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 t