likely to take this red state seat. in right-leaning utah both sides believe incumbent democrat jim mathison's retirement means all four utah house seat will be democrat next year. democrat sean eldredge, a millionaire investor married to facebook co-founder will bring national attention and money to that race and in new jersey john runyon is retiring and democrats do have a shot at a few pickups. another nail-biter will be in cole california's sixth district where the incumbent republican mike kaufman faces a tough challenge from the popular former speaker democrat andrew romanoff. this may be the closest race of the year, but overall it's pretty clear that democrats are rattled. next week both president obama and former president bill clinton will attend a retreat with senate democrats to try to buck up the troops. bret? >> carl, thank you. breaking late this afternoon, an italian appeals court upheld the murder