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NPR'S ISABELLA ALEGRIA REPORTS THAT RAINS HAVE ABATED AND FLOOD WATERS ARE RECEDING IN CALIFORNIA, LEAVING BEHIND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGED AND RUINED CROPS. MANY SMALL FARMERS AREN'T INSURED AND CONSUMERS ALREADY ARE SEEING HIGHER PRICES IN LOCAL MARKETS.

FINANCE: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S JIM ZAROLLI ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET'S RISE LAST WEEK, A WEEK IN WHICH WE ALSO SAW THE U.S. DOLLAR SAG.

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Anne Frank, NPR's Scott Simon has a special segment about her life and the diary that has become one of the most influential books of the century.

Daniel talks to Norman Mailer, author of "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery." Mailer had access to the KGB documents on Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the Soviet Union, and he talked to many of the people there who knew Oswald.

2: Actor TIM ROTH. ROTH has been in many recent films such as "Tom and Viv" and "Pulp Fiction." He is currently in the new release "Rob Roy."

SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, WHICH BEGINS THIS WEEK.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FILM REVIEWER AND AUTHOR PAULINE KAEL ABOUT HER NEW BOOK "FOR KEEPS - 30 YEARS AT THE MOVIES" PUBLISHED BY DUTTON.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports from Los Angeles on how much the O.J. Simpson trial is costing. No one knows how long the trial will take, but cost estimates now are about 700-thousand dollars a month.

SIMON/BURL IVES: WE SHARE A MUSICAL INTERLUDE WITH BALLADEER AND ACTOR BURL IVES, WHO DIED YESTERDAY AT THE AGE OF 85.

Soviet born journalist MASHA GESSEN (GUESS-N) has just edited a new collection of post-Soviet fiction by women, Half A Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women (Cleis Press, Pittsburg, PA.). GESSEN says that most of the writers in the collection belong to the "mute generation" that came of age under Brezhnev. GESSEN's immigrated to the U.S. in 1981, when she was 14 to be with her parents. She's been an editor, primarily in gay and lesbian press, and was international editor at THE ADVOCATE. GESSEN has now repatriated to Russia.