expect november 8th, exactly four weeks from today as we say hello. i m bill hemmer. got your election red on. dana: exactly. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we love the mid-terms and catch you up on these latest ones. a couple changes you will want to know about. the latest forecast shows the republicans taking the house and win 231 seats. it could swell to as many as 246. bill: best case for democrats is 220 seats, about where they are right now. that would be enough for a razor thin house majority. dana: the senate is anyone s game. we have 47 races going democrat, 49 republican. that means it all comes down to the four toss-ups we ve been talking about, arizona, georgia, nevada, pennsylvania. bill: the nationwide conversation is shifting. majority of independents say they re more focused on the economy than voting rights and democracy. a trend that would favor republicans. dana: alexandria hoff has more from washington. the numbers just out. al
found and she is safe. police say it appears 14-year-old chloe campbell ran away from home and not held against her will. she was found monday at a home in thornton 30 miles southeast of bolder. she took considerable steps to avoid the law but she is okay. dana: the f.b.i. has joined the search for a missing toddler in georgia. the 20 moll boy s mom said she last saw him wednesday morning in his playpen at the family home near savannah. charles watson live in atlanta with more. what do we know? good morning, dana. police say while they consider this a missing child case they are beginning to explore the possibility of a criminal aspect in the disappearance of 20-month-old quintin simon. 40 f.b.i. agents are coordinating with local police in the salve anna, georgia area
conflicting messages what is causing this backlog. cargo ships remain lined up outside congested ports waiting to be processed. the pressure builds on the white house to clear the bottleneck. transportation secretary pete buttigieg says the issues will continue well into 2022. jonathan serrie live in garden city with more on what s happening there in georgia near the port of savannah. hello there, sir, good morning. hi there, bill. we re at the howard shepard truck depot. you can see the stacks and stacks of empty shipping containers waiting to be picked up. nouf i want to show you a live shot from our fox flight team drone, an aerial view of all the activity at this facility. trucks coming in and out bringing goods to and from and shipping containers to and from the nearby port of salve anna.
the containers. the point is during the pandemic manufacturing plunged, supplies went down. now you have the surge in demand and we don t have the capacity to handle it. so now this congestion is rippling to salve anna, east coast ports and northern ports as well. it is rippling out and they are having back logs now which makes sense because companies are always going to try to find the best way to get to the market. so supply chain is really a fancy term for planes and trains and ships and dock workers, forklift, highways, you name it. something made in the u.s., chances are one part is still in a container on its way from china. the pedal for your bike, computer chip for your ford. also people are saying why is it going to cost so much more? a 40 foot container used to cost $2,000 from china to the u.s. now it s $20,000.