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channel we're back tomorrow. have a great thursday. >> sandra: cdc confirming the first american case of the coronavirus spread through community transmission. the person had no links to international travel or exposure to another patient raising brand-new questions about the spread of this illness at home. good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i'm ed henry. the news about this case in northern california coming amid growing concern around the world. the number of confirmed people sick topping 82,000. the outbreak rattling markets this morning. dow futures lower again. the president looking to ease some concerns at his news conference. watch. >> president trump: the number one priority from our led outside the united states recently and has not knowingly been in co >> we are a family here in milwaukee, and this is unthinkable for us. i've had a chance to speak to some of the employees that were here when i arrived, and i would like to thank them for their bravery. and it really is very important that we keep them all close in the days and weeks that are coming. >> that is the grieving president speaking about yesterday's shooting rampage in the facility in milwaukee. police now say the gunman, who was an employee, killed five coworkers before turning the gun on himself. our correspondent, matt finn, scrambled and got there very quickly. he live on the scene this morning. matt, what do you know? >> this morning there is a aftershock and broken hearts here at the coors brewing company. this facility has been in this

neighborhood for 165 years and is really a part of the fabric of the city of milwaukee. this morning, police say they are intentionally withholding the names and ages of the victims until all out of town family arrive here in milwaukee. what is not known this morning is the motive in this senseless shooting. so far police have not commented on why the 51-year-old employee went on a rampage, shooting five of his coworkers. police say after that shooting, the molson coors campus went on lockdown, and for hours and hours, roughly 1,000 employees had to be systematically identified and release. now those employees and the nation are in morning. >> there are five individuals who went to work today. just like everybody goes to work. and they thought they were going to go to work, finish their day, and return to their family. then, tragically, they never

will. >> a local bar and grill around the corner, the owner says he opened his business for survivors who ran from the shooting without their keys, phone, or jacket, in frigid weather. that business owners as coworkers are coming to terms with losing a friend or colleague. >> whether it's going to be the ones that are deceased or the people that were here, they are going to know them. it might be 1,000 employees, but it's close-knit and allow people walk by each other and know each other >> the president condemned the shooting and has offered his condolences. >> we'll be with them, and it's a terrible thing. a terrible thing. so our hearts go out to the people of wisconsin and to the families. >> today we expect to learn the names of the victims, and perhaps police will identify the shooter. ed, sandra? 's piece >> ed: matt,

thank you so much. it's such a tragedy, a lot of people are talking about the coronavirus. five people dead, we want to make sure we keep that in our mind, as well. >> sandra: huge effect on the community. we will keep an eye out on that. the mother of missing children appearing in court following her arrest in hawaii. their latest on this very strange case. >> ed: plus, the joe biden may be certain to separate himself from the pack. as he headed for big, big trouble three days later on super tuesday? >> sandra: that's coming up. president trump working to calm fears about the coronavirus as the cdc confirms the first american case of unknown origin. what does that mean for the outbreak here at home? >> the president's early and decisive actions, including travel restrictions, have succeeded in buying us incredible valuable time.

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pandemic as the coronavirus spreads to 47 countries now. the president crediting johns hopkins university for that analysis as the country braces for new cases. joining us now is dr. tom inglesby director from johns hopkins university. thank you for being here, doctor. what do we need to know about that study that the president cited in that news conference yesterday about the preparedness of countries to deal with the pandemic? the united states is topping that list. >> it was a study that looked at countries around the world and how well they can prevent and detebt and respond to big epidemics. it was a few years of work and fortunately the u.s. is comparatively better prepared than most countries around the world. but one of the main findings in that study was that no country, including the u.s., is completely prepared to deal

with a pandemic especially one spread by respiratory transmission. >> sandra: the u.s. is number one overall but not a single country in the world is fully prepared to deal with this. >> right. >> sandra: what do we need to do to stay on top of this should it get worse? >> i think we need to first of all prepare our healthcare systems to take care of sick people as the disease spreads. in china 1 in 20 people who have been infected so far needed to get critical care either on a mechanical ventilator or some other kind of care delivered in intensive care unit. our hospitals are at the center of the response. we need to make sure our healthcare workers are protected from infection. something else that has been important in china. many healthcare workers were infected. we need to make sure hospitals are doing strong infection control work and caring for their healthcare workers. we also -- >> sandra: sorry to cut you off there i want to jump on that.

when you hear the national conversation that is being had we just talked to dan henninger from the "wall street journal" talking about how it is politicized. a huge conversation going on and people are scared. what do you want to tell us this morning that you believe perhaps is being left out of the conversation? >> one thing that's very important is that the majority of people in china who have been infected have had mild illness and seem to have fully recovered. this is a serious illness for some especially for people for some people over age 60, at higher risk. people are preexisting. children seem to be at very low risk, which is important. i think people should be thinking about the things they do in a normal flu season to prevent the spread of flu. they sound old-fashioned. we have evidence they're effective to some extent. washing your hands. coughing into your sleeve and sneezing into your sleeve. stay home from work if you

aren't feeling well. there may be a time in any community in america that public health agencies start doing things that we would call community mitigation measures. things that public health things that might slow down on epidemic or relieve the burden on hospitals. things in the category of cancelling big events. that might be necessary and people should kind of understand the reasoning behind that. maybe telecom uteing. maybe changes to schools in places that have a bad experience. >> sandra: are you suggesting at this point -- there is one patient now -- >> no, not suggesting it now. those are the things they did need to put in place in china. they also did some things in china that we won't do in the united states i don't believe. i don't think we'll lock down cities and we don't have plans for that. i think that would be a mistake. many things china did that would be useful here once we start experiencing the spread of disease in this country. >> sandra: based on this one case of possible community

spread because this confirmed patient didn't have any known ties to china, didn't travel to china, what do you think happens next with all of this, doctor? final thoughts. >> i think we need to expand the way we're looking for cases. diagnostic testing has been limited up until now around travelers. i think we need to expand that certainly in california where that case was identified. and i think institutions if they haven't been prepared they need to prepare themselves to manage through this. it could be something like a severe flu pandemic that we've been playing for for a long time. maybe more intense. the country needs to know what their roles are and what they can do to prevent themselves and their families from getting infected. >> sandra: great information. hope to have you back. thank you. >> ed: all right. meantime an attorney for lori loughlin asking the judge to postpone today's court date. could new evidence clear the actress and her husband in the

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>> your campaign today sued "the new york times" for an opinion piece. is it your opinion or is it your contention that if people have an opinion contrary to yours that they should be sued? >> president trump: when they get the opinion totally wrong and they have got a lot wrong over the last number of years. let that work its way through the court. >> ed: president trump last night weighing in on his campaign suing "the new york times" for libel. the lawsuit claims an op-ed on the russia probe amounted to a false smear intended to influence the outcome of the

2020 campaign. andy mccarthy former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor. good morning, andy. the headline on the piece an op-ed, opinion piece, a former editor at the times that basically said the real trump russia quid pro quo, the campaign and the kremlin he alleged had an overarching deal, help beat hillary clinton in exchange for a new pro russian foreign policy. i get that it's an op-ed but factually can the times actually back up that charge? >> i think they can, ed. it is an opinion piece and it draws on what is the worst facts for the president and the trump campaign in the collusion caper which was the june 2016 trump tower meeting where the top tier of the trump campaign knowingly agreed to take a

meeting with an emissary, the russian lawyer, of the putin regime in the hope of getting bad information that they could use against mrs. clinton. and he is deduceing from that that the russians hoped to get favorable policy toward them if trump were elected and he is to do that from the fact that she brought up the magnitsky act at the meeting, a legal method of trying to penalize russia. it is just an opinion. >> ed: i get that part, andy. my question is as you know better than anyone robert mueller investigated this and found contact between the trump campaign and the russians as you just laid out going back to the trump tower meeting and other things but didn't find collusion, conspiracy, all the rest. we have litigated that. >> collusion and conspiracy are very different. this is the point i made again and again in the lead-up to mueller and i don't think just as i think it was unfair to do

that to the president, to say collusion when people were trying to suggest conspiracy, i don't think the president can do that the other way around. the person doesn't say in the op-ed there was an actionable conspiracy between the kremlin and trump campaign. he talks about collusion. there was collusion. collusion is just purposeful or concerted activity between two or more people. doesn't have to be criminal. >> ed: the piece is saying there was a quote, unquote, overarching deal, an actual deal between the president, his campaign and the russians. can that be proven that there was a deal, a formal agreement? >> ed, he doesn't have to prove it. legally an opinion is not libel and can't be libel. what the author is saying, here are the facts we know and from that i deduce that there was thisover arching deal and here is what i think were the

components of it. from my point of view number one legally libel can't be an opinion. so i don't know the legal point of doing this. and strategically, i don't know why politically when things are going well for the president that he would want to file a lawsuit that will have the times talk about the trump tower meeting. >> ed: they say the trump court has tried to punish an opinion writer for having an opinion they find unacceptable. the law protects the right of americans to express judgments and conclusions of events of public importance. we look forward to vindicating that right in this case. that seems to be what you are saying, bottom line is it's an opinion expressed by an opinion writer. >> yeah. ed, i also heard the president say yesterday that speaker pelosi is incompetent. now, that's his opinion, right? i'm sure he has a lot to draw on but i would hate to live in

a world where he wouldn't be allowed to say that. >> ed: no doubt about it. quick last question. former president obama is asking tv stations the take down this ad that pro-trump folks are running in south carolina against joe biden using words from obama's memoir from many years ago that suggests the former president believes that joe biden supports quote, unquote, plantation politics that hurt african-americans. what do you think about in this case barack obama getting involved and saying cut this out? we've seen michael bloomberg using his image in other ads. >> ed, this is political speech and what is supposed to happen. if there is an ad that's out that obama thinks is unfair he has a very powerful voice and a high public platform. he ought to correct it and let the people decide whether it's fair use or not. >> ed: andy mccarthy. appreciate you jumping on both these topics. >> sandra: the bell on wall

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>> my role will be to continue to bring that team together, to bring to the president the best options for action to see to the safety and well-being and health of the american people. >> ed: vice president mike pence there tapped by the president to lead the u.s. response now to the coronavirus outbreak. here to talk about it is mike leavitt, the former secretary of health and human services, former governor of utah, appreciate you coming in, sir. >> thank you, good morning. >> ed: good morning. the president tried to calm the public with this news conference. what did he do right and what more do you want to see? >> this is the time to inform, not to inflame. there is a lot that the american people need to remember. i say remember because pandemics are just a fact of

biologic life. they happen. they happen -- we've had three in the last 100 years. the problem is that when they happen it has been long enough since the last one that we the end to have forgotten and we the end to have fallen into a state of unpreparedness. so i think the president is doing his best to keep everyone focused on what they need to do, which is to prepare. >> ed: i want to ask you about that preparedness and credit brad blakeman. he served with you in the bush white house and told me the other day that back in 2007 and 2008 you toured the nation to look at pandemic response with state and local governments. the good news is that you found there were a lot of people well prepared. but sir that was well over a decade ago. do you have concerns as you just said a moment ago things change rapidly especially in this kind of environment. what do we need to know about preparedness? >> the advice that johns hopkins physician on the

previous segment gave was extraordinarily good. it was solid. preparedness is not a function of what we do today for a pandemic. it is what we do in general in our life to be ready for this kind of thing. the things you do for a pandemic are the same things you might do for a big snowstorm or for a weather event of some sort. have some food just in case you are required to stay at home. if you have medications that you need to take over a period of time, make certain that you have a supply of those that would last through that kind of a period. just basic things that -- masks are a good thing if you have them and they're available. >> ed: good advice there. we have the latest numbers around the globe about how many cases there are. there is one in california this morning we're learning about that a lot of people are wondering. someone not involved in any international travel. officials are trying to figure out how did this person get exposed to the coronavirus. what questions should we be asking to answer that?

>> well, the cdc has a group of people and public health does disease detectives and they are literally out trying to find the source of that so they can contain it. a pandemic is like a forest fire. you have places where people are able to see above the forest and if they see smoke they get there as quickly as they can because they are able to contain it before it spreads. this is the same kind of thing we're trying to contain it. public health officials all over the country are on high alert looking for anything that could be seen as a pandemic virus. >> ed: mr. secretary you're saying we should be concerned and stay on top of this but you seem calm and you seem to think that as the president suggested last night, we can tackle this. >> well, the president said these paths and that's true. that's a function of history. we can study what happens. truthfully some very

unfortunate things happened. if you look at the pandemic of 1918, that was a society that was unprepared. but we're in the position today to be substantially better prepared. we have information, the ability to go on television like we are today and say to people this could happen, it could happen in a way that could affect you, be prepared. >> ed: last question. if the president called you up today and said come to the oval office tomorrow at noon what three things would you tell him he needs to do next? >> i think the things they're doing. they're following a plan, you spoke earlier of the efforts that were made about 10 years ago. a big part of that was laying out a pandemic plan. part of it is just what is happening. we're doing everything we can to contain and to prepare. that is to say that every business ought to be thinking about how they would prepare their business. every family ought to be thinking how they would prepare their family. here is the bottom line truth. if anyone thinks that the

federal government in the context of a pandemic will ride to the rescue, they are sadly mistaken because what is unique about a pandemic, it happens everywhere at the same time. that's why community spread is so difficult. >> ed: last point. the president was asked at the news conference of closing down schools. what would be your advice about that? in japan the prime minister wants to close schools for a month. what about schools? >> clearly schools ought to be thinking about it. how would they manage it if it were to occur? that is right out of the playbook of a pandemic flu or pandemic virus. you want to assure you don't have people gathering in large crowds. people want to contain their own movements for a period of time and i suspect there could be a condition where local schools -- this isn't a national thing -- local school officials need to make a decision following the advice of their local public health

officials, should we close? >> ed: great advice. we appreciate your insight. thank you. >> sandra: thank you. good information there. a look at the markets responding to the fears of the coronavirus spreading here at home. looking at the dow off 368 points. it fell into correction territory this morning. that means it has sold off more than 10% from its recent highs. its highs over the last 52 weeks or so. goldman sachs predicted now that corporate earnings growth will be wiped out for the year as a result of what we're seeing worldwide as far as the panic around this. analysts are saying the sell-off is likely to worsen. a lot of negative forecasts from analysts that weigh on the markets with the dow off 400 points falling 2,000 points in the first three trading days. >> ed: it's been building for weeks and weeks. the markets shrugged it off. a big reason why the president came out. >> sandra: the biggest sell-off

in years. it's a global sell-off. markets in europe and asia also falling and wiped out all gains for the u.s. stock market for the year. we're on market watch for you on this thursday morning. >> ed: absolutely. also watching the race for the white house. make or break time for joe biden as he ramps up his campaign ahead of saturday's south carolina primary. can he finally chalk up a win there? >> sandra: bill deblasio blasting mike bloomberg. what he is saying about the 2020 candidate. >> this guy has no common touch, no connection to people. when you watch michael bloomberg on that debate stage he has no clue what everyday people are going through. when he was mayor here if you try to talk about what was happening to everyday people all he could think about was that elite he comes from. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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>> you pick presidents, the democratic primary here in this state picks president and the reason why bill clinton was elected president and the reason why barack obama was elected president. going into super tuesday, look, no democrat has ever won the presidency without overwhelming support from number one, the african-american community. the most loyal support for the existing democratic party. and i do not take it for granted. >> sandra: joe biden putting

all his chips on south carolina after winning an endorsement from jim clyburn. it's seen as a make or break moment for the biden campaign. jim hodges has endorsed the former vice president for president. good morning, governor. thank you for being here. >> good morning, sandra. good to be with you. >> sandra: what will it take for joe biden to win that state? >> i think the things he is doing. he is absolutely right that south carolina has been the best indicator of all of the states in the democratic primary for who actually will emerge as the nom naoe. he is doing very well. well with moderate white voters and doing well with latino voters who are here and exceptionally well with african-american voters and why he'll win and win soundly on saturday. >> sandra: you look at the results in new hampshire and iowa and leading up to this moment. is this a make or break moment for his campaign?

should he not perform well and win the state, what happens next? >> i think he is going to win. i think it's important for him to have a win here because of the prior primary states. what is most important i think, sandra, is that the democratic electorate is more reflective of what's to come in the remaining states. we pick about 3% of the delegates now. south carolina has been a good indicator of how african-american voters will vote in the subsequent states. i think that's where things are strong for biden. and i believe among the moderate candidates in the field it will sift out after super tuesday and we'll have a much smaller field of those taking on bernie sanders. >> sandra: we'll throw up the real clear politics average of south carolina polls heading into this to back up your point. you have endorsed the candidate and he is set to win if you look at the polling in south carolina. biden 31.4% to bernie sanders still double digits there 20.6%

to tom steyer 15.4% and a picture of the chart of the south carolina race over just the past few months, governor, to really look at the momentum behind some of these candidates. so as far as the biden announces the six figure ad campaign. it doesn't match up to his competitors. will that help him? >> i think what will help is -- having a win here will help a great deal. if he does well with african-american voters he is likely to do the same in the subsequent primaries. that has been the history. momentum for biden is most important. many voters who are soft supporters of other candidates who will be attracted to biden's message, but also be attracted to his success here and why saturday is so important not just for super tuesday but i think beyond that. >> sandra: he announces a fix

figure super tuesday ad campaign but he hasn't been there. too little too late? >> i think people are watching. they're watching debates. they're watching the campaign. they are just beginning to pay attention. it is not like biden is an unknown quant taoe. he has been in people's homes for 20 years and certainly eight years as vice president. so he doesn't have to introduce himself like other candidates do. they know him. he is a known commodity. i think someone they are attracted to. >> sandra: governor jim hodges, appreciate your time this morning. thank you for coming on. very nice to see you. ed. >> ed: the mother of two missing idaho kids will return to that state now to face charges. amid new questions about her children now missing for months. don't just plan to retire. plan to live. an annuity helps cover your essential monthly expenses, so you're free to live the life you want.

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>> sandra: 40% of american adults are obese with 1 in 10 severely obese. it doubled in the last two decades for severely obese. more americans will suffer from diabetes, heart disease and cancer. >> ed: the mother of two missing idaho children will be sent back to that state to face charges now connected to their disappearance. lori vallow waiving extradition in court yesterday after a judge denied a request to reduce her $5 million bail. rick leventhal is live in los angeles with the details. >> vallow seemed almost relaxed in court yesterday. at one point smiling while speaking with her lawyer. her appeal to reduce bail from 5 million to 100,000 was denied

after prosecutors argued she was a flight risk. she waived extradition. she will be headed to idaho facing multiple charges. two felony counts of child desertion, so far providing no information on the whereabouts of her 7 and 17 year old both missing since september. the 17-year-old was last seen on a day trip with her mom and uncle in yellow stone. a doorbell camera captured the last known video of j.j. playing in an apartment complex with a friend. police say vallow, who is 46 and married to her fifth husband repeatedly lied about the whereabouts of her kids and asked others to lie on her behalf. the couple are connected to a religious group preparing for the biblical end of times and both former spouses died last year under curious circumstances. vallow's brother killed her estranged husband in july and then he died in december. her new husband's former wife died in october.

that husband chad day bell collected more than 400,000 in life insurance. ex-wife's body has been exhumed to search for signs of foul play. vallow's attorney says he waived expedition to return to idaho to defend herself against a false allegations. investigators say there is plenty of evidence vallow deserted her kids but no sign of their whereabouts five months later. >> ed: a lot of disturbing details. >> sandra: president trump mobilizing the federal government to battle the coronavirus outbreak. why he says house speaker nancy pelosi is creating a panic. senator and physician john barrasso weighs in on that next. coronavirus fears spooking global markets. the dow off 500 points this morning. charles payne will be here to break it all down for us next. >> president trump: it certainly took a hit because of this. i understand that also because

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the cdc calling it possibly the first case that was spread here in america with no links to foreign travel or exposure to another patient with the disease. meanwhile the president saying his administration is on top of the outbreak. >> president trump: it's inevitable, probably will, possibly will. it could be a small level or at a larger level. whatever happens we're totally prepared. we have the best people in the world. you see that from the study. we have the best prepared people, the best people in the world. >> ed: our a-team is standing by with more on the president's handling of the crisis. we go to kristin fisher live at the white house with the details. you were at the news conference last night. good morning to you. >> good morning. the message from president trump last night was don't panic. he says that the u.s. is prepared and that his administration is on top of it. as you heard, i asked the president at one point last night i said do you agree with the cdc's assessment that the

spread of the coronavirus in the united states is inevitable? he said i don't think anything is inevitable but just moments before a cdc official standing at that same podium said we do expect more cases and the trajectory is uncertain. so far the containment strategy is working and president trump took credit for that citing the actions his administration took from mandatory quarantines to travel restrictions. >> president trump: we have through some early decisions, decisions that were ridiculed at the beginning. we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas. areas that were hit by the coronavirus, and hit pretty hard. and we did it very early. >> and president trump said that he may consider expanding those travel restrictions to other countries perhaps italy and brazil at some point but

that this was not the right time. in terms of funding, last night president trump stood by his request for $2.5 billion in emergency coronavirus funding. he would be open to more if that's what congress wanted because both republicans and democrats on capitol hill say that number is just not enough. and speaker pelosi after the press conference said last night quote the house will be advancing a strong, strategic funding package with transparency and accountability that fully addressed the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis. republican congresswoman liz cheney had a great line yesterday. she said pathogens do not respect party lines. this is an election year and so far politics do not seem to be staying out of this crisis. sandra and ed. >> ed: thank you. let's bring in our a-team. lauren claffey, strategic communications at public

defairs at the -- bill mcgurn from the "wall street journal" and jessica tarlov also a fox news contributor. good morning all. bill, i first met you as a speech writer in the bush white house. this was an important messaging moment for the president. how did he do? >> he that's proposal out there. it is early days. we don't know. i think he has a legitimate concern. when the democrats say it is not enough how do we know? interesting to see what pelosi's package. will they light up a spending tree with other things tucked in there besides the virus? >> it will be interesting to see. the president was talking yesterday in the press conference that the democrats want to give him more money than he has requested. somewhere up to $8 billion. i second bill's point. we'll see what's in there. glad to see bipartisan concern about something like this. when you hear that japan has

canceled school for a month you know it is very serious. there are deep concerns putting mike pence in charge of this. he oversaw a plan to combat an h.i.v. outbreak in indiana. he went after planned parenthood and people got sick because of it. mike pence is not a scientist or doctors or believes in science. i don't believe he should be in charge of this or anywhere near the forefront of it. that's a big concern. >> ed: i don't think you can say you don't believe in science. >> if you have a coronavirus virus or h.i.v.. this isn't insulting prayer. that kind of policy and thinking is outdated and has no place in modern society. >> ed: lauren, you were in the homeland security department. hhs and health folks are taking a lead roll. homeland security is looking at it also. sglaoul --

>> you'll see preparedness and testing. there is a lot of concerns about the funding and that and the other. we as a country are very well prepared for this. working at the department of homeland security it is crazy the scenario planning that goes on in making sure testing and systems are in place to respond to any crisis including health and working closely with hhs. secretary azar leading the task force the agency process is working well and agencies are communicating well and cdc is on top of this. establishing clear channels of communication where americans get credible information and what they need to do next will be very important. the president established that last night by pointing to cdc and secretary azar as people to get information from on what you need to do to prepare for the next steps. i think we'll see that play out more. >> sandra: bill mcgurn,

watching the markets this morning, it's thursday morning after the dow sold off 2,000 points the first three days of the week. down another 600 plus points at this moment. there are extreme fears fair to say when it comes to the markets' interpretation of what is happening and what may be coming. >> what markets hate most is uncertainty. we don't know yet how this disease is going to play out where we have to contain it and so forth. a lot of question marks. two things related to that. one is we should stress that we have the best public health service in the world. we have people that are professionals that are capable of dealing with this and so forth. we have a lot of advantages. second, one of the problems we've been dealing with china, which doesn't have that. china gets the headlines because they can send an army into place and throw up a hospital. but they aren't a society that encourages the free flow of information or someone delivering the bad news. so you can send an army. it doesn't mean it's efficient.

i think there are still a lot of questions. can we trust the information that we're getting out of china? where it's coming from. if china were australia i would have a lot more confidence that this had been dealt with in the best way. >> ed: if it was australia there would be a lot of different things in the world. jessica, "the new york times" posted a story about super delegates and they were supposed to have less of a role this time around because the bernie sanders folks weren't happy what they did for hillary clinton last time. interviews with dozens of democratic party officials including 93 super delegates found opposition to handing mr. sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates. if he has a plurality. in the lead but doesn't have the actual majority they're willing to stop him even if it hurts the party. does it suggest your party is a lot more nervous about a democratic socialist than some are admitting? >> a two-part issue.

everyone is openly admitting they're scared about a bernie sanders nomination. >> ed: speaker pelosi said i'm not worried. >> nancy pelosi has a job to do and isn't endorsing. down ballot races are with bernie sanders. we have 35 congress people who flipped from purple and red to blue. if you run with a democratic socialist on the top of the ticket is a problem. bernie has to play by his own rules. elizabeth warren, a bernie sanders supporter asked her about the issue. hold on. bernie wanted this. the guy said he won 22 states. guess what? someone else won 28. she got the support from dnc folks and super delegates and became the nominee having also won 4 million more votes than him. bernie made this mess for himself and he has to live by

the rules. he is one delegate ahead than somebody else. that don't make you the majority winner in all of this. and he has to face his own rules. >> sandra: interesting perspective from karl rove and "wall street journal." last stand against bernie saernsd. will democrats unite to stop the slide to socialism. ordinary democrats risk losing 2020 to donald trump and the looney left. they won't peel -- time is short and it may be that mr. sanders is unbeatable but make no mistake with a socialist on the trajectory to be the democratic nominee republicans could not be happier. >> this is kind of a really great scenario for republicans. the down ballot especially. there is a lot of suburbs where republicans have not been doing well and you saw that in the mid-terms where there is a lot of voters who are turned off by some of the president's rhetoric or some of the republicans more hard hitting policies and discussions and you hear this time and again

that they would rather support a more moderate democratic candidate and democrats have made gains there. you put a socialist at the top of the ticket. all that falls away. you threaten people's economic security all of a sudden they don't care about trump's rhetoric, they want to save their pocket books. a nice contracts for the suburb and swing state go districts to make a play again and republicans are thrilled by it. >> ed: michael bloomberg got into the race to counter that. uneven performance to say the least. trying to be diplomatic. his successor as mayor mr. deblasio was on with hannity last night and here is what he said about bloomberg. >> when you watch michael bloomberg on that debate stage. no clue what everyday people are going through. doesn't care to know. when he was mayor here if you tried to talk about what has happening to everyday people all he could think about was that elite he comes from.

and it comes through here. >> ed: react to what he is saying about bloomberg. can't let it pass, bill deblasio is saying he has no clue. >> mike bloomberg thinks bodega is a nightclub. easy to joke about this. terrible about running and the advice is running on other people's records rather than his own. i think it's unfair some of the attacks on mike bloomberg. it was part of a larger clip about stop and frisk. mr. bloomberg's main problem is he apologized for it and can't defend himself. it saved lives. i'm not sure it is as unpopular in the african-american community in new york as claimed. i used to get weekly pools. ray kelly, the police chief, most associated, was very popular. it is a myth that people in

poor and minority neighborhoods don't want to be protected from bad guys. >> sandra: a couple moments from the town hall last night. joe biden taking the moment to go after bernie sanders and the cost of some of his proposals, specifically medicare for all. here is joe biden. >> god bless bernie, he finally acknowledged. he told you that they will raise the taxes, withholding taxes on your employee 7 1/2%. he didn't tell the other 7 1/2% will be out of your paycheck, too. no, that's a fact. i think we have to level with you all. >> sandra: got to level with you all. takes you back to what we were talking about before about nancy pelosi in the past saying socialism is not the democratic party but then in the hallway i believe this was yesterday she was asked about supporting bernie sanders, a couple quick questions. here is the exchange. >> will you be okay if bernie sanders is the nominee? do you have any concerns that you could lose the majority?

>> that was that. >> what else is she supposed to say? >> how about the truth? >> she has said she is a democratic socialist. she won't say they are worried about losing the majority. she is being diplomatic and fast walking. if she wanted the talk about it she might have slowed down. concerns from the democratic establishment about this and it has been nice to see joe biden hitting his stride a bit more. he had a town hall last night. he gave some of the best answers talking to a pastor no south carolina who lost his wife in the shooting there. >> ed: biden talked about his personal faith. it was strong. >> catholic faith and often democrats get criticized for not talking about religious. warren talked about her faith in her final answer of the cbs

debate on tuesday night. >> nancy pelosi is trying to keep everyone unified at this moment. you are hearing grumbling from sanders supporters about the broker convention and the influence campaign bloomberg and warren are going to the super delegates and hold the super delegatesable. many elected labor leaders or elected officials and so they can actually go threaten to primary them and other things. there is also this we need to protect and unify everyone going into the convention. >> that is really important. that's how deep this split goes. nancy pelosi won't stop in the hallway. you better believe they're doing everything they can to make sure we can win back the white house. it is not about bernie, but who gets to the white house? we need moderate republicans,

independents right and left leaning and democratic socialism scares them. >> further to jessica's point. aoc is now actively campaigning or seeking candidates against some democratic incumbents. the kind of thing you don'tz. it is coming from a lot of different people. the dnc convention is the democrats' electoral college. kind of interesting how it will play out. i think just as an outsider if bernie sanders goes in with a plurality and it's given to someone else if it was to someone like mike bloomberg, i don't think they would all unite around the candidate after that. >> sandra: very interesting. the a-team, thank you. summer is coming quicker than you know. thanks to all of you. on the coronavirus outbreak. news this morning threatening to possible cancel the tokyo olympics because of all of this. the growing alarms over that virus and the international response to it. >> ed: the latest on the white house efforts to protect the

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>> ed: right now a quick look at some other top stories we're following. a trial is underway for two american college students accused of killing an italian police officer last summer. prosecutors say they attacked the officer in order to avoid arrest. the suspects now claim they acted in self-defense. >> sandra: in los angeles the search is on for a stolen hearse. a suspect took the hearse with a woman's body inside yesterday. >> ed: corcoran losing money out of a phishing scam. she was being tricked with a fake email. >> sandra: cases of the coronavirus spreading around the world amid international efforts to contain the deadly outbreak. saudi arabia now banning foreign pilgrims from entering the kingdom. italy with more than 400 confirmed cases says the country is safe and ready to receive travelers.

foreign affairs correspondent benjamin hall is on this live from london today. >> good morning. yes, italy might be saying it is open for business but around the globe other countries are taking far harsher precautions, stricter measures. japan has closed all schools from elementary through high school until the end of march. middle east land borders are being closed. in europe even in italy they're closing churches, museums, sporting events canceled as this virus continues to spread around the world. 82,000 cases are now known to have been found in various countries. 2800 confirmed deaths in 47 countries. northern italy seems to be ground zero in europe and towns in certain red zones are under quarantine by the military. the virus is now popping up across the continent. in brazil there has been a run on facemasks as the first case was announced there. it is present in every

continent except -- the iran the deputy health minister learned he had the virus after he exhibited symptoms of the virus. they have 254 neighbors and its neighbors all closing their borders with iran. some concern now in rome where pope francis has skipped a planned mass today after he was seen coughing and sneezing. the vatican has only said the 83-year-old has a slight indisposition. no word yet on the specific nature of his illness. elsewhere around the world the u.s. and south korea called off military drills. japan considering canceling the tokyo olympics. the only good news is in china. the number of new cases has dropped as opposed to the rest

of the world. maybe containment can work. >> ed: markets sliding lower slumping for a sixth straight day as the growing spread of coronavirus rattles wall street. investors seeking safety as they worry about the economic impact of all this sending stocks into correction territory officially. putting renewed pressure on bonds and treasury at this hour. >> sandra: we're watching that for you. a nearly 700 point sell-off now. the session as you can see in the red there when we put up the big board. wall street analysts are coming out with no new forecasts and lowering expectations as far as corporate earnings growth. goldman sachs analysts saying this worry and spread of the virus will wipe out all corporate profits for the year. so that sort of fear is what's playing out and from the "wall street journal" there is a massive amount of uncertainty around this virus and whether or not it is going to spread at home. that uncertainty.

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>> the president's actions, taken with the strong support of his scientific advisors have proven to be appropriate, which is, and well calibrated to the situation. because of this hard work and the president's leadership the immediate risk to the american public has been and continues to be low. >> ed: you can see top trump administration officials stepping up their efforts to prep for a possible coronavirus epidemic here at home. >> sandra: the president saying the immediate risk is still low but he will be working with congress to get the money needed to fight the virus. confirmed cases worldwide now stands at more than 82,000. mostly in mainland china but there are now confirmed cases in 47 countries. >> ed: wyoming senator john barrasso is not just a senate leader but medical doctor and chair of the republican

conference. good morning. you told us during the break that you watched every minute of the president's news conference. where was he right and where was he wrong and what does he need to do in the days ahead? >> he is right we're the most prepared nation on the face of the earth as johns hopkins university has said. we still need to be very vigilant. the president was also right when he talked about if you have symptoms, flu-like symptoms, cover when you cough. wash your hands. if you feel sick, don't go to work. the best things we can do. we have to be vigilant in the days ahead. when you look at a country the size of ours with this population it is impossible to seal the entire nation. the president was right with the early travel restrictions and he may have to do more as more countries are involved. >> sandra: senator barrasso, as you know citing the johns hopkins study as we spoke to one of the doctors from there this morning while we're at the top of the list for preparedness for a situation

like this, we are still not fully prepared. i think we stand at 87%. so where are our weaknesses as a country when it comes to preventing the spread of the virus? >> it is a global concern. that's why you want early detection and make sure we have enough treatment available. we're not fully up for vaccination because this is a new virus. to create a new vaccine and enough of it to go around the country wouldn't be in place for this year. it would have to come next year. so no one in the world can be that level of prepared. but we have already, through congress and signed into law and put into place over the years an infectious disease, rapid response team. this is -- there are 50 of these locations around the country. i was part of a data dump yesterday from the american hospital association and from the group in nebraska who are

looking over he bola, they're preparing hospitals around the country. we say what do you need, do you need more from congress? for first couple of weeks they have what they needed. now they need more and it's up to congress to make sure they have what they need. >> ed: taking command of the situation in any crisis. reports yesterday maybe the president who have a czar. he said no i'll put the vice president in charge. here is secretary azar on the significance of that. listen. >> if i could just clarify. i think you are not getting the point. i'm still chairman of the task force, having the president gives me the biggest stick in the government on the whole government approach. >> ed: we had one of our democratic contributors talking about something you are hearing from a lot of democrats this

morning. attacking the vice president saying as governor he didn't handle other crises well. i want to give you a chance. you know the vice president well. what do you think about putting him in command? >> i think it's the right decision. i was with him yesterday after afternoon before that press conference. i've been meeting with the experts on the stage there yesterday. they are working well together. things are well coordinated. there is more work to do. we're ever vigilant. it can turn quickly. i think we're in the right position right now to deal what could be a worldwide threat. >> sandra: the president is responding to what he says is panic that is being stoked by the other side. here he is taking on nancy pelosi on that issue in that press conference last night. >> president trump: she is trying to create a panic and there is no reason to panic. she knows -- all they are trying to do is get a political advantage. this isn't about political advantage.

we're all trying to do the right thing. they shouldn't be saying this is terrible, president trump isn't asking for enough money. how stupid a thing to say. >> sandra: she shot right back instead of delivering a well coordinated coronavirus response americans deserve, she tweeted the trump administration to leave key position vacant and ransack other public health needs. this has been politicized. while there is news coming in at this moment we're now getting some new data from the massachusetts department of public health. they are confirming that 608 people have self-quarantined in the state for possible symptoms of the coronavirus. now, an update to that, 377 of those completed their monitoring and have been released without symptoms. there still remains 231 in self-quarantine. they are being monitored. almost all of them had recent travel from china. what is your response to that

news? >> well, number one in terms of what nancy pelosi and also chuck schumer have said. ifm owe a doctor. my focus is on the health of the american people. this should be a bipartisan concern and commitment. and it's disturbing to see it politicized as chuck schumer has done on the floor of the senate and how the democrats did it in south carolina trying to play politics in an area we should be focused on public health and safety. and chuck schumer, i haven't seen him at any one of the briefings. i've attended all of them. he is certainly speaking on the floor of the senate. i think it is a mistake to do that. we need to be focused on public health not politics that the democrats are trying to do. with regard to massachusetts. self-quarantine, that's what i was talking about earlier in terms of if you feel ill, don't go to work.

stay home. and for people that are concerned, get tested. they are continuing to work to make sure tests are available around the country. but that is the way to do this. if you are feeling ill and sick, wash your hands, cover when you cough. for others also stay away. you don't want those folks in crowds. >> ed: in the last minute we have are you concerned about the report we have overnight about a patient in california who apparently has coronavirus but had not recently done any international travel? officials on the ground in california trying to figure out exactly how they got it. >> well, there is obviously a concern. now the county where this report came from is where travis air force base is where they had a number of people that were just brought back from china. also a number of people that actually do have the disease that were brought back into the country from that cruise line. so there is the likelihood of some immediate contact with folks who were known to have

the disease. >> ed: thanks for staying on top of it with us. thank you for coming in today, sir. >> sandra: thank you, senator. >> my plan is actually to build a beautiful blue wall of democratic votes. >> we have to restore the soul of this country. for real. >> i think it is becoming really clear that the democratic party is a progressive party and that progressive ideas are popular. >> ed: 2020 democrats making their final push in south carolina ahead of the big primary saturday. former vice president joe biden hoping to separate himself from the pack after a key endorsement and some polls suggest maybe he is doing that. ellison barber on the ground in charleston. >> this is the final stretch and former vice president joe biden we have seen him leading in the polls here so far. his campaign is probably cheering right now.

a brand-new monmouth poll released in the last 30 minutes or so shows him not only leading but with an enormous lead. the poll has him 20 points ahead of senator bernie sanders. look, a lot of the polls we've seen in the last week the margin between sanders and biden, while biden is still ahead, has been very close and biden's support hasn't necessarily been overwhelming in the state in the last few weeks. biden picked up a significant endorsement yesterday from representative jim clyburn. the highest ranking african-american member in congress. someone who people really listen to, especially in this state. black voters make up 60% of the democratic electorate in south carolina. the primary in south carolina is the biggest test so far how candidates will do among african-american voters. we've seen biden's support drop some post iowa as candidates like bernie sanders and mike bloomberg make gains.

biden and sanders are currently attacking each other's records. >> he is the only one up there in fact 2003 voted to give the gun manufacturers absolute license not to be sued at all. he goes after every corporation in the world. he hasn't gone after the gun manufacturers. >> joe, you won't bring working people into the political process when you voted for a terrible bankruptcy bill. you aren't going to bring people into the political process when you voted and strongly supported the war in iraq. >> in a january fox news poll 43% of black voters in south carolina said they favored joe biden. he was 30 points ahead of his two closest competitors tom steyer and bernie sanders. ed and sandra. >> ed: thank you. in the meantime make sure you watch fox news tonight. bret baier and martha maccallum

are moderating a town hall with amy klobuchar. >> sandra: wall street taking another hit today as the sell-off continues on wall street. now the dow is down 768 points. it has firmly entered correction territory off another 3% today. >> ed: plunging again amid growing fears on the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy. is there any rebound in sight? the man with the plan, money man charles payne. ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ]

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>> sandra: well, it is another morning here where we're watching markets selling off as a result of fears over the coronavirus. the dow is currently off 813 points, down 3%. money man charles payne has been joining us all week as we watched the sell-off and joins us now. he is the host of "making money

with charles payne". what do we do? >> we have a few dynamics at work here, right? you have moving news every day. moments ago denmark had their first patient. those kind of news stories, the headlines you talked about what is going on in massachusetts. i saw it this morning in the boston papers. those kind of things obviously are going to drive sentiment and emotions just like i think if we officially classified a pandemic, which could come at any time. you have those versus the market itself and the economy itself. and what i find interesting is some of the bigger names that have driven this market down. for instance this morning and last night microsoft said it's computer business, windows and laptops, that the earnings would be less than anticipated. but not because people don't want the product. because they don't have the supply to deliver the product. apple made a similar warning last week. that's when the technology names started to falter.

two interesting dynamics here. one where our economy has tremendous momentum. if you want more proof pending home sales for last month came at 5.2% higher month over month. business investments leaped in january and almost every earnings report that came out this week was phenomenal. home depot and those kind of names. that's the momentum. my main concern is that do we get so fearful that demand goes away forever? right now i don't think it will. markets are tricky particularly when emotions are driving it more than anything else. >> ed: your concern that people overreact. you have the former fed chair gives a speech and talks about the possibility of a recession because of the coronavirus saying we could see a significant impact on europe, which has been weak to start with and it is conceivable that it could throw the u.s. into a recession. now, the context you remember about last august a lot of people were predicting recession then before the

coronavirus. >> i wish everyone could do what i would do in the morning. get up at 3:00 a.m. if you rest to the rest of what she said there is some risk but basically i think the u.s. is okay. okay is good. that was her words, good. so if i ask any economist is there a chance for a recession? of course, yes, there is, particularly if this thing gets nuts, the answer would have to be yes. but her final word was i think the u.s. outlook is good. no one is running that. no one is running that. financial television this morning. goldman sachs one of the biggest analysts there who is a perennial bear and always wrong. >> sandra: he says it will wipe out all corporate headlines. >> that was part of what he said. they said we have a new baseline what we anticipate this year. before we thought the s&p, 174 dollars per share. they took it down to $165.

s&p going to 3400 by the end of the year. a worst case scenario would be earnings going to 148. in other words no earnings. that became the headline. his worst case scenario which is obvious. if people are afraid and you go to the malls and they're half empty, this is true. earnings will go down. not flat. this is my biggest concern is how it is being reported. and the moderation. >> sandra: when we look back at history we dropped into correction territory today off 10% from recent highs. the average correction in a u.s. stock market lasts four months. that's why you have citigroup analysts and others saying the selling could get worse. >> 4 months is a relatively short period of time in anybody's investment lifetime unless you are trading options that expire next week.

but opportunities then present themselves. the microsofts of the world which are down i think a year from now people will say i wish i bought mirkt. -- microsoft. >> sandra: we come in and there is more selling it gets your attention. >> of course it gets your attention. by the same token what i'm saying there has to be more response. i think a balance of more responsible reporting or it adds to the fear element. an emotional element that is running this more than the facts. we don't know all the facts. >> sandra: part of the problem, right? >> ed: new details on the varsity blue scandal. attorneys say they have evidence clearing lori loughlin and her husband. we explain next. these people didn't sleep well last night.

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>> ed: new details this morning

with the college admissions scandal. lawyers for lori loughlin and her husband said they have evidence to clear the couple. >> this is a pretty big deal for lori loughlin's defense. yesterday we learned that rick singer, the mastermind of this college admissions scandal took iphone notes after conversations with the f.b.i. and in one of them he writes that the f.b.i. wanted him to lie and he also alludes to the fact that as he was conducting this scheme, he told his clients, meaning lori loughlin and everybody else that their money would be used as a legitimate donation to these colleges as opposed to a bribe. that really is the cornerstone of lori loughlin's defense. her lawyers will argue she didn't know she was doing anything wrong. >> ed: they represented to her it was legitimate. she didn't think it was cheating. >> prosecutors are saying it's

not a big deal, just an interpretation by rick singer of the conversation that he had with the f.b.i. and they will also point out that he pled guilty, a con man, why should we believe him? from the outside looking in it seems like it's the first piece of good news lori loughlin has received since the thing broke. >> sandra: taking a picture on a rowing machine but you're not a rower. >> there are still so many challenges that they will face. the fact that her husband sent an email to his accountant saying they had to conduct this scheme to get their kids into college. you could argue that a scheme is a legitimate donation but it looks fishy. >> ed: they think they have something here but there is other evidence. >> to be continued. >> sandra: thank you, carley. president trump hitting right back at nancy pelosi over her criticism of his response to

the coronavirus. so what he is saying as our team coverage continues top of the hour. might hear from nancy pelosi shortly.

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>> ed: a lot of breaking news as we wait to hear from house speaker nancy pelosi after president trump said she is trying to spark panic over the coronavirus. >> sandra: we're watching price gouging over the deadly disease, prices going sky high

for medical supplies like facemasks. >> ed: the search for a motive as cops try to find out why a brewery worker snapped and killed colleagues. >> sandra: could we look at a brokered democratic convention? >> ed: you drive an expensive car. you might not like what scientists are saying about you this morning. >> sandra: super show or super offensive? wait until you hear how many people called the feds complaining about the super bowl halftime show. were you one of them? >> ed: no. i liked it. first fox news alert of a deadly coronavirus with accusations flying between nancy pelosi and the president. that's where we start. i'm ed henry. >> sandra: 82,000 cases of the

coronaviruss confirmed worldwide and the person here in the united states had no known links to travelers with countries with outbreaks. we await new comments from house speaker nancy pelosi after the president accused her of trying to stoke panic over the virus. saying that he does not know what he was talking about on the subject. here is senator john barrasso on "america's newsroom" responding. >> i'm a doctor. my focus is on the health of the american people. this should be a bipartisan concern and commitment. and it's disturbing to see it politicized. i haven't seen chuck schumer at any of the briefings. i've attended all of them. he is certainly speaking out on floor of the senate. i think it is a mistake to do that and we ought to be focused on public health right now not trying to gain political points. >> ed: meanwhile stocks seem to be tanking again this morning. a live look at the dow. you can see it's better than where it was a little while ago. the dow down almost 3,000 for the week overall.

we have live team fox coverage right now from california to capitol hill. we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel where all the action is. good morning. >> good morning to you. secretary of health and human services noted a short time ago most folks who get coronavirus will have mild to moderate symptoms and treated at home. >> it is really important we correct this impression that it will require this massive hospital isolation for normal patients. we're in containment mode now to stop any further spread but if we end up having broader spread it will be a much more common approach. >> what needs to be worked out is the amount of emergency funding package for coronavirus response. senate democratic leader chuck schumer suggesting $8.5 billion. house republican leader kevin mccarthy said $4 billion. they say 2 1/2 isn't enough. >> i remain concerned that the

meager request for coronavirus funding needs to be upped and work together to insure there are sufficient resources to prepare for and stem this tide. >> a key house republican made a case a short time ago that president trump and vice president pence and their public health officials are stepping up to meet this challenge. >> the trump administration for its aggressive response. the actions the administration took at the beginning. prudent travel restrictions. america has able to stave off the outbreak as it develops abroad. >> as we await nancy pelosi. her initial response the american people needfuly funded response to keep them safe from the coronavirus threat. unfortunately the trump administration has mounted a chaotic response to this outbreak. pelosi is promising the house

will advance a strong and strategic funding response. ed and sandra. >> ed: we'll get back to you and the speaker and dip in live as she starts speaking in a moment. let's go around the world taking a look at drastic measures used to stop the spread of the virus. japan they're closing all schools nationwide at least until late march keeping 13 million students home and sending parents scrambling. south korea calling off annual joint military drills with america putting those exercises on ice until further notice. >> sandra: italy the target of travel warnings now israel saying anyone returning home from italy will be quarantined for 14 days. a major move in iran. islamic republic suspending friday prayers and suspending public gatherings including funerals. >> ed: saudi arabia cutting islam's -- pilgrims are now banned from entering the kingdom all together ahead of

the annual pilgrimage. >> sandra: at home we have yet a widespread outbreak. a case in northern california is raising serious concerns this morning. jonathan hunt is live in the west coast hub and what we're learning. >> the new case of coronavirus here in california may be the most worrying yet. the infected person has not traveled outside the united states recently and has not been in contact with anyone who did. that, of course, raises disturbing new questions about how the virus may be able to spread. centers for disease control said in a statement, quote, at this time the patient's exposure is unknown. it is possible this could be an instance of community spread of covid-19 which would be the first time this has happened in the united states. now the person is from northern california and is being treated at uc davis medical center near

sacramento. the infection was picked up through the public health system according to the cdc but, quote, astute clinicians although doctors at uc davis say the cdc testing guidelines are too narrow and cases may therefore be slipping through. >> i really think it's just the tip of the iceberg and we're even missing a lot of cases because we aren't testing milder or more asymptomatic patients. >> across the globe around 82,000 people have so far been infected with something like 2800 deaths. the vast majority of those in china where the disease first emerged. entire towns and cities in china but also in italy and other countries have effectively been sealed off to try to contain the virus and in japan the school system has been shut down completely to try to protect children and there are suggestions that tokyo olympics set for this summer may also have to be canceled. there are 60 known cases in the

u.s. but president trump says the country is doing a good job of containment and no one should panic. on the other hand the cdc says there will be more cases here and local authorities and every single family across the u.s. need to get ready. sandra. >> sandra: we're watching it all. thank you. >> ed: let's get into the politics of coronavirus. james hohmann, thank you for coming in. interesting. let's start with the tweet from bernie sanders, frontrunner for democrats in 2020. big crisis facing the nation and world right now. he says trump's plan for the coronavirus so far, cut winter heating assistance for the poor, have vp pence who wanted the pray away h.i.v. epidemic and alex azar refuse to guarantee affordable vaccines to all. disgusting he says. is the allegations he is laying out against the president are

those disgusting or is the tweet in the middle of this crisis disgusting injecting politics here when, as the president said last night everybody should be coming together. >> there is politics being played like there was five and six years ago during the ebola outbreak. politics were played the other way. you can critique the response. this is -- it has gotten caught up in politics on both sides and interesting to see what the speaker says during her news conference in the next few minutes. the statement is her trying to be more measured than sanders. sanders in the midst of the upcoming primary trying to appeal to hardened partisans to throw red meat to his base. pelosi may be trying to tone it down a little bit with her statement. interesting to see if she escalates or trials to de-escalate her feud with the president. the tension here is always for the administration they are trying to -- trump wants to

reassure people and wants to calm everyone down. the health experts, and medical people will try to keep people concerned so that they are careful and so then in between those tensions come the politicians. they are able to take advantage of that gap that always exists between the political strategists and medical experts and kind of play politics in that in between area. >> ed: to your point some of the health experts almost scaring people into action saying it's inevitable. the president trying to have a more balanced approach last night. didn't seem like he was playing politics. at one point when pressed about pelosi and schumer saying we should be coming together to help people instead of getting into this even as he took more shots at them. mike leavitt, former health and human services secretary under president bush was on with us early year and what he said we should be doing. >> this is a time to inform, not to inflame. there is a lot that the

american people need to remember. i say remember because pandemics are just a fact of biologic life. they happen. i think the president is doing his best to keep everyone focused on what they need to do, which is to prepare. >> ed: it did seem like if you shove the politics aside for a moment that the president last night did have some kind of a calming effect. >> ed, the president of -- any president can use that platform. that's part of -- you are the healer and comforter in chief and he likes having the ongoing dialogue with the people. explaining, educating, putting the vice president in charge it shows after being gone in india for a couple of days he is very much at the helm of state and that the best people in government as far as he is concerned focused on it. i think being out there being present, being on camera is

important for any president. >> ed: the challenges for presidents of both parties. president bush had hurricane katrina, president obama dealing with the b.p. oil spill and they each got criticism and praise in others. axios on all this today saying there is only so much any president can do to stop a virus from spreading. for now the coronavirus is still very much under control within the u.s. but if the disease gets worse in the months ahead and if the administration seems to be caught offguard it spells trouble for public confidence in trump. the laying out the worst-case scenarios, the what ifs. the beginning part is interesting. there is only so much any president can do to stop a virus from spreading. >> absolutely. that's why i think the president is frustrated the markets are down. part of the efforts to reassure saying it hasn't broken out widespread yet. we're doing all we can, don't panic because sometimes the panic can become a

self-fulfilling prophesy. if people losing confidence in the markets, losing confidence in the economy, then that can end up having its own negative effects. so part of the president's job is to do all you can from the governmental side at overseeing the response of the career scientists and experts in the medical community but also keeping the country focused on not coming apart in panic. if the president was a private citizen it's one thing to tweet about ebola. when you're president you can't do anything to panic people because people will panic. a huge part of the job is reassurance no matter what the reality is. >> ed: even as he is trying to reassure the public as you've been laying out chris coons was on msnbc and lashing out at the president. watch. >> we all know that president trump in the course of his service has disrespected

science and scientists. has told an awful lot of untruths. and his own record back during the ebola virus outbreak that happened when president obama was president and joe biden was vice president. president trump stood on the sidelines and helped with the spread of disinformation and the fear mongering. >> ed: democrats lashing out to the president. let's go to live to speaker pelosi. it is not a time for name calling. maybe she is trying to bring people together. here she is. let's listen. >> 5.3 middle school and high school students are using e-cigarettes, more than twice as many as two years ago. according to the u.s. surgeon general youth e-cigarette use is an epidemic. the bill protects our children with strong measures preventing marketing to youth under 21, banning all flavored tobacco products including men thol cigarettes and e-cigarettes.

big tobacco is just on its usual rampage. it uses flavors like gummy bear, bubble gum, cotton candy to en share and addict our children to tobacco. 97% of youth using e-cigarettes use flavored cigarettes. so here we are this bill would reduce health disparities that spring from cigarette smoking and this is something -- a statement that was put out by the national medical association, which is african-american doctors, the national black nurses association, >> ed: the speaker has moved on to other topics. let's rerack and play what she said a moment ago talking about coronavirus and was trying to say it's time to bring people together. watch. >> lives are at stake. this is not a time for name calling or playing politics. the first step that congress must take is to ensure that the government has the resources

needed to combat this deadly virus and keep americans safe. >> ed: there she is talking about that and talking about funding on capitol hill. let's go back to james hohmann while we await. the speaker will take questions in a moment or two. likely to get a lot of questions about coronavirus. you teed this up by saying yesterday the speaker was lashing out a little bit at the president. he fired back. but had a challenge to her at that news conference and said why is there this name calling? we should be focused on the health and safety of the american people. maybe the speaker heard that message. >> absolutely. i have think it's significant that the speaker did that because what it shows is if this becomes sort of a pelosi spat and sniping from the sidelines and democrats trying to play politics that's only going to improve people's support of the president and his handling of it. if democrats look like they're being partisan and the president looks like he is being presidential it will work in his favor and i think democratic leaders get that.

i think you'll see the democratic presidential candidates. they have a political incentive to make political points but for the house and senate side they will have every incentive to look like they are taking it seriously and appropriate as much money as possible to support the response. they'll continue to criticize the president for sure but they don't want the story line to be pelosi versus trump. they want the story that the democrats are doing everything they can to deal with the crisis. >> ed: do you think the president made another smart move. initially he comes out with $2.5 billion for the coronavirus. even some republicans like richard shelby and kevin mccarthy said that's not quite enough money. they are talking maybe $3 or $4 billion and schumer comes out with $8.5 billion. rather than fighting that, the president at the news conference i heard him said i usually have a hard time getting more money out of these

guys. i don't care about the 2.5. it's a number. let's do what we can to help people. a smart move. >> very much his background. he is not a hard line deficit hawk trying to slash spending. i think he is fine spending $8 billion. i have think the president maybe not all of his aides but the president would throw whatever money. he don't regret his budget proposals calling for cuts to the cdc saying you can get doctors and mobilize the medical community when you need them for an emergency like this. generally we don't need the kind of whole firmament the government has built up at the cdc and that world. >> ed: you want to make sure that the hard working taxpayers give to the government is spent wisely. james hohmann, thank you for rolling back and forth with the speaker. thanks for coming in. interesting, sandra, to his point a day or so ago you saw

chuck schumer and nancy pelosi seeming to hammer the president and heard a lot of politics. the president said let's try to fix this and maybe there will be a little bit -- >> sandra: they hammered the president a moment ago. they called the response by the trump administration chaotic not a time for name calling and some more news that she just made in the news conference. she spoke to vice president mike pence this morning about the virus and expressed her concern to him about him heading up the effort there. as you mentioned she is probably going to take questions a short time from now and we'll have it for you when she does. vulnerable house democrats keeping their distance from bernie sanders. could a sanders nomination but the democratic control of the house in jeopardy. >> ed: milwaukee coping with tragedy this morning after a co-worker killed five people.

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more. >> it's 3,000, 2500 as of last night. 3,000 is disturbing. but again we want to instill confidence and we want to prevent without panicking people about this. but the market will do what it does with the invisible hand that it always does. it does show some fragility on the part of the market that it would drop so much, but again can't effect what we do with what we're there to do. we're to prevent and not panic people on the subject. the president said something so strange that you really have to wonder. he said the reason the market dropped is because of the debate the other night. the market had dropped 1800 points before the debate the other night. the market dropped while he was speaking yesterday in his press conference. let's not be silly about what

that is. clearly the lack of ability to get some of the product to sell and the rest has an impact on the bottom line of some of these companies. we don't like seeing the market drop. that's for sure. we hope that this will have a turnaround but it cannot affect how we address the issue. our issue is public health and prevention. we would hope that that would not lower the market but raise the market because we want to show that decisions have been made to put this in good hands now. >> [inaudible question] >> that's not what the purpose of the meeting is. don't read too much into it in

your moment. this is strictly a housekeeping meeting. this is to say this is a date like march 7 coming up is when the name will be sent to the state party as to who the unpledged delegates are. this is about how we participate in committees and the rest. it is really just a reading of the rules. it is not anything about that. and as the rules are very clear. the person who will be nominated for president will be the person who will have the majority of the votes. in addition to that, i will take the opportunity to say what i said over and over again. we're responsible to win the house of representatives and that is what we intend to do with our mobilization, with our messaging, with our resources in order to win and hopefully that victory will also help to win the senate and to help to win the white house. we also want to help to win

state and local government divisions as well with our demonstration that we know how to win. so that's not what that meeting is about. >> [inaudible question] >> that's not -- the person who we nominate will be the person who has the majority plus one. it may happen before they get to the convention. but we'll see. the people will speak and that's what we're listening to and it is a pretty exciting thing. that's not what this meeting is about. don't read too much into it. it is merely housekeeping to say this is how you can be on a committee, this is when you get a chance to vote, what do you call them unpledged delegates can vote for vice president on the first ballot. just technicalities like a reading of the rules. it is not political and that's not the rules say majority plus one. yes, ma'am.

>> you said it is your job to put forth an agenda that's mainstream and non-menacing. >> i'm talking about the house of representatives. >> your agenda looks different from what senator sanders' agenda you're not advocating medicare for all. do you understand the agenda is mainstream? >> i think sen -- healthcare is the most important issue in the campaign. there are three issues, healthcare, healthcare, and healthcare. that's why part one of our agenda and how we won the election last time was to lower the cost of healthcare by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. second was to build bigger paychecks by building infrastructure of america in a green way and the third was cleaner government. on first two i think we can find some common ground to work with the administration on the cost of prescription drugs i hope so. building infrastructure of america i hope so.

cleaner government not so. that's where we are. it is not unusual for a party platform or the candidates for president to have their own agenda that they would put forth. it is not unusual for the house of representatives to have its agenda as well. we have to win in certain particular areas. we're not about a popular vote in the country or in particular states in terms of the electoral college. we're district by district and that's how we won last time. we demonstrated we know how to win. our impetus continues and the momentum will help us win other positions as well. when we win, we put everything on the table, have a discussion and see where we go from here. but it is not about causing any division as we go forward. unity, unity, unity. whoever our nominee is, we will

support with respect for his or her positions and hopefully with their effect for our positions as well. we have made a decision to win and as i said to the members, if you make a decision to win, you have to make every subsequent decision to win. no friction, no nothing, just stay on the path to victory. because it's so very important. our country is a great country. it's a great country. resilient that it could even withstand one term of donald trump. two terms and the damage he is doing to the rule of law, the court system in our country, the air our children breathe, the denial of climate and the rest, time will take a toll. it is absolutely essential that we win. whoever the nominee is will have our wholehearted support. unity, unity, unity. we made a decision to win. thank you all very much.

>> thank you. >> ed: saw speaker nancy pelosi right there covering a lot of ground not just on the coronavirus but dealing with question about what the democratic party might do in the days ahead dealing with bernie sanders. yesterday she told reporters she is fine if he winds up being the nominee. not concerned about down ballot -- the impact on house races, potentially losing control of the house for democrats if you have a democratic socialist at the top of the ticket. now getting questions about this "new york times" report that maybe party officials will find a way to use super delegates to stop bernie sanders at the democratic convention in milwaukee. on the coronavirus on one hand she was reaching out to the president saying they need to find a way to work together. on the other hand issuing new challenges. attacking the president and vice president mike pence and shouldn't be in charge. the speaker right there. >> sandra: let's bring in the

political panel. frank bennett. brendan buck former senior advisor to speaker paul ryan. thank you for being here. brendan, i start with you first on what we just heard from the speaker of the house nancy pelosi on what she is telling concerned democrats about a potential bernie sanders nomination. her words, our responsibility is to win the house. we know how to win. what did you take away from her message just now? >> i think that was a preview of what we'll see for the next six months. nancy pelosi trying to distance herself and her members from bernie sanders. when we tried to talk about how we're distinct from donald trump. i know from experience it's a losing fight. immediately if bernie sanders is the nominee of the democratic party every single battleground democrat house member is going to be on defense. every one much them will have to explain why they aren't a

socialist. it is these suburban areas where we got wiped out in 2018 where potentially they are conservative leaning voters but couldn't stomach donald trump style products. something they can't stomach is socialism, either. she knows she has to find some way to differentiate herself from bernie sanders if he becomes the nominee. it was remarkable to watch her be so transparent about that while she says we want to be united. >> sandra: matt, how did you see it? >> i have to say i agree with. that she has to walk an incredible tight rope right now. she can't come out swinging against the guy who could end up being the nominee of our party. as horrifying as that is for somebody like me to contemplate. she is well aware of the risk to her majority. 29 of her new members are in districts that trump either won or came close to winning in 2016. and as brendan points out, they are all going to be turned into socialists if bernie sanders is

at the top of the ticket. it is already happening in some senate races in georgia and in arizona because our candidates simply cannot say they don't support the nominee against trump. that is not a viable position. it's not a position any would want to take. the minute see say they support the nominee they become a socialist. >> sandra: i'll bring back in the sound of nancy pelosi in the hallway i believe it was yesterday asked about supporting bernie sanders as a nom naoe. i'm told we don't have it. i will tell you what happened. you look back at a year or so before you saw bernie sanders in the kind of shape he is today. and she said that socialism -- we're not a socialist party and don't support socialism in the party and it doesn't represent us. now asked if she would be okay if bernie sanders is the nominee, yes. do you have any concerns you could lose the majority?

no. that's continued to be the front we saw from nancy pelosi at the news conference as well. >> she has to say that. of course. but at the same time she just talked about bernie sanders is running very openly on medicare for all and she is saying we are not doing that. she knows that in the districts that matter, the districts where it will decide who is in the majority if she is speaker or kevin mccarthy is speaker, she knows plans like that, huge government overreach, eliminating private insurance is just toxic. you can't be for that. the real challenge for her going forward is typically someone you run hard to the left or hard to the right when you are in the primary but then you get the general and you moderate. i don't think bernie sanders is capable of moderating. he doesn't want to. he finds -- there is nothing about him moderate. he will continue to put himself out on the far fringe of the party where she knows her members are in big trouble if they live out there. >> sandra: due to the breaking news. final thought to you, matt.

>> i agree with that. for bernie sanders moderation putting democratic before socialist. not very moderate. he says he is a revolutionary. they don't moderate themselves. >> sandra: great to have you both this morning. appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >> they have 13 positive patients that have the coronavirus. they've been studying them and know now some things we didn't know before. one, a lot more contagious than the flu. two, it looks like it can be treated because these 13 patients are doing well. >> ed: dr. marc siegel saying the coronavirus may be more contagious than the flu but offering some hope saying that patients being treated for coronavirus right where he was standing at the nebraska biocontainment facility are doing well. angie vasa is the director of the nebraska quarantine unit. thank you for coming in.

you hear a lot of concern and worry and you also hear hope from dr. siegel. what are you seeing that might be optimistic about how all this is playing out? >> you know, i think i would agree with him when we're looking at the trajectory and the condition of all the individuals who have been entrusted to our care, they are all continuing to do well. i think that we have the benefit of having a containment strategy in which we can keep people in both quarantine and isolation and provide them with all the supportive care they need to be able to successfully cure themselves from this virus and pass it and move to a convalescent stage. >> ed: are we seeing most of those patients get into the stage? in terms of the patients overall, not just there in nebraska but in america, that the vast majority are doing well but that there is one patient who seemed to be having some trouble. >> uh-huh.

so i think that as we look at the overall case counts for this coronavirus we can see the majority of individuals who have contracted it both brought back to the united states and globally have had a wide range of symptoms and server tee of illness. when we look at the overall case fatality rate for this particular virus and number of cases that are mild or moderate i think it does provide us with a little bit of a hopeful picture. i do think we need to be prepared as a public and as communities for the potential that this will continue to have community spread and so i think that as we continue to learn more about this virus and the way that it transmits through individual communities, that we as healthcare practitioners but also community members need to prepare but not panic. >> ed: the question about testing as well and if symptoms are being missed or not and early in the program we had tom inglesby talking about what we

need though do next. listen. >> hospitals are at the center of the response. we need to make sure our healthcare workers are protected from infection. something else that has been important in china. many healthcare workers were infected. we need to make sure hospitals are doing strong infection control work and caring for their healthcare workers. >> i think we need to expand the way we're looking for cases. our die ig gnostic testing has limited. we need to expand that certainly in california where the case was identified and i think institutions need to start, if they haven't been preparing they need to prepare themselves to manage through this. it could be something like a severe flu pandemic. >> ed: let's get into the testing first and talk about what you are doing to make sure medical workers are safe as well. first to the testing. >> great. i think that yeah, absolutely. i think i agree 100% with him. i think we need to look at broadening the criteria and

what we're considering as meeting eligibility for testing for covid-19. we do have a benefit of having the ability to provide in-house testing that we've developed at the university of nebraska medical center and i would encourage all of our counterparts in the healthcare sector to continue to collaborate with state public health labs and cdc to insure we have access to the tests that are necessary to identify individuals who may have this particular strain of coronavirus. >> ed: absolutely. last question on this. we hear from a lot of medical professionals and the president of the united states last night treat this like the flu. wash your hands, look for the symptoms. is that really the best advice we have right now? and what else would you add to that? >> i think from a healthcare worker preparedness perspective. our ability to provide healthcare workers with appropriate administrative and

engineering controls. personal protective equipment. appropriate location in hospital rooms. i think for the general public we need to look at individual family pandemic preparedness plans. our hospital is looking at the pandemic planning so how we might prepare for increased case counts but each family should be looking at what might be your preparedness approach if there are forced social distancing, limiting social gatherings, how might you be ready to support your family for that sustained period of time? >> good advice this morning. you have an important task ahead. appreciate you coming in. >> thank you so much for having me. >> ed: in the meantime we have got a whole lot more news coming. >> sandra: good information on all that as we continue to learn more about that virus. we'll go beyond the headlines, however, with news stories that have been buried by other breaking news. we'll talk about that in a moment. hello abby.

>> sandra: it is time to go beyond the headlines to have a little bit of fun this morning. we'll take a break from the fast moving new cycle and focus on j. lo and shakira. a while over the controversy of the halftime show. the fcc logged more than 1300 complaints including some from parents who said that pole dancing, twerking and belly dancing amounted to i'll let you say it. like soft porn. joining us now is abby hornacek. >> that number surprises me. it is low. there are over 103 million viewers of that halftime show. only 1300 complaints kind of surprised me. people are also saying that it was promoting sex trafficking which is a serious thing. we see a huge uptick in reports

of sex trafficking during the super bowl. i want to go through each one. i feel like shakira and j. los were different. i'll defend shakira to the grave. i love that woman. >> sandra: the most common complaints that the fcc heard. not appropriate for children. heard a lot of that in the minutes and hours that followed. belittled the #metoo movement and threats to boycott pepsi. >> it's a very sensitive time. if you are going to watch shakira on the halftime show you have a little warning. you know she loves bell dancing. it's a traditional arab dance. people were up in arms about the tongue thing. that had a lot of cultural significance as well. she was paying home acknowledge to columbian and -- j. lo, it was appropriate to do in front of children and her daughter

was there and we saw her -- to watch her mom dance on a pole. that young minds are so malleable. we have to be careful what to expose them to when parents don't have warning. >> sandra: everyone has an opinion on the super bowl halftime show and some voiced those concerns to the fcc. last topic. if you drive an expensive car a study reveals you are probably a jerk. scientists looked at people who drive really nice vehicles and how they treated pedestrians in the crosswalk. >> i'm laughing because it's true. we know this already but to have scientific evidence. >> the likelihood they'll slow down decreases by 3% for every $1,000 their vehicles are worth.

ferrar east or what kind of cars? people who buy nice cars, you always hear people are over compensating. to spend that much money of a car. if you are not a connoisseur or not talking about the engine or the way it drives they want to justify that purchase in some way. it comes in a more superficial way of feeling more entitled on the road. that's a very broad statement. i know a lot of people drive nice cars who aren't that way. i also have friends who drive nice cars i won't get pulled over. >> sandra: i find it interesting that scientists felt the need to study that. i am more curious about you. you are the driver, right? you do the fox nation, you drive people to work. >> i slow for pedestrians always. >> sandra: ed. >> ed: i take the subway. i have a cadillac. not too fancy.

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>> ed: stock prices still sliding on growing fears of coronavirus. you can see the dow down over 500 points. it was worse earlier, it is coming back a little bit. the price for facemasks is sky high. amazon warning sellers against price gouging. all kinds of impacts on the economy. grady trimble reporting live in chicago with details.

good morning. >> despite the fact that cdc doesn't recommend the surgical facemasks to the general public they're selling out fast. we went to a walgreens in chicago this morning and found empty shelves there. we went through a cvs. same situations, the masks sold out there. when they are in stock, that particular store is limiting customers to one box because of high demand. many customers are turning to online sellers like amazon as a result and some third party vendors have been accused of price gouging. marking up prices of the masks to capitalize on the high demand. boxes of masks for as much as $350. the price tracking site shows the price of these masks on your screen increased by almost four times since december. president trump was asked about this price gouging in a press conference. >> president trump: there have been many cases of price gouging on the sales of medical equipment and masks and so on. should the government be investigating that and looking

into that? >> president trump: if you tell me that's happening we'll definitely investigating. we don't want that. >> amazon says sellers set their own product prices and we have policies to help insure sellers are pricing products competitively. we actively monitor our store and remove offers that violate our policies. separately the fda is in contact with about 20 drug makers that source their main ingredients from china to see if there will be shortages because of the coronavirus in china. so far those companies aren't experiencing any shortages and not expecting any, either. >> ed: drug stocks like merck are on the rise today. thank you. >> sandra: it is day two of the annual c pac convention. vice president mike pence set to address the crowd in moments. a reminder to catch all of cpac streaming live on fox nation along with thousands of other

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just checked my 401(k), i can't retire yet. i'll be back tomorrow, don't worry. [laughs] >> sandra: good thing! will see you back here for a friday morning show tomorrow. thanks for joining us. >> ed: in the meantime, "outnumbered" starts now. >> melissa: fox news alert, stocks plunging today as coronavirus fears escalate. the dow right now trading down 462 points, it had been down about 960, as low as the session. it was what was earlier, still bad, though. u.s. market indices falling into correction territory, already wiping out gains for the year. this, amid some tensions in washington over the outbreak response. as the first u.s. case of the virus from an unknown origin has been diagnosed in northern california, the first sign coronavirus may be spreading within a u.s. community.