south korea cancelled. baseball and soccer games played in empty stadiums. will we see any of that in the united states and how will the trump administration manage this situation? we'll be watching closely. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. "out front" next, breaking news, a new mysterious case of coronavirus in california, a second person infected, the origin of that infection unknown. world health officials are issuing a new warning. plus mike pence, hiv outbreak in indiana says that handling was the reason trump chose him to be the coronavirus appoint person. and more breaking news, this hour, trump nominating one of his biggest allies in congress to be be nation's spy chief for the second time. let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the 63 case of the coronavirus just

confirmed in the united states. unknown origin.ond case here of and it comes as florida's governor says his state is monitoring 150 people for coronavirus. worldwide, the number of confirmed cases is now close to 84,000. just moments ago, bill gates who made it his mission to eradicate worldwide disease, wrote that the virus, quote, has started behaving a lot like the once in a century pathogen we've been worrying about. once in a century. prompting officials today when they see these numbers from the world health organization to raise the risk assessment to their highest level. >> we can avoid the rest of this, but our level of concern is at its highest. >> in order to avoid the worst, officials across the world must take action now. >> we know containment is possible, but the window of opportunity is narrowing. >> dan simon is "out front" is

sacramento, california. a sobering warning from bill gates. tell whaus you know about this new 63rd case of coronavirus confirmed here in the united states. >> reporter: well, hi, erin. no question this is another troubling sign that the virus is spreading, especially here in california. as for this woman, we are told that she is 65 years old, is a resident of santa clara county which is a couple of hours away from where we are in sacramento. she has chronic health issues, was hospitalized for some kind of respiratory illness. her infectious disease specialist was suspicion, asked for a coronavirus test, and the result came back positive yesterday. the source of the infection is unknown, and that's what makes this case so troubling. take a look. >> this is a reality check for every government on the planet. wake up, get ready. >> reporter: in northern

california, health officials are investigating what appears to be the first case of community spread novel coronavirus in the u.s. >> at this point we don't know where the patient was exposed. >> reporter: health officials haven't been able to pinpoint how this woman contracted the virus. it suggests the virus may be out there in the community which is why there's an urgent scramble to trace the people with whom she came into contact. the female patient is in serious condition and is on a respirator being treated at the u.c. davis medical center in sacramento. she's one of 63 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in the u.s. this includes 44 people who were aboard the diamond princess cruise ship, three people who returned from china, and 15 u.s. cases. ron desantis announcing his state is monitoring 150 people, four with respiratory symptoms are under investigation. while right now only a handful of states are testing for the

virus, the cdc says that's about to change. >> our goal is to have every state and local health department online doing their own testing by the end of next week. >> reporter: the ramping up of testing comes as we're learning that in the past 24 hours, six new countries reported the first cases of coronavirus. that brings the total number of countries or regions where cases have been reported to nearly 60 n. japan they're taking drastic measures to try to halt the spread of the virus. starting monday, all primary schools have been asked to shut down for a month in hopes of controlling the spread, especially ahead of the tokyo olympics in summer. in south korea, they saw a sharp spike in cases friday with health officials confirms 600 additional ones. italy remains the epicenter of the largest outbreak in europe. about half of them involve people who are asymptomatic, meaning they either have no symptoms or light symptoms and

don't need to be hospitalized. instead, they're currently in self-quarantine. health officials have not labelled this a pandemic. but one expert we spoke to said it's not a matter of if, but when. >> a pandemic is inevitable. what's not certain is how severe it will be. >> as for this new case in santa clara counties, officials say that the public health measures taken so far which include isolation and quarantine, they have helped slow the spread of the virus. but they're saying things need to change and they're calling for stepped up efforts of community surveillance to understand how much the virus is spread. >> dan, thank you very much. i want to go now to our dr. sanjay gupta and dr. mark jarrett. he oversees all of quality and safety issues in 23 hospitals. sanjay, so, where dan is, california, two unknown cases in terms of origin. in other words they have no idea where the person contracted it.

one of them we know had been walking around in her community for a few days before she had symptoms and felt sick enough to go to the hospital, interacting with people during that time. she moved to a different hospital, finally diagnosed. all that time interacting with them. at this point, can the united states prevent this from getting any worse or is it inevitable that this starts to go from a check here, a check here, to a lot more dots. >> i think it does mean that there is now community spread of this virus. and, you know, if you read the language specifically coming out of the county where this latest case was diagnosed, they're saying this is evidence of community spread. i know that sounds alarming, but this is what we've been prepared for for some time. they're going to go through the process of conducting community surveillance. up until the last day, the only people getting tested in this country were people who there were some suspicion. they had travelled to these places, had known exposure to

people with coronavirus. the problem with that is that's not really surveillance. that's more confirmation of something you suspect. surveillance is going to give you an idea of how widespread this is. but the fact that someone is walking around the community not coming into contact with anybody with known infection and still gets infected, that means that the virus is out there. that means that somebody else has the virus and spread that, maybe even asifrpt matically. that's the concern and i think this proves it. they're now going to take more effective measures to try to mitigate the spread. i think containment is no lon on the table. >> which is quite scary because you're talking about, you know, hospitals in the united states that are in the midst of flu season, right, and you have all of that going on as well. i mean, this is now on top of that. could this system pass the limit if you go from a few cases to a lot of cases in each area? >> if we go to thousands or even tens of thousands of cases in the metropolitan area of new

york, it will stretch all of our hospitals. all the hospitals are full to the limits. they're over their limits because of flu and other influenza-like ill pss occurring at this time of year. if you add on hospitalization of very sick patients because the ones at least according to the reports in china that get emitted to the hospital are very sick. it is going to stretch. we are all developing surge plans, developing back up plans for this. but there is no doubt it will stretch the limits of all of our hospitals. >> and, you know, sanjay, this comes as florida says they're monitoring 150 people for coronavirus. at this point, the numbers maybe seem big or small to people but we don't know what we don't know. and the republican governor of florida said today one of the biggest issues he has is lack of tests. we heard it from california. the cdc says by the end of next week we hope to have them. how big of an issue is this? >> i think it's been a big issue

for some time. you look at places like korea, they've been conducting thousands of tests a day. in the united states we haven't even conducted a thousand tests over several weeks. so, it's understandable that in florida, they want to understand do these patients have coronavirus? do they need to be isolated? how best to take care of them? one thing to tell you, having covered a lot of these types of outbreaks is that at some point, once you sort of determine that the virus is spreading within the community, the tests really aren't as meaningful anymore. the patient goes in to get a test, the result of that test is not going to dictate anything different about their treatment because there is no specific treatment. so, you know, really the test at least for a period are going to be more of a public health sort of assessment rather than an individual assessment. we may be getting to that point pretty soon. >> dr. jarrett, you just heard bill gates has made it his mission to fight infectious disease around the world for many, many years and knows about this. he says we could be looking at a

once in a century pathogen, the one we've all been worried about. he notes we have seen so far globally ten times the cases as sars in a quarter of the time. and he finds that to be one of the indicators of why this could be so bad. >> one of the problems may be that even if the mortality rate from this virus is low, if, for example, 50 million people in the united states who came down with this virus, if it's 1%, that's 500,000 people. which clearly has a huge impact on america. now spread that around the world with many millions more, maybe even half a billion. this can be the pandemic potentially of the century. >> and sanjay, look, those numbers are hard to sort of comprehend and certainly they're nothing that any of us have seen or regular people have ever imagined. bill gates also points out that each person is on average it seems infecting two to three people which actually, you know,

you interact with a lot of people in a given day. that would mean you're not infecting the vast majority of people. you may be passing in a grocery store or whatever it might be. but he points out two to three is still exponential. >> it is still exponential. if you start to carry that out over a few generations of people, all of a sudden one person could be the source for hundreds of people getting infected. and also keep in mind it's not a linear thing. people who are sicker are going to be more infectious than people who are less sick or asymptomatic. the fact that asymptomatic people can spread this, meaning people who don't have symptoms, is a real concern. they don't know they carry the virus. they go by somebody who has a weakened immune system or is elderly and pass the virus on to that person. you can see the problem. so, it's -- i think -- i read the article. i read the statement from bill gates, and there's two issues with these pathogens.

one is how transmissible is it which you just talked about. and how lethal is it? sars wasn't as transmissible as this but it had a higher fatality rate. this seems to have high transmisbility and a fatality rate 1% to 2% which is 10 to 20 times as high as the flu. >> 10 to 20 times as high as the flu puts this in perspective. one thing, the point of the cdc, we keep hearing about schools being closed. children have milder cases than adults and severe complications in children are uncommon. obviously this is very good news. but why would that be? >> it's the way the virus works. it's working more like the flu which tends to affect older people, people who are immunocompromised whereas diseases such as sars seem to affect younger people more because it's caused a overreaction of the immune system. this works by directly affecting the lower respiratory tract.

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new tonight team trump down playing the concerns of coronavirus. here's mick mulvaney claiming the media ignored the coronavirus at first because it was busy with trump's impeachment and is only covering it now to hurt him. >> look, the press was covering their hopes of the day because they thought it would bring down the president. the reason you're seeing so much attention to it today is they think this is what's going to be what brings down the president. >> congressman, what do you say to mick mulvaney, that this is all being done to hurt the president? >> i mean, this is a moment where we need american presidential leadership to

address a very serious public health crisis that may well become a pandemic. and what we need is people and not in the political way to be approaching this in a serious way, relying on coordinated scientific response, recognizing the seriousness of the threat, and making sure we're protecting the american people and making sure that public health agencies have good information, american people have good information, and the idea that the chief of staff to the president of the united states would dismiss this very serious public health crisis and suggest to people that it's really an effort to bring down the president is absurd and dangerous. >> so, the president and his allies have also accused the democrats of trying to use the coronavirus to help your party politically. the president's son don, jr. said it this morning, and i think it is fair to play this. here he is. >> anything that they can use to try to hurt trump, they will. f for them to take a pandemic and

seemingly hope it comes here and kills millions of people so they can end donald trump's streak of win sg a new level of sickness. >> how do you respond to that? >> no, you can't even respond to that. the idea that donald trump, jr. would think the arrival of a serious pandemic would somehow be wished for because it would undermine his father is an absurdity. it's not always about the president. this is about his responsibility as the leader of this country to protect the american people. and that means recognizing the reality of what this virus presents, making certain we are doing everything to keep the american people safe and to mitigate the dangers this presents. and when you see the kinds of outbreaks that are happening all over the world, american leadership in this space really matters. if we're going to protect americans, this virus doesn't stop at our border. so, we need this to be done in a serious way, in a bipartisan way. we're working on a package to respond to this. the president needs to take this

seriously. the american people do. they're afraid and they want the scientists reporting on what's happening. >> the cdc says the spread of the coronavirus in the united states is inevitable. but it also admits that testing, their words, has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked which would consistent with the w.h.o. warnings. the united states has never been prepared for a highly contagious outbreak no matter who the president is. president obama was slammed during ebola crisis because he didn't suspend flights to the united states from affected countries. but that is something president trump pushed for immediately. airlines decided to stop flights from china and hong kong. has president trump gotten some things right here? >> look, i think what we have to do for sure is be sure we're developing the resources and policies to protect the american people. and some of those decisions i think were the right decisions to make. the president also proposed deep

cuts, 50% to the world health organization, deep cuts to the cdc, e limb namtliminated the p council that was for pandemics. this is not a question about who's responsible for the coronavirus. this is a virus. the president is responsible for leading and managing the response by this country to protect the american people, to make sure our health officials are listened to, that they have the resources they need, and probably most importantly that he's sharing accurate information with the american people. this is one of the problems of donald trump's lack of trust. you know, the american people don't trust this administration because they've played fast and loose with the facts on so many occasions. and a crisis like this is particularly dangerous when the american people don't have con if i debs thnse that they're ge accurate information from the government. >> thank you for your time tonight. a appreciate it. "out front" next, mike pence

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new tonight, vice president mike pence defending president trump's decision to put him in charge of the administration's coronavirus response. pence has come under scrutiny because of his record. when he was the governor of indiana, his response to an hiv outbreak in his state in 2015 was to, quote, pray on it. when health officials recommended a needle exchange program. and to delay that. but he says it was that very experience which was why president trump picked him for coronavirus. >> i think it might be the main reason why president trump asked me to do this.

i think by putting me over the administration's response to the coronavirus, the president wanted to signal the priority he's placed on this. >> kaitlan collins is "out front." he's at president trump's rally in south carolina. kaitlan, the president addressing the epidemic moments ago. what is he saying? >> reporter: he's continuing to try to claim that democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. that's something we saw mick mulvaney echo earlier today saying the media wasn't paying attention to the coronavirus during the impeachment inquiry and the trial of the president and now they are because they think it's going to bring the presidency down. of course it is a global virus that is having an outbreak that is spreading and cdc officials are warning it is going to spread in the united states and it is inevitable. but this is what the president is relying on in recent days as he is coming under increasing scrutiny for how the

administration is going to respond to this and whether or not they are prepared. you heard the vice president speaking with rush limbaugh. it was interesting pence was saying he believes the president picked his experience as the governor of indiana overseeing the hiv outbreak which some critics say he made worse by delaying the needle exchange program. it's unclear if the president was aware of the criticism pence faced because that's something like house speaker nancy pelosi raised. however, we've spoke to people close to the vice president and they think he is taking this seriously and that is why you're seeing him pick a position to work underneath him. they're holding a meeting again tomorrow with the coronavirus task force. and this comes as the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney sent a government-wide email today saying all publications must go through the vice president's press secretary before they can be made. >> all right.

kaitlan, thank you very much. live from north charleston tonight. now larry summers, former secretary under president clinton, director of the economic counsel under president obama. secretary summers, your reaction to president trump putting vice president mike pence in charge. confidence instilling? >> no, it's of a piece with the president of the united states whipping a mob into a frenzy during a public health crisis that he should be trying to control which is what your viewers just saw. if the president assigns a major government-wide task like this to the vice president, that's what presidents do with vice presidents. if he suggests that somehow vice president pence, by pursuing this prayer strategy rather than the science strategy, somehow

set himself up for this role, that's really scandalous and very, very scary. >> you know, when we look at what's out there tonight -- i don't know if you saw bill gates just wrote an op-ed saying this has the signs of being a once in a century pathogen he's been most afraid of. we're on the heels of the worst week for stocks since the financial crisis which you were in the middle of when you were at the white house. could this get worse? >> of course it could. we don't know what's going to happen. markets find their level in response to events. and it may well be that we're in the first inning of the coronavirus issue. we just have to recognize that possibility. it wouldn't be the first time that the world faced a grievous

strain of flu-type of virus. it happened after world war i when more people died by far than died during world war i. now, i don't think it's likely to get to that point. we've got tools like modern medicine that they didn't have then. but nobody knows where this is going to go. the markets issued a pretty ominous assessment. their assessment isn't just going to have to play out. it's going to have to get worse if markets are to go down. i'm not saying with confidence that that will happen at all. i think that this moment is a moment like almost all moments when markets are about 50/50 to go up or down. >> and yet we hear larry kudlow -- >> you go ahead. go ahead. >> larry kudlow suggesting and the president saying, you know, look this is going to go away. this is going to end. larry kudlow suggesting get into the stock market.

>> i think for the president's adviser to be giving stock investing advice on market timing to the public is really a very poor, muisguided performane of his duty. and anybody considering that advice should think about this. if larry kudlow thought it was time to sell stocks, is there any chance that he would say? >> no. >> and if you're listening to somebody who's only allowed to have one opinion, when they express that opinion, should you take it very seriously? and i don't think anybody looking for investment advice should look to larry kudlow. people don't know whether the market's going to go up or down. and what people should do is diversify and maintain safe positions, not day trade based on the advice of the president's chief economic adviser. this is almost calculated to

destroy his credibility because even if he happens to be right in the next several days, there's no one on earth who has a successful track record at calling day to day movements in markets. and when you try and you fail, you'll lose your credibility. and we need public officials who have credibility, not who seek to dissipate their credibility. >> president trump, you know, as you know, was actually blaming bernie sanders for driving the stock market down even as it started to fall a thousand points a day on coronavirus fears when he was in india. here's what he said earlier this week, secretary. >> when you look at single payer, when you look at what bernie sanders and others want to do, the fact that they are even looking like they're in the hunt i think driving our stock market down. >> you have referred to sanders policies as completely unprecedented, beyond the scale of fdr. do you agree with the president

that sanders policies could crush stocks? >> at some point sanders policies could do damage to the stock market as any potential president's policies, if they were misguided, would do damage to the stock market. is developments with bernie sanders the reason why the stock market went down this week? there is no evidence for it. there's no evidence that the stocks which he would potentially be most harmful for went down more than other stocks whereas there is evidence that stocks that were more tied to the coronavirus went down more than other stocks did. you listen to what all the people in the market are actually saying, they're not talking about a greater risk of bernie sanders becoming president. they're talking about the consequences of a major global challenge without any globally

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intelligence apparatus. this is the same john radcliff nominated in july. he was forced to withdraw for embellishing his credentials under bipartisan criticism. he will replace richard grenell. "out front" now james clapper, director of national intelligence. i appreciate your time. it's good to talk to you. radcliff's nomination was pulled last summer. he said he put ter rhyss in prison, helped shape policy in the bush administration. that was an embellishment. he was criticized by his own party. that nomination went away. what's your reaction when you hear he is now the nominee again? >> well, it struck me as very peculiar that having already been kind of rejected on the hill on a bipartisan basis, the negative blow back there that now he would be re-nominated. i do wonder whether there's something to do with the federal

vacancy act which as i understand it the time clock on ambassador grenell or joe mcguire had he stayed in that position as acting dni runs out on march 11th. i wonder if by nominating congressman radcliff, this allows the time clock to restart for ambassador grenell. i'm not sure why he would want to do that, but i do wandonder about it. apart from all that is the turmoil it causes for the ic in general and particularly for the staff at the office of the director of national intelligence. >> i want to lay this out. this is a job that has been filled by somebody with extensive national intelligence background. that's what this job is about. it's not just a political job, right? for example, you did the job for 6 1/2 years after what?

43 years? >> 45 or so. >> years in the intelligence community. >> right. >> that's what we're talking about what we talk about experience, right? >> well, yes. i mean, you know, not everybody's going to have 50 years experience to take the job but i do think it would be very helpful if the incumbent had some operational experience within the intelligence community. not as sitting on an oversight committee. there's a big difference. i think ideally if somebody is going to be in that job, if they've had experience, for example, being director of one of the agencies, i served as -- i had the honor of serving in two of them for almost nine years. so, this is not -- even with all that experience, this job i found to be very demanding and i don't think it's a good place for somebody to learn the a-b-cs of intelligence. >> so, who do you think is more qualified?

i'm not trying to say that person is appropriate qualified, who is more qualified, if either? >> probably -- well, i guess given the choice here, i guess ambassador grenell by virtue of the fact he's had some exposure to intelligence by virtue of serving as ambassador in germany. so, i guess on that basis, given the choice between the two i would pick them. i just mentioned that -- or i'd add that the -- and you kind of alluded to it, erin, is the phraseology of the act which stipulates that the dni is supposed to have, quote, extensive national security expertise, unquote. >> all right. certainly that is not what we're seeing here in these cases. thank you very much director clapper. >> thanks, erin. and next the race for coronavirus vaccine. an inside look at the people who are spending every second of every day of their lives right

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tonight a new and very disturbing development in a story we have been following about the doctor that former presidential candidate andrew yang's wife and dozens of other women accused of sexual assault. drew griffin is out front and i want to warn you the details in this story are disturbing. >> columbia university was warned, decades ago one of its top gyncologists may have sexually assaulted a patient.

this 26-year-old letter proves it. he stands accused of assaulting more than 75 former patients. diane sader of munson may have been one of the first. in 1993, pregnant with her second child she had her first and only visit to had ebb's office and said she was sexually assaulted. >> i was exposed, and then he pushed my knees down. he master baited me at some point. he started master baiting me, and i said -- and i didn't say anything, i just went, he said, just lubricating the outside like it was standard. >> she left in disbelief. did her doctor just assault her? hours later alone on her couch, she said she realized the answer was yes. >> i just started sobbing and sobbing. >> you were molested? >> yeah. >> you didn't think, i'm a victim. i should call the police?

>> no. it didn't even cross my mind. >> she thought no one would believe her. but she knew she had to report it. on may 30th, 1994 she wrote this letter to the acting chair of the ob/gyn department. she sent a copy to the university's risk management. she described pulling very hard on the nipple, they fondled her genitalia running two fingers up and down. she knows columbia received the letter because two weeks later, the chairman, dr. harold fox wrote back. >> i will immediately follow up your expressed kernz and have a discussion with dr. hadden. you may expect a response from me. >> you didn't hear back from him? >> no. >> risk management? >> nothing. >> anybody at columbia? >> never heard anything. but i thought, this is columbia. they will keep this letter, put it in a file where whan file, it

will be there in a prominent way, marked. and surely in the next few years he'll get verbal and written complaints and they will do something. >> he saw patients for nearly 20 more years. he was finally arrested an indooiflted for abusing six patients. in a sweetheart plea deal with the new york district attorney's office he pleaded guilty in 2016 to just two of the nine charges against him. his punishment to surrender his license and walk free. >> he is a danger wherever he is. he is a come pulsive serial predator. >> questions over this and zero jail time came back to life last month when evelyn yang, the wife of former presidential candidate andrew yang told cnn she was one of hadden's many victims. >> there are a lot of women who experience sexual assault and it's almost like they're assaulted again or betrayed

again by the institutions that were supposed to protect them. >> since her story aired at least 40 more women said they too were assaulted by hadden. manhattan's office is reopening the investigation based on new cases. munsen and yang are now among the more than 75 former patients who have joined together to sue dr. hadden and columbia university. hadden has denied all allegations except the two charges he pleaded guilty to. >> i am 100% outraged, completely out rainld. i was so happy to find those letters because i felt like the institution needs to change. they need to change the way they do things. >> columbia university did not respond to detailed questions by cnn, saying in a statement, at the time of hadden's 2012 arrest, we did not know about the 1994 letter. had we been aware of it we would have shared that information with the district attorneys

office. and columbia says it is cooperating with the new investigation. >> and erin, the former chairman of the ob/gyn department, dr. harold fox who responded to the letter, he said he would not be dependentimenting either. >> anderson starts now. good evening. it has been a difficult week in the worldwide struggle to contain the coronavirus outbreak and it looks like it will get rougher. contrary to the president's comments, that it might dwindle to zero within day, a growth is reported. it's particularly significant because this patient in california is the second american infected and no one knows why. two americans with an infection of unknown origin which suggests the virus may be spreading in the communityt