meg terrell joins us where we stand, terrell, meg. >> hi, brian as we are doing the social distancing and working from home to try to flatten the curb, rbc's team led by canon mckay did some modeling looking at what we can learn from china, italy and other places and we've gotten some of the graphs re-created here for you so the red line here are the total cases in china and the blue line are the global cases which clearly are now accelerating as china has managed to flatten its curve. if you look at the beginning of the graph you'll see where china implemented the lockdowns in wuhan and hubei province they estimated it was about 25 days from that lockdown and the quarantine until they started to see new case numbers start to slow down and they do point out

terrell meg? >> reporter: hi, is kelly. the covid-19 pandemic is disrupting all kinds of businesses including clinical trials around the world. basically every major company has said there will be some potential impact to ear ongoing clinical trials or enrolling new clinical trials and these are some companies that put out press releases saying they are seeing these potential delays or who we've been in contact with and who have said that in fact is the case. merck, pfizer, eli lilly, glaxosmithkline, galapagos which has partnered with gilad, bluebird bio and vertex pharmaceuticals which just said that this morning they might see potential delays in clinical trials or in starting new ones that company also saying though they don't expect any kind of supply disruptions to their existing mid-sins joining us to discuss that more is dr. jeff lydon, the ceo of vertex pharmaceuticals good to have you on the phone with us. talk to us about these potential delays we're seeing in clinical trials across the

meg?reporter: hi, kelly the german company saying it's shipping that test to the united states this week to potentially begin to be used there are a lot of good things about this test. now, it can return results in about an hour, as you said it tests not only for the coronavirus, but also 20 other viruses that cause respiratory infections, including flu and the other coronaviruses that we associate more with colds. it is installed in about 1,100 instruments around the world and hospitals, labs, and clinics, it can be run on those instruments, including about 200 in the united states. so there's a question about how widely will this be used and how much capacity will it add to the system additionally, qiagen is a major maker of the rna extraction kits that are used to run the coronavirus tests from other companies, as well so we've got a lot of questions about this, and joining us to answer those is qiagen ceo, terry bernard. terry, thank you so much for being with us today to talk about th

meg, what can we expect outside of this meeting? >> we did see the executives head in just a few moments ago as well as research chiefs they're expected to discuss the status of development of both vaccine and drugs for the novel coronavirus. gilead and regeneron have medicines in development, while the others are working on vaccines, as moderna las already delivered a batch for testling stephanie duke is catching up with stan erk, asking what he hoping to get from this meeting. >> i'm hoping to get a commitment from the government they'll help us expedite the process. the case numbers are continuing to rice here, with seattle and king county just announcing an additional four deaths, bringing the total in this country to six. guys >> what are you expecting, meg, in terms of the numbers of those that are diagnosed, given the fact that the cdc apparently is starting to provide more contests or is it >> in addition, we are starting to see local public health labs, and hospitals and academy labs get the capacity to test, so scott gottl

all right, meg. thank yo >> o'donnell: all right, meg. thank you.d now to wall street, which had not experienced a sell-off like this in nearly 33 years. the dow plummeted, losing 2,300 points. that's nearly 10%. the s&p 500 fell 9.5%. the nasdaq about the same. jill schlesinger tonight on a brutal day for investors. >> reporter: the anxiety was on traders' faces all day, triggered by investor fear that the government has not done enough. the latest slide began last night after the president's address to the nation. futures plummeted and the fall continued through the opening bell. stocks dropped by more than 7%, forcing a 15-minute halt in trading for the second time this week. >> today is definitely the worst day we've seen. >> reporter: without details of a recovery plan from washington, traders bailed. hardest hit: energy companies, airlines, and cruise operators like carnival, which was down more than 30% today. the federal reserve tried to blunt the pressure by announcing more than $1.5 trillion in funding to help businesses operate smoothly.

meg is now good as well. meg joins us just the question i was putting to matthew there about these potential treatments we discussed it a bit last hour. how close are we to realistically having something that is effective and can be used >> well, we should get data in the next month in april. that's the soonest we're expected to get data on remdesivir from some clinical trials being run in china and also from some u.s. trials by regeneron on their existing rheumatoid arthritis drug. that unfortunately isn't rolling very quickly i say unfortunately because it's being used for very severe patients who are hospitalized for covid-19 the company told me today because so many people are being hospitalized at that severe level, the trial isn't rolling very fast and that means we should see data in mid to late april. >> matthew, what's the latest we can break down in terms of the testing here in the u.s. how quickly have we caught up -- >> you losing me again >> work to be done, yes, to matthew. did you hear that? >>

meg oliver leads us off from new rochelle, new york. and meg, you are just outside that containment zone which is now home to one of the largest virus clusters in the u.s. >> reporter: norah, here in new rochelle they're setting up a one-mile containment area around that synagogue considered to be the epicenter of the coronavirus cases here. this is not a quarantine but a ban on large gatherings inside the zone. >> this is literally a matter of life and death. >> reporter: new york's governor announced unprecedented action, calling in the national guard to try to prevent the spread of coronavirus with a containment area in new rochelle, population near 80,000, considered the epicenter in this state. tonight, they're among more than a dozen states under a state of emergency. more than 100 schools or districts in the u.s. are now closed. >> it's devastating not knowing what you are going to do last minute in regards to baby sitting and day cares. >> reporter: they are part of more than 360 million students worldwide who are not in school

for me that's why you got time to buy >> meg tirrill has more. >> w.h.o. been hesitant to declare a pandemic but they see an alarming sense of inaction from some governments. i'm not naming which ones. as they are making this declaration that this is a it can still be controlled so emphasizing governments really need to take strong actions here to try to move to containment, to be testing, to be tracing, isolating patient, emphasizing social distancing, everything that governments can do to potentially slow the spread here. really fascinating to see this language that they are using, talking about inaction, spurring them to make this declaration. >> i'll reread you that quote, meg, i would like your reacshot in the just on this whole issue about reality versus some of the messaging that's come out of washington dr. fauci today not that long ago when asked how many people will get and/or die from covid-19 in the united states said the following in a quote, if we are complacent and don't do really aggressive containment and mitigation the number could go way

>> meg oliver reporting, meg, thank you. there is also new financial fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. ski resorts across not america are the latest big business to close. and while some workers are being paid, many are seasonal and st a devastating hit, here's jonathan vigliotti. >> the nation's 20 billion dollar winter sports industry is the latest to quarantine. this weekend vail resorts announced it is closing operations at all of its 37 facilities spread across 15 states and three countries. staff will be paid. >> yeah, you're a little disappointed but on the other hand, you got to do the right thing. >> the virus is hitting all sectors of the economy from iconic clothing brands like steve madden and nike who is shutting all of their u.s. stores and giving staff paid leave. and the first domino has fallen in las vegas with a tourist economy worth over $34 billion that sustains 300,000 jobs. starting tomorrow, m.g.m. and others have announced layoffs and furloughs. nationwide hourly wage workers at smaller businesse

meg? >> reporter: norah, we just learned that 13 covid-19 patients at one new york hospital died in the last 24 hours. this after the governor said today that the aggressive social distancing enacted this week appears to be making a difference. >> we can slow it, and we have slowed it. >> reporter: governor andrew cuomo said today the biggest thing new york has bought is time. the doubling of hospitalizations has slowed to nearly every five days, but he also says that the state needs 30,000 more ventilators. >> we're still working with the federal government to try to find more ventilators, but that is our single greatest challenge. >> reporter: what he now has is an army of 40,000 medical volunteers. >> there is no such thing as a former nurse. once a nurse, always a nurse. >> reporter: like retired oncology nurse laura benson. >> it's what i want to do. yeah, i'm in. because it could be my family member laying in that bed. >> reporter: more than 3,000 new york police officers are out sic

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, meg, thank you. and across the country, in hard- hit washington state, the governor is announcing dramatic measures to try and slow the outbreak, saying he wants to get ahead of the curve and "look at what is coming, not just what's here today." jonathan vigliotti is in seattle tonight. >> this is an extremely dangerous event that we are facing. >> reporter: governor jay inslee took dramatic steps to curb the spread of the coronavirus, banning gatherings of more than 250 people in three of the state's most-populous counties. >> and the decisions we probably will be making in the upcoming days are going to be profoundly disturbing to a lot of the ways we live our lives today. >> reporter: the ban, which goes through the end of march, would primarily cover professional sporting events and religious gatherings. all told, four million people are being asked to limit their risk of exposure. seattle just closed its schools, the first major city to do so. at least 30 people have died in washington state fro

thank you, meg.e turn now to washington where we just heard from the president and his coronavirus task force. president trump wants to reopen the country by easter sunday. but many public health experts say that is too soon and could risk a health care catastrophe. paula reid reports tonight from the white house. >> reporter: president trump says he would like to send people back to work in roughly three weeks. >> our decision will be based on hard facts and data as to the opening. i'm also hopeful to have americans working again by that easter, that beautiful easter day. >> reporter: speaking with fox news earlier today, the president repeated his unsubstantiated claim that keeping the economy shut is worse than the virus. >> you're going to lose people. you're going to have suides by the thousand. >> reporter: the president's aggressive approach comes amid growing concern among americans about the economy. a new cbs news poll out tonight shows just a quarter of americans say the economy is in good

are continuing to grow that might be one other catalyst for the market meg, why don't we start here meg tirrell here with the latest >> in new york, the total cases doubled overnight to 22. eight new case tied to the attorney in westchester county two new cases in new york city and one in long island cuomo saying the number will go up because we're continuing to test more and more and testing capacity is beginning to expand across the country after an initial slow start. the cdc is shipping more test s academic labs are bringing their own tests on online. the world health organization is saying it's advocating aggressive preparenesses to governments across the globe saying it's concerned that some haven't taken the threat seriously enough or decided the there's nothing they could do. >> meg, let's get do it. i heard that this is no worse than the flu but there are two ways in which it's potentially worse i want you to explain it is it because it is more transmissible and slightly more fatal. what do we know? >> if you look at the fatality rate, it's much more for covid-19 than the flu.

>> meg oliver, thank you. hospitals in california, they're under siege tonight.ernor gavin newsom, in fact, says the number of patients admitted to icu beds doubled overnight and of the 10,000 ventilators needed, the state has less than half that amount right now. jonathan vigliotti continues in los angeles. >> reporter: as hospitals here in los angeles and the rest of the state brace for a surge of people sickened by the virus, a sign of relief. the navy hospital ship "mercy" now ready to take on noncovid-19 patients. by saturday patients in need of icu beds doubled to more than 400 as the number of hospitalized testing positive rose by over 38%. not all relief efforts have gone to plan. this weekend the federal government sent 170 ventilators from its national stockpile to los angeles, but they were all broken. governor gavin newsom said they will be fixed by monday. in states across the west, officials are fighting the virus's spread by closing beaches and trails. over the weekend, even more national parks like montana's glacier national park were closed. in w

>> meg oliver, thank you so much.ng stressed out, steve martin would like to help. ♪ ♪ martin took to the woods to offer this simple gift to soothe our souls. he posted what he calls his banjo jamb on twitter. at last count nearly half a i million people tuned in. 78 seconds of music capped off with that quiet steve martin smile. in new york city a couple is offering evidence even in this pandemic, life and love can go on. >> i announce you married! >> that's amanda wheeler and riley jennings exchanging vows on a city sidewalk. the minister presiding from his apartment four floors up. the wedding was attended by friends and dozens of curious new yorkers. >>> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> worldwide, the coronavirus is taking a devastating toll. confirmed cases now top 300,000. over 13,000 have died. elizabeth palmer in london tonight tracking the crisis in europe. >> reporter: exhausted and overstretched, doctors and nurses are working round the cloc

let's get more on this good news story with meg terrell meg? >> it's the kind of bombshell we're all looking forethese days, j & j accelerating its time lines for a potential vaccine. saying they have selected a lead candidate and plan to start human clinical trials in september. if all goes well, they could have a vaccine ready for emergency use authorization from the fda in early 2021. that would be just record time here we have a layout of the other players in the field mederna has already started its phase one trial. if that goes well, that vaccine could be available early to mid next year as well. take a listen to sidewaquawk bos morning. >> we expect to have interim results from our trials in december that should put us in a position early in 2021 to literally hundreds of millions of doses available and then by the end of the year, up to a billion. this is a bit of a moon shot for j & j going-forward, it's one we feel is very important for us to be doing at this point in time >> that would be record speed for vaccine development. we have

meg, thanks very much. meg with the latest there. let's get the latest on markets with the dow near session lows dropping about 435 points. that's a 2.1% decline. the nasdaq continues the out perform. it's only down 1.2% as the market looks towrap up an ugly week of trading. oil is plunging again ending one of its worst week in history >> kelly that's right. oil plunging into the close today. you can see all this red behind me in the last two minutes it got more negative wti sinking more than 20% and brent shedding the gains it made earlier. opec leaders would immediate with texas energy regulators wh are considering cooperating with russia and saudi arabia to reduce texas oil production for the first time in decades. emergency measures from around the world have not been enough to stop the sell off as demand and supply concerns persist. wti has dropped by 55% so far in march and both wti and brent are on pace for their worth months ever back to you. >> thank you very much still ahead, share of chipotle declining after the company te

meg? >> jon, thank you so much. joins us from bassle it's great to have you with us we want to ask you everything about what novartis is doing we know you're working as part of a major consortium with other science companies and the gates foundation as you're looking across the spectrum of academia and non-profits, what is the nearest term potential timeline for getting a drug that could help with covid-19? >> first, thanks, meg, with the opportunity to speak with the audience and take the opportunity to express thigh gratitude and my admiration for all of the health care workers, physicians, nurses, front line workers working tirelessly to ta on this pandemic we view it as our role to play our part in that fight i think right now there's three main groups of technologies that the industry is working on, novartis is working on some of them as well first is looking at existing medicines that we could repurpose to fight the virus or fight the immune response that is causing a lot of the hosp

meg oliver, cbs news. >> o'donnell: it's going to be a challenge for so many of us parents. at a time when we need to come together more than ever, how americans are meeting the challenge. >> o'donnell: you know, sometimes, some events in our lives are just too precious to miss, even during this unprecedented emergency. janet shamlian tonight on how some americans are finding ways to celebrate with family and friends. houston holmes said their i do's, it was not with the crowd of 175 the dallas couple planned for. but guests had plans of their own, surprising the newlyweds with a drive-by reception. (çar horns honking) as millions of once-in-a-lifetime events are canceled, like emily hendricks 12th birthday party, america has new ways of making memories. >> we didn't want there to not be something amazing to happen for her birthday. >> reporter: the minnesota girl is hard-of-hearing, but couldn't miss the sound of celebration. >> it was very unbelievable, because this doesn't usually happen. ♪ happy birthday to you reporter: when rhode islander alfred vecoli turned 92, eight

meg tirrell joins us on the phone with that news meg? >> reporter: good morning, guys. this is positive news. it is very early, but regeneron says it is speeding up its time line to get doses of potential drugs for the coronavirus ready to start human clinical trials by early summer. this is a different program than the one we've been talking about yesterday with regeneron's rheumatoid arthritis drug. simultaneously with that, the company is developing antibody based drugs, they can be both protective against the coronavirus infection and also treat the coronavirus infection. just two weeks ago the company had given us a time line when the ceo joined us on air saying by the end of the summer they aim to have hundreds of thousands of doses ready for human clinical trial now they are saying they aim to have some doses ready for clinical testing a couple of months earlier than that, by the beginning of the summer. this is good news. i talked to the chief scientific officer last night who told me things are going really well they're hitting all of their internal time lines.

for more on this fascinating story meg. >> thank you so much the data that you guys provide on yours just a really fantastic look at where covid-19 might be going tell us about how you set this up you really had a few weeks of data you put out there but already you're seeing some major signals. >> on march 18th we launched health weather.us. you see where there's unusually high level offens of fever acro country. we get that from these we make smart thermometers that connect to a health a that provides basic medical guides. not only does it help you to know,000 respond but through a million of those in homes across the country we're able to plot fever on that map. when you see a risie ining levef fi fever, it's like a flashlight. send the test kits in. investigate. we have looked at our map against covid-19 case numbers. >> you mention the correlation between the fevers and the k covid-19 cases >> testing is not widespread if it was widespread, the lag time might be shorter. we don't have any -- we're just starting to see parts of the country really doing widespread testing, particu

here's meg oliver. >> reporter: sunday coronavirus concerns prompted hoboken, new jersey, to restrict restaurants, only allowing delivery and takeout. how long can you stay open if it continues like this? >> i'm not sure like that. maybe maximum two weeks or one more maximum. >> reporter: not far away in teaneck, new jersey, the city's mayor is urging all 40,000 plus residents to self-quarantine. >> goes on first. he >> reporter: 18 covid-19 cases here have made teaneck new jersey's epicenter. >> we will only get through this together. >> drive through with windows up. >> reporter: in new york they're testing hundreds of people a day in new rochelle at this drive-through lab. >> we are prioritizing people in new rochelle first because, again, that's where we want to reduce that density and reduce those cases.orte new york state aiming to test 6,000 a day starting next week. on monday at least 20 states will shut down public schools. parents across the country are scrambling to find child care and preparing to home school. >> i'm okay with it. if they think that's the right thing for k

has new details for us meg? >> hi, sayer yachrah. analysts are trying to figure out the epidemiology of the virus. check out these charts interest rbc. this is looking at global total cases versus china's cases china being in the red there and what it shows is when the lockdowns began in china in wuhan and then in the greater province, it was 25 days later from the quarantines being put in place that we started to see the flattening of the curve. that, of course, is what everybody is talking about and trying to slow the new infections now if you look to italy, some disturbi disturbing statistics coming out of italy they match that compared with the percentage of patient that's got untensive care as they found more patients being diagnosed with the disease, more patients overwhelming the icus there. that mortality rate in the blue started to spike you can really see that inverse correlation which makes sense. now if you look to the united states, they're taking all that data and trying to punch in the numbers of

in the u.s hi, meg. >> reporter: hi, ty.eople are watching those italy numbers really closely and as sue just detailed, we just got their update for today. the reason people are watching them so closely is because on saturday, we saw what looked like could be a peak in the new daily case counts and the new numbers of deaths reported each day. they did start to decline after that, although they picked up again yesterday. the numbers they just reported, which sue mentioned, those 683 deaths and 52,010 new cases, that is a slight downtick from yesterday. so people hoping, does this mean italy has turned a corner? i talked with several epidemiologists and public health experts who say, it is just too soon to know. dr. mike osterhome with the university of minnesota says we need at least two weeks' more data to really get a sense of how much testing is being done, the workload there the numbers could be skewed because of how much they're able to process bill henich at harvard saying we need four weeks to see an impact from the st

we're going to begin tonight with meg oliver at the center of the crisis there in new york city.nd meg, i understand there's some breaking news for people who have been in new york in the last two weeks, right? >> reporter: that's exactly right. we just heard a stunning ain a moment from the white house task force. anyone who has been to new york city or spent time the last few days should self-quarantine for spreading. >> we haven't flattened the curve, and the curve is actually increasing. >> reporter: today a stark warning with the peak of the pandemic just 14 to 21 days away. new york governor andrew cuomo told the country to sit up and pay attention to new york. >> where we are today, you will be in three weeks or four weeks. we are your future. >> reporter: with nearly one out of every four new york coronavirus patients in intensive care, cuomo outlined a desperate need. 40,000 more icu beds and 30,000 ventilators. >> where are they? where are the ventilators? >> reporter: vice president mike pence responded a couple of hours later. >> earlier today, fema from the national

as meg oliver reports, the national guard will be deployed to disinfect the area and deliver supplies. >> this is literally a matter of life and death. >> reporter: new york's governor announced unprecedented action, calling in the national guard to try to prevent the spread of cronavirus with a containment area in new rochelle, population nearly 80,000. considered the epicenter in this state. they're among more than a dozen states under a state of emergency. more than 100 schools or districts in the u.s. are now closed. >> it's devastating not knowing what you're going to do last minute in regards to baby sitting and day cares. >> reporter: they are part of more than 360 million students worldwide who are not in school due to the virus. >> it has impacted us. obviously we want to make sure everybody's safe. we're complying like everybody else. >> reporter: harvard university joined a growing list of colleges from coast to coast canceling classes and telling students to go home. the united states is starting to shut down as millions of americans are working from home. companies like a

meg terrell. the white house, in the meantime, proposing stimulus to boost the economy, but we are still awaiting details about what exactly that will look like eamon javers has the latest at the white house for us eamon? >> reporter: kelly, we have just learned that the president of the united states has declared a nationwide disaster declaration is under consideration at the twho white house. i am told by a white house official that this idea was discussed with senate republicans in the congressional lunch yesterday with the president, it is actively under consideration now. the appeal for this idea, kelly, is that ultimately, it would free up billions, if not tens of billions of dollars of federal aid for areas that have been hard hit by this virus it would put fema fully in the fight here against the coronavirus. and ultimately, there are a lot of fema tasks that you think of that are covered by the federal government that wouldn't apply here, like debris removal and that sort of thing that yo

we're going to begin with meg oliver in new york. >> reporter: america is shutting down as cancelations multiply across a wide swath of life. professional hockey, soccer, and baseball stopped operations, joining the nba which suspended its season after a player was confirmed to have the virus. cruise lines, princess and viking, are canceling upcoming sailings. broadway is going dark through mid-april, and disneyland parks in california will close for the month. hundreds of thousands of students are out of school, and more soon will be. all public schools in the state of maryland and ohio will shut down next week. it's even a new world getting groceries. this is the line outside a costco near los angeles. dr. anthony fauci of the nih says we're even failing to get people properly tested. >> the idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that. do i think we should be? yes. but we're not. >> reporter: so far only 11,000 tests have been done in this country, while south korea is doing 12,000 a day. the entire state of california ha

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and meg tirrell has the latest on the coronavirus outbreak. i'll be watching the fallout for the banks. pete is joining us yesterday, today two very different days have you chanced what you've been doing >> have not. this is a classic buy the rumor/sell the news type of trade. it was tell graphed friday and over the weekend we're trading higher eventually. >> you still think we go long you do think the panic is overblown. i am in the life sciences. i know some of the things going on that are not well publicized, but they're out there. it's moore pernicious, and now it's on our shores, and that's the big concern. it is a virus that i do believe that at the end of this quarter, a few months, we'll be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and the markets will trade back higher. >> over to bob pisani. a flight to saved, we talked about what's going on here, but gold's big rally moving up two, three, four, 5%. a positive reaction, a little less enthusiastic than it was earlier in the day all of them are to the up side here what else can be done

here is meg oliver. >> we are going to get through the valley!ss america, church looked very different today, at this drive-in service in ohio, cars honked hallelujah's and amen's. >> if you shout in church you can shout at home. >> reporter: there was no singing at the metropolitan baptist church in newark, new jersey, like so many reverend david jefferson delivered his sermon to a virtual congregation, usually at least 2,000 attend. how did it feel today preaching without your congregation physically present? >> very awkward. awkward to look at empty pews and deliver a message. >> reporter: with national warnings to stay home, to stop the spread of coronavirus, houses of worship are getting creative. and at saint dominik in new orleans, confession is offered outside. >> i have my purell and crucifix. >> reporter: tim weisman just started at holy trinity lutheran clutch, in a city under lockdown he is introducing himself to his congregation through youtube, even offering his cell number to anyone in need. >> if you need anything during this tryi

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we're going to begin tonight with meg oliver at the center of the crisis there in new york city.nd meg, i understand there's some breaking news for people who have been in new york in the last two weeks, right? >> reporter: that's exactly right. we just heard a stunning ain a moment from the white house task force. anyone who has been to new york city or spent time the last few days should self-quarantine for the next 14 days, just proving how quickly this virus is spreading. >> we haven't flattened the curve, and the curve is actually increasing. >> reporter: today a stark warning with the peak of the pandemic just 14 to 21 days away. new york governor andrew cuomo told the country to sit up and pay attention to new york. >> where we are today, you will be in three weeks or four weeks. we are your future. >> reporter: with nearly one out of every four new york coronavirus patients in intensive care, cuomo outlined a desperate need. 40,000 more icu beds and 30,000 ventilators. >> where are they? where are the ventilators? >> reporter: vice president mike pence responded a couple

>> meg oliver, thank you so very much. >>> hospitals in california, they're under siege tonight.ernor gavin newsom says the number of patients admitted to icu beds doubled overnight. and of the 10,000 ventilators needed, the state has less than half that amount right now. jonathan vigliotti is in los angeles. >> reporter: as hospitals here in los angeles and the rest of the state brace for a surge of people sickened by the virus, a sign of relief. the navy hospital ship "mercy" ready to take on non-covid patients. by saturday, patients in need of icu beds doubled to more than 400 as the number of hospitalized testing positive rose by over 38%. not all relief efforts have gone to plan. this weekend the federal government sent 170 ventilators from its national stockpile to los angeles, but they were all broken. governor newsom said they will be fixed by monday. in states across the west, officials are fighting the virus' spread by closing beaches and trails. over the weekend, even more national parks like montana's glacier national park were closed. in washington state officials an

norah. >> o'donnell: that's big news about march madness, too, meg. thank you. tonight the c.d.c.ommends travelers avoid non-essential travel to china, iran, south korea, and italy. many big carriers have suspended flights to those places, and we're learning about new screening procedures for passengers entering here in the u.s. kris van cleave is at reagan national airport, and kris, how will this virus impact travel? >> reporter: well, airlines have already suspended flights to the hot spots, but they're canceling other ones and say there could be more to come. businesses like amazon and google are suspending business travel for tens of thousands of their employees. that means bookings are soft, airlines are worried. some are telling employees to take unpaid leave and freezing wages. british airways because of declining demand has canceled right around 200 flights so far for this month, including 12 to j.f.k. norah, typically that's their most lucrative route. >> o'donnell: and kris, what about those potentially sick passengers from around the world? how are they being screened?

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, meg, thank you. deaths are in washington state, most in a nursing home in kirkland, and today, washington's governor announced tough new measures to stop the spread at long-term care facilities. here's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: 21 residents at the kirkland facility now have tested positive for the virus, and families are on edge, forced to communicate through windows. sisters carmen gray and bridget parkhill: >> it should have been a priority to get everybody tested so they could get all of the negative people out of here before they turned positive. >> unfortunately, they waited too long. >> reporter: there are 64 employees now showing symptoms, so far. with the virus now in 10 nursing homes in king county alone, governor jay inslee is sounding the alarm, iming some of the strictest requirements in the country for older adults at all long-term facilities in the state, including limiting visitors to one per day, ecial prective gear, and screening employees for symptoms before each shift. >> th

here's meg oliver. >> reporter: it was back to school for 12-year-old william eltchen.ou fe abouthis reearning? >> i don't really feel good about it, because i like actually talking to my friends is fortunate. they have the devices to stay connected. this remote learning if school is out for the rest of the year? >> i'm prepared to do whatever i need to do for my son. >> reporter: new jersey started online learning last week. so far at least 121,000 public and private schools across the country. 46 states have closed all schools, leaving nearly 55 million students to learn from home. some schools offer virtual classes online. in philadelphia, one of the poorest big cities many america, more than half of lower and middle school kids do not have laptops, so they distributed 60,000 learning packets. >> i'm extremely worried. >> reporter: tenth grade teacher keziah ridgeway started making house calls to students today >> i think it's important as a for me it's a way to provide some normalcy. >> reporter: a plan she vows to continue. meg oliver, cbs news. >> o'donnell: it's

meg tirrell is here with the details a the a safe distance. meg? >> hey, kelly. the numbers, of course, across the united states are still rising but we are seeing glimmers of progress that was the word that dr. anthony fauci used this morning talking to cnn and those glimmers are in a few different places the first is in seattle. according to two different reports cited by the public health department a study of mobility using mobility data essentially from people's facebook apps showed that mobility declined in march and transmission reduced in san francisco some hospitals reported cases leveling off. kaiser and ucf here in new york, governor cuomo talking yesterday about icu admissions rate here slowing from doubling every two days to yesterday doubling every six days and saw updated numbers the case numbers are bad but the trend continuing kinsa tracks fever data. they have a million of the thermometers across the country and they have a map here showing the decline over seven days in that fever data across the country. experts say you can use this as an indi

meg tirrell has the latest for us, meg. >> hey, wilf, just new numbers from seattle and king county, one of the u.s. hot spots. 20 new cases bringing the total to 51, and one additional dead in new york cases doubling overnight to it 2. new jersey and tennessee reporting first cases, illinois reporting its fifth. some are related to travel, but a growing number have been detected in the community. total u.s. cases now approaches 200 in the u.s case numbers topping 97,800 with more than 3,300 deaths work continues to move quickly washington announcing it's begun encontrolling patients in the first trial. this is a vaccine developed by moderna with the nih they will enroll healthy adults in seattle between 18 and 55 years old. >> is there anything we can learn from south korea or italy, as it relates to some of these questions we're trying to tackle on the death, where this is going, how long it's going to last and how bad it will be? >> the last few questions are things people are trying to put a handle on. it's something i've been digging into today south korea's death rate is very l

meg terrell is here with what we know at this hour. >> u.s. case numbers are mounting now that state and local labs are gaining their own ability to run tests there are 44 cases here according to the cdc, officials closely watching an outbreak in a nursing facility, while new york also confirming its first case governor cuomo saying today, community spread is inevitable the world health organization saying, it's not yet a pandemic, noting 90% of cases have been reported in china. it will not hesitate to describe the situation as a pandemic if that's what the evidence suggests we're going to see pharmaceutical representatives at the white house for a meeting on vaccine and drug development. >> meg, we were just discussing as we pay attention to all the economic data. tomorrow's super tuesday i mean, talk about an event that's going to bring people into crowded places. i wonder if that will hurt voter turnout, it's going to be tough to tell, but it's a factor we weren't anticipating >> definitely not. and we already heard from the chicago board

meg is going to join us with the latest on testing and treatment. kayla has the latest from lawmakers and mike is tracking all the market action but meg, first to you >> hi, guys. let's start with johnson & johnson. that news they've selected their lead candidate for vaccine development. really moving their stock higher and causing a lot of optimism that we'll see a vaccine in timelines that are faster than expected companies saying it plans to tart human clinical trials in september. months faster than they previously guided to here you have a layout of the different companies, at least some in the lead m moderna already started. if all goes well, we could sew them ready to deploy early to mid next year. the ceo of j&j joined squawk box this morning to discuss. >> not only do you need a safe and effective vaccine, but you need to have one that can be produced in very large volumes we're going to be doing that at risk simultaneously here in the united states and we expect to have results, interim results at least from our trial, likely in december a

tirrell joins us now meg?> hi, kelly we showed you the graphs yesterday with rbc's modeling in the u.s. based on the numbers they saw in china and italy creating kind of an algorithm of what they expect to happen here in the u.s. and with case numbers here rising so quickly, now to more than 15,000, and what rbc and others are saying, they're seeing an uptick in hospitalizations due to influenza-like illness in new york city, suggesting that there could be an exponential growth in severe covid-19 cases requiring hospitalization and updated the chart. now the base case scenario has become that and this is the orange line to be looking at the dotted line where we were yesterday and the day before the orange line, solid line, where we are now they're seeing because of the surge in cases to see ic u capacity stressed by next week and seeing in the hospitalizations that's not due to flu that is what's really concerning people about the hospital's capacity right now. >> not only the coronavirus curve worse than we t

let's get to meg tirrell who joins us with the latest on the coronavirus outbreak. >> that $8 billionat the novel coronavirus expected to go to a vote in the house potentially later today. this as vice president mike pence who is leading the u.s. response to the coronavirus said the cdc would lift all restrictions on testing so that, quote, any american can be tested, no restrictions subject to doctor's orders the testing capacity is still ramping up with doubts about how close the country actually is to the one million test capacity cited by the fda commissioner. case counts are growing in the u.s. reaching 135 across 16 states that includes six new cases in l.a. county and four more in new york l.a. county declaring a local emergency today though it notes it hasn't detected cases spreading in the community yet in new york the four new cases all connected to the west chester patient identified yesterday. >> meg, come on over so there's too many questions i think right now, one is about the severity of coronavirus itself do we know the recovery rates of anybody who has been affected?