Stops in virginia yesterday and an event scheduled in New Hampshire for tomorrow. Hurricane sandy is also causing some trouble with early voting. The lines stretched around some polling places ahead of the storm on saturday. Look at the line there. Fox 5s maureen umeh sat down with mark plotkin to talk about more on this. Reporter fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin joins us now to talk more about the impact of sandy on voting. I didnt know i was going to be the weather man. Early voting being compromised because of this. How will this affect the race . You know that governor romney canceled a trip to virginia beach. That is a very pivotal area that republicans thought they would immediate to do well in and any visit there delayed or postponed obviously hurts a candidate. He is going to ohio. So is president obama. In terms of the eastern coast, North Carolina really is going to go romney. I dont think it will be affected but the only real state is virginia. That one will be affected
Hurricaneforced wind gusts across the Northern Tier of our viewing area as we get into the overnight hours tonight. Thats when the worst will appear later this afternoon and particularly during the nighttime hours tonight. 26 your most recent wind gusts here in washington, 18 in leonard county. Winds will be picking up, and itll be worse later this evening. Forecast, 54 today, chilly throughout, winds gusting to 70 Miles Per Hour, yes, 70 Miles Per Hour later this evening. As the storm makes land fall. Rain heavy at times and becoming very windy. We have a high wind warning in effect until 8 00 tomorrow night. I want to mention, its going to be very cool, in fact cold later tonight. Make sure you have plenty of blankets. If you lose electricity, not top of warm you. Thats a look at weather,ville more in a minute. Thanks. We have Live Team Coverage of the storm this morning, Lauren Demarco is live in ocean city. Holly morris is live in annapolis, and melanie is monitoring the situation
Hurricaneforced wind gusts across the Northern Tier of our viewing area as we get into the overnight hours tonight. Thats when the worst will appear later this afternoon and particularly during the nighttime hours tonight. 26 your most recent wind gusts here in washington, 18 in leonard county. Winds will be picking up, and itll be worse later this evening. Forecast, 54 today, chilly throughout, winds gusting to 70 Miles Per Hour, yes, 70 Miles Per Hour later this evening. As the storm makes land fall. Rain heavy at times and becoming very windy. We have a high wind warning in effect until 8 00 tomorrow night. I want to mention, its going to be very cool, in fact cold later tonight. Make sure you have plenty of blankets. If you lose electricity, not top of warm you. Thats a look at weather,ville more in a minute. Thanks. We have Live Team Coverage of the storm this morning, Lauren Demarco is live in ocean city. Holly morris is live in annapolis, and melanie is monitoring the situation
Screen. Sandy should make landfall in southern new jersey; but the impact will be felt for miles and the worst is yet to come. At last check, the storm center was within 50 miles of the city. City. It is forming a powerful super storm like weve never seen before. For the latest lets turn to sue in the weather center. Sue, i understand this storm about to make landfall near atlanta city. Yeah. Going to be real close. We just got the update from the National Hurricane center. Its 0 miles to the south of atlanta city, 30 miles from cape may. So you can do the math. Still moving to the north, northwest at 20 Miles Per Hour. It will be ashore probably between 6 and 6 30 somewhere in south jersey. Maybe the delaware bay gets clipped. An amazing forecast. The big change is that it sped up a little bit more than we thought. Right. Its probably making landfall three hours faster faster. We were thinking right there at it will wear bay. And its still got that incredible recordsetting low pressur
The weekend. Still breezy but not as windy tomorrow, and the wind cuts down on sunday. At the chilly air will remain for a couple of days. Also, a strong northwesterly wind. So the numbers now 36 in gaithersburg, 37 in ashburn. 38 out of dale city, 39 in washington. When you factor in the wind, that drives the temperature down. When gust in the past hour have been to 25 Miles Per Hour. It 24 Miles Per Hour gust in leesburg. If you like 23 in hagerstown, 31 in washington, 25 at andrews. The weekend will be called. Coming up in about 15 minutes, i will tell you about even colder air mass that will come in through the wednesday and thursday. Minutes. The muchhyped opening of the new mgm casino at National Harbor lived up to the hype. So many people try to come out, the casino hit capacity in less than an hour. That had traffic backing up all the way to the beltway and beyond. John gonzalez has been at the casino since before dawn and joins us live. We are about 13 hours going in. How is i