Senator and former president ial candidate cory booker Just Announced hes backing the former Vice President in the democratic race. Well talk to him live. And harry and meghans finale. The duke and duchess of sussex are making their final official opeerns this morning before leaving britain this morning and their royal duties. Its monday, march 9th, 2020. Well have the latest updates on the coronavirus right after todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I think we have no concept of the scope of this epidemic yet. We hope this just goes away. Burns itself out. More cases of coronavirus emerge across the u. S. Italy enacted a travel ban for nearly one quarter of its population. The grand princess cruise ship is expected to dock in california today. North korea conducting its second weapons test in one week. Japans Prime Minister called this a threat to peace. Prominent figures declare their picks for the white house. Kamala harris endorsing joe biden. And reverend Jesse Jackson com
Craig melvin take the polar plunge, well tell you why early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena. And im frances rivera. Wee coronavirus which is having a greater impact here at home the virus has arrived in new york city. Officials say a woman in her 30s is quarantined in manhattan. She contracted the illness while traveling in iran. Governor andrew cuomo says she has been in a, quote, controlled situation since arriving in new york meanwhile there has now been a second death reported in Washington State, and the cdc is investigating a nursing home there over concerns of a possible outbreak. Were joined now by nbcs tracie potts in d. C tracie, what can you tell us about the u. S. Response to this . I can tell you the president wants to change it a bit he now wants to screen people when they enter the united states, even if theyve already been screened before they got on the plane. And then drugmakers to try to get them to fast track a vaccine Washington State announced
The man who was a drummer even before he was born early today starts right now good morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Across the United States officials are am area anticipating up efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak overnight a second death linked to the virus was confirmed in Washington State Health Officials say the man was in his 70s and had Underlying Health conditions. The announcement came one day after a man in his 50s died near seattle. Meanwhile, the virus has now arrived in new york city officials confirme said she cone virus while traveling in iw york the number of cases in america has now reached 89 many stores are running out of protective masks despite the u. S. Surgeon general pleading with the public to stop buying them he says they are not effective in preventing people from catching the illness for more on how u. S. Officials are responding to the outbreak, heres Nbcs Kelly Odonnell reporter the Vice President . Well, there will be more cases, t
Stand with the deadly outbreak. But first our panel, gary kaltbaum, robert wolf, liz peek and steve moore. Lets get straight on it with blake berman at white house for more on administrations responses effort, what have we learned . Reporter just left the cabinet room, there was an hourlong meeting between President Trump and top leaders of pharmaceutical industry, the whose who of companies. Diswrons anJohnson Johnson, p, glaxosmithkline. The message was a couple fold, he wanted to listen to see where they stood in the process of delivering a vaccine or maybe a cure down the line, but president also want toed to make sure they could do so, preliminarily in up potentially in upcoming months. Were working hard to expedite the process of developing a vaccine, and moving with maximum speed too develop therapy so that we can help people recover as quickly as poke. We have a lot of recovery going on. We want to see if we can advance that. Likely tooer that therapy will be available before v
Meaning less demand for oil. Meanwhile similar story in bond market, yield on 10year treasury below 4 tenths of a percent overnight. Now we are staying right under and it is down 28 basis points. Again, another indication of a recession at hand. The 30year following 1 for the first time in history. The 30year bond, the yield there at. 883 . Thats down 40 basis points this morning. Global markets reacting to all of this this morning in the stock market. Deep selloff in europe. The cac quarante down 335 points. That is 6 and a half percent and dax index in germany lower by 672. Overnight in asia across the board. Chinese experts tumbled in the month of january, more signs of trouble in japan as well. First quarter gdp lower in japan showing the economy contracted 7. 1 from the previous quarter. Thats a sharp contraction in japan. This on top of the Coronavirus Crisis, cases in the United States and abroad are growing. The white house looking into emergency measures. Overseas italy report