Ken cuccinelli is the current attorney general who sued the federal government over the Affordable Care act and other measures. The two competing now for the job are both in the state senate, democrat mark hearing and republican mark obenshane who has more votes, but that could change because county electoral boards across the state are going over the count making sure its right. After a grueling Election Night its been a long day of counting vote after vote. And checking each voter. Vote canvassing is a mandatory ritual. Its made even more important by tight races like the razor thin margin in the attorney general race between republican mark obenshane and democrat mark herring separated by just about 1,000 votes. Obenshane has the lead. It comes down to that last handful. Reporter mark scheoneman says they are checking our tapes that recorded both the touch screens and optical scanning machines making sure there are no errors. The final product that we review saturday that goes to the state board will be correct. If the state board catches anything, we have to fix it. Reporter the electoral board is deciding whether to count 480 provisional ballots cast by people not listed as registered voters at the precinct where they arrived. A few people have come in to plead their case. A voter comes in, provides information as to why they voted provisionally, what the issue was, any documentation they have to demonstrate where there was an error or they did what they needed to do and it was our mistake. Reporter anyone who casted a provisional ballot surgeried to go in and defendant it. After the results is urge the to go in and defend it. Its close enough at this point to expect a recount in the attorney general race. In annapolis the mayors race still too close to call. The republican mike paneline leads the incumbent by 84 votes. The provisional ballots and absentee ballots will not be counted until tomorrow. Stacy kincaid has been elected the first ever county sheriff. In new jersey where voters reelected Chris Christie and new york city bill deblasio becomes the first democratic mayor there in 20 years. The issue of prayer at the start of government meetings was taken up by the Supreme Court. Reporter for the past 14 years the town council of greece new york has started its meetings with a prayer usually led by local clergy. On wednesday the Supreme Court heard arguments whether the towns prayers are constitutional. I dont think that were asking that there not be prayer. I think that were asking for it to be inclusive. Reporter susan galloway, a resident who is jewish and Linda Stevens who is an atheist say the premeeting prayers violate their rights because they emphasize christian beliefs. When youre told by a pastor to stand up and bow your head and pray to jesus and you dont do that, it can be intimidating if you object. Reporter the town of greece argues the Supreme Court settled the issue 30 years ago. That ruling says opening prayer is part of the nations fabric and not a violation of the first amendment. Its something we do in the senate every day before we meet and its something that weve done for over 200 years in the capitol. Reporter the towns lawyer told the court people of different religions are given equal opportunity to pray. We can pray how we want. Reporter outside the court a group of atheist protesters exercised their right to free speech while a pastor led a small group in prayer. The courts ruling is expected next june. Tara mergener for cbs news at the Supreme Court. The Obama Administration and conservative groups both agree that the town of greeces premeeting prayers are constitutional. Come up at 5 45 well have a debate between a pastor and an atheist with their views on public prayers. Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius is back in the hot seat today defending the governments new problem plagued healthcare program. For nearly three hours sebelius listened to capitol hill lawmakers hammer the Obama Administrations handling of healthcare. Gov. Sebelius said the Affordable Care acts website needs more than 100 fixes but shot down calls to delay the program. For millions of americans delay is not an option. Peoples lives depend on this. In fact, more people are losing their insurance than are signing up on the website. Despite all the problems sebelius says the healthcare website can now process more than 17,000 applications an hour. President obama traveled to dallas this afternoon to encourage more people to sign up for the program. Adam kokesh will soon be released from jail after pleading guilty to firearms charges. He was arrested for posting this video to youtube that showed him loading a shotgun on july 4th. Cleaning up the environment in the district, would you support a ban on styrofoam containers . Bruce johnson reports the city unveiled a number of initiatives today to clean up the air and the waterways. Reporter it took us less than a minute to find this field of discarded plastic and glass along the anacostia riverbank today. The tax on bags has helped. Mayor gray now wants a ban on styrofoam to further clean up the waterways. If we raffle want to clean up the environment and keen really want to clean up the environment and keep it clean, well have to make these kind of decisions. Reporter the ban would include the plastic containers your carryout orders are placed in, the cheapest option for mom and pop stores. It would force them to use more environmentally products for people to take home. Reporter this was topic a of the mayors press Conference Today to help reduce emissions from idling Police Vehicles, new idling equipment is being installed in police cruisers. With so many traffic details and special events in the city, we spend a lot of time on posts. Reporter the car automatically cuts off when no longer needed to charge the battery. First we have reduced fuel consumption and emissions. Reporter 90 Police Vehicles are being equipped with idling machines. The styrofoam ban is still a few years away. It was pointed out a natural alternative might be the paper products, the kind you find in most whole foods stores which brings us to our second announcement from that press Conference Today. Whole foods is building again in the district store no. 6th coming here to the eighth street corridor. Whole foods says this store will bring 200 jobs, green roofs and rooftop gardens and energy e phish systems also featured and the efficient systems also featured anded food chain is promising to build in less trendy parts of the river. Im talking about the detroit store, new orleans store, South Chicago store and newark, new jersey store. Those what are were doing now and hopefully committed to reaching further. So d. C. Is on the list for the cities to do. That. Reporter bruce johnson, wusa9. Two Water Treatment plants in maryland are going green including this one here in germantown and another facility in Upper Marlboro and each plant will be powered by nearly 8,500 solar panels that span several acres. Both facilities are the result of a Public Private partnership with Washington GasEnergy Systems and standard solar, incorporated. The commute turned into a nightmare today for thousands of drivers along i95 because a tractor trailer slammed into a jersey wall in springfield. It happened during the morning rush hour on the southbound side. You can see the mess here. Work crews spent hours cleaning it up after that fuel spill. No one was hurt and tonight that truck driver has been charged with failing to obey highway markings. For the second time this week the lights around Dupont Circle were flashing red at the height of rush hour. It happened this morning and monday morning as well. We dont know why. Technicians showed up to fix the signals and everything is back to normal tonight, but that can cause quite a traffic nightmare. I got caught in that this morning. It was a bit of a backup, not fun. A dog do problem well say, no. 2 problem, has gotten so bad at one alexandria area condo theyve called in dog dna detectives to fix the problems. The good news is you didnt get through that with a straight face, no. 2. Surae chinn has more on the poopy problem. Reporter a little problem gone to the dogs. At midtown alexandria station condos residents complain of dog droppings outside, in the parking garage, elevators and on the carpet. Its an awful thing. I moon who does that . Reporter the mean who does that . Reporter the Property Management says theyve done what they can, put out the letters telling dog owners to pick up the poop and say surveillance cameras cant be in every corner. So they turned to poo prints, a dog dna testing company. After a sum swabs the doggie dna is run through the system. A lot of my neighbors seem to feel its a big waste of money. It comes out to about 3 a unit. We have 360 units here. Reporter dog dna crusader and board member Joseph Gilmer says the deterrent is mainly to catch indoor offenders. Were trying to pinpoint the one or two people causing the trouble, not the 68 responsible dog owners. Im opposed to the Condo Association paying for the dna tests. However, if this is the only way we can get 100 compliance with the program, then im all for it. Reporter its 75 to test fidos feces. The first offense is roughly 125 plus cleanup. By the third strike you and mans best friend could be kicked out. In alexandria surae chinn, wusa9. Other condo communities in our area have also done the doggy dna testing. The Chantilly Park condos say they had a horrible waste problem and after a year they have nearly 100 compliance. You got to check out our facebook page. People have a lot to say about this. Some funny and pretty serious. The powerful story of a free black man kidnapped in washington sold into slavery is the basis of a new hit movie. Bruce leshan examines local historic links to 12 years of slaves. Plus a local College Football team is nearing an undefeated season and the first for the school, what makes them special is something some of you may see as a disadvantage. The remarkable story of the galludet squad coming up after the break. The weather just fine for a swim test at the national zoo. These adorable people right here swimming in that video right after the break. The tigers are at coral ones, right . We should draw are the adorable ones, right . We should draw them. A little touch of spring today, temps back in the 50s. Were still looking at mid60s, 64 downtown, 63 in gaithersburg, 66 in manassas. Cold front on the map, yellow alert tomorrow. Well talk about that and the weekend forecast. Adorable video of the day, these two Sumatran Tiger cubs passed their swim reliability test at the national zoo today. Zookeepers tell us bandar and sukacita were into the water, able to doggie paddle and pull themselves out of the water. Now zoo Officials Say they are ready to explore the yard with their mother. They are cute. They grow up fast, though. They dont start out really tiny. They just grow big. Theyre cute at that age and then its scary. Everybody loves the feel good story, the High School Team that helps the student with a touchdown and a group of players nearing perfection. Tonight Diane Roberts introduces us to the Galludet UniversityFootball Team on the verge of doing something very special. Reporter the beating of the drum is a practical tradition at Galludet University. It signals the start of football practice. Players who are deaf or hard of hearing can feel the reverbations. Theres another sound echoing throughout campus. Something special on campus is a buzz in the air. Reporter the buzz is about the teams undefeated season, 8 0 with two more games to play. Game no. 8 last weekend was an unbelievably dramatic win against becker. The bison blocked a field goal and returned it 79 yards for a touchdown. Galludet represents not only d. C. Or the deaf but the whole Deaf Community all over the world. This team has been different compared to the team weve had in the past. We have 54 players on the team and we call them 54 strong. Reporter the school is credited with introducing the huddle to the game. Being deaf or hard of hearing isnt an impediment on the field. Just asked this 6 6 270pound defensive lineman who is an nfl prospect. At least 200 teams have contacted galludet about him including the hometown redskins. He could be the schools first player to make it to the pros. Im just humbled and grateful. It makes me want to work even harder of. Reporter before the nfl can come calling solat and his teammates have business to finish. Players know to reach that undefeated season they have to take it one day at a time. Their next challenge will happen on this field saturday against anamaria college and if they win, theyll win the conference championship. Diane roberts, wusa9 sports. Redskins safety reed doughty is hard of hearing and will be at saturdays game as honorary captain. Tulot was surprised to find out that doughty follows him on twitter. The calendar may say fall, but its wintery weather breaking records in some parts of the country already. Sioux falls, south dakota hit with 6 inches of snow overnight. Topper was fighting the feeling to just show up there and shovel some snow. That beats the old record set in 1959 by 4 1 2 inches and the city usually doesnt see much snow until later in the season. Since you love snow so much, top, any time you want to come over when it snows here and shovel, youre welcome. In the black hills they already had 30 inches in october. Theyve had tough weather in the plains states. Like spring today. We are looking at a cold front, a yellow alert day tomorrow for showers, especially in morning, early afternoon. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, just enough clouds coming in and enough light to really produce some nice colors out there. Temperatures 64, how nice is that . Relative humidity way up there at 65 , winds out of the south at 8 which is a warm wind that will continue to actually increase in intensity overnight into tomorrow. Here we are right there. Lots of showers back to the west now through ohio back toward columbus and cincinnati. Thats where the cold front is. Heres the latest image. Theyre still west of pittsburgh and charleston, but these are our showers for tomorrow morning and early tomorrow morning. That is why tomorrow is a yellow alert day. 62 bethesda, 63 arlington, 64 old town, 65 still in college park and down at waldorf. Out to the west its 64 in leesburg and bluemont. Mild tonight and mainly dry. You want to go out tonight, you can. Yellow alert day tomorrow for primarily showers in the morning, early afternoon, looks like a wet commute for many and then the sun returns in afternoon, one of those days where youll have a Rapid Improvement by late in the day. Early in the morning clouds, showers south and east and showers north and west. Put this into motion, by 10 00, 11 00, showers everywhere, nothing crazy heavy, all shades of green which is pretty light, occasionally moderate. Look how fast it rolls through. Your morning commute may be wet, but your evening commute will be dry. Snow returns west of the divide, oakland down to the Canaan Valley overnight. Thursday mostly cloudy, breezy, lows in the 50s. Break it down for you, showers through 11 00, sunshine beginning to return by 1 00, temperatures back in the mid 50s. The next three days in the wake of this front it will get chilly on friday, 54. So bundle up for High School Football at night and then cool but nice on saturday, 59. We have the heart walk saturday. Mr. Bernstein will lead that at 10 00. Get to the mall at 9 00. The terps are in town saturday, looks like a great day. Ravens in town sunday, temperatures back near the low 60s, nice on veterans day, temps in the 50s and then next week cold on tuesday and then a cold rain possible with highs breaking news, a 21 years veteran of the Prince Georges CountyPolice Department has been charged with multiple counts of Sexual Assault and other offenses. Lieutenant John Warhurst was arrested in Calvert County yesterday. He was immediately suspended from his job as an officer. Starbucks will be doing more than serving up lattes and cappachinos the next five years. Theyll also serve up 10,000 jobs for veterans and military spouses. The plan began after the appointment of former defense secretary robert gates to the starbucks board. The company is also offering up free coffee for vets and their spouses on veterans day. It was an epic car chase captured on camera. Police in texas say speeds reached more than 120 miles an hour as they pursued a car. Dash camera video from texas shows shavrea taking out orange barrels in a Construction Zone throwing out potential evidence in the chase through four cities. It ended in a crash in north fort worth. Police say he had methamphetamine on him, high on drugs and faces a long list of charges including dwi and reckless driving. Fighting with the tabloids, bieber busted in brazil and a dress that doesnt leave a whole lot to the imagination. Our hollywood headlines in just a few minutes. And prosecutors hope the third time is the charm in the amanda knox murder trial plus. Reporter a mystery solved, that movie 12 years