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Jacki talks with California Fish and Game Department official Perry Hergesell about the somewhat beneficial effects--for San Francisco Bay--of this month's devastating floods.

Daniel talks to Olivia Gans of the National Right to Life Committee and Henry Felisone of the Evangelical Mission Church about recent violence at clinics where abortions are performed. Gans says that her organization condemns violence in the name of the antiabortion movement and that the violence does nothing to stop abortions. Felisone says that killing doctors who perform abortions is justifiable homicide and that it is philosophically inconsisent to say that abortion is murder but to condemn the killing of people who perform abortions.

Like many of South America's indians who have suffered virtual cultural extinction in recent years, the Chachi Indians of Ecuador are undergoing a similiar fate. But, a group of U.S. researchers have invited a couple of Chachi's to replicate a Chachi village and Chachi culture at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Boca Raton. NPR's Chris Joyce has this report.

For many homeless people who contract HIV, it's likely their last days will be in a homeless shelter or a hospital surrounded by strangers. But, in Washington D.C. - there exists an alternative for a few men who are ready and willing to take it...Joseph's House. This community of formerly homeless men with AIDS learn to live together AND to die together here as a family - something that many of them haven't had for most of their lives. Daniel Zwerdling takes us for a visit to Joseph's House.

A few resolutions we're sure to be hearing more about in '95.

NPR'S ANTHONY BROOKS REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE 1986 BLAST AT THE THEN-SOVIET UNION'S CHERNOBYL ATOMIC STATION--NOW THOUGHT TO BE MUCH MORE DIRE THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.

GOVERNORS: NPR'S JON GREENBERG REPORTS ON THIS WEEK'S MEETING BETWEEN GOP CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS AND THE NATION'S REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS.

SCOTT AND WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH LOUIS (LOO-ey) VALDEZ, MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF NOGALES, ARIZONA, ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S DECISION THIS WEEK TO DISPATCH 62 ADDITIONAL BORDER PATROL AGENTS TO ATTEMPT TO STEM ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS DURING MEXICO'S CURRENT FINANCIAL DISTRESS.

Daniel talks to Charles Hughes of the Univeristy of Utah School of Medicine about a new appendix to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference work on psychiatric conditions. The addition to the appendix deals with culture bound syndromes, which are pathologies specific to certian cultures.