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The rest of the government was shut down, but the Supreme Court justices were in court Monday to consider a challenge to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA. At issue was whether the case could be brought at all.

German media company Bertelsmann will own 53 percent of the new firm, Penguin Random House; Pearson, which owns Penguin, will control the rest. The merger, subject to regulatory approval, is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2013.

Titan, potentially the world's fastest computer, comes online at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The supercomputer is designed to do more than 20,000 trillion calculations a second, allowing researchers to model everything from black holes to nuclear reactors. And they'll have video gamers to thank for its blazing speed.

The water rose quickly this morning and one family had to be rescued by officials on canoes and military vehicles.

Weekend Edition host Scott Simon speaks with the longtime BBC war correspondent, Martin Bell, about the current child abuse scandal at the network.

President Obama has canceled re-election campaign events Tuesday in Colorado and Wisconsin, staying in Washington to oversee the federal response to Sandy. Republican challenger Mitt Romney has also scaled back his campaigning. The superstorm has introduced a new and unpredictable element into the presidential race, just one week before Election Day.

Many national TV shows are taped before live audiences in New York — except without a subway, there was no way for the audience to get there. So cue the cancellations: Live with Kelly, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show and a special week's worth of Jimmy Kimmel broadcasts were canceled Monday. David Letterman did do his show — without the audience.

Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's Robert Smith in New York about conditions in the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

Election Day is a week away and it seems everywhere you look, there's a new poll on TV, online, or the radio. But they don't all say the same thing. Host Michel Martin looks at why the polls vary, and what they tell us. She talks with Stanford University political science professor Simon Jackman.

Renee Montagne speaks with West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin about how Hurricane Sandy has affected his state.