Minute push. She joins us from Contra Costa County theresa. Why we have been saying people rush here to make sure that they make that deadline as well as dropping their ballots here in Contra Costa County. Ive been doing elections for 25 years this is my 6th president ial election. Ive never seen. People so excited, enthusiastic and voting so early. Thats the assistant registrar of voters on what theyre seeing this general election here in Contra Costa County with today being the deadline for registration we expect to go over. 700,000 voters for the first time in our history today. We about a year ago yesterday that would be our weather account and here we are on the final day of registration. And were were going to hit that target, but its very very very big this year and everybody should vote do the right thing and outside all day long this people constantly pulling up and dropping off their ballots. This mom even turned the whole operation into a civics lesson for her young 3 daught
Heart. Wusa9 Stephanie Gailhard is live with more on the victim tonight. Stephanie, what can you tell us . Reporter yeah ellen, the victim is a graduate of Oakton High School here in vienna, virginia. He went to new york city with two friends from Fairfax County to celebrate 4th when the unthinkable happened. Dorothy prentices grandson was with connor golden today in central park when a homemade explosive went off severely injure his leg. There was a small explosion and then dust. Just based on what we had heard. Reporter the device may have been put there as an experiment. It is terrifying. Friends claim he was on the rocks and then stepped on something. And apparently he stepped on something. Thats him in the blue shirt, performing at Oakton High School. It is really sad. And he is very popular here and he has a lot of friends. Golden is at a New York Hospital in stable condition. Im Stephanie Ramirez wusa9. Thanks, stephanie. Tonight they are calling her death suspicious. That a rel
Covered by more than two and a half feet this practice facility for the Washington Redskins Football Team no match for the blizzard the dome crushed by the weight of all that snow. A similar story outside philadelphia this church roof buckling and crashing into the chapel below. Sot lee wiggins Calvary Fellowship Church opened the door to the auditorium, looked up and just a gaping hole in the roof. And in new jersey coastal communities dealing with a onetwo punch of snow and icy floodwaters. Sot this usually happens in the summer. Never seen it happen like this in the winter. But so far no major damage. Sot gov. Chris christie new jersey please be careful. But youre free to go out and do what you want to do. Ray raimundi oncam close here in new york the streets and subways are back open but airports across the region dont expect to be fully operational until tomorrow at the earliest. In new york, ray raimundi, abc news. After a couple of weather related delays. Sky tavern ski and Snow
Converge on iowa with just eight days left before voters make the first choice of who should be the occupant of the white house. Nationwide fight over Voting Rights. In tonights the week ahead, we look aa court case over highly divisive voter identification laws. We begin tonight with the war in syria. Secretary of state john kerry spent the weekend trying to shore up the peace talks. Meetings were scheduled to begin tomorrow in geneva but a diplomat close to the negotiations now says it is unlikely they will get underway before wednesday. Delegates say kerry is pressuring them, so they can negotiate a halt to the air strikes, a precondition to their meeting. Russian air strikes have killed 1500 people in syria since those air strikes began in september. During a meeting with gulf leaders secretary kerry tried to give assurances for meeting a political solution. We are confident that with Good Initiative in the next day or so, those talks can get going. And that the u. N. Representativ
In this episode of "Island Interviews," Stephen Holtkamp, a data analyst with the Alaska Earthquake Center, explains the earthquake swarm and how similar events have occurred in the past.