- If you're gonna practicesocial distancing,

here at the airport might bethe best place to be right now

because, as you can see,this place is as ghost town.

There are a few flights still leaving

from here in Reno, Nevada where I am

but there are very fewpeople on those flights,

and many of them are being canceled.

Also, as you can see, the stores and shops

inside the airport are mostly are closed

that's just because there'snobody around to buy anything.

Those employees who are still here

to keep the airportrunning are very grateful,

the ones that I've talked to,

that they can still come to work.

But that might not last very much longer.

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- My quick flight over theSierra Mountains left on time

but with very few people on board,

and as we descended into San Francisco

it was clear that normallybusy freeways are now

almost devoid of traffic.

The airlines are losing tens of millions

of dollars every day asthis shut down continues.

For example, I justlanded in San Francisco

and the aircraft I was on had 76 seats

but only nine passengers,and five of those

were United employees thatwere repositioning aircraft

or trying to get home beforethey had more shutdowns.

The real question ishow long can this go on

because if it doesn'thave a near end date,

it may be the deathknell for some airlines.

I made my flight to Panamaand it's pretty full.

The president of Panama has said that

they're completely shuttingoff all air travel in

and out of the countrystarting on Sunday at midnight.

So I think everybody thatneeds to be in Panama is trying

to get back there as soon as they can.

So I made it back to Panamawithin about 24 hours

of them shutting down thisairport for the next 30 days.

And there are, obviously,a lot of people trying

to get in and trying to getout before that happens.

This is definitelyunprecedented in Panama.

As far as I know, it'snever happened before.

I don't even think the airport was closed

for 30 days during the invasion of Panama.

As the number of confirmed cases

of the coronavirus risesabove 250 in this country,

Panama is hoping to contain the outbreak

by declaring a nationwide shutdown for the next 30 days.

Chuck Holton, CBN News,in quarantine in Panama.