Looming on the horizon. Well have the latest from capitol hill in the morning briefing. Santa baby, you . Slip a sable under the tree pgh. Later another kardashian to keep up with khloe couldnt Philadelphia International airporting the west kept secret in hollywood. She is having her first child. Well have details in the celebrity dish. Good day at 9a starts now. Two different versions. Right. Who water first one that was playing . Was it you are that kits. Thats the one i think of. I like that one, too. Who is this . Cindy lauper . Madonna. Oh. She had had cindy lauper like face she kind of sounded like her. She durtha kits traditionally way to go. Good day d. C. 901 on this thursday morning. Its december 21st. I know. T minus four days, right. Yes. Before we get going we actually need your sound tracking the show. Okay . We want to play some christmas hits the next two days. So heres what were doing. Were taking requests. Love it. Total requests live one might say, right . To submit yours all you have to do tweet the song and the artist with the gooddaydc. All right. I hope dj mack in the back heard that hell be queuing them up. Dj mack in the back. I heard one this morning karen carpenter. I wish you Merry Christmas. Hmm. Im putting my request in. Gooddaydc. My all Time Favorite is donny hathaway. Thats good one. I happened to hear that one this morning when i was driving in. Awe. Andy williams had the christmas hits. My mother used to play that all the time. No. He was mr. Christmas. A new jersey new jersey murray. Oh, my gosh, we would play that decorating our christmas tree. Yeah. It gets me going. When feliz nav dad comes on let the holidays begin. And margaritas. Thats right. First at 9 00, lets talk about the weather. Why not . First day of winter and it arrives the same day that tens of thousands people plan to hit the roads for the holiday weekend. For a look at what to expect Tucker Barnes with a first check of the weekend. Tuck. Cold start to the day with chilly afternoon in the forecast but nice and dry. If you are hitting roads locally and by locally i mean boston, up and down 95 here to atlanta, were going to be fine today. Nice quiet afternoon. Look at the satellite in just a second. Winter starting chilly. Overnight lows for most of the area back into the 20s. Eve some teens in places like culpeper and out towards manassas early this morning. So definitely a chilly start. Okay. Were up to arthritic at Reagan National. Lets see. Were looking at mostly sunny skies at this hour. And well be in for mostly sunny day today. Theres just not a lot to talk about here locally. Thats great news because everybody is traveling. As High Pressure just to our north here delivers a really nice afternoon. So just a few clouds out there. Otherwise, dry conditions and quiet conditions for our day today but noticeably cooler the last couple of days. Highs only in the mid 40s for day heim ties. We have warmer air on the way some rain for saturday. Well talk about that coming up, and still the potential for a few snowflakes around here in time for christmas morning. So well see if we can make that happen as well but i might need your help. Might have to ask santa for it. 48 today. My song request is the Muppets Christmas 12 days of christmas. Thats a good one. I like that one, too. I have to admit. Thanks tuck. Appreciate it. 9 04 is our time right now. We want to get to developing new out of australia where nearly 20 people are hurt after an suv rammed a crowd pedestrians today in melbourne. It was an area busy with christmas shoppers. Police were quick to determine that this was deliberate act but does it have ties to terrorism . Our Melanie Alnwick has actually been monitoring this all morning long. She has the latest developments live from the newsroom. Mel. Reporter good morning once again. 1 00 a. M. Now in melbourne the streets are quiet after the evening of chaos. Police say they dont have any evidence right now to connect this to terrorism, but they a that there is no continuing threat. Witnesses say the white see sue key suv ran a red light then sped up and crashed through pedestrian barriers and into the crowd without braking. This was just before 5 00 p. M. On a busy street in melbournes Central Business district. People were holiday s shopping d waiting a cable car street outside flints street nation every staying. The area has been on high a lower since car attack in january that killed four. 19 people were taken to the hospital. Four in critical condition. They range in age from 83 years old to just four years old. The suspect and the arresting officer are among those receiving medical treatment. Now were showing you pictures here from our sky news affiliate of one man being arrested by victoria police. He appeared to be unconscious and officers were seen trying to revive him. Police say he fought with an off duty officer who wrestled him to the ground after the crash. Then there was another man who was filmed sitting on the ground in handcuffs and calmly talking to investigators. Th city. At a time of the year when so many families celebrating the end to the year doing their Christmas Shopping making plans for what ought to be a festive season, we have seen a horrific act an evil act, an act of coward did he say. Victoria police say the driver of the suv is a 32yearold Australian Citizen of afghan decent. They say he is known to police with a history of assault, drug use and Mental Health issues. The other man who was taken into custody apparently was seen near the scene filming the incident on his phone and was carrying a bag of knives. Police say they dont believe he has a connection to the driver. Now Prime Minister called this shocking act and offered prayer for the victims and the first responders. You may recall just last year, right about this time, it was the berlin Christmas Market attack. That one killed 12 people. For now live in the newsroom im Melanie Alnwick. Back up to you in the studio. Mel, thank you very much. Nine sol 0 00 sick is the time. Fair tax county Police Officer is receiving treatment after being. Along route 28 this morning. The oh officer was hit by a car while directing traffic after this mornings crash. His injuries are believed to be nonlife negligent egging much the southbound lanes remain closed at this hour as the investigation continues. The on the big story this morning is the holiday get away. Travelers and commuters be warned though today is predicted to be the worst day of the Christmas Travel rush on the roads. Aaa estimates more than 7 Million People will travel by car to their christmas and new years eve destinations in the washington metro area this season. That in addition to the 400,000 air travelers across the United States. So we have Team Coverage with these big numbers. Fox5s Anjali Hemphill hit the road this morning to get look at the current delays in our area. Anjali . Reporter hey, well, good morning. You know, i can say so far so good. But the us. We know that the traffic is only going to Start Building more and more throughout the day, but we so far are smooth sailing in around the area. We did hit a trouble spot, though, as you guys were talking about in that traffic report route 28 and 66 major accident there. Thats causing major delays in and around that area of the especially along 66 and a lot of those travelers in that area are head to go where were heading right now which is dulles airport. And that is going to be, you know, snarling up traffic there and causing delays and possibly putting people at risk of being late for flights. We do know that 7 Million People here in the d. C. Area are going to be hitting the roads traveling 50 miles or more away from home. Thats up 44 of the metro area residents are leaving home for the Holiday Christmas and new years coming up, and today is expected to be the worst day. Now, i can tell you that roads are clear now, but they are predicting that the worst hours to travel today will 3 00 and six com p. M. That cone win sides with the afternoon rush hour which you know will only complicate things even more. Again, things are moving smooth now. If you are going to be heading out on the roadway today, if you have some flexibility on oh and when to leave the earlier the better you do not want to get caught in that 3 00 oclock hour. Thats just going to be a total mess and again, any accident you encounter on the roadway like the one we saw up in centreville on route 28, thats only going to delay things even more. So the earlier the better you can get out there. But the good news is, so far so good. Zen it back to you. Anjali, thank you so much. If youre not driving, you may hitting one of the regions airports and if you are trust us youll have lot of company today. Triple a says up to 400,000 more travelers will fly the friendly skies each day during the holidays. And there will also be 1400 extra tsa officers on hand. As well as an additional k9 teams out there, too. Needless to say, it is going to be a very busy te airports. Bob barnard is all deck out in his fox5 gear and live at Reagan National with that. Good morning. Looking sharp. Reporter thank you allison. Good morning to you. Yes, weve seen some of those extra k9 teams here at security, youre fine folks. Here at the security checkpoints checking people as they get here online at the security checkpoints. So far its been moving pretty well here at Reagan National although were told that it pick up here at this particular airport starting now in the 9 0h the day and there are now longer lines at security. So the advice according to tsaf you are traveling anywhere throughout any of of our airports this next couple of days especially because of the extra crunch here, is to arrive early f youre flying dough mess klee arrive two hours early f youre travel internationally, arrive three hours early. The dos and donts also from tsa dont wrap your presents. If they trigger the machines here, the tsa agents are going to have to open them up. Use gift bags bringing presents on bore. If youre carrying them on, baked goods are okay. Bake goods are okay. Theres new policy regarding personal election 96. Lisa far steen from the tsa. Any large Electronic Devices lar jenn than control phone need to come out of your area on and please put them in bin. Nothing above them or blow them thats a new policy that started getting implemented this year. Reporter and also, tsa is saying a lot of times these lines get stuffed up because people are trying to chug their water that they show up with, and they dont want to just trash it. Theyre suggesting guys if you have bottled water drink it and then carry on the empty bottle through security and fill it up more cheaply than buying another four dollars bottle of wine on the other side. Again, arrive early, dont wrap your gifts. And theres saying 400,000 extra up to 400,000 extra care us. Were seeing some of them but it doesnt sure look like those kinds of numbers at least not yet here at Reagan National this morning. Guys. What time is your flight leave . Dont try to go any anywhere. Tuesday. [ laughter ] tuesday. There you go. All right. Thanks, bob. Well the hash tag me too movement has put a new spotlight on Workplace Romance. Coming up among other things were not making light of it Workplace Romance is one of things people are looking at now is it appropriate or not. Coming up later what you need to know to keep it on a professional level. First, though, the spirit of giving continues this morning right here on fox5. Take look at that. Its all been with your help and we are so grateful. All of those Hyundai Santa fees you helped stuff with toys are parked outside and guess what, after the break, erin and mike will join us live with where they are headed. 9 12 is our time right now. Z2momz zi0z y2momy yi0y the things that matter most happen one morning and one cup at a time. All righty. Theres dancing in the studio. Yes there is dancing in the studio, and right now at 9 15 we have something very super special thats coming up right now. Christmas is nearly here and over the past few weeks we have talk to you a lot about our partnership with d. C. A santa fe. And many of you graciously generously took part dropping off unwrapped toys at the 19 participating hyundai dealerships in the region, and this morning, we called in few of santas little elves to get those gifts delivered to the children at Childrens National. So are your santa face packed and ready to go helpers . Oh, yeah. I think so. Oh yeah. Were about to were posing i got my present hat hes got his stan hat. Elves right here. Lets get outside we have a lot of santa fees in the parking lot packed up ready to go. We want to introduce to kevin hes been instrumental in helping this movement happen. Well head over to Childrens National. Erin this was so successful. I know weve been talking about this on fox5. We asked our viewers to help o out. Huge community out reach. Yes. Youre about to see the results of everything that you all at home have done to kind of hepars make the day for some of these kids at children. Were so excited to go over there today. Leading up to the christmas holiday. Presents. Look at all of this. Hi kevin. Hello there. Its fill to the brim. It really really is. We have several out here right now that were going to take over there. Kevin, thanks so much for coming out today. Merry christmas, happy holidays. Umhmm. Kevin tell us about this. I mean, was eight success but it looks like success. It was a tremendous success this december all across washington we had the hyundai dealers with san thai fay opens and stuff the santa fe and through the generosity of your fox5 viewers who came to the dealership our dealership employees and dealerships themselves we collected hundreds of toys that go to Childrens National and we collected so many toys well go to georgetown as well. Georgetown hospital to donate even more toys there. Thats incredible. Absolutely amazing. Speaking of generosity i understand its also not just toys we collected able to give some other donations as well. Yeah hyundai and dealers have long history of supporting pediatric cancer research. So Childrens National has been the recipient of a grant of hospitals across the nation have received over 130 million since its inception in 1998. Thats incredible. Absolutely incredible. Spirit of giving this year were so happy to be partnering with you on this. We cannot wait to seat look at the kids faces when we arrive with all these santa fees. Great toys in there. The schoolbus is a good one. Traffic reporter i can appreciate that one as well. Kevin, thank you so much. Well get these beautiful vehicles on over to Childrens National mike and i are excited to play santa today and hopefully brighten the spirits children over there. Our pleasure. Were hitting the road headed down to Childrens National and well bring to you during the 10 00 oclock hour youll get to see happy kids. Well try to make the holidays a little special. Right. Cant wait. Absolutely. Whole lot of fun. Im excited to see it all happen. Awesome. It is really awesome. Go, go, elves. Yes. Spread your cheer. 9 18 is the time right now. Coming up later on were heading into the good day gift corner with a look at some of the last minute ideas for kids and kids at first, though, another twist in that virginia recount. Apple confirming what everyism phone user already knew. And why you may want to find a way to work a salad into your diet each and every day. Weve got a check on what else is making headlines next. Good morning america, ill like to stepped holiday message to my parents joe and linda meckle. Im currently serving overseas at camp in japan and im sorry i can be there this year please have a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Please save me some of that good cooking. Ill take that. Hey, leggo my eggo. I dont see your name on it. Really . Ba bam know the rules. Keep your eggo. Leggo my eggo. Okay. President trump celebrating a victory following approval of the gop tax reform bill he called it an Incredible Christmas gift for hard working americans. No word when hell sign it there is still a lot of confusion about the pros and cons for the american people. Once signed into law, the Corporate Tax rate will drop 14 and standard deduction and Child Tax Credit will double. Small businesses will also see a big reduction in taxes. Cole, coal to yesterday press conference to counter the president s claim of the overall being a Christmas Gift for americans. But beyond Politics Democrats asked republicans explained adding to the deficit when the gop typically favors fiscal conservatism. Vicepresident mike pence says the economy will cover it. Were going to out perform those growth those growth projections and were going to see those deficits overcome by growth. We focused on the needs of Washington Special interests. The gop is also counting on middle class tax savings from the elimination of the tax penalty tied to the obamacare individual mandate. Again it is unclear when President Trump will actually sign the tax overhaul into law. The white house legislative director says its possible the bill will be signed at president s florida he is state during his holiday vacation.