his brother's son. edward feels like cavorting with the nazis. >> all of this is undermining bertie. >> edward has not adjusted to the fact that he is not king. this is a big problem. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, hundreds of americans quarantined for weeks aboard a cruise ship are finally on their way back to the united states. but they won't be headed home to their families just yet. plus, u.s. attorney general william barr under fire. calls for his resignation from one group that says his behavior presents a grave threat to justice. and how one police officer is using his hoop skills to transform the lives of kids living in los angeles.

♪ ♪ good to have you with us. so, any moment now, more than 300 americans who were quarantined on a cruise ship in japan because of the coronavirus are expected to land on u.s. soil. a few hours ago they took off from tokyo on two charter planes. now heading to two military bases in the u.s. where they are expected to spend another 14 days under quarantine. meantime, australia says it will send a charter flight to japan to evacuate its citizens on board the diamond princess wednesday. now, this comes as the number of infections and deaths continues to rise. authorities say another 105 people died in mainland china on sunday, bringing the global death toll to more than 1,700.

at least 71,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide. the vast majority of them in mainland china. and cnn's will ripley joins me now from yokohama in japan where that cruise ship, the diamond princip diamond princess has been docked. good to see you, will. this has been such an ordeal for everyone on board the cruise ship. now the last 300 or so americans are headed home. they should arrive very soon, but now they'll have another two weeks in quarantine. what all have these passengers been through so far? >> reporter: well, we've been following extensively, rosemary, their time on the ship. nearly two weeks of quarantine, most of it spent in their cramped cabins. then the word that the u.s. government was coming to their rescue, or so they thought, sending in two charter flights to bring the americans home. but keep in mind these are people who received probably a dozen emails assuring them that after they finish the 14-day

quarantine period on the diamond princess that they would be allowed to go home and they'd be allowed to go home on commercial flights. and instead what they learned is they have to get on these converted 747 cargo planes with temporary toilets, makeshift seats, and had to fly with 14 passengers who tested positive for coronavirus who were kept in isolation on the flights. and so it's a pretty uncomfortable ride, frankly, a ten-hour flight in a pretty cold cabin that doesn't have the temperature controls of a regular airliner. so i would imagine when these passengers land, let's be honest, they're going to be feeling pretty miserable. they had basically a long sleepless night. it took almost ten hours from the time they started getting off the diamond princess, and then boarding a convoy of buses to take a 20-minute drive to the airport and get on those flights. so they were already tired and pretty beleaguered before the planes took off. we haven't spoken with any of them obviously during the flight. these aren't planes that have wi-fi.

there's no ability for people to message us. when they land these are people who are are going to be tired, hungry, pretty cranky, but they will be back in their home country, and they will be back on dry land with doctors that they can more easily communicate with and they're going to just have to kind of continue to do what they've done throughout this whole ordeal, which is learn how to adjust to 14 days on a u.s. military base. the flight is landing any moment now. people will be spending the two-week quentin tarantino ten period at travis air force base near san francisco. hopefully they can find the silver lining, rosemary, as a lot of passengers have done throughout all this. there are some incredibly grateful and feel incredibly comforted they're off that ship especially considering the centers for disease control acknowledged last week, people who remain on board -- there are still americans on board. people who have family members who are still in hospitals in japan, more than two dozen americans being treated here in japan for coronavirus. but people who say on the ship they do face a higher risk of

infection. that has been acknowledged by u.s. health officials. that's why the u.s. government did this. that's why canada is following suit. the canadian government will be sending its own citizens to a resort for a 14-day quarantine period. australia will be getting flown on a qantas airliner. they'll be in darwin at a mining camp accommodations for their quarantine period. also italy, south korea, all repatriating their citizens, getting them off the ship as quickly as possible. but, look, this ordeal is not over for these people. >> it's not over, but it's good that they're off that ship because, as you say, that was putting them at increased risk there. many thanks to will ripley bringing us up to date on that situation. and earlier, cnn's michael holmes spoke to lori garrett about the outbreak. she is a former senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations and a pulitzer prize-winning writer. and he asked her if quarantining the american passengers on board that cruise ship for two weeks

after they land in the u.s. is an effective form of containment. and here's what she said. >> we don't really have a lot of options, do we? i mean, quarantine is the best way to do some sort of separation between potentially infected and the rest of the population. we don't have a vaccine. we don't have any magic bullets of any kind, some, you know, miraculous cure or treatment or something, and we know that we don't have enough masks to have every american wearing masks all the time. we don't have enough protective gear even for our own health care workers. and so we don't have really any good option except to as humanely as possible separate those who have been in an epidemic zone from those who haven't. >> reporter: what's interesting with the u.s., at what level are decisions on things like quarantine made? in the u.s. many of those decisions are actually state-level decisions.

is that a good idea? and what is your assessment of the u.s. response so far? >> well, we have a unique situation in the united states. it's almost no country in the world that has a public health system like ours because in most countries, public health was established from the top down and it's a single system so the whole nation is kind of in a pyramid answering to a single structure. but here in the united states, public health arose as a local function, and we have a real patchwork legally, a patchwork in terms of quality, in terms of funding all over the country. no two states are exactly the same. and even inside of states, no two counties may have the same laws and the same policies and the same levels of expertise. and so we have a really fairly chaotic situation. now, fortunately in times of crisis, most of the states listen carefully to what the centers for disease control says and try to follow that advice. but that's not always a 100%

given. >> all right. i just want to update you on some information coming in right now. 14 american passengers traveling on board those flights that we mentioned, those two flights chartered by the u.s. government to evacuate americans from the diamond princess cruise ship, they have tested positive for coronavirus, and that is according to the u.s. department of state and health and human services. so we will continue to follow that story and bring you additional details. so, let's get more now from cnn's kristie lu stout. she joins us live from hong kong. good to see you, christie. it's astounding how the number of those infected is rising. we can only expect it to continue. how bad might this get? >> reporter: this will go on because of what you reported just then, 14 additional confirmed cases among those americans who were evacuated. also at any moment now we are

waiting to hear from china's national health commission. they are set to release the latest numbers for all of china's provinces. we heard from hubei province earlier this morning and as of now the coronavirus has infected more than 71,000. the global death toll has risen to 1,770 with 100 new deaths reported in hubei province which is, of course, the epicenter of the outbreak. this follows a spike of new infections last week that was also when the province expanded the criteria and counting new infection. that has been opening up a huge debate about just how accurate the numbers and the information, the data from mainland china really is in regards to the global death toll, the vast majority of those deaths is in mainland china. but outside mainland china, we know that five people have now died from the coronavirus in hong kong, in the philippines and japan, as well as france and taiwan and paris over the weekend, an 80-year-old tourist died in hospital. that was the first death from the virus outside asia.

and then on sunday, a taiwanese man in his 60s died. he is the first confirmed death in taiwan. and worryingly, he had no history of travel to mainland china. and finally, rosemary, there are fears of global transmission after an 83-year-old american woman tested positive for the virus in malaysia. now, she was one of over a thousand passengers who left another cruise ship, the westerdam cruise ship that finally docked in cambodia last week. we just learned malaysia said it will not allow any more people who are on board that cruise liner enter its borders in a desperate bid to control the outbreak. back to you. >> all right. many thanks to kristie lu stout bringing us that from hong kong live. appreciate it. just repeating to our viewers the information we're getting in, those 14 passengers traveling on board the flights that were chartered by the u.s. government to evacuate americans from the diamond princess cruise ship, they have tested positive for the coronavirus and that is

according to the u.s. department of state and health and human services. and according to a joint statement from the agencies, the 14 cases have been tested two to three days prior to the evacuation flights and they're part of the over 300 u.s. citizens that we know are on those two flights coming home. of course, we know, too, that they are going to have to go into quarantine for another 14 days. of course, it will be a different case for those 14 additional confirmed cases of coronavirus on board those planes. of course, we know they have been isolated on those planes, but even so, people are sitting there with their masks more than likely feeling very exposed, but they won't be going home any time soon. two more weeks, two more weeks of quarantine for them. we'll continue on. we'll, of course, go back to those live pictures as we monitor and await for those citizens from the diamond princess to disembark and

actually arrive in the united states. but moving on, 116 million chinese citizens are expected to return to work by tuesday. but as david culver reports, the streets remain largely deserted. >> reporter: this is the week that china is officially to come back to work. businesses are expected to start re-opening following what was an extended lunar new year holiday. it was extended so as to keep folks from congregating back together and exposing each other potentially to the coronavirus. however, it still feels as though it is very much in a holiday mode. you walk around and, sure, certain businesses are open. you've got people that are out and about like here on this street, a popular pedestrian shopping plaza, but some of the businesses and employees inside look desperate to have some customers come in. they seem to be just not experiencing much activity whatsoever. and then you walk past some of the residential areas, you'll notice several of them are chained closed. they put it in english for the

tourists, closed to the public due to the outbreak of coronavirus. the es are rents are the only ones in and they can only funnel through certain entrances where they have a guard posted. they require you to register and they can keep track of who is going in and out. for those residents who do live in some of those areas, once they do register, they then in some cases have to quarantine for the 14 day period assuming they come from outside of the city. it's a city that ultimately will try to get back on track. this is, of course, what china looks to as its business beacon. david culver, cnn, shanghai. >> and we'll take a short break here. still to come, u.s. presidential candidates are heading west and voters are eager to cast their votes in nevada's caucuses. plus nascar's daytona 500 gets the presidential treatment. how the stock car race resembled a trump campaign rally. that's ahead. hey allergy muddlers...

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hampshire. and that could shake up the results we've seen so far. voters appear to be eager to cast their votes. there were long lines for early caucusing. party officials are hopeful that means a big turnout overall. the chairman says the party has worked around the clock to make sure they don't have the same problems experienced in iowa. bernie sanders is looking to build his momentum in these caucuses. he comes in as a front runner, and he's sharpening his attacks on his opponents. athena jones has the details. >> reporter: hi there. we're in carson city, nevada. this is one of the places where senator sanders has been pushing the get out to vote. early caucusing began on saturday and goes until tuesday. one of the things senator sanders is hoping for his supporters will go from a rally in car son city and go straight to the caucusing sites. i should mention bernie sanders lost to hillary clinton in

november 2016, but he did very well in the northern part of the state. that's where we are. he won carson city and he won other northern counties like wascha county which is where reno is, only half an hour from here. one of the most interesting things we saw from today's rally was to see senator sanders going after some of his opponents. he we see him doing that more and more, drawing contrast with some of the other people that these voters may be deciding among. so he attacked pete buttiegieg saying that he's raising money from millionaires and billionaires, and he also went after mike bloomberg, the former mayor of new york, for what he called racist policies like stop and frisk. we heard that from senator sanders himself. and from the current mayor of new york city bill de blasio, also slamming bloomberg. that sparked a lot of boos in the crowd. and it's no accident that sanders is bringing up an issue like this here in nevada. nevada is the first truly diverse state of the states to vote so far. of course, iowa and new

hampshire are largely white states, more than 90% white. hispanics makeup about 30% of the population here in nevada. and in 2016, sanders won the latino vote. he won 53% of that vote. and so this is the sort of criticism of an opponent that could really resonate here in nevada. another thing that we've heard from the sanders campaign is for them, turnout is very important. we've heard him say this everywhere he's competed so far. in iowa, in new hampshire. they believe really getting a big boost in turnout will help ensure that sanders can win. they say they're building a multi racial, multi cultural coalition of folks, many of whom feel they have been passed over and overlooked by the political system. and so in talking to some of the campaign staff they say they have had 250 staffers on the ground here making voter contacts. there are 11 offices across the state. since the field operation launched in june, they've knocked on more than 300,000 doors. the latino outreach is a very important part of all this.

at a rally sanders held on saturday in las vegas, they not only had a rally, they then marched, he led a march straight to the caucus site. many of them were said in spanish because he has the support of an immigrants rights group. that is important to them. they have campaign literature. they've been training their volunteers and staff in multiple languages and they have campaign literature in english, spanish, tagalog, which is the language of the philippines, chinese, vietnamese and thai. so that multi cultural, multi-racial coalition is something the sanders campaign is really going to be counting on to try to make sure they turnout a lot of voters for him so that he can win on saturday. back to you. >> thanks so much for that. and joe biden is pushing to make up for surprising losses in iowa and new hampshire. and in nevada, he is depending on minority groups to help give him the boost he needs.

cnn's alice has more now from las vegas. >> reporter: nevada is the first test of joe biden's argument he will perform better in states with a more diverse demographic. latinos makeup a significant amount of the population here in nevada. and over the weekend to that point, biden spent the weekend courting both latino and african-american voters, saying that it's time that their voices be heard. biden is also making a strong push when it comes to union support, trying to bring those workers on board. he's made several back-of-house stops, visits at casinos here, and he's also been talking about health care, stressing that his plan would allow union workers to keep their negotiated plans that they've worked out through their unions. take a listen to what he's had to say. >> we're not going to tell all of you breaking your neck and giving up wages and giving up salaries in order to be able to have health care through your employer and you've worked like the devil for it. you're not going to be required

to give it up like the others do. medicare for all requires you to give it up. >> reporter: now, biden's campaign views nevada a as launching pad towards the nomination. they're pouring more resources here into the state as they are trying to get a stronger finish than those disappointing losses in iowa and new hampshire. biden telling me he doesn't think he necessarily needs to come in first place, but he does think he has a shot at winning. arlette, cnn, las vegas. >> and at a rally near las vegas sunday, pete buttiegieg addressed the key issue for many democrats. electability. >> part of why i'm running is to make sure we're putting forward a nominee who can defeat donald trump. i think it's safe to say that's a key objective for most of us. [ applause ] that won't be easy. we are fooling ourselves if we think it will be easy to defeat this president. >> and for more on all of this,

thomas giff joins us from palo alto in california. he is a lecturer in political science at university college in london. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, rosemary. >> so, we are just days away from the nevada caucuses and polls show bernie sanders in the lead, but there are also fears of a possible repeat of the iowa debacle with concerns about the process, the technology that will be used if this happens and sanders goes on to win nevada and perhaps eventually the nomination, what does that signal for the democratic party and its chances of beating donald trump? >> yeah, that's really the big question. i do think that you have to consider sanders the early front runner at this point. precisely because he's performed so well in iowa and new hampshire. he has a national base on which he draws from the diverse progressive and independent-minded set of democrats. the big question, though, is whether voters will ultimately get nervous about electing a

self-styled democratic socialist. that's one reason why establishment democrats say it may be safer to select the more centrist nominee. of course, sanders' supporters say it's equally risky to put up a moderate candidate who isn't able to excite the base, and they'll cite hillary clinton in 2016 as sort of exhibit a on that. so these are really two opposing theories about who is most likely to beat trump, and in many ways they reflect the tensions in the democratic party that exist. >> and it's worth pointing out that as michael bloomberg rises in the polls, his democratic rivals are zeroing in on the former new york city mayor, seizing on his past comments about women, race and policing. and the "washington post" reviewed thousands of pages of court documents. this was from the most high-profile case of a former sales woman who sued bloomberg and his company after she told

him she was pregnant. he responded to her, saying, kill it. the plaintiff asked bloomberg to repeat himself. and again he said, kill it. and muttered great, number 16. he said it was the 16th woman in his employ to fall pregnant. bloomberg allegedly said his company's financial information computers will do everything including give you oral sex. i guess that puts a lot of you girls out of business, bloomberg added. now, this comes as bloomberg argues he is a champion for women in the workplace. could this signal the end of the road for bloomberg, or can he rise above all these attacks and revelations that are coming out now and/or continue to come out? >> well, certainly, rosemary, these accusations will be a challenge for bloomberg and it's something that his campaign will have to address. there have been numerous allegations, as you said, of inappropriate comments by bloomberg, and he's been the

subject of several lawsuits with nondisclosure -- associated with some of these cases. so i do think there are some democrats who will say, especially in the me too era, a candidate who has faced these kind of allegations isn't the best individual to represent the democratic party. bloomberg, for his part, has conceded that not all of the comments that he's made in the past are fully consistent with his values, although he hasn't gotten into a lot of detail about what that actually means. so this will, at the very least, be something to keep an eye on. and i would expect bloomberg's competitors to make it more of an issue going forward, especially given his recent surge in the polls. >> we are seeing him do that, aren't we? i'm going to put you on the spot now because i'm going to ask you which one of the democratic presidential hopefuls is best positioned to beat trump as things stand right now? >> well, i have to tell you, rosemary, i'm always reluctant to get into the prognostication

business. and it's very difficult to predict. we saw that in 2016. that really no expert knows exactly how this is going to play out. my own personal opinion is that despite some of these challenges that we just talked about, bloomberg would be a viable candidate. there are a lot of critics who said he wasn't going to rise to the top tier of the democratic nominees. i think he's more than -- that criticism with his surge in the polls. nationally according to 538, he's in third place. about 50% growth behind sanders and warren. that spike has been driven by huge ad buys, but also media. with that surge, of course, comes heightened scrutiny, but i think bloomberg has been very effective at maintaining the focus on trump. his advertising seems to be getting a lot of traction. and i think he's trying to brand himself as this pragmatist with

a record of accomplishment, particularly in new york city. so bloomberg certainly trending upwards, has a long way to go and it's really difficult to say that any candidate would be best positioned to go up against trump and ultimately i think we'll see how that plays out. >> you're certainly right. it's a long journey ahead and we'll be watching it all the way there. thomas, thank you very much for your analysis. appreciate it. >> thank you, rosemary. >> former u.s. justice department officials are speaking out. coming up, the sharply worded rebuke of attorney general bill barr. we'll take a look. back in a moment. having dry skin is a struggle. turns out, my body wash was the problem. but with olay ultra moisture body wash, my skin went from dry and dull to visibly healthy in just 14 days. better skin from a body wash? you better believe it. with olay body.

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welcome back to cnn newsroom. i'm rosemary church. want to check the headlines for you this hour. any moment now many of the americans previously quarantined on a cruise ship in japan because of the coronavirus will be landing on u.s. soil. their plane will be arriving at travis air force base in california. once they get there, they are expected to start another 14 days under quarantine. we'll keep watching for the landing of that plane. the syrian military's offensive in idlib province is being condemned by turkey and the united states. u.s. president donald trump, turkish president erdogan spoke on the phone about ending the crisis. more than 800,000 people have been displaced by the fighting.

nevada's democratic party so is hoping the long lines for democratic caucuses means big turnout this saturday. more than 18,000 democrats came out for the first day of early voting. the party chairman says officials are working to make sure there are no problems like iowa had reporting results. accusations of political interference in the u.s. justice department are intensifying in an extraordinary public statement, former justice department officials are calling for attorney general bill barr's resignation. now, this comes after barr intervened in the sentencing of a long-time friend of president trump. four prosecutors in the case against roger stone withdrew after the justice department lowered the recommended sentence. barr has also ordered the reexamination of the case against another trump ally, former national security advisor michael flynn. jeremy diamond has our report.

>> reporter: well, a firestorm of controversy is continuing around attorney general bill barr's decision to intervene in that politically sensitive case involving the president's long-time political advisor roger stone. barr taking that extraordinary action to reverse a sentencing recommendation from career prosecutors, and now we are seeing more than 1100 career department of justice officials, former justice department officials, some of them prosecutors career, some of them political appointees, having served in both democratic and republican administrations. and essentially what they say in this statement is that while it's all well and good for barr to be coming out and criticizing the president's use of twitter to talk about some of these cases putting him in a difficult position, they're saying that ultimately barr's actions are what really matter. here's what they say. mr. barr's actions in doing the president's personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. those actions and the damage they have done to the department

of justice's reputation for integrity and the rule of law require mr. barr to resign. now, the white house for its part has spent a couple of days insisting that the relationship between the president and the attorney general is on solid footing despite barr's rebuke of the president's use of social media as it relates to the department of justice. what we are also seeing is the white house insisting that the president has confidence in barr, but also a little bit of push back on what barr was saying. here's the vice-president's chief of staff mark shore making that point. >> i don't think it's i am possible to do his job. in fact, i think attorney general barr is doing a great job. he has a lot of confidence inside the white house. the president's frustration is one that a lot of americans have, which feels like the scales of justice are not balanced any more. there has been a bias inside the depp of justice that attorney general barr is trying to correct. i think as you said, that the president has not called him directly to say, please do these things. he has acted independently to

initiate these reviews and i think he's doing a fantastic job of it. >> reporter: now, i asked the president on sunday as he returned to the whoite house whether he would heed his attorney general's advice about stopping tweets about justice department and justice department cases. the president did not answer my question as he walked back into the white house. the has made it clear he has no intention of changing his behavior. in the wake of barr's comments about the president's use of twitter as it relates to the justice department, the president tweeted that while barr said that he had not asked him to intervene in any criminal cases at the justice department, the president maintains that he has the right to do so. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. 99 >> and away from washington, president trump hit the track sunday at nascar's daytona 500. cnn's diane gallagher has more now from florida. >> reporter: u.s. president donald trump made a stop in daytona bleach, florida, on his way back to the white house sunday to kickoff the 62nd running of the daytona 500.

he's the second u.s. president to come to this race, but he's the first to serve as the grand marshal. the person who said, gentlemen, start your engines. the president never light on the drama. kicked it up here as well. there were fly-overs which were already planned, but those were amplified to include more from the u.s. air force thunder birds as well as a quick fly by from u.s. air force one. now, the president took a pace lap around the inner portion of the track in the presidential limousine called "the beast" oftentimes with his motorcade, and the drivers competing in the great american race. behind him, it was an official stop, but at times it definitely blurred the lines seeming like a campaign rally. this is an incredibly friendly crowd here, part of why the president chose to stop by the daytona 500. people waited hours in line to go through security clearances just to get into the race to potentially see him.

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all right. you are looking at live pictures out of travis air force base in california. this is where many of the americans quarantined on that cruise ship in japan because of the coronavirus are now about to land in the united states. it's a very dark shot, so just keep your eye on that. once they arrive, they are going to start another 14 days under

quarantine. thousands of people have been stuck in their cabins under mandatory quarantine aboard that cruise ship, diamond princess, which remains docked off the japanese port city of yokohama. it's been sitting there since february 3rd, and there are at least 356 confirmed cases of coronavirus on board, 70 of which were announced sunday. that means the ship has the largest concentration of novel coronavirus cases outside mainland china. that's why a lot of people have been concerned and that called this a failed quarantine. now, on february 19, the controversial quarantine period was set to finally end. on one hand, these americans managed to get out of that quarantine early. however, as we've been telling you, for these former passengers arriving back in the united states and new quarantine is just beginning, that will be another 14 days. let's go to our will ripley. he's back in japan in yokohama

where that cruise ship is. will, talk to us about what these people have had to endure so far, and also as they are evacuated out. we also learned those 14 additional confirmed cases. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, a lot of thoughts kind of going through my head, rosemary, as we watch this plane arrive at travis air force base in california north of san francisco. one, the fact they allowed 14 people who tested positive for coronavirus to get on that flight and they were in isolation for the ten-hour flight from other passengers, we actually don't know the division. because there is another plane in the air right now headed for texas. they still have another two hours or so before they arrive. but i'm just thinking of the american couple that we've been following so closely here for nearly two weeks now, kent and rebecca frazier from oregon. rebecca is in the hospital in tokyo not showing any symptoms of coronavirus and she desperately wanted to get on that flight yesterday with her husband kent.

i mean, they've been separated as a result of her positive diagnosis. kent remains on the cruise ship. and they were told she didn't qualify for the flight because of the fact she has coronavirus. so to now learn in the end at the last hour they decided to allow 14 others who tested positive, but not her, gosh, it must be gutting. that they're still here in japan, still separated from each other. and these, these other patients, well, they are isolated from everybody else on the plane, they are back, you know, on home turf. they're back in the united states. they're back on dry land. they'll be able to communicate more easily with their doctors. and just in many ways feel more comfortable about the medical care that they are receiving. obviously you feel more comfortable when you're at home than you do when you're away. my thoughts are with them right now and my thoughts are also with the 300 passengers from the diamond princess who had a really tough ordeal. it's all relative, of course. there is so much suffering in the world and everybody, everybody's pain is different,

but it is still their pain. and for these passengers who had to wait, you know, nearly ten hours from the time they started getting off the cruise ship, boarding a convoy of buses, driving just 20 minutes to the airport, hanada airport here in japan, to get on those converted cargo 747s for the flight home, this has not been a fun experience for them. it was basically a long sleepless night even before they got on that ten-hour flight. they were riding on a plane that has temporary seating. it's not, not a very comfortable heating and cooling system on board because it's normally for cargo. the bathrooms almost like like port-a-potties on the inside, portable toilets. they were sitting in close quarters. we were speaking with one passenger from utah who told us nobody's temperature was checked before they got on the plane. she said she didn't feel safe. she didn't know if the passenger sitting next to her might be asymptomatic as well. even though health authorities insisted everybody was tested before getting on board.

and nobody was allowed on who was certainly showing symptoms of coronavirus or fever or soar throat, dry cough, that sort of thing. yeah, they're going to be landing and i would imagine there's a lot of cranky people on that flight. but hopefully once they set foot back in the united states, they can start to take comfort in the fact that this is the next step in their journey. yes, one ordeal here in japan, nearly two weeks of quarantine on the diamond princess kept in their cramped cabins most of the time with little opportunity to get out and breathe the fresh air, that has now changed. they are now going to be in a facility where they can go outside, where they can get some exercise, where they can eat more familiar food and hopefully that will give people some comfort once they actually arrive. but the journey and the process to get there has been pretty excruciating for some. keep in mind, a lot of these people are senior citizens, people in their 60s, 70s, 80s. this has not been a pleasant experience in any way shape or form. and their lives have essentially been on hold. by the time this is all over, you know, one woman told me she

feels like a month of her life has been kind of taken away. she almost feels like she's a prisoner for a crime she didn't commit. but there are others who are much more optimistic who are grateful to the u.s. government for kind of coming in, getting them off that ship because the centers for disease control did acknowledge people who remain on board the diamond princess is right there behind me, it's a beautiful ship. but inside the number of coronavirus cases has continued to increase every single day. and health officials have acknowledged people who remain on board do face a higher risk of infection than those who are off the ship including the 300 americans who are either back in the united states now or will be, you know, within the next couple of hours. >> yeah, a lot of concern, lot of people calling that quarantine a failed effort at quarantining people. and we are learning as we go along what needs to be done because there is so much that isn't known about this coronavirus. many thanks to you, will ripley, bringing us up to date as we await for the return of those americans back to u.s. soil.

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chicago played host to the 69th nba all-star game. the national basketball association started with the tribute to kobe bryant. the lakers legend, his daughter, and seven others were killed last month in a helicopter accident. hall of famer magic johnson led sunday's tributes. >> if we can just have it quiet for 8 seconds. >> the game itself took on a new twist. the format was overhauled to putting elements for charity, and ensure that someone was going to hit a shot to end the game. team lebron won 157-155. and the renamed all-star mvp will be called the kobe bryant award was given to kawhi leonard of the clippers. in los angeles, one police officer has decided to combine his love of basketball with the

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