Chamber by republicans for 17 years. But who the new speaker will be, that is still very much in question. Its going to be the democrat or the republican who is first to get to 51 votes. Bruce leshan, wusa 9. That is a political cliff hanger. Democrats called the judges decision erroneous and are assessing their legal options. Republicans will not roll over. Congressional republicans are promising that americans will start to see the benefits of the just passed tax reform bill in january. Trump and gop lawmakers are celebrating this first legislative victory. Reporter a beaming President Trump welcomed republican lawmakers to the white house to celebrate the passage of the gops tax overhaul. We are making America Great again. You havent heard that, have you . The house passed the final jobs act this afternoon. With this vote, it will be the house, the peoples house that officially sends this historic legislation to President Trumps desk. Reporter every democrat in congress and even some republicans from high tax states opposed the bill. Democrats say it doesnt provide enough relief to average americans. It is an investment in the gops base, corporate special interest, the wealthiest among the wealthiest and the trump entire empire. Reporter the tax cuts for businesses are permanent. But reductions for families and individuals expire in a decade. It is unfortunate because of the senate rules that we have to comply with that has that sunset. But congress has every intention of making sure that does not happen. Reporter the republican celebration will be fairly short lived. Congress still has to pass a spending bill by friday to prevent a government shutdown. The gop likely wont be able to do that without support from democrats. We want. It will lead to a real problem. Reporter conservatives are upset with the cost of hurricane aid and democrats are looking for a shorter term bill to resolve unresolved issues in the future. President trump promised to sign the tax reform bill by christmas. The president will do so once the paperwork is complete. A fairfax woman and her son are among the dead after a mexican tour bus they were on crashed yesterday. According to family members, anna and her youngest son daniel and annas mother all died after the bus flipped. Annas husband and oldest son survived the crash. It happened because the driver was speeding. The bus was carrying Cruise Ship Passengers on an excursion to see. Mayan ruins. Loved ones are devastated by the news but they want everyone to know this was an amazing family. The investigation into a deadly amtrak crash in zeroing in on the engineer. The data recorder shows it was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 Miles Per Hour zone when it went off of the tracks and on to the interstate. The ntsb says it appears that the engineer did not manually slow down that train as it approached the curve. The emergency brake was automatically activated when the accident was occurring rather than being initiated by the engineer. Three people died in the crash and dozens more were injured. They are looking into whether the engineer didnt sense the danger because he was distracted about i a conductor training also in the locomotive. It was hauled away from the crash scene today. The ntsb says the recording system from the inward and outward facing cameras on the train was damaged in the crash. The equipment is now heading to the agencys lab here in d. C. To be analyzed. Back here a grieving d. C. Mom now wishes she had never bought the r son. Anita smiths 17yearold son, James Anthony smith, was murdered in southeast d. C. Monday evening. The new air jordans his mom had given him as an early Christmas Present were gone. So bad. It is a shame. Over some shoes. Thats all he wanted was a pair of shoes for christmas. Thats all he asked me for. If Michael Jordan and nike had to pay for some of the funerals out here, they wouldnt make the shoes as expensive as they are. It is ridiculous. Well said. The air jordans debuted on december 9th. We checked online. That shoe is retailing for up to 300 a pair. And the shoes are already sold out. The Community Center is the location of the murder. Robbery may have been the motive of the murder in smith. If you can help, coaster of temperatures heading through christmas day. Howard is out on the terrace to take us through this. First things first. A chilly night tonight and a cold day tomorrow. We warm up. We may be in the 60s on saturday. Christmas day, were not getting out of the 40s. Going out tonight, were in the upper 30s to 40s in most spots. Clinton at 45. So for your thursday, expect a lot of sunshine but light winds. We wont be mixing up the atmosphere as much. We will stay on the chilly side. Highs topping out in the mid 40s. We will come back and talk about the weekend and more specifics as we have rain to discuss and of course talking about the arctic air coming next week. Coming up, why home bakers in one u. S. State cant bake their cakes and sell them too. Coming up next, students of a closed Culinary School in maryland go searching for the Culinary School had become a financial problem. Fewer people were signing up. A Yearlong Program can cost up to 30,000. So some students want to know where their money is and if they can get any of it back. Who doesnt love a good bake sale . Did you know that new jersey is the only state in the country where it is against the law to sell home made treats for profit. One single mom found out the hard way. Sarah lives paycheck to paycheck. Her chocolate coated cake pops were so popular she started selling them for extra dough. She learned she could not fined if she didnt stop. It was crushing because i always wanted to have my own business. I believe in creating your own destiny and being self sufficient. Selling baked goods for charity is okay. New jersey law says bakers can profit if they have a commercial license. That requires using a commercial grade kitchen outside of the home. Home bakers have been lobbying to change the law for nearly a decade. Earlier this admonition they filed a civil suit saying it violates the states constitution. The bakers here didnt just dump and jump and file a lawsuit. They have been fighting for ten years to get this law passed in the legislature. One man has stood in the way, senator betale. They said we dont care. That is not my concern. This is a Business Model and doesnt talk about liability insurance. What if you make something and somebody gets sick or somebody leaves a tooth pick in it. She would welcome home inspections. She plans to have her pops immediately available for sale to help her sons college fund. 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Im fran seen williams and i live in alexander, virginia. I read an article that tiffany and company had something to do with the slave chokers or either they fashioned their oval choker necklaces off of the slave chokers. I wanted to know, is that true . Thank you. So here is the facebook post. It has been shared more than 34,000 times. It shows a brass choker with a plaque that claims that the silver necklaces were actually copied off of the design. Some posts go on to say you can see the collar at the African American museum right here in d. C. So our verify researchers tracked the photo to the source. It is not d. C. Clues in the photo lead us to the museum in philadelphia. Representatives confirm this is their display. They took it ago. It is after tiffany threatened to sue the museum, saying there is zero evidence or documentation to connect the company or its design to slave collars. After taking a second look, the philly museum agreed. They said the display was created off of a story they heard when the item was donated. After they did Fact Checking of their own, they didnt have anything to back it up. We can verify why the photo of the slave collar is world, the part about tiffany and company is false. Christmas came early for children at Childrens National today. Thanks to your generosity we gave hope to children who could use a lift. After think get a present or a visit from someone special, you could see the difference for the rest of the day. When someone comes into the room, the child will show you, look what i got. Someone gave me this. It makes a big difference. The families are appreciative. It really changes the atmosphere in the entire hospital. The look on their today was just sheer joy. This family is grateful to be headed home today. Hundreds of other children will be at the hospital for the holidays. And your gifts to them are truly appreciated. And there is still time for to you donate a gift before christmas. Just visit wusa9. Com givehope. It will take you to an amazon wish list. You choose a gift, make your purchase, and we will get those toys wrapped and over to Childrens National. Thank you again from all of us for your gift of hope. Now to a family that says they were kicked out of a wal mart while teaching their kids a lesson about giving. The family says they bout 1,000 worth of walmart gift cards to pass out at a st. Louis store on sunday. It was their way to give back to the community. But the family says someone in the store was a grinch and told them they had to leave if they continued to pass out the gift cards. It was something that we planned for a while to do. Yeah. We had the whole family. We were excited to it kind of got shut down pretty quick. Walmart spokesperson says the family asked if they could pass out the gift cards and they were told no. But it turns out an assistant manager at the store was just not clear about the store policy. And walmart says it does not have an issue with the family passing out the walmart gift cards. So maybe they will go back. We will see. Its been three months since Hurricane Irma ripped through the florida keys. Some parts of the lower keys changed when the storm blew. In even in the hardest hit neighborhoods, there are still small signs of christmas. I can go and turn the lights off and you can see the lights like when you were a child. And i void out the rest of my world. Im sorry. Thank you. Poor her home was destroyed by Hurricane Irma. She lives with two her dogs in a fema trailer parked in her driveway. She takes comfort 234 small pieces from a happier time that she has been able to put in her temporary home. You think of parts of florida and puerto rico that are still dark months after the hurricane. Its been a long road for them. What is it looking like this evening. Light wind. So even though it is cold, it is a comfortable cold. We call it dark season. Shortest day darkest day of the year. Lesli and i were talking about this earlier. It is not the shortest day. The darkest day. We had 9 hours 25 minutes of daylight. Thats it. Tomorrow is the winter solstice at 11 28 in the morning. 9 26 tomorrow. By summertime, almost 15 hours. So over the next six months, we will gain five and a half hours give or take of daylight. Thats when the sunsets at about region. Why 12 hours and 9 minutes, we will see it a little earlier and a little late her it sets object those days. In fact most days. 46 in town now. 34 in winchester. Culpepper is down to 38. Weve got, boy, a lot of traffic on the bridge coming into town this evening. Jefferson memorial looks good. 46, feels like 42 with the winds at 8 Miles Per Hour. Many areas tonight will see the winds go near dead calm. Light winds tomorrow which will be good. Because of the light winds, we wont mix out. Sunshine will only top out around 45, 46. We had ailment little bit more of a breeze, it would feel colder. Checking out temps. Not bad across the country. A little bit of a chill across the Northern Tier states from the dakotas up to new england. The cold stuff is up there. For the moment it is staying winds are blowing storms west to east across the country. That stops the cold from pouring south. That will change starting sunday and monday as the cold comes in. Women have an extended cold spell. Today we had showers that missed us to the south. Were seeing clearing tonight. Temperatures will drop into the 20s and 30s. A nice looking thursday with light winds, sunny skies in the 40s. Friday, clouds. By saturday, we have rain around. Periods of rain and showers on and off through much of the day on saturday. It will be mild, up 50s to low 60s. That will be the warmest day we see for a while. Tomorrow morning, 20s and 30s with sunshine. But northeast to southeast at 5 again with the light wind. A decent but chilly afternoon with highs only in the mid40s. Friday, 50s with clouds building up. Saturday, a yellow weather alert day with showers on and off much of the day. As we head towards sunday, colder in could be a few flurries or snow showers in the morning with temps holding in the 30s. Coming up, christmas comes early for players in a popular Youth Sports Program thanks avo but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. Noninsulin victoza® lowers a1c, and now reduces cardiovascular risk. Victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill. avo and for people with type 2 diabetes treating cardiovascular disease, victoza® is now approved to lower the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. avo victoza® is not for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. 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It is also nice during the Holiday Season to see stories about people doing good things. That includes the pro athletes. Diane roberts shows us how sports stars are helping younger players to make sure they have the tools of their trade. What got it. Football and football Work Together to brighten the day of sports fans when collecting for a good cause. They helped collect gently used Sports Equipment at the end zone in philly. He is a redskins guy. Im a Soccer Player for d. C. There are kids that love soccer and football so we can make everybody happy. I was from the area. And i was able to see the impact that you can have on kids. I love it. We donated the stuff we didnt need. Alan helped deliver the equipment to beacon house, a place that provides after School Programs for d. C. Kids in need. Those Young Athletes appreciate it. The kids that dont have much, they get to thank you very much. I play for the redskins. It is not every day that we have athletes like this who visit us to give our kids encouragement and support and to basically reinforce to them that theyre on a good path. Diane roberts, wusa 9 sports. The athletes say the used Sports Equipment has been held the kids back from winning championship after championship as evidenced by the trophies that you saw there. Ricky slayed junior signed to play for Penn State University in front of his peers at hilton high school. The all american running back chose penn state because theyve got it all. Great academics, athletics and people. He says his drive to be the best starts with his parents. Of course i do it with my family, especially my mom. Because she has sacrificed for me. She has done a lo back. But football, get that nfl check, its going all to her. I would be at games and look at my daughters and say he cant be that good. And then all of this happened. I guess he is pretty good. When he was in her stomach, i knew he was going to be when i found out he was a boy, i knew this was going to happen. Can you say tuition free. He is undecided on his major but he knows he will get a little playing time as a freshman. What a great family. Wish them well. Everybody is thinking about the holidays around here. And whether it will be a white christmas. Maybe a few flurries and snow showers. If you have extra shopping to do on sunday, there may be rain around