How this man may be connected. And incredible rescue. A woman trapped in her suv, surrounded by rushing flo floodwate floodwaters. How they pulled her through the window just in time. That rescue was something else. We have a lot of news to get to. We have that tax plan, and continuing crisis in puerto rico, and the death overnight of hugh hefner. He wants to be remembered as someone who changed sexual values of america. He was also known for how he impacted our culture. Abcs nick watt is outside hefners mansion in Beverly Hills this morning. Good morning, nick. Reporter good morning, michael. From the playboy mansion where hugh hefner lived, sometimes with seven girlfriends at the same time, where he threw those legendary parties and where he died. Love him or loathe him, hugh hefner left a lots of people date lots of girls. I dated them all at the same time. Reporter the Company Released a statement saying hefner peacefully passed away from Natural Causes at his home. The playboy mansion surrounded by loved ones. Thats how hell be remembered by most of us. For his tv show, playboys penthouse, playboy after dark, and then the girls next door. You have to come up and see me some time. In 2012, hugh hefner was asked on cnn how he would like to be remembered. As somebody who played some positive part in changing the social sexual values of his time and had a very good time doing it. Reporter larger than life, for once an apt cliche to describe a man with a bank loan and investors, including his mom. Those bunny ears now a global brand that turns over a billion dollars and year, and on the covers of his magazine, jane mansfield, jenny mccarthy. He would say, i made this magazine for a girl like you. Marilyn monroe. Reporter 63 years later, still hefner will be remembered as more than an elderdy gent in a silk robe. He changed the face of america. He was a hero or a villain depending on your point of view. His son released a statement calling him calling him a cultural pioneer saying he advocated free speech, civil rights civil rights and sexual freedom, michael. Michael. Thank you, nick. Definitely a mark. Tely a controversial, made a bigger mark. Want to getg mark. The white house. T the latest from the white house. W taxdent trump has unveiled his new tax plan. He claims middle class will be show thewinners and the details show the wealthy will gain the most. Most. The pres s privatedent says he is giving his private jets for dozens of tri trips. The new the new russian investigation. Were now getting a look at some of the thousands thousands of ads the russians bought on facebo facebook. Jon on karl starts us off on taxes. Good morning, good morning, george. The president calling the plan a middle class miracle. There are a lot of details that are still to be worked out but here are the broad outlines of his plan. Togemocrats and republicans deliver thistogether finally to deliver this giant win for the American PeopleAmerican People and begin this middle class middle class miracle. Reporter e reporter even fellow republicans ar they canns are divided on how much they can accomplish. Tax health care loois going to make Health Care Look like a piece of cake if we do it the right way. Years. Nt done it in 31 years. Id reporter the details of the ed out, but plan are to be he tax out, but he is going to slash the taxes on corporations from 35 to 20 . For individuals and families it would decrease the number of tax brackets from seven to just three. Doubling the standard deduction. For families, that would mean no income tax whatsoever income tax whatsoever on the first 24,000 of income and the president gain not insists the wealthy plan. Gain nothing from this plan. Its notcan call me all they want. Its not going to help and its not good for me, believe me. Reporter there is one big provision that would clearly provision that would clearly benefit wealthier americans. He wants to he wants to eliminate the estate tax, tax, something that is only paid 5. 5 m 5. 5 million. The taxividuals, and he wont budge on the tax cut to corporations. A flat 20 . 20 is my number, and im not perfect number. Number. 20 is a pefect number. Preseporter by one estimate, the president s plan would mean more than 5 trillion in lost revenue revenue for the federal gove government among the many details yet forils yet to be worked out is it seemsay for that. It seems that is up for congress to figure it, to figure it, george, robin . Es seem that w much. It does seem that way. P now to the growing questions about President Trumps cabinet mbers. S. Spending your tax dollars on spending your tax dollars on trips usin trips usiing expensive charter raft. And military aircraft. The treasure secretary, among thos those facing scrutiny. Our ch correspondent,e house us. Espondent, cecilia vega has od mornings. Good morning, cecilia. Facing scrutiny and now tom prices job seems to be in question. President trump said hes not him andth him and some democrats are calling for him to resign. Reporter this Morning Health secretary tom prices future hangs in the balance. Well see. Ire him . Well see. Reporter after dozens of taxpayerfunded trips on luxury jets, a more than 400,000 bill, jets, a more than 400,000 bill, pres President Trump says hes fed up. Was looking into it ait and i will look into it and i will tell you personally tell you personally im not happy about it. I am i am not happy about it. Wha what are you going to do about it, mr. President . Ar are you going to fire him . Ill look at it. Im not happy about it. And ill let him know it. Reporter those charter flights now on hold. We hear we heard the criticism we heard the concerns and we take that very seriously and have taken it to heart. Cabieporter in all three cabinet members face questions about their expensive travel habits and this morning new habits and this morning a velations about epa administrator scott pruitt. Administrator scott pruitt. A confirms he took at ok at least one chartered flight and least one chartere multiple government flights to han 58,000. E than 58,000. Taxpayeuent taxpayer trips home to oklahoma under investigation. Hes now also under fi hes now also under fire for installing a 25,000 secure phone booth in his office. Some something previous administrators did not have. A spokeswoman said pru a spokeswoman said pruitt a vocal epa critic before he took the top job needs the secure line in line in order to avoid hacking de. M the outside. Democrats and republicans on the democrats and republic House Oversight committee sent and two dozeto the white house and two dozen federal agencies. Iney have launched an investigation. The white house has the white house has two weeks to turn in documents re turn in documents related to the travel of Senior Administration officials. This story not over. Cecilia vega, thanks very much. Lets talk to the pres president s top economic adviser, gary c adviser, gary cohen. W everybody want. Right now everybody wants to know what its going to mean for them. Can you tell middle class families watching ri families watching right now, say a family of four earning a family of four earni 55,000, how much they will save under the president s plan . George, thank you for having me. Me. First le first let me extend our sympathies to all the families sympathies to all in puerto rico having to deal with what theyre deal with what theyre dealing with. Look, our tax plan is purely look, our tax aimed at middle class families. A typical family of four earning a typical family of 55,000 in America Today is going to have a substantial tax increase. Increase. That family could expect something in the neighborhood of 650,000 im sorry 650 to a 1,000 tax decrease. Every tax situation is every tax situation is different. Live in. Ds on what state you live in. R are really solving for the middle class. Middle class. Everything we have done in this tax plan is for th tax plan is for the middle class. I wonder how yo i wonder how you get that number because the plan doesnt show where t uld be,ere the tax brackets would be, and here in the state te ofw york, the official here nearly state of new york says ngarly half of the middle class families earning between 50,000 and 75,000 are actually going to get an increase here in new york city because you eliminate the deduction of state and local taxes. If if you look at the reality of the country as a whole, less the country as a whole than 25 of the families itemize. So were solving for the country as a whole. Only the people that i only the people that itemize today less than 25 today less than 25 of the family itemize theyre the only ones taking a deduction for the state and local taxe state and local taxes. Were solving for the greater good of the country. To looou have to look at is you have to look at what we did in its entirety. You have to you have to look at this plan in doubledrety. We have doubled the amount of income that people tax e that people can keep at substantial rate. Thats a substantial thing. We have then lowered the 15 tax uple of tax ra when you look at the first couple of tax rates and how much money you can keep ate zero and at 12, we have done a substantial thing for american american. Citizens. Then were increasing the child care credit. People will get a much larger people will get a credit. Membermember, that credit is deducted directly from your tax y. Ability. But you but youre not saying how much youll increase it. If im hearing you correctly, if im hearing you at no nt guarantee that no middle class middle class family will get a tax increase. There there will be middle class fa youries who get an increase theres an excep correct . George theres an exception to every rule. Thats a yes . I cant guarantee anything. You can always find a unique family somewhere. Anat our job here and what weve been working on in the white house is to create an economic stimulus package by using taxes stimulus pac rive the economy of the the united states. Thats what the presid thats what the president ordered us to do and thats what ordered us to do and thats what the president said he will not get a tax cut under the he said t under the wealthy wont get a tax cut under the plan, or his family wont. He said you wont get one as at the look at the front page of u. S. A. Today. It says that trump could reap millions from his own tax plan. Minating the alternativestate mini tax, eliminating the alternative minimum tax, cutting top rate, cutting Capital Gains, cutting tax on income. Tax on income. That means millions of dollars for the president of the united states. George, youve go george, youve got to look at the plan in its entirety. On one hand youre talking about people that are rais people that are raising their rs because right, middle class people and cuts for the wealthy. On the other hand youre talking about wealthy getting a tax cut because of tax cut because of the standard deduction. When we eliminate the standard deduction for the wealthy, someone in new york that youre someone in new york talking about, eliminating that standard deduction for someone standard deduc in new york and the wealthy, that costs them 5 . Even if even if we lower the tax on federal taxes from 39. 6 to 35 , and you take back the 5 that you lose from the elimination from the deduction, youre well ov youre well over 40 on an effective tax rate on your federal taxes in new york. That does not sound like any tax cut to me. Tax component of this. Estate tax component of this. Youve got to look at the plan in its entirety. I am looking at the we also put the ability for congress to put a fourth tax e. Te in place. A fourth tax rate o wealthy rs. Ricans, very high earners. If we need to take more money from high earners and transfer from high earners an to middle class americans to ing a ure middle class americans are getting a tax cut. Weve Given Congress the ability to do that. I was tal elimination of thabout the elimination of the state tax, and the Capital Gains tax. Al presidat means millions of dollars in tax cuts for he says believe me, i wont be getting a tax cut. Can you guarantee President Trump wont get a tax cut under this plan . George, when we looked at the tax plan and looked at what it tax plan and looke does for americans, were very very confident that americans are getting a great deal here. We have also sai ericans are nsaid that wealthy americans are not getting a tax we hav cut. We have desiged a tax plan that will stimulate the economy. We are giving tax cuts to middle and lower income americans. We want every day, hardworking americans to have more money in their paycheck. Your audience watching tv now getting ready to g o find a way tto go to work we want to find a way to put more money into their paycheck. Money into their paycheck. Will the wealthy get a tax cut or not . The wealthy a the wealthy are not getting a tax cut under our plan. Tax cut under our thats not the evidence th thats out there so far but of course there are a lot of details yet to come as youve pointed out. Congress has to deal with it. Weal well see what happens in coe next several months. R. Cohen, thanks for joining us this morning. Pleasure. Re. Turning to the crises in puerto rico more than a week after hurricane maria, more than 90 of puerto rico still without with without power, and nearly half the s lack drinking million rezllior residents lack drinking water. Eva pilgrim is in san juan this morning. Michael, they keep telling people supplies are on the isnd. U can see. For gas stretches literally as far as you can see. Some of these people camping out overnight just to make sure that theyre here in time to fill up. This morning a s morning a lifeline to a town lifeline to a town cut off since the hurricane. I w i want to talk to them and i want to tell them that im okay. Dont worry for me. Reporter the red cross reporter the red cross setting up satellite internet. For lydia rivera its a god send. Once shes connected, relief as her phone lights up with messages from her family. Messages from he thats the message. Reporter leaving a voice ello mommy. R mother. Hello mommy. Reporter a rare moment of joy among the ra joy among the raging re. Anitarian crisis here. Hours hourslong waits for what little water and gas are left. San juans mayor said san juans mayor said people are do you feel like do you feel like you can wait for the federal help or is it im not waiting. Im not waiting for anybody. Im not waiting fo im working with what we have. Reporter accor the much nr according to u. S. Es are acte much needed supplies are actually here on the island. President trump insi response has bp insisting the federal response has been great. Supplies delivered, more on the way. We have a lot of we have a lot of ships out there right now. Puerto rico is a difficult situation. That place was jus ter the president destroyed. To visit the island ident planning to visit the island tuesday. Thousands of containers, thousands of conta millions of pounds of federal relief supplies, m relief supplies, much of it just sitting here in port sitting here in port in puerto rico. One of the challenges is one of the chal making sure the roads are clear to allow the trucks to get there. Repor reporter but the governor of necessities where they arehose necessities where they are istical transporult. The logistical transportation of the help thats arriving to of the help thats puerto rico is kind of becoming a bottleneck. A bottleneck. What we really need are some human resources. Reporter they st se gas stati they started out a lot of these gas stations only allowing some good eople to get 10 of fuel. T me good news this morning, they are allowing people to get 30 at this gas station today. Michael . Thank you. Thank you. Frustrating sting situation. Absolutely. Now to rob w now to rob with more on that swift water rescue in Oklahoma City. Rob . Look take a look at this. 2 or 3 inches 2 or 3 inches of rain in a short period of time. This woman pulled to safety out of that suv. Trapped in trapped in this spillway. The Fire Department from Oklahoma City doing a rescue with that raft. They pull her out of the drivers side all with the Rushing Water around the suv. Pinned against that fence. Shes pulled to safety shes pulled to safety. By triangulating those ropes by triangulating t a ey managed to execute a textbo textbook swift water rescue. Bravo to the oklah bravo to the Oklahoma CityFire Department there. A lot of rain across west texas and flood watches that are posted now. Upwards of a f upwards of a foot has already fallen. Could see another co could see another couple of inches there. With with this tropical moisture almost meeting in like a monsoon fl inches pot three to four inches potentlly speaking of tropics, the ing of tropics, weve got three systems in the atlantic. , a tropical wave opical wave over cub over cuba may be heading to florida. More on that in the next 30 minutes. But but first, your falllike cities brought to you by liberty mutual. Im abc news meteorologist drew tuma. Cooler on the coast but for most a warm day, 82 for oakland, 77 in San Francisco, 90 in san jose, the same in concord, 0 in fremont, the north bay mid and upper 90s later today. Accuweather sevenday forecast, widespread cooling will hit us on friday, breezy to start off the weekend but sunshine dominates sunday and into early next week, that faum feeling is going to stick around. Coming up, what could be a big break in that murder mystery. Two teen girls killed while hiking on that train track n indiana. Why police say this man may be connected. 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