number of large airports, and passengers when they are flying in from certain countries are flying in from certain countries are being asked by the pilot, does anybody have flu like symptoms, is anybody have flu like symptoms, is anybody concerned that they might have coronavirus? and then the pilot has to speak to the terminal where they have landed and say, no, everything is clear here, and if somebody is feeling ill then there are procedures for dealing with that situation. but in terms ofjust screaming everybody getting flights, number one, you are right, a huge task of a number two, coronavirus presents is very much a flu like illness and we are in the winter at the moment, there is a seasonalflu. so somebody coughing and having a bit of a temperature coming from a pa rt bit of a temperature coming from a part of the world where there isn t much coronavirus, it could well be something else and screening all of those people, the task is just too great. this is an interesting question, because the isolation period, or the quarantine period, is 14 days, isn t it? and yetjen coles in wellingborough is saying if the incubation period could be up to 24 days, i m not sure if that s right or not, why are quarantined people being released after 14 days? there seems to be a bit of a discrepancy there. it is believed the 14 days really does cover a person, that actually the incubation period might be quite a lot short of 14 days, so the 14 day period is a real security blanket. there has been discussion about whether a patient was infected and carried an infection after 24 days. i have seen a scientist talk about the fact it is possible that a person may have had the infection twice. and so may have recovered from an initial infection and then got another on top and that has stretched out the length of time that it looks as though there is an incubation period for, when in fact it is two infections. charlotte on twitter wa nts it is two infections. charlotte on twitter wants to know if someone recovers from the coronavirus now, can it come back again into their body in the future? can you suffer from it twice? that s a bit what i was just saying, yes, from it twice? that s a bit what i wasjust saying, yes, it from it twice? that s a bit what i was just saying, yes, it seems possible that it may be able to be infected once, and then again on top of that. but very, very little is still known about this virus, it is an incredibly new virus. we don t have all the answers at the moment. just to put it into perspective as we have been trying to do, flew every year kills way more people, doesn t it? 8000 a year in the uk. so seasonal flu is a real threat to people who have vulnerable health. that is why we have a flu vaccine every year. the problem with coronas that we don t have that taxing at the moment. indeed. very good to talk to both of you. thank you for answering the viewers s questions. sophie hutchinson our bbc health correspondent and victoria beckham with travel advice from the association of brittle traversal agents. thanks to both of you. british travel agents. prince harry has warned the growth of tourism is threatening to destroy some of the world s most beautiful places. speaking in edinburgh, he called for action to prevent popular destinations being overwhelmed by visitors. the event was one of harry s last official engagements before he steps down as a senior member of the royal family, as daniela relph reports. backin back in the public eye. back in the public eye, at least for now. and that he was introduced at the event in edinburgh on sustainable tourism, there was just a nod to the nonroyal life that lies ahead for the duke of sussex. he has made it clear that we are all just to call him harry, so ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, warm scottish welcome to harry! applause. and with global travel predicted to soar, there was also a warning from harry. if we do not act and in large part get ahead of this inevitable surge, this massive increase will mean we see more of the world s most beautiful destinations closed or destroyed. the duchess of sussex joins her husband back in the uk next week. as last year, we ll see meghan at an event to mark international women s day. with harry, she will be at the endeavour awards, recognising the achievements of wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans. and finally, on 9th of march, alongside the rest of the royal family, they return to westminster abbey for their final public appearance as senior working royals at a service to mark commonwealth day. this hasn t been an easy separation. rumours remain of tensions between william and harry. the sussexes have also been accused of petulance in some of their public statements on decisions reached. but this is now the beginning of the end. for this prince, born royal, the son of a future king, the public scrutiny of his wife and son was too much. they want something different, and that new, more private life away from the uk starts in april. daniela relph, bbc news. in a moment egon cossou is going to bring us the latest business news.first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. about a thousand holidaymakers have been told they can t leave their hotel in tenerife, as new cases of coronavirus continue to be reported around the world. eleven schools have been closed across the uk as a precaution although official advice is not to do so. people are being evacuated in ironbridge after temporary flood barriers were overwhelmed. here s your business headlines on afternoon live. lloyds bank and direct line are both cutting hundreds of jobs. lloyds is slashing 780 positions including customer advisers and managers. direct line is to cut 800 jobs it s blaming changing consumer behaviour. oil company chevron has asked 300 of its staff in london to work from home as a precaution against coronavirus. it took the step after one of its staff displayed flu like symptoms after travelling abroad. virgin galactic says demand for its spaceflights is soaring. almost 8,000 people have registered an interest in becoming space tourists. so far, 600 tickets have been sold for the first flights which happen later this year. we have been talking about coronavirus, the impact on global trade, but shipping in particular. that s right, all because the epicentre of this outbreak is china, the second biggest economy in the world, and of course it has become known as the factory of the world, so it makes everything from iphones, and sells those overseas to us by ship sends those over to us by ship. they have been restrictions imposed by the government in beijing on travel and that is really having an impact on the industry. it is thought it is losing about $315 million a week because of the coronavirus. let s talk now via platinum, the boss of the chain real shipping. he hasjust left a meeting with the world health organisation. guy, tell us what was the outcome of that meeting? i think it was more of an information sharing about what we re doing is an industry and what the latest situation is in and elsewhere around the world. we did ta ke elsewhere around the world. we did take some comfort that the situation in china appears to be stabilising andindeed in china appears to be stabilising and indeed improving and we understand that factories are now starting to get back to work as well. that is some comfort in terms of getting the trade moving again. of course 9096 of global trade is conducted on the sea, via ships of course, how worried are you though that the spread of coronavirus could actually have an impact at the other end of the supply line in shops?” think it is having an impact already. you talked about china being the factory of the world, 23% of seaborne crude imports go from china, bulk, iron law and cole go into china and some 30% of exports, container exports come from china. clearly with the slowdown that will have an effect on the entire supply chain overtime. one have an effect on the entire supply chain over time. one would hope when things start to return to normal we can pick up that slack and to get that trade flowing again. thanks so much, that s it from me. a quick look at the weather with ben. thank you very much will stop some parts of the uk that have not had any snow yet this winter could get to see a bit over the next 24 hour is full stop still some snow showers around as we enter into the end of the day to night. it is as this area of wet weather slides into the south west we will start to see a bit of snow developing on its northern edge. temperature wise, a bit of a contrast through the night, it turns milder through the south west and the channel islands, further north down to 5 across parts of scotland. icy stretches could cause a problem. into tomorrow, mostly rain to the south of the m4 corridor we are expecting back to the north of that, parts of wales, the midlands, east anglia, an awkward mix of rain, sleet and snow. these no mostly over high ground across parts of the cross world, chilterns, you could get a covering of snow but even at low levels you could see a slushy covering just for a time. all that wet and wintry weather should then clear way eastwards to the brighter skies, some spells of sunshine but still one or two showers through tomorrow and it will be another fairly chilly day, highs of 69 degrees. hello, you re watching afternoon live, i m ben brown. today at three: coronavirus continues to spread around europe. italy records a 12th death, while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases. here, the government says it has a plan to deal with the outbreak. in tenerife, british holiday makers are among a thousand people now confined to to their hotel after four guests tested positive. we are clear now, we were tested yesterday. for goodness sake, bring us home we haven t got the virus. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. water has now penetrated the barrier, we have up to two metres on what was the dry side, so we have immediately authorised an evacuation of premises. we have spoken with residents, and those residents are coming out with us as we speak. new figures show a sharp rise in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours as they wait for a bed. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with sarah, and news about the six nations games in dublin. yes, confirmation in the last half hour that both the men s and women s six nations games between ireland and italy next weekend in dublin have been postponed because of the coronavirus. i ll have more on the impact of that in the sport after half past. ben rich will have the weather again, all those flooding worries, especially around iron bridge today, any sign of respite? yes, still some severe flood warnings and flows, and as for a respite, perhaps drier than it has been at the moment, but there is more rain in the forecast for places that could do without it, and not only rain but snow in the forecast too. the details just before half past. also coming up. if we do not get ahead of this surge, we will see more of the world s most beautiful destinations closed or destroyed. in one of his last official engagements, prince harry warns that the growth of tourism is threatening to destroy some of the world s most beautiful places. hello and welcome to afternoon live. the coronavirus outbreak is spreading across europe, with a sharp increase in the number of cases in italy, and the first infections reported in austria, greece, croatia and switzerland. here the government says it has a clear plan to respond to the outbreak. in tenerife, the authorities announced 14 days of isolation for around a thousand holiday makers in quarantine on the island, many of them brits. four guests, including an italian doctor and his wife, tested positive for the virus at the costa adeje palace hotel on the island. at least eight schools in england and three in northern ireland have sent home pupils and staff after they returned from half term trips to northern italy. and the irish rugby union have confirmed that ireland s six nations match against italy in ten days time has been postponed. we ll have the latest from our correspondents, but first this report from sophie hutchinson. police checks on the outskirts of a town in northern italy. it s one of 11 areas here in lockdown, designated a red zone because it s at the centre of europe s largest outbreak of the new coronavirus. more than 370 people have been infected and 12 have died. a big concern is how the virus is spreading across italy s borders. today, the health secretary here told the commons once again the government was doing everything it could to protect the public. our approach has at all times been guided by the chief medical officer working on the basis of the best possible scientific evidence. the public can be assured that we have a clear plan to contain, delay, research and mitigate, and that we are working methodologically through each step to keep the public safe. in tenerife, a thousand guests and staff remain in quarantine at this hotel after four people from northern italy tested positive. many say they are frustrated by a lack of information. we ve been in our room for about 24 hours now. you are allowed out now that they have tested our temperatures and given us a mask and you can wander about if you want, but you should probably stay in your room. in the uk, at least 11 schools have been affected by classroom closures after skiing trips to northern italy. there s concern that government advice isn t being followed and some are too quick to close their doors. schools say they are putting the welfare of their pupils first. due to the risk that i perceived, i made the decision that it was in the best interests of our community, of our children, to close the school. it is an ever changing picture, and the information given today i m sure will be contradicted to what we were given yesterday. across the world, there are 81,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in 33 countries. injapan, where the outbreak has taken hold, there are mounting concerns about this summer s olympic games there. the prime minister has called for all sports and cultural events to be cancelled or limited to two weeks. closer to home, in dublin today, ireland s chief medical officer has called for the six nations match between ireland and italy to be cancelled over fears of fans travelling en masse from italy. the very clear view of the public health emergency team was that this game shouldn t go ahead, that it would constitute a significant risk because a very large number of people would be travelling from an affected region. my department will be contacting the irfu. i know it will come as a cause of great disappointment, but it s important we make decisions. a decision is yet to be taken in ireland. greece has now reported its first infection, and the world health organization says there are more new cases being reported each day in the rest of the world than in china, the heart of the epidemic. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. mandy and roger davis are staying at the costa adeje palace hotel in tenerife at the moment, where almost a thousand people staying and are unable to leave. they sent this video of their experience. we are on our balcony, not outside, like everybody else, and life goes on, but we have had no sanitary products, nothing brought to our room, no cleaning stuff, absolutely nothing. to be perfectly honest with you, everybody is down by the pool, walking along, food is brought to our room, and the truth of it is that nobody, not the hotel, not us, not anybody, not the foreign office, not the spanish people, nobody now is what the right thing to do is, because nobody has had this virus before. so please let s sort something out, come and rescue us, please, boris, and let s get the hell out of here, because i can assure you that we are cleaner that people sitting on buses and trains, because everything here has been sanitised over and over again whereverwe are. the things we haven t had are tissues, cotton wool. toilet paper. things like that, and the food is not edible, it is not right, we need hot food once a day, and even though i like vegetables, potatoes, rice, vegetables, fish or meat. we are getting rolls. and a little dish of nothing. there is no cereal in the morning, there is rolls brought again, but not everyone likes rolls. no coffee, no drinks. we have to go downstairs for that. so one thing is defeating the other. turnabout that was mandy and roger davies, who was staying at that hotel in tenerife at the moment, where there is about 1000 people in terms of guest and staff who are, for the moment, unable to leave because of the coronavirus outbreak. much more on that throughout the hour. but let s talk about the irish by hour. but let s talk about the irish rugby union, who have announced that the six nations feature against italy in dublin on the 7th of march will not now go ahead, it has been postpone because of the outbreak. dan roan is in dublin with the latest on that, this must have been a very difficult decision for the authorities to make. absolutely, yes. word first emerged yesterday when simon harris, the irish government health minister said that there was a feeling amongst public health experts that this would be the decision, that we first learned it was on the cards, and sure enough, following a meeting between officials and experts from the government, including harris himself and the irish rugby football union, and the irish rugby football union, an announcement was made by the irish rugby chief executive, this is what he had to say. at the meeting, we we re what he had to say. at the meeting, we were informed that the national public health emergency team has determined that the series of matches should not proceed in the interests of public health. we are perfectly happy to comply with this instruction. we will immediately begin to work with our six nations partners to look at the possibility of rescheduling those three matches and would hope to have an update on that in the coming days. what are the implications of this for the fans, who will be very disappointed, but also for the tournament and future fixtures? i think there is an italy england game in march as well, isn t there? there is, i should explain the reason why we refer to three matches is that it is not just we refer to three matches is that it is notjust the senior men s ireland against italy match on march the 7th, there is also a women s match andindeed 7th, there is also a women s match and indeed an under 20 game as well, so three fixtures have been cancelled, and i are now hoping to rearrange them, but as you heard, no confirmation as to whether that will be the case or when they matches may be the case or when they matches may be played. indeed, the following weekend, italy housed england, and given that this match has been cancelled, there must be huge doubt over whether that will be played, especially when you consider that top flight football matches will be played behind closed doors this weekend, inter milan s europa league match tomorrow evening as well. and so it really does throw the whole of the championship into a degree of chaos, reminiscent of what happened 19 years ago in 2001 when the outbreak of foot and mouth forced ireland to play their last three matches of the six nations championship months later than they should have done, in the autumn, and the result was effectively put on hold for that period of time. could we see something similar to this? they do have the option of playing behind closed doors, as we have seen in italy with football, but they have chosen instead to hope to rearrange it. i am sure there are big financial reasons for that, a huge amount at stake financially, and it is estimated that every six nations match that ireland hosts in dublin is worth up to 50 million euros in terms of tourism, ticket sales and the associated benefits that the influx of fans bring. and in course of the wider world of sport, coronaviruses already having a major impact. the chinese grand prix has been postponed, there are concerns over the cheltenham festival, england football team housed italy at the end of next month at wembley, and then of course the biggest concern of all is the greatest sports event of all, at the olympics and paralympic games, scheduled to take place in tokyo, of course, this summer, in august. yesterday a senior member of the ioc, dick pound, said a decision could be left as light is just a matter of months before the olympic games. at this stage, they are carrying on as normal, athletes are being told to keep training, but given how the condition is proud, there will be mounting concerns in light of this news in dublin. throughout good to talk to you, thank you very much indeed for bringing us the latest from dublin. the town of ironbridge in shropshire is being evacuated after fears that its flood defences could be breached by rising waters on the river severn. these are the latest pictures from that town where you can see floodwater behind the barriers. severe flood warnings, indicating a threat to life, remain in place in ironbridge as well as shrewsbury, as the severn continues to rise, with more rain forecast. our correspondent phil mackie has spent the day further south down the river severn in bewdley in worcestershire, where residents were evacuated overnight. it s only from the air you get a real sense of the extent of this flood event. this is bewdley where the river severn is peaking right now. these homes don t usually flood any more, but the barriers overtopped in the middle of the night when they couldn t hold the water back any longer. this is the aftermath, nearly 20 properties flooded and debris everywhere. that is a fridge bobbing along in the polluted water, and there is a sofa. all morning we ve seen rescue teams coming along the front of the river severn in bewdley, they ve been bringing people out, people who hadn t expected those flood defences to overtop and haven t experienced anything like this before. justin and faye, plus their pets, were among those who had to be brought out by boat. flood defences were put up promptly, what else can they do? it s nature, it s something that happens. there s just got to be a big clean up operation for everybody involved and see what the damage is that has been done. they might have to look at higher flood barriers next time if we get any more storms. there s nothing you can do, really. there s increasing concern upstream in ironbridge, where flood defences are also under threat. the continued scale of the flooding is putting an enormous strain on staff, but there is criticism that the government has not been giving them enough support. i m very proud of the response the government has made over the last few days, and we convened the nationalflood response centre on the 14th. since that flooding began, there has been a constant stream of ministerial activity. back in bewdley, the water is still coming over the top of the barriers and into people s houses. people have done everything they can to protect themselves, but it hasn t been enough. we ve got floodgates on all of the doors, multiple floodgates on some parts of the house. we put up sandbags as well to try and stop the water. we ve got multiple pumps, they are all in place and switched on. the house is full of water. the river peak is heading downstream towards worcester, where homes have already been flooded for ten days. phil mackie, bbc news, bewdley. let s go now to councillor shaun davies, the labour leader of telford and wrekin council. hejoins us from ironbridge. what is the latest situation? how many people are being evacuated? we have evacuated all the residents now, all but a couple of areas where they have decided to stay put, but we are speaking to them continually about their options. the real concern is that the barriers are overwhelmed, water coming up onto the wharf edge itself, so we are in unprecedented times here in ironbridge. we had a couple of people in the report who seems to be reasonably calm and phlegmatic about it all, but how disappointed are you that these flood defences have been breached? very disappointed. these are temporary barriers put in place in 2004 as a temporary measure, and in 2020 we are still in that situation of having temporary barriers. the whole community, communities and the river, we need ministers to come up from london to see for themselves the issues that this is causing communities here in shropshire. so you are saying that you need more investment in proper flood defences, long term flood defences. absolutely, although this is an unprecedented event, it will almost certainly repeat itself over the coming years, so we need significant investment from government to replace these temporary barriers to make them more permanent but also looking at defending communities that are further down the river that are not protected whatsoever at the moment, andi protected whatsoever at the moment, and i am really disappointed that the government ministers have not been here in ironbridge, have not spoken to residents to understand what is happening here and have not, and thanked the members of the environment agency and council staff, police, fire and ambulance who have worked very hard indeed around the clock to help and support the communities that we represent here. i do not know if you have been studying the weather forecast, what is the prognosis? we are very concerned about the next weather event towards the weekend, which will probably hit us in terms of the river flow on monday and tuesday, so we are keeping a watching brief on that. we also have the pressing issue of the barriers, which are under huge pressure here and could be breached at any time over the next few hours. thank you, councillor, the sound is not great, a lot of wind noise, i am afraid, but thank you very much indeed for bringing us the latest. we were hearing from the councillor, a large number of people being evacuated because they temporary flood defences there have been breached. we will bring you more on that through the afternoon. scientists have found a new way to save the endangered red squirrel through the help of one of their natural predators. the team from queen s university belfast discovered that while the pine marten preys on both species, grey squirrels are much more vulnerable to attack. the key seems to be in the reds innate ability to sniff out the danger posed by the pine marten, whereas grey squirrels ignored the predator s scent. let s speak now to joshua twining, the lead author of the study. thank you very much indeed for being with us, tell us more about the research and what you have been able to find out. so, fantastic, our research was built off the back of previous research by emma sheehy working in ireland and scotland, where she discovered a negative effect of the pine marten recovery, so it is the most subsequent declines in grey squirrels population which were allowing red squirrel populations to recover. as you said, we knew that pine martens we re you said, we knew that pine martens were predating both, so it seems strange that they had a negative effect on the advice of grey squirrel but a positive effect on its similar native cousin. so we wa nted its similar native cousin. so we wanted to find out how that was possible, and one of the way that mammal species avoid predators is through chemical signals, so through their sense of smell. so we thought that perhaps because the pine marten and red squirrel had shared an evolutionary landscape for such a long period of time, it might be aware of the threat of the pine marten and being able to recognise and avoid predation. the grey squirrel, as it has only been here for 100 years, might be naive to that and be left a sitting duck. and just out of interest, how many red squirrels are there? i can t remember the last time i saw a red squirrel, there don t seem to be any around the port of london where i live. indeed, so numbers of squirrels are quite hard to get out but they are largely restricted to the north of england, certain parts of wales, scotland, and they are recovering in ireland. but where the pine marten, until recently has been restricted to the west coast of ireland in the northern reaches of scotland, where it is recovering, we are getting red squirrels recovering as well, and so although numbers are difficult to grasp, we are seeing a positive relationship between the species. so what we are trying to do here is save the red squirrel, is that right? out so a few things that we are doing, since humans have been on the planet, we have been moving species around, bringing animals with us, introducing non native to naive environments can cause a whole host of problems. nowadays we spend a great deal of effort and resources trying to rectify and solve those problems so, yeah, grey squirrels have replaced native squirrels in a lot of areas and cause them to decline, so one of the reasons we might support the pine marten is to support the red squirrel populations, but it is also important to realise how important our native predators are. they have been vilified for so long, and as they are recovering naturally, we see the positive effects of them, so in terms of structuring ecosystems and regulating other animals in those ecosystems, providing answers and solutions to our problems, but then on top of that i wouldn t say we should be looking at predators purely as solutions to the problems we have made, but also as iconic parts of our natural world, and as we are living in human dominated world, we should look at how we can live alongside biodiversity, rather than separating ourselves from it. so predators have had a bad name, let s praise the predators? yeah, indeed, indeed. i mean, especially in the landscapes we live in now, especially in britain and ireland, such low forest cover and are so few wild places left, when we see predators that are able to recover, and we can see the positive effects of them, it is about thinking how we can support the recovery and support the native species that we have. lot of people just like red squirrels, don t they? are they very different, apart from being read, what are the real differences from grey squirrels? i mean, so the whole evolution. there are key physiological differences in terms of size, they are significantly smaller than grey squirrels, big differences in behaviour, but it is about how they interact with their ecosystem. because they have evolved here, they are adapted to those areas, so red squirrels are key to forest generation here. however, grey squirrels in the same habitats can stop forest regeneration through bark stripping, and this behaviour where they are trying to access the sap injuries as a sugary treat can actually stop forest regeneration. the sap in trees. so they might look similar, what is great, one is red, people are picking on their colour, but it is nothing to do with that, it is to do with where species have evolved, and mistakes we have made us humans, and how we can better correct them and preserve the biodiversity of our natural world as we should be. joshua, great to talk to, lead author on that study into squirrels and pine marten is, i think we have found out more about squirrels than we would on bbc news afternoon live, very good to talk to you and you get your expertise. thank you very much, lovely to talk to you. as we ve heard, the coronavirus has heightened concerns about the pressures on the health service. there s been a sharp rise in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours while a bed is found for them. there were nearly 200,000 in december and january, up more than a third on the same period the winter before. here s our health correspondent nick triggle. so where does it hurt? just the old age! ethel has come to hospital after a fall. i didn t think i d get to 102. with an ageing population, demands on hospitals are rising. many who come to a&e need to be admitted for further treatment. the bbc has been looking at the delays these frail and seriously ill patients face during december and january. nearly one in four patients had to wait over four hours for a bed. that amounted to 199,000 trolley waits in corridors and side rooms. that s more than double the numbers seen four winters ago. and a growing number of patients experienced delays before they were even seen. one in seven arriving by ambulance waited over 30 minutes before being handed over to hospital staff. similar pressures are being reported in other parts of the uk. 93 year old kate milson was taken to london s hillingdon hospital after a fall. she spent six hours on a trolley. i was in the corridor in pain, and you can t think of anything else, just wondering what s going to happen. and i thought, i have broken this hip before. oh, my god, what have i done this time? the hospital said: staff in colchester a&e admit it can be challenging coping with such demands. thejob is exhausting, but for me, it is the life i ve chosen. i wake up every day happy despite all the problems we face every day. some patients get angry because we can t see them as quick as they wanted to be seen. and it s not due to the fact that we don t want to, it s due to the fact that we physically can t. but that hospital has created new roles to keep patients safe. caroline looks after those who end up waiting in corridors. i am here to ensure patient safety from the time they arrive in hospital until the time they are seen by the doctor. i am able to observe these patients and prioritise them and make doctors aware that i think these patients should be seen quicker than what they would normally be if they were left out in the corridorfor any length of time. a royal college of nursing survey suggests these roles are commonly used now, with nine in ten emergency nurses in england reporting that it exists where they work. nhs england says it s investing extra money to help recruit staff and cut waits, but in the meantime, patients are likely to face continued delays. nick triggle, bbc news. dr rob harwood is chair of the consultants committee at the british medical association. we have been hearing a large number of people waiting on trolleys sometimes for up to 12 hours, pretty inexcusable, isn t it? that is not the service people have a right to expect, and we in the bma have been commenting critically, it has to be said, over a number of commenting critically, it has to be said, overa number of years. our figure is that we think the nhs needs an increase of 10,000 beds and about 3500 of those urgently to relieve the current crisis in getting people into hospitals. we know more money is coming into the health service, are you basically saying not enough? we concentrate on how much money we spend, but we ought to be looking at whether we spend enough money to deliver the health service that patients need in a modern economy, and the current thing is no, we don t. we have increased spending, we estimate, by about 3.1% year on year. the eye of his estimate is that we probably needed 4.1% in order to meet the requirements of the nhs. the ifs. last year, nhs estimated a backlog £6 billion, so there is an awful lot of spending to deliver what patients have a right to expect. nhs providers estimated. is what is being proposed, is it enough? will it make a real difference? it will make a difference, and it is welcome, but not enough to make the difference that will set right the figures that you were just quoting. they are worse than last year, and they were worse than a year before. it is not only in a&e figures, if you look at elective surgery, 62 day wait to start cancer treatments, they are all as bad as they have ever been, and that has got to tell you something about the system. it isn t that individual hospitals are failing, all of the hospitals across the piece are having the same problems, and that is telling us something about the system and the resources that we give the system in order to meet patient treatment. is it also telling us not being enough staff, the nhs needs another hundred thousand people? exactly that. if there was more resource to spend we could recruit and importantly in the short term retain staff. that the moment we don t put enough effort into holding on to the staff we have. we have talked extensively about the impact of pensions on doctorsjust extensively about the impact of pensions on doctors just recently. it has meant doctors have had to reduce the amount of work they could do for the nhs because if they didn t do that they would incur huge additional tax charges. all of those issues need to be resolved, and they are immediate things that could be resolved and sold by the government in this upcoming budget on march 11 50 so chose. good to talk to you. thank you for your time. our news correspondentjo black is at a gp surgery in peterborough. just tell us what s going on there that make a difference, make, jo? this is the official more medical ce ntre this is the official more medical centre slap bang in the centre of peterborough. for still more. there are places in the community that can help ease the pressure on hospitals. i am joined that can help ease the pressure on hospitals. lam joined by that can help ease the pressure on hospitals. i am joined by dr neil modo, a partner here. you through your doors open at 8:30am every morning and hundreds of patients piled in, to see your doctors, and they had no appointment. absolutely, yeah. we ve got some challenges here, we look after a very deprived population a lot of them don t speak english so navigating appointment systems is really difficult for them, so opening the doors, allowing them, so opening the doors, allowing them to come and be seen as the way we do it. also in peterborough there are not enough doctors so we have this big team of nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, all of whom are there to care for our patients. you obviously can as a person in a local community have a scheduled appointment but if there is a problem you have you can literally walk instead of going to a&e? absolutely, monday to friday, 8:30am to 10:30am, we open the doors, we try our best to care for them as we can. the people you have seen today, what sort of a and they had? people who probably would have walked into a&e? absolutely, especially for people who speak english, big shiny a&e building is the one they are attracted to often. by helping them with language, and they have their coughs, colds, back pains, we have been able to help them. we talk about winter pressures, i ve spoken to many staff on the nhs who say these pressures are all year round but if you look at winter pressures, you don t allow any of your staff to have any annual leave in january. how does that go down? me included, none of us take any leave in january unless there is some emergency situation because then we can deal with staff absences, sickness and things like that. i guess it isjust the culture of the organisation. we are therefore our patients and they need us most injanuary so that s when we try our best to be around. cani when we try our best to be around. can i touch on coronavirus, not at pandemic levels yet, there are growing fears about the spread of this, aren t there? absolutely. understandably people get worried about this when they hear things on the news and read the papers. so patients do contact us and we followed them up with the advice which is to ring 111 if they have been to the at risk countries and keep up to date with the department of health advice. if this gets worse, do you think medical centres like you can cope? i think we will have to change the way we were, at the moment medical centres are not testing routinely for this, so if our role changes will have to change the way we run our services but we will do what the nhs needs us to do and what our patients need us to do. thank you very much will stop just a quick read from nhs england, they say staff have pulled out all the stops to deliver high quality care to millions this winter and the government plans to increase of nurses and hospital beds are in place. thank you both very much indeed. now the latest weather with ben rich. we ve been talking about those people in ironbridge in shropshire being evacuated from their homes because of more flooding. a very serious situation, it has been a bit drier over the past couple of days. we have had some showers around. what we are seeing in the river seven, it is one that takes a while to respond to rainfall. most of it in the hills and mountains of wales. shrewsbury and ironbridge, those are the two severe warnings from the environment agency. we have seen the pictures, it almost doesn t need saying there is a danger to life with those conditions but that situation is ongoing. river levels starting to rise in places further down the river in places like bewdley and in worcester, some spots getting close to their record high levels in the river severn. that situation will go on, particularly when i show you what is to come. a number of weather warnings out at the moment. these are for tonight into tomorrow, not for rain, they are for snow. snow and ice across these parts of western scotland, northern ireland, down into north west england, north wales, snow showers here and it will turn icy during tonight. but this little warning here could spell some snow for places that haven t seen any yet this winter, parts of the south midlands, east anglia, a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. it could be a problem for some tomorrow morning for the rush hour. this is probably the more concerning warning to those hills and mountains of wales which feed into the river severn, a yellow warning for the met office for rain friday into saturday, could see another 60 millimetres or a bit more in places, given how wet everything is around there, any further rain will only make that weather worse. there has been some rough old weather in the last few weeks. relentless. we are nearly in march and things not showing too many signs of changing just yet. stays pretty unsettled through the next few days. i showed you those weather warnings, there is more rain in the forecast particularly at the end of the week and the chance of some snow for some of us as well. this is the view from space, you can see this fairly ominous looking area of cloud rolling its way in our direction. they will bring rain for some but potentially snow for others, as we go through what is left of the afternoon we was to see some of those wintry showers pushing in from the north west. the temperature in aberdeen 11, this evening and tonight, this is when things start tonight, this is when things start to get interesting. we start to bring the rain in the cross the south west of england, parts of dartmoor and exmoor, snow mixing and across the hills of wales certainly the potential for some snow and potentially some snow starting to get going in to the midlands as well. they will turn a bit milder towards the south, that is where it will be mostly rain falling here. further north, a chilly night, and potential for some further north, a chilly night, and potentialfor some icy further north, a chilly night, and potential for some icy stretches. tomorrow morning s rush hour likely to bring rain to the south of the m4 corridor. to the north of it, a messy mixture of rain, sleet and snow. most of the settling snow will be over higher ground, but the morgans, the cotswolds, the children s could get a coverage of snow. even to lower levels you might get a temporary slushy covering of snow. “ get a temporary slushy covering of snow. the chilterns. then it should clear away eastwards to leave brighter spells again. still some of those wintry showers to the north and west, another chilly day, highs of six and 9 degrees for most of us. this bump in the isobars, a ridge of high pressure will make it quieter, dry and cold but then more frontal systems arrive from the atlantic, and these will bring more rain during friday. the met office yellow warnings i was talking about starting to kick in at this stage, to kill any wet through the high grounds of wales, northern england, northern ireland too, some snow in the leading edge, into the pennines, southern scotland. chile are in the north, milder in the south for a time. as these frontal systems move through friday night into saturday, a soggy start for the weekend, low pressure still with us through the weekend, driving a brisk westerly wind and a cold wind as well. so it is going to feel rather chilly. after that wet start, cold and showery. they could be some more persistent rain at times as well. still a lot to watch out for on the flooding front. we will keep you up to date. this is bbc news our latest headlines. coronavirus continues to spread around europe italy records a twelfth death while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases here the government says it has a plan to deal with the outbreak. in tenerife, british holidaymakers are among a thousand people now confined to their hotel after four guests tested positive. we are clear now, we were tested yesterday, for goodness sake bring us home, we haven t got the virus. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. let s return to the news that the town of ironbridge in shropshire is being evacuated after its flood defences were breached by rising waters on the river severn. these are the latest pictures from that town where you can see floodwater behind the barriers. severe flood warnings, indicating a threat to life, remain in place in ironbridge as well as shrewsbury, as the severn continues to rise, with more rain forecast. chief superintendent tom harding from west mercia police is in ironbridge. we can speak to him now. thank you so much for being with us. what is the latest on that evacuation? the latest is we had a shift in the flood barriers both last night and then more severely this morning, at which point we triggered an evacuation of those people that had remained in their homes. most of those people have left and as you can see in the background, there is still a significant amount of water working its way through ironbridge. we are monitoring those barriers further. how many people would usa been evacuated? today we have evacuated approximately eight further people. most people have left. there are two properties where people are choosing to remain within their residences. and it was absolutely necessary to evacuate them, was it? talk to us about the danger of this water coming in and breaching some of the flood defences there. in essence the flood barriers are still intact but the water has breached underneath the barriers and is rising on what was the dry side. i can t predict what that will mean for the residences and what will happen to those flood barriers so we quite rightly were honest, open and transparent with the residents to say we can t guarantee the integrity of that barrier. therefore most people chose to live with us and we really appreciated their support and cooperation. and people were pretty calm about it, were they? they weren t resisting what you were advising them? no, indeed we had a phone call from one resident who heard barriers moving. that triggered us evacuating her, relatives and her dogs, and we continue to monitor the barriers and we will continue doing for a number of days with the weather getting a bit more severe potentially at the weekend we will have extra resources here in place well into next week now. what do you think the prognosis is for the next few days, what are your worries and concerns? we have a couple of days where we hope the river level start to fall, we have some more severe weather coming in on friday and saturday in the welsh hills and as you have explained that filters its way down here through shrewsbury, ironbridge and inter worcestershire, so we are anticipating sunday and monday we will see further flood waters come through, and very much depends upon the amount of rain that falls. so we have to predict and plan for increasing river levels once again. were people in ironbridge expecting the flood defences to hold? were they surprised when they were breached? i think anyone expects the flood defences to hold, they are still intact and still doing a job but we are coming up to two weeks with these levels of water and it is incredibly difficult to predict how the barriers will react over that time. i would say the public have been very supportive. very good to talk to us, chief superintendent tom harding, thank you for taking the time. thank you. that is the latest from ironbridge in shropshire. for the sport for you now with sarah. sport now on afternoon live with sarah mulkerrins. disappointing news for irish and italian rugby fans. ifar and wide on sport and now we ve had confirmation that all the ireland italy matches in the six nations next weekend have been postponed becuase of the coronavirus so that s the men s, women s and the u20s... that had been due to take place from the friday to the sunday. this comes after a meeting in dublin with all the various stakeholders... it followed the comments from simon harris the irish health minister who advised on tuesday evening that the men s game should not go ahead.. and so there was clearly concensus on that reccommedation today.. there s no news about when the games may go ahead the irfu which governs the game says they will be looking at how to deal with that over the coming days. the national public health emergency team has determined that the series of matches should not proceed, in the interest of public health. the ira rfu is perfectly happy to comply with this instruction. the rfu. we will look to reschedule those three matches and hope to have an impact update in the next few days. rugby calendar is so congested, and in terms of presidency go back to 2001 with the foot and mouth disease, when some six nations games we re disease, when some six nations games were postponed. going to be some scratching of heads around, in terms of how they fit it all in. there certainly is. tennis. a very big name announcing their retirement today. the news came probably in typical maria sharapova fashion in an article written for vogue and vanity fair released today the five time grand slam champion confirming her retirement at the age of 32. she famously won wimbledon in 2004 as a 17 year old, beating serena williams in the final. she s recently been plagued by injuries since coming back from a drugs ban. she said she was saying goodbye and that whatever came next in her life, she d apply the same work ethic and focus as she did her tennis. she is now 373 in the world rankings. did manage to play at the australian open but lost in the first round and was only able to play eight tournaments last year, and even though 32 does not sound particularly old, you have to remembershe particularly old, you have to remember she won wimbledon as a 17 year old so that s quite a long tennis career. she had too many operations to count almost on her shoulder which has held back in re ce nt shoulder which has held back in recent years, and i think that was a sign for her that her body was becoming a distraction and she wasn t able to compete at the highest level. england captain heather knight has called on her side to keep the momentum going after crushing thailand for their first win at the women s t20 world cup. knight hit her maiden t20 hundred as england posted 176 for 2 against the tournament debutants. thailand could only manage 78 for 7. anya shrubsole taking 3 for 21 but the player of the match was knight the first woman and first england player to hit centuries in all three international formats. that s all the sport for now. i ll have more for you in the next hour. the former chancellor of the exchequer, sajid javid, has warned the prime minister that planned changes to the treasury would not be in the national interest. he was speaking in the commons following his surprise resignation two weeks ago. the chancellor, like all cabinet ministers, has to be able to give candid advice to a prime minister so he is speaking truth to power. i believe that the arrangements proposed would significantly inhibit fat, and it would not have been in the national interest. our political correspondent, leila nathoo, is in westminster. it wasn t as explosive a resignation speech is some chancellors have given in the past, but still may be not exactly music to borisjohnson s neres? no, i think it not exactly music to borisjohnson s neres? no, ithink it was not exactly music to borisjohnson s neres? no, i think it was a very public critique of these new arrangements at the heart of government which is what propelled sajid javid to resign. remember, government which is what propelled sajidjavid to resign. remember, he was asked as a condition of keeping hisjob as was asked as a condition of keeping his job as chancellor to combine was asked as a condition of keeping hisjob as chancellor to combine his political team in the treasury with downing street. so essentially an extension of power really, an extension of power really, an extension of power really, an extension of reach from downing street into the treasury, and that really was his target in his speech today. there was an advisor, dominic cummings, the prime minister s most senior adviser, who didn t get much ofa senior adviser, who didn t get much of a mention, senior adviser, who didn t get much ofa mention, only senior adviser, who didn t get much of a mention, only a passing reference injest, of a mention, only a passing reference in jest, but of a mention, only a passing reference injest, but clearly of a mention, only a passing reference in jest, but clearly he was the target of sajid javid s speech as well. lots of sort of veiled references to his influence on the thinking that clearly sajid javid is very clear that this new arrangement he doesn t think will work because it will come in his view, limit the independence of the treasury. so a very strong defence he mounted of the treasury as an institution, as the institution that should be in his view driving forward the agenda of government. so i think lots of food for thought for borisjohnson, if not i think lots of food for thought for boris johnson, if not a very personal attack on him. just interestingly to point out that sajid javid did in the end of his speech talk about the fiscal rules a lot, and his approach as chancellor being a low tax conservative. remember, the conservatives have some fiscal rules they set out in their manifestojust some fiscal rules they set out in their manifesto just some some fiscal rules they set out in their manifestojust some months ago. sajid javid urging their manifestojust some months ago. sajidjavid urging his successor to resist the urge to deviate from the spending management framework is set out. it wasn t as pointed or very highly charged, but clearly a few very discreet points sajid javid the former chancellor wanted to make in public in the house of commons. there are sometimes fears i suppose for prime minister is that when a big beast like the chancellor of the exchequer resigns and goes to the backbenches they could be a bit of a troublemaker there. absolutely, and it isa troublemaker there. absolutely, and it is a bit ofa troublemaker there. absolutely, and it is a bit of a awkward statement, borisjohnson did it is a bit of a awkward statement, boris johnson did make it is a bit of a awkward statement, borisjohnson did make one himself when he resigned as foreign secretary over brexit, but it is a bit awkward. the cameras are on all over the commons, they are watching every reaction, boris johnson over the commons, they are watching every reaction, borisjohnson and rishi sunak sitting next to each other, listening. so it is a very public arena if you like but i don t think there was any suggestion that sajid javid is going to turn into an enemy of borisjohnson s on the backbenches, he was very gushing, saying he made a great start, had his full confidence and full support. but what is interesting as there is some criticism implicit perhaps in what sajid javid said. he was talking about how advisers need to advise, ministers need to decide on their advice. so perhaps the criticism implicit in borisjohnson, if sparrow being very critical of borisjohnson if sparrow being very critical of boris johnson plasma if sparrow being very critical of borisjohnson plasma key adviser does that extend the criticism to him by inference? boris johnson s key adviser. in a moment egon cossou is going to bring us the latest business news.first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. coronavirus continues to spread around europe italy records a twelfth death while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases. in tenerife, british holidaymakers are among a thousand people now confined to their hotel after four guests tested positive. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. here s your business headlines on afternoon live. hundreds ofjobs to go. banking giant lloyds announces 780 jobs will go this year while direct line reveals it s cutting 800 positions. it is blaming changing consumer behaviour. the drinks company diageo says its earnings are going to be lower, becauses of the spread of the coronavirus in china. the firm which makes drinks like guiness and johnny walker thinks profits could be down by as much as £200 million pounds as many bars and restaurants in china remain closed. virgin galactic says demand for its spaceflights is soaring. almost 8,000 people have registered an interest in becoming space tourists. so far, 600 tickets have been sold for the first flights which happen later this year. so many implications from the coronavirus outbreak for trade and economics and finance. heathrow airport we are hearing implications for them, stepping up their hygiene protocol now. that s right. what they are doing as they are stepping up they are doing as they are stepping up their deep cleaning operation, so they are focusing on things like handrails and other services that people commonly handle. it is also introducing more hand sanitiser is, both for staff and for people travelling through the airport. it says the virus hasn t affected visitor numbers so much so far, but it is really monitoring the situation. we ve been speaking about this to the boss of the company, john holland kaye. we have to be responsible with this whole coronavirus outbreak. we have to balance between keeping people safe and keeping the economy moving and keeping his free flowing but we will always start with taking the advice of public health england, we need to listen to the experts on this. so we have been implementing our plans according to the guidelines and that has worked very well so far. we have also gone beyond that just to make sure we make it as easy as possible for people to stay safe. we are deep cleaning the airport so that handrails and things people might touch will be as clean as possible and also making sure there is a provision of hand sanitiser, as well as the usual bathrooms and cleaning, to make sure that people can keep their hands clean, because that as we know is the biggest risk of infection. john holland kaye there, boss of heathrow. the country s network of free to use cash machines is reportedly under threat... that s right. we ve lost 9,500 free to atms in the last two years as more and more of us switch away from using cash. link that s the network that runs the country s biggest atm network says the whole system of free atms could collapse within two years without urgent government action. the backdrop of this is that more of us are actually moving away from cash. the consumer group which is also calling for urgent action. neena bhati, head of campaigns at which? shejoins us now. thank you she joins us now. thank you for joining us. what is it you are expecting the government to do? so we think the chancellor has a really good opportunity in his first budget to introduce legislation to protect cash. while people still need it. we know that nearly 2 million people still rely on cash every day for their transactions, as well as small businesses and communities across the country. we are seeing free to use cash machines being stripped away across the country and yet we have 3000 requests at which from constituencies across the uk, asking for cash machines to be put back in. we know also from that last year £100 million was spent by people to access their own cash at the pay to use machines. we don t think this is good enough, we enough, we think we are sleepwalking into a cashless society without making sure that we are ready and we think the chancellor now needs to take some urgent action and introduce legislation. just very briefly, isn t it the case though that some of the cash poorest parts of the country simply are not asking for these machines? we know that lots of people across the country from our tool people across the country from our tool, we have seen nearly every single parliamentary constituency has requested for an atm to go back in because they need cash. we also know there are communities that aren t connected to the internet, so cannot get online to pay and we also know that when our digital systems fail, cash is a vital back up and thatis fail, cash is a vital back up and that is why we think the chancellor needs to ensure that there is a clear strategy for going cashless, and in the meantime protect cash access in the meantime. thank you for joining access in the meantime. thank you forjoining us. that s it from me. lend us a fiver? i m cash free! i knew there would be an excuse. thank you very much indeed. prince harry has warned that the growth of tourism is threatening to destroy some of the world s most beautiful places. speaking in edinburgh at one of his last official engagements, he stressed that action was needed to stop communities being overwhelmed because of a surge in visitors. the duke of sussex asked to be introduced just as harry ahead of his speech. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon, some parts of the uk that haven t had snow yet this winter might get to see a little bit over the next 24 hours, because as we head through tonight, yes, we keep some wintry showers across northern areas but down towards the south, this lump of rain moving across the south of england, into wales, across the south coast, and on its northern flank it will run into some relatively cold air. ice could be a problem as well to start tomorrow morning but if you are travelling across parts of the midlands, wales, down to the south, a mix of rain, sleet and snow could cause problems. mainly rain to the south of the m4 corridor. to the north, a messy mix of rain, sleet and snow over the tops of the cotswolds and the chilterns, we could see a few centimetres. even at lower levels they could be a brief slushy covering before that area of wet and wintry weather goes eastwards. then it will be drier and another rather chilly feeling day with highs tween six and 9 degrees. hello, you re watching afternoon live, i m ben brown. today at four: coronavirus continues to spread around europe italy records a 12th death, while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases. here, the government says it has a plan to deal with the outbreak. in tenerife, british holiday makers are among a thousand people now confined to their hotel after four guests tested positive. we are clear now, we were tested yesterday. for goodness sake, bring us home we haven t got the virus. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. water has now penetrated the barrier, we have up to two metres on what was the dry side, so we have immediately authorised an evacuation of premises. we have spoken with residents, and those residents are coming out with us as we speak. new figures show a sharp rise in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours as they wait for a bed. coming up on afternoon live all the sport with sarah, and news about the six nations games in dublin. yeah, lots more on the news that the men s and women s six nations games between ireland and italy next weekend in dublin have now been postponed because of the coronavirus. are full update just after have passed. ben has the weather. did you know that they stay a year ago brought the highest february temperature on record, above 21 degrees? this year very different, severe flood warnings in force, more rain in the forecast, snow for some as well. also coming up. if we do not get ahead of this surge, we will see more of the world s most beautiful destinations closed or destroyed. in one of his last official engagements, prince harry warns that the growth of tourism is threatening to destroy some of the world s most beautiful places. hello and welcome to afternoon live. the coronavirus outbreak is spreading across europe, with a sharp increase in the number of cases in italy, and the first infections reported in austria, greece, croatia and switzerland. here, the government says it has a clear plan to respond to the outbreak. in tenerife, the authorities have announced 14 days of isolation for around a thousand holiday makers stuck at a hotel on the island, many of them british. four guests including an italian doctor and his wife tested positive for the virus at the costa adeje palace hotel. at least eight schools in england and three in northern ireland have sent home pupils and staff after they returned from half term trips to northern italy. earlier, the irish rugby union confirmed that ireland s six nations match against italy in ten days time has been postponed. we ll have the latest from our correspondents, but first this report from sophie hutchinson. police checks on the outskirts of a town in northern italy. it s one of 11 areas here in lockdown, designated a red zone because it s at the centre of europe s largest outbreak of the new coronavirus. more than 370 people have been infected and 12 have died. a big concern is how the virus is spreading across italy s borders. today, the health secretary here told the commons once again the government was doing everything it could to protect the public. our approach has at all times been guided by the chief medical officer working on the basis of the best possible scientific evidence. the public can be assured that we have a clear plan to contain, delay, research and mitigate, and that we are working methodologically through each step to keep the public safe. in tenerife, a thousand guests and staff remain in quarantine at this hotel after four people from northern italy tested positive. many say they are frustrated by a lack of information. we ve been in our room for about 24 hours now. you are allowed out now that they had tested our temperatures and given us a mask and you can wander about if you want, but you should really stay in your room. in the uk, at least 11 schools have been affected by classroom closures after skiing trips to northern italy. there s concern that government advice isn t being followed and some are too quick to close their doors. schools say they are putting the welfare of their pupils first. due to the risk that i perceived, i made the decision that it was in the best interests of our community, of our children, to close the school. it is an ever changing picture, and the information given today i m sure will be contradicted to what we were given yesterday. across the world, there are 81,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in 33 countries. injapan, where the outbreak has taken hold, there are mounting concerns about this summer s olympic games there. the prime minister has called for all sports and cultural events to be cancelled or limited to two weeks. a decision is yet to be taken in ireland. greece has now reported its first infection, and the world health organization says there are more new cases being reported each day in the rest of the world than in china, the heart of the epidemic. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. mandy and roger davis are staying at the that hotel in tenerife at the moment where almost a thousand speople staying and are unable to leave. they sent this video of their experience. we are on our balcony, not outside, like everybody else, and life goes on, but we have had no sanitary products, nothing brought to our room, no cleaning stuff, absolutely nothing. to be perfectly honest with you, everybody is down by the pool, walking along, food is brought to our room, and the truth of it is that nobody, not the hotel, not us, not anybody, not the foreign office, not the spanish people, nobody knows what the right thing to do is, because nobody has had this virus before. so please let s sort something out, come and rescue us, please, boris, and let s get the hell out of here, because i can assure you that we are cleaner than people sitting on buses and trains, because everything here has been sanitised over and over again wherever we are. the things we haven t had are tissues, cotton wool. toilet paper. things like that, and the food is not edible, it is not right, we need hot food once a day, and even though i like vegetables, potatoes, rice, vegetables, fish or meat. we are getting rolls. and a little dish of nothing. there is no cereal in the morning, there is rolls brought again, but not everyone likes rolls. no coffee, no drinks. we have to go downstairs for that. so one thing is defeating the other. mandy and roger davies staying at that hotel. earlier, victoria bacon from association of british travel agents explained what rights customers had to claim money back if they wanted to cancel their trip due to coronavirus fears. your rights in terms of claiming money back or getting cancellation cover trigger when there is a change in foreign office advice. there isn t a change in advice beyond a very specific area, mainland china, the 11 quarantined towns in italy, and parts of south korea. so it does mean you won t have those same rights to access cancellation compensation. so let s bring you more on the news that the irish rugby union has announced that ireland s six nation fixture against italy in dublin on the 7th of march will not go ahead. our sports editor, dan roan, had this update. so three fixtures have been cancelled, and they are now hoping to rearrange them, but as you heard, no confirmation as to whether that will be the case or when they matches may be played. indeed, the following weekend, italy host england, and given that this match has been cancelled, there must be huge doubt over whether that will be played, especially when you consider that top flight football matches will be played behind closed doors this weekend, inter milan s europa league match tomorrow evening as well. and so it really does throw the whole of the championship into a degree of chaos, reminiscent of what happened 19 years ago in 2001 when the outbreak of foot and mouth forced ireland to play their last three matches of the six nations championship months later than they should have done, in the autumn, and the result was effectively put on hold for that period of time. could we see something similar to this? they do have the option of playing behind closed doors, as we have seen in italy with football, but they have chosen instead to hope to rearrange it. i am sure there are big financial reasons for that, a huge amount at stake financially, and it is estimated that every six nations match that ireland hosts in dublin is worth up to 50 million euros in terms of tourism, ticket sales and the associated benefits that the influx of fans bring. and in course of the wider world of sport, coronaviruses already having a major impact. the chinese grand prix has been postponed, there are concerns over the cheltenham festival, england football team host italy at the end of next month at wembley, and then of course the biggest concern of all is the greatest sports event of all, the olympics and paralympic games, scheduled to take place in tokyo, of course, this summer, in august. yesterday a senior member of the ioc, dick pound, said a decision could be left as late as just two of months before the olympic games. at this stage, they are carrying on as normal, athletes are being told to keep training, but given how the condition is proud, there will be mounting concerns in light of this news in dublin. you re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. coronavirus continues to spread around europe italy records a 12th death while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases. in tenerife, british holidaymakers are among a thousand people now confined to their hotel after four guests tested positive. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. the town of ironbridge in shropshire is being evacuated after its flood defences were breached by rising waters on the river severn. these are the latest pictures from that town where you can see floodwater behind the barriers. severe flood warnings, indicating a threat to life, remain in place in ironbridge as well as shrewsbury, as the severn continues to rise, with more rain forecast. our correspondent phil mackie has spent the day further south down the river severn in bewdley in worcestershire, where residents where evacuated overnight. it s only from the air you get a real sense of the extent of this flood event. this is bewdley where the river severn is peaking right now. these homes don t usually flood any more, but the barriers overtopped in the middle of the night when they couldn t hold the water back any longer. this is the aftermath, nearly 20 properties flooded and debris everywhere. that is a fridge bobbing along in the polluted water, and there is a sofa. all morning we ve seen rescue teams coming along the front of the river severn in bewdley, they ve been bringing people out, people who hadn t expected those flood defences to overtop and haven t experienced anything like this before. justin and faye, plus their pets, were among those who had to be brought out by boat. flood defences were put up promptly, what else can they do? it s nature, it s something that happens. there s just got to be a big clean up operation for everybody involved and see what the damage is that has been done. they might have to look at higher flood barriers next time if we get any more storms. there s nothing you can do, really. the continued scale of the flooding is putting an enormous strain on staff, but there has been criticism that the government hasn t been giving them enough support. i m very proud of the response the government has made over the last few days, and we convened the national flood response centre on the 14th. since that flooding began, there has been a constant stream of ministerial activity. back in bewdley, the water is still coming over the top of the barriers and into people s houses. people have done everything they can to protect themselves, but it hasn t been enough. we ve got floodgates on all of the doors, multiple floodgates on some parts of the house. we put up sandbags as well to try and stop the water. we ve got multiple pumps, they are all in place and switched on. the house is full of water. the river peak is heading downstream towards worcester, where homes have already been flooded for ten days. phil mackie, bbc news, bewdley. chief superintendent tom harding from west mercia police is in ironbridge. he spoke to me a little earlier about how the flood barriers have failed. in essence the flood barriers are still intact but the water has breached underneath the barriers and is rising on what was the dry side. i can t predict what that will mean for the residences and what will happen to those flood barriers so we quite rightly were honest, open and transparent with the residents to say we can t guarantee the integrity of that barrier. therefore most people chose to live with us and we really appreciated their support and cooperation. and people were pretty calm about it, were they? they weren t resisting what you were advising them? no, indeed we had a phone call from one resident who heard barriers moving. that triggered us evacuating her, relatives and her dogs, and we continue to monitor the barriers and we will continue doing so for a number of days with the weather getting a bit more severe potentially at the weekend, we will have extra resources here in place well into next week now. what do you think the prognosis is for the next few days, what are your worries and concerns? we have a couple of days where we hope the river level start to fall, we have some more severe weather coming in on friday and saturday in the welsh hills and as you have explained that filters its way down here through shrewsbury, ironbridge and into worcestershire, so we are anticipating sunday and monday we will see further flood waters come through, and very much depends upon the amount of rain that falls. so we have to predict and plan for increasing river levels once again. with me now is our reporter nick southall. what is the latest on the evacuation and the failure of those defences? yes, here in ironbridge, it is still a major incident, as you have been hearing. around mid morning, we heard what people described as a thunder crack, and it was actually pa rt thunder crack, and it was actually part of the blue barrier that had been shifted by the sheer volume of the water that has been coming down the water that has been coming down the river severn, so much so that it posted six feet back towards the properties on the wharf here, and at the moment the water has been finding its way underneath those barriers, and it has caused a bit of a buckle in one corner. what they are concerned is how that corner of the barrier will last, because if the barrier will last, because if the force of the water continues to make that week, what it could do was make that week, what it could do was make the other parts of the barrier ineffective, and that would allow more water to come in. i think the worst case scenario that they are working to is that the water will actually be the same height both from the river and on what should be the dry part of the wharfage within the dry part of the wharfage within the next few hours. that is what they are looking at as the worst case scenario. if that was to happen, it would be around 1.8 metres, and almost certainly that will enter properties. and they do not know what will happen to the barrier itself, will it stay, will it get washed away, will it get washed towards the properties? so they are facing a very big incident here, but they are unsure what could happen. just to let you know about the pumps as well, because as we heard from phil mackie, in bewdley, they had pumps working, we are told that about four of them are now no longer working because of the work that they have been put through. here, they have fuel which has been put into those pumps, but at some stage that fuel will run out, and i have got to decide now, is it safe enough to get into that flooded part behind the barriers to refuel the pubs? if it isn t, then they are facing a severe situation here and likely real damage to properties. so these will be ongoing for many hours, well into the early morning, a real sense of anxiety for those evacuated earlier, and we are keeping ourfingers evacuated earlier, and we are keeping our fingers crossed that everything will be ok. a sense of anxiety, and is there a sense of anger that may be more could and should be done to protect their town from the water? well, these barriers are designed to cope with this volume of water. i think because we we re volume of water. i think because we were here last week that there has been no letup in the river level, and so this is an event that we haven t seen in these parts since the year 2000. we are not far away from that record level as the environment agency have said, so these are unprecedented times in ironbridge, a community on the river itself, they are used to floods, but they are now realising that may be temporary barriers is not the way to 90, temporary barriers is not the way to go, there are calls from the local council authority for permanent flood barriers to ensure that we do not have a repeat of what we are seeing here. nick, thank you very much. as we ve heard, the coronavirus has heightened concerns about the pressures on the health service. there s been a sharp rise in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours while a bed is found for them. there were nearly 200,000 in december and january, up more than a third on the same period the winter before. here s our health correspondent nick triggle. so where does it hurt? just the old age! ethel has come to hospital after a fall. i didn t think i d get to 102. with an ageing population, demands on hospitals are rising. many who come to a&e need to be admitted for further treatment. the bbc has been looking at the delays these frail and seriously ill patients face during december and january. nearly one in four patients had to wait over four hours for a bed. that amounted to 199,000 trolley waits in corridors and side rooms. that s more than double the numbers seen four winters ago. and a growing number of patients experienced delays before they were even seen. one in seven arriving by ambulance waited over 30 minutes before being handed over to hospital staff. similar pressures are being reported in other parts of the uk. 93 year old kate milson was taken to london s hillingdon hospital after a fall. she spent six hours on a trolley. i was in the corridor in pain, and you can t think of anything else, just wondering what s going to happen. and i thought, i have broken this hip before. oh, my god, what have i done this time? the hospital said. staff in colchester a&e admit it can be challenging coping with such demands. thejob is exhausting, but for me, it is the life i ve chosen. i wake up every day happy despite all the problems we face every day. some patients get angry because we can t see them as quick as they wanted to be seen. and it s not due to the fact that we don t want to, it s due to the fact that we physically can t. but that hospital has created new roles to keep patients safe. caroline looks after those who end up waiting in corridors. i am here to ensure patient safety from the time they arrive in hospital until the time they are seen by the doctor. i am able to observe these patients and prioritise them and make doctors aware that i think these patients should be seen quicker than what they would normally be if they were left out in the corridor for any length of time. a royal college of nursing survey suggests these roles are commonly used now, with nine in ten emergency nurses in england reporting that it exists where they work. nhs england says it s investing extra money to help recruit staff and cut waits, but in the meantime, patients are likely to face continued delays. nick triggle, bbc news. we can now speak to claudia martinez, health policy lead at the centre right think tank reform. thanks very much for being with us, we know more money is going into the health service, so why are we still seeing people on trolleys for four hours, we have heard up to 12 waiting for a bed? indeed, the nhs is getting extra investment, which is getting extra investment, which is always good news, but the problems we are facing with long hospital weights and a&e weights are much more fundamental, so in order to solve these problems, we have identified three key things the government should be thinking about. the first is wholescale reform of the system in the way of long term funding solutions for social care. this will go a long way in solving what people tend to call the bed blocking problem in hospitals, which is the case where you might have someone who is perfectly fit to be discharged from hospital but they cannot be discharged because they are either waiting for a care assessment may be fork out to be arranged in the community, so unless we have a social care system that is actually supportive, we are not going to see any transformation to the nhs. the other very important thing is that we need a primary care system that keeps people out of a&e. we know that one in three people could actually be treated in the community, either by their local gp all through their pharmacy, but many people struggle to get a gp appointment. it might even take three weeks to get an appointment, so we do need investment, we need to prioritise these services. and finally we need to recognise that the nhs is facing a deep recruitment and retention crisis, so we have over 90,000 vacancies across the nhs, so unless we bring forward these fundamental reforms in the way of social care funding, a primary ca re system of social care funding, a primary care system that is actually responsive and preventative, and the right people with the right skills, we are not going to see any improvement despite the money coming into the system. because at the moment things seem to be getting worse rather than better, if you look at the statistics, they are just appalling, and it doesn t seem to be any sign of improvement. there area to be any sign of improvement. there are a couple of things that have contributed to the poor statistics, increased demand, people living longer, the fact that people are getting to old age, i guess, with long term conditions, and it is putting increased pressure on the system, but the very fundamental point here is that unless the government commits to these radical to social care, community care and acquiring the right staff and skills, we are not going to see any change. 0k, claudia martin has come a very good to talk to you. claudia martinez. a cyclist accused of killing a pedestrian after he crashed into her on a motorised mountain bike has appeared in court. thomas hanlon, who s 32, denies causing death by careless driving after he collided with 56 year old sakine cihan in dalston in east london in august 2018. jon donnison is at the old bailey. jon, tell us what has been said in court so far. this is thought to be one of the first case is exploring the laws around electric motorised bikes. the court heard today that thomas hanlon was travelling along a road in dalston at around 30 mph in a20 road in dalston at around 30 mph in a 20 zone when he collided with sakine chihan. now, she sustained a serious head injury and died in hospital the following day. now, thomas hanlon is accused of causing death by careless driving. he was writing a regular mountain bike that he had bought second hand, that had been modified with an electric motor. now, he is also charged with driving without insurance and also without having a licence. under the law, if you have an electric bike, an e bike, which have become very popular in recent years, you don t have to have insurance or a licence if the power is limited up to 250 watts , if the power is limited up to 250 watts, and if the motor automatically switches off at 15.5 mph. the court heard today that his bike was capable of doing double that speed. thomas hanlon denies all the charges against him, the case is expected to last for four to five days. jon, thank you. let s get an update on the weather, more rain on the way, ben rich has the forecast. some parts of the uk that have not had snow might see some tonight, down towards the south this lump of rain moving across the south west of england into wales, across the south coast, and on the northern flank running into relatively cold air, ice could be a problem to start tomorrow morning, and if you are travelling across the midlands, wales, down towards the south, they could be one or two problems. mainly rain to the south of the m4 corridor, to the north of that a messy mixture of rain, sleet and snow. a few centimetres in some areas, at lower levels a more slushy covering before that slides eastwards. then sky is brighton, spells of sunshine, wintry showers pushing into northern and western areas, a chilly feeling days with highs between six and 9 degrees. this is bbc news our latest headlines. coronavirus continues to spread around europe italy records a twelfth death while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases here the government says it has a plan to deal with the outbreak. in tenerife, british holidaymakers are among a thousand people now confined to their hotel after four guests tested positive. we are clear now, we were tested yesterday. for goodness sake bring us home. we haven t got the virus. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. water has now penetrated the barrier and we ve got up to two metres of water on what was the dry side, so we ve immediately authorised an evacuation of the premises. we ve been out and spoken with residents and those residents are coming out with us as we speak. new figures show a sharp rise in the number of a&e patients in england stuck on a trolley for more than four hours as they wait for a bed. sarah has the sport for us. more on the coronavirus outbreak and what the coronavirus outbreak and what the impact is. rugby has been postponed. we were expecting. following the comments yesterday evening from the irish health minister simon harris who recommeneded that the ireland italy match in the six nations next weekend should not go ahead. it has been confirmed this afternoon that that will indeed happen.. so let s bring in the bbc‘s rugby union correspondent chrisjones. chris, it is notjust the men s game but the whole weekend fixtures really with the women s end under 20s also postponed. really with the women s end under 205 also postponed. that s right, sarah, friday night the under 20s, saturday the men s game on sunday the women s game, they have all been called off. you are completely right. as soon as the health minister came out last night and really escalated the situation with his statement i think it was inevitable the irish rugby authorities were going to agree with that. this massive crowd coming in from an infected area, clearly something the health minister and something the health minister and something his department had looked closely at, leaving the rugby union with no choice. where it leaves the six nations, and the rearranged fixtures at the moment very much up in the airand fixtures at the moment very much up in the air and the tournament in the state of limbo, even though health and safety has been put as a priority. when we talk about rugby, we talk about a congested fixture list. how difficult will it be to fit them in? it will not be easy. not perhapsjust fit them in? it will not be easy. not perhaps just looking at the island against italy matches but the italy against england games potentially, scheduled for the final weekend in mid march. then you have so many issues over the calendar as you say, about player release. for the irish rugby union it might be easier because they do have central control of their players but if england were to have to rearrange fixtures, that could be a lot more ofan fixtures, that could be a lot more of an effort, given they would have to liaise with the employers at the club. so there is a lot ap of the year at the moment, club. so there is a lot ap of the yearat the moment, reminiscent club. so there is a lot ap of the year at the moment, reminiscent of the foot and mouth crisis back in 2001 when three island games were rearranged for the autumn. but certainly the six nations in something of a chaotic state at the moment but clearly these decisions are all being taken with public health and safety in mind. absolutely, thank you very much. the five time grand slam champion maria sharapova has confirmed her retirement from tennis at the age of 32. it came in an article written for vogue and vanity fair, where she said her body had become a distraction after a struggle with shoulder injuries. she said that whatever came next in her life, she d apply the same work ethic and focus as she did her tennis. she famously won wimbledon in 2004 as a 17 year old, beating serena williams in the final. following the injuries and her return from a drugs ban, she has slipped right down the rankings. england captain heather knight has called on her side to keep the momentum going after crushing thailand for their first win at the women s t20 world cup. knight hit her maiden t20 hundred as england posted 176 for 2 against the tournament debutants. thailand could only manage 78 for 7. anya shrubsole taking 3 for 21 but the player of the match was knight the first woman and first england player to hit centuries in all three international formats. england s women have suffered a setback ahead of their defence of the shebelieves cup. that s in the football. defender lucy bronze will miss the tournament after picking up a calf injury. alessia russo has been called up for the first time to replace her. england s first match is against the usa on friday 6th march, kicking off at midnight in the uk. that s all the sport for now. now on afternoon live let s go nationwide and see what s happening around the country in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. let s go to laura miller in glasgow where a summit is being held to tackle the rise in drug related deaths in scotland. and peter levy is in hull with the latest on the school closures in lincolnshire due to coronavirus fears. first to laura in glasgow. laura, tell us a bit more about what is happening there today. ye5, around 350 delegates are meeting here in glasgow to debate, discuss and try to come up with a plan to tackle what has been called a public health emergency. those drug deaths in scotland. let me just remind you of some of the figures. in 2018 there we re some of the figures. in 2018 there were 1000, 187 drugs related deaths recorded in scotland. that is a 27% rise on the previous year and an increase of about 50% on a decade ago. that puts the drug deaths rate in scotland at the highest in the uk, the highest in any european country, and the highest, even higher than in the united states of america. so there is lots to talk about today, there are policymakers there, people who have experienced drug use and people who work on the front line. the campaign is we spoke to outside today wants it to be more than just to outside today wants it to be more thanjust a to outside today wants it to be more than just a talking shop. they want action. le55 talk and more action, they can talk all day i want to see what it spoke about today and maybe a couple of months down the road see if any action has been put in but i m not going to be holding my breath because the experience so far, very little if anything happened so far. and a separate drugs conference being held there tomorrow. there seems to be a wee bit of politics at play. the scottish government organised this one today, tomorrow there is another summit which has been organised by the uk government. both westminster and holyrood agree this is a priority that needs to be tackled but the ways in which to do that, they diverged slightly on that. the scottish government thinks it should be more of a public health approach so they are looking at things like potentially decriminalising the possession of small amounts of drugs, also looking at things like fixed rooms, where drug users can inject under supervision. uk government take a slightly approach, they want more enforcements of drugs laws i suppose and more of a crime crackdown. so i guess what campaigners are hoping, what people who work in the front line are hoping, that this isn t going to turn into some sort of political point scoring, because it is a public health emergency and some firm action comes out of this. we will keep across this over the next few days so we shall see about that. many thanks indeed, laura miller. peter leavy in hull. we have been talking about coronavirus and its impact all day here on bbc news. what is the impact on schools in lincolnshire? four primary schools in lincolnshire are closed today to protect pupils from possibly getting the coronavirus. get in a church end and saint nicholas in sporting have both closed, they say a precautionary measure. one person has been isolated and is being tested for the virus and the schools are being deep cleaned. the other two, shipping snow and get on church of england school, also nearby spalding, they are closed as well. but they haven t given a reason. the department of health have said today they have not instructed these schools to close, they have taken it upon them so. it is a great schools as you have been reporting, ben, through the day that are closing across the uk, even though the government advice is to keep them open. and also just to say that tests for the coronavirus in gp surgeries and some hospitals is being increased at the moment. surgeries and some hospitals is being increased at the momentm surgeries and some hospitals is being increased at the moment. it is interesting, as you said, what the government advice is but some schools just deciding, i suppose, you know, safety first? they are doing it off their own back, safety first as you say this week was the first as you say this week was the first week back at school after many trips and holidays abroad half term, for the lucky ones anyway. the earlier today the government gave advice for those who have travelled during the half term for a list of places, including, and i willjust give you these, specific areas of northern italy, some parts of korea, cambodia and vietnam, if they come back and they have symptoms of coughing, fever, shortness of breath, to contact nhs111 and they will decide if you need to be further assessed. it is a very popular time of the year for skiing trips to northern italy. in recent days it has become europe s worst affected country with more than 300 cases. we just stress again the it is not necessary for schools to close. some facts for you, 81,000 cases so far worldwide of coronavirus, 2770 deaths. i would just say in the last few minutes i have interviewed dr ali khan, a leading gp from leads, and he thinks what is an epidemic at the moment will end what is an epidemic at the moment willend up being what is an epidemic at the moment will end up being a pandemic. that is the latest. thank you very much. to you both. more than 28,000 people were recorded sleeping rough across the uk at some point last year, according to research carried out by bbc news. the figure is significantly higher than the official snapshot, which counts the number of people on the streets on a single night. the government says it s spending record amounts on the issue of homelessness. jeremy ball, reports. i m just going to move your blanket slightly to check you re all right, ok? nottingham s street outreach team s a lifeline for people who are desperate. they are here every night, rain or shine, offering support. last year they helped several hundred homeless people off the streets, but the more they look for people sleeping rough, the more they find. quite scary. i thought i was going to die, because it was cold. nowhere to go. it s notjust the cold weather you ve got to worry about. it s the addicts in town that you ve got to worry about as well, you know what i mean, giving you a kicking while you are asleep. rough sleeping is difficult to measure, because so many people bed down out of sight, so councils across england compare the trends by counting or estimating numbers on one night each year. but leading homelessness charities say that annual snapshot doesn t reflect the scale of the problem, so now many councils record everyone found on the streets throughout the year. figures released to the bbc show they identified over 28,000 rough sleepers across the uk over 12 months. the true figure is likely to be higher, because a quarter of councils didn t respond. some people may have been counted twice after moving to different areas, but other rough sleepers won t have been found. and this year, the government s spending more than £100 million to take people off the streets. it s called the rough sleeping initiative. it ll fund up to 6,000 bed spaces, and 2,500 support staff. and the government says it s committed to ending rough sleeping by the end of this parliament. we re just checking you re all right. but for the most entrenched rough sleepers, that s easier said than done. this man walked out of drug treatment. they think he s seriously ill. and the outreach team has a nurse to stop people dying on nottingham s streets. it s both a health and a housing problem, but we don t see many people sleeping rough now who don t have some kind of physical or mental health need, and a way to solve it is to recognise that people have a range of needs. it s notjust a matter of putting a roof over their head. hello? but the government says its strategy‘s already working. the last annual snapshot showed the first fall in rough sleeping for a decade. and tomorrow, the latest official figures will show whether that trend s continuing. jeremy ball, bbc news, nottingham. in a moment egon cossou is going to bring us the latest business news.first a look at the headlines on afternoon live coronavirus continues to spread around europe italy records a twelfth death while greece and austria are among countries reporting their first cases. in tenerife, british holidaymakers are among a thousand people now confined to their hotel after four guests tested positive. residents are evacuated from ironbridge as flood barriers are overwhelmed. here s your business headlines on afternoon live. one of the so called challenger banks is facing challenging times. metro bank made a loss of almost £131 million last year, after an accounting scandal. it made a profit of £40 million in 2018. it plans to slash costs and cut the number of branches it opens. security group g4s has sold a majority of its cash handling business in a £727m deal. the takeover will move 25,000 employees around the world to the brink company, g4s said. in august, g4s announced it would demerge the cash machine and armoured vans business after an internal review. however, the board later decided the sale to brink was a superior alternative. lloyds bank and direct line are both cutting hundreds of jobs. lloyds is slashing 780 positions including customer advisers and managers. direct line is to cut 800 jobs it s blaming changing consumer behaviour. we have been talking about coronavirus all day today and increasingly we are talking about the economic and financial impact of this coronavirus outbreak. that s right. it is really having an impact on the markets. as you can see, a really mixed day. some of the indices have recovered at the end, but most of the day they were nursing losses because they are really worried about the impact of the spread of coronavirus on companies. china of course the epicentre of this. it is such a huge pa rt epicentre of this. it is such a huge part of the global economy, that s why those markets, although slightly up why those markets, although slightly up in some of those cases, still very jittery up in some of those cases, still veryjittery on up in some of those cases, still very jittery on the up in some of those cases, still veryjittery on the markets because of coronavirus. let s go to the london stock exchange now. richard hunter is the head of market at interactive investor. the story keeps running, markets will inevitably impact of coronavirus. yes, that s right, because quite apart from the fact that it may have been contained in areas, we are still up to the situation where we have not found a vaccine yet, and as time goes on it increasingly looks as though the first quarter in china, the second largest economy in the world, could be something of a writer. in terms of global markets of course, the ftse100 in writer. in terms of global markets of course, the ftse 100 in the uk has been hit particularly hard and one of the reasons for that is because of the way it is made up. there is obviously a couple of big oil stocks within the ftse100, the likes of bp and shell, there are any numberof mining likes of bp and shell, there are any number of mining stocks as well, and honestly we are expecting to see a slowdown in demand from china, and that s quite apart from tourism stocks. you have the likes of easyjet taking a hit over the last few days, british airways s owner international consolidated airlines, tourism companies such as cheering i tourism companies such as cheering ,and tourism companies such as cheering , and the international hotels dotted around the globe. such as tumi. it has taken a particular hit over the last few days. what needs to happen to calm those jitters? the first thing that needs to happen of course is the ultimate containment of the coronavirus, plus a vaccine coming through. what is then likely to happen is in the most badly hit economy, which of course is china, we can fully expect to see a lot of stimulus coming through from the chinese authorities in an effort to kick start chinese authorities in an effort to kick sta rt an chinese authorities in an effort to kick start an economy which basically has ground to a halt. we have just been past the lunar new yearin have just been past the lunar new year in china for example. there has been very little travel. obviously people have been quarantined. things just aren t happening on the manufacturing front either. we ve had profit warnings from companies who do a lot of business in china, the likes of apple, qantas the australian airline, adidas, the german shoe retailer and even burberry in the uk, the higher end retailer. so its tentacles are continuing to spread, but until such time as the virus is actually contained and then a vaccine comes through, unfortunately we can expect more volatility. and speaking of work on vaccines, some of the pharmaceutical companies actually doing rather well. that s right, in terms of the ftse100, the doing rather well. that s right, in terms of the ftse 100, the two main proponents are glaxosmithkline and astrazeneca. glaxo have announced they are in a vaccine partnership with a chinese biopharmaceutical company called with a chinese biopharmaceutical com pa ny called clove r, with a chinese biopharmaceutical company called clover, and that is aimed at course of pretty much putting into the top of the pile. even further down the list in the uk, there is a company called nova site, which has had an extraordinary run because it seems to be at the leading edge of a potential vaccine for the coronavirus. shares were trundling around at about 6p for most of last year, they have seen their share price go up to anything nearer £2 20 as a direct result of them being a front runner. so they have been some positive stories coming out of the quest to contain the virus. i m sure we will talk about this again, richard, thanks for joining about this again, richard, thanks forjoining us. that s it from me. good to see you, egon. the indian prime minister, narendra modi, has appealed for calm after the third night of sectarian violence in the capital, delhi. at least twenty three people have been killed in the clashes, which began on sunday over a new citizenship law which critics say is anti muslim. it s resulted in the worst violence delhi has seen in decades. this report from rajini vaidyanathan contains some graphic images. fear. ..as tensions remain high in delhi. the national capital, a battleground. violent clashes between hindus and muslims have rocked the city for days, entire neighbourhoods ripped apart as mobs roam the streets. the riots have been centred in the north east of the city, in largely muslim neighbourhoods. this mosque was set alight. the charred remains lay scattered. translation: the riots that are happening here are not making me feel good. brothers and sisters of my community who see this will be disturbed. there will be a fire in their heart that will burn themselves. translation: the slab of this mosque has fallen and a second slab is also broken. they were burning the mosque and the petrol pump and the islamic shrine too, but i don t know what they want to gain from this. the death toll‘s rising, both muslims and hindus casualties of these clashes. the riots were sparked by protests over the government s controversial citizenship law, which critics say discriminates against muslims. earlier this week, as he hosted the us president donald trump, india s hindu nationalist prime minister narendra modi remained silent on the issue. but today, he called for calm and a return to normality. the prime minister said police were working on the ground to ensure peace. many accuse the authorities of not doing enough to keep people safe. for now, delhi remains on the edge. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, delhi. the former chancellor of the exchequer, sajid javid, has warned the prime minister that planned changes to the treasury would not be in the national interest. he was speaking in the commons following his surprise resignation two weeks ago. (tx) a chancellor, like all cabinet ministers, has to be able to give candid advice to a prime minister so he is speaking truth to power. i believe that the arrangement proposed would significantly inhibit fat, and it would not have been in the national interest. sajid javid, the former chancellor. prince harry has warned the growth of tourism is threatening to destroy some of the world s most beautiful places. speaking in edinburgh, he called for action to prevent popular destinations being overwhelmed by visitors. the event was one of harry s last official engagements before he steps down as a senior member of the royal family, as daniela relph reports. back in the public eye, at least for now. and as he was introduced at the event in edinburgh on sustainable tourism, there was just a nod to the nonroyal life that lies ahead for the duke of sussex. he has made it clear that we are all just to call him harry, so ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, warm scottish welcome to harry! applause. and with global travel predicted to soar, there was also a warning from harry. if we do not act and in large part get ahead of this inevitable surge, this massive increase will mean we see more of the world s most beautiful destinations closed or destroyed. the duchess of sussex joins her husband back in the uk next week. as last year, we ll see meghan at an event to mark international women s day. with harry, she will be at the endeavour awards, recognising the achievements of wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans. and finally, on 9th of march, alongside the rest of the royal family, they return to westminster abbey for their final public appearance as senior working royals at a service to mark commonwealth day. this hasn t been an easy separation. rumours remain of tensions between william and harry. the sussexes have also been accused of petulance in some of their public statements on decisions reached. but this is now the beginning of the end. for this prince, born royal, the son of a future king, the public scrutiny of his wife and son was too much. they want something different, and that new, more private life away from the uk starts in april. daniela relph, bbc news. meanwhile, the duchess of cambridge has been put through her paces at the london stadium. she took to the track to show off her sporting prowess at an event for the charity sportaid, alongside jessica ennis hill. the event celebrated the role parents and guardians play in their child s sporting success. kate also had a go at taekwando. scientists have found a new way to potentially save the endangered red squirrel, through the help of one of their natural predators. the team from queen s university belfast discovered that, while the pine marten preys on both species, grey squirrels are much more vulnerable to attack. the key seems to be in the reds innate ability to sniff out the danger posed by the pine marten, whereas grey squirrels marten, whereas grey squirrels ignored the predator s scent. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. some parts of the uk that haven t had snow yet this winter could get to see a little bit over the next 24 hours. not only that, through the rest of this week there is more rain in the forecast, not good news for those areas still suffering with significant flooding problems. on the satellite picture, you can see this lump of cloud, it will bring some rain across southern parts of the uk but also on its northern flank the potential for some snow and even before that it arrives, some wintry showers through this afternoon, through northern ireland, getting down into northern england, slow over low ground, and these wintry showers will continue through the night, quite icy across the northern half of the uk. further south, that area of cloud will be mostly coming in, because the air here will be turning a bit milder. the further north you are, it is a cold night, there could be some icy stretches around. there is the potential for some disruptive weather. rain mostly to the south of the m4 corridor. to the north of it, a messy mix of rain, sleet and snow a messy mix of rain, sleet and snow a lot of the snow will be found over high ground and even to lower levels you could get a slushy covering, maybe a few centimetres over the likes of the cotswolds and the chilterns. that area of wet and wintry weather will roll away eastwards to leave brighter skies and sunshine is, still one or two showers pushing on towards the north west and some will continue to be wintry with temperatures ranging from six to 9 degrees in most places. thursday night, it will get cold, a little ridge of high pressure calming things down allowing a faster form but it doesn t last long. friday, more frontal systems approaching from the west, more outbreaks of rain, quite heavy and persistent across parts of the south west of england and wales, moving up into northern england as well, the rain getting into northern ireland. the head of it, a spell of snow into the pennines and parts of southern scotland, temperatures through friday afternoon between five and 10 degrees. the weekend sta rts five and 10 degrees. the weekend starts with some very wet weather indeed, these frontal systems moving through. it should clear saturday, but low pressure still very much in charge, brisk winds on the south of that low. gales and places and cold air returning across the uk. the weekend forecast starts off wet, then turns cold and showery, still then turns cold and showery, still the potential for some snow. today at 5. for the first time, more new cases of coronavirus are recorded outside china than within. as the virus spreads across europe, with new cases in italy, greece and elsewhere, the government here says it does have a plan to deal with the outbreak. we have a clear, 4 part plan to respond to the outbreak of this disease. contain, delay, research and mitigate. we are taking all necessary measures to minimise the risks to the public. in tenerife, 160 british holiday makers are among 1000 people now confined to their hotel, after four guests tested positive. we are clear now. we were tested yesterday. for goodness sake, bring us home! we ll have the latest from the european centre
nowhere in the world is there anything half so wonderful. the school children will learn about it. immediately before the coronation, it must be momentous for george. this was a huge ceremony that had been prepared for his elder brother. but it was he who is taking it all on. george s coronation occurred on the same day that it would have occurred for his brother edward. nothing was changed except the person doing it. here s someone with a complete sense of he s always been the moon to his brother s son. before he was king, george was living a relatively normal free under the radar life. happily married and as a younger member of the royal family he does a few public duties and is contented with that life. his name was bertie in the family. when he becomes king, his whole life is completely changed. he is intensely aware that he has been tasked with this incredibly difficult job. one of the first things he does is change his name to george. stressing the continuity between his reign and that of his father, george v. king george vi is extremely worried about taking over the throne. the abdication looms large. his brother edward was the most popular man in the english speaking world. and now george has got to stand up. george is a believer in the principle of monarchy. he feels british monarchy is really important to britain s national identity and it holds the nation together. ward suggests that kingship isn t quite as stable as it has always appeared. it can be given up easily. so george s challenge is to restore the monarchy to something like the stability that hit before his brother sat on the throne. so it is crucial that it is a success and he is launched successfully as monarch. but insecurities plagued the new king. one of george s biggest worries is he suffers from a stutter. for him, talking in public is torture. in the modern news reel age, the british public expects both to see and hear their monarch. now the british monarchy is under a lot of scrutiny. the monarch has to be comfortable in the role of communicator. i think he felt the pressure of what was expected of him of his brother was fluent at making speeches which made him feel inadequate. ladies and gentlemen, i am sure that we are all happy to feel the stutter sometimes prevents him from talking at all. that the generosity of his majesty has set an example to all. a decade earlier in 1925, george s wife elizabeth had sought the help of various specialists to try to cure his stutter. they tried all sorts of methods but none worked. essentially he was told he had a mental defect. elizabeth is his greatest supporter and champion and she seeks out help and identifies lionel as a therapist who can help him overxom difficult stammer. my grandfather realizes that confidence is key. they went through speeches together, replacing certain words until he felt confident. in the run up to the coronation, my grandfather makes frequents trims to buckingham palace to prepare him for reciting the oath. this is the most stressful terrifying event of his life. there is no going back. and his historic ceremony has begun. including his two daughters, princess elizabeth who is 11, and princess margaret, who is 6 george and his family were very close. it was one of the great assets that george had that edward did not have. the former king, george s brother edward, is in exile in france. listening to the ceremony over the radio. edward, who is now called the duke of windsor is sitting with wallace, and he is knitting her a sweater. edward absolutely hates pomp and pageantry. if edward had gone through that same ceremony, in his head he would have been thinking this is a bunch of balls. in comparison, george realized the significance of the coronation. the coronation ceremony is a ritual handed down the ages. for george, the coronation is a massive issue. he wasn t an actual performer unlike his brother and the prospect of the whole world listening to his words, he is really anxious that he will stammer over the oath and this will make the monarchy look ridiculous. the coronation oath. i, george vi, do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of god declare that i will uphold and maintain the said powers according to law. in practice, the king manages the coronation, the oath and all the ceremonial perfectly well. he did in fact rise to the occasion. the coronation is a public triumph. but george has got big fights ahead. and that is to show the world he is the rightful king. not his brother. 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edward never realized just what a distance the abdication would put him from the king, from all his old friends, from his country. films are made but they re not shown in britain. the usual filmmakers do not relay too much attention onward. but queen elizabeth wants to draw the public attention back toward her and the king. queen elizabeth was rather scared that the monarchy was not necessarily secure. that perhaps there might be an element of the british public that saw wallace and edward as the charming couple and that they could be rivals in the british public s affections. so the new queen elizabeth is determined to put herself and her family center stage. queen elizabeth is the brains of the outfit, really. she s shrewd and she understands the creation of an image. she takes part of an incredible photo shoot on camera. cecil was not your traditional royal photographer. he was a very successful fashion photographer. queen elizabeth was wearing these amazing white dresses and these huge skirts. her look is completely the opposite of wallace s look. wallace is sharp, angular, tailored. elizabeth dislikes wallace. she blames wallace for undermining and almost fatally destroying the british monarchy. so queen ae business elizabeth s look is modeled on a 19th century portrait of queen victoria who at that time was britain s longest serving monarch. so she is aligning herself with royal tradition and duty. and every photograph is a success. the monarchy was still reeling from a crisis. and the image was glamorous queen who brought some of that glamor into the royal family. she was a strong character. she appeared to be joking and a light-hearted person. but she had a rod of steel in there, actually. queen elizabeth projects this the image, warm, comforting, lovely. george vi was shy. he didn t like public attention. not like her. at the same time, she is intent on a public image of the ideal family group as opposed to edward and wallace who are childless. in private, queen elizabeth is preparing her eldest daughter, also named elizabeth, for her future role. overnight, the abdication made the 10-year-old princess heir to the british throne. her mother sees the royal job as a practical job. she teaches her daughter how to meet with dignitaries and conduct royal duties. princess elizabeth was a shy child like her father. she followed her mother s example very much. england launches an historic campaign to solidify friendship in north america. in 1939, the second world war is on the horizon and george vi and his wife elizabeth embark for america to meet president roosevelt because britain would need all the allies it could get. the american alliance had been crucial to britain s success in the first world war. the diplomatic purpose of the visit is to make a bond with president roosevelt and his wife. the king s brother had visited the united states some ten years earlier and had become beloved by the people of the united states. george did not have that confidence. so a lot is riding on this visit. this is george s moment to prove, not just to america and britain but also to himself. that he can be every bit as wonderful as edward. the president and mrs. roosevelt found the king and queen warm and if anything, regular people, almost immediately. elizabeth is central to the success of the tour. she makes people feel comfortable and everyone falls in love with her. these have been tremendously strenuous days for the king is and queen. there is a sharp rest when they get to stay at hyde park, the country home of president roosevelt s mother. on the king and queen s last day, they have a picnic luncheon with the roosevelts that features hotdogs. this symbolic food of the common man. the president s mother said you cannot offer the king and queen of england a hotdog. the president said yes, that s exactly what we re going to do. the king asked for a second one. they clearly enjoyed them. the royal visit to america is a resounding 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become king when their predecessor has died and my predecessor is alive and well in france and causing trouble. george expects at any time to be stabbed in the back by his brother. and after a bit, george stops answering the phone. these telephone conversations get too difficult. tension between the brothers deepens when king george denies edward the one thing he desires most of his wife. when edward and wallace married, george vi wrote to edward informing him that he will not be giving wallace the title, her royal highness, hrh. her royal highness, you re treated at a certain level. people curtsy to you at court. what george and elizabeth are clearly indicating is that wallace is not part of the royal family. edward s whole life is completely changed. he can no longer dazzle wallace with his royal palaces and his status. but there is one man who will exploit edward s desire for deference and status. hitler is saying come to berlin. we ll treat you like royalty. we ll treat wallace like royalty. and it is too good an opportunity to pass up. a huge crowd greeted the dutch and duchess of windsor. the nazi party laid out the red carpet forward and wallace. they curtsied to her and treated her royally. by 1937, hitler has a reputation for physical persecution, the violence of the nazi party, and anti-semitism is rife in that country. the fact edward feels like cavorting with the nazis. that suggests he endorses hitler s regime. the visuals are damaging indeed. this cause as lot of panic in london. you have the loose cannon duke of windsor meeting with hitler himself. there is a great deal of outrage at edward s trip to germany. the new york times chasens edwards for allowing himself to be used as a pawn. edward didn t really sympathize with the nazis, but he wanted to upstage his brother and be a figure of international importance. so george was really very angry. less than two years afterward s visit, hitler s army invades poland. the german pole sets the stage for world war ii. britain and germany are now at war. the king addresses an apprehensive nation. there may be dark days ahead but with god s help, we shall prevail. shortly after the outbreak of the second world war, winston churchill becomes george s prime minister. the relationship is quite frosty in the beginning. churchill turns up to his weekly audience with the king late. he dominates the conversation and george finds it disrespectful. as the war progressed, they held over 200 meetings, just between the two of them where they could talk freely. the role of the monarch was to be consulted, not to make the decisions. but during the second world war, he is able to back up churchill and support him. they become mutually very, very close. i think they talked about absolutely everything. that came to be built up between king and my grandfather the most profound trust. now, king george vi is facing really the darkest hours as they prepare for the possibility of a german invasion. by september, 1940, london is being subjected to a relentless bombing campaign known as the blitz. during the war, the royal family wanted to present themselves as a unifying force. suffering alongside their people. as the symbol that holds the nation together. as the bombing intensifies, the royal family visits areas hit by the blitz. when they go visit these bombed out places, they are really resented. people actually don t want them there. people end up booing and jeering at the royal family. people who have lost everything don t take kindly to the royal family trotting out of their car. they see it as patronizing, being utterly disconnected from the real world. this reaction suggests that the monarchy does not have the support of the british people, and at a time of war when unity is absolutely essential, this is really worrying. for the monarchy to survive, it has to be useful. if they don t succeed to be of service, it may reach a conversation about maybe we don t need a king after 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to the king s sitting room. a staff member was killed. it was a very, very severe bombing. they realized they were being targeted. they are walking among the debris in the garden. just like a hundred homes today. the air raid on bucking hap palace is absolutely terrifying for the king and for the queen but it has a great impact on the public image. it bolsters their symbolic appeal as londoners who are resolute. buckingham palace is bombed several times and the safety of the king and queen is a real issue. and there s quite a lot of pressure for them to leave london. and they absolutely refuse. truly this is a war of all the people. we re all in it. the next time the king and queen go visit the blitz damage, far from being booed and jeered, this type they get applause. they have become the symbol of keep calm and carry on. the royal family any political power but churchill realizes, they can play a really important part in boosting morale. so it is not just the king and queen involved in the war effort. princess elizabeth is enlisted as well and she makes a public broadcast. she speaks on behalf of herself and her sister margaret rose. princess elizabeth is not a natural speaker and at age 14, she has to address the world, really. so it is a big pressure on her shoulders. and when peace comes, remember, it will be for us, the children of today to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place. it was a magical moment and everybody was moved to tears by these two children assisting their parents, really, in the war effort. we are going to say good night to you. come organization margaret. good night and good luck to you all. the war was very terrifying. the idea of having princess elizabeth and princess margaret rose there was really, really comforting. but king george still has problem to contend with. his exiled brother edward. at this point, edward is still a liability. and the government is increasingly concerned about some of the company he s been keeping, including people with pro nazi sympathies and all of it was undermining george. churchill exercises his authority as prime minister effectively to shuffle him off to the bahamas as governor, where it is hoped the duke of windsor can do very little harm. churchill thought in sending him a long, long way from western europe, you can stay out of trouble. with edward and wallace over 4,000 miles away, king george and queen elizabeth can focus on boosting national confidence and driving the war effort. they traveled something like 50,000 miles in the course of the war around the united king do that visiting troops, visiting hospitals, visiting factories. they are everywhere. she is as effective war time queen. she is sympathetic, she is there meeting the people. it is said that hitler calls elizabeth the most dangerous woman in europe. he fears her massive affect on public morale. long live the cause of freedom. god save the king. after six long years of war, hitler is defeated. when victory in europe is declared, the royal family and winston churchill appear on the palace balcony to celebrate with the crowds. my grandfather s admiration and respect for the crown doing its duty in the country under great pressure was probably the most important thing in his entire life. just completely mad. it was joyous and everybody was singing and dancing. george broadcast the victory speech to the nation that evening. my grandfather listened to it. at this hour, when the dreadful shadow of war has passed far from our hearth and homes my grandfather made some observations in his diary that the king sounded weary and tired. we may at last make one pause for thanksgiving. the war cops at a huge personal cost for george and to an extent, as he broken man who is not in the best of health. the shadow of war may have lifted. but within george s own family, peace will soon be disrupted by a new man in the life of his eldest daughter. tell her how you feel. cause there is no doubt: 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oh! have you dined with us before? no, you re you re that insurance guy, aren t you? the pasty one? oh, yeah. as if! like i m gonna go into some spiel about how you can get options based on your budget with the name your price tool. hey, robbie, you tell them about the mushroom puffers? just about to, pam. wait, are we in a progressive commercial? come on down to portabella s it s food, family, and fun what is happening? it has just been announced from buckingham palace that her royal highness, the princess elizabeth, duchess of edinburgh was safely delivered of a prince at 9:14 p.m. buckingham palace in november 1948, prince charles is born. almost exactly a year after the birth, prin birth, prince philip takes up a command, and the princess comes out to join him. i think when they were togethein malta together, it was the only time in their married life where they lived like normal people. she could go to dances, chat to the other wives, go swimming, go to the hairdresser s. she felt such freedom. she loved it. i think that must have been the best two years of their lives. then, of course, she had to come back to total reality, back to england. anxious and sympathetic crowds were at the palace waiting for news. the announcement that the king was going to go into an immediate operation came as a shock to everyone. he needed to have an operation for the removal of one of his lungs. the king had lung cancer. the operation itself seems to be successful, and the king convinces himself that he s getting better. even though george feels he is on the mend, there is a trip that he has been planning to do, but he s not up to it. and he asks princess elizabeth and prince philip to go in his stead. but five days after his daughter arrives in kenya, at home in sandringham, at the age of just 56, the king dies. princess elizabeth is already the queen the moment her father dies thousands of miles at sandringham. so they have to get the message to her before the news is announced on the radio, and communications of course in 1952 are very, very difficult. the palace sends out a coded message to be communicated to elizabeth. but there s a problem. the code had to be deciphered, and nobody had the code book. but the palace thinks elizabeth will be told, and so the palace tells the world. but elizabeth doesn t know. elizabeth s private secretary is in the local town when he hears that the king has died. but at this point it s unconfirmed. princess elizabeth was in her room writing to her father at the time, and there was a radio. philip s private secretary went in and took the radio out of the room. the secretar so prince phi told. then prince philip has to go to princess elizabeth and say, i think we better go for a walk outside. and in the garden, he breaks the news that her father has died. elizabeth is only 25. she s lost the father she adored. he was her mentor. he was her guide, and she was utterly devoted to him. he demonstrated to her the meaning of duty. she never expected she would lose him so soon. one reign has ended. a reign begins. with members of her majesty s government, all await the queen s arrival. my grandfather, winston churchill, was worried that he didn t know her at all. there was a generational difference. he would have thought, my goodness, what am i going to talk to her about? and there she was, this very vulnerable young woman, having to take on what she s going to have to do. i think we were sort of dumbfounded really. i mean one wasn t expecting that to happen. she took on this huge job immediately on top of being very, very sad that she d lost her father. the opportunity was given for the people to pay tribute. soon they were passing into the hall at over 4,000 every hour. a show for public sorrow and sympathy. there is an incredibly striking image of george s funeral, of the three queens with these incredibly sort of dramatic black veils. and it s an image of complete desolation really, total grief. i remember there was black veils over their faces, and it was so sad. goodness knows what was going through her mind. how devastated she must be. the queen is now the head of the royal family. it is her responsibility. she has the biggest job in the world, and everyone is watching to see whether she can succeed. next on the windsors philip and elizabeth are a golden couple. but behind the scenes, he s restless. there are rumors that there might be cracks in the queen s marriage, and her sister is actually involved with a divorced man. where there s a conflict between love and duty, it is duty that comes first. the latest in a long line of brides prepares to join the most celebrated royal family on earth. actress meghan markle will marry into a world of grand tradition and vast wealth. my whole life shall be devoted to your service. but all that glitters is not gold. for 100 years, this royal house has faced scandal, war, adultery. it would have been far easier to have had two wives. and tragedy. diana, the princess of wales, has died at the age of 36. a family that will do whatever it takes to survive. this vast crowd here to celebrate six decades of the queen s reign. duty, power, and sacrifice.
his elder brother chose to give up the thrown to marry a twice divorced american. with the help of the woman i love. can king george, the shy man with a stutter, mend a broken monarchy? his brother edward has not gone quietly into exile. and a looming war threatens global kings. nowhere in the world is there anything half so wonderful. the school children will learn about it. immediately before the coronation, it must be momentous for george. this was a huge ceremony that had been prepared for his elder brother. but it was he who is taking it all on. george s coronation occurred on the same day that it would have occurred for his brother edward. nothing was changed except the person doing it. here s someone with a complete sense of inad gassy. he had always been the monday to his brother s sun. before he was king, george was living a relatively normal free under the radar life. happily married and as a younger member of the royal family he does a few public duties and is contented with that life. his name was bertie in the family. when he becomes king, his whole life is completely changed. he is intensely aware that he has been tasked with this incredibly difficult job. one of the first things he does is change his name to george. stressing the continuity between his reign and that of his father, george v. king george vi is extremely worried about taking over the throne. the abdication looms large. his brother edward was the most popular man in the english speaking world. and now george has got to stand up. george is a believer in the principle of monarchy. he feels british monarchy is really important to britain s national identity and it holds the nation together. ward suggests that kingship isn t quite as stable as it has always appeared. it can be given up easily. so george s challenge is to restore the monarchy to something like the stability that hit before his brother sat on the throne. so it is crucial that it is a success and he is launched successfully as monarch. but insecurities plagued the new king. one of george s biggest worries is he suffers from a stutter. for him, talking in public is torture. in the modern news reel age, the british public expects both to see and hear their monarch. now the british monarchy is under a lot of scrutiny. the monarch has to be comfortable in the role of communicator. i think he felt the pressure of what was expected of him of his brother was fluent at making speeches which made him feel inadequate. ladies and gentlemen, i am sure that we are all the stutter sometimes prevents him from talking at all. that the generosity of his majesty has set an example to all. a decade earlier in 1925, george s wife elizabeth had sought the help of various specialists to try to cure his stutter. they tried all sorts of methods but none worked. essentially he was told he had a mental defect. elizabeth is his greatest supporter and champion and she seeks out help and identifies lionel as a therapist who can help him overxom difficult stammer. my grandfather realizes that confidence is key. they went through speeches together, replacing certain words until he felt confident. in the run up to the coronation, my grandfather makes frequents trims to buckingham palace to prepare him for reciting the oath. this is the most stressful terrifying event of his life. there is no going back. including his two daughters, princess elizabeth who is 11, and princess margaret, who is 6 george and his family were very close. it was one of the great as pets george had thatward did not have. the former king, george s brother edward, is in exile in france. listening to the ceremony over the radio. ward who is now called the duke of windsor is sitting with wallace. he is knitting her a sweater. edward absolutely hates pomp and pageantry. if he had gone through that same ceremony, inside he would be thinking, this is a bunch of balls in comparison, george realizes the significance of the coronation. the coronation ceremony is a ritual handed down the ages. for george, it is a massive issue. he wasn t an actual performer unlike his brother and the prospect of the whole world listening to his words, he is really anxious that he will stammer over the oath and this will make the monarchy look ridiculous of the. the coronation oath. i, george vi, do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of god declare that i will uphold and maintain the said powers according to law. in practice, the king manages the coronation, the oath and all the ceremonial perfectly well. he did in fact rise to the occasion. the coronation is a public triumph. but george has got big fights ahead. and that is to show the world he is the rightful king. not his brother. 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get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! the newly appointed duke of windsor was married in a ceremony in a lavish french had chateau. edward and wallace are finally married and this is a rather sad occasion in many ways. my grandfather was asked to be the best man at the wedding because none of the duke s brothers were willing to do it. edward s marriage does not have the king s blessing. no one from the royal family attends. edward never realized just what a distance the abdication would put him from the king, from all his old friends, from his country. films are made but they re not shown in britain. the usual filmmakers do not relay too much attention onward. but queen elizabeth wants to draw the public attention back toward her and the king. queen elizabeth was rather scared that the monarchy was not necessarily secure. that perhaps there might be an element of the british public that saw wallace and edward as the charming couple and that they could be rivals in the british public s affections. so the new queen elizabeth is determined to put herself and her family center stage. queen elizabeth is the brains of the outfit, really. she s shrewd and she understands the creation of an image. she takes part of an incredible photo shoot on camera. cecil was not your traditional photographer. he was a very successful fashion photographer. queen elizabeth was wearing these amazing white dresses and these huge skirts. her look is completely the opposite of wallace s look. wallace is sharp, angular, tailored. elizabeth dislikes wallace. she blames wallace for undermining and almost fatally destroying the british monarchy. so the look is modeled on a 19th century portrait of queen victoria who at that time was britain s longest serving monarch. so she is aligning herself with royal tradition and duty. and every photograph is a success. the monarchy was still reeling from a crisis. and the image was glamorous queen who brought some of that glamor into the royal family. she was a strong character. she appeared to be joking and a light-hearted person. but she had a rod of steel in there, actually. queen elizabeth projects this the image, warm, comforting, lovely. george vi was shy. he didn t like public attention. not like her. at the same time, she is intent on a public image of the ideal family group as opposed to edward and wallace who are childless. in private, queen elizabeth is preparing her eldest daughter, also named elizabeth, for her future role. overnight, the abdication made the 10-year-old princess heir to the british throne. her mother sees the royal job as a practical job. she teaches her daughter how to meet with dignitaries and conduct royal duties. princess elizabeth was a shy child like her father. she followed her mother s example very much. england launches an historic campaign to solidify friendship in north america. in 1939, the second world war is on the horizon and george vi and his wife elizabeth embark for america to meet president roosevelt because britain would need all the allies it could get. the american alliance had been crucial to britain s success in the first world war. the diplomatic purpose of the visit is to make a bond with president roosevelt and his wife. the king s brother had visited the united states some ten years earlier and had become beloved by the people of the united states. george did not have that confidence. so a lot is riding on this visit. this is george s moment to prove, not just to america and britain but also to himself. that he can be every bit as wonderful aswar wardewardwarded. the president and mrs. roosevelt found the king and queen warm and if anything, regular people, almost immediately. elizabeth is central to the success of the tour. she makes people feel comfortable and everyone falls in love with her. these have been tremendously strenuous days for the king is that queen. there is a sharp rest when they get to stay at hyde park, the country home of president roosevelt s mother. on the king and queen s last day, they have a picnic luncheon with the roosevelts that features hotdogs. this symbolic food of the common man. the president s mother said you cannot offer the king and queen of england a hotdog. the president said yes, that s exactly what we re going to do. the king asked for a second one. they clearly enjoyed them. the royal visit to america is a resounding success for the king. but there is danger and the danger lies within george s own family. 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wallace married, george vi wrote to edward informing him that he will not be giving wallace the title, her royal highness, hrh. her royal highness, you re treated at a certain level. people curtsy to you at court. what george and elizabeth are clearly indicating is that wallace is not part of the royal family. edward s whole life is completely changed. he can no longer dazzle wallace with his royal palaces and his status. but there is one man who will exploit edward s desire for deference and status. hitler is saying come to berlin. we ll treat you like royalty. we ll treat wallace like royalty. and it is too good an opportunity to pass up. a huge crowd greeted the dutch and duchess of windsor. the nazi party laid out the red carpet forward and wallace. they curtsied to her and treated her royally. by 1937, hitler has a reputation for persecution, the violence of the nazi party, and anti-semitism is rife in that country. the fact edward feels like cavorting with the nazis. the visuals are damaging indeed. this cause as lot of panic in london. you have the loose cannon duke of windsor meeting with hitler himself. there is a great deal of outrage at edward s trip to germany. the new york times chasens edwards for allowing himself to be used as a pawn. edward didn t really sympathize with the nazi buzz he wanted to upstage his brother and be a figure of international importance. so george was really very angry. less than two years afterward s visit, hitler s army invades poland. the german pole sets the stage for world war ii. britain and germany are now at war. the king addresses an apprehensive nation. there may be dark days ahead but with god s help, we shall prevail. shortly after the outbreak of the second world war, winston churchill becomes george s prime minister. the relationship is quite frosty in the beginning. churchill turns up to his weekly audience with the king late. he dominates the conversation and george finds it disrespectful. as the war progressed, they held over 200 meetings, just between the two of them where they could talk freely. the role of the monarch was to be consulted, not to make the decisions. but during the second world war, he is able to back up churchill and support him. they become mutually very, very close. i think they talked about absolutely everything. that came to be built up between king and my grandfather the most profound trust. now, king george vi is facing really the darkest hours as they prepare for the possibility of a german invasion. by september, 1940, london is being subjected to a relentless bombing campaign known as the blitz. during the war, the royal family wanted to present themselves as a unifying force. suffering alongside their people. the symbol that holds the nation together. as the bombing intensifies, the royal family visits areas hit by the blitz. when they go visit these bombed out places, they are really resented. people actually don t want them there. people end up booing and 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their whir, whir, whir of german planes coming for them. a bomb fell only a few feet from the palace building. close to the king s sitting room. a staff member was killed. it was a very, very severe bombing. they realized they were being targeted. they are walking among the debris in the garden. just like a hundred homes today. the air raid on bucking hap palace is absolutely terrifying for the king and for the queen but it has a great impact on the public image. it bolsters their symbolic appeal as londoners who are resolute. buckingham palace is bombed several times and the safety of the king and queen is a real issue. and there s quite a lot of pressure for them to leave london. and they absolutely refuse. truly this is a war of all the people. we re all in it. the next time the king and queen go visit the blitz damage, far from being booed and jeered, this type they get applause. they have become the symbol of keep calm and carry on. the royal family any political power but churchill realizes, they can play a really important part in boosting morale. so it is not just the king and queen involved in the war effort. princess liz slis enlisted as well and she makes broadcasts. she speaks on behalf of herself and her sister margaret rose. princess elizabeth is not a natural speaker and at age 14, she has to address the world, really. so it is a big pressure on her shoulders. and when peace comes, remember, it will be for us, the children of today to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place. it was a magical moment and everybody was moved to tears by these two children assisting their parents, really, in the war effort. we are going to say good night to you. come organization margaret. good night and good luck to you all. the war was very terrifying. the idea of having princess elizabeth and princess margaret rose there was really, really comforting. but king george still has problem to contend with. his exiled brother edward. at this point, edward is still a liability. and the government is increasingly concerned about some of the company he s been keeping, including people with pro nazi sympathies and all of it was undermining george. churchill exercises his authority as prime minister effectively to shuffle him off to the bahamas as governor, where it is hoped the duke of windsor can do very little harm. churchill thought in sending him a long, long way from western europe, you can stay out of trouble. with edward and wallace over 4,000 miles away, king george and queen elizabeth can focus on boosting national confidence and driving the war effort. they traveled something like 50,000 miles in the course of the war around the united king do that visiting troops, visiting hospitals, visiting factories. they are everywhere. she is as effective war time queen. she is sympathetic, she is there meeting the people. it is said that hitler calls elizabeth the most dangerous woman in europe. he fears her most of all. long live the cause of freedom. god save the king. after six long years of war, hitler is defeated. when victory in europe is declared, the royal family and winston churchill appear on the palace balcony to celebrate with the crowds. my grandfather s admiration and respect for the crown doing its duty in the country under great pressure was probably the most important thing in his entire life. just completely mad. it was joyous and everybody was singing and dancing. george broadcast the victory speech to the nation that evening. my grandfather listened to it. at this hour, when the dreadful shadow of war has passed far from our hearth and homes my grandfather made some observations in his diary that the king sounded weary and tired. we may at last make one pause for thanksgiving. the war cops at a huge personal cost for george and to an extent, as he broken man who is not in the best of health. the shadow of war may have lifted. but within george s own family, peace will soon be disrupted by a 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year. at balmoral, the princess is deep in conversation in greece. he was so good looking. prince phillip of greece is a direct descendant of queen victoria just as princess elizabeth of great britain is also a direct descendant of queen victoria. this makes them third cousins. prince phillip was the fifth child of prince andrew of greece. he had four much older sisters. and within a year and a bit of his life starting, the royal family was overthrown in greece in a military coup and the family had to flee. he comes from a broken hopeful his father has mistress in monte carlo. his mother is shut up with a mental health illness. he never sees her. somebody described phillip as very large dog without a basket. in england, he stays with his uncle, lord louie. it was a very difficult childhood. absent parents. i think my grandfather really took on that role. i think he became more than even an uncle. he sort of impressed by what he sees in the young prince phillip. he starts to have the ambitions for him. princess elizabeth first noticed phillip seven years earlier at the royal naval college in dartmouth. in 1939, when princess elizabeth was a little girl of 13, and prince phillip was 18 and a naval cadet, the king and the queen with their two daughters came to the college. they played croquet. prince phillip concentrated on his shot and there is little princess elizabeth gazing up at him. she was smitten, i m sure. it did start there. it was a big love story. the feeling was that it had been he mountbatten who engineered this. they wrote letters to each other throughout the war and elizabeth had a photograph of phillip by her bed. when the war was over, they began to see each other very quickly. when he asked her to marry hip in 1946, elizabeth says yes to phillip. but of course, she has to ask her father s permission. if i am s proposal came as a nasty shock to the king and the queen. prince phillip would not have been their first choice. he was a foreign prince and he had a lot of german connections. after the war, there is a great deal of anti-german sentiment in the household. the problem for phillip is that three of his sisters were married to nazis and therefore, there s a great deal of suspicion around phillip. king s private secretary thought that phillip was a rough, crude, coarse sailor who would probably be unfaithful and he didn t trust hip an inch. the king does consent to the marriage but on condition that they postpone the announcement of the engagement. the king hopes a little distance between them means the love will cool a little. the goal was to thank the south african people. princess elizabeth has never been out of the country before so this is the first opportunity for her to unfurl her wings nd she gates good deal of enjoyment. while they re on this trim on her twublt birthday, princess elizabeth gives a radio broadcast and this is a key moment in her life. i declare before you all with my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service. princess elizabeth, unlike her uncle edward, vows to devote herself to a lifetime of public duty when she is crowned queen. now that is a deliberately anti-abdication speech. this is for life. i will not abdicate. when she made that vow, felt it deeply and meant it, every word of it. and has stuck with it throughout her life. after elizabeth returns from south africa, she is still adamant she wants to marry prince phillip. londoners have been waiting outside the palace for hours, made their feelings perfectly clear when the princess and her fiance cape will out on to the balcony. phillip is going to marry into the royal family. you can t do that without a handle to your name. without a title. he becomes duke of edinburgh. she looked so radiant. so calm and also so glamorous. everybody suddenly after the war looked rather wonderful. the royal wedding is a national success. a day of celebration that brightens hard times. and yet the king s health 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and there she was, this very vulnerable young woman, having to take on what she was going to have to do. i think we were sort of doub dumfounded, really. one wasn t expecting that to happen. she took on this huge job immediately on top of being very, very sad that she lost her father. the opportunity was given for the people to pay tribute. soon they were passing into the hall at over 4,000 every hour. itself a measure of public sorrow and sympathy. there is an incredibly striking image of george s funeral, of the three queens, with these incredibly sort of dramatic black veils. and it s an image of complete de desolation, really, total grief. they were with black veils over their faces and it s so sad. and poor queen elizabeth. then the queen, very young indeed. who knows what was going through her mind. how devastated she must be. the queen is now the head of the royal family. it is her responsibility. she has the biggest job in the world, and everyone is watching to see whether she can succeed. next on the windsors. philip and elizabeth are a golden couple, but behind the scenes he s restless. there are rumors that there might be cracks in the queen s marriage. and her sister is actually involved with a divorced man. whether the conflict between love and duty, it is duty that comes first. you re the accidental president. leader of a nation in mourning. now you ve got to make the tough calls. confront your demons. outwit your enemies. and prove you ve got what it takes. to be the leader of the free world.
returns to the tribe in shame after failing. so what happened to elizabeth warren? is an interesting story, actually, filled with valuable lessons for political candidates as well as the rest of us. but warren was in no mood for learning today. she artie knew the answer, she also often does come at it turned out to be the same answer she has it offered in response to virtually every question she has been asked over the last six months. it was sexism, that is why she lost. democratic voters, the majority of whom are female, hate women, warren explained. they may have nominated a woman in the last presidential race, but i was probably an act of sexism. that is how sexist they are. super-duper sexist. if you say yeah, there was sexism in this race, everyone says. and if you say no, there was no sexism, about a bazillion women say, what planet do you live on? i promise i will have a lot more to say on that subject. tucker: that s a promise, she said. in other words, there will be many more lectures on sexism to come from professor warren. buy your tickets now, the whole is certain to be packed. in the front row, you will see your favorite cable news commentators who are themselves lifelong warriors against sexism. yes, it is true these are the very same people who have spent months now acting as publicist for michael bloomberg and now joe biden, both of whom are demonstrably male. but in their hearts, our friends on tv were always rooting for the woman. that is the kind of people they are. highly unsexist people. our country is still very uncomfortable women in power. men come into a race with the expectation they are qualified, women have to prove themselves. a woman takes a hit, particularly a male candidate, she takes a hit in her likability. senator warren was hammered on her medicare for all plan. her tax plan, anyway none of the men wearing the entire last year. to me, that was a sexist double standard. she would have done much better if she were a man. i would like more men to be vocal about the fact that they want to see women in positions of leadership. tucker: yah, sexism. you can see why elizabeth warren is so upset tonight. to be fair, bernie sanders did warn her more than a year ago that a woman couldn t win. he didn t want her to get hurt. but she just wouldn t listen. just kidding, that never happened. warren made it up. or maybe she believed it happened, which is worse. warren has convinced himself of a lot of strange things recently. its been poignant to watch it happen. warren is no beto o rourke, she isn t doing pong hits on her skateboard after lunch. she is a legitimately smart person, without question the smartest candidate in the democratic field. she is also tough as hell, and fake indian aside , she wrote a book about how the entry of women in the workforce. it was interesting, and well-researched, and above all, it was serious. warren wrote about a real problem, one that affects most americans, and then thought deeply about how to solve it. the book was impressive. it could have been the basis of a populist presidential campaign that would ve forced much needed national conversations about these issues, and in the end, might have won. but none of that ever happened. warren got derailed. more precisely, she became infected with a virulent strain of identity politics. by the end, like tertiary syphilis, it drove her insane. one day, warren was talking about raising wages and protecting american workers, and the next, ranting about strange forms of racism no one had heard of and attacking the country she once sought to improve. elizabeth warren went intersectional, and it killed her. here are some of the first symptoms. we live in a country now where the president is advancing environmental racism, economic racism, criminal justice racism, health care racism. tucker: so raise your hand if you ve ever heard of health care racism? raised both hands if you think it is one of this country s top 500 problems. elizabeth warren thought it was. then she decided it was important in fact, our moral obligation to invite the rest of the impoverished world to america to share our job market in health care system. how exactly would that help american workers? warren no longer cared. she was to woke to worry about actual people. she clearly needed in patient care. you watch her speech is hoping men with netsuite spring from the shadows to carry her off to a secure facility to give her some rest. it seemed to reach its peak in january when warren asked out of nowhere that she would ask transgender children to pick her cam that members. i m going to have a secretary of education that a young trans person interviews on my behalf, and only if this person believes that our secretary or secretary of education nominee is someone who is committed to creating a welcoming environment, a safe environment, and a full educational curriculum for everyone, that person be advanced to secretary of education. tucker: so who is this young trans person who gets to staff the federal government? no one in the news media even asked, because it turns out, warren wasn t the only one who had gone insane. all of this seemed perfectly normal to cnn. but it wasn t normal. it was shockingly crazy, almost hilariously crazy. but warren was not amused. most of the time, she appeared to be fluidly enraged, like she might lunge forward and fight someone. for reasons that were never really clear, warren really hated bernie sanders, the elderly ex-mayor from vermont, that one point, warren claimed sanders was, in fact, a dangerous sexist. but nobody believed her, it was just too impossible, whatever else she is. so she turned her wrath on michael bloomberg, a far richer target. i would like to talk about who we are running against coleman a billionaire who calls women that broad s and horse lesbians. i know, i m not talking about donald trump, i m talking about mayor bloomberg. democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and supporting racist policies. democrats take a huge risk if we substitute one arrogant billionaire for another. tucker: got to give her credit, she can deliver a line. but by this stage in the campaign, no one outside cable news sets and college campuses was listening. elizabeth warren kept talking, but nobody cared. why? because it turns out most people, even democrats, aren t that interested in intersectional politics. they don t how to pronounce the word mati latinx. it s stupid and weird and frightening. it has precisely zero relevance to their lives. they want to hear politicians talk about making schools better or lowering health insurance premiums, think they actually think about it home. they don t want to hear some middle aged lady drone on an extended guilt trip. because in the end, it is really all about her. identity politics is always just a form of narcissism. that is not appealing to anybody. you can t get elected doing it. elizabeth warren just proved that conclusively. let s hope everyone else in politics learn that lesson. mark steyn is an author, columnist, and guest host on this program. we are proud to say he joins us tonight. so mark steyn, she got infected by the woke virus, and it destroyed her campaign. are other people going to take notice that this stuff doesn t work, do you think? i don t think they will. though that is actually what happened. i said some months ago on this show that she was actually doing well, she was in the lead, because her entire biography was a lie, so she turned on matt, and as a result, was just running on policy, in a rather effective way. and even the stuff matters, or it doesn t. so the secretary of education is either something of consequence, or it isn t. if it is, you don t say i m going to have a 9-year-old transgender exercise veto on my pick for secretary of education. why not have a 9-year-old transgender flight air force one, in that case? why not go all-in on that nonsense? and the fact is that the minute she went down that path, the media cheered her on. they loved, for example, that attack on bernie. particularly the bit where the end of the debate, she went up to him and said you just called me a liar on national, and the grumpy old to look just said let s not talk about that now. everyone thought she won that round, and in fact, if you talked to any of those young, progressive, millennial, generation z types, it was the final nail in the coffin for elizabeth warren. they wanted actual, serious policy, and they are not interested in letting the 9-year-old transgender fly the plane. they understand all that rubbish for the gesture politics that it is. tucker: will you i mean, when she said that i don t want to keep going back to that moment, but i think it is something that will live in its history as a low point or high point, however you measure it come it, 2020, and the insanity that has overtaken the country. nobody seems to notice it. we have breaking news, elizabeth warren had a mental breakdown on stage and setting on your trans child could bet her cabinet secretary. we was tha would have said thats normal. everyone is as crazy as she is in the media. well, the media are pure for you can t criticize that. some easily triggered pajama boy is sitting there, oh, tucker and mark steyn were taking the transgender pick for cabinet se. the fact that she was a substantial person in the 90s, with this very biographical thing and that she had pretended to be something other than who she is. so she had done all this rubbish, like submitting the duke of windsor s favorite crab recipe to the powwow child, cherokee cookbook. that in itself is an example of how identity politics has deranged of the american left. this person actually passed herself off as harvard law school s first woman of color, and nobody called her on it, and so obviously, in such a world, if you then say, harvard law school s first woman of color is going to have the first 9-year-old transgender of color pick out her cabinet, why would you take issue with that? the left has so advanced down these competing cul-de-sacs of identity politics, they can t actually have a substantive debate on who actually should be president. to the point now where they have got a guy where there is no there, they are. his brain has gone off and retired to the bahamas, and they have a cardboard cutout of bernie sanders from 1977 running for president. that is the ultimate identity politics there is no identity. identity has flown, and the dead husk is all that s left. tucker: [laughs] so deep and true. i will think about that before i go to bed tonight. mark steyn, thank you. great to see you tonight. thanks a lot, tucker. tucker: so here s the interesting thing. ideologically, elizabeth warren is the democrat closest to bernie sanders in the race. she got out to dave, but so far, she has not endorsed sanders, and it seems, given how much she appears to despise him, she never will. if more and stays neutral or endorses joe biden, it will only add to the belief of sanders supporters that their candidate was sabotaged by democratic elites. and by the way, they have reason to feel that way. justin horowitz is a sanders supporter and joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. i will put it as bluntly as i can: do you think we are watching the election being stolen from bernie sanders? i don t necessarily think it is being stolen, but the steps that are being pulled out by the democratic establishment and the corporate elite prevent sanders from getting the nomination is pretty remarkable, right? the oldest civil rights organization for latinos in the country today released a statement denouncing the voter suppression effort in both texas and california that predominantly affected counties that were going to go for sanders, and going to go for sanders pretty heavily. they are really pulling out all the stops, and what you are seeing is the same pundits and strategists that told us that only hillary can beat trump in 2016, have converged and made this alliance with a bunch of neoconservatives from the bush era, like bill kristol, mike bloomberg, and david from. rick wilson went to basically tell us, yeah, only biden can beat only biden can beat trump now, and the problem with that is we all see that joe biden is a defective product that will break in the general election. we all see it. we are not allowed to talk about it, but he is clearly not all there. so bernie sanders is the only candidate that can actually beat donald trump, and they are pulling out all the stops, because you know, the war profiteers, the financial monopolists on wall street, they don t want to pay taxes. they don t want the interest loophole closed. it is just unbelievable. tucker: that is true. so let me ask you, you said that you think biden is less capable of beating the president and bernie sanders is. absolutely. tucker: why do you say that? i think for a variety of reasons. joe biden sold us the war in iraq, he s on record about cutting social security and medicare. joe biden pushed for the increase in private prisons. joe biden has cozied up to the credit card industry more than any candidate in the race. and again, what we all know but unfortunately aren t allowed to talk about because it is personal attacks is he is a candidate that is mentally deteriorating. people in the democratic establishment say, oh, don t say that. they really believe they can shield joe biden from public scrutiny, and the reality is, they can t. we all see what is going on he here. and it s going to be a disaster if we nominate joe biden. tucker: so you believe, justin, my last question, you believe the democratic establishment is perfectly aware of what has happened with joe biden, with his mental acuity? speak i think everyone is perfectly aware of what is happening with joe biden. he is a candidate in decline. we all see it. he can t get on stage without making some type of gas, and these are the same gaffes he made in his previous two failed residential runs. these gaffes are a lot more serious. these gaffes clearly indicate he is not all there anymore. and bernie sanders is a sharp debater. he is still all there. and i think it will play out, when biden goes up against bernie had to head, i think bernie picks up steam and ends up winning the nomination because biden simply can t debate. they are trying to protect him from being in public. well, unfortunately, when you run for president, you are going to be in public and people are going to see what is happening. tucker: yeah, it s going to be a long eight months. justin horowitz, thank you so much for coming on. thanks, tucker. tucker: we are not done tonight eulogizing dead democratic campaigns. later this hour, we will discuss the sad fate of michael bloomberg. talk about humiliation. plus, a special super tuesday addition final exam was good. up next, we have an update on the chinese coronavirus, killing thousands a date and hit a lead. how fast is it spreading here, do we even know? 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tucker: [laughs] that finger licking video. i shouldn t laugh. a deadly epidemic, but that was funny. great to see you tonight. scientists now say there are two major strains of the chinese coronavirus. does that make the virus even more dangerous? and is this country ready for a major outbreak? are we getting that? fox medical expert dr. marc siegel has been on the road for us for days on the story from the very beginning, and he joins us tonight. doctor, thanks so much for coming on. give us the latest, if you would. two strains of the virus, what does that mean? chinese scientists have discovered a so-called l strain and a letter s strain. people out there need to know this kind of virus is unstable. it s changing all the time. it s a single strand and always having genetic changes. but these are subtypes, kind of like the flu, how you have different strains of the flu around. we are seeing at least two different strains of the coronavirus paper that in itself is not the problem, but will it change more? will it change so much that the vaccine we make doesn t fit it? i think the answer to that is no. i think we can get a vaccine to fit all of these strains as long as we track them. the question is, is one strain more severe than the other? the l strain seems to be more severe, and that was causing more trouble in china at the beginning. we need to figure out which strain is the one that is really emerging here in the united states and in europe. which one? the more severe strain, or the less severe strain? that will tell us how many mild cases we have. tucker: you ve been on the road, out in nebraska, and you ve been serving the collective response to this illness here. do you think we are ready for a major outbreak, and are we getting one? surge capacity, can we surge? when you hear stories about cases piling up that you don t know where they came from, airport screeners, doctors licking their fingers, right? by the way, doctors are the worst patients. i m starting to worry, because i am seeing announcements of cases coming in some office building and the person was sent home. should be close the office? in new york, we are seeing more and more cases. we ve obviously seen washington state and california. johns hopkins has studied this based on what they saw with the flu, and i d say we are not ready if we see in a lot of cases. here is what i mean by that, tucker. we have about 60,000 ventilators in the country, about 50,000 icu beds. we can make about another 50,000. 100,000 icu beds. hopefully, that will be enough. but it will depend on how severe this is and how much it spreads. that is giving our viewers the idea of why we are trying so hard to contain this. the more we contain it, the less we are going to put our hospitals at risk, but i want to add something positive. all hospitals are gearing up. under the leadership of this task force, they are involving protocols. what would they do? what would they do a lot of patients come in? how would they quarantine them? how would they isolate them? how would they get other patients transferred to a different part? tucker: not the right time to give the rest of the world access to our health care system, i would think. we will be checking it s not the right time to be changing our health care system, by the way. we need to go with what works. tucker: amen. especially now. great to see you tonight. thank you. thanks, tucker. tucker: more follow tonight from chuck schumer s threat to members of the supreme court, majority leader mitch mcconnell gave a response to our shannon bream. she has a lot for us right after the break. plus, a female prison inmate said she was raped by a transgender inmate. a grotesque story that tells you a lot, straight ahead. pods puts you in control 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. tucker: that attitude has claimed a new victim tonight, a female inmate in illinois as she was raped by a transgender inmate transferred to her facility. fox s matt finn is in chicago and on the story for us. matt? tucker, the inmate says she was raped by a transgender inmate that identifies as female but has male genitalia. she reported the assault, and she was retaliated against, taking away her phone privileges and moving her to a lower-class facility. via alleged female rape victim said she was lured into a cell, alleging the assault happened on the very first day the transgender inmate was allowed into the general population. the lawsuit read the female victim was terrified of his transgender inmate who is much bigger and stronger than her and she heard the transgender prisoner was convicted of murd murder. however, the lawsuit states the correctional officers ruled the sexual encounter was consensual. three collectioncorrections officers covering it up. the practice of putting transgender males and female prisons. the illinois department of corrections tells fox news they cannot comment on the matter because of pending litigation. in a statement to fox news, the attorney for the alleged rape victim says applying a sweeping policy that pretends no transgender inmate could ever harm another is delusional. the lawsuit also indicated before this incident happened, some of the staff at this prison wrote on facebook that they were concerned about what would happen if transgender inmates were transferred to this female prison. tucker? tucker: yeah, what could go wrong? i guess we just found out. matt finn, great to see you. well, eyebrows rose across the country yesterday after senate minority leader chuck schumer delivered wild sounding threats to supreme court justices kavanaugh and gorsuch. now majority leader mitch mcconnell is weighing in to our own shannon bream in an exclusive interview. she joins us now with a preview of what he told her. that interview will be airing on a special midnight addition of her show tonight. hey, shannon bream. interesting story. tell us what you heard. well, you heard what the top democrat in the senate said yesterday. you will pay a price, you will not know what hit you. he later said in a claim that it was about political ramifications and what would happen in the election in the fall. if they didn t decide the right way on an abortion case in which they haven t voted on yet. you know, that was the explanation that we got to come and, it continued, as chuck schumer continues to face a lot of heat from both sides of the aisle come across the political spectrum. here s what he said and we will talk about whether it s an apology. i shouldn t have used the words i did, but in no way was i making a threat. i never never would do such a thing. and leader mcconnell knows that. and republicans who are busy manufacturing outrage over these comments know that, too. so he says the reaction is fake and phony. listen, the chief justice we talked about this last night he called these threatening remarks. so i asked the senate majority leader alex was of interview that will air later tonight about how he feels about this sort of nonapology that also accuses him of over-hyping the whole thing. we have a behavioral problem, and i think the leaders of congress owe it to the american people to act like adults and not engage in shenanigans like going over in front of the supreme court with a rowdy mob and threatening the justices by name. you know, i asked him also about the idea that president trump should take some heat because he has said things about supreme court justices, folks see that as apples and oranges on the right side of the aisle. i asked if there were going to censure the top democrat in the senate or other plans, he talks about that and coronavirus, how they are attacking matt, and we will have more tonight. we will have it. tucker: shannon bream, i will be watching midnight tonight. thanks, tucker. tucker: michael bloomberg just blew $500 million in a late, late, late midlife crisis. in the end, he got humiliated and won american samoa. we will reflect on the short but intense campaign of the tiny mayor, just ahead. plus, it s time for final exam. kim foxx s new afternoon defeat lou dobbs? 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silently, right. tucker: i would be careful of lou dobbs, if i were you. no doubt, i am on team lou. tucker: america is. we will see who has a better handle of what happened this week. you know the rules, going to repeat them for the audience. asked the question, first a buzz and answers the question, wait until i finish asking before you answer. that is the key will. you can answer one technology by saying her name. you get the answer right, you get a point, get the answer wrong, he was a point. best-of-five wins. ready? ready. tucker: perfect. question one. during joe biden s victory speech on super tuesday, screaming protesters stormed the stage holding signs. this a multiple choice, by the way. what were they protesting? a, further. b, fossil fuels. c, dari? bill hemmer, ladies and gentlemen? it was the war on how was and dairy theorend. tucker: was it dairy? to the tape. joe had to jump off. it was ridiculous. animal rights protesters. cows. yeah, screaming let dari die. tucker: the war on cow s! bill hemmer, very nice. to question two. again, multiple choice. country singer garth brooks upset some fans this week when he wore a football jersey with a name on the back that some thought was political. what name did they think it was? letter, warren. b, biden. c, sanders? do you know it? no. he s got a clue. tucker: lou dobbs. how about sanders? tucker: was nashville himself endorsing bernie sanders? to the tape. social media pages show brooks wearing a jersey with the last name sanders 20, just before performing in detroit. some online assumed he was showing support for 2020 candidate bernie sanders, but actually, it is a football jersey, a number war by former detroit lions running back barry sanders. tucker: man. if that was a guess aghast, unimpressed. did you know that? be impressed. [laughs] tucker: i am impressed. 1-1 going to question three. here it is, get multiple choice. in an interview this week from hillary clinton revealed she was once scolded, because she had been naughty, by president obama for giggling during a meeting. she was in the meeting with which 2020 contender? letter, elizabeth warren. b, joe biden. that are amy klobuchar? go ahead. i defer. tucker: lou dobbs. speak with the assistance of my colleague. what do you think? biden? i would say b. i m going to guess biden. tucker: you are guessing joe biden? and you phoned a friend, but we are not subtracting for that. was it joe biden? this person and i were reprimanded for giggling on the sofa in the oval office. [laughter] i think you giggle on the couch, it has to be with joe biden. yeah, yeah, that is right. okay, all right. tucker: amazing. another gas. lou dobbs, we should add the caveat, no question that story is false, but your gas was correct, and that is what matters for the purpose of this. amazing. the levels that tucker has taken. tucker: that was impressive. question four. again, multiple-choice. after spending half a billion dollars running for president, michael bloomberg s big payoff is when the american samoa. from one point, can you tell us how many delegates american samoa delivered to bloomberg? was at a, three delegates. b, oracle delegates. c, five delegates. i think it was at least four. i will say b, four. tucker: was it four? i don t know the answer, but if you get this, i will be very impressed. was it b, four? he might have wo lost texas,t won pago pago. five delegates for $500 million. you said at least four. you get credit for part of that, right? tucker: like so many before you, you sold american samoa short. that s all right. going into question [laughter] going into question five. a two-point question, so we could tie it up. it is this. elizabeth warren s campaign is finally over, and of course we are thankful for that. we have seen the last of her awful dance moves. but what song was it that warren was awkwardly dancing to at the end of every rally? is at a, i am everywoman by whitney houston? b, 9 to 5 by dolly parton? or c, respect by aretha franklin? great american songs. i think it was 9 to 5. tucker: bill hemmer. see what happens here. tucker: you think it is aretha? i think it is dolly parton, 9 to 5. tucker: dolly parton come on 95. it s got to be dolly parton. i think i m done. i missed american samoa? tucker: i know, i can t believe. all three of us survived working at cnn, but bill hemmer was taken out. which means he comes back next week. tucker: i love it. lou dobbs, congratulations. thank you very much. tucker: i m not surprised. winner. tucker: thank you, gentlemen. and we are sending you an erik wemple mug. you can add it to your collection. drink it in style. lou, you are a champion. tucker: lou dobbs for the win. that s it for this week s final exam. pay close attention to the news every week and tune in thursdays to see if you are worthy of an erik wemple mug. we will be right back. this is big. double dozen big! it s captain d s new double dozen shrimp. yeah, you heard that right. two dozen golden, crispy shrimp piled high on one plate! time to double down when the captain is callin . captain d s. 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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[sounds] kazoo sound unlike ordinary memory wsupplements-neuriva? has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. tucker: el clinton just made a revealing admission about his affair with monica lewinsky in. trace gallagher is back with more on that story. the hulu documentary, the former president bill clinton compares life in the white house to being a boxer, staggering after a fight and the affair with monica lewinsky apparently took his mind off of it for a while. he went on to chalk up his infidelities to managing his anxieties. watch. it wasn t like i thought, how can i think about the most stupid thing i could possibly do and do it. i didn t want anything to do with him. he admitted he denied the affair until he finally sat her down to confess when it was obvious he was lying, saying, i went and sat on the bed and talk to her. i told her exactly what happened, when it happened. i said, i feel terrible about it. he feels terrible about the fact that monica lewinsky s life was unfairly defined by it but he now wants the world to know he s a totally different person now then the cheater he was 20 years ago. tucker? tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much for that. good to see you. as the democratic presidential campaign kicked off, one man had a very smart take. running for president as a democrat, not a good idea. it s just not going to happen on a national level for someone like me starting where i am unless i was willing to change all my views and go on what cnn called an apology to her tour. biden went out and apologized for being male and white, beto has apologized for being born. man, that michael bloomberg. sadly, he didn t follow his own advice. last fall, america was introduced to a michael bloomberg look alike, one who went on the exact kind of apology tour the old one complained about when he was embarrassed on the stage by elizabeth warren. he compared himself to meatballs or how many batteries he could eat, or this. where s my ice cream? thank you. big gay ice cream is the best. tucker: what did i get him? the only thing he won was america samoa. the only thing he referenced was his total campaign spending is pretty close to the annual gdp of american samoa. he could ve just bought it. at least he would ve had something at the end. end. chadwick moore is a journalist in new york city and a frequent guest on the show. i love political obits because i think it is important to pause and assess what we just saw. how would you assess what we just saw with mike bloomberg? the spending is the great story. the obnoxious, obscene, offensive amount of money really that he spent in the three months he was legitimately running for president, and you re right, he could have just bought american samoa for that amount of money, turned it into his own little globalist billionaire paradise, globalist island. he s already done that to another island called manhattan but in that case he didn t spend any money. he actually earned money in that respect, but the spending. the thing that actually troubles me. it s fun to laugh at mike, it s fun to question whether he is that extremely out of touch and arrogant as to think he could pull this off or is there something else going on and what we see now is this man jumped almost a billion dollars into newsrooms in three months. then immediately now that he is dropped out he is immediately endorsing joe biden. he announced his own initiative to launch his own packet to help the democrats, help joe biden. what is that going to do to news reporting customer to every new site, every local news station, national news station, every bld countless dollars into and now, the democrats like to scream about $100,000 that the russians spent on facebook ads in 2016. we are talking close to $1 billion dumped into newsrooms by a man who is really looking for a hot seat into the dnc and democrat party. what effect is that going to have? tucker: to buy the love of msnbc panels, which he certainly did. i noticed from watching them occasionally. doesn t it say something good about our democracy, that it still functions? that someone with views and nobody agrees with actually can t buy the presidency? exactly. it makes the american people look great. even our friends on the left and the democrat party, you know what, you can t buy the election and we saw this in 2016. hillary had about a billion dollars. trump spent a fraction of that of mostly his own money. later on, donations came in. he was the underdog. hillary had all the money come all the resources at her disposal and she still couldn te have seen that more on a microlevel, pun not intended with michael bloomberg. so, what does he get out of this? i think president trump was hilariously accurate that the man spend a billion dollars and until the day he dies he will be known as mini mike. for new yorkers who lived through his security and watch him destroy the middle class here, who loathe this man, who watched him make this city a playground for only the super rich and the super poor, i m perfectly happy that will now be his legacy. tucker: if you want to waste that much money, bu buy a boat. or buy american samoa. tucker: i cannot resist making one last point, i can t control myself. the very people who lecture us about the subversion of our democracy by the russians were totally for michael bloomberg. and you will never hear a peep about it. tucker: never, ever appear chadwick moore, great to see you tonight. thank you. tucker: one quick programming note. roger waters of pink floyd will be on the show tomorrow for a rare but interesting interview about something he cares deeply about. smart guy, actually. you don t want to miss it. we are out of time tonight. we will be back tomorrow and every weekend. 8:00 p.m., the shell that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. have a great night with the ones you love. hannity is up next. sean: welcome to hannity. we begin, a fox news alert. if you missed it, an amazing town hall in pennsylvania here tonight on the fox news channel. we have the highlights and also breaking tonight, we are about to reveal some disturbing, frankly repugnant audio from quid pro quo joe on african-americans, on women. from him as a young senator pair that is moments away tonight. plus, numbers do not lie. president trump s massive, huge, record turnout on super tuesday set new records, broke all expectations. remember, the republican primary is not contested. pretty amazing numbers you won t get from the mob. also coming up, we will analyze that, karl rove
important to address what we don t know as it is to illuminate what we do. tonight we re going to bring you the latest from our cnn correspondents around the world in countries where the impact of the virus is more clear than it is here right now. we ll be talking to experts in the field, medical professionals, scientists and care givers who are on the front lines. we ll talk to people who are patients infected with the virus tonight. a member of the president s coronavirus task force dr. anthony fauci joins us. and throughout the evening we ll be taking questions from people in the studio, on video and social media. there are thousands of questions we received just in the last few days. first, though, how we got here. health officials in china are trying to identify mysterious strain of pneumonia. this mysterious new cluster of pneumonia cases is raising deep concerns here and across the region. december 31st, chinese authorities informed the world health organization of an unusual illness in wuhan, china. officials believe the virus was transmitted to humans from animals. so this is where authorities believe the source of the coronavirus is. it s the wildlife and seafood market. and you can perhaps see over there it s cordoned off. you have police at all the corners. one week later health officials confirm this is a novel coronavirus and it s spreading quickly. hospitals in wuhan are overwhelmed with patient as the virus transmits from person to person. [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: within two weeks, the virus appears in other countries in the region. by 21st, it shows up in washington state, and the cdc warns it will get worse. it s not so much a question of if this will happen any more, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen. supplies of face masks run thin as fear and uncertainty about the virus grows. there is not going to be a vaccine for this thing readily available. we re going to have to rely on classic good public health measures. in the two months since it was first reported, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 76 countries, more than 90,000 confirmed cases so far, and more than 3,000 deaths. the trajectory of what we re looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain. we do expect more cases, and this is a good time to prepare. this is a fast-moving event, a fast-moving story and there is a lot of fear out there about everyday things including gatherings like this one. so to that point we asked everyone here if they had traveled recently to any of the hot spots just to be safe. the people gathered here told us they had not. that is certainly a good place to start. sanjay, let s talk about what we know and what we don t know. we learned a new or novel virus in china is spreading quickly around the world. we know it s a virus we ve all certainly heard about, but just a few months ago had never been diagnosed in a human being. we know the reportered numbers. nearly 100,000 people infected, 3,000 have died. we re going to talk about those numbers, they re really still just best estimates. we know the virus is spread through coughs and sneezes and droplets just like the flu, but it doesn t linger in the air like measles or small pox. we don t know for sure how long it lives on surfaces and we don t know why it appears that children don t seem to be hit as hard as adults. nor are we fully certain that if you catch it once, you can t catch it again. and we don t know for certain when this might end. big question. so much of this is a mystery still, and i realize we realize that can be a bit unsettling for people. so we want to make it clear as anderson did that tonight we re going to be honest with you. sometimes a void of information can be filled with bad information. so we re also going to clear up misconceptions. and i hope the knowledge that you get tonight will help relieve some of your fears and some of your anxiety. anderson, i think we also need to know and be prepared for what comes next so, we re going to spend the next two hours answering your questions and provide the perspective that everyone needs. we ve been talking a bit already about washington state and the epicenter of the outbreak is in kirkland, washington. we want to go to gary tuckman at the life care center there linked to 12 fatalities so far. the governor and mike pence spoke earlier. what s the latest, gary? reporter: anderson, we need to mention there has not been widespread transmission here in washington state. but that being said this nightmare scenario taking place at this small nursing home northeast of seattle does not bode well. 12 people are known to have died from coronavirus around the united states so as far. seven of those people lived inside this nursing center, the life care center, in kirkland, washington. that means more than 50% of the people we know died from coronavirus lived here. we don t know how the virus got inside this building. we do know that other people who live here, other people who work here, and other people who visit here are also sick and they are dealing with that right now. what s very disturbing according to family members we talked to today who have loved ones inside this building who are asymptomatic, no testing has been done for those people yet. despite all the talk of testing, these loved ones want their relatives to be tested. if they re not sick, they want to get them the heck out of here. if they are sick they realize they need to stay. they don t want to take a person who is infected and infect their loved ones and infect the public. these people are are upset, not with 9 people who work here, but their state government leaders and government leaders in washington, d.c. anderson? gary, this is sanjay. i have one more question for you. there s another cruise ship off the coast of san francisco. they are airlifting tests to that cruise ship. what have you learned about that? reporter: yes, sanjay. we have people driving by yelling at us right now so let me apologize for that. please, sir, quiet down if you don t mind. thank you. there was a man, 11 people have died here in the state of washington. one person in the state of california. that person was on the grand princess cruise ship on the cruise from san francisco to mexico. that cruise ship came back to san francisco. he died north of sacramento. the cruise ship continued from san francisco to hawaii and was coming back. the governor of california made a decision, it has been found out at least 35 people on the ish have flu-like symptoms. he said those people need to be tested before the ship is allowed to come back to san francisco. today a helicopter dropped testing supplies on the ship. people were tested. we ll get the results tomorrow. the decision will be made what to do with the cruise ship. it s one of the largest cruise ships in the world. 2,47b passengers, 1,100 crew members onboard. decision will be made tomorrow what to do with the cruise ship and the people aboard. gary, quickly, why haven t the folks there been tested? reporter: that is the $64,000 question right now, anderson. these family members we talked to today were so upset and they don t know the answer. they re not being told by any government leaders what to do, how to handle this. they re trying to be responsible. they don t want their loved ones to stay inside here if they are sick. if they are sick they can infect los gatos of people but they re not being given advice what to do. they can take their loved ones out of here, but right now they re not because they don t know if their asymptomatic relatives are okay to i can that out. gary, thank you very much. i want to go to china where there are 80,000 cases of coronavirus and 3,042 deaths. thus far officials have taken drastic measures. david culver, the day we hear cases in china are declining then we hear they are increasing. to your knowledge, what is the status of the spread of the virus there in, particularly in shanghai? how are things right now? reporter: you re right, anderson. we ve seen these fluctuations going up and down. it is important to distinguish where we are in shanghai versus the epicenter of all of this. that is hubei province, its capital the city of wuhan. it seems in shanghai things are under control. you look at the numbers in hubei it s rather intense. tens of thousands of people have been impacted by this and thousands have died. the concern going forward is the extreme containment effort and its effectiveness. as of now the world health organization has said china s containment of hubei province as a whole you re talking about lockdowns within and out that of province, they say it s rather effective and it s extreme. we talked to folks an hour or so ago. i was on the phone with one resident checking in. they cannot leave their homes. they re sealed within their residential complexes. basic necessities come to them. outside of that in hang high a lot more flexibility and freedom to move around. as far as how it s being handled from the government s level, we know that they are continuing to increase hospital capacity and that s interesting because we ve heard them say that more people are leaving the hospital versus going in, yet they don t want to get complacent, anderson and sanjay. the worst thinking is we ve got this beat. david, you ve been there since the beginning. this is sanjay. you ve been there since the beginning and you evacuated from wuhan. a lot we know is based on data out of china. one of the big questions in the medical community is how trustworthy is that data. do you have any sense that of? reporter: no question, sanjay. we ve been asking that question, too. i listened to what gary was expressing as far as the frustrations towards the state and federal leaders there in washington, and we saw that weeks ago here. i mean, it s echoing exactly what we were putting to some of the officials and we were hearing on the ground from folks who said, we know we might have it because our loved ones have been confirmed. we re experience being the same symptoms, yet testing has been delayed. it s not coming through. we also know that some of our loved ones have passed away and the doctors were pulling people aside and saying, it is, in fact, that pneumonia. however, they were never confirmed. what does that tell us? it wasn t going towards the total count. now, since we can say that the federal government here, the central government under president xi jinping, they have moved forward with getting a lot of those test kits to where they need to be and it seems as though they are coming to a place where they are being readily available. at least according to some of the folks we re talking to on the ground within wuhan and hubei province as a whole, anderson and sanjay. david culver, thank you very much. as the coronavirus has been spreading trade shows are closing, the louvre is reopened with new precautions. italy hard hit with nearly 4,000 case ands at least 148 people have died there. for more on all that of we re joined now by cnn s anchor christian amanpour. as you articulated, uncertainty is the worst thing. here they were talking about containment. now the chief medical officer says they are moving into the so-called second phase, which is control. and then there is research and mitigate. but that s what s happening right now. the british national health service is one of the most known in the world. the officials here say that the national health service, you know, will be able to cope, but there is a national shortage of nurses. as david has said and gary said, testing kits are in short supply, not only here but around the world. that s what s been happening. there hasn t been school closings like in italy. there s been one death and several dozen confirmed cases of infection. there is a sense that they might have to go into methods such as controlling how people work, keep them at home more. and it s called social mitigation. so also as you were talking about how do people deal with each other, social distancing, for instance. there is a huge amount of talk about should people shake hands, should they hug, kiss, what we are being told, it may sound basic, but you ve been talking about it. it s absolutely the case. the main advice that people here are being given is wash your hands and wash them over and over again. and if you use sanitizer, use something that s at least 60% alcohol contained. and that s another issue because those are rushing off the shelves and there is a lot of shortages in these things. but this is what we re seeing over here. we ve had cases of deaths in france. and all these governments are trying to figure out, because they do have centralized public health systems and hospital infrastructure. so they re trying to figure out how to now control because contain is somewhat somewhat sort of past that horse has bolted, so to speak. and cristian, it s sanjay. people may know this, but after china and south korea, italy now has the largest outbreak in the world. and as you mentioned, schools and colleges shutdown i think until the end of march or at least mid-march. is that affecting the rest of europe? i mean, given the proximity of all these places. to be frank, yes. because, again, uncertainty is the worst, worst thing. and this is what this is all about, uncertainty. and the worst is that one gets different views and different sort of expert opinions and so that s creating more uncertainty. but for sure, i mean just from closing schools in italy to closing big sporting events, here they are even deciding here in england whether they ll close sporting events. already premier league teams are told they can t even shake hands when they get out onto the field. but, you know, travel from italy is also a big worry in countries like great britain here and elsewhere. people are quite worried about travelers who come from italy because the cases that have been confirmed in many instances are because of contact with people who have come from italy. and even here in britain, i mean, in london, not far from where i m sitting, there s been one case according to the police, of a hate crime, a race-based attack on a person here on a commercial street in central london because they were asian. and this is, you know, this is another sort of worry. it s not widespread, but it s a worry as well. yeah. italy is very bad. of course, as you know, outside of europe iran is the biggest problem. yeah, christiane, thank you very much. the biggest outbreak of china, the biggest testing, ivan watson is in seoul. ivan, what s the situation like in seoul? how many cases are there now? reporter: well, the infection, the confirmed number of infections, anderson, has crossed the 6200 mark with at least 42 people who have died as a result of the disease. more than 70% of the infections have originated around the southern korean city of degu. that s where the cluster of the infections are in related to a religious organization that was holding prayer services there. it s also around that city that a 23-year-old u.s. soldier and his wife and child were also infected. and this has security implications because not only the u.s. military, but certainly the south korean military has had dozens of infections across all four branches of the military. and that has forced the u.s./south korean military alliance to postpone their joint military operations exercises indefinitely. i want to highlight another statistic. you mentioned this. this is the aggressive testing for the coronavirus here in south korea. more than 150,000 tests conducted since the virus first appeared here, and the authorities are working so hard to expedite this. there are even drive-thru testing facilities to speed up the process and to limit the exposure of doctors and nurses to potential carriers. anderson, sanjay? something we haven t seen here in this country. ivan watson. 150,000 in south korea. do we know how many have been tested here? about 1,500. 1,500 in the united states. yeah. wow. a magnitude of difference. we re going to go to japan next where the world s attention has been focused for sometime. was focused on the quarantined diamond princess cruise ship. in a few months now, the summer olympics are scheduled to begin. there are just over a thousand cases in japan with at least 12 deaths and cnn s will ripley is in tokyo for us. will? what s the latest, will? reporter: so, this has not been a great week for organizers of tokyo 2020 and the enter nationality olympic committee because japan saw the case numbers rise over a thousand. you have infectious disease experts the number could be ten times the official report because of the fact this country s testing so few people. you have olympics organizers saying they re still going to deliver the games at the end of july. a growing number of people questioning whether it s going to be safe to do that given you have people from 200 plus countries scheduled to come from all over the world, living in close quarters for a period of weeks and then going back to their home countries. the concern of course is if this outbreak continues to intensify, if it becomes a pandemic by summer will they be able to hold the games? 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well, the issue is that something we need to take seriously, but we should not be panicking about it. if you look at the united states as a whole and look at the difference between what the risk of getting infected is and if a person gets infected like what we re seeing in washington state around seattle, the two different issues, the risk of getting infected as taking the nation as a whole is low. but that could change. as we re seeing in seattle, we have some community spread, which elevates the risk a bit for the community, which is the reason why in seattle the authorities have appropriately done the beginning of social distancing, which is kind of mitigation. if a person is infected, if you look at the experience from china, from korea, and from italy, the overwhelming majority of individuals will do quite well. they ll be able to spontaneously recover without any specific kind of medical intervention. however, about 15 to 20% of the individuals very heavily weighted towards the elderly, those with underlying conditions, like heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, are really at considerable risk for a bad outcome, including death. so you have to make sure that when we approach this we protect the vulnerable while telling the people who are young and healthy that with few exceptions, they will do well. so that s really to try to get a broader understanding of where we are right now with this outbreak. just to be clear, those people who are young and healthy who may get it and will be okay, it will be i guess like a bad flu or something for them. they can still pass it on to other people, though. just because they re health y doesn t mean they should go to work, things like that. oh, absolutely, anderson. that s very important. i mean, people who are infected will pass it on to other people, and that s the makings of an outbreak. i m just talking about in general the risk of infection versus when you are infected, the risk of something going bad for you. right. dr. fauci, it s sanjay. you know, we ve heard from the vice-president recently that we want to make sure people who want to get tested can get tested. people who have concerns can get tested. at the same time, we hear that there are not enough tests to go around. what are we supposed to take away from that? you know, sanjay, you re right. it got off to a slow start. there were some missteps with regard to the cdc s test. they had a problem. they fixed the problem. now by the end of the week they should be able to get out about 75,000 tests. they have now partnered with the private sector so that everything doesn t have to come from the cdc, which generally makes tests for the public health segment. when you get the commercial segment that can then make millions, millions of tests, what you re going to see in the reasonable future is a dramatic escalation in the number of tests that are going to be available. but you re absolutely right. up to this point there has been a lag in the ability to get tested. let me just follow-up on that. in terms of the you said by the end the week. do you mean like tomorrow or do you mean sunday? and how many tests you say will be out there available by then? well, what they are telling us, what the cdc and the fda is saying, that by the end of the week, the beginning of next week, they should be able to get 75,000 tests out there. and by the following week, they could get up to a million tests out there. that s the plan. that s what we re hearing. i don t want to belabor this. you ve answered this a lot. how many tests are we going to need, dr. fauci? you ve heard from south korea over 100,000 tests have been performed. how do we really get an idea of what s happened here in the states, how widespread this is? you know, sanjay, you and i have discussed this in the past. i ve been an advocate of much more proactive testing. not only testing when physicians ask for a test, but test to determine where we are and what levels under the radar. for that reason we re going to need millions and millions and millions of tests. that s what i feel and that s what many of my colleagues feel. dr. fauci, we have a question for you from wuhan, china, where an american, his name is doug perez, he s living, he s working, he s a school teacher. doug is joining us now. doug, i know your question is about u.s. travel restrictions from mainland china. i want to inform our viewers that currently u.s. citizens who are in wuhan, china, and can return to america have to enter through a specific airports and be under mandatory quarantine for 14 days. for all nationals, they are currently banned from entering the u.s. if they were in china in the last 14 days. so wuhan, the chinese government has actually locked down the city where you are so you cannot even get out of wuhan. doug, what s your question for dr. fauci? well, like you said, my question is especially important to many americans and other nationalities who are currently living in china. with new cases on the decline in china, while community spread propagates most new cases in the usa, does the trump administration have a time line for lifting travel restrictions on china? you know, i can t answer that question. there is no decision now about when that will occur. that s something that is evaluated, really quite frequently when the task force meet. we look at what the situation is on the outside regarding the imposition of and removal of travel restrictions. but the last time this was discussed, there was not any decision about removing it, but leaving it the way it is right now. dr. fauci, i want to talk about the mortality rates for a second and keeping in mind these numbers do change. but there does appear to be a pretty significant discrepancy between what the world health organization is saying and what we re hearing from the administration. do we have a sense of what the mortality rates really are? are they going to change? and why this discrepancy? sure. so, sanjay, what it is, when you look at the w.h.o. numbers, it s a purely arithmetic calculation. you look at the number of deaths as the numerator and the denominator as the number of infections. when you do the math, you click on a coronavirus tracker, those numbers come up, as you say. if you do that simple mathematical formula, what you have is a 2 to 3% mortality. however, when you do modelling, namely you figure out what the likelihood there is and to what extent you have asymptomatic infection, if there is a certain degree of asymptomatic infection and the assumptions in the model, then the denominator becomes much bigger. so what you re hearing is something that obviously is understandably confusing. the strict arithmetic determination and the model of what the range would be and the range is lower than that. how much lower, it s uncertain, but it s clearly lower than that. that s the model. but the actual calculation is 2 to 3%. so, dr. fauci, i m terrible at math, never good at it. that s why i m in tv. until we until there is more widespread testing in the united states, we won t know how many people in the u.s. actually may have the virus, and that will affect what the fatality rate is, correct? absolutely. and the assumption is, anderson, that there is a segment of the group we don t know how large it is who are without symptoms and are not getting counted in the calculation. and that s why the point you make is very valid. until we have a much more accurate determination of who is infected, including those who are asymptomatic, we will not get a more accurate determination of what the case fatality rate is. your point is very well taken. dr. fauci, i want to introduce a molecular parasitologist virologist, too. you re in professional health at nyu. correct. what s your question? assuming we have enough kits, why aren t we testing everyone and how do we determine who we will test? yeah, what i just said what will be available. today this evening, we don t have enough to do what we want to do. in the next week to two, it will rev up so that we will. and the first thing you want to do is you want to make it available to people who are trying to make a diagnosis on someone who comes in with symptoms to determine if, in fact, they do have coronavirus. but in addition to that, they should be the kind of sentinel screening to get to the answer that anderson just asked the question about. dr. fauci, before we let you go, i want to ask a simple question. for someone out there tonight who s got a cough, maybe they have a little fever, they haven t been to wuhan, they ve just been living their life and they re freaked out, what should they do? because obviously you don t want everybody who has the flu or cough to go into an emergency room demanding a test that is not available. exactly. so what do they do? yeah, you know, i think they should just go home and hunker down and recover at home. the chances are overwhelmingly likely that they have either influenza i hope they got their flu shot which will make it less likely to have influenza. but the overwhelming likelihood is it is not coronavirus. what they should do is just go home, hunker down, and recover. that s what you should do right now. again, because the risk across the country of infection is quite low. if you re in an area where there is community spread, as i said in seattle, that elevates it a bit. dr. fauci, thank you so much. i want to emphasize what dr. fauci said about the flu. and you and i, sanjay, have talked about this before. it s amazing to me all the people freaked out about coronavirus, as many as half of americans do not actually get a flu vaccine. only 45%. right. if you re freaked out about the coronavirus, you can t really do anything about it now, but you can do something about the flu if you haven t gotten a flu shot, you should get one. that way you can distinguish the two. dr. fauci, thank you. i want to bring in ron klein, coordinator under president obama. thank you for being with us. appreciate it. also dr. craig spencer. nice to see you, welcome. who contracted ebola in 2014 after treating patients in west africa. he s now the director of global health and emergency medicine at the columbia university medical center. thanks, guys, so much for being with us. thanks for having us. first of all, ron, i wonder what you made of what you heard from dr. fauci. what do you want americans to know right now who are worried about this? look, dr. fauci is a national treasure. he s advised six presidents as you said. i wish his advice was getting more purchase and more power in the administration. there is no excuse why we re in this testing mess. we knew in december this disease would come here. we had time to get ramped up. just this week the administration told us there would be a million tests by tomorrow. now dr. fauci says that number will be 75,000. maybe next week there will be a million tests. dr. fauci also told us we re going to need actually millions of tests. so we re far behind where we should be. we re far behind where korea is. we re far behind singapore, other countries are. that s a hard question. i have a couple more questions about that, but dr. spencer, let me ask you. you were the first person in new york to be to actually contract the ebola virus. how are you doing? i feel great. are you totally better. that s great to hear. thanks for asking. when you look at the response back then, 2014, how do you compare it to what s happening now? yeah, i think that s a great question. you know, in 2014 after i survived ebola, i went back to guinea to work as an epidemiologist to understand more about the disease. i ended up writing a piece really expressing my concern about how the political response had really taken priority over the public health response. and i think it s incredibly important right now. people need clear concise evidence-based messaging. they need to understand when testing is happening, who can get tested, what is their risk. and right now i think people have this disconnect between what they re hearing from public health authorities and what they re hearing by tweet. i think it s causing a lot of confusion, a lot of fear, a lot of hysteria, which is reminiscent of what we saw in 2014 and 2015. is there something you recommend that be done differently? i think my big message is proactive preparedness should take precedence over this reactive catch-up every single time. as ron pointed out, we knew months ago there was a problem likely going to come here and spread. we ve really torp apart the architecture. we ve ended great pandemic preparedness programs like predict to help us find diseases in places where these viruses are more likely to come and spread from. and i think that we just haven t taken the right time. we haven t taken the right preparation. we need to be as serious about preparation and preparedness as we are about response. ron, just in the last to the idea of kind of getting the right information out there, the president has, you know, reluctant to say this, but contributed to the problem by just kind of speaking off the cuff about this. he s got great people like dr. fauci on who are giving facts. he has sort of indicated at one point in the last couple days like a miracle this could just dissipate and disappear. he said they had 15 cases and they are all getting better. that might be the end of it. that was a couple days ago. obviously that didn t turnout to be the case. and he s even said, you know, he said last night on fox that there s people who are going to work and they get better and they re able to continue working. obviously you don t want to encourage anyone to go to work because even if they re feeling okay, they might infect other people. what kind of damage is this doing? you know, anderson, it s doing the worst kind of damage. when we talked a minute ago about the crisis of the confidence we re having, the failure of the response, there is a crisis of confidence. people can t believe what they re hearing from the president and that s really corrosive at a time of something like this. look, actually i think ironically it s not helping the president s own goal. even if you believe the president s goal is to try to calm people down, boost the markets, keep the economy going, all this misinformation actually just making people more anxious, more uncertain, more unsteady. and so i think the best thing the president can do is communicate less. let people like dr. fauci and the people at cdc do the communicating. they re the experts. when the president tries to tell people it s all going to be fine, it s a miracle, it will go away, that makes people more nervous, not reassured. why wouldn t the patients in that nursing home in washington be tested already? do you know? no. is there any scientific reason why that would be i think what we really want to do, as dr. fauci was splang, we want to expand that denominator. we want to know in new york city there are multiple cases with unlinked chains of transmission. we don t know how they were infected. we know that, that s already happened? yeah. we know there s transmission occurring in the community. and that s concerning from a disease detective standpoint because if we can t link everything back to one source or a couple different sources, we know that it s happening in different places, and that just increases the risk. some of the modelling issue, anderson, in that community there could be 1500 even based on looking at the genome of the virus circulating six weeks. let me ask you a follow-up question to what anderson was asking you. i looked at the modelling in this country, the overall pandemic flu response. let me put up these numbers. in a moderate scenario, what they say is a million hospitalizations, 200,000 people would need to be in the intensive care unit, and 64,000 people would need breathing machines. we don t have all that. we have maybe just barely that. and many of those ventilators and breathing machines are currently being used. what are we going to do if that many people actually need care like that? sanjay, it s a great question. it s a second area where the response has been laggard. testing is one area. getting our health care system ready for the influx of cases is something we should be doing now. we saw in china they built temporary hospitals. they flexed up their capacity. this is a point we all need to think about. it s not just the people who get coronavirus are going to be affected by this. if hospital emergency rooms are overwhelmed, if doctors and nurses treating those people get sick and staffing drops at our hospitals, if we don t have enough beds, people with other illnesses won t be able to get into the hospital and get treatment. right. people with routine medical conditions won t be able to get treatment. the possible impact on our health care system is something we should be using this time, as cases ramp up to get ready for. that s a big deficiency. do you think it s possible this will dissipate in april like the person indicated early on? i m not bashing the president. in warmer weather it doesn t do well and becomes seasonal. that going to happen here? dr. fauci said there are a lot of unknowns. you can t run government policy on hopes and wishes. what the public deserves is a health care system and a government that s powering that system that s preparing, maybe not for the worst case scenario but the medium case scenario dr. gupta just outlined. it s the responsible thing to be ready for. if it surprises on the up side, we re all better off and we can focus on craig s point which is preparing for the long run. whatever happens with this one, this isn t the last time we re going to do this. you guys will be doing this two years or three years from now when we have the next one. we shouldn t be catching up then. we should be ahead of the game. investments in responding to this are preparedness also for the next time we go through this. ron klein, craig spencer, thank you very much. up next we ll talk via skype to a man who has coronavirus being treated thin country s only federal quarantine unit. we ll be right back. i want to rock! 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i know you said you re feeling great now. what was the first symptom? what was the worst, you know, what does it compare to exactly? yeah, the common denominator seems to be a spiked very high fever in a quick amount of time. we had been sent back from the diamond princess over to the states on a 747 cargo plane. when i got on the plane, i fell asleep. i was still feeling fine when we got on the plane. fell asleep next to my wife. two hours later i woke up and i had a high fever, 103 plus. my wife looked at me and said, you re flush. i think you ve got it. i went back to the doctor on board the plane. he tested me and saw that i did have the fever. was put in a quarantine area. flown here to omaha, and put in the biocontainment center where i was, again, tested for the actual virus. and it came out positive. but it felt less than a common cold. i didn t have a stuffy nose. didn t have a sore throat. the fever was high, but no body aches, no chills, no sweating that usually comes with 103 fever. yeah. and after about eight or nine hours, the fever was gone. and, doctor, it s sanjay gupta. i first met you when the university of nebraska was taking care of ebola patients back six years ago. can you give us a sense of how the patients are doing over there in nebraska? how we hear from carl, but how sick have some of these patients become? well, we re very pleased to serve as a national resource in this time of need. and much of the experience is exactly as was just related. this is a virus that causes can cause serious illness, but in most people it s relatively mild. fevers, cough, and then unfortunately if it progresses to worsening lower respiratory tract infection, pneumonia and in its worst instances, death. that seems to be more prevalent in older folks and those with underlying diseases. again, the majority of folks do tend to do fine and we re very pleased that with these 15 people that we ve taken care of recently, that actually we ve had seven of them restored to health and have been released home. we still have eight of them here in either our quarantine unit or in the biocontainment unit. you know, doctor, there have been these interesting trials out of china where they have tens of thousands of patients looking at different therapeutics. everyone is focused on the vaccine. but the idea of looking at antivirals that might be beneficial, that s obviously a big deal as well. that could really be helpful here. they are conducting trials in nebraska as well. have you learned anything? is there something that you think it looks promising? well, it s too early to say, but we re very pleased with the fact that we brought this trial on extremely quickly along with our colleagues at the n.i.h. and the leader here at the university of nebraska is dr. andrej kaleel running the trial. it s a very well designed study. it shows great promise. this was a drug that was developed and tested initially against ebola virus. it was found to not be effective against ebola but did seem to work against some of these coronaviruses like sars and mers, and so it really does seem to show some promise now with it treatment of the covid-19. so we re very hopeful but it s way too early to so it really does seem to show some promise now with the treatment of covid-19. so we re very hopeful but it s too early to say anything. i understand you ve been receiving threats. one wants to think that everybody is sympathetic and, you know, understanding you ve done nothing wrong in all of this. what kind of threats have you been receiving? it s run the gamut, it s unfortunate. we own the local radio station there and 95% of the people are wonderful but a number of them don t want to be near her. she s decided to lay low. she is going to work every day, and then just going home, staying out of the public. but it s it has not been a pretty sight. people there s some people out there that didn t want us to come home from japan and i think since they ve felt that we were going to spread the virus throughout the united states. the folks here at home have been fantastic. and boy, if we could be treated anywhere in the world this is the place to be and in terms of being safe and contained, this is the spot. doctor, you know, we ve already been getting some emails from people saying, well, look, if this is something that, you know, even if it gets big and for most people it will not be a big deal, the fatality rates will be in the low whatever they end up being. why is this such a concern? i mean, is too much being made about this if it s something in the category of a bad flu or even a not so bad flu? well, you know, i think that there s a number of ways that this can be looked at. i do agree we need to take a collective deep breath and realize this is not some existential threat against mankind. a quarter to a third of us are not going to die in the next year. like in the middle ages. having said that, this is a very serious event. we need to take it seriously and do everything we can to blunt the spread of this pandemic. so, you know, this is a virus that appears to spread a lot like the flu, and so it is spread by droplets, people coughing and sneezing and touching objects and then it has serious ramifications, even if the death rate is within 1%. when you re talking of millions of potential infections, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. this is something we do need to be taking seriously, we do need to be preparing for it and doing everything that we can until we develop a vaccine or medications to blunt the effects of this. doctor, thank you for what you re doing and your whole team there. it s an incredible work that you do in this and always. thank you so much, and carl, we hope you feel better soon and we hope you get out there and rejoin your wife. we hope people leave her alone. thank you so much. take care. from geneva, switzerland, dr. maria vankerkove, what are you most concerned right now with this virus? for people around the world who are watching. thank you for having me. our biggest advice right now is to be ready. we want everyone to know what they can do to protect themselves, to protect their families at an individual level. we re working with governments all over the world to make sure that they re ready so that they can expect cases and they know what to do when those cases arrive. i want everyone to feel there s a collective responsibility and that they have some power in this. if everybody is working together they can fight this together. that s an important fight. i want to emphasize for our viewers, we can look to doctors and government officials, but it is each of us, individuals all around the world who are literally the front line of this. it s washing your hands, not just for yourself, it s for your fellow family members and fell low citizens. each of us have a responsibility in this. that s right. every single person on the planet has a responsibility here. and what we want people to know, as you say, wash your hands. it sounds very simple but it is incredibly important that you do this multiple times per day and you do this right. if you don t have access to that you can use an alcohol gel. we need to make sure people practice respiratory etiquette. again very simple. but when you are sneezing, you sneeze into your elbow or a tissue, and put it in a bin. you need to educate yourself on facts and not fear. people need to know where to get reliable information. they can come not w.h.o. website, the uscdc website. there many good sources of information. this is a situation that s evolving very, very quickly as you ve been reporting so we need people to come back and look and see what is latest information that they know? we are an evidence based organization so what we want to pull together all of the evidence about what we know about this virus and more importantly for the things that we don t know about this virus we re taking steps and working with partners all over the world to help us address those unknowns so come back, educate yourself, know what you can do, how you can protect yourself, how you can protect your family and be ready. doctor, you ve also traveled to china recently and it s obviously where this started. i think there s been a little bit of good news, maybe, that the numbers have started to not be increasing as rapidly in china as they had been. is that good news? can we read into that? are there lessons for other places around the world? yes, absolutely. there s lessons that we can learn from all countries dealing with this virus. i spent two weeks in china. working with chinese authorities to really understand what is being done there. and not only are we seeing numbers slowing, we re seeing numbers decline. we are seeing countries demonstrate that they can slow this virus down. that they can stop human to human transmission. and that is an incredibly powerful message. we re seeing that these actions that have been taken, these fundamental public health actions, in terms of looking for cases, looking for contacts, social distancing, staying home when you re feeling unwell, seeking medical care when you need to, those lessons can be applied to all countries. what is really interesting about this virus is that many countries, not just china, but china is the largest example we ve seen, that we can slow this down. this is a controllable virus. and that s a really important message. it s not uncontrollable. dr. van kerkove, thanks so much and i really appreciate all the work the w.h.o. is doing. straight ahead, we re going to take audience questions, around the country, all over the world. we ll be right back. dive in. polo deep blue the new men s fragrance ralph lauren how we worship, or who we love. and the 2020 census is how that great promise is kept. because this is the count that informs where hundreds of billions in funding will go each year for things like education, healthcare, and programs that touch us all. shape your future. start here. learn more at 2020census.gov (sensethe lack of control when iover my businessai, made me a little intense. but now quickbooks helps me get paid, manage cash flow, and run payroll. and now i m back on top. with koala kai. 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there s a lot of talk about the pathogen itself but i study the concurrent spread of rumors and misinformation. really clear, the disease is not the only thing that spreads. you also get rumors and health hoaxes, misinformation and emotional contagion as well. one person gets anxious and panics and you pick up on that and you get panicky. it s next to you, you have to be scared too. that kind of stuff is i usually get stared first. but that can be really dangerous because that can help the virus itself get a handle. people can stop acting so rationally. start acting from a place of fear. and being more superintendent susceptible to what spreads. w.h.o. is doing fantastic work but we do need public health agencies around the world to realize that disease is not the only thing that spreads. misinformation is contagious too. we have to take that seriously. let s take some questions from the audience. this woman is getting a masters in public health at columbia university. what s your question? my question is does the coronavirus change or mutate and could it affect a person more than once? we ve looked into this a bit. it s interesting. first of all, this coronavirus likely jumped from animals to humans. in order for that to do that it mutated at some point. as it spreads through humans it continues to mutate somewhat. we know, for example, this patient in washington, the first patient diagnosed in this country they looked at the genome and they tried to match it to subsequent infections, and there was a lot of similarities, but the virus continues to mutate. we don t know if it mutates into something that s more problematic or less problematic. interesting point, anderson. viruses don t want to kill their hosts. i don t want to assign a virus a personality. but as a general thing they want to keep their host alive. so oftentimes they ll mutate into something that s less lethal. to be clear, if somebody gets sick with a virus, gets over it, is negative, do we know, can they then get it again? are they immune for a couple months or years? is it known? this is a little bit of an open question. i did ask dr. fauci this at the white house a few weeks ago. it s interesting because we don t know for sure. the general thing is once you re infected it s like getting vaccinated. this virus, he believes, should behave the same way. there have been some reports around the world where people have become infected more than once but that might just be a testing issue more than the fact the virus has changed so much. this is robert levan jr., an elementary schoolteacher. thanks for being with us. good evening. so each evening our custodial staff in my district work diligently to make sure our schools are clean. however we know once the kids get off the bus and run to the classroom, everything changes. what should teachers be doing daily in their classrooms to protect themselves this their students. the cleaning is spot on. but what of on the mysteries, it doesn t seem to be affecting children as much. less than 1% in children. so the largest data, that is about 415 kids. so that is different than the regular virus where you do see kids really affected so watching that space really closely. let s be practical. not only for your classroom, but for airplane seats, movie theater seats. i was at the gym today. what should i be wiping down? should i be in this gym? what do you recommend? i try to wipe things down. i m one of the guys on the airplane i ve never done that before. tray table i do it and i notice the guy next to me starts doing it as well. contagion. that s a good contagion. but we ve often heard, don t overuse this anti bacterial stuff, you really think it s a good idea? the way a lot of people can contract this virus is touching something and then touching their eyes, nose or mouth. tray tables are one of the dirtiest places on the plane. the pouch in front where everyone puts their old food don t put your things in there. janae moody is getting a masters in public health at nyu. she has a question. welcome. now that the disease is in several countries do you think it is effective to continue doing travel restrictions? let s go to ben wedeman for that. he s in milan, which has created red zones. what does that mean and has it been effective? these are so-called containment areas, covers about 11 towns where 50,000 people live and around those so-called red zones, the police, the army, the military police have set up roadblocks where they check everybody going in, and going out to see if they are permission to do so. most of the in habitants of that area simply cannot leave. the whole idea is to prevent the spread of the coronavirus because that s where the outbreak was first concentrated. what we ve seen in this part of italy is that despite these containment areas, these red zones, the virus has spread to other areas, so the government is considering creating new red zones. now, the red zones that were set up are due to, at least in theory, they should come to an end this coming sunday. there s a question of whether they will be extended. and therefore there s a big debate here in italy whether they have been effective at all because the numbers, frankly, continue to rise. when we arrived here ten days ago the number of infected cases was 322. the number now being reported is 3,858. so there s a question of how effective these containment measures are. ben wedeman, thanks. let me follow up with sanjay. in china the numbers are dropped so it s an authoritarian regime and they were able to lock down people and force them to stay in their homes. that s not a situation here we have faced. that s part of the issue, if people don t abide by this, and actually are real honest about, you know, biding by the quarantine it may not work as well. and pointing out in this country we really haven t done quarantines for 60 years, just to give you some context of how big a deal this is. during smallpox in the 1960s. what happened with that first plane that came out of wuhan, 195 air passengers, they went to southern california and quarantined for two weeks. that was an unusual event in this country. and some people feel that did help. but as far as the screenings go and all that, it s unclear how much of an impact that s going to make. we don t know. we haven t done this in a long time. tough to say. we asked for video questions as well. this is from donna from massachusetts. she sent it in to us. take a look. yes, my question is, as a small animal veterinarian, how stable is the virus outside of the host? for example, could a pet be a vector of transmission by virtue of having been in contact with a symptomatic patient. let me translate that. as i understand it, can you infect your pet, can your pet infect you? i have a couple thoughts. first of all it s likely this came from animals, just most of the pathogens as you mentioned earlier do come from animals. hiv came from animals. even previous coronaviruses. sars, and then the mares he s always challenging me. i know he s a doctor, neurosurgeon, you know, i have skills too. you do. i don t. middle east respiratory syndrome came from camels. so this likely came from animals. there evidence this could go the other way. there was a dog that was swabbed and found to have it in its nasal cavity. just because it goes back and forth doesn t mean it makes the other animal sick. we ll take a short break. when we come back, chef jose andres. the kitchen team has thrown themselves into the outbreak. we ll have more of that. e trade core portfolios is an easy, automated way to get invested. we ll save you time by building, monitoring and managing a portfolio for you and provide all hands-on deck support when you need it- helping you become top dog. think you need to buy expensive skincare products [ ] to see dramatic results? 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the chief chefs were cooking the food? if you are in a place, a hotel, a cruise ship, where everybody may be under infected, logical to say that you want to make sure in this case food is prepared outside. right. people who were injected should not be cooking food and giving it to people who may not be infected. that does not make sense. it is a logical thing. princess cruise line they call us, the government of japan was actually very helpful. we sent some of our best team members, we were in mozambique. after the typhoon, there was a lot of cholera. every single place we were cholera was not an issue. we had good protocols. to handle that. cholera and coronavirus are two different things but nonetheless we were kind of trying to respond to those situations, to make sure that our people are the cooks were protected but at the same time we were doing it in such a way that everybody will be protected. we would cook outside, we got a lot of help from different japanese chefs. chef noble was super helpful. we will bring the food to these kitchens near the boat where we will reheat the food and put it back and bring it in with a forklift. everything and they distribute it. and then inside they will take care of it. everything was done, i would say, in a very professional way to make sure that everybody will be safe, achieving what we wanted, feed everybody in a healthy way. you ve learned the learning curve has been huge for you and you re feeding millions of people in puerto rico and bahamas and places where food isn t getting out. what have you learned about disaster response? when i hear, you know, you and i had dinner the other night and when you told me what you were doing i thought it was amazing but i was also freaked out that a guy who s just gotten involved in disaster relief is the one who s feeding people in this situation. you would think there would be protocols and a long established way of doing this kind of stuff. seems they are reinventing the wheel every time. what have you learned about disaster relief from your point of view and what needs to get better in an outbreak like this? in the 21st century we need to be asking from our local governments. and more responsibility. if they re in charge of taking care of the people of the world, they should be taking care of the people of the world. let me tell you what we need to do, we need to give voice and the tools of success of the people that know, very often we listen to the people that don t know. we need the professionals and the experts with the power to execute protocols that will be successful. i see way too many politicians speaking, way too many people speaking in congress. those people should be on the ground on the front lines. there is a problem in any state in the united states of america, we need the best people there making sure that that will never be a problem. that s what i m saying. for example, one of the biggest problems, if we shut down the schools, poor neighborhoods and school districts, who is feeding those children where their only meal every day only happens at the school. we need to be planning less and adapt more. i feel that sometimes we have way too many plans and nobody we need to be training people to be adaptable. you need to adapt to situations you never see coming. that is global kitchens. that s the main expertise. i m glad you re in this fight. quick break, and more audience questions coming up next. we ll be right back. billions of mouths. billions of problems. dry mouth? 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talking tonight about how we all are having to adapt to the coronavirus outbreak. right know want to turn to another let of it. the racism and xenophobia it s sparked in some people. we have an audience question about that in a moment. one incident, shot in a los angeles subway, by a woman who is not chinese. she s american of thai descent. she was subjected to a verbal rant by a man who immediately started talking immediately about the coronavirus apparently we have problems with that video. he rambled on for more than ten minutes, she said, nobody on the subway helped her at all. i think it s now working. let s take a look. every disease has ever came from china, everything comes from china. it s disgusting. a man who knows a lot about being disgusting. so it s incredibly disturbing to see that and we heard from carl earlier who s in quarantine whose wife is getting hassled at work because she s with him. i want to introduce everybody to adam whalen. let me i can t even say exactly what you are so much smarter than me. you re a biostatistics major. yes in epidemiology. what s your question? covid-19 is not only a biological disease, it s a social one. many of us in the public health field have seen overt xenophobia targeting asian-americans as a result of this outbreak and as incidents increase so too will the discrimination. how do we separate the biological facts from the disease to the racist views members of this community face? david, if you have any take on this question, what are you seeing on the ground in china, how people are being treated? this has been going on, anderson, and sanjay and adam to your question, for several weeks. we ve seen this with regards to folks who are of asian descent, not only in places like in the u.s., but also in europe. some of the cases that we ve heard have been as extreme as chinese tourists with a group and being left behind and essentially stranded and then the chinese government trying to figure out how to get the tourists back. people being pushed away on the subway. here in china it s also been happening. it s folks from hubei province or from wuhan. it s happening at the domestic level as well where people are beings on ta sized. being taxis pass you and don t pick you up. it s a real issue that s gotten the attention of the government and the state media in particular. in part to answer adam s question what the government here has been doing through certain propaganda outlets as well have been trying to diffuse this and stressing that everyone is going through this together, this is a collective effort to try to push past but also they re issuing policy and doing so against western countries like the u.s. the chinese government, for example, has advised their citizens not to go to the u.s. they re saying do not travel there because you will potentially be treated unfairly in the midst of all of this. it s rising the ranks to the governmental level too. it s a real concern and one that s seeming to only grow as this crisis grows. yeah. we have another question from bianca hunter, a production editor at gillford press here in new york. what s your question? isn t it true that children often don t show symptoms of illnesses, as early as adults, like they can they basically can look like they re not sick, and then by the time you start to seek help or whatever they re really sick, like gravely ill because they, you know it s interesting because with this particular virus, for whatever reason, we don t know, it s good news though, that kids seem to be somewhat insulated from this. they can get the infection but they re not getting really sick. your point is a good one that sometimes with other viruses kids will look fine for a period of time and because they don t have as much reserve they can suddenly start to decline. doctors and hospitals have to keep a close eye monitoring kids for a period of time for that reason. we still don t know why kids are so protected from this. there might be some clues in that going forward. is there something we can learn from kids that we can apply adults as well. deborah warren, should we be concerned about products that have arrived via mail? since not knowing how long a virus to sit on surfaces? we have an idea this virus might survive on surfaces for a few days but it depends so much on the particular conditions. put a virus on a dry fabric, it may not stay but you add what we call a microdot of snot, and you have the humidity and moisture that lets the virus thrive. so it depends on the conditions again. this is a new virus. what about money? you know currency. it can be the chinese government has been burning currency to make sure it s not causing more disease spread. do we know for a fact it can be on money? card board, because it s so porous, it won t last there, but money they were burning it because they were worried it was contaminated and a source of spread. the tweet questions i just saw on the wall and i ve seen a couple, people are saying they ve booked for a cruise in a couple weeks, should they go? i mean, i know what my answer would be but i m not a health professional so i m not going to here s the issue. if you re totally fine, if somebody gets sick on your cruise ship you saw what happened with the diamond, you see what s happening with this cruise ship off the coast of san francisco, most of the people on that ship are fine but now they may be quarantined. they re sort of cruising off the coast of california, not coming into san francisco yet so you could be wrapped up in it even if you yourself physically are well. same thing with traveling, should you go on a vacation overseas, not so much the threat to you particularly but just getting trapped in a place where they suddenly have a quarantine of a particular area you re staying in. that s something you have to take into consideration. or flight travel, airplane flights are going to be cancelled, fewer flights, harder to get to and from. i do say cruise ships are hot zones, outbreaks are so common, if not something respiratory. when you have that many people packed together one person gets something and it spreads so quickly. even saying the winter vomiting virus sounds lovely. i ve had it when i worked in a hospital, not lovely. this is a student at ncu. what s your question? if i have been exposed to covid-19 and i do not have insurance who will pay for the treatment and recovery involved? great question. can i just say that we talked earlier on your show about the test kits being broken, but we need to talk about the system being broken. 27 million americans are uninsured, many more are underinsured and we have so much data already that that delays people getting the treatment that they need at the best of times. that s not good. but during an epidemic that s terrible. it delays people getting the care they need, which is bad for them but it s bad for everybody. do we even know if the testing is free? the testing is free. it s considered an essential health benefit now. so that part will be covered but i think your question is about the hospitalization, everything that would be associated with that. that s expensive. there s no guarantees about that being covered. there s not a guarantee about that part but the testing at least for the time being will be covered. as far as we know we re hearing it s covered by medicare and medicaid, and state and local public health labs. watch that as it s changing. practical questions too, a lot of people have talked about this, but masks. i you know, this is a really interesting thing. i found this fascinating. people do want to take control in a situation like this. we can t be dismissive of the idea people want to wear masks. for someone who s healthy, it s not going to protect you against the virus. important point, the surgical mask will not protect you against the virus. it may actually become a reservoir when you re taking it on, when you re taking it off. you could actually contaminate yourself. a reservoir it traps viral particles. it doesn t do what people think it would do. i think masks are good for people who are already sick because it may decrease the amount of respiratory droplets coming out of their mouth or nose. for health care workers taking care of very sick patients. they need a special mask, n 95 mask which is airtight. when you wear a mask you end up fussing with the mask, more than anything, it doesn t fit right, your glasses get fogged up. people touch their eyes you re touching your face even more when you wear a mask. you have a false sense of security. we do tell health care workers it s okay for them to wear the surgical mask to prevent droplets. the masks that people are buying are meant for single use. the idea that you re going to be wearing that for days at a time not wise. it could become contaminated. 95 is not for everybody. you have to be fit tested and i have a weird face and 95s don t fit on my face. i have to wear a different kind. people are walking around with facial hair and what beard works and doesn t work. there was some terrible recommendations around that. i ve seen people wearing gas masks, which seems very extreme. but you need a special water in a gas mask is difficult. i don t know why i know this. people have been wearing gas masks on the tube in london as if we re back in wartimes. the issue we had in the uk is that there was a mask shortage. dentists were told to cut back the number of patients they should cena given day because they did not have enough masks to do their work. with epidemics, it s the trickle down effect that overwhelming the system at large. up next, a closer look at how the virus may have originated. go to fact versus fiction, with dr. sanjay gupta. podcast any time you and any where you listen to your favorite podcast. we ll be back. h. invisible on hair. no residue. just non-stop refreshed hair for 24 hours. new fructis invisible dry shampoo. by garnier, naturally! rowithout the commission fees and account minimums. so, you can start investing wherever you are - even on the bus. download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. ( ) ato make shaving enjoyable.night to ensure sharp, quality blades, grippy, colorful handles, and fair prices, every day. doesn t that sound nice? talk for a moment now about a word you may have been hearing a lot lately in connection with with the outbreak, the transmission of deadly viruses from animals to humans. it s a topic we covered a bit in cnn. this is from a documentary sanjay and i did back in 2008, planet in peril. some of the video is graphic. just want to warn you. take a look. this monkey is infected with rote ro viruss nathan wolf is concerned about what what unknown viruses these animals are carrying. touching off a pandemic. there s at least three viruses you know about in this particular monkey. this species, yeah. and there s many more pathogens present in these animals. these individuals are at specific risk, particularly depending on the level of contact, but if there s blood contact they re at risk for transmission and infection with novel viruss. novel viruss. back with me are dr. sanjay gupta. you saw nathan wolf. nice to see you, never seen you in a suit. always been in forests with you. you warned of this back in 2008. and before that as well. i wonder what you make not only of this outbreak, but just the global response as well. well, look, it s important to think about we talked about the 1918 pandemic, how many flights were there in 1918? zero. how many flights do we anticipate in 2020? 40 million flights. the nature of our world and the connectivity of our world has changed so dramatically we re going to continue to see these outbreaks again and again. the reason we were in the forest, that s basically the front line of where that transmission may occur, a hunter kills an animal, the animal s blood has been carried back, skinning the animal, might get blood on the hunter and with a cut, enters the human body. for many people they may feel what we re experiencing is a groundhog day and it s certainly the case these epidemics are going to continue into the future. but a lot has happened since 10, 12 years ago when we were doing this. there s been a tremendous investment. now the u.s. government invests something on the order of $12 billion a year for health security. it needs to be sustained, it s not enough but what we weren t doing then we do now. health security, what does that mean? it means catastrophic health risks like epidemics but potentially other risks as well. there s a tremendous amount of change that s happened but we also are missing a big future piece and it s important for people to consider and maybe it s appropriate for your next guest. we consider the impact on mortality and morbidity. do people die or get sick, there s also livelihood damage, which is worst case scenario, the worst absolute scenarios, 99% of the people on this planet are going to live and many of those people will be devastated financially. whether it s loss of a breadwinner, whether it s absenteeism, whether the impact of corporations going down in this and we ve had huge, huge changes with hurricanes and earthquakes. where now there s insurance, there s mechanisms for understanding risks. this is not happening at all in regards to epidemics. we re ten years behind. can i ask you a quick question? you were in those forests areas and i remember you talking about this chatter that goes back and forth between animals and humans, the pathogens going back and forth. could this have been predicted? given that we keep encroaching on animal habitat, will we see more of these outbreaks? let s face it, we understand much more about this class of viruses than we did 12 years ago. we ve seen mrs, sars, and we now have seen this sars coronavirus 2, covid-19. all of these bats may have come through a camel, but these come from horseshoe bats almost certainly, there s where all the diversity exists. the notion that within 24 to 48 hours you can get a sequence out of a virus, there s been a tremendous amount, we heard earlier about usad predict. there have been a huge number of projects that have fundamentally changed what we ve done. the question is where do we go from here and continue to move forward? it s also interesting, we were in cameroon, i think. when we shot that. it seems far away to most people. it s only two plane rides away. one short flight and one very long flight and today it s not just that food, the bush meat, it can end up in the united states or markets all around the world. we are much more connected in that way and as there s people migrating there s also food migrating and people coming into contact with animals they hadn t previously. yeah and the science is really advanced tremendously. there s a fascinating new project called the global viron project. the idea is can we really continue what we ve done and sequence enough to know the vast majority of viruses out there with pandemic potential. we ll experience more and more of these and we ll be sitting in this audience again in five years, in ten years, in 20 years. it seems like we don t necessarily learn the lessons in how to respond or we re learning them new each time? is that fair? we have improved, i would say. i was thinking back to 2008 things really have improved since then. you see the speed at which you get great health communication out of places like vietnam. massive investments by the vietnamese government and u.s. gomplt. government. the connectivity improves. global interdependence of our economy. so the cost of these things is going to continue to mount. i am shocked over the last couple of years working with corporations, how unconcerned they are with these phenomenons, how they lack the capacity to have the data that influences their impact and unlike hurricanes and earthquake, almost no corporate insurance. disney world in florida closed, i think it s seven or eight times due to hurricanes. you can bet that that risk has been transferred and mitigated and spread around. shanghai disney land closes. undoubtedly that has not occurred. that s very important. if this would have become an epidemic that would kill percentages of the human population, could be talking about defaults in life insurance, a whole range of impacts on human population. we re just starting to see the impact financially. david culver, they shut down the particular market. but what about other markets across the country? that was considered to be the epicenter. and we were there before the lockdown. the belief was that the transmission happened there initially but what we re hearing is conflicting data. officials believe it may have come before the market and the first known case didn t have any connection to the market. several of the following cases were linked to that location. several other markets were shut down. the chinese government worked quickly. while that was a seafood market, wildlife, they believe, was being sold illegally. so they made clear there s a ban on consumption and sale of wildlife. but flay enforcing it and coming down hard on it. it s beyond the origins. it s affecting not just the outdoor markets but supermarkets. regular grocery stores. we went shop thinking weekend to get a feel of what it was like and you step into the grocery store, the people are layered up. they re wearing gloves. covering their kids and strollers in plastic. they re wearing gloves. one by one carts are sanitized and handed off to you. they have people going through the aisles with loud speakers saying keep a meter apart. if that s not enough they will physically remind you to keep a meter apart from the next person. that s the extreme it s coming to and people seem to be adjusting, anderson, to this new normal. thank you very much. i want to bring in a student at columbia university. what s your question? my question centers on the validity of the statistical measures currently being used to quantify the spread. i m concerned about the reports regarding slow spread of coronavirus in africa given the devastating effects of ebola. is it not taking hold in africa or are we inaccurately measuring its spread? nathan? what do you think? yeah, look, i do think when we measure preparedness of countries around the world, again, things have improved. they continue to improve. but not every part of the world is equally prepared. and some parts of the world have massive population density and sometimes they overlap, think about a city like delhi or bombay. i think we have to be very concerned. we have to provide tremendous support to the scientists and public health officials in places that are still developing health infrastructure. like africa. i do think that the capacity to detect cases is improved dramatically it s not anywhere near where it could be. also it brings up the larger point even in the united states, because we don t have testing widespread yet we don t know the scope of this. we don t. but we should point out that in nigeria, there has been a case confirmed of coronavirus and they did an amazing job with ebola back in 2014. there was a patient who showed up in lagos at the airport, collapsed in the airport terminal, many health care workers subsequently got infected and they were able to contain that. i ve talked to my colleagues and they say they want increased testing as well like so many places do. they feel like they have the capacity and the experience to be able to control this. there are certain places around the world that just have a good infrastructure for this sort of thing. accurate statistics. they need that. this is eric brokoy, a nurse here in new york city. nurses rock, thank you for being one the new york subway is the main transportation in new york city. i don t see it shutting down or else i can t go to work. but what are the mta measures to prevent the transmission and proliferation of the virus? . i will give that to richard. many things on cnn is our travel expert in all things. on the subway there is not a lot you can do in that respect. the previous speaker was making the point. the metro in paris, the subway in new york. they are the backbones of the economic system of getting most of us to work. and the reality is all you can do is the very fundamental and basic advice you ve been hearing and that brings up old issues. i was traveling through europe and many more people were wearing masks now. what about airplanes? everything i ve heard about airplanes is people are afraid about circulating air. it s an issue of being close and somebody sneezes on you. we were talk in the zika manual about this. so, the air is changed in the plane. refreshed every three minutes. and as the cdc pointed out, in a graphic which gave the heebie-jeebies to most people, you are two people away. so, my passenger next to me i m in trouble with and sanjay, just about i would not be. the airlines are tedeeply, deep concerned. they re doing what they can but this is a major economic disruption the airlines have in the travel industry. you disinfect with wipes and if you re on the subway you re holding on the rail, hold ogen the rail. even during flu season i think the same principals you re talking about should be applied here. like flu season. we just don t think about it as much. those are two you should get a flu shot. i ll be curious what percentage is developed. this is thank you so much for being here. you re getting a masters in public health. that s awesome, at nyu. recently north korea has drive-thru testing stations. why do you think this idea has not been implemented in the united states? i want to go to ivan watson. he actually went to a drive-thru testing station and got tested. what was that like? i drove a car through and got the test. i had a swap shoved way too far up my nose, which is part of the process. the mayor says he was inspired by starbucks and mcdonald s drive-thru s. and they stay protects the doctors and nurses because the patients never get out of the car and can process mer than 300 people per day. and as we ve report pdfore, more than 150,000 have been tested here. i think this is a question about people coming up with ideas. they they re it s midday in the capitol. life has not stopped just because you have the coronavirus. you have the second most number here. a message i would send having covered this in the reej and many are living here with the uncertainty. life still does go on though you may get crasisy trying to take care of your kids at home when schools are closed for weeks f not mungs at a time. are you restricting travel? being forced to in some cases, otherwise, not really. we have to be able to travel. and for most people, they will not be affected directsly in anyway way, shape, or porm and bl by the way the travel industry. that s the way most people are going to feel the effects of the crisis. i don t think it s enough to say don t panic unless you re saying don t panic because or don t panic but do get prepared. diseases do not spread in isolation. they spread along side pseudo science and antivaccine messages. we talk about the people with minimal symptoms. 80% of the people. will likely get and have no symptoms. i got to say i ve been thing about my farnts lot. i think action can inform how we do things. the idea nursing home in washington state ended up being a place the virus spread, how do we protect popal elderly and with preexisting conditions. with facts, not fear. thanks everyone for watching. the news continues next on cnn. goodnight. at fidelity, we can help you build a clear plan for retirement without the unnecessary fees you might expect from so many financial firms. we ll make sure you can cover the essentials, as well as all the things you want to do. because when you have a retirement partner who gives you clarity at every step, there s nothing to stop you from moving forward. here s wishing you the bluest sky there s nothing to stop you from moving forward. 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