Biscuit. Biscuit alison the reunion is only on 7. Im just glad news at 11 00,. On your side jonathan first, 7 on your side is getting you ready for the holidays. Alison aaa predicts that tomorrow will be the biggest travel holiday of the season. More than 7 Million People are hitting the roads in the dmv. Jonathan and the worst times will be between 3 p. M. And 7 p. M. , with commute times perhaps doubling or tripling. Bill kelly, what can we expect with the weather . Sunnyit is bad when it is and 70 on a good day. Around the country, not too bad. Some areas of snow. Locally, things will be pretty quiet. To your commute, wherever you are heading tomorrow. The overall big picture, showers to the south. We have this High Pressure cell building in. 3 00 p. M. To 6 p. M. Timeframe, 3 00, if you have to drive at that time, nothing but sunshine. A gorgeous, sunny day. You have to go pretty far out of the area to find any bad weather that could affect travel. The temperatures, 3 00, to the so
Day makes. What a difference a day makes. Just hours after celebrating a huge victory on tax reform the president and congress now back in the middle of a budget battle. And now a Government Shutdown is looming. Abcs Arlette Saenz has more from northwest. The new tax reform bill is especially they are about to get a holiday bonus. The phone company says it will give more than 200thousand us workers a onethousand dollar bonus. It was actually announced a week ago. The republican tax plan slashes the tax rate on corporations. At ts ceo says the savings will create more goodpaying jobs. In virginia a tightly contested delegate race ends in a tie it looks like a name drawn out of a glass bowl will determine the winner of virginias 94th district delegate race. One vote victory. But republicans challenged it, and won. Its not clear when the candidates names will be drawn. Developing now. An unexpected move the d. C. School board delaying a vote on a resolution calling for an independent inve
Arrived the cold returning today and helping kick off a new season. Winter officialy starts at 11 28 this morning. Good morning washington. Im Autria Godfrey and im larry smith well get to that forecast in a minute. But first that breaking news out of australia. Two men are under arrest after plowing an suv into a crowd of pedestrians in melbourne. 14 people hurt. In what police are calling a deliberate act. Witnesses say the vehicle was going at least 60 miles an hour. Police say one of the men taken into custody was the driver. Its unclear if the second man was also in the vehicle. So far no word on a possible motive. Were also followi the race is on to save more than 200 people from a sinking ferry. One survivor says the weather was fine when they left port but about two hours into the trip the winds and thw waves picked up. Thats when passengers all rushed to one side. Fishermen are working with the coast guard, air force and navy in those rescues. We are staying on top of the situ
State repression. Stephen the first six of some 180 people charged with rioting and destruction of property found not guilty on all counts. The government charges are ridiculous and an attempt to criminalize free speech. Stephen it protested on the right to protest the election of trump. I a certain part of me was certain that the right result would happen. Stephen the prosecutors relied on the Police Body Cam and the other video of what they characterize as a coordinated effort to riot. Frighten and inflict damage. The jury was not convinced. They found that they were exercising the First Amendment rights. Now backing up the suggestion that it would continue to pursue trials against those remaining individuals charged with the rioting, the u. S. Attorneys the Attorneys Office shows there is clear evidence to show rioting and destruction of property. Kimberly thank you. Do not miss update on the ain august race day Inauguration Day riots to get alerts sent to your phone and you can see
Live on the scene. Do we know how this started . Jay we do not. The calls of the fire is under investigation. Of the fire is under investigation. The road is closed down to fight the fire. There is a huge gaping hole in the middle of the home. Fire Officials Say when they arrived flames were shooting out and it was fully engulfed. On the video, you will see the backside of the property, where the whole back of the home is blasted open, totally gutted. Firefighters were back there. We just got the video moments ago and sent it in. They are trying to clean up the hotspots and make sure that the blazes out. The good news is it appears nobody was home at the time. Firefighters scoured the home. Here, but again, no cause of the fire. This is an area of germantown that does not have hydrants accessible to the house, so they had to get a lot of fire trucks here with a lot of water to put this blaze out. Jay korff, abc 7 news. Kimberly another house fire, this one in fairfax county. The flames