Hear what happened during the arrest. Jonathan and what did they know and when . Charges of grade fixing at one of the districts largest gold districts. Charges are they knew more than a year ago. What are you looking forward to waking up to Christmas Morning . Some gifts. Alison a young boy gets the ultimate gift. He is home in time for christmas. You may remember caleb, the Prince Georges County boy fighting for his life. Jonathan it is nice to see him smiling and talking. Two weeks ago he was accidentally shot. Annalysa gayle has the story. Caleb left childrens ready for the long road ahead. Some are calling it a christmas miracle. Its amazing to see his progress since he was accidentally shot december 5. For the first time, 11yearold caleb is able to watch one of his favorite tv shows in his home. I feel better than i was before the accident. Healysa the last few weeks has spent time at Childrens Hospital where he had several lifesaving surgeries. Camemergency procedures after his
[ bleep ] [ bleep ]. A man elected to keep d. C. Neighborhoods safe arrested for dui. The shocking video of him locked inside a bathroom peppering police with racial slurs. It was a great day today. Temperatures well above average. But the cold is coming. Ill show you when it moves in and what it means for christmas. News 4 at 11 00, starts now. School board meetings can be dull sometimes. But not tonight. Not in Prince Georges County. Im doreen gentzler. Im jim handly. Tempers flared as ceo Kevin Maxwell tried to explain what comes next after the grading scandal rocked the School District. Shomari stone is in Upper Marlboro with what parents heard tonight and what the School District failed to do before the state stepped in, shomari. Reporter good evening. It was a heated Prince Georges County Public School si parents packed the auditorium. The school board meeting, many of them demand to snow why they say dr. Kevin maxwell did nothing when he became aware of the recordkeeping issues
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
To also praise the president for his leadership on this you didnt just hear from mitch mcconnell, paul ryan and the Vice President which you might have expected you heard in senators like oren hatch and lisa merkowski, touting the accomplishments they have to celebrate today with this victory. Other big headlines that are coming out from it that the republicans are pointing to, two banks have already announced they will raise their minimum wage to 15 an hour in light of this bill. At t announced they will be giving 200,000 employees 1,000 bonuses, these are the thing that is republicans are going to highlight, and theyre also going to be able to highlight the fact that this bill comes into effect january 1. So another big talking point today, the idea that you should look at your paycheck come february, and that they believe youll see the effects of this tax overhaul very soon. Democrats vot against the bill. Highlighting the tax cuts and the tax cuts for the very wealthy. Local tax of