Channing street. Caution there. We have a red line delay. A full look at traffic next. Back to you. 7 oclock is our time right now. Developing overnight the power is back on at the worlds Busiest Airport. But now thousands are backed up after being stranded and delayed in atlanta. All right in the thick of Christmas Travel of course and fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National airport with how these major delays are affecting us locally. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, and, yes, it is definitely affecting us locally. We had a number of passengers who told us that they came here to the airport yesterday, their flight was canceled they were rebooked on flights for this morning. They got here this morning and those flights were canceled and thats why weve seen such big backups here at the terminal and also at the at the check in counter as people are trying to figure out where are they going, how can they get there and when can they get there, all of this because of that power ou
December 18th 2017. Glad youre with us. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. Happy birthday to your daughter sidney ton all you statue tanners out there. Happy happy birthday. What time is the party . Well, you know the older you get the more parties dont mean that much. So were not invited. Right. [ laughter ] in other words. Thats the bottom line. Were not invite. What happened was ing. Still empty mix. Maybe next year. 9 01 is the time. Also a ahead a teenager with local ties made us history becoming the first ever black woman to made the olympic Speed Skating Team well introduce to the 17yearold talk to her coming up next. All right. Thats exciting. Very exciting. Im getting exciting. I love the olympics. I do too. Im an olympic junkie. I like all the stories. Im mad if i miss the opens stories. I like it all. Lets take live look outside right now because its pretty mild. Gorgeous morning treat to do beautiful sunrise. Mike has a lk store for this monday. Hey, mike. Hey, guys. I saw w
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
Get to Holiday Weekend. Straight up traveling to centerville and 66 eastbound dealing with crash thats out by 9 causing slow downs. 395 still looks pretty good and maryland delays in college park a full look at travel next. Thanks, erin, tucker, lets get to big story wednesday morning gop tax reform push is almost complete. Overnight the Senate Passed massive tax reform bill. But theres still another hurd toll clear before it goats President Trump. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick is live on capitol hill with the latest details. Mel. Good morning, yes, it was a late night in the senate and it will be app Early Morning in the house as theyre trying to reconcile the two bills a little language had to be changed in the senate. Thats what one final hurdle was. Reps are confident theyll timely get this over the goal line. Its cuts and jobs act passed. With heckling from the dalry in the wee hours of the morning vicepresident mike pence provided massage of republican tax plan right along party lines. We
December 201st. Erin como watching the roads, seeing whats going on out there. Got you covered. And mike thomas talking about weather. Good morning. Good morning. The good news for those drivers is that the cold is all you have to worry about today. Other than that were expecting sunny skies and temperatures later on this afternoon in the 40s. Hey, erin. Huge problems in centreville. Downed power lines and an overturned tractortrailer. 28 at 66 all lanes blocked. We have your work arounds. If youre just waking up at 5 00 a. M. A lot of breaking news to talk about and we start with this. A vehicle rammed into a crowd in australia today injuring more than a dozen people. Police say this was not an accident and some suspects are in custody. Our Melanie Alnwick is monitoring the latest developments in our news room. Mel. Reporter good morning. Just a short time ago police told reporters on the ground they believe this was not this was a deliberate act. Two men have been arrested, one were