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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

And today is Monday, March 2nd.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, health officials in Washington State said Sunday night that a second person had died from the coronavirus in the United States.

Researchers said the virus may have been circulating for weeks undetected in the greater Seattle area.

In a statement, public health Seattle and King County said that a man in his 70s died Saturday.

On Friday, health officials said a man in his 50s died of coronavirus.

Both had underlying health conditions and both were being treated at the hospital in Kirkland, Washington,

east of Seattle. Washington State now has 12 confirmed cases. State and local authorities stepped up

testing for the illness as a number of new cases grew nationwide with new infections announced

in California, Illinois, Rhode Island, New York, and Washington

State. The first U.S. case was a Washington state man who had visited China where the virus first

emerged, but several recent cases in the U.S. had no known connection to travelers. In California,

two health care workers in the San Francisco Bay Area who cared for an earlier coronavirus

patient were diagnosed with the virus on Sunday. A protest took place on Sunday in South

Philadelphia opposing the establishment of supervised injection sites for drug addicts in the city.

The protests came after a week-long debate over the controversial topic. On Tuesday,

Safehouse was given the green light by a federal judge to open a safe injection site in South Philadelphia. On Wednesday, safe house officials were met with

outraged community members during an announcement of the plan. By Thursday, the entire plan

crumbled after the lease was canceled at the planned site located at the Constitution Health

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