>> the number of u.s. coronavirus cases are on the rise, with health officials confirming four new cases in three different states up and down the west coast. two of those cases popping up in washington state with another in oregon and the fourth in california. welcome to america's news headquarters from washington, i'm kristin fisher. leland: welcome back after a long week at the white house. kristin: thanks. leland: you were talking to the president about this a couple of days ago. we'll get into that later. i'm leland vittert. two of the cases they say are not related to overseas travel. this is new and prompting renewed fears exactly how this disease spread.

christina coleman has been tracking it very literally since the first coronavirus cases we knew about in wuhan and now joins us from our west coast news room. >> hi, leland. health officials in oregon and washington state are concerned about the possible community spread of the virus and the c.d.c. warned here in the u.s. clusters of the infections are likely in communities. there are four new presumptive positive cases since yesterday. three unexplained. health officials in washington believe one case was travel related, but the other may be that state's first instance of community spread. a high school student from everett, oregon may have the first spread case, too, and california may have a second instance, an older woman from northern california with chronic health conditions. now, globally, around 85,000 people have been diagnosed with this illness and there's been more than 2900 deaths, most of them in china. major stock indexes around the globe posted another round of declines and uncertainty over

the coronavirus this week and it's unclear the impact it could have on major companies worldwide. congressional leaders are helping with a spending package and health and human services is looking for a lower figure, but both agree the funding is necessary. >> the president made it clear we're in touch of bipartisan leadership and we want to secure this within the next two weeks, we need to get that money appropriated so we can get advancing on our preparedness. >> according to the c.d.c.'s latest number. the united states has 62 cases of covid-19 in addition to the four new presumed positive cases, that includes the 46 people evacuated from china and the diamond princess cruise ship. a majority of them quarantined at travis air force base in

california are set to be released on monday. leland. leland: we'll talk with un-- one of the evacuees in the coming hour. speaking of that, our special on the coronavirus outbreak, what you need to know, where the virus has spread to and also, what you can do to protect your family. doctors, politicians, health officials, as we talked about, somebody who has the coronavirus joins us in about 57 minutes. kristin: the other big news today, voting underway in south carolina with democrats fighting for the state's 54 delegates and hoping to gain much-needed momentum headed into super tuesday. we have coverage on this, we have ellison barber, we have mark meredith in virginia beach ahead of bernie sanders's campaign stop there. we begin with peter doocy live in columbia, south carolina where former vice-president joe

biden will be waiting for the results to come in. hi, peter. >> kristin, joe biden is actually the only top tier candidate who plans to see south carolina all the way through. his rivals, like bernie and warren and pete have all moved on to super tuesday states and biden is here now and he will be here when the polls close. >> it would be good, a good start to get to super tuesday and be really well, i think we can do well and i think-- look, i'm very optimistic. i'm optimistic not just about today, but throughout the whole process from here on out. >> pete buttigieg has been trying to position himself as the moderate by comparison alternative to bernie sanders by pointing out he's the only person in the field that has beaten sanders anywhere yet, which is true. >> thank you so much for everything that you're doing for this campaign and happy primary day! the energy is fantastic, we've felt it at our events, especially yesterday.

we were just at a polling place having great conversations with voters and all the way up until the polls closed is a chance for us to get votes through the door. >> the thing that everybody is trying to do right now though is stop bernie sanders from winning his third state in a row, but he's trying to expand the map. already campaigning up in massachusetts, which votes super tuesday. >> and what i'm asking you all, what i'm begging you is don't listen to the media and their definition of reality, don't listen to congress and their definition of reality. ask yourself where this great country should be going. >> the polls here close at 7:00 p.m., less than seven hours from now, and no matter what happens, a surprise win, a surprise loss, there's not much time to reset the narrative before super tuesday, which is in three days. kristin. kristin: can't wait, peter doocy. thanks so much. don't forget chris wallace who is going to be talking to former vice-president joe biden just

hours after we get these south carolina results. that's going to be airing tomorrow on fox news sunday. be sure to check your local listings for the time and channel. leland: now we head north to virginia beach where senator bernie sanders is campaigning later today. mark meredith there ahead of the event. hi, mark. >> hi, leland, good afternoon, that's right. bernie sanders' campaign will be set a few days before the voters head out to the polls. and sanders' event tonight is at the same time that the votes are counted in south carolina. and that's interesting because as we look at the numbers here in virginia, we've also been seeing right now that bernie sanders is trailing former vice-president joe biden among the recent polls. however, this remains a very close race and we've seen former new york city mayor michael bloomberg trying to be within the top three. the former new york mayor is well-known in virginia spending money on gun control and tv ads. he was campaigning in virginia earlier this morning.

here is what he had to say just a few hours ago. >> the president has just had a few hours of tv watching before he starts his day, but we're only a few miles from the white house so let's make sure the president can hear us loud and clear. and let's make sure that on tuesday he hears from us even louder and clearer. >> now, joe biden is getting some help from famous virginia i don't knows, senator tim kaine, a nominee, hillary clinton's running mate. and he remind me of harry s truman, a outwardly ordinary man and everyday americans made him a great president, i am proud to vote for joe biden. that's senator tim kaine. and he'll be holding an event

not from where we are in virginia beach. after all virginia has some 99 delegates at stake on tuesday. leland. leland: you have to wonder if terry mccauliffe the former governor of virginia might show up at that event and might not. mark will be there to cover it. kristin. kristin: now to north carolina where normal new york mayor michael bloomberg and amy klobuchar are set to share the stage later today. for that we're headed to he will son barber who is live in charlotte. >> hey, kristin, if south carolina is make or break for the campaign, among southern states, south carolina is close to that for the bloomberg campaign. he's highly prioritizing north carolina. neve over 125 staffers on the ground, eight offices set to be the largest campaign presence in the state of any presidential candidate so far this cycle. according to advertising analytics, bloomberg has spent

over $14 million advertising in this state alone. the mayors of charlotte and raleigh endorse him and right now bloomberg seems to be one of the three frontrunners. the latest polls have biden, sanders and bloomberg within six points of each other. bloomberg has two events tonight and he and amy klobuchar will be speaking at an event for the north carolina democrats. klobuchar has failed to get traction, and some suggested she should drop out of the race. she says she has no plans on that she's third in the raw vote total and only third from 3% of voters. >> as straight forwardly as i can, and somehow after that new hampshire debate, a bunch of normal people decided you know what? actually we like her and sent $13 million in on online contributions which has allowed

us-- >> 110 delegates are up for grabs in the state on super tuesday and today is the last day of early voting. kristin. kristin: ellison barber, battling the wind in charlotte. thanks, ellison. >> so windy. leland: president trump last night reaching out to african-american voters in south carolina ahead of today's primary. take a listen. >> the unemployment rate among african-americans, hispanic-americans and asian-americans has reached record lows, black youth unemployment has reached an all-time low. block poverty levels are the lowest ever recorded in the history of our country. we are going to compete for every single vote in 2020 and we expect to win a historic share of the black vote come election day. leland: all right. no surprise there. south carolina will be the first state with a large

african-american electorate to vote in the primary cycle. former vice-president joe biden is hoping that will help him win the palmetto state, he's counting on that. so we bring in former advisor to cory booker's campaign and hillary clinton's south carolina state director and i think that qualifies you in a court of law as an expert. you are hereby appointed to the panel. your prediction tonight? >> i believe that vice-president biden will carry south carolina tonight. leland: at least we got a straight answer. that's nice, i appreciate it. >> sure. leland: by what margin? >> that i do the know know. by the vice-president winning tonight. this would be the first time he's ever won a primary or a caucus state since he has ran for president of the united states, but he-- >> by what margin does he need to win in order to make this

really-- >> he needs a decisive. leland: 10 points, 20? >> it has to be decisive. he needs double digits to have the energy and excitement for those that are going to be voting in three days. leland: this is kind of an interesting conversation because you were cory booker's political advisor. both he and kamala harris did not in any way energize the south carolina african-american voter in a serious way. one of the reasons they dropped out. why does joe biden have an appeal to african-american voters that other african-americans did not? >> well, i would beg to differ. i believe that senator booker and senator harris did energize the african-american base here in south carolina and across the country. they brought a lot of energy and passion to the conversation. for biden he has an affinity relationship with this state going back to when senator fritz

holling was with him when he was sworn in mass a united states senator. he has a longstanding relationship going in and out of this state and obviously, his selection by president obama to be his running mate has helped. leland: real quickly in terms of what we heard from the president, just before we came into your segment, does the economic development that south carolina has seen, which has been extraordinary, people cannot deny that-- does that affect the african-american vote in terms of being able to peel some away for republican candidates? >> some, but it's not going to penetrate significantly, the reason being there's still people in south carolina that do not have clean drinking water and the quality in the air that we breathe is not the best. you still have many people in south carolina that do not have

access to affordable and accessible health care and housing and these are real issues and in fact in south carolina we have 46 counties here, we had 14 of these counties did not have the ob-gyn in their respective areas. so these are significant issues and challenges that we have here in south carolina and so therefore, i believe that the democratic ticket coming out of our convention and certainly with jamie harrison being at the top in our state is going to really help galvanize the base going into november. leland: all politics are local and we appreciate the perspective, the opinion and the expert analysis, mr. middleton. good to see you, sir. we'll have you back throughout the campaign to discuss this issue. >> same here. leland: good to see you, sir. >> thank you so much, appreciate it. kristin: so what is the 2020 strategy for republicans as the democrats try to whittle down their presidential candidates. we're going to be asking republican senator marsha

blackburn all about it, plus trump saying minutes ago he's going to be holding a press conference on the coronavirus today at 1:30 p.m. we'll bring it to you live as it happens. (narrator) this is chet.

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>> as democratic presidential hopefuls work to win south carolina today, most candidates are also looking ahead to super tuesday. when 14 states and one u.s. territory hold their primary. so joining us now from nashville, tennessee senator, marsha blackburn. i've got to start with super tuesday two days away. what do you hope will happen on the democratic side. >> i have to tell you, i'm watching the vote totals not only to see how many are voting in their primary, but how much show up and vote for president trump. i think that's going to be a nice insight into the way people are going to proceed into the general election and for the democrats, i tell you, the american people are rejecting what it is that they're selling when it comes to this socialism medicine that they are talking about, their socialistic agenda

and you look at this medicaid for all and people cannot believe, they would have to give up 160 million people would lose their insurance, employer-provided insurance. it would put illegal aliens in front of families and veterans for health care and people are going, no thank you. we doesn't want to go there. kristin: senator, the president's campaign has been very careful not to say who they want the democratic nominee to be. >> sure. kristin: but i'm curious what you think and what you think the impact of let's say, somebody like senator bernie sanders, if he's at the top of the ticket, what sort of impact do you think that that would have on all of those down ballot races? >> kristin, they're all too far left. they've all tilted too far left. free education, retiring everybody's debt-free, child care, making certain that parents have free child care and this is not what the american

people want. and they look at the trump agenda with more judges, with actually taking action to rebuild the military, secure the southern border, the trade deals that have been executed, and they say, that's what we're for and that is why you have so many people who identify as democrats at the trump rallies who say, we voted for him or maybe we didn't vote in 16, but things are so much better, we're going to vote for him this year, and i really believe that as we go through this primary season and move to the general election, you're going to be a reshaping of this electorate because people do not want socialism. they want to believe in the american dream, they are for the results that they are getting from the trump administration. kristin: so since we're looking at this video of president trump at a rally, i believe that was from his rally last night in

south carolina, tell me just a little about what you think the impact of the coronavirus may be in this super tuesday election, but also headed into the general election in november. and i want to play a clip from president trump last night. listen to this. >> now the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. you know that, right? the coronavirus. they're politicizing it. we did one of the great jobs you say how is president trump doing? they go, not good, not good. this is their new hoax, but you know, we did something that's been pretty amazing. kristin: so the president just called the coronavirus the democrats new hoax. do you think the coronavirus is a hoax? >> no, and i don't think that's what he was saying. i think that his-- how they're politicizing it is what he was moving toward. i've talked to so many people who really find comfort in

having somebody that's serious and steady and competent like mike pence pulling together a whole of government approach to address this. and we know the president is going to have a press conference at 1:30. we know that there may be a need for further travel restrictions coming in the future. we know that our government is working to make certain that we have what we need for test kits, for masks, for gloves, that we also have our counties, our cities and our state health departments ready for a response. because we do not know exactly what is in front of us. we're watching how it is spread across the country, how it is spread through china, the up tick in south carolina -- the up-particular in south korea, and we want to make sure that the government's response is going to be appropriate. kristin: yes, we will be getting

an update as you mentioned from the president himself in just about one hour. senator, thank you so much. >> good to be with you. kristin: good to be with you. be sure to catch media buzz tomorrow 11 a.m. eastern, howie kurtz and his guests talking about the media coverage of the south carolina primary and of course, the coronavirus. leland: now to this, a legal victory for president trump. an appeals court ruled that don mcgahn will not have to testify, and it was 2-1 that mcgahn would have to comply with in from august. democrats say they will appeal this ruling, but a huge win. kristin: a federal appeals court putting a hold on the friday ruling to block the trump administration's remain in mexico policy. the court originally ruled against the policy that requires migrants seeking asylum to wait

in mexico until their cases were decided by an american immigration court and later unanimously voted not to move forward with their order at this time. the court is giving a monday deadline to give written arguments. leland: this now from turkey. they're taking action on their own immigration crisis. president erdogan says that the border with greece is now open. after years of threatening to do so. and the fences between the two countries, this video was released by a turkish news agency. and turkey claims that the u.n. is not doing their part of the deal, aid money to keep people from crossing into europe and kristin, there's an n.a.t.o. portion to this, that president erdogan is using the refugees as pawns to get n.a.t.o.'s help on taking on and standing up to russian and syria.

and that's macavelian at best. kristin: that's a big word for a saturday. leland: don't ask me to spell it. and president trump heads to the podium in the briefing room, second in a week. and then doug mcelway is there. >> we've got another packed day and we expect the president to take the main stage in the auditorium. we'll be here with a live report.

>> welcome back. one hour from now the president addresses the media and the nation about the coronavirus, from the brady press briefing room. questions will be taken, we're told. we don't know who else is going to be there. after that the president hops on

marine one and heads out to national harbor, maryland for the biggest annual gathering of conservatives every year, that's called cpac and doug mcelway is there. >> hello, leland. this is the last day of the cpac convention, traditionally the day when they construct their straw poll. there's obviously no suspense in that straw poll this year. president trump has won over the gathering in the three plus years just like the republican party, it's now donald trump's republican party. he'll take over two and a half hours from now. his second rally in less than 24 hours. he's made a habit of showing up in democratic primary and caucus votes. and stealing their thunder with filled auditoriums. and describing the uniqueness of it all. >> it's like p.t. barnum met

ronald reagan. he's the greatest showman i've ever seen and his policies are reagan-like, but his ability to present himself is beyond anything i've ever seen in politics, quite frankly, entertainment. it was an hour and a half and it seemed like 15 minutes. >> last year at cpac when the president spoke, half teleprompter and half ad-lib, if i recall, i think it was pretty close to two hours last year. we'll see what he does this year when he speaks at 3:00. earlier this morning we heard from the g.o.p. candidate who is running for congresswoman ilhan omar's seat in minnesota. she is an iraqi refugee and of course now a united states citizen who lived under the tyranny of saddam hussein. >> we were not citizens, none of us were, the lack of freedom to have ideas made his hostages. because if you don't have the

freedom to express yourself any other freedoms don't matter much, if you can't talk, if you can't say anything, nothing matters anymore. >> look for the president to take up the theme at this year's cpac conference which is socialism and the authoritarianism with conservatives and republicans inevitably follows from it. this has been four straight days of hammering away at bernie sanders and the left ward lurch of the democratic party. look for all to come to a crescendo at 3 p.m. when the president takes the stage here. leland: it was two hours and three minutes last year and see if he makes it a record this year. quick, doug, obviously there's no real straw poll to be taken it's going to be the president and everybody at cpac is pretty happy with them. and this is the curtain call for 2024, nikki haley was there and

others, and any unknown names you can think of adding to the list that you've people talk about while you were there? >> to be honest, none that are garnering any attention at all. this is all about donald trump and explains why they've moved away for any sort of jockeying for position at the conference. it's all been about socialism, all about attacking socialism and bernie sanders and the lurch for the party. and the office for another four years, as we know, presidential campaigns are very, very long in this country. that jockeying for position will commence next summer, next spring. leland: boy, what a difference four years makes, from how divided cpac was in 2016 to how united it is now with president trump controlling the republican party fully in 2020. >> they went for, yeah, they went for mitt romney four years ago, i believe in 2016. they went for ted cruz in the

most recent straw poll so, my how things have changed. leland: mitt romney's name booed there on the stage. we'll check back when the president takes the stage and there are speeches throughout the day on cpac 2020 and they're streaming all day online. we'll carry president trump's speech from cpac live here at 3 p.m. here on the fox news channel. kristin: all eyes on south carolina today where voters are now casting their ballots in this critical first in the south primary. brine bryan llenas is on the ground there before the polls close and how is it going so far? >> kristin, good afternoon. look, the polls opened this morning here in south carolina at 7 a.m. and they close at 7 p.m. we are at the greenview park in columbia, south carolina. voters checking over here and over here is where they cast

their ballots. this morning, there were long lines and they expect somewhere around 600 voters to show up to this precinct today, but i would say since this morning there's been a steady trickle of voters since then. but look, from 60% of democratic voters in south carolina are black and for former vice-president joe biden he hopes he wins voters to show coales coalesce black voters. tom steyer has something to say about that, yesterday he danced with rapper juvenile at a campaign rally and steyer has spent 13 million dollars, outspending all over candidates in the state combined on tv ads, mailers and yes, even dancing and black voters we talked to have taken notice from steyer. >> every day when you open your

your mailbox there's something from his campaign. >> and biden had been there before. >> maybe steyer, steyer did nt have that political background. >> i'm leading toward the best possible candidate. >> okay. >> more than 300,000 voters showed up in democratic primary in 2016. more than 500,000 showed up in 2008. and candidates like bernie sanders are hoping for a big turnout of new voters this time around to pull off an upset here in the palmetto state. experts tell us even if biden wins, his turnout is low or he doesn't win convincingly, it could blunt any momentum he could have going into super tuesday. >> so if he only wins by single digits, problem. but even if he wins by double digits, but the turnout is very, very low, then that shows a lack of enthusiasm that even if he gets the final nomination could be a real problem for him in novemb

november. >> kristin, south carolina for the first time is using these new touch screen voting machines statewide. what they do, they allow the voters to go in and click their selection and it prints out a paper ballot. that's brand new. that's important because voters are able to check to see what they selected on the touch screen is accurate. they'll put this paper ballot into a machine and it will count the vote. if there are any irregularities or issues, now the officials for the first time in south carolina can audit those results with these paper ballots and hope this will be more secure and seamless. so far no issues reported by the south carolina democratic party. kristin: that's great and encouraging. i know it needs to happen now though, now we need to have a tom steyer and elizabeth warren dance-off before super tuesday. that would settle it. >> i'm for it. leland: dancing with the dnc nominee contenders rather than dancing with the stars.

kristin: i would watch, absolutely. leland: there you go. i don't think it's going to happen, but kristin can dream. kristin: it would be great, i would watch. [laughter] >> for more on this we bring in south carolina radio host josh kimbro who thankfully will not be dancing, neither will i during this segment. live pictures right now, josh of bernie sanders not in south carolina, but in a very cold boston, massachusetts out there in boston common. you can see him bundled up, used to the vermont and new england cold. what do you make, josh, of the fact that sanders has already moved on from south carolina. is he conceding defeat? >> i don't know if he's conceding defeat. i'm excited i won't have to hear any more tom steyer ads in south carolina. and it's catching on the open primaries in my state have an

opening for tea party activists getting the republicans to vote. and the polls between biden and sanders tightened and i think that biden wins here. and so many who can't vote in the republican primary by stacy shea and others and it could be close are than the national media believes it is. leland: you put out a couple of names of national and local conservative activist. perhaps the best activist of all, the president of the united states, brought up the issue you talked about in south carolina. take a list be. >> so who is easier for us-- not me, for us to beat. ready? crazy bernie? [cheer [cheers] >> or sleepy joe.

i don't know, maybe crazy bernie has it. leland: and for them to go to vote for bernie? >> a lot of people on the fence crossing over and voting in the democratic primary felt like they got permission from the commander-in-chief to do that and if you think about it, about 14,000 people at that arena last night. i don't think that all 14,000 are going to go cross over, but what if it's 5,000 of them? what if it's 6,000 of them. it could make a substantial difference. again, i think that biden wins here, leland, but i think that sanders will come this closer than people think and steyer third because he spent $13 million on south carolina television ads. leland: this brings up an important point for republicans going into the general election. charlie kirk, lisa booth among others, have all been warning republicans be careful what you wish for. bernie sanders is the biggest threat to president trump winning a second term. you don't seem to agree with that. >> well, the polls don't seem to

agree with that. if you look at 538's projectionings, look at a whole host of university projections, whether it's george washington university, richmond university it's a landslide if president trump stands off with bernie sanders. it terrifies who would have thought we'd be here in 2020. trump would win at least 380 electoral votes, i don't think it will be close, leland. i really don't. leland: there are a lot of democrats in 2016 didn't think it would be close if donald trump was the nominee against hillary clinton. a lot of democrats were salivating over the idea of running against donald trump. is there a little hubris from republicans in this. you'd rather have-- if the choice is between joe biden and bernie sanders you'd rather have joe biden as president. might you have to be careful what you wish for here? >> that's a good point. i've thought about it.

i will not be one of the republicans crossing over to vote today just out of principle, but i will tell you that biden would certainly be better than bernie, but i think that bernie is more beatable. nevertheless, i understand the parallels of 2016. here is the difference you've got a candidate running in an open socialist, in a country largely capitalist, and i don't think that collectivism would work in america. leland: bringing you back to the point about south carolina, unique demographic, a huge african-american population, but it's a very red state so you've got inconsistencies there, what matters the primary versus the general. have you been talking to any african-american voters who are a little turned off by bernie sanders and some of the views you espoused? you've got 15 seconds. >> absolutely, african-american voters are not socialists and they tend to be fairly traditional on social issues.

yeah, i think they're turned off by sanders' message. the only reason he's getting a bump is because of crossover votes. leland: the president is coming up in 45 minutes or so about the coronavirus. we'll break it down coming up. s that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ a new kind of investor with an app that's changing the way we do money. download robinhood now.

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including severing ties with other terror groups. we asked secretary of defense esper here in kabul about the importance and risks of this agreement. take a listen. >> i think this is a historic day that offers a great deal of hope, but we know that it will be a windy road, a bumpy road, it may have setbacks, but again, we're committed to afghan partners with our n.a.t.o. allies and follow the path of peace and stability. the only way forward is through a political agreement. >> secretary esper, and others were at a ceremony here marking the agreement and now begins, according to many, the hard part. upcoming talks between the afghans and the taliban to possibly share power in the government. and time and again we heard about the gratitude for americans and others who gave their lives in the long effort. and to the command and u.s. and n.a.t.o. forces here, general austin miller, take a listen. >> this is about safeguarding

our national interests and that continues to be a strict objective as we look at it today and you know, those sacrifices, first of all, not only the service members, but also to their families, and that's what it was about. it was about protecting. >> and for the sake of those who lost their lives, including the afghans who have been suffering for decades, a lot of people here are hoping this deal works, hoping that is, kristin. kristin: hoping indeed. greg palkot, thank you so much. live in kabul. leland: a rare sighting of north korean leader kim jong-un, what he's up to and what it means next. i'm thinking tacos. hey hey! you guys look like foodies. would you like to try our trashy back ribs? oh, that sounds great... everything is locally harvested, farm to dumpster to table. uhhh, what do you... what else do you got? (stammering) w-we have a melon rind stew. comes with a pork and bean reduction. yeah, we're going to just do a lap and we'll come back. okay. well, we'll be here. man! why isn't this working? my mouth is watering.

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>> welcome back. we're just a couple of minutes away from the president taking the podium at the white house for the second time in a week now to talk about the coronavirus. in the meantime we want to bring you up-to-date on some of the headlines that we're also tracking around the world. kristin: first to california where a man is back behind bars after escaping from jail. the man was serving time for mail fraud in utah. he posed as another inmate eligible for release to make his escape and recaptured in idaho. leland: overseas, kim jong-un making a rare appearance

overseeing a military exercise. check out what all of his officers are wearing behind him. concerns about the coronavirus appears to have reached the reclusive kingdom. officers were wearing protective face masks. kristin: the founder of one of america's favorite grocery stores, trader joe's has died and they're known for nautical themes and prices, and in more than 40 states. and joe coulombe, apologize if i'm saying that wrong. he founded in 1967 and the ceo until 1988. he died after a long illness. he was 89 years old. leland: new questions about the response to the coronavirus as the president gets ready to address the nation. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> president trump is now prepare to go give an update on the coronavirus with remarks at the white house coming in just half an hour and we will take you there live as it happens. welcome to our special coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. i'm kristin fisher and leland, we've got two briefings by president trump in the briefing room in just 3 days. it tells you he's taking pretty seriously. leland: you spent time at the white house this week, give us a sense why this push by the president to do briefings in the briefing room, a place that he very rarely i think has ever step foot in, maybe a couple of

times over the past 3 years in presidency, now twice in a week, what's the logic. kristin: updates are coming quickly and takes a while, we will see him step up in the podium in about 30 minutes. leland: kevin corke calls it the commander in chief's role and comforter in chief's role, we await the president's remarks in about half an hour. live coverage of that as it happens. one of the big pieces of news that they are going to be talking about during the emergency meeting at the white house is the four new cases of the coronavirus along the u.s. west coast, some of which have people with coronavirus testing positive who have not had any international travel in their background, big questions on how the disease was transmitted to them, christina coleman tracking the outbreak from the beginning quite literally back in late december, early january and joins us from west coast news room, hi, kristina.

>> hi, leland, a lot has happened since then. fda announced change in policy to speed up and expand test if for virus, here in the u.s. now certified laboratories will be allowed to use tests they create to test for illness before the fda has finished reviewing them and what's called an emergency use authorization request. hospital and state health officials had complained that the reviewing process was lengthy and burden many. new york andrew cuomo praising the change, i urged him to approve coronavirus test. we received word that our tests have been approved by the fda. this will expedite wait time and improve new york's ability to more effectively manage the corona virus situation as it unfolds. the coronavirus task force is meeting right now. officials with the trump administration is working with congress to design and emergency spending package to help fight this outbreak. source tells fox news the figure

can be 7.5, 8 billion-dollar range. the bulk to have money would go to health and human services and some of the funding will go to state and local governments for vaccine research. hhs is looking for a lower figure but both sides agree that the funding is necessary. >> the president was very clear that we are going to work with congress, the leadership, we are already in touch with bipartisan leadership and we want to secure this within the next 2 weeks. we need to get the money appropriated so we can get advancing in our preparedness. >> according to cdc latest numbers the united states has 62 confirmed cases of covit19, that includes 46 people evacuated from china and the diamond princess cruise ship and the president to hold a presser with more information on how to fight the virus within the hour.

leland: thank you. a fox news alert just in the past couple of minutes we are learning of the first american death from the coronavirus. that's the first person in the united states to have died from the coronavirus. this happening in washington state. king county, washington, they are going give an update at 1:00 p.m. pacific which is 4:00 p.m. eastern, about cases of the coronavirus including new cases identified of the infection one of whom died. washington state was home to the first american infection of coronavirus, whether this is the person who died or it's somebody else that we haven't known about yet to be seen, but this definitely changes things in terms of how doctors would look at coronavirus in terms of deadliness and in terms of how it spreads that an american clearly with access to the best health care in the world has now been killed by the coronavirus. we will continue to watch this. mark green, former emergency

room doctor and flight surgeon, former member of congress, we will ask him about that. kristin. kristin: so my questions and we may get some answers when president trump steps up to the podium in the briefing room in just about 30 minutes. our david spunt outside of north lawn. david, any idea if this first american death had something to do with the president wanting to step up and wanting to speak to the american public in 30 minutes? >> we don't know that to be specific, i can tell you that the president will very much be asked about. we just found out about it maybe let's say about an hour ago, but this morning, though, at 10:00 o'clock, the meeting is still going on, vice president mike pence is holding a coronavirus meeting with people from all over the country. you may remember president trump tapped pence to lead the coronavirus task force to put him in charge of it, to put him in charge of efforts from the administration, that has been

going on for a little bit, about 2 hours now. almost 3 hours now actually i should say, it started at 10:00 o'clock this morning. last night in charleston, south carolina, president trump held a rally for his base and he accused democrats for stirring up trouble and making coronavirus into a bigger deal than it is. listen to this right here. >> now the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. you know that? they are politicizing it. the new hoax. >> some would argue the president may be politicizing a little bit saying democrats are using this as their hoax. just a few days ago in the cabinet room the president said this. >> when it comes time to talk about pandemics or whatever you may want to call it, you have to get away from politics. >> house speaker nancy pelosi

and house minority leader kevin mccarthy don't often agree on much but they are saying don't politicize coronavirus. >> lives are at take, this is not a time for name calling or playing politics. >> diseases don't know party lines. >> and while the president and vice president are having meetings about this mike pence is making it a point kristin, that he wants political civility. this is what he said on thursday. >> we are all in this together. this is not the time for partisanship. the american people expect us to work together and i promise you, this president, this administration is going to work with leaders in both parties. we will work with leaders across this nation at the state and local level and this president will always put the health and safety of america first. >> i'm going to head into the briefing in a few minutes again. president trump speaking at

1:30, possible vice president mike pence will be in there as well, first death coming from washington state. kristin: thank you so much, we will be having more on the coronavirus on sunday morning futures. maria bartiromo, she will be having an interview with vice president mike pence. don't want to miss it. 10:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. leland: congress in the meantime is working on funding bill. president trump you might remember asked for $2.5 billion, that number could go higher -- higher, we that with bring republican congressman from tennessee, member of the house homeland security committee mark green, also former special operation's flight surgeon for u.s. army and emergency room doctor. appreciate you taking the time. you think about this first death in washington state, someone who had access to the best medical care follow -- in the world from coronavirus. too early to make assumptions about that since we don't know how old the person was, if they had any underlying medical

conditions? >> yeah, we shouldn't form any, you know, opinions about the case fatality rate or what is going to be in the united states. the sample size because the president shut the border down our sample size has been incredible by small for a nation of 330 million, so, you know, you can't make any conclusions off this first death other than it's heartbreaking that we lost someone. leland: there's a level of panic now in america, fair to say that. there are a lot of thermometers out of stock on amazon.com. people at cosco are buying bags of rice in case they are stuck in their homes for weeks. is there any medical to support level of fear that seems to be out there right now? >> you know, i don't think so. our emergency departments are very well equipped to handle this. they practice disaster preparedness every year since the war on terror. these guys are prepared for this. this is something that happens. you look at influenza in 2017

was the eighth leading cause of death and there are not physicians sitting in the emergency departments with biohazard suits waiting on influenza patients. the hype that's out there is a little bit overblown. if you're over 820 years' old so far with the data coming out of china, 15% case fatality rate, this is an illness that causes or virus that causes illness, we do have to move forward cautiously but it has gotten out of hand in the media some. leland: brings an important point that the data coming out of china. can you believe anything the which chinese are saying out of this? >> that's for sure. that's for sure. but i mean, they are now working very closely with us. they are starting to publish papers themselves on their response and what they've learned from their response and, you know, our physicians are

over there now helping to gather data and helping to write the reports. the journal of the american medical association has published mortality document that details, you know, for example, diabetes patients have a 7% mortality rate with this illness, cardiovascular patients have a 10% mortality rate, so there's a lot of details that are coming out of it now, of course, we are doing a lot of research, university of nebraska medical centers has study ongoing with the antiviral redisamir and showing a lot of promise, so there's a lot of good stuff going on from information we've gotten from china. leland: at what point do people become rightfully concern versus what you say right now perhaps fear-mongering or fear of the unknown? >> sure, it's okay to be cautious. you know, we just can't let panic. if somebody buys extra couple of

cases of water and they are buying lots of hand sanitizer and getting ready for it, basically what they should do for the flu season. i had chemotherapy for cancer and we had a big bottle of, you know, hand sanitizer in my office and everybody used it. folks who came into my office were required to use it. i never got a cold, hand sanitizer works and we should be doing that even with the flu season. it's normal precautions and it's okay for people to do those kinds of things. leland: speaking of flu season and the numbers here we have to be careful with as we put up on the left-side of your screen, 2019-2020 flu season, 32 to 35 million illnesses, 18,000 to 46,000 deaths. coronavirus 2900 deaths. if you look at that and

extrapolated that is that apple to apples so to speak? >> people worldwide that are vaccinate today flu. this is the appear to new virus, people are not vaccinated. there's no specific immunity to it. it's -- you know, it would be equivalent to a flu pandemic, you know, a new novel-flu virus. if you look at those rates then it would be more comparable. leland: all right, congressman, we appreciate it. thanks for your time, thank you for spending the afternoon with us and we will be back in the coming days and weeks for your expertise, both politically and the medical side. >> thanks, have a good day. leland: kristin. kristin: we know for a big question for you at home how can you protect yourself and your family from getting coronavirus and what do you do if you do get it, we will try to help you get answers with fox news contributor with dr. mark siegel, he spent a week with

americans that have been quarantined at the university of nebraska medical center. dr. siegel thank you for coming up and sharing your expertise. >> hi, kristin. kristin: i have to start with the big news, first confirmed american death with the coronavirus just broke within the last few minutes, i'm sure that has some folks pretty worried, what do you want them to know? >> well, i would add some things to what the congressman just said which is we do know that this individual that came to the washington state was tried on rendesavir, the antiviral drug that they tend to use for severe cases, so perhaps he had a severe case. 15% of the cases develop the characteristic pneumonia that can put you in trouble and that's when they would use the antiviral drug. we have also seen cases already where there's recurrence of symptoms because viewers might say, wait, i thought the patient was getting better, i thought he

was out of the woods. well, the problem with a lot of respiratory virus and this includes the flu, by the way, people out there who have had the flu, a few days later you get worse again or another infection comes in, so this is background information. i don't know if it applies specifically to this case but the fact that one person tragically, doesn't necessarily mean high-mortality rate. in south korea where there's 3,000 cases already, there's been 21, 22 deaths. so most of the time, the vast majority of the time in healthy people it is still a mild virus. kristin: dr. siegel, i want to press you on that point. i think things that people are having a hard time you have somebody like bill gates, quote, this is starting to behave once in a century pathogen that we have been word about and on the

flip side you have somebody like, you know president trump, this is something that's concerning but he's kind of equating it to the flu and saying that what you need to be doing are the same things you need to be doing to prevent the flu which is washing your hands, covering your mouth when you sneeze and could have, help people understand how they should view this coronavirus in terms of how worried they should really be. >> that's really well stated. it is not the same as the flu. it's different than the flu. the flu gives fatigue and muscle ache. this tends to give you a could have, shortness of breath and the people in nebraska medical center emphasized to me, it comes along with a high fever, more higher than the flu usually. and the shortness of breath and cough and the bronchitis-type picture, something in your lungs is what's concerning us and the other issue is that it's new. so we are following it and we are tracking it. we cannot in any way shape or form diminish the impact of the flu. that's a worldwide killer as was just said, an enormous amount.

here is what is confusing viewers and why everyone gets so worried. what they are seeing is public health officials going really strong to try to stamp this out before it takes root like the flu. that's the goal here and that's what we are actually doing a fairly good job at. if we can track cases and isolate them, the concern in the two california cases and the washington state and oregon case now that the possibility of a new jersey case is if we can't track where the case from we can't -- >> kristin: right, president trump moved quickly at the beginning to have outbreak to try to impose travel restrictions, mandatory quarantines and things like that. dr. siegel, real quick before you go. if people are worried that they have the coronavirus, what should they do? >> first of all, very quickly, the travel restrictions can't be completely effective because the more this spreads to other

countries like japan and south korea they can't control it and people won't admit they've been to areas on second airstops. people out there maybe should understand that -- treat this like any other virus. kristin: do you call cdc, do you go immediately to the doctor, you call 9-1-1. what's your first step if you caught coronavirus? >> the same step that you would have for any respiratory virus, kristin. if you have high fever, shortness of breath, you have been seen. if you're feeling fatigued with high fever you have to be seen. don't call the cdc because the vast majority of the time is not the coronavirus. we are talking about it here a lot but this is also respiratory virus season. what we need most of all is we need identification kits in all the major hospitals in the country so that i can test people and reassure them, you

don't have coronavirus. very low chance at this point. we are tracking it in order to keep it from getting to be a much higher risk. right now it's a low risk. kristin: the testing kits there's a shortage out in california. azar is saying they are working hard to get several thousand kits out that way. >> correct. kristin: dr. mark siegel, thank you so much. >> thanks, kristin. leland: live pictures of the white house, the brady press briefing room off to the right-hand side of the picture where we expect the here in the next couple of minutes to take questions from the press, address the nation, live pictures of the podium there. first we go to california where doctors are trying to find anyone that came in contact with two women that tested positive for the virus. hi, claudia. >> hi, leland, some of those who have come in contact are healthcare workers here at uc davis medical center and that has some nurses calling for

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[ fast-paced drumming ] leland: we are just minutes away from president trump's update on the coronavirus speaking live

tat white house scheduled for 1:30 eastern which is about 8 minutes from now. live coverage of that, of course, as it happens. later this afternoon officials in washington state will give an update on their own case of the coronavirus. this being the first confirmed u.s. death of the coronavirus. live coverage of that 1:00 p.m. pacific. 4:00 p.m. eastern where we hope to learn a lot more about this first u.s. victim including how old they were and whether or not they had any underlying health conditions which would tell us a lot about this virus. kristin: and in california there's a second woman who has tested positive for coronavirus despite not having traveled abroad recently or being around anyone who has and this latest case comes days after another woman tested positive at the uc davis hospital. claudia tracking it all for us. hi, claudia. >> hi, kristin, that's right, no idea how two northern california women contracted the coronavirus. the first suspected case of

community spread, a woman from salono county being treated here at uc davis medical center and now this hospital is emerging as a focus of a a lot of concern because according to the nurses union more than 100 medical workers here have been quarantined because they came into contact with this patient. a source tells me they did not know that this woman had tested positive for covid-19 until they were told by relatives and not by hospital administrators. national nurses united issued a statement, quote, nurses and healthcare workers who are needed now more than ever have been sidelined. lack of preparedness would create national staffing crisis. nurses view the handling of covid-19 case as system failure and not success, the hospital says it sent a small number of employees home out of abundance of caution but one nurse says

they do in the feel they are getting the information or protection they need to combat and respond to now deadly outbreak. meantime public health officials in santa clara county have identified the second person to contract coronavirus through community spread as 65-year-old with chronic health issues who was hospitalized of having trouble for breathing and doctor insisted to be tested for covid-19, they are trying to figure out how she got it and who she may have exposed. >> we still don't know to what degree. an important priority therefore for us is to conduct public health surveillance to determine the extent of what is happening. >> california is ground zero for the coronavirus with 34 patients, that's about half of all confirmed cases in the u.s. and more than 8400 people being monitored including as i mentioned more than 100 people

here at uc davis medical center. kristin, this patient here became very, very ill last week before getting the right test and then getting the right diagnosis, covid-19, she remains in isolation, last report in serious condition. kristin: claudia, thank you, leland. leland: minutes away from the president's update on the coronavirus. live to the white house as that happens and we will also hear from someone who has coronavirus, tested positive when we come back. ok everyone!

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on the coronavirus, perhaps making an announcement, but this would be the very first time that president trump has spoken since we learned that the first american with the coronavirus has died. so we will go now to our david spunt in the briefing room, david, what can you tell us? >> we are wondering if president trump knew about the death and he sent tweet saying he would have news conference at 1:30. the meeting began with vice president mike pence, the point person for the coronavirus task force. the president does not want to call him corona virus zarr, that started at 10:00 o'clock today in the situation room. then a couple of hours later we got word that there was going to be this briefing at 1:30. this is the president's second briefing here in the white house briefing room. he hasn't held many at all. this is his second in just a few

days, so obviously there's something going on. many even in the president's staff came by surprise to came in here for 1:30 press conference. you have to -- you have to know that we will be asking president trump number 1 about this in washington and number 2, kristin, and leland about his comments last night calling this a democrat hoax. he's been taking a lot of criticism for using criticism, democrat hoax when he was in the rally in charleston last night. we are wait if for two-minute warning and any moment she will be out here and ask him those questions when president trump comes out today, leland. kristin. leland: david, thank you. when the two-minute warning happens, 62 americans have confirmed cases of the coronavirus, nearly a thousand people reportedly under quarantine. we now go to carl goldman who is being kept under quarantine at

the university of nebraska in omaha, we understand that you were on the diamond princess and tested positive for the coronavirus, how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling great now, leland. still have a little cough but this has been physically equivalent to a minor cold. i would have been at work the next day if i wasn't contagious. leland: you would have been at work if you you weren't contagious. i'm assuming you've had a lot of time to watch cable television in the past week or so, panic, hysteria on tv matching the symptoms that you're feeling? >> no. not at all. i simply had cuff. i've had a spike in fever. that seems to be the common dem

-- denominateor although my friend never had a fever and still has the virus. for me, no, i had the spike in fever but cough is still will right now and probably 14 days into having the virus. i've been here in omaha 13 days, i was in a contained area. they moved my to lower-level of care 3 blocks away on medical campus. leland: is there how you are being treated? >> not so bad, 6 deaths from the diamond princess. so i feel lucky and fortunate that i'm not one of those. i get that this is highly contagious. the thing about the virus is i went 4, 5, 6 days knowing i had it from tests that i got way

later, so i didn't know i had it while i was walking around. found out i had it for the first time i got to omaha and the tests that i took back in japan finally caught up with me just a few days ago to confirm i was also positive. leland: interesting, you were sick but you were sick with the virus, you had the virus, carrier and they could have tested blood test but they didn't, you didn't feel any symptoms? >> well, i didn't feel any symptoms. didn't even do a swab test until a few days before we left the diamond princess, that test because of the timeline and to tokyo. that test was delayed so i didn't realize that -- i didn't get those test results until i was back here in omaha. leland: we were rolling on the right-side of the screen some pictures of what i'm sure is a vacation, if you can call it

that that you will never forget and on the left brady press briefing room waiting for the president to come out. what do you want to hear as somebody who has the virus? >> i think he needs to do what he did in last discussion with everybody and that's to calm all of us down, not create the panic, but let all of us understand that the virus can easily spread very, very quickly and as we are seeing now in california there seems to be a number of cases spreading throughout. , again, not to worry about it. first of all, cdc officials have been incredible in trying to stay proactive keeping up ahead and i will just say that the president keep everyone calm. leland: calm is something that's hard to find these days about this. kristin: yeah. leland: carl seems to be the calmest of everybody and he has the virus. kristin: you know, carl, i have been impressed with your

calmness and kind of just goes to show you that one one of thes that president trump says we need to look at this, kind of look at it like you would the flu, wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough, things of that nature and you look at somebody like you who is doing quite well, that's encouraging, but the counterpoint to that within the last hour we've learned that the first american has died because of the coronavirus, so as you wait in quarantine, what are you -- what are you thinking about, how much longer do you think this is going to go on for? >> well, i think the spread of the virus will go on for a while but when you look at all the numbers and you reported, the number of deaths and more serious illnesses from the flu, it's far greater in this country than the coronavirus. and even internationally it's far greater. the ones -- and i don't know the details of the person who died

there in the states, the ones on board of diamond princess have preexisting conditions and the majority of people who are getting the virus, are getting mild cases like i have. leland: carl, this may seem a little bit shall we say a minor issue at this time, point in time, but you've been in quarantine you say about 13 days, you spent some of it inside of a facility that we understand people were wearing the big suits and last used for ebola cases. who pays for all of this? are you going to get a big bill at the end of the thing? >> that's still an unknown. i have medicare insurance, i'm 67 year's old and supplemental. i gave those to the hospital. i believe during -- i would suspect, i'm just making assumption right now that during my intense care the hospital

will probably try and recoup money through medicare. now that i'm in a lower-level area i believe that's being paid by the government. leland: your wife is in quarantine but she did not test positive. last question for you. we have heard about the antiviral both the doctors we had an earlier talked about it and talked about a trial that is going on there at the hospital in nebraska of using antiviral to treat the coronavirus, have you been part of that, heard about it, any experience with the medicine? >> yes, yes. so i've been part -- two trials here. two clinical trials. the one you mentioned with the possible drug being given. i'm not part of that trial because i was too healthy to qualify for that. i did volunteer and i am part of second trial that won't benefit me but hopefully give a lot of

clues and answers for folks out there. i will be 100%. there's no way any politicians or government official is going to allow me out there particularly in this election year. [laughter] leland: well, carl, i could think of few people who have been through what you have been through that have the sense of humor, the calmness and perspective that you have. it's inspiring for all of us as we go through this together, we are glad to have had you on. our thoughts and prayers with you for freedom and for finally getting to have a good meal or something when you get out of there after a vacation that you will never forget. we will check back with you during the coming weeks and

months to see how you're doing, sir. >> terrific, maybe you can send me an omaha steaks. leland: if omaha steak is watching i wouldn't be surprised they showed up. too soon for that. chick-fil-a. carl can get a list. god speed, we appreciate it. kristin: thank you, carl. the race to create a vaccine is on as the world health organization says more than 20 vaccines are in development globally right now. >> i can tell you this is something researchers around the world are working on and they are making record progress on developing a potential vaccine. within the next few weeks the first clinical trial will get underway for a vaccine that was developed by the boston base pharmaceutical company, while that's a huge first step, it's really the beginning of a long

process to ensure the vaccine works and that it's safe. this first phase will involve 45 people and if that works another phase that takes 2 to 3 months, hundreds to several thousand individuals. that means the soonest of vaccines could be ready for production a year from now and then producing enough of it to meet global demand. that's expected another 6 to 8 months. >> so although this is the fastest we have ever gone, from a sequence of a virus to a trial, unless we wait a year to a year and a half. the answer to containing is public health measures, we can't rely on a vaccine over the next several months to a year.

>> world health officials are much more optimistic about the development of treatments for people who have already contracted covid-19. several treatments are going through clinical trials in china and the u.s. and doctors should know how effective those drugs are within the next few weeks. until then cdc officials say every american can help stop the spread of the coronavirus with a few simple steps. >> covering your cough, staying home when you're sick and washing your hands. not very exciting measures but really important ways that you can prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. >> health officials are concerned that even if the current outbreak is under control the strain of the coronavirus could be back again next year which is why they are hoping and pushing to have a vaccine ready by then to help folks next year around. kristin: all right, garrett

tenney. leland: israelis are working on a vaccine there. the brady press briefing room. the president was supposed to walk out and give an update from his meeting in the situation room about 12 minutes ago, 14 minutes ago we have not gotten what is called the 2-minute warning which is typically the heads up we get before the president is going to walk out, we are going to obviously keep watching that and check in with our sources at the white house and teams of when he's finally going to address the american people. not sure exactly what he's going to say but perhaps we will address that the first coronavirus death in our country has now been reported. that was out of washington state a couple of hours ago we got the word. italy reporting more than a thousand cases of virus, 29 people in that country have died. kitty logan live from our london news room with more on the global fight and the numbers

worldwide. hi, kitty. >> hi, leland, coronavirus continues to spread to other countries around the globe. the wealth health organization says there are now 85,000 cases in 57 countries. that is already a jump part from yesterday. here in the uk, for example, authorities have registered 20 cases and what's causing concern here is that one of those new patients appears to have contracted the virus within the uk rather than being infected from another country and bringing it back. the people here are to be vigilant, washing and sanitizing hands. so far italy is the worst-hit country in europe. more than a thousand cases there as you mentioned. 29 of those infected have died. the u.s. government is urging americans to avoid any nonessential travel to italy already the outbreak there affecting the country's tourism industry. meanwhile in the middle east, iran is continuing to struggle with the virus. it has the highest number of

cases outside china. there are concerns now around the middle east that travel from iran are spreading the virus to neighboring countries, schools in iran have been shut now for the next few days as precaution. back in china where if outbreak started, they have still registered the highest number of cases, but this is interesting to note, the situation there has stabilized, that is largely thanks to the very stringent measures that authorities have imposed on large parts of the population, but many experts believe that those measureses can't be replicated in other countries in places like health care and governance and what we are seeing now in europe many restrictions being imposed on large gatherings and france, authorities are not permitting gatherings above 5,000 people and advising people not to greet each other with a kiss, leland. leland: all right, kitty logan in london.

obviously air travel around the world a big issue, something that's going to be on the minds of all of the airlines over the next couple of weeks, and one thing kristin that the president talked about on wednesday an we heard from other white house officials, larry kudlow among others, trying to calm the markets. carl who has the coronavirus says the president needs to calm everybody down but no words are reassurance from the president or the economic teams or from anthony fauci or others at nhi have been able to calm the economic markets and the concern that this is going to have sort of a knock-on effect with the u.s. economy and the world economy. kristin: yeah, clearly one of the president's top concerns but, of course, keeping americans safe, his other big concern, and so as i'm watching press conference, does he make any sort of more announcements in terms of travel restrictions, he mentioned on wednesday that he might be open to expanding

travel restrictions potentially italy and brazil as well. he said that on wednesday it was not the right time, we will see if he changes his mind today and also interesting to see exactly what he says about the first u.s. death, first american to die from the coronavirus. david spunt standing by i believe in the briefing room. sitting down because -- leland: we will check back in with david at the end of the president's remark. we've gotten the 2-minute warning. the president is on a tight schedule here. 1:30 he was supposed to come out and address everybody after what would have been 2 and a half, 3-hour meeting in the situation room about the coronavirus and he's scheduled to give a speech to supporters at cpac which is about 20 to 30-minute trip from the white house at 3:00 p.m. so things are stacking up there, we will see how long this press conference goes. kristin, as you've talked to the trump white house but also the trump campaign, what kind of contingencies are they thinking about for how to deal with

messaging as the president has talked so much about the markets and the growth of the u.s. economy and now there has been undoubtedly this enormous shock to the u.s. economy and especially the markets with the coronavirus and the knock-on effects? kristin: sure, i think the other thing that the trump campaign is trying to do right now and the white house countering message from democrats, hey, look, we did take decisive actions at the beginning of the outbreak from travel restrictions and from the mandatory quarantines that were put in place, so president trump has said from the beginning that he had a decisive reaction when this first broke out, but now he has to continue to make the case that his administration is doing everything possible to keep americans safe and to get the healthcare workers the tools that they need, everything from face masks and those all-important testing kits. we know that there were shortages in california, hopefully more on the way as secretary azar said yesterday.

leland: yeah, we see behind the president or who will be behind the president, the surgeon general there, anthony fauci, head of infectious diseases at nhi, one of the most vocal members of the administration talking about the need to be calm and the need as you pointed out for preventive measures in terms of what the disease can do, talking to his chinese counterparts, et cetera, and then secretary azar on the far left of your screen who has been spearheading the coronavirus task force, if you will. i think the title is chairman -- kristin: general also there as well. leland: however you make the distinction. you were there in the briefing room on wednesday when the president spoke with a number of the same folks behind him. it didn't feel as though it was shall we say an adversarial briefing in the way that some of the president's press conferences have gone. a little more informational perhaps as the president walks out right now with the vice

president, we will listen in. >> thank you very much, everybody. before we begin i'd like to congratulate all of those incredible people that have worked for so long on our endless war in afghanistan, 19 years, going on 20 years, and there hasn't been a moment like this. we've had very successful negotiations. we think they'll be successful in the end. the other side is tired of war. everybody is tired of war. that's been a particularly long and gruesome one, and i want to congratulate president gani and the people of afghanistan. i want to remember all of the people, all of the great, great men and women that have lost their lives in the war and to

their parents and wives and husbands and families, brothers and sisters. these are great, great people. many lives over such a period of time have been lost. i want to thank our wounded warriors people that are still bearing pain and all of the problems that they've had to go through and they're incredible people, incredible spirit. going to walter reed and see them so often and the spirit they had, they wanted to go back. despite their wounds, they always said, i want to go back. wounded warriors, they're incredible people. i guess most of all i want to thank all of the people in the united states for having spent so much in terms of blood, in terms of treasure and treasury.

the money that has been spent, the lives that have been lost and we just signed an agreement that puts us in a position to get it done, bring us down to in the vicinity of 8,000 troops. the united nations was informed of everything and nato has been great. secretary saltenburg has been fantastic. i want to thank the united nations for the help they gave and i also want to thank and congratulate secretary saltenburg of nato. 29 countries involved and all approving, all very happy with what's going on. i want to also thank and congratulate secretary of state pompeo and secretary of defense

mark esper and i'll be meeting personally with taliban leaders in the not too distant future and will be very much hoping that they will be doing what they say they are going to be doing. they would be killing terrorists, they will be killing some very bad people. they will keep that fight going. we've had tremendous success in afghanistan and the killing of terrorists but it's time after all these years to bring our people back home. we want to bring the people back home and, again, it's been -- it's been a long journey in afghanistan in particular. it's been a long journey, it's been a hard journey for everybody. we are very largely a law enforcement group and that's not what our soldiers are all about.

they are fighters, the greatest fighters in the world. as you know we have destroyed in syria and iraq 100% of the isis caliphate. 100%. we have thousands of prisoners. we've killed isis fighters by the thousands and like wise in afghanistan but now it's time for somebody else to do that work and that'll be the taliban and it could be surrounding countries. many countries that surround afghanistan that can help. we are 8,000 miles away so we will be bringing to 8,000 to approximately 8,600, in that vicinity and then we will make our final decision at some point in the fairly near future, but this was a very spirited

agreement. there was a lot of -- a lot of talk. there was a lot of everything. they've been trying to get this for many years and just it's time. i just want to thank everybody. i want to congratulate everybody. i really believe the taliban wants to do something to show that we are not all wasting time. if bad things happen, we will go back. let the people know we will go back and go back so fast and we will go back with a force like nobody has ever seen, and i don't think that will be necessary. i hope it's not necessary, and so i just wanted to bring that up before we begin on a topic that has become very, very important to everybody. first of all, the amount of work that these professionals behind me and many other professionals in many rooms behind us that are

watching right now, we don't have to room here to bring them all in, they have been working around the clock so hard on the coronavirus. it's a -- it's a tough one but a lot of progress has been made. i want to provide an update to our people, to our citizens, to the world, frankly, on our action to address the coronavirus and those that have been hurt badly by it. at this moment, we have 22 patients in the united states currently that have coronavirus. unfortunately one person passed away overnight. she was a wonderful woman, medically-high-risk patient in her late 50's. four others are very ill.

thankfully 15 are either recovered fully or they're well on their way to recovery and in all cases they've been let go and they're home. additional cases in the united states are likely but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think that will be a statement that we can make with great surety now that we've gotten familiar with this problem. they should be able to recover should they contract the virus, so healthy people, if you're healthy, you will probably go through a process and you'll be fine. since the early stages of the foreign outbreak, my administration has taken the most aggressive action in modern history to confront the spread of this disease.

we moved very early. that was one of the decisions we've made that really turned out to be a life-saver in a sense. big life-saver. on january 31st i imposed travel restrictions on foreign nations who had anybody that had been to china or people coming out of china, and i want to say that china seems to be making tremendous progress. their numbers are way down and if you read tim cook of apple said that they are now in full operation again in china. >> experts agree that the decision to move so quickly, despite a lot of opposition on that decision was a wise one, greatly slowed the spread of the virus to the united states and it really gave us time to do some of the critical moves that we've done and it allowed these

great professionals to get together and figure it all out and we think they've done that. we've taken the most aggressive actions to confront the coronavirus. they are the most aggressive, taken by any country, and we're the number one travel destination anywhere in the world, yet we have far fewer cases of the disease than even countries with much less travel or a much smaller population. as an important part of our efforts, on monday i'll be meeting with the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, actually, they'll be coming to the white house and we're talking about a vaccine and developing very quickly and they've already started working on it, developing very rapidly a vaccine for the virus to combat the virus and we're having