they believe she beat jantzy in the 24th district race in newport news. >> if simons wins it will split the house of delegates 50-50. >>> we're following another close house race. joshua cole lost by 73 votes. our news partners at cole will not contest the election results. cole will continue to go on. >>> today we will learn who associated press male athlete of the year is. female athlete of the year is one of our local swimmers. favorite around here, bethesda's katie ledecky got that honor yesterday. she finished ahead of serena williams. ledecky took home five gold medals and a silver medal at the world championships. last year she finished second to u.s.a. gymnastic star simone biles. >> ledecky is the first washington woman to win the award. >> she knows this means she's in the company of a lot of incredible women over the years, since 1931. >> she is an incredible woman for sure. >>> a flight frustration you'll be hearing about all promise you that. a plane forced to turn around when a passenger realizes they were on the wrong plane? hear from the celebrity who live tweeted this d

they say she beat jantzy in the 94th district. simons win sflits exactly 50-50. >>> we're following another close house race in virginia. josh cole loft to thomas. cole will not contest the election results. instead, cole says he'll continue to support a federal lawsuit seeking an all-new that district received the wrong ballots. >>> today we'll learn who's been named the male athlete of the year at the ap's female athlete of the year. she's one of our favorite swimmers. that's right. bethesda's own katie ledecky received the honor. she finished ahead of serena williams. she took home five golds and a silver medal at this year's world championship. ledecky is the first star from our area ever to earn the women's award. chuck, i feel like the accolades just keep on coming for katie ledecky. she is truly the golden girl. >> absolutely. congratulations to her. love to have that success from a local kid here. if she can do it, so can i. yes, you can. keep on swimming. outside today, it is going to be cold, cold, cold. not very good po

officials were set to literally draw names from a bowl today after a ruling last week simmons and jantzy a tie. lawyers wanted them to reconsider the race. if she wins it will split control of virginia's house 50-50. >>> we're also following another close virginia house race. democrat joshua cole lost to republican bob thomas by 73 votes in his stafford district. our news partners at wtop tloort cole will not contest the election result. instead, cole said he will continue to support a federal lawsuit seeking an all new election because some voters in that district received the wrong ballot. >>> 4:33. today we'll learn who the associated press male athlete of the year is. female athlete of the year, one of our favorite local swimmers. bethesda's katie ledecky received that honor. she finished ahead of serena williams. ledec t world championships. last year she finished second to u.s.a. gymnast simone biles in this particular pole. doing incredible things in the pool. >> she's awesome. love her. ledecky is the first washington area star to ever win the women's award. >>> 4:34. get another

a three-panel judge allowed it to be counted though for jantzy.here was a cross in the bubble for simons. she's asking for that vote to be thrown out. they did not follow the rules. for the latest on this i'm joined by the democratic candidate, shelly simons. thank you for taking a few minutes. the stakes here are high. the democratic governor coming in. if you win this race, democrats have a piece of this legislature and they can move an agenda. if you don't win this race, you could be looking at gridlock. those are the stakes. the republican argument and the one that the three-judge panel accepted is okay there's a crossout of your name. there's a crossout through the bubble. that's the voter saying, nah, i didn't mean to fill that one in. count the republican. what do you say of that? >> i think that ballot should not be counted at all because there's no consistent pattern there. there's an x and a bubble, just a bubble, the slash. some people say that's a check mark. so i think it's really a classic example of an over vote which should not be

they believe she beat jantzy in the 94th district race in newport news. if simons wins it will split control 50-50. we're following another close race. democrat joshua cole lost to republican thomas by 73 votes in his stafford district. our news partners at wtop will not contest it. cole will continue to support a federal eye leks system received >> today we will learn who the associated press athlete of the year is. our favorite local swimmers, talking about bethesda's katie ledecky. last year she finished second to u.s.a. gymnastics star simone biles. >> we love her. ledecky is the first washington area star ever to earn the award. >> this is editors and news directors voting on this for the ap. it's usually somebody who's done obviously incredible things as an athlete. >> and she has. >>> ten minutes after 5:00. if you are just joining us this morning, we are in weather alert mode today. >> that's right. some of us waking up to some snowflakes. no accumulation from this, but it's enough to cause an issue o especially in southern frederick county seeing