major new developments on the coronavirus here in the united states. thousands of new yorkers quarantined, another death reported just within the last hour. a cruise ship in limbo off the coast of california and the head of the world health organization with a dire warning. this is not a drill. meanwhile, the markets continue a wild week of swings, up, down, and now deep in the red as we await a new jobs report this morning. and the latest from the campaign trail as bernie sanders and joe biden try to win over elizabeth warren supporters now that she's out of the race.

good morning, everyone. it is friday, march 6th. we made it to another week. >> almost. >> we'll see how the day goes. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we want to begin with a series of fast moving new developments on the deadly coronavirus that is unfolding here in the united states. first on the west coast, and this dramatic new video from the california air national guard, hovering over a cruise ship that is now being held off the coast of california. these are troopers dropping off test kits after several passengers showed symptoms and officials learned that a patient who died in california earlier this week had recently traveled on that same ship. more than 3,500 passengers and crew are on board. we are told 45 people have now been tested. results are expected later today. >> got to be a lot of anxiety on that ship right now. meanwhile, officials with the new york city department of health say they are keeping an eye on more than 2,700 residents

who are currently under quarantine. that comes as the number of confirmed cases doubled in new york state thursday from 11 to 22. colorado announcing its first two cases, maryland announcing its first three cases, and join florida, washington state, and california in declaring states of emergency. the united states also recorded its 14th death from the virus within the last hour. the 13th for washington state. there are 230 cases in the united states total but as we have reported, experts are saying many more people are likely to get infected but have not been tested. on monday, the trump administration said it would have close to a million tests available by the end of the week. now we're learning the administration will miss that goal by a long shot, able to provide only 75,000 tests by week's end. that's not much. that development came with this urgent warning from the world health organization yesterday. >> we're concerned that in some

countries, the level of political commitment and the actions that demonstrate that commitment do not match the level of the threat we all face. this is not a drill. this is not the time to give up. this is not a time for excuses. this is a time for pulling out all the stops. >> all right. so with that as the backdrop, the senate moves swiftly in their response to help contain the coronavirus. yesterday after approved the spending package, the vote was one short of unanimous, 96-1, rand paul casting the dissenting vote. the legislation will provide funding toward research into vaccines helping health agencies respond to the virus and helping

supply more medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. the white house put a spending plan to 2 pn$2.5 billion, yeste during a press conference in washington the state most affected by the outbreak so far, vice president mike pence thanked congress for their quick action on moving the spending bill and told reporters that president trump will be signing it today. let's talk 2020, senator elizabeth warren officially dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, leaving joe biden and bernie sanders fighting to win over her supporters. speaking speaking to reporters outside of her massachusetts home yesterday, warren said she would not be endorsing another candidate right away, though she has spoken to both biden and sanders. watch this. >> so i announced this morning that i am suspending my campaign for president. i say this with a deep sense of gratitude for every single

person who got in this fight, every single person who tried on a new idea, every single person who just moved a little in their notion of what a president of the united states should look like. i will not be running for president in 2020, but i guarantee i will say in the fight for the hard working folks across this country who have gotten the short end of the stick over and over. that's been the fight of my life, and it will continue to be so. >> what guidance would you give to your supporters who don't know who to support now? >> well, let's take a deep breath and spend a little time on that. we don't have to decide that this minute. >> at a rally in phoenix, and while speaking to reporters, senator bernie sanders applauded elizabeth warren's campaign and had a message for her supporters. >> i want to take this opportunity to applaud senator warren for a strong issue

oriented campaign. and tonight we invite senator warren's supporters into our campaign. because i think they will find many of the issues that senator warren campaigned on are exactly the issues that we are fighting for. >> you know, i have been in politics for a little while, and i have seen many many campaigns, good campaigns that have spent a lot of money kind of fade away, the message fades away the day after the candidate drops out or loses. that will not be the case with senator warren. i have known senator warren for some 20 years, and she is very focused, very disciplined, very hard working.

and today i would simply say to her supporters out there, of whom there are millions, we are opening the door to you. we'd love you to come on board. >> and while senator elizabeth warren takes time to decide who she will support as the democratic presidential nominee, nbc news is reporting that the massachusetts senator spoke by phone yesterday to former vice president joe biden. a spokesperson for biden declined to discuss the content of the conversation. meanwhile, though, biden praised warren on twitter writing in part this, senator warren is the fiercest of fighters for middle class families, her work in washington, matssachusetts and n the campaign has made a real difference. we needed her voice in this race and her continued work in the senate. joining us, washington reporter for politico, daniel

lippman. let's talk about elizabeth warren, her exit, and what this means going forward, how is the battle between joe biden and bernie sanders shaping up ahead of next tuesday's primaries. >> we should remember what happened last time, you know, whether, you know, she didn't run for president in 2016 but she has -- she had a lot of supporters and she did end up endorsing either sanders or hillary clinton. she wanted to make the most amount of difference in terms of their policy platforms. and so that often means working quietly behind the scenes, and so right now, she's getting wooed by a lot in the democratic establishment. i guarantee you senators from her side are calling her up and trying to urge her to support biden because they see biden as the best chance to beat sanders. so if she doesn't endorse, it could kind of be a wash in that half of her supporters might go to biden and half go to sanders.

>> how could it in fact benefit sanders as you're talking about, there could feasibly be a split here. it seems like sanders could really use the boost of some of these warren supporters and a possible endorsement from elizabeth warren but as you say that endorsement could be delayed all the way until the summer until convention time for all we know. how could that really add a boost to sanders going forward as he's looking to secure this nomination? >> well, if you think about most of the supporters for warren, they are in the progressive part of the democratic party, and that is not the part of the party that biden is drawing from. he's more of the establishment and more moderate voters, people from the suburbs, who don't want radical change, and so elizabeth warren, she has stood for those ideas for many years in terms of medicare for all and aggressive steps to tackle climate change, and so her supporters will have to make up their minds whether

they think sanders is the right vehicle for those ideas or if he is, you know, less electable than biden who can get some of those ideas into, you know, into office, and to kind of get them implemented and passed by a congress that is likely to still have many republicans in the u.s. senate. >> daniel lippman in d.c., thank you very much. we're going to talk ol thto thea little bit. top republicans are subpoenaed joe biden's son hunter for the work he did in ukraine. gop senator mitt romney may be the one to stop it. michael bloomberg may have exited the presidential race but he's not done with the fight. what he's been up to since dropping out. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. k

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welcome back, everybody. the republican effort to subpoena records about former vice president joe biden and his son hunter biden and his dealings with the ukrainian

energy company burisma faces being derailed amid new concerns that senator mitt romney will vote against the request. the senate homeland security committee is set to vote next wednesday on a subpoena for records from blue star strategies, a democratic public relations firm related to conflict of interest allegations against the bidens. republicans on the panel hold a slim 8-6 majority and if one gop senator joins the democrats it would mean a 7-7 tie resulting in a failure to issue that subpoena. yesterday, romney, a member at that panel hinted that he could break in party lines. >> do you have concerns about the appearance of this investigation, of this committee's launching into burisma that the subpoena that the senator johnson wants to issue for documents related to burisma, are you concerned about the appearance of anything? >> there's no question that the

appearance of looking into burisma and hunter biden appears political, and i think people are tired of these kind of political investigations and would hope that if there's something of significance that needs to be evaluated that it be done by the fbi or some other agency that's not as political as perhaps a committee of our body. we also have a lot of work to do on matters that are not related to burisma. we probably ought to focus on those things. >> joining us on set, msnbc legal analyst, our good friend, danny cevallos, good to have you with us. interesting to hear romney take this position, not surprising given that he voted to impeach the president and somehow all of this is connected but what do you make of mitt romney's position to not want to see hunter biden investigated by the senate right now. >> it's one thing to vote to impeach and convict the president as mitt romney did because that was something watched by the entire world. this was something that might have flown under the radar and

probably mitt romney could have gotten away with voting along with the rest of the republicans. it's interesting that he has chosen to take two high profile stands in just the last few months and this one in particular is him saying that this subpoena going out to blue star may be political instead of serving the committee's purpose. so it is a very bold step and a very interesting step because it really reveals a lot about what mitt romney thinks about the underlyi underlying investigation. >> we know that the trump administration, the trump camp will be mounting an attack campaign against biden as he has said it on hannity, he's going to be talking a lot about burisma and ukraine and hunter biden. that aside, if the subpoena is not issued because romney stops it are there other avenues that could be taken aside from what trump is going to be doing? >> in the world of opposition research and political competition, it is perfectly acceptable as it goes to investigate this activity by

hunter biden, burisma, if you're part of the campaign and you're using it as part of your political campaign. the difference here is that it is the senate itself, our government, that appears to be trying to investigate the same thing with government funds, government resources, and that, i think, is where this could fail for that particular committee, and why you see mitt romney coming out against it, even though, i think everybody in the republican world just sort of expects that there's going to be an investigation, a private investigation of biden, of hunter biden, of burisma. >> you heard lindsey graham say it on capitol hill two days ago or so. >> i don't want to put you on the spot with a history question but are you aware of a situation by which congress is investigating or is involved in an investigation of a president's opponent where at least to our knowledge the fbi and law enforcement agencies in this country have not? >> i'm incredibly put on the spot because i haven't

researched that one. >> it just seems very odd that we haven't heard any kind of rumblings that the fbi is investigating this or that any other law enforcement agency is investigating this like we have in previous cases where congress was also doing its own investigation. >> let's take the mirror image of what you're saying. this was relevant during the impeachment inquiry as well. if the issue is that there's this narrow slice of corruption and if, in fact, the target of the investigation is corrupt, should that target be immunized because he or she is a political candidate, and i think that's what you're going to see this debate evolve into, if there is actual evidence of corruption, should it be investigated, even if it means it would be a highly political investigation. >> the lesson we learned from 2016 is if the fbi opens an investigation in the middle of an election, against a candidate, and then announces that the investigation is there, that in and of itself can have dramatic effects. >> danny cevallos, appreciate

it. >> brush up on your history a little bit. >> i know. i will. >> geez. for a first look at your weather, let's switch gears, bring in bill karins with a quick check. >> it's okay, danny. >> weekend's here, everyone. just about. one more day, we have to get past the storm up in the northeast. now, we are so close to this actually being like a big nor'easter, about 200 miles is what's going to separate a heavy big wet snow event and just an ocean storm, and it's just one of the winters that the timing hasn't been right for a big snowstorm. light snow this morning in indianapolis. the second piece coming off the north carolina coast. they are not going to merge until it gets too late. that's why we're going to be watching the storm system moving away from the northeast. so only minor effects. notice the snow map, pretty lame, only a little bit of snow, higher elevation of west virginia, may get a coating on the grassy surfaces, buffalo to

rochester, elmira, harrisburg, not much, and even areas from providence down to cape cod, late tomorrow night into early tomorrow morning a little bit of snow. nothing crazy, a possibility of 50 miles per hour wind gusts as the ocean storm will be close enough to give you some of those concerns. light snow, interior portions of the northeast, bring the umbrella, washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york, especially later today, here's 6:00 p.m., light rain over long island and also new york city, there's some of the snow in western new york. overnight, that's when we could get a little bit of snow on cape cod and by the time we get to saturday afternoon, it's said and done. today's forecast, middle of the country, you are gorgeous and for all of our friends in the southeast who have had just a miserable stretch of wet weather, this is your reward, guys, they are going to go friday, saturday, sunday, sunny and dry, and they deserve it after all the wet weather they have had. >> thank you, bill. >> good news for them. thank you, bill. despite outcry from activists nationwide and accusations his case was

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♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ welcome back, everyone. alabama inmate nathaniel woods was executed by lethal injection. woods was quicked of capital murder for his role in the killing of three birmingham police officers back in 2004, which his codefendant had confessed to firing the weapon that killed the policemen and denied that woods was complicit in the fatal shooting. activists and family members claim that woods' case was mishandled with inadequate legal counsel saying he was wrongly informed that he wouldn't be convicted of capital murder because the state needed to prove he pulled the trigger. in alabama, even if the person did not pull the trigger of the murder weapon they are eligible for the death penalty. >> civil rights leader, martin luther king iii advocated on

behalf of woods. here's what he said on "morning joe" just yesterday. >> what it feels like to many in the african-american community is once again this is like a lynching. an innocent person is slated to die this evening. and that should be unacceptable. the legal system has got to do better or justice certainly has to be served in some responsible fashion, it seems to me. >> after woods' execution king tweeted this in the case of nathaniel woods, the actions of the u.s. supreme court and the governor of the state of alabama are reprehensible and have potentially contributed to an irreversible injustice. alabama governor kay ivey said in a statement after woods was kee executed after thorough and careful consideration of the facts, the initial jury's decision, the many legal challenges and reviews, i concluded the state of alabama should carry out the lawfully

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, we begin this half hour with senator elizabeth warren's

decision yesterday to drop out of the 2020 presidential race and while she said she would not be endorsing another candidate right away, warren on msnbc last night addressed the onslaught of online attacks from bernie sanders supporters which she says he is ultimately responsible for. >> it's not just about me. i think it's a real problem with this online bullying and sort of organized nastiness, and i'm not just talking about he said mean things, i'm talking about some really ugly stuff that went on. i want to say this for all of the candidates back when there were lots of us, we are responsible for the people who claim to be our supporters and do really threatening, ugly, dangerous things to other candidates. >> and it's a particular problem with sanders' supporters. >> it is. it just is. it's just a factual question.

and it is. and that's something i think that -- >> have you ever talked with senator sanders about that. >> i have. >> what was that conversation? >> it was short. but, yeah, we've talked about it. but i think it's a real problem. >> and after former vice president joe biden's big win in south carolina last weekend and victories across the south on super tuesday, senator bernie sanders has cancelled a planned speech in jackson, mississippi and will travel to campaign in michigan. "the new york times" suggests the change in plans that sanders will not challenge biden for the support of black voters in the south, and a vital base in the democratic party and is going all in on the midwest as he tries to compete with biden for working class voters. >> and following his success on super tuesday, multiple people familiar with joe biden's cam panl, look to go broaden his communications and political teams and reorder senior most roles inside of the operation. according to the times, biden's

advisers are in talks with jennifer o'malley to take a senior role alongside anita dunn, the chief strategist, and michael bloomberg has pledged to help biden's campaign, after ending his bid and endorsing the former vice president, advisers to bloomberg caution that they were still at an early stage of determining how he would redeploy elements of his campaign apparatus now that he is no longer a candidate. while they intended to target president trump for defeat in a number of swing states, it could be a while before the details of those plans come into focus. and at a campaign rally in phoenix last night, senator bernie sanders went after joe biden over his political donors. >> joe biden has received campaign support from at least 60 billionaires.

he is receiving support now from former mayor bloomberg, one of the wealthiest people in this country. and joe has an active super pac. while we're running our campaign very differently. we don't have a super pac. we don't want a super pac. we don't need a super pac. because we are raising our campaign funds from the working class of this country. >> and mike bloomberg is forming an independent campaign with an army of around 500 of his staffers in six swing states that will work to elect the

democratic nominee this fall. nbc first reported this story back in january. officials say the group will be a vehicle for bloomberg to spend money on advertising to attack the president and support the democratic nominee. hawk fish, the digital company started by bloomberg that's carrying out his hundred million dollar online ad campaign will be retained through election day to help defeat the president. by law, though, the staffers and hawk fish would not be able to coordinate their activities with the nominee's campaign. the arrangement would likely be similar to how super pacs which can accept unlimited contributions and spend limitless funds working to defeat and elect candidates as long as they act independently. according to "the washington post," bloomberg staffers in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, florida, and north carolina, they have signed contracts through november to work on defeating the president. "the washington post" reports that the new group could play a major role in shaping the race this fall. bloomberg, who is worth more than $50 billion also has not

ruled out using the group to spend money to support former vice president joe biden during his primary fight against bernie sanders. joining us now once again from washington, d.c., white house and washington reporter for politico, daniel lippman, good to have you back. >> thank you. >> let's talk a little bit about this unofficial coalition that's emerging. you've got bloomberg wanting to help biden but more importantly interested in defeating donald trump. what kind of impact could this create in certain swing states. if there's one thing we can take away from the bloomberg campaign, it's safe to say that his digital ads going after trump were very effective in getting under the skin of the president, and getting a lot of attention. >> just looking at some of the polling as bloomberg was running, there were times bloomberg was number two and number three in some of the polls as we saw. >> and he's also -- trump is still attacking bloomberg as mini mike on twitter it seems like every day. and roping him into tweets about elizabeth warren that appear not to be really even related to bloomberg, so i think the two

new york billionaires trump might feel that he, you know, he gets outshined by bloomberg sometimes with all that money. but i think with that outside group that bloomberg has, it could be very helpful to democrats in states that are critical to win, but we should also remember that money doesn't, you know, automatically lead to votes, and so look at the hundreds of millions of dollars that boloomberg spent ad he only one american samoa, while they can't coordinate, they have to do a good job at targeting voters, and i think we saw in 2016 that you can't just be anti-trump, and so they have to play up what democrats would actually do if they defeated trump. >> let's talk about bernie sanders' strategy here. yesterday we learned of course that sanders was cancelling an event in jackson, mississippi, instead, focussing on michigan, really wanting to win in

michigan. what do you make of this shift for him? >> i think it's a logical shift since he's trying to kind of view michigan as one of his fire walls, but he was already done seven points in one of the polls before super tuesday in that state, and he has not shown the ability to rebuild the obama coalition in terms of well off suburban voters, plus minorities such as african-americans which are a huge part of the democratic base, and biden seems to be doing well among most demographic groups, and so this is a huge challenge for sanders since some of the states that are coming up, they don't -- or they aren't that favorable to him. california was the most favorable state on the democratic map but even though he won that state, it's not enough to actually get him ahead, and so there's going to

be pressure on him to drop out in a few weeks, if he keeps losing states or not making end roads against biden because people will say, hey, don't do what you did last time in staying on too long and that made it harder to unify to defeat trump. >> daniel lippman live in d.c., daniel, thank you. >> thanks, guys. still ahead, nbc's richard engel is on assignment this week covering the global impact of the coronavirus outbreak. he joins us for a live report coming up next. eport coming up next tremfya® helps adults

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of the first to volunteer. >> reporter: how are people in your hospital getting this? >> the routes of transmission of these viruses, all coronaviruses, they transmit through droplets. >> reporter: and it's this level of infectiousness that means dr. wong has to take extreme measures to make sure he doesn't become infected and spread the disease. >> when we are working, we are sort of separated from the rest of the department. we have our own office. we don't eat inside canteens. we do take aways, and then hide somewhere to eat, and after work, we don't go home. >> reporter: where are you staying? s . >> i'm staying at a hotel near the hospital. >> that was richard engel speaking to a doctor in hong kong. as the sickness spreads around the world with almost 98,000 cases confirmed in 87 countries, health care workers are race to go contain the outbreak. the world health organization recently updated its estimate of

the virus's mortality rate to 3 pn3.4% up from 2%, and yesterda the united kingdom reported the first fatality linked to the coronavirus. >> let's go to london, chief foreign correspondent richard engel is joining us from there. thanks for joining us on this. talk about the global effort here to contain this virus, specifically what officials are doing in china and across east asia. what are they doing to tame this outbreak? >> reporter: so good morning. there is a global effort but it is not centralized. it is not like there is one main lab in geneva at the world health organization where a team of international scientists are working around the clock. it's not like that. instead, you're seeing lots of different efforts. you're seeing efforts in the united states that are working with biotech companies.

you are seeing effort in several european laboratories to try to come up with a vaccine. that is also happening at a lab we visited in singapore. the good news is these labs do seem to be talking to each other. there is a great deal of openness with the world health organization operating like a hub pulling in different pieces of information from governments around the world, pushing that information out to both the public and to different scientists and health officials. so there is a kind of global solidarity that i haven't seen before on any kind of political story that i have been covering. and a willingness to share information because this truly has gone global. if you look at the numbers that have been put out by johns hopkins university or the world health organization, almost half of the countries in the world have now at least one case that they know about it. so we're seeing different measures taken in every single

country to try and limit physical contact. in iran, today is friday, the iranian state television said that all friday prayers have been cancelled in the west bank, in the city of bethlehem. the city of bethlehem has been closed, the manager square and church of nativity closed, the hotel put under quarantine, and the hotels in the city are not allows any foreign visitors, all in an impact to limit close proximity, close contact, and those are just two examples. if you went across the map, you'd find examples in every single country with the paris marathon suspended. you have here in the uk, talk of taking extraordinary measures, italy taking some quite disruptive measures, closing towns in the north, suspending all schools and universities until next month. so country by country, you're

seeing different levels of approach as nations are taking ever more aggressive steps to limit the contact and that upping of the mortality rately the world health organization is very significant, going from 2% to 3.4% is an enormous increase. it means that you're talking about almost doubling the mortality rate. now, we're not sexactly sure if that number is going to hold but we're seeing the world health organization operate like i said in the beginning a level of transparency i haven't seen before covering international events. >> richard engel thank you very much, by the way, richard engel on assignment outbreak, don't miss it, this sunday 10:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc, and we're going to see more of richard's reporting ahead on "morning joe." let's switch gears for a moment and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins with a check of your forecast. >> one of the maddening things is people want the hard facts

and hard numbers and they have to gather them and put the numbers together. >> and i think also what's so troubling when you hear from richard is there's this lack of coordination across the world whereas this is the time to be coordinating. >> i wanted to ask richard because he spent time in the u.s. following this story as to how the u.s. response compares to that outside of the world, and what we're hearing so far from the preparedness of the tests or how quickly these tests are getting out, the information flow, that you're talking about bill, it's just not up to par. some health officials are saying, i believe from hhs saying that the mortal raity ra is much lower. >> it's much higher for the elderly. >> a lot of confusion. >> i know. and they'll sort it out. just the science has to come around and then they'll put it together. let me get to your weekend forecast. we have the big storm off the northeast coast. minor airport delays, new york, baltimore, d.c., i don't think we'll get a lot of

cancellations. 7:00 p.m., winds in nantucket, could be 45 miles per hour, not bad, new york, and d.c. maybe scattered power outages out in the cape ch as far as today's forecast, today is your reward day in the south. still a little cool but finally you get the sun out there all day long. we'll have a showery weather in the northeast, and as far as the weekend forecast goes, saturday is kind of the cool day in the northeast with some windy conditions, by the time we get to sunday, though, temperatures jump up into the 60s in d.c. we're going to be talking cherry blossoms a lot earlier than we typically do. beautiful weather conditions. sunday is the day of the weekend for everyone, and don't forget, daylight saving time. don't put the s on that. daylight saving time as we go through saturday night. >> what does that mean? >> you're going to get an hour less of sleep. >> what that means is monday morning we're going to be getting up at a god awful time. >> 2:00 a.m. i don't want to think about it. >> you know what, it will be beautiful outside. keep a smile on your face.

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welcome back, everybody. stock futures are pointing towards another low open. lots of ups and downs in the market in the last ten days as the coronavirus continues to playing wall street amidst ongoing uncertainty. of course every morning we're tracking how these markets are going to open. seems like they will be opening low once again this morning. bill, talk us through it. >> reporter: yeah. like a yo-yo. you watch the chart. we had that strong day on wednesday. looks like it will open significantly down this morning. as you say that's been reflect in asia where we saw the major

markets in tokyo, shanghai close lower. big markets are trading down especially companies like airlines taking a massive hit from investors. in terms of what's going on elsewhere in the economy, those another really important thing for investors is what's going on with the ten year u.s. treasury note. the yield on that, that's the amount of interest you get paid for holding on to medium term u.s. debt is a record low. people are piling into government debt away from stocks because it's a safer bet as far as they are concerned. what that means for the broader economy sometimes gets harder for companies to borrow money and therefore spend money and another reason why the fed decide to cut rates quite soon to prop up the economy and encourage that kind of borrowing. another thing to watch closely today for investors is the jobs market. we're expecting the data out later on today. we do think the 175,000 number for the month of february will be what's coming in.

that's against 225,000 new jobs added in january. economists pointing out this is a historical snapshot. that number for jobs and hiring in the u.s. does not yet really reflect what's going on with coronavirus over the last week or so. you could see warehouse, airlines, hotel groups freezing hiring as united airlines already announced it will do until june. let me ask you something that we've been talking about a lot, hand sanitizer, everybody being prepared. people seem to be thinking of every possible alternative to hand sanitizer and in case of a shortage during this outbreak, including vodka. >> what's up with vodka? >> hopefully it's not a top shelf vodka. what more can you tell bus this? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. a lot of people on social media have been saying they were going to make their own hand sanitizer. one brand tito came out and said

that's a terrible idea. you need 60% alcohol content for sanitizer. most vodka is around 40%. don't do it. >> people around the world breathing a sigh of relief. >> pour vodka in my hands. thank you so much. up next, chuck schumer's walk back of comments made about two supreme court justices. coming up on "morning joe," the democratic primary now down to a two man race after senator elizabeth warren's decision to end her presidential campaign. whether she will get behind progressive bernie sanders remains unclear. billionaire mike bloomberg could boost joe biden's campaign. "morning joe" just moments away.

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have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. you won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. >> i should not have used the word i used yesterday. they didn't come out the way i intended to. my point was that there would be political consequences, political consequences for president trump and senate republicans if the supreme court with the newly confirmed justices stripped away a woman's right to choose. of course i didn't intend to suggest anything other than political and public opinion consequences for the supreme court and it is a gross distortion to imply otherwise. i'm from brooklyn. we speak in strong language. i shouldn't have used the words

i did but in no way was i making a threat. >> fellow brooklynites here. >> the remarks came after mitch mcconnell accused him yesterday of trying to quote bully our nation's independent judiciary and later attack democratic lawmakers for undermining and threatening u.s. institutions. >> that does it for us. "morning joe" starts right now. the >> we are concerned that in some countries the level of political commitment and the actions that demonstrate that commitment do not match the level of the threat we all face. >> we're giving, i think, really given tremendous marks. you look at gallup poll, other polls for the way we've handled it. >> this is not a drill. >> it will all work out. >> this is not a time for excuses. >> they made some designates which were not good decisions. we inherited these decisions