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Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews The Opportunists, starring Christopher Walken. It's about an auto mechanic caught in a moral dilemma about pulling a major heist or staying straight for the good of his family. It's the feature film directorial debut of Myles Connell.

Robin Urevitch reports on efforts by the U.S. Border Patrol and private citizens in San Diego, to supply water to desert migrants along the U.S. Mexico border. Since the Immigration and Naturalization Service beefed up enforcement in 1994, more than 500 migrants have died in the deserts north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on Redeem the Dream an event commemorating the 37th anniversary of the March on Washington at which Martin Luther King Junior gave his famous I Have A Dream speech. The event is being organized to force action by the White House and Congress to address racial profiling in law enforcement.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a fungus that is devastating large portions of the California forests.

Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on Ralph Nader's campaign. The Green Party candidate is hoping to attract his largest number of supporters in Portland tonight. His candidacy has many voters worried that a vote for Nader will steal votes from vice president Al Gore.

Susanna Capelouto of Peach State Public Radio reports on a plan by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reduce the flow of the Chattahoochee River to protect Atlanta's drinking water supply. The plan has upset those who live downstream. Because of a long regional drought, the Corps wants to hold the water in Lake Lanier, which is the main reservoir for Atlanta. Environmentalists fear that plan will prevent aquatic life below the dam from getting enough water in the river to survive the dry conditions.

Commentator Louise Rafkin goes to the beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts every summer. This year, a couple with beachfront property decided they didn't want any swimmers in front of their house - so they set out some decoy beach chairs, hoping to keep people away. It didn't work.

Writer Samuel Freedman. Hes just written a book about the state of the American Jewish Community called –Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the soul of American Jewry." (Simon & Schuster) Freedman believes that three fundamental questions are rending the American Jewish community today: "What is the definition of Jewish identity? Who decides what is authentic and legitimate Judaism? And what is the Jewish compact with America?" We talk with Freedman following the recent nomination of the first Jewish vice presidential candidate, Democrat Joe Lieberman. Freedman is also the author of –The Inheritance: How three families and America moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond,— which was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer prize.12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Doug McLennan reviews the two CD set entitled "Serenity" by the Bobo Stenson Trio. (4:00) Serenity by the Bobo Stenson Trio is on the ECM label, http://www.ecmrecords.com

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Mexico City on the visit of Mexico's President-elect Vicente Fox to the United States. Fox meets in Washington today with Vice President Al Gore and later with President Clinton, and then tomorrow in Dallas with Republican Presidential nominee George W. Bush.