Elizabeth warren is reassessing her campaign. And we are also standing by for a briefing this hour of mike pence and the Coronavirus Task force from the Briefing Room. The outbreak has now infected 154 people here in the United States with california reporting the first death on top of 10 in Washington State. The house of representatives has just passed an 8. 3 billion coronavirus funding package. A lot of news is happening, and lets go to the senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, joe biden pulled off a dr dramatic turnaround yesterday . Yes, the outlook of the primary has been changed with the wake of super tuesday. Joe biden was seen as the theoretical democratic frontrunner, but now the voters have made him a real one. Sweeping ten states and turning out a broader coalition than before. And this is a suddenly headtohead battle with Bernie Sanders, and now biden is in the drivers seat. They dont call it super tuesday for nothing. Reporter it is clear, momentum trumped mo
The minute and scoring an endorsement this evening. Amy klobuchar is dropping out of the race and reports that mayor Pete Buttigieg will be endorsing joe biden and will be in dallas. We begin with the bigger story right now, the coronavirus. We are execing to hear from Vice President pence in a few moments from the white house giving an update on the government response and join by ambassador birx. The expectation is that she is giving daily briefings about the government response from here on out as necessary. This update comes as we just learned of four more deaths in Washington State bringing the total to s total to six in the United States. This update as researchers say that the coronavirus may have been spreading and circulating undetected in Washington State for weeks. Thats according to a genetic analysis of samples. New cases reported today in california, oregon, illinois and new hampshire. New york city reported a first case of coronavirus in a woman who has recently traveled
Mark, what are we looking for today . Reporter good afternoon. We are expecting an update from the Vice President as well as members of the task force dealing with the coronavirus within the next few minutes, the Briefing Room still fairly empty. They may be waiting for reporters to come in. This was a lateminute scheduled briefing. Also meeting with the president this morning, but we something very interesting that ive never actually seen before. About half an hour ago, a member of the White House Medical Office came to each or us in the White House Press corps and asked to take our temperature. This, we were told, was out of an abundance of caution for anybody who could be coming into contact with the president or Vice President. It wasnt a panic of any sort, but it certainly was an indication they are taking things seriously. It appears one of our colleagues may have had a temperature that was of some concern and was not allowed into the briefing. However, we havent been able to fig
Guidance to protect those most vulnerable. Thank you, mr. Vice president. As the president and Vice President said, we did take action last night to indicate that Nursing Homes should restrict all visitors effective immediately. And that includes all nonessential personnel. There are some exceptions for end of life. We are also canceling all Group Activities and communal dining, and there is active screening of Health Care Workers that are in the facility. The Emergency Declarations dr. Fauci said is also very important to our health care workforce. Theres a lot more flexibility that they have. For example, they can have workers from across state lines. Doctors and nurses that can help them. Hospitals have the ability to move patients around. So thats also going to be very helpful as they go forward with this. Also with the Nursing Homes, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago that we had a call to action for all Health Care Facilities to double down around Infection Control practi
White house Coronavirus Briefing would be forgiven for thinking that trump acting as casting director had assembled on either side of him, social distancing notwithstanding, all the most seriouslooking people he could find in the federal government. The attorney general, actual generals and admirals, the defense secretary. And out of nowhere they briefed the public today about drug interdiction including false stats on the border wall and the situation in iran. The president said all weve gotten from the middle east is death. He went on to give a brief lesson in the 1917 flu pandemic which was in 1918 and took a swing at john kerry along the way. And then this happened. Did you know i was number one on facebook . I just found out im number one on facebook. I thought that was very nice. Later, on the actual subject of coronavirus, the president said, as he does every day in some form, nobodys ever seen anything like this. He went on to confirm the white house is considering restricting