jillian, good to have you. >> the president also reacting to bernie sanders' e projected victory in the nevada democratic caucuses, congratulating the senator while suggesting the democratic party may work to block his nomination. >> frankly, i don't care who i run against, i just hope they treat them fairly. i hoe it's not -- hope it's not going to be a rigged deal, and i hope it's not going to be one of those. so we'll see what happens. but i congratulate bernie sanders, and if it's going to be him, he certainly has a substantial lead. we'll see what happens. >> david spunt has the latest from the white house. hi, david. >> hi, jillian. president trump, as of today -- february 23rd -- believes that bernie sanders will be the democratic nominee. now, for months president trump has gone after joe biden, the former vice president, but now he's putting his sights on bernie sanders, hoping he's the nominee. the president is pushing the narrative that the system is, quote, rigged against bernie sanders, perhaps a way to solidify sanders as the democratic nominee, someone whom he's confident he could beat. last week word came out that russia was trying to help the sand campaign. sanders received a briefing but condemned any help from russia. the president also is accused of having received help from russia in the past, said that he received no such briefing today on the south lawn, but he didn't seem too concerned about the russian interference. listen to this. >> the democrats are treating bernie sanders very unfairly, and it sounds to me like a leak, a leak from adam schiff, because they don't want bernie sanders to represent 'em. finish it sounds like it's '16 all over again for bernie sanders. >> reporter: adam schiff responded: nice deflection, mr. president, but your false claims fool no one. you welcomed russian help in 2016 and won't protect our elections in 2020. now you've fired your intel chief for briefing congress about it. you've betrayed america again. president trump asked several times about this today, the president will return from india midweek. he'll head to a rally in south carolina on friday, he'll head to cpac on saturday before possibly hitting some more states before super tuesday next week. jillian, back to you. >> david spunt, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. ♪ ♪ eric: well, senator sanders, as we saw, riding a wave of momentum after that projected victory in nevada. you know, the senate is barnstorming across texas now with early primary voting there already underway. the vermont senator hoping to cement his front-runner status before super tuesday which is nine days away now. steve harrigan live in houston, he is following the sanders campaign there. >> reporter: eric, it was a packed house here at the university of houston, about 7,000 people, some standing throughout the speech. sanders goes from here in houston to austin. he's making four stops in texas ahead of super tuesday. this after a convincing win in nevada. sanders making a bold prediction here in houston, he claims he will win not just the texas primary in nine days, but that he will carry texas for the democrats in the general election. >> the working people and the young people of this state, black and white and latino, native american, asian-american -- [cheers and applause] if our people stand together, come out to vote, we're going to win here in texas. >> reporter: texas is the second biggest prize on super tuesday, 228 delegates up for grabs, awarded proportionally. as far as sanders goes, no democrat has carried texas in a general presidential election since jimmy carter in 1976. eric, back to you. eric: that is quite a while ago. steve, thanks so much. jillian? >> meanwhile, the rest of the democratic field is looking to play catch-up to bernie sanders. pete buttigieg is about to hold a campaign rally in fairfax, virginia, one of the 14 states that will vote on super tuesday. jacqui heinrich is live in las vegas with the latest. >> reporter: hey, jillirk an. nevada democrats are flatly rejected a call from -- rejecting a call from the buttigieg campaign to release raw individual precinct data after the buttigieg camp claimed that there were 200 reports of inconsistencies at caucus locations around the statement. the buttigieg campaign sent a memorandum asking to release both the early voting results and in-person totals by precinct claiming that at some caucus locations early votes were not used to calculate viability or were allocated to the wrong candidate. and in other locations, caucus-goers were given incorrect instructions on the first or second alignments, potentially impacting candidate viability. citing a close race between former vice president joe biden in second and former mayor pete buttigieg in third, but the nevada democrats said if he wants to challenge the results, he's got to ask for a recount. they write: we never indicated he would release a separate breakdown of early votes and in-person attendees by precinct and will not change our reporting process now. buttigieg's campaign clearly displeased to see that number two spot occupied by former vice president joe biden who yesterday touted union support as part of his path to success here. he also claimed a good showing from black and latino voters, something his campaign badly needed after poor performances in mostly white iowa and new hampshire. biden told voters in south carolina he thinks it'll be a toss-up between him and bernie sanders on super tuesday, relying on biden bringing up his relationship, close relationship with barack obama remindedded people that sanders considered challenging obama back in 2012. >> we're going to move into super tuesday, as they call it, where there's significant african-american vote. you can own this election. you're entitled to own it. the vote is in your hands, not a joke. you can control this outcome. [applause] i'm going to do everything in my power to earn your respect. >> reporter: the rest of the field's going to be game of catch-up, but for tom steyer, he will get a chance to pitch himself in the debate on tuesday. he failed to meet debate qualifications for the last debate here in nevada. jillian: thanks, jacqui. eric: the white house national security adviser robert o'brien says he has not seen any intelligence to support claims that russia is working to help reelect president trump. david spunt reported earlier u.s. officials have identified kremlin efforts they say are aimed at boosting the president and senator sanders. they say sanders, about that, and sanders though said at a news conference on a tarmac that putin should just butt out. molly henneberg is live in our washington bureau with more. >> reporter: hi, eric. robert o'brien says he's seen secondhand leaks from the democrat-controlled house intelligence committee but no actual intelligence that russia wants to help president trump win a second term. >> the national security adviser gets pretty good access to our intelligence. i haven't seen any intelligence that russia's doing anything to attempt to get president trump reelected. i think this is the same old story that we've heard before. i've seen the reports from that briefing at the intel committee. i wasn't there, but i've seen no intelligence that suggests that. i've also herald that, from the briefers, that that's not what they intended the story to be. >> reporter: the house intelligence committee, chaired by democratic congressman adam schiff, received a briefing earlier this month by intelligence officials. after that briefing there were reports that the members of congress were told that russia is trying to help president trump. the president dismissed those reports as a, quote, misinformation campaign from his political enemies in congress. both the president and his national security adviser said today, however, that they have seen reports in the media that russia wants to help democratic socialist bernie sanders get elected. sanders says he was briefed on it last month, and today one democrat took aim at the national security adviser. >> our national security adviser should stay out of politics, and that is a political statement. what we know is that the russians never stopped interfering in american politics. they don't just get involved in elections. they are involved every single day. >> reporter: president trump said today that he has four or five people under consideration for another job in the intelligence community, the position of director of national intelligence. and in the, quote, not too distant future, the president says he will be announcing who they are. for now, rick grenell has taken over that position. eric? the. eric: molly, thanks so much. jillian: president trump's new acting intel chief apparently wasting no time making changes to the nation's spy agencies. "the new york times" reports that acting director of national intelligence richard grenell has removed the number two official inside the intelligence agency. garrett tenney has the details. >> reporter: this is one of a number of changes ric grenell has already made. on friday the former acting head of intelligence, joseph mcguire, resigned and according to "the new york times," his deputy, andrew hall nan, resigned as well after grenell told him his service was no longer needed. fox news has learned that one of grenell's first hires is can kash patel, a former aide to deafen newspaper yes, sir, and played a key role in investigating alleged surveillance abuses by the fbi and doj. they've been given a mandate to clean house according to catherine herridge and to carry out a top to bottom review of the intelligence agencies which the president has routinely criticized since taking office. grenell is expected to lead on a temporary basis and is involved in the discussions about who will be nominated to the position. this morning president trump said he is narrowed his -- he has narrowed his list of candidates to four or five very respected people. >> ambassador grenell has done a fantastic job. this is just a temporary job. we have five people that we're look at very seriously, expert people, and at a certain point in the not too distant future we'll be announcing who they are. >> reporter: democrats are blasting the president for appointing grenell who has never worked with an intelligence agency. and given that grenell is a staunch ally of the president, senator chris murphy said he's concerned about the administration weaponizing classified information. >> i think we all worry about this administration controlling massive amounts of intelligence, massive amounts of classified information and leaking it out to the press when it advantages them. >> reporter: by law, grenell can only serve in an acting capacity for 210 days, but there are exceptions, so it's possible he ends up staying in that role for much longer. jillirk -- jillian? >> garrett tenney, thank you. eric: well, the weather across the country kind of quiet on this sunday afternoon, but you know a blast of cold air's going to sweep through the nation later this week. fox extreme weather center with the forecast, how extreme is it going to be? adam: you said cold weather, snow across portions of the country where we haven't seen a lot. it's been relatively mild. there's two systems we're watching right now, neither of them massive, but this is rain across the southeast stretching back into the plains, another system that will bring colder air currently spinning it way up in the pacific northwest. unfortunately, they have gotten rounds and rounds of winter systems, this is another one happening as we speak. winter storm advisories and warnings stretching across some of the northern plains, back into oregon, back into washington. that system's going to work its way across the country, so we're tracking two of them, and you're going to see very different outcomes. this is precipitation totals, everything here with that western system, that is snow across the upper midwest. the first system i showed you, that is just rain. not heavy rain, but this system will lift its way across the eastern half of the country. everything in blue is rain because it's been so mild recently. your temperatures currently sitting across the country, 61 in kansas city, 55 in chicago, 55 degrees here in new york city. abnormally mile for this time of year. eventually a little bit of colder air is going to sweep across the country, so your forecasted highs on monday saying mild, again, middle 50s in new york city. but there's some colder air settling up across the west, you start to see this line defined by tuesday, you see some colder air sinking into the middle of the country, the same is the case on wednesday. still mild here in new york. by the time we get into thursday, you start to see some colder air settle in and daytime highs of 26, 15 degrees in the middle of the country. yeah, some colder weather's here, but it's still not feeling too bad as we kick off the week. eric: and it is winter, after all. adam, thanks. >> authorities in colorado release terrifying video of two snowmobilers who had a brush with death earlier this month. the incident happens on february 11th. one of the riders triggers an avalanche that sweeps up the second one. the colorado avalanche center who released the video said the rider was buried with their head above the snow. they say people can avoid triggering an avalanche by crossing terrain one at a time. that is scary. eric: well, did you hear about the fireworks at the supreme court? justice sotomayor is lawn-ing a broadside against the conservative majority asking is there a thumb on the scale of justice? ok everyone! our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy. ♪ ♪ >> good sunday and welcome back. police are calling it a miracle after a couple missing since valentine's a day were found alive, discovered by rescuers on saturday morning in northern california. police say the couple went on a long hike and got lost after dark. they say the two were able to survive on puddle water. they were hospitalized for hypothermiaing but both are expected to make a full recovery. wow. eric: liberal supreme court justice sonia sotomayor calling out conservative colleagues in a blistering dissent. she accuses them of putting a thumb on the scale of justice for president trump. taking aim at a majority ruling writing, quote: the government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases demanding immediate attention, and with each success iivo, of course, the cries ring increasingly hollow. founding partner of jmw strategies, jamie, this deals with a number of stays granted by the court. she thinks, obviously, that the court actions are tilted toward the president, or are they just appropriate legal procedures? >> well, if you read her decision, it's pretty interesting. one part of it is a fair legal debate, is the court issuing too many stays. she says, yes, that these should only be in extraordinary circumstances and that the supreme court right now is just issuing too many. she then goes, as you mentioned, and attacks the conservative justices for basically being taxis of the trump white house, and they are, you know, just seeding to them, whatever they want -- acceding to them which the charge, i think, is probably not as sustainable. one a fair legal debate, i think the other one is difficult to sustain in part because you've seen in many cases these conservative legal justices, including gorsuch and kavanaugh who were nominated by trump and confirmed, siding with liberals throughout their tenure in the supreme court on several cases showing that they have in the past, you know, deviated with the president. so i think it's a pretty blistering charge and perhaps an unfair one considering their past record. eric: pretty unusual when they go public, you know, behind the confines of the sacred supreme court. here's what she wrote, called it a thumb on the scale. quote: i fear this disparity erodes the fair and balanced decision making process that this court must strive to protect. and one study says there have been 23 stays during president trump's three years, 23. versus 8 over 16 years of both president obama and president george w. bush and that 65% of the time supreme court justices side with president trump. so maybe, you know, would a neutral observer look at those facts and say, you know, what's going on here? >> well, i think you would have to see the context of it, and i'm sure the conservative justices would point to perhaps maybe there's too many courts taking a broad view of what their powers are in stopping the implementation of laws. i think that's a fair legal debate. but i think where it kind of breaks down is the idea that, for instance, justice john roberts -- who's a supreme court justice, chief justice appointed by president bush -- is some taxi of the republicans in the trump white house. if you remember, this is the guy who upwith held the obamacare ruling, allowed obamacare to stay by his one vote siding with four liberal justices. the idea that he now somehow is only going to rule in favor of the trump white house when he upheld the most important legislative achievement of the obama administration doesn't seem likely to me. eric: yeah. do you think she's seeing politics where there really isn't any? it's really just a legal issue? >> very possibly. but what i will say is that i don't know if you're going to mention it, that mayor bloomberg -- eric: oh, yeah, forgot that. >> maybe you want to put up that tweet. eric: judge sotomayor is right to sound the alarm. if trump wins in november, the supreme court will essentially become a rubber stamp for his assault on rim grants, health care -- immigrants, health care and equality. that's a sounding siren for some democrats concerned there could be a vacancy coming up in the next few years and that it'll go conservative. >> i think it's a very important political point if not a legal point. whoever is is the democratic presidential nomineeing but particularly bernie sanders is the democratic presidential nominee, they are going to use the supreme court and the future of the supreme court kind of like trump did in 2016 to kind of unite their party. there was a fractious party, if bernie sanders is the nominee, i think he'll try to do the same saying you might not like everything i stand for, the way i go about things, but if you vote for me -- if you don't vote for me and you let donald trump win the presidency, you're going to get much different supreme court appointments which will shape the judiciary for even longer than it's already been shaped during the first four years of the trump presidency. eric: i guess, jamie, it always seems that the supreme court is the road to politics in some way from both sides. great to see you, or thank you. >> nice to see you. jillian: the weeklong reduction in violence is underway in afghanistan. could this be the first step to a withdrawal from america's longest war? 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>> reporter: hey, eric. the sirens are sounding into the night. that figure you had there of 30 rockets flying out of the gaza strip, that's an approximate number. we're working on getting a more precise number throughout the night. with we know that israeli aircraft have struck back at at least one empty training camp, palestinian training camp in the gaza strip, and aircraft9 have struck at least two palestinian rockets, there are injuries among the palestinians. it all started this morning as two palestinians ace poached the fence on the northern side of the fence, it appears they tried to plant a bomb. israeli forces opened fire, killing one of them. israel sent a tank and a front-end loader and us yahoo!d the big shovel to create the body. it created an ugly image that was shared on social media. hamas accused israel of abusing the body and says israel bears the consequences of such an ugly crime. the man who was killed was one of the islamic jihad and claimed responsibility. at least ten of the rockets had been intercepted mid if air using their iron dome defense system. the rest fell with little damage. islamic jihad has been quick to fire into israel since late november. hamas has been inclined to hold back. today that sparked criticism on social media of hamas with gazans accusing them of being weak. israel' defense minister noted that hamas has been holding the bodies of two of their soldiers since 2014. he backed his soldiering saying that the collection of the body was right, it was a thing that needed to happen and it was what happened. we're following the developments, we'll follow them from gaza tomorrow. the israeli operation is ongoing. eric, back to you. eric: mike, thanks so much. >> some minor clashes between taliban and afghan forces yesterday, but so far the seven-day reduction in violence are in afghanistan appears to be holding after the u.s. and taliban struck the deal last week. president trump says he is hopeful it will lead to a long-term peace deal. >> the taliban's been fighting for decades. we've been over there 19 years. we're like a law enforcement force. we think they want to make a deal, we want to make a deal. i think it's going to work out. >> joining me now is former naval intelligence officer john jordan. thanks for being here. >> good to be here. >> what do you think the likelihood is we reach this with no major escalation? >> well, this agreement is very limited in scope. it isn't a truce, and it isn't a ceasefire. the agreement was cut with a very limited is set of circumstances where each side contests the other side's ability to live up to certain commitments. that's not to say there won't be some attacks and fire exchange, but that does not necessarily mean that this first baby step towards a broader agreement is a failure. so we're going to see some small attacks and exchange of fire, but as long as the may jar portions that were agreed to not violated, the next step can be reached, and we have another week to go on this. >> what does that next step look like? >> obviously, to continue to broaden number of circumstances that the u.s. and taliban have to agree to. the u.s. needs to see that the taliban leadership can control their regional commanders and local commanders and have compliance with the agreement. but the big step here, jillian, and whether or not and under which circumstances the taliban will engage in meaningful peace negotiations with the afghan government, something which heretofore they haven't done. the taliban has insisted before that they only negotiate with the united states and has treated the afghan government in kabul contemptuously. that is the next big step, will those talks happen. jillian: let's listen to what the president had to say this morning and then get your reaction on the back end. >> yeah. i still think it works out over the next less than a week. i would put my name on a deal. teem to come home. and they want it stopped. they've been fighting a long time. they're tough people, we're tough people, but after 19 years, that's a long time. >> you you know it is a long ti, especially for families who have had, you know, people overseas, kids overseas, the troops themselves who have been overseas. do you think now is the time where we can see progress made? >> hopefully, if this agreement comes to fruition, the number would drop to about 8-9,000 with our forces largely withdrawn from active operations against the taliban. it has been a long time, 775,000 american troops have been deployed to afghanistan at one time or another, over 2,000 killed. the afghans have been in civil war even longer than that, so it does appear that there is some appetite for peace in afghanistan, but on whose terms. whether or not the taliban can work it out with the central government is the real sticking point. >> how important do you think it is for the taliban? >> well, there's different factions within the taliban. there are some that are probably more hard-line and others more desirous of peace. so there's an internal within the taliban dynamic as well. that's hard to read, and it's largely opaque to us, but, yeah, there is -- there are elements of the taliban that do wish for some sort of peassments again, the devil's in the details, under whose terms and what is the role of the afghan government. >> you know, aside from the obvious which is be an end to this seven days without escalation, what other factors does the united states need to take into consideration before actually entering peace deal? >> we need to see that the taliban leadership actually has complete control over all taliban groups in afghanistan. and there is some question of that too, whether or not some local commanders may take matters into their own hands. so we need to see that the taliban leadership can make an agreement, stick with that agreement and enforce it up and down the line. >> do you like what the president's done with this so far? >> well, yes. we had to get out of afghanistan at some point. what's great about this plan is it's conditions-based. it's not timeline-based. we're insisting the taliban engage in improved behaviors, that they say they're going to do a, b if c, and if they do, then we will resip to procandidate. it's not timeline-based, it's circumstances-based and requires they make certain commitments and live up to them. >> all right, john jordan, thank you so much for your insight. >> thank you, jillian. eric: attorney general barr is spearheading a new debate that could impact the future of online speech, asking whether tech companies should face legal liability for what users post on their sites. can my side be firm? 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ask an asthma specialist about fasenra. ♪ ♪ eric: well, another mardi gras celebration in new orleans has ended in tragedy. a man was killed after a float hit him during a rowdy street carnival last night. police say it happened in one of the most popular parades of the carnival season, and this came just days after a 58-year-old woman died when a float ran over her as she was trying to pass between two sections of the parade. >> the department has the responsibility to keep up with changes in technology to protect our citizens from these new harms while at the same time preserving the benefits of this technology. >> attorney general william barr hosting a forum on online speech as the doj re-examines a decades-old law that grants sweeping protections to tech companies. let's bring in our legal panel, rachel, an immigration attorney, and richard st. paul is a defense attorney and member of the republican trial lawyers association. thank you both for being here, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> for those at home watching and saying i have no idea what this section 230 is, can you explain it to us and why it has been necessary for this long? >> yeah. so section 230 came about in 1996, and it was enacted in order to protect tech companies from being liable for the posts of people that are utilizing their platforms. so, for instance, if somebody was using facebook and they posted something and somebody was upset about what they posted, facebook couldn't be sued for that. the reason behind the law was to try to help small, upstart companies from going out of business due to lawsuits as they were just getting off the ground -- >> okay, but there's been a lot of change though. >> exactly. exactly. since 1996, obviously, these young upstart companies have become much larger corporations and much bigger conglomerates that are basically ruling, ruling everything right now. >> okay. so, richard, do you think it's time then that this changes? >> absolutely. these companies are no longer small, we're talking about facebook, twitter, these are now billion dollar companies. democratic lawmakers think these tech companies don't regulate enough content, and republicans think they regulate too little. according to a pew in 2018, 72% of americans thought that tech companies had too much discretion. so between lawmakers and americans, people believe that tech companies now need to be regulated when it comes to their content. right now it's the wild west. the tech companies determine how they regulate people's free speech. >> let's go ahead and listen to finish. >> well -- >> okay, go ahead, rachel. go ahead. >> well, i'd much prefer a company regulating it than a company telling me how and when i should be speaking and what i should be speaking. >> well finish. >> go ahead, richard. >> people think speech isn't regulated. we're lawyers, we know speech is regulated, but it's a time, place and manner, fighting words and clear and present danger like yelling fire in a movie theater. so there are government regulations on speech already, but the tech companies have no regulation -- >> right, but that's because -- >> hold on, let me ask you, rachel, is there a middle ground to be had then? >> i think there absolutely is, but i don't think that it's through the government regulating the tech companies with this. >> [inaudible] >> i think what it is, i think that what people can do is they can be much more stringent about what it is that they go on. if they want to be involved in one particular platform, or they go on that platform. if they want to be involved in another platte follow, they go on that platform. but the reason the internet exists is for the free and open exchange of ideas, and the bottom line is -- especially richard and i know it -- the internet is a place where people express their ideas, and they don't always do so in a kind way. you do an appearance here, somebody disagrees with what you say, the internet allows that person to make a post and exchange what they believe is the most point thing about it, and that's what makes the internet ad good place and innovative, and it's what makes incredible ideas come about. i i think we would have a very chilling effect on the purpose of what makes the internet so great to start to regulate it in the way that they're proposing to regulate it. >> but the problem is there's no standard on what's regulated and what's not. so you have conservative people who feel that the internet companies regulate their speech because the internet companies tend to be more liberal. if there are standards set up where everybody knows what content the it can companies will regulate and how they will regulate it and that is ordered by the government, that is the middle ground -- >> but as you said -- i'm sorry. [inaudible conversations] >> i'm curious about this. you guys are attorneys, you know more about the legal situation as far as it pertains to this than i do, but how section 230 is in place right now, is this just benefiting the tech companies, or is this doing everything for all of us, say, who are utilizing these platforms right now? rachel, start with you. >> i think it's helping both the free exchange of ideas on the internet and the largest tech companies. but also let's remember there aren't just google and facebook and the large conglomerates out there. there are still several young, upstart tech companies. and if we repeal 230, those are the ones that are going to suffer. google's got an army of lawyers, facebook has an army of lawyers, if they want to fight back, they have a bottomless, bottomless supply of money and lawyers to fight back. but then what's going to happen is the younger, more inknow desperate we've companies aren't going to have the same protections in place that they need which is why 230 started in the first place. >> i hear you as far as the younger companies go as compared to a big, you know, tech company like google or facebook. but, richard, on the other hand, i think a lot of people, consumers of these services at home, are kind of getting tired of hearing this, well, you know, they're silencing my voice or they'ring blocking this person or that person. i think a lot of people sitting at home are wondering, well, how is this going to help me? >> look, facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, they've all monetized our content. but they've monetized our content with no rules or or regulations on how they do that. they've made so much money off of what we say, showing us ads, all our personal data the, but there's no rules on how they will allow us to express ourself on the internet. there needs to be a standard set up so that everybody uns what content is appropriate and what content is not. and that -- >> but i think -- >> step in and determine and help these tech companies regulate themselves because they're not going to do it without the government stepping in. >> final word, rachel, we've gotta run. >> those standards are actually already in place. hate speech isn't permitted, you know, threats aren't permitted, you know, child pornography's not permitted, right? those things are already in place, and i think further regulation is a slippery slope when it comes to speech. >> we will continue to follow it, see what william barr does with it. rachel and richard, thanks for joining us. eric? >> nice to see you. eric: growing concerns about the continued spread of the coronavirus. now one california city is suing the federal government to keep patients who tested positive out. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. ♪ ♪ ♪ it made her feel proud. ancestry® specifically showed the regions that my family was from. greater details. richer stories. and now with health insights. get your dna kit at ancestry.com. ♪ ♪ >> new jersey governor phil murphy says he will have surgery to remove what is likely a cancerous tumor on his kidney. the 62-year-old democrat tells new jersey advanced media that the tumor is 90% likely to be cancerous and that it appears to have been caught at an early stage. he says he will have surgery early next week, and he doesn't think he'll need chemotherapy or radiation treatment. of course, we wish governor murphy e and his family well as they go through this. eric: that, we do. well, the battle to contain coronavirus now putting south korea on red alert. that is its highest level for this infectious disease. the president ordering extraordinary steps to try and fight the viral outbreak, and other countries are following suit. christina coleman is live in our west coast newsroom with these new developments. hi, christina. >> reporter: well, coronavirus infections are surging in south korea. the government announced 169 more cases of the virus today, bringing the cup's total to 602 -- the country's total to 602. the death total has risen from 3 to 6. south korea's president saying its government is increasing its alert to red which allows school closings and restrictions on public transportation and flights in and out of the country. meantime, italy is dealing with a sudden outbreak of this disease, at least ten cities in lockdown in the norb part of the -- northern part of the country. the number of cases reported was 3 on thursday, now that number is more than 150, and there's been 3 deaths. this is the largest outbreak in a country outside of asia. here in the u.s. there's growing concern over where to quarantine coronavirus evacuees. a federal judge in dollar has temporarily -- california has temporarily blocked evacuees to be moved to costa mesa in orange county can. local officials there argue the federal plan didn't explain how the community would be protected from the virus. and in alabama a plan to relocate quarantined americans to the town of aniston was met with outrage from state officials and congressmen. a facility had been suggested yesterday as a place to house evacuees from the diamond princess cruise ship. but just about an hour ago, local officials told residents in a tense council meeting that that is not going to happen. senator richard shelby writing on twitter, quote: i just got off the phone with the president, he told me that his administration will not be sending any victims of the coronavirus from the diamond princess cruise ship to aniston, alabama. thank you, president, for working with all of us to insure the safety of all alabamians. there's been 35 cases in the u.s. including 18 americans who were on that quarantined ship in japan. the cdc says the virus is not spreading fast in the u.s. but that it could happen. eric: gotta be watchful for that. christina, thank you. >> a bit of a wrench is thrown into harry e and meghan's planned break from the royal family as they now have to think of a new brand for themselves. we'll tell you about it. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees and account minimums. so, you can start investing wherever you are - even on the bus. download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. eric: there's more drama of course. harry meghan, once they are transitioned out of the royal family finalized comes spring. this comes after queen elizabeth asked them to stop using the title last week. david lee miller, our royal correspondent for the day is live in the newsroom with the very -- it doesn't stop with them, does it, david? man oh man. >> well, eric, think of this as a family spat, of royal proportions. on friday they agreed to stop efforts to trademark the name sussex royal. prince harry and his wife meghan say they will no longer use the word royal in connection with marketing efforts linked to charity works or other endeavors. what's attracting attention is what some royal watchers see as thinly veiled criticism of the queen. a portion of a statement from the couple says and i quote while there is not any jurisdiction by the monarch or cabinet office over the use of the word royal overseas, the duke and duchess of sussex do not intend to use sussex royal or any iteration of the word royal in any territory either within the u.k. or otherwise, when the transition occurs in spring 2020. now, march 31st, that's the date the couple will officially back down from royal duties. their latest announcement has put them under greater scrutiny from both the public and the media. >> this hasn't gone down too well at all. who is advising these people? it is slowly turning into dumb and dumber. the bottom line is that her majesty of the queen has been more than gracious in saying that you can keep your titles, you can do this. >> queen elizabeth has said harry meghan and their son archie will be in her words always loved members of my family. harry and meghan's last scheduled appearance as royals is expected to take place march 9th when they join the queen for an observance of commonwealth day. it could make for an especially interesting family reunion. eric: wow, can you imagine being a fly on the wall? >> my thoughts exactly. jillian: a zamboni driver may have a bright future with the nhl carolina hurricanes. the emergency back up goalie jumped right in and helped the team to win 6-3 making eight saves on ten shots in yesterday's game. he is also an arena maintenance worker for the toronto. eric: isn't that great? he came through. what a historic win. great to have you here on sunday. see you at 5:00 in the morning? jillian: see you at 5:00 a.m. eric: thanks for joining us. we will be back next week. take care. president trump: i juw long have you two been together? 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