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While the naming of Senator Joseph Lieberman as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee has been hailed as a landmark step for Jews in America, commentator Ellis Cose offers words of caution on premature celebrations.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on a labor dispute between United Airlines pilots, mechanics and management, which has debilitated the carrier's service and has left passenger's stranded.

Liane talks with Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, who has summoned the heads of the major airlines to Washington for a meeting tomorrow to discuss the delays and cancellations that have plagued air travelers for the last several months.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes how the naming of Senator Joseph Lieberman as Vice President Al Gore's running mate has sparked a rash of Yiddish words and phrases in the language of American politics.

Democrats will try the same budgetary process from four decades ago when first-year President Ronald Reagan used reconciliation to achieve his "revolution" in federal fiscal policy.

In 1971, a man going by the name of D.B. Cooper jumped from a Northwest Airlines 747 over Washington state, carrying $200,000 in ransom money from the airlines, and two parachutes. Jo Weber tells Melinda Penkava that her late husband, Duane, confessed on his deathbed five years ago that he was Cooper.

After officially receiving theDemocratic nomination in Los Angeles, Al Gore and his running-mate, Joseph Lieberman, took a boat down the Mississippi River. The contenders are traveling aboard the Mark Twain to Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. NPR's Anthony Brooks talks with Jacki from the campaign trail.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman get back aboard their rented riverboat named Mark Twain today as they wrap up a post-convention swing.

From Missoula, Montana, Kathy Witkowsy reports on the widespread damage that drought and wildfires are causing in the western part of the state. Hundreds of thousands of acres of forest have burned already, and millions of acres more have been closed because of fire danger. Businesses that rely on tourism are losing money, and ranchers are facing losses too. More than 200 buildings have been destroyed by fire.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is P. D. Wadler from Chicago. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WBEZ.)