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WPVI Good Morning America September 28, 2017

And incredible rescue. A woman trapped in her suv surrounded by rushing flood waters. How they parking lotted her through the window just in time. My goodness that rescue was something else. We have a lot of news. The big tax plans the continuing crisis in puerto rico and the death of hugh hefner. He wanted to be remembered as someone who changed the sexual attitude. He was known for his magazine and how he impacted our culture. Abc nick watt outside hefners mansion this morning. Good morning, nick. Good morning michael from the playboy mansion. This was where hugh hefner lived at times with up to seven girlfriends. This is where he threw those legendary parties. This is where he died. Love him or loath him hugh hefner left a mark. Reporter he was himself a playboy, business man activist and american icon. Lots of people date lots of girls. I date 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 he be remembered by most of us from his tv shows and most recently the girls next door on e. I love it. You gotta come up and see me. Reporter in 2011 hefner was asked on cnn how he would like to be remembered. As somebody who played some positive part in changing the sexual values of his time. Reporter larger than life for once to describe a man who founded Playboy Magazine with a bank loan and investors including his mom. The bunny ears brand that turns over a billion a year. Hefner used to say i made this magazine for girls like you. Reporter the up 63 years later still going strong. He claimed to fight for the liberation of women through playboy. Many think he was objectifying women. That may never end. Gloria stein ham explaining he was exploiting women under the guise of the first amendment. I would not want to go down as hugh hefner. Reporter his parents both teachers from nebraska. He served during world war i, before college and that legendary publishing career. Hes survived by his third wife chris call and four Adult Children including cooper chief creative officer of the playboy company. Hell be remembered as more than an elderly gentle man in the robe. Depending on your point of view he was a hero or villain. Son cooper said he advocated civil rights and sexual freedom. Michael. Made a big mark. Well get the latest from the white house where President Trump unveiled his tax plan. The details shown so far say the wealthy will get the most. The president saying he may fire tom price after price used pri vat jets for trips at tax payer ks pence. Were now getting a look at some of the adds russians bought on facebook to influence the election. Squon carl starts us off on taxes. Good morning george. President trump promising to deliver on a big new tax cut that he says will be a mird l class miracle. Reporter President Trump wants congress to pass one of the most ambitious tax plans ever. Democrats and republicans in congress should come together finally to deliver this giant win for the American People and begin middle class miracles. Reporter even fellow republicans divided on how much they can accomplish. Tax reform is going to make Health Care Look like a piece of cake if we do it the right way. It hasnt been done in 31 years. Reporter details of the president s plan still to be worked out. His new proposal calls for slashing the tax on corporations now 35 to 20 . For individuals and families reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to just three. Doubling the standard deduction for families that would mean no income tax whatsoever on the first 24,000 of income. Trump insists this is all about the middle class and that the wealthy will gain nothing from his plan. They can call me all they want. Its not going to help. Im doing the right thing. Its not good for me believe me. Reporter theres one big provision that would clearly benefit well yer americans. He wants to eliminate the estate tax. Something paid on estates valued at 55 for individuals and 11 million for koups. He said he wont bulge on the tax cut to corporations a flat 20 . 20 is my number. 20 is a perfect number. By one estimate the president s plan would mean 1 trillion in lost revenue. Among the many details yet worked out is how to pay for that. It seeps thats up for congress to figure out. George, robin. Thanks very much. Now to those growing questions about President Trumps cabinet members paying your tax dollars on trips using chartered jets and military aircraft. The Health Secretary and treasury riff secretary. Cecilia vega with that story. Facing prosecute any and now tom prices job seems to be in question. President trump said hes not happy for him and some democrats calling for him to resign. Reporter this morning tom prices future hangs in the balance. Would you fire him . Well see. Reporter after dozens of tax payer funded trips on luxury jets a 400,000 bill President Trump says hes fed up. I will look into it. Personally im not happy about it. Are you going to fire him. Ill look at it. Im not happy about it. Reporter those charter flights now on hold. We heard the criticism we heard the concerns and we take that seriously. Reporter in all three cabinet members face questions about their expensive travel habits and this morning new revelations about epa scott pruitt. The epa confirms one chartered flight and multiple government flights totally 58,000. His fre kent tax payer trips home to oklahoma under investigation. Hes under fire for installing a 25,000 secure phone booth in his Office Something previous administrators did not have. A spokeswoman said pruitt a vocal epa critic before he took the job needs a secure line in order to aye vok hacking. Democrats and republicans on the house over Site Committee sent this letter to the white house and two dozen fed al agencies. The white house has two weeks to turn in documents related to the travel of Senior Administration officials. Lets talk to the top economic advise gary cohn. Lets talk taxes. Right now everybody wants to know what its going to mean for them. Cut middle class families watching now a family of four earning 55,000 how much theyll save under the president s plan. George, thank you for having me. First let me extend our sympathies to all the families in puerto rico dealing with what theyre dealing with. Our tax plan is purely aimed at middle class families. A typical family of four earning 55,000 is going to have a substantial tax decrease. That family could expect something in the neighborhood of 650,000 im sorry 650 to a 1,000 tax decrease. Every tax situation is different. We are really solving for the middle class. Everything we have done in this tax plan is for the middle class. You say that 650 i wonder how uh i dont get that number. The plan doesnt show how big the plan would be. In new york the city of new york says nearly half the middle class families earning between 50 and 75,000 will get an increase because you eliminate the deduction of state and local tax taxes. If you look at the reality of the country as a whole, less than 25 of the families itemize. Only the people that itemize today less than 25 of the family itemize theyre the only ones taking a deduction for the state. Were solving for the greater good of the country. You have to look at what we did in the entirety. We doubled the amount of income that people can keep at 0 tax rate. Thats a substantial thing. We lowered the 15 tax rate to 12 . When you look at the first couple tax rates and how much money you can keep at 0 and 12 weve done a substantial thing. Then were increasing the child care credit. People will get a much larger credit. That credit is deducted directly from your tax liability. But youre not saying how much youll increase it. If im hearing you cell, you cant guarantee no middle class families will get a tax increase, correct. George theres an exception to every rule. Thats a yes . I cant guarantee anything. You can always find a unique family somewhere. What weve been working on in the white house is create an economic stimulus package to to drive the economy of the united states. Thats what the president ordered us to do and were doing it. The president said he will not get a tax cut under the plan. He said you wont get one as well. Look at the front page of u. S. A. Today. If youre eliminating the estate tax, cutting Capital Gains and income that means millions of dollars for the president of the united states. George, youve got to look at the plan in its entirety. On one hand youre talking about people that are raising their taxes because right middle class people and cuts for the wealthy. On the other hand youre talking about wealthy getting a tax cut because of the standard deducti deduction. Someone in new york were eliminating the tax for the wealthy. That costs them 5 . If we eliminate from 39. 6 to 35 and the 5 you lose from the deduction youre well over 40 on your federal taxes in new york. That does not sound like a tax cut to me. Thats before the Real Estate Tax component. Youve got to look at the plan. I am looking at the whole. We also put the ability for congress to put a fourth tax rate in place. A fourth tax rate on wealthy americans very high earners if we need to take more money from high earners and transfer to middle class americans to make sure middle class americans are getting a tax cut weve Given Congress the ability to do that. All that means millions of dollars in tax cuts for President Trump. 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 does for americans were confident americans are getting a great deal here. Wealthy americans are not getting a tax cut. We have designed a tax plan that will stimulate the economy. We want every day hard working americans to have more money in their paycheck. Your audience watching tv now getting ready to go to work we want to put more money back in their paycheck. Will the wealthy get a tax cut or not . The wealthy are not getting a tax cut under our plan. Thats not the evidence so far. There are a lot of details to come. Congress has to deal with it. Mr. Gary cohn thanks for joining us. My pleasure. More than a week after Hurricane Maria 90 of puerto rico still without power. 3. 4 million residents lack drink water. Eva pilgram in san juan this morning. Michael they keep telling people supplies are on the island. This line for gas stretches literally as far as you can see. Some people camping out overnight just to make sure theyre here in time to fill up. Reporter this morning a life line to a town cut off since the hurricane. I want to talk to them and tell them im okay dont worry for me. Reporter the red cross setting up satellite internet. For lid i cant rivera its a god send. Relief as her phone lights up from messages leaving a voice mail for her mother. A rare moment of joy among the raging humanitarian crisis here. Hours long waits for what little water and gas are left. San juans mayor said people are starting to die. Do you feel like you can wit for the federal help . Im not waiting. Im not waiting for anybody. Im working with what we have. Reporter according to u. S. Officials the much needed supplies are actually here on the island President Trump insisting the federal response has been great supplies delivered more on the way. We have a lot of ships out there right now. Puerto rico is a difficult situation. That place was just destroyed. Reporter the president planning to visit the island tuesday. Thousands of containers millions of federal relief supplies much sitting here in port in puerto rico. One of the challenges is making sure the roads are clear to allow the trucks to get there. Reporter the governor of puerto rico said getting the necessities where theyre needed is difficult. The help thats arriving to puerto rico is a bottle neck. We need human resources. They started out only allowing people to get 10 of fuel. This morning good news theyre allowing people to get 30. Michael. Thank you. Now to rob with more on that swift water rescue in Oklahoma City. Take a look at this two or 3 inches of rain. Against that fence, she is pulled to safety by try they executed a swift water rescue. Bravo to the Oklahoma City fire department. We have flood watches posted upwards of a foot. We have tropical moisture feeding in like a monsoon flow. Speaking of tropics we have three systems, this new one a tropical wave over cuba may be heading toward florida in the next a couple of days. Falllike cities brought to you by liberty mutual. Reporter good morning everybody, im meteorologist karen rogers we are dry out there, weve got a lot of sunshine, too. Lets take you outside, what a beautiful shot as we look live over the Commodore Barry bridge. Lots of sunshine there. A few clouds along the coastline. Lets look at the accuweather forecast. Well have a high of 79 today. It is turning and cooler and breezy by the afternoon. You feel the gusty breeze and lowering humidity. 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