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In the battle to control the 109th Senate, the race in Colorado that pits state Attorney General Ken Salazar and brewing magnate Pete Coors is seen as the most competitive, with the two candidates in a statistical dead-heat.

International relief organizations are struggling to deal with a refugee crisis that has already killed 70,000 people in the Darfur region of Sudan. Margaret Warner discusses the humanitarian crisis in Darfur with two experts on African affairs.