and now, save up to $600 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. only for a limited time. good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, march 4th. let's get right to the results from super tuesday. it was a stunning night for joe biden. the former vice president swept the south. the projected winner in nine states in all with landslide victories in alabama, virginia, north carolina, arkansas, tennessee and oklahoma. he also won minnesota, the delegate-rich state of texas as well. and elizabeth warren's home state of massachusetts. where she came in third behind bernie sanders. now sanders won his home state

of vermont as well as colorado and utah. sand rs is also leading right now in california. the state with the most delegates. but the race is too rl to call with 45% of the vote in. sanders has 32% to biden's 23%. the state of maine is too close to call with 91% of the vote in. biden leads sanders, 34% to 33%. when it comes to delegates, biden is now the front runner. that's a math and count of the total delegates so far. 420 to bernie's dlsh 435, we just updated it. to bernie sanders 343. warren at 37. >> so joe biden took to the stage in los angeles last night before polls closed and celebrated his vikt i ctorievic. watch this. >> it's a good night. tz a good night.

it seems to be getting better. they don't call it super tuesday for nothing. >> a few days ago the press declared the campaign dead. and then came south carolina and they had something to say about it. and when us you got to super tuesday it would be over. it may be over for the other guy. i'm here to report we are very much alive. and make no mistake about it. this campaign will send donald trump packing. people are talking about a revolution. we started a movement. we increased turnout. the turnout turned out for us. >> there was some drama amist all the wins.

at one point protesters rushing the stage, as you can see coming within feet of the former vice president and his wife. the body man carry iing that proit'ser off the stage. and then moments later a second protester storming on to the stage. she was carried off by biden campaign aid. >> super tuesday victories were thanks to his support among black voters in several states. according to nbc news exit polling, black voters were a key voting group for biden fueling his win in south carolina and also true in virginia where 63% of african-american voters said they voted for the former vice president. 62% of tennessee's black voters also cast ballots for biden and in alabama, biden received 70% of the the backing of black voters in that state. biden claimed a significant portion of the black vote in southern states, where almost two-thirds vote forward him yesterday. >> and bernie sanders spoke to

supporters in vermont last night before polls closed in california expressing confidence in his ability to win the democratic nomination while going after joe biden's voting record. >> we're going to beat trump because this will become a contrast in ideas. one of us in this race led the opt schism to the war in iraq. you're locking at him. another candidate voted for the war in iraq. one of us has spent his entire life fighting against cuts in social security, exploiting to expand social security. another candidate has been on the floor of the senate calling

for cuts to social security, med care, medicaid and one of us led the opposition to disastrous trade agreements, which cost us millions of good-paying jobs, and that's me. and another candidate voted for disastrous trade agreements. one of us stood up for consumers and said we will not support a disastrous bankruptcy bill. and another candidate represented the credit card companies and voted for that disastrous bill. >> after a disappointing breakout, michael bloomberg is

reassessing whether or not to stay in the presidential race. senior campaign officials telling nbc news that bloomberg will meet with top advisers in new york this morning to make a decision after pouring more than $500 million of his own money into the campaign. the former new york city mayor failed to meet the 15% threshold required to win delegates in most super tuesday states. but according to the data, bloomberg has already invest eda $7 million ad buy primarily across states voting in the coming weeks like florida, with he was last night. he currently has no public events scheduled for today, as he makes his decision. >> after finishing in third place in her home state of massachusetts, elizabeth warren and her campaign are charting their next steps. according to nbc news, team warren appears to be tight lipped. staffers seem on edge and there are signs that the campaign is feeling the pressure. and tensions are mounting among progress i-s as the moderate wing of the democratic party begins to unite.

plolitical reports angered the sanders camp as she vows to go all the way the to the convention. tweeting, last night, imagine if the progressives consolidated last night like the moderates consolida consolidated, who would have won? warren held a rally in detroit without once mentioning super tuesday. >> but prediction has been a terrible business. and the pundits have gotten it wrong over and over. so here's my advice. cast a vote that will make you proud. cast a vote from your heart. and vote for the person you think will make the best president of of the united states of america.

i'm in this race because i believe i will make the best president of the united states. >> joining us now from north carolina, david gur. two different realities this morning if you're inside the booiden camp or the sanders camp. tough decisions for bloomberg and warren ahead. let's start with the results of us super tuesday and how they may have impacted some of these campaigns starting with joe biden's camp. what does this mean for bernie sanders going forward? it seems in the course of a day, the momentum has shifted from joe biden now being the front runner and bernie sanders now being the underdog. >> reporter: it's fascinating to be here this was contested territory for a lot of democrats who looked at polling and it was a three-rayway race between joe biden, bernie sanders and michael bloomberg, who as you mentioned spent so much money here on infrastructure and advertising. in the end this race was projected quickly after the polls closed. joe biden with a pretty

resounding victory here in north carolina. you see his camp citing what happened in south carolina as a really catalytic thing. he winning that state gave him momentum that changed things here in north carolina and throughout the south and parts of the midwest as well. they are going to try to capitalize on that going forward and i was struck listening to that tape you were playing there of bernie sanders in vermont last night drawing the contrast between his record and yb jb's record over the last few years. and really that's the benefit of having this narrowed field. michael bloomberg out of the way, at least as the two front runners. michael bloomberg even further back naps what we're going to see here in the next few days is bernie sanders, the senator from vermont, drawing that contrast and joe biden having to respond to the critiques from the senator from vermont. >> david, we have talked the last couple days leading up to super tuesday about some of the major democrats coming in behind the former vice president,

coalescing and bolstering the endorsement from jim clyburn. also taking a look at exit polls from last night, especially in north carolina, the overwhelming amount of support for the former vice president has come from african-american voters, especially in the south, is ses stounding. >> they was very confident in even as his campaign was not doing well in the weeks leading up to super tuesday. he was convinced he was going to get the support of black voters, and we did see that. when you look at how it shook out by percentages, he got 6 out of 10 black votes here in north carolina. so that confidence was met by the reality among black voters. you look at the will tea knee vote, it was a different story. he didn't do as well with them throughout the states in super

tuesday. there's actually subtle investigator lining for bernie sanders. you look at how he performed in texas in 2016. he really struggled with latino voters. he got 30% of the vote in texas. this year it was a different story. as you pour through the data that you mentioned, you see the reason for that is when you look at latino voters in texas and other super tuesday states, they say that health care is the most important issue to them. they are very warm to the proposal that bernie sanders introduced for medicare for all. you couple that for what he said about tuition-free college. for a lot of them, bernie sanders seems to be their candidate. so again, we haven't a senatnar field here. we're going to see much more of a contrast drawn between joe biden and bernie sanders. >> david, we'll let you keep looking through those polls. still ahead, we have so much more to talk about include iing

what congressman jim clyburn had to say about joe biden's big night following his endorsement the. plus a dead hi tornado in nashville. thousands of homes and businesses without power. bill karins is going to join us with an update. those stories and more, coming up next. an update those stories and more, coming up next. hi! we're glad you came in, what's on your mind?

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when i was asked what was my intent with the endorsement, i said i was trying to create a surge for joe biden. i knew that just to win south carolina was not good enough. he need ed to win it big. and just even winning it big would not be good enough unless it was done in such a way that the people in north carolina and virginia and people down b in alabama, tennessee, i followed up by endorsement with visits to north carolina. and then i did robocalls into

tennessee, into alabama, arkansas and north carolina. and so i feel that people got the message. >> a lot of folks basically saying joe biden is where he is because of that man. that was congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. he was reacting to biden's big wins last night in the role he played in all of it. not only in his home state, but across the south in which biden performed well. >> we'll get to more results from super tuesday. but 24 hours we had tragedy to report out of tennessee. today we're getting a better picture of just how devastating that tornado was that struck nashville and other parts. 24 people were killed. we'll go now to meteorologist bill karins for an update on that. we were saying yesterday, we were going on the air, initial reports two people dead. unfortunately, that number has skyrocketed. >> we knew a tornado had gone

through the major city. i think it was an ef-2 or ef-3. that rarely ever happens. so we had two fatalities, but what we learned was in a rural area, they had 18 people die in a two-mile stretch. and there were children that per you sha ished this their homes too. it was one of the worst tornadoes in tennessee's history. it was one thunderstorm that produced three or four tornadoes from one thunderstorm. it was incredible damage. it was very strong tornado. i think the winds were at least 165 miles per hour. so they are saying 77 people are missing. a lot of those people they survived and left the area, but they are still trying to find that many people so the death toll could go up. we have a severe weather threat today too. we have a watch over southern mississippi and alabama. so our storm system and our active weather in the south is

still continuing. we have a severe thunderstorm watch in here in areas of west texas. so all through the south, numerous areas with a ton of rain. this tornado watch includes jackson, mississippi. there's no warnings right now. there's no one that's heading into their basements or safe rooms seeking shelter like we were this time yeed. but these storms could produce isolated tornadoes. the other threat it's been so wet in areas of the south that flash flood iing is going to be problem too. we have 15 million people under flash flood watches from baton rouge to birmingham, montgomery, atlanta. so throw some airport delays inside this also. as far as the rainfall totals go, it looks like by the time we're done with this, some of these areas of the brighter oranges here and reds, we have another two to three inches of rain. we'll have a flash flood threat and then all the water runs into the rivers. we'll proebl get some river flooding problems. the cut offline is charlotte

south wards and jacksonville, florida, north wards. so your forecast today, a nice day in the midatlantic. enjoy the 60s in d.c. but then enjoy the 41 in minneapolis. colder air will come in. we'll talk about snow in the great lakes throughout thursday and friday. one of the worst tornadoes in tennessee history. and just imagine that community. it's a small community. 18 lives lost in a 2-mile stretch. >> i think two important things to mention. the governor of tennessee declaring a state of emergency and president trump going to be heading there later this week to visit the site of the d devastation. divided supreme court yesterday increased the ability of states to prosecute undocumented immigrants and other people who do not have work authorization in the u.s. if they provide false social security numbers or other information on job applications. with the court's conservative justices in the majority, the 5-4 ruling overturned a 2017 supreme court decision that voided the convictions of three

restaurant workers for using other people's social security numbers fraudulently. in an opinion written, kansas did not unlawfully encroach on federal authority. however, liberal justice steven briar said immigration law gave federal authorities the sole responsibility to police fraud committed to obtain eligibility to work. the trump administration backed the cause saying that congress never meant to carve out an immigration-related exception. still ahead, you'd think lst night was just about a race to the nomination. there were some congressional races to watch on super tuesday as well. including alabama's senate race where jeff sessions is fighting for his old seat. we'll show you those results, coming up next. seat we'll show you those results, coming up next s to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer

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big state, small margin. 450 votes right now separating joe biden from bernie sanders and the lead in texas. and i keep looking a at this thing closely because it keeps changing and getting closer. this is as close to tied as you can be without actually being tied. we're trying to figure out exactly where the outstanding voters. we're looking at san antonio, fort worth, a el paso. see if that beto o'rourke endorsement has an impact.

there it is. joe biden has taken the lead. lock at that. 1200 votes. >> wow. realtime. >> steve kornacki always in realtime. >> that was the exact moment when joe biden jump ed ahead of bernie sanders in texas live on the air as you saw there. polls showed biden leading texas until his weak finishes in iowa and new hampshire. when he fell behind bernie sanders, then everyone remembers south carolina. changed the game. here's where things settled in texas when voter hs their say. biden the projected winner with 33% to bernie sanders' 29%. >> so nbc news is projecting that alabama's senate race is going to head to a runoff. 2 points separates jeff sessions and tommy opportunituperville. sessions, who had a turbulent

relationship with the president, touted his support for the president and his agenda. >> when no one else dared to do it, i endorsed donald trump. people thought i was nuts. some of you thought i was nuts. us heard from you. and where was my opponent? the one we'll be facing in the runoff. when the battle was in doubt, you know where i was. on the front lines. where was he when president trump needed him? what did he do for trump? never said a kind word about him that i can find. never gave a single penny of his millions to the trump campaign. so one thing is clear. there's no doubt where i stand on the issues. no doubt of my support for donald trump and his agenda. >> he was incredibly accurate in saying he was basically the firgs guy to come out in support

of the president, but since then, especially after he he took the post of attorney general, he's made disparaging remark, especially after the russia investigation. >> he may be giving lindsey graham a run for the money for the most loyal republican senator. >> the president likes loyalty. even if he does throw lots of arrows at you. >> still ahead, he spent millions on advertising in the results weren't great for michael bloomberg. now the mayor is reassessing the state of his campaign. >> plus we're going to talk about how amy klobuchar helped joe biden win minnesota last night. we're going to get a live report from minneapolis, we'll be right back. rt from minneapolis, we'll be right back turn on my tv and boom,

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welcome back, everybody. we begin this half hour with the results from super tuesday. it was a stunning night for joe biden. the former vice president swept the south. the projected winner in nine states. with landslide victories in alabama, arkansas, tennessee and oklahoma. he also won minnesota, the delegate-rich state of texas d elizabeth warren's home state of massachusetts. sanders won his home state of vermont as well as colorado and utah. sanders is also leading right now in california, the state with the most delegates.

but the race is too early to call there with 47% of the vote in. sanders has 32% to biden's 23%. the state of maine is also too close to call with 91% of the vote in. biden leading sanders, 34-33. when it comes to delegates, biden is now the front runner. horror are the numbers. biden, as you can see there, 435 and sanders at 344. >> former vice president joe biden took to the stage lst night in los angeles before polls closed and celebrated his victories. >> it's a good night. it's a good night. and it seems to be getting even better. they don't call it super tuesday for nothing. just a few days ago, the press declared the campaign dead. and then came south carolina and they had something to say about it.

and we're told when you got to super tuesday it would be over. well it may be over for the other guy. i'm here to report we are very much alive. make no mistake about it. this campaign will send donald trump packing. people are talking about a revolution. we started a movement. we inkrecreased turnout. the turnout turned out for us. >> at one point during biden's speech, protesters rushed the stage. you see it right this coming within feet of the former vice president and dr. jill biden, his wife. one woman was swiftly removed by the body man. and moments later you see it again. a second protester storming the stage. this time she was carried off by a campaign aid. >> it's time if you're seeing how heated the races have become

for the secret service to consider some protection around some of these candidates because these are scary moments, and you don't want to see anything happen to anyone during this process. joe biden's super tuesday victories were thanks in part due to his support among black voters in several states. according to nbc news exit polling, black voters were a key voting group for booiden fuelin his victory in north carolina, where over 60% of voters backed him. this was also true in virginia where 63% of african-americans said they voted for the former vice president. 62% of tennessee's black voters also cast ballots for biden. and biden received over 70% of the backing of black voters in alabama. as a whole, biden claimed a significant portion of the black vote in southern states where almost two-thirds voted for him yesterday. >> joe biden's surprise victory in minnesota came after amy klobuchar dropped out of the race and endorsed the former vice president on monday. in the the weeks leading us up to super tuesday, it showed them leading in minnesota, but it was

biden who actually took the state last night. a spokesperson for amy klobuchar says following her endorsement, the senator cut a radio ad and featured the spooch and cloeb they deployed organizers all across the state. >> bernie sanders spoke to supporters in his home state of vermont before polls closed in california expressing confidence in his ability to win the democratic nomination while going after former vice president joe biden's voting record. >> we're going to beat trump because this will become a contrast in ideas. one of us in this race led the opposition to the war in iraq. you're looking at him. another candidate voted for the war in iraq.

one of us has spent his entire life fighting against cuts in social security, exploiting to expand social security. another candidate has been on the floor of the senate call in for cuts to social security, medicare, medicaid and veterans programs. one of us led the opposition to disastrous trade agreements, which cost us millions of good-paying jobs. . and that's me. and another candidate voted for disastrous trade agreements. one of us stood up for consumers and said we will not support a disastrous bankruptcy bill.

and another candidate represented the credit card companies and voted for that disastrous bill. >> let's talk about former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. he's reassessing whether or not to stay in the presidential race. senior campaign officials telling nbc news that bloomberg will meet with top advisers in new york this morning to discuss his next steps after pouring more than half a billion dollars of his own money into the campaign. he failed to meet the 15% threshold required to acquire delegates. bloomberg has already invested $7 million in ad buys across states that vote in the coming weeks including florida, where he was last night. bloomberg currently has no public events scheduled for today. >> and after finishing this third place in her home state of

massachusetts, senator elizabeth warren and her campaign are charting their next steps. according to nbc news team warren awe pierce to be tight lipd. staffers seem on edge and there are signs that the campaign is now feeling the pressure. tensions are mounting among progressives as the moderate wing begins to unite. in fact, warren has angered the sanders camp as she vows to go all the way to the convention. this as sanders surrogates reflected on joe biden's surprise win many minnesota tweeting, imagine if the progressives consolidated last night like the moderates consolidated, who would have won? for her part, warren held a rattlly in detroit last night. without ever once mentioning super tuesday. >> but prediction has been a terrible business. and the pundits have gotten it wrong over and over. so here's my advice.

cast a vote that will make you proud. cast a vote from your heart. and vote for the person you think will make the best president of the united states of america. i'm in this race because i believe i will make the best president of the united states. >> joining us now from minneapolis, minnesota, correspondent lon hilliard, who probably has had a lot of coffee at this point. good to see you. good morning to you. goi've got to say what a surpri i think a lot of people thought in minnesota. i was speaking to steve kornacki a couple hours before we heard about amy klobuchar endorsing joe biden two days ago. and at that point, it seemed as if it was klobuchar and then

sanders. so you would naturally think sanders would take the state of myrtle beach. yet you had the major endorsement from amy klobuchar. how crucial was her endorsement for biden's chances in winning in her state? >> reporter: exactly. amy klobuchar flew down to dallas on monday to announce her endorsement of joe biden and saying that she would be behind him. what you saw here in the results in minnesota last night was a 12-point victory for joe biden. and even greater context to that was four years ago here when it was hillary clinton and bernie sanders, bernie sanders won minnesota by 22%. last night i was talking with some klobuchar staffers here in minneapolis who were elate d by the results and suggesting to me that amy klobuchar intends to hit the trail again here later this week for joe biden believing that that consolidation of support around him, thad like to believe their senator here from minnesota played a wibig role in his abily

to win one of at least nine states here on super tuesday. >> let's look at it from the sanders perspective. he won in 2016 when he was running against hillary clinton. he lost yesterday or at least certainly the delegates are going towards joe biden for the time being. what is the sanders camp saying about how it went down in minnesota? what happened? >> reporter: this is a place they won by 22% in 2016. as part of sanders appeal, they could beat donald trump in november. winning places like the midwest back. minnesota went narrowly to hillary clinton over donald trump in 2016. so this hurts. you go to iowa. he didn't win in iowa. you go to minnesota, didn't win in minnesota. sudden issenly these are places where the map was important for him. and joe biden is able to suggest he's puling support from a broad cross section of this country, at least geographically. >> let's talk about senator

elizabeth warren, as we were just playing sound from her speaking. are there any signs out there as to what her next steps might be? we have heard from inside elizabeth warren's camp that she wants to take this thing all the way to the convention. the likelihood of that, though, considering the fact she has no seemingly path forward to the nomination seems fair hi low to me. >>. >> reporter: just on monday night, she was slamming joe biden as being a washington insider. saying that the democrats shouldn't be putting up a washington insider. our colleague had the chance to ask that question of senator warren last night after her event saying if you do not win a state here on super tuesday, will you stay in the race? and senator warren, who is usually quick to answer, offered no response to that.

so i know our team is in massachusetts with her. her first event in which we should be expecting to see her next is the not until thursday in lansing, fwan. >> really quickly. let's round out all the candidates. any indications speaking of billionaire michael bloomberg dropping out, any indication he may do that after how things played out for him on super tuesday? >> reporter: several of our nbc news colleagues reporting that the bloomberg campaign is going to be reassessing the status of their own campaign here as the sun comes up. because last night was disappointing. for putting in $500 million in your campaign, michael bloomberg will have not won a single state and barely met the 15% threshold in a couple of them. he thought he was going to be essentially able to be in the position that joe biden finds himself this morning, but those results yesterday in which michael bloomberg spent heavily

and has been up on tv air waves since thanksgiving, this was not quite the result in which $500 million was the anticipated outcome for michael bloomberg. >> think of all that money being spent and then just walking away with american samoa. thank you. we're going to check back in with you. president trump went after rivals on twitter as candidates waited on the results of super tuesday. the president tweeted about michael bloomberg writing in part, the biggest loser tonight by far is mini mike bloomberg. he got nothing for his $700 million. but the nickname and the complete destruction of his reputation, way to go, mike. trump then went after elizabeth warren. tweeting out, elizabeth "pocahontas" warren, the loser of the night.

now she can sit back with her husband and have a nice cold beer. however, joe biden defended his opponents in a tweet to trump writing, you lost tonight. democrats around the country are fired up. we are decent, brave and resilient people we are better than you. come november we are going to beat you. >> as the president went after michael bloomberg and elizabeth warren on twitter, the president watched the returns roll in on television. they tried to tamp down on joe biden's momentum. everyone should reremember that he's just as terrible a candidate right now as he was a couple days ago. before adding that, establishment democrats ganged up to deny bernie sanders the nomination as the race turns into a battle between sanders and biden, trump has seized on the division. the democratic party has gone crazy. and as trump's reelection effort heats up, the rnc announced it raised $86 million last month

for the president. meanwhile his daughter ivanka trump boasted in an interview with the "new york times" she raised $2 million in 45 minutes a the a donor event last year. in that same interview, the president's daughter said her father was, quote, broadened the reach of the republican party. >> still ahead, joe biden sweeps the south on super tuesday as the commonwealth of virginia turns in a record number of primary ballots. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. t.

what if i told you two weeks ago that the american south would rise to an extent for joe biden to rewrite this race. >> what i find so fascinating about this is it's a vote for normalcy. an old phrase from the 1920s. in our politics.

it's a sense that as insane as everything has felt, as unconventional to say the least as everything has been since 2015, there's still a resilient core of american voters. >> that was presidential historian john meacham sharing his thoughts saying americans vo voted for a return to normalcy. john meacham will be a guest coming up this morning on "morning joe." then there's the issue of voter turnout. the commonwealth of virginia saw more voters than ever before yesterday. about 1.3 million votes were counted with 1% of the vote still out. nearly doubling the 780,000 votes cast back in 2016. even b surpass iing the 2008 primary between barack obama and hillary clinton, when underunder 1 million voted. the sanders campaign long argued that high voter turnout favors their candidate, but that was not the case in virginia last night. where biden won by 20 points.

>> let's switch gears and bring in meteorologist bill karins with a check on your weather. we have been talking about the disaster in tennessee. any relief today for the folks down there? >> they don't have any bad weather coming down there. the pucktures are incredible. when you see most tornadoes, most of them are weak. we don't get a lot of these strong ones. when you see pictures like this when you don't know what you're looking at anymore. sometimes like the weak tornadoes will just take the roof off. when you get an ef-3 like these, you see this incredible damage with winds in access of 160 miles per hour. and you see there's cars and objects that are embedded into concrete. and you can see why in the middle of the night, even if people were in their shelters why we lost so many lives. >> can i just quickly ask buzz you brought up a good point. it hit in the middle of the night the reason the number is so high. was there any warning?

how much warning did any of the residents have? >> most people had five to ten minutes of warning. >> which is not a lot of. especial hi in the middle of sleep. >> but if you have your tornado plan and sirens were going off. people did have time to gather their kids and children and head to their safe rooms or storm shelter, if they had one. but when you get winds this strong, even if you're in your safe room, if it hits you direct ly, you may not survive unless you have a concrete structure. so let's get to the forecast. we do still have severe weather threat this is porng. today is a day to watch out for flash flod ioding. also storms rolling through areas of west texas. as we go throughout the day today, we have a slight risk of severe storms. we'll continue the threat this morning. we'll probably get a little break and then additional set veer storms from southern louisiana, mississippi, the panhandle of florida.

8 million people are at risk. tomorrow we'll take the severe risk into georgia and northern portions of florida. we could get a few isolated tornadoes. there's no indications we're going to get the strong ones like we had in tennessee. it only takes one. all that damage that was done in tennessee was from one thunderstorm that travelled over 300 miles. anyone traveling today with all the bad weather, we could see significant airport delays throughout the south. we don't expect what happened in tennessee to happen today, but it was a good lesson. it only takes one. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, stocks sink despite the fed moving to slash interest rates to combat the economic toll from the coronavirus, which has now killed nine people here in the united states. the latest on the deadly outbreak is come canning up next. e latest on the deadly outbreak is come canning up next [ fast-paced drumming ]

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wall street saw yet another day in negative territory as it was mired in uncertainty after the feds emergency interest rate cuts filled to stabilize the stock markets because of the coronavirus. stocks jumped initially but then tumbled. the dow falling nearly 1,000 points and ending down 800. the s&p also dropped 2.8% while the nasdaq dropped 3%. even safe haven us assets saw trouble. the ten-year treasury yield fell for the first time ever.

>> now to the latest on the deadly coronavirus. two more people who died last week in seattle have now been confirmed have contracted the virus. that brings the united states death toll in washington state to nine people. new york city confirmed its second case of the outbreak leading to a closure of a bronx private school. the patient is in serious condition. mike pence said that the cdc would be removing all restrictions on test iing for t virus saying we will issue new guidance from the cdc to make it clear that any american can be tested. no restrictions, subject to doctors orders. 132 cases have been confirmed in the united states so far. president trump also said yesterday that he's considering putting further restrictions on international travel, but not on domestic. we're looking a at other countries and being stringent. 93,000 cases globally and 3100 deaths have been confirmed. and according to the world health organization, the mort mortality rate of virus rose to

3.4% up from 2%. still ahead, the latest results from the super tuesday contest that show former vice president joe biden now lead in the democratic primary field in the delegate count. we're back in a moment. 439 to 346. these folks don't have time to go to the post office

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it is wednesday, march 4th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin this half hour, this hour, excuse me, with results from super tuesday. it was a stunning night for joe biden, the former vice president swept the south. the projected winner in nine states, with landslide victories in alabama, virginia, north carolina, arkansas, tennessee and oklahoma. he also won big in minnesota. he won the delegate-rich state of texas as well. and he won elizabeth warren's home state of massachusetts, where she came in third, behind bernie sanders. sanders won his home state of vermont, as well as colorado and utah. sanders is also leading right