Brian reburily get in the sheets and get out of the sheets and quick to work. Ainsley today you had your sheets like this today you can poke your head out because stock futures did rise after the president gave that briefing at the white house yesterday. Some relief to Small Business owners. Brian we have woken Stuart Varney. He hit the snooze button, but he is going to be with us in a matter of moments. We begin with this fox news alert. You have 26 americans now who are died . The coronavirus, at least 600 cases are reported nationwide. Ainsley a Juvenile Court of the deaths linked to that nursing home in Washington State. Steve we have known that todd piro is live as the illness spreads to 36 states. And they are locking down italy, todd. Todd thats right, steve, ainsley and brian. Good morning to all three of you. The latest Washington State fatalities bringing the number of deaths there to 23. Three of the confirmed deaths elderly at the kirkland life care facility and the fourth
Among republicans, donald trump tops the polls over second place. Ted cruz in iowa, whos been directing fire at third place marco rubio in a new round of negative ads. Senator rubio said that proves cruz looks at him as a threat. In the meantime, tthe New York Times calling john kasich, quote, the only plausible choice in the race for the gop nomination. We begin with chief Political Correspondent carl cameron live in des moines. Theres buzz about marco rubio and his surge just beginning. Reporter marco men tham is what theyre calling him. Theyve been campaigning so hard and get pretty silly. Marco meant them is what. And they try to get the folks to caucus on monday night but also talking about his rivals as well as president obama and Hillary Clinton. Rubio is positioned well. He has not spent the most time in iowa. He has not led the polls in iowa, literally for more than a year. And yet, theres a distinct possibility and a sense he could be doing particularly well from 48 hours fro
Lawyers for President Trumps former National Security adviser retired general Michael Flynn might be making a move to cooperate with feds on the russia investigation. Sources say flynns attorneys are no longer sharing info with legal teams, including President Trumps. Flynn may be cutting a deal with special Counsel Robert Mueller whos looking into russias meddling in the 2016 campaign and possible collusion with members of the trump camp. The white house and russian president Vladimir Putin have repeatedly said there was no collusion. Attorneys for the former National Security adviser would not comment. But a member of the president s legal team says flynn getting a possible plea deal is not unsuspected and thus maybe not a big deal. James, we knew flynn was seeking some sort of a deal in exchange for testimony. Is it possible this turns out to be not very much . Unlikely. And as we have seen in past highprofile cases with special prosecutors and potential star witnesses such as john
We have fox team coverage. Jillian turner is covering the protests rocking Senate Offices as we speak. But we begin with mike emanuel. Hes on capitol hill. Hows it going up there, mike . Reporter good afternoon. Very tense. 5149, it is very close. One of those key swing senators who voted yes earlier told reporters he intends to vote yes on confirmation, too. Do you plan to vote yes tomorrow . [ inaudible ] anyway, im glad we have the process. What did you think of murkowski voting no . I admire her. A lot. A lot. Everybody has to make their own decision. I think the world of her. Reporter other critical swing voters, republican Susan Collins of main and joe manchin of west virginia. They both spent a lot of time reviewing the fbi supplemental report on the allegations against judge kavanaugh. Collins is due to speak next hour about how she intends to vote tomorrow. We expect a paper statement at some point from senator manchin. Alaska republican Lisa Murkowski joined with democrats in
are. so conventional force that s struggling, but a lot of rhetoric from the kremlin that s going to come to the front in the middle of this week. back to you. nick paton walsh, appreciate it, thank you. happening tonight, nasa endeavors to save the planet. its aim to find out if crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid could deflect any kind of threat to earth in the future. space and defense correspondent kristin fischer has all of of the details. this comment is what we call a planet killer. it s what we call a global kirl. reporter: hollywood has been scheming up ways to save the world from asteroids for decades. the united states government just asked us to save the world. reporter: but instead of bringing in bruce willis, nasa has a different idea and it s about to test it for the very first time. it s what we all fear. what if there s an asteroid coming toward earth. can you really stop it?