To get that and slow growth, not a rapid blow. And joe biden is at it again. Making the math nearly impossible for Bernie Sanders. The former Vice President , Whose Campaign was on loife support a few weeks ago, is bringing the two sides together. I want to thank Bernie Sanders for supporting us with their Tireless Energy and passion. We share a common goal. And together well defeat donald trump. We will defeat him together. And this just in, were expecting to hear from Bernie Sanders in burlington. He will be making a statement at 1 00 eastern from vermont. And what women want. Even though there was no Elizabeth Warren endorsement, her supporters appear to have gone big for joe biden, who nearly dbled his supporters among College Educated women last night. You have to do well with suburban women. Joe biden is doing very well with suburban women. It is my set as a ban senate some sort of signal went out. If its true what they are seeing in the missouri exit that they are blocking biden in numbers, that has the making of the obama collision of 2008. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. More than 1,000 people across the country have been diagnosed with coronavirus, that number nearly doubling. The dow is falling over 1,000 points as the epidemic is vastically affecting events. And now a debate without the worldwide world attending. Universities are canceling classes and moving to Online Learning after spring break. Major sporting events are either canceled or deciding whether to clear the stands. The new hot spot is new rochelle, new york, where a containment zone is in place. The National Guard helping to stabilize testing and make sure there are no large gatherings. New rochelle is the hottest spot, if you will, in the country, the most dense cluster. People can come, people can go. Theres no limitation on movement but no large gatherings because the large gatherings are where it spreads. Joining me now or nbcs Morgan Radford in new rochelle, new york, and dr. Natalie azar. First to you, morgan, in new rochelle. There you are outside of city hall in new rochelle, new york. This community is reeling. Its not as the governor was pointing out, its not that people are getting stopped from entering the city but within the city and within the community, they have to be careful not to gather in large groups. Thats exactly right, andrea. This isnt so much about focusing on the people as it is focusing on the places. Thats their strategy right now. As you mentioned, people are concerned. Theres uncertainty, theyre scared. I spoke to the mayor this morning and he really explained what this quarantined area excuse me, this zone. Its one mile in radius and effectively means any large meeting areas, schools, synagogues, churches, community sent ser centers are shut down the next two weeks. And thats starting tomorrow. Look at what the mayor told me two minutes ago. I dont want to minimize the impact on this community. Many are concerned about the health of their neighbors and family. This is changing not just by the day, but the hour. I think it would be foolhardy to make firm predictions where we can go. All we can do is make sensible health judgments as we get facts. Andrea, every official we have spoken to from the mayor to the superintendent said this could all change on a dime. This is a fluid situation. Even if they get one more positive case, all of this could become expanded, the containment zone could become expanded. Andrea . Thank you so much to Morgan Radford. Dr. Azar, lets talk about social distancing, how that can work and where the testing needs to be done. Obviously, the hot spot is the worst areas. Right. Andrea, to put it into context, the idea of social distancing really comes to what is referred to the mitigation phase of the outbreak. Hopefully you identify and isolate and keep clusters just that, into clusters. Once you have Community Spread and theres more widespread of disease transmission and the source of the exposure is no longer known, then you have it running a little rampant. Then what you do is implement social distancing. We saw with the exponential rise in the chinese cases and italian cases, this is what this virus likes to do. Every person infected with coronavirus is thought to infect two other people. This is in contrast to influenza, which if youre infected with flu, youre only infecting one other person. Right there you can see the numbers rise pretty significantly. We dont have a vaccine for this. We have no prof lattic medicine to treat even contacts of people who were potentially exposed. Right now this social distancing is really the only effective mitigating intervention that Public Health authorities have at their disposal. And the New York Times is reporting a doctor in seattle asked for tests and was denied by the fda. I know. That was at the containment stage, earlier stage where you had not had this kind of social contact. Yes. I mean, the testing from day one has been a huge frustration for those of us in health care. Obviously, i keep a very close communication with our institution and getting updates on our readiness. I know, obviously, many, many Public Health labs and state labs are able to do testing. Commercial labs, labcorp. Quest apparently deployed resources but its still not as easy as going to your doctor and getting a test for it. Doctor, i wanted to show people what happened a 100 years ago, the difference between philadelphia and st. Louis. Yes. This was highlighted in a recent article in the atlantic and a picture speaks a thousand words. Can you see the number of deaths were widely disparate in those two cities simply because of the measures that were taken to socially distance. Lets talk a little bit more about why six feet is the recommended distance. So the main mode of transmission of this virus is thought to occur via respiratory droplets. If an infected person coughs or sneezes they can expel virus that travels on a respiratory droblet. Its not sought to hang around air and dust the way measles can, for example. The virus travels on this respiratory droplet three to six feet and if it doesnt land on something, its start to go to the floor. Thats the recommendation from the three to sixfoot circumference or barrier if youre in a crowded or hopefully not such a crowded area. Dr. Azar, its a pleasure. Thank you very much for your advice. We really appreciate it. Meanwhile, President Trump, of course, and Congressional Democrats are still at square one on any potential legislative pack aj package to help americans through the economic pressures the virus is causing. Today Robert Redfield are attending the next steps and earlier have been on capitol hill. Joining me now is today cohost Kristen Welker and robert costa, moderator of Washington Week on pbs. We saw Carol Maloney on the house say opening the hearing and saying we understand, dr. Fauci, dr. Redfield, you have to speak quickly, shorten your Opening Statements because you have been called to an emergency meeting at the white house. Another meeting with the Vice President pence group. Is there something we didnt know about . Andrea, it was a previously scheduled meeting according to officials at the white house. They say this was something scheduled yesterday. Look, having said that, theyre downplaying this word emergency, but the bottom line is theyre responding to what is sars was also a coronavirus. We apologize. There was a little bit dr. Faucis audio interrupting you. Lets go back to you, kristen. So this was yet another meeting here that they are holding, andrea, to deal with this ongoing crisis. They are downplaying the word emergency but they dont dispute the fact these meetings have been ongoing daily, ever since they started to respond to this crisis. So this is yet another one. Now we know President Trump is going to be meeting with bank ceos later on this afternoon. We are hoping that reporters are allowed into that meeting to ask him some questions about the broader response, and then theyll have the Daily Briefing at 5 30, in which we anticipate we may hear from the Vice President again about all of this. But as you said at the top, andrea, they are not only right now trying to deal with the Health Crisis of this but also the economic crisis that is unfolding. And so treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin on capitol hill really taking the lead on that, trying to get that package passed. President trump, of course, was there yesterday and he floated some of his initial ideas, which would include a payroll tax cut. It would also include paid family leave, support for small businesses. Democrats have their own plans. They want to focus a little bit less on the payroll tax cuts and more on helping families and those who are out of work. They are hoping, andrea, hoping to get some sort of deal within the next 48 hours but it remains to be seen if thats going to happen. Robert costa, of course, we had the problem with the speaker of the house and president of the United States have not conversed in months. Speaker pelosi is working with the treasury significant mnuchin on how to try to iron out their differences but the toxic atmosphere between the two sides is one of the causes of concern here. In a conversation yesterday with former House Speaker newt gingrich, he made a point that it doesnt matter if the leaders of the country do not like each other. At this point theyre in a crisis situation and theyre going to have to come together. The question facing the white house, based on my conversations this morning with top lawmakers, is will the white house come around on the House Democrats position on paid sick leave . The white house economic adviser larry kudlow said hes exploring executive power, and executive orders, to pursue that policy so the white house would have more control. At the end of the day my top sources say the white house will likely have to come to a compromise with Speaker Pelosi on federal pay family leave, paid sick leave, to try to help give the House Democrats some stimulus dollars along those lines if they also want to get a payroll tax cut. And what about the contradictions in messaging, robert . The president , even yesterday when he was coming out of that republican lunch meeting, he was talking about this is all going to go away. When you talk to governors in this country privately and top senators in the republican party, they say they wish the president would allow Vice President pence to be the person who really comes up with the messaging here on the virus and management response because they think the president is too attuned to the stock market and trying to reassure the stock market day in and day out. Larry hogan, the republican governor of maryland, went on the record with the Washington Post saying he appreciates everything Vice President pence is going but hes deeply concerned about President Trump and everything hes saying in terms of the mixed messaging and contradictory responses. Kristen welker and robert costa, thank you very much to both of you. Breaking news from new york city where today disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in jail. Last month the jury found the 67yearold guilty of sexually assaulting former Production Assistant mimi haleyi and raping former aspiring actress jessica mann. More than 100 women accused weinstein of Sexual Conduct stretching back decades. Fueling, of course, the metoo movement. He still faces rape and Sexual Assault charges in los angeles. No date scheduled for that as far as we know. Coming up, bidens big night. Does the former Vice President now have a clear path to the nomination . 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Lets shut this puppy down and move on and worry about november. The immenable james carvers message for his supporters to keep his eye on the prize. Joe bidens big string of wins tuesday night and delegate advantage may not be enough to convince sanders to step aside. The senator will detail his next steps for his campaign at the top of the hour for burlington, vermont. Joining me now msnbc political reporter shack brew sister, the Washington Post political reporter eugene scott and real clear politics editor shackford steel. Shaq, first to you, what are you expecting . Were not shire whure what tt from Bernie Sanders at the top of the hour. This time four years ago he took hes time and questions there. And you saw also the Vice President step up, the shift of strategy that came into last tuesday and into last week and the results that you saw yesterday. What was clear based on the results we saw yesterday, this campaign was not happy with what they say. They invested heavy in michigan and thought they could close that gap in polling that they saw he was able to do in 2016. His campaign and michigan, what it showed, was symbolic significance that he could not generate the excitement you continually hear senator sanders says hes able to do. He points to states like michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania saying the reason why hes most electable is he can generate that excitement. His defeat last night a major blow to his campaign and we are expecting to hear from him about it for the First Time Since the result last night. Jeremy, you spent a lot of time in michigan. What is your reporting on why that vote was different from four years ago . Andrea, i think it comes down to the fact democratic voters are petrified of the possibility donald trump can be reelected. This unlike anything i have seen in the president ial campaign thats i have covered has jolted them into almost this strategic sense they have about their voting. They are no longer interested in the theoretical discussions about what type of party the Democratic Party should be, how progressive it should be, what ideologically it should stand for. Theyre focused on one thing, and thats denying donald trump a second term. They dont believe Bernie Sanders is the one whos capable of delivering on that. So if theyre not that excited about voting to be joe biden, theyre going to still do so. Michigans results last night shows us that. Bernie sanders did not carry a single county in michigan and thats pretty extraordinary. I think its explained by the fact 2016 certainly reknow was an antihillary vote in michigan. But this type of repudiation of Bernie Sanders there by voters really shows you how seriously theyre taking this election. And, eugene, the delegate reality check, 682 delegates up for grabs in the next coming states, including next week and week after. Were talking next week, arizona, illinois, florida and georgia the following we