Care in texas hospital. How long president George Hw Bush could be in that icu we do not know. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. Meantime his wife former First Lady Barbara Bush is also in the hospital. Heres what we know right now. The couple are in the same Houston Texas medical center. The 41st president were you admitted saturday for shortness of breath and by this morning he was moved into up tense seive care unit. Doctors performed a procedure to clear the former president s airway and address a respiratory issue stemming from pneumonia. Meantime barbara bush was admitted to the hospital after experiencing fatigue and coughing ton night a longaid to former president bush says 41 is a fighter. You know, hes a great man. You cant keep a great man down, and hes always got the best attitude of anyone in the room. Both president and mrs. Bush just made a public appearance. They just celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary. Our fox 29 app users the first to learn of todays news thanks to our breaking news alerts and as the news breaks well stepped updates right to your phone. You can also see around the clock updates on our website head to fox29. Com. Happening right now, the search for two crooks spotted in video that may give you chuckle. What they tried to do is not funny at all. They tried to steal smart phones which is common around here. Smart phones thefts are at record numbers. Retail stores that sell smart phones are become regular targets. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell has got the story from south street. Reporter talk about bad luck. It was oscar gold depths first day on the job at the south street Verizon Store when this happened. Two guys walked in and started snatching smart phones right off the display. Try not to laugh but the bumbling crooks tumbled to the floor before running away and out the door. Basically, two clowns came in, and they broke the phones off and as soon as the alarm went they stumbled all over the ground and like rolled out of the store. Reporter phones have become a target in the city in the last month alone, three phone Stores Within two blocks on south street have been hit. The verizon, the at t store. [ laughter ] no. Reporter and we showed the video to adrianna who work at the t mobile right across the street. She thinks the same guys hit her store three weeks ago. The first guy looks a little familiar. You may scene these guys. I think i might have. I think i might have. They might have gotten us for our iphone demos. Theyve been going around yanking stuff. Reporter it looked like a shopping spree at the sprint store in the northeast last we week. Crooks stunned daytime shoppers by bursting in and taking every phone they can get their hands on. Its definitely scary. I was a little shaken up a little bit because it happened like literally right next to me and they could have been armed. You just never know what to expect especially on south street. Last laugh may be on the crooks. You see most of those smart phones these guys are getting arent really smart at all. Theyre dummy, demo phones. Virtually worthless. They wont be able to use them or do anything. One was a plastic phone. They took nothing. Reporter Police Believe the same people are committing some of these crimes. So if you know anyone you just saw on that Surveillance Video police would like to talk with you before it happens again. Two days before he leaves the white house president obama gave his final news conference. The man who will replace him may have a lot of criticism for the media but president obama had a lot of praise for the tenacity of the journalists who cover him. Ive enjoyed every story that you have filed but thats the point of this relationship. The president says free press is a key part of democracy. He then spoke about a range of topics including tension in the middle east and voting rights. He also defended his decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning the Army Intelligence analyst who leak classified documents to wikileaks and president obama also talked about his future as a private citizen. I want to do some writing. I want to be quite a little bit and not hear myself talk so darn much. I want to spend precious time with my girls. So those are my priorities this year. In contrast to former president george w. Bush who shied away from criticizing president obamas term mr. Obama says he would speak out as a private citizen if he sees discrimination. Just two days now until donald trump becomes the next president. We now know he wants agriculture secretary and pick for secretary defense is now one step closer to running the pentagon today a Senate Committee approved retired marine general james mattis to hold the position his name now goes to the full summit where hes expected to win easy approval once trump is sworn in mattis retired from the marines in 2013 and current law for bids Service Members from becoming secretary of defense if they have not been out of uniform for at least seven years. Last Week Congress approved onetime exception to that law. Also today the confirmation hearings continued on capito cal hill and it got heated at times for four of the president elect cabinet picks. Democrats questioned congressman tom price up forehead of health and human services. Scott pruett epa administrator, wilbur ross the nominee for commerce secretary and governor nikki haley up for ambassador to the un. Also just hearing tonight trump will nominate former georgia sonny perdue to serve as agriculture secretary. Two days to go the final preparations are underway in washington, d. C. Getting security in place for the big event. On the capitol hill lawn hundreds of thousands of people will fill the district including supporters and protesters. Fox 29 has the could have ratch for the inauguration. Ill be live in washington, d. C. Starting with festivities tomorrow night and all day friday starting with good day philadelphia. Then the swearing in ceremony and all the way through our 11 00 oclock news. You can watch us on air streaming online and on your phone. Happening right now controversy over a message from the fop. As they are calling for philadelphia da Seth Williams. In tweets, signs even billboards the fop is making it clear, they want someone else in williams position. Earlier this week williams reached a settlement with the citys board of ethics to pay a hefty fine over gifts he received. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is following this story from northeast philadelphia. Dave . Reporter lucy, the fops battle with incumbent da Seth Williams goes to new heights tonight literally check this o out. This is a large billboard that looms over i95 here in northeast philadelphia. Its very clear tonight the fop will go to whatever steps necessary to out of the william. Never seen a billboard like that before. Reporter it towers over i95 near Bridge Street and theres no mistaking the message the fraternal order of police is trying to send to em balanced da Seth Williams. Nothing personal against him but it may be time to look in another direction. Reporter help wanted New PhiladelphiaDistrict Attorney billboard went up wednesday and was quickly followed by the fop handing out lawn signs with the same message to its members at an afternoon awards ceremony. Isnt well be supporting another candidate. Reporter billboard is just the latest in a war of words between fop president mcnesby and the da. It comes just a day after the philadelphia ethics board fine the williams a record 62 grand for failing to disclose 175,000 in gifts from 2,010 to 2015. Williams accepted full responsibility for my failure to do everything that was required of me as a public official. Any other city official is fired. I like the da. You like him. You dont think they ought to replace him. No. District attorney hes doing his job. They asking for new District Attorney. Reporter billboard drew mixed opinions at a gas station right be 19 it. Ethics board findings come as federal investigation is on going and williams is catching fop heat for failing to charge a teenager who smacked a Police Officer in the face. Mcnesby says billboards and lawn signs are just a start. Whatever we needed to to make sure the message is sent out. I dont know who he is. So maybe that speaks for something. Reporter a spokesman for the da and the spokesman for his campaign both refused to comment on the billboard. Mcnesby tells us more billboards will be going up shortly. Iain dont be surprised if you see bumper stickers next. All right, dave, thank you. In manayunk a scare inside a store on main street. Police say three robbers one with a gun just bust into the remix consignment store tonight. Were told they tied up a female clerk and a man in the store and they got away with 10,000 worth of clothes and other stuff. Also some cash. Thankfully no one was hurt and police are looking for the robbers. No end to the frustration of patco riders at least not yet. Agency is again canceling some of its evening trains and that has led to long waits and crowded trains. Patco officials dont know when repairs are going to be finish. Sparks were seen from some trains during the morning commute between philly and south jersey. Patco says its been experiencing problems they say are caused by moisture shorting out the traction motors on some cars prompting trains to just skip stops altogether and leaving the platforms crowded problem all started with snowstorm earlier this month which has meant a painful few weeks or riders. Its like sometimes 150, 200 people just lime like crammed up waiting for train which is crazy. Some people dont even make the train havent to wait for the next one which comes by which is crazy to me. Delaware River Port Authority which runs patco operation Social Security apologizing and says it is working to improve operations. All right. So who is that and itsy bitty firefighter at the scene of a fire . Up next youll meet the little left firefighter in pennsylvania. Also he died trying to stop robbery more than four decades ago and now the widow of this Police Officer just found out about a Million Dollars mistake. Who owes her big time. Feels like its happening every day. Today im in allentown, whitehall, talking to a family thats trying to come up with a way to educate people about the heroin and Opioid Epidemic and what they did make shock you for Goodness Sake coming up next. Our kathy orr is tracking that forecast. Thats right, lucy. We are talking about more rain in the forecast this area of low pressure will be racing toward our region and that means as we head toward the weekend increased risk of rain. Well talk about when to expect it and how much coming up with your seven day forecast. Five years old Delaware County boy didnt hesitate to rush towards danger when he saw his neighbors house on fire this morning. Fire fighting is actual until his blood. The little boy comes from two generations of firefighters. Shawnette wilson is live in aston township tonight she talk to the gutsy little guy. Hes destined to become a hero one day is my guess. Shawnette. Reporter yeah, lucy, hes already a hero in my eyes. Because at five years old, i didnt know what i wanted to do of course i wasnt already doing it. This little boy is essentially doing an internship right now. Hes just going to melt your heart with his passion for fighting fires. I have a lady on the flashlight right here. Logan isnt dressed Halloween Costume at five years old hes already dressing the part channeling his future. I want to really put out actually a fire and the chief and drive a fire truck. You heard him right. Hes aiming high. He hopes to be a fire chief one day and hes already in traini training. There was a fire outside. So i was really excited. Logan tells me he woke up this morning to a fire at a house across the street from his home on valley green drive in aston. So he did what any real firefighter would do. I got dressed and put on my gear. Fox 29 cameras were there covering the fire. Our cameras captured logan tagging along with firefighters on scene. Im wearing bunkers and jacket. Youre probably wondering how logan got this gig. Who is a firefighter here . Dad. And . Um, pop pop. His dad is a firefighter for the Chester Fire Department and his pop pop just retired after 29 years. Hes now a volunteer and responded to the fire this morning. Somebody is holding the hose and hes washing makes him think hes doing some good. When hes not training hes doing what many five year olds do playing legos with his big brother liam. This is call the light. This is the door. His passion for saving lives gets the best of his proud father. Its very rewarding. Hes he makes me feel like i am worth something and when you go to work and it doesnt really it doesnt really hit you until you come home and your kid is there. How many calls did you have . Did you have any fires . How big was the fire . Reporter and logans father actually tells me that this is the second fire hes responded to on his street and if you didnt get enough of him, lucy, he is going to be on good day tomorrow morning with mike and alex that is of course as long as he doesnt get a call for fire. Isnt that the truth . All right. Shawnette, thank you much. We now know the name of the bouncer in the bar manager involved in the deadly fire fight in East Germantown police say this man 28yearold Edward Morgan shot and killed Christopher Johnson at sharons little spot bar. The bouncer shot the 44yearold manager during an argument monday night. Morgan faces murder and other related charges. Today our Bill Anderson talked to man whose heart is broken. But it hasnt darkened his brother recently passed away. Why . A Drug Overdose and this is the last picture that hell have to remember his brother. Here at fox 29 we dont show you body bags as a matter of principle but we are today to honor this mans story. Its very hard to look for most folks but he says he posted that photo to help others. He wants the world to see the pain that drugs caused him and then maybe he can change someone elses path for Goodness Sake. Reporter getting to the point you can pick a neighborhood and we could go and do a story about somebody whos been struck down by the heroin and Opioid Epidemic. Today its allentown, whitehall, and another family trying to figure out how they rebuild, what to do after losing a loved one. Epidemic continues to spread from inner cities to more affluent neighborhoods and a week ago it struck tristan millers family. Tristan and his brother were close. You can see on social media pictures all the good times that they shared together. But at some point, his brother tyler fell into drug use. My brothers case it was i smoke weed to numb the pain. Then it was like i got injured and, you know, got hook on pain medicines. Addiction grew until tragically last week this was picture that tristan posted to social media as he watched the coroner take away his little brother in a body bag after an overdose. Why did you post that . Why . Yeah. Thats not i just kind of felt like it needed to be shared. Like this is the hard truth. Reporter most families do everything they can to keep these images out of public view, but this time he wanted to remove the sanitized images and let people know what this feels like. You dont ever see the reality of somebodys point of view. Like it was me standing on the porch watching the coroner walk down my steps. Reporter response to the hard truth of showing his brother being wheeled away even surprised tristan who said hes not sure why he did it but the comments on social media were nearly united in saying it needed to be done. Everybody was sharing it saying this is the hard reality this is the truth this is what nobody wants to see. This is reality. You will one day if you continue to use drugs take that ride. Reporter sharing his familys pain hundreds have reached out saying that the picture that has now gone viral inspired them to begin having difficult conversations. People say, because of this, reality, i shared this picture with my brother who is using. And he broke down and cried and said i dont want that to be me. Or a mother would reach out to a son and say, look, this is going to be you. You know what i mean . Lets get the help we deserve. We love you. Reporter it also inspired a hard look at himself. Tristan has plans to work to get aid for addicts in immediate need and share with us the simple things we could all do more of. Hey, i know we havent talked in while. You know, for whatever circumstances. Want to let you know i love you and miss you if you are ready to get help ill go do wake i can to help you out. No judge. Report roar this the last place tristan saw his brother as painful as it is hes sharing his last view so it inspires all of us to not have this or similar situations be our final view of a loved one. Get them the help they need, the support they need for Goodness Sake. Im Bill Anderson. You know a picture is worth a thousand words. The saying for a reason. So powerful. I dont think a lot of people realize how addiction shatters families. Just incredible. Local family is alive thanks to hero but you it wasnt a human who grabbed their attention to get them out of their burning house. No, this hero has got four legs. Its their dog. What he did to save their lives. And a jawdropping crash scene. A tanker ended up on an icy pond rescuers raced to the scene. Got the driver out. Then, well, they had to stand around and wait. They had to let everything in that tanker just drain out. And later at 11 00 a story from our hank flynn. Its hank new fi