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NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the campaign trail of Vice President Al Gore and his running mate Senator Joseph Lieberman. Yesterday for the first time both candidates campaigned together and made stops in their home-towns. Today, Gore and Lieberman along with several Governors from southern states are campaigning in Atlanta.

Host Howard Berkes talks to Robert Blendon of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about the accuracy and meaning of polls. Blendon says the farther away from an election, the less accurate the poll. He also says that respondents are reluctant to admit they won't vote for candidates from minority groups.

Noah talks with Phil Whitten, the Editor of Swimming World Magazine, who is covering the Olympic swimming trials in Indianapolis. He joins by phone, poolside, to talk about new swimsuits, which are intended to make swimmers faster. The Olympic Committee had approved them, but several countries have objected, so they will re-evaluate that decision.

The governor of Montana is expected to announce today the closure of vast areas of public land in the southwestern corner of the state. Nearly a million acres are blackened across the West as firefighters try to keep up with the worst wildfire season in fifty years. Kathy Witkowsky reports from Missoula, Montana.

Noah talks to Stacy Jessop, a teacher at Corvallis Middle School in CorvalLis, Montana, about being evacuated from her home to avoid an oncoming wildfire. She's now staying at a Red Cross shelter at Westview Middle School in the town of Hamilton, Montana. She says she could hear the fire roaring nearby as she fled her house with her family. She also describes an effort to retrieve her wedding ring and her family's pets.

Commentator and musician John Paul talks about playing Trio Sonatas by J.S. Bach on A Lautenwercke (LOW-ten-work) -- a harpsichord with gut strings that give it the sound of a lute. (3:45) {STATIONS NOTE:} John Paul plays Lautenwercke with Shawn Leopard on a CD entitled "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Trio Sonatas," from Lyrichord Discs Inc. Catalog number LEMS-8045. Copyright 2000.

A new study shows the number of women and girls has surpassed the number of men and boys using the Internet. We hear some female students at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California talk about the sites they like to visit.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that the presidential campaign would restrain a more candid Defense Department from calling a halt to the development of a national missile defense system.

It now appears there will be two Reform Party conventions getting underway tomorrow in Long Beach, California. The party had planned to nominate its presidential candidate this week, but a preliminary meeting on delegate selection deteriorated, leaving a deep division among party activists. Noah talks to NPR's Andy Bowers.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is expected to survive a no-confidence vote in parliament today. The vote is designed to halt Barak's efforts to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians.