the attorney general to step in in the roger stone case, after the president criticized the harsh sentence requested by federal prosecutors. tonight, we've learned four prosecutors now withdrawing from the case. the coronavirus tonight. the deadliest 24 hours yet. 108 deaths in a single day. and tonight, the cruise ship nightmare. we take you inside the room with an american couple, retirees, allowed fresh air only every four days. tonight, he's now come down with a fever. the major storm and flood concerns this evening from texas all the way up to pennsylvania. the stunning allegations. the college student's father who authorities say moved into his daughter's dorm room and allegedly preyed on her friends. tonight, among the charges, sex trafficking and forced labor. the desperate search for a missing 6-year-old girl last seen getting off the school bus. authorities just moments ago. and just in tonight, actor jussie smollett indicted by special prosecutors in chicago. and good evening from new hampshire as we come on the air in the west tonight. the first results in at this hour, in the first in the nation primary. the polls are now closed and tonight, based on our analysis, abc news can say it is a three-way race between bernie sanders, pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar. look at the numbers at this hour. with about 27% of the vote in, bernie sanders leading and pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar vying for second. joe biden and elizabeth warren competing for fourth and fifth place at this hour. and what the exit polls are revealing at this hour. asked, when did you decide, 50%, a full half said today or in the last few days. and when they were asked how important was friday's abc news debate, 71% said it was a factor. and amy klobuchar appears to have benefitted significantly from her debate performance. of those who pointed to that debate, 27% voted for klobuchar. 24% for sanders, 22% for buttigieg. and when voters were asked their priorities, a candidate that can beat donald trump or one who appe agrees with their issue us, 62% said beating the president. and tonight, the first candidate to drop out. andrew yang revealing he is suspending his campaign. a big night, a big battle between sanders, buttigieg and klobuchar at this hour, and abc's mary bruce leads us off. >> reporter: he was the candidate to beat here in new hampshire. >> how you feeling? great. how are you? >> reporter: today, senator bernie sanders out rallying his supporters, hoping for a repeat of 2016, when he won this state by 22 points. >> we have a chance to do really, really well here. >> reporter: the senator now fending off mounting attacks from one of his rivals. pete buttigieg declaring it would be, quote, very difficult for sanders to beat donald trump. >> buttigieg! buttigieg! >> reporter: today, the former south bend mayor raising the roof and riding momentum from his strong finish in iowa. mr. mayor, you going to win here today? >> we think so. it feels fantastic. >> mr. biden, why aren't you staying in new hampshire tonight? >> reporter: but one candidate didn't wait around to see the results. >> we're still mildly hopeful here in new hampshire. and we'll see what happens. >> reporter: former vice president joe biden took off for south carolina, where he hopes his support among african-americans will deliver a much-needed win. >> we're heading down to south carolina. this is just the beginning. we have an entire nation to vote yet. >> reporter: other candidates are hoping a strong finish here will help them soar. >> amy! >> reporter: senator amy klobuchar is surging after her breakout debate performance. overnight, she won the most votes in the tiny townships that cast the first ballots. >> something's happening here and we just want to seize the moment. so i'm going to work my heart out all day. >> reporter: someone who could use a shot of momentum, senator elizabeth warren. she's hoping to shake up the race with a solid showing on her home turf. >> all right, so, leetma gs brus hour. and mary, the results still coming in this evening, but tonight, one candidate has announced he's 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 he's just getting started. >> all right, mary bruce leading us off tonight. mary, thank you. former new york city mayor mike bloomberg made early headlines right here in new hampshire. not even on the ballot here, but what he did that convinced some voters to go with him anyway in dixville notch. it's really a tiny sliver of a sample, but it's part of the tradition here, and bloom beber came in first. but the former mayor is also being forced to respond tonight to audio that's newly surfaced. on the recording, you can hear bloomberg talking about the controversial police practice called stop and frisk. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight, also right here in new hampshire. >> reporter: michael bloomberg isn't even on the ballot here in new hampshire, but he scored a p.r. coup by coming in first in the tiny, tiny town of dixville notch. there are only five voters in dixville notch. and bloomberg called most of them directly. >> he called several of us and talked to us and answered questions. >> reporter: after spending some $200 million on tv ads, bloomberg is surging in national polls, even gaining support among african-american voters, up to 22% in one poll. but he is facing new criticism after a recording from 2015 surfaced of the former mayor defending his controversial stop and frisk policy. it gave police authority to detain people suspected of committing a crime and searching them for weapons. the targets? overwhelmingly black and latino. >> 95% of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit one m.o. you can just take the description, xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. they are male, minorities, 15 to 25. >> reporter: bloomberg then bluntly described his policy. >> we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods, yes, that's true. why do we do it? because that's where all the crime is. and the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them. >> reporter: today, one of bloomberg's democratic opponents took aim. some people are saying, flatly, it's racist. have you -- what's your take? >> well, yeah, certainly any law enforcement strategy that seems to regard people as profile rather than as human beings, especially seeing how this has disproportionately impacted black and brown americans, is something that just has no place in an equitable future. >> reporter: even president trump tweeted out the audio with the caption, "wow, bloomberg is a total racist," before deleting the tweet. although trump himself has repeatedly promoted stop and frisk. >> it worked very well in new york. it brought the crime rate way down. >> reporter: bloomberg himself apologized for his policy months ago, just after launching his presidential campaign. >> i now see that we could and should have acted sooner and acted faster to cut the stops. i wish we had. i'm sorry that we didn't. >> so, let's get to jon karl, with us live tonight, as well, from pete buttigieg headquarters. and jon, we saw you there with mayor buttigieg today. what's bloomberg's team saying tonight? >> reporter: well, bloomberg has a statement out today, several paragraphs long, about this. he notes that he had previously apologized for how he handled stop and frisk as mayor. but david, there is no apology whatsoever from mayor bloomberg for his words, in fact, much of that statement on this is attacking donald trump. he gives a message to the president, saying, i will do everything i can to defeat you. david? >> all right, jon karl at pete buttigieg headquarters. a three-way race at this hour. sanders, buttigieg and klobuchar. our entire political team right here in new hampshire tonight. it's going to be a very important night for the democrats as this race moves forward. we'll bring you the results as they come in, live coverage right here on abc and abc news live, right into the night. but we do move on tonight, as we're on the air in the west, breaking news involving president trump, as well. a stunning reversal in the sentencing recommendation for trump confidant roger stone. prosecutors had recommended seven to nine years for stone's seven-count conviction in the mueller investigation. but just 24 hours later, and after criticism from president trump, the department of justice called that sentencing request, quote, extreme and excessive. tonight, four federal prosecutors have now withdrawn from the case, amid questions, who was involved in this sudden shift? here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, at least four prosecutors stepping down from the roger stone case, after a dramatic decision to overrule their recommendation that he spend seven to nine years in prison. the stunning rebuke from the justice department leadership came just hours after president trump tweeted that the prosecutor's suggested sentence for stone was, quote, horrible and very unfair. a miscarriage of justice. >> for the attorney general to step in, in this way, at this point, is practically unheard of. >> reporter: a defiant roger stone was convicted last year of lying to congress, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. >> i believe this is a politically motivated investigation. >> reporter: prosecutors on monday recommended a lengthy sentence, arguing stone "tampered with a witness for months." but a justice department official says leadership was blinded by prosecutors, calling their recommendation "extreme and excessive." the department says the decision to reverse the recommendation came before the president's tweet, insisting there was no white house involvement. >> no, i didn't speak to the justice -- i'd be able to do it if i wanted, i have the absolute right to do it. i stay out of things to a degree that people wouldn't believe. but i didn't speak to them. >> and so pierre thomas joins us tonight from the justice department, and pierre, the justice department late today, in fact, making its final recommendation now for the stone sentencing? >> reporter: david, that's right. they told the court that while the original recommendation was excessive, they do believe stone should be incarcerated. they left it to the judge to decide, but tonight, democrats on capitol hill are calling for an investigation. david? >> pierre thomas tonight. pierre, thank you. and we're going to turn next here to the coronavirus emergency and the deadliest 24 hours yet. this number tonight. 108 people have now died in a single day. and tonight, the american couple, retirees, trapped on a cruise ship. the husband who has come down with a fever. they are among the thousands on that cruise ship, right off the coast of japan, confined to their rooms. they have no windows. allowed to get air on an upper deck just once every four days. so, tonight here, we hear from that husband and wife and it's a terrifying portrait of what's playing out for so many. abc's maggie rulli from japan again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, 39 more people from that cruise ship off japan sickened with the coronavirus, making it the largest cluster of cases outside mainland china. fear and frustration building on that cruise ship. >> we haven't been feeling -- our appetite has gone away. >> reporter: melanie and john haering take us inside their cabin where they've been trapped without a window. getting access to fresh air just once every four days. >> this is the first time we've been outside for sun and it's beautiful. >> reporter: but on day seven of their quarantine, their worst fear. the couple telling us john has a fever. >> got a great big bucket of ice and we're doing cold compresses on john. his fever is now 103 again. just trying to keep him cool and comfortable. >> reporter: the virus today given an official name -- covid-19. it's infected over 43,000 and killed more than 1,000 people, nearly all cases in china. in the u.s., a passenger quarantined on base in miramar in california has now tested positive. but tonight, a bright spot. nearly 200 americans under quarantine since flying in from wuhan two weeks ago are now free to go home. and we do have a bit of good news about that couple onboard the ship. melanie tells us her husband's fever has broke, but she says he still feels sick and he still has not been tested for that virus. david? >> all right, maggie, that is welcome news. maggie rulli tonight. we move onto the other news, the desperate search for a missing 6-year-old girl in south carolina tonight. authorities say faye swetlik disappeared shortly after stepping off her school bus, last seen playing in front of her home. font, police are now asking neighbors to search security videos for anything that may help in the search. authorities made a point to say that the girl's mother, father and mother's boyfriend are all cooperating. we turn next to the allegations involving a college student's father. he's accused of preying on his daughter's friends at sarah lawrence college. authorities say he moved into her dorm room. and tonight, among the charges now, sex trafficking and extortion. here's abc's diane macedo. >> reporter: tonight, federal agents call it a crime that shocks the conscience. 60-year-old larry ray accused of manipulating his daughter's college classmates, committing extortion, forced labor and even sex trafficking. >> the conduct alleged here is outrageous. >> reporter: according to the indictment, it started in 2010, when ray got out of prison and moved into his daughter's dorm room at sarah lawrence college in westchester, new york. prosecutors say he started convincing his daughter's roommates they were "broken" and "in need of fixing." >> it was here that he laid the groundwork for psychological conditioning that would eventually lead these young adults to become unwitting victims. >> reporter: prosecutors say he made up lies about his victims, coerced their false confessions, then used those confessions to extort roughly a million dollars from them. even forcing at least one victim into prostitution, and at times, resorting to physical violence. the fbi says it launched the investigation after "new york magazine" details the story in 2019. and david, sarah lawrence says it conducted an internal investigation after that article came out, but could not substantiate those claims. in a statement, they called the charges disturbing. ray faces life in prison if convicted. david? 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