Morning Edition - Tuesday, April 29, 2008

AMERICA'S HOSTS: Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne; NEWSCASTS: Carl Kasell and Jean Cochran
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HOST: Donna Apidone; NEWSCASTS: Steve Shadley

StoryCorps, NPR's oral history project, is in Sacramento until mid-May.  For more information, visit capradio.org.

Combat veterans who get in trouble with the law when they come home from war are finding a new ally in some courts around the country. The courts involve coordinated work by social, justice and military agencies, and often intense community supervision.  We'll take a look at one court, getting started in Buffalo, New York, at 6:14 and 8:14.

A series of tornados ripped across southeastern Virginia yesterday, damaging scores of homes and businesses and injured more than 200 people. We'll hear more at 6:40 and 8:40.

It's hard to miss the signs of a real estate bust in Lee County, Florida, where thousands of foreclosures take place each month. But one area real estate agent has tried to make the best of a bad situation. Each week Marc Joseph organizes bus tours around abandoned properties in Fort Myers and Cape Coral. He says he's helping lots of middle-class Floridians who until recently were priced out of the market. This is the second of two reports, and it airs at 5:40 and 7:40.

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