thanks for joining us. another record day on wall street. [closing bell rings] dow sees second largest point gain ever. guess what? that does for "the claman countdown." connell mcshane, pick it up now. melissa: we love to. look at that. connell: that is a rally to put it mildly. all three major averages surging into the close. whether it is the biden surge or maybe we're alternating days between big rallies and selloffs. we're going with that. whatever the case the dow up well over 1000 points second time this week. 1171. that is 4 1/2%. right around the highs at the close as well. we'll go through it all. good to be back with you in new york. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis this is "after the bell." s&p 500 and nasdaq also ending in the green, both closing up 4%. look at that. nasdaq almost 4%. s&p better than that. fox team coverage.

kristina partsinevelos on floor of new york stock exchange. blake burman live at white house. phil flynn watching action of oil and gold. at cme. bloomberg spoke to campaign supporters moments ago after suspending his white house bid. i have to hear more about that. let's start with jackie though. reporter: good afternoon to you, melissa. they're breaking the stage down behind me. as mike bloomberg walked out, the crowd was chanting, michael get it done. what is ironic he was dropping out of the race. he tried to keep an upbeat energetic tone to invigorate and energize the crowd. he got choked up a couple times. he was definitely disappointed. he got in the race to defeat the president. that he wanted to get things done for the american people. he was going to continue to help do that. he said it was major accomplishment at the polls. last night two million people came out to vote for him.

at the same time he is driven by numbers about, the math, data and the delegate math didn't add up. the reason he got into the race is the same reason he is dropping out. listen. >> i entered the race for president to defeat donald trump and today i am leaving the race for the same reason, to defeat donald trump because staying in would make it more difficult to achieve that goal. reporter: so of course he did endorse joe biden and he told all the folks in this room that they should get out there and vote for him. he called joe biden a great american, somebody that was honest and loved the country and really made the point it was important to all come together to continue the initiative which he continued to say was to beat donald trump. he also said today, was the best day of my life and tomorrow will be as well. but mayor bloomberg out of the race, guys. it will be interesting to watch this as it progresses forward,

what seems to be a biden sanders contest. melissa: if i had a zillion dollars every day would be great as well. jackie, thank you. connell: i'll tell you this, there is a decent amount of politics in today's market for what it's worth. health care stocks as an example really helped to lead the rally. just about everything was up. health care did especially well. kristina partsinevelos, i guess anti-bernie sanders trade there. kristina: more than that. the anti-bernie sanders version and joe biden sweep. i would like to focus on the overall markets, the fact that this is the second time, the second day we've seen 1000 point swing in just three days. one trader told me this could be the new 100 point gain. maybe this is the new norm. seeing across the board like you guys mentioned, the dow jones up 4 1/2%. definitely a climb today compared to yesterday's close. could be the fact that sanders didn't do as well with super tuesday. could also be stronger economic numbers. you have the u.s. service sector expanding at a faster rate in february. you had moody's which chose

private payroll increasing to 183,000 extra last month. so these are a few tidbits of strength. if we focus on health care sector, you really see some strength. look at anthem up over 15%. same thing with cigna, 10%. across the board health insurance companies went up the moment we saw existential threat of bernie sanders may not be the case. i'm just going to close with airlines. the fact that united has said that they will be reducing their international travel by 20% in april. so the stock, did close up higher at the end of the day up 2%. connell: thank you, kristina. melissa: oil settling in the red. go to phil flynn with more on this. >> saudi oil minister wants to keep us in suspense, that is what he said, prices sold off after the deal to cut production by 1.2 million barrels a day fell stymied because russia said no way.

we don't want a bigger cut. we want to extend the cuts and keep them where they are. khalid gave them a little bit of hope, this isn't over yet. he likes the joint proposal by opec plus to do a 1.2 million-barrel cut. he says it is not over. we'll be in suspense to tomorrow. that did give oil a little bit of a boost. take a look at gold. gold yesterday got huge boost on 50 basis point cut yesterday. today back a little bit. a little bit of risk off. back to you. melissa: phil, thank you. connell: here now, jonathan hoenig from the capitalist pig hedge fund where he is a founding member, jonathan is also a fox contributor. we talked about whether, tough to know by the way as a disclaimer what is going on in markets. i was in north carolina last night. when joe biden won virginia and north carolina we did see the futures a get a bump up. maybe there is some of that in it. i was only joking with melissa, make our turn to be up after down. what is going on here? >> we're still getting numb to

these 1000 point swings. no question this was a joe biden rally. last night, when the contests first started coming in, results, futures opened down 100 points. as joe biden started winning results they jumped about 200 and kept going up. when bloomberg endorsed joe biden and dropped out middle of the day that is when they took off. this is a joe biden rally. you can't put too much faith in it yet. if you look under the hood, way more stocks trading below their 50 day moving average. many more new lows than highs. the trend overall is still down but the market as some other guests said trying to make a bottom. connell: a lot of things going on, jonathan, as you know. even if you buy into the idea that bernie sanders is not going to be president, you make that bet, joe biden is a better bet for markets, the other side of it is, people who support the president would say, he is the best bet for markets. he has been since he became president. if you have biden going up against him, it would give him a

better run than sanders. it is tough. >> against the backdrop of this, connell, you have, i don't know, coronavirus which is impacting everything from travel stocks and oil prices and global gdps, innumerable other instances here this is great time to get back to fundamentals of your own investment situation, your own context. a lot of people, connell, say they're it in for the long term. market drops 10%. they say get me out. connell: what do you use, you talk a lot about highs and lows but what type of metrics do you use in that type of environment? >> good rule of thumb, take your age, subtract from 100, percentage of portfolio be in risk assets. take a page from jpmorgan. who said if you can't sleep at night because of the stock market, sell down to the sleeping point. connell: i was doing the math. >> i like the other thing. connell: interesting, jonathan, good to see you. thanks. melissa: anti-virus measures. the house right now considering a multibillion-dollar spending

package to combat coronavirus. after the white house hosted airline ceos for briefings on the outbreak. let's go to blake burman for more. reporter: there was meeting of ceos. it started off this morning with ceos who run companies that treat the sick. there was diagnostic ceos and in middle of that the there was airline executives as well. that was the meeting we saw president trump joining earlier today. vice president mike pence was in all three meetings by the way. as far as the align meetings go, head of american, united, jetblue, others to name a handful. they said in the meeting they have up the standards for keeping planes sanitary but the obvious question here is what so many people are asking. is it safe to fly at this moment? that question was put before president trump as well. >> i think where these people are flying it's safe to fly. large portions of the world are

very safe to fly. so we don't want to say anything other than that and we have closed down certain sections of the world frankly and they have sort of automatically closed them also. if they understand that, they understand it better perhaps than anybody. yes, it's safe. reporter: you also mentioned the coronavirus spending package that was agreed upon up on capitol hill. there is a couple of different figures floating around even though this is agreed upon. what we think the figure is 7.7, $7.8 billion. i believe that might be the vote or part of a series of it right now. in any event, melissa, 10 days ago here at the white house they put forward a package asking for $2.5 billion. what will eventually come to the white house 10 days later, three times that amount. melissa: all big numbers. blake, thank you. connell: all right, major 2020 shakeup as we've been alluding to with former vice president joe biden surging past bernie

sanders last night, sweeping states he didn't campaign in in some cases. so can sanders still stop the biden momentum with annex contest less than a week away? melissa: los angeles county officials declaring a public health emergency after the state reported its first death from coronavirus. connell: and schools around the country enacting plans to stop the spread on campus. so we'll be lynch at the university of southern california with that story. it is coming up later in the hour. ♪. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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connell: certainly looks like it is emerging into a two-man race. joe biden expected to speak any minute. his major come back the story people aring about as the candidates look to the next round of primary battles. the race continues. florida is less than two weeks away. that is big one. we have fox team coverage. deirdre bolton is tracking delegates in the newsroom. she is very good at math. hillary vaughn in florida. we'll get to you in a moment. deirdre, we'll start with you. >> still pretty big contests yet to come. it takes 1991 delegates to win the nomination.

former vp joe biden on the screens there, more than 500. 566 at the latest count and senator sanders, 50. you mentioned florida. so florida and michigan the next most important contests. michigan, sanders scooped hillary clinton during the primaries the last round. president trump beat ms. clinton by narrowest of margins, .23% in a general election. if you look at florida, as we know, you could argue, say the biggest purple state in the nation. president obama carrying it twice narrowly. president trump flipping the state the last time around, beating hillary clinton by just a little bit more than 1%. but one takeaway from last night which showed up in the markets today, democratic voters may not be as focused on "medicare for all" as a single issue as once thought because otherwise the argument goes senator sanders would have won more delegates. sanders as a reminder wants everyone to have the same plan,

so-called "medicare for all" provided by the government to the point where private insurance would be prohibited. that might be too extreme for many democrats because biden did win more votes and the market reaction shows relief. look at united health, best performance in more than a decade. cigna, anthem, all closing up with big gains and health care by group the biggest contributor to the s&p 500. so, connell, a bit of a relief rally according to some people i've been checking in with. back to you. connell: the anti-bernie trade. thank you, deirdre. melissa: now to hillary vaughn in west palm beach. hillary? reporter: melissa, while bernie sanders is still trailing joe biden with delegates after biden swept 10 out of the 14 states, but mayor michael bloomberg dropped out this morning after a depressing turnout and is now backing biden. >> after yesterday's results the

delegate math had had become virtually viable and a viable path for the nomination will has not existed and i will not be the party's nominee. i'm glad to say i endorse joe biden. i hope you join me to working to make him the next president of the united states of america. reporter: but bernie is taking credit for knocking bloomberg out of the race and thanking president obama for holding up on endorsing his former vice president. >> we're taking on billionaires. now we have bloomberg to the list. we're taking on wall street. i know they're getting very nervous. i guess the stock market went up this morning because they thought that biden did well. there is enormous pressure on president obama to jump into this race and support joe biden. some of you may have read the other day he said no. he thinks the best role that he can play, i agree with him, is to support the winner. so he doesn't create more division. i think he is right but that is not easy for him to do and i

very much appreciate his willingness to do that. reporter: bernie sanders told reporters in vermont that his relationship with former president obama is being misconstrued by the media. so instead he is spending campaign cash on a new ad featuring himself and president obama. >> want somebody who will fight for them. they will find it in bernie. that's right, feel the bern. reporter: florida is the biggest primary prize still left. 219 delegates up for grabs. they vote 13 days from today, melissa. melissa: interesting stuff, hillary. connell: really interesting. former arkansas governor mike huckabee joins us to talk about it all and of course a former presidential candidate. you are now a resident of florida, makes you uniquely qualified to talk about these things, fox news contributor. what about the point hillary made about president obama, the best guess, he stays out of this

until there is a nominee? >> i do think he stays out. there is no reason for him to get in. there is only downside for him and no upside but bernie messed himself up in florida. he went and thought castro was such a great guy because he taught everybody how to read. you go to south florida, tell everybody's whose relatives were murdered by castro this guy is hero. like going to texas saying that you hate guns, cows, oil, and high school football all in the same sentence. connell: right. >> just not a smart thing to do. i think he toasted his own buns when he said that as far as florida is concerned. he set biden up for a win there. connell: and a big win, right? if you look at, deirdre was talking about delegate math a few minutes ago, it is close. bernie sanders obviously won california but this huge night for biden, puts him by our count, 566 to 501 for sanders. by the time you get through florida, how do you expect the race to look?

will biden have put distance between himself and sanders, close to wrapping it up or no? >> i think it will take a little longer and the question is, how long does elizabeth warren stay in? she had a horrible day. bloomberg's already out. he is going to move to american samoa to become king there because he basically bought the entire island. he is in good shape. he has something to go govern. the real challenge, not that the democrats are uniting behind biden because they think he is a terrific candidate. deep down they watch his speeches. he doesn't know what state he is in. not sure what office he is running for on some days. he confuses his wife and his sister, it goes on and on. here is what we come down to. connell the democrats are down it's bernie or somebody else and biden has become the somebody else. so it is not a love of biden. it is a fear of bernie driving this sudden collapse of the

democrat field into a couple of three people. connell: i knew you would bring up the wife and sister thing. the video was up while we were talking about it. you can't resist that from last night. governor, ask you something about history which you know a thing or two about presidential politics. people are making comparisons with other cycles. bernie sanders compared to president trump, whole outsiders finding popular support against the establishment type of thing but the other one come up a last couple days, a little bit, joe biden, 2020, to john mccain 08. you were in the rain in '08. mccain was front-runner originally in 2007. struggled in the polls. didn't do well in iowa. you run. mccain came back and became the nominee. people had all kind of reports his campaign was in trouble. do you see any similarities there or is it different? >> the difference was mccain had people working for him that spent him into oblivion. by the middle of the fall leading up to iowa which was on

january the 2nd, the reason he was in so much trouble he was out of money and he was not out of money because of all the donors not giving it. he wasn't overwhelming with it but his problem was he had people spent him into a mess. but what john did to his credit, he started flying coach on commercial air. he cut all of his expenses. he got a lot of the staff out of the way. he quit spending money he didn't have to spend. he ran a very frugal operation and he was able to kind of be the lazarus of the 2018 cycle t t -- it was a smart move on his part. connell: a way saying better candidate in your view than joe biden or was then? >> i don't mean to belabor the point but john knew where he was and he had a clear understanding of what he believed and he didn't fumble around on stuff like, you know, knowing the basic premise of the declaration of independence, you know, these

truths are self-evident. he knew what those were. honestly it is just, sometimes it is painful to watch joe and i don't think that this is just merely that he is tired. if it is, his staff has got to make sure that he gets eight hours of sleep because he can't keep doing this and take on president trump, who will grind him up like sausage on the debate stage if he keeps making these kind of gaffs. connell: even with the gaffs, he has had some week. i don't know if we've seen a comeback in a while. governor, good to see you. always a way with words. thanks for coming on. >> you bet. melissa: so entertaining. connell: it is. melissa: this is not entertaining. this is very serious. devastation in nashville, the latest details on the ground from the deadly tornado that hit tennessee, plus the coronavirus spreading through the u.s. a health expert's advice on how to combat the outbreak. ♪.

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melissa: picking up the pieces. residents in nashville and central tennessee are struggling to recover from the deadly tornadoes that killed at least 24 people with dozens still missing. fox news's steve harrigan is live on the ground with the latest. steve. reporter: we're in cookville, about0 miles east of nashville, probably the hardest hit spot. i'm standing on the foundation of what was a house on monday. if you look behind me, another foundation, another and another. all you can see down the street t was a neighborhood monday. now it is wreckage and ruin. you see people sifting through the wreckage trying to find what they can. i saw a vietnam vet looking for a brauns star. people are looking for wallets and i.d.s. others are looking for pictures. people said they didn't get any warning that the tornado was about to touch down. when they crashed and shook houses upside down, some neighbors turned into the very

first-responders. here is one of them. >> so we ran out and started looking for people. people were screaming. it was raining, wind, everybody's feet, we were in socks. i got keys to my truck t was still drivable. we started picking up injured people and driving over what used to be houses. reporter: we've seen bulldozers, bobcats, going all day, pushing rubble in piles to be taken away. it is hard work physically and emotional i. one bobcat workers said he has been here found five bodies. five of them children under 13. this town is especially traumatized by the disaster. one woman whose house was

untouched, i told her good for you. she burst into tears. help is on the way. state help and federal help. president trump will be here on friday. back to you. melissa: just the pictures, video, so hard to believe. steve, thank you. connell: that is brutal, brutal. we shift gears. a first of its kind experience, mickey and mini's runaway railway they call it. officially opened up at hollywood studios, first ride any disney park to start the two of them. how about that? it brings projection mapping to bring it alive. at one point the wait time was five hours. melissa: i don't know about that. i don't see myself waiting five hours. connell: for anything. good luck to them. melissa: there you go. five hours even though everyone is afraid of coronavirus and they're still waiting five hours. connell: that will be a good point. to see if that is the place to

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♪. connell: now to rising death toll from the coronavirus in the united states. california reporting its first death. so that is 11 total across the country. in california an elderly man with underlying health problems died, this as vice president mike pence is getting set to make his way out to washington state tomorrow. dan springer is there now. he join us with the latest from kirkland. dan? doesn't look like dan hears us. we'll get back to him if we can in washington state. meantime, melissa has more. melissa: turning over to new york state, go ahead scroll up there, four new cases have been confirmed in the 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the empire state to six. health officials are asking anyone who has had close contact with the patients to contact

authorities. here now is dr. david samati. st. francis hospital director of men's health. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, melissa. melissa: hard to make of the different way people are behaving. there is still five hour line at disney, a place would think majorly impacted by coronavirus, you are in such proximity, you have the opportunity to go. other people are saying there is crone korean in my town. in new york, for example, maybe i should pull my keds out of school. what is the right amount of caution? >> we need to be really smart about this. we need to be vigilant and pay attention. the worst thing that can happen is panic and fear. it is panic of unknown, because a lot of times people like the cdc and government, basically they're not giving always clear information because this virus sometimes behaves very different than what we used to know. when they don't have all the

information they panic. in the field of prostate cancer they panic and fear. same thing with the virus. need to look at the statistics, melissa. if you look at pandemic, a lot of scientists are not calling this a real pandemic because we see it in3 countries, when you look at the u.s. we have only 129 cases. we have 10 deaths. talking about 1% fatality. that is a very low number. so the risk to americans today is very low. are we going to see more numbers in the future? are we going to see more deaths from this virus? absolutely and it is going to get a little worse before it gets better. the good news for people to know that the epicenter of this virus in china wuhan, the numbers are slowing down which is really great news for us. melissa: yeah. >> the travel ban that president trump put in place is absolutely was the best thing that he did because you're isolating the virus. then of course the investment that is coming in, seven,

8 billion going to go to this, it is going to bring all the screening tests. by having ability to be able to screen the patients we're able to diagnose them, isolate them, and contain them and take care of this. so i don't want the public to be panicking about this. i think this will pass. melissa: what advice, say i feel like i'm coming down with a cold? i know that the symptoms are, it is respiratory, it's a cough, it's a fever, what would you tell me to do? >> i think at the beginning you should observe because these have very similar symptoms to flu symptoms. fever is a big thing if you're getting shortness of breath, difficult with respiratory, difficulty breathing absolutely get checked. good news, 80, 90% of people coming with mild symptoms recover on their own. when we talk about the statistics, a lot of people out there may be positive with coronavirus but we never get to

see them and they basically heal on their own, they improve. so this is very important for people who have copds, asthma, smoking, certain countries like iran or china have major pollution, these are very, and also nursing home patients, patients with immune compromise, hiv patients on steroids, these people, have be to very careful. if you get this, god forbid you will basically heal on your own and improve. if you see the fever going up, short of breath, absolutely go in and get checked. melissa: anything you would avoid right now? would you tell your family to avoid things? >> my children asked me whether we should be traveling or not. my answer was we absolutely will go. i think wearing a mask is not going to help us but if somebody who is coming up with the symptoms, they should be wearing masks. i don't think this is really in a panic zone where you really have to change your whole life

and be paralyzed. and so, we're going to watch this. i think it is going to get better. we'll see more number of these cases where two months from now, i think we'll be forgetting about this. that is my opinion. melissa: dr. samadi, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> appreciate it. connell: live on the floor the voting is on the funding bill, coronavirus spending bill we talked about earlier and it is expected to certainly pass in the house but we'll follow it as the vote continues. alert to the vote being live. we'll keep an eye on it. melissa: coronavirus impact on tech industry and company leading the charge in silicon valley to combat the deadly outbreak. embarrassing defeat in her home state. what does the future hold for this 2020 candidate? details next. ♪. s platforms and education.

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♪. connell: so, defight despite growing public pressure, south by southwest, it will go on as planned even though a number of companies pulling out in recent days, twitter, facebook, a

number of them. over fears of the coronavirus. brett larson, here to talk about this, fox news headlines 24/7. this is a big deal. >> it is huge. it takes over the entire town and south rock, south by, what the bros call it, go to south by, to pitch my app. what is sad, you want to go there, you can get face tame with a lot of these companies but now a lot of these companies are pulling out. as you mentioned google. mashable is pulling out. facebook is not going to be there. interesting to note google's io conference in may, that has been canceled. facebook canceled the f h 8 meet-up. apple's wwdc has not yet been canceled nor as microsoft's built. connell: south by southwest, is march 13th to the 22nd. >> next week into the following

week. it goes on for several weeks. connell: it is still on for now. quick alert, bret, we'll get back to what we're talking about technologywise, in washington is mark zuckerberg. we'll talk about facebook in a moment, they just passed that bill, want to alert everyone to that on the coronavirus funding. we showed awe few minutes ago they were voting. it did pass as expected in the house. facebook is taking on a virus, in a way, zuckerberg comes out that health workers will use anonymous facebook data to understand how the virus is spreading. they will give the world health organization free ad time, if there is any fake news for lack of a better term, misinformation, whatever you want to say, they give the w.h.o. free ad time on facebook. >> look, this is a good test case scenario for facebook to sort of do some, give back to the community that they have taken literally so much from. it's interesting that they're going to use some of the data to give to the w.h.o. to see how

the outbreaks work. that is a very trackable thing. viruses are data at the end of the day. granted they also kill people. i don't mean to minimize that. connell: that is important. one of the things with the virus we haven't had enough information. people people like they don't know enough. >> exactly. what facebook is doing here is great. w.h.o. is getting free ads, based on your location, if you search for coronavirus information you will get two things, you will get a link to the w.h.o. for the most current information. you will also get any localized information. so if you are in washington state or if you're in oregon, there is an outbreak there, there in new york city, if there is outbreak near you will hear the very latest information. that is a great use of social media technology. connell: good use of location tracking people complain about. let's talk about amazon, this is virus related. amazon had issues of price gouging. we talked about it couple times, it come up again. people buying face masks or hand

sanitizer, on amazon, there is lot of price gouging, people jack up the shipping. took more than a million items off of amazon. >> a million sellers were yanked off for violation what amazon calls the fair pricing policy. it is an interesting policy. it basically says you can't charge an exorbitant price for something, we know it is exorbitant price, there might be selling purell, if one is selling for 99 cents, you're selling it for $100, clearly something going on. we're seeing shipping, the pricing is good but the shipping might be $100 and that's outrageous. amazon we talked about this last week, they stepped up right away we'll not allow for what i call this information superhighway robbery. they're not letting that happen. they're reminding people, wash your hands. want to throw that out there. wash your hands. use alcohol wipes on mobile devices. remember you touch your mobile device all day. touch your tablet all day with your dirty hand.

connell: clean the tablet. maybe we're all doing things that we should have been doing to begin with a little better than we are. so if that is all that comes out of it. anyway, like to have fun with you. not so much fun this week the way things are going. we appreciate it. brett larson. melissa: not a warm welcome for elizabeth warren in her home state on super tuesday. the president taking the bronze medal in the massachusetts primary bring in her home state. critics criticize her performance. here is joe concha, "the hill" reporter. what is worse, joe? joe biden won her home state. he didn't spend one dime, one person there, nothing. he totally avoided massachusetts and he still got first. bernie got second and her own constituents were like, no, no, we don't want her. what do you think of that? >> is anti-bloomberg, right?

joe biden in this case not spending a dime, winning a state. many democrats are asking why is she still in the race, many democrats, mainly those who support bernie sanders? it seems that no one from the party establishment, the machine is really pressuring elizabeth warren to leave, right? because she would take many more, i'm sorry, bernie sanders would get more of her votes than joe biden would. that is based on polling where elizabeth warren supporters are asked who is your second choice? a firm majority are bernie sanders, is bernie sanders i should say. that seems to be the thing. when pete buttigieg and with amy klobuchar they were both pressured to get out by party leaders, perhaps promised something, "quid pro joe" in this case. elizabeth warren stay in. it hurts sanders, helps biden and -- melissa: i heard a lot of democrats trying to make the case a bunch of her supporters would actually go to biden because people supported hillary clinton. they're really more moderate than her but they want a woman.

they say picked her, their real second choice is actually not bernie but it is joe biden. do you buy that at all? sounds like no. >> no. i see her as a very progressive candidate far more i guess than biden. i don't know if there are moderates in this race despite what you hear from some media pundits. look in the end, she couldn't answer one simple question. she wants government-run health care, and how are you going to pay forfeit you don't raise taxes on the middle class? it will cost trillions upon trillions. that is a left-wing proposal. she could not answer the question to the point where stephen colbert was coaching her on his show. this will come back to bite you. she was climbing. >> that is my question. she had a huge surge not too long ago. how did she end up being the person who won nothing, coming in third in your home state? even oklahoma she pretends like she is from whatever, they didn't vote for her either. how does that happen? >> i think she was supposed to

be the smartest candidate in the room who had a proposal and a very well-thought out policy for everything. then when she couldn't explain the most basic part of her main platform which was you know, as far as health care being government-run, then she just looked like she was disorganized. then after that, usually is a personality that can catch you. barack obama, you know had this great personality. even for all of his shortcomings around foreign policy, he was in the senate for five minutes he could make up by being charismatic. i go back to the beer video where she is in her house -- melissa: get me a beer. >> talking to her husband. i will get me a beer. her husband walks in. thank you for being here. i appreciate you being here. it is your freakin' kitchen. you wouldn't say that to your husband or wife. that is awkward. most awkward video i have ever seen. she was not a good candidate. she couldn't explain her policies. melissa: not getting out? >> because of ego or not getting pressured. melissa: one of those two.

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about their business, telling us they will carry on, student gym here, starbucks in the next building they are packed. there is a lot of activity on campus. you mentioned them followin cang study abroad. we have seen universities from coast-to-coast doing the same. same. >> risk to individuals traveling is as much about traveling in a community that is being disrupted. where there might not be access to basic service as is the disease itself. reporter: usc also advising students against international travel during spring break. for some schools that starting this weekend. they are concerned about getting

stuck in quarantine. and new york city -- a university there shuts down its campus after their first student with coronavirus, and call -- sl cases have been confirmed in orange county. right now, back to you. melissa: all right. thank you. connell: tough spot for the administrators to be in, better safe than sorry i guess is what they are going with. what to do on campus is a tough call. melissa: market up 1173. second biggest gain ever also, this week. connell: i tell you what i will not do right now, make any kind of predication about where the market goes tomorrow. they have been proven wrong in last few day, but we will take

the rally, 1200 points, thank you for joining us, we'll see you this time tomorrow. melissa: stocks roaring back today, we'll see what tomorrow holds, "bulls and bears" starts right now. >> welcome to "bulls and bears," i am steve forbes in for david asman, super tuesday resulted in a super width for market -- wednesday for markets, stocks surging dow up more than 1100, the second largest point gain ever as investor cheered at better than expected performance by joe biden last night. he won 9 states and over 500 delegates. but are investors really cheering a biden surge or a sanders slide? we debate that in a moment, but first, our all-star panel. zachary care notice