19yearold daughter. At one point johnson went upstairs and grabbed a gun. Reached for a gun at almost simultaneously he was tased and as he was being apprehended, he managed to get several shots off, hit two of our deputies. So, im just grateful that that all things being considered that its turned out as good as it has. It could have been certainly been a lot worse. Both deputies are actual in Good Condition this morning. Johnson though charged with two counts of attempt capitol murder. Hes being held without bond. Also following developing news coming out of Silver Spring where police are investigating a murder. Officials were called to quebec street around 6 30 last night after the victim was shot and killed. Police are trying to find out who is responsible. Pope francis spent Christmas Eve focusing on refugees and migrants during a Midnight Mass he drew connection with biblical times. He compared them to mary and joseph find nothing place to stay in bethlehem. Christmas is a time for turning the power of fear into the power of charity, and to power for a new imagination of charity. Pope francis also focused on how faith demands all foreigners be welcomed. This is his fifth christmas as leader of the worlds 1. 2 billion roman catholics. 10,000 people heard the popes message inside saint peters basilica. Others followed from the square outside. President donald trump sending members of the military a christmas greeting. Provide force Protection Security cooperation in syria and in iraq. It is a Vital Mission and we want to thank you very much. President delivering his holiday message by teleconference from his maralago estate in palm beach florida. He spoke with the air force pilots sailors in kuwait and coast guards men in guantanamo bay. Some folks are headed out this morning. A handful of stores and restaurants opened for business right now including. Ihop in takoma park and thats where fox5s kristyn leon is right now. Did you find out the mystery behind the amazing mask. Good morning. Reporter i did. Good morning. So, everyone was coming from the clubs and so thats where im catching up with these ladies over here. You guys were at an african club you said. Can. Said. Congress. Reporter congress. What are we eating girls. Eggs, french toast, sausage. Reporter eggs, french toast and sausage. Is it good or what. It was delicious, of course. Its filling. Reporter its filling. Yes. Recharge us. Reporter recharger. I like, i like. I see some peppers over here, we got some peppers. With eggs over easy and bacon. Reporter eggs over easy. I know we all went dancing tonight but is this going to a tradition Going Forward on christmas. Why not . Why not. Why not. Why not. Well do this again next year. Well do it. We can definitely do this again. This wasnt planned. This was random we decided to come here. Reporter basic and random. But its nice. Reporter thats what i was going say. Are you guys loving it . You guys family . Friends. Were friends. Were close friends. Were all friends. Reporter you guys are close friends. Many uhhuh. Reporter awesome. Known each other for years. Long time. Reporter known each other for years and youre celebrating christmas together. Merry christmas. Reporter Merry Christmas. Merry christmas to everyone. God bless you all. I love it. Enjoy your family and friends and just make sure that christmas is all about helping each other out and being there for each other. Reporter well said. And thats how it should be. Ladies im going to let you enjoy your food cause you got a lot of work to do over here. I may come bug you in a bit and grab some food. Sounds good. Reporter thank you ladies. Theyre closing down the house over here but this is 24 hours. Were here takoma park ihop. Come grab some pancakes, yall. Best of the morning. Reporter there you go. Merry christmas. Back to you. That sounds so good right now. How are those ladies still awake. You remember how we used to do it. Glory days. Glory days. Absolutely. Lets get to it. We are Merry Christmas. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. Steve welcome back. We missed you. Although i checked your social pages every minute so i felt like i was kind of with you. I thought about you guys. Did you. Thats too bad. Just like let it all go. See ya. I didnt say i thought about you all the time. Okay. 35 dulles. 37b. 37 bwi marshall. Very strong colg through. Winds have picked up. Winds are now gusting here in the city to 32. Gust over 50. So very windy conditions over the next couple hours as that colder air works in and then it will be a chilly afternoon and our wind chills will be in the 20s. Good news is most people can take it easy today. So, if youre going to be out later today, if santa brought you a new bike or whatever to get you outside, make sure youre ready for a chilly afternoon. Otherwise well be part to mostly sunny. Snow into our north. Parts of pennsylvania getting lake effect snows and then as you get up into Northern New England theres an area of low pressure up there and theyre get Something Real deal snow. For us, just windy and cold and were going to be very chilly for the rest of the week. Ill have your seven day coming up. Heres your Christmas Day forecast. 40 degrees. Again look at your wind chills this afternoon, in the 20s. I like forecast. All gift wrapped in a bow. Thank you tucker. Lights and everything. Okay. Well, coming up on fox5 news morning, thousands of our neighbors out west still dealing with the growing thomas fire. Amazing. And police ask for your help also solving a Sexual Assault in prince georges county. Well get details on both those stories. Heres a live look across the d. C. Region. Time is 6 06. It is chilly out there, gang. 39 degrees on this Christmas Morning. Fox5 news after this. Well be back. Hello u. S. Air force Master Sergeant young. This is my family crystal, kristen, chandler sydney and kayla and we would like to wish i was very special Holiday Season to all of our family and friends in detroit, michigan and Norfolk Virginia and throughout the united states. Happy holidays see more greetings from our troops on our fox5 facebook page. Eight minutes past the hour. There are new developments in Southern California where the thomas fire is now become the states largest blaze ever. The blaze torching more than 273,000 acres. That surpasses the size of the cedar fire that was in san diego way back in 2003. Currently there are more than 2800 firefighters still trying put down those flames. Crews are expected to continue working throughout the new year. This morning an intense seven continues for man who broke into a womans home and then sexually assaulted her. This happened Early Saturday Morning on line tree way i beltsville. Investigators say after the assault the man just left the home. Police are offering 25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. In charles county, a man is behind bars accused of killing his neighbor. Investigators say the homicide happened saturday on bowie road. Early reports say Marcus Johnson went to the home of his neighbor wayne procter. They got into an argument. Johnson pulledout a gun and shot procter in the doorway of his house. . Johnson ran but deputies caught up to him. There are already hints at what could be up first in congress. Foxs steve rapport with the story. Reporter despite numerous obstacles Congress Managed to overhaul the countrys tax code. President trump was never shy about that wanting to reform the tax system. So what now . The next major legislative accomplishment and the first big political football of 2018 could be infrastructure. I think youll see the president roll out infrastructure plan in january. Both democrats and republicans say their infrastructure is crumbling and we need to fix it. Reporter President Trump has hinted at wanting to fix and upgrade the countrys roads bridges and tunnels. Immigration could also come up early in 2018. For their part, some democrats plan to go forward in that 2018 by looking backward at the repercussions of tax reform. It helped basically large corporations and high income people. If we could have focused on middle income, we could have i think grown helped grow the middle class which would have been good for our future. Reporter democrats are hoping to gain some seats in the november midterms by convincing voters the republican tax plan is no good. They want to focus on the packages tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. Ultimately they want to solidify their identity as the party of the middle class. Senator Bernie Sanders believes democratic victories in new jersey, virginia and alabama are signs of frustration with the gop. If i were the republicans i would worry very much about 2018. Reporter with the in the senate beginning in january the gop may have to rely on democratic support. In new york, steve rapport, fox news. Just about 6 11 and saint nick already back home, got there about 6 00 a. M. But how does santa manage to do all that he does year after year . A lot of practice. A lot of years. A lot of help. As we head to break lets take a live look across the d. C. Region this morning. Jingle bells in the air. Live look at d. C. It is 6 11 on Christmas Morning. Well see you with more fox5 news morning right after this. Hi. My name is stacy welsh im the principal at kadina middle school in okinawa japan. Welcome to sunny okinawa. We both want to extend our deepest holiday wishes for you during the holiday sean but wanted to really wish you a happy Holiday Season are standing directly behind us. Between both of our schools we teach over 1,000 dependents of service members. And were going to give you a blast right now. Happy holidays [cheers and applause] see more greetings from our troops on our fox5 facebook page. Welcome back everybody and happy holidays. Youre relaxing today, doing what you want to do. Take a day off and just relax, do what you can. Lets tucker do the heavy lifting for. Foryou. Absolutely. That wont be terribly heavy to be honest. No white kind of promised we might. A few places got a White Christmas. Snowing off to our north and east. It was close, allison. In the world of weather it was close. Okay. Hey, you know what, were not going to let it ruin our christmas. Not at all. Im getting so many tweets from our viewers that are up early. Feels like were a little collective right, band of news people together. Everybody is up early. Thanks for tweeting me. Merry christmas to everybody up early. Some people are preparing for their big day and the kids are about to get up and everything. Strong winds. Thats the theme. In fact winds gusting out towards cumberland already about 50 miles an hour so be ready for very windy conditions. 40 now in washington. You can see the chilly temperatures out there. Low to mid 30s off to our north and west. Quantico is 40 degrees this morning, 37 in leonardtown. 39 in annapolis. These are our High Temperatures for the day today as this arctic front comes through. Its going to be a very chilly afternoon. Wind advisory the counties locally here under that wind advisory through 2 oclock this afternoon and again, as mentioned cumberland has already seen a wind gust of 50 and were getting reports of winds 20, 30, look at that, 32 now in washington, 33 in gaithersburg. 49 up in hagerstown. 36 out at dulles. So, very windy, very blustery conditions here over the next couple hours as our front comes through. All right. Steve mentioned this. Look at all the snow up into pennsylvania, steve. Out towards pittsburgh theyre getting snow at this hour and then to parts of new england get something snow as well. So, you know, we came close. We just missed it. Maybe parts of our area off to the north and west will get a flurry. If youre off to the mountains youll get a flurry. 40 today. Temperatures tumble later this afternoon and tonight. Overnight low is 24. It is cold this week and i do mean the real deal cold. Our daytime highs lucky to be much above freezing by the end of the week and overnight lows in the teens and low 20s. And you know, we still have the makings of a storm kind of end of wee maybe around new years but were having trouble with the fine details of that one so kind of stay tuned here. Big question marks. Maybe well get a little light snow friday, saturday, maybe significant snow early next week. Still a lot of question marks about what may or may not happen. Bottom line is cold temperatures are guaranteed along with my styling jacket. Yes. [laughter] all right, guys, im done. Need some music now for every time tucker gets on screen today. Thank you, tucker. Well, he is a jolly old elf and beloved by millions of us including children. And adults around the world. Mostly adults. I think so. How does manage to do all he does year after year and he always gets it done . Some very smart people at Georgetown University have some very serious thoughts on what makes that big man keep on trucking. Hhohoho. This is shine. How does he do it year after year without getting any older. And it seems that santa doesnt really age. Well, of course he does. Its just that his rather copious amount of brown fat which of course as we know is good fat has led to improved skin tone and decreased wrinkling, heightened bone density and improved cardiovascular and immune function. Granted there are still genetic factor that is santa and all of us have to do with and for santa it is seen in his male pattern baldness and lose of the pigmentation in santas beard. Right. So, hes in Great Condition but doesnt the cold weather at the north pole slow him down at all. Periodic and increasing access and exposure to cold can be useful and helpful to more broadly optimize certain metabolic and neurological process in a phenomenon known as preconditions adaptation. So, dont worry about santa. Hes presumably already incorporating many of these tips deliver, how does santa pick the right toy for the right kid . A georgetown expert says santa needs to be as smart as the super commuter watson. Santa finds the perfect gift for every kid every year. Thats 2. 2 billion gift decisions every december. Watson is considered one of the best artificial Intelligent Systems in the world. It even beat the top jeopardy champ. Watson has to spend time parsing through results showing which evidence is useful and which is irrelevant. Santa can skip this step because hes developed a strong intuition. The only thing is to stay off the naughty list. Drawing on my research on leadership and justice, the 3f its came to my mind. Fairness, feedback and fun. Fairness. We have to be more specific about what behaviors are nice and how the fairness builds trust and acceptance of the outcome. Feedback. Children need to know how well they are doing against the goal of being nice. Fun. We can make being nice into a game which my son tells me is call g gamei fica tion. If you want more information about how santa gets it done go to Georgetown Universitys youtube page and check out their full analysis of how santa did it once again this year. Still to come on fox5 news morning most of us are planning to spend the day celebrating in some way with family or friends but what you do what do you do if this is just another day on your calendar . Were going to answer that question when we return as we head to break though lets say take another live look across the d. C. Region. Well listen to more holiday music as we look out over the lights. Folks getting up early, wishing us on twitter this morning. Good morning and Merry Christmas to all. Back with more fox5 news morning after this. Merry christmas from puerto rico. My name is wes trammel and im from the hospital center. Just wanted to send a message back home tell everybody my family i miss them. Thankful, very thankful for them. Glad to be down here in puerto rico with the corps of engineers and trying get the power restored for the people in puerto rico. So, again, Merry Christmas. Puerto rico out. See more greetings from our troops on our fox5 facebook page. 6 23 on Christmas Day. And christmas is a time many associate with family faith presents. For those who dont celebrate this holiday traditions and that gives a boost to businesses around the country. Elson barber has the story. Reporter people often think of chinese food as the cuisine of choice for people who dont celebrate christmas. That idea about late december chinese food dates back to immigrants in the 1800s. It was just sort of informally people did it on christmas. I dont think people recognized it as very common until maybe the 70s or 80s. Reporter according to grub hub that perception may be more accurate now than ever before. The number of chinese orders on Christmas Day more than doubled compared with other sundays in the winter. The most popular dishes peking duck and roast duck. I would say theres probably very few places in the country that in the last 50 years would not have a chinese restaurant. Reporter but chinese restaurants arent the only businesses cashing in on christmas. So are movie theaters. Entire group of people home off work, what better place to go than to a cinema. Reporter theres a reason plenty of blockbusters hit the big screen around the holiday. Fandango polled moviegoers between the ages of 18 and 34. 86 percent of them say they plan to see at least two movies during the christmas season. And waze says navigations to movie theaters more than double on Christmas Day compared to other days in december. Its insane how many films come out. It feels like a big overload but they have so many different types of movies. Reporter this years Holiday Box Office is getting big help from the latest star wars installment and