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Tripp Sommer of member station K-L-C-C reports on the conditions that are sustaining the wildfires in the Western states. As the fires continue to burn out of control thousands of people are forced to evacuate their homes. Some of the fires are slowing their advance because of cooler temperatures.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on one of Al Gore's closest advisors in his presidential campaign: his daughter, Karenna Gore-Schiff.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Warsaw that a special tribunal today cleared former Polish president Lech Walesa of charges he collaborated with the communist-era secret police. The court ruled that in the early eighties, the Interior Ministry faked documents, casting Walesa as an informant, to undermine his chances of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Thursday, the court also cleared the current president Alexander Kwasniewski, of similar charges of collaboration.

Scott speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is covering Al Gore's presidential campaign as he makes his way to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks Tom Santaniello, who at 17, is the youngest delegate attending the Democratic Convention. Santaniello has been involved in politics in his home state of South Carolina since he was an 8th grader, just four years ago. As a class assignment, he had to write to someone famous he admired. While others wrote to sports heroes, he wrote to Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC). Since then, he's been volunteering on campaigns, and has attended state party conventions.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the meeting of the North American Anarchist Conference in Los Angeles this past week. City officials feared violence leading up to the Democratic convention, but the anarchists focused more on social issues than protests.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Cleveland, where Vice President Al Gore campaigned Saturday. Gore is making one last swing through several key states before heading to Los Angeles for this week's Democratic National Convention.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with host Jacki Lyden about Vice President Al Gore's recent visit to Silent Spring author Rachel Carson's estate. Gore, a long-time crusader for a clean environment, spent time at the author's estate, and said her book helped to get him interested in environmentalism.

NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look back at the life and career of actress Loretta Young. Young, who won an Oscar Award in 1947 for her role in The Farmer's Daughter, died today of ovarian cancer.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the canonization of Tsar Nicholas the Second by the Russian Orthodox Church. The Tsar and his family were the best known victims of the Russian Revolution in 1918, but there is controversy surrounding their canonization as so-called "New Martyrs."