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kpix.com. for now, we're going to give you some enriching sites of the san francisco bay area. >> morgan: breaking news tonight, the virus and dangerous spread, a new warning, americans should hunker down even more as the president's response. >> the federal government has fallen down on this. >> we're on our own. >> also tonight travel troubles. americans find long lines at airports, big crowds and confusion. is this is appalling. the infection rate could quad are you el. >> a new jersey city orders a mandatory curfew, as drastic measures appear nationwide. >> once you get in there, everybody running. >> economic nightmare, ski resorts are the latest big business to shut down across north america leaving thousands more workers without paychecks. >> the pope will celebrate holy
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weekend easter without the faithful. plus past pandemics, we explore the history behind these global threat. >> welcome in. >> morgan: and texas treasure, a one of a kind cafe. giving a chance to children often forgotten by others. >> we're this is the "cbs weekend news." >> morgan: good evening, and thank you for joining us i'm demarco morgan reporting tonight from los angeles. we start with breaking news. the federal reserve has responded to the coronavirus crises by immediately cutting interest rates to 0. president trump addressed the nation this evening. >> they've lowered the fed rate from what it was which was 1 to 1.25 and it has been lowered down to 0 to 0.25, or .25. so it is 0 to .25. that's a big difference. >> right now confirmed cases top 3100 across the country.
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more than 60 people have died. nikole killion is at the white house with the latest. >> president trump is defending his administration's response. he says the u.s. was never set up for this type of outbreak but will be soon. >> because if it looks like are you overreacting, you are probably doing the right thing. >> the nation's top infectious disease expert made the rounds warning it could be weeks if not months before things return to normal and cautioning americans to hunker down. >> every single day we meet with the task force and look at what is going on. and you don't want to make a pronouncement that no one should ever go into a restaurant. i think that might be overkill right now. but everything is on the table. >> fauci stopped short of calling for a national lockdown as several governors warned of prolonged closures. >> it would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year. >> and pressed the administration to step up its response. >> we have never fought a virus
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like this with this potential consequence. so plan forward, plan forward. >> as wall street braces for another volatile week, treasury secretary steve mnuchin said the administration is working with congress on its coronavirus aid package and will discuss potential help for hard-hit industries like the airlines. >> providing liquidity to good businesses that just need liquidity for threto six months, that's not a bailout. >> munchin and the president's top trade advisors believe the u.s. economy can rebound. >> where do you put the chances of a recession right now. >> i don't want to talk about-- about that. what i can tell is that we're fighting significant headwinds. >> this afternoon the president continued to call with grocery executives. the white house said the supply chain is strong so americans don't need to hoard daily essentials. demarco. >> morgan: nikole killion, thank you.
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there was chaos at airports dealing with the surge of people coming back from europe after new travel restrictions went into place. the trump administration says it has not ruled out the possibility of new domestic restrictions as well. here's kris van cleave. >> pandemic panic at some of the nation's biggest airports as new travel detion trikses caused long lines to clear customs for people returning from europe. the hours long wait times in dallas, new york and chicago packing huge crowds into tight spaces. exactly the kind of gathering americans are being told to avoid. the delay appears to be a mix of staffing, the mandatory health screening and newly implemented declaration forms that caught travelers by surprise. >> we just got an in-flight notification that something must have changed in the ten hours of our flight because border patrol is going to come on to our plane and have us fill out a health form. >> president trump tweeting sunday we are doing very
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precise medical screenings at our airport. we are moving as quickly as possible. illinois governor blasted the federal government's efforts. >> today it's going to be even worse. there are a larger number of flights with more people coming. and they seem completely unprepared. >> the growing list of travel restrictions in china and europe come as the airline industry is in free are fall. delta is slashing capacity by 40% and grounding 300 airplanes in the coming months. american airlines announced it is cutting 75% of its international flying and will park or retire most of its long-haul fleet. the world's four biggest cruise lines are suspending u.s. cruises for a month, an unprecedented shutdown of a $38 billion industry. that next round of travel restrictions affecting the u.k. and ireland go into affect monday. american citizens are exempted but americans coming back from either country will see a health screening at the airport and then be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. demarco.
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>> morgan: kris van cleave, reporting. thank you. today the governors of illinois and ohio announced the closure of all bars and restaurants. in new jersey frank sinatra's hometown is doing it their way with a mandatory curfew. meg oliver has this story. >> sunday coronavirus concerns prompted hoboken new jersey to restrict restaurants, only allowing delivery and takeout. >> how long ask you stay open if it continues like this? >> i'm not sure. maybe maximum two weeks or one month maximum. >> not far away in teaneck, new jersey, the city's mayor is urging all 40,000 plus residents to self-quarantine. >> 18 covid-19 cases here have made teaneck, new jersey, epicenter. >> we will only get through this together. we will only get through this if we depend on one another and tack care of one another, and look out for one another. >> drive through, keep your windows up. >> in new york they are testing hundreds of people a day in new
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rochelle at this drive thru lab. >> we are prioritizing people in new rochelle first, because again, that is where we want to reduce that density and reduce those cases. >> new york state is aiming to test 6,000 a day starting next week. >> on monday at least 20 states will shut down public schools. parents across the country are scrambling to find child care and preparing to home school. >> i'm okay with it. if they think that is the right thing, keeping the kids safe, it is the right thing to do. >> nike's 700 retail outlets worldwide with 76,000 employees are closing temporarily. and apple announced this weekend 450 stores in 21 countries will close until march 27th. >> monday night the coronavirus curfew kicks in here at hoboken from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. as the city of more than 50,000 are ordered to stay off the streets. demarco? >> meg oliver reporting, meg,
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thank you. there is also new financial fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. ski resorts across not america are the latest big business to close. and while some workers are being paid, many are seasonal and st a devastating hit, here's jonathan vigliotti. >> the nation's 20 billion dollar winter sports industry is the latest to quarantine. this weekend vail resorts announced it is closing operations at all of its 37 facilities spread across 15 states and three countries. staff will be paid. >> yeah, you're a little disappointed but on the other hand, you got to do the right thing. >> the virus is hitting all sectors of the economy from iconic clothing brands like steve madden and nike who is shutting all of their u.s. stores and giving staff paid leave. and the first domino has fallen in las vegas with a tourist economy worth over $34 billion that sustains 300,000 jobs. starting tomorrow, m.g.m. and others have announced layoffs and furloughs.
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nationwide hourly wage workers at smaller businesses have been hardest hit. many unable to collect a paycheck while shops are shut erred. >> rent is almost due. oh my god, it's terrible. >> players with the nba chicago bulls and nhl blackhawks announced they will personally pay arena workers during the closure. as more businesses close there are two industries that must sty open. pharmacies and supermarkets. like this seattle costco where large groups swarmed the shelves. >> it's crowded and people are fighting. >> but kindness can be more infectious than fear. >> officials reminding people to stay calm and think about helping those most in need. >> jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, los angeles. >> morgan: right now italy has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. and the world health organize has named spain the new epicenter of the pandemic. governments in europe are now scramming to slow the threat of the virus with the radical
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closures and restrictions. >> normally crowded, spanish streets are empty. the government has ordered people to stay home and police in madrid reinforced that message from a drone. >> you shouldn't be outside, they told pedestrians, unless absolutely necessary. >> in france the government decided to go ahead with local elections today. president macron conspicuously sanitizing his hands before casting a vote. but overall, it is early quiet from eerily quiet from one end to the other, cafes bars, restaurants are all closed as are the schools. and the great landmarks like rome's trevi fountain are either deserted or like the eiffel tower, shut down. for the moment britain has fewer coronavirus cases than most of europe.
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businesses here are still working and the few sporting events that haven't been cancelled are drawing crowds like today's rugby match in the north of england. but people are clearly worried. a long line of shoppers waited to stock up outside costco in manchester and as everywhere, there has been an inexplicable run on toilet paper as british hospitals get ready for a surge in patients, the health secretary matt hancock made an appeal to medical equipment makers. >> we're saying that if you produce a ventilator, then we will buy it. >> but nowhere is there panic. instead, solidarity. lockdown italians singing from their balconies and in spain, a mass ovation for health care hosprs manning the hospitals' front lines. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. london. >> morgan: the virus is >> morgan: the virus is also affecting campaign 2020. tonight joe biden and bernie you sanders will meet to debate without an audience.
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pandemics. the other is hiv/aids, there has been spanish flu, small pox, typhus, tuberculosis and more. every pandemic is different, it's frightening and deadly as jeff glor reports within the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic has been met. >> the most recent pandemic before this was the 2009 flu called h1n1 or swine flu. >> further spread, it's considered inevitable. >> as many of us remember, it lead to a chaotic scramble to vaccinate the most vulnerable, those over the age of 65, under the age of 5, and pregnant women. >> i don't want anybody to be alarmed but i do want everybody to be prepared. >> before it tapered off in the spring of 2010 h1n1 infected between 10 and 20% of the world's population. and killed up to 575,000. >> a decade before h1n1 the world health organization issued its first pandemic plans in
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30 and 60% of europe's population. later small pox was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year. peaking in the 18th century. it remains the only infectious disease that has been completely eradicated. cholera became widespread in the 19th century and remains a major problem in areas without a clean water supply. >> the worst pandemic of 20th sent real estate was the spanish flu, the original outbreak involving h1n1. it killed up to 100 million. one quarter of the world's tionedtion has been infected with with tuberculosis. malaria is always a threat in tropical regions. neither though are currently considered pandemics. the only other disease classified as such today is hiv/aids. first identified by the cdc in 1981. >> because of the hiv virus that i have attained, i will have to
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ask your doctor about linzess. ♪ ♪ >> morgan: finally tonight with all that is going wrong these days, it is worth remembering there is a lot of good in the world. and they're serving it up at a cafe in dallas. here's mireya villarreal. >> hi, welcome in, guys. >> it's hard to imagine that a year ago this bubbly barista behind the counter at lalaland kind cafe was struggling. >> what would have happened if you didn't work here? >> i would probably still be homeless. so i feel like if this light never came into my life, i would probably be suffering from depression. i would probably trying to still make it on my own, probably on the street somewhere. >> this dallas coffee shop has
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become a safe haven for kids aging out of a system. in texas alone more than 1200 youth aged out of the foster system last year, and many end up on the streets. >> we are not in the business of coffee. we just serve coffee. we are definitely in the business of kindness. >> lalaland owner franois reihani created a program where they learn to make it in the real world. so far he's hired nine kids. >> our goals is open a thousand stores 10,000, whatever it is, and hire as many youth as possible. to show that we can as hospitality businesses give back to our community first hand. >> but that cuts into your profit. profits. >> of course. i mean but there is a balance in life. we don't need to all get super rich off each store that we open. we have a duty to our society to help the ones who are in need. right? so finding that balance i think is the key to our future as a country. >> ciara moton was placed with a foster family after her father sexually abused her when she was 15. nearly five years later, it is
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still difficult to talk about her journey. >> i just try to push it behind me because it-- it happened. and i just want to move forward. >> ciara admits she has a lot of healing to do but is thankful she is finally found a place she can call home. >> becoming to-- coming to lalaland is not just working it is like a overall attitude pickup. >> best part of working here. >> just having a support system here, having people who believe in me, who trust me, who want nothing but the best for me. that gives me ambition. it lets me work after my goals and believe in myself >> mireya villarreal, cbs news, dallas. >> morgan: it doesn't hurt anyone to be kind. that's the cbs weekend news for this sunday. "60 minutes" is coming up. i'm demarco morgan reporting in los angeles. for all of us at cbs news, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access gr
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. live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> we recognize social isolation for million dollars of california is anxiety inducing. >> now at 6:00 p.m. governor gavin newsom announces new directives to contain the coronavirus. calling for the closing of bars and wineries and telling every senior in the state to stay home. >> the order to close the bars comes two days before st. patrick's day. live in san francisco with more reaction. >> reporter: this is a directive from the governor.
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the state is ramping up its efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus as they try a combat covid-19. all bars, wineries and nightclubs in california are asked to shuting down immediately. >> we believe that this is a nonessential function in our state. and we believe it is appropriate under the circumstances to move in that direction. >> i am confused by it. what good is it going to do? people are still going to be out and about. they still have to go to work. >> reporter: some business owners are wondering if the directive will be enforced. >> if you want to establish a framework of martial law which is ultimate authority and enforcement, we have the capa

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