have shannon byrd on the show tomorrow. police in ohio rescuing a dog. they brought lucky on dry land. they wound up reuniting him with his family. bill hemmer, that's the kind of good news you could use. >> bill: i would agree. dana is gender-neutral. >> dana: what? oh, my name! [laughs] >> bill: you could use it both ways. you let kristin fisher in the space for snow that we are applying. >> dana: i'm going to do that and i'm going to recover. >> bill: have a great monday. i am bill hemmer. reporting starts with 14 americans testing positive for the virus. they are among the hundreds of u.s. passengers who are now under a two-week quarantine. two planes transporting american citizens from the diamond princess cruise ship in japan arriving back home on u.s. soil overnight. pictures from inside showing

people wearing masks, and officials walking around with protective gear. so far, that virus has spread to 26 countries, infected more than 70,000. china has the most recorded cases with the disease killing at least 1700 people there. jerry is with me from omaha, nebraska, by way of skype. good afternoon to you. thank you for being here. how is your husband? does he have this virus? >> we are hoping to hear in the next hour, as for myself too. we do not know yet. we were tested in japan and never got the results back and we were assured we were clear and then on the flight we came down with a fever. >> bill: you said you made up the story that yo you were clea? >> we made up the story no news was good news. >> bill: see you find out within an hour whether you are infected with the virus and so

does your husband. what's that feeling like, geri? >> it really stinks. he's got another condition. his immune system is already compromised so i am very much concerned for him. he's at the university of nebraska. i am in a facility in isolation there too, so we are separated and that's really difficult. we just went through a 14 day -- 12 day quarantine. >> bill: this started a month ago for you on a cruise ship. you live in santa clarita, california. what are you doing in nebraska? >> exactly. we were -- we thought we were be at the air force base in california. and then that all changed in the last hour. they said you're going to go on. be prepared for another three to four-hour flight. so we did another three to four-hour flight. there were two others that it come down with fevers along with

my husband, but we got off the plane to learn this morning they had allowed on our flight 14 people that they knew had the virus and we had no idea. >> bill: i bet that causes some concern. on that ship, you have hundreds of other virus. that quarantine on board that ship wasn't very good then, was it? >> what we were concerned about his, a question we were asking is where was the state department several days ago. we are on our second containment, quarantine. we are business owners. we were told -- i was actually talking to one of the state department officials the ride back and he said that they had gotten calls six days ago and it took six days to get in. we are not sure if the japanese government didn't love the state department in but there's a lot of questions that we do not have answers for.

especially being business owners and having the business suffer because we are gone so long. >> bill: i can only imagine. if you are clear this hour and if your husband carl is okay, when you go back home to california? >> we still have a 14 day quarantine. i am in a room. a dormitory room from college. that i cannot leave. at least on the ship we had a mini suite with a balcony. i was able to get steps. we were getting up at 2:00 a.m. working with our staff. unfortunately we only brought one computer. karl got the computer. i did not. we are hoping and we haven't heard if he can have deliveries. they are not sure. i'm really hoping. we don't have our luggage. we have no clean clothes. so it's all going to be quite interesting. >> bill: you have a heck of a story. geri, let's stay in contact. the best to your husband. we will stay in touch over the

next couple weeks and figure out what you learned about your immediate fate in the next hour. thank you for your time, okay, be well there in nebraska. thank you. i want to get to jonathan serrie live in atlanta, home of the cdc. what are you hearing? you hear stories like that, it's something. >> it really puts a human face behind all of the numbers. speaking of the numbers, they are not all bad. today the world health organization says there's been a continual decrease in new reports of this novel coronavirus called covid-19. w.h.o. officials say it's too early to tell whether this is a permanent trend. >> it also appears that covid-19 isn't as deadly as other coronavirus'. >> based on the latest numbers from china, roughly 80% of covid-19 cases are mild. in fact many of these patients have already made full

recoveries. 14% are severe and 5% are considered critical. 2% of covid-19 cases have been fatal. the risk of death increases with the patient's age. over the weekend, french health officials reported the death of an 80-year-old tourist from china's hard hit hubei province who'd been isolated in a pair of hospitals this testing positive for the virus in late january. it's the first covid-19 fatality outside asia. france's health manager says that patients daughter is being tested for the virus. her condition has improved. she is expected to be discharged soon. delta air lines has its become aware of a japanese couple who tested positive after returning from vacation in hawaii. the company spokesperson says the health and safety of our customers and cruises are top priority and in cooperation with japanese health officials we are proactively reaching out to customers who were on the flight

as well as taking necessary steps to ensure the safety of our customers and crew. bill, the flight in question is delta flight 611. it flew from honolulu, hawaii, to negley on japan on six. >> bill: a lot to track on that. thank you. they are already voting in the nation's first in the west contest where these three candidates are all campaigning today. the nevada caucuses on saturday but the state is trying out early voting and it looks like senator bernie sanders is leading the pack. real clear average polling shows he's up by three points about a month ago the same average real clear politics had joe biden up by six. chris stirewalt is here to tell us what's up. what's up with you? make to see you. name your favorite. number one is? >> washington linking. -- washington and lincoln.

and coolidge. >> bill: joe biden on "meet the press." >> $60 billion can buy a lot of advertising. it can erase your record. >> bill: if you are michael bloomberg, do you want to be on the debate stage wednesday night or do you want to hold your cards back for a little while longer? what do you think if you're running the campaign? >> i would like to not be there if i were michael bloomberg. he's the -- the only thing a divided democratic party can agree on, the candidates, is that michael bloomberg is a no-good very bad terrible person. they really don't like him. that's one thing you got from biden to bernie. they can all agree that they don't like mike bloomberg. if he goes on the debate stage this week, he's just a pinata for everybody to take a smack at. if i'm bloomberg, i'm okay if there's not a poll that comes out before the close of business tomorrow that puts me in that

debate. >> bill: he is like a pinata. everyone is taking shots. that's what we are seeing. from four years ago, hillary clinton won by five points in nevada. same year, south carolina, hillary clinton swept every county over bernie sanders. she had more than 70% of the vote there. on the calendar, here's what's critical. the month of february, the nevada caucus next week. 36 delegates at stake. you want the momentum. the bigger number is much greater than 36 ultimately. south carolina, a week later, 54. then we move into march and you have super tuesday and all that. here's the national poll among democrats of the moment. bernie sanders has a lead of 4.5. i don't know how much credence you give national polls in mid-february. does that number mean much to you? >> it does not and it doesn't for this reason. we haven't been able to take stock, not been able to take inventory of what happened in

iowa and new hampshire and what the effects of those are an andf candidates dropping out of the race in these changes. take the pre-election polling and throw it out the window. it's time for us to be looking at two changes. one, momentum relative to pete buttigieg or amy klobuchar, or downward momentum for biden and elizabeth warren but also the bloomberg effect. what's it going to be? is he freezing the field? we've got to look forward, not back. >> bill: south carolina, joe biden. joe biden leads among the polling averages put together he's up 6.5 points. we will see what that means at the end. last point, the odds on a brokered convention just went higher today. if you believe bernie sanders is the front runner and may strengthen his hand after nevada if he comes in first, how do the party leaders taken out this time around? >> i don't think the party leaders took them out last time.

the narrative bernie sanders wants is that he's a victim of a powerful democratic party and a powerful media elite and he -- and all of that razzmatazz. that's good. you can sell mike a lot of cornflakes doing that. the reality is most democrats don't want bernie sanders and most democrats are fearful about what would happen down ballot if you put a socialist of the top of the ticket. as much as he's going to say he's a victim and obviously if it's bloomberg, they will do to him with a did to romney. they will try to make it bad news. the party decides. >> bill: do they? [laughter] they change the superdelegate rule. you'll be watching it. thank you. nice to see you and coolidge. chris stirewalt in d.c. thank you. meanwhile it got unprecedented flooding slamming parts of mississippi. the state's governor says they need all the help. he says people are not out of danger. we are alive in the flood zone on that story.

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mississippi, with more. steve. >> bill, it's not safe to come back in this neighborhood, not by a long shot. two to 3 feet of floodwater. this is a 37 year record for the pearl river. a crusted midday today. in theory that's good news but there's more rain on the way. that's bad news. this is a mandatory evacuation zone. there's really nobody around these houses. it's about 3 feet underwater. when you talk to people, some of them are still trying to gather what belongings they can out of their houses, trying to stack up furniture so doesn't get ruined, pullout electronics. a lot of them when you talk to them, they are afraid of losing everything. >> the thought of having to move is just -- and losing everything, losing our home. that's the scariest part about it. knowing if were going to have a home to come back to. >> the governor declared a state of emergency on saturday.

as many as 1,000 houses could be affected. there's been 16 emergency water rescues. no casualties reported but as you can see the property damage is going to be extensive. that's only going to become clear after the water receipts. >> bill: thank you, steve harrigan. i want to bring in a firefighter with mississippi's urban search and rescue task force. how are you and what have you been doing so far today. >> we are doing well. we are conducting wellness checks in the area. we also just completed a swift water rescue. wheaton overturned voter trapped on the river, the teams are clearing that scene. able to safely remove him. >> bill: i think we have a picture. we will share it with our viewers. what happened? >> that community has been flooded for several days and they anticipate the water not going down for over a week.

some of the citizens decided to stay behind and one of those citizens was in a boat in the swift water ended overturned and they made a 911 call for help and our team was pulled out of the area to assist and we were able to successfully remove them. >> bill: how often is this happening, or something similar? >> this is of a that we trained for regularly. in this community come over the last few days we've been lucky. our rescues have been minimal but we are advising people not to let their guard down. rain is on the way in the rain with the creeks and tributaries fallen, the rains not going to have anywhere to go. we are maintaining an active presence in the area with our team. and we hope we don't have to complete anymore rescues but we are here. >> bill: we are watching the floodwaters i may think 37.5 is the latest projection. you haven't been that high in a long time. with more rain coming tonight, where do you think it goes? >> that's one of the big concerns that we've had. the national weather service

issued a flash flood watch for the jackson metro areas are one of the concerns we have is that we will back up at some of the subdivisions, potentially cause harm. we are asking people to monitor the local news, monitor the local weather report. maintain a situational awareness that water may not be -- it may come up tonight and over the next few days. >> bill: i think what you said a moment ago might be the silver lining. you've not had as many rescues as you might anticipate which means people are paying attention. would you agree without? >> i agree. the mississippi management agency along with local officials, local news media, they've been pushing out the message over the last few days. the seriousness of it. people have taken heed to the warnings. thankfully many people have evacuated and our rescue numbers are down, and that's a direct reflection of the message that was pushed out leading up to this. >> bill: thank you. good luck tonight with the rain coming your way.

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>> bill: the judge overseeing roger stone's trial scheduling a hearing for tomorrow. all four prosecutors have quit that case after the ag bill barr suggested a change of their sentence recommendation. 1100 former prosecutors and justice department officials are calling on barr to resign. it was all over the roger stone matter. john roberts picks it up from there from the white house today. hello, john. >> bill, good afternoon. there's a lot of developments in this. it's going to be on at least the

next three days. if not beyond. tomorrow judge amy berman jackson who was the judge who presided over the stone case is called for a telephone hearing tomorrow in the court. this follows a request from stone's attorney for a retrial after it was revealed last week that the jury for person in the stone trial published several tweets critical of president trump and they had run as a democrat for congress back in 2012. also on thursday, judge jackson is scheduled -- we don't know if this will happen -- scheduled to hold a sentencing hearing for stone. we are learning more about the tick-tock and how all that went down. dod sources tell fox news that the new interim u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, tim shea, who you see there, felt the recommendation of a seven to nine year sentence for stone was excessive when it was presented to him by the prosecutors. tim shea wanted to roll back the recommendation which included enhancements to the sentencing

guidelines which were an additional five years in prison but the prosecutors told shea they would withdraw from the case if he did that so we caved to their demands and then signed off of the recommendations. attorney general barr thought the recommendation was excessive and made a decision to roll it back. between the time he made that decision and it went public, the president tweeted about it, giving the impression that the president strong-armed barr. for now, 1100, as you mentioned, former doj officials have signed onto a letter strongly condemning what they say is president trump and barr's interference in a failed judicial process writing "mr. barr's actions and doing the president's personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. the action of the damage they've done to the department of justice's reputation for integrally and the rule of law to require mr. barr to resign." democratic lawmakers don't expect barr will resign but they do say congress should hold hearings into what happened. the white house insists that the president was not sending a message to barr, that he was

sending a message to everybody. one other piece of business here at the white house, we are hearing that victoria coates who was the deputy national security director here at the national security council will likely be leaving her post and heading to energy. there's been speculation in washington that victoria coates was the anonymous behind me all fed and the book. i have been assured by an official who knows her very closely that's not the case. but it looks like she will be leaving the nsc. and will be going to energy at some point in the near future. >> bill: intrigue every day. thank you, john roberts. from europe, drafting rules on how companies use artificial intelligence and that's expected to have a major impact on silicon valley. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg meeting with e.u. leaders. in an op-ed in the of financial time, they say relation may hurt facebook's business but it will be better for everyone and

long term. we are expecting their first draft of the european regulations on wednesday of this week. why the odds of a contested convention just went higher. our political team takes that on, plus new york city mayor bill de blasio is backing bernie sanders while taking some billion-dollar swipes at michael bloomberg. >> in the midst of his 60 billion he says hey, i used to be mayor. i'm kind of retired now. i know what i would like to do. i like to become president of the united states. how do i buy the presidency? one call can save you $2000 every year.

>> bill: democratic candidates descending on nevada to rally supporters to get out and caucus. >> if we have, as i hope we will, the highest voter turnout in the history of the nevada caucus, we are going to win here in nevada. >> the power to determine who

the next president of the united states is going to be is in your hands, and you're going to have a great deal of influence no matter who you pick. >> don't you think a president like this who talks a big game about working people but all he ever delivers for corporations and the wealthiest, don't you think eat have taught to defend himself? >> bill: will find out wednesday night whether that defense happens publicly. early voting started over the weekend. ellison barber reports live in nevada. >> hey, bill. supporters, voters in the area have shown up to listen to senator elizabeth warren. she is doing a rally that we've seen many candidates doing the last few days to try and convince supporters to get out and vote early. it states three of early voting in this state. the caucuses happen saturday. vermont senator bernie sanders is leading in the state by

fairly large margin. he's also leading in the real clear politics average as well. candidates spent a whole lot of time on the ground in nevada talking to voters, rallying support for early voting and encouraging staff and volunteers to keep knocking on doors and trying to get whoever they can show up and vote. nevada democrats over 18,000 people voted on the first day of early voting. there is four days of early voting here. nevada is a important state, the first in the west caucus and it's the first state we've seen have early voting so far in the first real indication of how candidates will do among more minority voters. iowa and new hampshire, those states, their population are 9 90-plus% white. nevada is more diverse. it has a large hispanic population looks more like america. after the mess in iowa, everyone's watching to see how nevada will do. nevada democrats scrapped plans to use the same reporting app

that caused so many problems in iowa. party officials say they are ready and they will have paper records in the software they are using to record and submit votes, its off-the-shelf technology developed by google. they've gone over it with google as well as the department of homeland security. >> bill: thank you. ellison barber. new york city mayor bill de blasio who also ran for president, he's in nevada and now he's endorsing bernie sanders. targeting the man the palacios exceeded. new york city mayor mike bloomberg. >> i think what everyone is very clear about is no one in american history's ever tried to buy an election the way mike bloomberg is right now. some guy gamed the system to make billions of dollars and that gives them the best chance of being president, that's not what america is about. >> bill: bloomberg spending hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money on his own campaign and he says he's not taking any donation so he doesn't owe anything to anyone. i want to bring in the political

team. miranda devine. richard fowler, radio show host in fox news contributor. "washington post" headline over the weekend "mike bloomberg for years has battled women's allegations of profane, sexist comments." it's a long article, a big article. some of the headlines went toward this possibility that he would take hillary clinton as his vp. you believe his opponents are trying to land a blow they are not very successful yet. how come? >> because he's a shadow candidate. he's not actually participated in any debates or any interviews. he's just spending his money on ads that make him look good and beat up his opponents. it's very hard for them to land a blow on him because he hasn't actually stepped into the stage. >> bill: richard, if you are michael bloomberg, do you want to be on the stage wednesday

night? you want to buy a little bit of time for yourself? >> if i were managing the bloomberg campaign i would try to buy as much time as possible. i think for him to be the democratic nominee come he's going to have to take some blows. you have to answer some tough questions. it can't be a press release or a speech. he's going to have to talk to black voters of what the impact of stop and frisk was in new york and what impact it has for them voting for him today. he is really going to have to get out there and take some blows if he wants to be the nominee because trust me, the field of candidates that are currently running outside of michael bloomberg, they want to hit him. >> bill: sound bite number four from over the weekend, michael bloomberg from the speech in november of 2016. here's how it sounded. >> think about the agrarian society lasted 3,000 years. we could teach processes. i could teach anybody, even

people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. it's a process. you dig a hole, you put a seed in, put dirt on top and add water and up comes the corn. >> bill: his campaign is saying it was taken out of context. here's the statement. "the trump team is tweeting out a video that cuts off the first part of mike's sentences where he says if you think about the agrarian society," we played a little bit of it. don't know if it came from the trump team or not. >> doesn't matter where it came from. i think it's the most damaging of all the sound bites that we've heard. it shows michael bloomberg, his personality. it's very cold, lacking empathy, very elitist. to talk about farming and such a dismissive why when there's a lot more to it. it's going to alienate all the people in the middle of america who create the food that the rest of us eat. so i think more of this that

shows not so much gotchas as his stop and frisk programs. it highlights that he kept crime low in the rfid it's the manner in which he speaks of these things which is very cold and kind lady. >> bill: if you're right, you would probably agree with richard's comments. do you take the opportunity to explain yourself? >> that's what he should be doing. but he's not. he's kept his powder dry. he will be very interesting if he does end up going in the debate this week, that will be such a test for him. all his democratic rivals will be hammering him and the questions will be asked that will really put them on the spot. what people need to see is what is his heart? at the moment it looks p shaped -- pea sized. >> the last time the democrats clinch the white house, president gave a remarkable

speech about race, barack obama. i think bloomberg needs to take a page out of his book. if he wants to be president, speaking for the american people, he needs an extraordinary speech on race, the rights of women, the impact of farmers on the country. if he can do that, he will get some support from democratic voters. right now the democrats have one thing in mind. they want to take donald trump out of the white house and they are looking for the best option to get amount. >> bill: richard he would agree the primary still young, correct? but if bernie sanders wins in nevada, he can claim 3-0, can't he? >> yes and no. it's going to be about the delegate count. pete buttigieg has more delegates than bernie sanders. whether he has the momentum is one question. it's about who has the delegates. the 2008 primary, even though hillary clinton had a lot of momentum, barack obama had more delegates of the delegates is what matters. you need 1,991 delegates to be the nominee and we are very, very, very far away from that.

>> bill: is going to be a tough thing. >> bernie sanders is the one he started attacking with his ads. he sees him as his rival. the problem is the bernie bros are going to be serious if bernie gets cheated once again. >> bill: thank you, maranda. thank you, richard. nice to see you both. in a moment, the killing of the college student the newday va streamline refi is the reason why. it lets you shortcut the loan process and refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $2000 every year. call my team at newday usa right now.

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>> bill: a 14-year-old arrested in the murder of a new york college student. investigators saying 18-year-old tessa majors was in a new york city park when she was stabbed during a robbery in

december. the d.a. saying the evidence paints a gruesome picture of the college student's final moments. david lee miller now with the latest on this case in new york. >> his name is rashaun weaver, and he's being charged in criminal court as an adult, second-degree murder and robbery. soon after speech when he was murder, investigators knew his identity and brought him in for questioning but they only decided taken into custody late friday night. new york's district attorney described the investigation is a painstaking, deliberate, meticulous search for the truth. he said investigators gathered a broad range of evidence. >> it's a combination of many types of evidence ranging from scientific to digital video to his own statements. >> according to at least one court document, weaver was recorded telling someone "she was hanging onto her phone and that's he allegedly attacked her

with a knife. the same documents as police found weaver's dna under majors' fingernail clippings. weaver has been indicted and has a court appearance wednesday. if convicted, he could face the rest of his life behind bars. >> bill: we also understand a bit more about tessa majors and the final moments in the new york city park. >> going back to some of the evidence, specifically the dna evidence found under majors' fingernail, seems to indicate she put up a struggle and because she did, her alleged attacker has not been charged with murder. a court document said she suffered several stab wounds in the torso, including one that pierced her heart. authorities believe that it was 14-year-old rashaun weaver who wielded the knife, but also in custody is a 14-year-old who allegedly took part in the crime and was being tried in family court. earlier he told cops majors bit the finger of one of the attackers. a third suspect is still on the

loose. according to a witness who talked to investigators, after majors collapsed, she was still conscious. among her final words, she cried out "help me. i'm being robbed." >> bill: tough stuff. thank you. fact one of our top stories, 14 americans testing positive for the coronavirus. they are among hundreds of cruise ship passengers back in the u.s. and back in quarantine. dr. william shatner, vanderbilt university medical center. thank you for your time and welcome to our program. >> good to be with you. >> bill: how do you make sense of the confounding virus? >> we are trying to make sense. we are trying to learn more about it and how it's transmitted, what proportion of people will get sick, what the spectrum of illnesses is that

this virus can cause. and get a better sense of its potential to cause outbreaks in other countries. so far we are doing a very good job confining it here in the united states but it keeps trying to leak out to other parts of the world from china. >> bill: i saw a comment or you said it spreads the way the flu does. what kind of clues does that give you? >> well, it is spread very readily. if i have the flu, i breathe out. i've got the virus and when i breathe and if you're standing within three to 6 feet of me, you can breathe in what i've just breathed out in the virus will be in your body and can make you sick. it's very easily transmittable. >> bill: you had a quarantine on that ship in japan. several hundred got sick during the quarantine. that would seem to suggest the quarantine wasn't very effective, doctor. >> the ship presented a real

conundrum. do you let these people out? there were so many of them. for example, in yokohama, the japanese people didn't have any place to put so many people. they figured all right, we will keep them on the ship, make sure all the passengers stay in their estate rooms and we will interrupt the spread of the virus but the virus was more contagious than that. it continued to spread. >> bill: meanwhile in china, you have a lot of people looking in from the outside trying to figure out what the government is doing. how would you explain it to us? have they done a good job? is it overboard, or is it still an incomplete picture today? >> all of the above. they have conducted in china and the largest public health experiment in the history of humankind. they are confining, quarantining up to 50 and more million people and keeping them largely in their homes. in an attempt to interrupt the

transmission of this virus. that's great. they get four marks for that. but the data they are providing continues to be very, very confusing. so we can't track the impact of what's happening. is the outbreak getting better, staying the same? >> bill: one last question. when do you think we get a handle on it? does it go weeks or even months? >> sustained good public health practice on our part and around the world, it's going to be with us for weeks yet at the very least. >> bill: doctor, thank you. william schaffner from vanderbilt. thank you, sir. good luck trying to figure this one out. thanks. in a moment, dropping the green flag for the second day, get ready to start your engines again. ♪

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>> it's truly an honor to be with all of you at the great american race. gentlemen, start your engines. >> pretty good moment there. president trump getting the crowd amped up at the start of the daytona 500, which was postponed due to heavy rain. set to pick up at the top of the hour, hello, sir, to you. i did not realize you are not allowed to race if there is moisture on the track. >> they don't want to take chances. think about some tragedies, they don't want to take chances. why not wait. >> of course the sun can dry up things quickly. >> i understand that, again, safety. think of the speed these guys are going. you drive on wet highways, you don't want to take chances. not everyone is driving a 22,000 pound vehicle. >> they took the inside lane. >> they lead the pace car. president trump is first sitting president ever to do something like this.

not only did we see air force one come in with former c.e.o. brian francis. you see the president in the beast and they do this lap-around. bill, what kid that didn't play with matchboxcar at some point doesn't think this is the coolest thing ever. there are kids saying, i want to be president so i drive in that pace car. today was -- yesterday was president's day at daytona 500, special day for the president. you saw trump and pence signs everywhere. there was a vehicle that drove on saturday, as well. joe democek, pence vehicle 2020, it is re-election year. we have seen presidents at daytona 500, 1984, ronald reagan was eating fried chicken with richard petty, one of the races. george herbert walker bush there for a race. george w. bush was grand marshal

in 2004. the tie-ins are fantastic. >> air force one was quite a sight. 200,000 people watching this. >> look at that aircraft coming there, looking up and seeing that great sign of americana. we had a classic moment, you never know you are in rain delay, there were rain delays yesterday, this race will start up in a couple minutes. one driver didn't know what to do, he was hungry, nascar caterer ran out of food and he wondered to the fan zone. bojangles was out of fried chicken, he got fries, and had a press conference. fun day today. >> all in an afternoon. >> then got back into the car. >> you follow auto racing, i'm not the biggest fan in the world, i love sports and love to watch this. what this two-day event did was draw attention and with the president's presence there, a lot of attention to the sport.

would you agree? >> i agree. who wins the race? we don't know. jimmie johnson, it will be his last one. >> have you been to daytonia? >> i have not. >> i have. the speed and the romanticism for the sport, can be found at no othering place like it. >> how do you describe the noise? >> deafening. that buzz that comes. >> next year, especially if it is on fox. thank you. got to run, markets are closed today, we'll get back at it tomorrow, neil will, too.

enjoy president's day. nice three-day weekend, if you are one of them, have a great monday. see you back here tomorrow. i'm bill hemmer. thank you. >> all right, this president's day, think vegas, baby. battle is on. five days before the caucus, several candidates criss-crossing that state, the president will hold a big rally in vegas on friday. this is getting to be a pattern. concern of the nevada caucus could be repeat of iowa. they claim it won't be s. there disaster in the making? we'll see. happy monday, i'm neil cavuto. in henderson, nevada, they are bracing for what they hope to avoid. caucus chaos. what is the latest? >> hey, neil. without a