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Elections. that battle for control of congress is coming into sharper focus today with a new forecast now moving 14 more seats, 11 races moving forward democrats, three races moving toward republicans. that puts 30 races in the tossup column. that's up from 27 last month. that positions democrats closer to the 23 seats that they need to shift the balance of power in the house. what now? in the unofficial kickoff of the midterm race. let me bring in alice stewart. and joe trippy. alice, to you. if you were a republican looking at this forecast today, what do you do different? anything? >> you c...

Party wins the governor's mansion. we always knew it was going to be tough. great field team, great volunteers, spectacular. it's a great win. we're happy. now we've got a lot of work to do. >> reporter: piers, you heard him talking about the curse here in virginia. it is true that it has been almost half a century since there has been a democrat in the white house and a democrat won the governor's mansion here in virginia. and that does certainly tell you something about the way virginia has been going over the past two presidential cycles, of course, barack obama had a surprising win in 2008...

Ohio is the center of the political universe. >> i love toledo, ohio. >> hello, ohio! >> reporter: it was a buckeye state brawl between president obama and mitt romney. >> i am not fighting to create democratic jobs or republican jobs, i'm fighting to create american jobs. >> you want four more years with 23 million people struggling to find a job? >> reporter: in ohio election day is really election five weeks. starting next tuesday voters can cast their ballots. presidential contenders are working furiously to lock down support now. right now it is the president who has the clear edge. abc n...

>> we're aware that this threatens our people wherever they are in the world because these terrorists groups in many instances or most instances are opposed to everything that we stand for. >> daily flashback, this day in 1984 when for the third time in 17 months american interests in beirut suffered a deadly terrorist attack. this one was at the american embassy annex. in what some may see as a response to criticism that mitt romney has done too much fund-raising and not enough campaigning, the romney campaign has just announced a three-day six-city bus tour in ohio to move the 18 electoral...

your 401(k) is going up or down in the latest effort to save the euro zone and how it impacts your bottom line. we begin with what you would have to call tonight's picture of frustration. president obama, vladimir putin looked grim after a two-hour meeting that apparently did nothing to head off an even bigger bloodbath in syria. another 68 people died there today adding to an overall death toll now estimated to be above 13,000. at the same time, a ship thought to be carrying russian attack helicopters now stopped off scotland after earlier being en route to syria. the pentagon also ...