you'd like to share with us? we'd love to hear it. send me an e-mail or go to our website -- strangeinheritance.com lauren: it's 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. the super tuesday results are in. joe biden sweeping the south but bernie sanders picks up a major win. what's next for michael bloomberg and elizabeth warren. cheryl: a tornado in nashville disrupting voting there, at least 24 people are dead and a state of emergency has been issued. we are live in tennessee where residents are assessing the damage this morning. lauren: the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe. the u.s. is reporting 9 deaths and 100 confirmed case is as president trump meets with airline ceos today on how to track passengers, how is this virus spreading so fast and furious. it is wednesday, march 4th and "fbn: a.m." starts right now.

♪ ♪ oh, yeah, all right,. ♪ take it easy, baby. ♪ make it last all night. ♪ she was an american girl. ♪ cheryl: one american's waking up with a little spring in his step this morning. that's joe biden. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." good morning, i'm cheryl casone. lauren: they're calling him in the comeback kid. good morning, i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: take a look at how your money is moving this morning after yesterday's surprise rate cut by the fed amid the coronavirus outbreak, also joe biden's super tuesday showing, futures are high e dow up by 531, s&p up by 56 and a quarter, nasdaq up 171 and a quarter. many investors view biden more middle of the road than sanders.

lauren: interesting reaction after super tuesday. take a look at the yield on the 10 year treasury, it is still below 1%, 0.942% this morning. cheryl: we saw a flight to safe haven assets like gold yesterday, it was up 3%. right now gold is losing a frac shove -- fraction of a percent. oil is up half a percent. lauren: stocks in asia mostly higher. the kospi gained the most, two and a quarter percent. china put out an awful services sector number, worst month on record. however, the shanghai composite gaining two thirds of one percent. cheryl: in europe, italy's death toll now at 79. there's a 2% gain in london. lauren: we have a worldwide rally this morning. as your super tuesday results pour in from 14 states, joe biden sweeping the south and then some. overnight, texas called it for

the former vp all night long that race was too close to call. biden claiming victory in eight other contests including massachusetts which is elizabeth warren home state. the senator coming in third place there. cheryl: bernie sanders picking up the biggest prize of the night, that is california. he's going to walk away with 415 delegates. michael bloomberg won the american samoa vote, he got five delegates adding to his total. he now has 43 delegates. we are still waiting for the race to be called by the way, folks, in maine. it's too close to call. it's between biden and sanders. they're in a dead heat. we'll bring that breaking news as soon as we get it into fox business. lauren: first, let's go to texas, a tight race there but joe biden taking the lead. casey siegal is in dallas for us this morning. casey, good morning. >> reporter: hey, cheryl, lauren, good morning to you. look, either the polls had it completely wrong, going into super tuesday, or as i think you said at the top of the show, joe biden is the comeback kid this

morning here in texas. considering on monday we were out here reporting ahead of super tuesday and we were referring to a new poll that was released that showed bernie sanders with a double digit lead here in texas, a double digit lead, and when you look at the numbers now, let's put them up on the screen for you, well, didn't quite shake out that way. former vice president joe biden taking texas, the numbers still being tabulated and still coming in which is also rare but biden defeating sanders by nearly 4%, 34-30, mike bloomberg walking away with 15%, elizabeth warren 12%, no delegates. now, joe biden's last minute campaign push on the ground ahead of super tuesday very much paid off. especially when you consider that about half of voters polled say they made up their minds either in the last few days or in the last few weeks. here is part of joe biden's

victory lap speech from california last night. listen. >> just a few days ago, the press declared the campaign dead! and then came south carolina and they had something to say about it. when it got to super tuesday, we're told it will be over. it may be over for the other guy. >> we need a movement and are developing a movement, of black, white, latino, native american, asian american, gay and straight. >> reporter: sanders hitting on diversity there, something that analysts thought could possibly push him through and give him a boost in places like texas and california where a fast-growing subset of the electorate is latino which could have helped him pull off that win out in california, push him to victory. but looks like it did not pay off for bernie sanders in texas. joe biden emerging the victor here. lauren, cheryl. cheryl: you said it, that dallas rally on monday night,

beto o'rourke coming out for him and buttigieg and klobuchar, it was -- that was it. casey siegal live out in texas, thank you, sir. we go from texas, we head out west to california where vermont senator bernie sanders is the winner. lauren: griff jenkins is live in la with the very latest. all right, griff, this is a major win and a lot of delegates for mr. sanders. >> reporter: it sure is, lauren and cheryl, good morning to you. we're on the campus of ucla and sanders did win the biggest delegate prize out here, 415 delegates as we know. the students were voting almost until midnight and we had the last student voting coming out a little bit of a conga line celebration that they had. it was quite a strong bernie sanders crowd. you know, if you look at the numbers coming in, we've only got a little over 50% reporting now. we know there's going to be 72 delegates for sanders, 21 for

biden, seven for bloomberg, seven for warren. sanders wasn't hear in california, he was in vermont answered still believes he's the man to take on president trump. listen. >> we are going to win the democratic nomination and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: but as casey was mentioning, certainly the night belonging to joe biden, defeating sanders in nine of the 14 states. biden was out here in los angeles when he delivered this victory remark. listen. >> people are talk about a revolution. we started a movement. our agenda is bold. it's progressive. it's a vision. where healthcare is affordable and available to everybody in america. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: you're going to hear a lot today about whether or not mayor mike bloomberg's bet paid off.

he spent $50 million in the state of california alone. here were his remarks from florida last night. >> we have done something no one else thought was possible. in just three months we've gone from 1% of the polls to being a contender for the democratic nomination for president. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: so that's where things stand. it's the middle of the night here but we've seen a few students still celebrating, most of them wearing bernie shirts, no surprise there. lauren, cheryl. lauren: when you promise free college -- griff jenkins, thank you very much. cheryl: voters in tennessee having a tough time getting to the polls on super tuesday, many waking up to a disaster zone, just one day after tornadoes destroyed their homes and their neighborhoods. lauren: such a sad story. lauren blanchard is live in nashville with the very latest. lauren, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, cheryl and lauren. we are in east nashville which is where these tornadoes or this tornado passed through, leaving

neighborhoods and businesses ripped to shreds. this was after a series of tornadoes passed through central tennessee, leaving 24 dead and that number could increase as recovery efforts continue today. >> all of our stuff is pretty much -- i mean, it's in shambles. >> reporter: a landscape of destruction in nashville, one of the areas hit by the deadly storms, streets of the iconic music city nearly unrecognizable. >> it's going to be years before this neighborhood recovers from this. >> reporter: the twister struck abrupted after midnight tuesday. sirens and alerts sounded but the storms moved so quickly, many of those fast asleep had little time to escape. roofs came crashing down, destroying homes and apartments and leaving many without a place to sleep. >> this is the saddest and most tragic day in the county's history, the death, destruction and devastation is literally unbelievable. >> reporter: neighborhoods outside of nashville also reeling from the devastation.

some schools are completely destroyed. piles of debris remain scattered across long stretches of land. as crews start the cleanup process, tennessee's governor declared a state of emergency to help with recovery efforts, calling on community members to come together to heal and rebuild. >> there's a lot of hope and rebuilding that needs to happen here and already we see members of the community coming out, saying what can they do to help. >> reporter: and there is no curfew in effect in nashville. this morning we have only seen people coming out to check out the damage but mostly what we've seen is police on patrol, watching over these homes throughout the night and looking ahead, president trump says he is going to visit this area on friday. cheryl, lauren. lauren: he sure will. thank you very much. let's talk about the coronavirus because the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. is growing as the fed takes action in response to the outbreak. cheryl: ryan shillcoat joins us

from london with the latest from london. >> reporter: the global death toll stands at about 3100. the number of infections worldwide about 93,000. 80,000 of those, the vast majority still taking place in china. look at the united states, the number of infections in the u.s. has topped 100. we've got new cases in arizona, in georgia, in north carolina. the death toll in the united states now stands at nine. interestingly, the first two fatalities actually took place last week on thursday, before officials thought, both of them in washington state emanating from that nursing home that we've talked about so much. the coronavirus has spread there, apparently happening undetected. eight of the nine fatalities in the u.s. are all in the seattle area. the greater seattle area. we're seeing a whole slew of

events being postponed or canceled. google just canceled their flagship conference, sierra week conference was canceled over the weekend. the conference was supposed to take place next week. goldman just canceled a conference. that's just a few. japan's olympics minister said even the summer games could in theory be postponed until later in the year. we're also learning more about the virus itself, the world health organization has just reported the ry virus has a fatality rate of 3.4%, that's the death rate. in other words, out of 100 people who get the virus, 3.4 on average are dying. that's much higher than the flu, which kills about 1% of the people that get it. but ready for some good news, the who says the virus doesn't spread as efficiently as the flu. in other words, it's not as contagious. on the financial front, you mentioned the fed, more central banks joining the fed today

which cut rates by half a percent yesterday. hong kong just cut by 50 basis points. south korea said they'll have a $10 billion stimulus plan for businesses. we are seeing a concertedded effort in terms of monetary and fiscal policy. the virus continues to spread and that's something to keep your eye on. cheryl: ryan, than thank you fr that report. lauren: biden versus bernie, super tuesday helping biden pull ahead but can his recent surge continue? cheryl: and there is one thing both republicans and democrats can agree on. we're going to tell you what that is. it's coming up on "fbn: a.m." ♪ why can't we be friends. ♪ why can't we be friends. ♪ why can't we be friends. ♪

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and it was much needed and so i think what's happening is people are actually seeing what he has to offer and people are saying okay, we want this guy that we are familiar with and someone that is a stable candidate. cheryl: john, if you look at who came out and voted for biden, 45 plus was the age group, especially in virginia, massachusetts, and north carolina. bernie sanders did not have a strong showing among the younger vote, the younger voters did not show up for bernie sanders. >> yeah, and what we're seeing really is a backlash to socialism. the democratic establishment was freaking out prior to south carolina that person was the event -- that person person wase eventual likely nominee. you're seeing them coalesce around joe biden. it's a win. i would caution democrats, be careful. if you're left with joe biden, this is not a guy who is a clutch player. he can mess it up in the home

stretch. right now, he's just not being bernie sanders. bernie was banking on shifting the turnout model by turning out young people. they didn't en masse. this is a two-way fight now. it's not over yet. cheryl: it is a two-way fight. when it came to especially in virginia, which was a big win for biden, he got the black vote, he got boomers, he got the center left and i think that's the key there, the center left went for biden. >> absolutely. and the other key, cheryl, is that the numbers of people that voted and the energy, not just in virginia but across these 14 states is tremendous. so we're continuing to see this enthusiasm around the democratic candidates and i think that will continue as we move forward. cheryl: what did you make, john, of that narrow texas win for biden? it wasn't a slam dunk. it took a while to call the race. >> no, it wasn't. what i attribute biden's entire

win to is momentum. i mean, this is the biggest boost of momentum that we've seen. 48 hours ago if the election were held 48 hours ago we would have seen a dramatically different outcome, cheryl. biden has no national infrastructure. he hadn't aired advertising. biden isn't a lock of the nomination. biden bought himself a seat at the table because of this big moment t he's going to have to continue to execute flawlessly in order to win this. cheryl: he got beto, klobuchar and buttigieg all endorse him. it looked like it worked out for him. thanks for being here so early. lauren: investors seem toe be calling it the -- seem to be calling it the biden bounce. dow is up 560, s&p up 60, nasdaq up 182. of course, after yesterday's blood bath, investors watching the coronavirus and its impact as the deadly virus spreads. could something as basic as your

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cheryl: happening overnight, the u.s. military conducted air strikes against the taliban. lauren: tracee carrasco has those details for us. tracee: it's the first such attack in afghanistan since the u.s. signed the historic peace deal days ago. the agreement would have pulled american troops out of the country with the eventual goal of ending the 18-year war. a military spokesperson tweets the strikes were meant to disrupt taliban attacks on an afghan security checkpoint. shares of nordstrom taking a

dive, this after fourth quarter earnings and sales missed analyst estimates. revenue was $4.54 billion, compared to the expected $4.56 billion. the stock fell more than 10% in after-hours trading yesterday. leadership is also changing with the clothing chain retiring the co-presidency and naming eric nordstrom as the sole ceo. jp morgan chase is asking thousands of u.s. employees to work from home as part of a coronavirus contingency plan, meant to prepare the bank for a possible shutdown if the virus spreads more. there are reportedly calls for ireland to call off its st. patrick's day parade. there is one confirmed case of the coronavirus in the country. a professor with oxford university says officials should follow other impacted areas and limit large gatherings. wow, could you imagine.

cheryl: tracee carrasco live for us in the newsroom. thank you. lauren: you may notice when you check in at the doctor's office, i did this just yesterday, you're asked to fill in your information on a tablet. but does using them actually put you at risk? and yesterday the nurse said the tablet's been cleaned. cheryl: let's bring in from fox news headlines 24/7, brett larson. medical offices are going digital. this is happening. >> it's the wave of the future. my doctor comes in with a touch screen laptop that he touches the screen, uses the keyboard. touch screens are gross, they're glass surfaces, viruses can live on the touch screen surface and we actually -- one of the articles we were researching, some viruses can live for up to a week on your touch phone or your touch screen, on your phone or tablet. if you're going to the doctor's office and you have to use a tablet to sign in like you did, the thinking is wash your hands,

don't touch your face until you -- cheryl: i was worried about cyber security. you're telling me i'll get more sick at the doctor's office. lauren: what about sharing a pen, filling in your information manually, doesn't that expose you too because a lot of people touch the same pen. lauren:.>> it absolutely does. some sports teams were telling players to bring your own pen to sign autographs. the coronavirus taught us we're gross, we need to wash our hands more, like all the time after you go to the bathroom, before you eat. that sort of thing. this is part of the problem. apple says use soap and a micro fiber to clean the surface of your devices, you can also use alcohol wipes. alcohol wipes on keyboard surfaces, you'll start to wear off the letters a little faster. lauren: there's a way to stop political text messages. >> the easiest thing to do is

respond with stop, unsubscribe, cancel, quit, stop messaging me. what's interesting is the rules on text messages are a little different from phone calls and the way most of these political campaigns are doing this, it is actually a person to person text so it's not considered a robocall, so they're not violating any of those robocall rules. if you start to get them, just respond back to them, say i'm not interested and they'll stop. what's interesting to note, the campaigns do get the negative messages back. so if you say i'm not going to support mayor bloomberg because i feel like he's just trying to buy the white house, there's a good chance that's going to go to a data -- cheryl: sounds like a true story. brett larson, thank you very much, sir. lauren: you can catch brett on fox news headlines, 24/7, sirius channel 115. cheryl: there's a couple things on investors' minds, maybe a little buyback, also a little joe biden. his showing for super tuesday, investors liking this this

morning, dow is up 590, s&p up 63 and three quarters, nasdaq up 195 and three quarters. lauren: a day after the fed stepped in to help curve the damage from the coronavirus but now president trump has another idea. are democrats going to go for it, though? keep it here. ♪ here comes the judge. ♪ here comes the judge. ♪

cheryl: if you're just waking up this morning, joe biden is the big winner in super tuesday voting. sweeping the south. the former vp walking away with a win in texas and a surprise win in massachusetts. elizabeth warren's home state. she came in third there. biden now leads the delegate count with 453. bernie sanders had a major win in california, scoring the most delegates up for grabs. sanders now stands at 382. michael bloomberg winning american samoa, adding five delegates to his count. maine is too close to call right

now, biden and sanders within 2 percentage points of each other. we'll bring you those results when we get them. lauren: joe biden's southern sweep boosting stocks this morning, a day after the fed cut interest rates by 50 basis points in a rare emergency move and now president trump is proposing yet another idea to help curb the damage from the coronavirus. let's discuss. doug flynn from flynn zito capital management is here, as well as craig demuke. chief economist. is this the biden bounce or something else? >> i think it is a little bit. the market was not liking the idea of a sanders potential move ahead. i talked to a lot of people on both sides of the spectrum politically and even hard core democrats were not really keen on that, especially if they have any money invested wha whatsoevr which is half of the population. this gets back to he is the establishment guy, we know what it looks like, and the market likes a little more certainity. lauren: invests don't want that

socialist revolution. >> no, they don't. lauren: stocks may be rallying this morning. this doesn't mean we're ending higher. the 10 year treasury yield, that continues to fall. is that concerning to you, craig, and why? >> well, it's a bit of a concern, sure. the 10 year yield reflects the feeling of risk for the investors and, yeah, it's dropping below 1%, all-time lows, the 30 year at all-time lows. it just reflects the amount of fear that's in the market right now, the amount of fear that the coronavirus has caused and the potential for an economic slowdown and a pretty significant way. lauren: let me jump in here again. this emergency rate cut by the fed, perhaps another cut in two weeks. a change in monetary policy, making rates cheaper doesn't get people to get on a flight to egg tokyo or a flight to italy.

so what exactly can the trump administration and the federal reserve do to help protect the u.s. economy in the short term? >> sure. so that's right, it doesn't affect the outbreak of the infection of the virus. what it does it two things. there's two battles going on right now. one is for consumer confidence, the fed move doesn't really affect consumer confidence other than boosting asset prices. the second battle going on is for business confidence. that's what the fed cutting rates helps with business confidence. the second issue, the second reason i think why they should have cut is because the curve was so inverted, there was so much fear out there, that had they not i think the results would have been disastrous. going forward, i think it needs to be accompanied by fiscal stimulus. go back to the arra, the aftermath of the great recession, they boosted stimulus $260 billion that they did with tax credits, tax cuts, increased unemployment benefits and so i think something like that would have an actual impact for the

consumer and so i think they need to move forward with something along that line as well. lauren: do you agree that rate cuts boost corporate confidence and also this idea that maybe we get a one year payroll tax cut. would that help? >> well, that might help a little bit. that goes directly down to the average person's paycheck. the more i look at this, the more it seems like trump wants what obama has or had. he had low interest rates, he had the payroll tax cut himself actually for a period. so he just wants everything the wind at his back at every turn. that's why immediately after they cut rates 50 basis points, he came out and said can i have another 50. that's basically he wants to put everything behind him, the wind at his back. i think it helps a little bit. i don't think we need to k i think that there's a lot of confidence. people are feeling better than they ever had, they have more money in their pockets. things are goosmed i don't know if it's -- things are good. i don't know if it's necessary. i'm worried about what we have

left if we get down to zero. lauren: let's say the democrats say you get your payroll tax cut. it's all temporary. and possibly the interest rate cut could be temporary too. who's to say the fed will say we'll cancel it and raise rates. >> people will refinance and that's really good. rates are low, below 3% on long-term interest rates which is unbelievable. lauren: i thought i got a good mortgage rate. doug, craig, thanks for joining us this morning. >> absolutely. >> thank you. cheryl: and here is what's happening today. third party sellers are trying to cash in on the coronavirus. this large bottle of purell is going for $185. this single use is being sold for $348. amazon said they're cracking down on price gouging. ebay is asking sellers not to include health claims in their listing. lauren: mickey may be the heart

of disney. the mouse has never had its own ride until today. you can take a spin on the railway at disney studios. riders are under the impression they're going to ride a cartoon, and that's when things get going really fast. cheryl: i love a good surprise. the world will hold its breath tonight as nik wallenda attempts his latest stunt. he will try to walk over a volcano in nicaragua on live tell vismtion he has done similar opportunities, like walking over niagara falls, the grand canyon and most recently in times square. lauren: the big losers on super tuesday, michael bloomberg and elizabeth warren. but are either one of them going to call it quits any time soon? cheryl: bentley raising the roof, literally. the car maker's $2 million set of wheels, keep it here on "fbn:

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>> no matter how many delegates we win tonight, we have done something no one else thought was possible. in just three months, we've gone from 1% of the polls to being a contender for the em daic nomination -- for the democratic nomination for president. lauren: the former new york

mayor was only able to winner america somoa while elizabeth warren did not win a single state. what's next for them? thanks for joining us. >> thank you. lauren: we'll start with you, william. does elizabeth warren drop out with super tuesday her nail in the coffin? she didn't even win her home state. >> the new hampshire primary, the closer countieses to massachusetts, she did even worse. there's no path to the nomination for elizabeth warren. the pressure will only grow on her to drop out, not only from the establishment but from the donor class as well. she's on a short leash. lauren: could she be pitching herself as this viable unity candidate between whoever the moderate is, looks like biden, and of course bernie sanders. >> yeah, i don't think so. not only did she -- lauren: tell me how you really feel. >> she lost her own state and she lost it by coming into third place. biden picks up a significant

number of delegates from a state that is more progressive than many states in that super tuesday contest. so let's look at the actual numbers. 1,991. that's how many delegates you need in the first round in order to clinch the democratic nomination. she has absolutely no chance of doing that. bloomberg also has no chance of doing that now. this is a two-man race. it is between biden and sanders. and i've got to tell you, joe biden is waking up this morning saying i got 99 products but bernie sanders ain't one. lauren: william, so let's talk about mike bloomberg. what happens? he said he's in it to win it. he's reassessing his campaign this morning. but is he really throwing 600 million plus dollars down the drain? >> well, just look at the return on investment. he got, what, four or five delegates last night after spending 5, $600 million. there's not a path forward for mike bloomberg. the only reason for him to stay in is if he's going to try to deny somebody the nomination by trying to peel off votes and try

and get people below the 15% to get delegates in each of these states that are going to be coming up after super tuesday. this is a vanity play by michael bloomberg. there's no path to the nomination for him. lauren: rashad, the wall street journal was citing exit polls and they found more than half of democrats would be unhappy if mike bloomberg is actually the nominee, especially after a disappointing night last night on super tuesday. so if you're mike bloomberg and you're reassessing your campaign and all the money you poured into your campaign this morning and he's got plenty more to spend, he's worth $60 billion. do you say wow, where does my support actually come from? >> well, he doesn't really have a lane here. remember, the majority of democrats that actually supported bloomberg, they supported him because of the electability argument. they did not think people like joe biden and other moderates were electable or seemed electable in democratic primary. but i have a different take on bloomberg. i know technically he lost the

delegate count and popular vote count. i think in a way he actually won. if you look at the kinds of commercials he was running throughout this entire country, he spent 97% of the overall media buy out of all of the candidates, he spent a lot of money attacking bernie sanders. he effectively knocked bernie sanders down a tad in his commercial bid. it has been effective and i think he won in this sense. he's a multibillionaire. he doesn't want the bernie sanders tax plan. he has been able to stop that momentum of bernie sanders. it was him and a coalition of a few others. so i think in that sense bloomberg is a winner. lauren: all right. respond to that, william. >> can i jump in and add this. i think michael bloomberg has become the largest anti-bernie super pac in the race. at the end of the day, he is fighting more against what he doesn't want to happen than what he is for. he's not a democrat. he claims to be a moderate. but he really doesn't have a

lane as my colleague said and all of his money is spent on anti-ads rather than trying to promote a public policy position or try and create a rational for his path forward. lauren: we have to leave it there. we have a republican and democrat actually agreeing. rarashad, william, thank you vey much. cheryl: the biden bounce giving u.s. futures a little bit of a boost this morning, a lot of commentary about this. dow is up 577, s&p is up 61 and-a-half, nasdaq is up 187 and a quarter. this is after the fed cut rates yesterday based on worries about the coronavirus and that scry vs does continue across the globe. how is the deadly virus spreading so quickly? how does it compare to the flu? lauren: your amazon same day shipment may be hitting your doorstep earlier than expected. is that even possible? amazon's new delivery plans coming up on "fbn: a.m." ♪ i'll take you there. ♪ i'll take you there. ♪

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lauren: kim kardashian is heading back to the white house. tracee carrasco with those details. tracee: president trump will be hosting kim kardashian west at the white house today to draw attention to criminal justice reform. this isn't the first time the two collaborated on the issue with kardashian west successfully lobbying the president to commute the sentence of alice johnson three years ago. amazon looking to deliver your packages even faster. the company is testing a quicker version of its same day shipping in cities like orlando, dallas, philadelphia and phoenix. shoppers will be able to buy something as late as 5:00 p.m. and still receive their package in just a few hours. amazon says the speedy service is thanks to the construction of

smaller fulfillment centers built in these cities. bentley unveiling a new car that costs more than some make in a lifetime. it is a roofless car that comes with an interior made of 5,000 year old wood, has a 650-horsepower, 12 cylinder engine and 8 speed transmission. only 12 cars were made and each one costs a whopping $2 million each. cheryl: what a bargain. lauren: what a deal. cheryl: tracee carrasco, thank you. as the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus continue to increase in the united states with nine confirmed deaths, americans want to know how dangerous is this. how do we prepare? dr. vanessa rabba is a pediatric and infectious disease specialist here in new york. it's great to have you here, doctor. >> thank you for having me. cheryl: the way this is spreading, there seems to be confusion among health officials about how this is being spread.

these are people that have not gone to china, had any contact with anybody that's even been overseas. and they're contracting the virus. how? >> so we think this is spread by close contact or large droplets, so droplets that come out when we talk, when we sneeze, when we cough. those don't stay in the air, they go about six feet and they fall down. really by close contact or touching surfaces that have that and touching our nose, mouth, eyes, which is something we do frequently. most people getting sick with this are not getting severe disease. some people can have the virus and have no symptoms at all. cheryl: the world health organization, they're warning about a shortage of masks for healthcare workers, they're warning about a shortage -- we're seeing price gouging on amazon for pureell. are people panicking too much? >> i think there's no need to passenger. the way we approach this is with caution. we know there have been 93,000 cases in the world.

we're looking at the entire population of the world here to yoput this in context. the most affected country, we're talking about 80,000 people out of 1.3 billion which is far less than 1%. we know have been diagnosed with this. but we are worst case scenario planners, we want to be prepared if this becomes something that everybody is getting that we can help treat them, even if we look at data from countries like china, that's not what we're seeing right now. cheryl: if someone were to walk in right now with coronavirus, do you feel confident you could treat them and get them healthy again? >> absolutely. cheryl: what about the issue of travel? most of the airline ceos are expected to go to the white house today to meet with officials there, talk about what's happened with travel. obviously if you're in a flying tube, aka an airplane, there's concerns about the virus spreading. are you concerned about the virus sprea spreading on a plan? >> i think there are concerns and that is that we know the droplets that can transmit it can spread up to about six feet.

if you're sitting close by somebody who is sick, you're potentially at risk if you're on an airplane. travel to certain countries, the cdc is not recommending. they're updating travel warnings in real-time. we don't know what's going to happen with this, we don't know where it's going to go and how much travel to other countries is going to be affected but one thing we definitely recommend is if you are sick, don't get on an airplane. we don't want you exposing people to whether that's a cold, a flu or coronavirus. cheryl: thank you very much for weighing in on this. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. cheryl: all right, lauren. lauren: have you ever had trouble get urge kids aways from their favorite video games. one family's strait jay that went a little -- strategy that went a little too far. cheryl: while the country seems to be divided politically, there's one thing most republicans and democrats can agree on. we've got the answer coming up next on "fbn: a.m." ♪ get high with a little help from my friends. ♪ gonna try with a little help from my friends.

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not agree on. new survey poll both republicans an democrats and asked them top 20 favorite tv shows and found out that we agree on more than half of them. the biggest ones that we both enjoy abc, this is us, and, of course, hbo's -- cheryl: nbc. mike: hbo's game of thrones. that has nothing to do with party lines right there. when it comes to celebrities we disagree per but both parties can agree that favorites can include tom hanks, hewing jackman, carol barnett and the great betty white. if you're don't love betty white, you're not human. cheryl: everybody loves betty white. lauren: how old is she now? mike: who cares? she's good. cheryl: in her 90's. grand theft auto video game had

a real adventure. mike: this kid took it a step further and decided to take car and driving in the parking lot. the cops showed up. an older relatively actually took them there because he won't stop playing the video game. oh, you like cars so much. the relative got the ticket. 11-year-old did not get in trouble but, you know -- lauren: talked his way out of the ticket. i'm just trying to get the kid off the screen. mike: preparing or starting lessons earlier these days. cheryl: now i'm thinking about the all the tv shows that i i wt to binge.

[laughter] cheryl: we have a whole list. we could spend a long time telling viewers what to watch. but keep watching fbn:am. mike: absolutely, best show in the morning. lauren: i'm watching something that you're seeing on television. after the blood bath yesterday all 3 major averages up 2% the day emergency rate cut from the fed. cheryl: that's it for us. maria bartiromo, good morning. maria: hey, good morning, jam-packed program this morning, happy wednesday. i'm maria bartiromo and it is wednesday march fourth. your top stories right now before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. markets are rallying this morning, check the big, strong opening this morning, up 534 points on dow industrials right now following the federal reserve's emergency 50-basis point cut yesterday that initially drove a selloff but this morning we are seeing a large significant bounce-back. nasdaq futures up 172 and s&p right now up 56. all the indices up about 1%

right now. meanwhile yields, interest rates, check this out. falling below 1% for the first time yesterday. today remaining at .948% down another 5 basis points right now. super tuesday, former vice president joe biden's comeback carried on last night grabbing texas as well as 8 other states. meanwhile bernie sanders takes california, the state of the race coming up. coronavirus crisis continues as the virus spreads globally the world health organization warning of global shortage of medical equipment as the death toll here in the united states rises, we will get into it coming up. state of energy in measure veil. the city beginning recovery. live report coming up. blue apron, working on a recipe to create a turnaround. the ceo is here, mornings with maria is live right