The results on Election Day will come down to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Hurricane Olaf is closing in for a strike on the Los Cabos resort region at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

If the Hollywood mantra for making blockbusters is “faster, faster, faster,” then the creators of “Sonic the Hedgehog” have wisely ignored it. Sonic the Hedgehog at the "Halo" along Hall Road in Sterling Heights on Feb. 6, 2020. But things didn’t look too good when a trailer dropped last April that portrayed Sonic as more rat-like with creepy human teeth. One great sequence ends with everyone agreeing on a common enemy: hipsters. “Sonic the Hedgehog,” a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG for action, some violence, rude humor and brief mild language.

Even more rare is when the planet Mercury passes right across the middle of the sun, and it's happening Monday. A Mercury transit, as it's called, occurs only 13 times in 100 years, according to NASA, and it won't be seen from North America again for another 30 years, or from anywhere until 2032. ET, it will take more than five hours for Mercury to pass from one side of the sun to the other. Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, will be just a tiny dot on the sun, so NASA recommends using a telescope with a certified solar filter. According to NASA, the Solar Dynamics Observatory's website' will be showing "near real-time" images of the transit, so you don't have to miss this rare event, no matter where you are.

(CNN) - The fall nor'easter spinning southeast of New England strengthened into Subtropical Storm Melissa on Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center. ET, the storm was about 190 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts with maximum sustain winds of 65 mph. That means wind gusts up to 50 mph and coastal flooding from the mid-Atlantic to southeastern New England, the hurricane center said. The storm is forecast to begin moving away from the US on Friday night and gradually weaken over the next couple of days. It's expected to be a post-tropical system by Saturday night, the hurricane center said.

Tropical Storm Erick's outer bands were dumping heavy rain on part of Hawaii early Friday as the storm's center was making what likely is its closest pass of the island chain. (CNN) - Tropical Storm Erick's outer bands were dumping heavy rain on parts of Hawaii early Friday as the storm's center was making what likely is its closest pass of the island chain. ET), is the closest of two tropical storms posing some threat to Hawaii in the Pacific. Sustained winds of tropical storm strength (at least 39 mph) extended only 105 miles from the storm's core. Flossie, meanwhile, was hundreds of miles to the east early Friday, but could begin to impact Hawaii with rain early next week.

WLS via CNN(CNN) - The alligator that somehow ended up in Chicago's Humboldt Park has finally been caught. Chance the Snapper, as he came to be known, had been on the loose in the park for almost a week -- forcing a partial shutdown of the site. Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told CNN Tuesday the alligator was caught sometime overnight. The city brought in St. Augustine, Florida, alligator expert Frank Robb on Sunday to help capture Chance. The alligator had last been seen on Thursday around 1 a.m.The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.