5 Senate seats are entirely uncertain right now

The presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is narrowing in the polls in the short days left before the election, but in the ever-critical Senate race, it is looking even tighter. Five of the races are so close that CNN's experts aren't even willing to say which way they might or might not lean. Democrats need to pick up at least four Senate seats to have control if Clinton wins, and five if Trump does since the vice president acts as a tie-breaker.

With four days left until votes are cast, Indiana is a toss-up, where the Democratic former Sen. Evan Bayh is running against Republican Rep. Todd Young and the polls show the two in a dead-heat. Missouri, a deep red state, is another toss-up that is being threatened by "perhaps the best Democratic recruit in the country," CNN writes. North Carolina is also too close to predict a winner; Trump is underperforming Clinton there, leaving Republican Sen. Richard Burr threatened by his Democratic opponent, Deborah Ross.

The list keeps going. Nevada is a toss-up between Republican Rep. Joe Heck and Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto; both have been shown with the slight lead according to various polls, but their opponent remains looming in the margin of error. New Hampshire has been locked in a dead heat for four months now between Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, who has Democratic dollars as well as Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail trying to bolster her to a win.

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FiveThirtyEight's most recent predictions show that Democrats have a 64 percent chance of winning control of the Senate while Republicans have a 36 percent chance. Thirty-four of the 100 seats in the Senate are being contested overall.