looks pretty good on the roadways to start your work weeng. southbound lanes at 270 coming out of frederick heading into urbana, hyattstown. no early issues reported in your path. right side of the screen is the southbound traffic with a little bit of building volume past the truck scales. the rest of the drive looking good. maryland beltway incident free with no overnight construction. kind of got stormed out so that's good news. traveling in virginia on the outer loop of the beltway leaving springfield toward eisenhower avenue, very light volume and it looks like, yes, they have finished the project as they were supposed to over the weekend on the outer loop of the beltway between eisenhower avenue and the wilson bridge. should have both through and local lanes open so that will be nice for folks. if you're heading north on 95 heading for springfield, everything is okay. no early problems for you. volume has been light and incident free. that's a look at your timesaver traffic. your next check at 4:55. >>> midmtdz's house of -- maryland's ho

the two campaigned separately since romney announced ryan two weengs ago in virginia. president obama is not campaigning today. he has events scheduled in ohio, nevada, and new york in the week ahead. >>> leaders from both the republican and democratic party say the presidential race has reached new points, low points, with negative ads. virginia governor bb mcdonnell and martin o'malley talked about the tone of the race on "meet the press" this weekend. both accused the other side creating personal attacks. >> governor romney is a guy you would never want to play pikup basketball with. always crying foul. >> they would sigh whether it's welfare reform or other things based on policy, that's fair game. we can disagree on that respectfully. but these character attacks about the other side are just horrific. >> now, political analysts say only 3% to 5% of voters are still undecided which could be driving the personal attacks. >>> a u.s. candidate for senate is backing off his comments he made about rape and pregnancy. >> it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways t