gonzalez melissa mollet melissa mollet molette green. arch die a sees wants to put up the ad now heading to court. the issue how much you pay in taxes. your income could

>> and bus shelters. but says it violates. now the church is filing suit in federal court. they are saying it violates. we want to keep an eye on this developing story. in just a matter of hours president trump is going to head down to capitol hill. >> he will meet with senate reebsz working up a plan to overhaul our tax system and it will effect how much you pay in the coming years. both president and republicans are trying to secure a legislative win before the end of the year. the year ends, that s the president tweeted some of his

accomplishments this morning. hopefully it will keep it all going. democrats wants big tax increases. but tax reform is far from a dunn deal. nbc tracie potts explains how this is due or die time for tax reform. >> reporter: this afternoon president trump has lunch with republicans aiming for a tax vote this week. his goal, get a tax plan. even if not one democrat votes for it. >> i'm not so interested in that. we are really interested in getting it passed. >> we intend to turn this around and do it in the right way. >> reporter: a handful of republicans opposed. they can only afford to lose two. >> a lot of detail to work out on this. but this is the process. you are watching the sauce being made. >> i would like to vote for the bill and trying to get there. >> reporter: the bill has late

the first decade people making over $100,000 a year would payless. and those making under $75,000 would pay more. >> i just want to make sure that the jeff nerevenues are there. >> reporter: cbo says this plan could add more money to the deficit. working with both parties if they can't come up with a budget by the end of next week, we could be looking at government shut down. tracie potts, nbc news washington. >> and with one word president trump created a backlash. hosting an event at the white house world war ii and when he called him pocahontas a lot of people took it as a racial slur. >> you were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in congress who they say was here

they call her pocahontas. >> this isn't the first time president trump has called senator warren pocahontas. he said it on the campaign and again during an nra rally. warren believes she has some native american roots, based on stories passed down from her grandmother and others in her family. >> donald trump does this over and over thinking he'll somehow shut me up. it hasn't worked in the past and won't work in the future. >> white house says it wasn't a slur. but at lthe alliance released a saying it becomes a slur when used as insult. >> let's turn our attention to our weather. the sun is out now. and the temperatures are rising, kris. >> i know, we are used to these chilly mornings this time of year not so used to

tur temperatures around 60 degrees. >> you know what i'm okay with the colder mornings as long as we have comfortable afternoons. as long as they continue. but as we go through the day today it will be warming up. not one cloud in the district. so in just about an hour we'll be bumping the hours up into mid-50s. nice day shaping up. by the afternoon topping out 62 degrees. keep in mind the normal high is 53. so we'll be around 10 degrees above that, but not just today tomorrow another gorgeous day just like today. but that cooler weather does come back for your weekend. i'll show you for tomorrow. then the cooler charges for saturday and sunday straight ahead. >> thank you, sheena. a top aid is under investigation, courtney snowden is facing miss conduct. deputy

having city employees baby-sit her children during the workday. now a report from the inspector general confirms snowden used staff to watch her young child at least three times. bowser office released this statement, quote, any issues raised has been addressed. >> opening statements for two police officers going on trial for involuntary manslaughter accused of contributing to the death of hospital patient in 2015. died after an incident outside of med star hospital center. say they were escorting him when he had a fatal encounter and died from blunt force to his neck. >> new development spring up around the light rail line

purple line. between prince george and montgomery counties. >> just retreated our transportation reporter adam tuss. he's taking a look at what they are doing to encourage growth. adam. >> reporter: that's right, kris. this whole project is going to be so transformative to our region. there is a big conference going on as we speak, actually. take a look at leaders who are gathering today. and what they are trying to do is sign an agreement, leaders from montgomery county, prince george, all over, trying to make a come pant here to make sure that the development that happens along this corridor happens correctly. in other words, they only get one shot at doing this when the project goes through with this light rail line. so they want to make sure everything is correct. take a listen to what they had to say. >> we want to have housing for people of all income levels. we want to make sure there are

people from their homes to the jobs. >> reporter: that's what people want. but there are some people who don't want this project at all. like those who are worried about what it's doing to the capital trail. there are people losing parts of their back yards and parts of the tree canopy that's been going on. and of course we had the big fight over the crescent trail. take a listen as that purple line starts to develop. >> we have seen the loss of birds. we don't hear wood peckers or owls. we've lost 100 year old tries. if y trees. if you go and look now you'll see logs, those trees won't come back for another 100 years, and never replant them there. >> reporter: and the construction really now

the whole corridor. and over the next five years we'll see it start to change dramatically how our landscape is. but the fight continues but the project is going forward. >> we'll stay on top of it, we know you will, thank you so much. >> moving on to new sexual misconduct allegations against the democratic lawmaker. >> and also a closer look what went wrong. with holiday sales comes

well, odds are when you are out and about doing christmas shopping someone is watching and it's likely the anti-theft team. well, the fairfax police department said over the weekend they made several arrests. they hit up women are part of an organized retail crime group hitting stores across the

county are taking steps to keep you safe. >> justin finch is showing you how to keep you secure on holiday sprees. this is good information we all need to know. >> reporter: hey, molette, there are goods that are watching us and waiting to take advantage of us and the stores, too. so luckily here in the fairfax area police are watching them as well. you know, as you mention, a major take down here at tyson corner since four women from brooklyn, new york, taken in on shoplifting related charges out here taking away some $29,000 in goods they were found with in this store. those officers are patrolling here at tyson center and other

under cover. their work is paying off as well. last holiday season they netted more than 3 4u$300,000 in goods assets. so we asked shoppers what what they think f having them out here. take a listen. >> their garages are huge and i got lost all the time. i'm new lehere. so definitely feel safe people are here looking out for us. >> i feel way safer, yeah. because nowadays you never know what's going to happen. >> reporter: you never know indeed. you also never know where one arrest could lead. in this case those four women were found to be part of a new york based shoplifting ring. and also, too, they were busted because alert at

staffers thought they looked suspect. so we are live here at tyson square, justin finch news4 back to you. >> thank you, justin. as if air travel isn't stressful enough, hundreds of passengers gt a scare last night when their planes collided. >> i can't imagine how they felt when the jets clipped wings on an accident that could have been a lot worse. nbc tom costello reports on what happened up there in new york. >> reporter: tense moments for people a board a plane, monday night jfc. after the wings of the wide body liners got too close brief lir clipping each other. the faa says egypt air flight 986 headed to cairo when the wings connected. shearing off the tip of virgin wing.

tour revealed how it happened. told the toywer said he had a problem, pulled it off to the ta taxi way, but apparently not far enough. >> we are having a technical difficulty. >> virgin, disregard all, that pull off to the right, if you can. >> unfortunately we clipped the wings. >> all right. >> reporter: fortunately no one was injured but both planes significant damage to both of the wing tips. >> tom costello reports that the egypt airplane was able to return to the terminal on own power. the virgin atlantic plane had to be towed. >> glad everybody was all right. se

for congressman accusing him of sexual harassment. former deputy chief of staff, ran his campaign. and says conniers made unwanted advances. he stepped down from the house judiciary committee. two weeks from today voters in alabama will choose next senator and roy moore is not backing down. >> the crowd greeted moore with applause. the senate has made a few appearances since nine women accused him of sexual misconduct, ranges from different allegations. moore denies all of the allegations. >> it hurts to think that people would attack your character like that after 40 years

and it's a little odd never once has this been alleged. >> moore refused to take any questions from the crowd. says he will have many more campaign events before the election. getting some new video of people tried to fool "the washington post" fake story. told a reporter that roy moore got her pregnant and an allegedly claimed she got abortion. they said they think she was trying to discredit the paper. saw her walk into there. >> you could be dining out with your dog, d.c. council pets on restaurant property. right now restaurants can be fined $500 in people bring their

seating. the bill being considered is restaurants to apply for permits h new this morning the list of nominees for the 2018 grammy's. it's out. >> that's right. this year the top four categories are dominated by rapid r and b artists. ♪ >> man, i remember that, that was bruno mars to prince. >> jay-z leads with 8 awards including album song and record of the year. br bruno mars is also up for it. >> jay-z and alongside red bone. the grammta

28 in new york city. >> that's going to be good. >> i don't know how they'll top that prince tribute. that was really special. >> it really was. well, the threat from a volcano spewing ash is very relevant. >> real. >> we are getting the latest images from bali, and it's about 24 hours since we got the news from prince harry engagement.

is talking about the big news from the palace. and we are getting a lot of new details where prince harry will marry ac rest meghan markle. when they will hold the royal wedding. >> most popular months is march, yes, because the baby is due in april. and commonwealth in the week of april 16. so the world calendar is there. >> well, we heard in the last 20, 30 minutes it's actually going to be in may, and they'll have the wedding at st. george chap tell in the opportunity of windsor. that's elicited

from sheena parveen. >> right now, a volcano spewing ash is moments away from erupting. >> and lots of tourists are trapped in what has trurned out to be nightmare. volcanic ash has forced them to shut down the airport. agung is spewing ash, beautiful but dangerous. a major eruption could happen here since 1963 when the volcano killed up to 1600 people. an eruption could put up to 100,000 residents in danger. >> yeah, issued an evacuation order but having

to get everybody fwrree and cle from that area. >> huge disaster and mess. we'll watch that closely. >> the reason why i let out a gasp. >> you got an invite. >> no. earlier on the "today's" show they were showing how may is unlikely month so saying it's definitely not may. >> why is may an unlikely month? >> it's not. i was born in may. >> may flowers. >> they were saying certain roy royals got married in may are divorced and so forth. >> i love that it feels really good out there after what was a cold start. >> it was a cold start. by this afternoon it might remind you have a cool may morning. >> i'll take it. >> afternoon temperatures. yeah, it's going to be nice as we go through the day. temperatures rising. sunny outside. nice and dry. and also unseasonably mild this

so low 60s. normal high is 53. we'll be looic this tomorrow too. but we do have a very small rain chance even though we have a pretty dry stretch, on thursday. so watching out for the cold front and that's going to give us colder weekend ahead. so we'll be more seasonable as we go into the weekend. look at fredericks berg 59 already. clinton. if you are exercising beautiful day to get outside. make sure you get out. 4:00 p.m. sunny skies. high around 62. and cool back after the sun sets. so as we go through the next couple of days dryer side until thursday then we have the rain chance. friday breezy and cooler. saturday cooler as well. we'll take a look at the extended forecast coming up. >> thanks. today is not just tuesday, it's giving

and we are going to tell you why so many nonprofits are counting on you to take part. >> and pa lot of people around the world listened to pope francis during a speech in

now on news4 midday strong reaction as pope francis navigates delicate waters during his controversial visit to my a march. a first for any pope. >> human rights groups say they are both sad and dis pointed the pope did not use the term rohingya in his speech in myanmar today. >> nbc ann thompson has more on this closely watched trip. >> reporter: the smiles, the wave, the embraces, all mask the diplomatic risk for pope francis in myanmar an overwhelmingly buddhist nation. country in midst tv a brutal crack down against the religious

minority, rohingya muslims. >> i think this is the most risky trip, if he says the wrong things or something that the military or buddhist monks don't like there could be violence. >> reporter: starting with a courtesy visit whose facebook page said he told the pope myanmar has no religious discrimination. he's accused of raping women and girls. causing an exo dust of more than 600,000 people to the neighbors nation of bangladesh. failure to stop the violence has tarnished the reputation noble peace leader. and some could fear this could do the same for the pope. >> i think the difference is she is in total denial that ethnic cleansing

and there is sno way tno way th will do that. >> the pope will meet with a group of rohingya refugees when he travels to bangladesh on thursday. also follows up on a thursday poolesville high school won't be getting a make over. the county of education said they were not. photos showed inside the building of the damage. they say they factor in repairs whether to replace a school. >> we know that we have aging schools and crumbling infrastructure and we grew by 2,900 students this year. >> that completely eliminates that poolesville high school from renovations. the bidd

replaced. >> now residents will meet up to decide what to do next. molette. >> today is giving tuesday, and it falls each year after cybermonday. most charities make the most money at the end of the year, so fund raise and volunteer. and last year more than 40,000 nonprofits raised more than $160,000 in this 24 hour period. pretty incredible. and encouraging you to give today is adoptions together. right now her beautiful daughter kennedy here to talk about online tell a thon and work that they do all together. thank you so much for coming in. >> good morning. real pleasure to be here. >> janis,

adoptions together. >> you are the founder. >> tell us what it's about. >> helps keep families strong. so what it means is we work with parents who find themselves pregnant at a time they are unable to parent their children and want to pro-actively plan for and have their children be adopted. also parents who are struggling we help them find the resources they can parent themselves. and additionally work with kids who are in foster care. there are thousands of children around the united states in our community, in fact, over 100,000 who are waiting for parents of their own. >> just staying in foster. >> yeah, all the way up to 21. and we all know in the holiday season there is nothing like home, like family, so. >> quickly tell us about the hoin tell a th online tell a thon. what's that about. >> we are talking about the different services w

and give the community a chance how they can help and reach out and support this community. >> okay. kim, you are on the board. tell us how the beautiful kennedy came into your life. and how you got involved in this great effort. >> absolutely. my husband and i made the decision to adopt about six years ago. and for us the process went pretty quickly which told us it was 100% best decision, kennedy came into our life in 2012. it was a game changer. i am a huge proponent for a d adoption. there is nothing like it. people say how adoption changes your life but it's the child. >> look at this. all the love that is coming out of you from this beautiful little girl. >> i was so honored

to get involved with the adoptions together through the major fundraiser which is called p in the potomac every september. and fell in love. we had a very straightforward a dop sthun. a adoption. and this is me giving back. my karma. we are so blessed that i want to help other families. i joined the board early this year. >> we should mention your husband is a member of the news4 production team and we are happy to have you here. >> what do we need to know about the tell thon. >> it's live and on right now at adoptions together/family works together facebook page, join us, come on, support the organization. we need the community's help. >> janis, kim,

the sparkle on your shirt, thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> adoptions together, great online event going on right now. we ran into some children in the giving mode, very early this morning, we'll let you know where they are donat

you know, you still have a few days to donate a stuffed animal to help a child with a trauma. >> great idea. the stuffed animals given out during 911 encounters where police or firefighters are dealing with children who are in some traumatic situations. and we were there all morning as people came by and they donated their stuffed animals out in did your wood we collected a lot of animals. even santa claus showed up. the woman who

received her stuffed animal when she was in a car crash. >> i was five years old and the officers gave my brother and i stuffed animals. >> it explains to them both and maybe show on the animal what they are doing in the treatment and activities they are going to be helping the young one with. >> and you know, there is still time. you can drop off your donations at the at your door floor store, out there in did your wood, until the end of the month. so there are a few more days to go. and it makes so much sense. >> yeah, montgomery county police and fire department part of that effort. >> they showed up in a big way this morning and awesome. >> good idea. and santa made a detour. he's not taking time off. >> he had work to do. only there for 15 minutes. and he's gone. >> blink and he was gone. >> and it was too warm here for him. >> you knowat

really so much in the afternoon hours feel holiday type weather. but i'll say if you had to run errands to get a christmas tree this is fantastic weather. it's going to stay nice and dry so don't have to worry about any rain. it is 51 degrees and sunny outside. warming up soon into the low 60s. if you are walking the dog or need one to adopt, butter is here at the website to find out how to get her a home. 62 for afternoon high. and maybe a long dog walk. here's unseasonably mild. going into friday and weekend this big area of high pressure will move in and bring down that cooler air from canada, so cooling off after thursday. back to normal. normal high is 53. today is 62. tomorrow is 63. but then we quickly drop back down to 5

cold mornings in the forecast, 37, by 7:00 a.m. on saturday, 39 sunday, but there you see the temperatures back down into the mid to low 50s. there is isolated shower chance later in the day saturday, we'll watch that closely. doesn't look like anything too big right now. but even after the weekend, we don't have any 60s in next week's forecast, so enjoy today and tomorrow. again about 10 degrees about normal. but nice sunshine to enjoy it with. guys. >> thank you. >> thank you sheena. >> travel deals like today is a good day to find a bargain. >> and gadgets for everyone on your holiday shopping list. take a look our

you may want to get the credit cards out ready to use. today is the best bargain holiday you've ever heard of. travel deal tuesday. the travel app reports that airlines offer deep discounts. the tuesday after thanksgiving. and that's because most people already have their holiday travel plans booked. so this is a way for the airlines to try to attract even more customers. chris? >> thanks, molette. from a camera that can capture high flying video to a smart coffee brewer, there is a gift out there. steve wrote the book for gadgets. and some

let's talk about the elephant in the room which is your rain deer sweater. >> yeah, ugly sweater, this is from swap.com. so this is a big online thrift store, so under $20 and turn some heads. >> i'd love that thing in a heartbeat. >> first up, for kids and for a dumts. this first one is called flit. it folds up so you can take in your purse, unfolds to looks like this. let's see if we can make it fly here. this is a flit flying camera. so not really a drone. really designed for a quick take off. let's see if it works. snaps ha couple of pictures or video then you can land it. pretty amazing. you can do it indoors. >> put some really cool videos on social media with that thing. >> absolutely. direct it out you want. but look how easy.

picture, video, goes down. flit from the folks at hobbico. >> this is called light seekers, fun game for kids, very popular. what you do, these action figures are also the remote control for different games or cards that go with it and a lot of cool things you can do. i think we have videos kids working it. you can see the action figure is the remote. very cool. from toys are us. about $69. light seekers comes with players cards so you can augment the reality even more. >> loves remote control cards. >> this was my passion as a kid zbro growing up. >> this is from rc flip cam. so when you flip it, it's still a car. i can only do one trick which is 360 spin.

$19.99 target. coals. >> next for grown ups, this is connection coffee. >> what makes it so great. >> it brews it and control it from your smart phone. it's cool because you can set up favorites and brew so exactly for each person. you can create profiles. and really a great way to make a perfect cup of coffee, including everything from how you presoak is done. >> this is pretty rich. >> this is very good. >> i think a female farmer from el salvador, so you can brew it. >> how much? >> this is about $135. >> not bad when you think about five or six bucks per cup every day. >> absolutely. you can do all this and all with your smart phone.

ask for brewer status. and you can do it through her as well. >> it's online and ready to go. please select it. >> she will do it for you. >> next is. >> don't need a wife anymore. >> what? >> hey, hey, hey. >> i knew that would get a reaction from molette. >> chris not me. this is called sound gear. this is from jbl. goes like this speaker system and creates a sound bubble. so this is great for walking the dog, vacuuming your in your house, phone calls as well. but nothing in your ear and still hear the outside world but creates personal sound. >> not so offensive people near you will say turn that down. >> no, sound bubble, you are aware of the universe but at the same time you are in your own sound bubble. pretty cool. >> last bn

this is called touch point. and this is the company claims that in 30 seconds you can reduce your stretch. because what this does is vibrates alternatively. hold it on your wrist or hold it. it went to sleep. if you hold one in one hand, alternate between two, 30 seconds tricks your brain and decreases stress. it's really great. also helps kids focus. company says it's amazing and gotten great reviews. so something very simple and reduces stress. holidays are the most stressful triem for me as well. >> and you've been in my family you know they are for us as well, steve. >> one bhmore thing to recommen my book gag et stuff for. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. >> molette. >> alexis call chris's wife right now. >> in the

handly shows us how to handle the heavy

tonight is the fall final of "this is us" major part of the story line takes place here in d.c. >> hard for my kid. >> i was actually wondering if we could visit a dfe

>> look at that, jack and the teenage version of randall. visit howard university. actors were in town two weekends ago. tune in right here on nbc4. that's going to be good. >> that's pretty cool. >> yeah. we are right there with them. >> hundreds of millions hf packages will be delivered this holiday season. and for the folks at ups, you know, it's crunch time. >> i used to work at ups during college. tough job. this time of year they hire hundreds of holiday helpers. and jim handly shows us. >> hand it to handily, they make it look easy, but it's quite a lot of work. and work out. >> reporter: i'll maintain the following distance. today i have roughly 327 pieces. needs to leave the facility as rapidly as possible.

>> every time you interior exit the vehicle i need you to maintain 3 contacts. i don't take a lunch break. >> reporter: no lunch break. >> i don't take a lunch break. that's my break. my partner is checking my rear lights. flashers work. keep up. right here. right beside me. ups. grab the package both hands opposite corners. pull into your power zone. if you stay on my hip i'll get you there 30 second. remember, bend your knees, not your back. scan the package. there you go. you have it. let's go. >> reporter: all right. 15 houses in 10 minutes. ups. how has this simplified and changed the way you do your day

i know how many pieces. and it's all in order. bend your knees, not your back. place it at the door, out of weather, out of ups. 42. 43. 44. 30 second. 44 seconds. let's go. >> reporter: stop watching me. >> secure the package. straight back. pull straight back. comfortable with the weight. >> reporter: okay. >> let's go. >> reporter: how many pounds? >> you have 150 approximately in your hand. >> reporter: okay. this is your work out. you don't need to run or do weights. >> i do work out. i do have an in home gym. but not because of the job. i have some grandkids. in my career i've seen new hires as big as football players literally crying chblt give up. i've seen

do this job as well as i can. mental. be smart about it and get that package delivered. ready. let's do it. all right. >> reporter: >> i remember that, bend your knees, not your back. if you have an idea for jim, go to our facebook and share. we look forward to hearing from you. >> definitely a method to protecting that back. but you know how about the hat that jim had on? >> all right. >> we'll talk about it later. all right. you don't need the hat today, sheena. >> no, you might need a baseball cap but not the beanie. 63 today and tomorrow. cooler for the weekend. >> thank you, sheena. that's it for news4 midday. thanks for joining us. back on the air this afternoon first at 4. >>

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we're live in five, four, three, two, one. >> i'm absolutely thrilled at such exciting news. it's really a happy time for any couple and we wish them all the best. enjoy this zim going to be the sister-in-law, kate reacting to harry's big news. we now know it is going to be a may day. >> we're coming there in may, everybody. >> st. george's chapel at windsor castle. a lot of speculation yesterday, which means it might be a more simple