Rdc, virginia, and Maryland Bureau chief are with us tonight. Lets start with the maryland governors race. We are at the university of maryland, where Anthony Browns staff is setting up a they hope will be a Victory Party. It once seemed a sure thing, but democrats outnumber republicans two to one. Campaignen a spirit of. The race is now in the tossup category. It seems the victor will be determined by turnout. Usually boasts the highest turnout in the state and today it seems no different. It is an important thing to do. The democratic candidate, anthony brown, chose Leisure World for one of his many last pitch stops. Flex every day we will be fighting for workingclass families. He waved to potential voters at a busy intersection and moved on to vote near his edgewater home. We are feeling great about the back that so Many Democrats and republicans are looking to vote for change in direction for the state. Which candidate can motivate his supporters to get to the polls today . Early n
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
Started at 7 00 a. M. In virginia youll be voting for one senate seat and all the house seats. Were going to start with the senate where incumbent mark warner is facing off against gillespie. He held a rally with tim kaine in alexandria. Gillespie spend the night campaigning. Well be watching the tenth district where they are running against Democrat John fous. The frank wolf held the seat since 1981. Foust was in one of the most negative races this year. Right now hes behind in the polls. And from a new mayor to marijuana, youll be voting, and your votes will make a big impact today. In the district, you will not only decide the next mayor, youll decide whether to legalize marijuana. Youll have a choice to vote yes or no to Ballot Initiative 81, which legalizes the possession of limited amounts of marijuana. Supporters will hold an Election Night party, as well as a fundraiser for d. C. Central kitchen. While this initiative legalizes the possession of pot, it does not legalize the sa
Theres debris here in the roadway. Police cars are on randolph road. New hampshire avenue at randolph road. Theres a shot from one of the traffic cameras. New hampshire is closed near midland and wolf. Eastbound randolph is closed at vital way. Alternates are layhill road or columbia pike to get around that. Otherwise no major problems right now headed in or out of town. We have a little bit of a slowdown on d. C. 295. 65 in virginia, no problems there. Heading to Prince Georges county, looking good this morning. We do have a problem with a house fire on 11th street near south edison and South Emerson shut down in arlington. Tom, how is it looking outside . A live view of the storm team 4 city camera overlooking capitol hill th morning. Theres the capitol and the first prixdawn glow showing up. Your weather headlines this election day, a chilly morning followed by a mild afternoon with the warm pattern continuing into tomorrow. Right now storm team 4 radar is scanning the skies. We don
Fredericksburg. I think most of you will need a jacket this morning. But this afternoon, looks fantastic. Little bit cooler on the bay annapolis at 65 but winchester and manassas 72. The culpeper the warm spot at 74. We begin with breaking news out of arlington, virginia. Fire crews on the scene of a double fatal house fire in the 1100 block of South Emerson street. Thats not far from Four Mile Run in bar croft park. Started this morning and Delia Goncalves is live on the scene with what we know so far. Delia . Reporter pretty tragic situation. Police and fire now confirming that two people did lose their lives here in this fire on the 1100 block of South Emerson street. We are about two blocks away if youre familiar with this area, as andrea said, near the the trail. It is a very congested area. Very tight. And lots of wires so we are some distance away but you can see even the response has come out this far. There is a heavy response and i did snap a couple of pictures if we can take