Passengers and crew on board have even been tested yet. This afternoon, with all that as a backdrop, with the markets falling, civic life in this country shrinking, the president visited the centers for Disease Control and prevention in atlanta. Vice president s task force held a briefing a short time afterwards back in washington. Its possible that much of what the president said got lost in all the live coverage of that. But because his remarks are so apparently revealing of how he approaches what, after all, affects all of us, were showing them to you up front and at some length. His own words presumably reflecting his own thoughts and sensibilities and priorities here. He began the day with senior counselor Kellyanne Conway declaring the outbreak has been contained which, it is not. Look at the numbers. And with questions growing about the availability of testing, the president weighed in on that and then segued to the ukraine phone call that led to his impeachment. Anybody that ne
Jayencen jayence ansley. Were going to head to capitol hill, with a massive some of spending bill. Were going to talk to senator mark warren until just a couple seconds there. Also happening right now, the last hour of training in another intense day on wall street. Wow, look at that, the dow taking a huge dive. The dow erased wednesdays huge gains after super tuesday. And who knows whats going to happen in the next hour as we head to market close. Something else were keeping an eye on at this hour, a grand princess cruise ship being held off the coast of San Francisco until thousands can be tested for the coronavirus. The ship has been linked to two cases including the death of an elderly man in california who had under lying health conditions. Princess cruises tweeted this afternoon, they can confirm, quote, there are no confirmed cases of covid19 currently on board. Currently is the key word there. But the cdc has identified groups of guests and crew who will be tested before arriva
Im michael holmes, cnn newsroom starts right now. Well, the coronavirus appears to be tapering off in china, at least for now. The new cases are surging elsewhere, all around the world. Nearly 21,000 infections now confirmed outside of china. A third of those in south korea. The country has just reported 270 new cases. Here you can see long lines of people waiting to buy face masks. Around the world, well over 100,000 people are infected. Nearly 3500 of them have died. Off the california coast, at least 21 people aboard the grand presenincess cruise shi tested positive. Cnns nick watt with that situation. Reporter aboard the grand princess cruise ship, uncertainty and fear. How many if any passengers are tested and at least five of the ships last leg of the voyage caught the virus. One died. He was around a lot of us around the cruise. Reporter its an older crowd. And that demo is hardest hit. Those over the age of 70, were looking at 10 , 15 case fatality rates. Reporter in Washington
Indexes are down more than 6 . Stocks cratered after oil prices plunged more than 20 because of fears of an Oil Price War between russia and saudi. Now, the saudis wanted to cut oil production, but they reversed course, after russia balked at the move and decided to flood the market with more oil. Now, the s p 500 fell more than 7 after the opening bell this morning, tripping a Circuit Breaker. Thats what its called. It halted trading on all three indexes for 15 minutes. The shock, as you can see there, alarming. Cnbc reports that President Trump will meet with wall street executives later this week to talk about the response to the coronavirus. But i want to get to nbcs Erin Mclaughlin whos joining us now from the port of oakland. Has been following this ship for quite some time. Erin, there are so many passengers onboard right now that want to get off that ship as it comes into dock at oakland. Bring us up to date as to what youve been seeing so far. Reporter hey, yasmin, thats right
Hoping that the voting records will change voters minds come tuesday. Any minute, President Trump is going to tour the centers for Disease Control in atlanta amid the deadly coronavirus in the United States. It is a visit that seemed like it might not happen. The white house initially said that the trip had been canceled, because President Trump did not want the interfere with the important work of the cdc, and then of course, President Trump contradicted his own white house and said that the trip was squashed because a cdc employee might have been infected with the virus, but it was negative and so the visit was back on. The mixed messages are a continuing theme for the Trump Administration whose political folks are to project the image of the president on top of the virus, the political folks are saying that falsely the virus has been contained, but it has not. As Caitlyn Collins reports, the death toll is rising and the United States does not have enough testing kits to get a handle