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Jim -- james rosen -- is here and what is happening to the embassy? >> they are moving to a new location a mile & half away. this state map shows the current location at the bottom of the screen and the new one at the top of the screen with vatican city at skroen -- screen left --. in light in benghazi this is not set back from the street. this host three united states embassy on the ground. mission to the vatican, republic of italy and the u.n. offices.

Richard hughey is here with a look at the closer fight for florida and there's none bigger. 29 electoral votes. >> big, big, here, chris. it has more say in who becomes president than ever before and it's no doubt that florida has led for most of the election and activity on the ground, as well. the obama campaign has visited 46 times since june according to the washington post, the first lady a big part of that. field offices continue to grow there, now 104. the romney campaign has made 52 visits and ann romney has made a dozen of those, but his field offices are half obama's at 48. here's ho...

Located and they have santorum with a slight lead right now by one point over romney. further to the west, these are evangelical christians, these are people who rick santorum has targeted from the very beginning in michigan, and ottawa county along lake michigan has santorum winning that county by 17 points. so that is part of the reason why when we put our numbers into this state map right now, why we cannot call it. but some of the other numbers, once they come into the counties, will give us a better idea as we move away from about 38% of the vote to 50% and beyond. take you back four year...

Clarence for it, which is the standard, and they go to the doj and say is this okay, and the doj signs off or doesn't and they work it out, and texas said we will do it. and texas added enough population for four new congressional districts and most of the population is latino, the texas state map includes not a single new majority district. so they are contesting it, saying it's designed specifically to reduce the power over the 4,000 state's latinos. do you think the story is getting enough attention? >> it's under the radar. redistricting is not very sexy. and when you talk about the four c...

It's a conundrum, steve israel is from new york and so there's a lot of pressure on democrats and israel to get a good map out of new york to give house democrats a lot of opportunities to knock off republican freshmen who were elected in 2010, but there's been a big push for reform in new york to try and take power out of the hands of the legislature, it's probably not going to happen, it will probably still be three men in a back room in albany deciding the state map and it will come down to personalities and alliances. >> it should be redistricting when you look it up in tn in th dictionary...