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President Clinton began a three-day campaign swing today that will take him to Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and California. Today in Kansas City, the president addressed the annual meeting of the Southern Governors' Association and said that the welfare reform legislation he recently signed will only be successful if states and businesses can work together to create jobs. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that the mayor of Jerusalem is about to be indicted for fraud and falsifying documents. The Israeli Attorney General says those illegal activities occured six years ago when the mayor, Ehud Olmert, was the treasurer of the Likud party...the party now in power in Israel.

Linda talks with Dr. Naomi Surgi (SUR-jee), a research meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. They'll talk about how meteorologists track hurricanes and tropical storms. By using satellite, radio, and computer data, they can predict a storm's landfall by keeping track of atmospheric conditions up to seventy-two hours in advance.

City's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is challenging two provisions of the new immigration and welfare laws in federal court. NPR's Margo Adler reports. (4:30) [outcue: "... It will be up to the federal courts to decide whose claim is superior. I'm Margo Adler reporting."]

with Baltimore cardiologist Dr. Michael Benitez and Jeff Jerome of the Poe House and Museum about the new theory that Edgar Allan Poe died of rabies not alcohol.

The U.S. trade deficit increased to its highest level in eight years as imports increased and exports failed to keep pace. NPR's John Ydstie talks with Robert about whether the widening of the nation's trade deficit is a good or a bad thing and what the prospects are for the future.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton has been travelling in the Midwest today as the presidential campaign enters its final two weeks. In a campaign stop in Parma, Ohio, Clinton ignored the ethics charges that Dole has lobbed at him in recent days, but he did step up his rhetoric, mentioning "his opponent" for the first time. Highlighting the direct student loan program passed by Congress in 1993, Clinton contrasted his education policy with Dole's.

NPR's Vicky Que examines the question of whether cigarettes are, in fact, a 'gateway' to illegal drug use. The Clinton administration says one of the reasons it wants to reduce smoking by young people is to reduce subsequent use of marijuana and other illegal drugs.

Several of Mexico's most-acclaimed musicians are living in Texas and playing in Tex-Mex burrito joints and at rodeos. But they don't seem to mind...because they're making a LOT more money doing that than they would have if they'd stayed in Mexico. NPR's John Burnett reports.

Scott talks to the man who wrote 'Day-O,' Irving Burgie. Mr. Burgie wrote many Calypso hits for Harry Belafonte and other singers. He's just released a compact disc of his own renditions, called "Island in the Sun." (on Angel Records)