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ROCHELLE & ANTHONY YATES. On July 18, 1988 the YATES' five year old son Marcus was killed in gun crossfire between two drug dealers fighting for turf in a corner store. There were 11 children in the store playing video games, two others were shot but survived, one of them was Marcus' six year old brother. Since the incident the YATES' have become activists against senseless violence; they lecture to high schools, take in foster children who have lost family members to violence, run a day care center and organize community activities to take back neighborhoods.

2: Writer SCOTT PECK and his father Colonel FRED PECK . PECK has written his first book, All American Boy (Scribner) a memoir of his life growing up in an abusive home with his step-father and the rebuilding of his relationship with his father after a fourteen year estrangement. PECK was thrust on the national scene in May 1993 when his Marine Colonel father spoke against gays in the military to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Col. Peck went on to say his oldest son, Scott, was gay, and though he loved him, he should not be able to serve in the military. .

Daniel visits the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where development and deforestation have caused a shortage of drinking water. Industrial and commercial development has interfered with natural water patterns, and poor regulation of polluters has exacerbated the problem.

Jacki speaks with NPR's David Welna in Port-au-Prince on the day that the United Nations assumed responsibility for peace and security in Haiti. Yesterday, President Clinton handed over peacekeeping authority to the U.N., six months after 20,000 American troops restored Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. Welna says security remains the biggest problem in Haiti, and he says some Haitians are impatient with the pace of reform.

AS THE AFTERMATH OF THE BOMBING IN OKLAHOMA CITY CONTINUES TO UNFOLD, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTENBERG ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENTS SO FAR.

NPR'S LYNN NEARY REPORTS ON THE BILLION-DOLLAR CHRISTIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, THAT RANGES FROM TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN MUSIC TO HI-HOP POP.

NPR's John Burnett reports from Oklahoma City on two parents who's children are still missing after the bomb explosion in Oklahoma City.

CHIP BERLET (bur-LAY), of Political Research Associates in Cambridge, MA. He has spent 14 years tracking right-wing groups in America. He talks about the connection of militant right-wing militia groups to the Oklahoma City bombing.

OKLAHOMA: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S WADE GOODWYN ABOUT THE MOOD IN PERRY, OKLAHOMA, WHERE TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH, ONE OF THE MEN ACCUSED OF BOMBING THE FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA CITY, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY.

2: DAVID WHYTE interview continues.