Alternative minimum tax. Lawmakers are wondering how the cuts will be paid for and some democrats say at plan favors the well though. It is clear that trump is leaving the details to the Treasury Department and members of congress and tax reform is never easy. We will be attacked from the left and we will be attacked from the right but one thing is certain. I would never, ever bet against this president. He will get this done for the reporter treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says there will be new taxs on overseas profits and he believes people will put their tax savings back into the economy with increased spending. Now a group of democrat lawmakers is still calling on President Trump to release his tax returns before theyll consider any of trumps tax overhaul plan. Yesterday secretary mnuchin says the president has no intention of making his tax returns public. Maureen and wisdom. Mel thank you. Time is 4 31. President trump is taking a major step to undo an Obama Administration environmental policy. The president signed an execut interior department to review designation of millions of acres of planned utah todays a National Monument to protect it from any drilling mining or development. Former president obama used the 1 1906 antiquities contact to designate that many land. Utahs legislature and governor opposed that movement the Trump Administration says the act has been abused by Previous Administration there is this should never have happened. Thats why today im signing is this order and directing secretary zinke to end these abuses and return control to the people. The Trump Administration says before they were designated as monuments many of the lands were public giving residents better access to them. Developing in Montgomery County this morning, police are trying to track down nearly 40,000 missing from the countys council of ptas. Police believe someone inside that of council stole that money. Members of the Council First noticed finances back in march. An audit found the money missing happened between july 2016 and march of this year. That is shocking, absolutely shocking. And just its unbelievable that somebody would do that to kids. And families. That contribute. Its horrifying. The council of ptas oversees near 200 local Parent Teacher associations with each school having one or two representatives. Happening today, virginia congressman jerry couldnt lean other house leaders will gather in fr. They believe the Trump Administration has attacked issues dealing with climate issues. Urge lawmakers to support predominantly black institutions of hire learning. Alumni and students are asking for increased Financial Support increased access a funding for federal Research Grants and increased funding and assistance for facility upgrades. Get ready to rock the red. Well get to this first. Tonight caps fans are ready to rock the red now that the maple leafs are behind us. Penguins are up next. Capitals face rivals Pittsburgh Penguins in game one tonight at the verizon send p washington beat the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round before that falling to the penguins. The penguins have won the last six playoff series against the caps but our fortunes are turning. Were go together rock this red. Doing it big time. Second round party can begin to. Help the Hometown Team get pumped up to beat the penguins this morning you can join in a rock the red hunt. All starts at 9 oclock. Find hockey pucks hidden in different locationing in the district and you can win some free game tickets or you can get your yoga on at keller. It starts at 6 30 this morning. Each week day playoff game, thats when you can find that and you can sign up f on the capitals web site. Good luck to the caps. If they can just get past this round they will be in business. This is a huge hurdle. They played pittsburgh nine times in the playoffs. Pittsburgh has won eight. Mike is like i know. Im aware because im heading down to do the yoga today. And then im going to hunt some pucks and hopefully get a lot of playoff tickets. You can share those. I dont think those. Keep the yoga, bring the tickets. Take a look at satellite and radar. Its relatively quiet outside. Clear skies and a few clouds. Thats all were exof expecting today. Mostly sunny skies coming our way and warmer. Reagan national 60 degrees. Dulles 54, bwi 53 degrees t we have waited for this day for, what, five days now. 72 degrees mostly sunny at 11 00 a. M. By 2 oclock still sunny 83 degrees t by 5 oclock temperatures in the middle 80s, 84 degrees. Going to be a beautiful thursday afternoon. Thats a check of your erin como is back with a check of traffic. 4 35. Were tracking construction in virginia down in fredericksburg. This will impact your commute if you take route one northbound. Dealing with alternating lane closures at old telegraph road. 95 northbound can easily bet you around that. Very light volume from fredericksburg into stafford. Quiet conditions continue 95 dale city to the beltway. Once you get to the mixing bowl 66 looking good as well. Things through annandale on the inner loop are quiet. Things in maryland looking good in the district. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Anticipating a sunny day for driving. Ill let you know if any problems pop up, back to you. Coming up on, singer demi lovato coming under fire for promoting a potentially harmful diet tea. Were going to break with a live look outside hack the temperature 60 degrees. Four. 36. Back after this. It is 4 39 and we are back with whats hot on the web. Holly morris joins us with the stories youre engaging with the most this morning social media. Good morning. President trump reverses his position about leaving nafta. Mr. Trump told mexican and canadian leaders he will not pull the utz out of the nafta agreement. Now on the campaign trail, trump called the deal a disaster and blamed nafta for americans losing jobs. If you drink Energy Drinks, Research Suggests they are more dangerous than other caffeinated drinks. A study found consuming four cans of Energy Drinks resulted in abnormal changes in Blood Pressure and heart rhythm within two hours. A bill in michigan is set ban police from legally having sex with prostitutes during undercover stings. State lawmakers in lansing michigan say the state is the last one that offers Police Officers immunity from prosecution if they have paid sex with prostitutes while undercover. The legislation now moves to the statehouse where a similar bill has been introduced. Singer demi lovato under fire for promoting a weight loss tea containing a laxative that could irritate the colon. She posted a photo with herself and a jug of teenie tea. Fans pointed out that the metabolism boosting blend contains cena leaf. Finally, put some sparkle in your steps. Fans going crazy over these new kri whats up with everyone getting the unicorn bandwagon. Right. Lets look into that. Holly thanks a lot. It is 4 41. Coming up on fox5 news morning, lawmakers and riders reacting to news of a possible sickout by hundreds of metro workers. President trump signs an order which would impact funding for your childs education. Heading to break with a live look across the d. C. Region. 60 degrees already. 4 41 is your time. I think were talking mid 80s today or at least hitting 80. Nice. Yeah. All of a sudden summer is here. Back after this. For years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. We deliver superfast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. We do business where you do business. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning to you t welcome to fox5 news morning. If youre just waking up here are todays top stories t a standoff continues in bear delaware. Corporal Stephen Ballard was gunned down wednesday as he approached a car parked at a wawa store. He was shot several times. Ballard was an eight and a half year veteran of the department t officers arrested another person inside the car at the scene. Right now the gunman is wha are caded in his home. The standoff in its 14th hour. Neighbors say they have heard gunfire and explosions throughouthe overnight. President trump is not moving out of fast in today. He told mexican and canadian leaders he wouldnt terminate nafta right now. The three leaders agreed to renegotiate the deal top benefit each country. President trumps proposed tax plan has received mix reaction from lawmakers on capitol hill h it calls for a dramatic cut in federal taxes for businesses and sim if i go tax rules for individuals. Wizards one game away from the second round of the nba playoffs. They won game five of their opening round series with the hawks 103 to 99. They now lead three games to two. All right. Looking live outside right now, the warm air makes a return today. Were expecting temperatures in the mid 80s. I like that. Me, too. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im maureen umeh. And im wisdom martin. Today is thursday april 27th. Erin como talking about the roads but well start with mike thomas in because he has some great news for us if you like warm weather. Yeah, yesterday was 10 degrees warmer than tuesday and today is going to be about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday even more than that in some locations. More important in my book the sunshine will be back as weve been desperately missing it. Heres your futurecast. 11 oclock lots of sunshine around the region. Heading into the afternoon hours we keep the sun around. Then the evening hours and a weak cold front will approach from the west. Iit spark a shower or late evening rumble of thunder. Here we are at 11 30 over the district. Showers and thunderstorms moving through quickly but dont be shocked if you hear a rumble of thunder later on this evening. Fox5 accuweather 7day forecast, 85 today with late, late thunderstorms. Then tomorrow back to sunshine and 80s. 83. Saturday hot and humid, feeling like summer, 90 degrees saturday afternoon. All right, thats a check of the forecast. Over to erin como for traffic. 4 46. We are crash free around the dmv but we have some construction still lingering. This is on the inner loop by pennsylvania a you can see that there are cones set such. Portion of the right lane is blocked. Volume is really light. Outer loop moving along fine. A and maryland four pennsylvania avenue. In fredericksburg route one is also impacted by some construction. Its as you make your way past old telegraph road. Alternating lane closures. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Got you covered. Wisdom and the maureen. 4 47 this morning a tense battle continues to brew over metros absentee policy. Metro says its bracing for a sickout tomorrow. This is comes after nearly 500 rail and bus employees filed advance absentee requests. Fox5s annie lee is live at Friendship Heights metro with the latest. Annie. Reporter good morning to you wisdom and maureen. Thats right, back in february metros management they issued a list of new policies and regulations to really crackdown on absenteeism within the agency. Among one of them is this new rule its an absentee policy where you have to give your supervisors thre days advance notice for a sick leave. For approved sick leave and so that since then this battle has en friday metro is saying theyre e because the transit agencies they received 500 rail and bus employees putting in for advance absence request. The agency says this is unusually high for them and the management has denied all of those requests so here is how metros Largest Workers Union atu local 689 is reacting to this. The Union President is accusing metro of putting workers and passengers at risk by reject the surge of requests and in a statement to Paul Wiedefeld she questioned if wmata will accept responsibility as much refusing a more than is legitimately sick from seeing a doctor and of course those folks will be operating those bus and rails while being ill. She also says shes unaware of a sickout but when asked whether the Union Members couldnt independently decided to stage their own informal sickout she said theres always that potential. Take a listen. There is a possibility that members have taken it upon themselves to start following the directives that wmata has given which is calling out on the but that does not thats not providing us with a safe system. And thats what were calling for. Reporter we should also mention that this standoff between metro and its Workers Union is happening during a very tense contract negotiation. Thats the very latest here from northwest d. C. , annie yu fox5 local news. Annie thank you. 4 49. Getting back to politics and President Trump following through on a Campaign Promise when it comes to education that is. On wednesday he signed an executive order calling for three hyundai review of obama era regulations for school districts. It accidents betsy devos to modify. President trump vowed to turn School Control back to state and local officials an weigh from the federal government. The Loudoun CountySheriffs Department is hosting a meeting to discuss a meeting where seven students shared a drink reportedly containing xanax. One student had an elevated all were sent home with a parent. Police are investigating any possible connection between the incident at river bend and two similar incidents at potomac falls high school. Hundreds of workers expected to walk off the job in protest of federal labor violations. Workers at Reagan National and dulles are set to strike against what they call Interrogation Practices and improper discipline. The strike is aimed at their employers. A contractor for the airports. It is set to begin at 11 00 this morning. The Marine Corps Marathon 10k is return, to the district. Open Registration Begins at noon and will cost 55. The 10k was moved to arlington last year to address metros safe track work and there will be Marine Corps Marathon kids race a 1 mile run topped kids ages five to 10. Both take place october 22. And to baltimore. The orioles hosting on the the rays. To the eighth inning score is three to two bases loaded the rays brad mill per hits ground basement ricky leaks scores. Game is now tied at four. Danny walks seth smith to force a winning run. Orioles winning five to four. Celebrations commencing. All right. Coming up on fox5 news morning, beast mode returns to the nfl. And a legendary soul singer ambushed by antifur protesters during a book signing event. Were going to break right now. Live look outside across the dmv. 4 51 is the time. 60 is the temperature. Dont do that. Im leaving. That was the best part of the song. When youre a kid, you didnt like doing that. Im afraid of you right now. Get holly in here. Passengers or crew on board were hurt. Another plane came in and flew them to florida. Patti labelle the target of antifur sneak attack. She was at the barnes and noble in new york signing copies of her new book deserts labelle. Tmz reports the protesters tucked in close with her closing pic and whipped their signs out and started chanting. Just listen. Patti labelle has blood on her hands. Patti labelle has blood on her hands. Okay. So, this is similar to what happened to Kelly Rowland and kyleigh jenner. Protesters were kicked out of barnes and noble by security. All right a and just like that, beast mode is back. Marshon lynch. The raiders had to give the seahawks two draft picks over the next two years to be able to complete that deal. Thats because seattle still owns lynchs playing rights. Hes old now. Who cares. No, hes not effective . No. Okay. And the raiders are moving to vegas. Who cares. The vegans. Dont think he was training in that whole time off. Probably. I understand. In the nfl where you get hit on every play it doesnt matter how you train in the off season once you get to a certain age. It doesnt matter how you train. I had a rock moment. Time will telly. Father time always wins. Lets get to the weather forecast. 50 to 60 degrees for the kids this morning as they get off to the bus stop. After school a Beautiful Day t79 to 86 degrees. Late tonight we have a chance for maybe a thunderstorm to rumble through the region. 85 your daytime high here in washington, 83 tomorrow. Then all the way up top 90 degrees on saturday with maybe a hit or miss shower or storm. Sunday a little cooler at 78. Back to the 80s we go for monday. Then well start to cool things down a little bit heading into the middle of next week. 78 next wednesday, 76 next wednesday. All right, thats a check of the forecast. Over to erin como now for traffic. 4 56 and the good news is all were tracking in terms of road right lane you see cones set up. Should be cleared shortly. The outer loop moving along at speed very light volume there. Well hop over to our maps and show you a look at our wide view beltway traffic elsewhere looking really good. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Well take a look at some fredericksburg construction on route one northbound next. Back to you maureen and wisdom. Thank you erin. Coming up, were continuing to follow breaking news from delaware are a state trooper was shot and killed. Baltimore asks federal agents to step in and help with the citys murder rate. As we head to break lets take a live look outside. Its 4 57 and 60 degrees. Little crisscross for you. Were warming it up for you on this thursday morning. Really warm, like getting 80s warm. Back after this. Z2ay2z z16fz y2ay2y y16fy this is fox5 news morning. Today on fox5 news morning, tax reform proposal. President trump rolls out the principles for what he says will be the biggest tax cut in history. Thousands of dollars go missing leading to questions being raised about the financial practices of the Montgomery County council of ptas. Look live outside right now. Its mild out there right now. Things hope to expected to really heat up on this thursday. Were talking temperatures in the 80s. Bring it on. Good morning. Thanks for j