trying to wrap their heads around their new normal. thousands of people here and beyond will not have a home to return to anymore. as heartbreaking as that is, we re also seeing amazing humanity and grace. people have jumped into action to help their neighbors, even sacrificing some of their own safety to do so. joining us to talk about all this is neal bush, board chair of boints of light, son of former president george h.w. bush and the favorite son of former first lady barbara bush. did i get that right? glad you threw that in. i hope your mom is watching this morning. this is the story, there are so many citizen heroes. this storm, beyond any i can remember, even officials have asked neighbors to help neighbors. get in your boat and go help. how do you corral and organize something like that? first of all, there s not much organization needed at this point because when a neighbor cries out for help, neighbors
reporter: we re getting more details on the former president s condition. there are reports he was admitted to the hospital in houston on saturday after suffering from shortness of breath and a cough, admitted as a precaution. doctors suspect that it might be early stage pneumonia or bronchitis, but they re still waiting for an official diagnosis which we should get relatively soon. they say he is being treated with apartment buy otics and has responded to well to treatment that everyone is very pleased and hoping he ll be released from the hospital soon. i can report that his wife barbara bush and son neal bush have visited in the hospital. the bushes reisn tly celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary. he suffers from a form of parkinson s disease that has left him unable to walk. in 2015, he was hospitalized after a fall in ken bunk port,
well that spokesman jim mcrath told me earlier this morning that everyone is so pleased with how he s doing, they hope he s going to be released and going home in a couple of days. his wife, barbara bush, came to visit him, his son neal bush came to visit him. also, we were told his chief of staff, gene beck earl told us he is doing fine. she went to see him, he was alert, chatty and very engaged. look, carol, this is all good news, but, as you mentioned, to put it in some perspective, he is 92 years old. he s had similar health problems in the past. in 2012, he was hospitalized and indiana tensive care for two months with bronchitis and a cough. so no one is taking any chances. carol. no one is taking any vances. i joust wonder if his son will attend donald trump s inauguration or feel the need to
raft before this footage was taken of his rescue by an american submarine. thank god. you really do. you know, in that life raft, you go right back to the fundamental values. i was 20 years old. you think of family and you think of faith. you pray. when he returned from the war, bush resumed his courtship of barbara pierce. he had met her when she was 16 and he proposed to her just before leaving for the pacific. they were married on january 6th, 1945. life was returning to normal. bush attended yale where he got into an accelerated program and in 1948 graduated as a member of phi beta kappa with a degree in economics. he had a job waiting for him in the family investment business but he didn t take the easy pay. he didn t rely on family connections or wealth. reporter: neal bush is the
kept throughout his presidency. it is a george h.w. bush who felt things more deeply than he ever let on. i d like you to hear what he said on the night he began speaking into his little tape recorder. your mother asleep in the next room. these are his reflections. no, the job is not finished. and that kills me. our kids were absolutely magnificent. boys telling me, we re proud of you, dad. we re very proud of you. and i m thinking, they go back to their communities. yes, their father was president and all that. but a failed president. your thoughts. well, i never really understood how much the defeat stung him because he kept it hidden. he bottled up this sense of defeat. the loss his father felt, the younger bush says, was not just his defeat by bill clinton but something deeper. dad really didn t accept the baby boomer view of duty and honor and therefore to be beaten by the first baby boomer president was upsetting to him. george herbert walker bush was bo