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Noah talks with Ronald J. Ostrow, a veteran Los Angeles Times writer who is covering a probe of the FBI Crime Laboratory. The probe began three years ago because of allegations of sloppiness in the handling of evidence for 3,000 criminal cases. Some of the defendants of those cases landed on death row.

Unions say talks have intensified, the company says a deal is within reach, but Verizon telecommunications workers are still on strike and without a contract. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports the main disputes revolve around work transfers and mandatory overtime. One participating union had threatened to bolt the talks, but backed off, saying that "significant progress" has been made.

Linda talks with E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and David Brooks of the Weekly Standard about Vice President Al Gore's speech last night at the Democratic Convention. It was a speech in which Gore asserted he was "his own man" -- promising a vision for America's future. The speech was packed with a laundry list of specific issues he promised to tackle -- including healthcare, campaign finance reform and needs of the working and middle class.

Mark Moran of member station KJZZ in Phoenix reports the latest information on Senator John McCain's health. The senator has had a recurrence of skin cancer and has been meeting with his doctors.

Daniel Schorr talks to Stephen Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Political Science at MIT and Thomas Patterson, Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government about what to expect in the presidential campaign.

International tennis officials are considering changes to the game, including shortening sets, allowing temper tantrums and painting the courts purple. Melinda speaks with Tennis magazine deputy editor David Sparrow.

Melinda speaks with Stan Werbin of Elderly Instruments about Pete Seeger's handmade long-necked banjo, which went missing in New York's Hudson River Valley last week. (4:30) (Call Clearwater, (845) 454-7673 with information.)

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the Russian navy is continuing rescue operations, hoping against hope to save survivors among the 118 men aboard the submarine Kursk. British and Norwegian teams are heading to the site of the disaster in the Barents Sea, but won't arrive before Saturday. President Vladimir Putin said today that immediately after the accident in the Barents Sea last weekend, he was told the chances for saving the men were extremely slim.

Noah checks back with Stacy Jessop, a Montana middle school teacher who was evacuated to a Red Cross shelter to avoid wildfires which were burning perilously close to her house. She's returning home today.

Latest on the Kursk, the Russian submarine stranded at the bottom of the Berents Sea. Natalya Yefemova