i love how james clyburn was your person of the week most only his constituents and the rest of the nation listens to him with a level of respect. so did joe biden. they had that talk in yorktown a week ago today. he said, here's what you have to do. and joe biden said, i got it. and then he put his endorsement forward, two or three days later. i love the influence that that man wields. he is remarkable. i totally applaud and agree with you on your person of the week. just thought i would say that. >> thank you so much, my friend. good day, everyone, from the brokaw news center here in los angeles. welcome, everyone, to "weekends with alex witt." from joe biden's big night to bernie sanders's money moves, how the super tuesday equation has changed in just the past few hours. >> we have an excellent chance to win some of the largest states in this country. >> things are beginning to change. >> pushing forward is the best thing that we can do for the

country. >> i'm the woman who's going to beat donald trump. coronavirus crisis. the latest number of infections here in the u.s. and an american infected with the virus is going to tell me his story. the martch that changed america, a landmark day for the civil rights movement. two days, 14 states and one territory across this country will be voting for a democratic presidential candidate. there are now seven, count them, candidates left for super tuesday. many of them are hitting southern states today in a campaigning blitz. new polls show bernie sanders could have a very successful day on tuesday as he's leading in texas. democrats are giving him 34% of the vote there, joe biden follows with 19, then michael bloomberg at 15%. north carolina, sanders is also in the lead with 26%, however it's very close. joe biden is a close second with 24%.

biden of course coming off a huge night in south carolina. nbc projecting he will win the state's primary. he currently holds 36 of those delegates, bringing his total now to 51. here is where the other candidates stand with 99% of the results in. bernie sanders has 20%. tom steyer, who has since dropped out of the race, won 11%. pete buttigieg coming in with 8. elizabeth warren has 7. and amy klobuchar rang in with 3%. biden celebrating with hundreds of south carolina supporters last night. today he told nbc's chuck todd he has raised 5 million bucks in the last 24 hours. he thinks sanders would lead the party to a loss if he were the nominee. >> i think bernie sanders' position on a number of issues, even within the democratic party, are very controversial. the idea that you're going to find $60 billion and -- trillion dollars, i should say, and you're not going to have to raise taxes on middle class

people? now everybody will look at bernie's record as closely as they've looked at mine over the past nine months and they'll see some stark differences on where we stand. >> bernie sanders saying he raised $46 million in the month of february. >> it's not just that we're raising a lot of money. we are. it's how we're raising the money. it's $18.50 is our average contribution. that speaks to the kind of grassroots support we have in this country, almost 2 million americans have made that contribution. >> pete buttigieg is in georgia, campaigning with former president jimmy carter. also speaking to nbc's chuck todd, he acknowledged his lack of support within the black community. >> that bar of earning the trust of voters of color right now, that bar is high for a reason, especially when you're talking about black voters in the south. i understand why that bar is so high, i'm humbled by the challenge and have continued to focus on making sure i present not just our policy ideas but

what this campaign is about in a way that can reach out to black voters and to voters across the board. >> and michael bloomberg is in selma, alabama today, speaking about the importance of change for the black community. >> too many times in our society we promise things, we pass legislation which never gets funded, never gets implemented, and nobody ever checks to see whether we actually deliver the promise. i'm determined to make sure that doesn't happen. >> let's go straight to nbc political reporter vaughn hillyard in tulsa, oklahoma, the heartland of america. vaughn, welcome to you. as we're heading into super tuesday now, what are candidates doing to secure their positions in the race? >> reporter: look, alex, 14 states will be voting on tuesday, 14 states. this is the single day in which the largest allotment of

delegates will be handed out to candidates. you saw tom steyer drop out last night. you still have elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, michael bloomberg. everything michael bloomberg has put into this campaign, his hundreds of millions of dollars, it all comes down to this moment. you also see pete buttigieg sticking with this race, vowing to stick it until super tuesday. our colleague made a great map to show these candidates. we wound up here in oklahoma. pete buttigieg will be here in the state tomorrow, amy klobuchar will also be in the state. several of these candidates are starting off the day here in selma, alabama first, crossing the edmond pettus bridge, of course, the location of bloody sunday in 1965. from there the candidates will be heading across the country. bernie sanders will be holding rallies in san jose and los angeles. joe biden will be heading up to norfolk, virginia. you have pete buttigieg holding a rally in dallas. and michael bloomberg over in san antoniantonio.

amy klobuchar to the north in her home state of minneapolis. on super tuesday, these 14 dates, there are going to be delegates apportioned out based on statewide results. there's also a congressional delegate game at play. you can hit a 15% threshold in a congressional district to get delegates. elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar, and pete buttigieg are contending that they have a chance at this by performing well in some of these congressional districts, in places like tulsa, or oklahoma city. that's where you're seeing these candidates squared up. i want to play for you interviews this morning from pete buttigieg and bernie sanders where they're talking about the future of their own campaigns. >> the most important thing right now is to look at what we can do to make sure we put forward a campaign that is going to end the trump presidency. >> almost all of the national

polls out there, the last 70 polls, 65 of them i think have us beating trump. we're beating him in battleground states like pennsylvania, michigan. we can beat trump. >> reporter: bernie sanders is making the play that he's the best-equipped to beat donald trump. folks like pete buttigieg and joe biden believe they should be the counter to sanders. will super tuesday clarify who that bernie sanders counter is, or does bernie sanders run away with this, vaughn. >> that's the question. thank you very much, value minute yard. kanisha grant, chris lieu, and susan del percio, welcome all. kanisha, to you first here, as we look at this nbc polling out of the state of north carolina, it shows bernie sanders leading joe biden by just two points, certainly well within the margin of error. 7% of voters remain undecided.

how much do you think last night's huge win just, you know, to the south there in south carolina, moves the headwinds for biden? >> i think they're going to be incredibly important in moving those headwinds. i think we've been hearing a campaign of joe biden as a person who is not viable and bernie sanders as a person who is viable. now we have folks who might have been on the fence about biden who might feel more comfortable supporting him now. we might have some black voters who are worried about casting their vote to him and whether they should go to mike bloomberg, maybe choosing to stay in that camp instead of going somewhere else. >> interesting. chris, another nbc poll from texas shows sanders definitely having the lead there, 34% for sanders, biden behind him with 19 and bloomberg and 15. are bloomberg and biden hurting each other's campaigns, drawing from the same moderate pool of

voters? >> that would be the easy conclusion, i think that's generally correct. the problem is people tend to pick their candidates on personalities and positions. yes, there's more progressive lane but it's not a one-to-one tradeoff. last night was a huge night for joe biden but he does have a little bit of a math problem right now. california is a state that looks like it will get away from him. he'll have to rely on somebody like elizabeth warren to keep down some of bernie sanders' vote totals. biden goes into super tuesday with a lot of momentum without as much money and organization as some of his competitors have. obviously with two days to go until super tuesday it's hard to translate that momentum into a lot of votes, particularly since so many people now vote early. >> okay, susan, since chris started us down the math path, here we go. tuesday, more than 1,300 delegates in play, the most

coming from thcalifornia and texas, the two biggest prizes on tuesday. what is the significance, chris talked about how some moderates could split the vote and how biden, he's got to hope that sanders gets what buffeted by elizabeth warren. but big picture here, these two states represent what in your mind? >> a lot of where everything is headed. the big question is, does -- in california, who else can get up to 15% of the vote? because awarding delegates, that's what's required. bernie sanders could win as much as 300 if he cleans up and no one else gets 15%. what chris was saying about the polls that we're seeing is, it's a one, two, three, bernie, biden, and bloomberg line juup right now. elizabeth warren is probably preventing bernie sanders from hitting the high 30s, low 40s in some states. if i were joe biden, i would

want elizabeth warren to stay in at least until the 17th, it will help him at least cut into some of bernie sanders' vote totals. what we learned last night from south carolina so far, the only person to truly affect turnout and get large people, a large amount of people out, is joe biden. he is tremendous turnout. this was 2008 numbers, not 2016 numbers. so that also hurts bernie sanders' argument that he can build a large coalition. >> what do you think, kanisha, is driving that turnout for joe biden? >> i think in south carolina in particular, black voters are very important to the story. i would be interested to see what the democratic breakdown is going to be here. i think that people in south carolina understood that this primary was moving in a way that was about to make bernie sanders the heir apparent. i think folks in south carolina probably didn't support that opinion. they understood they needed to come out in large numbers. i think it's also the case that

they understand that one of the big problems we have in american democracy is that people don't turn out to vote. we have a large number of nonvoters. so i think that people there must have been giving them messages that not only were they important but potentially some of the people who haven't participated in our democracy in the past also need to get out and participate in this primary election and probably the general. >> but kanisha, as you look at sanders, grabbing pretty much the bulk of headlines from the first three states, the caucuses and the one primary, and you see biden getting all the headlines out of south carolina, do you see other states on super tuesday that will move in the biden direction as a result of that huge win? >> i'm really interested to see what's going to happen in virginia and north carolina. i think that biden earlier alluded to this idea that we needed a democratic party candidate who was going to be able to win in the south. that would suggest to me he is probably making a play for the south, suggesting that maybe in the same way as an andrew gillum and a stacey abrams, he may be

able to win a place like florida and georgia. on super tuesday, north carolina and virginia will send that warning signal about whether or not the south is up for grabs for democrats. >> okay. i know we've all heard the growing concerns over the possibility that when the convention rolls around none of the candidates has reached that majority of delegates that's needed to win the nomination. bernie sanders argued again this week the candidate with the most delegates should win the nomination. here is what he said about that. >> if i or anybody else goes into the democratic convention with a substantial plurality, i believe that individual, me or anybody else, should be the candidate of the democratic party. and if one candidate comes out on top to say to the country, you voted for that candidate, oh, by the way, we don't think that candidate should be the nominee, i think that will be a

serious, serious problem for the democratic party. >> chris, i've got to ask you, what are your thoughts on this, who do you find this approach annoying to democrats? >> well, i have to tell you i have a little bit of a personal interest in this since i am actually a superdelegate as well. here is what i'm going to looking for, to see if anyone gets that 50% plus one. i'll also be looking at a candidate's ability to turn out new voters, their ability to garner the resources you need to win a race as well as their strategy for beating trump. but look, the rules are what you are. unless you have 50% plus one, it's anyone's bet as to what happens after that. and so, look, we're a long way from that point right now. my only message to people is, go out and vote and don't prejudge what's going to happen down the road. >> let's get to a reuters report, guys. in 2016, when the superdelegates overwhelmingly endorsed the eventual nominee hillary clinton, sanders' supports argued that system was unfair

because the superdelegates were allowed to vote on the first ballot. as a result, the dnc instituted new rules this year, that have been backed by sanders, that prevent superdelegates like you, chris, from participating in the initial vote. if sanders backed the rules made for this year, can he criticize them? does he have room to do that? >> i think that's exactly right. i was on the rules committee of the dnc that changed these rules and it was an important change, because we don't want superdelegates to be influencing the opinions while people are voting right now. but exactly right, we don't vote on the first ballot but we can vote on the second ballot. and obviously all pledged delegates to other candidates who might drop out after that point are also free to vote their own conscience. but again, let's wait to see what happens in the next couple of months. >> so i'm still going to ask this question. i'm not necessarily expecting an answer, but chris, if sanders comes into the convention and he's got the plurality, would you push back against him to back a more moderate candidate?

>> i'm going to wait and see what happens before i look at that. >> that was a good answer. i didn't get much, i didn't think i would. >> alex. >> yes, susan. >> there's a big difference if sanders comes in 47, 48, 49%, versus if he comes in at the high 30s, low 40s. that will be a big consideration when you're looking at that. the other thing is, is bernie sanders the only candidate running for president who has had a say in the rules? if anyone is going to try and cry foul it could be the other candidates, certainly bernie sanders is in no position to cry fo foul over them. >> chris, with regard to what she just said, the place where bernie sanders were to come into the convention in milwaukee, does that have an effect on how you would -- whom you would back? >> yeah, no, absolutely. i think what susan says is right. if he is within a couple of percentage points of the

majority and no one else is much above 15, 20%, it's going to be hard to deny him at that point. but i think obviously that margin is going to depend on what happens in these next couple of months. >> kanisha, final question, if bernie sanders were to be denied in that scenario we just played out at the convention, how much would that -- would it damage the democratic party? >> i think it would. i've spent a good bit of time reading a knight foundation study about nonvoters. the number one thing that nonvoters say about why they don't vote is that they don't have trust in the system. evan americhe hav we have an american electorate that is stressed out about donald trump and his administration. we have people on the fence about voting or who have never voted who think the system is rigged, that it doesn't work. if democratic leaders decide to buck the win of the people, even if the win is marginal, this is a win, and that won't bode we

will for the general election. >> in other words, the people will have spoken. kanisha grant, chris lu, susan be del percio, thank you so much. the administration gave an explanation as to why the woman with coronavirus was actually a man. you'll hear it, next.

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back now with the breaking news on the latest strain of coronavirus and new reaction from the trump administration to the first death and a suspected outbreak at a nursing home near seattle. washington state officials say the man, in his 50s, who died from coronavirus in that state had no recent travel overseas and that he was only tested when the cdc expanded testing guidelines last week. today health and human services secretary alex azar said the cdc had no delays on testing and he highlighted additional steps the administration has taken. >> as of wednesday we authorized over 40 labs to use the test with only the first two elements

of that specific to the novel coronavirus. yesterday morning we've authorized home brew tests by certified clinical labs around the country. we have the ability to test 75,000 people in the field at this moment. that will increase radically over the next couple of weeks. >> administration officials also confirmed that a team from the centers for disease control is at that nursing home near seattle where two women tested positive for the virus. they say a large investigation is under way to find out how that virus spread there. nbc's hans nichols is at the white house, hans, welcome on this sunday. what more is the administration saying on this? >> reporter: the administration is clearly briefing and preparing the public for more infections, for more cases of coronavirus. that was consistent throughout the morning shows. you had that from the vice president, you had that from secretary azar. they also had to clean up this miscommunication yesterday where the white house offered condolences for a deceased 50-year-old female when in fact

the first death from coronavirus was from a male. so they're cleaning that up. had a they're clearly trying to do is project pro activity while also trying to make sure this doesn't turn into a panic. have a listen to secretary azar. >> the risk is low. it remains low. but we have always expected we would see more transmission. as we predicted, we will see at least some community transmission. the president has tried to engage in balanced messaging so the american people don't engage in panic. >> reporter: yesterday they warned about travel to italy and parts of south korea. they changed a little bit around direct visits from iran. there are very few travelers that come directly from iran to the states. the options they're considering going forward is whether to have more travel restrictions and then also this idea of whether or not they'll use this cold war

era law called the defense production act to force companies within the united states to produce more gear and equipment. that's something they're clearly considering. they hinted at that today. there's a report in "the atlantic journal-constitution" that president trump may be planning on visiting the headquarters of the cdc in atlanta later in the week. so clearly they want to project activity. they want to project that they're really taking this seriously. we have that press conference yesterday. at the same time, after that press conference, the president went to a conservative rally just outside of washington and he did not repeat the "hoax" line that he used from friday night, after he was forced to explain it in that briefing here at the white house, alex. >> okay, certainly lesson learned, thank you so much for that, appreciate that, hans nichols. let's go now to kirkland, washington, northeast of seattle, where scott cohen has moved from yesterday when he was at sacramento.

scott, are officials any closer to figuring out how the virus spread in this nursing home in kirkland? >> reporter: that is one of the key tasks, alex, for the team from the centers for disease control on the ground in washington as well as local public health officials. again, as you said, we're at the hospital in kirkland, washington, where that patient died yesterday. and there is a second patient that is at the facility in isolation. about a mile from here is the skilled nursing facility where they've kirconfirmed two cases. one was a worker at the facility, a woman in her 40s, the other a resident, a woman in her 70s. there may be 50 or so other people who have been exposed and are in the process of being tested. some firefighters who had responded there are self-quarantined. there is a lot going on. and a lot of that then springs from the first u.s. death

announced yesterday, the man in his 50s who came here with severe respiratory symptoms. secretary azar says that alone is triggering an intense investigation. >> he was in a hospital. this hospital is one where the nursing home sends patients. there are cases in that nursing home also. so right now there is a large investigation going on, the nursing home, the hospital, contact tracing, to try to determine where that disease was introduced and how it might have spread. >> reporter: it's beyond, though, just figuring out where and how it was spread. the concern is that this has been spread in the community for possibly a matter of weeks. remember, the first case of covid-19 in the u.s. was here in washington. it was someone who had traveled from china. and so the question is how long has it been spread, how has it been spread. they're also focusing on containment.

so, for example, here at the hospital, they are encouraging people not to come and visit their loved ones. they've limited the points of access to the facilities, things like that going on. and just the continued tips about hygiene, washing your hands, avoiding a lot of contact with people, and so on. so a really multilevel approach going on here in the seattle area, alex. >> thank you for the setup. we've got a doctor here who will talk about all of this with us. scott cohn in kirkland, washington. joining us is associate proff professor at the university of california, dr. matthew waxman. this is the first case where somebody in the state of washington who traveled from china, okay, so is that a common sense presumption that maybe that person somehow has spread to a nursing home which one would assume is a rather closed

environment, right? it just doesn't make sense that that virus would spring up from within that nursing home, right? >> no. no, alex, it doesn't. what people are working on right now is called shoe leather epidemiology. what that means is they're trying to go back and find everybody in that nursing home who may have had contact with somebody that was infected. what that tells us is there's spread in the community, people in the community who currently may have coronavirus that are asymptomatic and they're spreading it. we sort of expected this. when the virus started in december in wuhan, china, it was localized. it spread throughout china and now we have local transmission in the united states. >> and the fact that there are probably a number of cases of people who carried this virus, some you don't even have really -- it's asymptomatic, right, how concerning is that, to be able to coral this and get rid of it or contain it, at least? >> so it is concerning to us. it's not unexpected but it's

concerning in the sense that we don't really know how many people are out there with coronavirus. we don't know who's carrying it, because not all these people are going to manifest symptoms. in the best data that we have, only about 2 to 3% got sick enough to be hospitalized and ultimately pass away from it. >> so how does someone look at this and say, i may have this, what are the symptoms that you see and how does it differentiate from the flu, or does it? >> so really, in some ways it does and it doesn't. it doesn't differ from the flu in that many patients have respiratory disease. they have weakness, cough, stuffy nose, a simple bronchitis. a small subset of patients, most have been elderly, some have been underlying sick, they develop a severe respiratory illness. if they come into an emergency department like i work in, we test them for flu. if they're flu negative, they don't have flu, and they have respiratory disease, we're going to start thinking it may be

coronavirus. >> do you have all that you anticipate needing for testing in the emergency room where you work? >> in los angeles county, i feel like we do. we have testing, one for influenza, and two, in conjunction with local health departments we have access to coronavirus testing if we think somebody is a suspect. >> and that would be something you send to the cdc? >> we have testing in los angeles county as of this week. >> and health and human services secretary alex azar says there will be portable test kits passed around, any concerns about their reliability? >> no concerns right now. alex azar mentioned there would be home brew kits. that doesn't mean people are making this at home. that means outside non-government companies will be allowed to sell and develop testing kits. >> so somebody has a cold, a runny nose, a bit of a fever, does not believe there's any reason to think they have come in contact with somebody who came from the wuhan province in

china, right? what should they do, without being an alarmist? >> exactly, so right now if you have mild disease, it is very unlikely in the united states for it to be coronavirus. the transmission rate is very, very low. we're not seeing people in the united states flooding to er's and flooding to hospitals with respiratory illnesses. if they do, they often usually have flu. people should stay home, wash your hands, do what you normally do, take acetaminoph acetaminophen, which is tylenol. go to get medical attention if it's more serious. >> what are you most afraid of? >> if people flood to the hospital and overwhelm the health system. >> dr. waxman, i feel a little better talking to you, thank you so much. now that joe biden has won

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the trick is which candidate can reach out and bring new people into the political process who can create the excitement and the energy for young people to come in. i think that's our campaign. >> look, if he's the nominee i will support him. but i think it makes it very difficult downballot, and this is not a great secret to anybody, you can't run as an independent socialist, now a democratic socialist, and expect to do very well in states where you have to win like north carolina, like georgia, like florida, like texas, like pennsylvania, et cetera. >> former vice president joe biden and senator bernie sanders both making their cases for the democratic nomination and what it will take to win the general election.

james, will biden's comments resonate more with the public now that he's come off this huge win in south carolina? >> the public could take his advice but they're not sure which candidate that advice applies to. joe biden had a big night in south carolina, he's now allowed to continue but it may be harder now to stop bernie sanders particularly heading into super tuesday if you have a lot of moderates basically duking it out, they may get delegates in this state but not this other state because of bloomberg. if you're joe biden, you're very happy today, but the math gets complicated. >> biden, as we know, cautiously celebrated the victory in south carolina, acknowledged he has a fair ways to go. this new nbc poll shows bernie sanders has the edge in texas and tied with biden in north

carolina. these two states award a combined 328 delegates on super tuesday. so as you take that big win, what are the prospects for him going into super tuesday? does he have some headwind that he can ride? james. >> he does obviously have headwind. if you look at the map on tuesday, clearly the states you're looking at for sort of a biden bump would be a place like virginia, a place like alabama where he's already sort of having a lead. arkansas clearly is a spot. but north carolina is obviously a place where he'll be looking. you mentioned those combined states having 300-some delegates, you have to talk about california with 416 delegates. that's obviously where only two candidates right now are above the threshold. joe biden is not one of them. >> he's got to hit 15% to get anything out of the state of california.

seema, with regard to biden and his tiding, look, i've been here a couple of days now, i've seen nothing but advertising, advertising. i've not seen one biden ad. >> no, he hawktalked last week t doing a six-figure ad buy, that's nothing, that's like a day in l.a. this is one of the most expensive media in the country. you have to spend millions and millions of dollars and it doesn't look like he has it. >> does that translate into lack of votes? >> that's what we've seen in polls, he's not hitting the threshold he needs to get delegates. he's in a better spot today than he was yesterday, he's on the news, he's had a victory. this argument about electability, he can now point to a state where it's worked. but it's still really tough for him. >> what about what we heard from biden earlier about downballot concerns? how much is he on point about that? >> when youtube democratic strategists, these are the

people most skeptical of bernie sanders, they do bring that up. these are not from the bernie sanders camp, these are fairly moderate members. these are one-time republican districts. so i think that in those areas in particular, suburban areas turning from red to blue, a number of democrats have concerns about what he'll do if he's at the top of the ticket. >> that central part of california is in republican hands, fresno, the heart. >> it started trend blue, but it's definitely in play. that's another area where people have concerns if bernie sanders is at the top of the ticket. he's arguing he's had a big operation in central valley, and he's really according to latinos, young people there. i think he's spent the most time of there of any of the democrats. he's making a play for those areas. >> james, with regard to the coronavirus, i know that you've written that this could be the most important issue of the 2020

election. give me the reasons why you feel that way and is there a candidate who benefits if coronavirus is a big play in this election. >> it's certainly the "x" factor. you saw it play out this week, you will see it play out tonight when mike bloomberg holds a three-minute kind of commercial, infomercial on this one issue across networks tonight. i think the real big "x" factor here is, look, this could be great for donald trump in terms of if he's able to show competency, if this does not blow up, he can say he saved the economy, saved people's lives, or this could go horribly bad. in terms of the democratic primary, i'm not sure we know where this is going. in terms of democratic candidates wanting someone with a plan like elizabeth warren, a steady hand like joe biden, or suddenly when we're in a major crisis and a pandemic, maybe medicare for all doesn't seem so crazy. one more thing about the joe biden bump into super tuesday is, he's really unfortunate in

terms of the calendar. he's deemed the winner and 48 hours later we'll be voting on super tuesday. that's not enough time to get the massive money to even buy the ads. remember, there are 11 days between new hampshire and nevada, for example. this is 48 hours. this will be difficult for him to cool off. >> you guys pulled it off with this conversation. thank you so much. remembering a martha changed history and the role it is playing in the race for president, next. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

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right now sunday services are under way in selma, alabama before the start of the 55th bridge crossing jubilee, across the edmond pettus bridge, commemorating bloody sunday when in 1965, hundreds of people peacefully protesting for voting rights were beaten and arrested by state troopers. blayne alexander, welcome to you on this significant sunday. who all is there? >> reporter: alex, good morning to you from selma, alabama. certainly a lot of people. in fact if you can look at the screen here behind me, this is kind of a telecast of what's going on inside brown chapel ame. a couple of people couldn't make it inside so they're watching from outside. senator doug jones is coming up after former mayor mike bloomberg finishes his remarks in the church. we saw former vice president joe

biden escorted into the church. this is almost a who's who in politics today. the correlation cannot be lost considering we're celebrating the 55th anniversary of the city, of the movement that really has become almost synonymous with the african-american fight for voting rights in this country. we're sitting here two days ahead of super tuesday. alabama itself is a super tuesday state. you see all of these people, all of the people who have come out, they've celebrated. this is a tradition that happens year after year. they kind of reenact that march against the edmond pettus bridge, a service that so many people come to inside brown chapel ame. what we're certainly seeing more of is organizers focusing on the 2020 election. in fact the theme itself is "lift our vote 2020." so organizers are hoping that this will inspire more people to go out and exercise their vote on tuesday. now, alex, we were actually speaking with some people who came and one of them happened to be somebody who was actually

part of that march back in 1965. he said that even though decades have passed, he's disappointed he hasn't seen more change since that time. take a look. >> i look around selma, i see the projects for the black folk. i see the people who own the government, the people who own selma, are white. nothing's changed. not a lot has changed in that sense. we've got progress, that's good, but the populace, still, lots of them are still poor. >> reporter: and so, alex, back out live in selma, we know this is something organizers hope will improve voter turnout on tuesday. they say this is really galvanizing people. they're talking about voter rights inside. we had someone come and speak on braff of congrebehalf of congren

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an american patient who contracted coronavirus on a cruise ship says he has the virus and so far, he says it hasn't been that bad. joining me now is that writer and patient, carl goldman. i want to tell everyone, with my thanks to you for being here, you are a heck of a writer. i suggest everybody go to "the washington post" and read what you have written about your personal experience. it's the slug for anybody looking for the title, i have the coronavirus, so far it hasn't been that bad for me. it's well written. tear clear you are a guy from radio. i know you run the khts radio.

you are here because you are able to talk to me, carl. you are feeling pretty good. you have still got a cough. how about your fever? where does that stand? >> fever is gone. it's been gone for almost two weeks. like it seems everyone else who gets this, common denominator seems to be a high fever very, very quickly. in my case, i did not know i had the virus when we boarded the plane from the diamond princess back to the states. went to sleep for two hours. woke up, high fever, over 103. then that's when they put me in a quarantine area on the plane and then later i ended up in omaha in a bio-containment area. the fever lasted eight, nine hours and then disappeared. the cough lingers. that's two weeks ago when we landed here in omaha. since then, two days ago, i was

downgraded from the bio-containment area to another quarantine area here in omaha. we have 15 of us here. 13 have the virus. my wife, luckily, does not. she gets to leave tomorrow. i, unfortunately, tested again yesterday and am still positive with the virus. >> okay. so you have been there for two weeks. i know you took off on that cruise in january. had no idea you were going to be quarantines, sequestered, however you want to identify it, until march. but here we are. when the fever hit you and the cough on the plane, how hard was the punch? did you immediately think, uh-oh? >> yeah. i realized by then, this is it. following the same symptoms as everyone else. there were 300 by then. there were 300 victims of the virus on the diamond princess.

the common denominator was there. when i had fever spiked, i was sure i had the virus. it wasn't until i got to omaha the next morning that it was confirmed after running tests here in the bio-containment center. >> carl, how badly have you felt? i'm sure you have had colds before, flu before in your life potentially. how badly does this compare? >> yeah. i have been writing a daily blog just in the "washington post" story, i've been writing a daily blog on a website over in california. i compare it -- i do that in today's blog -- on a one to ten, i'm about a two. that's it. i've had -- there's no sneezing, no stuffy nose, no body ache, no sweat, no chills.

i believe it was a very mild case of what would be a cold. >> have doctors been able to tell you their best guest as to how long you have to stay where you are? how long until you are rid of the virus? >> it's up to my body. once i test negative, i will have to test negative three days in a row. they do a swab test above nostrils and down the throat. all three have to come out negative. all three of those need to be negative three days in a row. 3 24-hour periods apart. i was tested yesterday and all three were positive. they now will not test me again until tomorrow. monday will be the first day that the clock can start ticking for me to get released here if i'm lucky. >> okay. we are lucky, carl goldman, to have spoken with you.

i want to thank you. reiterate that folks can go to the blog you have been writing but also the way you wrote this in "the washington post," it's terrific. like you aptly say, your experience has been something like out of the andromeda strain. best of luck. thanks for talking with us. >> thanks. take care. an inside look at the president's handling of the coronavirus coming up. y. so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or actions, seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking, or life-threatening allergic and skin reactions.

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