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Jacki Lyden speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Davan Maharaj about the recent deaths attributed toover-stocked super stores like the Home Depot and Sam's Club. Merchandise piled high has fallen off shelves onto shoppers.

Latest on the Kursk, the Russian submarine stranded at the bottom of the Berents Sea. Natalya Yefemova

In 1971, a man going by the name of D.B. Cooper jumped from a Northwest Airlines 747 over Washington state, carrying $200,000 in ransom money from the airlines, and two parachutes. Jo Weber tells Melinda Penkava that her late husband, Duane, confessed on his deathbed five years ago that he was Cooper.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on the desperate situation involving the 118 sailors trapped on a Russian submarine. As the Russian navy announced that it had little hope of finding any survivors, a British rescue team arrived on the scene.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the annual Back to School report issued by the U.S. Department of Education. This year's study examines such topics as student enrollment, class size and teacher pay. The report shows a record number of students attending public schools this fall.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin about Congressional elections this year. Democrats, six seats short of a majority.have a chance to re-take the House, In the Senate, some established members are facing tough re-election challenges.

Norwegian divers struggled to open the hatch of the sunken Kursk submarine today, 354 feet under the Barents Sea. There have been conflicting reports from Russian, Norwegian and British rescue teams over the amount of damage to the submarine's hatch and over what may have caused the accident. From Moscow, NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

Jyl Hoyt of member station KBSX in Boise reports efforts to battle the Rankin fire in central Idaho. This year's western wildfires are the worst in nearly half a century.

Midwestern singer-songwriter Greg Brown is both a road poet and a keen observer of the natural world. He says that he likes to think about his work as stories sanded down into songs. His new CD is called Covenant; it's his 17th album. He talks to Jacki from his home in Iowa City. (Red House Records 2000)

NPR's Melissa Block reports that Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman get back aboard their rented riverboat named Mark Twain today as they wrap up a post-convention swing.