>> 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. th next chance of rain rolls in here on friday. right now visibility not an

issue around town but where it gets colder in some of northern ia, visibility down under spots. in a few watch out for fog. drive in from manassas. temperatur mostly in the upper 40s to around 50 degrees. nice to see a little daylight out there early this morning. sun is up at6:42. temperatures will peak into the low to mid 60s. nice day today. tomorrow looks pretty sunny as well. little coolerbo more the friday rainout and the weekend coming up in a couple of minutes. for now it is traffic time. let's go to melissa mollet. >> springfield, inner loop at the interchange, middle of the road is blocked there because of a work zone. you can see a little bit of a delay on the inner loop. as you're headed northbound on the 395 slowdown there. southbound 270 between 80 and 109, two crashes there on the shoulder. delays headed .southbou germantown, westbound at

wisteria. couple of problems in virginia, centreville, eas 66 at 29 and northbound after route 1 in woodbridge. vehicles on the shoulder causing debris and flat tires. beltway at forestville road, no delays. the balance of power in congress is split after a dramatic mid term showdown. >> democrats now have control of the house but republicans were able to hold onto the senate. here's a breakdowf the numbers. in the house, 206 seats have gone to republicans. the democrats were able to hplit 23ouse seats to change the balance ofpo wer. democrats now have 229 seatsnd that puts congresswoman nancy pelosi back in control as house speaker. >> republicans will retain control of the senate. texas senator ted cruz held on to his seat. missouri's claire mccaskill lost to josh hawley. >> democrats were able to take control of the house in

victories such as the one weaw in virginia's tenth district. demofeat jen wexton defeated republican barbara comsto comstock. this is the first time in years a democrat has taken the seat. news hr4's lawrence joins us from mcclain with the details. chris? >> reporter: well, you know,t was 1981, so the last time a democrat held this seat. gas w $1.25. rick jamesel rsed "super freak" and we were watching george and weezie on "t jeffersons." president trump said this is a referendum on me. pretend i was on t ballot. boy, jennifer wexton exploited that. e missed no opportunity to tie barbara comstock to ath preside remains relatively unpopular in this point of northern virginia. comstock argued s'd buck the president on several important ike when he called for a pay freeze on federal workers.

she fought for them to get a pay raise but in the end wexton cruised winning the district by to 50,000 votes. >> americans deserve aation where our children are safe, schools are successful, it's noe longerier to buy a gun than it iso vote. >> reporter: when comstock conceded she didn't mention jennifer wexton. no indication of what she plans to do next. chris lawrence, news 4. >> thank you. was not theon flip only flip last night. abigail spanberger beat dave brat 50/49. in the second district elaine

luria defeated scott thylor. area covers virginia beach. >> news 4'sch justin f is live in brandywine. we heard complaints about this all night. >> reporter: a lot of complaints, aaron, eun. prince gorges county board ofel tions says they were expecting a high turnout but even theirer expectations surpassed when they ran out of ballots before 5:00 p.m. at several polling sites including brandywine elementary where voters were in w lineting to vote. one woman said she waited three to four hours here among hundreds of oth people also in line with her waiting for that chance to cast their ballot. upper marlboro community center. the ballots justan out. the board of electionshe told

wtop, supplied the same number of ballots this year as they did back in 2016. another high turnout electiond till this year those ballots ran out. so couriers were sent out with extra ballots to the polling sites and they got stuck in traffic, too. they said when he showed up with thelots he got a hero's welcome. >> it felt like a hero. it felt good for people whoo wanted vote that knows what this voting term means for our peoplen america, period. >> reporter: those voters got a chance to vote and the delayed vote means delayed counting. it doesn'too look for prince gorges county. we're live here in brandywine. justin finch, news 4.

>> thank you. despite tg vot problems. maryland governor larry hogan easily secured aecd term. he thanked voters who crossed the party lines who helped him win. >> to all of those democrats and independents who cross over and cast their votes for me, i see some of them out there tonight, let me --e letsure you that i will continue to be a governor for all marylanders. >> many democrats hope that the blue wave of strong turnout will carry challenger ben jealous. they congratulated hogan tcethe alling all marylanders to unite. >> general p colell told me a long time ago, it's easy to figure out what we can disagree on. what is tougher, more important in a democracy is tour f out what we can agree on.

>> jealous olso calle the media for calling the race too soon and said his team looked at the numbers t and rightful winner was hogan. two years ago trone lost hia bid in district. last night he was victorious and posted a big win. w this mornire also tracking the results of several races in other states that gained national attention. andr gillum lost to ron desantis.um giould have been the first african-american governor of that state. theesults werelose with desantis earning a little more than 73,000 votes over gillum. desantis received strong support from president ttrump. ans morning we're also staying on top of the latest results from georgia's

gubernatorl race. angie goff has the latest. >> good morning, eun. that race for georgegeorgia's governor's i mansi too close to call. brian kemp is b leading 80,000 votes over staceyms ab nbc news has learned there are reports of thousands of uncounted absentee ballots in addition to a number of provisional ballots. once those are tallied up kemp may drop below the 50 mark. campaigning for abrams. if elected abrams would become the first african-american ghofr in u.s. history. she spoke to supporters overnight. >> i'm here tonight to tell you votes remain t becounted. voices remain to be heard.

across our state folks are opening up the dreams of voters in absentee ballots and we believe our chance for a g strongerrgia is just within reach. >> we are waiting on the final vote, but i'm confident that victory is near and together we will continue to work to put hard working georgians first. >> reporter: looking ahead, if that runoff does happen it will be held in less than a month, december 4. it will be the first ever general election runoff for governor ithe state of georgia. the georgia race is one of a handful including in connecticut and alaska. the senate races in florida, arizona and montana. aaron? >> angie, thank you. earlier we mentioned texas senator ted cruz held on to his he faced a tough challenger in beto o'rourke. the race is considered one of the closest in country. they have not won a statewide election since 1994. a popularity see in o'rourke as a sign that

voters may not fully approve of the trump agenda. a historic victory for d.c. mayor, muriel bowser. >> she's also the mirstayor to win a second term since 2002. mayor bowser was o just of the district's incumbents who were up for re-election. her victory party carried into the late hours in northwest. frmgts are you going to stick with me? today over 120,000 of you said, we've got your back, bowser, all the way. >> record turnout. more than 200,000 ballots were cast. >> quick correction here. i misspoke talking david trone race. said that he had lost that district two years ago. he lost the eighth districtwo years ago. apologize. 6:11. decision2018 is far from over.

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pathological liar. >> vermont's independent bernie sanders slamming president trump during his re-election victory speech burlington last night. he is one of the many new and returning democrats who are promising toig the white house at every turn. sanders will continue to serve in the senate whichemains in republican control but the house now belongs to the >>democrats. osing the house can spell trouble not onlyenor the pres but him personally. lawmakers plan on launching multiple investigations. >> with more on the changes ah'rd. joined by michael fontroy, political professor at howard university. what does this mean for the president's agenda? >> it puts the nail in the coffin of any chance of continuing to repeal health care i think that's done gore it. there was no stomach for it with

democrats. that's off the table. i wonder if there's an opportunity for the agenda to work with democrats on infrastructure spendinghi that's som where you can get common ground. otherwise, this is largely going stalemate. the next two years running up to 2020 the democrats are going to in vigorous oversight of the bureaucracy. usually in unified government the congress gives the president a free hand to do whatever and a lot of things don't come out that could be problematic. that will not happen thisme >> what does that telegraph for the electorate. you have maxine watersho is likely to become chair of the finance committee in the house. they're going to ask the irs f trump's tax documents and that sort of sets up a fight, i would think, and question is it going to be a few years of getting nothing done in congress because they will be >> sill tell you we haven't eghting? gotten very much done in the last two years. notwithstanding some of the big things. i really believe that if the

democrats conduct themselves in line of traditional norms, i don't think a concern about fights is going to be that big. the opposition party has a right and responsibility, to pay a majority. they have a majority that can do certain things. the other side, the senate majority has expanded. it puts limited barriers. >> tnks so much for joining us this morning with youts it's 6:18. we want to get to storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell with your fo. >> i have good news in the weather department this morning. look athe golden glow on the eastern horizos sk have cleared out delightfully. not much of a breeze calm on the potomac. enjoy the sunshine today. clear skies have allowed them to drop to the 40s. light wind out of the south.

where the temperatures dropped a little farther, temperature allt the way dowthe dew point. that's the point at which if you cool the air down youo start get fog. fog from manassas to warrington. nowhere els got quite as chilly. 39 manassas, 40 warrington. 45 for leesburg, 45 prince gorges county. as you're planning out you day today, cool and dry to start. plenty of sunshine coming especially for the first half, 3/4 of the day. by the time the skies get mostll dy the sun will be down so it won't matter. high today, very delightful 65s degr it'll be a dry day today. futuweather. no chance of rain today or tonight. for most of the day today and tomorrow, sunshine to start. clouds will build into the afternoon. there might be a sprinkle or the best chance for rain two. shows up as you wake up on

friday morning. friday itself will be covered up in rain drops. 80%hae of rain could get a half an inch of frrain. ay night football breezy and chilly. hard freeze for everybody coming up onmo sunday ing. i'll give you the ten day forecast which is even chillier this week. that's coming u in abit. let's go over to melissa mollet. >> i am here take look at rockville westbound. edmonton, chopper 4 had the westbound lane shut down. this is a crash overnight that took down a polls and wire. right now we have one lane getting by westbound. southbound 270. wisteria, single laneng get by. beltzville, a crash, chopper 4 headed that way. back with more

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>> plus, maryland's governor hogan. a republican set to serve the state for a second term. >> rainy and wet election day. people stayed u to watch the returns. we've been working for you through the night. thees l on theraces. >> we will get back to politics. first, let's take look a the day ahead. melissa will check on the roads for us. >> chuck? >> that's right. that is it for today. skies have been clearingut during the overnight. most of the rain was done by about 5:00 yesterday afternoon. skies clearing overnight. it's cool out there. that's led to a little fog right on top of the potomac this morning. there are a few areas of fogginess. visibility in fredericksburg down to zero. visibility under a mile in faulkier county. watch out for isolated spots.

your sunglasses will be back in fashion. school day forecast, 6:42. outdoor recess today. could be puddles on the playground. temperatures in the mid 60s. >> i love that. always liked those good grades. taking a lookre at the roads. beltsville, chopper 4 southbound 95 here in maryland at the beltway. you see some delays. once you hit the t beltway,t section of the beltway is looking okay. after that, not so good. inner loop georgia avenue, right lane blocked by geoavia ue. that will cause a slowdown by georgi avenue. rest of the beltway looks okay. southbound 270. still slow aftec 80se of two earlier crashes that are on the shoulder. still delayed. germantown8 at wisteria getting by that crash. 66, 95 in virginia. two earlier issues are gone.

eun? >> thank you, melissa.to a dominating the front pages this morning after a dramatic election night. divided congress. many headlines say split decision and power split in congress. the house will be controlled by the democrats while the senate repuicans will hold onto the majority. >> closer look at some of the numbs for you. democrats will take 229 seats now. 206 seats will be held by republicans. democrats neededo pick up 23 seats if they were to retake control of the house. this will put democratic congresswoman nancy pelosi back in control as speaker by many indicators. republicans retain control of the senate. texas senator ted cruz managed to hold on to his seat. c missouriire mccaskill lost. h joley came out on top and democrats in tennessee, indiana and north dakota. >>emocrats able to take control of the house in victories like the one we saw in viinia's tenth district. jennifer wexton defeated incumbent republicaba b comstock. >> this is the first time na

years that a democrat has taken is seat. news 4's chris lawrence has more on what helped propel jennifer wexton. >> reporter: she went back to her core, health care, she made no secret even though on the other sideas barbara comstock. she kept tying president trump to this race. the president has said this race was a referendum on him, he was on the ballot. wexton wasted no time trying to exploitt t opportunity pointing out that comstock voted with her opponent more than paul ryan. she pushed back and talked about the time she bucked president trump when he proposed a pay freeze for federal workers, how she fought to try to get a pay raise. in the end that blue wavehon the e too much. jennifer wexton cruised by 40 to

50,000 votes. here's what barbara comstock had to say after losing the seat. >> these important fights are about improving ouran community that commitment. you all have that, improving this country. our common sense conservative values we continue to fight for and will continue to get all of these great successes for years to come. >> as jnifer wexton wins the seat that has not been won since 1981. in mcclain, chris lawrence, news 4. an historic win for governor lay hogan. he's the firstub repcan to win back-to-back since the 1950s. he thanked democrats for crossing party line h >>dreds of thousands of democrats reaffmed the wisdom of john f kennedy who saidty sometimes p loyalty demands too much. >> democratic candidate ben jealous called out the media for calling the race too soon but he

called for marylanders tounite. some were still casting their ballots when the governor's rac was called. he was in brandywine when we find out what tookon them so to vote. justin? >> reporter: eun, taaron, county board of elections were expecting a high turnout. tell your news parters at ,wt they got the same ballots a 2016. another high turnout race and the ballots ran out. leaving voters in line for ur ho we have reports here at brandy wine elementary some 1500 people waiting in long lines to vote yesterday. same story at hyattsville middle school and the upper marlboro community center. some having to wait soong they just gave up and went home. the bal ran out here at brandy wine before 5:00 p.m. and so the county here is acting quickly sending out curriers with backup ballots.

they got stuck in backup traffic and that's part of what took so long yesterday. >> no ballots. they ran out of ballots and one of the guys had to run and get some.ee it's about three to four hours but it's all good. you know, we stuckn there and ate candy and survived. we made it. >> reporter: of course, a lot of questions this morning about what happened yestday. we do know that prince gorges county board of elections is scorduled to meet tw for an already scheduled meeting. you had to imagine thiup will come the county naacp is meeting on this issue today. we're lnde in b wine. i'm justin finch, news 4. >> justin, thank yo it's 6:36. coming up, breaking barriers. historic victories across the country especially when it comes to women. our decision 2018 coverage continues next. why shop marshalls?

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you're watching "news 4 today." 15 before the hour and america is t waking up a divided congress in washington this morning.

a big win for texas senator ted ouz helps strengthen the republican's hol the senate. >> democrats now have control on the house thanks toome big upsets including newcomer abigail spanberger beating two term republican dave brat in virginia. nbc's kristen welker is livets e of the white house with reaction. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: hi, aaron and eun. president trump is casting this as aindication of himself and his policies even as americans are waking up to a new in washington as you just pointed out, that of a divided t govern democrats took back control of the house in elections tuesday for the first time i eight years. that momentum fueled by a rebuke of president trump in cities and suburbs, but those democratic gains did not extend to the linate where repns padded their advantage. that's what we were expecting with the house nown democratic hands though, they are poised to flex their muscles. what does that mean?

it means the likely takeover committees h ofse and oversight. and now the power to investigate the president and subpoena top administration officials and documents signaling they want to ask for tax returns butp president trundeterred. he tweeted tremendous success focusing clearly only on the senate. the white houses it's a sign the president's strategy, including his hard line messa on immigration which we spent so much time talking about did mr. trump signaling he's not planning to change a thing as he starts to eye the next big election, 2020 ais re-election campaign, guys. >> kristen welker for us at thet white houses morning. we'll see kristen on the "today" minutes.a few thank you, kristen. >> thanks. now to a few of the races we aretill waiting on. the florida senate race remains too close to call. rick scott made a victory speech overnight and sent out a few celebratory tweets but he leads the race by less than half a

a centage point which means recount is mandatory in florida. >> the race for governor inge gia is also too close to call. right now republican brian kemp leads m bye than 68,000 votes over democrat stacey utabrams, there are still a lot of votes that need to be counted. nbc news has learned that there are reports of thousands of uncoted absentee ballots in addition to an unknownf number o provisional ballots. once those are counted kemp may drop below 50% whichould trigger a runoff. >> with several races up in the the realn't know result of the so-called blue wave. >> joining us to talk about the shift in is dr. michael fontroy, political sciences professor from brown university. thank you for your insight. it is predicted the democrats would regain contr of the use and that republicans would maintain control of the senate. they did gn somepace there. there has been a mixed bag in terms of the governor's races.

andrew gillum lost to a mepublican. what does this ? is this really a victory for the democrats and their repudiatisi of pnt trump? >> well, yes and no. both sides claim some victory here. is is really a stalemate election in many regards when you add up all of the races and all of the levels around the country. so we're lurching into ati rely new space with divided government. the president's going to have to adjust to that.ad he a free run for the last two years with republicans in control and so now he's goi to have to deal with some investigations. the b sort of backdrop in which all of this isth occurrin we haven't discussed yet is the mueller investigation. that's been silent for the last two months. now that the election is ov , we're about to find out now if that's another shoe to drop that could impact whaons going >> virginia's tenth congressional distrife, jen wexton is the first democrat to represent that district in 40

what does that tell you about the race and how wexton was able to win? >> it tells me more about the change in northern virginia and the state generally than it does anything else. jennerexton by all accounts appears to be a better fit in terms of ideology, belief systems and all of that. you can seeom se of that in the results. i mean, she won by a ton ofs. vo you know, it would be one thing if this were a two or three-point race, tubs was digit. that's a repudiation of trump style politics as well as barbara comstock. >> i don't know if we have time for one more question. okay. so -- o for it. >> okay. president trump likes to think he was a factor in the maryland governor's race where larry hogan was a republican re-elected in that state which is heavily blue. what does that say about how politicians have to move forward in this divided nation? >> if you'reen a b state and you're a republican, your best bet is to stay away president trump as much as possible. conversely, if you're a democrat

in a red state, if you have a real balancing ac it makes it difficult. most of the democrats that lost were red state democrats. >> all right. professor michael fontroy from howard university, political sciences professor. thank you for your time. rt was aord election night for women not justecause of the dozen of seats that they picked up. alexandria ocasio-cortez is the youngest woman everlected to congress. and in new mexico a woman is replacing a woman as governor. that is another first in u.s. history. locally angela alsobrook will become the first woman to serve as prince gorges county executive. the state's attorney ran unopposed after republican candidate jerry mathis dropped out of the race. democrat mark elrich will become montgomery county's new representative. >> he secured nearly 2/3 of e tal vote.

member e county council nancy floreen delayed retirement to run. >> david trone claimed victory.n he against ani hober. he lost two years ago but last victorious. >> no surprises in d.c. mayor muriel bowser led a successful pack of incumbents on election day. all incumbents on t ballot were re-elected. more than 200,000 w ballotse cast. more than 50,000 were early voters. maryland question two passed and it allows for same day registration on election day. 17 states in the distric already allow same day registration. >> it is 6:51 meteorologist chuck bell is running for best weather man. >> absolutely. >> t forecast -- >> you have my vote! >> i'm ahead by one vot now.

aaron gilchrist still undecided. skies are clear overhead after two rainy days in a row. we get sunshine back today. so far only six days into the month, we've already had more than three incs of rain. our wettest start to november 55 years. we're nearly 22 inches ahead in rainfall already with 53 l calendar dayt we're already in the sixth place for sixth record. year on we are probably going to get a top five finish in that category. clear sks, 49 in washington, 42 in fairfax. 30s p acrosnce william, culpepper. could have patchy fog first thing this morning. but your planner then, after a little bit of fog, mostly sunny start to the day. sun is down at 5:01. afternoon highs between 60 and 65 degrees. that's nic fotomorrow, little cooler.

plenty of sunshine early. clouds will thicken up. y today and dry tomorrow. next chance for rain unfortunately comes in on friday. this is a layer of storm way down to our south. the main impact from that tween now and then will just be a gradually increasing cloud cover later on tomorrow and the afternoon. here's future weather then. this is starting tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. sunshine today. then tomorrow, sunny in the morning. clouds coming inn the afternoon and a chance for a few prinkles very late thursda nigh more likely to have rain moving in before the sun comes up on friday morning. friday will be another rainy day, probably half an inch of rain or more friday. en a gusty northwest wind on sat. another cold rain on tueay and that might end, melissa, northf and weste city. >> that sounds crazy to me. in bound new york avenue after north capitol street, crash

reported there. that's going to be a little bit slow for you. silver spring inner loop at georgia avenue, right lane blocked by disabled vehicle. the rest of the beltway looks okay. no big complaints there. southbound gw parkway, chopper 4 over this. we'reeeing some delays here because of an earlier incident, also some backups from the beltway now. this morning that's because of that slowdown. orodbridge southbound 123, the ramp tobound 95. report of an overturned vehicle seeing some delays there as well. in bound on 95, a little bit of a slowdown. ederick still slow southbound 270 and 109. two crashes now o the shoulder but still seeing the delays as you head southbound. lookin at 270 from germantown to the spur. top of the beltwa 23 miles per hour. in bound on 66 and on 95, both at 34 miles per hour this mornino remember listen to wtop 102.5 f.m. when you hop in your car.

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comstoim. the first a democrat has held the seat in nearly 40 years.corey stewart. larry hogan is f thest governor to hold two terms in ten years. he beat b jealous. i'm justin finch in brandywine, maryland. they're working to figure out what went yong and why they ran out of ballots in prince gorges county leaving voters infoine hours yesterday. and the sunshine is back. a cool start this morning. sd 60 for highs today. 50s tomorrow. rain on friday and veryfohilly the weekend. saturday afternoon, blustery and turning quite cold.w about a hard freeze for just about everybody. >> can we say not does t actually work? ve i'm looking at 30s, chuck. northwest beach d at porter street, all lanes shut down now because of a crash there.

d.c. police say it's nothing majorut they do have a closure right now. hoping that reopens here pretty. so as we zoom out for just a moment, you can see what else is happenin in bound northeast avenue after the capitol. crash reported. >> melissa, thank you. that is the news for today. we appreciate you waking up with us. >> the "today" show is next. back in 25 minutes with weather, traffic, local news. until then, enjoy your day, everyone. >> make it a great wednesday, everybody! for top-quality floors at rock-bottom prices,

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