Doug kammerer. As we turn towards a colder pattern, the chances for snow are going up into next week. What i am watching is a storm system to your south. If youre leaving out of washington, run into some of this rain, you can see it down to our south along i95 right to raleigh back to roanoke and towards atlanta, some rain in those areas and because of that, temperatures start to fall and 46 right now in downtown. We could have issues and then looking cold for christmas. You mentioned snow chances. I have those for you, too, see you back here in 20 minutes. You got now its time to have the nbc washington app on your phone. You can see the forecast at any time, anywhere. Were staying on top of breaking news. Members of a virginia family killed in mexico. They were riding in a bus that flipped on tuesday morning. The skies were clear when the crash happened. News4s Jackie Bensen is in the lorton neighborhood with more. Jackie . Reporter you know, so many of us in this area dont know our neighbors, couldnt tell you their names. We got here in lorton and found thats not the case. This culdesac behind me should be filled with tears from the grief for the family. We want to show you pictures. This grandmother came to visit and people remember her and they love her even though she is only the occasional visit to the area. Mother anna behar, absolutely loved her neighbors and was tight with a group of mothers in this area. Son daniel, laurel hills elementary school, injured. Husband, moises behar and 15yearold david behar, i apologize if my words are not matching the pictures because i cant see the product that is coming out here. Earlier, a group of the mothers gave us an outpouring of their feelings. Heres what they had to say. Anna had a bigger than life personality, a tremendous greeting when youd see her at the door. If she knew you were coming, you could hear her through the house yelling because shed be so she is part of a tight group of nine women, a strong, determined woman. She set her mind to do something, boy, she did it. No fooling around. Very, very adventurous. Reporter just tremendous, tremendous grief at the loss that has affected this family in the most devastating way in this accident in mexico. We will bring you more details tonight at 11 00. Live in lorton, Jackie Bensen, news4. Thank you, jackie. President trump and republican lawmakers are celebrating the final passage of a tax overhaul that will affect every american. The bill will lower tax rates for every american but scales back popular deductions and slash Corporate Tax rates back to 21 . Critics, though, say this helps the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Blayne alexander is at the white house where they have been waiting all year long for a like this. Blayne . Reporter absolutely, leon. This bill is still on its way to President Trump for him to officially sign it into law but already republicans are celebrating. Reporter with a hardfought tax reform rate officially one, republicans begin their victory lap at the white house. When you think you havent heard this expression, but we are making America Great again. You havent heard that, have you . Reporter after successfully selling the bill in congress, now begins the work of selling it to the american people. Its the largest tax cut in the history of our country reform. Tax cut. Really something special. Your tax rates are going down and your paychecks are going up. This is the kind of relief that americans deserve. Reporter for President Trump, his first major legislative win delivering two Campaign Promises for the price of one. We essentially the individual mandate which was terrible. Reporter hours earlier, the house battling one last time over the bill that gives a permanent tax cut to corporations but no longterm guarantees for the middle class. Its the classic bait and switch. Its a ponzi scheme. Reporter the measure passing for a second time after a technicality forced a revote. The motion to reconsider is on the table. Reporter a friday deadline to avoid a government shutdown. But first, celebrations for President Trump and his party. And as for that low Approval Rating for the tax reform bill, just 24 . Republicans hope that once americans start to feel more money in their pockets in february, that will translate into votes come november. Live at the white house, blayne alexander, news4. Im Erika Gonzalez at the live desk. Virginia senator mark warner, the chair of the senate intel that are now trending on social media. The senator warning the president against the firing of special counsel robert mueller. Take a listen. Congress must make clear to the president that firing the special counsel or interfering with this investigation for issuing pardons of offensive witnesses is unacceptable and would have immediate and significant consequences. I hope my concerns are unfounded. Firing mueller, warner added, would lead to a constitutional crisis. The president has said he has no plans to do so. Back to you guys in the studio. We still dont know who is in charge in the Virginia House of delegates. Yesterday it looked like it might be a 5050 s recount gave Shelly Simonds a razor win by one over yancey. A panel of three judges agreed with the one vote and now they are in a dead heat. No word on when that will take place. Republicans would hold on to power in the house by one seat, 5149. Physical simods wins, they would have to work out a powersharing agreement. At least 147 ballots were assigned to the wrong district. So more to come on that. We may it could be a while. Poor conditions inside a shelter for Domestic Violence victims. The women inside are telling the truth and now the county is stepping in to help. What have you learned here, tracee . Reporter the county has come in here to see for themselves. They are saying they want these problems fixed. Her family worked two years at the Family Crisis Center in Prince Georges County before fired last month. She says what she thinks of the conditions the women are living in, she is brought to tears. Theres a chronically ill woman in that building. Theres a chronically ill child in that reporter mold on the walls, broken ventss, moldy, old food. These are just some of the complaints. When i spoke with the executive director of the shelter, she would not confirm the pictures. You wouldnt li live in that sh you think the Room Temperature is fine, there isnt a mold issue . That is what im saying. Reporter the county has inspected the shelter and the director of Family Services agrees. Things are not fine. We need to make sure that this facility is safe and clean not not just for the women but for the children. Reporter before inspections could begin, they recorded the executive director throwing out old food. The women are saying that trash is being t for the first time. They say that there was some shredding going on. Once again, everything is an ongoing investigation. I think weve done a good job of answering your questions. Thank you so much. Reporter they are trying to get rid of some of the documents and the worker confirmed that was the executive director inside of the kitchen. Now, many of the people here on facebook and twitter, you all have reached out to me and asked how you can help the women inside of the shelter. And if youre interested in making donations, those donations can come here to the Prince Georges County department of Family Services. The women in that shelter will be placed in hotels if they decide theyd like to leave temporarily thanks to the help from Family Services. Reporting live, back to you all in the studio. Thank you, tracee. An important change is being made to roads in maryland. This is guardrails blamed for at least six deaths wont be installed anymore. Susan hogan explains how shes working for you. Believe me when i tell you, we have a story you dont want to miss coming your way at 6 45. A woman in danger. A hero dog. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. And wed like you to be part of ours. So our chevy employee discount is now available to everyone. You pay what we pay. 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 and trade up to this silverado all star to get a total value of over eleven thousand dollars. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Only on news4, a consumer investigation getting results tonight. Last month we told you about controversial guardrails lining our roads. Today maryland announced it would not install any more of those guardrails. Susan hogan is working for you and joining us now for an update. Thats right. The problem is with the end piece of the guardrail. There are a lot of different types out there, as you may know. Several lawsuits claim that this is defective and sometimes leading to tragic results. At least six people have been killed. As we told you last month, about a dozen states, including virginia, have decided to stop using them. Transportation officials tell us, starting immediately, they will only use guardrails that meet new, stricter trash test standards and the xlite does not qualify. With the ability of other products and the removal of the xlite from the approved list, we made the proactive decision to stop new installation and go with the new products. So now starting next summer, all states will have to switch to products that meet these new standards in order to use federal money to buy the guardrails but there are still roughly 2,000 of these xlites that will remain in place for now. And in a statement to news4, the maker of the xlite said there is no road Safety Equipment that will prevent injury but they have reduced t accidents. Go to our nbc washington app and search guardrails for more information. Nice to know they are paying attention. Absolutely. Glad they are. Thank you, susan. Sure. Now, this just in, d. C. Is getting even bigger. The mayor office says in the last year, 10,000 people moved here. The Census Bureau says the population should hit the 700,000 mark in the next few months. The population has risen ever year since 2006 in the district. The Mayors Office attributes it to more jobs. A sleigh full of santas picketed in northwest d. C. Today joining a nationwide protest by Union Organizers who say walmart employees are not being paid fairly during the holidays. Organizers say walmart stopped paying its employees holiday pay last year. One of the protesters out there said hed like to see walmart employees unie. Yes. But the ultimate goal would be right now to get them holiday pay first and get them what they deserve. Walmart added that both full and part time employees get paid time off for each holiday. Investigators tell us that they are looking for this person that stole a Christmas Display from someones front yard. Who does this . And in the broad daylight. This happened around 9 00 in the morning on tuesday, december 5th on 25th Street Southeast near minnesota avenue. This person is carting off a pile of fake presents and other decorations from the house. Please call if you can help solve this mystery. Terrible. That is stillc so has that happened to you, someone stealing your delivery before you get home . One victim turned the table, though. David caught the crime on a Home Security camera. At first i couldnt believe it. I had to play it back again. I told my girlfriend, come look at this. I think he put my package down his pants. It was a pair of headphones for his girlfriend. He contacted the Delivery Service right away. Nbc nightly news has tips on how you can protect your deliveries, coming up right after news4 at 6 00. Ups and downs in the forecast as we inch towards the holiday. When well see drenching rain and bitter cold and what about our chances for a White Christmas . I think were already feeling the cold. Were down to the wire. People have today to send their priority mailboxes with gifts to make sure that people receive them by christmas. Im at college inn we craft a because every detail matters. We select allnatural chicken and flavorful herbs and spices. 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Thats what im supposed to do. Out there right now, some clouds are clearing. Down to 36 in frederick. 34 in winchester. 42 degrees right now in honey town. Watch out the next couple of days. Down to the south, you see it right here, north carolina, south carolina, thats the range. If youre traveling i95 south tonight, you may run into it as part north as richmond and then the heaviest rain moves out and more showers are likely. Temperatures tomorrow on the cool side. And 54 degrees on friday, we go above average. 70 chance of rain on saturday. 62 on saturday. Its warm, breezy but rain is going to be a big issue and really a big issue up and down the east coast. Periods of rain. Rain heavy at times. I think thats going to leave travel trouble. Ill take a look for you at 6 45. Christmas eve, no problem. It brings in colder air and then on christmas, 39 degrees. Weve been talking about this. Weve got the warm air out ahead of it. Frigid air. Tomorrow well be in the 20s. It will be in the way of snow if youre traveling there tomorrow but the cold air moves across the country in most of the nation and thats on the cold side, not just for the next few days but heres christmas and most of next week as well. Especially into late next week for us. 41 on tuesday. Chance of snow on wednesday night. 39 on thursday. Highs only in the 20s and 30s. Even a chance of snow late next week as well. So, yeah, getting a little bit on the cool side as we head towards next week. Christmas is looking okay. Its facebook. Com doug kammerer. We got it. A thief nearly ruins one womans christmas until a man and his dog jumps in to help. Pat collins has a story thats worth sticking around for. They say hear tanya hails story. Weve had three fires in a matter of five years. Now her family is homeless again. Aft theer [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang ok, i gotta run. Hey, wait, theres something i need to tell you dang. Dang dang dang. Dang. See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. A family of Prince Georges County asking why. They have been forced their home by yet another fire. They are grateful they survived but cant believe its happened again. Burned out of a home three times in recent years. They shared their story with news4s chris gordon. Reporter tanya and her family filled a uhaul with the few items they could salvage but recovered something valuable. Pictures. Family. Theyre my babies. Reporter they ran from their apartment when they heard someone yelling. Tanya and her family got out right before their Apartment Building was engulfed in flames. Did you have renters insurance . It was just canceled because i lost my job. Reporter its history repeating itself. On december 19th, 2012, her house burned down and firefighters brought toys for her children at christmas. Mother and that house burns. Then, yesterday fire leaves them homeless again. What am i supposed to do . I cant cry. I have to keep moving. I have a family to support. Reporter the fire left at least 32 people homeless. The men red cross is providing money for food, hotel and clothes. A local cler ygy is taking up money for donations. If you wonder what they need, the answer is everything. But they feel blessed that despite the flames that took so much, they all made it out safely and thats their holiday blessing. I dont look for the presents i look to be with family, friends, loved ones. Reporter she has not lost her faith. Reporting from Prince Georges County, news4. Quite a story. Were getting a look at a brazen robbery from last friday at a bank on route 1 in beltsville. In part of the video, one of the thieves has an assaultstyle rifle. They took the cash and drove off in a van. Police found that van a little later without the suspects or the money. A spike in certain crimes at Mgm National Harbor casino. There are government records that show at least 23 thefts or robberies since october and the most at any Maryland Casino in any month this year. Only one of the incidents was a robbery and at least ten were complaints from customers about missing money. The maryland lottery and Gaming Control Agency will review the report tomorrow at a public it sounds like commonsense. Every driver knows its the law to yield to pedestrians but a Virginia State lawmaker wants to clarify exactly what yield means. Democratic senator barbara has filed a bill that requires drivers to stop and remain stopped until pedestrians have safely crossed the street or highway. She told arlington now that under the current writing of the law, drivers can go through half a crosswalk while a pedestrian is crossing the other half. 75 years ago today, the navy commissioned the uss herndon. In 2019, local band students will return to the beaches of france for a dday anniversary commemoration. Angie goff began working on this assignment before heading out on Maternity Leave so news4s david culver picks up the reporter they have practiced hours upon hours, days, weeks, years even. The herndon marching band preparing for a mission like no other. Were not just representing herndon or virginia but representing the United States of america. In june of 2019, 165 students will travel to france, normandy beach, and march for the 75th anniversary of the dday inappropria inappropriate vags. Reporter the sound of music is going beyond the band room and into the community. Reporter angie goff recently headed to the virginia native heroic in the late 19th century led to the namesake of the town and the ship. The uss herndon led some 7,000 june 1944 in an effort to take europe back from germany. They had to go up and down very, very slowly with a goal to draw fire to figure out where the enemy was posted. Reporter decades passed but the emotion resurfaces. These guys were pretty much all told that they were going to die. Reporter its believed the herndon fired the first shots and hence the nickname lucky. This is what the band members will be wearing in normandy. Reporter more than wearing herndon pride, margaret wants the students to carry something more personal and to honor those who served aboard. A photo, medals a journal. Every day of waiting, i strengthened the commission that dday was f norman myers of leesburg, one of the relatives that was tracked down, a student will carry his fathers legacy back to normandy. I think hed be honored and flattered. Reporter a modest and humbled response. A virtuous lesson for this next generation. Ill be thinking about, like, what he was experiencing, how he was experiencing it and what he was going through. Would you guys turn and face your bodies. Get your horn angles up to him as well. Reporter on that june date, 75 years after the raging battle of normandy the patriotic sacrifices of each student will for a moment replace gunfire and hate bringing, instead, a harmony to the shores of normandy. And what a earn willing opportunity for those students. I can tell you, i was on that beach for the 60th anniversary of the normandy invasion and im going to tell you, the experience that theyre going to have will be with them for the rest of their lives. And i learned something about commander herndon that i did not know. Exactly. Hey, still havent shipped those Christmas Gifts yet . Well, this time were really not kidding. You are absolutely running out of time now. If youre in a panic, stick with us. We have the big deadline you need to know about. Doreen, get this, i didnt know that about herndon either. I love it. Right now, though, if youre traveling southbound, theres rain. But the rest of the area is looking pretty good. Well take a closer really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy it is coming down to the your presents in time for christmas. Earlier today, news4s shomari stone followed some people who had a very busy day. Reporter in northwest d. C. On the busiest shipping day of the year, people are looking to make sure their gifts arrive in time for christmas. You can look right here, this truck has a whole bunch of cards and packages that are expected to arrive before christmas. Now, keep in mind, today is the last day for priority mail. If you cant make it tonight, well, you have express mail but, then again, that is going to cost more depending on the weight and where you send the packages to right over here the letter carrier told me his job is to make sure that all of these packages get to where they need to go and one thing is clear, if you plan on sending your packages today, use priority mail. You can see hes going to be working and were going to continue to bring you updates about shig hanukkah. Im shomari stone, back to you in the studio. You may not recognize her name but if youre from this area, her holiday tune may sound familiar. Laughter to last a whole year through Christmas Eve in washington. The voices Maura Sullivan who cowrote that song with former radio host jim london. This holiday season, sullivan is battling stage 4 colon cancer. Adding to the challenge, her Health Insurance recently lapsed so her friends have put together a gofundme page to help her out. You know, its very humbling to learn go to our app and we have a link to the gofundme page. Were pulling for you. We are. A thief almost ruined one womans holiday. Well introduce you to the pup who helped stop four things to know tonight. Members of a virginia family were among those killed in a bus crash in mexico. The behar family is from lorton, moises and david behar survived but were injured. The grandmother was also killed in the crash. The driver of the tour bus is in police custody. A family is asking why after she tells news4 its the third time in five years that shes lost her home to a fire but shes grateful that she and the family are all okay. We now know the last thing on the job for minnesota senator al franken. He will resign on january 2nd. His successor is sworn in the next day. Democrats pressured franken to resign after he was accused of kissing and groping women. You should see the tax overhaul in 30 years that won final passage in Congress Today without a single democratic vote. The bill is now headed to the president s k. Will affect you . More than half you, who voted on our nbc facebook page, say it will have a negative effect. A woman was robbed of a special trip but she is set to go overseas now thanks to a crime stopper whose small, feisty, and usually on a leash. News4s pat collins has the story. Reporter tired of sad stories, are you . Bored with bad news . Want a little happiness . Here now, dont cut out early on me. Watch this one until the end. This is jenny dont think she would mind if i tell you shes about to turn 60 and planned to go on a safari and right there in her black purse, i guess you figured out whats about to happen here. She gets off the metro and has her cell phone in one hand and her purse in another when all of a sudden, ambush. I fell to the ground and he took off. Reporter with jennys purse in hand he was booking. Did you think that that purse was long gone . Absolutely. I had a sinking fe sdplch zzle, out with his owner for a walk. Although, times its hard to tell whom is walking whom. The chase is on. The guy dropped the bag and we head off. In arlington, pat collins, news4. Thats great. That dog probably would have started licking and roll over for the guy. He didnt know that, right . No. So we have to plan carefully. Are you getting sick . Im losing my voice, something youre all too familiar we have rain in our southern zones but ill tell you, if youre traveling tomorrow, no problem and even on friday. Its this weekend that well have issues with. And looking on the cool side for sure and a chilly start and coming in at 41. Holiday lights right down to the camp springs area during the day tomorrow. Make sure you tune in tomorrow at 4 00, 5 00 and 6 00. Heres what is happening if youre traveling i95 southward, we run into a problem tonight. All going to be on the west side and this rain is not going to clear this area for the next few hours. Even if you live in d. C. , you deal with wet tonight. This moves out by tomorrow and most of tomorrow looks okay. Its saturday. Friday is great, too. Saturday is the day to watch out if youre traveling. Were on the mild side. Rain to the north. We could have some flight delays in parts of the area. Maybe around boston with some rain there. Pittsburgh, rain to snow. If youre traveling from d. C. To pittsburgh, you could run into rain and snow. In the 30s, back behind it, a little bit of an accumulation possible in the pittsburgh area. Its the mountains we have to worry about driving through that area. I9 i95, a mess from richmond and d. C. And sunday right now it looks okay. So just know that for travel purposes. No problems on thursday or friday. 62 on saturday with that rain likely. Christmas eve, no problem there either. Were starting to cool back into see the cold air move in. We may start warmer than that but falling temperatures all day. A chance of rain or snow is possible. This may end on christmas morning. That would be great if that actually happened. And another chance of another storm next friday. Well stay on top of it for you but definitely a much colder week. Still tracking that rain on saturday if youre going to be traveling around. Much more on this in the next few days. Guys . Youve got it. Doug is having to work hard lately. The future regarding Trent Williams knee. First, heres lester holt. Doreen and leon, now that congress has passed tax reform, what happens now and wh well go inside that new law. Into pl in into this is unbelievable. The price of a redskins ticket is what . I found it for 6. 6. I think the processing fee might be more than that. But its fair to say that is not mirrored inside the redskins locker room and their hard work is being recognized. Were getting reaction from Trent Williams, left tackle, one of three redskins who get a nod along with brandon and ryanc kerrigan. Tendon in his knee. He has surgery next week and rehab is expected to take six months. Williams caught up with Carol Maloney to discuss what is next for that injury. You can always say you expected it but you still get anxiety. I feel like i played at the pro level but not 100 sure i was going to make it. Now that its official, does that give you the sense of the relief to rest that knee fully . I dont think the pro ball has anything to do with the rest of the knee but it definitely made it worth it, fighting through to get to the playoffs. Obviously that didnt work out, but making the pro bowl made it worth it. His presence will be felt on sunday against the broncos. So this explains all of those posts you might be seeing on twitter and instagram of High School Football players committing to schools. This year, a new 72hour window beginning today. So why the change . The ncaa says that by now most prospects have their minds made up. They dont want the endless texts and calls and dont have to worry about the uncertainty of where they are heading in a few months. One publication put it very well. February will be a quick stop for a gallon of milk. In and maryland is making history. Defensive end left auburn after a disappointing career. Today, including nine allnet players keeping those talented guys right here at home. And finally, the wizards are taking part of the familytofamily gift delivery adopted through the Entertainment Foundation and nominated by Catholic Charities and the Salvation ArmyNational Capital area command. This little girl is going right from bradleys hand. Check this out, john, helping out a little girl on a bike. Definitely great memories for all those kids and the players involved. But back to the redskins, one player getting recognition off the field. You might have seen this young man from the redskins game on sunday and the sign saying fighting chemo but that cant keep me away from my t marshal spate who used social media to find him. Ryan got all of the scoop. Just seeing the sign on game day kind of touched me bigtime and after signing it, i felt like i wanted to do more for him and they put me in touch with his dad. What did you guys do . The plan was to go and hang out but we stayed there for like four or five hours and cracked jokes. And hung around with his brothers and sisters and what kind of car i drive. Hes a great kid and has great support. Isaiah is battling a unique form of brain cancer. Well wishes to him. To try and go back and visit him after the holidays. Love that. Social medi a [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang ok, i gotta run. Hey, wait, theres something i need to tell you dang. Dang dang dang. Dang. See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. And wed like you to be part of ours. So our chevy employee discount is now available to everyone. You pay what we pay. 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 and trade up to this of over eleven thousand dollars. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Tonight your tonight, your taxes. A sweeping overhaul passes congress and President Trump takes a victory lap. Its always a lot of fun when you win. Ultimately what does it mean . It means jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. How it affects you and your family and the impact from Home Ownership to health care. A holiday tragedy. Eight americans are among the dozen kill and from one family in a tour bus kra issue in mexico. The driver now facing charges. A funeral firestorm at the vatican and the cardinal at the center of a sex abuse scandal will be laid to rest with the pope participating. Victimss families outraged. A shocking scene caught on camera