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The key highway along the California coast has been cleared of debris and is a few days from reopening.

An algae bloom off the San Diego coast is putting on a brilliant display of bioluminescence that's lighting up the water and drawing huge crowds to marvel at the rare phenomenon.

A fin whale carcass at Oakland's waterfront was towed to Angel Island, while a dead gray whale washed up on the coast in Marin.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from the campaign trail where both George W. Bush and Al Gore traveled to the West Coast yesterday. With the race close in Oregon, Washington, and California, Bush is threatening Gore in what are traditionally Democratic strongholds (4:26).

Robert Siegel talks with Beth Herzfeld, spokeswoman for Anti-Slavery International (www.antislavery.org), about children on a boat that is missing off the coast of Benin. The ship is said to be taking part in a thriving slave trade in children.

New Orleans is getting most of the nation's attention, but Hurricane Katrina's fury shattered Mississippi's coast, with stunning structural damage. Entire beachfront neighborhoods are gone in Gulfport, Waveland and other towns.

The storm made landfall as a Category 4 storm late Friday, becoming the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. in a dozen years. More than 200,000 people were without power early Saturday.

Police say the boy was on a cross-country trip, from his home in Kendall on the east coast to Perth on the opposite coast. He got about a third of the way before he was pulled over.

The National Hurricane Center says the storm reached hurricane strength late Thursday. The Bahamas posted a hurricane warning.

Opponents lost their bid to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, but their effort has energized others. Pipeline protests are expanding across the country.