Get to Holiday Weekend. Straight up traveling to centerville and 66 eastbound dealing with crash thats 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, lets get to big story wednesday morning gop tax reform push is almost complete. Overnight the Senate Passed massive tax reform bill. But theres 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 theyre trying to reconcile the two bills a little language had to be changed in the senate. Thats what one final hurdle was. Reps are confident theyll timely get this over the goal line. Its cuts and jobs act passed. With heckling from the dalry in the wee hours of the morning vicepresident mike pence provided massage of republican tax plan right along party lines. We
Field tonight. A treasure trove for lawyers and hint, hes mad as hell and hes not going to take it anymore. Varney company is about to begin. Lets get to it. The markets, that is. Were going to be down at the opening bell, 70 or 80 points, were all over the selloff, how bad is it going to be and we will be asking that question for three hours. The price of oil bouncing no, not bouncing down, back at 40. 87 per barrel, again, were looking to see if it drops below 40. Were showing 39 on the screen at some point today. Well see. Gas, good news, the pace of the decline in prices is picking up steam, down about two cents overnight. And big names, we talk about it every day and boy did they get beaten up yesterday. Do you buy now . Here is the closing prices from yesterday. Netflix, 112. Apple, 112. Facebook 90, amazon down to 515. Jo john, taking a vacation from his mansion in bermuda. Are you going to reassure our viewers that maybe this is the time to buy a few bargains . Not necessarily
People impacted by the hurricane zblnda the day will kick off right here on abc 7 mornings and continue with good morning america. Donations will go to the red cross. They raised 18 million for hurricane sandy. It would be amazing if we could reach that or exceed it. It is now 4 30 if youre just joining us lets get an update on weerts and traffic. Mike. Lets open up the Weather Window on the exploratorium and you can see the fog thats out there, the lowing clouds ant fog. And the reason why . Were not going to be quite as hot today. Well start 7 00 this morning, 56 to 63, not quite as stuffy as yesterday morning, but close. Notice the coast, 58 at noon to 61 at 4 to clock to 59 at 7 00, never warm there. 73 around the bay, 77 at fou 00 and 70 at 7 00. 83 at noon with cleaner air inland, not as hot at 4 00, 90 and a comfortable evening 79 degrees. Those hundreds, they are coming back and well talk more about that in a second. Sioux. We do have as i mentioned a bit ago very thick fog acr
Talking to the media, but they did tonight. Wusa9 at 11 00 starts now. Firefighters are still at an active fire, the university of maryland had to shut down its campus nearby because the smoke was making it hard to breathe. But that threat is clearing out tonight, according to our john henry there live. Reporter yeah, certainly a calmer scene right now at this complex but theres going to be a lot to clean up. County says 40 million worth of damages in association to this fire. This ladder, firefighters are still putting water on the hotspot. Here at this building. Weve seen smoke come up within the last two or three minutes here as well. That said, people in this area are very appreciative of firefighters efforts, especially Senior Citizens we talked to who live right across the fire. This is the type of sight. Crazy. Reporter few people can prepare for. This is the biggest fire ive ever seen. Ep residents of the spellman House Apartments had to experience it up close and personal. Ver
I think we have the rain out of here. Ill have the details in the Weather Forecast not only today but in the weekend. Erin. Big problems on the roads. Upper loop parked because of some Police Activity by arena drive and as we look at maps. Gw parkway northbound crash slateers lane and southbound crash lingering at the key bridge and new one southbound 123 steer you clear of of the slow downs allison and steph. Erin, thanks very much. We begin this hour with breaking news out of Montgomery County. Intense images from the scene of a crash that happened around 3 45 in gaithersburg. Not the right graphic there. Taxi these are the pictures well telling about you and slammed into a tractortrailer and slammed into a cab wedged under a big rig. And westbound lanes of shady grove road as it intersects with oak mond avenue. Still closed 7 00. Driver of the cab was trapped for a while. He has serious injuries. And president nears 100 day in office and President Trump taking aim and that could mea