longer be in the village. again, we do not know who it s but that s what our reporting is with usa today and obviously we re on top of this story here in tokyo. of course, you are. as we re looking at this develop, christine, you know how closely when it comes to training, when it comes to living that these athletes would be. so, as john called it a cascading problem, if one of these gymnasts has coronavirus, what will the protocol be for the teammates presumably all of them or at least some of them who have been in contact with this gymnast? reporter: if it s an alternate, that alternate has not been with the regular members of the team, brianna, the way those teammates have been together. and we don t know that yet. but again, because all the others have shown themselves in the village today, we wonder then could it be one of the alternates. but immediately they are isolated. they are quarantined. we talked with the one of the head experts, health experts,
avlon. a member of the u.s. women s gymnastics team has just tested positive for coronavirus and reminder here that opening ceremonies are still four days away. that is not very far off. this is a cascading problem. this is something to watch. i think we re waiting to see where this goes because already there s at least 58 coronavirus cases linked to the event. three athletes who were living in the olympic village, of course, where all the athletes are, have also tested positive. two from south africa, one from the czech republic and u.s. tennis star coco gauff out of the olympic games. cases are spiking across japan. tokyo reported more than 1,000 new cases for the fifth day in a row on sunday. cities currently under coronavirus state of emergency for the next month as it prepares to move forward with the olympic games. but joining us now from tokyo, christine brennan. christine, it s good to see you. what more do we know about the
sudden they re putting out everything at the white house, for the rose garden for a speech and the shutdown is over. was it a calculated thing? i don t think so. it has a lot more to do with the fact that we had a lot of build-up at airports that was beginning to have a ripple effect and it would have been a cascading problem. that s a lot more serious than the roger stone situation. i actually agree and, you know, i think i won t remember what you said but i ll remember how you made me feel. unless you were directly affected american may not remember the details of this shutdown but they ll remember how this president has made their has affected their lives in some negative way. i actually it may i don t think there s a conspiracy here but i think the sum total of all of these events particularly in the last week will will the aggregate of all of that will come to really impact and
controllers and flight attendants have had just about enough. their unions releasing a statement saying we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. they point out that air traffic control staffing is at a 30-year low and 20% are now retirement eligible causing some to ask whether they should stay in the game at all. and that could cause a cascading problem because new business takes about four years to train. the sickouts recently hit 10% and the agency had to plead with 250 of its people not being paid mind you to shift around the nation to where they re needed most. ntsb which looks in accidents from the skies to the rails says it hasn t investigate the 87 of them since the shutdown began, and that can cause more problems because ntsb says, quote, important evidence is being lott. and in evidence could prevent future accidents and save countless lives. that s not all. the commandant of the coast
it is a district outside pittsburgh that trump won handedly. you have jeff of flake proposing a bill to nullify tariffs. that is a tough road to hoe. but this policy the president says, look, the markets won t adjust. washington needs to adjust. i m going to look out for my base. but the if the repercussions undercut, if a trade war causes more pain for the people he is trying to help, which history says is likely, this is a cascading problem. look, he gets this is a longheld view that he s had. yeah. and i m kind of over that. y he es, he did make this promise. but this is core competency. does his administration know what is going on in key matters?