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There are now more than 1000 cases in 38 states.

Among the latest three TSA workers at a California airport tested positive.

In the meantime, a mile wide containment zone will be created around a large cluster of cases, the largest cluster in the country.

It's happening in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, the National Guard has been called it.

Drastic steps could also be taken in the Seattle area today, where a ban of crowds of 250 people, or Maur, that's expected to be announced.

The outbreak is also impacting the presidential race.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders canceled their overnight rallies in Ohio.

Their next debate, which is for later this week, will not have an audience.

By the way, we're gonna get to the primaries results from yesterday just ahead.

But we have a lot to cover on this Corona virus stand story, including our live interview with New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo.

That's coming up soon, but we'll begin our in depth coverage with NBC's Tom Costello.

He's in Baltimore, inside the Incident Command Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Tom, Good morning to you Good morning, Savannah.

So they are right here coordinating how the entire system within Johns Hopkins the entire medical system responds to the Corona virus outbreak.

Do they have enough staff on hand enough equipment in a protective equipment for all of their personnel?

What happens if somebody who's on staff, a nurse or a doctor comes down with the virus?

How do they help isolate that person back?

That's what they're involved in here around the clock.

This is really the definitive world word, rather that the entire world is using the Johns Hopkins Global Case by case counter.

And, as you mentioned, 1000 known cases in the United States right now, known cases importantly, experts believe there are farm or than 1000 cases.

Right now, the vast majority people who have been sick simply haven't presented to a health clinic or haven't been tested.

Meanwhile, New York taking a major step towards stopping the spread of the virus this morning, emergency measures in New York, the state's governor deploying the National Guard to New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in an effort to contain a Corona virus outbreak there, residents within a one mile radius required to stay within the area for a two week period.

It is a dramatic action, but it is the largest cluster in the country, and this is literally a matter of life and death.

As new cases spread nationwide, health officials are warning all Americans to be prepared.

You have to start taking seriously what you can do now that if and when the infections will come and they will come.

Earlier, President Trump appeared to contradict that, downplaying the threat.

We're prepared and we're doing a great job with it and it will go away.

But in Washington state, where the most deaths have occurred, the governor is warning.

Without action, things could rapidly escalate in seven or eight weeks, there could be 64,000 people infected in the state of Washington if we don't somehow slow down this epidemic and the next week could be 100 and 20,000 and the next week could be 1/4 1,000,000.

Meanwhile, in California, passengers are still slowly disembarking.

The Grand Princess Cruise ship, then traveling by plane and by bus to military bases, where they'll be held in quarantine for two weeks.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders both canceled primary night rallies in Ohio the Sunday they'll square off in the first debate in the 2020 cycle without an audience on the education front, a growing number of school districts are closed for several weeks while many major universities are suspending in person classes.

Harvard among the latest telling students to pack up their dorms and head home.

I live in California, so I have to figure out how to get my things in storage.

And just across the river in Boston, all eyes are on the city's world famous marathon next month.

New York City has already called off its half marathon that was supposed to take place Sunday.

Ivy League schools have canceled all of their men and women's basketball tournaments, but for now, the double is still plenty to allow fans to attend March Madness games, the fear over the disease even hitting the food industry.

MGM resorts temporarily closing buffets and restaurants across Las Vegas.

And Ben and Jerry's postponing their popular free Cone Day for the first time in 40 years.

Last person and Pence says that all 50 states now have test kits, and by the end of the week, he says, there will be four million test kits that are out there.

By the way, a biotech conference, a recent conference in Boston, is proving to be the epicenter of the Massachusetts outbreak.

They've had 70 cases in Massachusetts linked to that conference.

And then people left that conference and they dispersed to other states.

So you could see how quickly this is spread just out of normal, everyday conference guys back to you.

It makes that very clear what officials are trying to prevent.

We're gonna focus now on that situation right here in New York, a one mile containment zone in the suburb of New Rochelle with the National Guard called, and we're gonna talk about it with Doctor with the governor, Andrew Cuomo in just a moment.

But first and B, she's Morgan Radford is in New Rochelle for us.

There's a sense of fear and confusion and uncertainty.

This morning in New Rochelle of people braced for a virtual lock down because this has now become the epicenter of the Corona virus outbreak.

108 confirmed cases here, and that's more than double the number of cases in New York City and the largest cluster of cases and the entire country.

That's why just a few blocks from where I'm standing now, they set up a containment zone, and that's an area of about one mile and radius.

Were any large scale meeting Places like schools, churches, synagogues, community centers will be shut down for two weeks starting tomorrow.

And the number of these cases really stemmed from interaction with one man, a lawyer in his fifties who became symptomatic last month.

And then that virus very quickly spread to his friends, his family members, his colleagues at work, even people who attended his synagogue.

That's why the National Guard has been called in here to New Rochelle to really clean those surface areas and schools and to help deliver food to people who are in that quarantine zone.

As people here in New Rochelle brace for that lock down starting tomorrow.

I Let's turn to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who joins us live Governor.

As I understand it, it's not No one in no one out, not checkpoints.

New York City is 100 times the size of New Rochelle.

Okay, so New Rochelle is the hottest spot, if you will in the country the most dense cluster Onda.

As you hear from all the experts now we have to take action.

This is not going to stop spreading on its own.

Not in China, not in Korea, not in Hong Kong.

We are going to determine our fate, and we're going to have to take actions are action in New Rochelle is just no large gatherings.

There's no limitation on movement but no large gatherings because the large gatherings are where it spreads.

So if you have a high concentration of people, no large gathers beyond newer shell.