fischer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: mr. president, reserving the right to object. this concept is under discussion and it is a centerpiece of negotiations between the house democrats and secretary mnuchin which is ongoing, the senate will take needed actions to appropriately respond to the coronavirus. i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 3497, submitted earlier today, that the bill be considered read three times and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? mrs. fischer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: mr. president, reserving the right to object. this concept is also under discussion and a centerpiece of negotiations between house democrats and secretary mnuchin which are o

julie fischer, this is greg here in washington, d.c. caller: you should be the one that is talking, because what is coming up from the administration is totally, totally unacceptable. they have political people try to talk about this, it is terrible. from the guideg that is sitting there, it is not helpful. people who know and can inform people and i really want you to get out there and let people know. my mom has cancer. i have talked to her. really, youe is know, could be in that group. it does not matter if you are black or white. you are the people who should be talking. not these other guys who were trying to do this politically. it is not a political issue. it is a health issue. i commend you for doing this. guest: thank you, sir. i really appreciate your kind words about what i am contributing. part ofng my best to be the public health risk communications effort and i appreciate your kind words. i agree 100% that this should not be political. this is a crisis we should be facing together. one of the most important things is havin

julie fischer joins us now. at is a researcher georgetown university's center for global health science and host: julie fischer joins us now, a researcher at the center for global health sciences and security. here to help us understand the coronavirus and federal response to it. what do we know at this point, and how much still remains unknown? : data from what unfolded in china early in this epidemic. the situation evolved quickly. we are trying to understand some of the basic biology of the virus but we have a grasp of who is at moderate risk and who is at severe risk. understanding who needs to be most protected of transmission and understanding enough about the virus to start putting together diagnostics and begin the process of developing vaccines and other countermeasures. it is a long process but we have enough knowledge to get on that pathway. host: what is the most important thing to learn about the virus? what termsnderstand mean. we are throwing words around. because they are technical terms, they ha

host: julie fischer joins us now.is a researcher georgetown university's center for global health science and security. when it comes to the virus itself, what do we know at this point and how much remains unknown? guest: we have a lot of data from what unfolded in china early in this epidemic. the situation evolved quickly. we are trying to understand some of the basic biology of the virus but we have a grasp of who is at moderate risk and who is at severe risk. understanding who needs to be most protected of transmission and understanding enough about the virus to start putting together diagnostics and begin the process of developing vaccines and other countermeasures. it is a long process but we have enough knowledge to get on that pathway. host: what is the most important thing to learn about the virus? what termsnderstand mean. we are throwing words around. because they are technical terms, they have a different meaning to people working in epidemiology and public health than when they might be echoed in differen

fischer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: mr. president, reserving the right to object. this concept is under discussion and it is a centerpiece of negotiations between the house democrats and secretary mnuchin which is ongoing, the senate will take needed actions to appropriately respond to the coronavirus. i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 3497, submitted earlier today, that the bill be considered read three times and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? mrs. fischer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: mr. president, reserving the right to object. this concept is also under discussion and a centerpiece of negotiations between house democrats and secretary mnuchin which are o

us an investor of singapore and he was part of the team that visited china in february professor fischer thank you for joining us the report commands china for the kind of response it had to the corona virus outbreak my question to you is is the wall ready to follow the china playbook. well that's a good question dear ish in fact one of our comments was that we had major concerns about whether the world was ready some of the interventions that were acquired in china. really work required a lot of community engagement and a lot of foreigners the decisiveness and we thought some countries could struggle. would you like to mean these countries is most of the world ready to follow the china response you know that the world is full of countries with completely different contexts so you know i think they the countries that are being taken by surprise you know that the ones with many cases at the moment. you know in many ways the lucky ones they were the 1st ones tested and more and more now the people can say what happened in italy which is not completely different to what happened to move on

julie fischer joins us now. at is a researcher georgetown university's center for global health science and host: julie fischer joins us now, a researcher at the center for global health sciences and security. here to help us understand the coronavirus and federal response to it. what do we know at this point, and how much still remains unknown? : data from what unfolded in china early in this epidemic. the situation evolved quickly. we are trying to understand some of the basic biology of the virus but we have a grasp of who is at moderate risk and who is at severe risk. understanding who needs to be most

with us offering a $50000000.00 reward hoping that might convince someone to send him its way alan fischer al-jazeera and washington. israel's opposition leader benny gantz has called for an emergency unity government after being elected speaker of the country's parliament the unusual move could lead to an alliance with his rival the caretaker prime minister benjamin netanyahu in order to tackle the coronavirus against told the knesset the israeli parliament that these were unusual times calling for unusual decisions it comes after israel's 3rd inconclusive election in less than a year resulted in no government. well an armed group has carried out a 2nd major attack in northern mozambique in just 3 days the attackers seized and destroyed a police station in the town of sanger that saying. province the town is close to another that was taken over by the group on monday the fighters and their locally as al-shabaab the venue not linked to the group of the same name operating in somalia so the island nation of the seychelles in the northern india nation is pushing ahead with an ambitious progr

than 40 dead and more than 1200 cases on friday afternoon here in the united states all right alan fischer thank you. now the markets in the us rallied during president trump's announcement the dow jones industrial average closed up 1.3 percent after trading around 3 percent up for most of the day and thursday it saw the greatest losses since the black monday crash of 1987 in london the footsie 100 initially surge 8 percent but again subsided in afternoon trading to close just 2.4 percent it suffered its biggest weekly loss in more than 30 years in asia markets plunged in mourning trade but managed to claw back initial losses in hong kong the hang seng index closed down 1 point one percent well during the announcement trump raised his policy of banning all travelers from europe which the world health organization says is now the center of the outbreak it's warn that any country not moving to take tough measures against the corona virus is making a deadly mistake so spain has also declared a state of emergency from saturday allowing the government to confine people and evacuate buildings se

they're accused of using the proceeds of the cocaine trade to make up the lost oil revenues as alan fischerwe estimate that somewhere between 20250 metric tons of cocaine are shipped out of that as well or by these routes a virtual news conference but for a very real target today i'm here to talk about the former maturer. and its direct participation in narco terrorism corruption money laundering and drug trafficking the series of charges against nicholas mcdougal the man who leads venezuela and some of the most senior figures in his government the justice department alleges that running a drug gang called the cocktail of the sons who do what with the fart rebels in colombia shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine into the u.s. taking bribes and shooting the profits madeira and his other defendants have betrayed the venezuelan people and corrupted venezuela's institutions while the venezuelan people suffer. this could lines their pockets with drug money and the proceeds of their corruption and this has to come to an end the charges will be seen as a significant escalation in the trumpet ministr

bill reaches his desk mr trump has been accused of playing down the seriousness of the pandemic alan fischer has more from the u.s. president a dramatic announcement officially declaring a national emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus emerging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately i'm also asking every hospital in this country to activated submergence you prepared this plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasn't more widely available to vacations from a different time wasn't meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we're talking about. the trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tell people if they need the test and we have to get it what's missing is when these new measures will kick in the g

alan fischer all. austin texas. the city's prime minister is under pressure to resign after appearing in court over the alleged murder of his estranged wife people they will cover me the political instability comes as the country is struggling with high unemployment and widespread poverty for me to mother has more from the capital myself. most of the city's 2200000 people live in rural areas like this one in taba bosio in the village of met along hamas like ali there's electricity but despite there being alongside the mid to long day they don't have running water. almost see what sort of mates he lives here with her 5 children and 10 grandchildren their existence is hand to mouth and surviving only on her monthly government pension of $50.00 no one in their family has a job is. feeding these kids is a constant battle there are days where i have nothing and we go without eating anything sometimes i have to ask my neighbors for help sometimes they can help with one meal other times we go to bed with no food. or govern

our democracy to the point alan fischer al-jazeera austin texas. the headlines on al-jazeera. released by the turkish girls gone shows great officers firing into the water near migrant poles thousands of refugees and migrants have been attempting to cross into europe after turkey opened its borders the e.u. says turkey is trying to blackmail the block meanwhile turkey is warning of more attacks against syrian government forces unless ery various air advance into edley province ankara has stepped up its military operations after dozens of tech a shoebox were killed in an attack in the region last week. here's our system to allow us to call on russia and iran one more time we do not have any problem with you in syria. but if the syrian government forces do not withdraw or turkey has determined as soon as possible they will not have a heat left on their shoulders police in afghanistan say at least 3 people have died and 11 have been injured in a blast in the southeastern province of culls there is no immediate claim of responsibility the attack follows a us taliban agreement aime

so let's cross to alan fischer who's in washington for us tell us more then about chance remarks about measures being taken to combat the effects of the coronavirus there in the u.s. . what well they are kind of big he came on to the hill to meet with republicans he had a very good lunch according to everyone who was there they obviously talked about economic stimulus they talked about the current violence and the government response steve who is the treasury secretary he's been essentially tasked with speaking to house democrats about the best way to form some sort of strategy that would provide an economic stimulus they're talking about below perhaps for the cruise companies also for the airlines number of airlines are already reducing capacity simply because the number of bookings have absolutely plummeted over the last couple of weeks they're talking about some sort of deal as well for energy companies to here's the difficulty house democrats to immediately see the need to start building an industry they're looking at more help for working families they're pointing particularly to

is facing because of coronavirus ok alan fischer from washington allan thank you. that's allie barbara's chairman of infectious diseases at the mayo clinic he believes sarah's been a shift in how the u.s. says or sponsoring to the pandemic i think people in this country are starting to realize the significance of this. crisis. and they're starting to see 1st of all and he says because there are cases in most of the states right now. so we're seeing a shift and the community where i live this is certainly clear are people are only gauge and they're all want to help at this moment there are a lot of measures that happened this past week that are going in that direction travel ban social distancing i think there's been a lot more information about the disease itself and the impact the disease might have on patients especially the elderly or patients with underlying condition so we are seeing a shift you know we want to be connected and i think that's really trying to go from where we are and lonely for this place where we're going to be more isolated and separated but

alan fischer al-jazeera austin texas. china has reported another drop in the number of new coronavirus cases there are 125 cases detected in the past 24 hours and that's the lowest number in 6 weeks ago over 900 has continued to spread beyond china's borders saudi arabia tunisia rocco cycle and jordan are the latest countries to detect cases of the disease which are again the reports. in the chinese city where the corona virus outbreak started health officials say there's been a drop in new cases for the 1st time in 6 weeks it's closing one of we've had 60 new hospitals that were built in january to cope with the increase in patients because of it 19 continues to spread elsewhere the world health organization says 9 times as many cases were reported outside china within 24 hours it says the best defense is still containment we are in unchartered territory we have never seen before this respiratory partridge and that's comparable of community transmission but at the same time which can also be contained with the right meas

alan fischer that bring us up to date on the situation yes thank you very much indeed thank you. well several of the world's most cash strapped countries are particularly threatened by the coronavirus in argentina 2 years of economic recession has put on employment rates at almost 10 percent now the country is impulse and latin america's strictest locked own measures to resemble reports from buenos aires. the streets of argentina's capital when a site is are empty these days after the government imposed a look down in the country but soup kitchens like this one cannot afford to shut down. constanza says the amount of people coming year has doubled in the past few days and the local guy called mia people used to come here and sit down they could take a shower and spend some time things have changed but the amount of people coming has doubled many can't work and can't survive with the lock down and others live on the streets. ok yet argentina's economy was already struggling with recession and the possibility of default on its sovereign debt before fighting the covert 19 became a p

for businesses but the head of the coronavirus task force is warning the worst is yet to come alan fischer reports from washington. from the president of the united states was aimed at comforting americans relax doing great it will pay us moments later from the man heading the drive against the virus. starkly different message the worst is yes the head for us it is how we respond to that challenge the number of confirmed cases in the us is no more than 3000 states are shutting down bars and restaurants curfews are starting to be introduced the face of america is changing at airports chaos as the extended european travel ban kicks in here. staff carrying out health screenings have been overwhelmed the governor of illinois blamed the trumpet ministration for a lack of planning and foresight he didn't get the response he wanted well here's what i got i got a call at about 11 o'clock last night after that tweet from a white house staffer who yelled at me about the tweet the administration at its no daily briefing admitted mistakes were made the lines again that we saw overnight at a limited nu

this is no trump it would not be a significant election issue alan fischer. china has reported its lowest number of new infections for the pandemic is having a major impact on the world's 2nd largest economy figures just out show that production and its factories fell by a record 13 and a half percent in february of the regional shutdown of shopping malls and other businesses as led to a 20.5 percent drop in retail sales economists warn that recovery may be slow as the outbreak is likely to hinder a rebound in imports. mcbride is in south korea's capital where the infection numbers are also dropping but 1st let's go to beijing to see this katrina you can tell us more and no surprise really that the coronavirus katrina is having a huge impact on china's economy. oh i just studied see the extent of that impact as you mentioned earlier industrial output is down by 13.5 percent that's the biggest slumps as records began another big important figure that we've just heard is 6 invest a fixed investment and that is down 24.5 percent that number has not slumped by th

doing it we're not set up for that do i think we should be yes but we're not let's bring in alan fischer he's in washington d.c. so dr explaining some obvious holes and shortcomings and the broad federal system so tell me what states are doing to deal with corona. well those of obviously going to be a local response either from states or from counties from municipalities or from cities and a lot of people will look to those organizations those entities 1st to see what action they're taking because it affects them much more on the local level so for example in new york city the mayor there has declared a state of emergency that just gives them a few more powers if the situation gets much worse than the certainly working in coordination with new york state where the governor of course has said that he doesn't want to see gatherings of more than 500 people if you go across the country to california then companies are taking the lead their business has said it's closing 2 of its big theme parks that will be from friday until the end of the month new cases of the virus have been reported ther

cut 700 $1000000.00 from the center's budget but all parties are now promising great of funds alan fischer reports from washington sheri the head of the c.d.c. says quick government action slowed the spread of karuna virus in the u.s. but some democratic members of congress insist there was a failure in leadership we cannot. and this public health crisis play fast and loose with people's health due to the administration's failure to treat this threat seriously initial faulty test kits the administration slow approvals for laboratories slow distribution of working kits more people are likely to be infected robert redfield assured members of this congressional subcommittee the testing across the u.s. was being stepped up and said the surge in cases here was because more people travel to europe right now the epicenter of the new china is europe the c.d.c. director stood beside donald trump when he visited the organization in friday he was asked about some of the claims made by the president as the administration tries to cope with a growing crisis coronavirus like the regular flu then it's a

donald trump has issued similar advice and is aging no social gatherings of more than 10 people alan fischer brings us more on the lathe. spy the u.s. . if there's a cure for corona virus this might be it in seattle u.s. researchers have given the far short of an experimental vaccine developed in record time everybody is feeling so helpless right now or. realize that there is some help . but it could still take a year to have something for universal use back in washington the president and i was dramatic new steps to reduce the chance of spreading the disease my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating or drinking at bars restaurants and public food courts the president gave himself a tentative 10 for his handling of the crisis but there was a warning from the man spearheading the medical response in the us if you think you're here you're really here because you're only getting the results therefore it will a

well we have teams deployed right across to key battleground states for super tuesday alan fischer is at a democratic watch morning in austin texas 1st we go to ron reynolds who's any bernie sanders party in the state of california the state with the biggest prize of course which bernie sanders is projected to win as we heard from rachelle but we still don't know by how much. that's right there were to all the returns are not yet in but when the projection came across from the various american news networks that bernie sanders had won here in california think scott loud in a hurry people are very happy and some people told me they are exhausted from having been working very hard volunteer in phone banking knocking on doors and doing a variety of other things to see and make sure that their choice senator bernie sanders made it to the top here in california which as you mentioned is the jewel in the crown of super tuesday now one of those people who work for senator sanders joins me now paul newman paul thank you very much for being with us tonight hi how you feel and i'm feeling exult

done to take care of your people this is no trump it would not be a significant election issue alan fischer. china has reported its lowest number of new infections but the pandemic is having a major impact on the country's economy at the world's 2nd largest figures just out show that production in its factories fell by a record 13 and a half percent in february and the regional shutdown of shopping malls and other businesses as led to a 20 and a half percent drop in retail sales economists warned that the recovery may be slow as the outbreak is likely to hinder any rebound in imports what mcbride is in south korea's capital seoul where the infection numbers are also dropping but 1st let's go to beijing atlanta serious katrina you know surprise then katrina coronaviruses had a huge impact on china's economy. yes and we're beginning to see how huge as you mentioned industrial output has plummeted by 13.5 percent that's an unprecedented drop the biggest drop since records began fixed asset investment has also plummeted at 24.5 percent we didn't even see a drop that big during the global financ

capitol alan fischer will be joining us from a democratic watch poncey in austin texas but 1st let's go to john hendren who is covering virginia where polls have closed so just talk us through virginia what's happening there john. well virginia is a moderate southern state needs one of those that joe biden really wanted to win tonight the republican virginia as a significant african-american population biden has done particularly well among african-americans and it was a state that not long ago was more heavily republican than it is democratic it has been moving slowly into the democratic column with a more urban population in the northern part of that state and so biden was really counting on this state going his way so that would be a major victory for him sounds like it already is and in south in north carolina where i am that would be the next place where he hopes to have a significant victory at the polls don't close here for another 25 minutes or so but biden is hoping to do well here he was polling well in this state it's another state where according to exit polls in both vir

so we have teams deployed right across a key battleground states for super tuesday alan fischer is at a democratic watch body in austin texas will be speaking to him in just a few minutes 1st of all reynolds who is that joe biden's rally in california it's pretty empty where you are but california of course results coming in this hour what are the expectations that. well it could take some time for the votes to be counted and we have some breaking news for you foley the sanders campaign has filed in court for an emergency injunction to keep the polls here in los angeles county open for several more hours 1 because there have been serious delays of some people saying they waited for hours to 3 hours in order to vote there were a lot of delays down at the college near the college campus of the university of california at los angeles where many sanders voters were. impeded from voting by a long lines the voting itself will take some time to tabulate there have been some new procedures here in california put in place over the past couple of years and sometimes it takes a long time for the

alan fischer has more now on the new steps taken in washington d.c. from the u.s. president a dramatic announcement i am officially declaring a national emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus emerging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately i'm also asking every hospital in this country to activate its emergency preparedness plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasn't more widely available no i don't take responsibility at all because we were given a. a set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasn't meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we're talking about. the trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tell peopl

host: julie fischer is a research professor at the center for global health science and security at georgetown university. thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] we will be taking you live to the house floor. deal to becting a reached on an economic package and the response to coronavirus. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. march 13, 2020. i hereby appoint the honorable susan k. dell ben -- delbene to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representa

for more on this let's bring in alan fischer has run us from austin texas in an anticipation of super tuesday in a day's time which will talk about in a moment but 1st. alan so the democratic field is narrowing what more did he have to say. well it's interesting he was due to hold an event here in texas our own no actually but postpone those plans to head back to indiana. the reality is that he wasn't going to get the nomination he finished 1st in iowa but really didn't get the balance because it took so long to declare the results you remember that 2nd in new hampshire certain of forth and so carolina things were not getting better for him the difficulty convincing voters of color to back his campaign really he didn't particularly any great new strategy any great new theory that made people want to vote for him nothing immediately studio so it was always going to be difficult for him and he also realizes too that it's going to be difficult for the democratic party to be elected if bernie sanders is the candidate in his view he may not be correct in that and so to facilitate their be

north carolina kristen salumi is in west palm beach in florida mike bloomberg event there and alan fischer will be joining us from a democratic watch party in austin and robin owens is coming all the way from the west coast in california bernie sanders watch bob let's bring in kimberly 1st at the white house we know that president trump has spent the last few days saying the democrats are trying to oust bernie sanders strong words from him what's his strategy then. oh well the president's strategy 1st of all is to win the republican nomination and doesn't appear that he has any real challenge going on in fact the president has been tweeting in the last hour or so some of the states that he has won but again there really wasn't a lot of competition pointing out that he collected north carolina also vermont and then the hash tag keep america great donald trump essentially his argument is is that there is historically low unemployment the economy is doing well and so when beginning was running it was make america great now the hashtag keep america great but there's something that he's also be

it would not be a significant election issue alan fischer washington lived out of washington our white house correspondent kimberly halkett is with us kimberly how are americans dealing with the prospect of having to drastically change well at least their routines if not their entire lifestyles. yeah life as most americans know it has come to an abrupt and it is in every facet of society now right now i can tell you in more than 30 states adrian children are staying home from school some of them are doing distance learning others are simply taking an early spring break government workers are now tell a working for the most part and those who do not have the luxury of being able to stay home and collect a paycheck are finding that they are not able to work those so-called giga commie and are facing the prospect of wondering how they're going to pay their bills so what we're seeing is social distancing that is taking place where people if they are going out to a store if it is even open that they're staying 6 feet apart from the person next to them and the discouraging information for so

here is jonah fischer. jonah: ie eastern aegean, grant lives are bargaini chips, and she. -- cheap. this was filmed by the turkish coast guard, and shows greek boats trying to stop a pact dinghy of migrants brging europe. imagine the fear on board. unwanted by turkey or by greece. those are warning shots being fired at a flimsinflatable dinghy. not everyone makes it. just this morning, young migrant boy drowned when his dinghy, a different ohe, that size. is one of the rising number who have, wit' turkes encouragement, tried to reach e greek islands over the last few days. quthe direct human conce of istanbul's demand that europe in syria.s aid greece has changed the rules so that if mrants get caught now, they don't get processed here, ey get sent straight back. it means some of them are hiding. we have just seen what looks like a couple of migrants over here. they have run off, and we eventually find them hiding in some bushes. >another police. po--i'm not thce. they are syrian from aleppo. tired and stil

before european stocks were also up capping a rollercoaster week let's begin our coverage with alan fischer in washington d.c. from the u.s. president a dramatic announcement officially. emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus merging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately and also asking every hospital in this country to activate its emergency preparedness plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasn't more widely available no i don't take responsibility at all because we were given a. a set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasn't meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we're talking about. the trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tel

donald trump position similar advice and is no social gatherings of more than 10 people well alan fischer brings us more on the latest moves by the united states. if there's a cure for coronavirus this might be it in seattle u.s. researchers have given the far short of an experimental vaccine developed in record time everybody's feelings are helpless right now i. realize that there was something that i could do to help i'm excited to be here but it could still take a year to have something for universal use back in washington the president and those dramatic new steps to reduce the chance of spreading the disease my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating or drinking at bars restaurants and public food courts the president gave himself a tentative 10 for his handling of the crisis but there was a warning from the man spearheading the medical response in the us if you think you're here you're really here b

travel ban from most of europe will come into effect let's begin our coverage with alan fischer who is in washington d.c. so allan donald trump a spent weeks trying to say that this isn't that big of a deal he's used the term hoax he's tweeted a quick turnaround how effective might this be to really get things done. well with more than 40 deaths with more than 2000 cases they cleared donald trump really had to do something because this disease this virus is changing the face of everyday life in america the experts told them that if they wanted to stop the peak going quite as high as expected he had to do something and he decided this was the step that had to be taken from the u.s. president a dramatic announcement officially declaring a national emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus some urging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately i'm also asking every hospital in this country to activate its emerg

it would not be a significant election issue alan fischer and al jazeera washington. now if you're watching in pakistan or india or hello up north you're going to need a brawly in to tell us more kelly this has been a series of western disturbances last almost 2 days ago and the satellite picture picks out what went through and what is still to come and as you heard richard yesterday all know that we've had 20 odd this season should be 6 or 7 on an average year in delhi the result was both hail and flooding now there's been quite a lot of that again this season so see the other one lining up in the good signal in the immediate future we have beautiful weather a few showers further south india was used to open here in pakistan with temperatures in our twenty's which surprisingly is around about the average or even a little bit on the side but he's of course nice slow rebuilding we expect this time for the next couple of months. the source of these questions to answer is it's a different story altogether the blue represents subzero weather there is yet more snow falling

north carolina kristen salumi is in west palm beach florida at a mike bloomberg event there alan fischer he'll be joining us from a democratic watch party in austin texas there is. and rob reynolds is coming all the way from the west coast in california at a bernie sanders watch party well joining me here on set was bought about tunnel is al-jazeera senior political analyst my one bashara along with justin sage mitchell assistant professor in residence at northwestern university in doha also joining us is joseph who are associated professor of political science texas a and m. university in doha but before we get to them that gets around up from our reporters fanned out across the u.s. we go 1st to our white house correspondent kimberly how kits she is there kimberly so president trump has been talking about the democratic party not liking. trying to oust bernie sanders what was his strategy then going forward. if there's a reason the u.s. president donald trump continues to promote what many see as the infighting among the democrats because his strategy essentially is as long as he can k

alan fischer. austin texas. days after india experience its worst violence in decades the death toll is still rising 47 people lost their lives and more than 350 were injured during riots over a new citizenship they are seen as discriminatory towards muslims police have been accused of enabling mobs and preventing wounded muslims from getting help tony berkeley reports from new delhi. it was the seat of learning that became a target in last week's riots the school in the predominately muslim area of most of the bad northeast delhi was set on fire by a mob repairs a hurriedly being done to allow students to sit their final exams in 5 days time the attacks happened after hindu nationalists incited violence following peaceful protests against india's citizenship law. some damage will be harder to fix in the nearby al hin clinic victims of the violence wait to have their wounds treated both these men say they were shot while attending a muslim gathering his subordinate would have against he said we didn't get any su

alan fischer is live for us in washington d.c. so alan after weeks of the president continuing to shake hands to really brush off all of the social distancing that the experts have told us to do he has he says he has doctors say that he has finally been tested so tell us more about the. well you saw mike hanna's piece is he left the room he said that he his temperature was normal it turns out that that's absolutely right because they've released the results of the test and he was negative apparently on friday after the news conference there was the discussion of testing for 19 and the president agreed to undergo the test though he said on saturday he didn't know how long it would be before the results came back they came back just a few hours later and he was told that everything was all clear who clearly was at risk because he sat down in mar-a lago his home in florida last weekend with a brazilian delegation and some of those actually tested positive for the virus so clearly his physicians really wanted him to get a test done th

fischer is in austin texas he joins us and then now it's early but the eve of super tuesday 2 big names bowing out how significant is it. that they're essentially clearing the way for joe biden to grab the middle ground there's many in the democratic establishment who don't want to see bernie sanders the self described democratic socialists win the nomination they believe that he would be bad for don't table tickets they also don't believe that he would convince many floating voters to vote democratic and so this is the the establishment trying to clear the way for joe biden and they're obviously concerned they're concerned because if you look at the polls bernie sanders is going to do incredibly well in california that will get him a lot of delegates and also believed his polls before we got this news he was doing very well in texas and could actually win here if you won that one the 2 biggest delegate counts on super tuesday that would put him in a position almost of securing the nomination the still a bit to go but he would suffer so much momentum so much money behind him it's hard t

to be on the ballot he's pulled out telling supporters he no longer saw a chance of winning alan fischer reports from austin texas. we are going to win the democratic primary attacked by well you have died the 1st school nominee contests are over the attract big fields heavy t.v. advertising and media attention but they provide just 5 percent of the delegates super tuesday is super important a 3rd of the delegates and offer a real test of public opinion from north to south coast to coast and beyond california has moved its primary up to join the super tuesday when you take that and the other states and added to the already rich delegate count available here in texas there are 1357 delegates up for grabs that's almost a 3rd of the entire total so a good super tuesday gives the candidate the 3 m's media money and momentum. in short this will bring clarity to the democratic race for president we have very rich delegate states like california and texas that are going to be hugely important and we kind of need to know what's going to happen in those states as well as the alabama's and other s

offering a $50000000.00 reward hoping that might convince someone to send him its way alan fischer al jazeera washington i will have a look at some sport in a moment sounds that will have an arsenal manager for the 1st time since his recovery from coronavirus. ear. welcome back we're looking at sport with some of. their growing doubts that the walls most lucrative t 20 cricket competition the indian premier league it will get underway next month because of the koran a virus outbreak this week india's cricket chief sort of revealed that no decision has been made on the fate of at the season's tournament and yes currently on a 3 week lockdown which will last until april 14th with the i.p.l. scheduled to begin the following day the season has already been pushed back once and was originally meant to start this sunday join us now from london is and the grads a good upwardly of e.s.p.n. cricket for the arts festival is there any serious hope that the i.p.l. can get underway next month or a plan to have a shortened version later in the year. how do i know highly unlikely very perry like eve

fischer >> thank you mr. fischer, there's been a lot of reporting for the virginia class submarine collection to the budget increase. critics of nuclear modernization are equating concern for the navy shipbuilding plan, with opposition defunding the nsa, and are using some recent comments made by acting secretary model, ian also you, general milley a, to access the d.o.d. does not support the current budget request for an essay? i share the concern for the navy shipbuilding budget. congress will have an opportunity to look at that, but i know that you are both very strong supporters of nuclear modernization. also, admiral richard was before this committee when he was here several weeks ago, testifying that there was no access margin in the nnsa budget, so just to be clear on this. do you both support to request a level of funding for nuclear modernization at the nnsa? >> senator, i do, and i don't mind -- i will give an explanation. it is widely critical every couple hours our nuclear triad, that is why we pl