leave the umbrella at ome for today and probably tomorrow as well. skies have been trying to clear out a bit overnight. where the skies became the clearest, temperatures fell the farthest and that has led to a little bit of g. so the coldest spots are also dealing with some fog this 39 in manassas. visibility under a mile there in prin william county, barely over a mile there in faulkier county as well. there's a view from our city cakira. clearing and good visibility this morning. 53 now in washington. 42 at dulles. there's that 39 in manassas. when the skies cleared out, the temperatures fell all the way down to the dew point. that's the reason for the fog. what to wear for today? t no moren a fall jacket and your sunglasses for a change. you can leave the rainoots and umbrella at home. school day forecast, generally in the upper 40s as a the kids waiting for the bus here earlier this morning. an outdoor recess although the playground may have puddles on it. temperatures, mid 60s at noon.

today's highsround 60 degrees. the mild air won't be here for long. more about the chilly chang coming up. for now let's go to melissa who's talking about rockville. >> i'm talking about rockvible. this p hanging around here. i know this is a cut through for a lot of people we hav all of the west bound lanes rocked because of utilityr re you can see purple on the map showing you the closure. eastbound is open but westbound will likely be closed through the mornicommute. that's a delay for a lot of people. southbound here on 270, frederick to the spur. ets ime, 67 miles per hour you there in 27 minutes. as you're headed northbound, don't have a report of that work passing montrose,e look a little slow here. inner loop after one,wo left lanes is getting by. 5:01.or thisng the balance of power in congress is split after showdownic mid term

>> democrats have control of the house but republicans were able to hold onto the senate. here is the breakdown of the numbers. in the house, 206 seats have gone to republicans. theer democratse able to flip 23 hhase seats tonge the balance of power. the democrats now have 229 seats and that puts congresswoman nancy pelosi back in control as house speaker. >> w republicansl retain control of the senate. texas senator ted cruz manag to hold on to his seat. missouri's claire mccaskill lost to josh hawley. they came out on top in indiana, north dakota. >> democrats were able to take control of the house with victories. democrat jenniferexton defeated incumbent governor barbara comstock. this is the first time in years a democrat has ten theseat. news 4's chris lawrence joins us live froin mcc with details. this is a big win, chris. >> reporter: yeah, a whole lot

of years,eun. 1981 the last timehe democrats held this seat. to but the it in perspective, sting was still with the police, lionel ritchie was performing with the commodoors. jennifer wexton is using her background as a former prosecutor and hammering her opponent barbara comstock tying her to president trump. she would go on tampaign trail highlighting the fact that comstock had voted with thee president mhan house speaker paul ryan and really tried to tie her to a president who is still relatively unpopular in this part o northe virginia. comstock fought back. she highlighted how she had pushed back against the presidentrying to get federal workers a pay raise when the payident was calling for a freeze but in the end it wasn't enough. her's jennifer wexton aft big win. >> because we worked together we

sent a messagee that want a better nation. >> yeah. >> that we demand a better naon, a nation where we treat each other with dignity and with respect. >> reporter: this was actually the first house seat to be called that flipped from republican to democrat. so this local race was really a sign of wave in terms of the house that swept across the tountry. co conceded but didn't give uch indication about wha her future may hold. live in mcclain, chris lawrence, news 4. >> chris, thank you. 5:04. the wexton win was not the only flip in virginia last night. what was once a purple state is firmly blue. first we look at the seventh district. igail spanberger beat dave

brat 50% to 49%. democrat elaine lure yeah-- luria beat scott taylor. news 4's justin finchlis in brandywine where officials are trying to figure out w t wentwrong. we heard complaints all night long about this. >> reporter: yeah. major problemut here, eun and aaron. you can bet from voters and election workers, very few people are satisfied with what happened here last ght. as to why the lines got to be so long, the county board of elections pnts to higher thano expectedtay out here. as for why that happened, yca only imagine a lot of people wanted to come out and cast their vote. reports that 1500 pple throughout brandywine elementary for that chance to vote. e ballots running out close to

5:00 yesterday. people being given pizza to keep the energy levels up so they could go out and vote. many of course coming in after a long day after work only to stand in longs. li >> get here, thought we were going to get out soon. get here, they run out of ballots. everyone is frustrated. >> reporter: and so you can imagine wit delayed voting comes delayed count means delayed results from prince gorges county. they packed up the same number of yallots thisr as they did in 2016 giving you a sense of what the turnout was for this election. principles gorges seats will be topping their a gain. >> i'm joint finch, news 4. >> thank u, justin. 5:07. despite the voting problems, maryland governor larry hogan

easily secured his term. to all those democrats and independents who crossed over and cast their vot for me, i see some of them out there tonight, let me assure you i will be a governoror all marylanders. >> they hope it will carry ben jealous to the governor's house. be jealous called on all marylanders to unite. >> genal colin powell told me a long time ago, it's easy to figure out what we can disagree on. it's tougher, more important in a democracy is to fe ure out whatn agree on. >> jealous called out the media

for calling the race too soon. the team looked at the numrs and the rightful winner was hogan. david trone claimed victory. two years ago trone lost his bis for t district. thi morning we' also tracking results of several races in other states that garnnaed nat attention. in florida tallahassee mayor andrewhe gillum lost race for governor to trump supporter ron desantis. gillum would have been the first african-american governor of that state. the results were close with desantis earning a little over 73,000 votes more than gillum. he received strong support from president trump who held multiple rallies over the course of the state. most people went to bed without an answer. angie goff has thela st. anymore results?

>> reporter: right now, all we know is thathat race for the governor's mansion in georgia, eun, too close to call. stacey abrams, the democratic candidate, is seeking to be the first democratic african-american governor in history. she spoke to sporters overnight. >> i'm here tonight to tell you votes remain to be counted. there ares that are waiting to be heard. across our state folks are opening up the dreams of voters and absentee ballots. >> we are waiting on t final results but i'm confident that victory is near. >> let's take a look at the poll numbers. republ lan brian kempds by 80,000 votes over democrat stacey abrams.

hder georgia law if no one wins more thanf of the votes, then there's going to be a runo r election. thoff will be held in less than a month, december 4th. this would be the first ever general election runoff for the office of governor in the state of georgia. now back to you, aaron. >> thank you. 5:10. earlier we mentioned texas senato ted cruz held on to his seat but he faced challenger in beto o'rourke. iomocrats now have not won a statewide ele in texas since 1994. texas democrats t seet voters may not fully approve of the trump agenda. meet the new boss -- the old boss of e district. >> every incumbent that was up for re-election ind.c. won easily. muriel bowser became the first woman to be re-elected a mayor in d.c. and the first one to win a second term since the victory party went into the late hours in northwest last

night. >> are you going to stick with snee. >> yes. >> and today over 120,000 of you say, we got your back, bowser, ll the way. >> recordturnout. more than 200,000 ballots were cast. more than 50,000 were early voters. our decision 2018 coverage is not over. coming up, howhe election played out over social dia. and he faced one of the toughest races. we're going to break that down for you coming up next. chuck. >> time to start thinking about the weekend. it may start out a little cloudy on saturday, but it will be brzy andhilly saturday afternoon and a very cold start. sub freezing start for most of the area on sunday morning. the area on sunday morning. i'll give y the whole f he

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on homeowners and renters insurance. 5:15no right running as a democrat in trump it'sry is a challenge, but one that west virginia senator joe manchin rose to last night. senator manchin was able to maintain his seat in what was expected to be a competitive race. it did not turn out thaty. wa he handily besd patrick morsi. six weeks ago senator manchin made a pivotal vote, one that may have very well kept him in the race. he was the only docrat to vote in favor of confirming supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. manchin said the win was a message for president trump. >>hat west virginia said loud and clear tonight, mr. president, we want our senator, not your senator.

>> senator manchin spent much of the election day trying to win ters in the state's eastern panhandle. that includes those d.c. commuters who make the drive every day or take mark trains. social m may have played a huge role in this year's mid term election. you may have seen people posting thei i voted selfies. they offered new initiatives hoping to increase voter turnout. nfacebook included election day message in the news feed.ra inst users added an i voted sticker to st. chat added features. while some took to social media to mark election day, others cebrated a voting rights trail blazer. this is how people paid tribu to susan b. anthony in new yoe. helped led the movement eventually giving women the right to vote.

people placed the i voted stickers on her headstone. in 1872 she illegally cast her vote and was .arrest she died in 1906. the woman's right to vote wasn't ratified. hink a lot of people get out the vote. >> got to vote, otherwise, no smplaining. skave been trying to clear out a bit during the overnight hours. it will be a pretty starto the day here in washington. skies have cleared out. yesterdayorning at this time you couldn't even see the monument. have a nice clear view of it morning.y this it will be a much more pleasant day to spend some time outdoors today than it has been the last few days. 53 now in washington. e west.re light out of it will stay that way the rest of the day. the old northwest winds of ovember will be back for the weekend. sob ready for a very chilly second half of surday and a cold sunday. right now it is a chilly 39 in

manassas. 49 in gaithersburg. 54 in frederick, maryland. 54 in winchester, virginia. temperatures staying in the low to mid 60s. plenty of sunshine coming up foy tond your five day forecast, dry today and dry tomorrow but today will be the warmest day of the next five. another rainy, chilly friday coming up and then saturday turns ratherst by as colder air settles in. noghs in the 40s over the weekend. let's hear from melissa mollet. >> good morning, chuck. new problem here 270 southbound at hyattsville. crash in the median. we are seeayg d as you head out of urbana. westbound lanes are blocked and closed for the morning commute for some utility rk. springfield. inner loop, middle of the road is blockedy a work zone. delay that just popped up, i'll

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thanks for joining us after a busy and wet election day. we've been worng for you through the night with the latest on all the races we've been watching. >> we will have a look athe politics of the day in just a moment. let's start with a look at the day ahead. melissaill lookt the roads. chuck bell has a return of the sunshine. hey, chuck. >> that's all anyonefo voted bring the sunshine back. crazy. rainy year continues. yearly rainfall total pushing it closing in on 56 inches of rain this year. that's almost 22 inches above averagenrainfall. we need a little chance to dry out. skies trying to clear out overnight and where they were the most successful, fog has formed thismorning. fredericksburg, visibility down to only half a mile now. one ssle visibility in ma. you can see on the city camera this morning, no real issues there. current temperature, 53 at nationalairport. 53 at the naval academy in

annapolis. 52 in charlestown, west virginia. chillier in warrington. you'll need your fall jacket and filly leave the umbrella at home. put the sunglasses on. sun's up at 6:42. it will be an outdoor recess day although i think theun playg may still be wet. highs today in the mid 60s. melissa mollet, that's a plus weather f hump day. i like this mild and dry. looks good for . frederick southbound 270 between 80nd 109, two different crashe one on the right side, another one right in the median. we're seeing real delays heading southbound. germantown, 118 westboundthere. germantown road at westeria drive, one lane. between broadwood and edmonton, lanes are blocked there. utility repairs after an overnit crash. probably closed westbound through the morning commute. you can see that closure there.

it is purple. we are expecting to get red behind that as things progress. as you look at the beltway, no major problems. issue in virginia coming up in just a minute, eun? >> thank you, melissa. it's a story dominating the front pag this morning after a dramatic election night. a divided congress. many headlines s split decision and power splits in congress. the house will be controlled by the democrats while the senates republicill hold onto the majority. >> here's a closer look at some of the numbers foryou. democrats will take 229 seats. h6 seats will bed by republicans. democrats only needed to pic up 23 seats as they were to retake control of the house. this will put democratic congresswoman nancy pelosi back in control as house speaker. maintain control of the senate. ted cruz maintained his seat and aire mccaskill lost to josh hawley. the gop came out in i top indiana, north dakota. >> one of the most contentiousr s in our area helped the

democrats flip the u.s. house. jennifer wexton defeated republican barbara comsto . >> news4's chris lawrence is live in mcclain with what the candidates told their supporters. chri >> reporter:well, aaron. jennifer wexton went back to her four democratic issue talking about people wanting health care and being separated from their parents. whhe was running against barbara comstock she made no bones about the fact that the name she was gunning for was president trump. jennifer wexton won the seat. the first a time democrat has done so since 1981. she did so by trying to tie barbara comstock to the president who remains relatively unpopular in this part of northern virginia. barbara comstock tried to separaerself and talked about how she fought for a pay raise while the president was calling for a pay freeze, but in the end that blue wave swamped her. re is what she said after

losing this race. victoriesw, great will continue. look at our supreme court. we are going to still hold our we going to be able to do senate. great things together. >> reporteer she n actually mentioned jennifer wexton by name in the speech and she made no indicatf what she plans to do next. live at mcclain, chris lawrence, news 4. >> chris, thank you. it was a historic win for maryland governorarry hogan. he is the first republican governor to win back-to-back terms since the 19 50 >> durin his victory speech last night he thanked democrats for crossing partylines. >> hundreds of thousands of democrats reaffirmed the wisdom of john f. kennedy who said sometimes party loyalty demands too much. >> now democratic candidate ben jealous called out the media for projecting the rae,, qu too soon. they called for marylanders to

unite. >> some voters in maryland were still casting their ballot when the race was called. >> news 4's justin finch was live with what tookon so for some people to vote. justin? >> reporter: well, eun.e the priorges county board of elections says the good news is they had higher tn expected turnout. the not so good news is that they actually ran out of ballots at precincts here like bran brandywine elementary where voters had to wait hours to cast their votes. we had reports of some 1500 people waiting in a long line here at brandy wine elr entary. foe patience, there was free pizza passed out. eau might imagine some people had to l when the ballots cn outse to 5:00 yesterday afternoon here at brandywine elementary as well as hyattsville middle school and the upper marlboro mid school. the board of elections said once they realized they were hing problems with the ballots, they

sent out do you remembcurriers ballots. >> no ballots. they ran out of ballots and one of the guys had tond run get some. it's been about like three or four hours. but it's all good. we stuck t inre and ate candy and survived. we made it. >> reporter: as you heard, voters are kicking in their heels waiting three to fou hours. of course, this is a major concern for a lot of partinc involvedding the county na mp that willt about this today as we are told the board f elections set to mee tomorrow. you can probably bet this will be the top of their agenda when they domeet. we're live here in brandywine, i'm justin finch, news 4. coming up, breaking barriers. historic victories across the country especially when it comes to women.

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back now at 5:40 with some dhistoric wins from aro the country in decision 2018. colorado elected the nati's first openly gay governor. it was the state's most expensive election. he has kea lineses with the ng state's boo canna business asel as green energy. he founded pro flowers and he was able to invest a lot of his own money. voters in the deep red state of kansas made history.e shar davids is the first gay representative. or> it was a r night for

women. at least 95 women won seats to the u.s. house of representatives last night shattering the current session's record of women. there may be more women winners as the undecided races get called. women are making history beyond those numbers. in, new yo 29-year-old alexandria ocasio-cortez is the yungsest woman elected to congress. ilhan omar and rashida tlaib is the youngest elected to congress. angela alsobrooks will be the first womano be elected as prince gorges county representative. her opponent dropped out of the race. good mo ing,everybody. temperatures cooled into the 40s and 50s to get yourednesday started. it will be a mild day today, but don't get used to the mild

weather. your ten day forecast the chill coming. .tay with us

bk now at 5:45 with the latest on a few of last night's big races. the florida senate race remains too close to call. at this point the race is within the range of the mandatory recount since outgovngnor rick scott and bill nelson are within half a percentage point of each other. >> democrat tim kaine will keep his seat. he handily beat cory stewart. during his speech he says he t hopess blue wave humbles president trump. mitt romney won the senate race in utah. the 2012 gop nominee and former massachusetts goverr defeated the incumbent. romney could shake things up ab he has been an outstiken c of president trump and that could become a powerful bit of opposition to the white house in the senate. while republicans are keeping the senate, changes are coming

to the bhouse. e wave is expected to return power to democrats. newspo nbc's tracis is here. let's talk about the blue ripple. the house first and the big ripple. how much of an impact is this going t have? >> it will be interesting the next few years. the house republicans are i charge. >> maryland isg mak a bid for geuse s with democrats now in ch president trump called nancy pelosi to congrulate her o her win for democrats there and they talked about bipartisanship working together. it's also notable that this blue wave to whatever degree people want to call it that was also part of what some are calling a nk wave because there were a record number of women elected night. house last

>> tracie, let's talk about the senate a bit. what were the key rac that helped republicans hold on to power there? >> so there was the texas race. ted cruz w able to pull out a win over beto o'rourke who had a lot of momentum goingin. even though he was down in the polls, there were questions about whether there w people he had driven to the polls that weren't really being counted, but in ie end wasn't enough. claire mccaskill of missouri is notoming back to washington. josh hawley, the republican, beat her out. so h ts now goingbe coming to washington.s republican picking off democrats in indian missouri, also in south dakota and in tennessee. so republicans withheld or held their ground in the which is what's going to make things so interesting overhe next two years with democrats in charge on one side and republicans on the other. >> o tracie pott the hill. thank you. the democrat win in the m house meae for a local

representative with democrats in power to conduct investigations. we may be hearing aot more from maryland congressman elija coupl cummings. he is likely toecome the next chairman of the house oversight and government reform committee. virginia voters helped democrats take control of the house. >> joining us to talk abouthe shift in the power is professor michael fontroy. jennifer wexton will become the first democrat to be tenth district in virginia for the first time in 40 years and she really ranha saying her opponent, barbara comstock, was lining up wi president trum this tactic worked for her. >> yes. and the story of this sort of takeover of the house actually is rooted in virginia. three of theoc dtic pickups were in the commonwealth so jennifer p wextonked up on trends that were going on in northern virginia and have been for some time. i mean, this is -- you knha, thise in the partisan

makeup of who represents that district was going to happen this time if not in 2020 so not a terrible surprise. i will say that the size of the in, that was really notable to men my mind is a real repudiation of president trump, at least in that district. >> i wonetr if that's sng you would look at and sort of apply to all of northern lrginia. if yk at the senate race, tim kaine beatar corey sby 20 points. how much of the changing in the demographics in that area were part of that factor? >> you know, virgini in 2018 is very different than it was 40 years ago last time a held that seat. in fact, 40 years ago a democrat that held that seat would probably be a republican. so virginia, it's -- particularly northern virginia, it'syp a educated area.

there's a move to move and it's a change in our politics. virginia going forward in terms otational politics, it's going to be a like ohio in terms of 40, 50 years in terms of being a bl weath to see where the country is going. >> president trump seemed like a factor in the maryland'sor gove race. larry hogan, the first republican to win re-election in decades, he's been critical of the president. he said, listen, i'mde indep of these parties. i'm going to work for marylanders. >> he did what republicans in blue state had to do. he stepped out earlier. as a consequence, that bought him some credibility among moderate, independent voters in the state w weren't quite sureho he would govern. he had no particular controversies or problems along way and by all accounts seemed to be a very likeable guy. you add it all up and it's a really n big surprise that he won the election.

>> dr. micel fontroy from howard university, thank you very much. stay rig there, we'll talk more about how this change is going to affect the president's agenda. it is 5:51. not much election day suspense. mark elridge won. he carried 200,000 votes in this race. a far cry from his 77 votein man the primary. long-time county council member nancy floreen delayed her retirement to run as an lindependent but nulds than 20% of the vote. a raucous crowd greeted elrich. he has opposed lar transportation projects in the past in favor of smaller, more scaled down plans. 5:51. go back to the forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. one more last warm day we'll get out of this, chuck?

th our final mild day for a while. seasons continue to inch their way out of autumn and closer to winter. meteorological winter starts december 1st. only three weeks from now. 53 today. enjoy the mild air while we have it. today's temperaturethe 60s this afternoon. that will be the last time we get above eg60es for quite a while. 49 here to start your day montgomery county. 42 at dulles airport. 37 in manassas. big range of temperatures from upper 30s to low to mid 50s for the areaear the chesapeake bay. sun is up at 6:42. mid 50ed by9:00. highs today well into the 60 62 in gaithersburg and manassas. 65 in wastongton y. cooler weather is starting to move on in. as we head into e weekend,

much cold injury air arrives saturday afternoon. temperatures will be falling into the 30s on saturday evening. a hard freeze pretty much area wide sunday morning and it's the next big rain early next week comes to an end, maybe some wet snowflakes in the shenandoah valley next wednesday morning. not an accumulating snowfall, just theention of snowflakes. this will keep our skies the mix of sun and clouds but for tomorrow will bring us no rain enjoy the dry weather while we have it. today a mix of cloudsnd sun. sheer's our future weather. there you can see the future weather and sunny start, cloudy finish. here's your ten day forecast. 65 today, 58 tomorrow. dry the next two days. c 80nce of rain. friday afternoon and friday night football will be wetez turning b and chilly on saturday afternoon. cold sunday. and then all c rain on tuesday which might end with some wet snowflakes on wednesday morning, particularly in the higher elevations.

melissa mollet, you're not going to like that. >> like when it snow snows. give me three feet or nothing. frederick, southbound 270 between 80 and 209. sounds like both are on the should. some real delays there southbound. germantown, westbound germaown ad 118 at wysteriaetng by that crash. broad wood and edmonton, lanes repairs still underway after an overnight crash so that purple is showing you that closure. it will be closed through the morning commute. chopper 4 i showing you what that looks like from above. centreville, eastbound 66 at a crash and northbound 29 after woodbridge, vehicles on the shoulder because of debris. 66 and 95 time wise look okay. 270 top o beltway the same thg. look at wtop when you hop in your car.

eun? >> melia, thank you. it is an unsettling statistic, but suici claims more police officers and firefighters' lives than any of the other dangers they olface. ae force in our area is working to change that. fairfax county police chief ed roessler sat downal andd with doreen gensler and talked about ptsd and how w hets to help officers deal with the stress. one officer said she's already saving lives. you can see doreen's story tonight at 5:00 and 6:00. good morning, i'm frank holland here atnbc headquarters. selling the first ever u.s. adventto calendar y. you have to get there early because they're going to go fast. they're selling one with wine and one with imported cheese. the winer calen which costs $69.99 has mini bottles of wine and the cheesealendar hasive

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i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. democrats a in control of the house of representatis. republicans held onto the senate. that appearedugo be e for president trump. tremendous success tonight. thank you to all. with so memy newrats coming to washington, what does that mean for president trump's agenda? >> we'll tackle that question this morning and look at all of the races from last night that you want to know about today. we want to begin though as we always do, with a look at our forecast and our commute.a meli standing by with a view of the roads and chuck has our weather what have you got, chuck? >> i have a good news forecast after a wednesdayfter a rainout on monday and a rainout on tuesday. finally aittle chanceo catch our breath and enjoy a little bit of sunshine. ceainly welcome news. four things you need to know about the weather. sun and temperatures in the 60s this afternoon. quite some time to come. enjoy it while we have it. tht