watching local polling places for potential problems. >> we're working for you this afternoon. chopper 4 live over eleanor roosevelt high school. that's one of the many places in our area where voters ra few hours left to make their voices heard. >> from races to problems at the polls, it's been the day we have all been waiting for. aim pat lawson muse. >> and i'm wendy rieger. >> it's only a matter of close in our area u. the first things to know at 4:00, like millions of americans, the candidates have cast their votes early this morning. hillary clinton and former president bill clinton voting at their polling station in new york. swarmed by onlookers. >> there were hundreds of onlookers when donald trump and his wife ask.

trump will hold his election night event in new york as well. we have seen high voter turnout throughout this day. if you need to vote in maryland, you have until 8:00 tonight to get in line. polling locations in the district also close at 8:00. in virginia you have until 7:00. polls in west virginia close a at 7:30. >> we are also following some breaking news. a nevada judge denied a trump

handlesman. >> hillary clinton voted for herself and called it humbling. >> so many people are counting on the outcome of this election. what it means for our country and i'll do the best i can if i'm fortunate enough to win today. >> donald trump cast his ballot. a tough cam pawn. >> i can't stop cry canning. >> there's strong turn youd reported in the battlegrounds in north carolina, ohio, nevada, florida and pennsylvania. don't stay home urged president obama. . >> go vote. >> trump running mate looked ahead.

>> tim kaine talked bipartisanship. in a reminder that hillary clinton winning would make history, people flocked to the grave of susan b. anthony in rochester, new york. here's a big question. if the election is called for clinton, will trump concede or will e he fight u. he's already laying problems with voting machines. from new york city, steve handlesman, news 4. back to you. >> thank you, steve. our team coverage continues now first at 4:00 with chris lawrence in new york covering the trump campaign.

in doing so. by contrast, there's an incredible excitement and buzz in this city right now. . so much security, so many events going on where steve was just atd to here to trump tower. governor mike pence is making his way to the hilton behind me. at that point he will head over a few blocks to trump tower for a special vip event. you mentioned it earlier. donald trump was his vote. some people who are in line to vote booed and heckled him as he was coming in. but people across the street were choring him. one male yelled out "lock her up" over and over. he seemed to be very optimistic about what was going on. and very calm and in sort of at

>> what happened a couple hours before, events could be described as a topless tirade. two women and a came into the voting place and ripped off their shirts. they had some anti-trump slogans stomach. they marched around the polling location for about 30 seconds before police arrested them. again, they have been accused of what's called election nearing. that promoting a candidate in the polling place, which you cannot do. but a minor disruption that happened a couple hours before trump. we're going to be here covering every minute of what's happening as we come to the end of all this long grueling campaign.

here later tonight. for now live in mid-town, chris lawrence, back to you. >> the trump campaign made a last-minute push for votes in virginia. but this election season hillary clinton has been leading in most polls there. david culver picks up his coverage. >> reporter: at this location in particular, they had about 45-minute wait for those first folks who showed up. we can make it around showing all points to keep it covered for you. this is out of ash burn. and they had in the first hour some 600 voters go through. then it was the late lunch

arrive home from work or head back to pick up again. more voters to be coming on through. they say according to one election official this was the equivalent to what they saw back in 2008. now there's several big races here. we have the 10th district. so i asked what voters out today. >> choices >> taxes haven't gotten any lower. also my health care insurance is going up. i'm hoping that if trump gets elected, maybe my health insurance may go down along with my taxes. >> reporter: now one of the other bigger races in virginia is the mayor's race in richmond. and the spokesperson for the mayor spoke to my bureau chief

governor had to wait an hour in line this morning to cast his ballot down in richmond. we do expect him to be making his way up to northern virginia a little later today. some of the other big issues have to do with the voter i.d. law here in virginia. we're following that closely. and we'll have those ahead in our next half hour. that's the latest live here, back to you. >> david culver, thank you. election day got off to a cold start. let's go to our chief what's it going to look like tonight as we wait for the returns? >> much warmer than last night. but what a cold start as many of you waiting in line early this morning out at the polls. look all the the numbers. this is where we started. the coldest morning we have seen by far. the 20s. 28 in frederick. 28 in culpepper. 41 in d.c. but temperatures got close to 70 degrees across the area u. so temperatures rose very quickly today.

boundary. it's right back to the west. notice the rain in the ohio river value e lee. this is going to move into our area and into the day tomorrow. to shh morning it was the coats that you needed. tomorrow morning will be the umbrellas. we'll talk about how much rain to expect if your rare and what comes next after this storm moves on through. >> we are just getting started on this election day. our reporters are fanned out around the region covering all of the issues and all of the bases. we'll take you to maryland where voters have some long waits this morning. . >> so much to keep tabs on this election night. we'll tab into the expertise of our partners at nbc news to help you figure out what o watch.

right now, democrat tim kaine is in new york. e he had to take care of business this morning in richmond. >> he was in great spirits when he arrived. this morning to cast his vote. more decision 2016 our team of reporters and anchors will be continuing in just a moment. back here in the district, you may have seen this giant plume of smoke over downtown today. chopper 4 caught the smokey u d.c. skyline. a lot of people were posting pictures online and asking what was going on. now we know the fire started at a building that's under construction at 17th and m streets northwest. firefighters au arrived and quickly put the blaze out.

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because of the current money administration. >> it's getting a raw deal. >> if you vote in d.c., you're casting ballots for or against statehood. it would make d.c. the 51st state, but congress still needs to a the presidential election gets most of the attention, but you're also going to be choosing candidates for the senate and the house. chris gordon is live with one of our region's biggest races. chris? >> reporter: we're at richard montgomery high school covering the race that will succeed

and margaret flowers, each are hoping a large voter turnout favors them. >> from the moment the polls opened, morning voting was heavy here in rockville. >> the days start out heavy with voters to get it off the to do list. then a consistent we'll see what the evening brings. >> at north bethesda middle school, there were long lines of voters even at midday. voters told me it took an hour and a quarter to wait to cast their ballot and then wait again to scan their ballots. elections judge told me this is a bigger turnout than the presidential election of 2012. here in germantown there was a morning rush followed by a

as people come to vote after work. the aim is to raise money to save the course to italy to send them to italy this summer to sing at the can. coming up tonight on news 4 at 5:00, how the top of the ticket, trump and clinton s affecting voter's choices down ballot. specifically the u.s. senate race. we'll have that coming up at 5:00. back to you. >> thank on the house side, the question is this. how many seats will the democrats pick up and will it be enough to take over the majority? news 4 has a closer look at that. >> dozens of seats in the house of representatives are up for grabs today. republicans hold a big majority with 247 seats right now. only 46 seats in the house are being contested in races considered kpelttive.

30 e seats to win a house majority. now with republicans holding most of those it contested seats, a takeover would be hard for the democrats. we had a cold start this morning, but boy, was it beautiful this afternoon. how is it going to look for the rest of the week? >> rain coming tomorrow. you mentioned that temperature difference between this morning and this afternoon. some locations warmed 40 degrees today. that's very unheard of. you don't see that very the change between morning temperature and afternoon high was quite large. so very nice afternoon. but we are starting to cool. as the sun goes down, we're going to cool fairly quickly u. still 66 in dulles. manassas was 27 earlier this morning. now it's 66 degrees. 62 down towards fredericksburg. so for the evening planner, a

it's going to be quite nice, but it will be cool. you need the jackets again tonight. 58 by 7:00. 55 degrees by 9:00. it will not be. nearly as cool tonight as it was last night. the reason is the cloud cover. we're not seeing rain now, but take a look at the wider picture. see where the rain is. . back towards indiana. coming right down the ohio river. we'll see some of that rain move our way too. as you look at weather. but by tomorrow, we're at 6:00 in the morning. notice the shower activity around parts of the region and then some heavier rain around 10:00 or 11:00. and then we see more showers developing during the afternoon. so it's going to be periods of rain pretty much all day tomorrow before finally getting out of here by tomorrow evening. so take the umbrella with you to work. it's not just the umbrella. it's the jacket with rain like ri u. 58 degrees for a high

you'll need the jacket for sure. that's why tomorrow on the impact, i have it a as a moderate impact for those periods of rain. and because you'll need the umbrella and the jacket. it will be cooler and also be rather breezy late. we could see winds 20 to 30 miles per hour. saturday a high of only 51 in d.c. most of you will stay in the 40s. much more on this at 4:45. >> thank you, doug. volunteers find themselves in the middle of of a shocking scene. a woman claiming to have been set on fire. the discovery police made when

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through. >> a message on why you need to vote. vance's view on this election has become one of the the most watched clips on the nbc washington facebook page with more than half a million views. we invite you to take a look at it. >> in prince georges county, a man is accused of setting his girlfriend on fire this morning. pat collins has the terrifying account from witnesses who tried to help the victim this morning. >> for poll workers at the kettering middle school, a day they will not soon forget. a woman half naked with serious burns comes running up and says, help me, help me. my boyfriend just set me on

house, the house the woman came from engulfed in flames. firefighters get here and pull a man outside. he, too, takes him to the hospital. this appears to be no accident. detectives who specialize in domestic violence cases are called to the scene. coming up at 5:00, more details and words from an eyewitness. some of you reporting long lines and problems at the polls today. the news 4 i-team has been k look into those issues where people have faced long lines and potential problems. i'm jim handly at the election night party site for hillary clinton. how the candidate spent her day u here in new york and what to expect from virginia tonight.

it's 4:30 and election day is winding down in the battleground virginia. you have just about two and a half hours left until the polls close. it's not just the presidential race that we're watching today. the tenth congressional district in northern virginia that race between barbara kom stock and bennett is up for grabs. in maryland and the districts, the polls are open until 8:00 tonight. down the ballot in maryland, we are tracking three house races and one senate race.

referendum on the ballot. the i-team is keeping an eye out for irregularities at the polls where people are reporting long lines and issues that could keep folks from voting. >> they will watch the election returns a couple miles apart. >> the clinton campaign picked headquarters that actually has a glass ceiling as hillary clinton hopes to shatter the figurative one to become the first female president. >> jim handly is in manhattan right now. how is it locking up there? >> just a couple hours, supporters and volunteers will be filing in here to the crystal palace. you mentioned the glass ceiling. we have a bird's eye view. they are putting the finishing

there's going to be an overflow of 10,000 people outside. this is our live bird east eye u view. there were supposed to be fireworks. we don't know what decision has been made on that so far. no one can say how long this night will last but the election has a record 46 million early voters for the combined campaigns. the clinton campaign tells me they will be watching three important states for early indications of strength. virginia, the full picture from virginia. >> the early could be a little misleading. >> at first because the more republican rural areas, the areas of lower populations come in first. early in the night it will look like virginia is pretty red. but then northern virginia comes

you'll see the gaps close and hopefully we'll come out on top. >> virginia and host of florida close. hillary clinton voted at an elementary school near her home with her husband. she's at home now doing some radio interviews still. her work has been done over the past 18 months. so she's resting up move here to start watching results. she's back for a a vip afterparty. there are reports she's come up with two versions of speeches on those plane trips that she took last night to philadelphia and north carolina with her head speech writer. we know which one she wants to use, but no word yet on which one she will use on the stage behind me.

the trump03xtv? campaign also ho be celebrating. jay gray is covering the trump campaign. >> we don't have the e details you talked about as far as hillary clinton is concerned. don't know about duplicate speeches. don't know when or if he will show up. here and like the rest of us, all he can do now is watch and wait. >> a marathon campaign more than 500 days ends with a sprint. >> we are going to win back the white house. >> donald trump closing on an historic presidential run by running from state to state. 14 stops in 10 states over the last 72 hours.

it has been a tough campaign. some say the most contentious ever. >> unfit and proves it every time he talks. >> you are the one that's unfit. >> but now the name calling, questions about competence, honesty and trust give way to the silent and solemn process of voting. >> a few finishing touches. a few supporters have started to gather outside for what they expect to be a night. they are calling this a victory party. they expect to leave here very happy. >> jay gray, thanks. we have witnessed long lines at polls across virginia, dwrand and the district today. our i team is on voter patrol

voter booth. tisha thompson is at the decision desk with what she found. the longest line we heard about so far was at mckinley tech in northeast. they had a nigh number of people who needed provisional ballots. the line cleared up by midday. in fairfax county, we received a number of complaints who tried to use an i.d. other than their driver's license to vote. the registrar easily scan a driver's license but can't scan other forms of legal i.d. like passports and work i.d.s. poll workers were asking for driver's license to speed up the process this morning, but they have since been told they are not allowed to ask for a a second i.d. and quite a few people in maryland say they don't like how their ballots are scan canned a after they fill in their paper

see their selections when removed from the large followeders and put into the scanners. they want more privacy in this process. the board of election wes just got off the phone and they say privacy a common complaint, but this has been less than the number of complaints than in the primary. and the poll workers told to try to to be respectful of people's privacy. most of the problems we have seen in the past elections pop upstarting right now when people try to vote on their way home from rk so call us at 202-885-4444. >> we could be in for a long night. . when do you think the presidential race will be called?

survey. call or text the number on your screen or vote and track results on the nbc washington facebook page. >> as we head into election night. >> the one thing they will be watching out for tonight. >> i'm curious to see if there's going to be some surprises in the electoral map. you can see it happening both ways. could hillary clinton pick off a traditionally red state like georgia or arizona. blue state like michigan? both seem possible. e we could see a shakeup in the electoral map tonight. >> the path to the presidency without north carolina is possible for hillary clinton because she's showing some strength in florida and she had more options to begin with structurally speaking. but donald trump really can't win unless he picks up north carolina. >> everyone agrees that this has been a a rough campaign, so what i'm looking for tonight is do we know enough to have a winner and

does someone concede? does someone declare a victory? if they do, does the president-elect realize there's a lot of work to do to heal and unite this country. >> the one thing i'm looking for tonight is how well the republican turnout operation gets donald trump supporters out to the polls and whether the u.s. senate campaigns turn out operation is successful. >> stay with nbc news and for election coverage tonight. "nbc nightly news" starts a at 6:30 right after news 4 at 6:00. then at 7:00 lester holt, savannah guthrie and chuck todd take oefrs nbc's special election coverage. watch for local updates twice every hour right up until news 4 at 11:00. we have rain creeping closer to us coming in from the west. looks like a wet wednesday

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entrance to the ballroom that the trump campaign is billing as its victory party. the doors open in less than two hours, but within a few miles, there are e three trump properties. trump tower is a few blocks away. a lot of people wondered why he didn't have the event there. one reason is those ballrooms can hold 700 people. the hilton can accommodate up to 3,000 opinion even that is a of his valleys over the past few days and weeks. . sarah palin is one of the invited guests. this is a more intimate affair of friends and family. it's also a huge night for new york city. most have shut down. carnegie hall and the opera are going dark. this will be the first time that both presidential candidates are

chris lawrence, back to you. >> thank you, chris. wall street is adopting a wait and see attitude as you might imagine as folks head to the polls. cnbc is joining us with a look at how the markets are fairing on this election day. we saw a big spike in the market yesterday. . the dow closed up 72 points. what else is fuelling this? >> like you said, there's a good amount of optimism just because over the course of the last handful of presidential election days, the market generally performs pretty well. since 1984, the s&p gains a percent on election day.

always a positive feeling around election day and possibly the day before as well. what we are recovering from is that nine-day louzing streak, the biggest of its kind in terms of days long since 1980 and what we have done over the past couple days is basically get back two-thirds of what we lost. it wasn't even a lot. but this is just getting back to where we were ahead of this election cycle. so we'll wait and see how the polls play out and whether we'll get a first indication as asian markets open later on tonight. >> if you have a 401(k) planned and you're concerned about how the movement that we have seen lately inclouding the past couple days will impact your account balance, what do you say about that? >> i have spoken to so many financial experts. financial advisers, personal finance experts and they say it's very difficult and perhaps

upon a presidential cycle. over the long-term the markets typically go higher. if you have the long-term horizon, advisers will tell you to stay the course and make those adjustments based on the retirement needs. if you have 20 or 30 years left to go, it's not really going to matter what happens short-term in this market. so as people talk about the gyrations, yes, there are going to be some market movements. but if you have a a long-term plan in place, most financialed a viruss will tell you you shouldn't change that wholesale because of who is in or who is not in the white house. >> good afternoon, we have the cloud cover really beginning to move in from the west.

what a change from today. then on thursday some sunshine back. afternoon highs around 60 degrees. veterans day on friday looks like a nice day. chilly in the morning, low 40s and afternoon high in the low 60s. then colder air moving in for saturday. saturday morning down into the 30s. afternoon highs on saturday just near 50 degrees. quite a chill in the air. bright sunshine stays dry on sunday as well. sunday afternoon, a bit milder that ought to make it into the 60s. next week, really no chance of significant rain. just maybe some more light showers as we get into the following wednesday, a week from tomorrow. staying dry until then over the weekend. looking for the super moon on monday evening. we'll be near 60 then. then the showers on wednesday toward the end of next week, we'll have temperatures in the upper 30s near 40 in the morning and afternoon highs in the upper

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more than half of voters cast ballots during the presidential election. this year's contentious campaign pushed the potential to much higher turnout levels. mark voter turnout across the country. >> election day began just after midnight with less than a dozen voters in new hampshire. that gave way to long predawn lines in many polling places around the country. >> i was glad to see the lines are long. >> it's amazing. it's really wonderful. >> reporter: today's voters join the record 46.3 million who cast ballots early. >> people died for this right to vote.

>> but constituents in some areas like new york city encountered long waits because of malfunctioning voting machines. >> this is a presidential election. e we shouldn't have to go through this. >> reporter: at 67 locations around the country, the special justice department attention to ensure voing rights are protected. >> this is reward for some voters in philadelphia. one was voter nerves in los angeles. >> it was heavy in this election. >> reporter: a campaign season that has gone to the dogs has made its way back to the voters to render the final word.

right now at 5:00, hillary clinton or donald trump. >> so many people are counting on the outcome of this election. i'll do the very best i can if i'm fortune enough to win today. >> they made their cases for the last 18 months. now a campaign that's been described as divisive, unpredictable, s choosing the next president. >> an endless stream of back and forth. it all comes down to tonight. i'm wendy rieger. >> and i'm doreen gentzler. we'll hear more in just a moment. >> hillary clinton cast herbal lot this morning near her home in new york.

she'll do her best if fortune enough to win. >> donald trump cast his ballot a few blocks away. he will see how things play out when it comes to the election outcome this evening. >> we have a team of reporters working all the angles of this election here and with the campaigns up in new york city. >> let's start with night headquarters. >> we're in a waiting pattern here. the anxious waiting game begins after that. >> it could be five, six, seven hours before we see the candidate taking the stage