We begin tonight with breaking news about the Corona varmints late today, a stunning announcement Lockdowns plan for more than 10 million people in Italy as a disease spreads here in the U.

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States of emergency coast to coast in California.

Questions about where this cruise ship will go with Corona virus patients on board and word of another cruise ship the government is now tracking in Washington state.

New fears as nursing homes Are it hard it's disrupting travel a CZ well and track now making a major change and the government's mixed messages on those testing kits.

Will there be enough?

We have it all covered and begin in San Francisco with Steve Patterson and the latest on that quarantined crucial Tonight, more than 3500 passengers on the Grand Princess wondering what's next.

The vice president today saying the ship will dock at a non commercial port.

New quarantining standards will be coordinated with the CDC for all ships.

21 people onboard were found positive with the Corona virus, including 19 crew members.

The U.

S Coast guard delivered kits last week, but so far only 45 people have been tested visible uncertainly that have we been exposed to, you know, do we have it?

Overnight Cruise forced to remove a sick passenger transported off the ship by the Coast Guard, the cruise line releasing a statement saying the illness was not related to Corona virus.

It's just the not knowing the knock is the scariest part.

Even John Weisberger, stuck on board, have filed a lawsuit against the cruise liner.

The couple worried about the virus because of their age and Ron's heart condition.

I know I'm gonna run off medication by Wednesday, and it's hard medication that's really dangerous.

The U.

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Death toll rising to at least 19 impacting both coasts.

After two deaths reported in Florida, there are now over 400 positive cases across the country.

The epicenter Washington State, with more than 100 confirmed cases.

At least 16 deaths to new nursing homes in Seattle announced positive patients after a week of misery at the life care center in Kirkland.

It's been a very trying time for everybody involved here.

Meanwhile, the economy suffering in Seattle, some hotel bookings down 50%.

We started to receive phone calls and it's hitting our employees.

It's hitting are our business and Amtrak today announcing its canceling nonstop service from New York to Washington because of falling demand.

And see, the vice president says they're tracking another ship that may have shared a crew.

What are they worried about?

Yeah, the vice president confirmed this.

Today they are tracking another ship that may have shared a crew member with either the Grand Princess or the Diamond Princess.

And they're so they're worried about replicating the same situation that we have off the coast of San Francisco right now.

No additional details on that ship except to say that they want to test every crew member onboard.

Jose Steve Patterson in San Francisco.

Thank you.

Tonight, President Trump's Corona Virus Task Force is making changes that will impact the hard hit cruise industry house.

Nichols is traveling with the president and reports from Florida Tonight Vice President Pence, leading the White House's public response to Corona virus, calling for new standards from the cruise line industry or enhance entry and exit screening and also to establish shipboard testing for the Corona virus.

New quarantining standards will be coordinated with the CDC for all ships, and he urged the elderly and the infirm to stay off cruises, that this would be a good time to practice common sense on to avoid activities including traveling on a cruise line.

Pence traveling to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, an hour away from President Trump, who spent the morning at his golf club after his visit to the CDC in Atlanta yesterday, where he asked Americans to remain calm and insisted that there were enough tests for the virus Anybody.

But at a White House briefing today, Secretary Alex Days are forced to clarify the president's remarks, calling it shorthand, adding that what he meant to say is that you need a doctor's order for a test.

As he confronts the biggest health prices of his presidency, Trump ousting his chief of staff, calling on Congressman Mark Meadows to replace Mick Mulvaney.

Meadows, Long a front row member of Team Trump, was a fierce defender of the president on impeachment and will go on offense to help him win a second term.

I mean, you know, all the sudden what we have is the strict constitutionalists on the other side of the aisle.

Listen, this has nothing to do with the Constitution.

It has nothing to do with anything but raw politics.

Honza one.

Can American expect these new standards from the cruise line?

Well tonight, Penn said that he expects the industry to develop those new standards over the next 72 hours.

He also added that he hasn't been tested himself for the Corona virus.

Jose Hans Nichols in West Palm Beach, Florida Thank you.

The impact of Corona virus around the world is becoming more dire tonight.

Italy's government is preparing to lock down more than 10 million people to keep the disease from spreading.

Bill Neely reports from Milan, one of the areas that will be impacted by this planned locked out.

Italy has seen nothing like this.

Hospital's overwhelmed deaths rising fast with hundreds of new infections and dozens of new deaths every day.

Italy has not replaced China as the epicenter health experts are most worried about.

The scientist who identified the Italian strain says they're fighting a fast moving enemy.

Viruses are always changing, so each strain of the virus is changing all the time.

I think so that we are facing aerial emergency on tonight.

Emergency measures the Italian government preparing to lock down a region of 10 million people, including Milan, Italy's business center, where the streets were quiet today, no one would be allowed to leave or enter for weeks.

Pope Francis, who was coughing earlier this week with a cold, will lead Sunday prayers tomorrow not from this balcony but by video link.

At a U.

S military base in Naples, a junior officer became the first U.

S servicemen in Europe to test positive for the virus.

Across the world are non more than 105,000 cases of the virus in a least 95 countries with more than 3500 deaths in China.

Dozens of people who have been quarantined at a hotel were buried when the building collapsed.

More than 30 including Children, were pulled up, with scores air still trapped.

It's a global battle against a virus spreading fast building the NBC News Milan And while we're still learning about the Corona virus, want to give you some important context.

So far we know a fewer than two dozen deaths from Corona virus in the U.

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By comparison, between 12 and 60,000 Americans die of the flu in an average year.

The big concern there's no vaccine yet.

Also, it may be easier to catch and appears to be especially dangerous for the elderly and anyone with underlying medical conditions.

However, current estimates note about 80% of people who get it will not need to go to the hospital.