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midterm election. working hard to fire up key democratic constituencies, his latest appeal to young viewers came but a poll shows among likely voters republicans hold a 6% edge in the house vote. among independent voters, the republican advantage is even more significant and anti-incumbent sentiment rungs high, only 8% think most members of congress deserve re-election. preeti a a la is in washington with more on this. good morning. good morning, betty. the president doesn t have much time to sway voters so went on a show popular with young viewers hoping to get his message out. let me say this about members of congress. are you going to curse? no, i m not reporter: the president reached out to a late night crowd to defend his party days before the midterm election. there are a bunch of folks who during the course of this year took really tough votes they knew about really bad politics because they thought they were the right thing to do. reporter: he sa ....
wjz from arlington, virginia. federal investigators say a pakistani-born man, helped patch a plot to bomb subway stations near the u.s. capital. agents arrested 38-year-old farouq ahmed today. police believe he was helping to plan attacks on d.c. substations. a senior law enforcement official says the month-long investigation was an fbi sting. the white house says the public was never in danger because agents were on top of the case from the beginning. a nine-page criminal indictment, unsealed ahead of ahmed s arraignment today, detailed his trips to busy stops. reporter: the indictment concedes that he conducted surveys here at this station. a few days later, he handed off the image to someone he believed was affiliated with al qaeda, in a virginia hotel room. he delivered subway diagrams and made suggestions about where explosives should be placed to kill the most people possible. metro riders say learning about the plot makes them nervous. but it s part of the ....