Talks to former president obama about who he will endorse. Cases of the virus jumped to over two dozen over the weekend, bringing this number to at least 89. Worldwide there are almost 90,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,000 people have died. Washington states governor declaring a Health Emergency after the state recorded the first two deaths in the u. S. And there is growing concerns the virus has been present in a Nursing Home Community there for weeks. President trump saying today that a previously planned meeting with Pharmaceutical Company executives will now focus on accelerating the timeline to find a coronavirus vaccine. There is so much left to cover. We have a lot to talk over. Lets bring in cnns Elizabeth Cohen who is in atlanta and has been following this coronavirus exclusively. Lets start, elizabeth, with this spike in cases over the weekend. Do we believe this is because of growing Community Spread, or an increase in testing, or both . Brianna, it looks like its both. Once you have some Community Testing of some Community Spread, youre going to have more and more. What Community Spread is, its not people who travelled to china, its not their contacts, we dont even know where they got it. They got did somewhere in the community, they didnt travel, they just got it somewhere. This is coming at the same time as were able to test for this much more efficiently. The cdc since midjanuary has been trying to get tests out to state and local departments, but it didnt go very smoothly. Its only been in the last week or so theyve been able to get the tests out there. Many of the cases we heard about this weekend, cases in oregon, new york, rhode island, other states, it was because they had a test right there that they could locally use in that state. It didnt go smoothly. There are flaws in a lot of them, and i wonder, talking test kits here, elizabeth, is there enough . Are there enough testing kits to do their best to contain this virus . Im certainly hearing from physicians, i want to test but i still have to send mine to the cdc in atlanta, which obviously is not the most efficient way to go. In other places here on cnn, we heard from a doctor in new york saying i have to send the tests i want to do to the new york state lab, and these doctors want this test right there in the hospital where they do a flu test or any other test. This should hopefully become like any other test, but we are not there yet. Elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. President trump also announcing new travel screenings for people arriving in the u. S. Travelers from highrisk areas will now be subjected to an extra level of screening once they arrive in the u. S. After being checked before boarding. Brynn gingras is at liberty airport in new jersey. Lots of International Flights where you are. What is this screening process like . Reporter yeah, thats right. Brianna, first lets go over those highrisk countries as set by the Trump Administration. Were talking parts of italy, south korea, china and iran. Those are the highrisk countries as of yet. That could be expanded as the outbreaks around the globes continues. There will be dual screens for International Travelers from those four countries. Travelers, before they get on the plane, they are going to be screen screened, then once again once they are stateside. That screening process seems to be a series of asking a lot of questions, about where you have been, but also in some cases getting your temperature checked as well as other things. Over the weekend we learned more about what the Trump Administration is doing, expanding that travel ban to iran. This is essentially for people traveling to iran. If youve been there the last 14 days, you wont be allowed back into the United States. We also heard Vice President mike pence over the weekend urging americans not to travel to those highrisk countries, to stay away from italy, china, south korea, and iran, that this is at the highest level it can be. And weve seen airlines really cutting down on their flights, some cancelling outright, like american and delta. Were expecting more airlines to possibly follow suit. Brianna . Brynn, thank you so much from l newark airport. They mistakenly released a patient in texas who then tested later for the coronavirus. Even though he was a patient that came back from wuhan, china and tested twice and released. A third time he was tested and put back into quarantine when that test was shown to be mildly positive. This news infuriated mayor nuremburg, saying this was unacceptable. This person was tested twice. They were asymptomatic, according to officials. Are you worried about this particular case on its own, or is this because you also have quarantined patients from the diamond princess cruise ship and other patients from china, and you want to make sure there is a proper protocol in place for them so this doesnt happen again . I think its all of the above, brianna, and thank you for clarifying that. There are quarantines happening in multiple locations around this country, and based on the guidance of our medical community, we want to make sure that before anyone is released into the public, they are confirmed not to be of any risk to exposure to the public. The whole point of quarantine is to make sure that exposure to the general public is eliminated. In this case we found out that a patient who had previously tested positive, was subsequently tested negative, was released when a test result was still pending, which i find totally unacceptable. The request youve been making is that quarantined patients are tested a third time. You want to make sure that theyre clear before being released. Thats right. Are officials going to heed that request going forward, do you think . So far our federal delegation is in agreement. We have agreement from the highest levels of our state health department, the Governors Office all agree there needs to be more rigorous testing and that we shouldnt release people that could potentially be exposed to the general public. And thats for their own safety as well. These are americans who are requiring the highest level of care once they come to the United States. So we have about 122 people from the diamond princess that were scheduled to end their quarantine today. Were asking for that to be extended until such time as we get additional testing back, and for some of them, being tested a first time. Is san antonio ready for an outbreak . Do you have enough test kits . Do you have enough hospital space for a surge in patients . San teantonio has benefited a very wellcoordinated, Regional Health response team. We coordinate in the event of an emergency or disaster for eight states regionwide, so we do this very well. What makes it strong is a partnership and good coordination with our state and federal partners. So weve been communicating for weeks now, concerns about how we can improve the protocol, so we are prepared at the local level to do everything we need to do to protect the public, but once again, we need to make sure that our federal partners are in coordination. Look, the cdc is requesting people, encouraging people to wash their hands to prevent the spread of the virus as they would during this time of season. What were trying to say is i also encourage the federal administration not to wash its hands of their responsibility to keep our people safe. Mayor, thank you so much. Ron nirenberg of san antonio. Thank you. 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Then we had South Carolina come in and joe biden came surging up here, buttigieg dropping out now. The question is where do these votes go . We dont know. Look at the others who are in the top tier here, as best we have, the women who are running for office, they are falling behind these numbers as well. But then if we go and look at tomorrow, thats when the big prizes are on the line. Specifically california, 415 delegates play out here. That you have to get a 15 delegate threshold to get a share of it. If sanders can really run it over here and get a big, big boost, but if he doesnt, biden could get a share of that and we see what happens elsewhere here. Of course, the question is Mike Bloomberg. He spent about 175 million to have a big showing in all of this, bri. Well see if he comes forth. Thank you, tom. First lets go to kim lah. She is in denver. Amy klobuchar walked away from South Carolina and got zero delegates there. How much is riding on tomorrows contest and can she improve to really stay in the race . Well, in short, a lot. Lets do a quick review. In nevada she finished sixth. In South Carolina, she finished sixth. Pete buttigieg and tom steyer both finished above her in South Carolina. They both have already dropped out. So the pressure is on for super tuesday, but the Campaign Says they are moving forward to super tuesday. A source who knows and understands whats happening inside the Klobuchar Campaign tells cnn that planning is moving forward to march 10th, that staff is still being hired. The Klobuchar Campaign is still moving forward. She was in utah. Shes planning a rally in colorado and then will be in oklahoma. She will spend super tuesday in minneapolis, in st. Paul, and it is that state, minnesota, that her campaign feels very good about. It is her home state. They are hoping to win the delegates there, a majority of the delegates there because she is an extremely popular senator. But i want you to look at what happened last night in minneapolis. This is a rally. It was supposed to be a rally for senator klobuchar last night. Protesters took over the stage. They forced the cancellation of this rally. Those protesters were there asking to highlight a case that happened when klobuchar was Hennepin County attorney, saying they felt it was inadequately prosecuted, that there was prosecutorial and police misconduct, and that forced the shutdown of that rally, brianna. The Campaign Said they were disappointed and hoped they would be able to meet with them. They simply did not want to. Brianna . Keung, thank you. Senator Elizabeth Warren will be speaking later on today in los angeles. Right, and theyre saying this isnt over yet. Thats what you see on social media and conversations with them. Her campaign is pointing at numbers saying, look, in february we raised 29 million. While were speaking about numbers, i think its also important to talk about persistpac, the prowarren superpac that is dumping 12 million in ad buys for super tuesday, 5 million right here in california where, as you said, brianna, she will be tonight. Over the weekend she was in texas, and i think her strategy here is becoming clearer just based on her actions. She released this morning a plan for farm workers. Tonight she is expected to speak about the justice for janitors movement, that was a movement organized by Latino Service workers. So clearly they are here targeting latino voters, a very important, significant voting block in california. But the big question will be, she herself has admitted that she had disappointing results in early voting states. Will she be able to do well enough on super tuesday to move on . Leyla, thank you. And athena jones is in Salt Lake City where Bernie Sanders will soon take center stage. Whats going on there, athena . Reporter the Sanders Campaign has reason to be confident about utah. This is a state where back in 2016, sanders won by a landslide. He won 80 of the vote. We should mention utah is about 80 white, but there is a pretty goodsized hispanic population of about 13 . Weve seen senators do well with hispanic voters, particularly in nevada. Last year since the campaign launched, they helped at more than 300 events with volunteers, including in recent days with sanders wife, jane sanders, who held a Small Business roundtable, she held a black people for bernie event, so theyre not leaving it to chance. Here today, brianna, expect sanders message to be focused on biden. In the last days he spent more time talking about the former Vice President after his big win in South Carolina. Bernie sanders trying to argue that he is the best candidate to put up against trump because of the Vice President s record. He says you cant put someone against trump when President Trump could cut ads, talk about the fact that Vice President biden back in the day voted in favor of the iraq war. He voted in favor of what sanders calls the disastrous trade deal of nafta. He was in favor of a balanced Budget Amendment that would have led to cuts to social security. So sanders argument he has the energy, the enthusiasm, and the right record to go against trump. Brianna . Athena, thank you. Jessica dean is in South Carolina with the Biden Campaign. Theyre feeling good after their win in South Carolina. Yes, the Biden Campaign feels they have a strong wind at their back. Theyre here at university of houston. They came on so strongly for him in that win on saturday. What theyre hoping is that win propels them with a win forward into super tuesday. Theyre getting a lot of donations, theyve raised a lot of money, millions and millions of dollars, 10 milli 10 millione last couple days, which is a lot of money for the Biden Campaign, but also momentum. They are hoping that win was significant enough to really stop Michael Bloomberg in a lot of these states. In a state like texas where we are right now, and that tells you a lot about where the Biden Campaign is headed, is a delegaterich state, one of the big prizes tomorrow. They are hoping to do very well he here, that they can win and keep Bernie Sanders numbers down. Biden will be spending super tuesday in california, but another thing were seeing of the Biden Campaign today, a lot of endorsements, many congressional endorsements, and theyre trying to push out that message that that wing of the democratic party, the more moderate wing of the democratic party, is coalescing behind joe biden. So, brianna, can they effectively make that message . Thats going to be the question on tuesday. Jessica, thank you for that report, and i will say i just love seeing all the women on the bus. Jessica, leyla, athena and kyung. Tonight you will be able to watch the biggest interviews before the biggest day of primaries. Cnn has exclusive interviews with the president ial candidates starting tonight at 8 00 p. M. Right here on cnn. The Supreme Court announced it will be taking up a challenge to the Affordable Care act this october. What that could mean for obamacare. Plus, as fears grow over the coronavirus outbreak, well be answering your questions, your pressing questions about the virus with an epidemiologist. Needles. Essential for the sea urchin, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr, a oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. 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The fate of the Affordable Care act is once again in the hands of the Supreme Court. The high court announcing today that it will take up a third challenge to obamacare. We have cnn Supreme Court analyst joan piscupic here with me to discuss this. Were expecting this decision to come after the election, that may be key, but whats at the heart of this . This is the third time the Supreme Court is going to take up this landmark law that was made in 2010. The first two times were when president obama was in office. So this makes this case, which is already very dramatic and politically charged, even more so. At the core of it, brianna, is a test that w tax that was originally a tax penalty that anyone would have gotten if he or she would have gotten insurance. She zeroed out that penalty. So texas sued saying, without the tax penalty, the individual insurance mandate is invalid, and frankly, the whole law should fail. Thats been their position. Thats what one lower court had ruled. Then when an Appeals Court judge ruled in december and said, okay, so the original mandate would fall, but we cant figure out what else would go with it. The Trump Administration, throughout this litigation, has had shifting positions. But for a time in the lower court, it said the whole thing should fall, and that would include coverage for people with preexisting conditions such as cancer or diabetes, other popular provisions such as, you know, allowing people to stay on their Parents Health care plans until theyre 26, the medicaid expansion. You know how sweeping this law was . Its about a thousand pages long, so a lot will be at stake, and you mentioned the election. Youre right. The case will probably not be resolved until after the 2020 election, but the Trump Administration is going to have to make its position clear before then, and thats going to play into the election politics, i believe. Joan biskupic, thank you so much. 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All indications we were getting was she was still moving forward with super tuesday accident but certainly the events of the last 24 hours have had an impact on those plans. Im in denver, colorado. They are setting up for a klobuchar rally. This is a rally that will not happen as senator Amy Klobuchar, according to a senior aide, will be announcing the end of her campaign this evening. She will fly to dallas where she will join former Vice President joe biden and she will endorse him. What you are seeing there in that move is that the senator, who has had a tough run of it in nevada and South Carolina, finishing sixth there, seeing tom steyer and Pete Buttigieg, both of whom dropped out, who did better than her in those two states. She is trying to consolidate the moderate vote. This is something that the senator has been talking at length about with reporters on the campaign trail. Her concern are the down ballot races that should moderates be divided up and not solidify behind one person that all of those moderates will be divided and then senator sanders, Bernie Sanders, will then have such a huge delegate lead that no one else will be able to pick up and carry that as a challenge to senator sanders. So senator klobuchar making a earlier than expected move, at least to this reporter, deciding to drop out and endorse joe biden. She is picking the person that she wants her people to back as super tuesday is approaching. There was some thought that she would stay in and try to block minnesota for Bernie Sanders, because he in 2016 did quite well in minnesota. But in making this move, the math appears to be that trying to push all of her supporters to joe biden, that thats the math that this campaign is going to support. One other thing, brianna, something the senator spoke about throughout this campaign is that the reason she came in is she is a midwesterner. She is someone who is able to reach across the aisle, look at bipartisan solutions. She has talked at length about the hundreds of bills shes been able to pass through with republicans, with moderates, that the people who show up at her campaigns are the ones democrats have got to be able to expand their tent and allow in. Those midwesterners rebuilding the blue wall. That is going to be her legacy and her message as she pushes forward. She is going to encourage all democrats and moderates to get into that tent and now back joe biden. Brianna . Kyung, if you will stand by for us. You are there in denver with Amy Klobuchar who is going to suspend her campaign and endorse joe biden. This is interesting when you look at Pete Buttigieg and now Amy Klobuchar sort of ahead of super tuesday giving a little more space in that moderate lane to joe biden. Thats right, and whats interesting is going into this decision over the weekend, jeff zeleny was told by biden sources that they actually preferred to Amy Klobuchar actually stay in the race, which sounds counterintuitive, because what is on the map . Minnesota, her home state, because the hope was she could take votes away from Bernie Sanders there. What im told is part of the calculus in this decision to drop out and go endorse joe biden today before the votes in minnesota is that there was concern in her campaign that she could actually lose minnesota. Really. One of the things we have seen and heard from her consistently on the campaign trail and the debate stage is she touts she has never lost a campaign, and shes never lost a big one. Now, obviously this is a big campaign that shes not winning, but its a whole different question when you are looking at your home state of minnesota and the possibility of not saying, i was victorious there in a senate run. We dont know if that would happen, but the fact that was a concern and it made her do a reversal, a pretty quick reversal in her plans, is very telling. So jeff zeleny joining us now. Will this work for her to get out of the race and try to give those delegates that she might have received in minnesota to joe biden . Does it work like that . It doesnt work exactly like that. Delegates are not legally bound to those. This is something that will become an issue at the convention. It becomes a contested convention or a situation where the nominees become second on the ballot. Voting is already underway there, so she will receive delegates tomorrow, but dana is absolutely right, just the potential worry about losing the election. Her spokesperson said exactly the same thing. Look, when people cast the vote for president , theyre not doing it because they like a certain person, its not a charity vote. They want that person to be president , and shes almost at the end of her road of viability. She believes her endorsement tonight in texas for biden is much more powerful than it would be on wednesday, perhaps. And thats when she was almost certain to leave the campaign. She leaves this race certainly with so much to be proud of. Absolutely. She enhanced her reputation. She outlasted cory booker, kirsten gillenbrand, Pete Buttigieg. We saw it last night approximate Pete Buttigieg and now well see it with Amy Klobuchar. How you get out is as important as how you conduct yourself in the race when you want to be part of the team. This time the team is very, very laser focused on beating donald trump. The fact she did outlast almost all of her senate except for one, a couple, actually, her senate colleagues, is remarkable. And having watched her in New Hampshire as you did, another thing Amy Klobuchar did was she helped make Pete Buttigieg and his rise and his win in iowa very shortlived. Because she had that very good debate in New Hampshire, and i spoke to voter after voter who were considering voting for Pete Buttigieg in New Hampshire, and they voted for Amy Klobuchar instead. That could have helped change the dynamic and the trajectory of this race. I would say, her snowy entrance, i dont know if you could beat that. That was a pretty interesting entrance into the race. This is a huge shakeup in the democratic race just hours before super tuesday. Senator Amy Klobuchar is going to be announcing that she will suspend her campaign and endorse joe biden. Well have more in just a moment. Apps are used everywhere. Except work. Why is that . Is it because people love filling out forms . Maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much Vacation Time they have. Or sending corporate their expense reports. Ill let you in on a little secret. They dont. By empowering employees to manage their own tasks, paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. 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Senator Amy Klobuchar will end her campaign tonight and she will endorse joe biden for president just hours before super tuesday. I want to talk a little more about this now with cnn political analyst and National Political reporter for politico, Laura Barron Lopez with us. We also have a supporter of obama as former president. What do you say, laura . They are supporting the Vice President in canada and quickly realized they didnt have enough votes to stay valid. People were telling me in a state like texas, klobuchar probably wouldnt have hit threshold in some of the districts and regions to even hit viability. So it was a serious decision by both of them, clearly, rather than to drag this out and maybe pull voters away from a moderate like biden who was dominating right now after South Carolina to say this is it, and maybe consolidate behind him. What does this do to the race when you have Pete Buttigieg getting out and Amy Klobuchar getting out before super tuesday . I think its a pretty big deal. We are witnessing in realtime the consolidation of moderates behind Vice President biden. This is going to be a very clear race. Were going to have the further left progressives on one side and moderates on another, and theyre really rallying the people with unifying voices unifying behind one candidate. Theyll also be looking at Mike Bloomberg at this point because the whole argument for his candidacy is Vice President biden isnt going to make it, but now hes in there for a little bit of a spoiler, and folks will be worcndering what hes going to do next, will he get in line behind senator klobuchar and buttigieg at this point . It looks like sanders may run away with california. That would be a massive win. In a state like texas, biden is hoping he can maybe edge out sanders there or perform as well as he does there. But the big spoiler in that state, in a state like that, is bloomberg. Biden was ahead of sanders in polling until bloomberg got in the race is started to drop a bit because of that. Well, bloomberg, then, to that point, and the role that he would play potentially as a spoiler, what kind of pressure does that put on him . How much pressure was klobuchar under, was buttigieg under . A lot. I think for them it was less of a spoiler. That was certainly part of it, and more about who they are, their legacy, their reputation, their ego and their pride. Certainly for klobuchar as we look ahead to tomorrow in her home state and how that race would go. Bloomberg is a totally different thing because the whole reason he got in joe biden won big time in South Carolina. The big question tomorrow, the very first time we will see bloomberg on the ballot is whether or not joe biden will have more trouble winning because of Michael Bloomberg on the ballot, because he is going to be a person that takes votes potentially away from biden and helps Bernie Sanders, exactly what he was trying to avoid, by getting in and spending half a million dollars. And a lot you have to crunch the math in a complicated way to say that Michael Bloomberg is helping joe biden, it just doesnt make mathematical sense. This is moving much faster than any of us thought it would have. But now the race is just sort of do the right thing, do not be on the wrong side of what they view as history here. Well see. Bloomberg, boy, if he doesnt do well tomorrow its hard to imagine him in the race come wednesday morning. We will have more on the democratic race ahead, and plus, the Surgeon General is warning americans about not only buying face masks but using them. 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I think in general it will increase the number of tests we can do for this coronavirus and provide faster care to our patients. That is very good news. We have some viewer questions for you that i want to get to you. Viewer question number one, it says i know that a vast majority of people, even if they are infected will have minimal to no symptoms. If thats the case then should everybody get tested as a precaution . What do you say . Yes, this gets into the difference between testing patients to know if they are currently infected versus screening, which important for Public Health processes and to understand how the virus might be transmitting. These two have to be different, and we would not, for example, be able to test every person in the United States overnight. As these new fda procedures come into affect and we get more and more laboratories testing and able and capable of doing this, we might see increased efforts for the tests to screen the population to determine how many people are infected and where this is traveling. Question number two, can pets get the coronavirus . This is an interesting question. So there was a recent report from hong kong that there was a dog that did test positive, so its really too early to say whether this is going to be something that we see frequently or if this is something that is really a oneoff situation. The implication there will be implications if it turns out that dogs can, in fact, transmit this virus, it would have implications where we would have to consider the strategies to prevent the spread of the virus. We have 30 seconds left. One of the viewers wanted to know, can somebody catch the coronavirus by eating food prepared by others . Its not a virus that will necessarily transmit easily in that way. I would say that things like salad bars, you know, we will have to be very diligent about what we are touching and all of these utensils that many people might be touching. That would be where i would be the risk of the transmission occurring, more than what we are eating. It goes through the lungs. Anything else to avoid before salad bars . I think in general over the next in the near future we will have to be diligent about everything we are touching. People might want to carry about alcohol with them and be mindful. Doctor, appreciate you being here. That is it for me. Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin starts right now. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We will take it from here. I am Brooke Baldwin and you are watching cnn. Thank you for being with me. 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