I spoke with a Family Member today. The emotions are still very raw. The news of this tragedy is starting to spread throughout the community. From the people that we spoke with today, it is very clear that this family is loved by many. Reporter the behar family was in the middle of a Family Vacation on a cruise. The family of five and annas mother were all on the trip. The family got off of the boat along with others for an excursion to the mayan ruins. The bus they were riding on crashed on the way there. At the familys home today, a man who identified himself as her uncle told us that the mother, anna, her youngest son daniel and her mother of florida all died in the crash. Family members say daniel, just 11 years old, died in his fathers arms. They say he was a student at south county middle school. Devastating for the family. Hundreds of miles away, he says he saw footage from the crash. In it, he says he saw his nephew Walking Around the bus, looking confused, searching for his wife. According to Family Members, it wasnt until hours after the crash moses found out that his wife didnt make it. The loved ones we spoke with today were shocked. Told us it was too soon to go on camera. They wanted to make sure we told everyone what an amazing family they are. And the uncle told me they are getting ready to go down to florida to be with moses and the oldest son david. The Close Friends and neighbors plan to get together tonight to support and pray for the family. Adam. Unimaginable tragedy. Thanks. Royal caribbean released a statement saying our hearts go out to all those involved in the bus accident. Were doing all we can to care for our guests, including assisting with transportation. President trump and gop lawmakers are celebrating their first legislative victory after passing their tax overhaul this afternoon. It is the largest tax cut in the history of our country. This is going to Mean Companies are going to be coming back. I campaigned on the fact that theyre not going to lose our companies anymore. Theyre going to say in our country. Every democrat in Congress Said even republicans from high tax states opposed to the bill. Diagrams say it doesnt provide relief to average americans. The reductions for families and individuals expire in a decade. House Speaker Paul Ryan says congress has every intention to make sure that doesnt happen. The celebration will be fairly short lived. Congress still has to pass a spending bill by friday to prevent a government shutdown. The fight for power over. Today a threejudge panel ruled that a confused marked ballot should be awarded to the republican. That ties the vote for each candidate. A win for democrats in this House District would tie the states Lower Chamber 50 50. What happens next . Bruce leshan will tell us at 6 00. You wont believe it. It is crazy. Winter officially begins tomorrow. And guess what is coming with it, cold temperatures. Duh. Howard is on the terrace tonight with the details. Howard, how cold are we talking. Were down 20s and 30s. It is next week when the arctic air mass arrives. We will have highs several days starting monday holding in the 30s. We may get barely above freezing by wednesday. Tonight, were down into the 40s. Even a 50 down in jeffries right now. Winds are t. Will need a jacket. With light winds, hey, it is a comfortable chill in the air. A storm system off to the south gave us clouds earlier. Were clearing out. Gave some folks a nice sunset here. Showers are up in the new york state and new england and will stay there. Futurecast shows a quiet night tonight. Wednesday morning, temperatures around freezing. Thursday morning, low 30s in town and by the bay. Tomorrow, sunny. But with light winds, we tend not to mix so we underperform, highs in the mid40s. I will talk about and talk about today and tomorrow versus tomorrow and we will look towards christmas, let you know if there is snow in the forecast. Hundreds of contract workers walking off the job at dhalas this morning. We caught up with the workers ticketing by the upper level departures. 15 an hour. They also want to exercise their right to join a union. A lot of the workers have to work two and three jobs right here at the airport. Some have to sleep upright at the airport. Thats not fair when workers decide to protest and ask the company to raise their wages. When they do this in the past, they have terminated people illegally for doing that. Thats not just wrong, it is unamerican and also illegal. Many of the workers are immigrants. The company that employees the workers, huntly usa corporation. Crews removed the locomotive from mondays deadly Train Derailment in washington state. The train was traveling 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 Miles Per Hour zone. Plus, investigators say it appears that the engineer did not manually slow the train down as it entered the curve. The emergency brake was automatically activated. It is possible that someone training inside the lead locomotive cab. The memory of a woman killed in the Charlottesville White nationalist rally protest will live on for years to come. The same street where she was killed bares her name, Heather Heyer way. People gathered to honor her life and legacy, including her mother. Im glad that they recognize what she means to the history of the city. But im also glad that she is only a small memorial. She is really only a small part of the rich history of the city. She was killed back in august after a driver plowed through a crowd of counter protesters during the White Nationalist rally. Here is a look at the other stories were working on for you tonight. Eninem set his sites on the rapper. Lessons of love from a couple celebrating 80 years of wedded bliss. Victims of the the disgraced former archbishop of boston has passed away. I did assign priests who had committed sexual abuse. Cardinal law became somewhat of the poster child of everything that the American Catholic church did wrong in handling sexual abuse. Cardinal bernard law died today in rome at the age of 86 after a long illness. When hundreds of people came forward saying they were abused than removing the priests, some were moved from parish to parish. It was a scandal me moralized with the film spotlight. Survivors in the boston area havent forgotten about the trauma. And then you put no measures in place to help us heal. And instead, you intensified the damage. You didnt rectify anything. And so with his passing, i say i hope the gates of hell are opened wide to welcome him. My first thought was, where is the party. Where are we going to celebrate . And then i realized that it would be no celebration whatsoever. Laws successor has apologized to people affected by the church scandal. So he was stabbed to death just days before he was supposed to graduate college. Yesterday at the xfinity center, the parents of Richard Colins the third were presented with an honoree degree on lf it was part of the university of maryland winter graduate ceremony. Colins was killed back in may on the campus. He was set to graduate from bowie state. Police are investigating it as a hatebased incident. The man accused of killing collins is being held on bond. Still ahead, one of Harvey Weinsteins former employees accuses the disgraced producer of trying to rape her. Howard is back with the full forecast, including an update on the chances for a white christmas. Plus, giving hope and gifts to children who could use joy around the holidays. A former assistant to Harvey Weinstein is accusing the disgraced hollywood producer of trying to rape one of his employees. Zelda perkins worked at miramax in the 1990s. Harvey weinstein tried to attack her during a festival and she pulled weinstein out of a meeting to confront him about it. He did not question me. He got straight away because he knew i was why i was angry. And as serious as i was. So you accused him of attempted rape. Yes. Yes. And he denied it. Yes. He said nothing torrid happened. And he swore on the life of his wife and children. That was his best get out of jail card that he used a lot. Perkins says when she complained to the female supervisor at miramax, she was advised to hire a lawyer. Disney who owned the company at the time has not commented. Perkins resigned and received a 200,000. Perkins also signed a nondisclosure agreement which she now regrets. Eminem lasting president trump. He started making waves in october when he ripped into the president with a freestyle rap. Now he is telling new York Magazine im trying to get a message out there about him. I best it can be. It wont be that with him in charge. Eminem hopes the president gets impeached. A lot on our Facebook Page are not interested in his opinions. Scott writes, nobody cares what a ninth grade dropout thinks about politics. His career must be in the toilet if this is the only way to get media face time. Lol. You can rip into whoever you want as long as you do it politely. Do it 24 hours a day on our wusa 9 Facebook Page. Now wusa 9s first alert weather, rated d. C. s most accurate forecast. Then to our weather colleagues here. Although, there are a lot of questions about the possibility. Yeah. Of a white christmas. We have been going back and forth on this one. I thought it was going to be warm over the weekend. The cold will push the storm track south and east. That doesnt mean a few flurries monday morning. Certainly it is a possibility. Ive got that but i do want to talk about dark season. Tomorrow is the winter solstice. Today was the darkest, not the shortest, but the darkest day of the year with only nine hours and 25 minutes of daylight. When we look compared to where were going, by march 20th, the vernally which knox will be just over 12 hours. By summer, almost 15. We will be five and a half hours give or take more daylight on june 21st than what were getting tomorrow. Hang in there. Were about to turn the corner and start adding time to the amount of daylight we see each day starting tomorrow. 39 now in winchester. Were 46. We hit 56 for the high. That happened at about 3 30 in the morning. An hour and 20 minutes later, we hit our low which was in the 30s. An interesting night last night. Right now a little bit of light left in the sky. There is the distance 46. It feels like 41 with cloudy skies with the wind at 9 Miles Per Hour. Tomorrow will be cold. 50s today. Low 60s the other day. Tuesday was nice. Tomorrow, mid40s. Even though we will have sunshine with light winds. We underperform. It will be sunny and cold but not that breezy. A couple of things to look at on the satellite and radar. One, things are moving west to east. It is not too cold. Even though it will be chilly tomorrow, we will get nice and mild by friday and warm saturday with rain. Todays rain stayed across tennessee and the deep south. Stayed to our south. We got a few clouds out of it. Thats why the afternoon temps were only in the 50s. We will clear out in places that havent yet overnight. 20s and low 30s by morning. By friday, partly cloudy to start. Snow up across new york state and w ahead of the next front. This will be the difference on saturday. We should make upper 50s if not low 60s with waves of rain at times. Behind it, it will get colder starting sunday. Im tracking the arctic air. Looking at temperatures 850 millibars. The frigid air in white, the real arctic express, if you will, sort of rotates into canada. We get mild. This is saturday, 4 00 a. M. We will be mild saturday. But watch as the cold sinks south and east. Starts to get in here sunday. Here is the real arctic blast. That will take a march towards us tuesday and wednesday. While it will be cold enough to support flurries and snow showers wednesday, monday may not get above freezing. Tomorrow morning, sunny and cold. 20s and 30s. Wind southeast on the light side. Then in the afternoon, sunny and cold with highs in th 40s. Friday, milder, 56. A. M. And p. M. Showers or rain on sunday. Monday, only in the 40s with a stray shower. Flurries christmas day. Cold wednesday. Look at that high, guys, only 32. Thanks, howard. Home for the holidays isnt always a reality for children this time of year. Some of it will be sending the season in the hospital. We visited Childrens National earlier today. Their little faces were made brighter thanks to your generosity. Reporter were about to go give hope to children here at Childrens National for the holidays. Come with us. [music] i think this is for you. You can see the difference for the rest of the day. When you go into the room, the child will say, look at this. I got this. It makes a difference. The families are appreciative. It really changes the atmosphere in the entire hospital. We definitely didnt anticipate being here. Sisters. So just want to get home to them. And we cant forget you. Theres something for you too. Not so fun being at the hospital, huh . No. Waiting for results and getting worried about something being bad. Especially right now, this is his first christmas and he is going through this early. It is very hard. Oh, good morning, sweetheart. Everything is good now. And we can go home. Tell them, youve got to get home. Santa is coming. [music] and we would love to have them home. We try to discharge as many as is safe. Some patients require to stay over the holidays. Anything that we can make them feel better we try to do. And you still have time to help. Visit wusa9. Com givehope. That takes you to an amazon wish list. Choose a gift, check out like you normally would at amazon and we will work with toys wrapped and delivered. And as you can see, it didnt take much to give hope to the children and the families we met. We had a whole lot of fun taking the carts around. It has been tremendous to see how the community has responded. Like a thousand gifts. Yeah. From our give hope effort. If anyone needs that kind of support and uplifting, it is those kids. They really appreciate it. Thank you. Still ahead, the overweight dog thats without a home. How doctors are putting olympia on a doggy diet to try to help her find a forever family. And right after the break, selfies, instagram and galleries. A new generation of museum fans are trying to put themselves on display. Senator al franken plans to officially resign from his senate seat on january 2nd. It may put to rest concerns. He announced plans to leave earlier this month after several Sexual Misconduct allegations. His replacement, tina smith will be sworn in on january 3rd. There are destinations for millennials trying to get the perfect selfie. Outside in los angeles, theyre waiting to get inside. They dont want to see the art. They want to be seen with the art. The founding director can barely believe it. I almost fell off my chair when i read within the first year we had been open that we were the fifth most instagrammed museum on the planet. Reporter the it girl of instagram infinity mirrors exhibit sold out in minutes and crashed the museums website. You wont learn much at the nearby but 2,000 patrons a day pay 30 bucks to pose like queen bae. The pictures we saw on instagram, i thought we have to go. We booked the tickets as soon as they became available. To see the infinity mirrors here. Yeah. Selfie obsessed fans of taylor swift posed at a popup birdcage and look what she made me do thrown. Event spaces are being created to drive the selfie economy. You have to go with it. Get more people in there. Showcase the amazing artistry. It is a winwin. In tonights consumer alert, a former orbitz boss will be the head of uber. He will oversee marketing and customer support. This comes on the same day that the European Union ruled it should be company. Trip adviser released a survey that says 45 of you are traveling for christmas this year. Up 6 from last year. 20 is taking off for new years. That is up 3 . The busiest travel day is expected to be saturday. The most popular cities are orlando, new york and los angeles. Google says chrome browser will start blocking certain ads on january 15th. That wont apply to all ads, just those that are not compliant with the better ad standards. Thats wusa 9 news at 5 00. The news at 5 30 starts right now. Lesli, youre going to like this one. Remember this . Our story about an overweight cat. Not the cat. Oh, yeah. It was adopted by a family that loves fat felines. The woman said i love one fat dog needs that same kind of love. For more than a year, doctors have been helping olympia shed pounds. Stephanie ramirez says the struggle is now finding that furever home. Reporter when a virginia shelter first rescued her, olympia weighed close to 130 pounds, when she should have been at 60. Now a little over a year later, 9yearold olympia weighs in at 85 pounds. The doctor and the team at the veterinarian Referral Hospital took in olympia two summers ago. The staff wanted to help medically. They had never seen a dog this overweight before. This wasnt her doing. Water tank therapy surgeries, dr. Vega says the cost was thousands and