this tax cut in there. so it's not like obamacare took a few years for that law to take effect 10 change voters' minds, i think we might see this swing back and become a little bit more popular as people start to see the tax cuts in their paychecks. >> reporter: with this legislative victory under the president's belt, wrestle shared his thoughts on what republicans might prioritize going into 2018, immigration likely top with efforts bipartisan to come up with a is solution to daca and the focus on funding the wall, russell suggested republicans might take another stab at repealing and replacing obamacare. welfare reform on the table and funding infrastructure, a promise that president trump truly made since day one. some of these were priorties in 2017 as well. ronica cleary fox 5 local news. fox 5 learned hundreds of warrants for wanted you futures are not being served because of a manpower shortage >> squads are getting the personnel they need because courthouse and prisoner security top priority. paul wagner live in northwest with the story. >> reporter: jim and marina, here in the district of columbia on any given day, law enforcement officers are out here on these streets, looking for fugitives. it's a standard part of police work. what we've learned in the last few days is that at the federal courthouse, the us marshal service has a warrant squad and they've had a very difficult time staffing that warrant squad. on any given day, there's no one coming outlooking for wanted fugitives. we got a statement from the chief marshal. we want to show you part. the 600 active federal parole warrants and 300 class one warrants, meaning fugitives for which the us marshal service has primary apprehension responsibility. we're working hard to mitigate threats to the public by maximizing the resources and with effective collaboration with various law enforcement partners. i'll show you videos the marshalls at work we've recorded. us marshals are responsible here in washington for security at ten federal courthouses as well as protects judge, juries and witnesses. according to jason wood lowe with the chapter of the federal manager of association, he told me that staffing here in washington is taking a priority over staffing of field office it's around the country. at the federal beyond a reasonable doubt in the district providing security in the courtroom for judges and prisoners is taking priority over staffing the warrant squads that look for the fugitives. the judges want to see in their courtrooms, on any given federal courthouse that no deputy marshalls are outlooking for fugitives some of the outstanding warrants are coming from the dea, the fbi and of course the federal judges. the marshall service is responsible for providing security for the permissible counsel's office, as well as the deputy attorney general. now, one thing we have been able to confirm is that there was a shooting last saturday of a three-year-old at the apartment house on pomeroy road. we understand a man wanted for a gun charge in that case was actually wanted on one of these fugitive warrants out of the federal courthouse. he was wanted for escape. it's unclear exactly how old the warrant is but we can tell you that that man was arrested yesterday and he's now in custody. we're live in northwest, paul wagner, fox 5 local news. there's new video from that armored truck robbery in beltville last friday a bank of america on baltimore avenue and police help this video will help track down the suspects. this is surveillance video that shows two employees depositing money into the atm when two armored suspects approached them from behind, forced them to the ground and then took off with cash. police say the masked men made off with more than $200,000, so far, there have been no arrests in the case. at police in new hampshire to make an arrest at a at a deadly stabbing that happened in alexandria. this is taylor accused. robbing and stabbing mere the meadow woods apartments earlier. they got a tip he was in new england and found him at an apartment complex in hudson new hampshire. now held on $500,000 bond. in fairfax county, more pregnant women are reportedly battling heroin and opioid addiction and apparently not getting the help because afraid >> it comes as opioid use sky rockets across country. tisha lewis here with that were concerned about this and the fear for many pregnant women fighting assistance abuse disorders is being viewed as a bad mother. now, the statistics are staggering in fairfax county is no exception. the latest numbers from the centers for december controls, between 1999 and 2015 there was nearly to 500% increase in prescription overdose deaths among women compared to a 218% increase among men. heroin deaths among women report oddly increased twice as quickly compared to men. now, one group is hoping to change that. >> we absolutely want to offer put pregnant women nonjudge tall services. >> she's the behavioral health supervisor. she said there's no judgment, no questions asked policy for pregnant women seeking help with card priority population and community services in fairfax county will bump them to the top of the list for assessment, treatment and medication. in fact, we're told if a pregnant woman addicted to heroin or opioid contacts the board, they will get help within 48 hours. >> i think women are afraid of judgment, that they feel that they're not services that can help them. maybe they don't know we offer services for women currently using substances. that there's a big stigma against a woman who's pregnant sent using drugs, and we want to remove that stigma and say we're here to help you anyway. >> reporter: also offers opioid overdose reverse sal a training. the one-hour training teaches how to administer and is free and open to the public. it's reportedly the leading cause of accidental death the country. tisha lewis fox 5 local news. imagine driving down a highway and seeing this. >> that is is a man surfing on the bag of a big rig. we'll have the story. it's time of the year, wait until you hear how some residents are getting back and making sure they don't get away with what they're actually after. gary? >> i'm in green belt at the ruby tuesday. where there be be a wonderful secret santa coming up in a few minutes for a wonderful family in need. more details coming up. hopefully we'll get to see the whole profession come and on in. it's a big thing. sue palka back over to you. >> you have absolutely been santa's little helper this season, i can't wait to see the surprise, we'll look forward to your reports. meanwhile, back to chillier temperatures here in december as we are on edge of the winter sol solstice, i'll let you know what thursday. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. are out >> it is unseasonably warm feels like the. sue palka with -- see what's happening, what kind of christmas will we have >> so far looks like it will be in the 40's with maybe a chance of rain or a little bit of snow mixed in but the forecast i'll be real honest and say low confidence, we're -- it's still several days away, we have much more confidence in the short term and you're right. it was mild this morning, but we've seen temperatures dropping as we've gone through the day, but at 46 right now at 5:00, one degree above average. that's not bad for this time of year. new york not bad either at 41, boston 39, binghamton 28. were but pittsburgh 37. we'll see the temperatures getting cooler. you may have noticed we've had clouds around. that's from a system that's been passing by to our south. over the next few hours, those clouds are going to clear on out. and we're going to go see temperatures dropping, 41, frederick, not bad, 43 winc winchester, it will be heading down to 20's and low 30's, winds continue lightly out of the north, it will continue to pull in the colder air you see to our north and as the clouds depart from this system, it has been produce, rain showers across the carolinas and a few through central virginia, that will pull away and that means we'll get cold overnight. tomorrow is the first day of winter and it will be feeling a lab more like a typical december winter day here in dc. for this evening, 7:00 temperature right about 45 degrees, partly cloudy skies, they will get thinner and thinner. 9:00 temperature 43, and by 11:00, 41 but again, we are going to be seeing temperatures likely heading for the upper 20's to low 30's, it will be a chilly start at the bus stop tomorrow. winter begins tomorrow, it is the solstice at 11:29 in the morning, then we'll see days getting longer. but the cold will make a come back. high pressure up to the north is going to continues to drive those north winds in and that means while we see, what should the kids be ready for at the bus stop as they finish up school for probably the holiday week? 30 to 35 degrees in the morning, lots of sunshine, but that's going to be a lot colder than the last two mornings have been. after school it's chilly as well. 43 to 47 but a dry day, a good travel day, we'll talk more about travel weather on friday as well as the holiday weekend forecast, little bit later. jim and sarah back to you >> package carriers are busier than ever and that comes with the package snatchers, viewers continue to reach out at fox 5. matt ackland more. >> reporter: you probably get a box like this just about every day this time year. a lot of people are looking forward to getting their boxes, of course, christmas is around the corner, but for some folks, well, the packages getting delivered to the doorstep but someone is snatching. in some cases, these people who taking these gifts or these boxes are getting things that they probably don't want. with little time to spare, last minute packages are being rushed to the post office with finger crossed they will make it on time. >> do you usually wait till the last minute. >> no, this is bad. christmas came too early >> i'm hoping santa's nice list's. >> reporter: someone not, this guy, a viewer in upper marlboro sent it is that he is package snatch. there's a lot of expensive things sitting on door steps this week, ruth fm sent us this to the fox 5 web team asking we help stop what she called holiday thieves. you can see a guy snatch a package but she tells us she wishes she could have seen his face when he discovered her natural detox laxative. in edgewood dc, the search is on for a stolen poop emoji toy pillow. it was for the owner's dog. the owner wrote, wish it was real poop. iain washington could only hope the gifts she's mailing actually make it to the owners and not a thief taking advantage of all the holiday giving >> what can you do? nothing. people will be mean and do that, you just hope that it gets there, and people leave your stuff. >> reporter: might have been the first time i've ever said poop on tv. but hey, authorities this is really a serious issue, it's happening all over. if you recognize the people in this like to hear from you once again if you can be home to accept those gifts maybe have a neighbor pick it up now, that's always best. these things are happening more these days. especially around the christmas season, matt ackland fox 5 local news a deadly bus crash in mexico >> reports about a virginia family who may have been killed in that bus crash while on vacation. a plane crashes in the front yard of a home and everyone makes it out safely. where this happened and what people saw moments before the plane crashed. a heart of gold. a mysterious donor drops an unusual donation inside a salvation army kettle. >> my name is tech sergeant, stationed in anderson air force base guam. i'd like to make a shout out to my happy holidays and merry christmas. z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy . a bus full of royal caribbean cruise ship passengers crashed killing 12 people. eight americans. . florida reporting some victims may be members of a family from virginia. officials say the bus was driving for about 40 minutes before it flipped over on a narrow highway. no word on what caused the crash. meantime federal investigator it's digging for clues trying to figure out what led to the deadly amtrak train derailment. investigators are looking into whether the engineer operating the train was distracted. on top of the fact the train was going more than twice the speed limit t per hour zone. as a result. three people killed and dozens others left injured. in knoxville, tennessee, three men are alive after a plane they were in crashed into a front yard of a home. tuesday afternoon and landed on top of a car parked in a driveway. the men made it out, conscious and alert when emergency responders got there. >> i heard a airplane, it was low, i knew that it was going the wrong way to be that low. i told my partner, i said, in plane is too low, it's going to crash. >> it sounded like a bomb, so but i knew he had wrecked because i heard the noise. >> no word why the plane went down in the first place. implosion failed last month, the georgia dome is now officially history. two sections failed to fall during the original atlanta. they tried again today, as far as we know, no busses were around to photo bomb the event this time around. holidays are a time of giving and a generous donor in portland did that >> a solid gold bar, a little large her than a domino piece but worth over 1$1200. salvation army will have them all appraised >> christmas coming early, they lost to their wife and mother to breast cancer and now the maryland national capitol park police are determined to bring them much needed joy. fox 5 gary mcgrady live in green belt for this santa's secret surprise. >> the park police made it and came the huge trucks rolling, lots of police on the motorcycles. here's what's going on. the park police show up, they do this every year. that he help out a family in need and come in and each officer brings a gift for the family. this is the planta family. they've had a rough year, lost their mom and wife to breast cancer earlier. they bring them out for dinner, it's all a big surprise, they did not know this was going on, look at all the officers streaming in, and everybody out here spreading, this is the secret santa on a grand scale. and there is -- were where he able to see santa back there? not quite. but santa is here. he's right there in the middle. i just kind of wanted to set the scene here for you. coming up in a little. hopefully later on i'll have a chance to talk with the family and just see what they and how they feel about this. again, as these guys mentioned to do this the maryland national belt. they do it every year. what a wonderful thing, there are a enough smiles to go around. they are surprised. i'll send it back inside. we'll check on this later. >> sounds good, gary, we'll check in then. next, action before the new tax bill takes effect >> tom fitzgerald is on this story and it's raising eyebrows. >> reporter: behind me in those doors is a big tax office tonight, not just here, across our region. people were trying to get here before the january 1st deadline we will tell you why. >> this company has not been willing to listen. that's why we're going on strike. >> going on strike, how hundreds of workers at dulles international airport are walking off the job and it could ruin your holiday travel plans. have you seen this missing dog? the owner said the dog was stolen out of the front yard, up next. before we head to break, we had special little visit from some cute one, little christmas carollers, filling our newsroom with much needed holiday cheer. ♪ ♪. ♪ ♪. on 5:30, homicide detectives canvassing a neighborhood in upper marlboro for clues in connection with a deadly shooting. someone shot 53-year-old kermit holland last pry in the garage of his home. investigators still looking for the gunman and detectives are also looking to find the victim's stolen suv. it is a maryland tags. police need help identifying two suspects wanted in connection with a robbery in northwest. this happened tuesday after 5:30 in the evening on the 2600 block of woodly place, police say the suspects and the victim had agreed on line to meet to sell a pair of shoes. instead, police say one of the suspects tried to steal the shoes and one away. when the victim tried to get the shoes back the suspect assaulted is the victim. a man in southeast is looking for his dog after he was stolen from his own yard. this is bisquit. the theft happened today in the 700 block of 32nd street. surveillance video shows someone walking up to the yard, opening the gate and letting the dog o out. on the heels of the tax package. >> why would people want to pay their taxes early? trying to avoid the loss of early. fitz this is not a place -- you don't expect this to be busy this time of year. >> reporter: it is like santa's workshop in there. we can tell you. a busy, busy day. here's why. the theory is, that people will come down, pay their property taxes before new year's eve, and then avoid the loss of that property tax deduction, which is now part of the new tax reform package. a lot of people are looking into this. they have 20 people prepay their property taxes yesterday. doubled that today. 40 people. arlington county have field more than 200 calls just this week alone. and the deputy treasure in arlington says, they don't expect this to ease up any time soon. >> it's usually very slow. and as you noticed there's quite a few on average, two, three, taxpayers like to come in and prepay but we're seeing many more this year. >>reporter: now, when this new tax plan goes into effect, property tax deductions for local and state deductions are going to be capped at buy $10,000. here's what people are doing. they're coming down to tax offices like this one and they're prepaying all of this for 2018. now, the folks here say legally, these county and local offices cannot offer you any legal advice, that this is going to work. but you talk to the taxpayers who came down here today to pay these taxes in advance of these changes on january 1st and they will say, that they have the means to do it. they're going to do it. because the worker worse that can happen, they would get a jump on paying their taxes for next year. >> the worst thing that can happen is i paid it in advance and we only have to pay it next year. best thing that can happen is file next year. >> reporter: that is the idea. we heard from montgomery county today, we also heard from dc late tonight. both jurisdictions say they are taking steps to help people repay these taxes before that january 31st deadline in just 12 days. live in arlington, tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news. earlier, virginia govern terry mcauliffe had a message after the republicans sent sent a clear message. for families facing economic challenges another lawmaker's future is on the line. sooner day lynn leakage is taking a break from his campaign amid accusations of inappropriately touching women. tom wolf called for his resignation but so far he has not stepped down speaking of drop, hundreds of baggage handlers went on strike. it involves contract workers protesting what they say poor working conditions, mistreatment and poor pay. demanding the right to unionize. >> we want to be represented so we can have a voice on the job. and that's the right of this country and this company has not been willing to listen to them. that's why we're going on strike today. >> the contract in dulles airport workers plan to walk off the job again tomorrow, there are some airport workers who have decided not to join the protest. and delta wants money back. the airline is seeking to be repaid for lost revenue following sunday's power outage at heart field jackson international airport in atlanta. they're saying the airline may have lost 25 to $50 million because of the he plans to hold talks with both the airport and george power. the outage caused delta to cancel roughly 1400 flights. tsa expecting 400,000 additional passengers going through security checkpoints every day across the country. we were at dulles earlier, gives you a little sense what they were up against. a tsa in addition to 1400 officers at the top 50 airports and the tsa wants to remind people flying of one new rerestriction this year. >> any large electronics, personal devices larger than a cell phone come out of your bag a and, it's a new policy >> we say this every year but we point it out because people don't always listen. don't bring wrapped gifts in your carry-on baggage. use gift bags or boxes, get there two hours before the domestic three hours if internationally. >> you need a real to do list before getting on a plane. >> we fly a lot. people go through the line they're like what should we do with the tablets >> attack everything. there's new allegations >> brody logan on this one. >> reporter: it's a new twist in the sexual abuse scandal in usa gymnastics and frankly the indictments are pretty disgusting we'll let you know the latest ahead. an area teens are spreading holiday cheer in the annual family to family gift delivery. we have that coming up. stay tuned back after this. after this. a former usa gymnist is revealing another around sexual assault allegations at the hands of teen doctor >> in addition, the redskins keeping spirits up ahead of a christmas eve match-up, brody logan is here with the details. they first is unreal. >> the story is unbelievable. we've heard about these charges levied against the former team doctor. but the details of what usa gymnastics has done after all of this is pretty amazing. bombshell allegations adding to the controversy surrounding dr. larry nass, the attorney for gymnist is saying usa gymnastics struck a deal to keep quiet about any mention of being one of the victims. the suit alleges she was assaulted by him when she was 13 years old. $1.2 million was paid to buy the silence. confidentiality and sexual abuse cases are illegal in the state of california. that's where the alleged abuse took place. nasser of ten counts of criminal sexual misconduct >> the redskins practice at redskins field in spite of having a losing record, jay gruden quite active. the passer right there playing a little db, maybe he should ask santa for a little more speed in hits stocking. for the second straight year, the redskins play christmas eve but this is the first christmas for cooper cousin. he'll hell liish this opportunity >> it's great to play christmas eve. we did it last year. then we got the off day on christmas day which works out. it will be fun to have cooper in this christmas pajamas, my wife got matching pajamas for the at least of us, and i will definitely be forced to ware those on christmas day. so we'll have a good time, i'm sure there will be a lot of family pictures, and we'll be opening presents and doing the traditional things. >> i'm family pictures of him it's one of the best events. today players and coaches from the wizards spread holiday cheer with the annual family family gift delivery. giving gifts to children from various groups, including bright beginnings and the salvation army. team mates give out gifts to smiling faces today. those gifts were changes and purchased by the significant other, where the family to family comes in in this event each and every year. and it's cool. i went to this event the last two year he is, and the look on the kids facing they know they're here for something, they know they're going to get some sort of gifts, when they see john wall come through, aren't you that guy? when they see the cheerleaders, dancers and the mascot >> they're like opening presents looking up and then, oh, there's a present. >> let's talk a little bit where the christmas spirit. >> we are, of course. >> i know and winter does official. begin tomorrow. sue said, earlier on in the broadcast, but we actually were pretty mild again with temperatures in the low 50's. it wasn't the 60's of the previous day but still, a little bit abnoove normal. it will be beautiful and we got clear skies for now. we had cloud cover earlier that quickly cleared out as a front passed towards the south. earlier this afternoon. and we clear skies for the rest of tonight that will allow it to be colder. and we should see sunshine and a chilly thursday, if you're doing traveling tomorrow, you look a ok. weather headlines, feeling more wintery as the solstice occurs on time. cloudy skies for friday, but dry if you're doing traveling. i know i'll be spending a lot of time on i95. weather w traffic a whole different story. showers on saturday still looking likely as we get to christmas day colder, originally looks like maybe it would be mild, definitely not the case. it will be colder with a chance of a few snow showers. friday travel this is what it looks like country-wide. you got the pockets of snow showers along the upper great lakes and the northwest, sunny and dry in the southwest. you got the swarth of rain along a cold front stretching from texas all the way up into portions of new england where it could be cold enough for snow and ice, so treater maine, new york, new hampshire and vermont could see winter i weather. showers will be more of a thing through pittsburgh the ohio valley back into tennessee, showers don't reach us till saturday. friday, looks good on the road. in fact, up to new york, 50, cloudy skies, chicago, they're in the middle of that, they will have a bit of a wintery mix and 65 in la, miami, marina looks good this time of year. sunny and 81. yes, i want to spend christmas in miami. my gosh, no problems there. 46 outside temperatures have cooled off a bit from the low 50's of earlier we're seeing mainly mid to upper 40's. we had a system all day towards the south that spread showers from tennessee into portions of the carolinas. you can see a good bit of rain across places like charles norfolk virginia. stay far enough south we had clouds but even the clearing line made it past the district. mostly cloudy skies definitely colder as we spent most of the overnight flirting between the 40's and 50's, but 34 much closer to normal for tonight. chilly start to thursday as that cold air make as brief come back. we'll start to warm things up again on friday. temperatures in the 40's, but with a lot of the sunshine, it is going to be pretty nice of let's get straight to that accu-weather seven-day forecast. 46 tomorrow but watch out temperatures jump warmer area on friday. mostly a cloudy one, few peaks of sunshine, dry during the day. showers look likely on saturday. for some of you it may take all day to see mild back into the 60's we go. little bit cooler there on sunday, christmas eve, 49 with a chance of showers at night. early rain or snow showers still in the picture for monday, but we should clear out christmas day and turn chillier very cold tuesday and wednesday. that's a look at your seven-day forecast. jim send it back to you. >> thank you, caitlin. fox 5 covering breaking news out of st. county maryland, the scene of a dump truck crash, apparently a dump truck hit a vehicle a couple of hours ago before 3:00 in st. mary county. we don't know exactly where it's happening. skyfox is up above. clearly a traffic concern, we'll keep working on the story and let you know if there's any other problems at this point but again, crews on the scene of this dump truck crash in mechanicsville maryland in st. mary's county. let's head back out to gary mcgrady with the secret santa in beltville. hey, gary. >> reporter: thank you so much there was like 100 maryland national park police, look how many we have now. there's the chief. some of the other guys, lots of presents and smiling faces, secret santa, those are all the -- they managed to pull it off. it wasn't a secret. we'll talk to the chief in a second. explain what's going on and later on, we're hoping to talk to family that was surprised. a lot coming up on fox 5. stay with us. stay with us. . i'm at the ruby tuesday's in greenbelt maryland. the capitol park police have done a wonderful thing. i've heard of secret santa but this is a great event. >> thank you so much: what we found this year, we always have a secret santa that we give gifts to and this year, the plantsa family was a recipient and in the midst of hard luck, mr. planta's wife passed away. we felt we could make the year end better than it started. we decided to do a secret santa for the planta family, corporate randy green who is our community service officer came up with family and the name and so mr. planta -- three children, abigale, and two boys, were all given gifts, they had a small list and with fulfilled everything >> i don't know how they will get home with all the gifts you guys brought. must have seen them taking away 50 different gifts >> they took away quite a few gifts. thank yous for the officers from the county police, the sheriff's department and the fire department all contributed. >> it was probably 15 minutes, whole force was out here, full-on fire truck, all of your police cars and motorcycles and everybody and this was a big surprise, wasn't it sdwrauk a surprise. they didn't expect anything, it was a great surprise for them. we're honored to have been able to give them some especially for the kids. >> this is a big thing. >> so often you hear so many bad things in the law enforcement community. this is a good thing >> they've been kind of hanging out. we're on live television, tell me your name. >> corporal sharack >> i was brought a gift >> i did >> he just brings his presents, he's got a great hat, little elf ear and the lights. >> corporal calvin i saw you bring in something too. you've been smiling the whole time. >> it's a great job, enjoy it. helping people it's a community we want to give back to and work together. >> reporter: you've done great thing, i want to say something, we're obviously at ruby tuesday's. cori is the district manager and you guys provide services every year for this. say something. >> we love working with the community, you know, the officers came up with this great program, and we're here for them every year >> it's been such a wonderful surprise, we'll let them have a little bit of dinner but coming up in the 6:00 hour, we'll sit down with them and see what kind of surprise this was and see how the secret santa may have changed the holiday season, maybe a little bit merrier. jim and marine back to you guys. >> thanks to all of those officers out there. some of the finest >> try the salad bar there, it's really good. coming up. an officer gets dragged for miles by a driver who took off during a traffic stop, how this one ended coming up. streaming and gaming are only as good as your internet. so get the best internet - with the 100% fiber-optic network. with fios gigabit connection you get the fastest internet available with download speeds up to 940 megs plus tv and phone for just $79.99 per month online with showtime and multi-room dvr service included with a two-year agreement. switch now and get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. get our best new offer. go to getfios.com ban. in florida, a call for an overdose quickly turned into a life or death struggle and the incident all captured on camera >> the officer seen on surveillance camera getting dragged for miles by the driver who took off during a traffic stop. he was checking on the driver who had and fall asleep. the man woke up and drags the officer along. >> the officer dragged half mile while clinging to the car hitting speeds of 60 miles an hour. the officer's body camera recorded the whole thing. >> you can only imagine being dragged for half mile, and on that you would sustain not just to your clothing but body. >> the officers rushed to the aid. he was hitting speeds of 100 miles an hour. the driver was eventually stopped charged with attempted murder. the suffered road rash over much of his body but expected to mistake a full recovery >> imagine driving down the highway and seeing this. a man surfing on the bag of a big rig it happened in orlando and the man waved off the driver who was recording him. several drivers caught up to alert the driver and it worked. the truck pulled over, spotted the rider on the back and he took off running, police reportedly took to her from there. a major victory today for republicans on the hill. >> here's ronica cleary >> republicans celebrated the first major legislative victory on the south lawn, we'll give you the details coming up. >> reporter: hundreds of fugitives are walking in the district and no one looking for ahead. >> reporter: more women are battling opioid and heroin addiction but fewer are getting help. that story is coming up. this is fox 5 local news at 6:00. the message to the families in america who have been struggling paycheck and paycheck, your tax rates are going down and your paychecks are going up. this is the kind of relief that americans deserve. >> right now at 6:00, a victory lap for republicans as a 1.5 trillion tax cut package is on the way to president trump's signature. the gop passes a sweeping overhaul to the nation's tax code. it's the largest more than three, decades. ronica cleary is live with more on today's big victory for the gop. ronica? >> that'ri the president celebrated today's victory on the south lawn of the white house. now, you may notice if you're researching the bill, and what will happen, numbers vary based on who you get those numbers from. whether they're democrats or republicans, but take a listen to should of the numbers the president was touting today on how this bill will affect you come 2018. >> $3.2 trillion in tax cuts for american families including doubling the standard deduction, and doubling the child tack credit. the typical family of four you earning $75,000 will see an income tax cut of more than $2,000. they will have $2,000, and that's in my opinion, going to be less than the average. you'll have a lot more than that. >> reporter: now, after the president spoke today, at least a dozen republicans took to the mic to speak about the accomplishment for

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