Trying to ease into the holidays. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] larry but you are here with us. Im larry smith. Arianna and im a jamal hopkins, in for autria godfrey. This is the busiest month for traveling . Julie but with a strike . Its going to get crazy. Weather at least the is going to be easy, which is ironic, yesterday was the anniversary of a big snowstorm from 2009. Look at these temperatures, it was amazing. Today, not too bad. Its not going to be that sunny. Clouds coming through from time to time. By 11 a. M. And0 temperatures will kind of hold steady and heres the reason why. A weather system to the south with rain running along the front. If you are traveling from atlanta to memphis, t 50 is your high, mid 40s tomorrow with colder conditions coming our way and some wind. The forecast today not starting out in the 20s, but for today, 50, 45 tomorrow, we will talk abo
Walking off the job. The strike now just hours away. As we get ready for a recordbreaking year of Holiday Travel. Good morning washington. Toss to brian cool breezy today cold thursday winter solstice mild Holiday Weekend looking dry now on christmas tonight today mostly to partly sunny, breezy highs around 50 winds northwest 510 mph tonight partly cloudy, much colder lows 2532 winds northwest 510 mph thursday mostly sunny, cold highs mid 40s breaking overnight breaking overnight breaking overnight the Senate Passing a onepointfive trillion dollar rewrite of the tax code. This morning the house will have a doover vote after the bill ran into some procedural problems. And that will seal the deal on tax reform. John gonzalez is live with more on what the bill means for you. Reaction to the approval, and promising that if the tax bill is approved in the house today. There will be a News Conference set for one this afternoon at the white house. Well have all eyes on capitol hill today. Dow
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
They call it deliberate. White suved with a speeding into a crowd outside a busy melbourne Shopping Center. People were sprawled out on the road. 14 were hurt, several in serious serious condition. There were some explosions. Facebook twitter and say a Shopping Center not far from that one in melbourne was evacuated after a series of detonations. They may have been makeshift bottle bombs. They tell local media there is no connection to that crashed in melbourne, and the all clear was given for people to return to the mall. Larry following breaking news where the race is on to save more than 200 people from a sinking ferry. The weather was fine when i left port but about two hours in, t passengers ran to one side. There isnd a time breaking news, you can be the first to know about it. Ownload our abcs seven news at today is the first day of winter. Larry we are not making the call just yet. Not as bad as it could be. Veronica it will not be windy today, but we will see our lowest high t
One day before ran out, Congress Passed a short term measure to avoid a Government Shutdown. The house and Senate Approved a package extending funding through january 19th, but theyre also kicking the can down the road on tricky political issues Like Health Care and protections for the socalled dreamers. President trump is expected to sign the bill before funding runs out at midnight tonight. Abcs Arlette Saenz has more from northwest. Vice president mike pence in afghanistan today for a surprise visit. He arrived yesterday for his first trip to the country as Vice President. He rallied us troops and met with top afghan officials. The visit makes pence the highestranking Trump Administration official to visit an active us combat zone. It comes four months after the president committed several thousand more Us Service Members to the 16year war right now investigators trying to figure out what sparked the fire that destroyed this house in germantown. Firefighters discovered the single st