Decision was a clear one. I dont know much about gillespie, but i know much about warner. Reporter does that mean youve been happy with mark warner as senator . Yes, i do. Reporter but Republican Voters are hoping their party seizes control of the senate, and this gop voter says she wants anyone but an incumbent. To be honest, id love to see everybody gone and everybody new. And we start from scratch. So just to kind of clean the slate and start over and fresh and hope we do better next time around. Reporter these Loudoun County voters are also in the tenth congressional district, where for the first time in more than 30 years, the name of longtime republican congressman frank wolf is not on the ballot. The race to succeed him between Democrat John foust and republican Barbara Comstock is expected to be the closest in the commonwealth. Thats one reason turnout was steady at many Northern Virginia pre sinks. Virginia voters also faced a first today, a requirement to present an approved
Be reviewed. 24yearold matthew just finished asking the electoral board to accept his vote. He had to cast a provional b ballot because his name was missing. As a young citizen, its important. Reporter his vote would add one more vote to mark warners votes. Its how theyre shifting. The painstaking process of canvassing the results is under way. The intensity ramps up when a race is close. Already, errors have been discovered. Based on the numbers ive seen weve not seen anything that would make a dramatic change. There was one precincts that looked like a 900 vote shift and one precinct a 300 vote shift the other way, nothing in the thousands of vote totals that looks like it would have an impact on senator warners current lead. Reporter this long term official agreed that the current lead is too big for gillespie overcome. We wont see a flip of a race that has a 15,000 vote margin. Theres too many votes there. Reporter while warner declared victory last night, gillespie never conceded
A steady push of rain ahead of a cold front. Locally just some patches of light rain south and west of the city. Temperatures will drop into the mid50s later this evening. Darkness and the rain will reduce visibility through the entire overnight. Rain can the heavy tonight through the overnight as well. Tomorrow plan on a chilly, cloudy, breezy morning with rain. Give yourself a little extra time. Another developing story we are following for you tonight, this one from laurel, where a middle School Principal has been arrested. The princes prince georges thety dates Attorney Says principal Dwight Jefferson punched a student at least three times. Jay korff with what parents are saying tonight. According to authorities, the incident happened on the 23rd of september, earlier in this cool year, right behind me here at Dwight D Eisenhower middle school. Jailcting principal is in at that time, a man named Dwight Jefferson. According to authorities he stopped a 14yearold boy in the hallway fo
Teacher here at the School Teaching today. She had no idea about the allegations. Still, she said, its unacceptabl unacceptable. He knows that thats not right. He knows there are people in the school there for reasons like that to help out as far as mediators, maybe resource teachers. You have had mandatorytors, sometimes you may even have police in the building. I feel like theres an alternative way to handle that than to turn it into a physical altercation. Reporter we did receive a statement from prince georges Public Schools says the type of behavior that led to the allegations are not accepted or tolerated in our school district. Coming up at news4 at 6 00, we will hear from those parents and many had no idea this principal has now been indicted. Darcy spencer, news4. Breaking news out of Prince Georges County where a newborn girl was found abandoned outside a home in beltsville. We have a photo. She was just found today. A neighbor heard the infant crying and found her outside an
Know how to pay it back. And the American People arent satisfied. I want to do everything i can to deliver for them. Reporter how about democrats, the fact theyve kept you out of the battleground states . Listen, as some of you saw when i was on the campaign trail, i love campaigning. I love talking to ordinary people. I love listening to their stories. I love shaking hands and getting h hugs. Just seeing the process of democracy and citizenship manifest itself during an election. Im also a practical guy and, ult ultimately, every candidate had to make their own decisions about what they thought would be most helpful for them. I wanted to make sure that im respectful of their particular region, their particular state or congressional district, and if it was more helpful for them for me to be behind the scenes, im happy to do it. I dont have ill let other people analyze it. What i will emphasize is that one of the nice things about being in the sixth year of your presidency is youve see