and you pay no advisory fee. schwab intelligent income. schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. hello, welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. great to have you with us. i'm john vause live at the cnn center in atlanta. it's 1:00 a.m. in the east and 10:00 p.m. out west. for days the white house has been playing down the potential risk to the united states from the coronavirus, a message that has been clearly at odds with the dire warnings from government health officials who have told americans to brace for an outbreak of the virus. on wednesday the president made arare appearance in the white house briefing room, and while he insisted the risk to

americans to very low, he did announce that vice president mike pence would take on the role of czar to oversee the government response. and he again undercut his own experts saying an outbreak in the u.s. was not a sure thing. the cdc says it is. sources tell cnn privately donald trump is especially concerned about a falling stock market, and the impact that that could have on his chances for a second term. on wednesday the dow fell more than 100 points and is down 2,000 points so far for the week. >> well, i really think the stock market of something i know a lot about, i think it took a hit maybe for two reasons. i think they look at the people that you watched debating last night and they say if there is even a possibility that can happen, i think it really takes a hit because of that. and it certainly took a hit because of this. and i understand that also because of supply chains and various other things and people coming in. but i think the stock market will recover. the economy is very strong. >> meantime, another troubling

development with the centers for disease control reporting a patient in sacramento could be the first u.s. case of what's called community spread. cnn's chief 345e8d correspondent dr. sanjay gupta explains what that means and why it's a concern. >> it's unclear how this person got coronavirus. maybe they did get exposed to someone who was infected. we're not sure exactly how this happened, but it could represent the first example of community transmission. that's something that we've been talking about for some time. this idea that you haven't traveled there, you haven't come in contact with a known infected person and yet you still have the coronavirus. that's an indication that the virus is now here and starting to spread within communities. again, the cdc is still going to chase this down. it's unclear if that's -- that patient represents this first evidence of community spread, but the president has been saying for some time, look, it's not inevitable that this will happen. maybe we don't have any

community spread at all. which has been at odds with what we're hearing from the cdc, not a question of if community spread will happen, it's a question of when it will happen. so that's why so much attention is going to be paid to that one patient. we'll certainly give you details as we get them. i also want you to listen closely to an exchange i had with the president yesterday at this news conference. take a listen. >> the flu that a fatality ratio of 0.1%. this has a fatality rate of 3%. >> we think. we don't know exactly. and the flu is higher than that. the flu is much higher than that. >> more people get the flu. this is going to spread maybe within communities. >> it may. >> that's the expectation. >> does that worry you? >> no. >> that seems to worry the american people. >> no, because we're ready for it. >> now, the reason we were talking about this is because the president has been comparing this new coronavirus to the flu virus. and in some ways understandably so. they both, the flu virus and

coronavirus, very transmissible. they go home-to-human and it seems to spread very easily. but when you're looking at a potential outbreak, a potential pandemic, you do want to look at transmissibility, but also how lethal something is. with the flu, the lethality or the fatality ratio is 0.1%. 0.1% of people who get the flu will die from it. with coronavirus, the largest studies suggest it's closer to 2% or even a little higher than that, so that's 20 times higher. if this coronavirus starts to spread like the flu does and the fatality ratio is significantly higher, you can see the problem there, and that's why the public health community is so focused on this. they got to be ready because they say they're planning for a pandemic, hoping it doesn't happen, but planning nonetheless. back to you. >> joining us now from new york, rana foroohar.

associate editor for "the final times." rana, good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> the reality is the number of cases in the u.s. is low. one of the big reasons for that is because china acted quickly and decisively and slowed the spread of the outbreak. this is something which the president seems to be taking credit for. here he is. >> because of all we've done, the risk to the american people remains very low. we have the greatest experts in the world -- really, in the world right here. people that are called upon by other countries when things like this happen. we are ready to adapt and we're ready to do whatever we have to. as the disease spreads, if it spreads. >> if it spreads. what the trump administration really has done is significantly cut the budgets of the government departments which would normally be on the front line of a crisis like this. it's happened over the past two years. his administration has eliminated funding and shut down the entire global health security unit, which is part of

the national security council. eliminated what is known as a complex crisis fund, $30 million. money spent at the discretion of the secretary of state. and over the past two years, cut the health budget by a total of $15 billion. and what is notable, what i've been told, yes, there is a plan in place for this crisis, for this virus, but what about the next one and the one after that and the one after that? >> absolutely. and they are coming. there's no question about it. i find it so incredibly ironic that the president is taking credit for what china has done. look, there have been criticisms and compliments about how china has handled the crisis. there was a lack of transparency in the beginning about the number of cases, but one of the, you know, ironic upsides of autocracy is you can actually order people to stay in their homes, in their apartments. we will not be able to do that here in the u.s. meanwhile, all the health experts are saying we are not ready. there are not the resources in place that there should be for this kind of a crisis, that

we're undershooting on budget, and the fact that you've got the president really underplaying something that health officials are saying "get ready, this is going to be a big deal." it's such a worry on so many levels. >> and also, this administration has been lying since day one about crowd sizes, about using a sharpie to change the projected track of a hurricane. mexico will pay for the wall. the white house has a total lack of credibility. could this be the moment where all the lies come home to roost? >> you know, it very well could be, particularly if you start to see schools being shuttered. we're hearing talk of large auditoriums and gathering centers for being intake centers for patients should the outbreak get out of control. these are the things that the president is going to have to deal with. he's also going to have to deal with the market fallout. i think, frankly, that may be one of the reasons he's underplaying this. as you well know, the markets

are reacting very strongly. they're very worried this could be not only a dip in stocks but the beginning of what could be a synchronized global recession. >> with that in mind, sort of even during that news conference on wednesday night, the u.s. president continued to undercut the message from his own senior health officials. here he is. >> and just in the last couple of minutes you have disputed some of what the officials who are working in the administration behind you have said about the risk of coronavirus and its spread. do you trust your health officials to give you good information? >> oh, sure. i don't think i have. they said it could be worse and i said it could be worse, too -- i don't think it's inevitable. i don't think it's inevitable. i think we're doing a really good job in terms of maintaining borders, letting people in, in terms of checking people. and also that's one of the reasons i'm here today, getting the word out so people will know. no, i don't think it's inevitable. i think there's a chance it could get worse. there is a chance it could get

fairly, substantially worse, but nothing's inevitable. >> let's be clear, they made the point, it's not a matter of if but when this virus spreads across the united states. it's almost beyond belief, even for this president, that he would undercut the message coming from his own officials in the midst of a public health crisis because he wants to minimize the effect on the stock market because that's where he sees the key to his re-election, and yet here we are. >> you know, john, i'd like to say that this surprises me, but it doesn't really. look, the facts are noun. known. this virus has spread to ten times as many people as the sars virus that happened 20 years ago, which is the closest comparison that we have. it's killed three times as many. public health officials at w.h.o. and others say it is going to infect millions and millions more people before we're done with this. those are the facts. this president, however, is looking forward to a november election, and a lot of that election and a lot of this case

for his handling of the economy, which is basically his selling point, hinges on where the stock markets are. you are seeing what i think is going to be a sustained dip because, you know, we're just at the beginning of seeing the effects on any number of u.s. multinationals, on supply chains. i think the longer-term story here may be we see this moment as a line in the sand with u.s./china decoupling. i think a lot of companies and multinationals are going to say, look, this is one risk too many and they're going to continue that process of decoupling we've seen. >> okay. i want to finish up with a piece of information, a real gem that comes via "the washington post." which reports part of the funding for the coronavirus emergency response, the money they've asked for congress to provide. part of the money that the white house has proposed comes from is a program which provides subsidies for low-income families to heat their homes.

according to "the post," reporte reporters have seen a document that the trump administration sent to congress which indicates the administration is transferring $37 million to emergency funding for the coronavirus response from low-income heating program which funds heating for poor families. in the grand scheme of things, $37 million is not a lot, but "the post" reports up to 750,000 families could be impacted, and someone actually thinks that's a good idea. >> you know, i see a talking point here for bernie sanders in the upcoming super tuesday primaries. i think we are just at the beginning of a lot of fallout, and it's going to have a big impact on november, and many things going forward. >> yeah, it's been an incredible response leading up to this. those budgets were cut just as the coronavirus was emerging and now we hear that budget cuts in other areas. it's been incredible to say the

least. as you say, only just getting started. rana, good to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you. well, for more on the outbreak's global impact, standing by live in tokyo. we also have cnn's paula hancocks live in seoul. paula, we'll begin with you. there is word this crier oronav is responsible for postponing joint u.s. and korean military exercises. >> we heard this from korean officials saying they were going to postpone these military drills they usually have around now. they are fairly large-scale military drills. some of them are computer simulations. the reason they've said that is because of the coronavirus. the fact that they do not want to have a large number of military personnel in the same area. and the reason for that is they've already had one case confirmed within usfk, the u.s.

forces here, of which there are 28,500. a 23-year-old male has been confirmed with having the virus. when it comes to the south korean side, 20 personnel have been confirmed with having the virus. across the board in the navy, army, marine corps, the air force, when it comes to living quarters for some of these younger south korean military personnel, they're in barracks. they are in very close living quarters. so certainly this is something that militaries are extremely concerned about and they want to try to contain it as soon as possible. and then at the same time as that, shortly afterwards, we also heard from the state department when it comes to south korea. they have raised their alert level to level 3 which effectively means that people from the united states should reconsider travel to south korea. >> okay. paula, thank you. stay with us. now to tokyo. it's been a rough week for asian stocks. it seems those losses, though, at least in some parts, keep coming. >> that's right. we're seeing continued losses in

the equity markets here in asia with the exception of shanghai, with one of the biggest markets in the region, tokyo down close to 500 points again. that means 1,500 points wiped out over the last four trading sessions. fresh 4 1/2-month lows. i think investors continue to try to insulate themselves from the fact that the world's second largest economy, china, has effectively been paralyzed for the past month and governments across the region are responding. we've seen new zealand say they may have to announce some emergency measures, given a fact that a quarter of its exports are bound for china. you saw south korea announce that their economic forecast will be lower to 2.1%, and sfruas a result we're seeing continued weakness in the equity markets with trillions of dollars being wiped out in value. productivity is continuing to fall with companies urging their workers to stay at home. consumption is bound to be weak this month across the region, as

concerts, events and other gathering continues to be cancelled. we're seeing schools saying that they will be closed for several weeks. that is sparking fear and renewed anxiety across the region. so we're seeing now equity markets continue to fall. the safety seems to be the u.s. treasury market. we've seen treasury yields on ten-year government bonds continue to fall. with an expectation that prolonged demand from businesses will be weak for the foreseeable future, we're seeing weakness in the oil markets as well. so it's not really as jumpy in the equity markets as we may have seen over the last couple of days, but certainly a sea of red with the exception of shanghai here in asia again today. >> carrie, we appreciate that. and also paula hancocks in seoul with the very latest on these military exercises which are now on hold. thanks to you both. so, what started out as a

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welcome back, everyone. 1:20 here on thursday morning. there has been another mass shooting in the u.s. with the gunman opening fire and killing five of his co-workers at a brewery in milwaukee, wisconsin. cnn has details. >> reporter: the mayor here in milwaukee, wisconsin describing it as an unspeakable tragedy for the city. six people killed in total, including the shooter. five people who went to work today thinking it was just like any other day, thinking that they would be able to come home just like, again, any other day, but, of course, that reality tragically cut short. now, when police responded to this, just after 2:00 in the afternoon local time, they say

they found a 51-year-old man dead from an apparent self-inflicted gun shshot wound. they say that man was the shooter. but not before taking five of his co-workers with him, according to police. they say when they responded it was in those initial moments that text messages went out to employees telling them to shelter in place. even one text message showing where the shots were originating from across this wide campus part of the molson-coors campus here. moving forward, they're going to work toward a specific motive in this. the lieutenant governor in the state says this is now the 11th mass shooting to happen in wisconsin since 2004. but, again, as this investigation continues, the governor said that instead our thoughts should be with the families. omar jimenez, cnn, milwaukee, wisconsin. >> the mass shooting has put the issue of control in the political spotlight.

just hours ago, during four democratic presidential town halls right here on cnn, the candidates weighed in. >> when i was watching the president, he said our prayers should be with the families, and i'm sympathetic with that, but what he should have said, and we're going to do something to have background checks to stop guns being sold to people that shouldn't buy them. >> no amendment is absolute. none of you can stand up on the first amendment and free speech and yell "fire" here. you'll be arrested because you're going to cause damage and danger. from the very beginning, the founders said not everyone can have a gun and you can't have every weapon you want. that's simply never been the case. there are limitations. >> so in light of what happened today in milwaukee, the mass shooting you saw here, the mass shootings we see all over the country, i still do not want us to forget the everyday gun violence. the kids that get killed every single day in this country. the victims of domestic violence. >> i want to see us do the things that are obvious, the

background checks, get assault weapons off our streets, but i want us to treat this as the public health emergency that it is. >> live to los angeles and democratic strategist caroline heldman is with us. it's been a while. good to see you. >> good to see you, john. >> it seems like this shooting was a wake-up call. this country is facing serious issues, among them, a need for gun control. there wasn't a lot of daylight between the candidates on stage, but there was a lot of daylight between them and president trump. >> absolutely. as we've seen, the only candidate who stands out here is bernie sanders. bernie sanders is actually in the same place now, too. he has walked back his position in favor of, you know, a lot of the republican measures to not have gun control over the years. and he now does support, you know, what we call common sense gun control. which is background checks, which is having a national

regulati registry, which a vast majority of candidates have supported. the only candidate that has flip-flopped on that is bernie sanders, but he walked that back in the last couple of weeks. >> south carolina will hold a primary in a couple of weeks, the primary that joe biden has been looking forward to. when he answered the question of the charleston church where a white supremacist shot and killed nine african-americans during bible study. the pastor's wife was among the dead. he asked biden how he would make decisions in using his faith to run the country. biden said his late son beau played a big part in his faith. here's the answer. >> he asked me when he was dying, promise me, dad, promise me, dad, promise me. he said, i know no one loves me more than you do, dad, but promise me you'll stay engaged. he knew i'd take care of the family, but he worried what i

would do is i would pull back and go into a shell and not do all the things i've done before. it took a long time for me to get to the point to realize that purpose is the thing that would save me, and it has. and every morning i get up and i say to myself, when i give you my word as a biden, i hope he's proud of me. i hope he's proud of me. >> you know, it was touching. it was moving. but is it enough for biden? is that enough for this primary to win big? even moving forward, if he wins south carolina, then what? there's no ground game, it seems, for biden in the states yet to come. >> well, biden is expected to win in south carolina. with that said, bernie sanders has been surging, and this is the fight for the heart and soul of the democratic party, right? you have the one moderate candidate who will do well likely in south carolina, first or second position, which is biden, and then you have the more progressive candidate bernie sanders and his momentum is such that even if biden wins in south carolina, super tuesday comes and we're talking 14 states.

we're talking so many delegates that sanders is expected to do quite well with. it will be very difficult to slow his momentum. this is the last shot that any of the candidates have to slow the mo of bernie sanders. >> the trump administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak was also a big issue for the candidates. michael bloomberg made his first appearance at a town hall. his answer about the coronavirus outbreak wasn't especially great. the good news is he does have a campaign ad about it. here it is. >> health experts warn the u.s. is underprepared. managing a crisis is what mike bloomberg does. in the aftermath of 9/11, he steadied and rebuilt america's largest city, oversaw emergency response to natural disasters, upgraded hospital breadness to manage crises and funded cutting-edge research to contain epidemics. >> the thing i keep thinking about is potentially this is a huge problem for donald trump.

at the same time, though, do democrats have to be careful in how they use this sort of health emergency to attack the president? >> well, i think they're actually in pretty solid footing to go after the president on this. mostly because there aren't heads at the cdc and the national institutes of health. he's cut funding there. i really think that his lack of response -- donald trump's lack of response to getting in front of this looks very similar to what actually happened in china where you act like it's not a problem and then you respond quite late, and maybe you put a vice president pence in charge, who is not a medical doctor. i actually think this is a very good opening for democrats. and, unfortunately, it's become political, right? when you have rush limbaugh, for example, saying the coronavirus is like the common cold and it's being used against donald trump. at the end of the day, this shouldn't be political, but donald trump's response has been so backwards on this that i think it's an opening for democrats. >> vice president pence is not known for being, you know, the stand-up guy, if you like, to

the president. you know what i mean. so is that the best choice for someone to oversee this coordination of the response to this outbreak? >> definitely not. we need a medical professional. it would be nice if there was someone at one of these agencies who is -- should be in that position, right? but these offices are open. and putting pence in place is very much a political -- it shows that this is a political issue for donald trump. it's not a public health issue. and it's really going to blow up in his face if it spreads more quickly than it otherwise would. we're talking about people's lives. we're not just talking about the stock market. >> just finally on bloomberg, you know, he had a better town hall than he had a debate, put it that way. during the town hall, though, he kind of sounded like a democrat. here he is talking about climate change and then immigration. listen. >> we have a president that just does not understand and doesn't believe this is happening. but you can measure -- look,

just turn on your television and look at the floods, look at the fires, look at the storms, the numbers are coming in so much worse than all of the scientists had predicted. one of the things in immigration is you got to do some things quickly in immigration. get rid -- stop this craziness with 11 million people who are living in the shadow. you've got to give them a clear path to citizenship. >> does bloomberg have much of a chance at winning the nomination here? will the hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign ads be enough? >> well, i doubt it. he's taking a big risk on super tuesday states. he's not even on the ballot in south carolina. you've absolutely right, john, he did much better in the town hall than he did in the las vegas debate where he got shellacked by elizabeth warren. it's definitely been a learning curve for him. his weaknesses are that his stop and frisk policy, which he defended for five years after it was, you know, shown that it was racially biased is not playing well with voters of color, and also his refusal to release

women from ndas who worked for him who may have faced sexual harassment is not playing well with women. i think he's a very interesting candidate, but i don't think he's a very viable candidate. when you have so many other good candidates in the race who are ahead of him in the polls. >> okay. interesting times ahead. caroline, great to see you. we appreciate you being with us. thank you. >> thank you. >> still to come, as president trump continues to downplay the coronavirus, some parts of the united states where there are no confirmed cases at all are taking their own precautions. with fidelity, e e a partner who makes sure every step is clear, there's nothing to stop you from moving forward.

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welcome back to our viewers watching us here in the united states and also around the world. i'm john vause live at the cnn

center in atlanta. it's 1:33 here on a thursday mortgage. with public health officials warning that the coronavirus will spread across the united states, donald trump has now named vice president mike pence to lead the u.s. government response to the outbreak. the president insists his administration is ready to deal with the contagion and despite warnings to the contrary from health officials, he insists the risk to americans is actually very low. sources, though, tell cnn mr. trump is concerned the falling stock market could threaten his chances for re-election. after two days of precipitous drops, the dow fell another 100 points on wednesday for a total loss of 2,000 points so far this week. california has 15 cases of the coronavirus, but the latest one may be of particular concern. a congressman told cnn's chris cuomo about why. >> they call it a community infection or community transmission. that is what they believe this to be. they have no indication that this fellow was involved with a

sick person or traveled from a country from which there was extensive coronavirus. so, yes, we have perhaps the first community transmission in the united states. and, yes, it is in my district, and the vidindividual is in a hospital, as we understand it, in sacramento. >> now -- so what is your concern here? >> well, i think it's a concern that all americans have. it's certainly a concern that the president spoke to today, and i'm grateful that he did. his proposal, $2.5 billion, $1 billion for the development of a vaccine, terrific, but that will be probably six months to a year off before that's available. equipment, masks -- >> at least. >> other kinds of equipment, too. but what we really need to do is beef up, make sure that the public health system which every state has, but in many places is

dormant or inactive, that that be fully funded. brought up online very, very quickly so when you do have a case such as this they're able to track down where that contamination may have occurred and then put together the normal isolation programs. >> right now six states in the u.s. have patients confirmed with the coronavirus, but as nick watts reports, around the country in parts of where there is not even the suggestion of the virus, preparations are under way. >> reporter: there is a pre-emptive state of emergency in san francisco. >> we need to allocate more resources to make sure that we are prepared. >> reporter: hundreds of infected and potentially infected americans are isolated or quarantined on military bases. at spring training in florida, the red sox keeping a young taiwanese pitching prospect who arrived from taipei last week quarantined for days just in case. >> you need to be prepared for what very likely will occur.

we need to be able to think about how we will respond to a pandemic outbreak. >> reporter: the federal government now saying it needs to stockpile 300 million more masks. >> i do want to caution is t wi take time, because as you rightly mention, china does control a lot of the raw materials as well as manufacturing. >> thank you. >> reporter: and this morning, a warning from the cdc on abc. >> and we recognize that our very strong measures here in the united states to contain the virus, to keep it limited to very low numbers, may not hold for the long haul. >> reporter: right now there are 60 confirmed cases in the u.s. among them, 42 from aboard the "diamond princess" cruise ship. three repatriated from china, eight infections in california, two in illinois and one each in massachusetts, arizona, washington and wisconsin. clues to what we could face here from italy where there are 400 cases and 12 deaths.

schools, universities and museums are closed in milan. ash wednesday services cancelled in many places. the italy versus ireland rugby game postponed. and 11 northern towns now on complete lockdown. no one in, no one out. >> medical experts in japan have admitted the quarantine of the "diamond princess" cruise ship was almost expected to fail because the passengers were kept in isolation but the crew was not. seems simple. live now from tokyo with more on this. you know, i guess in hindsight it's a beautiful thing, but, wow, what an omission. >> yeah, john. you know, the next one to three weeks for the japanese government are critical in order to prevent the further spread and contain the coronavirus from spreading across japan, and that problem, that situation is perhaps made more difficult by what happened on board the

"diamond princess" cruise ship. i recently spoke to a japanese official who admitted to me that early on the quarantine procedures that they put in place they, in fact, knew would not be successful. >> so, we just got a knock on a door for food sununu a cruise ship infected by an invisible enemy, protective equipment was extended only to passengers. the crew continued to go door to door. >> even wine and spirits and everything that was delivered to the state room. >> reporter: head mater disays no detail was ever too small in making sure guests were well cared for. >> we made sure all our guests had a fulfilling experience. >> reporter: a consideration for the passengers which its own advisers admit wasn't extended to the crew. >> we suspect that some of the crew staff had already been infected, but, you know, because they had to handle -- operate

the cruise ship itself, the passengers, deliver the meals, something like that. so that may have caused some sort of, you know, close contact with -- workers and also the passengers. they may have caused some secondary cases. >> should the crew members have continued to work? is it fair to have continued to expose them to potentially contract this virus? >> strictly scientifically speaking, you know, what's needed was strict isolation for the crew members, all the members. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> reporter: from the start, this doctor admits it was a flawed quarantine, but the ship needed to run. so the crew continued to work. >> bye. >> reporter: until the last of the passengers disembarked. "diamond princess" crew members say they were just following japanese government orders. by the time the crew were the ones receiving the meals from the shore, around 15%, more than 150, ended up testing positive

for the novel coronavirus. >> i'm very sorry what happened here because there was a limitation in terms of facility, in terms of structure of the cruise ship. >> was there ever the option to your team, listen, if you don't want to go door-to-door, if you're not comfortable, you don't have to do it? was that ever a conversation that was had? >> it never came up because every team member was willing to serve our guests. >> reporter: a willingness for many but fear for others, expressed only a few days into the quarantine. we are extremely scare, says this man, in this facebook post on february 10th. a request he says is to segregate the crew from the infected. finally, after weeks of uncertainty on board the ill-fated ship -- >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> reporter: for the crew members on board who tested negative, it's down the gang plank and on to dry land toward a line of busses. >> good-bye, diamond.

>> reporter: where the only journey left is the one home. >> thank you. >> japanese health officials and advisers did say they were sympathetic regarding the human rights of the crew who are from all over the world, but, john, they also said somebody had to take care of the passengers and keep the ship running. >> yeah, absolutely. it was them, i guess. that ship was basically a petri dish by the end with the coronavirus. blake, good to see you. we appreciate the story. blake essex live in tokyo. still to come here, a powerful winter storm heading for the northeastern parts of the united states, and now some areas are bracing for heavy snowfall expected within hours. ♪

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welcome back, everybody. heavy snow blanketing parts of the midwest and the great lakes region in the united states.

the storm pushing into parts of canada and new england. and that's bringing some strong winds, and once that storm passes through, get ready for the very cold air. meteorologist derek van dam joins us now. so dvd, how cold is very cold? >> if you're okay with it feeling like negative 15 degrees fahrenheit on your skin, i'd say that's very cold. >> that's cold. brutal. >> enough to make your voice raspy. i came from a cold area. so i'm feeling it. there are two ways to look at the storm, john. along the major east coast cities from d.c. to baltimore, new york as well as boston, those areas are going to stay warm enough for rain. you really have to work your way into northern new england to experience the brutal temperatures, the snowfall and the extreme wind chills. and even into eastern sections of canada. here's the storm system right now. there's the low pressure system associated with it. and i want you to see the shading of red the national

weather service has hoisted. this is blizzard warnings. a certain criteria for this to actually occur, we need winds over 60 miles per hour for consistently two to three-hour period, falling snow from the sky. will it fall? mostly definitely. up to 2 feet of snow possibly downwind from lake erie into lake ontario. places like watertown, into buffalo, new york, and the reason for this is because our ice coverage across the great lakes is just abysmal this year to say the least. in fact, the average to date is about 42%. right now we only have 9% of the great lakes covered in ice. so when we have ice on the great lakes, it totally shuts down the lake effect snow machine. without the ice and we get that cold blast of air from the north, we set up and crank up the lake effect snow machine. that's why we're so concerned about these areas just downwind of the great lakes that could see snow measuring not in inches, but in feet. again, along the east coast cities no problems for your

travel plans with the exception of some heavy rain and the wind that will move in behind the system and some colder weather. if you're looking for snowfall, check this out, toronto and points to the north and east, we have potential to experience a foot and a half of snow for you. not quite the 2 to 3-foot totals we could see downwind of the great lakes. nonetheless, that will bring travel impacts to places like toronto, for instance. look at the wind gusts there. we're expecting over 60 miles per hour. that's why the national weather service has issued warnings. a classic winter storm shaping up across parts of canada and the northeast. john, back to you. >> still to come, desperate measures for desperate times. after the break, how the coronavirus is shaking up china's fast food industry. am t. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

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january. >> we sat down with this woman, her company runs some of the most popular food brands in china including kfc, taco bell and pizza hut. >> what's the best way to deal with every city is to stay calm, protect ourselves. >> reporter: that protection continues outside of the restaurants. food delivery also about keeping your space. this is what happens here. they leave it there. he tells me i can go. i move in, pick up the food and head home to eat. and as soon as you get your food you'll notice on top of the receipt is this little card, it has two different types of readings on it, the temperature reading of the person who prepared your food along with their name and name and temperature reading of the person who delivered your food. >> reporter: for watt it is as much as being health conscious and give her employees financial conversation.

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