making today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. i'll pass. 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.

with a new patient number 63 reported in california. 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 community. it is that community spread on a global level, a newly infected person infecting another and another which is having a chilling effect around the world. restaurants closed or taking your temperature before you're allowed to enter, neighborhoods on lockdown, global travel and commerce is beginning to slow. markets continue falling, and federal agencies began to show signs of doing better, but at the highest level of government something else was not happening. which is where we begin tonight with the all-hands on deck response that hasn't happened. president trump is in a rally in charleston, south carolina, you mate say that's just because there is the primary. but there isn't a republican one there.

at all. when asked how much time he was spending on the crisis, here's what he had to say before bordering the chopper to take him elsewhere? >> i'm spending a lot of time on it just in coordination. mike pence is doing a great job. dr. fouci, dr. fouci is great. they're all doing really a fan -- alex azar is on top of it. weesh we're watching it closely. we don't want any bad surprises. >> perhaps you're thinking the proceeds is taking a well-earned break, in a sense you'd be right. but exactly what he is coordinating isn't clear. last night he was coordinating with two people, diamond and silk, getting them together at the white house with others to praise him. >> they're going to be stars. and they have been just been incredible. and they've been with me for almost before i even announced, they were there right at the beginning. thank you very much. >> we love you. >> it's a great honor.

>> diamond and silk all hands on deck. we showed you a video in which he said this yesterday. >> it's going to disappear, one day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear and from our shores it could get worse before it gets better, it could maybe go away. we'll see what happens. nobody knows. >> when we laid it last night i wondered allowed who were the people that agreed with the president that it might disappear. diamond and silk were there. they may have many skills. alex azar, one of the things he was coordinating also or dealing with was that whistle-blower complaint alleging the workers he's responsible for were sent into contact with the americans, potential coronavirus patients who are heading into quarantine without the gear to stay safe. his department is facing complaints about the slow pace of testing. so he really does truly have a lot on his plate.

many reports the the president has been dissatisfied with him and considered removing him from coronavirus response efforts, he showed his loyalty to the president. >> so just want to report to everybody that thanks to the president's historically aggressive containment efforts, we have really been able to keep the risk to americans low right now. and so the president really deserves incredible credit, because he got on this within days and weeks of learning from china about this. and took action that people attacked him for, but it's kept america safe. it's bought us time. >> [ applause ] >> so thank you, mr. president. >> all hands on deck and hail the president. mike pompeo who has got a key role coordinating between countries, working with international agencies, did take time to brief lawmakers this morning but there was someplace else he had to be. >> are you speaking at cpac at 12:15?

>> yes. >> so you can only give two hours to this bipartisan group of members of congress, and instead of answering questions on life and death issues from a bipartisan group of america's representatives you'll talk to a special interest group? >> yes. >> cpac is the conservative action committee. he was not the only one there. acting chief of staff mick mulvaney was there talking about the stock market which suffered its worst week since the 2008 crisis. something he did not attribute to the virus's potential impact on companies and the global economy. he says it's all about the media. >> the reason you're -- you're seeing so much attention to it today is they think this is what's going to bring down the president. that's what this is all about. >> it's actually about a virus killing people. it really was all hands on deck at cpac. jared kushner spoke, and this

man sounding more like the cable businessman. >> i'll say so far, the numbers coming in on the economy have actually been quite good, including today. you might think about buying the dip. >> as for vice president pence the man appointed to head the efforts combating the virus he wasn't stuck in meetings. he didn't speak at the convention today. he spoke there yesterday. today he went to florida on a fund-raising trip plus a meeting with florida's governor. all hands on deck, indeed. more now with the whistle-blower's allegations put in harm's way without the protection needed to stay safe. california congresswoman has been in touch. with her we spoke before air time. >> the whistle-blower at hhs reached out to your office about two weeks ago. you've been in touch. why did they reach out to you

and what did they tell you? >> they reached out to me because my committee i'm on, ways and means, oversees the heath and human services department called administration of child and family services and specifically the program on repatriation of individuals coming back from abroad. >> and the people who this hhs worker said they were set to deal with were the first group of americans who had been evacuated from essentially ground zero in china? >> correct. this first group of americans were sent to the base, travis air force base, as well as march. and the hhs staffers were sent to help the cdc bring them back into the country. >> and you asked, i know secretary azar, about the idea of sending employees into potentially harm's way without enough equipment, he basically dismissed the possibility? >> yeah. he didn't know i knew the

situation that occurred at the ground. he was speaking from the fact that they're supposed to follow protocols and there's no way they would have been in violation. >> he didn't know you knew about the whistle-blower? >> correct. we wanted to know is have them confirm to us that there's supposed to be protocols, personal protective equipment and not in contact with people that are infected by the coronavirus. that was really confirming that they were in violation of those protocols. >> so from what i read in "the washington post" story, the hhs person who was the whistle-blower said that when they got there, there were other agencies, cdc and others, who had protective equipment they were using but their employees did not? >> that's correct. >> that's got to be terrifying for their employees, wait a minute, everyone else is in tyvek suits and high level protection? >> yeah, and that's the situation. that's why the team that got sent was on the ground, raised

those concerns to the team leader on site. then they also race raised it to the whistle-blower's attention, and complained about about the lack of protective gear and protocols, making sure the staff on. ground was not leaving the containment area. they were deeply concerned and wanted that team tested when they returned. they didn't test them, monitor them. some of them were allowed to fly commercial flights back to their home bases. it's not just washington, d.c. across the country. >> so let me stop you there. this was also in the washington post story. i found that amazing, this hhs team, they didn't have the gear or training, they had face-to-face contact with americans from ground zero in of the coronavirus in wuhan, china who might have been infected, but they had to go directly into quarantine, and then not only were those hhs employees not tested but they

were allowed to get on flights going to different parts of the country? >> correct. that's what alarmed me, not only that they broke protocol, that there was individuals flaying around the country not tested. what i learned today from the cdc, half of the people on the cruise ship, on the cruise ship who were infected -- >> the diamond princess? >> showed no symptoms and they were still he spreading the disease. that's the concern. they didn't take health and human services didn't take this seriously. they didn't start monitoring them, didn't give them a follow-up. didn't test them. i don't know to this day if they've been tested. >> you were part of that briefing. do you feel like the government administration is prepared for this? is america prepared for this? >> i hope so. right now i feel like it was a discombobulated effort. there sometimes one agency doesn't know what the other agency is doing. but this administration has a

fear of experts, of civil servants who have dedicated their lives. they need to let the medical experts do their jobs and do it well and give them the resources and equipment they need. >> i was disturbed and something mick mulvaney said, the acting chief of staff at the white house, because so many people are acting in the administration in positions, he said that this is getting a lot of attention from the press because the press thinks it's quote, going to be the thing that brings down the president. not only is that incredibly cynical, which i get, but it's wrong. >> it's shameful. this is shameful. this is not about the president. this is about the american people and the public health. that's what it's about. trying to make sure that we combat this the best we can. this administration trying to make it about the president shows where their priorities lie. >> when you hear the administration has sent out a -- or issued a directive that all messaging from government health

officials and scientists has to be approved by vice president pence's office, is that the way things are normally done? >> no, it's not. i heard in previous instances like in sars that they had the head of cdc speaking out regarding what was going on. that's what we need more of. the public wants to hear not from politicians, including myself. they want to hear from the health experts. they want to hear from people who are meant to keep them safe with no varnish. we want to make sure that that starts again. we want to get people the facts. >> congressman gomez, thanks so much. >> thank you. more breaking new next including new details on this second case of transmitted coronavirus and a live update on the first patient. plus dr. sanjay gupta joins us. later democratic candidates just hours away from tomorrow's big vote in south carolina. with advil liqui-gels,

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welcome back. breaking news tonight was not unexpected. a second coronavirus case that can't be traced to travel or contact to someone known to be infected. santa clara county california, the patient was hospitalized for respiratory illness. officials are not saying much more. this is the second such case in the country. meantime we're learning more about the first case, a woman now in serious condition on a ventilator who had to wait days just to be tested for the virus. she's being treated at the university california davis at sacramento. randy kay is there for us tonight. what's the latest? >> that case in sacramento is a

real mystery. that is the first case of what they're calling community spread coronavirus. they have no clue how this patient in this hospital here behind me, uc davis, got it. she is a woman, in serious condition. she did not travel to wuhan nor come into contact with anyone who did. that's why it's so puzzling to doctors here. what we did is put together a timeline for you, a calendar so you could see how this was discovered. take a look, on february 15th, "the washington post" said the patients went to north bay vacavalley hospital. she was reporting flu-like symptoms. 4 days later she was transported she was not tested for the coronavirus there. 4 days later she was transported to uc davis. finally sunday february 23rd she was tested for the coronavirus only after the doctors here insisted. three days later, it was confirmed that she did indeed have the coronavirus.

if you look at those dates on the calendar, 11 dace passed between her first hospital visit and when she was diagnosed. >> some people looking would say why wasn't she tested the first hospital? i remember talking to sanjay gupta about this. saying that you know a lot of people are not going to hospitals saying i've got a cough, want to be tested for the coronavirus. and they haven't had any travel to china. so there's not enough tests. they don't give tests to people. it seems like it's standard procedure not to test someone first off. >> right. i mean, certainly in her case, they didn't test her at that first hospital and they weren't going to test her at the second hospital because of the cdc criteria for testing, which means that you would have had to have that recent trip to china or come into contact with someone who has the coronavirus. we know that the cdc has changed that criteria since. now they say testing would include anyone who has been

hospitalized maybe with flu-like symptoms or like symptoms like pneumonia. or fever possibly. in her case, they're now trying to solve the mystery, figure out and retrace her steps, see who she came into contact with, who might have begin her this coronavirus, who she may have put at risk as well. at the first hospital already dozens of staff members, they're staying at home, monitoring their symptoms. they may even go into quarantine. the real concern is that this patient was intubated. and that means that she's on a ventilator. some of these respiratory droplets could have been in the air. and they could have put those paper who were treating her at risk. let me bring in representative for the nurses here at uc davis, melissa davis camacho, because you're familiar with treating this patient because you have a patient here with that coronavirus, you're not treating the patient. >> correct. >> you haven't worked with this patient. but give me an idea of the mood inside this hospital now.

we have a coronavirus patient here. >> nurses feel really serious. there's just a major feeling of wanting to make sure that we're all protected, we're all educated. it's not our first rodeo. we are an ebola center, so we've done these trainings, we've had novel viruss. >> are people scared? >> there's always fear with a new virus that you're not sure of transmission. but we really are trying to follow the cautionary principles that our union is putting together, and it's been supportive in making sure we have a lot of information. i'm sure any lack of knowledge is going to create some unease. but we're nurses. and we never know what we're going to walk into. so we're ready to care for people. >> i want to get to some of the precautions in a second. who is her room like? where is this patient staying? what kind of security is there? >> anytime there's an airborne

like this is going to be a negative pressure room so it's not in the middle of some throughway where everybody has access to and we always follow really strict precautions with somebody on this kind of isolation. >> and the nurses are all taking precautions, wearing the gloves, the masks, goggles? >> positive. it's purified, air purifiers. it looks like e.t., the mask, kind of scary, but with the shortage of masks globally, we have to use the paprs, and so all nurses are using all of those precautions. >> i'm glad you're taking precautions. hopefully this patient will recover here. >> i'm sure they will. we have a great team and we're we've been working close with management to make sure. >> thank you for coming by and talking to us. anderson an interesting case here.

the second case not too far from here. >> thank goodness for nurses. they make the world go round. thanks so much. thank her. we've learned of number 64, another patient in solano county, california. a travis air force base evacuee and passenger on the diamond princess cruise ship. joining us is dr. sanjay gupta, and mr. watson, in another country bracing in another country, south korea. sanjay, the nurse at uc davis told randy kay, they're trained on ebola and know how to handle something like this. >> no question. this does remind me of ebola in 2014. the health care systems were starting to understand that patients with ebola might come to the united states. you might remember a man who

went to texas and may have had symptoms and was sent home with antibiotics and subsequently came back to the hospital much more ill. i bring that up by way of example to reinforce what you said earlier. hospital systems are starting to come to this idea that look, these patients come in, have respiratory symptoms, coronavirus wasn't even on our map two, three months ago. now it's something we have to think about. we're all learning here, including the medical professionals. the nurses with mr. duncan, two nurses became infected as a result of the care. the idea that health care workers have to think about immediate isolation, personal protective equipment, that is part of life now. especially with the new pathogens circulating around the

world. >> this is tricky because on the one hand even reporting on this, obviously you don't want to spread fear or make people more concerned than they should be. and you and i talked i think last week, talking about how a lot of people are going to go into an emergency room if they have a cough or a cold, and say i want to be tested for coronavirus or can i be tested? are there enough tests? if there is a surge of people suddenly going to hospitals with the regular flu or cough or cold, thinking they have the coronavirus, are there enough tests for something like that? what should hospitals do? if there's not enough tests, you can't. what do you do? >> there's not enough right now. just for context in south korea where ivan is they've been testing 5,000 patients a day, ivan can correct me. over here it's not even been a thousand tests over several weeks in the united states. we're not there yet. we're hearing by the end of next week there should be testing

available in at least 40 different locations around the country, which may still not be enough. one of the things going back to that example, someone comes in concerned. they've just been in korea or italy, have symptoms, think, is this coronavirus? i think what's going to happen, hospitals, clinics, they're going to rule out other things first, common things being common. even though it may start to be spreading, it is still exponentially less likely to be coronavirus that versus common cold and flu. they've got to rule those out first. the testing, they're going to increase. but we have to scale up and make sure we can do those tests. and we're not there yet. he haven't been there in weeks. we've been in the bottom tier of testing, sadly, in the world as compared to some of these other countries that have been doing a lot more. >> ivan, what's the situation in south korea?

>> well, the authorities here are predicting the number of cases are probably going to go up this weekend. korea has the most coronavirus cases of any other country outside of mainland china. and the reason they're predicting it will get worse is they're waiting for the results of around 1,300 tests that have been done members of a secretive south korean religious group who have accounted for their members, roughly half of the infections in this country thus far. as it stands right now, south korea's got about more than 2300 confirmed cases of coronavirus. and the last week and a half have been so dramatic, because coronavirus first appeared here roughly two months ago, but the koreans succeeded in keeping the infections low. as recently as monday of last week there were only 31 cases and it has surged in under two

weeks to more than 2300 cases. we're not seeing panic but there is disruption. they had to disinfect the national assembly building. schools are canceled for weeks. the government doesn't want large gathering of people, concerts canceled, professional sports games being held in empty stadiums with no audience. and perhaps most ominous of all, the infections have spread to the military. there are about 10,000 south korean troops in quarantine. it spread to the u.s. military. there's one u.s. soldier who's tested positive. the alliance, u.s./south korean military alliance has postponed joint exercises here. >> appreciate it. thanks. be talking a lot i think in the days ahead. coming up next the outbreak and the president's messaging about it. talk with a former white house insider, anthony scaramucci about that ahead. ♪

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with word of a 64th case of coronavirus in the country, we may get a test of headlines as the virus spreads. starting to affect the market, the dow losing more than 3,000 points. there's a question of how the president is framing them and explaining it. joining us now, anthony scaramucci. good to have you here. i'm sorry it's under these circumstances. >> yeah. >> are you at all surprised by the president's response that coronavirus -- i mean, the press conference on wednesday night of

all the times we've heard from him since, it doesn't seem like i mean it's just -- that was a disastrous press conference. >> listen. i'm not surprised, but i think to defend the president for a second, he's flying in from india. he lands at 6:00 a.m. we learn he does not sleep on the play, doesn't sleep that day, gets to the press conference around 6:30 and then begins the process of what he typically does which is distort and try to curve the facts to a reality that doesn't exist. you have to be careful with that in this environment because it's based on science. you can't call it a hoax. it's spreading around the world exponentially. i'm hopeful that it's not super serious and we'll get it under control, and certainly it's a tragedy, lives are being lost. he could have handled it totally differently and put his experts in the front. but not doing that, clear-eyed, nonpartisan people, market participants, for 31 years i've been in the markets, i'm running

about $11 million, when you're listening to him talk he's going to try to cover this thing up and curve the facts. once he does that very large-scale market participants will start hoarding cash and exercising sell operations in the market. that was literally limited down today. it being the last day of the month, you could see the window dressing toward the end of the day with the market rally back. it's going to be a sloppy market against next week. >> this is a situation, whether it's financial markets or the market of public opinion and citizens who want information, where, you know, being accurate and being credible really does matter. you don't want people -- and people discuss this early on in this administration -- you don't want people doubting what the president is saying, and obviously there's a track record of people having a very good reason to doubt what he's saying. but in this situation, you're right, let's hope this does dissipate with warmer weather

like sars. there was a lot of concern, coverage and concern about sars. it did dissipate as warmer weather got there. let's hope that happens. again, this is a virus we haven't seen before. >> i'll take it on faith that a lot of medical experts are saying that. the president is roughly getting that right. but what he's getting way wrong is that he's trying to control the situation, and by just even gating information that's going to flow out of the government related to the situation is not only spooking the general public but it's spooking a very broad group of capital allocators. for me we're in the most offensive position we've been in in 31 years. i definitely think the fed is going to cut rates into this environment now. there will likely be a global coordination of monetary policy by the big central banks. that will be good for the markets. it will certainly help calm things down. but he may have put a pin in here. my dad was a construction

worker, had a very good line. if you hit a rock one time it may not break. 50, it may not. but on that 51st, after 17,000 straight-up lies, you may be caught in the situation where the rock bursts into a million pieces, and the american people are saying the guy has no clothes on, is an absolute rank liar and is in a crisis management situation he cannot control. i'm worried about that personally not only for the country but for the united states and the capital markets. >> we keep hearing from vice president pence, secretary azar and others with the message about what a great job the president has been doing handling the virus. it does seem to always be a top priority in this white house to make sure to praise the president no matter what the situation. >> yeah. you know, your hair is not out of place. you look slightly less orange today, sir. life is good. and they are doing that to him every single day. and somebody smart, somebody super responsible would have said to him coming back from

india, let's slow it down a little bit. maybe you need to take a power nap or we need to rethink this strategy. but certainly a team-oriented crisis manager would have gotten into that situation and said listen, i'm going to guide these people, but here are the quarter backs on the ground, experts from the cdc or department of homeland security or hhs, and this is going to be the group of people, and here are some cautionary things you need to do at home to protect yourself from this virus. had he done that that would have probably saved a trillion and a half to $2 trillion in the market place. i think that that is now a $2 trillion press conference. it will go down as one of the most historic press conferences from a market point of view. and i'll say it's probably arguably one of the worst press conferences in modern u.s. presidential history. >> anthony scaramucci, i appreciate talking to you. >> good to be here. coming up former vice president biden scaring off

against bernie sanders in the south carolina primary. if biden prevails does that scramble the race? more on that ahead. growing up in la, bad air forced us indoors.

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in order to stabilize and accelerate his campaign. joining me now "usa today" analyst, keirstin powers, and aisha moody mills, and david gergen. kierstin, biden says he's going to win south carolina. he really kind of has to win south carolina. >> yeah, he has to absolutely. it's do or die for him. i think it's not just about whether he wins or not. it's how much he wins by. i think seeing how he does with the african-american vote in particular, because that is very meaningful in terms of looking at how he does and bernie does, assuming that bernie is one of the top finishers, because moving forward, we have to see whether bernie sanders is able to expand his coalition beyond what he has, because you're not going to get very far if you can't be winning over african-american voters? >> aisha -- >> i came from greenville and spartanburg, south carolina.

biden may be polling high but bernie sanders had a rally that had to be moved. 2,000 people came out to see him on thursday and they had to move p because it got so big. i think there's a lot of enthusiasm out there for him. this is a joe biden do or die, last-ditch effort. even if joe bind wins in south carolina. going into super-tuesday, he's not looking so good in most of the big states. north carolina, texas, california, virginia, joe biden is still struggling to get into that top three. i think he lives to see another day, maybe raises more money so he can keep plowing ahead. the truth is the momentum is with bernie sanders. i don't know who quells that. bloomberg's adds don't seem to be doing it. >> david gergen what are you looking for for tomorrow? >> of course whether biden wins it or not. i think that kierstin is right. a lot depends on how big a victory he gets. if it's less than 10 points,

single digits, i don't think that has much impact on the dynamics for super tuesday. if it's above 10, you know, if you get him to 10 or 15, then it's going to be -- that's big. it will help him enormously. i disagree somewhat. i think biden could be on the front edge of a rebound comeback. and it will give him momentum. i think he can do -- he's already starting to pick up steam in places like virginia, you know, where tim kaine has endorsed him, terry mcauliffe is talking about endorsing him on sunday depending on what happens in south carolina. north carolina i think you're going to see some movement there. and in alabama. what i do think is hard is for him to change the dynamics in the big states like california and texas, especially among latinos who are being attracted by bernie at unusually high numbers. >> i'm wondering where you make out where bloomberg is? he's still there.

>> is this such a good idea? yeah, i think it's really, you know -- that first debate was really -- >> that hurt. >> really hurt him. i think it's hard for him to rebound from that. it's hard to get into a presidential race to late in the game. >> the debate is such a classic example of that where you come into a group who has been debating each other and honing their messages and sharpening their knives against each other for a long time. >> and he's not known for being a great debater. but even barack obama at the beginning wasn't. it takes time to get into the rhythm of what's going on. also i think because biden does seem to be getting a second wind, we'll see what happens. that sort of takes away bloomberg's whole reason for being there. the whole idea, biden is not doing well, not taking off. i'm going to come in, be that person. >> david, do you agree? >> well, i actually think that bloomberg may actually cost biden. if bloomberg stays in through

super tuesday, and i think he will, it could be texas could go to sanders. if bloomberg were to go out i think biden would have a much better chance of winning texas. let me say, i think that these town halls have -- cnn has been sponsoring have been more revealing about the candidates and helpful than these debates have. the conversation you had with mayor bloomberg the town hall in the last few days, that's one of the best appearance i've seen by bloomberg. in that same evening joe biden was not, and i thought he was more moving that evening. and then town hall one on one, then he had been throughout the campaign. so there's much to be said for these town halls continuing. >> i agree. it is an interesting format because it does allow the candidate to speak more and, you know, they answer tough questions but they answer audience questions, and, you know, you see a different side of them, and they're not

competing for, you know, speak in 45 seconds. >> and it's great. you do a really great job of bringing out the humanity in people. >> it's not me. i don't need that. i didn't want the conversation turning this direction. >> you want to see that. here's the thing. if you're watching, if you're watching, and here's what i anticipate, that most americans aren't necessarily paying that deep attention. i was talking to voters on the ground, and the truth is that people are as emotional and relational as they are about the issues, maybe more. when you're talking about low information voters who aren't necessarily paying attention to every single word a candidate says, i'm not sure that they're paying attention enough to know, oh, well i got to hear a little bit more about him this time than the other. >> it's interesting because of the ubiquity with cable news, so much information is out there. everyone is not just a voter, many people not just voters, they're also pundits in their own right. they're not only thinking about whoa they'd want to vote for

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