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  • good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on this Tuesday night.

  • And we begin with the Corona virus emergency tonight, the first containment zone here in America.

  • The New York governor imposing restrictions on a community just outside New York City linked to the largest cluster of cases in the country, calling it a matter of life and death.

  • The containment zone.

  • Shutting down schools and major gathering places within a one mile radius in the New York suburb of New Rochelle.

  • At the center of his own.

  • This synagogue, where dozens were exposed by a lawyer who remains in critical condition.

  • Tonight, his wife now sharing her husband's struggle to find out that he was sick with the current of Iris.

  • She says it took days for him to be tested after asking doctors at the hospital what was wrong with him Tonight.

  • Across this country, there are at least 808 confirmed cases in 37 states and the District of Columbia, and 29 people have now died.

  • Tomb or just today, A B C's with Johnson leads us off tonight with the race to stop the spread to save lives in the battle over getting tests to everyone that should have them with the National Guard now moving in in that community will lead us off tonight.

  • NEW YORK Ordering the first containment zone in the U.

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  • With the number of infections in the state soaring to at least 173 the governor sending the National Guard to New Rochelle, a suburban hot spot north of Manhattan, it is a dramatic action.

  • This is literally a matter of life and death.

  • That zone of containment, consisting of a one mile radius around the young Israel Synagogue, where dozens of people were exposed by that infected attorney schools and buildings that hold large gatherings will shut down for two weeks.

  • Most businesses and grocery stores will remain open.

  • People will be allowed to enter and leave.

  • You're not containing people, its facilities.

  • The wife of Lawrence Gar Booze, that attorney who was the first in the area to get the virus, releasing a statement saying, As many have asked, of course, he went to the doctor and did so many times.

  • No one figured it out, and it even took the hospital days to figure it out.

  • This was all new, adding, Please pray for those who are positive who have had high fevers and suffered from this.

  • Among the new cases statewide to school bus drivers testing positive, officials say they're now notifying parents they transport between them approximately 80 students on various on several routes.

  • A Barclays employee who worked on their trading floor contracting the virus.

  • Today neighboring New Jersey, reporting its first death.

  • A 69 year old man with underlying medical conditions.

  • That state is also where 32 year old physician's assistant, James Chi, is hospitalized.

  • Chi describing himself as previously healthy.

  • But the virus is taking a heavy toll.

  • Half long.

  • Is they pneumonia?

  • Not working all they had, So I don't know how, how much longer I have thing spread.

  • Leading dozens of schools and colleges to suspend in person classes, including Amherst, San Francisco State and Ohio State University.

  • Today, Harvard, announcing it will begin transitioning toe online instruction just outside Dallas.

  • Ah, father, his wife and three year old have tested positive.

  • The three year old gives us a little more concern than then.

  • You know, the father who's healthy and his late thirties, but But we're praying for a quick recovery there to a man in his thirties in Anoka County, Minnesota, reportedly sought medical care on March 3rd.

  • He was evaluated and released tonight in critical condition after being diagnosed with the virus Cove in 19 delivering a massive blow to the airline industry.

  • Delta, announcing it will reduce its number of domestic flights by up to 15% United 10% and American seven and 1/2 and tracked temporarily suspending several nonstop trains between New York and D.

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  • Our Geo Benitez on the rails It's usually tough to find an empty seat on the Amtrak Acela between New York and D.

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  • Not today.

  • Just take a look.

  • Seat after seat is empty tonight.

  • Frustration reaching a boiling point over testing.

  • This is what vice President Pence pledged last week.

  • By the weekend, another 1,000,000 tests will be shipped around the country.

  • But tonight 6600 tests conducted nationwide Pennsylvania has done just seven tests.

  • Massachusetts declaring a state of emergency.

  • I know you're hearing from a lot of doctors with tonight who are concerned about not having the tests.

  • They say they need to test some of these patients presenting with severe symptoms.

  • Here's what the vice president said fromthe White House just moments ago on those tests.

  • By the end of this week, there will be more than four million more tests made available in jurisdictions around the country.

  • One million are already in place.

  • Vice president being pressed on all of those concerns here Hearing about from doctors on the front lines.

  • That's right, David.

  • Many local governments are repeatedly complaining about backlogs and red tape.

  • In fact, tonight we spoke to one doctor who says he has multiple patients who are showing possible symptoms and he still can't get them tested.

  • Hi, everyone.

  • George Stephanopoulos here.

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