A cruise ship with thousands aboard awaits tests results for coronavirus off California
The Daily 202's Big Idea
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🗓️ 6 March 2020
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| 0:00.0 | The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by DXC technology. |
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| 0:10.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Friday March 6th. |
| 0:17.0 | In today's news, Elizabeth Warren's exit from the race ignites a conversation about sexism in politics. |
| 0:24.7 | A federal judge rips into Bill Barr for his misleading summary of the Mueller report. |
| 0:30.9 | And the attorney general is also acting like his own Supreme Court on immigration. |
| 0:37.0 | But first, the big idea. |
| 0:41.0 | Military helicopters delivered testing kits Thursday to a cruise ship being held off the coast of California |
| 0:48.5 | as officials in Washington faced angry questions about whether the vessel is set to become the latest breeding |
| 0:54.5 | ground for the deadly coronavirus. The Grand Princess, which was returning to |
| 1:00.3 | San Francisco after a two-week cruise to Hawaii remained offshore and in |
| 1:04.8 | limbo at the request of California Governor Gavin Newsom. About a hundred people were |
| 1:09.2 | expected to be tested, among them 11 passengers and 10 crew members who have shown potential signs of what's formerly known as COVID 19. |
| 1:18.0 | Even as the military ferried tests to the cruise ship and thousands of passengers waited uneasily on board. |
| 1:25.0 | Public health officials on land were investigating a cluster of coronavirus cases |
| 1:30.0 | among the roughly 2,500 people who had taken an earlier cruise on the same ship. |
| 1:34.8 | One of those passengers, a 71 year old man, has since died. |
| 1:39.4 | As the US death toll rose to 12, The virus spread to new states, including three cases in Montgomery |
| 1:46.9 | County, Maryland, the DC suburbs. Health officials in the Houston area also reported |
| 1:51.7 | two likely cases. These developments caused the stock market to |
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