GOP Whip Steve Scalise also spoke with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett about impeachment and the 2020 presidential election. Source

The coronavirus crisis is growing as more cruise ships are quarantined over infection fears. One in Japan now has 61 confirmed cases, including nine Americans. On Friday morning, a ship came into port just outside of New York City in Bayonne, New Jersey with at least a dozen passengers showing coronavirus symptoms. Ramy Inocencio is in Hong Kong where he heard from some quarantined passengers. Source

Tornadoes stomp across the South and flooding is expected after heavy rains sweep across the Atlantic seaboard. Also, more Americans test positive for coronavirus on a quarantined cruise ship currently docked in Japan. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Source

At least four people have died after a weather system left a path of destruction across the South. The front damaged homes, toppled power lines and spawned tornadoes. Roughly 55 million Americans from Mississippi to Maine are under winter weather alerts on Friday. Janet Shamlian reports on the damage from South Carolina where a possible tornado touched down. Source

The dogs showed aggression toward responding police officers, who shot and killed both. Source

A law was passed in Puerto Rico to prohibit the deposit and disposal of coal ash on the island. Source

Chinese version of WhatsApp crashed after millions of users tried to get work done during the coronavirus lockdown. Source

China continues to bristle at other nations’ response to the outbreak as anger mounts inside the country over the government’s handling of it. Source

Richard Spencer was fired as Navy secretary last year over his objection to the president’s intervention in the internal review of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher. Source

Prosecutors say Patrick Crusius killed 22 people and wounded 23 more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the Texas border city in August Source