Toughest times of the year. And President Trump says the gop tax bill is a Christmas Gift. But even some republicans say it may really be just a lump of coal. We know a lot more about a story that we brought you as breaking news first at 6 00. Kids were playing with a gun when it went off, injuring a toddler. Good evening, thanks for joining us tonight. Im ericka gonzalez. Police tell us the bullet pierced the little girl in the leg. The shooting was inside an Apartment Building on pomroy street in southeast d. C. The girl is expected to recover. Detectives are interviewi ining everyone who was around at the time. No word if there will be charges filed. New at 11 00, this time of year can be difficult for families coping with the loss of a loved one. Tonight a group of local mothers are getting together to lift each other up after devastating losses. News4scy Prince Georges County with their powerful stories. A lot of times we dont even want to wake up. Were not suicidal. We have to face another day without our babies. Reporter gina best is surrounded by women who share a common bond. Theyre all moms moms who have lost a child in a shooting. How could anyone divorce themselves and pull the trigger and snuff out another persons life . Reporter bests daughter india died in a policeinvolved shooting in 2015. Shes here for a potluck dinner with a coalition of concerned mothers. Theyre getting together to uplift each other as the holidays approach. As it gets closer to christmas or any holiday, that sadness is still there. If its only four, five, six hours today, i want them to walk away with we had a great time. Oh. Reporter and thats what they did, sharing hugs, laughter, and some food and drinks. Its a time to relax, to take their minds off their loss. Presence of other mothers who have had similar tragedies as ours. I am so glad reporter a safe place to share with others who can relate. People say rest in peace or theyre in a better place. I beg to differ. The better place is here with us. Reporter tonight they have each other. A few hours to enjoy the friendship of other moms and to try to forget the painful past. In upper marlboro, darcy spencer, news4. Hello, everybody. Happy saturday night. Hope youre enjoying your weekend out there so far. Not a bad day on our saturday. Tonight, a little bit on the cool side, but not too bad. Temperatures in the mid 20s in the coldest suburbs. Manassas toward warrenton, 25 manassas, 37 reston. College park at 28. Again tomorrow. Not a bad day. We have clear skies now, but notice whats coming our way. Weve got a storm system down to the south. A lot of rain now around dallas, toward little rock. The whole system moves our way. Its not the rain that this storm will help bring our way. Ive got the complete forecast, updated forecast, including the latest thoughts on, you know, that Little Christmas holiday coming up. See you back here in a minute. Thanks, doug. See you then. Weve got new details tonight on a Death Investigation that we brought you as breaking news at 6 00. Montgomery county police say a death in germantown is being investigated as a homicide. Police found the man dead late this afternoon at an apartment on Falling Water circle. Detectives say he was shot. Police are looking for the shooter and a possible motive in this case. The gop could be just days away from approving a massive overhaul to our taxes. Theres a lot of disagreement on capitol hill over how much the plan will help the middle class. As Nbcs Kelly Odonnell shows passage will give President Trump his first big legislative win. Reporter an eager defense of the 1. 5 trillion tax cut bill as the president headed to camp david today. Mr. President , Many Americans believe that the tax cuts will benefit the wealthy more than the middle class. No, this really will mostly benefit the middle class and jobs. Companies companies are coming in, pouring into the country. Theyve already started. This will be great for jobs. Reporter jobs is white house code for helping middleclass families. Even with unemployment at a 14year low, the wages are stagnant. Under the gop tax cut plan, a family of four with an income of 73,000 could save roughly 2,000. The standard deduction most tax filers claim would double. The Child Tax Credit also goes up. For parents, those 529 College Plans would tuition saving for k12. Answering the bills critics today, the president played santa. This is going to be one of the great gifts to the middle income people of this country that theyve ever gotten for christmas. Reporter wealthy families and corporations could see the biggest gains. The Corporate Tax rate drops to 21 . The estate Tax Exemption would allow koumcouples to pass on tw as much, 22,000 with no inheritance tax. The alternative minimum tax would kick in at a higher level, 1 million for couples. The amt ends completely for businesses. Political analysts say public reaction has been wary. I think the American People are have already sized this thing up to realize that theyre not going to be the direct beneficiaries of any tax reform, but rather very large special corporate that was Kelly Odonnell reporting. For many people, wreaths this time of year represent the warmth of the holidays. Today at Arlington National cemetery, the wreaths represented the spirit of remembering, of honoring, and of teaching. Hundreds lined up in their cars early this morning for the annual wreaths across america. People applauded as semitrucks filled with evergreen wreaths arrived. Volunteers placed a wreath at every grave marker except for those bearing the star of david. Im here to help people who serve us and their families. Were from troop 156 in flanders, new jersey. We came to honor the men and women who paid the ultimate price to help our country. Volunteers from across the country placed wreaths on more than 200,000 gravesites in a little more than an hour. The event depends heavily on donations. Volunteers honored all the interred veterans by reading their payments that National Recognition for a Virginia State trooper gunned down at a bus station last year. Find out how hes being honored. And we want to show you a live look at 30 rock. Kevin hart hosting a new snl. Wait until you see the Hillary Clinton tattoo that one of the new at 11 00, a nationwide billboard will honor a Virginia State trooper gunned down last year. Trooper chad durmeyer was shot and killed at a richmond Greyhound Bus station. Wtvr, range tv station, reports an Advertising Company will post billboards nationwide b enforcement for their service and will remember the trooper. New at 11 00, Marriott International will keep 3,500 jobs in bethesda. According to our Business Partners at wtop, headquarters will be built at the bethesda station near wisconsin and norfolk. The Current Location is near i270 and the beltway. Montgomery county approved the measure this week and gave marriott 60 million as an incentive not to leave. Marriott hopes to Start Building next year with a movin date set for july of 2022. A fisherman who won nearly 3 million at a tournament near ocean city but haensnt seen a dime is continuing his legal fight. Phil hessly caught the winning fish last year but was denied the purse because he and his crew failed lie detector tests about whether they followed tournament rules or not. A federal judge ruled against him in june. He told the a. P. Hes not going to get run over by lies and junk science. Tonight, a sheriff says pit bulls turned on a young virginia woman killing her. Eye never seen anything quite like it. Reporter i never see anything like it again. Why the victims good friend says the sheriff has it wrong, and th what if more of the energy we used came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could detect, fix and even prevent Power Outages . What if our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . What if all these what ifs became a reality . At dominion energy, were completely transforming our power grid and the way we think of energy. To move from what if to whats next. Dominion energy. A young woman near richmond, virginia, went to walk her dogs this week but never returned home. The sheriff says her own dogs mauled her to affiliate in richmond explains, friends say the idea of her dogs killing her just doesnt make any sense. It appears she was taken to the ground, lost consciousness, and the dogs mauled her to death. Reporter theres sheriff james agnew. He says 22yearold Bethany Stevens dogs fatally attacked her while she was walking them. There were no strangulation marks. The victim had puncture wounds in the skull, and this was not a homicide. Reporter stevens friends say that does not add up. They would not attack her. They would kill with kisses. Reporter it started when stevens father called 911 saying he hadnt seen his daughter in nearly two days. He went to look for her in the woods where she often walked her dogs. Thats where he found her, not yet knowing he had stumbled upon the gruesome scene of her tragic death. Were told stevens weighed about 120 pounds, and each of her dogs did, too. Thats a twice her size. In my 40 years of law enforcement, ive never seen anything quite like it. Hope i never see anything like it again. Reporter Barbara Norris says shes one of stevens good friends. The only time they got aggressive is if they thought there was a threat going toward her. The wounds on her hands and possibly her face and throat were probably trying to get her away from whatever was attacking her. Reporter she says shes going to did whatever it takes to make sure investigators have exhausted all possibilities. When we went to the kennels, the kennels was like they had been broken open, like the dogs saw something going on and went for went to help her. A friend of the victim says the dogs even slept in bed with her at night. The medical examiner says the attack appeared to be initiated by the dogs. Apparently somebody in San Francisco just had this bazooka lying around the house. They decided to do the right thing and turn it in officers showed the antitank weapon to tv cameras during this gun buyback program. Somebody also turned in a cannonball. As for what that person was doing with a bazooka, cops have no idea. Folks get to turn in their weapons no questions asked. And look what turned up under the hood during a routine oil change. Who . Nicely done. Mechanics at pep boys in New Hampshire found this boy chilling under the hood yesterday. They nicknamed the guy shaz am. Its an eastern screech owl that was probably trying to get warm. They took him to a local wildlife rehab center. Saturday night live funny man Pete Davidson just got inked again. He says its his Christmas Gift to Hillary Clinton. Davidson will forever have this image of the former president s candidate on his leg. He showed off his new tattoo on instagram friday. Clinton joked that this is less tattoo of him for years, too. No, not really. All right. Time for meteorologist doug cr kamerer with a look at the forecast and everybody zeroing in on christmas eve, christmas day, what it will look like. Its looking tricky now. Its a very, very tricky forecast. Were still about a week away. And that much of a week that much of a time period away. Theres a lot that could change with the forecast. Obviously stay tuned. Right now, looks like its going to be a could be a little bit of a mess. Well take a look outside. Not a mess this evening. A little bit on the chilly side. Not bad at all. Temperature right now downtown, sitting at 37 degrees. Winds out of the southwest at three miles per hour. Around the rest of the area, under clear skies, weve cooled nicely. 29 right now in gaithersburg. 26 at culpeper. 25 in manassas. You know, weve got a very cool night. Thats going to set up for a very cool start to the day tomorrow. But thats around the average for this time of year. 30 in the beltway suburbs. Warm coat for sure when you wake up tomorrow. 32 degrees by 8 00 a. M. Waking up or getting up around 9 00, temperature around 35. On the chilly side. I have my alarm set at 9 30. My sons Football Game, 10 30. In case anybody wanted to take a look. Heres whats going on with radar nothing. No rain, no snow across the region. Thats not going to change a lot. There is a slight chance of a shower tomorrow. And if you look at this right here, weve got clear skies. Down to the south, were tracking a storm system, looks like a big storm, a lot of rain, and it is. As it moves off toward the east, its going to dry out easily. Because of that, well just see cloud cover. Maybe an isolated shower. Spotty, north and west. Fredericksburg, upper montgomery county, toward martinsburg and hagerstown, the best chances of shower activity. I dont think youll need the umbrella. Temperatures around 49. If you are shopping around the outlets, clarksburg, not a bad idea to take the umbrella. Again, most o dry. Weve got the coats the last few days. You can put the coats away for the next couple. Monday, high of 54. Tuesday, high of 60. Really looking nice those two days. More clouds on tuesday. Cant rule out an isolated shower then either. Behind the system, we actually get cool again. Back to 48. The coats come back out. Breezy and cool on wednesday. High temperature of 48. Windchills in the 30s. Thursday, cool, temperature around 44. A little below average. We see a chance of showers on friday. Just plain rain on saturday. Warmer rain with temperatures in the low 50s gets me all choked up talking about and monday. Take a look at that forecast. Christmas eve right now looking okay. But if you go to grandmas house on monday, thats something to watch out for. Christmas day right now calling for what could be a mix, rain and snow, depending where you live. Again, a lot of time to watch the system. To the north, all rain. To the south i know. Exactly right. Were hoping we get the snow. Yes all of a sudden, the caps are one of the hottest teams in hockey. What . See if they could tally another win with the ducks in town. Lets see. If its saturday, it must be d. C. Its been that kind of week for the washington capitals. Cant tell whether theyre coming. Monday in brooklyn in that stinker. Back on the road thursday, grabbed a win in boston. Home tonight against anaheim. Thats six days, four games, three cities. A win over the ducks would make a nice exclamation mark before four straight first having to take care of work at home where the capitals have won four straight. Didnt start well. Derek grant a twoonone, as they say in hockey an oddman rush, one after ducks. Then protected hockey ovechkin a shot back. Ducks lead. Few minutes later, jacob rana hes going to score five holes. Game goes to overtime tied at two. Two minutes into overtime, who you gonna call . Alex ovechkin. The winner. Theyve won six of seven overall and lead the metropolitan division. That is getting it done. College basketball. First real test for georgetown. Patrick ewing against syracuse. Can change conference but not intensity. The dunk put the hoyas up 5747. He got it done. This is how it works. The defense getting tighter. Frank howard the swipe. Then the georgetown turkeys go into overtime, imagine that. Unfortunately, hoyas in deep trouble. Battle from deep. Syracuse survives. First loss for Patrick Ewing as a head coach. To charlottesville, virginia and hosting davidson. Go for a better shot Nigel Johnson layup ties it at 18. Cavaliers looking to take off from there and able to do that. They found devin hall. How about that three. Puts uva up by ten. And more from distance. This time the other corner. Kyle guy, three late. That puts uva up 17. Virginia deeds davidson 8060. The Journey Continues for head coach mike houston and the James Madison dukes at home at south dakota state. The semifinals second half. Marcus marshall, 65yard run. Where is he going . To the you got it right, doug. Advance to bonus round. Madison jumps on the jack rabbits, 2810. Next drive, marcus marshall, 87 yards. Where is if going to go . Somebody elses house . Somebody else still the same house. 203 yards, two scores. That you might call is the marshall plan. A history lesson. Jmu wins 5116. Theyll take on north dakota state in championship on january 6th. Way to go, dukes. At the wesley convention center, nationals winter fest, scherzer ready to play ball with fans. The day was all about having a good time, simple smiles and joy, scherzers already looking forward to pitching for new manager dave martinez. Used to work against him when he was with the cubs. This is just a new opportunity to learn from a different set of eyes. Somebody whos been across the diamond from me, playing against me, can share with me what i do have, tics i do have. So lose your manager and part of your coaching staff, you also have to look at it as a Glass Half Full and a chance to get better. And Dustin Hopkins for the redskins, thats the way its been, even the kicker was hurt. We recommend dougs sons Football Game tomorrow. Thats what you go for. Might be better. I think so. We play the cardinals too, actually. There you go. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for joining us. Because everyone likes easy. Sure do. Because everyone is on the go. 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