Trying to ease into the holidays. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] larry but you are here with us. Im larry smith. Arianna and im a jamal hopkins, in for autria godfrey. This is the busiest month for traveling . Julie but with a strike . Its going to get crazy. Weather at least the is going to be easy, which is ironic, yesterday was the anniversary of a big snowstorm from 2009. Look at these temperatures, it was amazing. Today, not too bad. Its not going to be that sunny. Clouds coming through from time to time. By 11 a. M. And0 temperatures will kind of hold steady and heres the reason why. A weather system to the south with rain running along the front. If you are traveling from atlanta to memphis, t 50 is your high, mid 40s tomorrow with colder conditions coming our way and some wind. The forecast today not starting out in the 20s, but for today, 50, 45 tomorrow, we will talk about the weekend and the wet weather that we are having right around the holidays. 3 ie traveling by car is up this year. We need the weather to be on our side as we make the plan to head towards grandmas house or wherever you are traveling for the holiday. Dry pavement and a crash, 429 in centerville. Traffic squeezing bicycle file to the right at this point with a 45 minute commute from manassas towards the capital beltway. Ouch. We have some problems, now, close to the charles town pike, due to a wreck involving an overturned vehicle. 295, a minor fender bender near the exit for malcolm x. Leaving the beltway headed north headed into southeast washington that is our traffic watch. I will be back in 10 minutes with a closer eye on 66 and an up eight in silver spring. Further amendment, the tax cuts and jobs act is passed. The first legislative win for President Trump. Mike pence announcing just before 1 a. M. That the gop tax plan passed its final hurdle in the senate. That 1. 5 chilean dollar rewrite of the american tax code is the first of its kind in decades. Adrianna John Gonzalez is live on capitol hill with what comes next. John good morning. What appears to be a major victory for donald trump and congressional republicans, its the first overhaul of the u. S. Tax code in 30 years. The bill passed along party lines, the final count was 51 to 48. Senator jeff flake of arizona, to vote yes. Paul ryan calling this a generation defining moment. The bill full of criticism from the left, as you can imagine, claiming it eases the tax burden on businesses rather than the middle class. Here are the numbers you want to Pay Attention to. The Corporate Tax rate dropping from 35 to 21 . All taxpayers will essentially see a tax cut within two years. 2020 seven, those earning less than 75,000 per year will see a tax increase of about 180. This bill also digs into the obamacare act of it, getting rid of the mandate, the penalty if you dont have health care. Passed the bill earlier in the day, yesterday. There were violations on the amendments. The house will vote again today and it is expected to pass yet again desk for signature. Beforenature expected the christmas break. Reporting live on the hill, John Gonzalez. Larry President Trump, tweeting his approval, promising that if it is approved today there will be a News Conference this afternoon at the white house. We will be following that for you on air and following the updates on the free abc 7 news app. Bernard law, disgraced haser vatican official, died. He resigned during the Church Sex Abuse scandal in 2002 after it was revealed that he had failed to remove a sexually abusive priests from the ministry. The planned start planned strike at Dulles Airport is happening in less than three hours. Its already one of the busiest travel weeks of the year, with 7. 2 travel in the dmz alone. We are monitoring how it could affect your travel plans. We will have a live report coming up at 6 30. Adrianna take a good look at this sketch, here. This is a man who raped a woman in a popular arlington neighborhood. She was attacked back on november 2. Police say that he sexually assaulted her and then took off. Take another good look at this composite sketch. If you recognize this person, be sure to give police a call. We are learning more this morning about the d. C. A commissioner who used foul language, urinated on the floor, barricadedve himself in the bathroom while the police were recording. Go get your supervisor. Sir, dont make me come inside there. [bleep] adrianna abc seven a different version of what happened. He says the details that the police got wrong and why he plans to sue them. Thats in our next half hour. Larry stick around for that. An 11yearold home from the holidays after eating accidentally shot by a neighbor in his home. He spent the last few weeks in the hospital undergoing several surgeries to save his life. Even after everything hes been through, he says he forgives his neighbor. I know he didnt mean to do it. Im thankful that hes alive in here for christmas. What were you looking forward to waking up to . A tree and some gifts. To be thankful for. He has to relearn many things, like eating on his own, but his father says that just being home is the best Christmas Present he could ask for. Adrianna take two, down in atlanta. Thats the sound of the georgia dome finally being taken down as the first scheduled demolition didnt go as planned. The charges went off but the building didnt know didnt budge. Call 2017 the year of the stubborn stadium. There you have it. Like you said before, stadiums are standing. Its a lot of money. Whats the plan . Did they budget the money for a second demolition . These things are not cheap to do. They dont want to come down. They were built well, put it that way. Adrianna very good point. Larry breaking news overnight, the connections to Northern Virginia in that deadly bus crash in mexico. Adrianna adrianna check this out, skiers, rejoice. This is new video from Flathead Valley and montana. They are getting some great snow out there. You can see the lifts running at full capacity. Ski season is officially underway. Doesnt even look like a lot of snow. We were talking about the anniversary of the 2009 snow yesterday. This snow in montana . Mark my words, next thursday we have a better chance of seeing more snow than we saw last friday. Adrianna skiing snow . Veronica not far from here. Its a possibility. Adrianna look at my face, vj. [laughter] veronica camper. Things will be checked just changing after the holiday after christmas. Just rain for the eastern half of the country. Louis, coming in at 49. 49 in martinsburg. Those temperatures really mild considering the average high is shy of 50 degrees. You will see the temperatures witha dip back to 50 clouds and sunshine in and out for today. As far as the feelslike temperature, thats the important thing. Tomorrow they will be starting out in the 20s across the area. I will show you where the afternoon will feel like tomorrow and we will take a look at the rain on the way. Right now we are still looking at this accident eastbound on 66 as you approach 29. Looks to be an hour and a half commute coming from manassas towards the capital beltway. Guys are getting ready to pull out of fear. Right now eastbound 66 is still troubled with a crash year in centerville. Start thinking of it using 50 and 29 as your workaround. , ands on kenilworth avenue then for those traveling in montgomery county, southbound lanes blocked off between court and avery due to a crash. That is our traffic watch and im back in the next 10 minutes with a workaround. Right now,fter luggage in limbo. Delays clearing up, but atlanta carrying some extra baggage. How do airlines plan to get the people there stuff after several days of delays. Procrastinators beware, the Holiday Shipping deadline today you are watching good morning washington, on your side. Adrianna breaking overnight, five americans confirmed to be among the victims of a deadly bus crash in mexico. The bus was carrying a group of tourists from to Royal Caribbean cruise ships. A total of 12 people were killed and 18 others were hurt. Knew this morning we know that one of the injured is a local man. From lorton, virginia. His nephew told the paper that they dont know where the two other family aunt and cousin, this morning still root missing. The wreckage from that deadly amtrak derailment in Washington State is still being removed from the campsite as investigators are digging into the cause. Federal officials looking into the crash say that the engineer may have been distracted. The train was going 80 in a 30 mile per hour speed zone. The track system was designed with a safety takeover the engineer didnt respond but it hadnt been activated yet. The city of charlottesville now memorializing Heather Heyer, killed while protesting a white nationalists rally. Fourth street will now be renamed honorary Heather Heyer way. Her mother will speak at the dedication ceremony. She says she hopes it will help to keep her daughters memory and what she was fighting for a live. Larry potentially incriminating information surfacing about the grade fixing cap the Prince Georges County school system. They pointed to an audit from may of last year showing that School Leaders knew about the recordkeeping problem. In 2016 this administration received a report showing that we were graduating students that did not meet a sick requirements and that our records were poorly maintained. My question for dr. Maxwell is why did you maintain that you didnt know anything about it . Im not the one, internal audit and others are the ones responsible for tracking the response to the audit. I dont respond to every single audit. There are thousands they get done in the district every year. Larry the school ceo staffended limiting member access to grades and more monitoring of great changes. A Silver Lining for the redskins. Theyay but three of them earned trips and they could wind up going. Lets get real, time is running out, you have missed the deadline for first class to reach the destination by christmas. Today is the deadline for Priority Mail and its only going to cost you more the longer you wait. The absolute last day that you can mail something priority and have it arrive on time is this friday. Get on it. Larry Postal Service employees are racing to make sure that packages get there on time. They are working around the clock using stateoftheart technology to process 31,000 letters per minute. Thats a lot. Wow. Right now, seven is on your side with some holiday stress relief. Massage, caller number seven wins. 7035287334. If you dont win this one, keep it right here because we have another gift card to give away in our next half hour. So good luck. And if you dont want it, give it to me. Called it. [laughter] six 20, Veronica Johnson is here with a look at the forecast today. Not looking shabby. Theres one thing i dont like, the fact that we have cloud cover across the area. At least we will see temperatures above average with clouds drifting through, but nothing to show on radar, so it is looking drive. Im brown is can stay at home, but for the pickup time for the kids, those still going to school, 45 at the bus stop is morning. Then 49 to 50 degrees by drop off. Just a few degrees above average. Morning, out in fairfax, falls church, manassas. 32 in d. C. And of a change that you will notice with a bit of wind across the area. Windchill temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees. Pretty cold tomorrow. Feeling like we are around freezing around lunchtime. In gaithersburg, germantown, near areas of quantico, and 41 for the feelslike temperature tomorrow as we get into the day ofs for the first winter. There is your change back into the 50s. Christmas day, taking a bit of a dip their. Drive for christmas day. Heres a look at the stormwatch 7 sevenday forecast. Rain with a high on tuesday and highs in the lower 30s. The roads right now, eastbound 66, this is where we have the accident activity in all lanes are open, still an hour and a half drive over manassas headed eastbound towards the capital beltway. We also have some problems here in maryland along south lawn court and avery lane. Blocked off by an overturned vehicle north of 28. Kenilworth avenue towards burros , this is where we have a expect vehicle and delays towards 50. Thats the traffic watch and im back in the next 10 minutes to take a look at your ride on northbound 95. 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Adrianna 12 tourists killed, five of them americans, when a bus went off the road. Gma firstornings look, authorities looking into the dozen People Killed in a bus crash, including americans, on their way to an adventurous excursion in mexico. The whole windshield was gone. Loaded with tourist from to Royal Caribbean ships. It was headed to the mayan ruins, one hour from where the ship docked on the yucatan peninsula. Royal caribbean saying that their hearts went out t were doing all they could to care for the guests. The weather was clear and witnesses reported no other vehicles in the area. We will have more on this tragedy, coming up at 7 a. M. Ours. So our chevy employee discount is now available to everyone. You pay what we pay. And not a cent more. Were so happy to share this with you. Its our way of saying happy holidays. And welcome to the family. The chevy family. Use your employee discount for everyone to get fortyfive hundred dollars below msrp on this 2018 chevy equinox. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Now, good morning washington, on your side. The old saying goes that just the two things are for sure in life, death and taxes. What will the new tax overhaul for you . One of the biggest travel weeks of the year disrupted. Get there early. Adrianna the good news is that the weather today is cooperating with your travel plans if you leave today. Lets get over to Veronica Johnson for a check on that. For getting out of town, the weather will be nice if you are staying in town, check out meteorologist bill kelly, he will be there front of the green screen and you can ask him all about the winter forecast thats coming up and how much snow it looks like we will be getting in the area. Rain, but look at these temperatures today. 8 a. M. , 60 two, dropping to 50 by 10 00 a. M. And then the temperatures will kind of hold steady, so we never get much of a looks ration in the temperature until late. And late overnight, wow, its going to get cold. We will talk about the cold that we are going to get in the big warmup for the holiday in just a few minutes. Still looking at the remains of this crash off the road to the shoulder and centreville, but a crash with the southbound lane blocked off just north of 28. Then the crash here in virginia, southbound, Fairfax County parkway at kohls had road. Prep the car, checked the weather. Down what download your weather watch app. Check the tires and, of course, have a full tank of gas. Im back in the next 10 minutes to take a look at the right on 270. Adrianna aaa is out with its Holiday Travel forecast. Larry 7. 2 Million People from the dmz land to drive or fly to its holiday destination and you can expect the traffic today to be worse than usual. Adrianna but tomorrow will be the big drag. Dont even think about being on the roads between 3 p. M. And 6 p. M. Arianna a possible larry possible problem for some travelers at dulles. A strike. Ryan but the crowds will only get worse. This all happening is hundreds of airport workers plan to walk off the job for the holidays. The workers include contracted service workers, baggage and Customer Service agents. They expect on monday that they will strike and they are demanding that their employer pay them more money and let them join a union. Some workers say they are paid as little as 6. 50 per hour and they need to work two to three jobs to support their families. This is the third year they are asking for 15 per hour. We spoke to travelers this morning who say they understand the concerns but that the timing is bad. Will besonally think it stressful for the people traveling, but i guess i am and where they are coming from. Both points of view, as i am a worker, i guess i do understand, but eating a traveler today , its going to be pretty hectic. Ryan that strike is expected to start at 9 00 this morning but its unclear how long it will last. Aaa predicting that it will be one of the busiest travel days, expected to be 149,000 people here in the dmz who plan to fly to their destination. This strike will have an impact. Live this morning at Dulles Airport, ryan hughes. Larry meanwhile, flights getting back in the air in atlanta but the problem is that as many as 800 bags are stuck on the ground. They say they plan to deliver bags to anyone who lives in the metro area, stemming from that massive power outage on sunday that canceled thousands of flight. Thefbi is joining into investigation and so