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Riverside County California sheriff's deputies have been placed on administrative leave after being videotaped beating two people who were driving a truckfull of illegal immigrants on a California highway. The man and woman apparently put up no resistance as the officers struck them repeatedly with billy clubs. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Mandalit DelBarco who's in Los Angeles and has been reporting on the reaction from the Latino community. (4:30)

is using his most recent visit to the crucial election state to highlight family and community issues. Yesterday, he stopped in the Los Angeles County town of Monrovia, where he praised the town's community policing program, anti-truancy efforts, and school uniform policy.

The border crackdown near San Diego is causing illegal immigrants to try crossing on foot through the mountains in eastern San Diego county. But most are unprepared for the snow and cold weather and several have frozen to death trying to get across. Human rights groups blame the Border Patrol for forcing the immigrants to cross through the mountains, but the Patrol blames immigrant smugglers for misleading immigrants about the dangers and then abandoning them. Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS reports.

From Peach State Public Radio Susanna Capelouto reports that Dekalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown was murdered last Friday. Brown was gunned down outside his home. Weeks before his murder Brown had ordered 38 sheriff's department employees to be fired once he gained office but there is no speculation by police officers about the motive.

Host Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Melissa Block, who previews tomorrow's hearing by the Florida Supreme Court on an appeal by Vice President Al Gore to overturn the certification of George W. Bush as the winner of the state's electoral votes. Gore asked the court to set aside the ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls that some 14,000 disputed ballots need not be hand counted.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Nina Totenberg about the legal and Constitutional implications of the unresolved Presidential election. They discuss the vote recount in Florida and legal challenges to the ballot in Palm Beach County. They also talk about the tactics that the Gore and Bush campaigns are using. The election definitely won't be decided before next week, and it might even take weeks to sort things out.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports a judge assigned to hear arguments dealing with the vote recount in Palm Beach County had to remove himself from the cases yesterday. The judge has been accused of saying voters who claim they did not understand the ballot there were stupid. The judge denies the charges. Its just another in a growing number of controversies surrounding the recount in Florida, and delaying the official announcement of who will receive the states 25 electoral votes.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on what role the Florida legislature may take in deciding where the state's electoral votes should go. Yesterday's state Supreme Court decision to allow three predominantly Democratic counties to continue with their hand recount was a blow to the Bush campaign. But the legislature, which is dominated by Republicans, has its own options, including the possibility of deciding on its own who gets the state's 25 electoral votes.

Craig Waters, Spokesman for the Supreme Court of Florida announces the court's unanimous decision to overturn earlier court rulings that would not allow the hand-counted ballots in three Florida counties to be included in the state's final vote tally. Waters said the court considered the importance of individual votes to be more important than the deadline set by Katherine Harris, the Florida Secretary of State, that all ballots must have been tallied and the totals submitted to the state by Tuesday of last week.

This afternoon, the Florida Supreme Court began hearing arguments that have the power to determine who will be the next president of the United States. Democratic petitioners argued that the hand recount of votes for president in Broward and Palm Beach Counties should continue and be counted toward the state total. Republican respondents argued just the opposite. NPR's Melissa Block had a front row seat for the proceedings and talks to us about the arguments and atmosphere inside the courtroom.