This tuesday, including the weather. Im going to pull out the short sleeves just one more time. [laughter] veronica feels like holidays down in florida, somewhere down to the south today, but its not going to stay that way. We will move back very quickly to temperatures with highs in the 30s. This morning, my goodness, fairly mild in most neighborhoods. Big range, depends on where you are, just west of d. C. , starting out in that cooler range, low of 95. 0 degrees east playing it cool across the area. By lunchtime later today, sunshine, partly sunny, upper 50s by 2 00 in your evening rush, not bad. Lower 50s under a partly cloudy sky. A look at the change we are tracking into today and tomorrow, a front comes through and we will start to come through with wind chill readings. On the roads right now you will find that the lanes are open towards the wilson bridge, maryland and virginia. However, the crashes on the wilson bridge with all traffic stopped and they are in the process of moving over what everyone to the left. In, leaving everyone virginia, the alternate, back around the jefferson and eisenhower avenue, cutting that commute by more than half. You may want to start thinking about that as the workaround. Southbound baltimorewashington parkway, the crash at greenbelt road, 46 minutes and travel time towards the beltway. Minutes to update that commute on 270. Larry . Larry 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. Autria that is what the ntsb found out overnight. The passenger Miles Per Hour over the posted speed limit. Autria larry now the question turns to what might have been missing to stop this. Adrianna interstate five south of seattle is still close where the train careened off of a bridge and hit cars below. Lets get you straight to the newest details that we have for you. Overnight we learned that the train was doing 80 Miles Per Hour on a 30 mile per hour section of track. Three people are confirmed dead, 100 are hurt. We know that all the victims on some were killed. Looking into what could have been done to prevent this wreck. Positive chain control has been recommended for years. We are checking to see exactly whether positive train control was involved in this section of the track. Adrianna it was for this train on a new commuter route. There were 86 people on board at the time. New developments are coming in from Washington State by the minute. We are taking you live to the 6 30. Coming up in around today, President Trump hoping for his first big win. The gop tax plan is up for a vote. Ryan . President trump says that this will be the biggest tax cut in the history of the country and it will strengthen the economy. As you can imagine, he will be watching this vote very closely. This will be his first major legislative victory if it passes but there has been pushed back on capitol hill, demonstrators urging congress not to pass it. The tax cuts for Corporate America and the reduction in the Corporate Tax rate are set to be permanent, but most of the cuts for individuals expire eight years. Analysis shows that 65 of the benefit in the first year will go to the top 20 . Big businesses and corporations could see it from 35 down to 21 . They claim that the bill is aimed at the middle class, calling it the biggest christmas middle, but 70 of income americans would see a tax increase and 76 of the wealthiest would receive a tax cut. Bob corker of tennessee getting scrutiny for switching his vote to a yes soon after a tax the duction was added. The bill is expected to pass easily in the house with a tighter margin in the senate. Postponed mike pence a trip to israel to stay in d. C. To cast the tiebreaking vote if he has to. Live on capitol hill, ryan hughes. Have new information after an apartment catches fire on downing street in northeast d. C. Two women and a firefighter were hurt. One of the women was taken to the hospital with critical, lifethreatening injuries. The other woman and the firefighter are expected to be ok. New information that massive house fire in burke. Remember, we first brought you this as breaking news yesterday morning. Neighbors shot this video and officials tell us that it was likely started by an electrical problem with an overhead light. Luckily, no one was hurt. Answersne month after one month and for answers. After calling Police Report that her daughter was missing, the woman learned that her daughter was picked up by another students relative. Now many arm questioning why it happened. They should look into how the child was let to go with a stranger. They probably shouldnt allow that. Yeah, thats crazy. Larry the the school unharmed. The stranger that picture up was interviewed and no charges were filed. Hundreds of airport workers at dulles said they plan to strike during one of the biggest travel weeks of the year. Areracted employees amending higher wages and benefits and they want the right to unit unionize. Receive workers say that they have to work two to three jobs just to survive. Of flyers leftds sitting in the dark in atlanta. People are being booked on new flights but it could be days until everything works itself out at Hartsfield International airport. Officials blaming the fire in a service tunnel for the outage. The ceo says that they are making sure that in incident like this doesnt happen again. Do you have that one word or phrase that you just cringe when you hear it . Overnight, does yours make the list . Plus a player profile, that is what stu cravens is saying this morn larry this just in. Remember the flyby of the tower on the carriers last flight . This morning the federal agency that oversees air safety in germany has cleared the pilot of wrongdoing. It had 200 people on board from the pilot aborted the landing for the low pass. The flight was headed from miami. Lets get a check in our forecast from vj. Love what youre saying. Veronica i hope that folks are listening and making some plans to do something for yourself out doors today. Good day for getting the run in. Even a morning run. 49 degrees right now in minersville, maryland. 52 in martinsburg , west virginia. A lot of that mild air is just ready to continue to surge in words as the southwesterly wind starts to come southwest. Temperature staying mild, 8 00 temperature, 52. There will be clouds moving in later tonight. 37 degrees by morning. For the warmer locations around d. C. , a look at the windchill temperatures for tomorrow. Dropping to the lower 30s late today. We will talk about the cold air in the rain coming in, coming up. Julie not the rain. Tractortrailer crash, inner loop of the beltway here at eisenhower avenue has traffic squeezing bride to the right, still an hour and a half commute across the wilson bridge towards this accident scene. Once you cross the bridge towards jefferson and duke thats aisenhower, good workaround for you, cutting that commute by more than half southbound 270, all the way out to the split with lanes open, and still a 34 may commute. That is our traffic watch. Back in the next 10 minutes with an update on the roads and rails. Jerseys, one player. What is next for one of basketballs greatest now that those jerseys have hit the rafters . A redskins player says he was recently pulled over here because he is black and has tattoos. He recorded a video from the scene. We will show it to you next year and why police say he you are watching good morning washington, on your side. What . On me, i said this it calmed down, they started pushing me up against in the put cuffs on my h that is a redskins safety saying that he was profiled by Loudoun County police. Larry there are discrepancies between his stories and the official report. John . John not only is he saying he was the victim of racial profiling, he says he was roughed up by Loudoun County police. Take a look, this is farm while station middle school, where police say he was speeding through a school zone last month during school hours. Take a look at this, the speed limit drops from 35 to 25. The 22yearold defensive player is on the defensive this morning , saying he was handcuffed, accused of smelling like marijuana and thrown against his own car. He recorded this video after the traffic stop on the 29th. Yesterday he tweeted it out and now he is threatening to sue. Just got pulled over by the police. Let me show you. They got squad cars out here, man. Want to pull somebody over because what . Im black . I got tattoos and im out here in a nice car . Saying him going 39 in the 35 . What, bro . Morning they say he was given a speeding ticket and cited for illegal turn. The second round pick who suffered a concussion last year chose to sit out this season, claiming hes going to retire. Recently his agent said that his client looks forward to returning to football next. Eason john gonzales, good morning washington. Larry the lakers, retiring the kobe bryant jersey. Plated 20 seasons with the lakers and for half his made the switch to 24. People saying that hes the closest anyone has seen to the great michael jordan. Hes only 39, hes launching his own media company. Thata these three guys you see right here are behind bars this morning and police say it could be the break they have been waiting for in a crime spree that covers all of d. C. , maryland, and virginia. Here they are allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of phones and they maybe responsible for similar crimes in the district and alexandria. The value of the phones that expected to be upwards of 80,000. Larry an amazing rescue. Check out this picture. If you zoom in closely, you can right there. E hat the image led to the rescue of missing. The allout search began saturday when he didnt return home from a hunting trip. He said he misjudged the time and got caught up in the rough terrain. I thought it was going to take me 15 to 20 minutes and it took me an hour and a half. By that time it was pitch black dark. Larry only 20 minutes after the drone was launched, he was found. Autria end of year lists popping up and knew this morning, the most annoying words of the year. Whatever is at the top of the list for the 19 year in a row. Fake news came in second place. No offense, but, came in third. Literally was literally at number four. And you know what i mean rounded out the top five. So, ban all five of these so that you are not annoying to literally, im bad. Autria i blame these college kids were still saying whatever. The valley, get rid of that. Veronica i kind of look at it as use it against them and then they will hear how bad it sounds. Autria i dont know, whatever, vj. [laughter] effort,akes a lot of though. But this forecast, 60 . Veronica i think julie still has her uggs on. She didnt get the memo. You abouten telling how mild its going to be, but its also going to be breezy. The wind is already picking up. These are actual wind speeds out of the southwest at 22 Miles Per Hour, picking up throughout the day. Look at those temperatures, 39 in joint base andrews. Good morning to you in college park and the university of maryland. School session here. Fairfax county and Prince William county, later today, 60 degrees across the area. It is just going to be amazing. We dropped down for a High Temperature tomorrow with clouds moving in on the weather front and temperatures really coming down for thursday. The winter solstice, first a winter, coming right back for the Holiday Weekend on saturday. Christmas day, the High Temperature, just 48 degrees, much cooler, tracking what will be the tail end of some rain hopefully moving out of here. You can see it here, monday through lunchtime we will be looking at some rain showers on christmas day. Forecast, high of just 34 degrees on tuesday. How much rain . Coming up. The inner loop, the outer loop, the bw parkway, now, a 19 minute drive coming out of 270. Ge park over towards the story will be the inner loop oxon hill towards alexandria. The crash on eisenhower avenue tying up the far left lane. An hour and a half commute right now. Plan on using the duke street reconnecting with eisenhower avenue pass the accident scene, cutting your commute by more than half using that as a workaround. We had earlier delays on the and blue lines and here are your travel times in virginia. Back in 10 minutes to update that ride on 66. Larry . Larry 7 on your side with some holiday stress relief. A gift card to hand stone massage. Color number seven, wins. If you dont win this one, keep it right here because we have another gift card so, good luck. Autria new details this morning after a hig you are watching good morning washington, on your side. Larry linsey davis has the latest on track palin. Police described a chaotic scene at the family home of the former governor of alaska in 2008 Vice President ial nominee, sarah palin. Her 28yearold son, track, an army veteran, arrested on assault and burglary charges. According to Court Documents obtained by abc news, she called after 8 30 p. M. , saying her son was freaking out and was on some type of medication. Charging documents that he went to the house to confront his father to get his truck and his father told him not to come in. Todd told police that he went to toor with a pistol for protect his family. According to the affidavit, into the house, got his father on the ground and began hitting him in the head. With your gma first look, im linsey davis, abc news, new york. At the d. C. Lottery, we not only love this place as much as you do, we heard you loud and clear when you voted for six new neighborhood scratchers. Dont forget to enter the secondchance drawing. You could win 500,000 that may be used towards buying a home in your favorite neighborhood. What do you think . Hey, think ben will like it . Yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music . Im serious, i never know what to get him. Just tell me you got him fios too. Sigh. Mrs. Layne, fios is a 100 fiberoptic network. That, plus this sick console, hell be like whaaaaaattt. Your new tech is best on the 100 fiber optic network. So get fios. Now just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. What if more of the came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could detect, fix and even prevent Power Outages . What if our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . What if all these what ifs became a reality . Well, they are. At dominion energy, were completely and the way we think of energy. To move from what if to whats next. Dominion energy. Now, good morning washington, on your side. Overnight,aking deadly speed, the brandnew information coming in from the scene of an amtrak derailment and what could have been done to prevent rash. Larry the reviews are already in about the newest addition to the hall of president s. Warning, they are all not good. Autria we will have more on that bizarre story in just a moment. [laughter] autria right now we are sending it to Veronica Johnson with the good news of the day. Veronica fantastic news. This past friday we were Walking Around all bundled up in heavy coats with heavy snow and now we could be in it five out of five stars in my day star rating. Dropping to three stars by tomorrow, more coming your way by the year round out. Only three stars with the rain moving to the Holiday Weekend. Door this the morning, its 30 degree temperatures, 54 for recess for the kids. Some of them still in school , 56, amazing, great weather to get outdoors. Thursday we will have that temperature drop and then you need to plan for saturday, when there will be pretty good rain in the area. Ironically enough, this thursday, julie . Winter arrives, and what it will will tell you. Tell us is looking better on the area roads. Julie is that one of those gifts i can regift . Veronica absolutely. [laughter] julie trying to way past eisenhower avenue, we are looking at it from the backside when traffic its by on the right. Sky track 7 above the scene right now and for those traveling on the inner loop towards springfield, you can see the left side of the road is blocked and those delays are beginning to slow across the wilson bridge, from maryland. A onehour commute right now, towards duke street, headed west the eisenhower, thats the best alternate at this time. Moving you back over to the map, a 41 minute ride from manassas to the capital beltway. All of your lanes your are open. Back in the next 10 minutes to take a look at the ride in silver spring. Per luminary are that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 mile per hour track. You heard it right there, brandnew developments in the deadly amtrak derailment. Larry investigators confirming overnight that the tra on what were learning from investigators. Good morning as you can see behind me, the crews are working overtime there. We just saw a crane lifting up one of these passenger cars off of the embankment. Just dangling over the interstate. Keep in mind, this is a very busy artery here. Thats the biggest piece of breaking news. Authorities are not saying that thats certainly the cause, but obviously alluding to the fact that it may have had a big role in what happened yesterday. They are still conducting this investigation. We have seen authorities from multiple agencies on the ground trying to figure out what exactly happened here and what caused this. They do say they havent interviewed the engineer yet and they are hoping to finish all the interviews by today. But an investigation like this might take seven to 10 days to really figure out what it together with what they have. We found out the speed information from a data report, the equivalent of the black rocks located in the rear of the locomotive. That was of course the only car that stayed on the track. The train had another one of these data recorders at the front of the train. That car, destroyed. They are trying to recover the box in get more information but all they are saying right now is that the train was definitely speeding over the limit and not quite getting to the point where they are saying that it was definitely the cause. Larry do you know when they might be able to free up in clear the area . Its such a big and busy court or. They are trying to have it cleared up by later this morning , theyreow that again working overtime. We saw the press conference from the ntsb just a few hours ago. More and more officials on the ground, just coming colleagues flights, we saw officials coming down here, trying to clear the area but still maintain that this is an active crime scene and investigation at this time. Larry thank you for the update, talk you soon. Looking ahead to what comes next , one of the first questions that people ask is what could have been done to prevent the crash like this in the first place. Autria Safety Advocates have pointed to positive Train Control Technology and if that sounds familiar its the same thing that they made huge push for after the deadly derailment in philadelphia. The problem is that its expensive and congress has provided only a fraction of the funding needed. According to the latest statistics from the federal rail administration, only 41 of all passenger locomotives and 20 of tracks are equipped and ptc operable. Larry abc 7 is covering the story for you onair and online. Stick with us to get the latest developments. The leaders hoping to put rat problem on ice. They are trying a new method to control the population by dropping dry ice into rat nests. To us, but in a small place it can really overwhelmed the rodents. Other cities say they have seen this work and we will keep you posted as to how effective it is. Snaps a little bit of coming from city hall. This has a lot of the city laughing and shaking their head. The official account of the d. C. Counsel tweeting out these be advised, half of the Wilson Building is experiencing a power outage. Fortunately, since these has no vote in congress, we are used to being powerless. For the record, the electrical power was restored a short time later. Power, just a note, is still lacking. [laughter] larry new arrival to disney. Autria Adrianna Hopkins is following this one for us. Adrianna so, President Trump has joined the reopened hall of president s. Take a good look at his character. Does it really looks like the president . Or does it look like a certain level actor . Just say it, its jon voight. Twitter says it looks a lot less like trump and a lot more like jon voight. There you have it. Autria it does look a lot like him. Adrianna you know . Years of thing, jon voight is a major supporter of donald trump, so for him im sure its an honor to be in the hall of president s. Autria thinking thats a good looking man. [laughter] adrianna but when they make faces,haracters, these either you are spot on or it totally misses the mark. Larry all right, adrianna. Thanks. So, a holdup for your holidays. Autria what did it mean for you , catching your flight . Tracking somere rain for your holiday. On the other side of the break i will take you day by day and show you the rain that we will get. First, your weather on the go. Z2momz zi0z y2momy yi0y well, no need for a heavy coat today. Some of you will be hardpressed and will want to wear the jacket later. Feels right, its going to like spring, with temperatures rising into the 50s by lunchtime. 60 degrees, late morning temperatures closer to what the average High Temperatures typically are. It is going to remain nice. There will be some breezes and clouds moving through from time to time, but for the Holiday Weekend we will be tracking rain. Sunday, through lunchtime on guidance shows that most of the heavy rain is going to come late sunday through monday morning, Christmas Morning time with most of it breaking out anywhere from one inches to two inches. Really muchneeded rainfall for the area. We will talk temperatures in a couple of minutes. ,utria julie all right, vj better news on eisenhower avenue. First, 395, this is new. Accident activity here tying up the right side of the highway. A fiveminute stretch towards the d. C. Waterfront. On the beltway near eisenhower avenue the crash has been pulled to the shoulder. Sky track 7 above the scene, you will find that delays remain on over towardsp back eisenhower avenue. Now the lanes are open. Back in the next 10 minutes and we will show you the ride on 270. Autria a controversial video that has everyone talking. Plus, decisionmakers on the hill, the gop looking all that certain on cap passing sweeping tax reform. How could a threeyearold be allowed to go home from school with a total stranger . That is what the d. C. Is looking into in northwest washington. My wish was a clubhouse, but we call it the wish house. People visit National Parks from all over the world. Food tastes better when you dont have to cook it. He was just supposed to be my dog. I dont know why. vo were proud that, on behalf of our owners, the subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen Million Dollars in just ten years. Get 0 financing for 63 months on select models. Plus well donate 250 to charity. You are watching good morning washington, on your side. Larry if you are just waking up with us, we are following that breaking news from Washington State. Autria Adrianna Hopkins has the latest. Adrianna i5 south of seattle is still closed and blocked off with that train careened off a bridge and landed on the road below. That train was doing 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 mile per hour section of track. Three people are confirmed dead and more than 100 are hurt. We know that all of the victims were on the train. None of the drivers below were killed. With soon to be hours before the interstate new information is coming in from Washington State by the minute. The abct the latest on news app. Republican lawmakers in their final push to deliver their sweeping tax or form built a President Trump. The vote in the senate is set to come later today or tomorrow. In the senate all voting republicans are expected to back the bill. This is the biggest reshaping of the u. S. Tax code in three decades, permanently slashing the Corporate Tax rate from 35 down to 21 with the standard eduction and tax credit being doubled. The bill also repeals the obamacare individual mandate. Hundreds of airport workers at dulles say they are planning to strike weary of employees in charge of terminal cleaning and wheelchairs are demanding higher wages, benefits, and the right to unionize. They are paid as little as 6. Three jobs just to survive. Autria things are starting to get back to normal in atlanta after thousands of flyers were left in the dark. People were being left booked a new flights, but it could be a few days before everything works itself out. A fire in a service tunnel is responsible for the outage. The ceo of Georgia Power says they are making sure that an incident like this doesnt happen again. Larry see these three guys . They are behind bars this morning and police say that they could be the break that they are waiting for in a three state crime spree of men accused of stealing thousands of dollars in prince georges county. Thatalue of the phones they swiped is expected to be upwards of 80,000. New overnight, the white house, want to cry years cyber attack on north korea. Evidence that the regime was. Irectly responsible autria congressman Elijah Cummings will be this years winter Commencement Speaker at the university of maryland later today. He will receive an honorary doctorate for public service. Larry developing now, a school mix up in the district, threeyearold girl sent home with the wrong person. Suzanne kennedy has more on what is every parents nightmare. Good morning to you, larry. As the students come and go from this northwest washington school, they will be watching even more closely after this incident that took place here. The mother of this threeyearold says she called police after her child was sent home from Cleveland Elementary School with a stranger. The woman called police, who said the child was allowed to go home with another students relative. They thought the man that t girls uncle. The child was returned unharmed and d. C. Public schools released a statement about the issue were looking into the incident from Cleveland Park elementary school. We are committed to fostering a learning environment in which students are safe and secure. Authorities say that no charges will be filed in this case. Reporting live, suzanne kennedy. A new study in the journal of Child Development is contradicting what we thought we knew about kids and screen time. Researchers found that there might not actually be a reason to limit how much time your child spends on a phone or a tablet and that restrictions on screen time came out last year appeared to be based on outdated methods and that the screens dont negatively impact a childs psychological wellbeing. I dont know about that. I think a lot of parents disagree. Larry i would totally disagree, yeah. Autria a videogame, ruffling a few fred theirs. The game has a launch party tonight, the concept is simple. You are a guerrilla hopping around trying to collect food for points. The only thing is, you are harambe. You get shot and you lose the game if you bump into one of the children on screen. Harambe con is harambe kong is being debuted tonight at an arcade. Harambe, of course, the guerrilla who was shot and killed after a child fell into the enclosure. Some say that its tasteless because it exploits the incident. Others, including the programmer, say that people should just lighten up. Autria [laughter] lighten up . Is toe donkey kong outdated . All right. Well, look at this lighten cap backdrop. Lightened up a backdrop this morning. Veronica out there, running and jogging. Forget about shopping. Springlike conditions today to winter like cold coming your way on thursday because of a temperature drop. The cold front and the fact that it will still be breezier on wednesday and thursday. Now, some holiday disruptions, could see that, this time coming with rain and not snow. 46 degrees coming out of the upper 30s the lower 45 this morning, close to what our average High Temperature is. We climbed through there. 58 degrees today, closer to 60 by 3 00. Your evening is also in the 50s today. We will start tracking some rain late on friday. Saturday afternoon, from areas , throughn, mississippi new york city, all getting the rain saturday afternoon. On sunday, but notice the cold air and the change over to snow detroit and st. Louis, the cold air makes its way into areas christmasburgh on day. Chances for a light christmas, not here. Rain with falling temperatures, but a cold rain. Pittsburgh, west virginia, seeing the snow. Upstate new york, maybe even chicago, hanging onto a bit of light snow. For us, its 48 degrees lets take a look at your tenday forecast here, through your Holiday Weekend and monday, temperatures go from 60 on saturday to 48 on christmas day. 30s for High Temperatures next week. Im not ready for this, julie. Im not ready, im telling you, its the gift we need to regift. Heading north, a 60 minute commute. Lanes are open coming from the beltway towards the d. C. 95 in virginia, from dale city, pushing north towards the. No issues reported back to the springfield interchange. Minute ride on southbound kenilworth avenue and new york avenue. A 13 minute commute traveling from 50 back towards the third street tunnel. 295 northbound, a 60 minute ride from the beltway to the bridge. Back in the next 10 minutes to show you the right on 270, but right now we say good morning to our pet of the day, ready for saint nick. In. Is log a big thanks to dennis weinstein, who sent this picture. I cant believe he sat there and let you put the little hat on him. If you want your pet to be our pet of the day, thats our feature on the free app. Login looks like he could autria noggin looks like he could use some eggnog. [laughter] autria we are on your side, helping you unwind for the holidays. A stone massage with multiple locations across the dmz. Caller number seven, this is yours. The number to call, 7035287334. Good luck and relax. Larry time is running out to get that special package delivered by christmas. This is the deadline for fedex, express saver first class. Ups, second day air and u. S. Postal Priority Mail. You can drop your package at the post office on friday and pay a surcharge for Priority Mail express and still get your package delivered by christmas day. Well, you know, the little town of bethlehem is busy gearing up for christmas. Autria but were not talking about the actual birthplace of jesus christ, way over in the middle east. We are talking about bethlehem, maryland. So many people go there to get it postmarked with their biblical name. Some were shipped as far as china and the netherlands. The United States and the world just to have a stamp saying bethlehem. Autria its a tradition that dates back to 1939, very cool. Can you believe it was 20 years ago today that ochs legend titanic hit theaters. December 19, 1997. Winning 11 oscars, including best picture. The mostme it was expensive movie ever made and it became the first movie to sell 1 billion in tickets. Larry wow. King of the world. Autria king of the box office. Thats right. Amazing, 20 years. That does it for us on abc seven. Autria we are headed over to news channel 8. Join us. Good morning, america. Breaking news in that deadly train derailment. Authorities now reveal the amtrak train that flew off the tracks was going 50 miles over the speed limit. Emergency, emergency, emergency. We are on the ground. At least three people killed. Dozens injured. The investigation and the hero eagle scout who rushed in to help. Decision day. Republicans just hours away from passing their tax overhaul. President trump closing in on his first major legislative victory. The new report, who really wins and who loses . New trouble for the palin family. Sarah palins son now behind bars