. >> thousands of p in the streets before and during the vote this morning we're eroking at the official swearing inony that will happen tonight. we'll tell you why the fall out from the process could impact the midterms as well. we begin with a check on the forecast. your >> we'll get to melissa and your drive in just a tment. irst let's start things off with amelia draper who is in for chuck. >> we're going to feel the mugginess today and right now areas of thick fog and patchy drizzle across a good portion of the area.ll the fog s thick in spots and the national weather service issued a dense fog advisorythor al counts in grey. this will go until 10:00 a.m. this includes fairfax, prince illiam, up through frederick and down through king george county taking a look at the most recent visibilities. you can see, visibility there down to about

the vote this morning we're eroking at the official swearing inony that will happen tonight. we'll tell you why the fall out from the process could impact the midterms as well. we begin with a check on the forecast. your >> we'll get to melissa and your drive in just a tment. irst let's start things off with amelia draper who is in for chuck. >> we're going to feel the mugginess today and right now areas of thick fog and patchy drizzle across a good portion of the area.ll the fog s thick in spots and the national weather service issued a dense fog advisorythor al counts in grey. this will go until 10:00 a.m. this includes fairfax, prince illiam, up through frederick and down through king george county taking a look at the most recent visibilities. you can see, visibility there down to about mnothing so reall take itasy this morning. but also impressive fog in frederick county,he maryland, gaithersburg area as well. otherwise a cloudy srt out there. 72 degrees right now and 76 degrees b 10:00 a.m. when will the clouds burn off and i'll have more on that coming up in about ten

erok for more on this story in the national weaervice nbc washington app. >>> a man fell down an escalatorir at the columbia heights metro station in northwest d.c. investigators are unsure why hen't use the elevator, which was fully working. >>> a check onour morning commute with melissa molett and your first4 traffic. what areou seeing? >> inner loop before the american legion bridge on the right yside, you are o getting by two lanes to the left. it was an overturned vehicle, they are getting that out of the way hopefully shortly.he capitohts outer loop at marlboro road crash there. the green showing you where it is raining across the area. 270 south is slow. a person apparently outside a car. >> thank you. >>> we will take a break now and check your forecast next. >>> and we are in heorm team4 we alert road. a flash flood batch for counties east of 95. this starts atis 2:00 afternoon and goes to 6:00 a.m. friday. if you are in the flash floodtc two to four inches of rain is possible this afternoon into the evening hours. outside of the watch an inch. already heavy rain in parts of montg