they announced the arrest of steve alexander and robinson. all three face charges accuse of robbing a cell tone store in capitol heights sunday afternoon. they are looking to see if the cases have a connection to the cell phone robbery in the district. three arrests but at this pour we d officially connected with the case in alexandria. stay tuned. reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. michelle: a surreal scene. thousands trapped with no power for hours in the world's busiest airport. now we see what caused it. a small fire in the wrong spot of the atlanta airport. at this hour the airport is catching up on all the flights. the folks stranded. it will take a few days to clear the backlog. the cost for those stranded can add up. hotel rooms, rental cars, food and lost time. tonight the "7 on your side" team look at the rights that you have as a traveler. transportation reporter sam sweeney at the reagan national airport. a lot of people can get reimbursed for this. sam: they can. it's not easy but you can do it. the catastrophic failures l

authorities told us about the arrest of steve alexander and eubanks and robinson of southeast d.c. they all three face charges accused of robbing a cell phone store in capitol heights sunday afternoon following saturday night robbery of the store in alexandria around 10:00 p.m. minutes before closing time. thigh stole dozens of phones of $70,000 to $80,000 but the getaua crashed into another vehicle. the accomplish ran off and stole a minivan from a woman in a plaza that was involved in sunday's arrest in capital heights. >> people in the vehicle at the time it was found. people are traumatizedded from the robbery. nobody was really that prepared. so they don't know if the men arrested here are r the alexandria crime. there may be a d.c. connection coming up as well. alison: the thomas fire in california torched an area larger than new york city, washington d.c. and san francisco combined. larry: it's expected to burn in the new year. the firefighters are doing their best to save homes but there is only so much they can do. if you have winds that severe you can't save every home. >

tearing down the system steve benen is stumping for the republican candidate and he's pointing the finger at us in an interview with g w news is alexander phenomena steve bannon has accused g.w. along with the rest of the mainstream media pretending to report the truth while pushing what he calls a globalist agenda take a listen to the media is there just another advocacy group in fact fake news is the least bit didn't go i combed opposition party i mean that's absolutely not true but information today is part of political warfare just because it will can answer is that i'm not a politician that means you're not the political process you in all the mainstream media are part of the opposition party you have an agenda you have a global such and you try to ram down stories and try to ram down there is a dance down down down down you had to you know you tried it about it no no no no i say from day one right partly we are strongly partisan ok we're strongly partisan but we say upfront we're part of a news organization ok it doesn't mean we're not fair we think we treat people very fair but there's a definite angle attack that we don't make a

as total nonsense and you get in and out every day ok then steve bamby lots of holes in his argument and i have to defend our colleague alexander phenomenon when she said we're not politicians we aren't politicians she did not say we're not part of the political process we are we're part of getting information out to the public so with that out there stated does it have any appeal to us voters i mean they've heard this time and time again ever since the truck campaign. absolutely brant i just came back from to make a report about orders and supporters here in the united states and it was pretty clear to me that people here are fed up with a bully titian's in general with the establishment with washington with the leaves and of course with the media they do things that the mainstream media reports say can use and the term supporters not only support trump but the people around him even more than they did before the presidential election last year they believe that their views and their interests are not being represented in this elites of establishment and they actually celebrate the lack of political correctness of donald trump

steve kornacki. i've got to bring in our white house correspondent, nbc's peter alexander. peter, i went to bed with quite the gracious tweet from president trump. i think we may have woken up to something else. >> yeah, plenty of wednesday morning quarterbacking as you'd imagine here at the white house. the president trying to frame this the best possible way after a humiliating defeat after picking the wrong horse in alabama now twice. this morning he wrote the following. he wrote the reason i originally endorsed luther strange, and his numbers went up mightily, he notes, is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. the white house really over the course of the last couple of weeks has tried to present this as if the president's hands were tied, that he had to support moore. but what's incredible is that they find themselves in that position just 12 months after republicans swept the white house and congress. the president's initial tweet that you noted overnight lacked the blame,

johnson and tennessee's lamar alexander top off with a million dollars in earnings on their multi-million-dollar holdings. but the real high end in congress are montana's steveto $7 million on this property which is worth up to $35 million. the new last-minute language on pass through business now named the corker kickback gives these senators and president trump who is a massive real estate investor as is his son-in-law jared kushner a bigger break than the version passed by senate. all while more than half of americans are set to see a tax increase in 2027. when the individual tax cuts expire. those corporate and pass through rates, they're here forever. >> now, a short time ago, speaker paul ryan addressed the economic situation a lot of americans find themselves in while trying to sell the gop tax bill ahead of today's vote. >> more than half the people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck. almost another half of people are telling us they're about one paycheck away from living paycheck to paycheck. there's real economic anxiety in america. >> but the one thing that hasn't been addressed in the tax plan is income inequality. the president ran

steve mnuchin said it would be out. they said it was in there for the house bill but wait until you see the senate bill, it will be out of there. lamar alexander joe and said, wait until it gets marked up. it's still in there, why, zach? >> i can't give you an answer to that. donald trump said during the election, the hedge fund managers are getting away with murder on their taxes and says all they're doing is pushing paper around. so i really would have thought that the trump administration would have pushed for closing this special tax break for people who manage money for a living. >> special tax break. and the day after this special tax break was still in there in the senate bill, guess what happened? founder of blackstone steve swartsman who was on the trip to saudi arabia with president trump and raised $40 billion in permanent capital. guess what he did? he threw a fund-raiser for president trump right here at 740 park avenue in the former rockefellar apartment. remember, steve schwartzman made the argument to the employees of plaque blackstone who had an issue he was running for council. they said, he's not the guy. steve schwartzman w