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good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. nurses are likely to take their first ever national strike action according to their union. the royal college of nursing is still counting ballot papers returned by its 300,000 members but says those counted so far suggest support for strike action, possibly before christmas. the rcn wants a 5% pay increase above the rate of inflation. nurses working in accident & emergency and critical care would be exempted from striking to maintain services. the government said nurses should "carefully consider" the impact on patients. and as our health edit...

That will, without question, help democrats in the house. the calculation republicans are making is that the house may be already gone, but they need to preserve the senate, where the playing field looks different and better. a lot of states, ten where trump won in 2016 are democrats up for elections, five he won by double digits. that's heidi heitkamp, joe manchin, joe donnelly. so i think that they believe it will rev up their base enough and put enough democratic senators in tough states in difficult voting positions. we'll see, i think all of that depends on what this fbi investigation fin...

They turned out, organized, put people on the ground. they made a huge difference. >> you know, your point about ohio goes back to some of what you were saying earlier, laura. there's a kind of symbiotic relationship between the parties who are trying to put candidates in office and sort of the ballot initiatives that are trying to pass. ohio is the perfect example because it is the battleground state, right? it becomes the focus. you end up with tons of advertising and focus. so they can work together. then you see these weird sort of things happening in other states that weren't sort of batt...