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WTTG Fox 5 Morning News December 25, 2017

And at one point the man went upstairs and grabbed a gun. He reached for a gun at almost simultaneously he was tased and as he was being apprehended, he managed to get several shots off, hit two of our deputies. So, im just grateful that that all things being considered, that thats turned out as good as it has. It could have been certainly been a lot worse. Both deputies are in Good Condition this morning. A third Deputy Arrested the suspect. That suspect now faces multiple charges. Also following developing news from Silver Spring where police are investigating a murder. Police were called to quebec street after the victim was shot and killed but at this point police are still trying to find who is responsible. This happened around 11 00 p. M. Last night near bradley lane in chevy chase. Police say two lanes were blocked. One person was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. President trump and first lady melania celebrating in palm beach florida. The president sent out a christmas greet to go all five branches of the military and went to Christmas Eve Midnight Mass with the first lady. President was quite active on social media before the mass though saying on twitter that people are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again. Very White Christmas on its way to parts of the northeast and parts of the midwest, too. Forecasters say snow will sweep across the region throughout the day. New england could get up to 8inches of snow in some places. Maybe as much as 4inches in chicago. Airports in chicago, ohare one of the busiest in the world reporting moderate delays right now as most of indiana is under Winter Weather advisories. Strong winds for massachusetts connecticut rhode island. Gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour. Be careful if youre traveling on this Christmas Day and this week. Christians all around the world celebrating christmas this morning. The archbishop of washington, Cardinal Wuerl is set to lead Todays Church services at the basilica in northeast. Fox5s kristyn leon is there now with a preview of todays christmas mass. Good morning. Reporter good morning, guys. Merry christmas. Thats right. A lot of people are waking up bright and early this morning, celebrating the reason for the season, the birth of jesus and this is a beautiful backdrop, a beautiful setting. Look how gorgeous is the lights and the basilica itself. What a great way, great start to the morning. So, mass is going to take place. We have a couple of masses throughout the day. Mass is going to start, the first one at 7 30, followed by im going to go through the list here. 9 oclock a. M. And then 10 30 and 4 30. You mentioned the cardinal will be here. Hell be saying mass at noon. You have a variety of masses to choose from. We also have hundreds of volunteers or a couple hundred i should say that are coming here this morning. Theyll be preparing meals and setting up and prepping for dinner tonight delivering those meals to people throughout prince georges county, those in that washington, d. C. As well and giving them a reason to celebrate on, again, Christmas Day. So, stay with us. Well be hopefully going on inside and checking them out and seeing how theyre prepping for this special day. And, yeah, Merry Christmas you guys. Well see you in a bit. Kristen thanks very much. Here at fox5 we want to see your christmas traditions. Please share your pictures of your Christmas Morning. We cannot wait to see them. Just use the fox5 christmas and tweet us at fox5 d. C. Weve seen some great pictures already from twitter and social media, folks that are up early this morning, some with kids, just just up early, some enjoying time for the kids get up. A little breakfast first. Catch it up. If you got up early enough you might have seen santa doing this thing. I saw some of those reindeer walking up the street when i came to work this morning. When you stopped you should have taken a little video. I tried but they were places to go. Maybe to celebrate after the long work. Christmas is about family and im just grateful to have my family here for christmas. And Family Traditions. Yeah, my father is not here with me but this jacket has been passed down. This actually dates back to the 16th century in the barnes family. I would like to claim that it does but its probably from the 60s. Passed down from his grandpop. Your wind chill now is 28 and the Power Outages you just reported related to the winds gusting to 30, 40, 50 miles an hour. We need the Christmas Trees lights back on. I know. I get it. Unfortunately well have the winds with us for the next several hours. Wind advisory in effect until 2 oclock this afternoon. And places like cumberland have already reported winds gusting to 50. Ive seen lots of reports of 40, 40 plus, hagerstown had a wind gust to 49. So, unfortunately here just going to be the next several hours as our cold front comes through. That will deliver cold air later this afternoon. Going out and about to walk off your christmas dinner be ready for a cold afternoon with temperatures in the 30s and wind chills in the 20s a little later today. Heres your christmas forecast. 40. That was our temperature an hour ago. We might get back to 40 this afternoon but generally the idea is cold temperatures. Very cold tonight. Teens and low 20s and wait until you see the sevenday forecast. Its got a lot of winter stuff on it. Got some snow on it. Got a little bit of that, too. Stay tuned. Temperatures in the teens really jump out. Tuck, thanks. 7 06. Lets get back to some of the stories making headlines this morning as we continue to take a look at News Headlines a around the world. In the philippines thousands of people are spending this Christmas Morning in shelters sheltersafter a deadly typhoon. 120 people were killed. Intense rainfall in the mountains most likely caused landslides. Theyve been getting up to a foot of landslides may have blocked the rainwater where the dams broke from the pressure. Hundreds of people are still missing and that typhoon now headed toward thailand and some other areas in southeast asia. All right. 7 07 right now t a suicide bombing in afghanistan this morning has left at least five people dead, others wounded, several others. The attack happened near an Afghan Intelligence office near the city of kabul. It included women passing in a vehicle near the attack site. So far no one claimed responsibility. Guatemala will move its embassy to jerusalem just like the United States is now recognizing. Its the first nation to follow the u. S. In ordering that change. Guatemala was one of the nine nations who voted with the United States and israel on thursday when the Un General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a northern binding resolution denouncing President Trumps recognition of jerusalem capitol. The Un Security Council imposed new sanctions on friday in response to the norths Ballistic Missile test. That measure written by the u. S. Was unanimously backed by all 15 members of the Security Council and that includes measures to slash north koreas pet troll imports by up to 90 percent. Back here at home it will be 2018 when lawmakers are back to work in washington and there are already hints at what could be first up in congress. Foxs steve rapport with the story. Reporter despite numerous obstacles Congress Managed to overhaul the countrys tax code. President trump was never shy about wanting to reform the tax system so what now . The next major legislative accomplishment and the first big political football of 2018 could be infrastructure. I think youll see the president roll out infrastructure plan in januy. Say that infrastructure is crumbling went need to fix it. Reporter President Trump has hinted at wanting to fix and upgrade the countrys roads bridges and tunnels. Immigration could also come up early in 2018. For their part some democrats plan to go forward in that 2018 by looking backward at the repercussions of tax reform. It helped basically large corporations and high income people. If we could have focused on middle income we could have i think grown helped grow the middle class which would have been good for our future. Reporter democrats are hoping to gain some seats in the november midterms by convincing voters the republican tax plan is no good. Though want to focus on the packages tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. Ultimately they want to solidify their identity as the party of the middle class. Senator Bernie Sanders believes democratic victories in new jersey, virginia and alabama are signs of frustration with the gop. If i were the republicans i would worry very much about 2018. Reporter with the republicans razor thin margin in the senate beginning in januar rely on democratic support. In new york, steve rapport, fox news. Time right now is 10 minutes past the hour on this Christmas Morning. So, do you need to get some food or do some shopping today on Christmas Day . I guess youre having a late Christmas Gift exchange. Well let you know what is still opened today. So Important Information for so many people. Theyre like let me wake up. Okay. Back after this. This is the Sherman Family and we wanted to wish the rest of our family back in the states a very Merry Christmas from germany. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. See more greetings from our troops on our fox5 Facebook Page. Page. Tucker, youre right. Getting on twitter this early on a holiday is a lot of fun. Like we say good morning and Merry Christmas freeman. Thanks for being up. Ive been trying to respond to everybody personally because its its nie. Its a very easy day today. Elaine good morning from clarksburg. Viewers from West Virginia. Wallace mark, lisa. This is what we wanted. We wanted pictures of traditions. Hi, quiana. All right. Cute. Awww. Theyre great, right . These are great. I know folks are going through tough times, i understand that, but hopefully you can find a little joy in this day. Remember a time that was a little less complicated maybe or just a day when you woke up and all you cared about what like what was under the christmas tree. So, open you have a good one. And the nice thing about that is even if that you cared about, after you opened what was that under the tree then you looked forward to lunch and time with the family and the rest of the day. Just whatever are better time was. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So keep sending us your christmas traditions this morning. Those are some of the ones we had. Fox5 christmas. In the meantime. So, you know, santa claus is a real big old jolly elf for a whole lot of folks. And santa claus is coming to town. Looks like 85 percent of four and fiveyearolds know that santa claus is real. Thats right. 65 percent of sixyearolds have remained Firm Believers but as the study focused on older kids the number decreased greatly which is too bad. Santa is amazing and santa is real and santa is out there. Find your santa. I think i saw him earlier today. Ive been mentioning that. I keep seeing him maybe a little bit too much. Its the holidays. Egg nog. You think i had too much. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. I think so. The ability to see him. Oh, thank you. Okay. Wisdom just came in inside. Whole long story. Where was whiz. Allison lost her earing. Wisdom is a hero. Its a christmas miracle. I lost my earing. Had to put on different ones. These are special to me because my mother gave them to me and they happen to be gold. I do a lot of costume stuff and he found it. The one time that you wear the good stuff but you know what, ladies and men who wear the earrings, you know when the back isnt right and you try to come in anyway and it falls off and you have only yourself to blame but whiz, thank you. Okay its a christmas miracle. You dont realize steve and i used to wear earrings. I know you did. You had an earing,. Right. There was a time. I lost a bet and had to wear it for a month. You probably didnt do the ointment. Didnt do the spin. Thanks wisdom. The story i was trying to tell is wisdom. Down that memory lane. Wisdom was in the parking lot. Yeah, why was he outside. Hes reporting its very windy out there. The cold air is rushing in here on westerly and northwesterly winds and we are going to be in for a very blustery morning. Reporter wind advisory in effect until 2 oclock. We could see winds gusting to 40 miles an hour. I suspect the Power Outages are because of the gusty winds moving in. Theres a look all right satellite and radar. White christmas not for us but its close. You can see it in pennsylvania and parts of new england at this hour. How about a Blue Christmas . Sure. Without you. Awww. Ill have a blue 40 today. Look how cold it remains for the rest of this week. This is going to be the big news story. Temperatures right around freezing each day. Overnight lows teens and low 20s. And we have the ingredients for some kind of snow event toward the end of the week but right now it hasnt come together. Cold will be here so bundle up. Thanks tuck. Christmas is a time a lot of people associate with family faith and presents. But for those who dont celebrate the holiday, the day is often filled with different traditions giving a boost to si heres elson barber with more. Reporter people often think of chinese food as the cusine of choice for those who dont celebrate christmas. People who see december 25th as simply december 25th. That idea about late december chinese food dates back to immigrants in the 1800s. It was just sort of informally people did it on christmas. I dont think people recognized it as very common until maybe the 70s or 80s. Reporter according to grub hub that perception may be more accurate now than ever before. The number of chinese orders on Christmas Day more than doubled compared with other sundays in the winter. Most popular dishes, peking duck and roast duck. I would say its probably very few places in the country that in the last 50 years would not have a chinese restaurant. Reporter but chinese restaurants arent the only businesses cashing in on christmas. So are movie theaters. The idea of having entire group of people home off work, what better place to go than to a cinema. Reporter theres a reason plenty of blockbusters hit the big screen around the holiday. Fandango polled 1500 moviegoers between the ages of 18 and 34. 86 percent of them say they plan to see at least two movies during the christmas season. And waze says navigations to movie theaters more than double on Christmas Day compared to other days in december. Its insane how many films come out. It feels like a big overload but they have so many different types of movies. Reporter this years Holiday Box Office is getting big help from the latest star wars installment and franchise films like Pitch Perfect and jumanji. Star wars the last jedi posted the second biggest opening for a movie ever earlier this month. Im elson barber, fox news. There you go. Some of your options out there for businesses. Now heres the deal if you still need to do a little out and about today, maybe a last minute shopper maybe you dont fe feast maybe you want to grab a cup of off fee. Maybe you have to go to the grocery store. Maybe you want to get out of the house. Some stores and restaurants will be opened of course on Christmas Day. Dennys one of the places opened 24 hours. In fact christmas is the food chains busiest day of the year. Did you know that . What . I did not either. Ihop is also opened all day long. Starbucks will be opened from 9 00 a. M. Until 6 00 p. M. Walgreens and cvs are also opened today if you need to run out get some last minute supplies. Now those hours will vary depending on the location. Most Major Grocery stores though your walmarts and your kroegers targets, et cetera, are going to be closed today. But some are opened. My giant closes at noon so i you can get out there and. You got to hurry. Well move this along. By the way metro opens at 8 00 this morning if you need to get to any of those places. Good to know. Holiday schedule. Scheduling up a little later in the show. Find out what kids really wanted for christmas this year. As we take you to heres a live look outside across the d. C. Region. It is cold outside. I dont know what it is. 30 something degrees. Well be back after this. 37. What if more of the energy we used came from Renewable Resources . What if the electric grid could detect, fix and even prevent Power Outages . What if our grid were less vulnerable and more secure . What if all these what ifs became a reality . Well, they are. At dominion energy, were completely transforming our power grid and the way we think of energy. To move from what if to whats next. Dominion energy. 7 24 right now. Santa claus trading in his sleigh for a surfboard. Your work is done. Good job, sir. Take a look at this. 10,000 surfers dressed in santa suits showed up in cocoa beach florida to catch waves and hang 10. It started as a Family Tradition. Now it is a huge event and this year they

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