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Stops in virginia yesterday and an event scheduled in New Hampshire for tomorrow. Hurricane sandy is also causing some trouble with early voting. The lines stretched around some polling places ahead of the storm on saturday. Look at the line there. Fox 5s maureen umeh sat down with mark plotkin to talk about more on this. Reporter fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin joins us now to talk more about the impact of sandy on voting. I didnt know i was going to be the weather man. Early voting being ...

More like december tonight, but we may soon see another round of warm weather. Well begin with a disturbing discovery at a high school in fairfax. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Administrators found a loaded gun in robinson secondary school. Fox 5s Audrey Barnes has the latest from the newsroom. Fairfax county schools have an email alert system called keep in touch. Thats how parents found out about a gun found at secondary school at robinson. School officials im...

Win over the eagles. Its good to have rg3 back. He did have kind of like a bionic leg. Wasnt his old self running all over the place. But they didnt have to do much. This team is kind of met morph sizing in front of our eyes. I like that word. Another word we could throw out is maybe destiny, this team now a team of destiny, have not lost a game for seven weeks and today it came full circle because this crazy run of games began against the eagles five wins ago, never would have thought that win ...

Cowboys. The prize, a first class ticket to the playoffs. Thank you for joining us. Im maureen umeh. The redskins are neck and neck with the cowboys. The score is 77 at half time. Fans are hoping the skins will come into the second half dominating. We are out live covering the game. Audrey barnes is live in northwest with fans who are hailing their team hopefully to victory. Audrey . Reporter this place is packed with redskins fans. When Alfred Morris scored a touchdown to tie the score, the noi...

In southeast tonight. A young woman is dead and a toddler has been sent to the hospital. About Police Believe the woman was the child Police Believe the woman was the childs mother. Fox 5s karen gray houston is on scene at 19th and minnesota avenue with the very latest. Reporter it must have been terrifying for the woman who was killed and for all the people who were on the bus and this is the bus right over here, the b2 at the corner right now of minnesota avenue and 19th street. This terrible ...

Tonight. Im maureen umeh. The deal would delay harsh spending cut for two months, but it appears the house will not vote before tonights midnight deadline. Well continue to work on finding smarter ways to cut spending, but lets not let that hold up protecting americans from the tax hike that will take place. We can do this. We must do this. Reporter though it is down to the wire. Its december the 31st january 1st is tomorrow, 2013, taxes go up. Reporter a frustrated senator john kuhn said the se...

Look at ward 8. Everybody sellin drugs, they cant get jobs. Yeah, im sayin marion barry helped create the problem because he was on drugs. Thats a bad role model. Barry barry barry were talking about a piece of history, folks, marion barry, Martin Luther king. Wave your hands, blow your horns, wave your hands, blow your horns. I met marion barry i think in 1968. He was taking a lot of chances. People werent taking chances durin that period. For a black guy, durin that period, you really had to h...

And this was a fluke deal where he was rolling out and got his ankle caught in the ground in an awkward way. I think theyre just fluke injuries and happen to certain players time to time. Hopefully when he recovers from this, it will be the last one he of has. Reporter we tried to he every has. Reporter we tried to talk to Robert Griffin today. He was not made available to the media. His mri results will be sent for a special reevaluation and cast for a couple weeks as he begins his rehab. With ...

Why the organization may reverse its controversial stance of excluding gay scouts and troop leaders. And get ready for a weather roller coaster ride. Were about to get a taste of spring and the possibility of snow all within a few days. Thanks for joining us tonight tonight at 10 00. Im shawn yancy. Im brian bolter. We begin with the dramatic standoff between a bank robber and police that unfolded live on our air two years ago today. Tonight one of the employees held hostage inside that bank is ...

The train and walked through a tunnel. Find out what caused the mass confusion. Were live with the latest. Lets begin with the storm system tearing through the d. C. Area, the wind coming down fast, the rain at least and the wind fast and furious. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Sue palka is outside our studios to begin our coverage. How is it doing . Reporter were still getting rain fairly light to moderate. We can see it here in the street lamp and the wind is n...