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scott pelley reports from the frontline for mince. >> westchester county is home to about a million residents york city. siobahn jones, katelyn doyle goldsmith and kathy gomez are nurses in the county's department of health. they're suiting up to enter the home of a couple who had contact with that first patient. a few minutes before they put on their equipment, they had introduced themselves on the doorstep. >> i want people to see who i am first. it's very important. i want them to see my face before i put on all the equipment. so we go, knock on the door, introduce ourselves. we're from westchester county health department. we're nurses. we're here to do the testing. >> when we first started, do you want us to go around the back so that your neighbors don't see this and they don't get alarmed? but then as it started becoming more public, they -- >> they were okay. >> it's okay. >> how do people react to your visits? >> grateful. that's all i can say. they're all kind, grateful. >> reporter: not fearful? >> not fairful. not fearful at all of us. >> reporter: the nurses collect one swab from

liz: you know, cbs news scott pelley corrected michael bloomberg.ed to falsify say that the president said the coronavirus is a hoax. he didn't say that. >> he didn't say that. the fact that the democrats want to politicize this issue because they completely void of ideas for the american future. donald trump has laid out a plan. we saw it at the stock market did today. the largest single gain ever. more importantly than that this administration has a plan to deal with the virus. i think that for once we should put partisan politics aside. make sure that the best people in our country are coming up with a solution, headed by the vice president, secretary azar, the administrator of cms and very competent people in our government working together to make sure that the least amount of people can be affected. making sure we have a swift response to that. this is not time for partisan politics. liz: let's show the viewer what we found in terms of white house response to the cron crone. it dates back to january 2020. here is democrats basically saying, po

let me share with you, credit where credit is due, scott pelley here on "60 minutes" calling out mike president would do something as inane as calling it a hoax, which he did last night in south carolina. >> he said that the democrats making so much of it is a democratic hoax, not that the virus was a hoax. trish: he's right. you know, meanwhile, does the media feel no sense of responsibility whatsoever? cnn has treated this story like their missing plane saga, remember that, wall to wall constant coverage. at least with the plane they weren't actually scaring anyone. but this? >> coronavirus, high threat. infectioned -- >> infection. >> out there. >> out there. out there. up detected. undetected. >> game-changer. >> pandemic. >> pandemic. >> point of no return. trish: this is what you call fear mongering. there needs to be a level of appropriateness here. there needs to be responsibility in the media, yeah. this is a virus that we must be extraordinarily careful of. we need to be realistic, however. shutting down flights on iran from china, that's realistic. delta and american airlin

he sat down with our scott pelley yesterday in an in previ. >> reporter: how do you view this emergency? >> i find it incomprehensible that the president would do somethinga inane as calling it a hoax, which he did last night in south carolina. >> reporter: he said the democratting making so much of it is a democratic hoax, not that the virus was a hoax. >> this is up to the scientists and the doctors as to whether there is a problem. they all around the world say that it is in some place placesd has enormous potential to become one elsewheres. and it is just ignorant and irresponsible to not stand up and be the leader and say, "we don't know, but we have to prepare for the fact that if it is, we have the medicines and the structure, and the knoeaer with mayor bloomberg will air tonight on "60 minutes." "face the nation" will be back in one minute. stay with us. >> brennan: we want to take a closer look at the growing fears over covid-19, commonly referred to as the coronavirus. last week, the world health organization said the global risk of the virus spreading is now very high. here i

scott pelley had to push back on him. >> people are calling this a trump virus.om friedman to name one. >> if people are debating whether or not governments should be involved, that's a win for republicans. if people are debating if trump is the reason things got out of hand, that could be a loss for the president. super tuesday will be fascinating to watch. polling numbers out the window because mayor pete dropped out. we don't know where those votes will go. dagen: we don't know what the turnout will look like. young people came out in lower numbers, older people came out in higher numbers in south carolina and voted for joe biden. >> that's right. dagen: thank you all so much. everybody, this morning. we do remember jack welch as the day moves on. we have you covered for super tuesday. tune in for our special live coverage beginning tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. thank you, one and all. right now, however, it is all about stuart varney. "varney & company." stuart, take it away. stuart: i shall. good morning, dagen. good morning, everyone. you know, it has