Sandy is still a category 2 storm. It killed two people in haiti and jamaica overnight. This is the first direct hit on jamaica since 27 years ago. 48 hour curfew to keep people off the streets and prevent lewding. Lets go to Tucker Barnes. He has more on all of that. Lets get right back to it and take a look at Hurricane Sandy. Category 2 hurricane and looking impressive overnight. Losing strength as it moved overland here. Cuba overnight hours. Still a category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 105 to 115 and racing off to the north at 18 miles per hour. Could be a player on our forecast towards the end of the weekend. Well watch the track for the storm carefully. Could bring us rain around here as it will combine with a cold front by sunday and monday. Theres the latest with Hurricane Sandy. Lets talk local weather and another nice day shaping up for your thursday. Were mild for this time of year. 62 at regan national. Tony mentioned he didnt know what he was looking at. That would be fog. 62 at bwi marshal. High temperatures expected to be in the mid 70s with partial sunshine. We hit a record High Temperature at regan national. Mordetails on the weather. Lets see the traffic. Im not sure whats going on out here but we have accidents to report with fatalities. North of town route 1. Basically shut down between route 100 and 175. It is blocked off at the scene of this crash involving a tractor trailer and a passenger vehicle. Three fatalities as a result of this crash. Now, northbound on the baltimore more washington parkway, five vehicles involved in this crash before you reach 198. Now to the cameras, traveling northbound before the beltway. Activity still here in play tying up the right lane. The outer loop leaving 95 to georgia avenue. 395 crash tying up the center of the roadway. Well keep an eye on this for you. Heavy and slow going crossing over the pelmic. Thats a check of your fox 5 traffic. 12k3w4r thank you very much. The big story is morning, virginia congressman jim more ans son has resigned. Under cover video talking about a voter fraud scheme. Melanie has been following this all morning. Reporter not accused of committing any voter fraud. He tells someone he thinks how one might do that. And that is stirring up more questions about weather photo identification ought to be required at the polls. Utility bills or Something Like that. Need something with a name and their address on it. Those words are causing a lot of trouble. He was approached by under cover reporter. The reporter says he needs help coming up with a scheme to cast ballots in the name of 100 voters. Moran expresses doubt. He also warns the guy that virginias new voter id laws would make it tough to pull off fraud and put his energy in getting nonvoters to the polls. Moran is the one to fake bills. That can hurt a campaign. Hurt its image. I dont think its going to affect the candidate. Patrick moran resigns immediately. What he did was wrong. It will be a news story but i dont think it will have an effect on the outcome. Moran is not implicated in the video. Hes running to a reelect. At no point have i or will i ever endorse illegal or unethical behavior. At no point did i take this person seriously. In heine site i should have immediately walked away making it clear there was no place in the process for suggestion of illegal behavior joking or not. The group founded by conservative blogger james okeef. The groups mission is to expose corruption and teach others to become modern day muck rakers, in their own words. Thank you. For the race for the white house, another busy day on the campaign trail. The two continue their mad dash around the nation with election day rapidly approaching. The president will rally florida and richmond, virginia. Romney stays put in ohio. The latest on their Campaign Blitz with 12 days to go before election day. These guys have both been busy. All of the states that both candidates hit yesterday. And this is a pace thats going to continue. Reporter california isnt a swing state but the president stopped there last night for the tonight show. The latest attack on mitt romney that he supposed richard merdock saying that pregnancies that result from rape still reflect the will of god. A position romney disagrees with. These distinctions about rape dont make too much sense to me. But a new ap poll shows efforts by the Obama Campaign may not be working. The president and mitt romney are relatively even in their support from men and women. Romney campaigned in ohio before heading to in iowa before heading to ohio. Make sure they vote for me this time. The president will cast his birth early. This as both campaigns may be mulling over a troubling possibility come november 6th. A tie in the electoral college. A Republican House would pick romney. The senate divides who the Vice President is. Would be still in democratic hands and pick joe biden. So you would have a romney bide enticket made president and Vice President of the united states. It would be one crazy finish to one crazy election year. And this is one possible tie scenario where each candidate walks away with 269 electoral votes. In washington, fox news. A lot more people are voting early this year but could create problems. Experts say the increase in absentee vogt raises the risks of lost votes and voter fraud. Found that absentee votes are twice as likely not to be counted as modern voting machines. And now to other stories topping the news today, a person was killed in an accident in northern virginia. This happened early this morning. You can see the r flipped over though its unclear how that happened. Betwn january mar drive and little river turnpike was closed but it is now open. A trial begins today for the two people accused to giving alcohol to teens who were killed last january. Four people died when the car that the three teens were in wound up in the wrong lane and crashed into another car killing a 55yearold man. The mother and brother of 18yearold breeana franco are charged. A university of maryland student who threatened to go on a campus shooting rampage. He was arrested back in march after making the threat online. Faces maximum three year sentence. They will be doing protests today at gallaudet university. They want the school to reinstate angela. Universities chief diversity officer. She was put on paid administrative leave after she signed a petition to put same sex marriage law on the november ballot. Still ahead, you can register for tickets to this Years NationalChristmas TreeLighting Ceremony. Well tell you what you have to do. Today is a make or break moment for microsoft. Why they cant afford to be wrong about their latest upgrade. Plus, pandamonium in san francisco. Dave ross is back with highlights of game 1 of the world series. And a live look outside. The latest weather and traffic from tucker and julie. Thats next. 7 10 now. 62 degrees. Earned. I count on Social Security. And i dont want washington politicians like george allen. Privatizing it. If george allen wants to risk his own money on wall street. Thats fine. But i dont want him risking mine. George allen just isnt watching out for us. Anncr the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee is. A glimmer of hope in syria making headlines this morning. The United Nations is backing the latest call for a ceasefire. Today syria is expected to say if it will abide by the ceasefire and some rebels say they will accept it. Others say they wont. Microsoft will unveil a dramatic overhaul of windows operating system. Windows 8 is considered a make or break moment. If it is not a success, there is talk bombers job could be in jeopardy. Its the biggest change to the industrys dominant operating system in 17 years. The worlds longest commercial flight is no longer cleared for take off. Singapore Airlines Says the flight from singapore to new jersey has become too costly. The flight took 18 hours to complete and cost passengers about 8,000 for a round tryptic et. Now the longest flight will be atlanta and south africa clocking in at 17 hours. Now the longest flight would be a delta flight. With the syria talk. I did not see the video. Just want today throw the. It in. Yesterday we tied a High Temperature at regan national. Today not quite as warm but a pleasant day. Didnt feel that warm. I kept looking at my car thing and it said 82. What is called . Thermometer. It didnt feel that warm. I see what you are saying. Did you have the air on . No. Thermometer. Im just saying it was comfortable and very nice. I hope everybody got a chance to enjoy it. Enjoy today cause the temperatures will be on the down into the weekend. 62 in washington. 56 in new york. 57 in pittsburgh this morning. Very pleasant start. Theres fog. That will burn off here. And a nice partly Sunny Afternoon expected for us. Big change from yesterday. Backdoor cold front. Look carefully but theres cloud cover out there. You see the motion out in the atlantic. That little front will be sliding down through the area toward the course of the day. Temperatures in the mid 70s and should be dry for thursday. Big changes or potential liebig changes for the weekend and all depends on the track of sandy. More on that coming up. But heres your 7 day forecast. Focus here by sunday, monday and tuesday. A lot of question marks for the track of sandy. Interact with a cold front and that could spark off fire works locally. Midatlantic, cooler temperatures and rain and gusty conditions by sunday. All right. Kind of nervous about it. Still a lot could happen. Okay. Can i just say i love your approach about this. Ive heard other broadcasters. Going crazy about it. Lets watch it and see what develops. We dont believe in scaring. Im just calling their bluff. I know you have busy things to talk about. Good morning. Good morning. I have toilet paper to last us until this time next year. Were good. You can never have too much. All right. Its been very busy again this morning out here. Lets get to it. Fatal crash that has closed a portion of route 1 between route 100 and route 175. Were told unfortunately three fatalities as a result of this crash. Accident involved a tractor trailer and vehicle. Again, route 1 remains closed south of route 100. Five cars have piled up northbound on the bw parkway. Before you reach 198 coming southbound. Anticipating the rubber necking delays headed back out toward 197. Let me show you what else is happening. Northbound new hampshire. Outer loop you are slowing leaving 95 headed around toward georgia avenue. 395 again heavy and slow continuing northbound. Activity cleared and all this traffic is heading up to the 14th street bridge. Thats a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. Thank you. 7 19. It was a history making game 1 of the world series. Dave ross is here with this mornings sports breakfast. Unbelievable. I was going to go to bed like 7th inning. And then i had to stay up for the 4th at bat. What he did at first 3 at bats. We saw last year with albert pujols. What were talking about is hitting three home runs in a game. Pablo with the best nickname, the kung fu panda. Nobody hits justin like him. Remember this at this stadium they had the least number of home runs all year. For this to happen against the best pitcher in baseball in the world series, its just unbelievable. That was one and two. And here comes number three. Al albaquerque. The only four guys in the history of the sport to hit three home runs in a game. Nobodys ever hit four. I feel like weve done this story justice. I wonder how much more experience broadcasters. Live on the scene with channel 4 news exclusive. The mood is tense. Been on serious reports but nothing quite like this. King is inside right now. Tried to get an interview. He is arrive there and literally rip your face off. You are making me look stupid. Get out here panda jerk. Great story. Compelling. What kind of name is the kung fu panda . No panda watches on sunday. But what happened on that last play the 77 yard touchdown. The bomb from eli manning right here to victor cruise and he does the dance and beating two guys on the play. That was not involved necessarily in the play. Try to come over ask help out. He also tried to help out his teammates by explaining what went down on this play. I dont feel like he made that play. We gave him that play. There was nothing he did. He saw this and saw that. One guy set his feet and one guy. It wasnt something he was just a Rocket Science and figured something out. We just played that as possible. I appreciate him giving it to me. Thank you. It didnt take Rocket Science to figure it out. A guy running open and you hit him. So eli manning fired back. He is not very bright. The giants were having a lot of fun. I like him because he speaks his mind. I do think he was taking a shot at their own guys. He was frustrated with what they did. The giants might have taken it another way. Fired up for the rematch. It was compelling and rich. Thank you. Still ahead, seats for this Years NationalChristmas TreeLighting Ceremony hit the office box this morning. Two new York City Fire trucks that responded to the september 11th attacks are on their way to northern virginia. Well be right back. Its 7 23. Presidenent obama theres justo quit in america. And youre seeing ththat right now. Over five million new jobs. Exports up forty one percent. Home values. Rising. Our auto industry. Back. And our heroes are coming home. Were not there yet, but weve made Real Progress and the. Last thing we should do is turn back now. Heres my plan for the next four years making education and training a national priority; building on our manufacturing boom; boosting americanmade energy; reducing the deficits responsibly by cutting where. We can, and asking the wealthy to pay a little more. And ending the war in afghanistan, so we can. Do some nationbuilding here at home. Thats the right path. So read my plan, compare it to governor romneys. And decide which is better for you. Its an honor to be your president. And im asking for your vote. So together, we can keep moving america forward. Im barack obama and i approve this message. A ceremony will take place in virginia this toofrn commemorate the delivery of two new york city vehicles. They will be part of a new memorial at the National Museum of american wartime. Last night they were on display at the pentagon. And here is your chance to see the National ChristmasTree Lighting ceremony up close and personal. 17,000 free tickets will be given out through an online lottery. Ends next monday at 10 00 a. M. Winners will be notified by november 1st. The Tree Lighting ceremony will be held december 6th. For more information, go to our web site and click on web links. Coming up, a request by a boy will change the way the nfl game is played. The campaign trail in depth after the break. And as we head to break, heres a live look outside. A lot of traffic out there. We have problems on the roadways. Little bit of fog. The latest weather and traffic from tucker and julie. Stay with us. Its 7 27. As governor, i cut five billion dollars in spending and balanced the budget every year. And tim kaine and i both cut our own pay as governors, to lead by example. Mark warner and i reached across party lines to get things done. We were a great team in richmond and well be a great team in washington. 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Romney would replace guaranteed benefits with a voucher system. Seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. A plan aarp says would undermine medicare. Youre no victim. You earned your benefits. Dont let mitt romney take them away. Love to get into the halloween spirit too. Take a she has brought soher lobster much joy to the family. We want to see your pets in their costumes. S. Eeshgs male your picture email your pictures to us. We will share them tomorrow in our 9 00 a. M. Hour. You bring one in . Yeah. Walking down the street seeing that. All right. To raise awareness for breast cancer, referees working sundays jets game will call penalties by throwing pink flags. Called for the change after receiving this letter from an 11 year old boy suggesting the idea. Also invited the boy and family to present the pink flags to the refs before the game. Thats very cool. Nice to know his opinion also can be heard. Thats great. Look forward to that. I was impressed by his handwriting. Little cursive there. I like it too. Forecast, gorgeous yesterday in the mid 80s. Hard to believe mid 80s yesterday. Wont be quite as warm yesterday. Temperatures back in the 70s. Better enjoy it. Enjoy today, enjoy today. Things gradually deteriorate this weekend. 63 now in washington. Bumped it up a degree in the past hour. 64 in anapolis. Were starting off on a mild note. And theres a little fog developing in a couple spots. That should burn off quickly here. Cooler north and west. Frederick is 54 this morning. Chilly spot winchester 50 degrees out to the west. Were looking at good conditions. Backdoor cold front. You have to look carefully, but this cloud cover of air coming on shore here. You might notice the winds will be out of the east. So again, temperatures in the mid 70s tod