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Last week the medical examiner in Oakland County, Michigan released an autopsy report of the last patient that Dr. Jack Kevorkian claims to have helped die. The medical examiner says he found no evidence of medical disease. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that today in speeches before the National Press Club in Washington DC Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger disputed the examiner's report and the retired pathologist affirmed his right as a physician to relieve suffering through assisting suicide.

Noah talks to R. George Metellus, an epidemiologist who is director of the AIDS, TB, and Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Units at the Dade County Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. A talk show host on Miami's WLQY-AM radio station had been saying on the air that AIDS is a myth. Metellus says that some AIDS patients have stopped taking medication because they believe the radio broadcast.

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.