beautiful live pictures of the statue of liberty there. time now for a cnn political update. gloria borger joins me from the political desk in washington. hi, gloria. how you doing? >> how are you doing? actually, on top of the political desk. sitting on top of the desk in washington. >> i know. but mark preston all those tall guys there, you have to sit up there to get to the camera height. >> xooktly. >> let's talk about democrats in virginia. they're not all that surprised by senator jim webb's announcement today we just reported on cnn. >> yeah. you know, it was interesting. a lot of democrats were predicting he wasn't going to run again, and he didn't surprise them. he decided one term was enough. but that kind of throws everything up in the air in virginia. very much a swing state. salivating out there to get back is george allen, republican candidate, who lost very narrowly to webb in 2006. you know, this is tough for the democrats because you've got more than twice as many