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Peter Allen and Rachel Burden have the day's news, sport, business and travel.

Plus updates from Aasmah Mir in Sarasota, Florida, as the United States prepares to vote in a set of mid-term elections that will have huge implications for the second half of Barack Obama's presidency.

Aasmah examines how the tourism industry is still suffering from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, because potential visitors wrongly believed the pollution had spread to Florida's west coast.

The Tampa and Sarasota areas were hit hard by the subprime mortgage crisis and the subsequent recession. House prices and the job market have collapsed. Aasmah asks if there's any light at the end of the tunnel, and speaks to pensioners who've retired to the area, and a British family that's been caught up in the sub-prime crisis.

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