the door right now, log on to kpix.com. check out cbsn bay area. you can watch those stories and much more throughout the day on multiple devices and platforms. just downl good morning to our viewers in the west and welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. u.s. officials identify the first case of coronavirus in this country, not linked to travel or another patient. how president trump is trying to prevent panic. brewery rampage. more information about the man who killed five co-workers at the milwaukee molson coors complex. one worker narrowly avoided getting shot. breaking overnight. lawyers for actress lori loughlin and her husband say they could be cleared in the college admission scandal by newly released notes by the alleged mastermind of the scheme. destroying a rain forest. cbs original takes us to the amazon and shows possible links between u.s. companies and efforts to shrink the largest rain forest.

it's thursday, february 27th, 2020. here's today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. i'm going to be announcing exactly right now that i'm going to be putting our vice president, mike pence, in charge. >> the vice president is tapped to lead the coronavirus response. >> a patient in california may be the first in the country to contract the illness from unknown origins. mass shooting at a brewery in milwaukee. the gunman was an employee who killed five workers before turning the gun on himself. >> this is an unthinkable tragedy for us. >> we have to restore the soul of america. >> candidates are working overtime to win votes before the south carolina primary. >> enough is enough. snow working through the great lakes. it's headed to the northeast. >> big-time lake-effect snow. the mother of two missing kids is heading back to idaho.

>> lori vallow waived her right to an extradition hearing. >> maria sharapova calling it game, set and match. >> retiring from tennis. police officer -- these turkeys came out of nowhere. >> all that matters. >> during ash wednesday, his address in st. peter's square, the pope suggested we give up online trolling. >> he says it's the time to give up unless words, gossip words, speak to god on a first name basis. i will not give up the tittle tattle. in an effort to combat the coronavirus spread, the cdc is saying facial hair can interfere with face masks. zorro, walrus and best of all, soul patch. congratulations on your continued health. smashmouth.

somebody once told me ♪ my beard was going to save me ♪ i'm pretty cool that i'm not dead ♪ >> the walrus is good to go. >> smashmouth. >> he always has a way of putting it in perspective, but this is serious stuff. welcome to "cbs this morning." that's where we begin. there are growing new concerns about the coronavirus right here in the united states. because we now have the first case of no immediate link to worldwide travel or a related illness. california health officials say that patient has been isolated. it's one of 60 known cases in the u.s. more than 82,000 illnesses are reported globally. more than 40 different countries with some taking drastic measures to prevent the spread. this morning, saudi arabia closed all major islamic holy sites to foreigners and japan said it will close all of its schools for a month to keep coronavirus from spreading. back here in the u.s., carter evans is outside that hospital in sacramento where that new

american patient is being treated. carter, why is this case causing so much concern? >> reporter: it's a big concern, because there have been only two other cases of person to person transmission of the virus here in the u.s. both occurred after exposure to a family member who went to china. we don't know how this person got infected with the virus. that's a big concern for health officials who are trying to stop its spread. >> there's probably other cases out there in the community that we don't know about. >> doctors at the uc davis medical center are concerned the patient here might just be the first of many infected by someone else in the general population. the individual was transferred here last wednesday, already intubated and on a ventilator. he or she wasn't tested for coronavirus until sunday and the results came back positive just yesterday. it's the first case of what doctors are calling community transmission. >> it suggests that we don't

know where they got it from. so the person who exposed them probably exposed others. >> this is the 15th case in the u.s. efforts to combat the highly contagious virus are growing coast to coast. >> your gown goes on first. >> the hospital workers outside new york are being trained to protect themselves. more than 80 people are in isolation this their homes. >> all elements of the city government to address this crisis. >> los angeles is also taking extraordinary precautions. >> we're disinfecting lax every hour. we're making sure that those points much entry are as secure as we can possibly make them. >> villanova university is telling its students studying abroad in italy that they need to return home now because of the increase in cases there. also, same goes for sacramento state with its students in south korea, telling them to come back right now. we expect to learn more about the patient here at a news conference later today. tony? >> carter, thank you very much. the uncertainty over the spread of the coronavirus is rattle markets.

the dow plunged more than 2300 points in the last five trading days. president trump says the risk of americans getting infected is low. he led an effort yesterday to show his administration is prepared. paula reid is at the white house for us. good morning. what's the president's mission here? >> reporter: good morning, tony. this press conference came following days of conflicting messages from the administration on coronavirus. we've learned the president is frustrated that officials were not projecting a more positive outlook each as the markets tumbled. last night in in only his second ever white house briefing room appearance, the president tried to reassure nervous americans. >> we're very, very ready for this, for anything. >> flanked by health officials, the president said his administration has plans in place for a worse case scenario, including stockpiling protective equipment and masks. >> every aspect of our society should be prepared. >> mr. trump said vice president mike pence will head the task force responsible for monitoring the outbreak and coordinating

with local officials across the country on their response to the virus. >> i look forward, mr. president, to serving in this role. >> health officials agreed with the president that the aggressive strategy so far had been working. but were cautious about the future. >> we can expect to see more cases in the united states. >> moments later, the president contradicted that. >> i don't think it's inevitable. >> there were other discrepancies on how soon a vaccine may be available. >> the vaccine is coming along well. in speaking to the doctors, we think this is something we can develop fairly rapidly. >> although this is the fastest we've ever gone from a sequence of a virus to a trial, it still would not be any applicable to the epidemic unless we wait a year to a year and a half. >> health officials say prevention is crucial. >> we don't have a vaccine and we don't have ant virals to

treat this. prevention is the cure. >> the administration is criticized for cutting funding for coordinating government responses to public health crises. >> what he's doing is late, too late, anemic. hopefully, we can make up for the loss of time. >> the president fired back at speaker pelosi calling her incompetent. but saying they have to be on the same team. the president says the travel restrictions that he imposed early on in this outbreak worked and he is open to adding additional travel restrictions, but now he said is not the right time. gayle? >> paula, thanks very much. cbs news frances townsend is here. handling a flu pandemic. fran gd moing to you. maybcan so of some of this out for us.

the cdc says it's inevitable. the president says it's not. what do you make of the mixed messages. everybody agrees it's a public health emergency. >> it certainly is. i think the president is trying to tell the american public, people are understandably frightened and concerned. the cdc is also trying to prepare people. i think the answer is somewhere in the middle, right? we are likely to see more cases reported. there are 50 in the united states. doctor at uc davis, he expects more in the united states that haven't been reported yet that will be reported. look, we don't know where the woman in california was infected. it's likely what people haven't talked about is people can be totally asymptomatic. you can be infected with the coronavirus and have no symptoms and that means you can infect

others not even know you have it. that may be part of the answer to this woman -- this woman or man in california. >> how does the coronavirus compare to the flu pandemic that you prepared for during the bush administration? >> to give you a sense, anthony, the flu has a morbidity rate, a death rate an ofrj of .1%. a really bad flu is a .5% death rate. this we believe is a 2% death rate. so it's much worse. we don't know if that's right because we don't know if there are more cases than we realize. it remains to be seen. but that's part of what makes this so dangerous. so that's why public health officials declared the emergency because they want to get -- they're trying to get ahead of this in preparation. >> from what you've seen so far, is the trump administration

doing enough to control an outbreak? >> i think we have to understand, the federal government really supports and got to get the preparations right for the local response, right? part of the reason you appoint pence, a governor, to oversee the response is because in the end, governors and mayors are the people on the frontlines of this who will have to do it. you see in the budget request for example, they're looking for masks and ventilators. they're looking to get the sort of equipment the public health workers are going to be on the frontlines are going to need. those are the people who are going to have to man the response. >> people sitting here watching you today, what's your best advice? should we fly, not fly, wear a mask, not wear a mask? where do we get the answers? >> first and foremost, listen to the doctor who has been around for 40 years. i would go to the cdc website. if you see it's a travel-free warning country, don't go.

that's china and south korea. if it's a travel to warning country, defer any nonessential travel. hook at the cdc website. >> i'm curious about traveling in the united states. >> you want to look at -- there are no travel restrictions in the united states. you want to look at where the nodes of outbreaks are. do you need to travel to those places? where are those infections right now? >> it never hurts. washing your hands in warm water and soap 20 seconds. >> get your flu shot. >> if you get the flu shot and then get symptoms, at least you help the doctors rule out what it's not. >> fran townsend, thanks so much. >> good to see you. the investigation into the deadly mass shooting at one of the nation's largest breweries is now focused on a home on milwaukee's north side. a heavlice pe reported there overnight. police say a 51-year-old employee killed five co-workers before taking his own life. s.w.a.t. teams quickly responded to the sprawling molson coors

complex yesterday after receiving emergency calls. dean reynolds has more from milwaukee. confirmed active shooter. shooter till at large. >> reporter: at 2:08 yesterday. police and fire rescue rushed to the molson coors plant following reports of an active shooter. wearing bulletproof vests and heavily armed, they, fbi and atf agents stormed the campus searching for the gunman. >> we do not have the shooter down. there is an additional victim at this point. >> reporter: nearby schools and businesses were placed on lockdown as dozens of officers cleared each building on a campus where around 1,000 people work. >> we're all pretty scared much i mean, we were watching the live streams on tv trying to see what was going on outside because we couldn't see anything. >> reporter: about five hours after the shooting began, investigators confirmed the gunman killed five people before turning the gun on himself. >> this is an unspeakable tragedy for our city.

this is a community tragedy. as we grieve for these families, we must remember the sacrifices that they made. >> reporter: as police cleared the scene, employees on the campus were allowed to leave one by one to reunite with their families. >> if i wouldn't have gone to talk to this guy was relieving me, i would be one of them guys. i know that for a fact. because i would have walked right in what was going on. >> randy chenoweth worked at the plant for 42 years. he says he was in an office just 15 to 20 feet away from the gunshots during the shift change. >> i know some of the victims. i really feel for the families. i pray for you. that's all i can really do. >> dean reynolds reporting from milwaukee for us. thank you very much. we have an update on a bizarre story. a mother arrested in hawaii on charges linked to the disappearance of her two children. she's awaiting extradition back to idaho. lori vallow appeared in a court yesterday where a judge denied a request to reduce her bail. errol barnett is following the story for us. good morning. what happened during the hearing?

>> this story gives you chills. this was her second time in court in less than a week. her attorneys asked a hawaii judge to lower her $5 million bail. that request quickly denied. prosecutors arguing she's now a flight risk and the bail amount is appropriate. she waived her right to an extradition hearing so she will be transported back to idaho to answer for the serious charges against her. the 47-year-old was arrested last week on an idaho warrant facing multiple charges, including felony child abandonment. for those of you maybe not following closely, 7-year-old joshua j.j. and kylie had been missing since september. the kids may be in danger or worse. cbs news confirmed that investigators are considering searching yellowstone national park for tiely once the snow melts there. phone records show the teenager was there with her mother and brother on september 8th. police say vallow and her new husband have repeatedly lied about the children's

whereabouts. her husband chad has not been charged in connection with the children's disappearance. a judge set a status hearing to next week in idaho. gayle? errol, thank you very much. the president candidates are kicking it up a notch when it comes to campaigning ahead of saturday's south carolina primary. next week's super tuesday contest in 14 different states. senator bernie sanders, the democratic front-runner is trailing former vice president joe biden in south carolina. ed o'keefe is covering the race there. ed, good to see you. what can we expect in the next few days? the clock is ticking. >> reporter: it sure is, gayle. good morning. candidates are desperate to cover as much ground as possible in south carolina and in the 14 states voting next week when nearly 1400 delegates are up for grabs. >> got to bring people together. we share a common humanity. >> front-runner, bernie sanders, campaigned in the super tuesday state of north carolina.

in the coming days, candidates are fanning out across the country with events from boston to raleigh, nashville, little rock, selma and san diego. the hope is to pick up as many of the more than 1300 delegates up for grabs that day as they can. that's more than a third of what's needed to win the democratic nomination. the super-sized primary day is set to stretch the campaign thin. only sanders, former new york mayor michael bloomberg have the resources to compete in all 14 states. bloomberg is spending at least $153 million running tv ads back books like this one. >> health experts warn the west is underprepared. >> but sanders continues to benefit from unrivalled enthusiasm. people like leslie klein from orlando have come to south carolina to volunteer. >> i feel like this is probably

our last chance for a victory to get an honest man in the white house that can make a revolution. >> reporter: ahead of saturday's south carolina primary, sanders is trailing joe biden who picked up a key endorsement from an emotional congressman jim clyburn, a palmetto state power broker. >> important for joe biden and south carolina, voting for joe biden. >> reporter: attorneys for former president obama are calling on south carolina tv stations to pull down a super pac ad supportive of president trump that mischaracterizes comments from one of his books and makes it sound as if he's critical of former vice president biden's support of the black community. the former president isn't expected to endorse anyone yet, but his spokeswoman says in a statement that in the interest of truth in advertising, the ad should come down. >> tony? >> ed, thank you very much. lawyers for lori loughlin and her husband say new evidence proves they're innocent in the college admissions scandal.

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>> announcer: this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning. it is 7:20 six. i'm kenny choi. a new coronavirus patient is being treated at uc davis medical center. in sacramento. the patient is from solano county and is believed to be the first transmission of the virus among the general public. at last check, the patient is still in the intensive care unit this morning. oakland's my common high school will remain closed until at least tonight as experts conduct the combination tests. the campus has been closed since the toxic chemical tce was discovered in the groundwater beneath the school. the tests are to determine whether the cancer-causing chemical has contaminated the air in campus buildings. california water experts do not expected good news from today's aubrey sierra snow. thursday. the highs profile measure of the snowpack crucial to the

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it's 7:30. hoar here's what's happening on cbs this morning. >> there's probably other cases we don't know about. >> the u.s. finds the first coronavirus case with unknown origins. >> you don't want to see panic because there's no reason to be panicked. >> a brewery worker in milwaukee kills five co-workers leaving a community in shock. >> we're a family here. this is an unthinkable tragedy for us. an idaho mother arrested in the disappearance of her two children agrees to return and face the charge. >> we haven't seen a case like this before. this case is extraordinary. an author tells us how changing what we eat can improve our health, the environment and our economy. in our series pushing the limits, an entrepreneur helps other blind people tackle rock climbing. >> we always think about

disabilities as limiting, but the truth is, like, it's not the disability, it's the world that we live in that limits people. that is very true. good point. >> yeah. very good point. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning," i'm tony dokoupil. lori loughlin, it shows the couple is innocent in the college admissions scandal. in legal filings, defense attorneys say prosecutors provided them with notes written by the ringleader of the scheme, rick singer. they say the notes prove the couple's claim that they did not bribe their daughter's way into university of southern california. nikki battiste joins us with the latest on the story. why is this information coming out now? >> good morning, tony. federal prosecutors discovered singer's notes in 2018 but believe they were privileged at the time and held off on disclosing them until yesterday. now, loughlin's lawyers argue those note and what they say about investigators' conduct could exonerate the defendants.

it's been nearly a year since rick singer pleaded guilty to charges. but a new memo from defense attorneys for loughlin and her husband mossimo giannulli claims the government instructed singer to lie to clients by calling their payments bribes. even if he previously characterized them as legitimate. it contains a note on his iphone about discussions with fbi agents. in one exchange he called loud abrasive, they continued to ask me to tell a fib and not restate what i told my clients as to where the money was going. loughlin and giannulli paid half a million dollars to usc allegedly so their daughters could attend the school. they insisted the money was a donation. they're accused of taking additional measures to cheat the system like making a fake resume for one of their kids.

this comes after other defendants caught up in singer's web, like hollywood actress, felicity huffman, not only pleaded guilty but finished serving prison sentences. that includes former new york attorney gordon caplan who admitted he paid $75,000 to have the answers on his daughter's a.c.t. exam corrected. in his notes, singer wrote that investigators wanted to, quote, nail gordon at all costs. soliciting additional payments for that purpose. >> it's an embarrassment for the government. >> laurie levenson, a former federal prosecutor. she said singer's notes should have been turned over long ago and they bring his and the government's credibility into question. >> it gives the defense some ammunition to say that loughlin and others didn't really agree this was a bribe. this is a positive development for lori loughlin. we don't know whether it will clear her or make the case go away. but we do know that it puts the

government on the defensive. >> a judge was set to decide trial dates for loughlin and other figures implicated in the scandals today. but her defense team is asking for that proceeding to be pushed back in light of the new information detailed in singer's notes. they call the government's previous failure to disclose those notes s sing wur legal analyst who said for lori loughl loughlin, there's no way around she made resumes for her daughter. >> it paints another side. as rico owe. >> hard to explain that one. nikki, thanks. ahead, america's hidden homeless kprie sis. in our new series, eye on america. america left behind. how many working class families are becoming homeless and the toll it's taking on their children. you can keep watching us live. download the cbs app and subscribe to cbs all access.

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cbs news is shining a light on the homeless crisis we do not see. working class families left behind in this economy. our new eye on america series, left behind, begins with the fight of homeless childrenment more than 1.3 million kids are homeless nationwide. maria elena salinas met a california family among the hidden homeless. she joins us at the table to discuss. i'm so glad you're putting a face on the problem. >> absolutely. the problem is more serious than we know. when they had steady jobs, they ended up homeless. they now live in a los angeles motel room with their young children where they've stayed for the past year. >> i wish i had my whole family in a house. >> i wish we had a house. >> 6-year-old and 7-year-olds

are honor students with big dreams for the future. >> i want to be a scientist because i want to be smart. >> we met the two in los angeles. they have been homeless for two years and living in this motel for the past year. >> do you understand why you live in the motel? >> i do. but it's just -- we don't have enough money. >> why would you tell that? >> mommy said not to tell -- >> she did. >> when we were talking to the kids today, we asked them if they understood why they were living in this motel. and she said because we don't have any money. kye turned around and said you're not supposed to say that. mom said not to say that. and they both covered their mouth. >> i'm sorry. >> you tell them that? >> yeah. >> yeah. because we don't -- we don't want them to feel out of place at school. we don't want to be the pity, charity case in school or anything like that.

>> i just want them to be as normal as can be. >> robert and kristin eddings both lost steady jobs. kristin was making $52,000 a year as a store manager and robert had a full-time job at a janitorial company. >> there's a hot of misconceptions about people experiencing homelessness. what do you want people to know about your situation? >> it can happen to anyone. i came up with a middle class family, never struggled with money that i knew of >> the average rent in los angeles is more than $2500 per month. a 65% increase in the last ten years. people here need to earn close to $72,000 a year to afford a two-bedroom apartment. >> motels next to each other, motels by the hour. unfortunately, we have experienced child abduction, we've experienced domestic violence. >> the executive director of

north valley caring services. he helps hundreds of families. >> growing up in a motel is growing up in a motel in some of these corridors, where there are so many criminal elements, is abusive, i would say. >> reporter: at the motel where we met the eddings family there were over 30 assaults and domestic incidents of domestic violence reported lafgs year. one of 72,000 children homeless in the l.a. school district. a staggering 85% of children in that district live in poverty. >> the official count of 17,000 is probably closer to 30,000. >> reporter: austin is the l.a. unified school district superintendent. >> reporter: what is the l.a. unified school district doing to help these families? >> we are doing more to bring them back to school. we actually receive zero dollars

from the states. >> reporter: the district allocated 500 section 8 vouchers for families but 67% of them go unused because landlords refuse to rent to tenants with this federal subsidy. >> what do you want for your family? >> a house. >> he said it. >> the eddings family still lives in the motel but robert was recently hired at a magazine agency working in customer service. at least there's some income. >> it's amazing that both of those kids are honor roll students. >> impressive. >> that's because the parents really focus on their kids to make sure they have some kind of stability. >> the cure for cancer could live in a hotel room tonight, a reminder. >> they are in a hotel because they can't yet afford to be in a house. >> not only can they not afford it, they don't have a rental history and difficult for

landlords to rent without rental history, a tough situation. los angeles mayor eric garcetti on this topic. you can see that on cbsnews.com. tomorrow, cbs news and "cbs this morning" saturday. good thursday morning to you. plenty of sunshine once again for today and mild to warm, above-average temperatures. that will continue this afternoon. so very similar to yesterday. let me show you our daytime highs. 72 in san francisco. and 64 in oakland. 76 fremont. 78 for santa rosa and for santa rosa. more clouds for your friday. cooler for the weekend. in fact, on sunday, daytime highs below average for this time of year. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by jeep. there's only one.

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emmett till, in his name. it came 65 years after the 14-year-old was lynched and kidnapped in mississippi. it's up to lawmakers to right the wrongs of our past. >> as americans and congress we have the responsibility to right the wrongs of the pass to have them never occur again. >> three republicans and one independent lawmaker voted against the measure. louie gohmert, thomas massie and ted yoho and independent, justin amash. >> when you're with the four, it makes you wonder what was the reasoning behind it. ted yoho said he described it as a terrible act but said the government went way beyond. >> calling for laws to make lynching a crime, it's been between 1877 and 1950, 4,000 people, it's estimated, were lynched across this country. for those souls that were lost, this law finally --

>> people are glad to see this is happening. >> apparently there were over 200 attempts to pass this legislation. the senate by the way, did pass it unanimously. >> they did in fact pass that unanimously. good to see that. named after emmett till. it still happens, james bird in 1998 and we were just in south ameri america -- south carolina, mother emanuel church, nine souls lost there. a dramatic house fire. i want to be clear. everyone was okay. officers arrived and saw smoke billowing from this entryway. c inside. th officerside of this house, k this door and that's where they find this man on the floor, unconscious, an officer drags him out of the house by his feet. the man was airlifted to the hospital, injured but expected to be okay.

heroism, bravery. >> all of the above. >> right? >> amazing. >> what's really interesting is the officers were told it was too hot to enter the house but then he still ran around to the side of the house and tried to find somebody in there and luckily he did. >> they don't call them the bravest finest first responders for nothing. i like that, too. >> this is an interesting story. i have no idea what goes down in a gender reveal party. this is meghan and kyle going to the game sunday. and a batter up, take a swing at our gender reveal. kyle even had a powder baseball with him. and he was up to the task, when he passed him the ball. the powder hit the dust. they thought for sure they were having to boy.

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and i approve this message. >> announcer: this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning, everyone. i'm michelle griego. in this traffic center, we have an update to an earlier crash in the north bay. this is near the napa airport. all lanes are cleared on northbound 29 and highway 221. there was an accident. but you can see the residual delays there,. we have speed dipping down to about 10 miles per hour in that area. we look to get that all cleared out prison. 880 slowing down as well in the commute direction. but still moving along, no stop- and-go so that is good. there is stop-and-go, though, on the san mateo bridge. it is a 41 minute drive from foster city into hayward into foster city. we did see a tow truck go by,

just a short time ago. so we are checking to see what is causing this stop-and-go traffic along san mateo bridge. here's a a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. moving along pretty nicely. metering lights are still on. once you get across the toll plaza, across the span, it is a 10 minute drive. michelle, the sunshine continues across the bay area. another warm day across the region. here's a live look with our treasure island camera looking at that in san francisco. here's but you can expect. sunshine, daytime highs, will above average for this time of year. so very similar to yesterday. were going to start to see some teaches for tomorrow. more clouds but still mild on friday. cooler for the weekend and just a slight, slight chance of a shower for the far south bay on sunday. other than that for today, 72 in san francisco, warming up to 76 in fremont. 78 in san jose, santa rosa. much cooler into the 50s on sunday. fighting climate change

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2020. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. ahead a new coronavirus case in california raises fresh concerns because no one knows where this one came from. >> i'm tony dokoupil. we hear from african-american voters in south carolina ahead of the democratic primary and why some are backing president trump. >> i'm anthony mason. meet a blind man helping others like him to try rock climbing in our series pushing the limits. >> first, here is today's eye opener at 8:00. new concerns about the coronavirus. we now have the first case with no immediate links to travel or a related illness. >> we don't know how this person got infected. that is a big concern right now for health officials. last night in onl hisd

ever white house briefing appearance the president tried to reassure nervous americans. >> we are very, very ready for this, for anything. >> i think the president is trying to be reassuring to the american public. people are understandably frightened. >> her attorneys asked a hawaii judge to lower her $5 million bail. that request quickly denied. >> candidates are desperate to cover as much ground as possible not only in south carolina but the 14 states voting next week when nearly 1400 delegates are up for grabs. >> joe biden has been getting skewered for repeating a claim he was once arrested in south africa on a trip to see nelson mandela. >> biden was not arrested but was separated from his party at the airport. nelson mandela was in prison for 27 years but one time i lost sight of my co-workers in the delta terminal so i get it. hey, where did you go? help! i'm arrested. wait. there you are. there you are. you're going. where are you now?

welcome back to "cbs this morning" following big developments in the coronavirus outbreak and that is where we begin right now. for the first time someone in the u.s. has contracted the virus apparently without traveling abroad or having close contact with another patient. the new patient is in isolation at uc davis medical center in sacramento. the cdc says this may be the first case of what it calls community spread. that is where the source of the infection is unknown. >> since yesterday at least nine more countries have announced their first cases. this morning japan said it is closing public elementary schools, junior high, and high schools through march to stop the spread. carter evans is outside uc davis medical center in sacramento tracking the latest u.s. case. carter, what do we know about the patient being treated there? >> reporter: well, right now health officials are trying to track down everyone this person may have come in contact with. the fact that there is no connection to overseas travel means this virus could be

spreading in the community. uc davis medical center says the patient was brought here from another california hospital last week. it wasn't until sunday that the cdc ordered tests because the patient initially didn't fit the criteria. yesterday the results came back positive, making it the 60th known case here in the u.s. at a news conference yesterday, president trump put vice president pence in charge of a task force handling the outbreak, but there are still contradictions between mr. trump and his top health officials over the potential for widespread cases in the u.s. >> i don't think it is inevitable. i think there is a chance it could get worse. there is a chance it could get fairly substantially worse. but nothing is inevitable. >> now, it is not so much a question of if this will happen anymore. but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen. >> reporter: as the concern increases, so does the demand for medical protective equipment. there is one company in georgia that makes face masks. it says it is going to be

working 24 hours, six days a week. the fight also continues online. facebook now saying that it is banning products promising a cure for the coronavirus. >> all right. carter, because as we know there is no cure. thank you very much. voters in south carolina head to the polls this saturday for the state's critical primary. the democratic candidates have been vying for the black vote, which is expected to make up about 60% of the electorate in that contest. president trump's campaign announced yesterday they are opening 15 so-called black voices for trump offices around the country to woo black voters. the president will have a rally there tomorrow in south carolina. our national correspondent jericka duncan spoke to some voters there. good morning. what did they tell you? >> we know president trump has emphasized the last few years he has done a lot for people in the black community often citing the lowest unemployment numbers for african-americans ever. so t s c to better understand what some black voters there are feeling.

>> african-american communities have suffered under democratic control. to those i say the following. what do you have to lose? >> reporter: president trump's plea to african-american voters began in the summer of 2016. it has grown even stronger as we approach election day. >> i have been working to build an unlimited future for african-american communities. >> reporter: robert baker who works as a corporate trainer in the mortgage industry agrees. >> we have for sure the lowest african-american unemployment in history. when i saw the economy get better, i noticed my 401(k), first thing i said, 401(k) begins to grow. the stock market is growing. >> reporter: tonya isaac says she is having a different experience and works part-time as a home health care aid and is on public assistance. >> you have an endless cycle

where you get this good job, then your rent goes up, then your food stamps are cut, then your child care is cut. >> reporter: adolphus belk jr. from winthrop university in south carolina. >> the gap between white and black homeowners is greater now than it was since before the fair housing act of 1968 when segregation was legal. >> reporter: what does that say when you look at the big picture of the economy as it relates to black people? >> it's one of the reasons why we have to examine multiple indicators of socio economic well being to get a sense of where people really are. >> reporter: a recent poll found 84% of black voters disapprove of president trump's job in office. according to a january "the washington post"/ipsos poll 83% of black americans believe the president is a racist. you believe the president has made racist remarks but you do not believe he is a racist. >> i've called white people honky. i ain't racist. >> the way that he talks.

the things that he has said, has pushed people to the point that they feel they can just say and do whatever they want without any repercussions. >> reporter: do you think the president is racist? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: while tonya and robert disagree on who should be president, both say they're concerned about the obvious, deep divisions that exist. you said something interesting about what your 13-year-old daughter said to you. >> yeah. >> reporter: what did she say that was so concerning? >> so we were upstairs talking in the bedroom. i'm letting her know cbs is coming to interview your dad as an african-american trump supporter. she says, daddy, is somebody going to want to kill you? we're in a bad place. >> reporter: when you hear of a young girl concerned about her father because he's expressing how he feels politically, what do you think about that? >> it shouldn't be. she shouldn't have to worry. but the sad truth is, because of

our president, it is a divide. >> reporter: 8% of black voters voted for president trump in 2016 according to a cbs news exit poll. robert baker who you heard from was not one of them. he actually called himself a never ever trumper who voted for a third party candidate. baker says he changed his mind when he saw the positive impact omic.a h i d wl h. jus sromes t that one or two things to look at and that is what professor belk was explaining when you look at home ownership, you look at wealth disparity, there are still a lot of things you can't say, oh, everybody is doing much better. he highlighted that obviously in the piece. but it will be interesting because you have more african-american men that also support trump and fewer african-american women. >> as always, you have to go beneath the headline. i think it is very troubling what his daughter was worried about her father because children are listening and

watching and seeing and what they're thinking, you know, based on what they see out there matters. >> it does. >> that 84% disapproval rating among african-americans is pretty imposing for the president. >> not disapproval. think he is a racist. >> that's 83%. >> oh, sorry. >> one over. jericka, thank you. ahead we'll talk to the author of a new book who says changing our food choices can help save our health and the good thursday morning to you. another repeat performance of yesterday, so sunshine and mild to warm above-average daytime highs as we head through our afternoon. on the flip side, as we head out the door, 32 in san francisco. 74, oakland. 77 in concord and 78 for san jose. more clouds for tomorrow. cooler for the weekend. in fact, on sunday, daytime highs below average, slight chance of a shower for south

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managing a crisis is what mike bloomberg does. in the aftermath of 9-11, he steadied and rebuilt america's largest city. oversaw emergency response to natural disasters. upgraded hospital preparedness to manage health crises. and he's funding cutting edge research to contain epidemics. tested. ready. mike: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. for our series pushing the limits, we meet a blind entrepreneur making rock climbing accessible to the visually impaired. 22-year- legos t too h help peoeoplee cl theyey canan't see.

"cbs this momornining's"s" satu co-host davivid jacobson spenen evening at central rock gym near boston to learn how the system relies on memory and touch. dana, how did they come up with the idea? >> it was crazy. it was a back story. he was born without sight and prevented him from building legos. at 13, with the help of a friend to create instructions in braille for lego sets. that work inspired with the lego foundation and last year they announced a rollout of audio and braille building instructions for some of the kits. now, taking that love of legos, the innovation, shifrin is helping the visuallyo know it's no easy feat. >> above your left shoulder -- >> even with perfect vision. >> left foot. >> but matthew shifrin is proof that in climbing. >> straight up. >> lack of sight is a comparable

obstacle. >> climber comes to the wall, looks at it and then is able to really think their process through before they get on the wall. i was thinking, you know, there's got to be a way to create a system so that blind people can feel climbing roots before they climb. >> bring your right foot to left knee. step through. >> that system relies on the caller, the eyes on the ground to mockup the wall using legos. >> each lego, each piece represents a different type of foothold that he'll know. >> yeah. >> shifrin's caller is max hernandez. in a matter of minutes -- >> i can see it now. not even kidding. >> now it makes sense. >> he converts this wall into this map of legos. >> this is when it gets steep and traversing right. then you have a creates scarring and results in

complete blindness. he says in many ways legos gave him eyes. >> how do legos help you see the world around you? >> they've miniaturized the world because when blind people touch things, touch is sequential. when you build with legos, the scale is so small and so convenient that you're able to take in entire buildings, entire city scapes with a single hand. >> the idea that something that's a child's toy could open up the world for you, i think it's pretty incredible to some people. >> it's thrilling. >> a sentiment echoed by visually impaired climbers mandi curtis and justin proctor. >> how have legos made you a better climber? >> matt brought this to -- the way you can take legos and really write out a climb in a very tactile way helps me understand not even the precision of the shapes of the holes, but the way the climb is going to know. >> justin, how about for you?

>> i thought it was an amazing idea. legos, you can come up to the route, the routes change often. you can move from climb to climb without that lag time. >> proctor has a degenerative eye condition which over time caused him to lose all his vision. >> i like to push the envelope. but i know what my limits are too, at the same time. >> curtis has sight in only one eye. which she describes as looking through a door's peephole. >> why is it important that somebody that has a limitation do a sport like this? >> i think the thing is, like, we always think about disabilities as limiting. but the truth is, like, it's not the disability that limits the person, it's the world that we live in that limits people. >> it's become shifrin's personal mission to keep paving the way giving the disabled community more access. >> i think it's really up to us to always be energized. as disabled people or just people who think from a different perspective. everyone deserves the thrill of doing something that they never

thought was possible. >> shifrin hopes that this lego system will be used as the paralympics and adapted to sports like skiers so blind skiers can know what to expect when they go down a slope. he never stops thinking. he looks at different ways to help the visually impaired really experience life. >> i get goose bumps. everyone deserves the thrill of being able to do something that they never thought was possible. i got goose bumps when he said that. i want to make sure i keep that. i also like to, what a lovely tribute to legos. we've done a couple of great lego stories recently. remember there was one about the ramp. >> the grandmother. building a ram. bravo legos. >> a child's toy. >> we all played with. >> it all started because when he was a kid, somebody knew him well knew that he wanted and needed that access to build one set. now lego has the sets for everyone as well. >> dana, i love in your piece when you say i can see it, i can really see t i'm not kidding.

>> literally on that lego set, you se e exa nctot even trying to be nic here. this really is there. >> we always do that. i love creativity. >> love it, love it. >> thank you, dana, very much. ahead, we celebrate black history month, actress viola davis and others reflect hon. the people who inspired them. you're watching "cbs this morning." thank you for that. we'll be right back. sdwln this morning's pushing the limits is sponsored by the all new 2020 subaru outback. go where love takes you. u and i did it anyway. for more than five hundred thousand miles, my outback always got me there. so when it was time, of course i got a new one. because my kids still need me. and i need them. (vo) welcome to the all-new subaru outback.

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>> announcer: this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning, everyone. i'm michelle griego. in the traffic center. and we're tracking a new crash this morning. this is on northbound 101 on the peninsula. near marsh road. long lane is blocked in that area. it is slowing speeds down just a bit. speeds dipping down about 40 miles per hour. right now. two cars involved in that crash. we want to give you an update on this crash in the north bay. all lanes are clear. northbound 29 and highway 221. you can see that residual delays. speed dipping down to about 30 miles per hour there. you look at 880 as you can see. very heavy congestion leading into oakland right there. things slowing down, stop and go through most of that travel. san mateo bridge, the traffic

starting to pick up, the commute is starting to pick up as people are making their way across the span. a 34 minute ride into foster city. and taking a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, 12 minute ride across the bay bridge. okay, michelle, you can see plenty of sunshine on michelle's live traffic cameras. here is another view with our treasure island camera. and we will continue with sunshine as we head through the day. don't forget your sunglasses as you head out the door. we are expecting warm temperatures again. well above average for this time of year. very similar to yesterday. changes for tomorrow. more clouds for your friday. much cooler for the weekend any slight chance for a shower or a coach for the far south bay sunday. so it is a possibility. our weather model is treading even drier for the weekend. as we head through the day, 72 in san francisco. 78 in san jose and santa rosa. 77 for concord. there we go with that extended forecast. more cloud on friday. cooler for the weekend. sunday, all of us will be in the 50s.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's that time again. my favorite time to talk to the table we call it. we're sitting here at the table picking out stories that we like to share with each other and all of you. anthony, you're first. >> i want to pay tribute to best selling author clive cussler. he died in arizona at 88. he wrote more than 85 books, including raise the titanic and he's best known for sea adventure series. his books sold more than 100 million copies. he was also a maritime explorer who nound founded the national underwater and marine agency which discovered shipwrecks. he had an extraordinary collection of classic cars. he was obsessed with them. in 1998, more than 20 years ago, i took a ride with clive in his

1929 duz en berg. he had more than 80 cars in the collection. incredible. he told me when i talked to him in, he said i was told early on, don't write adventure books, they don't sell. as it turns out, they were very wrong. he was -- i was interviewing him about a book, sea hunters, finding shipwrecks and he dedicated it to his three kids. they grew up with a father who never grew up. >> anthony, i think about your library that you did this 20 years ago. you're like oh, yeah, i did that too. >> when i told the folks, dig up this old interview, i can't remember how long ago it was. 22 years. like yesterday. i have an important warning of a financial scam here. one of the stars of the reality show shark tank says she was a victim -- they're calling it a phishing scam but it's a digital con job. bore bra corcoran was scammed out of 4 hup$,000.

her bookkeeper received an email about an invoice and it appeared to be from corcoran's assistant, a trusted source. approving payment for a real estate renovation. corcoran was not suspicious because she's got a lot of money and invests in lots of real estate and does this kind of thing all the time. she wired the money and the lesson learned is, that money, if it doesn't go to the intended recipient, you can't get it back. they call this a phishing scam. what it really is, is a con job. it nearly happened to me as well. >> i remember you talking about this. >> we were trying to buy a house. fraudsters hack in to someone you trust's account, your lawyer or real estate agent and they impersonate the people you trust. by the way, the payment is due right now. here's the wiring instructions. >> you almost sent the money. >> if not for a final check the bank did, we would have been completely taken. that money is gone. >> it's good that h easily it c

happen. you look at an email quickly. if it's off by one dimg it, i wouldn't notice it. >> it's the difference between getting a house and n getting a house. if you are wiring money, whatever the amount is, call the intended recipient. you can't falsify a phone call. call them up and say, confirming that you sent me this email and the money is going to you. >> you can't be embarrassed or think it's a stupid moment because that could happen to anybody. >> more embarrassing when the among person gets the money. that's the most embarrassing. my turn. we're talking about the broadway play, to kill a mockingbird. this was a very, very special performance because it took place in an iconic arena. it was staged at madison square garden. the audience was made up of 18,000 new york city public school students and their chaperones. the best part, they got to see the play for free. the regular cast, including ed paris, at cuss finch, took part.

it was the first time they hosted a theatrical production. special recognition to the producers who came up with the idea. kids after the play, they said they've never been to broadway or seen a broadway play. for some, they've read the book. to see it at this magnitude was cool. normally aits the shubert. performed for 18,000 people. they practiced in a warehouse in long island city to prepare. i think that's such a cool thing to do and allows people to have an experience to see a broadway play that never get a chance to see it. >> live theater is thrilling no matter where. that's so special that they pulled that off. >> very well done. >> well done, indeed. the world's largest rain forest is being destroyed at an alarming rate. destructive fires tore through massive sections of the amazon rain forest last summer. even before that, it had lost 20% of its land mass to

deforestation in the last four decades. executive producer adam yamaguchi hiked into the rain forest in brazil to see what's driving the forest loss. he uncovered surprising financial connections right here in the u.s. >> reporter: these agents, an arm of environmental ministry say the first step in deforestation is clear-cutting valuable timber, whether legally or like this logging operation, illegally. >> look at how huge they are. the authorities that we're following have said they routinely come across operations like this deep inside the forest. this is one step, one part of the process in seeing the forest

being dismantled. since 1965, brazil has enactedm destruction. and from development on the stability of its ecosystem. it encroaches on the land of indigenous tribes. but enforcement is increasingly difficult. in this area of the rain forest, there is an average of just one agent for every 25 million acres. >> the amazon rain forest itself is reaching a tipping point. the ecosystem would collapse and turn into asa vanna or a dry forest and nopt be the diverse rain forest it is. >> how close are we to that? >> well, in recent weeks and months, scientists have said that we're within maybe a couple of years at the rate that dee forestation is happening.

adam yamaguchi joins us now. there are financial ties between the u.s. and the logging going on in the amazon. what are they? >> absolutely. american companies are investing in and providing credit, financial institutions are providing credit to companies in brazil that are directly involved in did he forestation. we're a large and ready market for brazilian crops, soy, grown and sometimes illegally deforested land come to the u.s. >> it means simply cutting down the trees. there are so many people that don't know are why this matters. what's the most important thing to know? >> as one of the interview subjects said in the piece, we are nearing a tipping point. there's still plenty of amazon left. that's what people sometimes fail to understand. there's plenty left, but you can only cut so much down before you completely start to alter the local and the global ecology and environment around the amazon.

so that's dramatically dropping. the other thing is, you think back to august of 2019, some of the loudest voice that is were critiquing brazilian government when it came to the deforestation of the amazon -- our money is being put to work to help the companies do that. >> what surprised you the most in your filming down there? >> traffic jams. i'm from l.a. i'm used to that. >> what kind of traffic jams? >> i'd be traveling hundreds of miles deep into the amazon and encountering at one point encountered 24 kilometers of 18-wheelers, nose to tail, jammed on the road transporting goods from inside the amazon to port cities and beyond. >> it speaks to how much is being hollowed out of the amazon right now. >> amazing. >> it's not an infinite resource. >> adam, thank you very much. you can watch his newest episode of new series, reverb, it's

called complicit, the amazon fires and it's streaming right now at cbs news.com/complicit. a new book says food is the basis for some the world's biggest problems from chronic disease to climate change. what we can do good thursday morning to you. plenty of sunshine once again for today and mild to warm, above-average temperatures. that will continue this afternoon. so very similar to yesterday. let's show you our daytime highs. 72 in san francisco. 74 in oakland. six fremont. mountain view, 78 for san jose and for santa rosa. our clouds for your friday. cooler for the weekend. in fact, on sunday, daytime highs below average for this time of year. tom steyer will beat donald trump on the economy. his people over profits plan makes a living wage a right.

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author mark hyman. he said food can be a powerful tool to fight this. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about food and the growing epidemic of disease. >> it's striking. recent study of 195 countries came out that showed 11 million people die every year from eating ultraprocessed food. which are basically made from corn, soy and wheat that are the commodity crops that is 60% of our diet in america and 6 out of 10 americans have a chronic

illness caused primarily by food. it's fixable by food. >> is that diet the typical diet in america because of money, because of we like the flavor of it? what is it? >> it's a consequence of good intentions back in after the war when we funded the production of inrialagriculture. backfired on us because the food we're producing, it's making us sick and overweig42% overweight. one in ten severely overweight. we're having enormous costs from that. the cost to our economy, one in five dollars in the economy is for chronic disease and in health care. one in three medicare dollars is for diabetes alone. we have this huge epidemic driven by foot and can be fixed by eating a different diet. we really didn't have bad intentions but we've got to fix it. >> you're practically screaming in the book, we're dying unnecessarily, not paying attention. what do you want us to do?

you have to say something to get people's attention otherwise it sounds like white noise. >> of course. the beautiful things the cost to our society is clear. the cost to our children, cognitive function, the cost to national security. 7 out of 10 are for the economy. change your own way of eating to eat more whole foods which sounds like something we've heard before but it works. if we eat real food instead of processed food, we help our children. you know, we help solve issues. then we need to focus on how the government can change these things. >> that's why you say vote with your fork and wallet and voice. by having the government focus on food as medicine in policies. reforming and modernizing government policies around the food system and agriculture. we can actually make a huge difference. >> organic food is available but it's more expensive. it's very difficult for people. >> it is. you actually can eat more on the

whole foods side, which is going to help move things forward rather than commodity or ultraprocessed foods. we can get people focused on that, it wl make a huge difference. >> there are obstacles. change is -- you mentioned the cost. trying to change cost money and also time. a lot of time people don't have time to prepare a meal every night. >> it's tood actually cook is a myth. >> that's a myth? >> it's a myth. i'm very busy but i cook and i think it's just a matter of skill. if you know how to do something well. >> i cooked last night. i had to go to three stores, baby strapped to me to avoid the oil splashing on his feet. >> you see a connection between nutrition and mental health. >> absolutely. so we look at the data. we're seeing an epidemic of mental illness in the country. it's one of the big drivers of cost. if you swap out healthy food for processed food, depression rates go down.

we see prisons, violent crime goes down by up to 60% when prisoners swap out processed food for whole foods. >> the data is clear between mental health and our food. >> you know, we always hear eat healthy. don't you think we know that as a people but yet we're still not doing it the way we need to. >> we aren't. i don't think people understand the link between whey' eating and how they feel. the chronic diseases they're suffering from and how to fix it. that's what needs to happen. our government needs to pay attention to the issues. that should be the most important political conversation of our campaign because food is driving all these other problems that are silent. >> you said there's a connection between what adam yamaguchi was talking about. >> the deforestation is to raise soy and for feeding cattle and industrial meat which are harming our health and the planet at the same time. >> dr. mark hyman, thank you so much. the book is food fix and it's on

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span from hayward into foster city. anywhere taking a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, where you can see cars are still picking up at the toll plaza. but it is a 15 minute drive across the bridge. mary? all right, okay, michelle, we're going to continue with that sunshine and warm daytime highs. will above average for this time of year so very similar to yesterday. here is a beautiful live look with our sutro cam, looking at the golden gate. and it is sun shining down on our golden gate bridge. so here's what you can expect. we will continue with sunshine, for warm, above average temperatures. just for tomorrow. more clouds for your body but still mild. cooler with stronger onshore flow for the weekend and a slight chance of a shower or sprinkle on sunday for the far south bay or east bay. for the meantime, for most of us, 74 in oakland. 78 for san jose. more clouds friday, much cooler for the weekend. in fact, sunday, all of us will be in the 50s with that slight chance of a shower. but i was relentless first. relentless about learning the first song we ever danced to.

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