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Ray Suarez reports on the sniper shootings in the D.C. area and criminologist Arnett Gaston describes the challenges law enforcement officials are facing in attempting to solve the case.

After excerpts from President Bush's speech Monday night in Cincinnati, Spencer Michels speaks with a group of voters in Denver to discuss the public's view of taking action against Iraq.

As a new U.S. Supreme Court term opens, Jan Crawford Greenburg of the Chicago Tribune previews some of the pivotal and controversial cases facing the high court over the next nine months.