The Story

Guest host Phoebe Judge talks with high-wire walker Nik Wallenda about his planned walk across the Grand Canyon.

A southern girl moves to New York City, becomes a chef, and swears she’ll never look back. But now Vivian Howard is home in rural North Carolina, making southern staples fancy at her restaurant Chef and the Farmer. A new PBS series tells her story.

The fight against HIV-AIDS in Africa is a matter of two steps forward and one step back, as Catherine Piwang knows well. People were just beginning to talk about this mysterious new disease when she left Uganda in the late 80s. When she returned in 1996, seven of her siblings had died of HIV-AIDS and two more were gravely ill.

Heather and Greg Mroz can certainly appreciate the health care debate. The two have been insured and uninsured at different times in their lives. Earlier this year Greg was laid off. Knowing Heather was pregnant with twins, he arranged to continue their coverage with the same provider. They paid insurance premiums directly to the company. The insurer took the money, but after the delivery, they refused to pay the claim. And it is a lot of money: more than $450,000.