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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on the condition of Kobe, one year after the earthquake that took more than 6000 lives. While the city has made remarkable progress in repairing the city, the psychological damage to residents is taking longer to heal.

Neal speaks with Joseph Nocera, contributing editor at Fortune Magazine, about the New York Yankees. The owner is threatening to move the venerable baseball franchise out of the City. The City is trying desperately to keep that from happening.

New York City was in a state of euphoria today as the city honored their championship-winning Yankees. Millions of people turned out for the parade in Manhattan. NPR's Melissa Block reports.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that much of the success of workfare in New York City hinges upon the cooperation of the city's powerful labor unions...unions which are growing increasingly skeptical about the role and motives of the workfare programs.

From Peach State Public Radio Maura Farrelly reports on how Atlanta residents are coping with the three inches of snow that hit the city yesterday. Many of the city's snow-deprived are enjoying the chance to frolic the white stuff.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Bill Bottomley from Kansas City, Mo. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KCUR in Kansas City.)

The story of Angelica, a Mexican woman living in New York City who had her five children removed from her home by the city's Administration for Children's Services. Also, The Moth and La Bamba.

Brooke talks with a U.N. official who provides an eyewitness description of yesterday's Iraqi attack on the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. He says it appears Iraqi troops are withdrawing from the city, where calm now prevails.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that the state of Florida is sending advisors to the city of Miami to help the city figure out how to resolve its sixty-eight million dollar debt...but there will be no takeover by the state.

NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports that a federal judge in Philadelphia today ruled that two former top city officials do not have to pay damages to surviving members of the group MOVE, for the city's 1985 bombing of their home which killed 11 people.