It'll all go away soon. That's not really a plan though. The lead starts right now.

Confident in public unloading in private President Trump trying to convince the U.S. that he and his administration are doing enough

to contain the novel coronavirus as critics suggest he's asleep at the wheel and the virus

spreads.

It's Bernie versus the bunch of critical debate tonight, the last chance for

Democratic candidates to knock down front runner of Senator Sanders before a

major chunk of the country has its say on Super Tuesday. Plus, as President Trump tries to weed out

perceived disloyalty inside the Trump administration, he is also ripping

liberal-leaning justices on the Supreme Court suggesting they too should get out of his way.

This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper and we're going to start with breaking news in the

money lead today for a second day in a row you hear the bell the Dow is taking a

dramatic hit down almost 900 points more than 800 investors rattled by the steady

spread of the novel coronavirus and fears that health officials around the

world including here in the US are unprepared.

Let's go straight to CNN's Allison Kossick.

She's at the New York Stock Exchange.

Allison, this was supposed to be turnaround Tuesday after meltdown Monday,

but it looks as though investors are still quite spooked

they certainly are and we could be stuck in this downward trend at least for a little

while longer

all the major indices are very close to a correction and that's a 10% drop from a recent high.

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