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Noah speaks with Christina Bokenkamp, a 17-year-old junior at Kearney (CAR-ney) High School in Kearney, Nebraska. She and her schoolmates were trapped overnight yesterday at school by the heavy snows and ice that paralyzed the Midwest. It was a memorable adventure, but she does regret not having brought a tooth brush.

SIMON/ELVIS: ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE NEW MOVIE "WAITING TO EXHALE"

Linda Wertheimer talks with Steve Bauer, executive director of the non-profit Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund, based in Littleton, Colorado. He tells how applications for loans are flooding in from all over the country by employees hurt by the federal budget stalemate.

Mary Jo Draper from member station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, reports on a severe winter storm that tore across the Plains and parts of the Southwest yesterday and today. Several states including Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma were frozen by sleet, snow and wind. In parts of Minnesota and North Dakota, high-winds have blown the snow into huge drifts, shutting down highways and in some places keeping snow plows off the roads.

Poet Jack Perletsky offers his own thoughts about a special breed of bird: The Flying Hot Dog.

Blues artist B.B. King spoke today at the National Press Club luncheon. We hear an excerpt in which he talks about getting started as a kid picking cotton and singing on street corners in Indianola, Mississippi.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that peanut subsidies are under attack by reformers in Congress who say the program costs consumers too much. Defenders of the program say price supports protect the family farm. Opponents say the program is being abused by people who benefit but don't actually grow anything.

-- fat substitute called Olestra is touted by manufacturer Proctor and Gamble as virtually calorie-free, but critics warn Olestra does have its side-effects. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Olestra in some snack foods.

Satirist Harry Shearer imagines what might have occurred when President Clinton consulted with humorist Garrison Keillor in preparation for the State of the Union address. Keillor supplies windy parable; Clinton's interest drops. He dumps Keillor in the Green Room with "standees" - people who might get up during speech and take a bow.

Hashimoto focused on Japan's economic recovery in his first parliamentary address.