. >>> and we're learning the virginia gubernatorial ralph northum is about to get a major booth, barack obama will join him next week in richmond. the gubernatorial election is lessha happen november 7th. president trump recently endorsed his rival. and mike pence will campaign with gillespie this weekend. >>> two men are dead and a third wounded in what witnesses described as gun battle in northwest last night. multiple shooters opened fire on two men standing on the porch of a home just three blocks from the fourth district police station. fox 5 paul wagner joins us live from the scene tonight with the story. paul? >> hi, tony. there were as many as nine people inside a house on 8th street, women, children, men on the porch, as you mentioned, then a car pulled up. and multiple shots were fired. in fact, there was an exchange of gunfire. there were three people hit. two were killed. but what really stunned everyone here on this street today is the fact that after the initial burst of gunfire, the gunman >> it's not about how many shots, it's watching my nephew die in front of me. bleed

former vice president joe biden campaigned for ralph northum in reston. he appeared at a round table discussion about the economic plan. he said it's critical to elect at the state level since the federal government is letting people down. we have is at the state level. it really is the only hope we have. >> on the flip side, mike pence attended a rally in abington for republicans gubernatorial candidate ed gillespie. >> i stand with president trump. i stand with ed gillespie for all virginians. >> recent polls show gillespie trailing northum by as much as seven points across the cmmonwealth. >>> up next, an american woman and her family have been freed after five years in taliban captivity >> the disturbing to details about the conditions the family faced. flush fleshfaced. flush flesh . >>> nor fall-out surrounding harvey weinstein, back after this. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. a woman's right to choose. ed gillespie would put the government in charge of a woman's personal decisions, not women and th

it had lieutenant ralph northum ahead by 14 points and real clear politics poll had luke a 3.5 difference between the two. where do things stand >> there was the monmouth poll which shows gillespie ahead by one point. this is really coming down to a sprint at the end of a marathon and i think what we need to keep in mind is that gillespie always breaks late. remember back in 2014 everyone counted him out and said that he was down. and done against senator warner but the day of the election, comes within one point, this will be a very interesting race. >> there's been all this talk about this being when you look at ed gillespie, he's the fartherest thing from a >> ed gillespie decided to keep the president at arm's length and. he's been welcoming of the endorsement but at the same time he didn't even retweet the president's endorsement of him on twitter. he tried to walk this fine line, he needs to keep a lot of those establishment voters on his team while winning more of the western side of the state and you hit the nail on the head. while northum can bring in obama and he brought in bide

campaign in the commonwealth who hope to succeed said terry mcauliffe, joe biden campaigned for ralph northum in reston biden appeared at a round table discussion about northum's plan, he said it's critical to elect leaders at the state level since the federal government is letting people down >> it's only hope for leadership we have now is that the state level. i mean, it really is. it really is the only hope we have. >> vice president mike pence attended a rally in abington this evening for republican gubernatorial candidate gillespie >> i stand with president trump, i stand with ed gillespie for all virginians. >> trailing northum by as much as seven points. >>> world leader are praising and condemning president trump's refusal to certify the iran deal and in tehran, the president's actions sparked new war of words between the two countries, iran is lashing out at the president's actions saying it violates the spirit of 2015 agreement. the president is not pulling out of the deal just yet but demanding that congress strength it >> we're learning new details about americans and canadian in

. >> that was democrat ralph northum responding to negative ads that were put forth by his opponent.e election 12 days away now, president trump has weighed in himself writing ed gillis pi will turn the really bad virginia economy numbers around and fast. strong on crime. he might even save our great statues, the rest of it, i don't know what it is anyway. heritage. gillespie has not campaigned with the president. he's often embracing the issue of confederate monuments. let's listen to the latest campaign ad from gillespie. >> ralph nor thumb will take our statues down. >> i'm for keeping them up, he's for taking them down. that's a big difference. >> the virginia democratic party has circulated a mailer. the northam campaign stands by that message. i'm joined by jerry conley. congressman, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you're a bit of a moderate close to the center. let me ask you this. a couple of weeks ago ed gill gillesp gillespie, who dpaf a tough race a couple of years ago, mark warner. >> in a republican year. >> he's a serious political leader, figure in the party. he sa

we have a poll showing that ralph northum at 49% and ed gillespie at 42%. they both say that the race is close. yesterday there was a flyer that was issued by the virginia democratic party linking ed gillespie to a white supremacist if you look at this ad, also saying this is a chance for virginia voters to stand up for change. what do you think of that? do you think democrats are going on the wrong path here and hurting their cause? >> well, i think the democratic party is doubling down on divisiveness and rhetoric that brings people apart instead of bringing people together. ed gillespie is running a totally uplifting campaign. talking about the commonwealth of virginia, talking about jobs and wages. it is a tight race. a state president obama won and hillary clinton won. ed gillespie is neck and neck right now. we're hoping we can pull this out and make him the next governor of virginia. >> dana: if he doesn't win do you think that's a referendum for things to come in 2018? >> i don't look at these off year electtions as any bell weather. especially gove

expected to head to virginia tonight for an event with their own democrat running for governor, ralph northumin newark where this thing is about to get under way, ron. >> it is, ali. and we expect president obama and phil murphy to be out any moment or so. these are the only two governors races in the country in 2017, virginia and new jersey. that's why he's picked this occasion. newark and new jersey are strongholds for obama. there's a huge enthusiastic crowd here who think of him as my president, so many people have been saying. it feels i've been saying all day like i'm back in 2008 or 2012. an old-style cam. a rally. chants of fired up, ready to go and someone just yelled out, "yes we can," if you can believe that. this is not about president obama. this is about trying to elect a democratic governor in a state where chris christie has been in power so long. he's deeply unpopular. the democratic candidate is ahead here by 15 or 16 points. his lieutenant governor candidate, sheila oliver, longtime assembly woman, would become the first african-american lieutenant governor in the state if

ral ralph northum.'s heartening for democrats is what's happening on local levels. they're getting really good candidates to run in the house races. a lot of candidates who you would think might otherwise have gone to the republican side. a lot of veterans. a lot of -- a lot of people who really have roots in their communities. i think that's the real potential story of this election is all politics being local, and democrats getting a lot of really good candidates to run in these house races. that could change the playing field considerably. >> sure. two sources tell nbc news the president told house republicans that if they succeed with sax cuts, it would be, quote, like skating on ice. he also urged members to say tax cuts instead of tax reform because he feels the average americans don't understand what tax reform means. first daughter and white house adviser, ivanka trump is headed to pennsylvania today for a discussion of the plan. last week she discussed tax reform with democratic senators, and i