midterm election. working hard to fire up key democratic constituencies, his latest appeal to young viewers came but a poll shows among likely voters republicans hold a 6% edge in the house vote. among independent voters, the republican advantage is even more significant and anti-incumbent sentiment rungs high, only 8% think most members of congress deserve re-election. preeti a a la is in washington with more on this. good morning. good morning, betty. the president doesn t have much time to sway voters so went on a show popular with young viewers hoping to get his message out. let me say this about members of congress. are you going to curse? no, i m not reporter: the president reached out to a late night crowd to defend his party days before the midterm election. there are a bunch of folks who during the course of this year took really tough votes they knew about really bad politics because they thought they were the right thing to do. reporter: he said he
mechanicsville, you don t have that much time to take your precautions. and again, these are radar indicated. whether they are radar indicated or spot indicated, take them seriously. get indoors and in a basement and away from the windows. this storm moved across 95. the warning has expired. it was issued earlier. so this is a heavier thunderstorm and we ll watch it in case it moves into unstable air across the river. these storms have a way of pounding southern maryland, especially charles and st. mary s county so we are not out of the woods by any means. the watch continues until 8:00 and we are already seeing seeing severe weather. pardon me? i ll keep going. i ll keep going, believe me. we re looking at a tremendous amount of lightning with this storm and possibly hail with that storm as well. that s one kind of indication that it is a severe thunderstorm. let s zoom in, if you would, devon, and let s see we have going around 17. this is going to cross over the river an