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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm December 21, 2017

, machine Collin Mcshane is at the white house. We are making America Great again. Reporter an early christmas for the gop. The president inviting republicans to the white house to celebrate after a historic vote in congress. Records all over the place. That will continue and then some because what we would did what we did. Reporter he said that it comes with something extra. We essentially repealed obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate. This is the ultimate bad Christmas Carol story. Reporter they likened it to a lump of coal in americus stocking. What we are doing here is saying wealthy americans big fat Christmas Present for you. 2010 we are taking your crutch away from you and all the other kids in this country. Reporter republican say the tax bill is really a gift to the u. S. Economy. This gets us better wages, eager paychecks, a simpler tax system. This gets the American Economy competitive. Reporter lawmakers have two days to pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown. Here are some key points of the tax bill. Personal income tax rates will be lower however the bill retains the same number of brackets. It doubles the standard deduction and also scales back the deduction for state and local taxes which is not popular with People Living in states like california and new york. The per Child Tax Credit will be doubled to 2000 and the limit on deductions on interest paid on a home on will be 750,000. The current limit is 1 million. The Corporate Tax rate will be slashed from 35 to 21 . It will and Tax Advantages for Companies Moving overseas. It repeals in a a requirement that forces people to pay a tax penalty if they did not purchase insurance. It opens the Arctic National wildlife refuge for oil drilling. Lawmakers in alaska have been pushing for that for decades. It turns out the president may wait until next year to sign the tax bill into law because it could trigger 120 billion in automatic spending cuts to popular programs such as medicare. That can cause problems for republicans in an election year. If the president waits until january the cuts would be allayed delayed until 2019. House leader nancy pelosi said people will suffer due to the repeal of the obamacare mandate. 13 million americans could Lose Health Insurance as their premiums go up under elimination of the individual mandate. She also said that 83 of the benefits of the tax bill go to the top 1 of taxpayers. The tax cut to individuals expire in 2025 because of senate rules that limited its impact on the federal deficit. Coming up at 5 00 we will speak with a tax expert from san jose state to continue learning about the tax plan and what it means for you. U. S. District judge grilled the u. S. Department of justice attorney on the decision to pull the plug on daca. Tara moriarty joins us from city hall in San Francisco. Young immigrants are calling on democrats to help them out. Reporter they are asking u. S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and other democrats in washington to step up and come up with a plan that is more permanent than daca which is being phased out. They are asking them to hold the budget hostage until they can get republicans to agree on their plan. These protesters many of them Illegal Immigrants brought to the United States as children say they are fighting to stay in the country and urging democrats in washington to be their voice. We are hearing of people being detained right now which could have been saved if it was something more permanent that was fought for. They failed us. Reporter President Trumps decision to and daca spurred five lawsuits in federal court and motivated these protesters. The fact that we are out here again in 2017 pushing for a dream act that should have in past decades ago is ridiculous. We are demanding that they push the dream act with the budget. Reporter the lawsuits filed on behalf of of the university of california are challenging trumps phaseout of daca which protects young undocumented immigrants. We will use the court because that is what we are left with. We have to use every possible tool we have in the toolbox to help our dreamers stay here. Reporter daca has protected about 800,000 people including collegeage students commonly referred to as dreamers. This family moved to the u. S. From mexico when she was four years old. It affects me because Financial Aid is only available for documented students. Reporter her dream to become a teacher someday is up in the air. If i cant have a Social Security number and a work permit that would keep me from teaching in a public school. Reporter she said that daca is not a pathway to citizenship but thats what she would like. She wants the judge to dismiss the lawsuit. He will make a decision at a later date. Meanwhile republican and Democratic Senators are working on an immigration deal. They say they are closing in on an agreement combining a Border Security package with deportation protection from young for young undocumented immigrants. Although a final resolution is not expected to come until january. Live at city hall i am Tara Moriarty back to you. Sue city supervisor jane kim is joining the list of candidates running for mayor following the sudden death of mayor ed lee. A special election will be held june 5. Whoever is elected will serve as mayor until january 2020. She said she wants to continue her work on education, childcare, and housing. It will be a rigorous debate and i am glad to see a lot of strong candidates running for this office. I think our voters deserve to have a competitive and Fair Election over the next six months. At least six other candidates have already declared including former state senator mark leno and former supervisor angela alioto. Theres speculation that the acting mayor and District Attorney could also file paperwork. The deadline is january 9. We are following developing news in san jose where there is a big traffic backup because of police activity. Sky fox just flew over the area. There seems to be a person on the side of the overpass on southbound 680 two southbound 101. Here is the picture. You can see the major trafficked effect Traffic Effect it is having. You can see all of the red here. Traffic is bottled up all around san jose especially on the north, east, and south sides. As of right now there is no estimated time when the road will be open. We will keep an eye on the situation and bring you more details as soon as they become available. Eight alleged members of an east bay game him gang have been arrested and charged with violent crimes. One is accused of killing an innocent victim. Here is more on the investigation. Reporter i am here outside the county jail. These gang members are being held here. This is after Law Enforcement from Contra Costa County and the fbi came together to put a dent in the game. And the gang. The called operation clapboard out. They said members of the gang are responsible for murders and prostitution. They are being held in martinez. Prosecutors are outlining evidence against them in an ongoing hearing. Investigators rated 11 locations in october. They recovered guns, drugs, and cash. This gang was targeted because of the level of violence they bring to the community. This is what the safe Street Program is all about. It is about dismantling, disrupting, and putting dark these groups that are determined to do violence in these communities. Investigators say they will continue to go after gang members and those who are not in custody should look over their shoulder. Live in Martinez Henry lee ktvu fox 2 news. Several suspects were arrested in connection with a Home Invasion robbery in los gatos. They recovered the victims stolen car. They would not say how many people they have in custody. The suspects are accused of breaking into a home near whitaker slowed would acres road. They demanded valuables and attacks the homeowner. It is terrifying thinking how easy it would be to just be so vulnerable in the middle of the night and how scary that is. The homeowner suffered a minor head injury. They have not determined if the homeowner was targeted or if the robbers knew the victim. Police are investigating an officer involved shooting that happened around 8 20 last night. The street was just reopened a few hours ago. This is not far from highway 101. The Police Department said around 6 00 a man called police to say his brother was missing and had made suicidal threats. The missing brother returned home armed with a gun. Officers responded to the scene found the 23yearold man and ordered him to stop walking. He began running and attempted to pull the gun from a pocket of his sweatshirt. Thats when an officer tried to tase him but it was an effective. Another officer then opened fire. The man was shot at least twice and was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not considered lifethreatening. The shooting is being investigated by central murmuring Police Authority and the sheriffs office. Authorities are investigating a break and a break and of a car. Police learned tactical gear, ammunition and a lock box were all taken. The officer gave a statement saying a vehicle belonging to us Customs Enforcement was broken into and the subsequent act of items was reported to police on december 18 in oakland. No firearms were stolen. For the queries regarding recovery of the items should be referred to the oakland Police Department. Still to come, a woman has set a record for giving birth to an embryo that had been frozen for years. Find out just how long. We will tell you more coming up. A year ago a woman was killed in a hitandrun on the peninsula. The case has gone cold so the family is taking renewed steps to find the suspect. A few raindrops out there last night. You may have seen some moisture when he went off to work this morning. We will talk about pretty cold overnight lows coming up. Two days after the derailment washington the cleanup a is in full swing. Crews are working overtime to get a section of key highway open again. This is as federal investigators combed through the wreckage seeking answers as to what led to the disaster. Claudia callan is in dupont washington with the latest. Reporter along with excessive speed investigators say they are looking at whether the engineer who was driving the train on monday may have been distracted. They say the emergency brake engaged automatically when the train, which was going 50 miles over the speed limit, jumped the tracks. They say the engineer did not activate it manually. Nor was he alone and the locomotive. There were two people in the cab. The engineer and a conductor who was getting experienced and familiarizing himself with the territory. The actual conductor as there is one on every train was in the actual passenger section at the time of the accident. Reporter Officials Say the engineer was qualified and had been operating the train in the area in the last couple of weeks. All five crew members were hospitalized. Investigators say they hope to speak to them in the next few days. Two of the three people who were killed in mondays accident were passionate advocates for public transportation. Friends say they were excited to be on the Maiden Voyage of the new highspeed service between seattle and portland. How ironic and sad that they perished in a train accident just one week for christmas. The mingle passenger cars that spilled onto the freeway below the trucks below the tracks have been hauled away for further examination as amtraks coming under fire from launching its new highspeed line before activating speed control technology that may have run into the derailment. In the meantime a four mile stretch of southbound interstate 5 remains close. Close to. Closed. Officials said they still need to make sure that the freeway is safe before it reopens to traffic. The family of a woman struck and killed by a hitandrun driver in san bruno has hired a retired fbi agent to find the driver. On december 19 top 2016, carol flynn left the Bayhill Shopping Center and was heading home as she was hit by a white suv at cherry and san bruno avenues. She died at the hospital. The driver never stopped. The family recently hired private investigator rick smith, a former at vi agent, fbi agent to help in the investigation. Somebody knows us something. We want them to come forward and tell what you saw. Tell what you heard. Tell what you might know. If anybody has any information whether another witness that may have seen something or a person sitting there consumed by guilt please come forward. Carly flynn volunteered with the Humane Society and loved animals. She adopted a cat named tucker that still sleeps on her bed. The Berkeley City Council voted to continue to let Police Officers used pepper spray for crowd control. The Council Approved an ordinance in september that allowed the use of pepper spray by Berkeley Police to deal with several violent crashes clashes in the city. The review commission wanted the council to repeal the ordinance saying they were concerned the spray could have severe and longlasting health effects. At the meeting yesterday the city council once again voted to allow police to use pepper spray. The Police Department is having somes some serious staffing issues and the high cost of living is to blame. The department is having a hard time holding onto officers because many cannot afford to live in berkeley. Other departments are paying more. A few months ago we had to suspend bicycle operations as we approach march and looking at what our staffing is pragmatically we will have to suspend our motorcycle officers. The police union said officers are leaving because of the citys failure to support specialized units. A woman in tennessee has given birth to a baby after carrying to term an embryo that had been frozen for 24 years. 26yearold tina gibson gave birth to daughter and the last month. Emma last month. She carried an embryo that was conceived about 18 months after she was born. She and her husband said they were unaware that the embryo that they received from the Donation Center had been frozen so long but say their daughter is a gift from god. We had a little bit of overnight sprinkles across the area. Did you see any of it . I heard it. I did not look at the clock. It was dark. I went outside and the it was a little wet outside. We measured about a 10th of an inch of rain. Not a lot but some. We are coming up on the solstice tomorrow and we are looking at Light Rain Conditions for the month of december. It is historical lows for december which is not encouraging. I know california winters and i know that january and february can triple what you expect them to do. There is some activity in the southeast but as far as flight delays looks like philadelphia has increasing flight delays. Im not sure what is going on there. I do not think it is a weather issue. Also newark had a flight delay. Chicago is good. This is easy. Lots of green airplanes all over the country. That is easygoing. We are talking about rain showers from last night. These are some of the numbers. Napa had 607 inch six hundredths of an inch. As a look at the satellite or radar spinning and the radar is groundbased. The raiders are on the ground and suddenly disappear. There the Radar Service is the observing stations that pick it up. We will stay drive. Now it is about cold because the overnight lows will get down there right now temperatures are pretty cool. Tomorrow morning in San Francisco will bes 50 degrees. It is cold tomorrow morning. It will be sunny in the afternoon. When we come back we will look at the holiday forecast. I know a lot of you folks are home right now on vacation and you want to see what the weather will be like for the weekend. Coming up, uber hires a new chief operating officer. They have been dealt a big close overseas. We will be right back. Running a Small Business is demanding. And thats why Small Business owners need more. Like internet thats up to the challenge. The gigspeed network from comcast business gives you more. With speeds up to 20 times faster than the average. That means powering more devices, more video conferencing, and more downloads in seconds, not minutes. 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