i spoke with ron myer, the loudoun county supervisor and a political analyst at media dc about the significance of the outcome of this race. take a listen. >> it's way bigger than the 9th district because of the size of the majority, and so whoever has the majority has the speakership gets the committee chairs, gets to decide what legislation comes forward and when, so it's tremendously important and this seat will have tremendous weigh just from that perspective alone. >> reporter: well now, there is legal action we will keep you posted every step of the way and how this will affect you in virginia. reporting live in clariden, ronica cleary fox 5 local news. >>> while the increasing threat, i thought we were talking about the weather, i apologize. we'll be talking about north korea, why it is a top priority for the trump administration going into 2018 >> and claims of sexual misconduct against a former trump campaign manager, what singer joy villa did to her at a gathering here in the district. . >>> homeowners are rushing to pay the tax before the gop takings effect. it caps state and local d

i spoke with ron myers, he's a loudoun county supervisor, a political analyst for media dc about how significant this really is. take a listen. >> it's way bigger than the 9th district. it decides the majority. whoever has majority has the speakership gets to decide what legislation comes forward and when. so it's tremendously important and this seat will have tremendous way from that perspective alone. >> reporter: and basically, if the democrat is declared the victor, the house of delegates with the 50-50 split would then vote on who becomes the house speaker. now, how does that happen? they will have to cut deals to decide who is in charge? it will affect which legislation is looked at and voted on in the state of virginia. so amazing to see this race unfold. how much bigger it is than just 9th district and how it could affect the entire state of virginia. back to you jim and shawn >> we've said this many times >> merry christmas. >> also, it's really cold. >> it is cold indeed, caitlin roth is standing by with a look at the chilly forecast. caitlin. >> who knew we'd be saying it'

loudon supervisor ron myers says for him in addition to pg contact the tolls at $5 he would also like to see the hours changed for when drivers are tolled. i know it's only four daze. but this wasn't what was told to us. we have two and a half timeframe where people are getting tolled now when it was restriction free before and those are a lot of people who are working hourly jobs coming between five:30 a.m. and 6:30 a significant toll to get to work every morning. they're taking routes in arlg to be. they're taking dw park parkway and those routes have been atrocious. if you take a closer look on your screen there, vdot release some data here showing the average total round trip costs on monday during the morning and afternoon peak rush hour which is 14.50 as you see. that's not bad. toy .25 each way and after all it's less than 17 bucks which is what vdot pro jected back in 2015. accord ing to critics as they pointed out that average total round trip cost doesn't paint an accurate picture in this case because it includes whether you drive one exit or you drive the whole entire porti