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State race will not be decided for a few days. correspondent dan stringer is in phoenix as well. good evening, dan. >> hi, bret. this boat race remains very close. about 450,000 votes to yet be counted but we thought we have a big court room legal drama but it turned out a short time ago that an announcement of the settlement was made, in court by the way, the republican party sued to get maricopa county to stop calling ballots that had a problem with signatures. officials say most counties throw that ballot out if they cannot be verified by election day. with the d she'll be back down allowin...

>> dan: airports are the worst worst. dano: i don't mind the parties it's the over scheduling. that's it for us. we'll see you back here on monday. "special report" is up next. i don't have anything funny. >> bret: you are invited to our party, dana. i am bret baier in washington. some of the closest races in the midterm elections are now the focus of court fights. tonight, there are big decisions that could affect the counting and the recounting. that's coming up. but first, breaking news out of california, california firefighters are right now battling major blazes in both the north and sout...

That would not happen. this is a total surprise, really, a breach of the type of confidence that lawyers should be able to have with one another. we were very upset about it. >> bret: the illegal immigrant got that abortion. the aclu has 60 days to respond to the departments petition, the u.s. supreme court will decide whether to hear that case. the controversy over drilling in the artech was back open as the senate debates the renewed possibility of oil exploration in alaska's national wildlife refuge and elsewhere. correspondent dan stringer has the drill down from anchorage. >> as part of h...

>> of those giant fields do not come along very often. they are the elephants. they are the huge giant blaze that can produce for 40 years. >> 12 years ago, the same effort to open area 1002 was killed by a handful of moderate republicans. since then, all but two had left congress. those remaining, senators john mccain and susan collins, say they are now open to contentious drilling. beyond anwr, though, fox news has learned the interior department is considering an even larger move toward american energy dominance. opening exploration elsewhere. bret? >> bret: dan stringer, in anchorage, than...