A deputy chief fire marshal and fbi agent are killed in Montgomery County. And President Trump make as controversial stop in mississippi. Raging wildfires continue to burn out west with no end in sight a maryland girl wins big in a nationwide cooking contest. The news at 10 00 starts now. And we begin tonight with the Winter Weather across much of the dc region. It really was beautiful. Most of us got to see it come down several hours, lets take a live look outside now at this hour, the snow it has stopped for the most part the concern tonight is the possibility of slippery roads, especially ramps bridges and overpasses. What can we expect when it comes to sunday . We want check in with gwen it is really going to be a windy day on sunday. But as matt mentioned most of the snow for the most part is out of our area. Take a look at radar, you can see its moving all the way up to the northeast as that low pressure system pulls away, and we are just really on the very back end of it now. Ar
Related. If you know this person in this video, police and the folks who gather here hoping that youll give police a call right away. For now, live at casa ruby in the petworth neighborhood, matt ackland fox5 local news. Major changes to how youll access the internet and what you might pay for it in the future. Today the fcc voted to end socalled Net Neutrality capping off a long fight over how the changes could empower Service Providers to charge customers more down the road. Tom fitzgerald is live at fcc headquarters with what happened and what it means from here on out. Fitz. Reporter jim, good evening. At one point protesters put flowers outside of the fcc headquarters in what they call a funeral for the internet. Now, understand the internet is not dying but what the fcc did today was vote to kill that obama era rule called Net Neutrality. Now, you probably this. What is neutrality. Well, basically what it means is this rule as it currently stands means that Internet Companies can
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
This tax cut in there. So its 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 pr
The right result would happen. I think a lot of people have been scared away from voicing their opinions. They dont want to get arrested. They dont want to get pepper sprayed, a stinger grenade thrown at them. Reporter like we mentioned on january 20, hundreds of protesters took to the streets near dupont circle. Some of them smashing and breaking nearby store windows. Others setting cars on fire and throwing bricks at Police Officers. Bottom line here, though, the attorneys of the six defendants represented today say that there was no evidence that their clients took part in violence that day. They say there was no criminal intent behind their protesting. When youre putting a case like this together that you have to make tough decisions and draw lines and decide, you know, between those who were engaged in constitutionally protected activity and those who are engaged activity and prosecute the prosecute the ladder and not not charge the former. Reporter now, the u. S. Attorneys office