we're following two major stories this morning, first, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases here in the united states is growing. fema preparing for a possible emergency disaster declaration from the president. plus, it is super tuesday, voters in 14 states and one american territory are preparing to head to the polls and in a last minute bid to unite the party, pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar have dropped out of the race and are now endorsing joe biden for president. >> good tuesday morning,

everybody. >> we have knemade it, everybod. >> yesterday was quite a day. i feel like it was warm up monday or super tuesday, it is march 3rd. it is super tuesday, and i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside my colleague ayman mohyeldin. we begin with the latest on the coronavirus as more testing confirms more new cases in the united states. the total number of confirmed cases is now 110, including the first positive tests in georgia and in new hampshire. experts warning that the number will grow as more people are being tested, revealing just how much the virus was able to spread going undetected for some time. four more deaths have been reported in washington state bringing the death toll in the u.s. to six, even as the number of confirmed cases in china appears to be slowing down, the virus is moving fast across the globe. here's dr. anthony fauci speaking with chief foreign

correspondent richard engel. >> we're dealing with an evolving situation. we're dealing with an emerging infectious disease that has now reached outbreak proportions and likely pandemic proportions if you look at multiple definitions of what a pandemic is, the fact is this is multiple sustained transmissions of a highly infectious agent in multiple regions of the globe. and the stock market bounced back after one of the worst weeks wall street has seen since 2008. the dow gained nearly 1,300 points, while the s&p gained 4.6%. world leaders are expected to discuss a response to the coronavirus outbreak, igniting suspicion that governments might lower interest rates. let's turn now to the most consequential day of the presidential process so far. super tuesday, voters in 14 states and one territory will

cast their ballots and joe biden's momentum is surging after several high profile endorsements. three of his former rivals for the democratic nomination all coming out in support of the former vice president, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, beto o'rourke, just a day after ending his presidential bid, pete buttigieg appeared at a campaign stop with biden where he announced his endorsement and biden compared buttigieg to his late son beau biden. >> you know what i ran for president, we made it clear that the whole idea was about rallying country together to defeat donald trump and to win the era for the values that we share. that was always a goal that was much bigger than me becoming president and it is in the same of the very same goal that i'm delighted to endorse and support joe biden for president. >> i don't think i have ever done this before, but he reminds

me of my son beau, and i know that may not mean much to most people but to me, it's the highest compliment i can give any man ror woman. i'd look over at pete during the debates and i would think, you know, that's a beau because he has such enormous character, such intellectual capacity and such a commitment to other people, and folks i can't tell you how much it means to me that he would step up and endorse me. i can't tell you how much i appreciate it because i promise you, you're going to end up over your lifetime, seeing a hell of a lot more pete than you are me. >> beto o'rourke joined biden at a rally where they too delivered their endorsements. >> it is up to us, all of us to put our country back together, to heal this country and then to

build something even greater. i believe we can do this together. and that is why today i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden for president. >> we need somebody who can bring us together and heal us. we need somebody who can reestablish the moral authority of the united states. we need somebody who will fight for democracy here and abroad because democracy is under attack here and abroad. we need joe biden. >> by the way, beto o'rourke will be a guest on "morning joe" following that news last night. biden also gained several other notable endorsements just yesterday including former senate majority leader harry reid and former national security adviser susan rice. >> joining us now from duke university in north carolina, our good friend msnbc's david gur and political reporter from

msnbc josh lederman, great to have you with us. how will the endorsements from these two newly dropped out presidential candidates, amy klobuchar, as well as pete buttigieg, and a former presidential candidate himself with beto o'rourke help propel joe biden's campaign forward? >> reporter: it feels like we had been going about 40 miles per hour in this campaign, and in the last 24 hours it ramped up to 80 miles per hour with the fast paced developments, two of the main candidates dropping out and endorsing joe biden. what that's really doing is putting a lot more pressure on michael bloomberg, elizabeth warren, to try to clear the path for joe biden as the democratic establishment seems to be coelessing very quickly around biden as the most viable alternative, the moderate alternative to bernie sanders. bloomberg campaign officials i

have been speaking with have said, look, he's spent half a billion dollars on his own money on a strategy based largely around competing today, super tuesday. he has not lost a single day yet. of course he has not been on a single contest. all eyes are on michael bloomberg, is he going to stay in this and risk being a spoiler as democrats are fretting the prospect of a sanders nomination, and how that would fare against president trump. >> let's talk about super tuesday. obviously a battle to the finish of the day for joe biden and bernie sanders continuing to battle it out for delegates. who are the key voting blocks, daif david, here that could determine today's big winner. >> it's a fascinating state. it's a battle ground state, and in 2016 donald trump won by a narrow margin. since then you have seen the political battle lines solidify. there are votes up for grabs. there are a lot of people in the state that are undeclared

voters. the state democratic party thinks they have a good shot of bringing them over to their side. if you are unaffiliated you can vote for democrats in their primary. this is a place you have a democratic block in the eastern part of the state, and you have seen a movement toward urban areas, durham, raleigh, greensboro, those have become the democratic strongholds, the executive director of the democratic party saying he's not taking votes for granted, going to the rural parts of the states, trying to get more people. this is a place that's highly educated, mythic suburban women who may have voted for donald trump, who might have second thoughts about the vote they made in 2016. there is an all out push to get them to the polls today to vote for their choice to be the nominee for the democratic party if they so choose, and there are a whole lot of young people, i'm at duke university, at north carolina central university, just a couple of miles from here yesterday. there is a recognition that in

this state, the votes of young people are really going to matter and both parties are courting them, trying to make them understand it's going to be hugely significant to come out today on super tuesday and to carry that enthusiasm through the general election. >> this is michael bloomberg's first time his name will appear on a ballot in this contest. how important is north carolina for michael bloomberg? what, if any, states is he looking to try to pick up? >> yeah, this is a huge place for michael bloomberg. he opened his first field office in charlotte. he's opened other offices in the state as well. he has spent a ton of money here, millions of dollars on advertisements, this is going to be a real test for him, how he does in north carolina, and as we have seen him do in other states, he has garnered support of mayor of raleigh, and two leaders of the democratic house. he has checked all the boxes a candidate needs to check.

we'll see if he's able to pull through today. if you look at these states, california, texas, number one in two. 110 up for grabs in north carolina, and michael bloomberg hoping he can get those in his camp by the end of the day. >> and finally there has been the lot of talk that bloomberg has taken votes away from joe biden amidst the momentum that he is gaining. how much pressure is there from the democratic establishment for bloomberg to step aside? >> immense amount of pressure. the bloomberg campaign has an interesting argument about this. they say if you were to take him out of the race, his votes would evenly split roughly among the other candidates and they say they are actually prechbventing sanders from getting to a majority more quickly by denying him votes that would wrap up delegates more quickly if the bloomberg votes were disbursed among the remaining candidates in the race. >> we're going to talk to you both in a little bit.

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welcome back, president trump went after democrats suggesting the primary was rigged against senator bernie sanders, his attacks came as both pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar threw their support behind joe biden following his weekend victory in south carolina, partly in an effort to block sanders from securing the party's nomination. >> it's being rigged against crazy bernie. crazy bernie is going to go crazy, crazy. i think crazy bernie is going to be more crazy when he sees what they're doing. >> earlier in the day trump tweeted they are staging a coup

against bernie, and during his rally he said the reason buttigieg and klobuchar are supporting biden is because of quid pro quo and jokingly suggested they should be impeached. >> at the same time, warren emphasized in order to make a change, this country needs someone who has not yet been in the white house. >> i also want to congratulate joe biden on his win in south carolina. i respect his many years of service. but no matter how many washington insiders tell you to support him, nominating fellow washington insider will not meet this moment. nominating a man who says we do not need any fundamental change in this country will not meet this moment.

and nominating someone who wants to restore the world before donald trump when the status quo has been leaving more and more people behind for decades is a big risk for our party and for our country. >> heading into today's super tuesday contest, warren has just gotten 8 pledged delegates putting her in a distance third place. for your first look at your forecast, let's go to meteorologist bill karins. unfortunately we have devastating news from nashville, tennessee, it is one of the early voting states and a tornado has moved through the downtown area in the overnight hours. we have gotten confirmation of two fatalities, and we have about 30 to 40 structures that the fire department is going through and looking through debris, severely damaged buildings and this is east portions of the downtown region of nashville, tennessee, it struck as we went through around 12:47 in the morning.

the tornado sirens were going off about 10 minutes in advance. let's show you the radar. here's nashville. the tornado warning was issued about 12:45 a.m. local time, and then as the storm moves into the region, you can see it right here, this little hook in here, that's the tornado, and this was about 12:45 at night, again, about 10 minutes before the tornado struck, the sirens were going off. a lot of people were able to get to their shelters. two fatalities a lot of pictures of damage, and we are getting additional heavy rain. we had about two, three hours where it wasn't raining and now this is the up to date live radar and a line of torrential rain over the top. all the first responders trying to go through the debris and trying to save as many people as possible for the next hour or two it's just going to pour. other areas of concern today as far as the rain and the voting for super tuesday, north carolina, a little bit of rain early this morning but all of these storms will push into

virginia and north carolina, if you go throughout the day. we have rain entering between birmingham and montgomery for areas of alabama. your super tuesday forecast, we will see rain in west portions of texas, the dallas area will remain dry. a few storms around san antonio and houston. colorado looks good. rainy, stormy weather, alabama, areas of tennessee and on and off showers in areas of virginia and north carolina. it's clear this morning but we will get showers and rain this afternoon. so of course guys we'll give you more updates as we get more information in. this is one of those rare mornings that a major city in the united states has been hit by a tornado. one of the radar showed the debris from the tornado was tossed as high as 20,000 feet in the air which would give us indications that it was a significant tornado. i think when sunrise comes up, we'll see how bad this was. >> you can't imagine, at home,

asleep, completely off guard. >> have to grab the kids and get to the safe room in the middle of the night. two fatalities, we don't know how many injuries. >> keep us updated, bill, thank you. with joe biden racking up endorsements, the chairman of the senate homeland security prepares to issue a subpoena as a probe into the work of his son hunter, that story coming up next. we have like 40 years of data! that's incredibly valuable! ...i...i don't know...

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records from blue star. if issued, the subpoena would be the first of the joint investigation of the senate finance committee. >> the letter -- russia ukraine, politico notes that peters objected to the subpoena. while republican senators such as lindsey graham and richard burr have expressed similar concerns about the senate's biden investigation. joining us on set, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos. good to have you with us. an interesting development as the world of politics continues to churn. we still have this investigation that is now gaining some momentum in the senate. what do you make of ron johnson's decision to subpoena hunter biden? >> the timing is curious, but as ron johnson says in his letter, does the american public still care about a democratic lobbying firm that's blue star pressuring the u.s. state department on behalf of a corrupt ukrainian company. that is the core of his letter, and those are his words in that

letter. and what the american public feels about that really will determine what direction this investigation goes. the timing is curious of course because now you see joe biden really making a push in his campaign and now resurrection of this apparent biden investigation of his son, burisma and then vice president biden's influence in that theater. >> i was going to say quickly, correct me if i'm wrong, we have a lot of lobbying on behalf of corrupt governments in this country. that in and of itself is not a surprise. >> exactly right. >> i'm not trying to put you on the spot but i can't think of one foreign government that isn't involved in some corruption that doesn't have a lobbying firm in the united states doing some work on its behalf. >> exactly right, and that's why the letter that ron johnson issued doesn't really fully answer those questions. yes, we care about corruption generally. but why focus in, and this is the exact same issue that we dealt with during the presidential impeachment. why focus in on this narrow

slice of apparent corruption if it is corruption in ukraine when it just so happens to be hunter biden and related to vice president joe biden. >> what is the likelihood here that this is a slow march to subpoenaing hunter biden and vice president joe biden to testify in front of the senate, and what grounds would they have specifically the vice president considering the fact that he's inside an election year. what grounds do they have to ignore the subpoena. >> the subpoena of hunter biden in my opinion is more likely and how explosive that subpoena would be. vice president biden is less likely and what we have learned over the last year or two is that senate and house subpoenas while they're supposed to have the same force of law as doj type subpoenas or court subpoenas, what we're learning is that if somebody decides hey i'm not showing up and that person is important enough, they can stave off a subpoena in court for a long time. possibly running out the clock

under the next congress comes in and that subpoena, poof, goes away. >> or at least through november. >> at least through november, exactly. yes. >> danny cevallos, thanks my friend, always a pleasure. still ahead, we're going to talk about the role former president barack obama played in joe biden's new endorsement. what bernie sanders' campaign is saying about the state of the race as we head into today's super tuesday contest. we are back in a moment. you should be mad at forced camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade, who's tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don't get mad. get e*trade's simplified technical analysis.

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we begin this half hour with super tuesday. 14 states hold primaries today from california to maine, plus a caucus in american samoa. 1,300 delegates are up for grabs, a third of the total available in the race for the democratic presidential nomination. 1,991 are needed to secure that nomination. california, as you can imagine, the largest prize with 415 delegates followed by texas with 228, north carolina with 110, rounding out the top three. it is also a big test for michael bloomberg who will be on the ballot for the very first time after skipping the first four contests. >> joe biden's momentum is surging after several high profile endorsements, three of his former rivals for the democratic nomination all came out in support of the former vice president just yesterday. pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, and beto o'rourke just a day after ending his presidential bid, buttigieg appeared at a campaign stop with biden where he announced his endorsement. later in the evening, senator amy klobuchar who ended her

campaign yesterday and beto o'rourke both joined biden at a rally where they too delivered their endorsements. biden gained several other notable endorsements including former senate majority leader harry reid and former national security adviser susan rice. now, while former president barack obama said he won't endorse a candidate. he is pushing to coalesce around biden and with pete buttigieg on sunday when he ended his campaign. people close to obama said the former president has been keeping close tabs on the race. they said the signal has been sent that he sees biden as the candidate to back, and they don't need obama to say it publicly or privately. and despite yesterday's democratic contender, bernie sanders's campaign seems to be rolling with the punches, speak to go reporters in salt lake city yesterday, sanders deputy

campaign manager said this, regardless of all of this, we are still the strongest campaign coming into super tuesday and the strongest campaign to defeat donald trump. the spokesperson talked around the idea of elizabeth warren dropping out of the race, adding that the massachusetts senator has quote run a very good campaign, and we have the utmost respect for her. >> and senator bernie sanders leads the democratic primary field in california, the largest prize on the super tuesday, according to a new usa today suffolk university poll. sanders is 19 points ahead former new york city mayor michael bloomberg, former vice president joe biden at a critical 14%. they are statistically tied sitting within the polls, more than 4 point margin of error. senator elizabeth warren is at 12%, i believe 15% is the threshold to get any delegate sgs. >> and sanders remains the front runner. sanders now sits at 29%, down just 3 points since saturday's south carolina primary. he's followed by joe biden at

26% up 7 since his primary win. michael bloomberg, 17%, elizabeth warren remaining at 11. >> joining us once again from outside duke university in north carolina, msnbc's david gura, and josh lederman. biden's endorsements coming from heavy hitters in the democratic party, some suggesting president obama is kind of tipping the scales a little bit in his favor. what does this say about the party's establishment beginning to coalesce before super tuesday. >> reporter: the establishment is moving in that direction, but former president barack obama is walking a delicate line. people say he does not want to endorse before there's a clear nominee. he sees his biggest opportunity to help the party this year as uniting the party around whoever that nominee eventually is after a fractious primary, and if he's seen now as putting his thumb on

the scale on behalf of any candidate, it could make it harder for him to do that. but behind the scenes, the former president has been working to, in a way, clear the field for joe biden. we know he spoke to his former vice president after he won the primary, and spoke to pete buttigieg in the last 24 hours or so. and people close to the former president say he has been sending the signal, if you want to unite around someone as the moderate alternative to bernie sanders joe biden is the one to get behind. >> david, you have gotten -- we've seen major democrats endorsing the former vice president. you have the president calling this a coup against bernie. what all of that, david, sanders as we saw in some of the polling there still remaining the front runner, what is going to be some of the main factors in north carolina where there's a major delegate hall ul as we pointed earlier, what are some of the

main factors weighing the results there. >> reporter: this has been a close race between bernie sanders joe biden, and michael bloomberg. when you look at the most recent polling, bide skn and sanders a neck in neck. a lot has to do with young voters in the state, black voters as well. there has been a lot of talk among voters i have spoken with, how catalytic that was. he said as soon as those polls closed in south carolina, jim clyburn, the majority whip made his way from south carolina to the eastern part of north carolina to begin to campaign. now as somebody who comes from here, i can say north carolina and south carolina are not the same state. there are a lot of differences but there is a resonance in the black community, an appreciation in south carolina as well. his campaign trying hard to capitalize on that going into super tuesday. you read their statement from a

senior adviser to senator bernie sanders. he's still approaching this state as the front runner. he has been here recently. there's been a lot of national focus on the state. a lot of candidates have come through here, nina turner, another senior adviser is in the area today, rallying young voters at duke. she was at unc yesterday trying to get voters to the polls. they're proceeding optimistically hoping they're going to move ahead in north carolina where as you mentioned, 110 delegates up for grabs. >> you have spoken to a lot more voters than i have being out on the trail the past couple of weeks. you know, bernie sanders has relished in this role running for president that he is running also against the democratic establishment. he has made that clear. the democratic establishment as you are saying is beginning to coalesce around joe biden. is there any concern from when you've spoken to voters that this may, in fact, work in bernie's favor, that now that this establishment, including somebody like president barack obama is weighing in on this, that it mobilizes and energizes

not only bernie sanders's base but somebody like elizabeth warren who yesterday said joe biden not by name, she didn't name check him but said he's not the right person for this moment in our country? >> reporter: there is absolutely that concern because sanders supporters are known to be particularly sensitive to the perception that the establishment is trying to tip the scales away from him. that's something that's a legacy of the 2016 race when parts of the democratic establishment through the whole superdelegate process were seen as really trying to move it in the direction of hillary clinton, and one of the big concerns is that if sanders is the nominee, democratic turnout could be lower because he's going to have trouble bringing people into the party who are concerned about his prospects against president trump. >> david, let's talk about elizabeth warren's position in all of this. klobuchar out, buttigieg out, as we heard sanders' camp, it seems

nudging warren to drop out of the race. with all that going on, she had a major haul last month. she still thinks she is the woman to beat donald trump come november. what do you make of her position amidst the race right now as she continues to stay in through super tuesday, some would argue doesn't necessarily have a path to the nomination? >> we've kind of watched the evolution of her position. she was perceived ads a progressive, her message changed to one of unity, being the candidate who could rally and unite different factions of this party, and now she is trying to figure out a way forward here as josh was mentioning a moment ago, trying to find a path forward here. i spoke to a number of students at duke and north carolina central university as well who are ardent elizabeth warren supporters and as you both know, college campuses are not known for their pragmatism, this is a place where you go to learn who you are, and learn more about

the world and there is a lot of maybe sadness isn't the right word but folks are having to reckon with the fact that praguetipragu pragmatism does play a role in politics. elizabeth warren has struggled with the way she has been talked about the last couple of weeks, the use of the word electable, the way she's positioned in the democratic nomination. they remain optimistic, they think she has a shot, but the warren campaign isn't saying they think she's going to win. seems very much in the air to me as an observer of this how she can use this, use today to in a very concrete fashion advance her campaign going forward here as we have seen this seismic reorientation and reengineering of the democratic field over the past 48 hours. >> thank you very much, guys, appreciate it. as the coronavirus is spreading in the united states, "the washington post" is reporting that interviews with nearly two dozen administration

officials, former white house aides, public health experts and lawmakers are portraying a white house scrambling to gain control of a ruterless response defined by bureaucratic infighting, confusion and misinformation. after down playing the outbreak as a hoax last week, president trump last night accused what he called fringe globalists of seeking to open u.s. borders and increase the threat of the virus. >> we're doing everything in our power to keep the sick and infected people from coming into our country. we're working on that very hard. we closed our borders very early. i took a lot of heat for that. remember when i closed the borders to certain areas of the world. i took a lot of heat. there are fringe globalists who would rather keep our borders open than keep our infection, think of it, keep all of the infection, let it come in. >> now, while americans bracing for potential coronavirus

pandemic, doctors are saying hospitals are not prepared for it. yesterday new york city infectious disease physician matt mccarthy said the cdc left hospitals with a shortage of diagnostic tests which has left them unprepared to take on the disease. >> before i came here this morning i was in the emergency room seeing patients. i still do not have a rapid diagnostic test available to me. >> that's easy to do, is it not? is it hard to manufacture? >> it is easy to do for some countries. what happened in the united states is that the cdc created a test, test out to 50 states and said hold up, don't use it, let us fix it. we hear that it's coming very soon but i'm here to tell you at one of the busiest hospitals in the country i don't have it at my finger tips. i have to call the department of health. i have had make my case, plead to test people. this is not good. we know that there are 88 cases in the united states. there are going to be hundreds by middle of the week, there's going to be thousands by next week. >> and that is one of the major persistent problems throughout

this whole thing. >> scary when you're hearing that from an official in a city like new york. >> all reports indicate we had a month and a half jump on this thing, and they closed off their borders and we are still not prepared to deal with a growing possible outbreak in the united states. still ahead, if you're wondering where his kim jong un been? >> you know he's going to pop up in all of this. >> likes his name in the news. north korea appearing to -- the taliban's commitment to reduce violence in afghanistan as the group resumes attacks on local forces just days after signing a peace deal with the u.s. no one can be surprised. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment.

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sign the reclusive nations is renewing weapons tests. south korea believes the launch was part of a drill that north korea began last friday coinciding with the one-year anniversary of president trump's summit with north korean leader kim jong un in hanoi, vietnam. north korea's leader said he had abandoned hopes for diplomacy with the united states despite meeting with the president three times since washington had yet to lift sanctions on north korea. according to "the new york times," the north korean leader had minimized his public appearances and locked down his country to prevent the spread of the coronavirus from neighbor and ally china but last friday kim jong un resumed his public activities to attend a military drill as reported by north korea's state media. and hours after the u.s. signed a peace deal with the taliban, cracks are starting to appear in that agreement to help end the longest running war in history. they would resume fighting

against after begghan security ending the truce before signing the deal. its fighters will not attack foreign forces but operations will continue against the kabul administration forces. ef beg they will not release taliban prisoners as a negotiation. there is no commitment to releasing 5,000 prisoners. it could be included in the agenda of the intra-afghan talks but cannot be a prerequisite for the talks. the u.s. and taliban had agreed upon prisoner swaps before rival afghan sides were expected to begin talks in norway. according to un estimates. >> can i get your read quickly. one of the problematic things i saw with the signing of the deal is that he wasn't even there, and we are seeing the reason why that could have been problematic. >> very briefly, the u.s. wanted the taliban to sign this

agreement to stop attacking western forces and then transition to negotiating with the afghan government. the fundamental problem is that the taliban does not recognize the afghan government, the central government, anything other than a puppet government by the u.s. they're saying if we have negotiated with the u.s., we don't need to be negotiating with the after began government, and here we are a few days after the signing. >> two days. >> two days. and not a good sign for the future. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. are we hearing anything out of nashville so far. >> we found new pictures in. if you were just joining us, a tornado hit downtown nashville overnight, it looked like it was a significant tornado. we already know of at least two fatalities, no reports of how many injuries yet, at least 30 to 40 structures have been significantly damaged. you could see some of the pictures here, a statement just in from jim cooper, representative jim cooper, what a devastating night in nashville, i'm praying for the victims and thankful for first

responders, check on friends, family and neighbors, i'll just show you this image here. it's a little bit blurry. this is donaldson christian elementary school on the northeast corner of nashville, gone. the roof is gone. the structure is gone. that's the kind of scenes as we wake up this morning, and when the sun comes up, we're going to be showing you more pictures from this devastating tornado that hit downtown nashville, tennessee, overnight. they are one of the states that are up and voting as we go throughout super tuesday, i don't know if this was one of the polling sites or not. we're trying to look that up. you get the idea of what they're going through this morning. >> nobody was inside that elementary school when that tornado struck but that's devastating to see some of that structural damage there. thank you, bill. still ahead, the dow registers its best day in more than a decade, wow, after coronavirus fears sent u.s. stocks tumbling if their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. a lot of ups and downs there. will the rebound continue today. the stories driving your

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welcome back, everyone. things we're pointing up for the dow yesterday after rali iralli 1,300 points. and got to ask you this, willem. i don't know the market like you do, but last week no deaths in the united states. some cases markets were in a free fall. yet we had six cases confirmed and yet somehow the market recovered a little. explain that to us. >> i'd love to be able to. essentially this saul about sentiment, ayman and the challenge. saw the single largest gain on the dow more than a decade after that crushing week last week, worst since the financial crisis. we're seeing the market in shanghai closing higher today. here in europe got the major four markets in the uk, italy, germany france, all trading higher at the moment. so people seem to be getting a little bit more positive, and it may be one reason that central

bankers finance ministers around the world are making noises about intervening, trying to help prop up the market. in fact, a call late today involving secretary of treasury, steve mnuchin and jay powell from the federal reserve joining on a conference call with the other g7 nations and issue as call about that coordinating effort to intervene to fight the virt virus. investors watching closely. yesterday we talked about carmakers postponing or canceling in geneva. more and more tech giants are talking canceling their own live events. google, the latest to come out and say it would be holding a big conference about the cloud business in april in san francisco. holding that entirely online. last year 30,000 attendees. not looking for those to congregate now. >> willem, earnings losses in a

lot of major companies but actually certain companies, which you always have, amidst this type of thing actually reporting gains. who is that? >> well, gojoe parent company for purell hand sanitizer talking to business insiders how they're staffing up, people-out people on overtime. yesterday found none of the amazon sellers themselves had any purell left in stock. you can still get it through third-party sellers. some of the prices, got to tell you, very, very inflated at the moment >> i saw $100 a bottle. absolutely insane. business insider. willem marx, thanks. up next, remembers the life of hollywood icon james lipton and coming up on "morning joe" the growing threat of the coronavirus following a spike of confirmed cases across the united states. plus, joe biden endorsed by

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welcome back. james lipton, longtime host of "inside" the actor one of my favorites, always watching it. the frequent "morning joe" guest had a knack for getting scores of hollywood luminaries to open up about their life using a well-known stack of blue note cards that held his meticulously researched questions and ending every interview with, if god exists what would you like to hear him say after your death. watch this. >> because i use the people questionnaire, i have become ipso facto willy-nilly without intending it america's eulogist. >> if heaven exists what would

you like to hear god say pat the pearly gates. >> just go, two jews walk into a bar. >> take over for a while. i'll be right back. >> i was called upon to appear on virtually every talk show in america when these people died. because they had been on "inside the actors' studio" and answered that question. i'd rather not be the eulogist. >> he allowed you to see the other side of people that you don't normally see. you got to see the inside of who they actually were. such an incredible interview. "inside the actor's studio" one of cable's longest running season earning 20 emmy nominations, and lipton got nearly 300 actors and oscar and emmy winners to share the secrets of their craft. >> that does it for us here on "first look." "morning joe" starts right now.

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