tonight, california records its first death from the coronavirus, and gov. gavin newsom declares a state of emergency to contain spit ad. plus, healthcare workers on the front line of treating coronavirus patients, how protected and prepared are they to fight the illness? also, joe biden won big on super tuesday but beerie sais projected to win the most delegates in california, we take a look at the rays and other kelocal and statewide contests. that evening and welcome. i, we begin tonight with a look at the coronavirus outbreaks in california in the us.

to novel coronavirus cases in san francisco. also an elderly resident in plaster county died frvi the s, the first such death in the state. the man who died had returned from a crews to mexico when he started experiencing symptoms. there are now least 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus and california, second only to washington state. where at least 14 people have died. joining me now is kqed science l reporter leslie g. thank you for being with me today. let's this crew ship, the man who died had just been on a crews that wentto xico came back, disembarked of the passengers and then picked up another 2500 passengers went on to hawaith and on way back, passengers started complaining of flulike symptoms, things that seem similar to covid-19. so the ship is now offshore, and people are being tested on board. tell me about the testing, and also about the risk to those who were not showing symptoms.

>> sloter jumpers came in yesterday and help public officials lower off a helicopter and went on a anship i some videos of that and it was interesting to see a ship that was completely empty, next to the waso all those people are in their staterooms right now, until we have more information about the test results. they are getting come you knro, service and staying inside, watching television, hopefully and staying away from each other. and so, until we have more test results, we won't know how many people were infected, hopefully like you said wathat person on a previous voyage, not on thisone, but there is a chance that people on this voyage could have been infected, because people who are on the previous voyage that went xito , some of those are on this voyage, so 60 people on their way to mexico are now going to hawaii and came back there is some contamination and we won't know until the test results come back. >> how many tests are being performed? >> so last prnight, the cess cruises which is the parent company of the grand princess, said that 45 people were tested and osey were because they demonstrate it flulike symptoms, they were coughing or

sneezing, or there were people around them who were in close contact i could have been exposed. >> the crews line, this is the at was off the coast of japan p with a lot ofcases, we had more than 700 passengers and crew members who tested positive. >> within 2000. >> within 3000. six have died from that number. is there something particular about this crews line, or could this have happened with any on any, really. so this disease is transmitted via cle contact, most of the people who are getting sick are inside a house number with someone else who is nick, so it cois translating via h, sneezes, teaching the same services. think about a crew ship like a big house with a bunch ssof gers who are in the same buffet line, they are sitting touching the same has, he pool, etc., and so a crew ship is kind of like a petri dish for a

virus to real go viral, amongst the passengers and potentially affect a lot of people so this could have happened on any large vessel. >> gov. gavin newsom declared a emstate of gency for california, and that gives us access to more resources, and federal funding it also helps to curb price gouging. during a press conference he held up this part of tihand sar and said it was going for $17, which seems outrageous. one of the things that really was of note to me in a press conference and about the state of emergency is that the term gol the way to september. which seems to indicate a long- term response. >> absolutely, we could be in it this for a while, so typically a virus spreads as we know, cold and flu is generally past in ich a tiwhen it is dry and cold outside. those viruses tend to go away because they don't transmit as well in hot and humid weather and then cold and flu season comes back. that is exacy what could happen with the coronaviruse we coula pop now, a lot of

people getting exposed and getting sick right now and another wave, in the faand then there is the chance of this becomes one of the circulating bugs that we see on an annual basis and it is >> so san francisco announce the first two cases of coronavirus here, and san francisco that are at greater state emergency before having any cases. >> we don't thknow how got sick, we think that they probthly got in community because from what we know right now, they do not travel overseas to a e ace where th was an outbreak and they were not in contact with someone else come over traveled overseas in a place where there is an outbreak so this likely t demonstrates t is spreading within the san francisco area. one person is a woman in her 40s who was in fair condition, she is in the hospital in a going to pass it to others, the protections and protocols in place to protect her, the other person unfortunately is an older man in his s, and heis in a different hospital, he is in serious condition. >> we hear that it seems to

affect older people more, but also people who havesuppressed immune systems, or pre-existing conditions in some way. >> older people are generally getting hit the hardest, and people with pre- existing conditions, that is a lot of people inthe population that may have a pre-existing condition like diabetes, hypertension, people who smoke, this is an upr respiratory infection and so people who have asthma, difficulty brathing anyways you probably have conditions that will make them more sensitive to this virus. they should be taking the most precautions they can, you know, some public places, making sure to wash their hands as often as possible, you know you think then will help pryou from getting sick but most of only, get some sleep, eat well, take care of yourself, so your system is as well as it can be able to defend against this >> if you feel yourself getting sick, what should you be

looking for when you are rried, maybe i ve the new coronavirus? >> it is going to be really difficult to tell if you have the e ronavirus. th no medical center that and buys this as the coronavirus via the cold or the flu. you wi feel likeyou have the flu, no cough, fever, some people get runny nose, very few actually, sore throatyou will feel tired and sluggish. the best thing to do no matter what is to stay home, don't affect other people, take care of yourself, rest and hydrate, if you start having trouble breathing, that is the time y car doctor, please call your doctor before you had -- head immediately to the hospital. hospitals are having trouble meeting the needs, only had to the hospital if you would have gone to the spital prior to the coronavirus outbreak, so only do that and in emergency situations. try to call your doctor first, and get their expertise. >> do you see it getting worse before it gets better? >> i think what we are going to

sea lot more cases, and so we are going to see a pop, that will be scary, i think mentally we all need to prepare for a situation that will feel more scary likely thit is, we need to alter that right now the flu is still a more dangerous and re threatening bug that is circulating and has been circling among us. back, take a deep breath, if you start to feel xious, if you're online and was that you're st to feel noticing stressed, stress is one way that our systems become less able to fend off bugs, take a ep breath, maybe go take a yoga class, meditate, get off- line for a little while, and prepare for the situation to change, and feel worse than it actually is. >> thank you so much for being with us today. yoare more than 250 confirmed cases of coronavius in the us according to johns hopkins university.

thiseek a national mississippian announce the results of a survey given to nurses in 40 states. among the findings come a fewer than one in five and that their employfo has a plan health workers wiown or suspected exposure to the coronavirus and only 30% that the employer ha an to protect healthcare workers dealing with a surgeon infections. with me now, thank you both so much for bewith me. to you first, dr. how concerned about you -- are you about your own personal safety? >> i think that the reassuring ronavirus is spread in a similar way to influenza, to the common cold, and we know how to de with that. so we have supplies of personal protective equipment, the masks, the gowns, the atgloves, his time, to try to help keep us safe, i think the thing that is more concerning is inwh is to happen in the

future if people, if there is panic, and people start to tying up all of those supplies and we as healthcare providers cannot get them. >> sandy, you have the potential coronavirus case that u were just working on in your last shift. tell me about that case, how you took your own precautions, and what happened with the people around this potential individual whmahad, who have this virus? >> so i came on shift yesterday morning, and was told i was assigned to a patient who was a coronavirus rule out now. important to remember that with many patients that appear ine ergence the room that we need to ruleout, that done very quickly and easily with a swab, is a test positive for the flu. tht particular individual the criteria, so we instituted all of our procedures and protocols, he was put into an isolation room within anteroom so that we cod manage his care, and keep ourselves safe

and keep the rest of the emergency room safe. >> do you fe that if there are more patients coming that your hospital is ready to deal with that? >> so because we are in search mode at this time, already, this is standard, this me of year with the regular flu are already at capacity, and in terms of being able tosupport all of the individuals that are coming in, because of the fear thatou mentioned, i concerned that we will run out of stuff, out of supplies to be able noto support only those could have coronavirus but our regular patients, the patient population that is very sie . >> sithe resources are limited in the test kits are as limited, dr.an emergency room doctor, what criteria do you use to determine whether or not someone should be tested? >> for us what we are doing is we are assessing the patient's r all possibilities muscle do

they have influenza, do th have the common cold, how sick are they? what level of care do we need work closely with the department of public health because they can do the testing, we have a verymblimite of kids, so we are testing only the sickest patients, the ones who are going to be hospitalized, and the ones who we need ifto know they have coronavirus to protect others around them, so the healthcare workers involved in their care, there are some, some variability in the department of public health testing, as this is a new thing for all of us, so we are adjusting and aswe get more information, that is i think why it is sometimes hard to get a grasp on what is going on with this because as new information is coming out we ng are adapour systems of work. but i think ththe importang for people to know is that we

are not testg everybody that comes in and is concernd. we don't have a treatment for this, a specific treatment, it is all the things your mom told you, just 20 fluids, takecare of yourself, rest. if you get a good and that that we have to give you supportive care in anthe hospitalthat just means we are giving our body the best chance that we can for you to e get over virus, for your body's immune system to take over the virus. so i think it is really important for people to understand that if you feelyou are sick enough to go to a hospital you should go to the hospital. to have difficulty breathing, go to the hospital. but if you feel like you're not feeling well but you are worried about coronavirus and it is very little likelihood that at this point we will be le to test use of the best thing is to stay at home, take care of yourself, call your doctor, cahelp line, but again, managing that, like we normally would for any, for , flu, for coany virus. >> let's talk about masks because this is a big topic, people are concerneat there are not enough masks for them out in the public, that they

are running out of them in stores or online, and also, whether or not althcare workers have enough masks. what is your works area? >> was wearing a mask, having enough masks. so prior to treating this patient, i worked in triage and when i was in triage, we had many individuals coming up and trying to grab our supplies and masks, trying to hoard them, so i had to educate them and let them know thutilizing a mask, unless systematic, family members are having symptoms, it iswaot what we to do in terms of protecting ourselves. the triage nurse afis, the we are not wearing masks ourselves, though at this point, we are just emphasizing is, just really extensive handwashing, that is how we will prevent this right of this, and of course, not panicking, so in terms of caring for my patient yesterday, what i found interesting is that we did not have sufficient supplies in the room that i was utilizing.

to be secure in making sure that i wasn't going to be exposed to this disee or transmitted to other individuals. so we had to keep leaving the area to get additional supplies that were being sequestered in the manager's office. >> survey carefully being monitored at this point. how are hospitals preparing and how can hospitals prepare for a surge new cases? >> so we end uphaving a surge, we are a small hospital and we don't havethe capacity to treat many individuals can really have two isolation rooms. so this will be treated as a disaster and we are very trained in terms of disasto response would set up tents outside, we can even have an icu set up outside of that was necessary. >>you have concerns about people using the emergency room as the first point of contact for people who think they may have the coronavirus? >> yeah, i think one of the challenges with any type of outbreak or any disaster like

this is that, people are afraid and they're not sure where to go. and i think one of the challenges with this this it is hard to get information because information is constantly changing. and i don't want to discount the fear, that is very no al, whenfirst heard about coronavirus i was nervous about it, to. the way we conduct that is to information. so i think talking to your doctors, calling if you have symptoms or you're concerned about what you should do, and then the cdc website, the department of public health website, they all have the information. i think onof the key things with the emergency department, if you need to come to the emergency depart nt because you feyou are having an emergent the, we want to be there for you. but if you're concerned or you about before, thatmay not lked happen. and so if you can stay at home, staying at home to try to prevent spreading this to other

people is good, we are all in wethis together and need to work together to try to manage this. >> what would you tell people o are worried orafraid about contracting the disease? >> my daughter asked me that same question. next week and she said mom, should i be worried? and she is 22 years old, and i f sast of all, you are not in the demographic of immunocompromised, the elderly. but the main thing is you don't neju a mask, make sure you wash her hands and you will be fine. thank yoboth for being with me today. you can sign up for text alerts for coronavirus updates by texting us. >> on tuesday, former vp joe biden won major victories in 10 of the 14 states that ballots in presidential primaries. vermont sen. bernie sanders prevailed in his home state as well as utah and

colorado. he is also projected to and iaheavily in californ where 415 delegates are up for grabs. also, former mayor mike bloomberg and sen. elizabeth warren dropped out of the race. fi this is the rst time that california has held its primary on super tuesday, moving up from june. voters also decided the fate of local and statewide ballot in measures. uding proposition 13, the largest school bond measure in state history and attacks on vacant orefronts in san francisco. here's our a senior editor, scott shafer and politics and government corresponding, yo marissa. thanfor being here. so hot peoff of tuesday, let's tackle the local t,sues fio let's talk about prop 13 which is on track to fail. this is not the same prop 13 to 1978 got property taxes, the city bond measure thatemwould ace $50 billion for california's tools including the colleges universities.

>> we passed five measure since 1998, this was appointed by gov. newsom unlike one in 2016 which jerry brown opposed. green light, all the way, and yet, it is losing right now, there is still like 3 1/2 million or so ballots to count but it is behind 5545 roughly. it is a bit of a mystery but if you look loat the l school bond measures that the t ate, ab% of those lost as well. so there might have been some on fatigue in general, maybe concerns about the economy but as e you said thwas this question about where voters were confused by the title, because there has been a lot of talk about prop 13, a measure in november to reform the old prop 13 from 1978, the property tax measure so they might enhav onfusion and even talk of retiring 13 as a proposition number, just in se that wa

but it just seemthat for whatever reason, maybe got overwhelmed by coronavirus and the president are primary, the message never oke through. but in any case looks like it will fail. >> especially since we were not in a recession at the point. so let's turn to the part d measure. this will need a two thirds jority to pass, seems to have gotten that. this will allow the city to tax property owners who have their t storefronts vaand it is a measure to fight blight as much is anything else. what wi we see in terms of impact on this proposition? where will we see it? >> that depends on how they are agessive. the idea behind this, it dehad read support among both progressive and more moderate sort of factions at . city ha you do have of course retail suffering right now but in addition to that you have a lo

of who have been allowing the storefronts to sit vacant, talking in neighborhoods near ere we are, like north each, talking about commercial quarters of the city and there's a real ncern for other merchants of what that does to their best this and the property values. so the idea is thif a property owner essentially is given a warning and does not do something to fill that they can tax them and use that money to support small businesses. i think the hope is that you won't actually implement that tax, you won't actually be getting the storefronts filled and i think that there is some idea that maybe some of these enproperty owners have waiting for, you know, a chainstore, somebody who can pay this higher rent and they are saying l st a lo business and there for the meantime and help sort of juice these commercial quarters. or don't kick them out which i t think is r issue, so this is sort of meant to be a little bit of a. >> let's take a look down southern california now, los angeles county, where our fowaer district attorney running for the das office there.

so he was positioning himself as the criminal justice reform candidate and was running against incumbent jackie lacey. that positioning of, justice reform worked we for him up here. but not so great down there. >> it looks like jackie lacey is a 50.2% of vothe s, she could avoid a runoff, she could win out right. there were two progressive candidates running against her and she said, she was the first woman da fidown there, t african-american as foll. runnina third term, i believe, and he was really encouraged by, justice reform advocates because there was a th sens jackie lacey was to traditional, tough on crime, she was still seeking the death penalty in a lot of cases and so he went to the challenger, ft his job here in san francisco, and it hard to think, geneva county there's a bit rpof bagging tape sometimes to it. if you at a both of the votes he got in the votes thpublic defender who was running also a progressive, they are close to

what jackie got. it could be a different situation. offered you probably will. her numbers haveen declining since the election day. th >> is also weird thing that happened with her husband, threatening to shack lives matter protesters who were at his home in his defense. >> as he mspositions f, they were protesting him up here as well, and that was one of the women of the decision point but i think one of the things that encouragedm and his wife you decide to leave san francisco, so. >> let's international politics. there are two men were standing in the democratic process. when it comes to delegate math where do we stand right now and wh is coming up >> so joe biden, has run 650 delegates as of now and sanders, bernie sanders has about 57so that doesn't d a big

difference but a lot of the states coming up do tend to favor joe biden, pehe did well with voters of color in south carolina, i think michigan will be the next big prize and it just seems like at this point it is biden's to lose. >> is but one was the most recent candidate to drop out and she had a lot going for status for a wild, she had a good ground game, she had strong policy ideas, share decent fundid but she not make a good showing anywhere in the early primary states. how much of that would you attribute to her performance and how much to ergebias? >> i realize i am thin ice answer this question and i will let marissa ju in. i think there's no question that she faced gender bias. as did some of the other women who are running. wayou know, there hillary clinton lost in 2016, i think there was a lot sense that it is really hard in this country for some reason for women to really win national

elections even though hillary got 4 miion more votethan donald trump. won the popular vote, boston electoral college. i feel in some ways elizabeth warren's best self never came through and i ink some of that is because if you are a woman running we have to way to look tough enough and she had a great personal story, she was betsy growing up in oklahoma city,her father, you know, had health problems, almost lost the home, and i felt that when she was talking abouthat and talk about her brothers being in the military, veterans, i felt like that really resonated -- >> she connected with people, i think she -- that might've been connected to o,her gender, she did not want to come off as just a folksy candidate who can only talk about eir personal things. i also think if you look at, and i think gender was a huge part of that, if you look at it coming in, he was the ce presiden has been in politics for longer i've been alive. bernie sanders has been a senator. they both had a national base and that base did not seem willing to abandothem for

warren and i think that there were elements of her campaign that could really speak to somee of the that both of those people see as their basis and she just did not break through. >> let's take a look at what ng cop next week, there are five states voting including michigan which is the biggest prize. wh are the stakesfor sanders and biden? >> there huge, i think this is a real opportunity for joe biden toput it ay in a sense, i mean, bernie sanders in 2016 one michigan, going away against hillary clinton, if in some way joe biden hn be in michigan, he will win in other states as well, down south, he will do well in missouri, washington state, north dakota, so i hesitate to n replace one coonal wisdom with another because last week it looks like bernie was going to run away with it but i do think that as she said, the matter at this point could favor biden and if he can continuesoo roll up wins, especially in michigan, and on

the flipside of that i think nders really needs towin in michigan. >> who knows because a week ago without bernie sanders was the nominee, so. thank you both for being here today, i appreciate it. the latest election results of w local and ste races, go to kqed.org/elections. thank úas always you can find more of our coverage at kqed.org/ kqed news room. thank you for joining us. robert: virus fears grip the

nation and democrats make choice. >> i am very much alive. robert: joe biden has auper tuesday sweeping the south and winning 10 states. >> the never been a campaign in recent history that has taken on e tire corporate establishment. robert: bernie sanders who won california and three other states carries on and rages against the party machine. but will elizabeth warren exit stage left and back him? i will go away. compare very little numbers