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A massive earthquake hit El Salvador Saturday. More than 400 people are dead. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from El Salvador.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Brigadier General James Cross (Retired), who remembers his years as the Chief Pilot of Air Force One during the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson. General Cross also served as Military Assistant to LBJ.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, a young poet from San Francisco, revisits Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream, and laments the distortion of his message in the current age. His poem is titled, Savage Inequalities.

Reporter Tamara Keith follows a special crime unit that tracks down agriculture criminals in California. These officers hunt down orange thieves, cattle rustlers and other criminals that cost farmers and ranchers millions of dollars each year.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Rich Jones of the National Conference of State Legislatures about what might be accomplished and what legislative items might be left behind in the evenly divided U.S. Senate. Jones also discusses state houses around the country which are also evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.

NPR's Madeline Brand talks with Preston King, who was pardoned last year after fleeing the country in 1961 to avoid draft-dodging charges. He talks about his role in the civil rights movement and how race relations have and have not changed.

Host Bob Edwards talks live to NPR's Cokie Roberts about the Senate confirmation hearings this week on John Ashcroft, President-Elect Bush's nominee for Attorney General. The hearings are expected to be contentious.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein live about the first major tournament on the tennis tour.

In the first of a five-part series on the Clinton foreign policy legacy, NPR's Mike Shuster reports on President Clinton's mixed record on arms control and nuclear non-proliferation.

The BBC's Caroline Hawley reports on Jewish pilgrims in Cairo.