Happy Friday Early Birds!!!

As usual Riley will have all the top news stories of the day. In the Top of the News Barak Obama has been placed under the protection of < a href=" http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/03/obama.protection/index.html"> The Secret Service as a result of his campaign office recieving higher volumes of hate mail and threatening phone calls.

Also in the top of the news The GOP had their first debate today. The leading candidates showed their continuing support for the Iraq War but talked in depth about how the war had been severely < a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18466314/"> mismanaged.

RIley will have all the top stories of the day Plus as usual we will have a Juicy Grapevine Segment and you will also hear from Jim Hightower.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!