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NPR's Chris Arnold reports on the high cost of rental property in the San Francisco Bay area. One Internet company that is laying off workers and planning to move out of Silicon Valley to escape the high cost of doing business there.

NPR's Alex Chadwick reports that marine explorer Bob Ballard has found evidence of a 7000 year old human settlement under 300 feet of water in the Black Sea. Ballard believes the civilization was flooded after melting ice age glaciers caused the Mediterranean to surge over its banks and flow into what was then a shallower lake. The discovery could shed light on the biblical story of the great flood.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the status of permanent trade relations for China. Some Senators are wary of passing the bill, which they say would allow China to escape annual review of its human rights issues. Several lawmakers have proposed amendments to the bill, including Fred Thompson of Tennessee and Robert Torricelli of New Jersey.

Jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine died in a New York hospital after suffering a stroke. He was known for his smooth playing and his ability to adapt his style to contemporary audiences. Turrentine started his career playing with Ray Charles and Max Roach. He scored his biggest hit in 1970 with Sugar, which became something of a jazz standard, frequently performed and re-recorded by admirers. He was 66 years old.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that voters in Selma, Alabama elected their first black mayor yesterday. Businessman James Perkins defeated Joe Smitherman, a former segregationist who took office about six months before the bloody voting rights marches that eventually led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Steve Young of Vermont Public Radio reports four state legislators lost their seats yesterday when they lost the primary election. The lawmakers were republicans that voted for a controversial law granting gay couples almost all the rights of marriage. After the bill passed a number of groups mobilized to repeal it...and to encourage voters to remove those who supported the measure.

This Saturday, the nation's first modern paved road will be reopened to the public after nearly fifty years. The Columbia River Highway was built back in 1913 and runs alongside the scenic Columbia. Kristian Foden-Vencil has a report.

While the Arkansas governor's mansion is being renovated, the governor's family will be residing in a triple-wide mobile home on the mansion grounds. Robert talks to Janet Huckabee, First Lady of Arkansas, about her family's new accommodations.

In 1995 Filmmaker Henry Corra gave his autistic son, George, a video camera. Henry used the video his son shot and, along with co-filmmaker Grahame Weinbren, documented the life of his son -- the resulting film is called George, and it airs on HBO tomorrow and Sunday. Linda talks with Grahame Weinbren and Henry and George Corra about the making of the film and how it has affected their lives.

The diamond industry is proposing strict measures to stop the funding of African wars through diamond sales. So-called "conflict diamonds" from countries like Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have helped to fund bloody wars. A proposal to stop the practice was made at a conference called the World Diamond Congress today in Belgium.