This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the voting continues at this hour in the 2016. This is a live picture from nashua, New Hampshire. Some candidates tonight are looking for their first win, others, a last chance. We asked Republican Voters leaving the polls what they are looking for. Someone who shares their values, came in first. Followed closely by someone who could bring about change. And then someone who tells it like it is. We have a team of correspondents covering the primary. First well go to Major Garrett with the republicans. Major. Reporter scott, Top Republicans here believe donald trump will win tonight. After that, they dont have a clue. As the evening goes on, battle for a coveted secondplace finish could involve four, possibly five candidates. How we doing over there . Reporter donald trump leading the polls here by a wide margin sought lastminute votes school. But the trump circus blocked voter access and had to move. Vote, thanks to mr. Trump. Lets
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
Eight weeks throughout the United States. That news comes the same night new York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced new york citys Public School system, the nations largest, will close this week. Currently 32 states have called for all Public Schools to be closed, on top of that a number of states are shutting down restaurants and bars to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Ohios governor, mike dewine, tweeted in response to his announcement, quote, every day we delay, more people will die. If we do not act and get some distance between people, our Health Care System in ohio will not hold up. Also tonight for you, the Federal Reserve cutting its Interest Rate to zero and launching a 700 billion Quantitative Easing Program in hopes of protecting the economy from the effects of the coronavirus. Were being told the democratic debate in d. C. Has come to an end in time now to turn to Lawrence Odonnell for msnbcs postdebate coverage. This is msnbcs live coverage of the democratic president
Plus those comments putting a daca deal further away and government shut down closer. And the final year, a new film gives us an up close look at the Obama White House and the final is it 1 and the final 1 months of policy. There is no back step here. People assume there is someone who will make sure he doesnt screw up too bad or something. There is not. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im katy tur in new york in for chuck todd and welcome to mtp daily. On this Martin Luther king day, youre watching what happens when a president is viewed by many as a racist. In an election year. The longterm consequences arent exactly clear but the shortterm fallout is. Right now it seems like the prospects for a deal on daca are going down. And the odds of a government shut down are going up. You have a number of elected democrats. Some shown here are calling the president straight up racist. One said he could even lead the kkk. Youve got the president firing back like he did
Returning to one of his favorite topics, collusion. This against the backdrop of deep suspicion from democrats on the House Intel Committee who believe the republicans leading the committee are trying to end the investigation by years end. Lets put it this way. There is absolutely no collusion. That has been proven. When you look at the committees, whether its the senate or house, everybody my worst enemies, they walk out and say there is no collusion, but well continue to look. They are spending millions and millions of dollars. There is absolutely no collusion. I didnt make a phone call to russia. I have nothing to do with russia. Everybody knows it. That was a democrat hoax. It was an excuse for losing the election. And it should have never been this way where they spend all these millions of dollars. So now even the democrats admit theres no collusion. There is no collusion. Thats it. And weve got to get back to running a country. Funny how donald trump and Vladimir Putin have an e