::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

The U.S. State Department has issued its highest travel advisory banning travel to China in light of the person-to-person spread of the Coronavirus. The new case of the spread in the U.S. being directly spread to another person caused a higher level of concern. The World Health Organization has declared China is under a global health emergency. The death toll form the outbreak is 213 and more than 9,709 cases are confirmed worldwide. Flights have been stopped both to and from mainland China. TRAVEL ADVISORY "Do not travel to China due to novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. On January 30, the World Health Organization has determined the rapidly spreading outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Travelers should be prepared for travel restrictions to be put into effect with little or no advance notice.  Commercial carriers have reduced or suspended routes to and from China. Those currently in China should consider depart...

buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin The word around Washington is that the Trump Administration has allegedly been sending signals to  Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to resign. It had been strongly rumored that Kennedy, the swing voter of the High Court, would retire at the end of the current term. Kennedy, 80, put those rumors to rest late last year saying he was not retiring. This means that the  stay on the Travel Ban Executive Order that is currently being challenged in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, should it meet its potential end in the Supreme Court, could get Kennedy's vote and break the probable tie. The four liberal judges would likely support cancelling the ban and the four conservatives would vote to keep it leaving the call in Kennedy's hands who could vote either way, but likely to vote against it. That's one of the considerations for now. The installment of "universally" accepted Neil Gorsuch to the High Court was to be the s...