decision, saying the safest option was to push forward with the evacuation, putting infected patients in the back of the planes in these special isolation chambers. they took temperatures, if you had a high temperature, you went into that isolation booth. reporter: mark jorgensen had to leave his wife behind in a japanese hospital, after she tested positive for the virus. so far, 454 cruise passengers have been infected. we met john and melanie haering when he spiked a fever and had to be hospitalized. he s now fighting the virus and has pneumonia. good-bye, diamond princess. reporter: the couple deciding melanie should be on that flight home. melanie is now back in the u.s., telling us she, too, spiked a fever. all right, so, let s get to clayton sandell, he is live from omaha tonight. and clayton, the rest of the roughly 300 passengers, the americans who showed no sign of the virus, we know they spent time on those buses with these passengers, the americans, the 14 who it s
soured on pruitt and doesn t appear to. ehe s carrying out the president s agenda, obviously. ambassador, beyond scott pruitt s beyond i m sure your criticism of his environmental policy, do you think he can still serve as the head of the epa with all the other stuff? i think he s been fatally bounded by the ethics scandal, the $43,000 isolation booth that the gao has found violated law. the luxury lobbiest family condo for $50 a night. but you only had to pay for the nights he used it. the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent without need on luxury travel. first class travel, military air, and on the security details, which epa memos say are unpounded. and worst of all, anderson,
pepperdine university, kayak races and of course the always entertaining baseball dunk and all of the play-by-play analysis handled by the one and only mr. howard cosell. it was such a huge deal could only happen twice a year. we did our own battle of the network stars in our own weekly current events last season and now have we recovered enough to do it again. battle of the network stars two is moments away. three of the biggest names duking it on on this stage. i m told lester holt is refusing to wear the short shorts but is standing by in the isolation booth until right after this.
came to play. locked me in an isolation booth so i could not have any chance to know any of the questions in advance even though steve and his team work right around the corner. something you were concerned about. we raised the issue early. i think it would be worthwhile because there have been allegations on twitter serious allegations. very serious place for discussion. and elsewhere including i believe one of the contestants, perhaps jokingly suggests this. do you want to put those rumors to rest and speak to the point, the question of whether you saw anything in advance? quiz show style? i did not see anything in advance, not that i didn t want to, not that i didn t try to pressure the team, but they were much ethically stronger than i was. clean victory. it was a fair fight. couldn t have had a nicer and more deserving, smarter person win. i m proud of you. and we all know you re taking me to dinner so of course. and anybody who wants to come to harry s wit
steve clemens in the isolation booth, if this comes to a vote if january, and it passes and goes to obama s desk, what happens then? well, he ll veto the bill and it will go back to the in the and folks like lindsey graham said they will override his bill. it will put u.s.-eastern relations into a very serious fragility. it will remind people when bill clinton do you think they would have the votes to override the veto, that 67? well, i think as ali said they have 47. ultimately when you have ten committee chairs who said for vital fascial security reasons, it s wrong to proceed. i would hope they wouldn t have that number of votes and have a