According to the associated press, the number is far higher than in 2012. In critical battleground states like florida, nevada and colorado. Onethird or more of the expected voters already cast their ballots. The break down of votes by Party Affiliation and others point to an advantage for Hillary Clinton. A reminder about a special forum for millennial voters called vote your power. Ill be moderating the conversation. At the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington university. Admission is free but we would like you to rsvp on the nbc washington app. It is 4 31. Montgomery county council is expected to vote to expand sick leave. It would give employees in the county paid parental leave. It would apply to those who give birth, adopt or foster care it would require them to require 56 hours of paid leave per employee each year. The council will also consider a bill supporters would say would make restaurants safer for people with allergies, requiring certain restaurant workers to complete training courses about allergens. They would have to pass a test before being able to serve food to customers. 4 32, four things to know about the forecast coming your way. Chuck, how is it looking right now . Typically cool for early nobe warm up days just around the corner. So cool, chilly, but dry today. You can leave the umbrellas at home for your tuesday plans. Even though we will see more and more in the way of cloud cover, these will not be rain making clouds particularly around the city. Could rule out one or two more drops in Central Virginia one more chance of rain between now and election day. For today, though, partly to at times mostly cloudy. 60 degrees. Fairly typical for early november. How it get the kids ready for school until ten more minutes, dry readies usually mean easy, breezy commutes. Can we keep it that way . 55 and 95, 95 northbound out of fredericksburg up to the beltway, the crashes are out of the way. No more problems. 66 looks good. Outer loop, down by a work zone there and then the inner loop at 450 and annapolis road, the right lane is getting by the work zone. Looking at 95 and maryland from 32 to the beltway, going to take you about ten minutes. See you here in a few. Thank you, melissa. 4 33, families in a southeast Washington Neighborhood were forced to change their halloween plans after a deadly shooting. A man died after being shot in this happened along savannah avenue around 5 00 last night. Not long before many families planned to go trick or treating. Instead, they were forced to deal with a scary scene. Tricks every day. No treats in this neighborhood. It is always some drama. Were saddened. This is a night we prepared to give the children Something Special and unfortunately, were being pulled away from those activities to handle this type of thing. Police have not the victim. The gunman may have left rat in a silver, two door honda civic. Parents in glen burnie. They found a syringe without the needle tucked in a back. Speaking of halloween, a tragedy, this one out of mississippi, a developing story, we continue to follow after many others were hurt in this accident. It happened, they say, when a flat bed trailer carrying a lot of people collided with a truck on the highway. That hay ride was apparently going to different houses to go trick or treating. Police saying the names of those involved including the victims will not be released until later today. Well continue to follow up. Thank you. D. C. Police are investigating claims of Sexual Assault during a private party in georgetown. It happened friday during an invitation only event at a home on p and 28th street. The Victim Told Police a man assaulted her in an up stairs bedroom. Two other women reported the same man hurt them when they tried to step in and help. It is unclear whether any charges have been filed. A woman was sexually assaulted along kingshighway in Stafford County and now the Sheriffs Office needs help finding the person responsible. Take a good look at the sketch here. A woman into a ditch. He sexually assaulted her for more than two hours. This happened between forest lane road and Michael Scott lane. It was between 2 30 and 5 00 yesterday morning. Call the Sheriffs Office if you know anything. It is 4 36. Today jurors will hear closing arguments in a defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine. The case involves nicole aramo, a former associate dean at the university of virginia. She says she was unfairly about a gang rape at a campus fraternity. The magazine later retracted the article and apologized. She is seeking seven and a half Million Dollars in damages. The first vote is expected on the death with dignity measure. Theyre set to take up the issue. The proposal would allow doctors to help termny little patients take a lethal dose of medicine. It endorses suicide and the options. Physician assisted death is legal in five states. 4 37 is our time right now. It is a must win game for the chicago cubs tonight if the team wants to end the 100 year world series drought. A live look at progressive field. The cubs and Cleveland Indians faceoff at 8 00. Tonight is game six of the world series. The Cleveland Indians lead the series 32. In 1948. It is november. Can you believe that . It is november 1st, aaron. Where did the time go . Youll feel the fall air for sure. Some of us are waking up in the 40s. Chuck bell is tracking what the kids can expect at the bus stop. No bus, no subway, no trolley. Why thlzs will go without transit in philadelphia and the vo heres the last thing washington needs. Threatening cancer screening. Said shed invade iraq again if given the chance, and hoeber has fought for a global increase of chemical weapons. We need john delaney. A family man and entrepreneur, he built two respected maryland business, creating thousands of jobs. In congress, he puts working for us ahead of partisan politics. John im john delaney and i approve this message. Chilly start to the day as we enter the month of november. And i think it is going to warm up pretty nicely today, chuck bell. I dont know. I dont know. You may need to get the nbc washington app downloaded and check that forecast once again. A little on the cool side here early this morning. Most neighborhoods are well down plenty of sunshine. Today well have skies go from partly to mostly cloudy and that extra cloud cover may prevent much of a warm up. Upper 50s to right around 60 degrees. Good news is you wont need the umbrella for today but you need the warm coat here early this morning. A lot of clouds, so you can probably leave the sunglasses at home. Jeans and sweatshirts for after school and evening activities. Wait until you see the forecast for tomorrow. Tomorrow is all about weather. Ten day forecast coming up in ten minutes. Melissa mollet dealing with a little construction. Do have a little bit of roadwork hanging around. Outer loop, the ramp to northbound 95, we have the ramp blocked by the work zone. You can see a little bit of orange on the screen and northbound 95 just after, that so after the beltway. Two left lanes are getting by that work zone, so a little bit of a slow down there. Overall, bottom of the beltway, indian head highway, branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue. This morning and on 66, Fairfax County parkway to the beltway, youre on time at nine minutes. Listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car. Thank you. A week from tonight, we will have a new president elect. The rush is on for donald trump and Hillary Clinton as each tries to score key battlegrounds in the race for the white house. With halloween over, many are looking ahead to holiday shopping. Over again. If they want to look at more emails of one of my staffers, by all means, go ahead, look at them and i know they will reach the same conclusion they reached when they looked at my emails last year, right . Hillary clinton and donald trump yesterday on the campaign trail. News4s tracie potts live on capitol hill for us this morning. Tracie, Hillary Clinton will be in florida today. How is her campaign addressing the fbi review of emails. On saying if theyre going to look at the emails, they need to do so quickly, come out with the results before the election, although it is not clear at all that is going to happen. They have 650,000 emails theyre trying to sift through, sort and see if any are relevant. Her message, as you just heard, seems to be, sure, go ahead and look through everything but theyve already done a thorough investigation that cleared clinton. Lets talk about donald trump speak on the Affordable Care act. What do we expect to hear from him . Well talk about the rising healthcare premium the government acknowledged will go up in january. That has been a big one for the trump campaign. He is going to thereby with mike pence and mike pence will speak and deal with a lot more of the details of what they want to do and what they think works based on what he has done in indiana. The medicaid waiver they got in indiana and how things are working in his state. Tracie potts on the hill this morning. Thank you. Have gone on strike. 900,000 people take transportation in the city every day including 60,000 school kids. Some officials worry if the strike isnt resolved by next week, it would impact how Philadelphia Residents get to the polls to vote. Pennsylvania is an important swing state in the election. Today we expect to get more information about a nationwide manhunt that ended with a suspects death. Michael vance was killed in a shoot out on sunday night after more than a week one that vance live streamed his get away after killing two people and shooting two officers. Dash cam video of the shoot out and the chase expected to be released. 911 calls from the orlando nightclub shooter are now public. A florida judge ruled yesterday that police must release all recordings involving omar mateen on the night he killed 49 people. The mateen is heard admitting to the shooting, pledging allegiance to isis and making can you tell me where you are right now so i can get you some help. No. Because you have to tell america to stop bombing syria and iraq. They are killing a lot of innocent people. Mateen was later killed by police. A judge is Still Deciding whether 200 other phone calls from that night should be released. Orlandos attorneys argue it could cause emotional distress. The public has a right to them says the cuts are part of an effort by metros general manager to close a massive budget gap. Yesterday, one of the systems largest unions protested saying it is upset about planning to eliminate some bus routes and slash 1,000 jobs. That is the main reason why people do not come back to the system because you cut their bus, youve cut their, you know, their route. I think what i hear from passengers, in fact, i heard it people said to me keep doing what youre doing. Keep up the good work. I heard three times today people said that. They hate it right now but they understand these are the types of things that need to be done. Any changes need to be approved by the metro board. A vote on a new budget is expected in march. D. C. Police have ticketed the metrobus driver who collided with a bus carrying Charter School students. The crash happened last thursday near Eastern Avenue and randolph street in northeast. The citation is for attention. 42 students and one adult were on the charter bus. No one was seriously hurt. Fire investigators are trying to figure out what caused a Capitol Heights home to go up in flames in the 700 block of birch leaf avenue. The Prince George county Fire Department tweeted photos showing damage you see here. The Fire Department says no one was hurt in the fire. Today, bill cosby will be hearing on charges he drugged and molested a former Temple University employee. Today prosecutors plan to question 13 accusers to show a criminal pattern that spans five decades. Cosby has pled not guilty to the charges. His attorneys say the womens memories are tainted and unreliable. The trial is set to begin in june. A martial arts instructor i they arrested renzo Garcia Davila at his home. He is a instructor at the lead by example and montessori sool. He instructed soccer as well. Police believe there could be more victims. If you have more information, call police. 4 50 our time right now. Decorations. Theyve been out before halloween. That is a reality. Americans are expected to spend a record 656 billion this year. The National Retail federation says that is about 3. 6 more than last holiday season. Many stores are figuring out ways to work with your budget by offering sales even earlier than usual. The start of the holiday season, shopping season, alsons but we are seeing a lot of businesses hiring during the holidays. Not only for stores but also because of the internet. Were seeing an increase in Distribution Center positions. This year, the industry will hire about 650 to 700,000 holiday associates. Most of them part Time Seasonal workers, although those could translate to full time positions after the holidays are over. Those Distribution Center jobs are more important than ever. The people that will be making gifts will be getting wlg they need to be. Search Holiday Hiring at nbcwashington. Com for links to who is hiring the seasonal positions. I think about tomorrow and thursday. You mentioned there would be a warm up. Big time warm up. Just not today. Did the kids dress up . They did. My oldest was a monopoly man. The middle wanted to go as the and then the baby girl went as malificent. They wanted scary things. Jake wanted to be unique. You want to see something scary . Take a look at this. Hey is that your care bear stare . That is my care bear scare. This is casual storm right here. Thanks to angie goff who gave me this rain cloud care bear outfit so i could wear it yesterday. You can follow me on my twitter feed. I put the pictures up there. Twitter at chuck bell4. It you can give me a like there and you can see the pictures as well. October in the books. It was a warm and dry month for sure. We finished three and a half degrees warmer than average. The second warmest oc barely 1 3 of our average rain fall fort month. Were in the 40s now but ive been promising a warm up for eun. 61 today but how about 77 tomorrow, 79 on thursday, rain chances come back for thursday afternoon and evening. Dry and cool for the weekend. This weekend is the weekend we move our clocks back away from Daylight Saving time. Speaking of the weekend, it will take longer to get there because melissa. It will take much longer. Red line shut down between nomagallaudet and fort totten into november 22nd. This affects 200,000 peak trips every day. That is surge number 10. Outer loop ramp to northbound 95. Ramp is blocked by the work zone there. Outer loop here, this is outer loop after New Hampshire avenue. Something is getting confused. W 95 northbound and southbound. No problems 95 in maryland looking quite good from 32 down to the beltway. It will take you ten minutes, exactly as it should. Listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car. Thank you. Holiday presence swiped from front doors. The remarkable number of americans stolen from and how to stop it from happening to you. A popular treat recalled for breaking news this morning that anything that matches your taste can match your budget. That green living doesnt have to cost much green. We believe that you should always have room for the little things. And that your dream kitchen should work as hard as you do. Get 15 back at the ikea kitchen event. Talk about a halloween to remember. 4,000 people went trick or treating at the white house yesterday. President obama passed out hersheys kisses and michelle military families. Looks like a great time. Speaking of candy, were now down to the final match up for our halloween candy madness challenge. Only two contenders remaining now. The reeses peanut buttercup and plain old m ms. Theyre in the finals. It is still time to vote in the nbc washington facebook page. The reeses have a comfortable theyre the best candy ever. I can eat them all the time. Take a second look at the treat in your kids lunch boxes this morning. Oreo is recalling two of the flavors. It affects oreo fudge cream or fudge cream mint cookies in 11 ounce packages. The fda says they may contain milk which is not a listed agreement. At least one person has had an allergic reaction. Search oreo on how to get a online shopping, make sure the package arrived a your door step. A recent study found that 11 million home owners have had the packages stolen in the past year. Consumers are more at risk because of the number of deliveries which is increasing. To make sure you get the gift, you can always require a signature for delivery. Developing this morning, there are fears of gas shortages and price increases after a gas explosion monday in alabama. Take a it caused officials to shut down a pipeline for the second time in two months. That pipeline supplies gasoline to millions of people. Investigators are working to determine the cause of that blast. One worker was killed and a half dozen others were injured. Stay with us, news4 today continues right now at 5 00 a. M. Now at 5 00 a. M. Were staying on top of the breaking news. Prince George County police are in minutes, what were now finding out in a live report. Good morning, everybody, it is 5 00 a. M. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. We want to check our forecast. Chilly start to the morning. It is storm team4 meteorologist chuck bell is in for the weather headlines. Good morning eun and aaron. A little chilly outside this morning. Clouds have been increasing a bit overnight. That pattern will continue through the day. Chilly by dry here this morning with temperatures in the 40s but even with the increasing clouds, today. Any closest rain drops will be down south and west of charlottesville in Central Virginia. There are two really warm days coming. They start tomorrow. Right now it is in the 40s. That is where well stay for the remainder of the out the door plans this morning. Near 60 degrees by 3 00 this afternoon. Back down into the 50s by 7 00 tonight. There is a chance of rain between now and the weekend. Ill let you know when that is most likely happening in a few more minutes. Trouble on 355. Here is melissa with the latest