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Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that a fire raged for more than a day in the city's television tower, leaving at least two people dead. The blaze caused considerable damage to the structure -- the world's second tallest tower -- and nearly all television service to the capital has been cut. The fire -- coming just after a bomb blast in Moscow and the sinking of the submarine Kursk -- has prompted more talk about Russia's crumbling infrastructure.

Presidential hopefuls spend months campaigning in Iowa to win the important Iowa caucuses. But in the general election, Iowa, and its main industry, agriculture, don't get much attention. Host Jacki Lyden talks to corn and soybean farmers Jack Kintzle of Coogon and Bill Horan of Rockwell City ... about their concerns as farmers and business owners this election year.

Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports from New York City on the deal struck over the weekend between the campaigns of Senate candidates Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio. They agreed not to accept any soft money or outside contributions between now and Election Day. Advocates of campaign finance reform hope candidates in other races will do likewise and that the deal will encourage Congress to pass reform legislation in the next session.

Noah talks with Douglas Couvertier, Battalion Chief for the Miami-Dade Fire Department about his campaign to LOSE the race for city council. His name will be on a ballot for the newly formed town of Southwest Ranches in Broward County this Tuesday. But Covertier found out that Miami-Dade law would require him to quit his job as a firefighter if he wins. So, now he's out asking the electorate to not vote for him.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Cartagena, Colombia on the international convention of Narcotics Anonymous, a 12-Step Program for recovering drug addicts. About 15-hundred members of NA, mostly from the Americas, gathered in the Caribbean port city to celebrate their ongoing recovery from drug addiction. Ironically, the host country, Colombia, is the world's largest supplier of cocaine, and the second largest supplier of heroin and marijuana.

New York City is going to court in a bid to evict homeless people from shelters if they fail to find their own apartments quickly enough. It's a reaction to severe overcrowding at facilities where people wait for beds at shelters to open. NPR's Nancy Solomon reports.

NPR's Neal Conan talks to Mike Doddson, Alexandria, Virginia as he plows a suburban side road. We find out plowing is hard when everything's closed, because cars are parked on the street and and you have to be careful not to bury them. And it's hard to find a place to put all the snow, which the city is dumping into Potomac River. Doddson says its kind of fun to operate big machinery, and the money's not bad.

In 2009, the city denied requests to paint crosswalks in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Polish Hill. An unknown person has taken the law into his own hands and painted unofficial crosswalks. By coincidence, officials are also promising to install real crosswalks within a few weeks.

between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and President Clinton. Arafat is trying to rally support against the Israeli government decision to build thousands of Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, a mostly Arab section of the city. The Israelis say they have every right to build the new homes, despite Palestinian claims that the construction violates the latest peace agreement.

James Carrie and New York University Law Professor Steven Gillers about the latest developments in the Oklahoma City bombing case. They discuss the legal and ethical questions raised by the Dallas Morning News' decision to publish a story about defendant Timothy McVeigh, based on confidential defense memos.