In other news, the CDC has confirmed a second case of the Wuhan coronavirus in the U.S. and is investigating other possible cases.
Meanwhile, China has locked down and imposed travel restrictions on about 33 million people to contain the virus.
Transportation was shut down Friday in Wuhan and least 13 surrounding cities in Hubei province, with a combined population of more than 33 million people, according to a report in the state-run Global Times newspaper. At least three cities were on total lockdown as of Friday evening.
Health authorities are also on high alert across the world with confirmed cases in at least seven countries and several others undergoing tests.
Finally, a Saudi critic of MBS living in the U.S. and unnamed government officials say they may have thwarted a plot to kidnap him and take him out of the U.S.
A suspected agent of the Saudi government attempted to kidnap a regime critic on American soil, according to the critic and multiple U.S. and foreign sources familiar with the episode. The young Saudi man says the FBI saved him from becoming the next Jamal Khashoggi.
Abdulrahman Almutairi is a 27-year-old comedian and former student at the University of San Diego with a big social-media presence. After Almutairi used social media to criticize the powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman over the October 2018 murder and dismemberment of Washington Post contributor Khashoggi, an unidentified Saudi man accompanied Almutairi’s father on a flight to collect Almutairi against his will and bring him back to Saudi Arabia, according to The Daily Beast’s sources.