heading to work too. >> good morning. >> today isn't only important because of the weather, it's also election day. >> team coverage of the biggest races in maryland, virginia and d.c. live reports on what tou need know before you head to the polls. >> the results oflehision could change the course of the country. we'll be joined by a political analyst that will help us break down thet possibilities and w it means for the trump administration. >> we begin with chuck bell wh details on this forecast. >> yes, a storm team 4 weather alert for you onct this en day. just like last friday. unusual chance for strong to seve storms here in the month of .novemb

arriving around the d.c. metro ar then down into southern maryland where the risk of severe storms is even higher still. a batch of heavy rain in west virginia. winchester, martinsburg, northern frederick county, that first batch of heavy rain, not n vere weather but heavy r for sure will be impacting the next couple of hours. higher risk for severe weather across parts of southern maryland. it will be mild. we'ren the low t mid 50s with the thick fog around this morning. temperatures up close to 70 degrees today. more about the rest of the weekend coming up. but for now, let's go to first four traffic. >> good morning. we have fog, we have some rain falling in certain spots. so it is pretty yucky out there this morning. 270 at motrose northbound and southbound. inner loop andp outer l the beltway.

no problems right now. arlington southbound after key bridge, right side is blocked by a crash. also the rightlo side bed by a crash and 95 in maryland. no problems here. 35 at the beltway, going to take you about 11 minutes. >> thank you. 6:02 right now and today is the day. decision 2018. th month of campaigning, the political bickering, all come down to what thes vot do on this election day. >> 35 million people have already cas their ballots in early voting states. that's nearly double the early votes cast at this same point in the 2014 midterms. if you're voting today, herere some times to keep in mind. >> polling places inirginia are now open. the polls open an hour later at 7:00 a.m. >> control of congress is on the line in this election. democrats need t flip 23 seats to take control of the house.

they need 2 seats to take the majority in the senate. >> but this is also the first referendum on the trump presidency as we near the midterm of his term in office. he was telling vers that by casting their ballots for republicans, they're really voting for him.et >> there's sng going on. there's an electricity like people have not seen since a date, 2016, november. a lot of things are going on. get out and vote. >> president trump ended his campaign tour last night in missouri urging voters to get rid of the democratic senator claire mccaskell. >> we're working with you to keep an eye on the races that you care about. democrat jennife wexton is trying to seed barbara

comstock there. chris has more on where this race stands. >> iant to call attention to something that you guys just mentioned. president trumpas come out a said this election is a referendum on me. pretend i'm on thealt and while that is helping so many nndidat candidates, it' doing any favor for barbara comsto clrck . she has been going back and fort on transportation issues which i know effect so many of you every day. wexton has -- or actually, a lot of the republicans have blamed wexton for the sky high tolls we saw on i 66. she supported that agreement for widening the eastbound lanes. now on her side,n she has b hammering comstock for voting hat nst a funding bill helped pay for the silver line when she was a state legislator and after she voted against that

photos owing up to take at the ribbon cutting. wexton says the current fed funding bill for metro has almost no support from the other stake holders in maryland and d.c. >> people are excited to have somebody finding solutions to h thelth care problem in america that's going to finally do something about gun violence andhayes, somebodys going to stand up to this president. >> so she has been attacking a bipartisan reco. 82% are bipartisan and she attacks every one of those bills and attacks tha and no one asks her to explain how she is going to get anything tdone. >> s polls open here a few minutes ago. some of the most voters in the country now inside casting their llots. we'll be talking to them all morning. stay with us here on news 4 today and follow us on nbc washington.com as well.

>> thank you. >> we' keeping a close eye on the senate race in west virginia. incumbent docrat joe manchin is facing a toughec re-elon bid. they spent the final day of the campaign in the state's eastern panhandle. senator mansion senator manchin served since 2010. the team has been working overtime to appear independent ofither party. marylanders could elect a new governor in today's election. >> she is live on the race between them. >> whatever the outcome is, it will be historic. and he's going into this d with a double digit lead hoping to pull out the victory and if he do, heould be the second republican governor to be able to do this since the 1950s.

he has been able to distance himself on sever w issuesch is a plus he'll work on transportation issues. a big issue in this state and the governor says he has done ll on things like lowering bay bridge tolls and a lot of people like that. higher voter turnout is going to be a good sign for him, but he knows that hn has uphill climb to become the first black governor of the state of maryland. having had to fight criticism that he is a socialist on economes is something he has strongly rejected. and tuition paid college and

also expanding medicare to all. voting starts here at 7:00 in just under an hour and some of the election workers started to set up to get ready for the day ahead. >> there are six d.c. council contests as well. they'll also decide on a chairman and at large member. a delicate for the house of representatives will also be chosen. >> we'll be working for you all day today. tune n at7:30 tonight for an nbc 4 election ecial. updates tghhrououthe day today and tonight. and the news 4am i- will be on voter patrol today tracking any problems at the polls. if you see any issues, send the i-team a tip. open the nbc washingto app and search i-team. >> developing this morning, all lanes are back open on smoketown

road in woodbridge after a deadly crash. >> last night they collided with a transportation bus. this happened right outside of garfieldho senior high . take a look at theamage here. twoeople in the car died. prince william county police are investigating the cause. >> new this morning, d.c. police are investigating a deadly shooting in northeast. the man wast found s to death outside of his apartment building on 50th street northea northeast. no word yet on the motive. >> police say the suspect fired several rout them. he is in the hospital now. prince george's county police sayeche sus gun was recovered from aton car.

here's where the others were as well. we have some audio from that ambush as officers duck for cover. us.e's shooting at >> i have shots fired on my vehicle. police shot the gunman. he's in the hospital with serious injuries. ne of the officers w hurt. >> yesterdayen doz of protest tos marched in college park. they want to seeigficant changes in who runs the university. this stems from the death of jordan d mcnair thatd weeks later. >> this university poured so much money intoor facilities sports and athletics and neglec

the actual athletesed invo >> they want to make sure that loh retires and they want to be included in the election of ture presidents and want the board of regents to be elected and not appointed. >> still ahead, continuing coverage of the midterm elections. >> president trump has b n hitting the democrats hard on the campaign trail, but will it work for him? we're talking to an expe when news 4 today continues. >> how about our weather? >> rain chances going up, up, up. all lifting northbound. dog walking forecast for today, prinss available for adoption. hances for rain and thunderstorms near 100%y thunderstorms near 100%y

announcer: the following will surprise you about barbara comstock: barbara comstock: "i think roe vs wade should be overturned and the state should decide it." announcer: that's right. comstock supports taking away a woman's right to choose. she voted to defund planned parenthood 6 times, limiting women's access to contraception. and comstock votes with trump ninety eight percent of the time. jennifer wexton: endorsed by the washington post. she'll protect a woman's right to choose. .nnifer wexton for congre independence usa pac is responsible adr the content of thirtising.

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president trump on the eampaign trail in indiana taking a hard chan immigration. this is an issue that's been front and center ahead of today's election. >> he argues that it presents a ear threat to thecountry. in less than 24 hours, we may know whether the tactic worked on the voters. >> a political science profess at howard university joins us to talk more about the president's impact on this election. is plays well, particularly in border states. what do they sayow now about this is resinating with voters in all parts of the country? >> it'sririly part of the pay strategy. the president has always focused on this and decided that the only way that you can reduce the number of losses, because

history tells us the president's party loses seats in the house, but he wants to try to minimize that and the only way he feels he can do that is if he gets as asmuch of his out as possible. the problem is in overstimulating hisase he be leaving votes on the table in terms of independentt voters t maylene republican but could be turned off by what he's campaigning with. >> president trump wants this election to be about him. a vote for republicans is a vote for him. how does this effect the republicans that are running. m he may say that but i'm not sure hens that. his most recent approval rating is about 39%. if he wants it to be about him, then he might have a tough day. the way the map is set up, particularly in the senate, the democrats have to defend more republicans.he so i won't be surprised if they pick up a seat or so. but in the house, the president is in trouble.

to say it's abo him is an open call for jennifer wexton and ther similarly situated candidates aroun country to use that language to punish republicans running for re-election. >> so you talk about the potential loss of the house in this election. who do you think has the edge really going into the big picture of the elections. >> democrats would rather get the nod in the house and republicans will keep the senate. >> in a nutshell. >> thank you for joining us today. >>ews 4 i-team will be working for you all day today. tune in for an nbc 4 election special. updates throughout the day and the news 4 bei-team, they wil voting on or will be on voter patrol today tracking problems at the polls. if you see issues, be sure to send them a tip. open the nbc washington app and

search i-team. >> 18 after the hour. it's also a weather alert day. meteorologist chuck bell here with the details. >> yeah. we figure out how we could stuff any more things into the day's worth of news. weather alert dor you today. an opportunity for strong to potentiall even severe storms from late morning into the middle parts of the afternoon stter a record setting rainfall day day. 1.44 inches of rain yesterday at national airport. that was the daily rainfall record. pso as youn to get out of the polls today, one of the best things you can do is use our nbc washington app. download it and have it on your phone so youan track the drops and the storms as they're coming toward your voting locion and time your arrival at the polls accordingly.

right now it's cloudy and foggy and damp outside. so watch outor thick fog this morning but a power house storm system traveling through the w great lakel bring this front down through the area during the middle parts of the day. it's already raining out there now. that's not necessarilyart of the weather front itself. lower chances but still a chance, nonetheless, for strong to severee storms in valley. temperatures are in the 50s now. it will be mid to upper 60s for highs today. so it isn't the cold that's the issue, it's that opportunity for stormy weather. here's future weather bringing a batch of heavy rain in between 8:00 and 9:00 in the morning. and then the chance for the front itself to bring a round of strong to severe storms around

noontime. keep a weather eye to the sky today and your other weather eye on the . sunny and milder weather and more importantly dry weather the next few days very chilly this weekend. >> still have the fog around the area. inbound 395, you can see we have the slow down, middle of the roadway. that's because of a crash that's blocking a lane. looking14 street branch slow from an earlier problem trying to recover. still have an accident hanging around there. you can see delays in bound here. yesterday, the train service is on the mend running on time. top of thebeltway getting slow. inbound on 66 and 95.

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in maryland, democrats are on the front lines. with so much at ake, ben jealous is the bold leader maryland needs. his plans will get our schools ck to number one and protect our healthcare. maryland's teachet , nurses and presidama agree. ben jealous has the "courage to move families forward." let us stand up for our kids let us stand up for families let us stand up f our state ben jealous, democrat for governor

>> take it easy oe. th a half mile visibility now at dulles airport.e a lit rain in prince william county. charles county. heavier rain in parts of winchester, martinsburg, charlestown, frederick, hagerstown. they'll all get the rain here first thing this morning. highest chances forevere

weather will be along and to the east of the i-95 corridor but everyone can hear at least a rumble of thunder. there's your planner for today. rain and thunder mainly along i-81 at 9:00 in the morning. severe weather chaes betwe 11:00 or noon this morning up until about 2:00 and thenti st to dry out. vote early or better still vote later on in the day today when the risk of w severe weathel be going down. let's hear from melissa now. >> brand new problem. inner loop ramp to leesburg pike. not seeing much of a delay on the beltway yet, butab it's pr coming if that hangs around. inbound, those hov t lanes,se folks wishing they didn't hop in there now. slow because of the crash on the right side. southbound fairfax county rkway, we have a car off the roadwa on the right side.

270 southbound looks okay. thent opens up. >> melissa, thank you. 6:23, back to our top story. the day thent cde hsiryonouasn . election day is here. polls across t country are opening now and some voters in virginia already cast their ballots. >> we're only a few minutes away from maryland and local polls opening their dos at 7:00 a.m. molette green has the state of thegovernor's race in maryland. >> let's begin with chris lawrence with the latt on the tenth congressional district race. >> we have to tell you, there's a lot of interest here. a steadytream of people going in and out the last half an hour since the polls this race boils down to two

things. federal workers and president trump. it stretches all the way to winchester and it's home to 36,000 federal workers. barbara bcomstock hasn trying to appeal to them. she's also been big on advocating foraid family leave. but jennifer wexton argues that sh is lock step with president trump and voted with him more than house speaker pau an. comstock did support the tax billhat capped them at $10,000. wexton said that hurt a lot of homeowners in this district and said it really benefitted more corporatns than actual regular people. so again, here, we have seen a lot of people going in and out of her already. we expect a big turn out here. we'll stay on top of are telling us about why they voted. we'll bring you the latest here an o of coursenbc

washington.com. >> thank you. we continue in marylandnow. >> molette is live watching the race. gooding. >> good morning to you guys. on this election day, larry hogan is one of the most popular governors in the country. he's been able to successfully distance himself from president of coursemp and display bipartisanship in the time he's been in office. he could be on the verge of a second term with a double digit lead. he says you already know who i am and what i do and i'm going to continue pushing for issues like tax erelief. democrat former naacp ofsident is hoping that some the blue waves sweeping the country will of course push his way on this election day because he does have an uphill climb. higher voter turnout is going to

be a benefit to his campaign as he has been pushing for better education saying he's better in that area, better in health f re, and ourse he's been able to do all of this and stretch his limited campaign dollars. >> we said from the beginning we can win this proving that organized people beat organized money. >> we are going to keep working hard. if you like the direction the state is heading, then l us keep doing it for another four years. >> nowarand hasn't elected a republican to a second term since the 1950 hogan is hoping he can win this historic election b ben jealous of course, if he wins, will become the first black governor o the state. polls open at 7:00 a.m. >> thank you. >> in addition to picking a governor today, marylanders will

have two qstate-widestions on the ballot. the first is about gambling revenue for educatio a yes vote will require tax revenue for casinos be earmarked for k through 12 public schools. they argue some of the money nhould go to public priorities. the second quest is on election day voterre stration. they authorize lawmakers to come up with legislation to allow for same day registration on election day. is president trump went all out yesterday in final campaign push for republicans. he visited ohio, diana, and missouri focussing on immigration. coming up, peter alexander will ith anue our coverage look at key races across the nation. >> get the latt on the election as the polls begin to close tonight. tune into our election special beginning at 7:30 p.m. >> 6:36 is the time now. coming up, amazon narrowing i on a site for its new headquaters. our area is in the running, we know. up next, new twist tha could give two cities this economic

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>>ood morning. amc is hiking prices for its movie pass rival stubbs a-list in the 15 states where it's the popular. that includes the d.c. area. starting on january 9th, it will jump from $22 to 20 in maryland virginia, and right there in the district. you can still get the $20 a month rate for the first year if you signe up bef january 9th. it lets you see three movies a week. with your cnbc morning business report, i'm frank holland. >> i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell with your weather report on a weathet alday. in addition to being election day, you can see on radar, already some areas of rain moving in and chances for strong toti potly severe thunderstorms during the midday hours. i'll show you your future weather and ten-day outlook coming up. >> new problems on the ybelt and fog across the area. major delays inbound on 395. take a look at your trave tim straight ahead. >> plus decision 2018 is here. it's election day. we're working with you for

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maryland matters says 95% of nancy floreen's money comes from wealthy developers. at's why she's abandoned the democratic party

and is running against marc elrich-- the democratic nominee for montgomery county executive. marc has always stood with communities who expect developers to address the proble they create ...like traffic congestion, over-crowded schools, and lack of parks and green space. the candidates...na y floreen, the developer's choice. marc elrich, the people's choice. in maryland, democests are on the front la... with so much at stake, his plans will get our schools back to number one and protect our healthcare. maryland's teachers, nurses and president obama agree. ben jealous has the "courage to move families forward." f let us stand our kids let us stand up for families let us stand up for our state ben jealous, democrat for governor

your time is t45 ons decision 2018 morning. you'll want to grab your umbrla and rain boots. it's going to be a wet midterm election >> storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking the forecast for you. >>irginia voters are already getting a start. polls there opened about 45 minutes ago. there's a closely watched race in virginia between barbara comstock and jennifer wexton. we expect barbara to cast her vote any minute. >> peter alexander continues our decision 2018 covere this morning.

this is where jennifer is expected to vote today. >> why arexpts saying this race could set the tone for the rest of the country? >> you're right. it's a race getti national attention. they're counting on races like the one in this district rginia ten to help propel them to regain control for the house of s.representati she will be voting a short time from now. democrats are eager to cast protest vote about president trump. the republicans have been siding with comstock hoping she has been able to distinguish herself from the president who has proven to be less popular in some of these areas now. we'll bwatching what is happening in the senate as well.

11 rallies and 8 states in recent days. the question is, will he see an endorsemen the american people or a rebuke? we'll be watching over the course o today. back to you. >> peter alexander for us in leesburg, virginia. more on the "today" show coming up in a few minutes, thanks. >> political science professor at howardrsity joins us to talk more about the impact of these races. professor, we are talking about the important races all across the country. in maryland we had a congressional candidate that spent millions of his own money. a very negative campaign the republican. how does this shake out. how does this appeal tovors? is this negative for the republicans or the democrats? >> most voters claim to dislike negative campaigning, but when you look at tesrch it can drive voters in one direction or another. they're always special in what's

going on in thisdistrict. what you often see is its coming from somebody who may not have theor strongest rec and wants to divert attention from that. he has been a successful business person but doesn't mean he's the bestualified for the job. >> we watched ben jealous dig in to try tohe defeat incumbent in this race and the numbers haven't been trending h way polling wise. has he done enough to have the impact he wants to have? >> this race has been largely frozen in place since ben jealous won the nomination and part of that is outside of his control. larry hogan did what i thought was a greatob j in 2015-2016 establishing himself as aever trumper. and as a consequence, he built a fence around all the mod ate republicans in the state and i think that helps innoculate him

from danger this g oculate him from danger this go around. florida isoing to be the ggest in the country. not only the governors race but the florida s the incumbent is running for re-election and may be pulled across the line because of the governor's race featuring arew gillum. >> and the potential impact is what? >> the georgia governor's race is intng to me because all the controversy around the voter suppression argument. is know how porn something when people go to the extent that they can to keep you f am having i we see that clearly in georgia. >> anything you think we won't have answers on byhis time tomorrow morning? >> no, i think we'll know prett

so >> thank you for joining us today. voters will cast ballots for several bases.d there are six contests. they'll also decide on a council chairman and at large member. >> news 4 i-team will be on patrol tracking any problems at the polls. if you see any issues, send the i-team a tip, call the number on your screen or send to tips at news 4 i-team.com. >> also at 6:50, all lanes are back open after a deadly crash there. last night a sedan collided with a transportation bus. two pdeple in the car died there. this happened about 8:30 right outside of garfield high schoolw princeliam county police are investiga

investigating. >> yesterday dozens of protestors marched in college park. they want to see significant changes in who runs the university. the students say they want to presidentthat school wallace loh retires and they want to bencluded in the selection of future presidentshe and want t board of regents to be elected and not appointed. this all stems from the death of football player jordan mcnair that collapsed during a workout and died weeks later. >> it is a weather alert day. chuck is back with another check on our forecast. >> thanks. a very cloudy and mild start to the day.lo lows and fog will impact your morning commute. first thing is first, visibility for most ofuburban washington. visibility under a mile there and this cold front out here across thi valley promises a punch later on into the

morning and early afteron hours. it will be along and east of i-95. a higher chance for severe weather today. southern prince george's county and southern maryland and a chance for strong to severe stor n acrossthern maryland and the valley. nothing severe yet but pockets of heavy rain coming out of the winchester area. so a lot of rain chances over the next coupl of hours. severe weather chances start to ramp u after 9:00 a.m. as a weather fronts pus through. here's the opportunity for severe storms between 11:00 and noon. primary threat wil damaging winds and chance for small hail.

ehe last chances for rain probably don't c in until 3:00 or 4:00 this afternoon. either vote first thing this morning or start to move out to wee polls after 2:00 or 3:00 to avoid the severher chance. what about your ten day forecast? in the 50s this morning. up near 70 today and then the rain ending by 4:00 or 5:00. tomorrow and thursday both dry. more rain. potentially another inch or more f friday. chilly but dry the weekend. another more significant cool down coming our way this week. >> good morning. taking a look at the roads. inner loop, the ramp to westbound leesburgpike. have the crash reported there. take a look here. the radar over the road showing i don't where it's raining this morning and the fog is in a big issue in a lot of spots.

southbound, car off the road on the right. police there on the scene. youake a look through prince george's county. no major problems but slow inbound here. livingston road. about 13 miles per hour in bound on 210. looking up north there, no major issues as you're looking at 95. everything looks pretty clear. yesterday that amtrack train. train service on time this morning. 270 southbound is okay. top of the belt way 22 miles per hour. so that's pretty slow. inbound 66 and inbound 95. no issues there. >> 6:54 now, there's a new sexiest man alive. people magazine refers to him as quote, sweet, smoldering super star. w. we're talking about british actor idris elba.

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