. >> niles standage white house columnist with the hill.hope you had a merry christmas and let us wish a happy new year >> the same to >>> homeowners may have a little incentive to pay property taxes early. people across the country are rushing to prepay. now, the new rules cap state and local tax deductions at $10,000, which affects people who write off their property taxes or don't itemize their deductions by paying now, some homeowners could save hundreds or even thousands of dollars. >> new developments in the virginia house race that could decide party control. this is over the one seat, 9th direct in newspaper news ended in a tie >> election officials plan to break the tie by drawing names from a bowl today. now they're postponing the tie breaker, ronica cleary is following this and joins us live tonight. ronica? >> jim and shawn, we were supposed to be there for you guys, we were supposed to be in richmond be i was pumped to see this happen. draw this name, that would affect the entire state of virginia, way more than the 9th district. then it was cancelled. we'll get into let m