Wednesday, december 20. Michael thomas is talking about weather ahead and erin como is talking about the roads and mike, not as nice and still not bad. Not as nice and not the worst day in the world. Could be worst for late de. Lots of clouds. Temperatures not moving far from where they are now and currently 52. Hey, erin. Ill take the degree rights now. We have a crash Harmony Church in hamilton. We get you around that one. Ill tell you maureen, holly, you ladies are popping in those colors. Pop, pop, thanks, erin. Ow top story this morning the republicans push to reform the the National Tax Code is almost complete app now it has one more hurd toll clear before getting president tr trump. Melanie alnwick live on capitol hill with the the latest this morning. The the vote was late, mel. Thats right theyll be back at it early again this morning. House republicans were celebrating yesterday because they tug their hurdle. Turns out they were a few chains technical changes that had to be made in the senate. So their celebration in the house was damped entered a bit. And over the goal line later today. And of course to goes to president and the senate took up massive tax reform after the house passed its version. They believe deep cuts to corporate taxes and temporary loweringing of of the tax rate will spur growth and it comes from 1. 5 trillion tax price added to u. S. Debt. Not a single democrat in the house or senate voted yes. They warn tax overhaul will rurp country if many future. Heres how the two sides spun it. We believe this product will do two extremely important things for country number one provide middle class tax relief and number two provide business that make us more competitive. Today marks a great victory for the very wealthy campaign at the same time the deficit is driven up by about 1. 5 trailian dollars. The u. S. Senate just passed the biggest refovrment House Conference Committee will meet at 8 00 to reconcile the language making sure everything matches and going 3450edly to the final, final vote in the house. And if all of this is approved and the bill is signed many of those tax changes will take effect january 1. And live on capitol hill im m local news. Thanks, mel, 5 03 is the time now developing overnight a central figure in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal died. Former archbishop of wall was boston archbishop 1984 until he resigned in december of 2002 amid accusations of covering up priest sex abuse skapdls. Law was named in hundred of lawsuits saying he failed to protect children from pedophile priest. They appointed him to run a major basilica in rome. He was aawarded in the post in rome instead of facing punishment. New details on the amtrak crash near seattle that killed three people and injured 0 others. Federal investigators are looking into why amtrak launched Service Without speed control tech north that could have prevented derailment. Positive train control could have detected speeding and applied breaks. Data recorder said the train was traveling more than 50 miles two of three victims war identified and one was transit employee and other member of rail passengers association. Time now is 5 04 voteers in virginia have proof that every single vote counts. Virginia democrat Shelly Simmons won house of delegate race by 1 vote after recounts that represent new port news. Simmons defeated yancy. It is a critical and historic win for the democratic party. Democrats and house of republicans will be split 50 50 trying control in nearly two decades. House Administration Committee released new data on sex harassment and discrimination on the hill. The office of compliance paid 265,000 in taxpayer funds to settle Sexual Harassment claims over the past decade. One claim was 84,000 payout to settle harassment claim against farenhold he came forward to announce he will not. We have traffic and weather. Were doing. Slap happy all those terms. I have leftover rav ole in the fridge if you want pasta for lunch let me know. I was going to say. And lots of clouds over taking the region. An area of low pressure passing toujed is today, wont bring us rain and will bring us clouds and not expecting sun at all today. Temperatures right now not awful. 54 in d. C. And annapolis 55 an quantico 42 and mannasas 40. Begun i dont expect temps to much in the afternoon hours. Well call it 50 later this afternoon and i think north west whipped and breezes kicking up later today well get cooler air in here as the day moves on all in all not a awful day just clouds. Checking the forecast for erin. Nicely done michael th thomas. Right now unfortunately we have an issue on the roads. Batter main break old georgetown road beneath the 270 spur. Its a northbound side between charles t and at avista road. Right lanes getting by and temperatures warming up to not have icy conditions on the road. Use caution and watch for slick spots as you make your way out on inner and outer loop to and from the American Legion bridge youre in great shape and make your way to hamilton we have a crash for you. Harmony church at digs valley all lanes. Detour arounds that if you travel hamilton this morning. Awtz look at camera beneath the maps thats outer loop topside of beltway overlooking quiet in college park. Metro services on time now. Questions back to you. Thanks, erin, we learned overnight that some of the victims of a deadly bus crash in mexico okay be from northern virginia. Details next. And well share more on attorney general Jeff Sessions plan to reduce Violent Crime. Headed to break now. Well look outside the d. C. Region. 5 degrees. Well be back with more after time is 5 09. 53 degrees. See the flags waving in the background. There another mild day on top. Not quite as nice as yesterday but look, no complaints. Were talking late what december. What are we talking about. Michael thomas is back and about 6 minute from a preview of possible rain on the way. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration doubling down on its effort to combat violent cilz. Yesterday attorney general jeff session as announced Justice Department is creating new task force. This is the fist two will launch in norm carolina and pennsylvania and stats from uniform fbi reporting show Violent Crime increased across the u. S. By more than 4 since 2015. And im not going to accept the rising crime. Plain and simple, you and i will not allow the progress made by our men and women in blue over the past two decades to simply slip through our fingers. And the task forces will work with fbi and focus on crimes ivolving bank robberies, carjacking kidnapping and extorsion. And this morning, there are reports of several americans mopping the 12 People Killed after a biss full of cr cruiseship passengers crashed in mexico and 18 people were hurt including 7 americans. Some victims may be members of a family from lorton virginia. The passengers were from two Royal Caribbean cruises that came out of south florida. The fwrup was headed by bus to the myan ruins and no word what kased the bus to flip over. Apt septic soaps and chemicals that contain trycolsin sayinging it is not nope if it is safe. Companies have one year to comply with the rule by changing formulas are pulling the product off the market. And the fire started two weeks ago and burned more than 7,000 acres. Right now the blaze is set to be 55 contained. Its expected to be full by contained after the new year. Coming up on fox5 news morning the fda approves a new therapy to fix genetic mutations. And coming up later. Well have more on this holiday week. Theres a lot going on in our area. Well take a break right now. And well take a live look across the d. C. Region, 5 11 is the time now and 53 mild degrees on this wednesday. Youre watching fox news morning. Z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy heard about eucrisa for mildtomoderate eczema . It can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. The arm of an arm wrestler . The back of a quarterback . The face of a fairy . Prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. It blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. And its steroidfree. Do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. Or near the application site. The most common side effect is application site pain. Ask your doctor about eucrisa. Dunkin sweet black pepper bacon sandwich is back. With twice the crispy caramelized peppered bacon. Experience a breakfast sandwich made for bacon lovers. America runs on dunkin time now 5 13 heres a look at stories were fol for you today, wednesday, december 0. Passing gop tax bill and legislation goes back to house for revote today. Thats after changes were made because of Senate Budget ru rules. The bill could be on the president s desk by this afternoon. Former catholic archbishop of boston accused of covering up decades of presex abuse died. Cardinal bernard law pass away early this morning in rome. He was 6. He was archbishop 1984 until resigning in 2002 named in hubd reds of lawsuits of claiming he failed to protect children from pedophile priests. New details about the amtrak crash near seattle. Federal investigators focusing on whether engineer distraction may have been a factor in the crash and why amtrak launched the Service Without speed control technology. The train was valveing more than 50 over the speed limit before it derailed killing people and injuring 70 others. 5 1 4 is the time now. Beautiful shot of national mall. Look at the monument glowing there. And its mild out there right now. I would say. Right, mike. Yes, christmas light to the side. There maybe not feeling christmasy this morning after we had yesterday. And put temperatures on the down swing over the next couple days and tomorrow first day of winter and it will feel like it before we go back up a little. Well explain coming up. 54 washington. Cold air is there. Today is kind of transition day in between warm air mass down so south and colder one north. Winds pick up north and west as the day fwoz on. Well start to pull in cooler air throughout the day. So temperatures not going to move all that much. I expect them to drop a little as we head into the afternoon hours. Theres high res sat lit and radar. Clouds built in overnight and cloudy at the moment. And we may get a peek or two of sunshine late this afternoon especially norn and for the most part it will remain mostly cloudy day. Area of low pressure storm system passing south. Tennessee, carolina, southern portions of virginia. Should stay away from immediate metro d. C. Area. Well be dealing with clouds today. Again thats track of it headed out to sea. Thats a rare track. We expect to turn off the coast. Not going to happen with this one. It will go right out to sea and flow clouds our way and thats about it. Later today we pull in cooler air. Temperatures gwen tolbart rally steady to falling just a little bit throughout the day. Really this evening once we start to get clearing into the region we will start to see temperatures tumble and by tomorrow morning all of us are waking up to freezing to below freezing temperatures. Get ready again cold is m coming back a little here. Heres a look at future cast. Clouds hang around for the morning. Rains stay south southern portions of the virginia, north carolina, south carolina, if you travel south today get an early start on the christmas vacation. Travel south of d. C. Today. We clear it out tonight. Sunshine back for the day on thursday and again, kind of unlike yesterday when he had sun and warmth tomorrow will be sun and cooler temps. Later on this afternoon 54 n now. Dont expect that to continue all day long with the cloud cover and winds picking up out of the north and west. Tomorrow, first full day of winter one more day. Enjoy the last full day it of fall. Winter comes in tomorrow. 11 29 in the morning. Fox5 accuweather 7day forecast. 50 today. Warmer than that now. Back up through the weekend chance of showers though as we head to saturday and sunday. Monday, Christmas Day, maybe a mix to start. But i would not hold your breath. 43. Let check the forecast over to erin for traffic. It is 5 17 keeping eyes on the road. Relatively quiet start in terms of congestion and crash to tell you about. This is am ill ton. Harmony church road northbound digs valley road and cash blocking all lanes because of car a use caution there. You can see 7, 267 looking good and ill let you know if any problems pick up from that one. We have a water main break old jrj town northbound between charles t and at avista road. Right lane moving by use caution. Well seeing light volume through Montgomery County 66 also at speed and 21 minute ride from 234 to beltway and volume increasing ill let you know if major slow downs pop up. Back to you maureen and holly. And 5 18 is the time and lets look at stories you were engaging with this morning on social media. Wisdom is back with the realtime news tracker. First up this morning the fda approves a gene therapy that can lead to blindness. It can reverse mripdness. This is first cleared in United States to treat genetic disease other that cancer. Meantime a Tennessee Woman successfully given birth to National EmbryoDonation Center says baby ememma was born to benia min and tina gibson the. It was frozen for 4 years. Benjamin gibson described emma as sweet miracle saying i think she looks pretty perfect to be frozen all those years ago. Switching gears to all the money in the world Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg go to europe and reshot all of Kevin Spaceys scenes for free. Director scott replaced spacey with christopher plumber after Sexual Assault allegations surfaced against spacey. Trending this morning pa pariss hottest new restaurant o natural its attracting a lot of attention because it indicators to nude whoyingt care more about fine food than clothing. Restaurant is surrounded with plaqueout cur taps and can only hold about 40 people at a time. There are always. No phones dipping area. And no exhibitionism or disrespectful sexual behavior. And finally what a trashy decoration were talking about here literally. Because one couple says they bought ugly miss fit Christmas Tree and instead of dubbing for another they traps formed it into sesame street oscar the grouch complete with own garbage can and festive lights. Pretty creative. Trending stories. And we were ending with this but i would prefer to talk about a restaurant people can walk around nude eating food. Heres the question do you want to be a part of second seating. Righting. Who will go down and wipe down the seats no. You all are missing the big issue do you even want to go in a strawingt people are walking a round bucking naked. Well. Were moving on. Out of time. Thanks, wis. Coming up on fox news morning a number of announcing higher internet speeds days after net neu neutrality. Amazon is preparing for the day after. Headed to break and live looking across the d. C. Re region. Its 5 20 and 53. Back after this little chuck brown for you this wednesday morning. Uber should be regulated like a taxi company. It could change how it functions in europe forcing licenses and author daition. Getting ready to pay for for internet. Comcast, cox and frontier raising rates next year. This comes days after fcc v voted to roll back net neu neutrality pro texz increases vary based on company. Drengt tv and dish are expect toynd crease rates. Jack in a Box Restaurant company is getting out of the burrito business. Its selling the baobo restaurant chain for 305 million in cash. Its been a sore spot on jack in the box business and it declines over the past year it has more than 00 locations throughout the u. S. An cap day. Facebook your face to protect your identity. The tech giants unveiled a feature called photo review is. It alerts users when someone up loads a picture of them and users have option of asking use to take photo down reporting it to facebook or doing nothing at all. Amazon is bringing back a one day post Christmas Promotion starting last year. Second annual digital day will take place friday december 9 and offer biggest savings of the year on digital content. Retailers plans to offer 0 savings on more than 5,000 digital goodyes. And 5 25 is the time right now. And i dont know, its kind of a vanilla wednesday, right . I mean its good. Not bad. But its not like amazing. Its not awful or perfect or yesterday. But its today. So you have to deal with the here and now and here and now means clouds and cooler temperatures. So outside right now, its not all that bad. 54. Winds are starting to pick up north and west and we will time. And gusts up wartdz of 25 miles an hour later today and cooler air spills into the region. Satellite high president and radar showing nothing in the precipitation department and lots of clouds out. There thats what we expect through the day today. Dont expect a lot of sun. Peek or two here and there. Temperatures steady. Well call it late 50s Early Morning and afternoon and temperatures fall off this evening. Well clear it out late tonight and as we do that temperatures start to fall off. Were below freezing tomorrow morning. Lets check the forecast over to erin with traffic. 5 6 now beltway quiet and congestion free. We have a crash in hamilton area. Hamilton church northbound digs valley road crash being monthing all lanes northbound southbound getting by and crash involves a car and a pole. We have a water main break were dealing with in mar maryland. Old georgetown road northbound between charles street and at avista the right lane getting by and use caution. Ot bethesda look good problem free through norm west d. C. And good wisconsin avenue and rosalyn to georgetown this morning. 270 we have volume picking up as you make your way past middle brook road jumped to 0 minutes. Yellowstone 70 to 121. Metro rail line is on time. Coming up on fox news morning a local Community Leader busted for dui. Fires back at the Prince GeorgeCountry Police department. And retiring too early could lead to Significant Health problems especially for sfwlen take a break now and as we do, live look outside how things are going pretty good for a wednesday i guess. 5 7, mild out there. 53 degrees. Yep. Sign, sealed, delivered, im yours. At least for the next half hour. Fox5 news morning coming right [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang ok, i gotta run. Hey, wait, theres something i need to tell you dang. Dang dang dang. Dang. See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Today on fox5 news morning. Overnight lawmakers in the senate handed President Trump first major legitimate lateive win of presidency. This afternoon the house is expected to follow suit. And right down the middle single vote leads to even 50 50 split in Virginia House of delegates forcing democrats and republicans to share power usually reserved for one pa party. And postseason awards. Three burgandy and gold players named to the pro bowl despite lackluster season plagued by injuries and setbacks. Fox5 news morning starts right now good morning to you. Thank you very much for joininging us. Its wednesday, december 0. Our team is there and theres erin como watching the roads. Its all green there. Michael thomas talking about the weather. Good morning. Good morning were done with the sun for a day unforty tatly. Clouds moved in and temperatures not in the 60s today and instead well do 5 50s. Cooler. Hey, erin. Wisdom is right we have a light congestion. We also have a water main break closing lane on old georgetown road. Well get you around that issue. Thank you both. Well check back in a few. As you get your day going 5 0 wednesday lets catch you up on headlines. While you slept Senate Passed massive tax reform bill. One more hurd toll clear before getting president tr trump. This morning the the house will meet again to vote on revamped version of the bill. After changes made because of Senate Budget rules. Overnight, President Trump tweeted about the senate vote saying units Senate Passed big nest history tax cut and reform bill terrible individual obamacare repeal. The president went on to say if the house approved proves the bill today the white house will hold a News Conference 1 00 this afternoon. The former archbishop of boston bernard law died. Law was central figure in the Catholic Church abuse scandal and is served archbishop 1984 until resignation in 2002 after Court Documents revealed he covered up dozens of catholic priests that molested children. Vatican officials later appointed him to run a major bailsic ain rome. Bernard was 86. 5 32 is the time now. Continuing coverage on investigation into grade fixing in Prince George county public schools. We learned that some School Officials knew more than a year ago some students were graduating without meeting requirements. And fox5 Anjali Hemphill live in upper marboro with the details this morning. Anjali. And tell well, good morning, Prince George county did their own investigation in 2016 and it revealed their was mismanagement records. That internal audit only came to light recently after fox5 confirmed it excisioned. And that had parents fired up here at the board of Education Building at last nights board meeting. Take a listen to what one of them had to say. I saw that fox news broke a story that there was a interpal audit done by Prince George county officials in 2016 and where they were already aware of all of the issues that were brought by the minority Board Members of this county. And you knew the entire time when you were getting up here doing your press releases that you were misleading and public and lying. Minority group of Board Members claimed top down corruption to boost Graduation Rates the here in district. Teachers told fox5 they have been forced to change grades of failing students just so they can graduate and now a recent state audit has confirmed that some students state requirements. Now last night our Lindsey Watts spoke with school ceo Kevin Maxwell where he denied he knew there was anything amiss and later acknowledging he read the internal audit and was aware of the cases of more than a year ago. And asked his staff to look into them and asked if there was a plan to address the first internal audit. How would a new one to tack this new state audit be any different. Take a listen. If this the plan didnt work the first time why would the plan youre presenting tonight work now. Um not sure sure it werent work or improve. Audit tores came in a year later and found major sgripcys which you already addressed this was happening and made a plan to correct it why was it not fixed. I believe some of things were fixed. I i believe when we come back this year after we do the next audit youll see that the implementation of this plan has gone very well doing much, much better sgl less than 8 minute he walked away from that interview and others told us they were not amade aware of 2016 interpal audit and got same apps from county executive office. Live in prince jonl county, Anjali Hemphill hem, fox5 local news. 5 35 is the time now. Voters in virginia have proof that every vote counts. Virginia democrat Shelly Simmons won her house of delegates race by one vote. Recount led to simmons winning race to represent the 91 district . New port news and it will be split 50 control from rep for the first time in two decades. Time now is 5 35 developing this morning d. C. Advisory commissioner Paul Crampton is firing back of after arrested in prince swrorj county for drunk driving. He was belligerent and as proof the Department Released video of him urs canning at them. He claims they did not give him field sobriety test and put him in handcuffs. He refuse aid field test and locked himself in a bathroom at the police station. 5 36 is the time now. New this morning. Good news for redskins. Three players named to the 2018 pro bowl. Tackle Trent Williams and linebacker ryan kerrigan. First time they had three pro bowlers in backtoback seasons since 20122013 season. Congrats layings to them. Where is the pro bowl this year. I dont know. I always remember when it was in hawaii. Thats the last time ive watched was in 1985. I know. Its not good. You were four. I was a young man back then. All right. Lets go ahead and talk about this mild weather that continues right mike . Not awful. 54 outside knew. Gaithersburg 48, 48 dulles. I dont remember the last pro bowl i watched. 12 miles an hour winds out of norm and west. Bringing in cooler air later today. There is a storm passing to the the south. Not expected to rain in d. C. Well have the clouds around thousand the day and theres the storm passing south and it will stay away from us and old georgetown in charles and ult avista. Keep it to left and that gets you around that one. And the beltway is quiet inner and outer loop for the washington quiet and metro on time. Questions erinfoxdc on twitter holly and wisdom. Coming up on fox news morning the government lifts a three year ban on studies connected to deadly virus. We look forward to retirement and retiring too early could actually cut your life short. I can see how that goes. You dont have anything to do. I can see how you got that. How that can happen. Were going to break right now. Live look outside at 5 8, 5 emitp. 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It looks like fruit juice may not be as healthy for children as you like to think. Children who drink sugary fruit juice or mothers that drank soda while pregnant 79 more likely to develop asthma. Researchers examined 1,000 mother child pairs during that particular study. Coming up on fox news morning a massive leak exposes data on 123 million u. S. Household sdm and women texts engagement news to the wrong number only to have her announcement go viral. As we head to break and look life across d. C. Stars and slipz flying this wednesday morning. 5 42 is the time now. 50 degrees. Youre watching fox news morning. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Whatever you were about to do just became whatever youre about to do after you get coffee. Nothing comes before coffee. Thats why were introducing a new line of cafequality espresso drinks from mccafe. Get a small peppermint mocha for just two dollars. 5 45 is the time. Welcome back. Fox news morning. Stevie wonder. Classic christmas song. Love it. Mistletoe. Hanging everywhere. Christmas kisses all around. All this and more. All these things and more. Look at him just sliding that lyric in there. I like it. I listen to the the christmas i see you got that on your play list. I do every day. Its a good one. It makes me happy. It was not feeling like christmas yesterday and temperatures kind of t tomorrow is cold day. Okay. And we go right back for the weekend. Lets do it. Warmest day of december yesterday so far. Reagan national 62. Nowhere near the record 74 way back from 1920s and dulles 60. Bwi 60. Average high this time avenue year 45. In the that number. Well be closer to that number tomorrow. So your weatherhead lines today mch cooler and compared to yesterday. Temperatures wont move all that much from where they are now. And start to fall second half of of day. Winter starts sunny and childly tomorrow and heads towards weekend and we start getting mild again and we turn unsettled and chances of showers on and off both saturday and sundays. Christmas eve surprised of course. And maybe Christmas Day we watch for a little mix. Ill talk about that in a second. 54 degrees outside right now in washington. Mannasas 40. Culpeper 44. Chilly and again temperatures wont move much. As you see here satellite and clouds thickened up overnight. Wind start to change direction out of north and west. And thats going to start bringing cool are air. Slowly and steadily as we work through the day. Its a storm system down to south. Not going to bring rain or snow today. Its a little too far south and coming to slide off the coast there. No rain concerns today as future cast will he show you. Clouds. There it is. 1 00 this afternoon. Clouds Holding Steady around the d. C. Ream dont. If we see sun at all it is later in the day and best chances north and west of town towards frederick and hai haiingzer town and second half of the afternoon before sunset you get sunshine there. We all see bright and sunny skies tomorrow. However what you cant see is temperatures and theyll tumble later tonight. High pressure builds in north for your day on thursday. Nice strong northern flow keeps cool air in place and tomorrow as highs seasonal, 40s first day of winter tomorrow. Start 11 30. 50 your daytime high not really daytime high because we hit it now. More afternoon temperatures quantico and fredericksburg and fox5 accuweather 7day forecast after the first day of winter you start warming up again. Saturday clouds, showers, 61. We head to Christmas Day. Were tacking a crash in hamilton. Caution, Harmony Church northbound at digs valley road. Its a car versus pole and all northbound lanes blocked. Detour around the that. As we forward things a long were dealing with water main break maryland south of spur. Old george town charles street and rest of secondarys in bethesda look good upper and outer loop problem free. 70 usual congestion building. You see the line of yellow. 0 minute trip soux clarksburg road. You onen as you get to gaithersburg and rockville this morning. Topside of beltway at speed. Outer loop qui loop. Inner loop more volume route one. 95 to and from Baltimore Beltway and that point were at speed no cracksthere. On the way to reagan and dulles urquiaet e dont like the speed zone. And 295 southbound 695 looks good pennsylvania avenue nd suitland parkway quiet. Metro rail lines on time. Wisdom and holly. 5 49 is the time now. Maryland purposing line moved forward. Three judge panel ruled maryland does got have to update environmental study for the land around the plan line. Purple line will run from bethesda toes new carlton and scheduled to Maryland Governor larry hogan has given the acahanac tribe indian status that means theyll qualify for federal, state and non profit assistance and the tribe lives on the Eastern Shore maryland indian status granted to two other tribes. Former San Francisco 49er is sued about a woman who says he raped her according to San Francisco chronicle she claims she met jared haip in a bar. He was the rugby player that spent half a season with the 49ers. He was heavily intoxicated when he went home with him and and san jose filed charges and in australia. 5 50 is the time now. Lets take a look at stories youreen gaming with on social media. First up white house chief of staff john kelly under he apparently asked black represents for resumes while addressing trump lack of diversity. According to a source kelly asked for resumes and ateend hes on fax reform. Trump administration is hiring and asked and tall theed young people. And to the United Kingdom and 2018. Most recent phone calls and and expected to happen sometime late february. But the triple included visits with the queep as of now. The plan meeting with the queen will not take place until the president makes a full statement and switching gears to massive fire breach left 123 million American Household exposed. Altrix exposed a wide range of personal details including mortgage and Financial Information and bone falls taken xhub of children in the household and the database taxes have been secured. Jeopardy host alex trebek is in hot water this morning. While interviewing beth davis about being a retired Army Master Sergeant he made a s sexist comment and tribec told him her job may have been hard and davis took the comment in tried and handled it like a pro before finishing in second place and timely talk about happy accident. Newly engaged sherwin will is annoyingly spent time e erpterring selfie to actress Michelle Geller she tried to and hosted news to Facebook Page cop grat lateing will is. And and actress royce behind behind and sin city. Pop star confirmed upcoming residency and gaga will take the stage next december called the park theater and this comes as both pretty any spears and Jennifer Lopez are ending their residency. Actress mindy okay ling is a mom. Enews reports the 4yearold gave birth to baby girl named katherine last friday. She has not announce the news and most recent Instagram Post promoted oceans 8. Caitlin joked she was excited to become a mom because she openly criticized some of the parents. And interesting. Interesting way to look at it. Okay. Look at this. Say hello to sweet facebook fans of day. This is aforable trio. Its a special day though. Little guy on the left his name is warn and its his eighth birthday. Happy birthday warn. He watches news with his parents every morning while getting ready for school. Warren has favorites. He loves tuckers weather and and. You are spot on warren. Super cute we hope you have a great day. It will be a great, mild day. Great mild day later today and ill show what you is up with derrek, too. And happy birthday there to you as well. Cloudy and cool and no rain showers passing off south for bus stop forecast as kids get off to in the morning well need the jacket and its not overly cold. And 32 degrees. Lots of clouds. Getting preezy as the day goes on. And 53 your afternoon and day. Friday is important travel day across the reeming job. Rain through this side of the country turn into snow. Up towards chicago especially evening hours if you travel late friday to Early Saturday Morning you want to keep an eye on forecast for chicago, minneapolis, locations off there around the great lakes. No showers and interior north west sunny and they seem to be. Locally the one area i am concerned with traveling upstate new york northern portions of pennsylvania interior new england they could be dealing with a little icing event as they head through the daytime hours friday. Keep your eye up there and just showers further south as we will be warm. Dry here locally and in town on friday afternoon. Theres a couple cities for you. Chicago is the one were concerned with. Maybe a minimum of rain and snow high of 42. Fox5 accuweather 7day forecast back here in d. C. 50 what well call it today and warmer than that now expect temperatures a hair coming down in the afternoon. First day of winter tomorrow begins 11 29 a. M. , 46, feeling like winter go. Friday, 54, by saturday, 61. On and off showers throughout the the day. Same deal were Christmas Eve maybe less in the shower department and if were lucky. If you like snow on Christmas Day maybe we can squeeze know flakes out early Christmas Morning before sunshine returns in the afternoon and cold temperatures and gusty winds. Thats a check of the forecast over to erin anow about traffic. 5 56 were looking at new crash. Unfor natalie this causing big delays. 66 eastbound before 29. Centerville road. And left lanes blocked with that crash right now just looks like traffic is squeezing by in that right shoulder. This is causing a massive backup coming from gainsville into centerville and again crash at 29 you see a sea of backed up traffic leading towards 29 and cant give you drive time yet because crash just happened and coming in from gaipzville or mannasas leave at least 30 minutes early were seeing traffic crawl ago long and well keep you update odd on that one. South lawn lane over turned vehicle caution there. Metro on time. Keep it to fox5 the latest on your z2momz zi0z y2momy yi0y the the tax cuts and jobs act is passed. Straight ahead at 6 00 a major Senate Passes the biggest tax overhaul in decades whaep the president is saying about it and what comes next. And braeinging overnight, news that americans are among the dead in a bus crash involving cruiseship paerms in mexico and what we learned some of the injured may have been from our area. And plus, there are graduation coverup in prince squoorj county schools and investigation chose officials knew more than a year ago that some students were ineligible. The latest on the investigation. And live look outside wednesday december 20 looking good out there. Not as warm as yesterday. Not bad. Weather and traffic coming up on the fives at 6 05. And right off the top at 6 a. M. It was a taxing night on capitol hill pun intendd while you slept the Senate Passed massive tax reform bill and it has one more hurd toll clear before getting President Trump. Mel. Good morning, youre