| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News | |
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| Good Tuesday afternoon. Watch Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie lead our special NBC News Decision 2020 Super Tuesday coverage beginning at 8 p.m. ET. | |
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| Here's what's in our Nightly Rundown tonight. | |
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Death toll rises to 22 after tornado tears through Nashville | |
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| Catie Beck is on the ground tonight in Tennessee, where the death toll has climbed to at least 22 after a monster tornado ripped through Nashville and central parts of the state, and Al Roker is tracking the new weather threat tonight. | |
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- Staggering toll: The National Weather Service said early survey results show the tornado was at least an EF-3 with winds up to 165 mph. The damage is widespread — in Nashville, authorities said at least 48 structures had partially or completely collapsed. Homes were blown apart, roofs were ripped off, and John Tune Airport suffered a direct hit, with planes and hangars left in tangles of twisted metal. The tornado is the deadliest to strike in the U.S. since 23 people were killed in the tornado that hit Lee County, Alabama exactly a year ago on March 3, 2019.
- Primary voting disrupted: Super Tuesday voting began an hour late in Nashville and neighboring Wilson County, after the storm left a number of polling locations damaged and without power. Gov. Bill Lee advised residents to “exercise caution” in areas like downtown Nashville, but added, “We’re going to make it possible for as many folks as we can to vote.”
- Trump to visit: President Trump said today he will travel to Tennessee on Friday. “We send our love and our prayers of the nation to every family that was affected,” Trump said at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference. “We will recover, and we will rebuild, and we will help them.”
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| Trump announces he will visit Nashville after tornado rips through city |
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Biden seeks to stop Sanders in Super Tuesday showdown | |
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| It’s Super Tuesday and there are just a few hours left until the first polls close in the biggest day on the Democratic primary calendar, and our powerhouse political team is fanned out across the country as voters in 14 states cast their ballots. Stay up to date with our NBC News Super Tuesday live blog. | |
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- Biden bounce: Joe Biden is enjoying a surge in the polls after his blowout victory in South Carolina and a wave of endorsements from former rivals Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. FiveThirtyEight’s latest forecast shows Biden is twice as likely as Bernie Sanders to win a plurality of pledged delegates. Biden is now the establishment candidate, consolidating moderate support in a last-ditch effort to stop Sanders, the self-described Democratic socialist. Kristen Welker will be at a Biden rally in California tonight.
- Sanders strong: Sanders is looking to solidify his national frontrunner status, after winning the most pledged delegates from the first four state contests. His campaign is hoping to win enough delegates tonight to make the nomination all but a lock. Sanders is banking big on California, the largest prize on the map tonight with 415 delegates at stake, and where he has held a commanding lead, according to the RealClearPolitics poll average. Kasie Hunt will be an a Sanders event in his home state of Vermont tonight.
- Bloomberg’s first test: After sitting out the first four contests, Michael Bloomberg is on the ballot for the first time this Super Tuesday. The former New York City mayor spent a massive amount on TV and radio ads in the Super Tuesday states: $198.4 million. The next closest was Sanders with $15.7 million. In Florida today, Bloomberg rejected the notion that he’s taking votes away from Biden, and vowed to stay in the race no matter what. Gabe Gutierrez will be at a Bloomberg event tonight in Florida.
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Coronavirus death toll rises to 9 in U.S. | |
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| Three more deaths from coronavirus have been reported in Washington State, raising the death toll around the Seattle area to nine, as the Federal Reserve moved to offset the economic impact from the growing crisis. We’ll have full team coverage tonight. | |
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- New deaths: At least one of the three new deaths involves a person who was admitted to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center last week — but tests did not confirm the case until after the patient died. Hospital officials said the patient was a resident of the same nursing home linked to several other deaths and cases. A Department of Homeland Security office in Seattle has now shut down, after an employee who visited that nursing home began exhibiting flu-like symptoms.
- New cases: New York is reporting its second confirmed case, a 50-year-old man from Westchester County who works in Manhattan, officials said. He is currently hospitalized in serious condition. The patient did not travel to any place on the “watch list” for the virus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, and now authorities are looking at this case as the first instance of “community spread” in New York. A school that one of the patient’s children attends has been shut down, along with at least two others.
- Emergency cut: The Fed announced it’s cutting the benchmark U.S. interest rate by half a percentage point, the largest single reduction since the 2008 financial crisis. The markets, however, reacted negatively, with the Dow dropping nearly 800 points. President Trump, who frequently targets the Fed with attacks, said it must do more. “It is finally time for the Federal Reserve to LEAD. More easing and cutting!” Trump tweeted.
- Mask frenzy: Coronavirus fears have sent demand soaring for face masks — but U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has a reality check. “Surgical masks don’t provide YOU respiratory protection against diseases like Coronavirus,” Adams tweeted. “They protect others from YOUR cough.” Tonight Tom Costello will interview the ICU chief at National Jewish Hospital in Denver, where masks were stolen over the weekend.
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| Dr. Anthony Fauci explains possible timeline for coronavirus vaccine, talks remdesivir medication |
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