On the controversial tax bill that the Senate Passed overnight. Good morning to you. Im erin coleman. The tax cut bill is half way through. The tax cut and jobs acts is passed. In the end no democrats voted for the bill. After eight straight years of slow growth america is ready to take off. Democrats say American Workers and families will not win under this tax plan. A third will see a tax increa increase under this bill. So it really because a classic bait and switch. In the house an embarrassment. Members have to revote today. Parts of the bill did not meet Senate Budget rules. Paul ryan defended the bills impact on the economy this morning. More jobs occurred. You lower the job rate and make it more competitive. It will be ready for the president s signature. The federal government runs out of money on friday. There is no deal on the table as lawmakers have been focused on this tax bill. Nbc news, washington. Pennsylvania republican senator is praising the tax bills passage saying first we lowered the tax burden on hard working individuals and families. Secondly we restructured the business tax code will enable workers and businesses to compete globally and complete better paying jobs. Bob caseys statement says the gop tax scheme is a raw deal for pennsylvania families. The middle class is getting the short end of the stick while the super rich and big corporations get a windfall. President trump will hold a press Conference Today and well hold that live right here. At 11 30 a look at how it could impact your wallet and count on nbc 10 for breaking news alerts directly from washington. Now to a developing story in philadelphia. Crews working to fix this broken main that broke this morning. Two highrise condo buildings are without water as well as four businesses. 18th street closed from spruce to walnut while the work is completed. Well keep you updated on the repair process. Cloudy gray day there at the beach. A live look at the pier in avalon. Temperatures are in the 40s ahead of a few days of roller coaster temperature changes ahead. Glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the most accurate forecast, glenn. Yeah. It is definitely cooler today than it was yesterday. We do have and i creased wi inc. We have a lot of clouds around. The temperatures are down a good bit from yesterday. Remember we were in the upper 50s. It is 43 in allentown and 48 degrees in dover. And so that high of 58 yesterday, thats a thing of the past. We have already hit 50 early this morning but this afternoons high about 46, tomorrow about 42 and then we start going back up again. So roller coaster. Look at all of the clouds out there right now, but nothing in the way of rain until you go down into North Carolina and that is moving straight to the east and not effecting us. We are getting clouds from the Northern Edge of that system. Temperatures will be going dune little bit. This evening we are dropping down into the 30s. Even Lehigh Valley down to 29 degrees. That is starting to get kind of cold and a little bit of wind on top of that. Well see more about these highs and lows and also chances for snow as we head through the christmas weekend coming up. New this morning a judge in philadelphia set a february 6th date to hear arguments for criminal charges against the engineer in the deadly amtrak derailment that happened in 2015. They want criminal charges to be reinstated against brandon. Three months ago a judge dismissed the charges. They are appealing that decision. He was openg train when it went around the curve at more than twice the speed limit. Eight people were killed. More than 200 were injured. Progress being made in the clean up of deadly amtrak derailment. This is new video. All of the Passenger Rail cars have been removed and taken away for further inspection. No estimate of when the highway will reopen. The agency that owns the track says amtrak did not wait for the positive train control system that may have prevented the wreck. Sound transit says the project was under an aggress iive schedule. The train was going 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 Miles Per Hour soezone when it derailed on monday. The hunt is on for whoever killed a bicycle it in bucks county. Pieces of bike were left littlering the road as police combed the area for crews. They found this decorative license plate with an eagle. They think it may have come from the car involved. If you look at the video from just after this route and you a something that could help in the Information Police want to hear from you. In the Lehigh Valley a lost credit card leads to big bills for a person from burkes county. They werepott buying items with the stolen cards at lowes, game stop and kids foot locker. If you reck cognize the suspect police would likyo ou can more aut an airport to vote at a meeting today. A lot of warehouses have expressed interest however local leaders wouldike to see storees. Hospital for children is taking over the newborn screening program. It helped to identify babies with rare disorders. They will be able to offer results six days a week. They will also be able to provide families with local followup care. New this morning a celebration of science, technology, engineering and math to benefit the minds of tomorrows womens leaders. [ applause ] this morning the academy of notre dame hosted a Ground Breaking ceremony for the new 30,000 square foot center. They call it inspiring. The academy has been breaking knew ground and New Territory since 1856 but today represents a milestone in that we will be building a state of the art center for some education for our young women. It benefits all students. It impacts all careers. Working at comcast i know the incredible opportunities for young women if they have this background. Board of trustees is the chief Communications Officer at comcast, the Parent Company of nbc 10. An icy rescue caught on camera. Check this out. Good girl. Good girl. Good pgirl. They are crawling through ice and snow to save a dog from a freezing pond. He was tied to a rope and snatched back by a fellow officer. He volunteered to crawl out onto that icey popd thend there. He was able to grab her by the collar and she was reunited by her owner. They feel like they are getting left at the curb, why bus schedules are taking them well out of their way. Next the deadlines you need to know about to get cards and gifr gif gifts to your family and friends on time. Members are expected to revote because of errors in the house bill. The Senate Passed it last night. The senate is expected to hold a News Conference at 10 00. Well carry it live when it happens. A new call to renew the Childrens HealthInsurance Program called chip. It provides low cost Health Coverage to millions of children. So what we are doing here today is basically saying wealthy americans, big fat Christmas Present for you. Tiny tim, we are taking your crutch away from you and all of the other kids in this country and we are putting a lump of coal into your christmas stocking. If congress doesnt pass new funding both pennsylvania and delaware will be out of money. Americans are among the dead after a tour bus crash in mexico. The state Department Confirms several u. S. Citizens are among the 12 that died in the crash. They were carrying passengers to see mayan ruins when it flipped yesterday. About 20 others were hurt. There is grows outrage over dart bus route changes. The chang started sunday. The revisions direct several bus routes away from downtown. Riders are confused by the new schedule and forced to walk blocks the new stops and they are missing connections. I dont see the sense of moves the centralized busa to spread all of the stops out. They said they made the changes to improve efficiency. You dont have much time left to get Holiday Gifts delivered by christmas. The Postal Service as a whole will deliver 3 billion pieces of mail and 200 million packages this week. You have missed yesterdays deadline for standard mail to arrive by christmas. Today is the deadline for priority mail. The priority express deadline is on friday. For more go to nbc10. Com. Well, we are starting to cool down here after getting close to 60 degrees yesterday. It is close to the average high for the time of year. Across the rest of the area we are in similar shape. Not producing any kind of rain or snow. The ocean is 44 degrees. We have a land breeze today. Temperatures able to get up a little bit higher than the ocean temperature. 48 in avalon. Dennis township will be colder tomorrow. You can see all of the clouds moving through here. These are mostly high clouds. We are already starting to see clearing back to the west. We amay see we sunshine as this rain moves down and stays down well south of our area. As we look across the country over the next couple of days we are not seeing any kind of major storms for travel issues. So the travel across much of the country is going to be in pretty good shape. Here we are tomorrow. We have lots of sunshine. Then into friday moisture starting to increase a little bit. We are still on the dry side. There is friday evening when we are still dry. Then here we come. Saturday morning the rain is starting to move in. Temperatures are starting to go up. Tomorrow they are not up. They are down. This would be the coldest day of the week. Chestnut hill only 40 degrees. Allentown may not get out of the 40s tomorrow. Wild wood high of 40 degrees. Many of those places will be under 20s first thing in the morning. Here is that saturday system. A very extopped computer model here. They are not all agreeing on this. They are showing a good bit of rain on saturday. Thats pretty much agreed on. Then the drier air are starts to come in. There is a disturbance developing along the front thats coming through and bringing more me sipation in for Christmas Eve and part of Christmas Day. A decent chance some of that is snow. Some of our area may very well see a bliWhite Christmas. There is ovtherwise a chances o snow or rain. Monday, Christmas Day its certainly feeling like winter. Two games left and the eelgs ha eagles have their eyes focused on the game. We talk about which players could sit and rest as they take a run at the biggest game in sports. Liver where you shop. Plans are in the works to bring attention to the mall. So much excitement and optimism about the eagles right now. Joining me to talk about the birds is dave. Tha thanks for being with us. Thank you. Did he kind of silence the critics by four touchdown passes . I think he did. I think anybody that felt a lack of confidence with nick understands that he can run the offense to a high level. Calm and cool in the pocket. A lot of blitzing from the giants. You kind of check him off. The eagles have other things to work on. Nick is experienced down the stretch, threw the ball very well on sunday. I feel like a lot of people said we have faith. We have faith after whats gone down and now they really have it. Right. Youre reminded of how good of a player he is. They had a tough game against the giants. Should we be worried about this . It has been the last three games they struggled. There is reason to be concerned about it. They have a lot of work do. They have given up big plays. They have missed tackles. When you cant get to the quarterback on a consistent level than the secondary, thats what happened against the giants. He picked them apart. A lot searching for the defense. I think there will be renewed energy. We hope to see that. Lets talk playoffs. If eagles on monday and clinch the number one seed in the post season. How much would Home Field Advantage help . Eri flrn, the eagles are 6 a at home. Not great football teams but you definitely want people to come through philadelphia. There is so much energy. The fans are so into it. The eagles play at a different level at home. It would be huge. It would be the First Time Since 2004 they had the Home Field Advantage. That year they went to the super bowl. Eagles had six players . Yes. Wentz is somebody that deserves it, 33 touchdown passes. Rein johnsons best right tackle. Fletcher cox has been there already. Two players fromthe defense. A fit timer along the offensive line. The hope is that the eagles are still playing because the probowl comes between the conference championship game. It was a very nice individual honor and team honor. And the eagles have a great opportunity for their youngest fans. Its called the kids club. It will be giving away two tickets to each home playoff game to the biggest kids club members. We have a link on our web site and on the nbc 10 app. Thank you. Come by any time. All right. Following breaking developments from washington where the house is voting on the tax bill. Next, what it could mean for your wallet. We are staying on top of breaking news as members of the house is just 30 minutes away from a final vote on a sweeping rewrite of the nations tax laws. This is a live look at the house debating the bill. The bill was delayed because of a last minute snag with the house vote. The president expects it to be a done dl this afternoon. It passed the senate overnight. The tax cut and jobs act is passed. A 5148 vote alg pty lines giving thereen le to republicans sweeping rewrite of the tax code. The president hailing the tax bill calling it the biggest in history. This morning Republican HouseSpeaker Paul Ryan answered tough questions about whether this bill will agent clctually creat jobs. The vast majority of businesses will pay people more money, higher wages. Democratic senator blasted the bill. He said in a statement in part nj new jersey communities will be monl the hardest hit with hits on public safety. It is ir respopsable, reckless, unjust and just plain cruel. Today is one of my disapointipog day as as. Senator. In high tax states like new jersey oralifornia you wont be able write off all o that money and could end up paying a lot more. Depending br ywhere you live mansion to pay a lot of money in operty taxes. The big Corporate Tax cuts will mean the g lets revenue. The congressional budget officer sa office says it could increase by more than a trillion dollars. President trump will speak live at 3 00. You can watch that News Conference right here on nbc 10 and could want on nbc 10 for up. Parents are suing the parentsover one of the suspects as wellhe suspects last wee denao an cousin t guilty to killing the four men. Today thets of sturgess filed a wrongfulauit. Ok set a date to hear. Crim charjs against the in the Train Derailment in 2015. Police sayve was a a a 200 herr derative license plate. As we closer christmas youre running out of todas the deadline for ones. Priority mail. Priority express is on friday. Slopes. A live look at the p into theto. Enn hurricane schwartz has your most accurate forecast. Weekend. In wing among ton we have a lot of these aclouds. The lower ergs r portion is dry. We are not talking about any rain or snow here, just holding down the temperature a bit. This is northeast philly. 42 in potstown. Theyit le hillhi of the year. Yeerdays high was 58. We were 50 early this morning. The afternoon high around 46 today. Low 40s tomorrow a little bit below average, nothin we start warming up friday and saturday. We have a roer coaster for wehich will be week getting close here. All of that rain down south and the temperature, well, thats going to be going down pretty significantly as we head through tomorrow night. We are in the 20s across much of the area. It will be the coldest morning of the week and coldest day of the week and chances through the weekend. Well get into that in a few minneapoli minutes. The killer remains on the loose this morning after leaving an 85yearold man to die. Fremds say he had no reason to be a target. He was found inside a home yesterday. He lived alone his eire life. Neighbors say he would give a stranger the shirt off of his back. Police have not recovered the weapon used in the killing. A frightening night after a gunman fired shots through the window of a chinese rest raupt. Police continue to search for him this morning. A van thats a lifeline far mother and son disappeared from a mechanics lot where it was being repaired. The van belongs to maria and her son, daniel torres. He is paralyzed after being shot three years ago. It is his connection to the outside world. Im here all day in this bed. Its been really hard for us. Its really hard to help son be comfortable. His mom says it would take her three years to safe up enough money to buy at van. She wants the person that took it to bring it back, no questionasked. If you live to shop youll be glad to know they are planning to build residences and office space on the property at the mall. It will fill the void left by the old j. C. Penny store. We expect to learn more next year. The group says hups hundreds of evacuees are here right now. They are collecting coats, gl t gloves and scarves today. He said new jersey had its arms open and he stands committed to helping the territory recover. Some say new jersey has the Third Largest puerto rican population in the country. Dont bother paying the parking meters. Park for free from now until new years day. It is a way to encourage people to shop during the holidays. If you drive a shef ri you can easily track his journey. It will tell you about santas where abouts. Norad has been tracking santa for decades. They will donate for each santa update call it receives. Pe the cool. How about a live show you can enjoy with your kids . Well talk about a popular new play. Im track some rain and then big changes ahead for christmas weekend and the following week. Ten day forecast coming up next. That is a scene from the fun new childrens