tonighlifornia records its first death from the coronavirus, and gov. gavin newsom declares a state of emergency to contaiit spread. plus, healthcare workers on the front line of treating coronavirus ottients, how prected and prepared are they to fight the illness? also, joe biden won big on super tuesday t bernie nders is projected to win the most delegates in california, we take a look at the rays and othed key local statewide contests. that evening and welcome. i, we begin tonight withoka lo at the coronavirus outbreaks in california in the us.

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

>> sloter jumpers came in yesterday and he public officials lower off a helicopter and went on a ship, and i some videos of that and it was interesting to see a ship that was completely empty, next to the wall, so all those people are in their ghstateroom now, until we have more information about the test results. they are getting come you know, room service and staying inside, watching television, hofrfully and staying away each other. and so, until we have more test result we won't know homany people were infected, hopefully like you said that person was this one, but there is a chance that people on this voyage could have been infected, because people who are on the previous voyage that went to xico, some of those are on this voyage, so 60 people on their way to mexico are now going tocahawaii and back so the ship is likely that there is some contamination and we won't know until the s test resucome owck. >>many tes are being performed? >> so last night, the princess cruises which is the parent compy of the granprincess, said that 45 people were tested and they were chosen 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 same crews line that had a ship that was off the coast of japan with a lot of cases, had more than 700 passengers and crew members who tested positive. >> within 2000. >> whin 3000. six have died from that number. is the something particular about this crews line, or could this have happened with any ship company? >> on any, really. so this disease is transmitted vistclose contact, of the people who are getting sick are inside a house number with is translating cough, k, so it sneezes, teaching the same services. think about a crew ship like a big house with a bunch of passengers who are in the same buffet line, they are sitting next to each other on the pool, touching the sandrails, etc., and so a crew ship is

kind of like a petri sh for a virus to rareally go amongst the passengers and potentially affect a lot of people so this could have happened on any large vessel. >> gov. gavin newsom declaredofa state emergency 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 hand nitizer and said was going for $17, which seems outrageous. one of the things th really was of note to me in a press conference and about the state es all the way to september. which seems to indicate a long- term response. >> absolutely, we could be in this for quite a while, so typically a virus spads as we know, cold and flu is generally past in which a time when it is dry and cold outside. those viruses tend to go away because they don't transmit as o well in and humid weather and then cold and flu season comes back. that is ulexactly what happen with the corocovirus, we

d see a pop now, a lot of people getting exposed and getting sick right now and another wave in the fall, and then there is the chance ofth becomes one of the circulating bugs that we see on an annual basis and it is endemic withinour lives. sa >> so francisco announce the first two cases coronavirus here, and san francisco that are at greater reate of emergency be having any cases. >> we dot know hothey got sick, we think that they probably got in the community because from what we know right now, they do not travel overseas to a place where there was an outbreak and they were t not in contwith someone else come over traveled overseas in a place where there is an outbreak so this likelyes demonstrhat it is spreading within the san francisco area. one person is a woman in her wa 40s who in fair condition, she is in the hospital in a situation where she is not 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 70s, and he is in a different hospital, he is

in serious condition. >> we hear that it seems to affect older people more, but also people who have suppressed immune systems, conditions in some way.>> so older people are generally getting hit the hardest, and people with pre- existing conditions, that is a lot of people in the population that may have a pre-keisting condition diabetes, hypertension, people who smoke, this is an upper respiratory infection and so people who have asthma,hidifficulty br 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, staying me, maybe avoidi some public places, making sure to wash their hands as often as possible, you know you think that will help prevent you from getting sick but most of only, t some sleep, eat well, take care of yourself, so your system is as well as it can be able to defend against this viru >> if you feel yourself getting sick, what should you be

worried, maybe i have the new coronavirus? >> it is going to be really difficult to tell if you have the coronavirus. there is no medical center that and buys th as the coronavirus via the cold or the flu. you will feel like you have the flu, no cough, fever, me people get runny nose, very few acturoly, a sore , you will feel tired and sluggish. the best thing to do no matter affect other people, take care of yourself, rest and hydrate, if you start having trouble breathing, that is the time to call your doctor, please call your doctor before you had -- hospital. iately to hospitals are having trouble meeting the needs, only had to the hospital if you would have gone to e hospital prior to the coronavirus outbreak, so only do that and in emergency situations. try to call your doctor firs and get their expertise. >> do you see it getting worse before it gets better?

>> i think what we are going to see is a lot more cases, and so we are going see a pop, that will be scary, i think mentally we all need to prepare for a situation that will feel more scary likean it is, we need to alter that right now the flu is still a more dangerouand more threatening bug that is circulating and has been circling among us. so we kind of needto step back, take a deep breath, if you start to feel anxious, if you're online and was scrolling, and you are noticing that you're starting to feel stressed, stress is one way that our systems become less able to fend off bugs, ke a deep breath, maybe go take yoga class, meditate, get off- line for a little while, and prepare for thsituation to change, and feel worse than it actually is. >> thank you so much for being with us toda mo> you are than 250 confirmed cases of coronavius in the us according to johns

hopkins university. this week 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 ployer has a plfor health s workth known or suspected exposure to e coronavirus and only 30% that the employer has an to protect healthcare workers dealing with a surgeon infections. with me now, thank you both so much for being with me. to you first, dr. how concerned about you -- are you about your own personal safety? >> i think that the reassuring thing for me is that coronavirus is spread in a the comm cold, and we know how to deal with that. so we have supplies of personal protective equipment, the at this time, to try to help keep us safe, i think the thing

that is more concerning isiswha going to happen in the future if people, if there is panic, and people start to tying all of those supplies and we as healthcare providers cannot get them. yo >> sandy, have the potential coronavirus case that you were just working on in your last shift. tell me about that case, how you took yoown precautions, and what happened with the people around this potential individual who had, who may 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 in the emergence the room that need to atrule out, is done very quickly and easily with a swab, is a test positive for this particular indivimet the criteria, so we instituted all of our predures and protocols, he was put into an isolation room within anteroom

so that we hicould manage care, and keep ourselves safe and keep the rest of the emergency room safe. >> do you feel that if there are more patients coming that your hospital is ready to deal with that? >>so because we are in search mode at th time, already, this is standard, this time of are already at capacity, and in terms of being able to support all of the individuals that are coming in, because of the fear that you mentioned, am concerned that we will run out of stuff, out of supplies to be able orto sunot only those individuias that potey could have coronavirus but our regular patients, the patient population that is very sick. since the resources are limited in the test kits are d, limir., as an emergency room doctor, what criteria do you use to determine whether or nosomeone should be tested? >> for us at we ardoing is we are assessing the patient's

for all possibilities muscle dov theyinfluenza, do they have the common cold, how sick are they? what level of care do we need to give them? we work closely with the department of public health because they can do the number of kids, so we are testing only the tickest ts, the ones who are going to be hospitalized, and the ones who we need to know if they have coronavirus to protect others ound 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 adjustinand as we t more information, that is i think why it is sometimes hard to get a grasp on what is going t wis because as new information is coming out we are adapting our systems of work. but i think the important thing for people to know is that we

are not testing everybody at comes in and is concernd. we don't have a treatment for this, a specific treatment, it inis all the your mom told you, just 20 fluids, take care of yourself, rest. if you get a good anthat that we have to give you supportive care in the hospital and that just means we are giving r body tbest chance that we can for you to get over the 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 feel you are sick enough to go to a hospital you should go to the hospital. to have difficulty breathing, go to hospital. but if you feel like you're not feeling well but you are worried about coronavirus and ry it is little likelihood that at this point we will be able to test use of the best thing is to stayat home, take care of yourself, call your doctor, call a help line, but again, managing that, like we normally would for any, for flu, forcold, any virus. >> let's talk about masks because this is a big topic, nc people are ned that there

are not enough masks for them out in the public, that they are running out ofthem in stores or online, and also, whether or not healthcare workers have enough masks. what is yo? works ar >> was wearing a mask, having enough masks. so prior to treating this patient, i worked in triage and when i was in triage, wehad many individuals coming up and trying to grab our supplies and masks, trying to hoard em, so i had to educate them and let them know that utilizing a mask, unless systematic, family memberare having symptoms, it is not what we want to do in terms of protecting ourselves. the triage nurse is, the staff, 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 rms of caring for my patient yesterday, what i found interesting is that we did not ha sufficient supplies inthe room that i was utilizing.

to be secure in making sure that i wasn't going to be exposed to this disease or transmitted to other individuals. so we had to keep leaving the area to get additional supplies that were being sequestered in the gemas office. >> survey carefully being monitored at this point. how are hospitals praring and how can hospitals prepare for a surge in new cases? >> so we do end up having a rge, we are a small hospital and we don't have the capacity to treat many individuals can rooms. isolation so this will be treated as a disaster and we are very trained in terms of disester respo we 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 pot of contact for people who think they may have the coronavirus? >> yeah, i think one of the

challenges with any type of saoutbreak or any er like this is e at, people afraid and they're not sure where to go. and i think one of the challenges with this isthat it is hard to get information because information is constantly changing. and i don't want to discount the fear, that is very normal, en i first heard about coronavirus i was nervous about it, to. the way we conduct tothat is information. so i think talking to your doctors, calling if you have symptoms or you're t ncerned abat you should do, and then the cdc website, the department of public health website, they all have the information. i thinone of the key things with the emergency department, if you need to come to the emergencyodepartment because feel you are having an emergent the, we want to be there for you. but if you're u concerned or want to be tested as we talked about before, that may not happen. and so if you n stay athome, staying at home to try to prevent spreading this to other

people is good, we are all in this together and we need to work together to try to mana this. >> what would you tell people who are worried or afraid about contracting the disease? >> my daughter asked me that same question. so she is going to beflying an next week she said mom, should i be worried? and she is 22 years old, and i said first of all, you are no in the demographic of immunocompromised, the elderl but the main thing is you don't need a mask, just make sure you wash her hands and you will be fine. thanyou both r 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 14states that cast ballots in presidential

primaries. vermont sen. bernie sanders prevailed in his home state as well as utah d an colorado. he is also projected to and li heavily in fornia where 415 delegates are up for grabs. also, former mayor mike bloomberg and sen. elizabeth warren dropped out of the race. this is the first time that california has held its prary on super tuesday, moving up from june. voters also decided the fate of local and statewide ballot measures. including proposition largest school bond measure in state history and attacks on vant storefronts in san francisco. here's our a senior editor, scott shafer and politics and government corresponthng, marissa. k you for being here. so hot off of super tuesday, let's tackle the local issues first, so 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 embrace $50 billion for california's tools including

>> we passed five measure since 1998, this was appointed by gov. newsom unlike one in 2016 whichp jerry brown sed. so it seems like it was all green light, all the way, and yet, it is losing norigh 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 at the local school bond measures that the state, about 70% of those lost as well. so the might have en some on fatigue in general, maybe concerns about the economy but as you said there was this question about where wevoters 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 from1978, the property tax measure so they might have been confusion and even talk of

retiring 13 as a proposition number, just in case that was part of the confusion. se but it just s that for whatever reason, maybe got overwhelmed by coronavirus and the president are primary, the message never broke through. but in any case looks like it ewill fail. ecially 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 majority to pass, it seems to have gotten that. this willallow the ty to tax property owners who have their a storefrontnt and it is a measure to fight blight as much is anything else. what will we see in terms of impact on this propositio where will we see it? >> that depends on how ey are aggressive. the idea behind this, it had widespread support among both rt of factions at city hall. you do have of course retail suffering right now but in addition to that you have a lot

storefronts to sit vacant, talking in neighborhoods near where we are, like noh each, talking about commercial quarters of the city and there's a real concern for does to theibest this and the property values. so the idea is that if a property r essentially is given a warning and does not so thing to ll that they can tax them and use that money to support small businesses. i think the atpe is you won't actually implement that tax, you won't actually be getting the storefronts fill and i think th there issome idea that maybe some of these property owners have been chainstore, somebody n a pay this higher rent and they are saying just a local business and there for the antime and help sort juice these commercial quarters. or don't kick them out which i s thinanother 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 rn former district at was running for the das office

there. so he was positioning himself as the criminal justice refoe candidd was running against incumbent jackie lacey. juat positioning of, ice reform worked well for him up here. but not so great do there. >> it looks like jackie lacey is a 50.2% of the votes, she could avoid a runoff, she coult win right. there were two progressive candidates running against her and she said, she was the first woman da down there, first african-american as well. running for a third term, i believe, and he was really encouraged by, justice reform advocates because there was a sense that jackie s lacey to traditional, tough on crime, she was still seeking the death penalty in a lot of cases and so he went to the challenger, left his job here in san francisco, and it is hard to think, geneva county there's a bit of carpetbagging tape sometimes to it. if you ata both of the votes he got in the votes the public

defender who was running also a prressive, they are close what jackie got. it could be different situation. offered you probably will. her numbers have been declining since the election day. >> is also that weird thing that happened with hehusband, threatening to shoot black lives matter protesters who re t his home in his defense. >> as he positions himself, they were protesting him up here as thwell, and was one of the women of the cision int but i think one of the things that encouraged him and his wife you decide to ave san o,franciso. >> 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 what is coming up? >> so joe biden, has run 650 delegates as of now and sanders, bernie sanders s

about 573. that doesn't sound a big difference but a lot of the states coming up do tend to favor joe biden, he did super 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 haa lot going for her, she was in front ready good ground game, she had strong policy ideas, share decent funding but she did not make a good showing anywhere in the early primary states. how much of that would you e attrib her performance and how much to gender bias? answer this question and i will let marissa jump in. i think there's no question that she faced gender bias. as did some of the other women who are running. e you know, thwas hillary clinton lost in 2016, i think there was a lot of sense that it is really hard in this country for some reason for

women to really n national elections even though hillary got 4 million more votes than donald trump. won the popular vote, boston electoral college. i feel in some ways elizabeth warren's best self never came through and think some of that is because if you are a woman running we have to portyourself ai a ce way to look tough enough and she had a great personal story, she wa betsy growing up in oklahoma city, her father, you know, had health problems, almost lost the home, and felt that when she was talking about that 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 connec, d to her gendtwo, she did not want to come off as just a folksy candidate who can only talk aboualtheir pers things. i also think if you look at, and i think gender was a huge part of that, if you ok at it coming in, he was the vice president, he has been in politics for longer i've ivbeen bernie sanders has been a senator. they both had a national base

and that base did not seem willing toabandon them for warren and i think that there were elements of her campaign that could really speak to some of tvoters that both of those people see as their basis and she just did not break through. >> let's take a look at what is coming up next week, there are five states votimi including igan which is the biggest prize. what are the stakes for sanders and biden? >> there huge, i think this is a real opportunity for joe den to put away in a sense, i mean, bernie sanders in 2016 e michigan, going away against hillary clinton, if in some way joe bidecan beat him in michigan, he will win in other states as well, down south, he will do well in a missouriington state, north dakota, so i hesitate to replace one conventional wisdom with another because last week beit looks like ie was going to run away with it but i do sh think that as said, the matter at this point could favor biden and if he can ntinue to roll upsome wins, especially in michigan, and on

the flipside of that i think s sanders really neto win in michigan. >> who ows because a week ago without bernie sanders was the nominee,o. thank you th for being here today, i appreciate it. the latest election results of local and statewide races, go to kqed.org/elections . thank úas always you can find more of our coverage at kqed.org/ kqed nem. thank you for joining us.

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