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♪ it is election day in america. hello everyone im anderson cooper welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are looking at live pictures of voters lining up to cast their ballots. polls are open in a majority of states. at this hour six more states are opening their doors to voters. the big question who will control congress. dozens of house races are considered toss ups, republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to win the majority. in the senate th...

To take the majority in the house and in the senate republicans need a net gain of just one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. the big questions will republicans see gain as mong latino voters. self house races in texas and in nevada right now hinging on latino vote. joining me now is cnn commentator sochi hinojosa from the democratic national committee and also with us is la tasha brown, the co-founder of the black voters matter fund. so sochi, according to this research, this midterm ...

Around, across and through the polar regions. it has been dipping down. this is our polar vortex we are talking about a couple of weeks ago, way down here. that gave us the cold air. it also gave the west coast a very warm air. it has been 10 degrees above normal everywhere across parts of california. there is the next part of the up and down. it is going up here through parts of europe and then back up to the north and then back down here. so sochi is right there, 5-10 degrees above average. so...

But the bigger thing, this is what ron and i were trying to say a while ago, you want structured activities by government, but there are times when bureaucracies become truly stupid. you happen to think the current activity of the administration on immigration is stupid. obviously, what the little girl experienced was stupid, and we need to rethink what were doing on national security, because im a hawk but im a cheap hawk. i dont think you should automatically salute something just because it h...

Train stations may be at greater risk. >> youve said that the russians are not sharing adequately in terms of information on what theyre doing and what they thick the threats are. what do you think they should be doing in terms of working with us that theyre not? >> theyll give us information when theres an exterior threat. so if there are people in france or austria or elsewhere that they have reason to believe are a threat, are going to come to russia and pose a problem, they share that inform...

>> so sochi is a real problem, but so is boston. so is silicon valley. when we get back, ill share with you the scariest story i read this week.

>> i think its quite staggering when you consider the sophistication of the attack and how little we still know about what took place, whether this was an act of domestic terrorism like the oklahoma city bombing, whether this was preparation for something more sophisticated later. but it just kind of brings home the fact that, when we talk about sochi and we talk about soft targets outside the city, we have lots of soft targets here. and some of those power stations are among the softest targets...

England radical islamism around the world, dont you find it really sobering that after all this effort and bloodshed, the russians are at this very moment having to bring in 37,000 additional police just for the sochi area because they cant -- they cant break the back of this resistance? >> i think thats exactly right. and it shows the double-edged sword that the russian heavy-handed tactics bring. on the one hand, yes, they can have this ring of steel, they can bring all these resources in, yes...