Among likely voters. 4747. Before the debate season began in early september, the president held a five point lead. Among women voters the president s lead shrinking down to eight points. The smallest lead hes had with women all year in this nbc poll. Among men, mitt romney holds a ten point advantage. When asked which candidate is better prepared to create jobs and improve the economy, the mitt romney has an edge. When asked what the nations economy will look like over the next 12 months, only 9 believe it will get worse. Thats the lowest number thats been reported in decades. When it comes to the direction of the country, 41 percent perfection say were on the right track. Thats the highest number the poll has recorded in three years. Tonights debate is moderated by bob schieffer. They see this as the last chance to move the needle in any significant way in the swing states. There is genuine concern within the campaign that swing voters with whom romney needs to connect have little in
Of the week. That little h you see in west virginia, area of High Pressure that keep us nice and dry over the next several days. Still some thunderstorm activity well out to the west, out to the north and east of kansas city, some good thunderstorm activity and a cold front. This area will dominate the weather across the eastern half of the country for the next couple of days. We are falling back into the 40s. We are just 51 right now in washington. Later this afternoon, our temperatures will top out in the low 70s schs even a few degrees warmer than yesterday. Which is even a few degrees warmer than yesterday. Back to you. Thank you. Our top stories now, a deadly shooting at a wisconsin spa leaves three people dead and four others injured. The gunman is among the dead. Police say the man opened fire inside the spa late yesterday morning and Police Believe the motive had to do with a domestic dispute between the shooter and his estranged wife would worked there. Two weeks before electi
It is cool out there. Temperatures overnight have fallen back into the 30s for much of the area. We are at 50 here in town. So definitely jackets for the kids are heading to the bus stop. Very quiet weather pattern. Showing you the radar and the closest rain and actually thunderstorms there in portions of missouri and iowa. But that is well to our west and the little tiny h you see in West Virginia is actually a great big h. That is an area of High Pressure which will keep us nice and sunny the next couple of days. Temperature, it is cool, 50 at reagan national. 37 at dulles and much of the area just to the north and west of the city has fallen back into the 30s. Its cool start. 46 at b wait a minute marshall. Here your forecast for today. High temperatures a little warmer than yesterday. Well go 72 here in town. 70 in fredericksburg. A little cooler off to the north and west. 66 the forecast high in frederick. So sort of like the carbon copy of yesterday. We got in the mid60s yesterda
Sunshine, in fact lots of sunshine for the next several days. Quiet weather pattern for the week. Satellite radar, nice and quiet, not much to show you, no rain or cloud cover. High pressure well keep things nice and still around here for the foreseeable future. We should see a warmup. Today, High Temperature about 70 degrees at 5 00 p. M. With very pleasant conditions, cool again tonight and good temperature wise, high near 80 by the middle of the week. All right lets get traffic and the late west julie and find out whats going on. Happy monday. Very busy monday here on the roads. Sky fox schooling in, right now the pace not so bad, all of the lanes are open. Thats the left side of your screen. Headlights from 210 headed across the bridge leaving 295 back towards route one. This is where we have tieups to report. The crush involving the overturned vehicle before you commit to richie road, again youll want to move to the left in order to squeeze by. Lanes are building south. Traveling
Get ready to enjoy a beautiful afternoon and waking up with the dry conditions, rain showers to the north and we mentioned if youre watching north, well, well north and west to hagerstown and into southern pennsylvania, you will encounter a few showers that can you see tracking west to east. For the rest of us, well be dry and well have more cloud cover than yesterday as the cloud continues to spill into the region here with this frontal system pushing through. 52 at reagan national; dulles, 48 degrees and bwi marshal, 50. The forecast today, partly sunny conditions and warm. The high temperatures, upper 70s to aboutitiy this afternoon. And get out and to about 80 this afternoon. Get out and enjoy the late summertime. Lets see traffic and get the latest from julie wright. Good morning, julie. All right, tucker. The trip on to 270. The accident activity a few moments ago. They were 124 onmont groomer village avenue. The current sky fox joining us again and big delays, though, southbound