Vote is still expected sometime tonight. Earlier today the house of representatives passed the rewrite of the tax code, but just hours later three provision s in the house bill were found to violate senate rules. The house will revote tomorrow and the legislation is expected to pass again. New tonight, busted for dui an elected d. C. Neighborhood leader is firing back at the Prince Georges County police department. Offersers say when they arrested Paul Trantham he was belligerent and cursed officers out and they say they have the video to prove it. Tonight trantham spoke to fox5. Sarah simmons is live in the news room. Reporter officers stopped trantham on indian head highway last night claiming that his car was swerving. He refused to take a sobriety try test and took him into custody. He locked himself in a Bathroom Police release a video of that incident. Take a look. Come on , mr. Trantham, come on out man. Call your supervisor, punk. Police say trantham cursed out the officers and acted in a belligerent way. Tonight we caught up with trantham who thrashed out for police what they handled at the traffic stop or how they handled it. When i got out of the car he immediately came and put my hands behind my back. At no time did he ask me for what you call it . A field sobriety sobriety. At no time. When we got to the station i yum ped out and i walked myself. I wasnt staggering. I wasnt none of that. I wasnt staggering in the police station. Since they want to show you video let them who he you video of that. I apologize for making that iment is it a, but if you was treated the way that i was treated within the last 24 hours only god would know what you would be thinking and saying outside your mouth. They have a man. Police chief hang is it a win ski is defending the officers who handled the arrest tonight. He release this statement that reads in part. I found mr. Trantham use of racial especially at the time of the accident during this incident disparaging offensive. Based on the facts as i have them i stand with and fully support the actions taken by the officers involved in this arrest and i commend them for the professional conduct in the face of inflammatory and hateful conduct. Police are now review ing the case. Trantham told us tonight that despite what happened he still respects police but says hell also be more careful when dealing with officers. A virginia nonprofit dedicated to helping others is desperately in need of some help itself just days before christmas. A thief was caught on camera you see here raiding the registers at the house of mercy a faithbased thift store and food pantry in evan lambert is live tonight. Reporter the manager says that on one used a rock to smash this window here, door rather. This is a faithbased organization. Obviously you can easily tell that, but that did not stop this person from breaking in zoo id. If the giant statues of jesus didnt make it abundant clear, the house of mercy in manassas is a faithbased charity, but that did not seem to stop a thieve who under the eye of one of those statues broke in and stole cash from the organization saturday night. Heres the Surveillance Video just out today. Acourteding to thift store manager von barron the man face covered and wearing a hoodie and gloves broke through the glassdoor with a rock. This is where we pick him up on camera, which is this one over there. Comes around over here, doesnt touch any of the laptops out here. But he checks the drawers here. Checks the drawer here. Lifts up the cash, grabs the k9 tray, does the exact same to this one, pulse the cash out which are just ones and fives. But the dollars add up and it will cost house of mercy nearly a thousand dollars to replace the door which needs to be special order ed. This whole pain is completely out. House of mercy is a thrift store and food pantry which provides food for free to needed families all over virginia. There is a lot of folks this is where theyre getting their only meals. This whole thrift store works on putting food in the pant trivment 85cents of every dollar thatting whys through this register we buy food with. Watching people steel from the poor at the who l days sad enough, but whats worse is if this man was in need all he had ed to do was ask. If he would have come in and basically said im in need of help we would probably have given him more than what he got out of our registers. If you recognize that man in the Surveillance Video police need your help. Live in local news. Tonight there is a new twist in our fox5 investigation into grade fixing in Prince Georges County public schools. We learn ed School Officials knew more than a year ago that some students were graduating without meeting the requirements. Long before a state mandated audit reached the same conclusion. Fox5s Lindsay Watts broke down the new developments. Lindsay. Tony whats so significant about this prior internal audit it shows top leaders at Prince Georges County schools knew about mismanagement of student records, including records of graduating seniors. And that was threw their own investigation more than a year ago. Yet this is only now coming to light after we confirmed the existence of this prior audit just today. Over the summer as you know several Board Members wrote a letter to the governor alleging top down corruption to boost the Graduation Rate and fox5 spoke to being forced to change grades of failing students so they would pass. That prompted a state audit that found students in this district are graduating without meeting state requirements. Whats important here is that before that statement audit the schools ceo and board chair adamantly denied that anything was amiss when it came to students graduating. I interviewed dr. Max kel and i asked him how can he say he didnt know when this prior audit is in existence . And that went to you back in may of 2016 so how quu say you didnt know that this was happening . So that was copied to me. It was not my audit to actually go through myself and respond to at that moment. But our folks took that very seriously and looked at it. Again you read this audit that said some students were graduating even though theres no evidence to show they earned a diploma, you read that so at that time you knew it was happening, isnt that correct . I knew that that there were cases. I asked my folks this is what our folks do that went to doctor tally and to doctor mason and they were charged with working with their people to confirm. Thats how audits work. You hert there eventually he did acknowledge he knew there were cases of students graduat ing without meeting requirements and then referenced other people tasked to deal with that. So this is ul coming out the same night dr. Maxwell presented a big plan of action to address that state audit and fix the major problems identif ied there. The thing is there was already an action plan that was created after the internal audit more than a year before the state investigators came in. If that plan didnt work the first time why would the plan youre presenting tonight work now in. So im not sure that it didnt work. Im not sure that we didnt improve. Except that auditors came in a year later and they found when you already addressed this was happening and you made a plan to correct it. So why wasnt it fixed in i believe some of the things were fixed. I think when we come back this year after we do the next audit youll see that the implementation of this plan bass gone very well and that we are doing much, much belter and i do have another meeting i need to get to. I wanted to ask you as well the Board Members are going to ask you tonight why they found out about this from me and not from you and not from doctor eubanks. What are you going to tell them . Dr. Maxwell ended that scheduled interview less than seven minutes after it started. I was trying to can him about Board Members who say they were never made aware of that prior internal audit until now. Tonight the School System provided us an email that shows it did go out to all Board Members last year although it was in a bigger report that had to do with a Quarterly Report on overall audit findings. So it wasnt extre reached out to county executive Rushern Baker and his office tells us he did not know about this prior audit until we asked him about it today. The full internal audit is posted on our website, fox5dc. Com. Live in Upper MarlboroLindsay Watts, fox5 local news. There is still no word on caused a huge fast moving fire in Prince Georges County that tore through a suitland apartment building. Five people were hurt, more than 30 people at the Carriage Hill apartment complex along curtis drive are now left homeless. One witness told us that the scene was heart breaking. As im walking i look to the left, boom. Theres like hattering windows, babies on the balcony crying, asking me catch me, somebody catch me. Fire every where. Fire spreading. At this time no ambulance, no firetrucks, are sad. You see the Christmas Lights falling off the building. Everything just coming down. Five residents were for smoke inhalation. Two were taken to the hospital. The fire damaged at least eleven of the buildings units. A d. C. Family believe their loved one was killed for their air jordan basketball shoes. Tonight police are looking for 17 year old james smith and stole his sneakers. It happened on Douglas Community center southeast. Shell casings covered the basketball court. If you have any information, call d. C. Police. Searching for a cause. The latest on that deadly amtrak derail many. Why investigators say distracts could have played a factor in the crash. Plus, did he know it was coming. Why Harvey Weinstein requested large amounts of money from netflix weeks before his scandal broke. Coming up tonight on the final five, military drills in south korea are in the spotlight right now two months ahead of the winter olympics. What theyre doing to ease tension with their neighbors to the north. Thats tonigh one 30. It all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. New tonight, a twist in the d. C. Mansion murder mystery and the many Unanswered Questions surrounding the case. Fox5s Marina Maracco has been following the case of the brutal murders of the family and their housekeeper who were killed inside their northwest d. C. Home. Its now been almost three years since the mansion murders and theres only been one arrest for the murders of the superfluous family and their housekeeper, the suspect darin went. Went who is awaiting trial has maintained hes not guiltiment d. C. \police\police have also said they believe there are more suspects. In recent weeks fox5 has recovered these documents. This is the Civil Protection order that catherine a filed against her grandfather, and the father of savvas sap flus, their ten year old son and their housekeeper after being held against their will for 19 hours inside their northwest d. C. Mansion back in may of 2015. A d. C. Judge granted the protection order that it be sealed because of sensitive and serious allegations of a personal order. The other is checked off in the other box where the words sexual asslt are printed in parenthesis. The judge ordered phillip superfluous who remain a hundred yards away from his grand for the until september of 2018. We spoke to bernard grim about the order. Essentially what youre saying to the judge is i want that person to stay the hell away from me, no text, no contact, no carrier pigeon, nothing, not a single thing. What the judge did is she granted it for a year, which is very unusual. That is a very long time to order someone to stay away from another human being. We should be clear, phillip soup flus has not been charged with any crime in relation to this oamptd i did speak to d. C. Police with knowledge about this investigation and they say that they have interviewed phillip soup flus many times and he has always cooperated with investigators. They still maintain detectives are still looking at other potential jury remains open despite dwar ren wents arrest. Remember , darren went was a rm ifer employee of american iron works, the Company Owned by the superfluous family. He not only took orders from satisfy as but also from phillip who remains at the Company Following his sons death. Why would a grand jury still remain open. Once you get indicted you set a trial date. And then the grand jury expires. Its over. This grand jury is still open, which is bizarre. It seems to be the norm in this case almost bizarre. But that means that a prosecutor, once the grandeur i expires, the prosecutor no longer has subpoena power. Now theres a lot to break down in this case, but tomorrow morning fox5 will be launching another pod cast episode of the mansion orders. I sat down with sarah frazer who spoke down with bernard grim and will help walk us through more of the case. Good d. C. Tomorrow. You can subscribe to the pod cast on itunes by searching the mansion murders. New details oot amtrak crash near seattle that quilled three people and injured 70 oamplets two of the three people have been identified. One is a trans it employee, the other is a member of the Rail Passengers Association of the right now federal investigators are look ing at whether distracts may have been a factor in the crash an official says the engineer driving the train might have lost Situational Awareness because of a fellow employee who was training in the same locomotive. A disat a recorder showed the train was traveling more than 50 Miles Per Hour over the speed limit. Disgraced hollywood Film Producer harvey within stein might have been trying to save his own skin before the scandal brek. Weinstein reportedly ask ed netflix for 25 million because he reportedly knew about the impending report and wanted some extra huff m to sell the rights to some of his movies to netflix. Executives turned down that offer. Weinsteins representatives denied the story. A beautiful today day de. What a contrast to eight years ago today when we were finishing up the biggest snowstorm weve ever had here in d. C. , 2009 snow pock lips. 24 inches or sonchts in many place we ranged from 16 to 24. Eight years ago . A. December can be all over the place. This year we get the springlike day on december 19. Hopefully we dont have another winter like 20092010. Can i tell you it was one of the easiest winters ive ever forecast. Because the snows were so huge and not the rain snow mix that it was easy to get it right even if it was winter. Today were still bask ing in the warmth and i want ed to show you a great picture i got on twitter. This is from swan lake 202. He tweet ed, myself and mike thomas said he kind of likes this spring and winter. I believe this is a winter blooming iris that he as has been sheaverring in recent days but got a nice warmup today. If you get a good picture send it to me. 662 was our high temperature. We made a run in. Missed it by three degrees. Unfortunately were not doing that respect to. Its going to be a qulowd did i cooler day with temperatures to where they hewed be this time of year. Were thinking its going to come in about 49degrees for the district much thats back to normal. Maybe some brighter moments in the afternoon as some of the clouds pass by to our south from a storm system track ing through the caroline as. Were back to more sunshine on thursday, but a slightly cold er day at 45degrees. The cold air behind through tonight is lagging just a little bit. Which is why were still 50 here in d. C. And a lot of places near 50degrees youre not going to hear the furnace clicking on as much as it usually does. 351degrees culpeper and mostly overnight temperatures are going to be in the 40s with a few upper 40s around but not terribly cold much thats nice for the kids tomorrow morning at the bus top not too chilly. Fortysix to 49 after school. It will definitely feel a whole lot different than today did. We have some clouds around as well as a little bit of clearing across maryland. What were much whatting is this area of low pressure that is not going to bring rain to d. C. But is going to past to the caroline carolinas. If youre travelling tomorrow you may run into a little of that. The chilly air back with us and then we get another big bounce as we get closer to the even. About the bounce and the even. Friday not bad at 53degrees. Its a mostly cloudy day and the clouds will be just ahead of a rainy system on saturday. We may get up to 61degrees on saturday but well have to deal with showers pretty much the whole day. They may linger into sunday, christmas eve. We start the colder trend. Most of the models come in. Much colder on tuesday of next week at 35 degrees. So get ready for colder air after we get through christmas. Dont go anywhere. More of our fox5 local news at 11 when we come right back. Roms official Christmas Tree apparently has a Little Charlie brown Christmas Tree in it. The bayer branches have been dropping needles every day since it was lit december 8. Romans are calling it spill latch oh which translates as manning i or thread bare. City hall paid almost 57,000 just to get that tree in the capital city from a rural part of the country. Can you believe they paid 57,000 for that . A. They should get a refundment i would want more than a refund look at that tree and then people are making fun p of it. Thats sad. They put some fake branches to mix in with it. Some pine extensions. Yes. All right. Thats it for us tonight. Yl i with the final five. Have a good night, everybody. It all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. My wish was a clubhouse, but we call it the wish house. People visit National Parks from all over the world. 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Another threat of a Government Shutdown the north from causing trouble during the olympics, a Safety System delayed by congress may prehave prevented the deadly amtrak case. The attorney generals new crack down on violent crime. This is the final five. Lets do this. Here we are one 30 on a tuesday night and a tax reform bill is getting close to heading to the president s desk. The president has been debating the bill for hours. Chris