Good evening. It has been a difficult week to say the least in the worldwide struggle

to contain the coronavirus outbreak and it looks like it will get rougher still.

Contrary to the President's notion last night, the cases of Americans infected with the

virus might dwindle to zero within days. The number of cases here is growing with a new

patient, number 63 reported today in California. Now, it's particularly significant because

this patient is also the second American infected and no one knows why. Two Americans now

with an infection of unknown origin, which suggests the virus may now be spreading in the community.

It is that community spread on a global level, a newly infected person infecting another person

and another, which is having such a chilling effect around the world. Restaurants in Shanghai

closed or taking your temperature before you're allowed to enter neighborhoods on lockdown.

Global travel and commerce is beginning to slow. Markets continue falling and although

federal agencies today began showing signs of responding better in the face of it,

at the very highest levels of government, something else was not happening, which is where we

begin tonight with the all hands on deck response that hasn't happened. President Trump is at a

rally tonight in Charleston, South Carolina. And sure, you might say that's just because the primary

there is tomorrow, except there isn't a Republican primary in South Carolina at all. And when asked,

as he left for the airport this evening, how much time he was spending on the crisis, here's

what the president had to say before boarding the chopper to take him elsewhere.

Well, I'm spending a lot of time on a just in coordination. Mike Pence is doing a great job.

Dr. Fauci is great. They're all doing really offensive. Alex Azar is right on top of it.

We're all watching it very closely. We don't want any bad surprises.

Now, perhaps you're thinking, well, the president is just taking a well-earned break from a

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