Waters. The driver rescued if her bus and new storms track tonight. Plus the gas explosion. The fire ball shooting toward the sky. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on this wednesday night. We witnessed one of the most contentious days yet on capitol hill on the eve of this inugh ration. Well get to that. First tonight, the Health Concerns involving a former president and first lady. George h. W. Bush is in intensive care tonight in houston being treated for shortness of breath from new moan kbra, and his wife has also been brought into the hospital now. Abcs phillip mena on the story. Reporter tonight, the former president and his devoted wife barbara, both hospitalized at this houston hospital. Bushs office first acknowledging the 41st president was admitted saturday for shortness of breath and was expected home soon. But today a spokesman revealing mr. Bush was in intensive care, suffering from an acute respiratory problem from pneumonia. Doctors sedating the 92yearold to perform a procedure to protect and clear his airway. Wife barbara hospitalized this morning, with symptoms of fatigue and coughing. After weeks of feeling sick. Today at his final press conference, president obama offering support. They are as fine a couple as we know, and so we want to send our prayers and our love to them. Really good people. Reporter the bushes, celebrating their 72nd wedding anniversary earlier this month. President bush famously marking his birthdays with a parachute jump right up until the age of 90. Bush was hospitalized in 2015 with a fractured bone in his neck and on christmas 2014 for respiratory problems, but hes often spotted these days celebrating family birthdays or taking in a football game. But days before the inauguration the former president wrote to donald trump saying he was so sorry he and barbara couldnt travel to washington, on the advice of his doctor. The elder bush was never a trump supporter, yet he wrote, we will be with you and the country in spirit. I wish you the very best. If i can ever be of help, please let me know. Phillip mena with us from the hospital. Are you learning anything more about the procedure involving the president and how it went . Reporter david, a spokesman for the president saying tonight, that doctors are happy about how that procedure went, and right now, they are in a wait and see mode. As for barbara bush, she wanted checked out, and they are describing this as precaution y precautionary. Thank you, phillip. We are turning to donald trump and his picks for his cabinet. The exchanges growing on the hill. His pick for health and services talking to the washington post. Saying that there will be insurance for everybody. How did he answer on the hill today . Abcs mary bruce on capitol hill tonight. Reporter on capitol hill today, a crush of confirmation hearings, massive lines of people waiting to hear from some of Donald Trumps most controversial nominees. Like congressman tom price, his pick to lead the department of health and human services. Donald trump says he has a healthcare plan, have you seen it . Reporter his testimony comes amid a growing outcry. Americans across the country dha demanding answers from congress and the trump team on how obamacare will be repealed and replaced. Price today tried to reassure lawmakers, americans wont be left in the lurch. Nobody is interested in pulling the rug out from under anybody. Reporter but price was pressed on the president elects promise earlier this week that his plan would include insurance for everybody. The congressman wouldnt go that far. I look forward to working with you to make certain that every single american has access to the highest quality care and coverage that is possible. Has access to, does not mean that they are guaranteed health care. I have access to buying a 10 million home. I dont have the money to do that. Thats why we believe its appropriate to put in place a system that gives every person the financial feasibility to be able to purchase the coverage that they want for themselves and for their family. Reporter trump has also pledged not to cut funding for medicare and medicaid. But price wouldnt go that far either. Can you assure this committee you will not cut one dollar from either medicare or medicaid . I believe that the metric ought to be the care that the patients are receiving. Ill take that as a no. You might want to print out president elect trumps statement. I am not going to cut medicare, or medicaid and post that above your desk in your new office. Reporter price also grilled on ethics, questions about whether he bought stock in a Health Care Companies as he was writing legislation to help them. Did you buy the stock and introduce a bill that would be helpful the company you just bought stock in . The stock was bought by a direct broker who was making those decisions. This is someone who buys stock at your direction. This is someone who buys and sells the stock you want them to buy and sell. Not true. So when you found out thats not true, senator. Because you decide not to tell them . Wink, wink, nod, nod, and were all supposed to believe that . Reporter and she didnt stop there, asking what happened when price found out about the stock purchase. Did you take an additional actions after that date to advance your plan to help the company that you now own stock in . Im offended by the insinuation, senator. Reporter just down the hall, trumps pick to lead the Environmental Protection agency, Oklahoma Attorney general, scott pruitt, questioned about Climate Change on the same day scientists revealed 2016 was earths hottest year on record. The president elect has called Climate Change a hoax. Do you agree that Global Warming is a hoax . I do not, senator. So donald trump is wrong. I do not believe Climate Change is a hoax. Okay. Thats important for the president to hear. Reporter pruitt now in line to lead an agency he sued 14 times as attorney general. Trumps pick for education secretary, billionaire Charter School advocate betsy devoss grilled about her knowledge of the Public School system. You never attended a Public School, did you . Correct. And you have never taught at one . I mentored in one. Reporter and this moment still rippling through capitol hill, her headscratching answer when talk of guns in schools turned to grizzly bears. You cant say definitively today that guns shouldnt be in schools . I will refer back to senator enzi and the school he was talking about in wyoming. I think probably there, i would imagine that there is probably a gun in the schools to protect from potential grizzlies. And mary bruce with us live tonight on capitol hill. And mary, this evening, another Trump Nominee is facing questions about a member of his household staff. Reporter its the complication that has derailed nominees in years past. The billionaire pick, wilbur roth confirming he just fired an employee after learning he could not prove he was in the country legally. David. Mary, thank you. And you saw in marys report there the president elects choice grilled on if obamacare will provide health care for everybody as mr. Trump promised. That report estimating 18 million americans could Lose Health Insurance in the first year if there is no replacement. Our Martha Raddatz talked to mike pence, and heres what he said about health care. Insurance for everybody, so let me be Crystal Clear about this. The administration wants to repeal obamacare, but replace it with something that covers every american . The president elect has made it very clear to members of congress that he wants to repeal and replace obamacare at the same time. It will be two different pieces of legislation we want to repeal the individual mandates and the taxes and all those things that are putting such a hardship on American Families today. Hoell replace it with something that covers every american . He believes in that. He is a businessman, and he understands the strebt strength of the american economy. He talked about people being able to purchase Life Insurance across state lines. The president elect now just two days from his inauguration. He will use two bibles. The bible Abraham Lincoln used and only used again by president obama, and mr. Trump will also use the one given to him by his mother in 1955. What kind of tone will he strike . And the boycott. The lawmakers who will not be going now. Its 60 and counting. Abcs cecilia vega asking them face to face, is that helping to unify the country . Reporter donald trump today tweeting a picture of himself in what he calls his winter white house, maralago, writing his speech, a bronzed eagle by his side. Unlike his sobering Convention Speech this summer, fridays themes, uniting the country and America First aides calling it a very personal speech. It will be about 20 minutes long, trump has been studying past inaugural addresses and practicing daily. Were going to have a tremendous turnout. I think its gonna be from what im hearing, the numbers are gonna to be astronomical. Reporter but among those expected in washington this week, thousands in protest. Students preparing signs in this art school in pennsylvania to california, theyre ready to go. I march because i have no choice. Why do you march . We rock reporter staying home, 60 house democrats. Never before in history have so many skipped a swearing in. I dont honor him. I dont respect him, and i dont want to be involved with it. The reason im not going is that i cant bring myself to justify morally or intellectually the immense power we are placing in that mans hands. Reporter democrats i spoke with today defending their decision. If we are to have respect for this president he has to show respect. Reporter but you not going to the inauguration, what kind of respect does that show him . It says that we question the kind of president ial, unpresident ial action hes been engaged. Reporter Hillary Clintons going if she can go, why cant you go . But she was the first lady and shes going as the wife of bill clinton. Reporter shes the woman who ran against him and lost. Its going to be hard for her. Reporter trumps response . As far as other people not going,thats okay, because we need seats so badly, i hope they give me their tickets. Are they going to give us their tickets . Reporter the festivities already underway, the president elect centerstage at a black tie gala. Trump says the obamas have made his family feel welcome. Melania spent time with michelle, can it was great. Ivanka spoke to her, and the conversation would be a quick one, and it lasted an hour, and they got along great. Reporter and across the country, supporters like befrly harper in iowa, optimin the mississippiic about what the future holds. Lets give the guy a chance and see what happens. Supporters out there in the heartland. Cecilia vega joins live from washington, and youre learning more at this hour about what the trump family will be doing after he is sworn in on friday. Reporter this will be a family affair. The entire family. All the trump children will be with him at all the inaugural events and the entire family joining donald trump for his first night in the white house on friday, david. Cecilia vega, ill see you tomorrow in washington. In the meantime, president obama tonight holding his last News Conference in the White House Briefing room, and he defended his decision sparking outrage. Commuting the sentence of chelsea manning. Abcs januaonathan karl was in room. Reporter president obamas decision to commute mannings sentence was so controversial, his own defense secretary was against it, joining a chorus of republican voices denouncing the move as damaging national security. Private manning is a traitor and should not have been turned into a martyr. Reporter but today, the president defended his decision. Chelsea manning has served a tough prison sentence. Due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very dis disproportional disproportionate, relative to what other leakers had received, reporter the former army private had been sentenced to 35 years in prison, found guilty of leaking huge troves of sensitive materials to wikileaks back in 2010. Manning said it showed the true costs of war, particularly this video of u. S. Soldiers firing on a van with two children inside. Well, its their fault for bringing their kids into a battle. Thats right. Reporter at the time it was the biggest leak of classified information, by far, in american history. But not long after the leak, then defense secretary robert gates, downplayed the damage done. Is this embarrassing . Yes. Is it awkward . Yes. Consequences for u. S. Foreign policy . I think fairly modest. Manning, a transgender woman has served for almost seven years in a male military prison, twice trying to commit suicide. She will go free in may. I feel very comfortable that justice has been served. Jon karl with us. And jon, Julian Assange seeming to reverse himself after saying he would allow himself to be extradited to the u. S. If Chels Chelsea manning was given clemency. Now different . Reporter he did say that, but now he is saying that because it wasnt a full pardon, and because manning wasnt immediately released from prison that that offer is off the table. All right. A lot of action behind you at the white house. Ill see you there. Abc news will carry all of the inauguration events beginning at 7 00 eastern, and well see you then. In the meantime, there is much more ahead on world news tonight this wednesday. The emergency rescues playing out. The American City hit by dangerous floods today. The baby pulled from rising waters. The driver then rescued from they are bus, and new storms. The woman behind bars there accused of kidnapping a baby girl 18 years ago. You will hear from the girl now defending the woman who took her. And a fireball shoot into the sky. The gas explosion. Shutting down part of an american highway. The fire burning 13 hours straight. Fifty years ago, humpback whales were nearly extinct. 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Look at this a metro bus is trying to get through. Reporter the driver and two passengers stuck on board, rescued through a window by a Good Samaritan. He kept saying come on, get out. The water is going to keep on rising. Its going to keep rising. Get out, get out. Reporter that Good Samaritan says he doesnt consider himself a hero. You know when you can do it, you do it. Reporter Houston Fire Department performing more than 70 water rescues, including this baby and her family, fortunately unhurt. In the west, another powerful system with more snow. East of seattlei90 over Snoqualmie Pass shut down. And this isnt the end of it, a series of storms are now rolling in, covering much of the west coast, especially california. David . Neal, thank you. When we come back here, four earthquakes hitting one after another in italy. The fiery gas explosion forcing a highway to substitute down. 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