pulitzer prize-winning author of the book "the coming plague," lori garrett, on whether the world health organization is making the right call. and call it the parasite effect, the group netflix is targeting next. general motors' origin story and charlie breaks it on how mike bloomberg's infrastructure man differs from everyone else's, and here's a hint: it involves potholes. we're less than one hour to the closing bell, let's start "the claman countdown." ♪ ♪ liz: and we want to get to the breaking news, opening statements underway in a new york courtroom in the sexual assault trial of movie mogul harvey weinstein. prosecutors are painting the hollywood executive as a sexual predator who used his stature to abuse multiple women, more than 80 of them. the defense team argued that interactions with his accusers were consensual though. weinstein was asked upon his arrival with all of the reporters there, as you see, whether he thought he could get a fair trial, and he simply said, yes. now, if found guilty, weinstein faces life in prison. let me get to boeing, because that is keeping a cap

yet just yesterday, lori garrett, the pulitzer prize winning author of "the coming plague" gave us a very different reaction to the w.h.o.'s lack of emergency response. listen. >> -- such an immensely powerful economically critical nation as china is, if this were a small african country, for example, or a small southeast asian country, i think we would have gone to emergency status already. liz: you do have three different cities in central china that are now quarantined, equalling about 20 plus million people. i happened to be in walgreens in fort lee, new jersey of all places last night, and here where we don't even have any cases, i witnessed two people in a short span of time asking to buy face masks. they are pretty much sold out everywhere. in hong kong the prices jumped for a box of them to about $2,000 a box. while the w.h.o. does not think this is a global emergency, what would a further spread of this deadly virus do to the global markets and the economy? let's bring in our traders. sarge, should investors expect the markets to continue to brush off the news or might it ge