sua cravens is in the med lines saying he was racially profiled during a traffic stop in northern virginia. good day at 9a starts right now. all right. 9:01 is the time right now. good day dc is on your tv. it is tuesday, december 19th, 2017, and we re yet another day closer to christmas. yes. it s not feeling like christmas though, right? foles like springtime. we ll take it. no complaints. no complaints. look at your beautiful pink shades, though. definitely feels like the se season. wanted to coordinate. i like the the new comedy father figures hits theaters this friday. kevin mccarthy he has interviews with two of the film s big stars ed helms and owen wilson. looking forward to this. looks like a funny movie. for sure. i m excited let s take live look outside right now as we mentioned another very comfortable morning with great day on tap for tuesday. let s get over to tucker barnes. he says the s word is in the long forecas you mean sunny? yes.
get to holiday weekend. straight up traveling to centerville and 66 eastbound dealing with crash that s 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, let s get to big story wednesday morning gop tax reform push is almost complete. overnight the senate passed massive tax reform bill. but there s 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 they re trying to reconcile the two bills a little language had to be changed in the senate. that s what one final hurdle was. reps are confident they ll timely get this over the goal line. it s cuts and jobs act passed. with heckling from the dalry in the wee hours of the morning vice-president mike pence provided massage of republican tax
it s going to be better. it s going to be better than that i think. right. so, yeah arc popular tv host giving up her dream job because of a gender pay gap. that s a big talker. she s now talking we ll talk about it as well. right now we ll say good day d.c. we sure are glad you re with us on this wednesday, december 20th. all right. also this morning, what else we ll talk about. new proof that this holiday classic will out live us all, we ll tell all about the milestone mariah song just hit more than 20 years after its release. can we just listen to her for second. it is one of the greatest christmas songs ever. number one christmas song. turn on this radio station you can hear it probably every ten minutes. feels like it s a in a loop. every time you hear you can help but bop to it. it make me think of the movie love actually. which i love. even austin is dancing. even austin is dancing. why are you not getting that? oh, my gosh. oh, ma
westminster and twelve leonardtown and five fredericksburg and everybody off to cold start. no high temperatures above freezing. i ll have the details on this cold blast here to stay believe it or not next weekend. coldest air yet arriving saturday and sunday. details on that coming up. 13 this morning. high temps in the mid 20s. more weather back to you. thanks, tuck, a few school systems west of districts opening late today because of fridgeit temps, clark county, virginia schools on one hour delay this morning andal gapey and garrett countrys in maryland on two hour delays. and hampshire and west virginia also delayed two hours and orange county virginia schools you are on a two hour delay as well. developing right now fox5 on top of major problems because of this major cold. south east d.c. a burst pipe flooded gas leak. there s no electricity and there s no heat in crimeer middle school on q street in southeast and melanie alnwick is there. she s live with the la
i m tom fitzgerald. we ll start this mourning with you know t. a live look outside at a fridge id, frigid capitol hill this morning athe sun is just starting to peak over the horizon this morning. let s get to gary mcgrady who dpary, you know, all kidding aside this is really been a brutal stretch for everybody. you might have good news here. i wish i could take somebody s lottery winnings and buy us warmer tempe temperatures. no money can take care of t that. we ll have to wait. it does look like we ll be in for what do you got, tom, say something yeah, this true. you could burn that money. that would keep you i wonder how long that would keep you warm. it would still be temporary. another day today below freezing. you have to go back to last wednesday before we had a day above freezing. it s been definitely a fridge id streak here. and look, hopefully tomorrow i hope so. because there s a chance of little chance of freezing mix tomorrow and maybe freezing rain a