Caucuses. Why and what it means for the race to unseat President Trump. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im laura jarrett. And im christine romans. Its tuesday, february 4th, 4 00 a. M. In new york and New Hampshire. Its 3 00 a. M. In iowa. In the room where it happened nobody knows what happened. The 2020 race kicks off with a debacle for democrats. There are still no results to report in iowas first in the nation caucus. The state party the state Democratic Party said a problem was caused by inconsistencies among data sets. For hours the party claimed Quality Control was slowing the a release. The delay leaving candidates frustrated and their supporters waiting late into the night with nothing to celebrate. At a call 2 00 a. M. Eastern with Party Officials campaigns raised concerns about the integrity of the results. The party chair said heults lat. We want to emphasize this is reportsing issue, not a hack, and its exactly why and
Widespread chaos and confusion. Results from iowa normally give us insight into who could be the democratic president ial nominee. Right now, the candidates are at best in a state of limbo. Heres what we know. It is a tight threeway race at the top. We know that the three of us will be dividing up most of the delegates coming out of iowa. Im feeling good. We were looking at the internal numbers realize that something extraordinary had happened last night. I would say last night was a mess up. I would also say it means this race is wide open. When those results are announced, i have a good feeling were going to be doing very, very well here in iowa. Well, the Iowa Democratic party is working to get this result, get them straight, i want to make sure theyre very careful in their deliberations. We know theres delays, but we know one thing, were punching above our weight. The math that i care most about is the fact that this movement has become something that has already shocked the politi
Caused delays. In a letter to the campaigns, a letter obtained by cnn, the Iowa Democratic party chair troy price wrote in part we have every indication that our systems were secure and there was not a Cyber Security intrusion. Price went on to say, quote, as part of our investigation we determined with certainty that the underlying Data Collected via the app was sound. As long as you tell us that, i guess its true. As for the Democratic Candidates several attempted to rally their supporters despite the lingering uncertainty. Cnn is covering still awaiting the results from iowa but i can tell you that we feel very good about where we are. Its a tight, threeway race at the top. We know that the three of us will be dividing up most of the delegates coming out of iowa. Im feeling good. Its clearly a victory for us even as we along with the i think the whole country impatiently wait for some official results from the party. Cnns covering all angles of this fiasco. Lets get right to cnn sen
Warning that the worst may be to come. Christina coleman with the latest on the outbreak and from our l. A. Bureau. Hi, leland. The 60yearold american citizen died in wuhan on wednesday. The patient was apparently the First American fatality. Officials did not identify this person. Now, this person is one of 723 people who have died from this new strain of coronavirus since it was first reported on december 31st in wuhan, china. Almost all of the new fatalities were in and around wuhan in central china. The World Health Organization just gave us the very latest number, 288 cases in 24 other countries, and over 30,000 in china. As of yesterday, 72 countries implemented travel restrictions. Cruise passengers in japan are quarantined amid reports of 64 people now diagnosed with the virus. Japanese officials also turned another ship away, the holland americas westerdam, the japanese Prime Minister suspected some passengers on the vessel had had been infected and another ship, the Royal Car
Its not clear when the rest of the results will be leased. The race has moved to New Hampshire where the top candidates try to recover from the iowa chaos and caucus, both, and build momentum toward that primary next tuesday. Meanwhile, exactly what just happened in washington overnight . It was this bitter partisan sandwich with a speech tucked in the middle. It started with the president refusing to shake the hand of House Speaker nancy pelosi. Yikes. It ended with a speaker tearing up her copy of the speech, yikes. In between, republicans chaboted four more dhachanted four e years. The president touted economy and trade, some true, others less true or not true. He was speaking in the chamber where he was impeached just seven weeks ago. That was one word, impeachment, that the president did not utter last night. The senate is expected to vote to acquit the president later today. More that in a moment. Lets begin with actual results from the Iowa Caucuses. Joining us, political report