Decision was a clear one. I dont know much about gillespie, but i know much about warner. Reporter does that mean youve been happy with mark warner as senator . Yes, i do. Reporter but Republican Voters are hoping their party seizes control of the senate, and this gop voter says she wants anyone but an incumbent. To be honest, id love to see everybody gone and everybody new. And we start from scratch. So just to kind of clean the slate and start over and fresh and hope we do better next time around. Reporter these Loudoun County voters are also in the tenth congressional district, where for the first time in more than 30 years, the name of longtime republican congressman frank wolf is not on the ballot. The race to succeed him between Democrat John foust and republican Barbara Comstock is expected to be the closest in the commonwealth. Thats one reason turnout was steady at many Northern Virginia pre sinks. Virginia voters also faced a first today, a requirement to present an approved type of photo i. D. There were fears seniors in particular might come emptyhanded. But my check with registrars in fairf fairfax, loudoun and Prince William county showed very few voters came unaware. Now most of those not all, but most of those who did not have the required photo i. D. Were allowed to cast a provisional ballot and in fairfax county, they tell me between six and eight voters came in today, just to have that photo i. D. Created so they could vote. Julie carey, news4. Republican larry hogan has closed a big gap with democrat Anthony Brown, the Lieutenant Governor. But will it be enough . Turnout could tell the tale in this one, and both candidates pushed for every last vote today. At 6 30, the one thing besides turnout that could determine the outcome. In the district, all eyes on the mayors race. It is the closest november general election in 20 years. Our tom sherwood visited several polling places today. Tom, how is it looking there . Reporter and now, jim, were outside precinct 24 here in adams morgan. Its been steady all day and a little noisy. Voters are picking a candidate who will be the citys third new mayor in eight years. Democratic nominee Muriel Bowser voted early, hoping a wellfinancesed get out the vote operation would carry her to victory over david catania. Catania, an independent focusing on school and government reform, has run a stronger than expected campaign against bowser in this overwhelmingly democratic city. Three out of four voters are registered democrats. And while voting turnout was steady around the city today but not spectacular, whoever wins the Mayors Office will face more demanding voters in a fastchanging city. Both mayors vincent gray last spring and adrian fenty in 2010 were defeated in their reelection bids. Whats the challenge for the mayor to represent all of the people . Building a coalition that involves, you know, all of d. C. As well as the new d. C. I think thats the challenge for this mayor or for any mayor. Reporter Carol Schwartz making her fifth run for mayor came out of retirement and switched from republican to independent in just the past three months for this contest. She consistently has trailed a distant third in the opinion polling. Also on the ballot are the citys firstever elected attorney generals, spots on the d. C. Council, and asosorted othr neighborhood offices and school posts. In the district, tom sherwood, news4. There have been some challenges for people at the polls today. The news4 iteam has been tracking down your complaints and working to get some answers. Tisha thompson at the live desk with new reports of problems. Reporter doreen, in just the last half hour, weve been getting more calls from across the region about voteslipping, one of two big issues youve been calling and tweeting to us about all day. The other is virginias new voter i. D. Law. This is the first major election where voters are required to brianna proved photo i. D. To vote in virginia. Heres a long list of whats accepted, including passports, and employee i. D. S. So viewers today told us when they tried to use those two types of i. D. S, they were asked for second i. D. S with their home addresses on it. Fairfax county office of elections says you do not need to provide a second i. D. With an address on it, and this should not have happened. Also, in virginia, chris tells us he shot this video when he tried to pick a republican candidate for the virginia Second District house seat. Instead, he says the machine selected the democrat candidate. He tells me he was told it was a calibration issue, and he needed to touch above the box to make his selection. In a statement to the news4 iteam, the Virginia Department of elections say the issues appear related to the touchscreen calibrations and any machines with issues are immediately taken out of supervise. The voters should notify an officer of elections prior to casting their ballot. Maryland has a different type of machine and blames voter error for reports of flipping today. Maryland says as of now, they believe there has been no votes cast anywhere for the wrong person. Thats because voters notified election judges when they had an issue. You need to keep telling us about what you see by calling our tip line at 2028854444, or emailing tips news4iteam. Com. Jim and doreen, back to you. Thanks, tisha. On a national level, it might be a close call in congress. Republicans are expected to keep the majority in the house. Some say they might win the senate, as well. Wendy rieger has more on the battle for congress. Reporter there are 36 seats in 33 states up for grabs right now. And heres,000 how things could shake out. In order for the democrats to colorado the senate, they need to hold off republicans in ten Battle Ground states you see here in purple. If its close, the democrats have a builtin advantage. The two independents in congress currently caucus with them, and that could tip the balance. And if republicans gain just five seats, the senate is tied with Vice President joe biden providing the tiebreaker. Now, there are two states that could give an early indication of how the midterms might break. New hampshire and north carolina. Every scenario of Democrats Holding on to the senate assumes they win both New Hampshire and north carolina. If republicans win one or both, they could get the advantage. Theres another caveat here. Regardless of what happens tonight, it could be months before we hear from some states. If no candidate wins 50 of the vote in louisiana and georgia, those states could go for runoff elections. Louisianas in december and georgias not until january of next year. For coverage and analysis of all, we invite you to tune into a special hourlong edition of news4 at 11 00. Between now and then, you can use the nbc washington app for breaking Election Results as they come in. Other news now. A virginia man says his family is devastated after his daughter and granddaughter died in a fastmoving house fire. Mary barkes and her 7yearold daughter emily were trapped inside their arlington home by the flames and smoke. It happened early this morning. Two other family members were able to escape. Marys father says this tragedy comes just six months after the death of his own wife. He says its an extremely difficult time for the family. I dont know why im still here. It took my granddaughter and my daughter. Its horrible. I dont know why we have to go through this. Coming up in our next half hour, pat collins will have more reaction from the victims family and a look at what may have contributed to the cause of that deadly fire. New details tonight about a woman charged with vandalizing the Washington National cathedral last summer. A judge ruled that she is not competent to stand trial, and said she probably will not make an improvement any time soon. Police arrested her back in july of 2013 for damaging two chapels with a can of green paint. She is also connected to a string of other vandalism cases, including an incident at the Lincoln Memorial. She is currently being held at a psychiatric hospital. Turns out the man who escaped from a d. C. Psychiatric center off wisconsin avenue in northwest yesterday simply walked out a back door. The news4 iteam has learned that Kenneth Clayton was under psychiatric evaluation after allegedly attacking a police officer. He was put in a room where privacy rules keep staff out. Clayton went out a back door of that room, down a stairwell and out the door. D. C. Police are actively searching for him now. A crucial new clue after a woman is snatched from a sidewalk in philadelphia. Give her back. Just give her back, please. Give her back. Tonight we report the passionate plea from her parents as police shift their focus to a spot in maryland. Heres a d. C. Story for you. Mysterious road work in front of the Vice President s residence. We found out what it is and how long its going to be here. The story coming up next. Weve been telling you about the deadline for weeks. New at 6 00, the penalty for parents who dont have their children vaccinated by tomorrow. Got some rain making its way our way. Ill show when that rain moves in and what it brings, next in my forecast. Youre watching news4 at 6 00. A centers for Disease ControlSecurity Guard fired for carrying a gun on an elevator with president obama is speaking out tonight. Kenneth tate told the New York Times he was never told he couldnt carry his cdcissued gun while escorting the president last month. He claims other Security Guards were armed, as well. Tate was also reprimanded by the secret service for taking pictures of the president during the ebolarelated trip. He says it went from being one of the best days of his life to being a nightmare. A russian member of the taliban is in richmond, virginia, now, where hell stand trial on terror charges. His name is irek. He defected after the soviet war in afghanistan several years ago. He was captured in 2009 after an attack on u. S. Forces. Hes been held in a facility at Bagram Air Base since then. He was transferred to virginia because the u. S. Has agreed that all the prisons in afghanistan will be turned over to the Afghan Government by 2015. His arraignment is set for friday. Road work around here is nothing new but the pavement is being turn up along one of our busiest commuter routes and nobody is willing to explain why or when it will be complete. Transportation reporter adam tuss got some answers about all the work on massachusetts avenue in northwest right in front of the Vice President s home. Adam, its a mess over there. Reporter the good news, weve learned that this is expected to be gone by the end of the week. But just what exactly this is, still remains a mystery. Is it a gas project . Nope. Water . Nope. Power project . No. Nobody knows whats going on here. I believe them. Reporter after doing some digging, we found out this is a project to bury 1,900 feet of fiber oppo fiberoptic cable deep under the road. Crews dug using a directional drill from wisconsin avenue all the way down to the Vice President s residence. Its been about a month since this all started. And its left a lot of open sections of the road and plenty of busted hub caps. Take a look at how much traffic is here. Keep in mind, this is video is sped up significantly, and the traffic still crawls. I think its a nightmare, as always. Washington, d. C. Is a nightmare and this construction owe do it at night. Reporter the reach the impact is being felt now, paving has to happen during warm, daytime hours. Its too cold at night to lay asphalt. Still, no agency has come forward. She says shell be more than happy to see it all go. Yeah, so when is it going to be done. Reporter supposed to be this week. Okay, good. Reporter one of the other things we learned today, crews had to open up so much of the pavement here, because they didnt want to hit other utility. In northwest, adam tuss, news4. Not a bad night to be standing out, even with the traffic going by next to you. Its unseasonably warm out there. We will take it, for sure. Because our average High Temperature falling very, very quickly, now 62 degrees. And thats exactly where we are at this moment in time. Dont know why i said that. 62 degrees. That was a movie. Remember that . Christopher reaves. Youre getting in deeper, doug. I dont know where were going with this. 62 degrees with the temperature around the rest of the region, 59 in gaithersburg. 59 in manassas. 58 towards the huntingtown area. So starting to cool fairly quickly here as it does this time of year. But were still in the 60s in many locations and a rather nice night. Storm team 4 radar on the dry side, it will stay dry i think over the next 24 hours or so. But there are some clouds moving in. A lot of cloud cover. Thats ahead of our next storm system, and you would think this is the storm system here. Well, the storm itself is way up into canada. There is another one, a pretty potent one, coming through the dall dallas, texas, area, and vance it is hurricane vance coming toward mexico. That moisture coming into our region the next few days, too. You made hurricane 100mileanhour status, my friend. Congratulations on that. This rain, however, is going to be drying as it makes our way. As it does so, that means tomorrow on the dry side. So wednesday, 7 00 a. M. Here comes that rain, and notice most of it is gone now, just a cloud cover remains on your wednesday. During the afternoon, were still on the dry side. Maybe a few hours towards luray and harrisonburg and stanton, but that is it. Mild day tomorrow, but with cloud cover temperatures getting on the cooler side. But still quite nice. Thursday morning, the rain really moves in. And i think thursday you will need the umbrella throughout mo of the day. Especially the early portion of the day right on through around 1 00, 2 00. Some areas could pick up upwards of a tenth, maybe quarter inch. Some locations a half inch. But behind this, it gets rather breezy. Thursday still mild. But then the colder air starts to move in. So dont get used to these 60s and 70s like today, and tomorrow. 67 in leesburg. 68 in d. C. 70 towards fredericksburg region tomorrow. Once again, though, plenty of cloud cover. Then on thursday, 67 degrees with a 70 chance of rain. Notice what happens next, though. 53 on friday. And it will be a very cool 53. As winds will be gusting at maybe 20, 25 miles per hour. 54 on saturday. 55 on sunday. And even cooler on monday after another chance for showers on sunday. Colder air moves in. A high on monday, only 52 degrees. Next tuesday, a high of around 60. So looks like weve got a little extended stretch of cooler weather. And once again, impacts the weekend. Thank you, doug. New questions and concerns tonight after a sex assault at a local middle school. Well report the reason officials waited weeks before alerteding parents about the attack. New details about the final moments on board and why the sole survivor isnt talking days after the shuttle broke into hey, jennar fuzz mike troober munny sling. Awwwwww scram im crust mike jubby roll bond chow gonna lean up an kiss bet. Peas charty get town down. 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At 10 07 00 a. M. , at 45,000 feet, Virgin Galactic space ship 2 separated from its carrier and its the rocket motor ignited, propelling the plane toward the edge of the atmosphere. Nine seconds later, the ntsb says Cockpit Video shows co pilot mike he alsbury, unlocking the planes feathers or brakes, something usually done only when the plane is ready to glide back to earth. The ntsb says when the co pilot unlockeded the feathers prematurely, they appeared to have deployed by themselves. Seconds later, the aircraft broke apart. Hearing reports of parts as far away from the original site as far as 35 miles northeast of that section. Reporter the surviving pilot, peter seabold, landed a mile east from the largest piece of debris. Former nasa astronaut and International Space station commander, leroy chow, is among those fascinated by seabolds survival. Both pilots i assume had oxygen bottles and were wearing helmets, so he would have been able to maintain enough consciousness, i think, to get out of the vehicle. Now, that pilot is still recovering tonight, and unable to tell investigators what he remembers about the accident. After the ntsb wraps up the onscene investigation, it could take up to a year to release a report on the crash. Back to you. Thank you. A frightening few minutes for passengers on a transatlantic flight after an encounter of severe turbulence and had tourn around. Air France Flight 006 was headed from paris to new york today. It had just reached Northern Eng