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Attorney General John Ashcroft went to Oklahoma City today to meet with survivors and relatives of victims of the 1995 Murrah Federal Building bombing. Ashcroft said he wanted to talk with the people about the calls from some of them for closed circuit television of the execution of bomber Timothy McVeigh. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Writers may go on strike in Hollywood. Representatives of the Writers Guild of America will sit down to negotiate with producers on April 17, two weeks before the Guild's threatened strike deadline. Meanwhile, the fall season for new TV shows and feature films are in a holding pattern. Noah Adams speaks with Entertainment Weekly writer Daniel Fireman.

Liane speaks with NPR's Julie McCarthy from London about concerns over foot and mouth disease in Europe. Scientists are predicting a large increase in the number of cases in England by this summer, and there are estimates that the country could lose half its livestock.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports on the aftermath of the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry hearing into the USS Greenville accident. The sub struck and sank a Japanese fishing boat last month, killing nine. At the time, there were 16 civilians on board the sub; despite allegations that they may have been a distraction to the commander and crew, none of the civilians was called to testify.

Without dental insurance, William Stork has put off getting his rotten tooth pulled; Medicare doesn't cover the $1,000 procedure. Dentists can't agree on whether all seniors should get that benefit.

NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports on a domain in cyberspace where options on Hollywood are traded and Oscar winners are predicted with accuracy. For more information, visit the website The Hollywood Stock Exchange.

Six weeks after fighting began in Macedonia, more than 22,000 refugees have fled their homes. NPR's Guy Raz reports on the internally displaced ethnic Albanians and Macedonian Slavs.

Ninety years after a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York killed 146 workers, host Lisa Simeone talks with Dana Walden, the granddaughter of one survivor of the fire. Rose Freedman was the oldest living survivor of the fire until her death in Februrary. We hear clips of Freedman from a documentary series, The Living Century, which aired on PBS stations in December and January. More information about the documentary and Freedman can be found at http://www.thelivingcentury.com or http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire.

In Santa Monica, California, the Legal Grind Cafe serves up a mean law-tte -- that's coffee with a side of legal advice. From member station KCRW, Eric Roy reports on this unusual effort that's providing affordable legal service to Angelinos.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz turns art critic to talk about the work of the Dutch painter Vermeer. Theres a major show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.