there was. the committee made it very clear they want to afford parents the choice to get their kids vaccinated, but several members expressed misgivings about what happens next they said they do not want to see a vaccine mandate just for young kids to go to school lester all right sam brock tonight, thank you. that powerful nor easter is pushing through new england this evening after bringing heavy rain and high winds to much of the northeast along with anxious moments for parts of a region still recovering from hurricane ida. stephanie gosk now with the latest. reporter: the fury of the season s first nor easter beginning overnight with torrential rain. in some places, a month s worth in less than a day in cape cod, massachusetts, the surging water trapped a woman in her car, stuck in the unrelenting deluge a flash flood watch was put in place in new york the city still recovering from the deadly effects of hurricane ida in september, which claimed 11 lives and shut down the su
winds as an unpredictable, powerful storm refuses to let go. stephanie joining us now how intense could those winds get this evening? reporter: well, they could get strong, lester, as high as 60 miles an hour out on long island and up into new england we are also learning that this storm has claimed at least one life a kayaker was killed monday night as the storm rolled in. lester. stephanie gosk, thank you. with democrats still divided over his spending plans, president biden is campaigning in virginia tonight for the democratic candidate for governor that dead-heat race is being viewed as a referendum on the president as well. kristen welker went to virginia for us. reporter: tonight, a critical test for president biden campaigning next door in virginia. but with mr. biden s poll numbers dropping, can he boost support for democrat terry mcauliffe, a former governor this election is about the next chapter of virginia. reporter: the president is the latest top democrat to
i m going to vote for youngkin i think, like, you know, with these school board meetings and everything like that, i just like everything s in chaos. reporter: and tonight there are still voters who are undecided, including democrat christina davis. do you know who you re going to vote for for virginia governor? i have no idea. i m still up and down and seeing what people are really going to do and if they re true to their word. kristen, there s late word tonight on that deal democrats have been trying to work out on the president s spending plans. what do we know? reporter: that s right, lester. after some democrats signaled an agreement could be imminent, the white house is lowering expectations tonight, saying there are still several issues to work through between moderates and progressives, including health care, taxes, and paid leave. lester. all right kristen welker, thank you. we re learning of new concerns on that movie set in new mexico before alec baldwin fire
not. reporter: just totally confusing, the whole thing? yeah, exactly, yeah never been in anything like this before. reporter: the 17-year-old male suspect now at the hospital in stable condition. the police chief says the officer, an 11-year veteran, acted within protocol, and there were no other injuries well, when something like this happens, it hits home, and you re-evaluate everything and the love for somebody, it really shines. reporter: so many parents feeling that kind of relief tonight, knowing today could have ended very differently. and all the kids i spoke with here told me that the lockdown drills they ve been through really helped. and todaythat training kicked in tomorrow they ll be back in school lester all right, molly hunter, thank you. back inside now. and at this hour in new orleans, an intense manhunt is under way for the gunman who shot and wounded ten people near the famed french y released surveillance video shows the moment of the shootings and a
5,300 delays, 775 flight cancellations and aside from the west coast and san francisco, most of that is centered between philadelphia up to boston delays in some cases, lester, up to three hours tonight. back to you. all right, tom costello at reagan airport tonight. meteorologist dylan dreyer is tracking it all. dylan, we re in the middle of it here now. what are we in for tonight and tomorrow reporter: well, lester, through the night we are still going to continue to see heavy bands of snow spin in off the ocean. 42 million people are under winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings now, the storm will still produce snow through the mid-atlantic tonight, tomorrow morning across southern new england we ll see bands of heavier snow, then it moves up across maine as o into tuesday evening we are looking for an additional widespread 1 to 2 inches of snowfall with as much as 8 inches through down east maine, especially through the day tomorrow now, even though the snow winds