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And now word of a similar second case state has just 200 testing kits left.
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I'm Lindsay Davis.
Thanks so much for streaming with us.
We begin tonight with an alarming new development in the Corona virus crisis, a new confirmed second case of unknown origin right here in the United States.
This is.
The CDC faces questions about a patient being treated at a California hospital who contracted the virus from an unknown source.
Tonight, investigators are retracing her steps.
And across the world, people are trying to insulate themselves from the spread of covert 19 like this shared ride driver in China who taped up plastic in his car, keeping business going through the outbreak in Italy, the source of the outbreak rippling across Europe, soccer teams played to an empty stadium.
The virus is also contributed to the worst week for global markets and Wall Street in years.
We'll get to all that, but first will cars in California with a very latest on the case is there tonight.
The corner virus is spreading in California.
A second case with an unknown origin, this time in Santa Clara County, just days after a similar case in Solano County.
Are you concerned that more people in your county possibly have Corona virus right now and don't even know it?
I'm not concerned.
I'm certain the CDC is already retracing the steps of the first person believed to have contracted the disease in her community.
The woman lives in the same county is Travis Air Force Base, where hundreds of Americans have been quarantined.
She's critically ill at UC Davis and on a ventilator.
I think it's the tip of the iceberg in terms of the number of cases that are out there.
We know it took 11 days after the woman's initial trip to the E.
R with flu like symptoms for doctors to confirm she had the virus.
Since the woman had not traveled or had contact with anyone who tested positive, doctors had to wait days to test her.
The woman was not tested, not allowed to be tested.
The CDC protocols were absolutely incorrect.
The patient's family and dozens of health care workers from two hospitals who treated her or now all under quarantine.
As for testing today, the CDC says it's fixed.
It's faulty.
Testing kits has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked.
Her goal is to have everything and local Health Department online doing their own testing by the end of next week.
But even after testing on the ground, states will have to wait for days for confirmation from the CDC in Atlanta.
On Capitol Hill today, there are growing calls for an investigation after a whistle blower alleged some federal workers who received Corona virus evacuees at to California bases did not have proper training or gear.
How they got back home.
They're from all over the country.
Where did they stay?
I heard that one of them stayed, at least in a local hotel tonight at Travis Air Force Base.
There was still 150 passengers from the Diamond Princess under quarantine.
Six people from the ship have died overseas, including two overnight British and Japanese citizens.
44 American passengers have been sickened.
We followed Martin Jorgensen when he flew to Travis two weeks ago on a plane with infected passengers.
Jorgensen had to leave his wife, who had the virus behind in a Japanese hospital.
Tonight, he's off the base and in a hospital.
After testing positive for the virus, get all your stuff and throw it in biohazard bags.
So that is all my luggage that is going to be thrown in the ambulance with me.
And will card joins us now live from California.
Well, just learned about this new case.
What's the latest that you're aware of?
Well, Lindsay, we've learned that the patient is an older woman who had an underlying health issue.
She was taken to the hospital with a respiratory illness.
In this press conference, you're gonna hear them say that you need to be ready for the Corona virus to be coming into your neighborhood.
You need to be prepared.
You need to have a plan.
They're going to say, Treat this as if you're encountering people who have the flu, but they're gonna go a little bit further as well, so that you can think about if you actually have a sick person or if you're going to have a sick family member, maybe you find a isolated part in your house, a room or somewhere else where you can create some separation while you figure out what to do next.
Lindsay.
Well, Carr, Thank you very much for that, and we have some breaking news.
The county of Santa Clara in California is holding a press conference.
Corona virus were Expect to learn more about this second case.
Let's listen in for this disease process.
Make sure that they prevent spread test.
People who are at risk make sure that they're aware of the cause and spread of the disease and to keep us all safe.
So I'd like to introduce part of the team here.
Well, just name them and they can wave their hands way Have Dr Christopher Brandon, deputy director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, from CDC Way have charity.
Dean, deputy director of the State of California Department of Public Health.
Dr.
Ken Miller, medical director of County of Santa Clear Emergency Service's Brian Glass, the assistant chief of the Santa Clara County Fire Department.
Dana Read It was the director of the county Emergency Management Division's Dr Jim Novak, chief business officer for the Santa Clara County office of education joke.
A Faro who's our regional vice president of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California.
All of them will be available for your questions and answers after we're done.
But right now I would like to luck announce the leader of our public health department, our public health officer and director of the Department of Public Health, who's been spearheading response in this county and has done a fabulous job.
Dr.
Sarah Cody.
Sarah.
Thank you.
You're all right.
Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us this afternoon.
Today we're reporting a new case of novel Corona virus in Santa Clara County.
This is the third case to be identified in our county, but it's different from our other two cases in an important way, like the California case reported two days ago.
Our third case did not recently travel overseas or have any known contact with the recent traveler or an infected person.
The individual is an adult woman with chronic health conditions who was hospitalized for difficulty breathing.
Her physician called us on Wednesday night to discuss the case into request testing for the novel Corona virus, our county of Santa Clara, Public health laboratory received the specimens of the very next morning and performed the testing.
Since receiving the results last night, we've been working to identify the woman's contact contacts and to understand who she might have exposed while contagious.
Before I go on, I want to be candid and let you know that this investigation is just beginning, so I won't be able to share a lot more details than those that I just have.
But this case does signal to us that it's now time to shift how we respond to the novel Corona virus.
Public health measures that we've taken so far isolation, quarantine, contact tracing and travel restrictions have helped to slow the spread of disease, and we will continue to implement them.
Way will continue to trace close contacts of our cases to try to limit the spread of the virus, but now we need to add other public health tools to the mix.
So now that we have a case who did not recently travel or come in contact with anyone known to be ill, what does this mean?
What we know now is that the virus is here present at some level, but we still don't know to what degree.
An important priority therefore for us is to conduct public health surveillance to determine the extent of what's happening.
Now that our county public health laboratory has the ability to run the test, we can more quickly evaluate what's happening in our community.
But needless to say, we can't do this work alone and this'll.
Morning, we asked our colleagues from the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for assistance, and their teams have already arrived to our operations center and are here with us today.
And I really cannot.
Okay, so you know, listening to California officials there in Sound Santa Clara County, essentially explaining that there are three cases in that county.
But they now have a second case of unknown origin, and they're basically saying as faras the cove it 19 that they know that there is a presence there.
They just don't know to what extent and looking at the broader scale of the outbreak, the World Health Organization has now raised its global risk assessment from high to very high, its highest possible level, though they have not yet declared a pandemic.
But in places like Iran, a spike in cases has led to an all out assault.
Buses and trains sprayed with disinfectant to try and quell the spread of the virus.
There.
In Saudi Arabia, where they've halted all pilgrimages, drivers have been stopped at road checks and been given body temperature readings with thermometers on their foreheads on.
Although President Trump and many are hopeful that the changing seasons will kill the virus, that W.
H.
O says there is no evidence of that will happen, Nigeria's first case will be looked at closely with its warm climate.
The hope is that that case will not turn into more there.
The outbreak has shut down businesses across the globe.
Even K pop superstars BTS canceled dates on their highly anticipated tour are James Longan has more tonight precautions becoming more radical around the world.
In Lebanon, students sprayed with disinfectant testing for fever on the spot, raising the global risk assessment to its highest level on a blunt warning.
It's really not much of an excuse at this point to get called on aware.
This is a reality check for every government on the planet.
Wake up, get ready, Switzerland taking drastic action, becoming the first country to outlaw any gatherings of over 1000 people in Japan and nationwide schools shut down 12 million students ordered to stay home by the prime minister.
But he's insisting the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics are not in danger, although some fear they could be canceled in Italy on eerily quiet soccer game in an empty Milan stadium, Italy is spooked.
It has more than 600 patients hit with the virus.
Pope Francis, who's Ash Wednesday mass express solidarity with those infected now has an apparent cold.
There's no indication it's linked to Corona virus, but he has counseled all his audiences in Iran.
Another viral epicenter, the most senior female official is infected.
She was at a Cabinet meeting with President Rouhani just days ago.
This'll coming on the heels of the country's infected health minister.
Sweating and coughing while urging calm which spot fear that Iran was under reporting the gravity of its outbreak.
Our thanks to James, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a congressional committee today that the U.
S.
Has made offers to the Islamic Republic of Iran to help.
However, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed that offer.
And now to the White House, where President Trump is touting the administration's response to the Corona virus and seemingly downplaying the threat that it poses.
So is the administration prepared for a potential outbreak in the U.
S.
ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl has the latest president.
Trump tonight insisted his administration has everything under control, were very well organized way, have great talent, great doctors, great, great everyone.
And he again sought to downplay the threat in the United States.
We haven't lost anybody yet, and hopefully we can keep that intact.
We There's been no deaths in the United States at all.
But there is bipartisan concern.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis wrote a letter today to the defense secretary, saying Quote the global outbreak is concerning and presents an enduring an uncertain threat.
The anxieties and concerns I am hearing from our service members and their families are justified.
Vice President Mike Pence is now vetting the information that's released to the public.
But today administration experts, including the widely respected Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, briefed members of Congress.
Dr Fauci was was very pointed and saying I've not been muzzled.
I have not been muzzled.
I took that to me.
I took the I took that to mean he could still speak his mind on I'm relieved and Jonathan Karl joins us now from the White House.
John, we heard those bipartisan concerns being raised on whether the administration is painting too rosy of a scenario.
Is there concern that accurate information won't get to the public if this gets worse?
Well, that is a concern we've heard expressed, especially after the president put the vice president in charge of this effort, funneling all of the communications through the vice president's office.
But as you heard, we saw members of Congress getting briefed by the government's health experts, including Anthony Fauci, the widely respected doctor at the National Institutes for Health.
And you heard from a Democrat who was briefed that he believes that this was reassuring and that pfoutch he himself is saying that he does not feel in any way muzzled the disease, that he is able to get his assessment out to the public.
All right, Jonathan Karl, for us from the White House.
Thank you, John.
Thank you.
As this outbreak grows globally on the number of cases in the U.
S.
Rises, many are wondering what the government will do and what they can do in order to prevent the spread.
Joining us with more on that is Dr Eric Feigal Ding, an epidemic epidemiologist at Harvard and former Homeland Security adviser and ABC News contributor Tom Bossert.
Thank you, gentlemen, for joining us.
Dr.
Farcical doing.
I'd like to start with you.
How does the lack of testing kits in states like California elsewhere affect the U.
S.
Is ability to actually measure the virus has spread Yeah, without testing were literally driving blind as if we have no headlights at night.
Because testing is the cornerstone of stopping an outbreak without testing.
You can't isolate where those patients came from trace who they were exposed to, and find out all the clues in the community, which right now in California, they have to do in two counties in the dark, pitch black and delayed by 1 to 2 weeks.
So testing the cornerstone of isolating this epidemic and without testing you can't have an epidemic.
This is why it is so critical that we have testing nationwide, and Tom in your experience is someone who's worked as a global health.
Security.
How prepared are we at the federal level to combat this?
Yeah, so there's a couple of answers to that, but we're at the second inflection point.
So the first inflection point has to do with the quarantining that we've seen take place already in an attempt to contain this.
We're past containment.
This will spread.
It will spread in the United States.
The degree in the time of that spread is unknown.
We don't want to create any panic, but the point that the Doctor just made is important because right now we don't have diagnostic testing and the CDC is still waiting for definitive diagnostic testing.
We're up against now two clocks, and this answers your question about whether state, local governments and health authorities are ready for this.
If we get Thio, scientists tell us this if we get to 1% spread in the population, it's too late for these non pharmaceutical interventions to really work.
And so that's the first time line that we're running up against the 2nd 1 Is this race to get thes diagnostic tests deployed, the hospitals toe have these tests conducted on actual patients, and they get those reliable numbers back.
If those two timelines start to run into one another where we're approaching 1% and we have evidence to suspect that we're getting there because again it will be probably 14 20 days in front of us actually getting there, we're gonna have to start making hard decisions and shifting away from this insistence on diagnostic testing results and into clinical ones.
They're less reliable.
But if someone let's say a patient shows up demonstrating the symptoms of upper respiratory problem like the flight, the flu and perhaps test negative for the flu, you're gonna have to start presumptively thinking that they are potential cove.
It patients.
When you do that, it's less reliable, but it gives you the information necessary to make good decisions, maybe not perfect ones.
As that happens, the government's gonna have to start making staggered decisions, not centralized ones out of the federal government, but state and local ones and community based ones.
And that's the race that we're gonna have to pay attention to for the next week and dr by building.
This is a question that's been asked and answered.
But I think people are still interested in eager to know they're wearing face masks.
They're canceling trips because of Cove in 19.
What should we actually be doing to protect ourselves and to prevent the spread?
Well, right now, I think, until we have a vaccine or anti viral drugs that were known toe work, which vaccine will take a year and antiviral drugs will take 6 to 9 months.
To prove that works, we have to focus on other countermeasures and to delay and slow the progression again.
This is an inevitable.
So besides the obvious things like hand washing, we need to practice social distancing.
Social distancing means a wide range of things like avoiding concerts and rallies, maybe even political rallies.
So we might have to think about that in the near future.
And schools.
We might have a lot of tough decisions around that, but in addition, I think handshakes.
We might have to pass on handshakes and might have to goto fist bumps and other kinds of ways of greeting people and again, thes face masks.
They don't really protect you all the time because surgical finishes bastard knew, have no protection.
But it actually does protect you from transmitting your own saliva and spit around which, in an epidemic, potentially would be critical again.
Getting testing is also critical if we can get it free for every single American.
Because if people are hesitating, are getting detecting because it's gonna cost him too much money.
They cost this epidemic potentially huge amounts of time.
And this is why testing Korea conduce like 80,000 tests in one week.
We need to ramp up our tests more than just 500.
We need to ramp up Tiu, a scale that America has never seen before.
And Tom, the U.
S.
Is greatly dependent on China.
Of course, when it comes to pharmaceuticals, At what point with the government sound the alarm to Americans about a possible shortage of medications?
Yeah, there's two kind of alarm bells here.
I think the doctor just summed up the 1st 1 This is really, really important for the viewers to understand now that we're at this second inflection point where we're trying to implement these non pharmaceutical interventions.
The purpose of that isn't to prevent each individual viewer from getting sick.
The purpose is to kind of shift to the right and flatten this this spread curve.
And if you could imagine a very sharp spike on a car on a chart that presents a lot of, ah, lot of strain on our healthcare system.
If we can slow the spread of this so that the health care system is not overwhelmed, we don't have to ration pharmaceuticals and ration healthcare now separately and unrelated to the availability of pharmaceuticals.
We are three years past the wake up call here on diversifying our supply chains.
The economic advisers dating back Gary Cohen spoke about this regularly.
Yeah, the United States has about 60% of its pharmaceuticals coming from China.
Western Europe is more reliant, with closer to 80% of their pharmaceuticals coming from China.
We're gonna need to diversify that where it becomes a non military national security matter moving forward and so to go back to Dr Five Buildings Point.
I guess a lot of people were going to see more just hand waves hello and goodbye and perhaps elbow bumps or something of that sort.
But with that, gentlemen, thank you very much both for your time.
Panic and fear over the Corona virus continues.
On Wall Street, stocks posted their worst weeks since the financial crisis.
The Dow fell more than 12% a loss of about 3500 points.
This came after the Dow fell nearly 1200 points yesterday, its worst one day point drop ever.
The head of the Federal Reserve trying to calm investors, saying the central bank was monitoring the virus and would act as appropriate to support the economy here.
To break all of this down, ABC is Rebecca Jarvis, who is live on Wall Street.
Rebecca At one point the Dow was down close to 1000 points of things could have actually been a lot worse.
They could have been worse.
Lindsay.
This was a historic week on Wall Street, the worst since the financial crisis.
The great recession of 2008 and what we've seen on Wall Street is a ripple effect of various concerns hitting investors and their psyche.
Sophie First, it began with the supply disruptions early in the week, we heard about companies like Apple and Nike and Microsoft not getting supplies from factories in China on time.
That has a ripple effect to other companies.
We also heard from companies like Marriott and United Airlines this week who have said they see travel way down.
People aren't traveling, they're afraid of getting sick.
And many companies like J.
P.
Morgan and Amazon are now canceling travel, telling their employees Lindsay not to travel.
All of those things have economic consequences.
The other side is the virus itself.
There's still so much unknown, so much uncertainty around how greatly it will spread here in the United States and how long that will last.
And one of the biggest things Wall Street is working through at this point is trying to fully understand that because if the U.
S were to look like Italy or China and shut down in the ways that those countries have, you see people aren't going out to restaurants, they're not traveling, they're not going to public places that has an economic consequences.
Well, Lindsay and Rebecca any way to tell if we are at or near the bottom?
Well, I would, as a student of history, look back and what we've seen in many other outbreaks.
And yes, these are very different diseases is that the market tends to bounce back after about six months to a year after the outbreak, and the economy tends to follow in the same order.
And I would also point to the great recession.
What we saw in the great recession is that the market from the lows of 2008 head and 2009 had bounced back within about three years.
So if you had sold that for a one care that nest egg at the bottom of the market, you would have lost at least half of your savings.
Where is you had held on for a couple more years?
You would have made it back and then some.
Lindsay.
So is that the takeaway for the average person at home?
Don't sell.
Hold on.
Well, look, you have to talk thio your financial representatives and have a conversation with them.
But as a student of history, as somebody who has a 401 k myself, that's what you d'oh, You keep it for the long term.
You put money and you get your company.
If you have a company that matches, you get your company to keep matching and you start thinking about these things when you're 20 so that when you're 65 or 70 you can start withdrawing from that account.
Lindsay.
Rebecca Jarvis.
You are my financial adviser, so I appreciate that insight.
Thank you.
And when we come back, the fire in one of the busiest train stations in Europe, plumes of smoke rising and why, authorities say it may have started to stop a concert theme.
Blizzard warnings now in effect, more than three feet of snow in some places, When is spring again and the dramatic body camera images will show you how police rescue Children being held hostage inside a home forward.
A federal appeals court is temporarily halting the Trump Administration's remain in Mexico.
Policy measure requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through U S immigration courts.
Nearly 60,000 people have been sent to Mexico.
Toe wait for hearing since January 2019.
A three judge panel of the ninth U.
S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the policy that is central to President Trump's asylum, cracked out, but on Lee.
Arizona and California are within the court's jurisdiction.
Prosecutors say there is a quote mountain of evidence unquote in the case of former Arkansas Senator Linda Colin Smith's murder During a pretrial hearing.
Prosecutors told the court they plan to use a combination of home security footage and jailhouse video calls to prove that Colin Smith was killed by her friend and former employees.
Rebecca O'Donnell.
The former state senator's body was found June 4th after disappearing in late May.
O'Donnell is facing the death penalty if she is convicted of murder.
The trial is set to begin October 19th.
Clouds of black smoke billowed over the center of Paris as a massive fire broke out near a major train station in the city.
Police evacuated the guardedly owned station after the fire engulfed multiple vehicles.
Authorities urge people to avoid the area in eastern parents while they fight the fire fire report.
They've started amid tensions over a concert by Congolese rapper turning now to some horrifying moments inside a Colorado home.
And they were all captured on police body camera Ah, suspect keeping four people inside, including Children, officers moving in.
Clayton Sandal has more on the dramatic images.
We're not playing the way, Make sure pretty safe Okay tonight, new video shows police in Greeley, Colorado, in a dangerous standoff.
An armed man in this house refuses to come out.
Three kids and one woman are inside with him, but he won't let them leave way.
I don't want anything that happened.
I need to make sure that everyone is okay.
You make the world a little bit, man.
You show your hands.
Can you talk to me about what's bugging you today?
A.
Ah, A crisis negotiator tries to talk him out as a SWAT team.
Surround the house.
That's when officers see kids in an upstairs window.
There's one right here.
You know.
Somebody's waving at us.
Open your window.
They scrambled to find a way to reach them.
Hey.
Hey, kids, can you push the screen out?
You gotta have a ladder.
We got a ladder.
One officer quietly climbs to the kid's bedroom.
I just want to get down.
Okay.
You guys start getting ready to go.
Training is gone on the bedroom door while the kids climb to safety.
Keeping careful.
I got you.
I got you and Lindsay.
After that, rescue police were able to convince the man to release the other child and the woman that were in that house.
They say He then shot himself.
He did not survive.
Police say this all began when the man violated a restraining order.
Lindsay, quite a dramatic story.
Are things to Clayton on that?
And we still have a lot to get.
Thio here on ABC News Life the final day before voters take to the polls in South Carolina.
And many of the candidates are weighing in on the Corona virus response.
Why, one study says the opioid crisis wreaking havoc across the country may actually be worse than previously thought.
Stay with us.
A new study out shows there may be gross underreporting of opioid related deaths.
Meeting the opioid crisis may be far worse than initially thought.
Let's take a look by the numbers.
The study, published in the journal Addiction, looked at a total of 632,331 drug overdoses between 1999 and 2016.
A senior author on the study says the number of deaths from opioid related overdoses could be 28% higher than reported due to incomplete death records, with many death certificates after fatal overdoses, not mentioning which drug was actually involved of the unclassified drug overdoses.
Further investigation revealed that 71.8% involved opioids, translating 2 99,160 additional opioid related deaths over the 17 year span of the study.
Theo Opioid Epidemic Today Progress in three phases, According to the CDC.
The first involved deaths caused by prescription opioids, the second an increase in heroin use on the third.
A surge in the use of synthetic opioids, or fentanyl.
Accurate data on opioid deaths is critical to combating the epidemic.
Theo Underreporting on deaths could mean that federal funding and resource is aren't being directed to where they're needed most, and we still have a lot of news to get to.
Here on ABC News Live our visit to a county in South Carolina, where voters say they feel abandoned by the same Democrats they so often vote for.
And the high stakes trip is the longest war in American history, about to come to a close with the risk of the global spread and impact of the cove, it 19 Corona virus is now very high.
We do not see evidence as yet that the virus is spreading freely in communities as long as that's the case, we still have a chance of containing this virus.
CDC is Dr Nancy Messenger says they are rushing to get Cove in 19 detection equipment to every state by next week.
Concerns over the Corona virus outbreak and once again they were affecting the stock market.
Look at that rate, their Wall Street ending one of the worst weeks of trading since the financial crisis in 2008.
The race to become the next president continues for Democrats in South Carolina.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been big on the state in hopes of righting the ship after disappointing results so far.
But our new ABC News Ipsos poll suggests Senator Bernie Sanders is not just the national front runner.
He also may be considered the most electable trump here from everybody too radical.
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Plenty of plows out on the road.
Huge waves from the Great Lakes crashing into the shore.
Upstate New York, bearing the brunt of high winds and blizzard conditions, now trails most family members and go back and see where they are.
This guy's machines dying out now.
But besides that, well, the U.
N.
Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting on the violence growing in the Idlib region of Syria.
33 Turkish troops were killed in an airstrike by the Syrian government.
We haven't enormous Iranian problem inside of Syria.
These attacks that are Syrian regime lad, Iranian supported Hezbollah supported, underwritten by Iran, along with the Russians are now causing a humanitarian calamity in Syria that once again re ups.
But we saw several years back and thanks so much for staying with us.
Today is the final day on the campaign trail before voters in South Carolina head to the polls.
The Democratic candidates have spent much of their day weighing in on the president's response to the Corona virus outbreak.
Right now, he's in South Carolina, and moments ago, here's what he had to say.
Very dishonest people.
Now the Democrats are politicizing the Corona virus, you know, they're politicizing it.
We did one of the great jobs you say.
How's President drunk Trump doing?
They go home good.
They have no clue.
Our Terry Moran is on the ground in Charleston with more on the eve of the South Carolina primary the threat of a Corona virus pandemic could be fundamentally changing this presidential campaign, and you could hear it on the campaign trail.
I thought that is upbeat tweets could somehow stop Croatoan virus.
Why?
I have news for Donald Trump.
Like the rest of us, this virus is not impressed by his tweets way.
Need real action in the White House.
President Trump is here holding a rally in North Charleston tonight, and Bernie Sanders is castigating him for it.
You would think that could have a president of the United States.
Leading were working with scientists all over the world bringing people together to figure out how we're gonna deal with this crisis at the Citadel Military Academy, I caught up with Pete Buddha.
Jim, Have you thought about the impact that the Corona virus might have on this election?
Well, it certainly raises the stakes and reminds us of the kinds of threats the next president is going to face.
My presidency will focus on science, making sure that we're listening to experts and on coordination.
Mike Bloomberg is arguing he's best prepared to handle just this kind of crisis.
Health experts warn this is under prepared managing a crisis is what Mike Bloomberg does, and Terry Moran joins us now live from South Carolina.
And Terry.
We heard Mike Bloomberg basically hit Trump, blaming him for the drop in the stock market.
Obviously, the economy doing so well, that's been, ah, large point for Donald Trump, saying that he should be re elected.
So does Kobe, 19 pose a threat to that?
I don't think there's any question that this virus, especially if it breaks out and becomes a pandemic, will change the nature of this presidential campaign.
Every candidate will look different in light of the seriousness and the complexity of this challenge that the nation probably faces.
A Donald Trump has some skills.
He's got other skills that he might want to develop.
Maur.
Which of those apply to this, which don't I think he will look like a very different president and a very different candidates.
Same with Bernie Sanders calling for such revolutionary change.
Pete Buddha, Judge, a 37 year old mayor.
All of a sudden, people look very different in light of an issue like this and Joe Biden, of course, counting on a big win in South Carolina tomorrow but does a Corona virus it all pose any or change the dynamics?
On the Democratic side?
I I do think it it will look.
I think some voters will take another look in a closer look at candidates who have experience managing big institutions, big systems and managing in crisis.
That Mike Bloomberg, who has been very quick on the trigger with his ads, hasn't ad out already saying he's managed certain crises as major as mayor of New York.
And Ian can handle this one, too.
That could appeal to some voters who could get anxious, as as this Corona virus becomes a bigger and bigger fact of life in the country and in the election.
All right, Terry Moran for US Live in Charleston.
We appreciate you, Terry.
You could call it a forgotten county.
Tonight we are talking about Alan Dale, South Carolina As residents across the state prepared to go to the polls tomorrow for the first primary and the South, many residents there are concerned that their voices are not being heard.
Their votes are being taken for granted.
By all appearances, it is a town that time forgot.
Alan Dale, South Carolina, the population of the entire county numbers less than 9000 a number that dwindles with each passing year.
What is happening here that is causing people believe what is happening.
They don't have jobs here.
Crime.
It's high here, and a lot of people just don't feel protected.
Nestled in the southwest corner of this deep red state is a very blue Alan Dale County with a population that's 3/4 black.
It's located 73 miles from Savannah, 90 miles from Charleston and apparently a long, long way off the campaign trail.
I was surprised to learn that 2008 John Edwards, when he was running for president, that that was the last time that you had had a visit from a presidential candidate until people to judge and Tom Sire, that's that's exactly right.
Why is that?
I think things were quite the way they are now.
We're in such a crisis.
Once a thriving manufacturing hub.
When I was small, there were there were plants that people get jobs and stay home now a graveyard of what Once Waas can't help but notice.
This was once ah, vital street here, and I don't know if there's actually an open store.
It's just all boarded up.
Yes, they are.
City Councilwoman Lady Louis took us down what's left of a once vibrant street.
Then we had all the hotels had all the restaurants, the groceries, that we had everything here.
This is now the loan and on Lee grocery store that remains.
But the president has recently touted various successes for the black community.
African American poverty rate has plummeted to the lowest level in the history of our country, and he's a good number.
I don't know.
I mean, I should be a 100%.
I hate to tell you, right, President Trump says that African American unemployment is down, that African American hourly wages are up.
Is that true?
In Alan, that's there aren't any jobs in Alan Dale's, you know, and, well, very few.
Let's just say that it's nice to get on television say, Oh, the blacks have this and they have that.
But you can look and see.
This is reality that will standing in right now.
This is reality.
Just take a look around.
We kind of get lost.
There is nothing here, and nobody seemed to be interested in helping us.
Skeletal remains of 19 fifties era motels greet those who enter lining the highway that was once the main thoroughfare from New York to Miami until Interstate 95 opened two counties over.
We were really with New York of all the other towns, because people had to drive through here.
Yes, are on their way.
Nor, yes, very few passed through here now, including the presidential candidates promising to bring struggling Americans out of poverty, that if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty about whether or not we can make a difference in people's lives and we can level the playing field.
While the 2020 contenders held more than 2300 campaign events in Iowa, they've held less than 600 here in South Carolina.
And residents in this small community say they're just not being heard.
Places like this, and throughout the low country, they literally lose their voice.
Phyllis Smart runs a community center here in Alan Dale.
It's really about educating a more soul than just feeding them.
I would sit among them and talk with them about the candidates.
What did they know?
What they didn't know, and they began to open eyes for them.
Back in December, Mayor Pete Buddha judge met with community leaders here.
Way to calm you, Cory Booker and Tom Steyer soon followed.
Alan Dale has consistently voted for a Democratic president since 1976.
Hillary Clinton won 76% of the vote.
President Obama, 80%.
Do you feel that the black vote is taken for granted by Democrats?
Often?
Often, yes.
We sometimes way have a voice, but it's not heard a sentiment echoed throughout the county.
Black borders needs to be heard.
They need to be recognized.
They need to be respected right now.
With this election, did Bianca Germano every boat they can get a neighbor.
They haven't done anything taken for granted, you know, But we have a lot to offer.
We have a lot to offer.
As the population of the country becomes more diverse, Republicans are increasing their outreach.
Just this week, the Trump Campaign announced its planning to open 15 community centers in urban cities in critical battleground states next month aimed at boosting African American support.
Heading into the 2020 election president, it is quite a different kind of person someone you would ever vote for.
Is it unheard of in this county?
Do you think for the people might vote for President Trump?
Oh, yeah.
There are a lot of people that will vote for him.
Some residents worn There's a danger to feeling ignored.
People don't realize that our vote matter, and sometimes it resonates into some of the citizens.
You know, they'll say, Well, they don't listen to us.
So why should I even vote?
Because the things that we ask for never come our way, so eventually they just give up.
I live it personally.
My sister says that she's not gonna vote because she doesn't feel like it's going to impact anything one way or another, one way or the other.
I'm disappointed in them because our history says that we're not people that give up way fight, but what we won't.
And that's exactly what many here are doing now.
Fighting for their future.
This was a historical area here.
Lottie's trying to lead Alan Dale's revitalisation with the slogan Forward Alan Damn!
My parents loved this town, and they worked very hard here to make these better.
So e what would you say to presidential candidates to politicians in general, too, Lure them to attract them.
To come to Alan Dale.
I would say that they really need to come and see the grass root of the people that literally make up America in this deep red state.
This reliably blue county is waiting for an investment in its voters, an investment in this community.
I'm just glad that somebody cares about what we think.
Thank you so much for coming.
President Trump announced today in a tweet that he is nominating Texas Congressman John Radcliffe as the director of national intelligence.
Radcliffe is a staunch supporter of the president and could be seen as a risky choice.
He was pulled from the nomination process last summer because of misrepresentations on his resume that gave him national security experience he did not actually have and a legal victory for the president.
In a Tube one ruling, a panel of federal appeals court judges ordered the dismissal of House Democrats complaint against former White House counsel Don McCann.
Democrats had filed the case seeking testimony from began.
This ruling means that he will not have to appear before a congressional committee the Justice Department on the president's behalf had argued that the constitution forbids courts from dissolving into branch information.
Disputes on the judges wrote, in their opinion, dismissing the case that they agree the U.
S and the Taliban are set to sign a historic agreement this weekend.
This new deal, which would see US troops start to withdraw from Afghanistan, comes on the heels of a weeklong agreement to reduce violence between the country's secretary of state.
Mike Pompeo is headed to Dojo, where the U.
S.
And the Taliban have been in talks for more than a year and 1/2 and where the signing is expected to take place.
Blizzard conditions and freezing cold temperatures continue in a large part of the country.
NEW YORK Still dealing with the biggest snow of the season, the city of Watertown could see as much as four feet When all is said and done and check this out.
White out conditions in Vermont is temperatures there slip into the single digits.
To top it all off, a new storm will soon move through.
The west comes ABC senior meteorologist Rob Marciano is tracking it all rights to the latest Rob Hey, good evening, Lindsay.
The Eastern U.
S.
Certainly wrapping up this month on a cold note.
Thes relentless winds beginning to back off.
But the snows continue across the Great Lakes area, and the cold is going to stick around as well.
Radar showing the streamers still coming off those ice free lakes could see another 6 to 12 inches on top of the one the three feet that's already fallen especially north of Syracuse, and you can see some of that moisture wrapping around farther to the South as well in the morning's gonna be pretty chilly.
Temperatures will feel like four below and Green Bay seven in Chicago, Detroit and right around 20 degrees in New York and D.
C and cold sticks around while a bit of a warm up on Sunday.
But while this is going on, we got another system that's dropping into the northwest tomorrow.
Then Sunday gets down into Southern California.
Then it gets into the mountains.
It'll dump wanted to feed in the mountains, but dead energy will get into the Plains and will likely fire Cem, potentially damaging severe storms.
Come Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
Lindsey, our thanks to Rob.
And when we come back, listen up all you leaping your babies.
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On Lee, celebrate your birthday every four years act, I guess.
Take a live look now at former vice president Biden holding a rally in Spartanburg, South Carolina, taking questions from voters ahead of the primary tomorrow, his campaign hoping to get a big boost from that state.
So tomorrow, as many of you may know, is a very special day for a select few who only get to celebrate their actual birthday every four years.
Two young sisters in New Jersey plan to mark the occasion, and they recently caught up with the doctor who delivered them.
He's also a leap year baby.
Becca Hendrickson from our Philadelphia powerhouse station.
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I has the story.
Second grader Chloe Davidson has high hopes for her birthday.
After all, it comes around only once every four years.
How are you gonna be this weekend?
Two years old.
You look two years old.
She is a leap year baby.
One who hopes she can somehow top what she got as a present for her first official birthday.
Uh, a little sister named Joel.
And if you're wondering, Mom and Dad did plan this, but the best they could, we actually did.
I was like, so excited.
Our duty for the 1st 1 was on February 25th and I was going to Dr Grossman, and he's like, Maybe your baby will be born on my birthday.
Thank you.
Happy Birthday.
This is Dr Grossman, the one who delivered both girls at virtue of war.
He's hospital.
It's my 12th die like 12.
What's believe it or not?
He's a leap your baby to sort of a fun thing to share with people.
It's almost like if everyone's from the same hometown, you feel a little bond, even though y