9 20 p. M. Last night, sending people running for their lives at the Garden State Plaza mall. However, it appears the gunman was not aiming for anyone, since no one else whereas injured. Investigators say he fired shots at an escalator, some straight up in the air. The polls open in virginia in just under an hour in the states hotly contested governors race. When it is over pundits will be reading the results like tea leaves. Delia goncalves is in woodbridge, virginia. Who is up as early as we are this morning . Reporter i just talked to Terry Mcauliffs aide who said starbucks is not even open this early. It will be a long day for mcauliff and his opponent Ken Cuccinelli. Mcauliff is coming here to this commuter lot off telegraph road. Forget a lot of these folks who are beginning their morning commute, you can see them boarding the bus. Mcauliff and his opponent, republican Ken Cuccinelli have been very busy as this race winds down. Polls show the democrat with a lead. This all important race comes down to voter turnout. Typically some analysts say if we see more Tea Party Conservatives coming out to the polls, it could make this tighter. Cuccinelli opposes abortion and gay rights, wants to cut the state income tax. Mcauliff is pro choice, supports same sex marriage and would call for a task force, but vowed not to raise taxes. Despite all the issues, this race seemed to be coming down to the tea party and obamacare. I oppose expanding this failure and Terry Mcauliff, as he likes to say, is all in. Impediments are coming out of washington. I dont because it is the first major race between the forces and faces of the new republican tea party, a tea party whose social recidivism is outside done only by its hostility to science and technology. What about the president s dropping Approval Rating and the problems with obamacare . Will that hurt you at all . Focused on our jobs, economic development, we have big issues, sequestration here for another year, how do we replace those jobs . We are going to be laser focused on that. Reporter that is our peggy fox. We are hearing Terry Mcauliff will be here shortly. Back to you in the studio. Delia goncalves reporting from woodbridge, virginia. There is a third candidate getting late traction in the polls. He is libertarian robert save vise. The campaign hosted an election eve rally and he is scheduled to vote in alexandria later this afternoon. The Libertarian Party will automatically be included in the next election and not have to petition to get on the ballot. Today is also election day in maryland. There are not any statewide races. But there are some local ones like the mayor in college park. This is the First Time College park has had a competitive mayors race in 24 years because the candidate usually runs unopposed. And American History is going to be made today in tacoma park. For the first time teenagers as young as 16 will be able to cast ballots in municipal elections. About 90 have registered since tacoma Park City Council lowered the age, back in may. Jessica is in the newsroom with the headlines. Good morning jess. Reporter good morning to both of you. Good morning to everybody at home. Lets keep this winning streak alive on wall street. The market rose yet again as investors found plenty to like in housing, steel and transportation stocks. Steel stocks gained some ground after an upgrade from goldman sachs. Checking the numbers for you the dow is up 23 and a half points to 1563. The s p 500 was better by 6, the nasdaq better by 14 and a half. If you want to book the lowest plane tick possible for thanksgiving, you have probably missed your window. Kayak says the cheapest flights for thanksgiving, christmas and new years eve were found between september and october. Travelocity says they expect fares to climb even higher. So you have got the time. It is time to be realistic though, about what you are going to find. Peak days will be expensive. If you plan to save on the holiday travel, try thinking about thanksgiving morning. The best days will be monday or tuesday. For your return thanksgiving night friday or the following tuesday. The bottom line here, you may want to think about booking right now. If you have travel plans not only for thanksgiving but also for christmas and also for new years eve. Good advice. There is a scam making the rounds and the scam artist even used our name, believe it or not. Well explain that to you, coming up. What you need to be on the lookout for. It is usually something you hear about, connected to young people. But now the nfl has its own case of bullying. That story is ahead. One of the hotly contested elections today, is what is over in your food. And in sports the redskins only have two days to prepare for your thursday night contest in minnesota. Well have more on th obenshain tried to outlaw. Birth control pills. Rape or incest. Criminals, felons shows, a month law, in bulk. Instead of dictating to women, criminals. This ad. Another chilly one out there, 50s and 40s. Heavy coat weather. Not as chilly this afternoon. Temperatures will be moderating some. You can see highs between 55 and 60 with partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies. The 7 a forecast has ups and downs and a little bit of rain 7day forecast has ups and downs and a little bit of rain. Great seneca highway, one closure remains in place, 16th street between alaska and military road, due to a tree down. Back to you guys. At 5 11, heres a look another what is new. Guilty of Second Degree murder, eric rivera. Prosecutors in miami say rivera was the one who shot and killed former redskins safety sean taylor. He was killed in a robbery attempt at his home six years ago. Three defendants are still waiting for their trial. Food is at the center of an election today. Voters will decide whether to require labeling containing ingredients from genetically modified organisms. Not really as cold this morning as it was yesterday. Howard is up next to tell us when we could be going back into the 60s, at least for a little whi< all right. When you step outside, you will need maybe gloves and definitely a coat, because it is warmer, but not balmy. Not as cold as yesterday morning. 20s on the map, three or four degrees warmer than yesterday morning. You can definitely feel the difference. Light winds as well. And yesterday we hit 49, today almost 10 degrees above that and 60s the next couple of days. Heres a look at your day planner on this tuesday morning. It is only tuesday. A tough tuesday. You are looking at wisconsin avenue. Quiet right now, partly cloudy. Partly sunny to mostly cloudy. 58 by 3 00 and that is the high for the day. Look at the sunrise. Got to get used to that. We have the sunrise at 6 40. This evening is mostly cloudy, lower 50s by 9 00, falling back to the 40s, to near suburbs. Clouds continue to stream in upstairs from the west. They are coming in off the atlantic. Rain no closer to us than western ohio. Look at the chill all the way down. West of the continue them divide. Temperatures this morning are above 50 degrees. We have low 30s in winchester, Garrett County is at 30, 37 in fredericksburg, a little bit milder in the southeast. Wisconsin avenue just outside here wusa. Notice the flags light winds we are dealing with this morning. 41 degrees at reagan national. Feels like 38. Only 30, this is a dry air mess. You can see the colds here in the rockies in North Carolina and western arizona. There is your front, minneapolis 32, chicago 51. Ahead of it though, we have the southwest flow, the warmth will be brought to us. It has also taken the rain in texas and oklahoma, bringing it up into the ohio valley. For us the clouds will be the bigger concern, which will be in and out of here the next couple of days. Some sunny breaks here and there this afternoon. More sunshine on wednesday afternoon. Looks like it will be in the mid60s tomorrow, and then there are the showers that we will be watching. Coming real close to us by thursday morning. We had a yellow on alert up, regardless of the rain. 58 degrees, 46 tonight, 64 tomorrow with more sunshine. Milder. Then 62 on thursday. Friday sun returns, blustery 55. Dry and cold this weekend. Highs in the 50s. Turning it over now to monika. The only incident we have closing down 16th street and could be a major problem in the rush hour is a tree down across the roadway on 16th street southbound because of that, it is blocked between alaska avenue and military road. There was a tractor trailer involved as well. Crews are going to wait until daylight to clear this up. Alternate routes are Georgia Avenue or beach. Keep that in mind for your travel plans, especially coming in from maryland. 35 to the 14th street bridge, we are in great shape. 2905 to the 11th Street Bridge as well. This timeout west, no problems on 66 coming in from manassas, the dulles toll road. Well take a look at the American Legion bridge, all of your lanes are opench andrea and mike . The issue of bullying jumps from the playground to an nfllocker room. More on the mess unfolding in miami. Two games in five days cold unout there this morning. Skies mostly cloudy. Temperatures in the low 30s to the low to mid40s mere in the district. Well see some sunny breaks, but a lot of high clouds. Dont expect much sunshine today. By lunch time, better than yesterday. Low to mid50s. Again a break or two in the cloud cover. High temperature right around 58 degrees. Good morning, everybody. What a game on sunday. Burgundy and gold getting a much needed victory. Beating the San Diego Chargers in overtime. Talk bay confidence booster. But they didnt have too much time to enjoy it because this thursday, a couple of days away, they have another big game. The redskins have the momentum of a victory behind them. The payout on the back side makes it okay. It is kind of like the bye week. You have lee or four days off, get a chance to recover. Kind of watch games on the weekend. But it is very hectic, getting ready for this game. Both teams have to do it and we are used to it. Dont expect to see rich which i i want doing nieto suit up in a dolphins uniform again. He is suspended for bullying a fellow teammate. He sent Text Messages to Jonathan Martin with racial slurs. The nfl is investigating. Miami head coach joe philbin addressed the situation yesterday. Everything we have done has been done with one thing in mind. That is to help our players and our organization reach their full potential. Any type of conduct, behavior that detracts from that objective is not acceptable and 30 not tolerated. Incognito denies any bullying and teammates have been standing up for him in his defense. Less than an hour is when polls open in virginias hotly contested governors race. A local woman contacts us after a scammer used wusa9s name to try to steal her money. On the southbound side of 16th street, a tree down across the roadway. The roadway is blocked between sheridan and port pain. It can strike at any time. And once you feel it coming. Its almost too late. Or is it . Introducing new fast acting advil. Its built for speed with an ultrathin coating and fast absorbing advil ion core™ technology, nothing works faster to stop pain in its tracks before it gets worse. Nothing. New fast acting advil. Look for it in the white box. Good morning. Welcome back to wusa9. Im andrea roane. Grab a heavier coat, once again, we are in the 30s and 40s, guys. When we only hit 49, well be in the upper 50s. A little bit of steam coming up, hits the cover of our camera every now and again. Partly sunny to mostly cloudy conditions. 54 by noon and 57 at 4 00. High today right around 58. Clouds continue to stream in, from the west. We have low clouds from the east and the northeast, and any showers here in inindict and ohio. They are going to go that way, not this wii. So a dry day today. Just a cold one. Down to 40 in baltimore and the east end. Look at these teatures, manassas, winchester, 38 from reidville. And we are on our way this afternoon. 55 to 60. Locally though, we are down to 36. 35 at centerville. Monika . Overall, generally speaking really good shape right now. Northbound on i95 usual slow spots forming right now, trying to get up into triangle. Woodbridge, lets take a live look in springfield. This is basically what it looks like right up 95 not Early Morning commute. Back over to the maps, no problems to report around 270 coming in from frederick and all the way toward 109, just beginning to slow down toward 121. A live look heres what it looks like in the heart of bethesda. Route 410 in great shape coming in from rockville to bethesda and in toward georgetown. Back to you guys. It is a race that is being watched across the country. Virginians go to the polls today to elect a new governor. Delia goncalves is live in woodbridge, virginia with more on this final day with a special guest. Good morning delia. Reporter we all know the morning commute begins very early in northern virginia. This means a very long day ahead for one candidate in particular, who wants to be the next governor. Terry mcauliff, democrat here. You have been here shaking hands with a few voters so far this morning. Is this more face time . How important is this last push to sway undecided voters . We know this Midterm Election really comes down to voter turnout. It is all about voters, i think coming out this morning, shaking hands, reminding folks there are stark differences on all the big issues, i have focused from day one how to create jobs, diverse identify the economy. I have talked about how we grow the economy. Coming out today, reminding folks, it is an important part of the process. Reporter you talked about the shutdown and some of the frustration. Obamacare could be a part of that. The flawed rollout there. How concerned are you that some folks, who are frustrated with both, just are fed up and may be disenfranchised . Obviously the government is shutdown. Virginia was hurt more than any other state in the country. The tea party used it as a bargaining chip. The federal workers will get their money back. They were inconvenienced. The restaurant the dry cleaners, they are not going to get their money back. We cannot let it affect our government and hurt people innocently. I want to work in a bipartisan way. We have seen how many republicans have endorsed my candidacy. We have big issues, transportation as you know. I supported the transportation compromise. My opponent was against it. Im all for doing what we can do to release gridlock. To help commerce move around. I am for the medicaid expansion. This is bringing virginias money back to virginia. Why would we let our tax dollars be used in other states . It makes no sense to me. Bring it home, use it here, help our folks. Reporter should you win this election, a long day ahead, a democrat in the governors office, the legislature, controlled by republicans. How effective do you think you can be when the gop has such control . I think we have seen how we run this campaign, this is how we will govern. Mainstream, retching out to everybody. As you know, republican legislators the mayor of our biggest city in Virginia Beach has endorsed me. The issues im going to focus on jobs, economic development, diversifying the economy, transportation, reforming the standards of learning, issues around teacher pay, those are nonpartisan issues. Im going to stay focused. I will veto any of this legislation that restricts womens rights. How can you grow an economy . We have to make sure we are open and welcoming to everyone. Reporter i want to get one last question in before we have to say goodbye. About these attack ads. We know you spent ten times more than your opponent in these ads, a lot of folks with calling them attack ads. Do you think it is going to turn voters off . The ads we put up, there are real differences in this race. It would make the pill illegal. It is my opponent who believed the board of health could shut down the 20 Womens Health centers. Im all about positive, how we grow the economy. Ads are talking about the differences and where we are on the issues. My ads are up, running right now, talking about how i want to grow and diverse identify the economy. Things i have fought for my whole life. As governor we have to be the best, best scientists, innovators, we have to help Small Businesses grow. We have to recruit businesses from all over the globe, we have such assets. Northern virginia, the technology, the military assets, the tours on the east coast. With the headwinds with the economy with sequestration. It is probably going to grow for another year. We cannot be fighting, we need to be uniting together to put our best foot forward to make sure we are putting our best foot forward. Reporter a long day ahead. We are going to catch up with Ken Cuccinelli a little later today as he prepares to head out to the polls. Well have more, coming from him, at the noon newscast. Right now a very long day ahead for both candidates. The end of the race is near in virginia. Andrea, back to you. Delia goncalves live in woodbridge, virginia. You heard it is now up to the vetters now and the polls will open in less than 30 minutes. Anyone standing in line at 7 00 will be allowed to cast their vote. In maryland, polling places open at 7 00 a. M. And run until 8 00 p. M. We have posted voter guides for both maryland and virginia on our website wusa9. Com. You can look up the candidates and issues and where you need to go to vote anytime you need to. A bill, protecting the rights of gays and lesbians in the workplace cleared a senate vote. It is called the employment nondiscrimination act, however the measure does face prospects in the republican controlled house where it is opposed by speaker john boehner. He argues it will lead to frivolous lawsuits and hinder job creation. The administration in charge of launching healthcare. Gov is due back on the hill today for more questioning. The government website is now being taken off line from 1 00 to 5 00 p. M. Their applications must eventually be processed through this website. Time for the latest your money report in the morning. Reporter jess is back with the most common scam used to steal your money. Jess . Reporter this is incredibly common, but millions fall for it every year. They get a letter s