alison: we begin with breaking news tonight, this from the trump hotel. police and firefighters on the scene after someone set a fire right outside the building. the man who set the fire suffered burns and was taken to the hospital. what we don t know is what led to this. stay with abc 7 and wjla.com and we will bring you updates as we get them. jonathan: antitrust protesters marching to the hotel earlier this evening, but the gathering was peaceful. alison: and now the top story move by a controversial the white house to commute the sentence of chelsea manning. private who army stole and then leaked secrets to wiki leaks, sentenced to 35 years in prison, and continues his life as a woman. alison: thanks to the decision, she will get out of prison this spring. jay korff has the ripple effect this could have. while some insist that chelsea manning has served more than enough time behind bars for her crime, others argue she is still causing harm to the nation s national securit
toss to weather - above average temperatures continue - showers still likely friday; timing may be later - dry saturday, rain developing sunday - heavy rain monday today: fog and clouds early. becoming partly cloudy. breezy and mild. highs: 53-58 winds: nw 5-15 g 25 mph tonight: partly cloudy. cool. lows: 36-40 winds: nw 5 mph thursday: partly cloudy. remaining mild. highs: 54-58 winds: nw to se 5 mph eileen toss to suz suz toss to julie we re following breaking news in montgomery county. a car chase and right now the suspect is still on the loose. police say they were pursuing a driver for a traffic violation when the they hit a guardrail on i-270 south of maryland-109. the driver than ran from the scene of the crash. overnight police closed both directions of i-270 as they searched for the suspect. they have since been reopened. the suspect was not found. more protests as we countdown to the presidential inauguration - now just two days away. anti-trump demonstrators marche
and social networking. what s really behind mark zuckerberg s cross country journey to meet americans? could it be part of an early push for, yes, the white house? today, wednesday, january 18th, 2017. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everybody. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. happy to have tamron while savannah continues on maternity leave. good to be here. counting down to the new president but many thoughts are with a former president this morning. george h.w. bush taken to a houston hospital as a precaution. our affiliate kprc is there. good morning. president bush was admitted to saturday for shortness of breath. he is responding well to treatment, and his doctors are pleased. reporter: former president george h.w. bush hospitalized in houston after experiencing a shortness of breath. overnight, his office chief of staff saying he is in stable con
mike will talk about the warmup and erin will talk about the traffic, we re going to get to inauguration preps in a few. breaking news out of houston former president george h w bush is hospitalized. he s doing fine and expected to go home in a couple of days. north carolina the reason for his hospitalization has not been disclosed. he s reported to be at methodist in the texas medical center. further is expected to be released later. u.s. tourists in a mexican resort area of cancun are being warned in the wake of deadly violence, three people killed in a shooting at the state attorney general s office in cancun coming a day after a shooting at a music festival in a a nearby town left five people dead including a woman from colorado. americans visiting need to follow local authority s warningses a hotels before leaving resort premises the suspect has been arrested mark keith lloyd had a bloody face when police took him into police headquarters arrested at an abandoned hom
mr. trump s nominees for defense secretary and cia director are likely to be the first confirmed by the senate, perhaps as early as inauguration day. but major garrett reports nominees to other departments, including health and human services, are being slowed down by questions from their past. the hip act, as an orthopedic surgeon i bear some familiarity with this area. reporter: that was tom price in june talking about legislation he introduced to delay a federal regulation related to hip replacements. a week before he introduced that bill, price bought between $1,000 and $15,000 of stock in a company that stood to benefit from that delay. federal law prohibits members of congress from using inside information to make stock trades. senate minority leader chuck schume trade was illegal. reporter: mr. trump s nominee to lead the labor department, andy puzder, has drawn protest over his labor practices at his fast food restaurants. transition officials say he has growi