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continues. for others, you can check back with us a little later for the morning news and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in los angeles, i'm demarco morgan. this is the "cbs overnight news". reporting tonight from los angeles. president is calling for calm. last night the president's physician revealed mr. trump tested negative for the virus. right now confirmed cases top 3,100 across the country. more than 60 people have died. nicole killian at the white house with the latest. >> reporter: president trump is defending his administration's response. he says the u.s. was never set up for this type of outbreak but
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will be soon. >> because if it looks like you're overreacting, you're probably doing the right thing. >> reporter: the nation's top infectious disease inspector 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. you don't want to make a pronouncement that no one should go into an restaurant, that might be overkill. >> reporter: fauci called short of calling for a national lockdown as governors warned prolonged lockdowns. and pressed the administration to step up its response. >> we have never fought a virus like this with this potential consequence. so, plan forward. plan forward. >> reporter: as wall street braces for another volatile week, treasury secretary steve
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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 just businesses that just need liquidity for three to six months is not a bailout. >> reporter: they believe the u.s. economy can rebound. where do you put the chances of a recession at right now? >> i don't want to talk about -- about that. what i can tell you is that we're fighting significant headwinds. >> reporter: this afternoon the president convened a call with grocery executives. the white house says the supply chain is strong so americans don't need to hoard daily essentials. >> nikole at the white house, thank you. there was chaos at the 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.
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here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: pandemic panic at some of the nation's biggest airports as they caused long lines from people returning from europe. the hours long wait time in dallas, chicago and new york packing huge crowds into tight spaces, exactly the kind of gatherings americans are told to avoid. the delay appears to be a mix of staffing, the mandatory health screenings and newly implemented declaration forms that caught travelers by surprise. >> we just got an in-flight notification that something must have changed in our flight because border patrol is going to come on to our plane and have us fill out a lot of health forms. >> reporter: president trump tweeting on sunday, we are doing precise screening at our airports. illinois' governor blasted the federal government's efforts. >> today it's going to be even worse. there are larger number of
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flights with more people coming and they seem completely unprepared. >> reporter: the growing list of travel restrictions in china and europe come as the airline industry is in freefall. delta is slashing capacity by 40% and grounding 300 airplanes in the coming months. american airline announced it's 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 an month, an unprecedented shutdown of a $38 billion industry. >> the next round of travel restrictions go into effect late monday night. 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? >> kris van cleave, thank you. today the governors of illinois and ohio announced the closure of all bars and restaurants. and in new jersey, frank sinatra's hometown is doing it their way with a mandatory
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curfew. >> reporter: sunday coronavirus concerns prompted hoboken, new jersey, to allow only takeout and delivery. how long can you stay open if it stays like this? >> maximum two weeks or one more maximum resident not fa are away in teneck, new jersey, the mayor is asking them all to quarantine. 18 covid-19 have maced it the epicenter. >> we will only get through this together. >> drive through with your windows up. >> reporter: in new york they're testing hundreds of people a day in new row dhel at this drive-through lab. >> we are prioritizing people in new rochelle first because, again, that's where we want to reduce that density and reduce those cases. >> reporter: new york state is aiming to test 6,000 a day starting next week. on monday at least 20 states
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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's the right thing for keeping the kids safe, it's the right thing to do. >> reporter: nike's 700 retail outlets worldwide with 76,000 employees are closing temporarily and apple announced 450 stores in 21 countries will close until march 27th. monday night the coronavirus curfew kicks in here in hoboken from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. as the city of 50,000 are ordered to stay off the streets. demarco? >> meg oliver reporting, thank you. there is also new financial fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. ski resorts across north america are the latest big business to close. while some workers are being paid, many are seasonal. it's a devastating hit. here's jonathan. >> reporter: the nation's $20 billion winter sports industry is the latest to quarantine.
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this weekend veil resorts announced it's 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 have to do the right thing. >> reporter: the virus is hitting all sectors of the cli from steve madden and the first domino has fallen in las vegas with a tourist economy worth over $34 billion that sustains 300,000 jobs. starting tomorrow, mgm has announced layoffs and furloughs. nationwide hourly workers have been hardest hit, many unable to collect a paycheck while shops are shuttered. nba players with the bulls and blackhawks announced they will personally pay arena workers during the closure. as more businesses close, two more must stay open -- pharmacies and supermarkets like this seattle costco where they
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the pandemic. a radical range of closures and restrictions. elizabeth palmer has the latest. >> reporter: 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. president macron sanitizing his hand before casting a vote. overall it's eerily quiet from one end to the other. cafes, bars and restaurants are all closed, as are the schools. and the great landmarks like rome's trevi fountain are deserted or like the eiffel tower, shut down. for the moment, britain has fewer coronavirus cases than
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europe. and the few sporting events that haven't been canceled are drawing crowds like today's rugby match, but people are clearly worried. a long line of shoppers waited to stock up outside costco in manchester, and as everywhere, there's been an inexplicable run on toilet paper. as british hospitals get ready for a surge in patients, matt hancock made an appeal to medical equipment makers. >> we're saying that if you produce a ventilator, we will buy it. >> reporter: but nowhere is there panic. instead, solidarity. locked down italians singing from their balconies and in spain, a mass ovation for health care workers manning the hospital front lines. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. sunday marks one year since the attack on two mosques in christchurch that killed 51
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people. mourners laid flowers to remember the dead and remembers of a motorcycle club performed a traditional dance. here the coronavirus caused a formal memorial to be canceled. straight ahead, how the coronavirus is threatening the nation's blood supply. and this isn't the first time humans have been plagued. a look back at past pandemics later, the coffee shop where hope is the first thing on the menu.
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welcome back, everyone. as the coronavirus spreads, there are concerns about how it may threaten the nation's blood supply. the red cross depends on donations but blood drives have been canceled. chris martinez reports, shortages could be next. >> reporter: carlton schroeder donates blood once every two months. not only to help others, but also his own help. >> the doctor wanted me to drop a pint of blood because i have high hemoglobin. >> reporter: the red cross says donations like carlton's have
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vital. blood drives around the nation are being canceled, especially in states with large outbreaks. red cross vice president paul sullivan says blood banks are asking healthy people to donate and maintain the blood supply. >> whether it's people in emergency situations, whether it's car accidents, people giving birth, blood is a vital part of our health care system and we need to make sure we have it available for the patients. >> you're going to go far back. >> reporter: to help keep donors safe, they are taking everyone's temperature when they walk in the door and to undergo a private health screening. they are disinfected from top to bottom. the red cross is screening their own staff, taking everyone's temperature when they afsh to work. the organization says there's no evidence that coronavirus can be spread through blood. carlton says donating now is a no-brainer. >> blood is needed and blood is
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wanted, so -- >> reporter: he hopes more donors come through to help. still ahead, we look back at past pandemics and how we get through them. but in my mind i'm still 25. that's why i take osteo bi-flex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex - now in triple strength plus magnesium. when ourkids, bedtime!her kids moved in with us... ...she was worried we wouldn't be able to keep up. course we can. what couldn't keep up was our bargain detergent. turns out it's mostly water, and that doesn't work as well on stains. so, we switched back to tide. one wash, stains are gone.
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pandemic before this was the 2009 flew called h1n1, or swine flu. >> further spread is considered inevitable. >> reporter: it led to a chaotic scramble to vaccinate the most vulnerable. >> i don't want anybody to be alarmed but i do want everybody to be prepared. >> reporter: before it tapered off in the spring of 2010, it infected between 10% and 20% of the world's population and killed up to 75,000. a decade before, the world health organization issued its first pandemic plans in 1999. that was five years after richaric richard preston's chilling "the hot zone" which detailed two central african diseases, including ebola. >> 19 daedead. >> reporter: the movie
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"outbreak" in 1995 imagined an ebola-like outbreak in california. >> we have to keep everybody there. >> we're doing that it, sam. >> no, we're not doing it because i just drove through 100 people. >> reporter: more recently contagion in 2011 looked at social disorder. hollywood often deals in fast-moving fiction but the world has seen slower, more sustained spreads. the most devastating pandemic in history was the black death between 1347 and 1351. the bubonic plague killed up to 200 million between 30% and 60% of europe's population. later smallpox peaking in the 18th century. it remains the only infectious disease that's been completely eradicated.
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cholera remains a major problem in areas without a clean water supply. the worst pandemic of the 20th century was the spanish flu, the original outbreak involving h1n1, killing up to 100 million. one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with tuberculoids. 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 retire from the lakers. >> reporter: but it was this announcement from nba legend magic johnson in 1991 that helped the world realize hiv/aids could affect anyone. >> i plan on going, living for a long time, bugging you guys like i always have. >> reporter: while treatments have improved dramatically, the
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to imagine that a year ago this bubbly barista behind the counter at la la land 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'd probably be suffering from depression. i would probably be trying to still make it on my own, probably on the streets somewhere. >> reporter: this dallas coffee shop has become a safe haven for kids aging out of the system like sara and crystal and randall. >> i was a foster kid that didn't care about me. i have a whole big family, you know, they didn't care about me, so i felt alone until la la land is my family. >> reporter: in texas alone, more than 1,200 youth aged out of the system last year and many ends up on the streets. >> we're not in the business of coffee. we serve coffee. we are definitely in the world
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have business of kindness. >> reporter: so far he's hired nine. >> our goal is to open thousands a store, 10,000 stores and hire as many youth as possible. >> reporter: but that cuts into your profits. >> of course. but there's a balance in life. we have a duty to our society to help the ones in need. >> reporter: sierra was placed with a foster family after her father sexually abused her when she was 15, nearly five years later it's still difficult to talk about her journey. >> i just try to push it behind me because it happened and i just want to move forward. >> reporter: sierra admits she's got a lot of healing to do, but she's thankful she's finally found a place she can call home. >> coming to la la land is not just working. it's like an overall attitude, pickup. >> reporter: best part of working here? >> having people that believe in me. it lets me work after my goals and believe in myself. and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news
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continues. for others, you can check back with us a little later for the morning news. of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in los angeles, i'm demarco morgan. this is "cbs overnight news." >> good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm demarco morgan reporting tonight from los angeles. president trump is urging calm as frustration builds over the federal response to the spreading coronavirus outbreak. last night the president's physician revealed mr. trump tested negative for the virus and he's symptom-free. right now confirmed cases top 3,100 across the country. more than 60 people have died. nikole killion at the white house with the latest. >> reporter: president trump is defending his administration's response. he says the u.s. was never set up for this type of outbreak but
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will be soon. >> because if it looks like you're overreacting, you're probably toog the right thing. >> reporter: the flags'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 we take a look at what's 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. >> reporter: 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 yore. >> reporter: and pressed the administration to step up its response. >> we have never fought a virus like this with this potential consequence. so, plan forward. plan forward. >> reporter: as wall street braces for another volatile week, treasury secretary steve
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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 three to six months, that's not a bailout. >> reporter: mnuchin and the president's top trade advisers say they believe the u.s. econom can rebound. where do you put the chances of a recession at right now? >> i don't want to talk about -- about that. i can tell you is that we're fighting significant headwinds. >> reporter: this afternoon the president convened a call with grocery executives. the white house says the supply chain is strong so americans don't need to hoard daily essentials. >> anikole killion at the white house, thank you. there was chaos at the airports. the trump administration said it has not ruled out the possibility of new domestic
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restrictions as well. here's kris van cleave reside. >> reporter: pandemic panic as new travel restrictions caused long lines in customs for people returning from europe. the hours long wait times in dallas, chicago and new york packing huge crowds into tight spaces, exactly the kind of gatherings americans are told to avoid. the delay appears to be a mix of staffing, the mandatory health screenings 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 onto our plane and have us fill out a lot of health forms. >> reporter: president trump tweeting sunday, we are doing very precise medical screenings at our airports. pardon the interruptions and delays. we are moving as quickly as possible. illinois' governor blasted the federal government's efforts. >> and then today it's going to be even worse. there are a larger number of flights with more people coming
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and they seem compleely unprepared. >> reporter: the growing list of travel restrictions in china and europe come as the airline industry is in freefall. delta is slashing capacity by 40% and grounding 300 airplanes in the coming months. american airlines announce it's cutting 75% of international flying and will park or retire most of its long haul fleet. the world's four biggest cruise lines are suspending cruises for a month, an you unprecedented shutdown. the next travel restrictions go into effect late monday night. remember, 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? >> kris van cleave, thank you. today the governors of illinois and ohio announced the closure of all bars and restaurants and in new jersey frank sinatra's hometown is doing it their way with a
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mandatory curfew. >> reporter: sunday coronavirus concerns prompted hoboken, new jersey, to restrict restaurants, only allowing delivery and takeout. how long can you stay open if it continues like this? >> i'm not sure like that. maybe maximum two weeks or one more maximum. >> reporter: not far away in teaneck, new jersey, the city's mayor is urging all 40,000 plus residents to self-quarantine. >> goes on first. >> reporter: 18 covid-19 cases here have made teaneck new jersey's epicenter. >> we will only get through this together. >> drive through with windows up. >> reporter: in new york they're testing hundreds of people a day in new rochelle at this drive-through lab. >> we are prioritizing people in new rochelle first because, again, that's where we want to reduce that density and reduce those cases. >> reporter: 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.
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parents across the country are scrambling to find child care and preparing to home school. >> i'm okay with it. if they think that's the right thing for keeping the kids safe, it's the right thing to do. >> reporter: 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 in hoboken from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. as the city of 50,000 are ordered to stay off the streets. demarco? >> meg oliver, reporting, thank you. there is new financial fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. ski resorts across north america are the latest big business to close. and while some workers are being paid, many are seasonal and it's a devastating hit. here's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: the nation's $20 billion winter sports industry
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is the latest to quarantine. this weekend veil resorts announced it's closing operations at 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 have to dot right thing. >> reporter: the virus is hitting all sectors of the economy from iconic clothing brands like steve madden and the first domino has fallen in las vegas with a tourist economy worth over $34 billion that sustains 300,000 jobs. starting tomorrow, mgm and others have announced layoffs and furloughs. nationwide hourly wage workers at smaller businesses have been hardest hit. ununable to collect a paycheck while shops are shuttered. 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 stay open -- pharmacies and supermarkets like this seattle costco where large groups
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this is the "cbs overnight news". welcome back to the overnight news. i'm demarco morgan. the coronavirus continues to spread through the united states and around the world. but europe is getting the worst of it. the death toll on the continent climbed past 2,000 sunday. that includes 268 new deaths in italy, which has become the epicenter of the contagion. elizabeth palmer has the view from london. >> reporter: italy still has, by far, the highest number of positive coronavirus cases in the world, but just last week, the w.h.o. named spain as the new epicenter of the pandemic
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because the number of cases there suddenly rocketed up ten-fold. normally crowded spanish streets are empty. the government has ordered people to stay home unless absolutely necessary. and spain's prime minister confirmed on television that his own wife has tested positive. all across europe, cities are eerily quiet. in france, italy, belgium, parts of europe, cafes, bars and restaurants are closed as officials scramble to slow the spread of virus. schools are closed, too, and even the great landmarks like rome's trevi fountain and the eiffel tower. though paris being paris, the tough new rules didn't slow down left-wing protesters yesterday facing on of with the police. it's iran that has the second highest number of cases on earth and it's now struggling to treat
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victims in ill-equipped hospitals. but notably nowhere is there panic. instead, displays of solidarity. ♪ like lockdowned italians singing from their windows. and in spain, a mass ovation for health care workers manning the hospitals' front lines. here in the uk we still have far fewer cases than the rest of europe so they haven't closed the restaurants and the schools, but it is clearly hedging its bets. it's announced it's planning to buy as many ventilators it can get its hands on. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases on "face the nation". >> you said this week, we are not at the peak. >> right. >> and this is going to get
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worse. how much worse? what are the numbers? >> well, i can't give you numbers because it's really going to depend on the effectiveness of our response. and our response -- i mean, if you just leave the virus to its own devices, it will go way up like we've seen in italy. that's not going to happen. if we do what we're attempting to do and are doing. >> how do we get ahead of it? >> the way you get ahead of it, as i try to explain to people that i want people to assume that i'm -- or that we are overreacting, because if it looks like you're overreacting, you're probably doing the right thing, because we know from china, from south korea, from italy, that what the virus does, it goes -- percolates along and then takes off. so what we've got to do is a couple of things and we're doing it. one is preventing new infections from coming in, hence, the travel restriction. the other is doing containment and mitigation within the country. and it is correct that the infections are going to go up.
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our job is to make sure it doesn't do the maximum peak and actually blunts. within that blunt there will be many new infections. we want to make sure we don't get to that really bad peak. >> american lives have changed dramatically in the week we just went through and they're going to continue to change. people aren't supposed to be visiting nursing homes. people are told to work from home. schools are shutting down. give us the reality check, though. what is the mortality rate and what is the recovery rate. >> well, the issue is if you look historically, right now in the united states we're collecting data. it looks similar to what we've seen in some other places. if you look at the totality, china dominated that previously. the mortality was about 3%, okay? that's quite high for any kind of respiratory disease. if you look at the other countries, it's somewhat less. if you count all the people who are getting infected and are not being counted because they're not coming to the attention of a
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health care provider, then mortality will likely come down to somewhere around 1% or less. even that is serious. that's why we've got to take this seriously. because if you look at the typical seasonal flu, it's 0.1%. so, this is a virus that transmits readily. it's a virus that has a hard degree of morbidity and mortality. that's the reason we have to do all of our forces. now, if you look at the recovery rate, the recovery rate is minus what the mortality is, so if the mortality is 1%, it's 99% recovery rate. if the mortality is even less, overwhelmingly more people recover from this than get into serious trouble, there's no doubt about that. but we want to make sure we not only decrease the rate of infection,ing we protect the vulnerable people who are within that percentage that have a much higher degree of morbidity and mortality. >> the president indicated that he is looking at travel restrictions, including within the country. >> right, right. >> should americans get on a
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plane right now? >> well, it depends on what the reason for getting on the plane. anything that's, to my mind, particularly if you are a person who's elderly or falls within the category of underlying conditions, you should really think twice before putting yourself in a situation where you're in a crowded place for an extended period of time. >> you wouldn't get on a plane? >> right now -- me, i -- there are a number of reasons i wouldn't get on a plane, but if i were not doing the job that i'm doing, because of my age, i would very seriously think about not doing any travel like that. >> should americans get up and go to the office tomorrow? >> well, you know, it depends on the situation that you're in. to the extent possible, teleworking should be done to the extent that you can do it. there are some jobs you can't telework. let's be real. but if you can, you should. you should avoid crowded places. that's the things we've been talking about all along right now. the cdc has a nice website. you go in, you talk about the different kinds of mitigations
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at different levels of involvement. >> don't go to crowded places. france is trying to close down restaurants and cafes. >> right. >> and bars. should that happen here in the united states? >> you know, every single day we meet with the task force and we take a look at what's 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. it may come to the situation where we strongly recommend. right now myself personally, i wouldn't go to a restaurant. i just wouldn't. because i don't want to be in a crowded place. i have an important job to do. i don't want to be in a situation where i'm going to be all of a sudden self-isolating for 14 days. >> for those americans right now returning from europe, how do we make sure that that doesn't allow for further spread? how do you screen them? >> yeah, you know, i think the issue is if you look at what's happening now for people who are coming back from like the european countries, when they get back in here, they're having an enhanced screening when they
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come back. >> what does that mean? >> actually just looking at them, seeing if they're sick. giving them a piece of paper, here's a telephone number. here's what you need to watch out for, watch out for these symptoms and importantly, 14 days self-isolation if you come from a country on that list. >> period. >> period. you come back to 14 days of self-isolation. >> millions of children across this country are looking at the possibility of not being able to go to school for at least a few weeks. >> right. >> possibly longer. >> right. >> their parents are going to figure out what to do with them. can they take them to playgrounds, is that safe? >> it depends. if you have a bunch of kids in the playground, i don't think it's good to congregate. >> of any age. >> yes. >> if a young individual, a child, gets infected, they may do perfectly well from a physical standpoint but they may bring it home to a person who is
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susceptib susceptible, so we can't discount the issue of children need also to follow certain of these rules. >> dr. fauci, thank you for your time. >> the "cbs overnight news" will >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. when the murray's head to work... ...their dog michelangelo gets to work, too. today'job? own. the. bed. stink-eee. good thing they use new gain ultraflings with two times the oxi boost and febreze, for ultra-big, ultra-stinky loads. fresh again. gain. seriously good scent. and if you love gain flings, you've gotta try the dish soap.
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them all, so far. jeff glor has this story. >> the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. > reporter: the most recent pandemic before this was the 2009 flu called h1n1 or swine flu. >> further spread is considered inevitable. p>> reporter: as many of us remember, it led to a chaotic scramble to vaccinate the most vulnerable, those over 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 are rt before it tapered off in the spring of 2010, h 1n1 infected 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 1999. that was five years after richard preston's chilling international best seller "the hot zone" which detailed the
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origins of two terrifying central african diseases, including ebola. >> you got 19 dead. you got hundreds more infected and it's spreading like a brushfire. >> reporter: the movie "outbreak" in 1995 imagined an ebola like outbreak in california. >> we're not doing it because i just drove through 100 people! >> reporter: more recently "contagion "contagion" in 2011 examined social breakdown. >> we have no vak teen. >> reporter: hollywood often deals in fast-moving fiction but the world has seen slower, more sustained spreads. the most devastating pandemic in history was the black death. between 1347 and 1351. the bubonic plague killed up to 200 million, including between 30% and 60% of europe's population. later smallpox was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year, peaking in the
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18th century. it remains the only infectious disease that's 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 the 20th century was the spanish flu, the original outbreak involving h1n1. it killed up to 100 million. one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with tuberculoids. malaria is always a problem in tropical region. neither are 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 retire from the lakers. >> reporter: but it was this announcement from nba legend magic johnson in 1991 that helped the world realize
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there's no denying it. politics can get ugly in this country. the question is, how can we change that? steve harbin found one answer on the road. >> reporter: when you're muslim and running for congress, as qashim arashid is, you expect vitriol. here's the latest. we do not ill your ilk in our nation, let alone in any seat of office above street sweeper. who sends something like that? >> i didn't believe that there was a place for them in our government. >> reporter: oz dillon was hoping to rile a response with his comment and, boy, did he get one. >> i stared at the screen just
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reading it over and over and over. he reached across that gap. and took my hand. >> reporter: when he looked at this guy's old facebook posts, he found lots of offensive comments but he also learned he had crushing medical debt to the point he even set up a gofundme account. that's when he knew how to respond. he posted this this, my faith teach mess to serve all humanity so i donated $55 to his gofundme. please donate, if you can. and people did. paying off every penny of his debt. more than $20,000 total. >> and my mind was just a bhi whirlwind, a tornado of, what in the heck have i done? >> reporter: he asked forgiveness, which i said absolutely, nothing to forgive. you're my brother in humanity. then he asked me to come visit him.
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>> reporter: he object bliglige. they saw each other again at a coffee shop. >> undocumented immigrant. >> can we say illegal? >> no. >> rorter: dislling misconceptions. >> there's nothing wrong with dogs in islam. >> there's not? >> reporter: he said he learned a lot from him. that doesn't mean you're necessarily going to vote for him. >> absolutely not. >> that's not what it's all about. i said, i'm not doing this for any favor. he responded, that's fine but i need you to put your yard signs for your campaign in my lawn so everyone can see it. >> reporter: today that sign went up. a huge 4x6 message to the community that we need to return to civility, now more than ever. >> if we can do that, our prayers will be blessed and our actions will be blessed. >> and our lives and children will be blessed. >> amen to that. >> reporter: on the road in stafford, virginia. and that's the overnight news for this monday.
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for some of you, the news continues. for others, can you check back with us a little later for the morning news and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in los angeles, i'm demarco morgan. it's monday, march 16th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." growing restrictions under the coronavirus pandemic. everything from working to eating and socializing is being affected by the outbreak here in the u.s. more changes are coming. travel trouble as americans make a mad dash from overseas. many are finding themselves stuck in long, crowded lines at the airport. just to be clear, you committed here tonight that your running mate if you get the nomination will be a woman? >> yes. >> the former vice president commits to choosing a woman as a
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