good evening. it s great to have you with us on a friday night. we know there has been a lot of news this week, particularly on coronavirus. we re going to take you through it tonight. what you need to know as we finish out another week together. just moments ago vice president mike pence saying the test results have come in from the cruise ship off california. at least 21 testing positive. 19 are crew members. as the death toll and number of cases in the u.s. grows tonight. with those new test results, the first to come in, we know there are thousands of americans, crew and passengers on that ship. tonight, the question, what is the plan to treat those infected and keep others safe? at a san francisco hospital, the tent put up outside to handle cases. here in new york city, at least 4,000 people in self-quarantine, many linked to the lawyer who took the train in from westchester county to grand central.
second painful phone call. she said, i just want to check in with you and let you know that your mother s doing fine, that she doesn t have a temperature. i said, that s [ bleep ]. my mom died at 3:30 this morning. and she was oh, my god, you know, that wasn t in the chart. just an awful story. let s get to matt gutman, who joins us from california tonight, from san francisco. back to the breaking news on the cruise ship. those test results coming back positive. 21 of them, at least for now. the question is, how are you going to get immediate help to the patients who tested positive while also protecting those 2,400 passengers? reporter: i just got off the phone with federal officials. they say they are working on those plans right now. now, here s what we do know. the 1,100 crew members aboard that ship are going the stay on that ship for testing and possible quarantine. the 2,400 passengers are going to be disembarked at some point in the near future at a noncommercial port.
19 are crew members. it was news the passengers had feared all day. right now it s just numbing. it s just trying to process this information. and see what our life holds in the next couple of weeks. reporter: debbie loftus and her parents, among the 2,400 passengers circling about 60 miles off the coast of san francisco, now confined to their rooms. i was worried mainly because my parents are elderly. i m traveling with them. they re from chippewa falls, wisconsin, and my mom has asthma. so, yeah, i m very worried if she would get ill, what might happen. reporter: tonight we re learning there are nine cases of the virus now linked to the ship s previous voyage, including that 71-year-old passenger who died after exhibiting symptoms before getting off the ship two weeks ago. this ship haunted by that recent nightmare for passengers of the diamond princess off japan, where thousands were quarantined
the results are in, coronavirus cases are confirmed on the grand ship. personally, i m not worried about traveling. i haven t seen anything like this since 9/11. tonight we look at the big pcture of what the coronavirus is doing to the travel industry. actually, there could be short-term benefits. thousands of coronavirus websites are set up by hackers trying to steal your identity. i ll show you what they look like. now from abc 7, live, breaking news. good evening, thank you for joining us, i m ama daetz. i m larry beil. the breaking news is coronavirus linked to the grand princess