George H.W. Bush in Hospital.
BERMAN: Just moments ago we received an update on the health of former President George H.W. Bush, who is in intensive care. His spokesperson tells CNN the former president is responding to treatment for a life threatening blood infection and is determined to get healthy. He was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Houston on Sunday, just hours after the funeral for his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush. Ed Lavandera outside the hospital with the very latest. A great deal of concern overnight, Ed. Where do things stand now?</s>ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it is a great deal of concern. And some of the first indications that we've gotten here this morning seem to suggest that things are improving. According to President Bush's spokesman, the former president is awake, alert, and talking after responding to the medication and the treatment that he's been receiving here at Houston Methodist Hospital since Sunday morning. And here's the best part, John, even talking about determined to get healthier so that he can go to Kennebunkport, Maine, later -- in the -- preparing for the summer. As you well know, if anyone who's followed the course of the Bush family over the decades, you know that home in Kennebunkport, Maine, has been a staple in the Bush family, a place where they have spent many summers. And that is one of the things that President George H.W. Bush appears to be talking about and thinking about this morning as he is determined, according to his spokesperson, determined to get healthy so that he can go and spend the summer up there in Maine. That that is one of the things on his mind. You know, this has been a very concerning 48 hours. It was just last week that the president talked about how he was overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support that he received and he had said in a statement after Barbara Bush died last week, that he had hoped that Americans would cross the Bush family off their list of worries. But given what has happened here over the last 48 hours, the president, being admitted here to this hospital Sunday morning, just hours after burying his wife of 73 years at the presidential library in College Station, Texas, returning home here and being in a very difficult situation. According to a source close to the family, there were a couple of moments on Sunday where doctors weren't quite sure if the president was going to make it through. But the latest news we have here this morning is that President George H.W. Bush is doing better, alert and talking and awake here this morning in Houston. John.</s>BERMAN: All right, hopeful news. Ed Lavandera in Houston, thanks so much. All right, good morning, again, everyone. I'm John Berman. The business end of the first state visit of the Trump presidency getting underway at the White House right now. The visiting president of France, Emmanuel Macron, just received the full on star-spangled welcome on the South Lawn. Now, the French leader, sometimes called the Trump whisperer, will put his skills to test on issues ranging from the Iran nuclear deal to the Paris Climate Accord, to the war in Syria, as well as U.S. tariffs on European steel and aluminum.