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Cough or sneezing, should not be wearing any type of mask. >> yeah, theyre really concerned about this. they want folks who are actually sick to wear the masks instead. and will carr joins us now from outside that hospital tonight. and will, we know some of those hospital workers who came in contact with this patient have also been quarantined? >> reporter: thats right. a number have been asked to self-quarantine, to stay at home, check their own temperatures and report in if they show any sympt...

And we begin tonight with the flurry of pardons and commutations from president trump, who declared today he is the chief law enforcement officer in this country. granting clemency to 11 linois goverd rm blagojevich, who was a one-time contestant on the presidents show, "celebrity apprentice." the president said today that he had seen blagojevichs wife and her pleas on tv. she had repeatedly pleaded for clemency on fox news. also on the list, former new york city police commissioner bernard keri...

And mary, the results still coming in this evening, but tonight, one candidate has announced hes dropping out, suspending his campaign. andrew yang making the announcement just a short time ago? >> reporter: david, he is the newcomer who outlasted many other established politicians in this race. andrew yang built a cult following and a movement around this idea to give $1,000 a month to every american. tonight, yang says this is not an ending, david, he says hes just getting started. >> all righ...

Appropriately when he asked ukraine to investigate his rivals? >> all of those issues will be argued here in the senate in the coming days and my assumption still is that we will turn to this after the first of the year. >> reporter: but what do you believe, sir? >> mary bruce with us live on the hill tonight. and mary, speaker pelosi now responding tonight to the presidents letter? >> reporter: david, the speaker called it ridiculous and really sick. and in her own letter tonight, pelosi writes...

Businessman and the major signal he might soon be in, filing to run in at least one states presidential primary just before an approaching deadline. now, if he runs, what could this mean for front-runners joe biden and elizabeth warren? and michael bloomberg has a long history with his fellow new york businessman, president trump. abcs mary bruce leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, former new york city mayor michael bloomberg is sending a jolt through the presidential race. abc news ha...

Hill again tonight. and mary, that vote today of course setting the stage for public hearings now. when will those get under way? >> reporter: well, david, democrats want to move quickly here. no dates have been set, but were told these hearings could start in the next two to three weeks. and tonight, weve learned that some of the witnesses who have already testified behind closed doors are now ready to do it again, this time, out in public. david? >> mary bruce leading us off tonight. mary, tha...

Possible impeachment for doing just that, asking the president of ukraine to "do us a favor" and investigate a debunked conspiracy theory about stolen democratic emails and joe biden and his son. >> i find, once again, the president inviting another country to interfere in our presidential elections repugnant and a fundamental breach of his oath of office. >> so, lets get to jon karl, with us live from the white house tonight. and jon, the president insists his political requests of ukraine on t...

Conversations are privileged. but david, tonight, members of congress say they expect to speak with that whistle-blower sometime soon. david? >> mary bruce leading us off tonight. mary, thank you. and at the same time the acting director of national intelligence was testifying there on the hill, president trump was in a closed door meeting with staff here in new york city and he was unleashing. the recording now emerging from the event with staff from the u.s. mission to the u.n. the president...

Nobody pushed me, yes. >> in other words, no pressure. >> reporter: as for joe biden, today he responded, saying, quote, "the house must do its job and hold donald trump to account for his abuse of power." and with the house now launching impeachment proceedings, the president lashed out at speaker nancy pelosi. >> shes lost her way. shes been taken over by the radical left. >> reporter: later in a press conference, the president returned again to the question of impeachment. >> its a joke. impe...

Bruce, live tonight with me all day up here on the hill. and mary, the bottom line here, was there anything said today that will change anyones minds here on the hill about whether to move forward with impeachment? heres what house speaker nancy pelosi said just moments ago. >> my position has always been, whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand. and we still have some outstanding matters in the courts. its about the congress, the constitut...