>> well, thank you very much for joining today on the post-game show. it has been a wonderful winning

wednesday. >> we'll find out what elizabeth warren and bloomberg are going to do. >> join me on the radio. >> ed: all right. with the dust still settling this morning from super tuesday the fight narrowing in the race. joe biden and bernie sanders, it may go all the way to the convention in milwaukee. >> i'm laura en gel in for sandra smith. the former vice president sweeping the south winning texas and at least eight other states while sanders takes the biggest prize, california setting up what could be a knock down drag-out fight for the nomination. right now biden has the edge in delegates. 453 to sanders 382. they'll need to hit 1991 to clinch both candidates say they're in it to win it. >> you cannot beat trump with the same old, same old kind of politics. >> what we need is a new politics that brings working class people into our political movement. i tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination. >> the turnout turned out for us and it can deliver us to a moment where we can do extraordinary things. i promise you cures for cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes. we're better than this president. get back up and take back this country the united states of america. not a single thing we can't do. >> ed: casey stiegel is reporting live from dallas. good morning, casey. >> good morning. either the polls had it all wrong or joe biden is no doubt

the comeback kid in texas this morning. that's the headline out of super tuesday. considering on monday a lot of people were looking at that latest poll showing bernie sanders with a double digit lead in the lone star state. when you see how the numbers have flushed out it didn't quite happen. former vice president joe biden took texas but nearly four points with nearly 34% of the vote compared to bernie sanders 30. joe biden as last minute campaign push on the ground and those last-minute endorsements we were telling you so much about yesterday morning on this program ahead of super tuesday must have paid off especially when you consider that about half of voters polled say that they made up their minds at the last minute, in the last few days. so these are people that didn't have their candidate in mind

until pretty close to election day. not part of the other 50% that voted early. here is part of joe biden's victory lap speech last night in california. >> our campaign reflects the diversity of this party and this nation. and that's how it should be. because we need to bring everybody along. everybody. increased turnout. the turnout turned out for us. >> sanders really talked a lot about diversity and that was something that analysts thought would give him a boost especially in places like texas and california where a fast-growing subset of the electorate is latino. now that could have helped push him to that victory or at least had a part in it out in california. that was no real surprise when you looked at the polling there.

but it appears there wasn't that traction, the same traction here in texas. so again, to the surprise of many, joe biden emerging the victor here in texas, ed. >> ed: all right. casey stiegel. thank you for starting us off. let's bring in guy benson fox news contributor. political editor for town hall.com. good morning, guy. casey just said joe biden the comeback kid at 77 years old. >> i think that's accurate. a great tuesday for joe biden and i think we got a sense of perhaps how good a night it would be for biden very early on. 7:00 p.m. eastern time immediately virginia called for biden wasn'ting to be close. half an hour later a call for north carolina. i think the sanders campaign was surprised in north carolina. they were expecting to win it or be competitive. they were not. and then just a minute or two after the 8:00 p.m. hour when it was too close to call in

massachusetts, not because elizabeth warren was competing for the win with bernie sanders but joe biden was. you took a step back and said something is going on here tonight. biden ends up winning massachusetts. a tremor in minnesota as well and a huge prize in texas where polling showed sanders ahead but as casey reported, those late decideers swung massively and decisively for the former vice president. >> ed: you see the cover of the "new york post" today. he is alive with a hand almost from a corpse that is coming back. he had been all but dead even among some democratic pundits. you talked about the late deciders breaking joe biden's way, particularly minnesota and texas. he got big endorsements from klobuchar, o'rourke. it sounds like the unity push at the end was very influential. >> that's right. a sequence of events that had to align perfectly for joe biden and then that's what

happened. so the vagueest debate to me was a really huge turning point when elizabeth warren and other eviscerated mike bloomberg. the mirage as the white knight savior came in almost vanished in an instant in the span of a few minutes. it set the table for an opportunity for a come home to joe phenomenon. he had to do well in south carolina. he did. he needed some consolidation. he got that in a way way for buttigieg and klobuchar dropping off and backing biden. that confluence of events led to a super tuesday where i think a lot of people had been hanging back and concerned about joe biden for a number of reasons. some of those concerns probably remain and continue to be the case for months to come. he is a weak candidate but they looked at what the alternatives

were. bloomberg, my goodness, set a giant pile of money on fire. it didn't work. elizabeth warren is by the wayside. lost her home state and came in third. it's a two-person race. those who aren't for bernie sanders, they rallied in a hurry to joe biden. >> ed: 12.5 million per delegate for bloomberg. embarrassing showing. i don't want to forget about bernie sanders. look at the headline from "the new york times." democrats decide joe biden as risky as he ever was the best headline. risky as he ever was. bernie sanders, we think he won in california. we'll see how big the spread is in terms of delegate. he could pick up a lot more delegates. joe biden didn't lose the problems he had. there was a reason why his campaign was given up for dead

which among other things is the gaffes. >> we saw some on the stage last night during the victory speech. with bernie sanders there is a two-fold problem. number one, he had a week or so window he could have consolidated some of his support and built toward milwaukee. instead he railed against the establishment and praising fidel castro. a lot of people trying to wrap their minds around bernie sanders as their nominee, they couldn't. it gave extra oxygen to joe biden. secondly bernie we played the clip, he keeps talking about the new electorate and new excitement, a whole new ballgame. the younger, energized electorate that he says would be his path to getting elected in november is not materializing most places. he isn't bringing out new voters. youth turnout again was pal try last night. when you talk about electability, his whole

argument has taken one blow after another since the voting began based on his own standard. joe biden's was always true on paper but wasn't showing up with actual voerts. finally in south carolina it did and a major ripple effect until last night. >> ed: bernie sanders, the inability to get african-american votes. proven last night. we saw it in south carolina and joe biden swept the south. guy benson, appreciate it. in the meantime, team trump predicting chaos ahead for democrats senior campaign advisor lara trump will join us later this hour with fresh reaction to the super tuesday results. >> sandra: u.s. health officials working to contain the coronavirus with more than 100 cases in 12 states and nine deaths. seven of them from a long-term care center near seattle. dan springer is live in kirkland, washington with more

on this. hi, dan. >> all the deaths have occurred in washington the death toll rose again yesterday by three. one of those deaths actually occurred last week and at the time they had no idea it was connected to the coronavirus. but testing is increasing. we know that and we know people being sick and being tested at this long-term care facility in kirkland, washington is increasing. the patient who died last week was a resident here. in fact, five of the nine people killed by the viers were patients there. of the seven new cases reported in washington state yesterday four have a link to the care center. the one in north carolina did also. he became sick when he returned home after he was visiting. people are worried who have loved ones at the home. >> it is terrible. they are saying on the one hand you may not know that you have

the virus at all because you might not have symptoms of a fever. you mighyou might not feel that. but you still have it. so they are waiting for people to get gravely ill before they transport them out. >> washington state is poised to allocate $100 million on its response. some money going to buy modular homes that can be used as mini quarantine units. people with symptoms can be isolated while they're monitored. some schools in the area have been closed for cleaning. one whole district shut down for the day yesterday to instruct staff on how to teach remotely if it becomes necessary. >> we're looking at online interaction and there is such a variety of those today. there are different platforms that allow discussions, that allow exchange of student work, directions and instruction to be given and delivered online. >> we're seeing it take a toll

on the tourism industry. the tourist area in downtown seattle was a ghost town this week and a lot of companies like microsoft have canceled big conferences that they have planned for this spring and las vegas is losing conventions as well. interestingly, you know, the vote here next week in washington state, the primary, is all vote by mail. and they are instructing people to not lick their envelopes but dab it with a wet cloth so when they send them in they don't have saliva on the ballot. a lot of things happening in washington state. all the deaths happening here, nowhere else in the country yet. >> a smart move. a lot of fear and uncertainty. thank you live on the west coast. more on all of this ahead. senator marco rubio will tell us about an emergency coronavirus aid bill at the top of our next hour and health secretary alex azar joins us at 10:30 eastern with more on the federal response. >> ed: a search for survivors still underway in tennessee

this morning after devastating tornadoes swept the state killing at least 24 people. the governor declared a state of emergency. we'll talk to him in a few moments. >> the u.s. launching an air strike against the taliban days after signing a peace deal. what that means for american troops coming home. >> ed: new fallout from super tuesday joe biden coming back to sweep the south. bernie sanders takes california. what happens with warren and bloomberg. >> tonight we proved something very important. we can win the voters who will decide the general election. isn't that what this is all about? i wish i had gone into aspen dental much sooner. it would've saved me a lot of money that i spent. my family has bad teeth. when you're not able to smile you become closed off. the meaning of a smile to me is the beginning of a conversation.

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>> here is what is clear. no matter how many delegates we win tonight, we have done something no one else thought was possible. in just three months we've gone from 1% in the polls to being a contender for the democratic nomination for president. [cheering and applause] >> ed: michael bloomberg there after his multi-million bet on super tuesday did not deliver pay-out. joe biden gets a big boost after victories that netted him the most pledged delegates so far. they're still counting. charlie hurt is a fox news

contributor. can michael bloomberg spin it i started at 1% and now i was a contender? >> it is certainly what he was doing last night which i took as a tell that he is acknowledging that it was a complete epic disaster. think about this. not just millions of dollars. it is over half billion dollars this guy has spent. this is an experiment in electoral politics we've never seen before and it was a complete failure. >> ed: return on investment american somoa. >> where does he go from here? i think i was talking to some of his people last night. i do think they try to keep some sort of marker out there because they clearly do not have faith that joe biden is going to be able to keep it together throughout the convention and beyond and they want to be standing there in case something does happen. >> ed: are you referring to the gaffes from biden that the bloomberg camp thinks maybe we stick around? he doesn't get out of the race?

>> think about when you watch joe biden on stage. you watch him and you are on edge. president trump you often have no idea where he will go with something. but when he says stuff that shocks everybody he says stuff that you aren't supposed to say and -- but people like it. when joe biden does it, you are kind of like -- you are rooting for him. you want him to get through to the end of the sentence but he often says these crazy things that raise real questions about how with it he is and how -- whether he is present. >> ed: could there be buyer's remorse for democrats? democrats are cheering saying maybe they think they're getting sanders out of the way and not a socialist on the ticket. now they have joe biden who a couple of weeks ago many democrats were acknowledging wasn't a great candidate. >> perhaps the worst candidate we've seen in the television age for president. last night was a great day for america. not only is america not ready

for socialism, the democratic party is not ready for socialism. that's a great, wonderful, terrific thing. the problem though is all the enthusiasm remains behind bernie sanders. there isn't that enthusiasm for joe biden except that he is not bernie sanders. that's a terrible, terrible way to try to build a winning camp. >> ed: bad news for president trump who seems to be rooting for bernie sanders. he wants that socialism and capitalism dynamic. now he has joe biden. unclear how he does in a wisconsin, pennsylvania, the states the president needs. >> i think it is still a tough fight for joe biden but clearly joe biden is a better stand-in if you are looking for somebody who is kind of like with bernie sanders, if you are just looking for an alternative to president trump and there are people out there who maybe they don't despise donald trump but they don't particularly like

certain things. they don't like his style. they would like an alternative and joe biden is a stand-in for that. probably a lot smarter than bernie sanders with all the baggage that he brings. >> ed: 30 seconds we have a pledged delegates in the bottom right of the screen. sanders very close to joe biden and still counting in california. it can tighten, maybe even sanders with a small lead before all is said and done. what's next for bernie sanders? >> i think bernie sanders will go to the convention feeling pretty confident that perhaps neither of them winds up with the 1991 delegates required to clinch the nomination and then it will be another fight. this is another place where joe biden is in trouble. if those bernie supporters get dissed a second time they will stay home. >> laura: powerful tornadoes tearing through tennessee, killing at least 24 people and leaving a trail of destruction. tennessee governor bill lee

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>> laura: a new jersey state trooper pulls off a miraculous rescue. getting a man out of a burning tractor trailer on the side of the interstate. >> go, go, go, are you all right? >> laura: trooper was conducting a traffic stop when a traffic trailer ran off the road, hit the guardrails and burst into flames. this is what a hero looks like. body cam shows him running directly to the burning vehicle and helping another trooper pull the driver to safety just

in time. the driver suffered only minor injuries. >> i was upstairs. my wife upstairs. her phone went off. we go downstairs into the basement. when we got there we checked out the storm, everything started to explode. it was like it was blowing up and terrifying. >> ed: terrifying. tennessee under a state of emergency after tornadoes swept through nashville and other parts of the state tuesday killing at least 24 people. tens of thousands are still without power. homes and businesses turned to rubble. many waking up this morning to see the full extent of the damage. with us now is tennessee's governor, governor bill lee. good morning to you and our hearts and prayers to your state this morning, sir. >> thank you. thanks for having us on. it has been certainly a tragic day all across tennessee. >> ed: talk about the devastation. we heard that gentleman talking how it ripped through i understand about 165 miles per

hour. did you have much warning? >> you know, the storm was not forecast at all. in fact, the weather service said there was probably a 2% chance of storms. so no one was ready for it. came in the middle of the night. very little time for anyone to be warned or be prepared for it. and interestingly it struck from one end of the state to the other. we had loss of life in been ton county in west tennessee and hit hard in nashville, the adjacent county, wilson county, and then again 50 or 60 miles away. so it went a large swath of the state was affected. we've had 24 fatalities and there are still a number of people missing. it was clearly a tragic day. >> ed: we just had on our screen that some children were killed as part of that death toll. something like 40 structures destroyed around the area of nashville.

talk about people coming together, though. "fox & friends" had some video this morning of a firefighter saving a 7-year-old boy. people in your state seem to be rallying this morning. >> you know, it is tragic and heartbreaking but i got on a helicopter yesterday and toured sites, landed right in the middle of some. walked through neighborhoods that would -- that are devastating to see. people standing there stunned but i also saw people lined up coming from counties around to begin to help and i interviewed a group of men and asked them if this was their store that had been destroyed they said no, they drank coffee there every day and came to help the store owner find his things. you know, the best of people come out in the worst of times. and government can provide all kinds of assistance but it is hope that tennesseans need and god provided that hope through the hands and feet and hearts of those who serve. and volunteer from all over the

state are serving. >> ed: in the last minute we have president trump is expected to be there on the ground in your state to survey the damage. try to lend some hope that you just mentioned on friday. what does your state need from the federal government right now? what do you need from our viewers? >> let me say president trump tweeted support but then he called me personally yesterday before i boarded the helicopters in full support. the administration has been helpful, multiple departments have reached out. i talked directly to fema. really the coordination between the federal officials and our state officials is what we need and it has already begun. i can't say enough about the president's support. multiple governors from around the country have reached out as well. it is a very encouraging thing to see people come around tennessee and tennesseans step up as they always do. >> ed: we have the text number at the bottom if they want to contribute to the efforts.

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says it's ready either way. lara trump joins us. a senior advise hor for the trump campaign. joe biden, the democratic establishment thinks he is back and send donald trump packing. >> i think he will be in for a rude awakening. nothing is set so far. still a two-person game. elizabeth warren and bloomberg are still in this thing. who knows what will happen? it seems like if you're a democrat in the country your choices are a socialist, communist sympathizer or joe biden where a lot of people question his cognitive function. >> ed: that keeps coming up. biden campaign will say you're suggesting something health-wise? >> i'm supposed to be rooting against joe biden. every time he takes the stage i feel nervous that he is not going to be able to coherently string a sentence together.

if i feel that way i think democrat voters feel very nervous about him. who would be running the country if this individual is not showing he is functioning with all gears moving here? i think it's fair to ask what is going on. he called it super thursday and forgets where he is. >> ed: a lot of big issues we want to get to in the campaign. your campaign put out a statement. the results increase the likelihood no candidate will have enough delegates for the first ballot victory at their conference. the media is hyperventilating about joe biden. he is just as terrible a candidate right now as he was a few days ago. are you nervous that now the medicare for all, the communist sympathy, if bernie sanders is out of the way is this more complicated in the general election biden versus trump? >> i don't think it is more complicated at all. you saw easily in the debates that everybody else was hitting biden first of all and he

really couldn't defend himself very well. if he goes up against donald trump. it will be -- there is really no game there. it is donald trump for the win very easily. you also have to look at the fact that forget who the candidate is. all of these people are running on taking down donald trump. their vision for america aside from bernie sanders who is clear about his socialist direction he wants to take the country in. they are focused on beating donald trump and his results. 7 million new jobs, low employment. trade deals being made. manufacturing coming back. taking care of our veterans. military infrastructure. all these things americans care about are happening versus i'm going to beat donald trump. not a great platform. >> ed: you will make that case between now and november. the big board on the screen, wall street bouncing back big today. very volatile going back to last week. a big hit last week. up and down this week. talk a little bit about the coronavirus fears that have

been out there. there are people speculating this morning as well that maybe with joe biden getting more delegates some fears on wall street about a socialist rising might also have calmed this down. >> it is hard to predict the stock market. what we know is it is still up so far from when donald trump took office. remember in the beginning they said it was going to crash and he would wipe out the economy, it would be a disaster. it is so far up from when donald trump took office and what the stock market does. it rises and falls. once people get past the coronavirus fears i think we'll see another surge of the stock market. it is working for everybody and we would love that. >> ed: another race caught the president's eye. former attorney general jeff sessions running off with tommy tuberville. the president thinks he knows why sessions didn't have a clean victory. this is what happens to someone appointed to the attorney

general and doesn't have the wisdom or courage to stare down and end the phony russian witch hunt. recuses himself the first day in office for the mueller scam. >> laura: it's on voter's mind. it was a reflection of their frustration with jeff sessions as the attorney general. he had a great opportunity to end this stuff from day one and instead he recused himself. the president is still upset about it and rightly so. i think you are seeing the voters are probably upset, too and voicing it by the votes you saw yesterday. >> ed: last thing elizabeth warren and michael bloomberg the next ones to get out? >> we'll see. they both side they'll fight to the end. if there are four of them at the convention better for us. >> ed: something you would love. appreciate you coming in. >> laura: we have a fox news alert from afghanistan now. the u.s. launching an air strike against the taliban for the first time since signing a peace deal. lucas tomlinson is following this from the pentagon.

a lot going on. hi lucas. >> a sign the u.s. peace deal with the taliban is already unraveling four days after it was signed the u.s. military says it launched a drone strike against the taliban after dozens of taliban attacks yesterday. quote, on march 3 alone the taliban conducted 43 attacks on afghan security checkpoints. the taliban claimed to be fighting to free afghanistan from international forces. the february 29th agreement provides a conditions-based path to withdrawal but doesn't call for a cease-fire or reduction in violence immediately and the trump administration hopes it will come out of talks between the taliban and afghan governments. that already in jeopardy. afghan officials say the taliban conducted 80 attacks since the peace deal saturday. yesterday the leader of the taliban spoke to president trump. >> president trump: i spoke to the leader of the taliban today.

we had a good conversation. we've agreed there is no violence. we don't want violence. we'll see what happens. >> earlier this week defense secretary mark esper warned violence with continue in afghanistan. >> it will be a long, windy, bumpy road. there will be ups and downs and stops and starts. it's the nature over the next days, weeks and months. i won't get too excited about what happens at the moment. >> esper and general mark millie will be in front of the senate armed forces committee later this afternoon and we hope to hear more about afghanistan. >> laura: thank you, lucas tomlinson. >> ed: lori vallow extradited back to idaho amid growing questions where her two missing kids could be. >> laura: a two-man race for the democratic nomination.

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>> laura: the mother of the two missing idaho children set to appear before a judge there friday after being extradited from hawaii where she fled with her husband in december. lori vallow was arrested and

slapped with multiple felony charges including two counts of desertion. 17-year-old and 7-year-old have not been seen since late september. >> my name is elizabeth warren and i'm the woman who is going to beat donald trump. i'm in this race because i believe i will make the best president of the united states. you don't get what you don't fight for. i am in this fight. >> ed: senator elizabeth warren sounding defiant. she failed to carry her home state of massachusetts as mike bloomberg is reportedly reassessing things this morning. kristen soltis anderson. your big picture thoughts as we wake up to a big night for joe biden but don't know how good it was for bernie sanders because votes are still being counted in california. >> early in the night joe biden

notched two big wins. virginia and north carolina which were expected to be perhaps a bit closer, maybe would take a little longer for those votes to get counted. he started off with good momentum and you began getting into states like texas where it was thought to be pretty favorable for bernie sanders. joe biden doing quite well there. california being the best place for bernie sanders but they count their votes so slowly we still don't fully know how many delegates bernie sanders will walk away with. >> ed: late decideers were critical for joe biden. virginia, 67%, minnesota 55, carolina 55, texas 38%. a little less but critical. sanders had a lead in texas and lost it particularly because of the late deciders. is that just the establishment waking people up and saying bernie sanders is a socialist and we can't let him have it?

>> people talk about the establishment a lot. there hasn't been a strong establishment. if not they would have cleared the field earlier on. what's happening is democratic voters want two things. they want someone who can beat donald trump and they want a candidate who sort of shares their values. they've bren looking for who is the best person who can do both of those things? joe biden has always been well liked by democratic voters even as they were shopping around and still considering a mayor pete or somebody else. biden has been someone democrats like. does he have what it takes to take on donald trump? when he had the initial big losses in early states it seems like he is not giving a good answer to that question, the huge blow-out win in south carolina set a lot of those concerns aside. suddenly he can call himself a winner. that meant a lot to a lot of democrats. >> ed: is it a mirage in the sense there are a lot of democrats who want to tell themselves joe biden has got what it takes? a couple weeks ago he was out

of money, looked like he was out of gas. >> he is still is same joe biden. even though he had an excellent super tuesday. it wasn't too long ago people were saying it's bernie sanders nomination to lose. we have a lot of contests left to go and delegates to count. what's interesting now is to see how much organization and money does matter. at this point it hasn't seemed to matter that much for joe biden. he didn't have a ton of field offices in many states and struggled to raise a lot of money. bernie sanders has a huge army out there. the ability to raise tons of money in terms of small donations from his supporters. does joe biden need it? if he does, can he martial that? we know mike bloomberg is deciding what to do. >> biden keeps the lead coming out of california, even if it's narrow, might he have trouble with sanders going all the way to milwaukee with that money

you talk about? sanders raised $46 million in february. he is not going away. >> laura: bernie sanders last time around didn't have as many delegates as hillary clinton but said look we'll hang in there until the bitter end. he has no reason or incentive to drop out. i expect he will continue to create problems for biden as they move forward even if the field does wind up narrowing down. >> ed: we appreciate you coming in. >> laura: as coronavirus spreads across the country, there are growing questions about the threat going forward and today there are hearings on the hill as lawmakers hash out their request for money to fight the virus. >> president trump: we've done a good job by doing it in combating it so early. we have the best people in the world and i think we're getting a lot of credit for having made that early move. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance

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panic. >> but we can say that country's abilities to respond are being compromised by the increasing disruption to the global supply of personal product achievement caused by rising demand, hoarding and misuse. >> cases in the u.s. are largely confined to the elderly and health conditions. pay attention to the experts, not the politicians. they warned it may take a year or more for drug companies to develop a vaccine. at 10:00 the house homeland security committee looks at the response to the threat. another hearing set for 2:00 p.m. as the house committee looks into it. a senate subcommittee looks at global aviation in containing the spread of the virus while representatives from the airlines meet at the white house to discuss how the outbreak is hurting them.

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>> ed: fox news alert. super tuesday super needed for joe biden. a big string of victories for him. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm ed henry. >> laura: biden winning nine states including the second biggest prize of texas. bernie sanders taking the largest delegate trove of the primary season california. >> ed: they're still counting there. michael bloomberg and elizabeth warren trailing it looks like biden and sanders are in a race for the nomination. >> the pundits declared the campaign dead. when we got to super tuesday it may be over. it may be over for the other guy. >> tonight i tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination

[cheering and applause] >> laura: william la jeunesse wrapping it all up from our west coast bureau. hi, william. >> the final count in california still a few days away. based on results so far, sanders wins california. not as dominating as polls once showed but he could still walk away with up to half of the state's 415 delegates. >> and when we began this race for the presidency, everybody said it couldn't be done. [cheering and applause] but tonight i tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination [cheering and applause] >> ed: young and hispanic voters, sanders leads in 49 out of 58 counties with 94% of precincts reporting. sanders won 33% of the vote in california to 24 for biden.

nine-point victory. michael bloomberg who tried to buy california with tv ads bombed with voters falling short of the 15% threshold to win a portion of the delegates statewide. elizabeth warren poured a lot of time into california and also falling shortcoming in with 12% of the vote. both, however, will win some delegates but not many. the numbers again will change over the next few days as ballots postmarked near or on election day are counted along with same-day registrations. exit polls suggest the late votes could break in biden's favor. >> for those who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. make no mistake about it. this campaign will send donald trump packing. >> big picture, a huge comeback story winning 9 states to sander's four.

he won victories in texas, minnesota and massachusetts. warren lost her home state and oklahoma. money cannot buy everything with biden spending a small fraction of bloomberg's $600 million and tens of millions less than even bernie sanders. the delegate count now has biden up by 60. next tuesdays you have contests in michiganissippi, more likely to break for biden. the debate on march 15th before florida, illinois and ohio. >> laura: a lot of numbers to get through. >> ed: big shake-up on super tuesday. let's bring in florida senator marco rubio. i know down in florida you and some of the president's allies were eager to face bernie sanders as a democratic socialist. some of his recent controversial comments on fidel castro among others. is joe biden back?

>> he did very well last night. i think it's clear evidence the democratic party has a strong establishment who clearly weighed in. i heard from a number of people that a number of establishment figures in the democratic party were calling candidates and reaching out to get people to step aside before super tuesday and that certainly helped joe biden. you can see evidence of that. the democratic establishment stepped forward and put their finger on the scale here to get those results. i thif -- think that will continue. they don't want to see bernie sanders as the nominee. these races nowadays take a lot of twists and turns. whoever the nominee is we know it's someone who will take us backwards in terms of some of the policies. if it's joe biden a continuation of the obama policies. return to them. if it's bernie sanders it is marxism. either one are bad for the country. >> ed: you've been through this process before. last one on super tuesday. difficult decisions about whether to get out, whether you run out of money. michael bloomberg has a

delegate problem. your colleague elizabeth warren is a lot of trouble as well. what is going through their minds this morning? >> here is what happens. you can do well and have strong support. once you don't do as well as expected or don't begin the win the momentum flow begins to happen and you start to lose support. people don't want to vote for someone who they don't think will win or they think doesn't have a chance to win. so you can see the bottom fall out pretty quickly. that combined with -- except for the case of michael bloomberg you have to think every day i stay in the race i take on campaign debt if you aren't raising money fast enough and money i have to raise for years to come to pay off. my sense is we'll have a two-person race quickly between biden and sanders and we'll see what happens. >> laura: senator, we also wanted to ask you about the coronavirus emergency bill. of course there is a lot to get to here. political reporting that house and senate leaders have run into last-minute snags on the 7.5 billion emergency package

to fight the spread of the coronavirus. your thoughts on that. >> we can't afford a snag. the last thing this country needs now facing growing concerns about the spread of the virus is for another issue that gets gridlocked here in washington, d.c. this country desperately needs right now its political leadership to be able to take effective action and one of those things that we can do is insure the money and resources are available to the counties, states and hospitals and healthcare providers have the resources available to deal with the people that have already been infected and prevent future infections. more work to be done. we have to develop an antiviral medication and develop a vaccine. but this needs to happen. this is the first step. if we can't get something like this passed people are going to be right to lose confidence in the ability of their federal government to deal with something like this. so it really should not break down. i cannot imagine there is any issue so important that we would not act on this and act on it quickly. >> laura: so many people are

invested in this. i want to get your take on chuck schumer. >> i have said we need about 8.5 billion dollars. from all reports, the appropriators are very close to that number rather than the 2.5 billion the president talked about early on. and that's good because when it comes to americans' health, when it comes to our safety, when it comes to dealing with this problem head on, skimping doesn't make any sense at all. >> laura: sounds like you are on the same page. your thoughts on schumer. >> ed: that's the number he came up with. i don't know what it was based on. the white house and president said last week he will sign whatever we come up with. he will sign whatever. i don't think the white house is against 8.5 billion. the point is we have to get something done and it may require us to go back and do more later on but i think that speech and what we saw last

week and i'm glad we walked away from that somewhat is some people trying to figure out what -- let's ask for more that whatever number he comes out with let's ask for more so we can say he is skimping. this is a public health emergency we need to confront. we need to get this thing done. >> ed: some politics being played. a lot of frustration in the public about that. now it seems like folks are trying to come together and fix it. another important topic which is bringing an end to the war in afghanistan. the president yesterday telling reporters that he spoke to a top taliban official. let's hear that and what's your reaction. sf >> president trump: we had a very good conversation with the leader of the taliban today. they are looking to get this ended and we're looking to get it ended. i think we all have a very common interest. we'll find out about the country itself. the country really has to get it ended. we have been there for 20 years. >> ed: the president has a goal

and optimistic. a military spokesperson saying the taliban is not holding up its end of the deal. they conducted 43 attacks at checkpoints. the taliban claimed to be fighting to free afghanistan from international forces. the february 29th agreement provides the conditions-based plan for withdrawal but this military spokesperson says, senator, the taliban is not holding up its end of the deal. can we trust them. >> i don't think we can trust them. the bottom line the taliban what they want is severe version of sharia law and no elections is what they want. they have the battlefield advantage over the government of afghanistan. the problem is if i thought an enduring u.s. presence there could lead to a different result in three years, five years, two years, that would be one thing. i've reached the point now where i have come to believe we would have to be there forever to keep the taliban from getting what they want. a permanent u.s. presence in afghanistan is not feasible. i hope it works out. i want to be frank with

everybody. i think most likely outcome is once the u.s. leaves within a short period of time the taliban will retake the country and reinstitute sharia and not have elections. they may or may not allow terrorist groups to operate from their territory. i don't think anything would change the outcome. >> ed: a chilling scenario because of the possibility the taliban could start planning for terror attacks aimed at the american homeland. what is the balance we need to strike here? >> the hope is there would be an afghan government to assume control and be an alternative and push out the taliban. that's an effort that has been going on for over a decade and hasn't seemed to work that way. right now as they try to negotiate the afghan government is divided. two people claim to be president. they can't even figure that out. they've consistently lost territory to the taliban. we would have to be there forever to prevent the taliban from taking over the country at this point. i hope something different tufrns out to be true but we can't be there forever, either.

>> ed: senator marco rubio covering a lot of ground this morning. we appreciate your time. thank you. >> no one was ready for it. came in the middle of the night. very little time for anyone to be warned or be prepared for it. and interestingly it struck from one end of the state to the hour. loss of life in benton county in west tennessee and hit hard in downtown nashville. >> laura: tennessee governor bill lee on the deadly tornadoes. >> ed: they swept through the nashville area before dawn yesterday killing at least 24 people. our correspondent steve harrigan is on the ground in cookville, tennessee. he joins us now, steve, good morning. >> ed and laura this is about the worst of it right here. this used to be hencely drive in cookville 80 miles outside of nashville. used to be lined with houses. as you look down the street you don't see houses, just one pile after another of rubble.

of the 24 confirmed deaths in tennessee, 18 happened right here in putnam county. keep in mind there are still 22 people missing. so that number -- the death toll could go up. a real heartbreaking fact, too, of the 18 dead here, five were children under the age of 13. across middle tennessee today survivors are telling their story of how they made it through the storm. >> downstairs into the basement. we got there and the tv on to check out the storm. everything started to explode. it was like it was just blowing up. terrifying. >> all across here we're seeing cranes, bobcats, bulldozers. no more bodies were found tonight. also volunteers going through the wreckage to try to find photographs. it is hard works it is physical work and sad work going through everyone's wreckage. every now and then there is a small glimmer of hope and some reward for their work.

here is what we saw just a few moments ago. >> what did you find, sir? >> she was in a pile of rubble we were trying to go through right now. >> that yorkie was buried in the rubble for up to 32 hours. he looked in pretty good shape. ed and laura, back to you. >> ed: we appreciate that report. in the meantime we have a fox news alert breaking right now this morning. michael bloomberg has suspended his presidential campaign. this came in in the last few moments. he spent hundreds of millions of dollars to self-fund his 2020 presidential run but had a disappointing performance. not just in the debates but super tuesday as well. this is just breaking at this moment. and we are getting a statement in fact from the bloomberg campaign. we'll have that for you just on the other side of the break.

>> ed: breaking at this moment michael bloomberg has officially suspended his campaign and learning new information that he is officially endorsing joe biden for president. in part he said three months ago i entered the race for president to defeat donald trump. today i am leaving the race for the same reason, to defeat donald trump. because it is clear to me that staying in would make achieving that goal more difficult. he has known joe biden a long time. i know his decency, honesty and commitment to the issues that are so important to our country. let's bring in the a-team, josh kraushaar politics editor for the national journal. marie harf, fox news contributor and brad blakeman former deputy assistant to

george w. bush. marie, start with you as a democrat. this is maybe the scenario you've been hoping for. bloomberg is out of the way, bernie sanders still alive but had a tough night. >> that's right. i'm glad mayor bloomberg dropped out and endorsing joe biden. the question whether he would do an endorsement when he dropped out and stayed in through super tuesday because vice president biden demonstrated to voters that he could beat mayor bloomberg. there will not always be what if bloomberg stayed in? they really wanted joe. they picked him in the states he won overwhelmingly. mayor bloomberg tested the theory whether you can skip the first four states. we've been talking for months about whether with enough money and enough beautiful ads you could actually do that. rudy giuliani tried to do it in 2016. >> ed: at the beginning of the bloomberg effort he has the air war, he needs a ground game. there needs to be a ground war as well. he had infrastructure on the ground but not really the

organization. didn't really pull it together or get people on board. but does this complicate things for president trump in the sense that now bloomberg is out of the way and could still spend a lot of money but they are consolidating behind biden. not so clear-cut that it will be a socialist against the president. >> i think still democrats have a problem with socialism. bernie has got a huge effort still behind him both in enthusiasm and as well as delegates. so i see still a fight coming on the platform committee where bernie's group will fight for every plank which will be a problem for democrats even if it is biden. bloomberg is not going away. he has a ton of cash. how he uses that i foresee soon the announcement of bloomberg of a super pac. that super pac will be devoted to biden. >> laura: an hour ago we had guy benson on talking about bloomberg and the money. he took a giant pile of money and set it on fire.

here we are the next hour. >> he was like the equivalent of a political hedge fund. hedging against joe biden. turned out he was wrong. joe biden won south carolina big. he was popular and moderate favorite. bloomberg couldn't perform on the debate stage and on the campaign trail. this is a moment where the democratic party is uniting among the moderates. bloomberg's vote. still big primaries coming up next tuesday. michigan bernie sanders will try to make a political comeback in a state he won in 2016. bloomberg's vote will move to joe biden. >> ed: how does bernie sanders get elizabeth warren out of this race? that is a problem for him right now that she is still pulling -- she is not willing a lot of delegates but pulling some progressives away from him. >> i think she is pulling biden voters away. we shouldn't assume when warren gets out all her voters go to bernie.

she brings together a diverse coalition of democratic voters. moderates like her for a number of reasons. there is a question mark about warren. bloomberg getting out there will be great pressure on her. she came in third in her home state primary. you can't do that and stay in the race. her voters won't all go to bernie. i think she could play a unique unifying role because she does strangely pull from both the moderate and the progressive wing. she is a better face of progressivism than bernie. >> ed: an eyebrow arch from brad. >> not a lot, but some moderates. >> ed: let's not forget about bernie sanders money. he had 350,000 new contributors who never gave to him before giving him 10 and 20 bucks. he goes back to the people i want to stay in the fight. we only have half the votes in california. if he has a big lead there he will get a lot more delegates in the next few hours.

>> warren is the skunk at the party at this point. she has no path at all. so why stay in? learn something from klobuchar and buttigieg and your endorsement means something in a short window of time. after that people get tired of it and being on a debate stage when people know you are taking votes away and taking up space is not a good strategy to be endearing to the democratic party. who am i to give advice to the democrats? i will say bernie is not going away any time soon. he will be a force at the convention whether they like it or not and he will be a force that is going to be very contentious. the question is how will bernie be dealt with, if he wants to be dealt with at all? >> ed: i believe we have something on joe biden. i have known joe for a very long time. i know his decency, honesty and commitment to the issues so important to our country including gun safety, healthcare, climate change, and good jobs. bloomberg goes on i've had the

chance to work with joe on those issues over the years and joe has fought for working people his whole life. today i am glad to endorse him. josh, i don't want to rain on the biden parade per se. all of this talk that wow, he is back, comeback kid and all the rest. two weeks ago he had all kinds of problems. they didn't magically go away. he has the hunter biden issue, can he raise the money like bernie does? doesn't he have problems that people are overlooking? >> the challenges didn't go away. what you saw last night was an anti-sanders push and the fact the moderates were getting together to stop sanders rather than a real genuine enthusiasm for joe biden who still has challenges. still needs to prove himself on the campaign trail. the bloomberg endorsement is interesting, though. i don't think bloomberg has a lot of constituency within the democratic party but a lot of money as brad talked about. biden has trouble fundraising. he will have an easier time raising money now as the frontrunner. the super pac or millions going

to bidens campaign against biden. fundraising has never been a biden strength. now bloomberg on his side could hathrowing money around. >> laura: you hearing in your circles? >> a lot of pressure on warren to drop out even from people who like her and respect her. i will respectfully disagree with josh a little bit. i think because biden did so well in south carolina and the speech he gave sounds like the old joe biden there is genuine enthusiasm to vote for him and not just against sanders. both things are at play. last night when you saw joe biden give a unifying, positive, inspirational speech versus bernie's angry and divisive. that's what voters are facing in michigan, ohio, in states who still have to vote across the country. i actually think joe biden is having reasons now to vote for him because of the way he has handled the surge. he played the best four days in

his political career pretty perfectly. >> ed: almost perfect. >> he does have some flaws as well. >> ed: such as the speech began with mixing up his sister and his wife. >> he was on stage, man, they moved. >> ed: is it all good? >> joe biden is joe biden. he won't change. you take him warts and all. the fact is this is not the last gaffe we'll hear from joe biden. there will be many more. he has an enduring way i have to say about the gaffes he makes. >> ed: does it make it more complicated for the president? if he is head on with a socialist in places like pennsylvania it seems to me the president has an easier time. if you have joe biden -- a big if he is the nominee, he is from scranton. he goes after those working class voters. you said he is a likable guy. is it more complicated for the president? >> no.

the reason being the president has a record of accomplishment. the economy is doing well. the president is hitting on all cylinders. a safer nation. not at war. bringing our troops home. every promise the president made he delivered on and his campaign slogan is promises made, promises kept. it's true. if anything donald trump has underpromised and over delivered. that's something democrats don't have. >> especially with the rise of coronavirus the issue of healthcare is top in voters' minds. democrats will say biden wants every american to have better healthcare. the republicans are trying to take it away. healthcare is always -- the president promised he would repeal and replaced. that's a promise broken, brad. he didn't do that. >> it takes two to tango. the president tried very hard to change healthcare for the better. he was stopped by democrats. here is the problem. we seeing with coronavirus the strength of our country is in a

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so you can... retire better. >> ed: fox news alert recapping breaking news. michael bloomberg the former new york mayor who spent over $500 million for the presidential campaign announced moments ago he is suspending that campaign after a dismal showing in two debates as well as super tuesday last night. he is now endorsing joe biden. >> laura: releasing a statement a short while ago saying i'm a believer in using data to inform decisions. after yesterday's results, the delegate map has become virtually impossible and a viable path to the nomination no longer exists. we will continue to follow this. >> ed: bret baier next hour with sharp analysis. we want to stay on top of other big stories. fox news alert. the u.s. death toll from coronavirus rising to nine. washington state health officials confirm three additional deaths there as new york city college cancels class after a student tested positive here. the white house is working on

trying to stop the spread with the vice president mike pence preparing to meet with airline executives this morning. >> laura: chief white house correspondent john roberts is at the white house with the latest. >> good morning. a university in new york city canceled classes for the day after a student tested positive for coronavirus. no idea whether they'll extend it to more days or just for today. here in washington, d.c. the vice president with a whole day full of meetings and briefings on the administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak. the vice president meeting at this hour with long-term palliative care provider ceos. 11:00 with airline ceo about contact trainings. 12:15 diagnostic lab. and then meets with coronavirus virus task force at 4:30 and briefing at the white house at 5:30. yesterday the big news, the

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world. and i think we're getting a lot of credit for having made that early move. i don't think that's inevitable at all. >> back on testing the government is rapidly accelerating the ability to test for the virus. cdc will have 2500 test kits out by the end of the week, representing 1.5 million individual tests. those will go to hospitals and affected areas and other hospitals that have requested them. after today's meeting with lab ceos the vice president hopes to increase the capacity for rapid testing and for people who are uninsured hhs is considering using the national disaster medical system to pay for both testing and care. the president also suggesting yesterday that the u.s. may expand efforts to contain the virus. listen here. >> president trump: we're being very stringent but now looking at other countries that have been badly affected and we're thinking about doing something. we may have to do. we don't want to do that but we're looking at other countries and being very stringent.

>> status update coming for the centers for disease control at noon today. so far 108 cases in the united states. 9 deaths. all those in washington state. no question, though, laura and ed, the white house putting on a full-court press today. >> laura: john roberts for us live at the white house keeping track of everything. >> ed: that is our headliner this morning, alex azar. you were here weeks ago, we appreciate you coming in on a busy day, sir. >> thank you, glad to be with you again. >> ed: you heard john roberts reporting that you and the vice president announced yesterday you are lifting all the restrictions on screening, testing. what does that mean for our viewers? if they're nervous and want to be tested how do they follow up on that? >> the bottom line of what we've announced is if your doctor or public health official think you ought to get tested you'll be able to be tested. we have tested thousands of samples already. we haven't had a backlog at the cdc with a highly validated

test that cdc did. we've had it out for weeks in 12 labs around the country. we're radically expanding the capability to test in the united states. we had been doing as other industrial countries had been doing, guidelines for testing of individuals who had traveled to affected areas or severe respiratory system. now that we have capacity up and running. if anybody thinks they have an issue or doctor or public health says they should get tested, they should get tested. >> ed: fda officials said they think by the end of the week they'll have the capacity for 1 million tests. by the end of this week. are they still on track for that? >> the cdc is shipping tests that will enable 75,000 tests this week. the cdc's private contractor that has the cdc test is also shipping over a million testing capability to hospitals and labs and others who want that.

and then the vice president and i are working with the private sector and have unleashed the regulatory burden to private sector come up with their own test without waiting for fda approval. we'll see millions of available tests also through that. >> laura: mr. secretary also want to bring up some of the concerns of people out there watching and listening to this. i've got two people that live in my neighborhood who are emergency department nurses and they say people are coming in saying i want to be tested for the coronavirus. so you have the issue of the testing but there is also the issue of the vaccine and timing of getting a vaccine ready to go. i want to play a sound bite from one of our doctors who talked about the improvement that has come for getting vaccines ready to go. >> when sars was in 2003 from the time we got the virus to the time we did the first phase one trial, was 20 months.

then h5n1 flu we got it to 11. zika 3.25. and now we believe as i told you several times it is 2 to 3 months. >> president trump: that's fantastic. >> laura: your thoughts on his ideas of timing on this. >> i was standing with him and the president when he said that. so the doctors that the president met with yesterday. they actually designed a vaccine within three days of getting the genetic sequence of this virus from china. then we worked in just two days ago the fda granted approval for the nih, his group, to begin what's called phase one clinical testing in five weeks. that's where we'll test the safety of the vaccine probably in 40 to 50 people. it will take overall 12 to 18 months, though, before you could see a possible vaccine because you are putting a vaccine in otherwise healthy people. it must be incredibly safe as well as effective. so we're talking a lot more

about the they are paout makes getting developed. medicines are getting tested on people with the virus. somebody who has the virus your safety efficacy balance is different because you will see if that works. >> laura: are you encouraged by this proposed timeline? >> i'm certainly encouraged by the vaccine time. that would be the fastest vaccine delivery in human history if we could get a vaccine developed in 12 to 18 months is incredible. we also have the therapies. antivirals and antibodies that could -- i say could deliver faster. the one drug is right now is an experimental antiviral drug in clinical trials now. one in china as well as at the university of nebraska here in the united states. and it could be in several months we'll see preliminary data on early stage testing. >> ed: the world health organization officials this morning are saying about 3.4%

of those who get the coronavirus die. it's worse than the flu but on the other hand they say it's harder to transmit the coronavirus than we see with the flu. that may be some good news. what else have we learned in the last few days, the last couple of weeks that you didn't know at the beginning of this crisis? >> well, we keep learning about the fatality rates. one of the things we'll learn from the rapid expansion of testing here in the united states is just how many people might get mild to moderate symptoms basically think they have the cold or call it the flu but don't actually get diagnosed. now we'll get more diagnoses and see what the prevalence rate out there. that impacts the demon nateor on the fatality rate. how many people are unfortunately passing away versus how many are infected. those numbers could revise as we get greater clarity. it does seems it's the more

elderly and medically frail most likely to succumb to the virus and very few if any children succumbing to it in terms of fatality. >> ed: from the president on down the administration is trying to project calm as you are this morning. now ncaa officials are going through this issue of considering whether or not to move forward with march madness, college basketball for men and women without crowds. they haven't made that decision yet. if they decide to not have crowds, would it send the wrong message and scare people in your view? >> what we're trying to tell people is we need to keep it in perspective. for most of us the risk of getting the coronavirus is low and remains that way. but for people who are close to anyone who is impacted the risk is higher. this is a rapidly evolving situation. we're learning more every day, every hour, and so as the ncaa or businesses think about their actions we're saying use common

sense. we'll give you guidance if we have science and evidence to back it up. use common sense now as you think about travel that you are going to do. >> ed: secretary azar, we appreciate your time. a busy time indeed and appreciate your efforts and for coming in this morning. >> thank you. >> laura: a fox news alert. is it a biden bounce? the stocks are surging after the former vice president's big super tuesday wins over democratic socialist bernie sanders. charles payne will break it all down coming up:

>> ed: fox business alert now. stocks surging at this hour. the dow you can see right there up about 537 points. charles payne is the money man host of "making money with charles payne" and the author of the book unstoppable prosperity. perfect for the idea we had a rough few days last week and now? >> i would encourage everyone. please check out my book from page 155 to 185 i cover

corrections that are inevitable and i don't want people to lose out on future opportunities. we're seeing -- we have a lot of good news this morning as a matter of fact. the overall rebound today, you know, a lot of it -- i kind of got in trouble when sandra was here last wednesday at the same time. suggesting that maybe part of the market route was because sanders had an overwhelming victory in nevada and wall street was worried about that. people said how dare you? >> ed: a lot of people pushed back. >> they both had an effect. what i pointed to was the healthcare stocks that particular session. guess what sector today is surging a lot more than the overall market? healthcare is up 4.4%. s&p up 2.2%. 100% more than the rest of the market. there is a giant size of relief

that socialism lost last night and we won't get rid of our entire healthcare system. a giant sigh of relief on main street. and wall street. the other great big movers today are all defensive. still an air of caution. utility stocks, consumer stables and real estate are considered cautionary places you put your money when you are worried. this is not a runaway market but it is a sigh of relief. >> laura: as we look at what is happening with politics and the news of bloomberg dropping out what do you see happening with the markets and his money? >> again, i think the idea -- after the news came out the markets were a little higher. a bunch of news coming out right now. it is one of these things as we get closer to the actual election the markets will start to get anxious about biden. never on the same level as sanders. the democratic party has been pulled further to the left. we're talking about higher taxes, we're talking about more regulations. the very things that unleashed this economy in the first place

being capped. right now the worst case scenario for now feels like it is off the table. just a minute ago we got a report on the service part of our economy, the overwhelming part of it. it crushed -- it came in so much better than expected. all this evidence that our economy was on fire. we know we're in the dark now because we don't know exactly where we'll be when businesses temporary shut down and people work from home and maybe fewer flights or mall visits. this juggernaut was igniting. we'll get the government number on friday. to a agree everything has changed it's -- if you think it's a temporary situation this economy could still finish the year real strong. >> laura: thank you so much. i want to grab a book on my way out and read those pages. >> nothing breaks my heart more than when people don't make money in the stock market. >> ed: other news to get to.

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>> laura: fox news is learning iran has tripled its stockpile of enriched uranium since november. a watchdog report says it suspects nuclear-related activity. rich edson is live from the state department with more on this troubling story. >> good morning. this is all from a confidential united nations watchdog report with the agency monitoring iran's nuclear activity. an official who has seen the report says iran has substantially stepped up its nuclear activity in the past few months and now has a

stockpile of enriched uranium five times the limit set out in the nuclear agreement. the report from the international atomic energy agency also claims iran has substantially increased the equipment it needs to enrich aour ainian. they've been study violating the nuclear agreement since last year. the u.n. watchdog produced a second report claiming iran is refusing to cooperate with inspectors at undeclared sites. they write the report affirms what many of us have long suspected. the iranian regime is violating legally binding obligations and commitments. i urge iran to fully cooperate with the iaea reverse its recent nuclear activities and accept the invitation from the trump administration to begin talks. the trump administration withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement in 2018. and is sanctioning iran.

iran wants the european governments still part of the agreement to circumvent the sanctions. they have been pretty unsuccessful. iran's leaders are saying they want sanctions to come off before talks begin and the u.s. has refused. >> laura: rich edson for us at the state department. thank you so much. >> ed: fox news alert. michael bloomberg calling it quits. new york's former mayor suspending his campaign this morning after a rough super tuesday. bret baier joins us straight ahead. and once you refinance, the savings are automatic. thanks to your va streamline refi benefit, at newday there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. activate your va streamline benefit now.

>> ed: fox news alert on the big shake-up in the democratic race after super tuesday. michael bloomberg now officially dropping out andening joe biden. bloomberg says three months ago i entered the race for president to defeat donald trump. today i'm leaving the race for the same reason to defeat donald trump. it is clear to me staying in would make achieving that goal more difficult. we'll have much more on this throughout the hour. bret baier will joining us live in a bit. the markets now also breaking. they're surging. the dow as you can see up over 500 points. healthcare stocks picking up steam with insurers leading the way after bernie sanders poor showing on super tuesday. they don't think medicare for all is going to happen. with the former new york city mayor michael bloomberg announcing he is suspending the campaign and endorsing biden after bloomberg failed to win a single state last night.

welcome back to "america's newsroom." new hour. i'm ed henry. >> laura: i'm laura engel in for sandra smith today. bloomberg making the decision after his investment centered on super tuesday failed as joe biden surged. president trump taking on the democratic establishment claiming they ganged up to help joe biden and hurt bernie sanders tweeting this. the democrat establishment came together and crushed bernie sanders again, even the fact that elizabeth warren stayed in the race was devastating to bernie and allowed sleepy joe to win massachusetts. it was a perfect storm with many good states remaining for joe. >> ed: very interesting. a lot breaking this morning. joining us now katie pavlich editor at town hall.com. what in the world happened to bloomberg? he came in with all the hype, money and fell flat in the debates and last night wow.

>> he learned in order to win elections you have to have people voting for you and have a grassroots campaign all over the country that is willing to get out there and to build a movement to get you over the top. now, it is interesting to think about where michael bloomberg would have been if he started his campaign much earlier than november and was able to galvanize some of the movements he has been backing. gun control movements for example and made an effort to get them out on the road knocking on doors to show up on election day. but when it comes to his return on investment which seems like more of an expense at this point it was a total failure and any billionaire looking at maybe entering a presidential race in the future is learning some lessons. moving forward he did endorse joe biden today. joe biden is going to need more financial resources up against bernie sanders. bernie sanders does have that movement. he is very good at getting lots of individual donations. he has raised a lot more money

than joe biden has. maybe michael bloomberg can transfer his resources to joe biden. he would enjoy another $700 million. >> ed: joe biden needs to get through bernie sanders. if he gets the nomination biden will take on a president with a strong he can't quite give the money directly all of it but he can spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars with a super pac helping biden should the trump camp be nervous? >> the trump campaign is certainly watching what kind of resources the other side is going to have. let's not forget that donald trump was far outspent by hillary clinton in the 2016 election and won with all the odds against him. so democrats often argue that you need to get money out of politics. they're against citizens united. when it comes down to it a lot

of the time yes you have to have money to put campaigns on the air, you have to be able to pay staffers across the country to win a national election episcopal lip in the states that matter in terms of being swing states to get the presidential nominee over the top and into the white house. but we've seen that money is not everything. there are a lot of other factors, timing, grassroots support, big events, current events. whether foreign policy issue, national security or something like the coronavirus and economy. so i'm sure that joe biden is asking michael bloomberg to see how they can use some of his expertise and resources in business. he can't donate $700 million. rules on how much money you can donate to a campaign but the trump campaign knows that with this endorsement there will be a lot more financial support available to joe biden. >> ed: is there some irrational exuberance by the biden folks. you have an old beat-up car and

wash it or give it a paint job you might think it's a brand-new car and love it but he has problems under the hood. >> new tires on the joe biden campaign. but yes, in the last couple of weeks joe biden is on the debate stage with a number of candidates. a number of candidates seeing scrutiny. how back in frontrunner status and he had an issue with being the frontrunner. the only place to go is down. everybody is attacking you. he will be back in the spotlight as the guy to go after and beat. he does have a number of these endorsements on his side. interesting today that bernie sanders is out with a new ad in florida featuring none other than barack obama, who has been rumored to have called a couple people over the course of the last couple of days to say we need to get behind joe biden before super tuesday but hasn't endorsed joe biden himself. it will be interesting how endorsements play out and how

they fight over these things. joe biden will have to articulate a number of issues especially on the medicare for all question, ed. there is relief in the stock market today. if you look at voter analysis, medicare for all is still a top priority for states that even joe biden won. a top issue not only going forward between joe biden and bernie sanders and in the general election.insurance comp maybe think the democratic socialist bloomberg is out now. bernie sanders would love to see elizabeth warren get out. >> she gave a speech last night say they'll move forward and be victorious. she lost her home state by a landslide. time for her to get out. i'm sure she is getting phone calls today as well. whether she will actually back

anyone that -- she endorsed hillary clinton over bernie sanders in the 2016 and joe biden may see her as too far left to receive an endorsement. she isn't going anywhere. it is a race between bernie sanders and joe biden. two-man race. >> ed: appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. >> it is tragic and heartbreaking. i got on a helicopter yesterday and toured sites, landed right in the middle of some. walked through neighborhoods that are devastating to see. people standing there stunned but i also saw people lined up coming from counties around to begin to help. you know, the best of people come out in the worst of times. >> laura: at least 24 people killed when powerful tornadoes swept through nashville and central tennessee in the middle of the night yesterday leaving homes and businesses in ruins and tens of thousands without

power. grady trimble is live in nashville outside a school and neighborhood that was hit very hard there. grady, what can you tell us? >> sandra, this is donaldson christian academy. elementary school wing. when the tornado moved through here it absolutely destroyed it, as you can see. amongst the devastation it is unrecognizable and hard to imagine it was a school just a few days ago. then you see pieces of debris like this amongst the debris. children's books. i guess you could say fortunately the storm moved through here in the middle of the night so there were no kids at the school but 800 students would have been here if it moved through during the day. the same cannot be said in this neighborhood. just past the school here everybody that i've talked to in this neighborhood say they were home at the time and there have been no reports of serious injuries or deaths in this neighborhood. it is remarkable when you see the damage to the houses. we talked to neighbors who just feel fortunate to be alive today.

>> this time it's really difficult to describe the sounds and then looking outside, the visuals of things swirling around. there are several elderly couples in this neighborhood, a couple that were trapped for a little bit until neighbors were able to get to them and get them to safety. but i really don't understand how with some of the devastation we've seen how people were able to get out. >> the same can't be said in terms of the good fortune in putnam county where the majority of the deaths have been reported. 18 of the at least 24 deaths in putnam county. dozens missing. search and rescue crews are searching through the night and into this morning hoping to find somebody alive in the debris. laura. >> laura: that's just crazy when we are looking at the debris behind you. it is like the buildings went through a blender. our hearts are with those folks there. great reporting. thank you so much. >> ed: fox news alert.

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for yourself. but i want to start big picture. we just had the health and human services secretary alex azar on how mike pence and other officials have made it easier for folks in the viewing audience to get tested. you have concerns about people not overwhelming the system. what is your message this morning? >> there are so many messages that need to be given to the public regarding this. i think the first one is that everyone should take a deep breath and understand that for the vast majority of the public we'll do just fine. most of us will get this virus. it is undeniable. you won't find a single expert out there who is saying this will be contained.

and the more we learn about it, the more we see the spread will be global and for the most part that's okay because the data we know from china shows that roughly 98 to 99 percent of us will do well. we might get sick along the way. >> ed: you are giving a hopeful message that not enough people have heard and it's important to say. everybody calm down. you said something about it most of us will get it. it alarms some people. as i understand as i read up on it and i want to get your explanation. a lot of people may get it and not have symptoms. a lot of people may get the coronavirus and fight it out without any trouble. >> that seems to be the case. most of us, including myself, are likely to get this virus and do fine. now along the way -- we know this from the data from the chinese studies that have been published. there is a certain percentage of us who are going to get more sick than others. the way this virus tends to make people sick is really by

getting people pneumonia, as opposed to most colds that cause upper respiratory infections of sore throat, cough, sneezing. the problem is pneumonia, it can be deadly. that may be the reason why some of these folks have passed away. the worst complication from pneumonia is this condition called ards, acute respiratory distress syndrome and can lead to the need for intubation and death. >> ed: you have the big picture positive message. specifically when we look at the deaths in washington state and particularly the nursing home facility. what is your message for people who have loved ones in a nursing home or hospital where they may be more susceptible to trouble. >> nursing homes are certainly a concern. any time that you've got an outbreak of an infectious disease and you have a lot of people in a closed area like a

nursing home or military barracks or prisons there is vulnerability. most people in nursing homes are over 60 and have health issues that make them more vulnerable to the virus. i'm concerned this isn't the last we'll see but raises our flag to concentrate on nursing homes and try to figure out strategies. >> ed: i want to get quickly to the op-ed you wrote. as a disaster medicine specialist my biggest concern is emergency rooms could become overwhelmed. unnecessarily visit by those mild viral illnesses risks exposure to other patients and increases the risk of illness to the medical staff. you are on the front lines of this and you and other people are doing work to make sure we're all safe. how do you strike the balance?

>> i appreciate the kind words. it is not heroic work, it is our job and we signed up to do this. the reason why i made that bold statement that i anticipate getting this virus is because what we know getting the virus is a function of a few things primarily. it is proximity to people with the virus and the amount of time you spend in that area. and goodness knows that emergency physicians and i don't want to leave out the more critical part of this nursing, icu doctors and nurses, ems providers, nursing home technicians, emergency technicians are all in close proximity to this virus. our likelihood of getting sick is very high. therefore our need to use our ppe appropriately is critical. >> ed: you may not want to call it heroic work but what you are describing, you yourself, nurses, others in the physician world going in knowing that they may get this virus, knowing they are putting themselves at risk is heroic work for will of us to try to

keep us all safe. quick question to wrap this up. the ncaa is now weighing whether or not they should have the college basketball games for men and women with empty stadiums and arenas. the olympics in tokyo they're trying to decide what to do. i know that isn't your purview per se but the large crowds, people thinking about going to baseball spring training in florida and arizona. what is your advice? >> it's a very, very good question. i've been consulted by a number of large businesses around the district here with similar concerns for their global conferences coming up and local conferences here. with those same questions and the appropriate answer is we don't know. we don't know that airplane travel is going to increase the risk of getting this. we have reasons to believe it won't but certainly being in close proximity to people with symptoms is an issue. i sure hope not. we need to be able to live our lives. we need to keep our economy going by going out shopping and

going to basketball games and enjoy being americans. the vast majority of us who get it will survive and do fine with maybe a bad illness along the way. it is encouraging and we need to continue to live our lives in the face of this long-term disaster we may be facing. >> ed: what a positive. hopeful message. live our lives as americans. appreciate your insights and calm demeanor this morning. it is very helpful. we appreciate it. >> laura: keeping up the pressure on the taliban. the u.s. launching an air strike targeting taliban fighters for the first time since the peace deal was signed. plus mike bloomberg dropped out after a disappointing super tuesday and endorses joe biden. where that leaves bernie sanders and what it means for the trump campaign? we'll have bret baier joining us live coming up next. hello, i saw you move in, and i wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood with some homemade biscuits!

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>> ed: super tuesday upending the 2020 race. michael bloomberg bowing out this morning ending his costly run for the white house and backing joe biden to beat president is what he says he wants to do. bret baier joins us, he and martha maccallum leading coverage all night long. what a difference a week makes? >> unbelievable. think how the race turned in 72 hours. joe biden was left for dead. no money, no way forward. then came the jim clyburn

endorsement, the big win in south carolina. now with bloomberg endorsing it is a big deal. one, because of infrastructure. bloomberg has offices everywhere. he has a lot of money. what will have to happen legally is have to set up a super pac to then back joe biden, which i assume he is going to do very quickly. because joe biden didn't have any money. it was starting to come in after south carolina but he was really down. >> ed: you'll see some of the president's allies -- the president already has a couple hundred mill in his war chest but probably super pacs on the right saying. >> warren says she is reassessing. it will probably lead to getting out. where does she go? does she go to bernie sanders or joe biden? that will be fascinating probably today. >> ed: he has a grudge with sanders and warren. we don't know. she could get behind biden even though people are assuming she

is further on the left. >> exactly. you know, this is the time where that campaign is deciding, where the senator is deciding what to do. you finish third in your home state, the path is not bright ahead of you. >> ed: absolutely. "washington post" headline. the sanders revolution has stalled. democrats find themselves in a rerun of the sanders/clinton race. sanders will have substantial support and a large number to biden. his supporters might stay home in november handing victory to trump. so let's parse that out first on the trump part. if in fact biden gets this after it looks like the establishment kind of intervened and got all the endorsements for biden, the money from bloomberg, does that backfire with the sanders people who some of them go to trump in the general election, some say i'm out? >> this is one of the reasons that president obama stayed out of this race so far. at least according to his aides is that he wants to be the

unity person, the person that brings both sides, the progressive side and the establishment side together to say this common goal to beat donald trump. i think elizabeth warren will factor into that, too, depending what she decides today. >> ed: other part of bernie sanders, some people, the biden fans, writing sanders off too early. he has a lot of money and states like washington and michigan that he is expected to do very well in. and a week or two ago the biden problems have not gone away. >> listen, the thing that almost put biden out of the race is the thing that could pop up again which is he is not a great campaigner. he does make a ton of mistakes on the trail. now, in the party they've said oh, that's joe. they've accepted it. they move on. and say this is the vessel by which we are going to take back the white house. so there could be some bumps along the road and bernie sanders isn't giving up. he is about a revolution, not about just winning states.

he is about big-picture change. >> ed: you have a big town hall coming up with martha and the president of the united states thursday in scranton, pennsylvania. a state the president really wants to have because it helped tip it for him in 2016. joe biden instead of bernie sanders as the nominee can complicate things for the president in pennsylvania. >> well yeah, joe biden speaks to a different group there. he grew up in scranton, pennsylvania. probably the reason the president chose that particular town and it was -- and since joe biden looks like the heir apparent. the president needs pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. and we'll see how he handles some of those questions from the crowd. the best part with the town halls is interaction with the people on the ground and what they care about. >> ed: "wall street journal" says super tuesday made the former vice president the best hope to beat saernsd.

they are lifting the old war horse on his back. the prospect of an avowed socialist at the top of the ticket have scared millions of democrats into bidens' arms. >> there are a few moments in the race that change it. one mike bloomberg on the debate stage was like the wizard of oz pulling back the curtain. this isn't the guy in the ads. and the other is bernie sanders talking about castro and how that spooked some democrats to the point where they said okay, we need to coalesce. we cannot have a democratic socialist on the top of the ticket mainly for the down ballot implications. >> ed: very nervous about the house could flip to the republicans. let's turn quickly to the ending of the war in afghanistan. the effort to do that. peace deal. the president yesterday spoke to reporters about speaking to a leader of the taliban. let's listen. >> president trump: i spoke to the leader of the taliban today. we have had a good conversation.

we've agreed there is no violence. we don't want violence. we'll see what happens. >> the idea you have the president of the united states talking to a leader of the taliban. not something we were expecting this early to happen. you sat down with secretary of state pompeo trying to sell the deal. a lot of people are still nervous whether the taliban can be trusted and whether or not afghanistan can be a safe haven again. >> a really big question mark how this goes forward. the fact that the afghan government decided not to release those 5,000 taliban prisoners. in response the taliban said we'll continue our operations against afghanistan and you just saw a u.s. strike today against the taliban. so for all of this pushing back from violence, it is moving forward. how this peace deal gets implemented the devil is in the details. >> ed: u.n. report this morning suggesting iran is closer to getting nuclear weapons. in the debates on the democratic side national

security has been absent and they haven't talked about it. >> it will be a big issue going forward. you still have debates if bernie sanders is continuing the fight. he definitely is. one is coming up next week. that will be fascinating and we'll ask the president about foreign policy in scranton. >> ed: don't miss it thursday night at 6:30 eastern. we appreciate it gets to the point of causing a panic. gillian turner is live from washington hi, gillian. >> developing now administration sources are confirming to fox news the coronavirus task force is being run out of the white house and now considering the outbreak to be a national security threat to the united states. multiple senior administration officials led by the vice president is stacked with national security officials including the national security

advisor himself robert o'byrne. his deputy, deputy secretary of state. homeland security deputy and also flagged dr. debra burks with a military background. the race against the clock is starting now, the president says. >> president trump: we have done a good job by doing it in combating this so early. we have the best people in the world and i think we're getting a lot of credit for having made that early move. >> one of the task forces's goals is to prevent chaos and a scramble for supplies and medical care across the homeland in the event of a mass scale outbreak like the one we've seen in china or south korea. south korea pulled out of the joint military exercise with the u.s. in an attempt to stop the virus's spread across the continent. embassy and bases across europe bracing for impact as thousands

of cases emerge in france and italy. >> we are assessing how the virus might impact the exercises and ongoing operations around the world. >> u.s. government across the board now grappling with tough decisions about the u.s. presence overseas. at military bases, intelligence operatives, embassies and aid workers, who will stay and go and the risks for those who do ultimately stay in place. >> laura: a lot going on there. gillian turner, thank you so much. >> ed: also watching joe biden's big comeback dominating super tuesday coverage. howie kurtz with the reaction of how the media is covering it all. >> laura: check out this space rock. the size of mt. everest. we're tracking its path as it moves closer to earth. should we be worried? >> ed: it's out there. >> laura: it is. ♪ you $2,000 every year.

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>> laura: in case you missed it an asteroid almost as big as mt. everest set to pass by the earth next month. the space rock was first identified 22 years ago and its journey has been tracked ever since. nasa says on april 29th, mark the day, the asteroid will be within 4 million miles from our planet. that's about 16 times the distance between the moon and new york city. so in astronomical terms it is a relative near miss, ed. >> ed: that's a long way away. former vice president turning the democratic race on its head with his stunning super tuesday victories. skeptics wondering biden's surge, is it really sustainable? howie kurtz writes this. he is also a fox news media analyst and joins us now. i wonder how digest this in your media column.

on one hand biden had a big night. we're still counting votes in california. where sanders may have a big edge among delegates. the man has a lot of money in the bank. >> before i get to that i have to say you go back to just over a week ago. so many of the geniuses in our business saying biden was toast, done, on life support and dead and he should get out of the race. i think looking back that was journalistic malpractice because everybody knew the first two states weren't good states for joe biden. the press, even after the south carolina said only three days and he doesn't have much money or the field organization. and he wins nine states. i think the press by setting expectations so low for the former vice president made his showing yesterday seem walk on water miraculous. >> ed: to your point in your column you add. let's face it, many liberal pundits banged the drum how sanders would be crushed by the president and hurt the down

ballot candidates. we kept seeing voters who loved bernie saying they had to abandon him because their top priority was ousting trump. there was a drumbeat in the media. the mainstream media suggesting this is a disaster. if bernie is the nominee you need to mobilize. >> many nft press were saying that and it resonated with a lot of voters. as much of an anti-sanders vote. not that people don't like bernie. the feeling he would be a weak nominee. what you asked earlier. the thing will change another 120 times and predictions are dangerous in our business. but right now we used to say well, if biden could finish super tuesday maybe 100 or 150 delegates behind bernie sanders he would be in the race. now he is leading in delegates. doesn't mean he has it wrapped up. there are a lot of states to come. >> ed: what is your prediction? just kidding. you were about to make one. >> i do want to say something

about mike bloomberg. we're dealing with the breaking news he has gotten out. bloomberg didn't need to use one of his hi-tech wall street terminals to interpret the data he got clobbered on super tuesday. i'm not a money manager but $500 million spent and winning america somoa not a great return on investment. it underscores something that we fall into every four years which is we overstate -- way overstate the importance of money and field organization. they have are important to be sure. what it ultimately comes down to is the candidate and message. when people got a chance to see mike bloomberg up close a very different situation despite the enormous amount of money he spent. >> ed: katie pavlich made that point earlier. donald trump was outspent big time by hillary clinton in 2016 but he had the message. he drove it and he still won. sometimes we need to relearn these messages every now and again despite all the predictions as you noted. appreciate you coming in.

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>> laura: robert durst goes on trial today in los angeles. you remember this name. he is accused of killing a close friend, susan berman 20 years ago. prosecutors say she was about to implicate him in the death of his first wife. investigators believe he is a suspect in the third murder as well.

>> ed: many people in tennessee waking up this morning to see the full extent from the damage on tuesday's horrifying tornadoes. 24 people killed. dozens more injured. hundreds of buildings and homes in ruins this morning. president trump announcing he will travel to tennessee on friday. with us now former "american idol" winner taylor hicks who was in nashville during the storm. taylor, good morning. i hope your family is doing okay. >> good morning, how are you? >> ed: tell us what you saw, sir? >> well, you know, being from the south you always hear tornadoes around you. you always run into somebody and always have a family member or friend that go through them. never do you think you would ever experience one. i did monday night and it's something i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy at this point. >> ed: was your own home damaged, destroyed, neighborhood? describe it. >> well, the neighborhood is

the germantown neighborhood which experienced the track or the start of the long track tornado. when people tell you they hear a freight train when they go through a tornado that's what it sounded like. the vibration. my ears popped. the pressure gets intense. i never thought that i would go through something like that but my heart are with the family and friends who lost one in this tragedy. >> we spoke to governor bill lee earlier. thankful the president and federal government are getting behind your state in tennessee. the president tweeting i'll be going to the great state of tennessee friday. usa stands with the people of tennessee 100%. the tornadoes were of record size and velocity. god blessed your loved ones, all families affected. thanks to the governor and senator blackburn. the president wrote in that tweet. tell me what you think about

the president coming and what organizations beyond the federal government on the ground are helping people that you want our viewers to know about. >> well, i think nashvillians are very strong and southerners are very strong and we welcome the president and the aid of the government right now to those areas affected. because if someone has actually come from ground zero, i think we need to offer as much as we can as americans to give these people and this area, really, the need and the care that we should give them and they deserve. hands-on, nashville is a really great local organization that provides hands-on volunteer work. they're scheduling a lot of volunteer get-togethers this weekend. i have dealt with the alabama tornadoes and the april outbreaks with the red cross. we had a big benefit called alabama rising. the red cross and handson of

nashville. i work with both of those organizations and hopefully we can rebuild these areas as quickly as possible. >> ed: we have had on the screen both hon.org as well as 1-800 red cross. taylor hicks, we think about you, your family and neighbors and everybody in the great state of tennessee. thank you for coming in today. >> laura: the connecticut missing mom murder case now dropped against her estranged husband just weeks after fotis dulos committed suicide. why his defense team is vowing to appeal. cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it.

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>> ed: all right. we are back. laura, it is great to have you today. you have been following this very closely. she has been missing a long time. her estranged husband, fotis dulos, was charged with the murder. we have learned some new details. >> there are some new details. in fact, the criminal case is now over. prosecutors -- he committed suicide. they won that yesterday. his attorney asked the judge in the case to keep the case alive, even though his client is no longer living, to help clear his name and get his hands on the discovery in the case so that he

could see more of what they have on the estranged husband of jennifer dulos, who managed after dropping their five kids off at school. he says that he lost his bid on that but also revealed for the first time in public what he things happen to jennifer. listen. >> if she is in fact, we have reason to believe that she met her and at the hands of parties unrelated from fotis dulos and without his knowledge. we were working on development of the evidence. there will be no trial. we won't say anything further about that. >> laura: the biggest mystery has revolved around a line and dulos suicide note. he said his attorney would be able to explain what happened. >> ed: very tantalizing. there is a tease in that note. as i mentioned, -- >> laura: he came out and actually talked about it.

you might remember that there were garbage bags that were disposed of in hartford. all of that captured on surveillance video than i do jennifer dulos went missing. fotis dulos and his then girlfriend, michelle traconis, throwing away all those bags. they open up those bags, please do, and they find cleaning supplies, all matching jennifer dulos' dna. for the first time, they are looking into the theory that dulos panicked when he found those bags that he claimed were dropped on his doorstop the day that jennifer went missing. he wasn't there. he didn't do it, but he found bags, and he disposed of them, and they are looking into that theory. >> ed: a lot of people assume this case was done. and you have a fox nation special about it. >> laura: i do. we are going to be taking a deep dive into the case with the new special coming out on our streaming service. remember, his former girlfriend, michelle traconis, they are still going to trial in this

case. we could learn more as i head into the courtroom. we will see. but we do have a lot of information in this new special coming out on fox nation. >> ed: you had an exclusive interview with dulos before he committed suicide. we played some clips of it. >> laura: there is a lot more, and we will play it. >> ed: in the meantime, a presidential couple in today's newsroom. ronald reagan marrying nancy davis this date in 1962. they met when reagan was president of the screen actors guild. not the united states yet. and she was trying to remove her name from the mccarthy era hollywood blacklist. he would go on to become president of the united states. he was diagnosed with alzheimer's, and his wife took care of him until his death in 2004. nancy reagan died, of course, in 2016, but there love affair became official 68 years ago

today. it is nice to reflect back. >> laura: absolutely. >> ed: great to have you toda today. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> laura: see you soon. >> harris: fox news alert. a seismic shift in the 2020 presidential race right now as mike bloomberg suspends his campaign and is now endorsing joe biden. fox news learning that bloomberg called biden this morning, and the two had "a good conversation." his decision comes after a disaster at super tuesday for the former new york city mayor who did not win a single state. bloomberg pumping more than half of the billion dollars into his campaign. with plans to stand until the convention. but now he is saying "after yesterday's results, and has become virtually impossible. i have always believed that beating donald trump starts with a line behind the candidate that has a