Presidential Race 2020, All Eyes On Michigan; Severe Restrictions In Italy
ROMANS: All right. Coronavirus affecting more people and more events worldwide. The biggest wild card right now is the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Organizers say they are keeping a close eye on developments. Meantime, Saudi Arabia is suspending schools and universities starting today. Israel is considering quarantines for everyone entering the country which could mean big changes for people planning to travel for Passover next month.</s>JARRETT: France has announced a ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people. Greece also restricting public gatherings announcing that all sporting events will be held behind closed doors. School trips are banned for two weeks and northern Italy has imposed the largest lockdown outside of mainland China. Restricting the movements of nearly 16 million people. CNN's Delia Gallagher is live in Rome. Delia, kit seems like the situation in Italy really just escalated quickly.</s>DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right. Of course, there was a spike in the numbers over the weekend so the government decided to install these new measures which Italians really woke up to and have to sort of scramble to understand what it meant for them. Of course, there's a lockdown in the north but also in the rest of the country. Museums are closed, the coliseum, for example, is closed. All of your social engagements basically for the next few weeks had been suspended. They don't want any major public gatherings in any place throughout the country. People are trying to get used to the recommendation to stay three feet away from each other in public spaces. But as you can imagine, not a lot of people are even going out. And that is affecting, as well, tourism, restaurants, hotel industry. So there is also economic concern for these new regulations. In fact, just a few moments ago we had a statement from the finance ministry saying that they are putting in place some measures to help support workers and those industries that are going to be affected by this temporary economic downturn. But the message from the government here to the Italians is to abide as well as possible by these new regulations which is a huge disruption to their daily lives. Schools are closed as well and people are not sure in some areas whether they can get to work. How are they going to do that? So, for the moment, at least for the next 3.5 weeks, Italians are going to have to change their daily habits in order to help stop the spread of this virus. Laura?</s>JARRETT: All right, Delia. Thank you so much.</s>ROMANS: This could be a make or break week for Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign. Six states vote tomorrow. Senator Sanders stomping in Michigan with a sense of urgency, trying to stop the resurgence of former Vice President Joe Biden. Sanders surprised a lot of people with a win over Hillary Clinton, four years ago in Michigan. He's hoping for a repeat tomorrow following his disappointing Super Tuesday. On CNN, he tapped into the anti-globalization message that helped elect President Trump and he slammed Biden for trade deals he says led to the loss of four million jobs.</s>SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I-VT), U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: In Michigan the people here have been devastated, devastated in Flint and Detroit by these disastrous trade agreements that Joe Biden voted for. He voted for NAFTA. He voted for TNTR with China which forced the American workers to compete against desperate people who are making pennies an hour.</s>JARRETT: Biden now leading in delegates striking a more positive tone.</s>JOE BIDEN, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Presidents have to heal. Presidents cannot hold grudges. Presidents have to bring us together. We must beat Donald Trump and the Republican Party. But we cannot become like them.</s>JARRETT: Biden and Sanders both picked up some big name African- American endorsements over the weekend. Senator Kamala Harris for Biden. Civil Rights leader and a former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson for Sanders. As Democrats start to coalesce around Biden, the Trump campaign is arguing he's just like Sanders. During a call with reporters on Sunday, one official said they are two sides of the same coin. Sources say, Trump is frustrated by Biden's comeback.</s>ROMANS: Twitter says for the first time ever it is labeling a video retweeted by President Trump as manipulated media. The video sent by senior White House aide Dan Scavino and retweeted by the president, misrepresents something Joe Biden said by playing only the first half of it. It had almost six million views by last night and had been retweeted more than 23,000 times. The manipulated media label is part of a new policy Twitter hopes will combat the spread of misleading videos. Twitter said, the label, may not be immediately visible to all users, something is working on. The Biden campaign is hitting Facebook for not taking similar actions calling it a national crisis. We live in a social media era of low information and misinformation that I think is -- something we really never seen before.</s>JARRETT: Well, if you can't even see the label.</s>ROMANS: That's the point. All right. It's going to be another terrible day for investors. These numbers staggering here. Big losses around the world in stocks. Oil prices crashing. Investors rushing into the bond market record levels. CNN Business has a look at markets next.