We just attended a very important task force meeting on the virus with the markets in freefall.

President Trump tonight promising help for Americans worried about the economic impact of the Corona viruses, discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief Substantial.

Really very substantial relief.

That's a big That's a big number.

Uh, we're also going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting, uh, help so that they can be in a position where than I could ever miss a paycheck.

White House saying it's hearing what Americans are saying, that they are worried about their paychecks and bills.

If the Corona virus outbreaks get any worse, the president says he will work with Congress to come up with the solution so that they don't get penalized for something that's not their fault.

It's not, Therefore, it's not our country's fault.

THEA announcement comes as Wall Street Crater today, the Dow Jones plunging more than 2000 points, worst day since 2008.

The big overarching theme right now is the Corona virus and the uncertainty surrounding it.

If people are genuinely concerned about their retirement account, the most important thing to Dio is to speak to your financial advisor, and if you are 20 or 30 or 40 years old right now and you're learning about this, remember the time that you have on your side.

You have 2030 40 years until you plan to retire.

Theo Hardest hit industry so far travel four airlines alone.

The real impact could be more than $100 billion in lost sales.

The effect of this virus is very broad, based on doing a lot of damage to the broader economy.

If we're going into recession were probably there now probably started this month.

What tends to happen in recessions is that people and businesses stop spending money on the economy, completely, slows down and stalls out.

And getting the economy back is a very tricky thing to dio cases of Corona virus spiking in the US over the weekend.

There are now more than 700 cases of Cove in 19 in at least 36 states.

At least 26 people have died.

Also developing tonight at least three new deaths reported in Washington state that nursing home crisis there.

Most of the deaths in the state of Washington at the life care nursing home.

We've had patients who within an hour's time, show no symptoms to going to acute symptoms and being transferred to the hospital, and we've had patients die relatively quickly, the home spokesman, saying the facility still does not have enough tests.

We still are not testing our employees inside.

We don't have test kits to do that.

The administration, now promising to roll out new tests, saying there could be as many as five million available by the end of this week.

But the outbreak is quickly spreading.

Now nipping at Capitol Hill, five members of Congress are now in self isolation after coming into contact with an infected person.

Two of those lawmakers also came in direct contact with the president.

In recent days, I have not been tested for Theo, the White House saying the president isn't personally worried about getting the virus, but several more states declaring emergencies.

In New Jersey, 32 year old physician's assistant James Chi said he tested positive for the virus last week.

He says the symptoms began after attending a medical conference in New York City that starts will call on that fever shoulders for us so I went to the urgent care, and in the beginning, you don't think I have anything because Carl's job I was studying show X, ray warns.

Others, not underestimate the virus.

Half a mile long is already the pneumonia not working?

No, they had, So I don't know how, how much longer I have to keep my long courting.

They are surprised you can't be that bad so quickly on dime so young.

I don't give a new images tonight in the search for answers.

Our station in Pittsburgh getting access inside this bio safety lab, one of a select few where researchers are working with the actual Corona virus racing to find vaccine the first step and determining hard to stop of ours growing is, paradoxically to grow what they expected to take a year to develop a treatment in the state of New York.

Officials are dealing with largest Corona virus outbreak in the country.

At least 100 and 40 cases have been reported in the state.

This is the hot spot, uh, one of the hot spots national result of the New York outbreak, a mass of closures, school districts in the area, telling kids to stay home nearby, Hofstra and Columbia University's canceling all of their classes for the remainder of the week.

Thousands of people have been asked to self quarantine in New York, officials reminding Americans at the most vulnerable are the elderly who need the most protection.

If you love your grandchildren, for example, you don't want to go see your grandchildren if they happen to be sick, even with a common cold across the country In California, the Grand Princess finally pulling into port in Oakland, the ship, greeted by a 10 acre triage complex of tents and buses ready to start moving the 2400 passengers to quarantine facilities across the country, have now arrived in Oakland.

First, individuals have begun todo first off the passengers and crew who tested positive for the virus.

Canadian tourists and those from California process there after luggage being loaded onto you holes.

But it's a slow process.

Priority disembarkation today will be given to guests with medical needs as directed by our medical health.

Officials are concerned these floating cities could be prime breeding grounds for the virus they're packed with.

Passengers have shared spaces and little escape.

It's been kind of scary.

It's been crazy.

ASHA Burgess and her boyfriend role in the Grand Princess with his parents.

His parents are much older than that's.

Obviously, they're in their late seventies early eighties.

His mom is not in the best of health all the time, like she's not sick, you know, but she's susceptible.

OSHA says.

The quarantine has been especially hard on the crew.

The crew are probably terrified, too, because they're the most infected on the boat.

So it's terrible that they have to keep running around and bringing food, bringing towels.

We've sat on hold for toilet paper, but, uh, the other day for almost two hours, and then we didn't get it and sell like four hours after we've been sitting on hold.

The Grand Princess has been circling off San Francisco for five days.

Of the 3500 passengers and crew on board, 21 have tested positive 19 crew members and two guests.

But not everyone has been tested, and if we've been exposed, we've been exposed, and there's not much we can do about it.

Debbie Loft is has been documenting the quarantine.

Many passengers frustrated at what they call a slow decision making.

There are a lot of arrangements that we need to be made, but I'm not gonna worry about that until I know for sure what the situation is.

It's been more than a month since the world watched the debacle of the Diamond Princess Quarantine in Japan.

They're more than 700 people on the ship tested positive for Cove in 19 6 of them died.

Officials worldwide consider the experiment a failure.

And yet, last Friday, President Trump was still in favor of leaving passengers aboard.

Grand Princess.

We're up to May.

I would be inclined to say Leave everybody on the ship for a period of time and you use the ship as your base.

But California Governor Gavin Newsom says the president has agreed with the decision to offload the passengers.

President Trump, I said that he would prefer if none of the passengers aboard these cruises landed on U.

S soil.

Did he mention any of that to you at a private conversation with him?

And he said everything that I could have hoped for and every single thing he said they followed through on.

But even as passengers get off the ship, they're not free.

A handful have already been sent to hospitals for treatment, but everyone else is looking at at least 14 more days in quarantine at one of four U.

S military bases in California or Georgia.

In Texas, patience is growing thin.

I kind of feel like we're floating around the drain, just waiting here to get the virus.

We haven't been tested, We want to be tested properly.

And, ah, we want to make sure that we're safe tonight.

The CDC still holding another cruise ship at sea off the Cayman Islands because two crew members on that ship, the Caribbean Princess, had worked on the Grand Princess and are now being tested.

That's a fun kind of our little our little cage for few days now, almost a week for Nightline.

I'm Matt Gutman in Oakland, California Hi, everyone.

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