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Usefulness has expired for 400 parking meters in Merrill, Wisconsin, so the city is selling them off.

Michele Norris talks with Billy Gorta of the New York Post about the falling homicide rate in Manhattan and in New York City in general in the past year.

The Northeast was hit by a major storm today. At least a foot of snow covers the New York area. NPR's Melissa Block spent the day roaming New York City to tell us how today's storm is affecting the Big Apple.

Frank takes a trip to Nordstroms at the Pentagon City Mall in Northern Virginia, which offered a "drive through bow tie" service last night, for men who needed help with the bow ties before attending the inaugural balls.

NPR's Madeleine Brand reports that residents of Santa Cruz, California, aren't too worried about the rolling blackouts in their city. Many don't believe there really is an energy crisis.

In Mexico, a way of life is vanishing for some of that country's railworkers and their families --converting boxcars into trailer-homes. It's a system once supported by the Mexican government before privatization, and now one of the few remaining encampments still survives north of Mexico City. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Ahmedabad, India where the death toll from Friday's earthquake is expected to rise to 13, 000. The quake, which registered 7. 9 in magnitude, devastated cities in the western state of Gujarat and has left tens of thousands of people homeless.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with Adam Gopnik, former Paris correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, about what makes Paris great. This is the first of a series on cities, broadcast this month on Tuesdays on Morning Edition.

Jeff Brady of member station KOPB in Portland, Oregon reports on a call for the resignation of the city's police chief. Critics point to statements made by the chief against homosexuals, for corporal punishment and critical of the nation's judicial system.

Robert and Linda review what public opinion polls are showing about how Americans view the ongoing court battle over the presidential election, and we hear what some Americans are saying in cities around the country.