imagine how much that's worth. he's hanging onto it. >> wow. coming up, a maryland teenager and another person left paralyzed at a shooting at a halloween house party. this morning we're learning more details on the search for suspects and why police are all too familiar with this house where the victims were gunned down. and also ahead, the white house claims that the stimulus bill has helped hundreds of thousands of jobs and more are on the way but is this a sign the economy is bouncing back? we'll break down the numbers with help from the wall street journal. plus the last full day of campaigning are here and we're counting down the hours until election day. latest numbers on the virginia governor's race that has national implications. fox 5 morning news starts right now. glad you're with us. it is november 2nd on this monday morning. glad you're along for the ride today. we have three more hours to go. it is 51 degrees and good morning, i'm steve chenevey. >> and i'm allison seymour. we'll have more on th weather coming up in just a moment. but looking ahead this morning, much more on the election tomorrow in virginia. ahead at 7:00 we talk with harry sev ugan. and commercials for for your gold but is it a safe way to cash in? we'll get filled in on whether that's a good investment for you. and now to the all- important workweek weather with tony perkins. >> good morning. we have cool conditions around the area this morning. but i'm going to call ld condit we do have temperatures in the 40s, but in town we're in the 50s. we'll start with our hd radar. we have been monitoring shower this is morning and we continue to watch them across the chesapeake bay. there has not been much movement in the morning. to the north of washington what you're seeing there is moisture in the atmosphere, some mist, and maybe even fog here or there, but for the most part a few light rain showers south and east of the district and in eastern maryland as well. right now reagan national reporting a temperature of 51 degrees as we go to the graphics. you can see those temperatures are in the 50s. 51 degrees. relative humidity 61%, winds out of the north at 9 miles per hour. here is your day planner for today, mostly cloudy skies with the possibility of the sun peeking through here and there. the best chance of that is to the west. high today only 58 degrees. we'll have more details on the forecast in just a bit. right now let's turn our attention to traffic. julie. we do have our hands full south on 270 from hyattstown toward the truck scales and from germantown to rockville. american legion bridge so far so good. good shot on the inner loop and outer loop. from the right to the left, that's the outer loop into montgomery county. inner loop around the curve north of the potomac toward 270. again lanes are open and you're flowing freely doing the double nickel in each direction. 95 jammed up toward 650 new hampshire avenue. it's still slow from stewart lane toward white oak. more slow traffic approaching university boulevard toward the beltway. meanwhile 395 north of duke street, heavy, slow and steady, delays beginning at the beltway and slowing again at the 14th street bridge. an accident northbound 110 at the pentagon, stay to the left to get by. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. the race for governor in virginia coming to a head. the polls open at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow and that's less than 24 hours from now. >> and the candidates will make a last-minute push for residents to get out and push. one of the candidates will campaign in an hour. >> bob mcdonnell is set to attend a rally this morning at 7:45. creigh deeds is expected to make a stop later on this evening here in alexandria as well. both of them are really on a whirlwind tour at this point, making a last-minute push to get out the vote. in the meantime, though, some latest poll numbers are giving us more insight into the race showing bob mcdonnell pulling out with a 12 point lead over creigh deeds. now both of them are in a last- minute push. mcdonnell will be in prince william county and make a stop at the end of the day in virginia beach. deeds is going to be campaigning with governor tim kaine, the current governor, around virginia today, making stops in roanoke, charlotte and richmond. but both candidate have been watching these polls but they feel the poll numbers don't matter. >> they really don't. it's made us feel encouraged that we've been up, but that's only giving us the feeling we're on the right track. >> it's overrated. we don't have that much time left and i'm confident if we get the vote out we'll win. >> reporter: now the entire country is watching this race and the governor's race in new jersey, many feeling that this could be a litmus test for people to determine whether or not the president has been doing a good job as well as the congress. sarah simmons, fox 5 news. back to you. >> now virginia is not the only state with key elections. also a tight governor's race in new jersey where john corzine is facing off against republican and independent candidates there. and there is drama in upstate new york where the republican candidate dropped out of the race and endorsed her opponent. keep it here for complete coverage tomorrow along with the virginia's governor race. we'll follow results in the commonwealth for attorney general and the house of delegates and several other local races in virginia and maryland. polls up at 6:00 a.m. in virginia and at seven a.m. in maryland. new this morning, karzai will remain president of afghanistan. one day after his opponent abdullah dropped out of the race. fraud marred the first election. the united states promises to work with karzai and the president of the united nations made a visit to talk with both men. and a bombing has killed 30 people, a few miles from islamabad as many people waiting outside of the national bank on pay day to collect their salaries. in the meantime as violence escalates the united nations is stopping long-term development work near the afghan border citing security concerns. and uncertainty for businesses across the country including thretail industry ahead of the holiday shopping season because cit group filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday. this company provides credit to thousands of small and mid size businesses. analysts warn the case would add to the instability of the retail sector. cit says they will continue to provide funds through the transition. we ae learning more detates about a -- details about a halloween party where one victim was shot and killed and another who might never walk again. >> the shooting happened at a home in clerksville that police say is no stranger to trouble. trisha thompson with the story. >> reporter: howard county police say there were well over 100 people inside this $1.5 million clarksville home when someone opened fire. >> he was the life of the party. he didn't have a bad bone in his body at all. >> reporter: tony brice says his son was excited to go to a halloween party in howard county. >> he was working hard at giant food store as a cashier preparing himself to go to college in january, going into criminal justice. >> reporter: howard county police say brice was found shot to death in the driveway. >> what we believe right now is that some sort of an argument or altercation broke out inside of the residence. as a result of that altercation, two people were shot. >> reporter: police found nathaniel quick of columbia shot in the basement. >> he's paralyzed. >> reporter: quick's grandparents spoke with investigators saying they've been told their grandson will never walk again. >> he was shot in the back. >> reporter: wristbands litter the yard and police are trying to determine if people paid to party in a residence that has had trouble before. >> it is our understanding that the homeowner rented out the house for the purpose of having this party and we believe this is not the first time that occurred we were called to the same location in june for a similar type of incident. >> report: a neighbor heard the gunfire fr across the street. >> i think i heard the -- thug thug thug. >> reporter: they say the party was made of most college age students. >> i ran out the back. >> reporter: police say though it was a halloween party, most people did not wear costumes. but with so many in atent -- in attendance, they could interview more than 100 people. fox 5 news. >> police are trying to speak with everyone who attended that party knowing that the smallest detail helps. a $5,000 reward is being offered in the case. and ford is reporting a $1 billion in the third quarter saying it will be solidly profitable in 2011. this comes after the cash for clunkers program. they cite cost cutting meures d market share gains for the impressive improvements. it's the small town that inspired mayberry. but investigates get a big break in a murder this 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adoption by all americans, over the next five years. the future is our business. at&t. your world delivered. welcome back. you're taking a look at the new uss new york sailing up the hudson river in new york city. and this of course is the u.s. ship that was forthed in part by steel that was taken from the world trade center. it's been -- it's about a four- day voyage to get to new york city. and as you can see there, going under the bridge and in thenew york area this morning. >> wow. that's powerful to see. i get chills when i see those big war ships. >> i wish we could get a closeup. they put the steel in the bow and they have writings to pay tribute to those who lost their lives on 9/11. so it's sailing up from virginia. >> we followed it when it was docked down in the norfolk area. so you saw the rain drops there. and i said if you had rain on halloween you would have a mini revolt. you have the whole outfit on. >> well as expected it would stop for a while, but we were fine. >> i suspect a lot of little alice coopers with that makeup running. >> you open up the door, hey, alice cooper? no. let's look at weather around the region and the country. right now in d.c., 51 degrees. look how cold it is up to the north and west. rochester 30 degrees, detroit, 36 and in cincinnati it's 36 degrees. milder air down to the south. and out to the west you'll find a mixed bag. it's cool in many parts of the country. now i said milder air down to the south, but temperatures are similar there. 45-degrees in atlanta. new orleans is 56. and out to the west where they've been cold, 38 in denver. that's actually a nice warmup from where they were friday morning at this time. here is a look at national satellite radar. now a couple of things. first of all, not a whole lot in the way of cloud cover. most of the cloud cover is either along the eastern seaboard, including here in d.c. or from the great lakes become into the northern plains. we are seeing some rainfall now across portions of the plains, including nebraska and into the chicagoland area. for us, we have a couple sprinkles here and there off to the south and east primarily centered around the chesapeake day. lot of clouds today. 58 degrees for the high. tomorrow 62 degrees. becoming breezy. a slight chance for a shower or two as a cold front comes through. that front will eventually drop our temperatures down. we'll see a lot of 30s around here tuesday night and into wednesday and then wednesday night into thursday. cool temperatures wednesday, thursday and friday. that's a look at the weather. we'll have more coming up in just a little bit. let's check in with julie wright with traffic. >> the pace is still slow as you travel southbound along 29 leaving stewart lane toward 650 new hampshire avenue. now top side of the beltway, outer loop, past university boulevard and toward 29. as you make your way around the curve, we do have reports of a stalled car tieing up the second lane to the left. the pace improves toward 270. if you're traveling in the district, inbound new york avenue past florida avenue and toward the third street tunnel no. problem leaving northeast to northwest. the pace is good here. you will find traffic slowing on 295 inbound across the 11th street bridge. south capital street slows on the ramp to the freeway. out of newington, all lanes are open but hitting the breaks at king street. northbound 395, incident ther with a car and a horse trailer. the two have become unhitched but the activity is to the shoulder which is causing brief rubbernecking delays. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. white house insiders say the country is on track for millions of new jobs by the end of the year. that confidence spurred by a report saying 650,000 jobs have already been retained or created due to the administration's economic stimulus plan. the question becomes is that optimism justified and is that showing we are back on firm ground. joining us now sarah murray with more on this. thanks for joining us. >> hanks for having me. >> so is this a true number, the 650,000? >> well it's talking about jobs created so that's a better indication than talking about jobs saved. it is not saying this is how many jobs we created by this construction plan and it's harder to say this is how many people who were laid off. >> that's tricky because that's the reasoning a lot of people say, well if we didn't do this it would have been worse and we could have lost more jobs. how hard is it to try to understand all of that in a legitimate way. >> it's very difficult and that's part of the reason we're seeing the conflicting reports coming out about whether the numbers are true and people saying they created twice as many jobs as they have. so i think the administration's is how do you actually measure the number in an affective and fairway. >> another question is that how much of this is actually paying off financially, will the stimulus pkage pay for itself? >> i don't think anyone has the answer to that. i know if you ask the obama administration they would say yes because the economy 3.5% in the third quarter so it's sort of starting to look like we're pulling out the woods but the unemployment rate is at 9% and we're expecting had to hit 9.8% when the report comes out on friday. so people are still feeling the pain. >> and not to mention the pain with the market activity not showing it's ready to push through. we hit 10,000 on the dow and things were sarting to look good but then friday everything fell apart. >> exactly. and the thing is that businesses are still really cautious right now. we had a story in the wall street journal about how their sitting on this mountain of cash and so it's not like they don't have the money to spend but they're not convinced we're in a sustainable recovery and you need to have that sort of confidence and optimism if you're going to start hiring people again. >> what do you think will be the catalyst to push us into the right discretion? >> it's really difficult to say. i think you'll have to still see improvements in a lot of the other indicator measures that we're looking at. manufacturing reports and home sales are coming out today so they'll have to see that people are continuing to purchase goods without the stimulus package, without things like cash for clunkers and see people are still buying homes, even when the $8,000 tax credit expires and if people see underlying demand outside of the stimulus packages they'll get more confident. >> let's talk about the job outlook because we mentioned despite the news that is coming out, we're still losing thousands of jobs. s is seasonal -- it's seasonal time, will we see some jobs. >> there are still some signs of people adding temporary workers. ups is planning on highing 50,000 temporary workers. that's a smaller number than in 2007 so i think that might be the kind of thing you'll see. people are still adding temporary workers for the holidays but fewer because they don't know if people will shop the way they used to. >> we seem to have so much discussion about whether these are true numbers out there or not. is there any real way to measure what is going on out there? >> there are a lot of different ways to measure, which i think you're getting at. we have reports coming out every day telling what is going on. but those reports aren't always indicative of what main street is feeling. at the end of the day, the thing that matters is the unemployment rept. if you lose your job, you're not spending money and if you think you're going to lose your job, you won't spend money. >> and the expectation. >> we're expected to lose another 150,000 jobs. >> thank you for joining us. allison, back to you. the push for same-sex marriage in the district gets a lot of attention today. and the phillies and yankees clash for the title, we are checking out the baltimore roots of one of the greatest ball players of all 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