To request the recount. Meanwhile, the president elects cabinet is coming together with a wrestling mogul, a state attorney general, and a retired general, the the latest to come on board. Donald trump plans to nominate Linda Mcmahon to run the Small Business administration. She cofounded the World Wrestling entertainment, the wwe. The president elect also chose retired general john kelly for Homeland Security secretary. To our weather now. If it feels cold out there, well, it is. Its already below freezing outside for some of us tonight. Doug, you are saying in a couple of days this is going to feel good . Yeah, we are going to be hoping for the freezing mark. If it feels like 32 on friday or saturday, it may not be all that bad because i think we are going to feel like the 20s on two areas. In the city still hitting at 41 degrees. You see 27 back twoorlds elkins west virginia. Many areas in the suburbs below that freezing mark. It was cool today buy still quite nice. The cold air bac
And breaking much closer to home, a stabbing and policeinvolved shooting at Union Station caused major transportation problems tonight. One suspect is now in custody. Well get to the paris attacks in just a moment, but first a flood of Police Activity at Union Station on a saturday night. We sent you an alert about this earlier this evening and now were learning the shooting was on a metro escalator. News4s Darcy Spencer is live with the chaos. Reporter erika, im live. You can see theionion station and metro station right there. Thats where most of the Police Activity is taking place right now just inside that entrance. Police want to make it very clear. Given what happened yesterday in paris, this was not associated with trifrm in any way. It all happened right around 8 30 tonight. What we understand an offduty Baltimore Police officer shot and wounded a stabbing suspect. That suspect had apparently stabbed a woman here, a woman he knows. Hes related to that woman. The offduty officer
new polls tonight show the president with a slight edge on mitt romney but experts say it is still anybody s race to win. the president hunkered down in virginia tonight preparing for tuesday. but mitt romney spent the day out on the campaign trail. darcy spencer is following both campaigns tonight. today mitt romney still basking in the glow of his post-debate bump. and the president is reminding voters of the bailout of the auto industry, and it paid off. it s a weekend of debate preparation for president barack obama. he boarded air force one heading to williamsburg where he ll get ready for the town hall-style debate taking place tuesday. before leaving washington he reminded voters of his administration s rescue of the auto industry. but we refused to throw in the towel and do nothing. we refused to let detroit go bankrupt. i bet on american workers and american injean newty and three years later that bet is paying off in a big way. reporter: republican contender m
upper northwest, making driving around the region dangerous. this is video from 38th and appleton streets in northwest dc where a huge tree came crashing down on a parked car. luckily, no one was inside at the time. we ve been hearing and seeing scenes like this across the region. northern virginia, trees and power lines down. thousands of customers still without power. and we ll go now to gwen to give us an update on how things are looking this morning. good morning, melanie. very much a lot calmer today. last night was an extremely busy time in the weather center and most of the afternoon as well. we had tornado warning after tornado warning, under a severe thunderstorm watch for most of the day as well. lot of activity and you saw the damage there. let s go to the weather maps and show you what s been happening and where we stand right now. we begin with accuweather satellite radar composite. this storm hit our area, but right off the midatlantic. you can see the moist
in toward this area. again georgia avenue right here north of damascus road. 270 you see the yellow. that s all the slow traffic you re dealing with trying to leave urbana heading southbound but the lanes are open. we ll take you to a live picture outside. that s shady grove road where no problems down to the point where the lanes divide. just that normal typical slow spots that you deal with on the southbound side of 270. back over to the map. this time to the west side of town of the we re looking great across the american legion bridge. no problems on the dulles toll road. i m show you what it looks like live on the beltway north side of town at georgia avenue. outer loop still moving well from 95 to this point. more on what s going on east of damascus in my next report at 6:12. some teachers in prince william county are not happy. when it comes to a plan to freeze their pay for the next few years. they are working to the rule which means they are not putting in one ex