6:00 P.M..

JEFF: BREAKING NEWS AT LAX WHERE

THE FEDS ARE ABOUT TO START

SCREENING PASSENGERS FOR SIGNS

OF A MYSTERIOUS AND DEADLY NEW

VIRUS COULD CBS 2'S CRISTY

FAJARDO HE -- CRISTY FAJARDO

FLIGHT AT THE AIRPORT OR THE

VIRUS ITSELF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW

ABOUT IT AND HOW WILL THEY BE

SCREENING FORT?

REPORT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO

SEVERAL THINGS.

FIRST OF ALL THEY WILL BRING IN

EXPERTS FROM THE CDC AND

TOMORROW AT LAX.

OFFICIALS WILL ONLY BE SCREENING

PEOPLE WHO HAVE TRAVELED THE

PROVINCE IN CHINA AND WHERE THE

DISEASE HAS KILLED TWO PEOPLE.

COMMON SYMPTOMS OF THE

CORONAVIRUS INCLUDE FEVER COUGH

AND DIFFICULTY BREATHING AT ALL

PASSENGERS WHO TRAVELED THERE

WILL BE SCREENED BY A CDC HEALTH

MONITOR WHO WILL ASK THEM

QUESTIONS AND WILL TAKE THEIR

TEMPERATURE.

IF THEY DON'T SHOW SIGNS OF

BEING SICK THEY WILL BE GIVEN

INFORMATION ON WHAT TO LOOK OUT

FOR AND WHAT TO DO IF THEY START

SHOWING SYMPTOMS.

THOSE WHO DO SHOW SIGNS WILL BE

TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR

FURTHER ASSESSMENT AND ISOLATED.

OFFICIALS MAY EXTEND SCREENINGS

TO OTHER AREAS OF THE OUTBREAK

SPREADS AND THERE'VE BEEN CASES

IN THAILAND AND JAPAN.

OFFICIALS HERE WANT TO KEEP IT

FROM REACHING OUR SHORES.

BACK OUT HERE LIVE AT LAX

SCREENINGS WILL START IN OUR JFK

AND TOMORROW AT SFO.

THE CDC IS SENDING A 100 EXPERTS

TO THE AIRPORTS.

THEY DECIDED TO DO SCREENINGS

THERE BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE

OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF